THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1989
VOL. 99, NO. 143
Coalition fined for violation
hv Stan Diel
Kansan staff writer
The elections review board last night fined Common Cause coalition $150 for exceeding its campaign expense limit by about $200, and Certain Impact coalition was found to have filed an incomplete audit. No action was taken against Certain Impact.
B. Jake White, student body president who headed the Common Cause ticket, said, "I feel that they made a very good decision. I feel the decision was fair and just and based on what we were told by the StudEx chair and the elections committee chair."
Common Causes figured its spending limit based on a limit of $5 per senator candidate. Senate Republicans would pay the fee.
The decision was made about 1 a.m. today by two members of the seven member board. After hearing testimony in the afternoon, the board recessed so one of the members could go to work. The board reconvened at 10:45 p.m. A third member, the vice chairman, was also present each time.
Board members said their decision was based on
assumption that Common Cause officials were misinformed by Jane Hutchinson, then Student Executive Committee chairman, about how to figure spending limits.
"I do believe Common Cause coalition was acting in good faith when they made their budget," said Kutter Brown, one of the board members. "I remember when they were wrong until everything hit the fan."
Hutchison took responsibility for Common Cause's impression that the limit was $35 per senator. She said that she made her interpretation more explicit and candidates at a rules and regulations workshop.
"I was really the one spokesperson interpreting the rules and regs for Senate in any official capacity. Hutchinson I do! I think it was him that said, 'I can't not be punished if you think it was my mistake.'"
Scott Hendrick, former Certain Impact presidential candidate and one of the people who signed the complaint against Common Cause, thought further action should have been taken against the coadjunct.
"We feel that these rules are not ambiguous at
all," Hedrick said. "All it takes is one reading. When the Student Senate rules were written they intended to be followed. I feel that ignorance is no defense. Anybody can read the rules."
In its decision, the board also ruled that Certain Impact did not declare the retail value of a hand it hired for a concert. Senate rules require that the retail value, not the amount paid, count against a coalition's spending limit in order to keep one coalition from having an advantage
Brian Wika, former independent candidate for body student president, said a new election should be held.
"Somewhere you have to draw the line." Wika said. "Where do we stop making exceptions and start by the rules? I think you should rule this election invalid."
"Basically you are telling people is that you can buy your way into office"
White said the rules were explained the same way to all conditions at the rules workshop
"All of the conditions were told it was $35 apiece," White said.
Common Cause must pay the fine by Monday or lose all its Senate seats
Names of Holocaust victims maintained by yearly ceremony
up. The three are members of the KU Jazz Ensemble number two, one of three bands that played last night at the First Annual Band Night at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
The Associated Press
Solo sax
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir read the names of his slain parents yesterday, joining thousands of Israelis who remembered the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust by reciting their names at ceremonies.
The programs at the parliament, army bases, holy sites and schools came on an annual remembrance day marking the World War II tragedy that presaged the founding of the Jewish state.
About 100,000 Holocaust survivors have settled in Israel, and the legacy of beliphas Jews driven to their deaths in gas chambers or shot during a war has been a driving force behind the nation's vigilance about security.
This year's observance was organized around the theme "Into every person there is a name," and participants in Israel and 15 other countries were expected to recite the names of some 300,000 Holocaust victims before sundown, Army radio reported.
The 77 year-old head of the right-wing Likud bloc joined the program outside Israel's parliament building, where six刺客 flickered in the wind. Shamir lost his parents, two of their husbands and their children.
"My father, Sholom Yenizuky,
who escaped before the train left for
a death camp and while seeking
shelter among friends in the village
where he grew up, they, his friends
from childhood, killed him." Shamin
said, his voice quavering uncharm-
terically.
Taking the spotlight during a solo, John May, Overland Park sophomore, (center) plays the saxophone as Angela Mach, Aurora, Colo., sophomore, and Syd Rodway. St. Louis freshman, back him
He paused, then named as other Nazi victims his mother, Pearl; his sisters, Mrium and Riwa; their brothers, Mintz and Yacov, and their children.
