6 Thursday, April 13, 1989 / University Daily Kansan Constitution would restrict BSU candidates - Continued from p. 1 Thompson said that Tippet's proposed amendment was not pass according to procedures specified in the 1988 constitution because: ■ Tippet originally presented it as a resolution instead of an amendment. ■ Tippet did not distribute written comments to the amendment to voting reporters. - Tippett presented the amendment orally, not in writing. "It passed by a pretty good margin." Thompson said. A proposed constitution, which will be considered on Monday, forbids members who are the president or vice president of another organization from running for those same positions for BSU in the April 24 election. Tippet said she had planned to run for BSU president but now could not. "I think it could be viewed as a "I think it could be viewed as a conspiracy against me." Tippett said. "Some individuals feel they have the power to question my feelings and feel as if they need to stonem me." She said she was disappointed. The current dispute will not harm her relationship with the BSU as chairman of the Big Eight Council on Black Student Government, she said. Thompson said that members incorrectly thought the executive board was trying to disqualify potential officers, specifically Tippett. "That is the furthest thing from the truth," she said. "We just want to do things right, the way they should have been done in the first place. If the proposed constitution is rejected Monday, many BSU members who were vote卸任 or revoked will not vote in the elections. The 1988 constitution gave voting rights to registered individuals. The 1985 constitution allows only delegates representing registered organizations to vote. "I think it's important that we solve this situation and restore voting rights to everyone," Paris said. She said that ratifying the proposed constitution on Monday would restore individual members' voting rights in time to vote in the election. Janice Turner, a member who lost voting privileges, said, "Of course, I was very upset because we worked so hard to get them and I felt all of the members of BSU felt more involved. It just seemed like we took a step backwards and lost some momentum." Turner was a member of the ad hoc elections committee that was dissolved with the 1988 constitution. The committee and the executive board members disputed a rule set by the committee that to be eligible for the offices of president or vice president, a member would have to been active the previous semester. "My only concern was that we would have fair elections and the way things were going we weren't to have fair elections," Paris said. That stipulation would have prevented Frenchette Garth, BSU treasurer, from running for president. Paris said that members of the committee knew that Garth planned to run for the position, and they made the rule because they did not like her. Garth said she was unable to attend meetings last semester because she worked and took a night class that conflicted with meetings. It's illogical because we were not registering people the semester before so it would have been difficult to prove who was an active member or not." Paris said. Paris said she was speaking as an individual and not the BSU president. "The ad hoc committee was biased against Frenchtie Garth and they did not want her to run for presidency," Paris said. "They don't like her." Paris said that the rule also would have disqualified other members who were considering running for office. Turner said that ad hoc committee members did not propose the rule because they did not like Garth. “At least for the position of president and vice president, you should know a lot about the organization where you get into office.” Turner said. Gorbachev appeals for calm but blames local nationalists for hindering perestroika The Associated Press MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gorbachev appealed Wednesday for calm in Soviet Georgia but rejected the demands of local nationalists and blamed them for igniting尔剁 strife that had damaged his drive for reform. "The interests of the working people have nothing in common with attempts to sever the existing ties of friendship and cooperation among our peoples, (to) dismantle the socialist system in the republic and push it into the slough of ethnic emity." Gorbachev said. They were the Soviet leader's first direct public remarks on the unrest at least 19 people were killed Sunday in a clash between pro-independence activists and security forces. In Tbilisi, the Georgian capital city of 1.2 million, 900 miles south of Moscow, strikes continued and funeral services were planned for those killed in Georgia. Communist Party chief tendered his resignation, a Soviet spokesman said. Zurav Zhankarashvili, a Tbilisi resident and member of the Georgian human rights watchdog organization Helsinki Watch, called Gorbachev's appeal "very dry," and expressed would be enough to ease tensions. "All kinds of words, if not backed up by acts, are just empty demagogy," Zhankaravhill said in a telephone interview. Gorbachev also made a personal appeal for calm in February 1988 after ethnic strife occurred in the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. His call only momentarily stemmed bloodbed in those republics, where more than 90 people were killed last year. Demonstrations in Georgia began April 4. The trouble started when some protesters criticized calls from members of the republic's ethnic Abkazian minority to break away because of alleged discrimination by Georgians. Other protesters demanded Georgia secede from the Soviet Union because of alleged interference from the central government and Russians in the republic's political, economic and cultural affairs. Gorbachev appeared to reject both breakaway demands, saying that "reshaping ethnic relations is not recruiting borders and not breaking the country's national-state structure." Sciences in decline - Continued from p. 1 of geologists, which would reach a critical point within the next decade, created an ideal opportunity for students wishing to enter that area of science. "Now's the time to be going into these fields," Gerhard said. "There's just not going to be anyone there." Tony Wallen, chairman of the geology department, said that he agreed, but that in the meantime, enrollment in geology had plummeted. "Our enrollment is down 80 percent from 1982," Walton said. Walton blamed the low enrollment in geology on the bust in the oil industry earlier this decade. The oil industry historically has hired many geologists. But, Walton said, the oil industry ran in cycles, which meant that today's bust could be tomorrow's boom. civite people who realize there will be no one to work these jobs," Walton said. "There will be considerably more of them geologists in the next four years." "You'd have to be crazy to tell your son or daughter to go into geology at this time." Hill said. "You might as well start paying all their bills right now." "We're starting to get some per- Hill disagreed. Hill said that a nationwide preoccupation with excellence had contributed to a decline in good workers needed to man U.S. industry. He said the rise of rafters than focusing on exceptional employees has hardened work harder to reach all of the students. "It seems to me we would be better off with 75 reasonably competent students that graduate, rather than one exceptional student." Hill said. "Focusing on the excellent won't produce excellence." can and U.S. officials said. At least one victim was kidnapped in Brownsville, Texas, in the last month, and as of Friday, two more may be American, officials said. Contrary to officials' assertions Tuesday, Oran Neck, U.S. Customs chief agent in Brownsville, just across the Rio Grande from Matamoras, said yesterday there was no evidence of cannibalism. Felipe Flores, spokesman for the Mexican attorney general's office, also said he knew nothing about reports of cannibalism, although he added that victims' brains were cut out and put on a fire, mixed with blood, herbs, rooster feet, goat heads and turtles. Cameron County Sheriff Alex Perez said cult members removed some victims' vertebrae to use them for necklaces. Suspects in Mexican custody have told police of 14 human sacrifices, and evidence indicates there may be another victim at a news conference yesterday. Mexican police took four of the five men arrested to a news conference yesterday and the four said they killed on the command of a cult "godfather," identified by police as Adolfo de Jesus Constanza, a Cuban national in his late 40s. Police on both sides of the barrier were seeking him. Constanzo killed Kilroy, said another of the arrested men, Serafin Hernandez Garcia, 22, of Brownville. The Mexican attorney general's office said Costanzo is believed to have fled into the United States. The American believe the cult had 10 members. Cult members were importing about 1,000 pounds of marijuana a month into the United States, Mattox said. Voodoo cult says killed for sacrifice - Continued from p. 1 Information booths & outdoor Cultural Fair, Cultural Show, and International Semi-formal party... 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