THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1989
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Ex-candidates seek reversal of audit
VOL.99, NO.140
Kansan staff writer
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
Two former Student Senate presidential candidates will file an appeal today to the Senate Election Review Board, asking the body to reverse a decision by the Senate Elections Committee that validated the campaign audit of Common Cause coalition.
Brad Sanders, former New Blood candidate, and Scott Hedrick, former Certain Impact candidate, said they would be acting under a Senate regulation that stated decisions of the elections committee could be appealed to a Senate floor. The regulation does not include a time limit.
But Jeff Morris, his body vice president and member of Common Cause, said there was
Jane Hutchinson, Student Senate Executive Board chairman, said that there was such a regulation but that she thought the audit of Common Cause's campaign expenditures was
Sanders and Hedrick said that after meeting today with representatives of the Office of Affirmative Action, they went to the office of Robert Shelton, University ambassador.
Sanders and Hedrick said spending limits should be calculated at $55 for each school, education agency or city.
They said Shelton contacted Bain Stern, elections committee chairman, who also came
Sanders and Hedrick contended that Common Cause members exceeded campaign spending limits by $337.50, because they calculated the limits at $55 a candidate.
Shelton said he could not comment about what happened at any meetings in his office or about whether any meeting had taken place.
If the Elections Review Board finds Common cause guilty of overspending, as many as 30 will be prosecuted.
could lose Senate seats.
Sanders said Stern admitted to Shelton that the elections committee had "rubber stamped" the campaign audits without checking their compliance with Senate regulations.
He said Stern also told Hedrick that his Certain Impact coalition had also violated cam-
tain no,
paign regulations.
But Hedrick said there was no violation. He said Stern's reference was to the amount of money that the band Love Squad had charged Certain Impact for performing at a benefit
Stern declined comment.
Certain Impact paid the band $50, but Stern said the price the band might have charged normally, $700, should have been quoted in the audit.
Daniel May, Lawrence senior, pickets at the speech given by William S. Sessions, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
FBI director speaks is challenged on law
by Kris M. Bergquist
Kansan staff writer
Sessions spoke to about 100 people and responded to questions in the Kansas Union. The speech was sponsored by the Patricia and Donnan Stephenson Lecture Series in Government and Law.
William S. Sessions, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and lawyer, yesterday came to speak about "Public Service and the Law," and ended up being challenged on that very topic.
During the speech, a student raised a sign that read on one side, "1933, Germany had SS Troops" and on the other "1860, USA has CIA and FBI troops."
"The sign the man holds now has reminded us that we must vigilantly guard against infringements on laws, justice and equality." Sessions
He said he was pleased to be greeted by the protest, because it signified the diversity of opinions needed in a government operation to work correctly.
The man who carried the sign, Daniel May, Lawrence senior, said, "I've been very disappointed in the history of the FBI. In 1933, the SS were nice, clean-cut guys, supposedly the good guys in Germany. And now there are CIA and FBI troops."
The SS were Adolph Hitler's elite guard.
May said that talk about freedom, justice and equality was nothing but empty words in light of the history of the bureau. He specifically referred to the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, whose offices were allegedly broken into and searched by the FBI.
The Movement Support Network, a New York-based support group for political movements, including Central American movement activists, was formed in 1983 by FRI under the Freedom of Information Act in December 1987. They were internal
CINSPES documents, but it was unexplained how the FBI got the documents, said Ann-Marie Buiatroq, a KU graduate who works for the
"We are not in a position to say there was a break-in with our information." Buiatrapa said in a telephone interview. "But there are documents that are unexplained, with sections blocked out by the FBI and we don't know how they got in the hands of the FBI."
Buiatrao said the story about the internal investigation of CISPES broke on January 27, 1988. It was revealed then that the FBI had investigated hundreds of citizens beginning in 1861, apparently because they were exposed to the Reagan administration's policies in Central America.
Two men affiliated with KU were under surveillance, and it was never evaded who the men were or what he connection with KU was other han the fact that they were U.S. citizens.
"I believe that, historically, the FBI investigates the liberal groups more than the right-wing conservative groups." May said. "I just hope things change because I've been disappointed in the way people have been treated in regard to civil rights."
Sessions became the director of the FBI in 1987. He said the CISPES surveillance was done in the least obtrusive way possible.
"We had a concern that they were acting in support of the FMLN, a terrorist group." Sessions said. "We found that not to be so. We made a careful accounting to the congressional oversight committee."
Sessions said he was glad that the issue was brought up at the speech.
"I in no way should we ever be seen as violators of civil rights," Sessions said. "We must always be seen as obeyers of the law. As director here, I'm assuring you of that kind of infringement is not happening."
Atlantis takeoff nearing
The Associated Press
The mission will propel NASA's "Magellan" probe to Venus and revive the U.S. deep-space science program.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Five astronauts tracked a perfect countdown yesterday as technicians prepared for a afternoon launch today.
Officials described the countdown as the smoothest of four since the Challenger disaster. The chance of high winds provided slight concern as NASA looked forward to liftoff in an unusually tight launch window that will open at 1:24 p.m. and last just 23 minutes.
"After an 11-year gap in the planetary we're anxious to get started," said John H. Gergpheide, Magellan project manager.