Shamar has never disclosed how his family perished, but they are believed to have died in death camps, said his aid, Yossi Ahimeir. The prime minister also read the names of 30 other victims before other Cabinet members continued the listing.
Shamir, born in Ruzinny, Poland, immigrated to pre-state Palestine alone in 1935. He helped found a resistance group, known as the Israel Freedom Fighters, on the Storm Territory, against the British rulers in Palestine.
Earlier yesterday, Shamir confessed French President Francois Mitterrand's meeting in Paris with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Israel considers the Palestine Liberation Organization group and refuses to deal with it.
He has seldom spoken about his personal loss, although he frequently refers to the Holocaust and compares Israel's adversaries to the Nazis.
"This man says a lot of things to the Jewish people." Shamir said of Arafat on Israeli radio.
Holocaust day is one of national holocaust in Israel. Flags are flown at half-staff, melancholy music is played and entertainment places are closed.
The 'day's events begin when sirens sounded at 10 a.m. (2 a.m. (STP), bringing pedestrians and cars to the street for two minutes of silent stilton
Recent rain doesn't help state's drought condition
by a Kansan reporter
It was a wet and dreary day in Lawrence, but west of a line from Wichita to Concordia, it was dry — again.
Robert Wavrin, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said the rain that doused the University yesterday should end by today. There is a slight chance of more rain today and this evening.
Brian Walawender, forecaster for the KU weather service, said that it had rained 22 of an inch by 3 p.m. yesterday.
The rain did nothing to break the drought in the state, said Kyle Medina, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence.
"It makes the ground smell nice and fresh," he said. "It's going to take a lot more to have any effect."
West of the line from Wichita to Concordin, there was no rain, only parched earth.
Tom Thole. Barton County extension agent, said several substantial rains were needed to break the county. Barton County in west-central Kansas.
"We're really in kind of tough shape," he said. "We have zero subsoil moisture from the top down to a practical depth that a plant could
"We'll have a hard time with sorghum and soybeans," he said. "We're really kind of in a bind."
Producer recognizes KU in 'China Beach' series
bv Steven Wolcott
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas and Lawrence made a fast friend of John Wells in the summer of 1806, and it was through his presence that measured exposure and name recognition.
Wells is the producer of the Wednesday night ABC television series "China Beach." He came to Lawrence in the summer of 1968 to produce the movie, "Nice Girls Don't Explode."
He showed his appreciation by writing Lawrence and KU into the script of "China Beach" as the homefront and alma mater of main character Colleen McMurphy, a nurse played by Dana Delany.
"Diane Dirricoll, assistant to Wells, said "China Beach" was about the relationships of the women who served in the Vietnam War — the nurses, doilies and USO performer, other and the other they served with."
"I really liked Lawrence and the area of eastern Kansas," Wells said in a telephone interview. "It's really beautiful there."
Wells said McMurphy was portrayed as a KU graduate in nursing and her television family was from Lawrence.
on the show. McMurphy sometimes wears clothing with "University of Kansas" or "Jayhawks" imprinted on them.
"We're all Jayhawk fans out here," said Wells, whose office is in Bakersfield, Calif.
Wells said the network paid for the clothing.
Michael Reid, general manager of the KU Bookstores, said use of the Jawhayk and University logos on the show did not constitute a copyright violation and that the show was not pay any royalties to the University.
In last Wednesday's episode of the show, the first of two parts, McMurphy rushed home from Vietnam to "Lawrence" to visit her dying father' The city of Lawrence in the episode of the city of Sierra Madre, Calif.
"If they had some show about a murderer and had the guy wearing Jayhawk clothing, then I might call and complain." Reid said.
“In the beginning of the second McMurphy will still be in Lawrence.” Wells said. “Then she’ll have to leave and return to Vietnam but will have a confrontation with San Francisco in San Francisco on the way.”
"We didn't have enough money to leave the state," Wells said. "I wish we could have. I'd love to get back to Lawrence."
Wells said that, as well as being producer, he had written last Wednesday's episode and tonight's second part.
"We'll try to spread the Jayhawk word." he said.
$65 million prison plan is approved
Wells said viewers could expect to continue to see references to Lawrence and KU on the show.
by John P. Milburn and Rias Mohamed Kansas staff writers
Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA — Legislators yesterday cleared a final hurdle to adjournment by passing a $6.5 billion bond.
The Legislature adjourned last night to conclude the longest wrapup session in state history, almost three years after the 2014-15 election.
The Senate approved the plan 37-1 and the House
1113, sending the bill to Gov. Mike Hayden to
deliver it.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said the plan for the prison was a historic piece of legislation for the state.
"This measure, for the first time this century, authorizes the construction of a maximum-socu
tion."
He said the facility would provide safety for Kauaians and allow the state to comply with a bill that would prohibit the use of
A federal judge ordered Kansas to either build a prison by July 1, 1991 to reduce overcrowding, or release inmates. The judge suggested that a master be appointed to solve the problem.
Roger Endell, secretary of corrections, was pleased with the action and with the part he
played.
"It does appear to be sufficient to resolve the problem and appease the court," he said. "The people of Kansas came out the winner today because this has been going on for a decade."
Winter said that if the overcrowding problem were reduced by next year, the plan could be scaled back to 312 cells. The plan, finished early yesterday by a conference committee, reflected fiscal prudence by the Legislature to minimize costs, he said.
The prison would be a 60-cell facility at a cost of $51 million. The bill also would authorize the construction of a 256-bed hospital for mentally ill inmates at a cost of $14.5 million.
Winter said that the site plan for the prison would allow it to be expanded to house 1,440 cells if
Financing of the new prison would provide for the issue of $53.1 million in bonds, $12.8 million from the state general fund for construction and planning and $25 million from the Pooled Money Investment Board, managers of the state's idle funds.
Hayden recommended that the prison be built near El Dorado, and the hospital is expected to be built near Larned.
"You know how the process works," he said.
Consideration, rejection, consideration, rejecti-
State Rep Phil Kline, R-Overland Park, said that the plan represented a fair and equitable compromise, but that reaching it was often intense.
State Rep. David Miller, E-Rudena, who served on the final conference committee and who had opposed the original Senate plan of a 768-bed prison, yesterday changed his position.
"This proposal meets the Senate halfway on the differences," he said. "Most important, we want to clearly state that we recognize our public responsibility to have the problem solved."
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said that although many House members did not like issuing bonds for prison construction, it was the best thing that the Legislature could do. Prisons don't have the supporters that higher education issues do, she said.
Branson said the treatment of mentally ill inmates would allow the state to better deal with their needs.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Washington, was one of 10 House Democrats to vote against the bill.
Arafat claims PLO charter is outdated
The Associated Press
PARIS — Yasser Arafat said yesterday that the PLO charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, was outdated and he favored a Middle East peace settlement based on both Israel and a Palestinian state.
The PLO chairman was asked about the charter provision during a television interview on the first day of an official visit to France.
"I was elected on a political program which is founded on the basis of two states, Israel and Palestine," Arataf said. "As for the charter, it is an expression in French, 'cautac', 'Cautic means omitted or void.'"
See related story p. 6, col. 2
During his 90-minute meeting with Arafat at the beginning of his two-
Pierre Mauroy, leader of the governernal socialist Party, met with Arafat later and said that he brought up the charter as well.
Mauroy said the PLO chief called the charter "outdated" and that the leadership of the PLO was elected with a program that included
day visit, President Francis Mitterand of France expressed concern that the charter still contained a provision for Israel's destruction.
recognition of Israel and the abandonment of terrorism.
Israel frequently cites the charter provision as the reason it will not deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it considers a terrorist organization. Last December, the PLO chief publicly renounced terrorism and recognized Israel's right to exist.
See JEWISH. p. 6. col. 1