Magellan, ready for its 15-month flight to Venus, "is 100 percent healthy and ticking along," said Lennard Fisk. NASA's chief scientist
Atlantis' cargo is the Magellan spacecraft, which has a radar system powerful enough to pierce the dense sulfuric acid clouds of Venus and map its surface. The mission costs $550 million, not including the $225 million cost of the four-day shuttle flight.
Earlier yesterday, three Soviet cosmonauts returned to Earth, leaving the Mir space station unattended for the first time in more than two decades. The cosmonauts had been in space for five months, the other cosmonaut for eight.
Magellan's radar images, relayed to Earth and enhanced by computer, should reveal details as small as 100 yards across, about the size of a field. That is to times per than previous pictures of the planet.
Stephen Saunders, Magellan project scientist, said the radar images could help scientists understand how Venus was formed and might provide an answer to the puzzling question of whether the planet was differently even though they were almost identical when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago.
The Magellan deployment is scheduled 6 hours 18 minutes after liftoff, with astronauts Mark Lee and Mary Cleave conducting a countdown from inside their shuttle cabin. An hour after the release, a rocket will fire to place a crew in orbit on the 450-day journey to Venus, a complex trip that takes Magellan one and one-half times around the sun before it intercepts its target planet.
County road costs likely will increase
by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
aa state coffers shrink and potholes grow, residents of Kansas' 105 counties had better get used to the idea of paying more for repair.
Douglas County would be in the same rut unless the Legislature approves a multi-billion dollar program to improve highway conditions, said Horace Edwards, secretary of the Missouri Department of Transportation.
Edwards said that although the number of miles under county jurisdiction would not increase, the costs to maintain them would.
Under Kansas statute, the state
Kemp halts renovation
can maintain only a little more than 10,000 miles of roads under its direct jurisdiction. Although Edwards could remove a road from the state system, doing so could lead to a loss of federal legislators from the area that lost state financing. If that happened, counties then would be responsible
See COUNTY, p. 6, col. 4
WASHINGTON — Housing Secretary Jack Kemp is halting more than $100 million in low-income housing renovation projects after an investigation that found former top HUD appointees won lucrative contracts through a system rife with favoritism, officials said yesterday.
The Associated Press
The report by the Housing and Urban Development Department inspector general said HUD agreed to pay $3 million in fines for the life of 15-year contracts that the inspector general examined. The report that it made.
Kemp said he was halting all fiscal 1989 financing for programs in which contracts had not yet been agreed to be completed, an audit of existing contracts.
pattern existed throughout the program, the excess could approach $413 million.
His actions stopped financing for 35 projects valued at more than $100 million while they are reconsidered, Kemp's assistant, Mary Brunette, said yesterday. Eight other projects for which contracts were already in place will be allowed to continue, subject to audit, she said.
Five sites to be lost for Lied
by Merceda Ares Kansan staff writer
Five departments housed at the corner of 15th and Iowa streets must relocate to clear the site for the Ernest F. Lied Performing Arts Center and adjacent parking lot in the vicinity of director of facilities planning.
The buildings that will have to find new homes are the State of Kansas Geological Survey Core Repository Facility, three facilities operations storage buildings and a storage yard, the Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratory, a research facility, storage building, and the KANU radio tower and transmitter building.
Each department will finance its own move, he said. The cost of demolishing the buildings is part of performing arts center's budget.
In the long run, they'll have better facilities," Schaeher said of the departments that will be displaced.
"Some of the metal buildings will be salvaged and possibly reused by contractors," he said.
Schaecher said all the buildings except Kurata Laboratories were scheduled to be relocated by October. Because Kurata is on the
Source: Facilities planning
perimeter of the area where the performing arts center will be located, Kurata will not have to be relocated until Spring 1990.
Kurata is a research laboratory where natural gas is studied.
Kurata's new location will be northwest of Foley Hall. Schaerer said the 5,500 square foot project will cost about $350,000.
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The Kansas Geological Survey core repository facility will relocate west of Parker Hall, which is the largest geological offices. Schaeder said.
Geology researchers study cores at the repository facility. Cores are rock samples geologists study to learn about rock formations.
"It kind of made sense to put it close to its other operations."
Schaecher said.
The core repository is now in a 4,800-square-foot barn and will move to a 10,000-square-foot building. The cost is $613,000. Buchanan said.
Facilities operations, which now has storage space in three metal buildings and a storage yard, will relocate the facilities motor pool.
Sand and salt for roads is stored
"In essence, it gives us lab space to look at cores," Buchanan said. "Where they are now, there are a lot of cores in a barn, and there's barely enough room to study them."
Hex Buchanan, assistant director of public affairs for the Geological Survey, said the department would gain space in the move.
in one building and the other two contain lumber, plumbing and electrical supplies, Schaecher said. The storage yard contains materials that can be stored outside, such as brick.
sceneter said he was not sure what the new facilities operations storage buildings would cost since they were still in the planning process.
The KANU radio tower west of the Daisy Field Extension lot will be moved southwest of the Printing Services.
Sam Chapman, director of engineering and operations for KANU, said the Federal Communications Commission must communicate Commission must
See LOSS, p. 6, col. 4