THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 11. 1989
(USPS 650-640)
Senate candidates address issues in forum
VOL.99, NO.127
Kansan staff writer
by Jennifer Corser
Six Student Senate coilings and one independent candidate participated in the final pre-election forum last night in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
The purpose of the forum, which was sponsored by the Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, was to address issues not discussed in the platforms and find what actions the candidates intend to take. The issues they support, said Mike Foubert, Eudora graduate student and the forum's moderator.
"Our purpose was to focus on some of the issues rather than the rhetoric." Foobert said.
The first question addressed by the candidates was how they viewed diversity
S Scott Hendrick, Certain Impact presidential candidate and Lawrence junior, said he did not agree with the Senate's cutting of budgets for some organizations associated with diversity or supported diversity, such as the International Club and the Black Student Union.
"If this is the way this year's Senate and next year's Senate celebrates diversity, I don't want an election to be about diversity."
Amy Baker, the Answer presidential candidate and Wichita junior, said that differences between people should not be pointed out, but integration of diverse groups should be stressed instead.
"Everyone on this campus has something to offer everyone on this campus," she said.
Kenneth, Ralecock. On Track presidential candy
date and Wheaton junior, said they would like to expand the Celebrate Diversity program throughout the year rather than the current month-long program.
In response a question referring to how the candidates plan to improve safety on campus, B Jake White, Common Cause presidential candidate and North Platte, Neb., junior, said the University of Kansas needed an escort service for males and females. Senate would have access to financing for this service through sororites and other organizations, he said.
John Fawcett, New Blood vice-presidential candidate and Lawrence senior, said an escort service was not feasible. If something happened to a侍应 being escorted, the escorter could be liable.
However, better camps lights is already been planned which would probably take much more time.
Baker also said an escort service could not work because there was no way to screen volunteers
Bryan Swan, Progressive Idealist presidential candidate and Topeka junior, said he supported an escort service, but felt the best way to deal with unsate situations was for the students to make informed decisions. He said he did not support Secure Cabe's implication that going out and getting drunk was okay if a student called to get a ride home.
"I think the answer to this problem is to reinstate Secure Cab", Baker said.
Brian Wika, independent presidential candidate and Olathe junior, said females needed to be more represented.
Hedrick said his condition would like to ban Styrofoam in response to the question about long-term and short-term recycling plans. The ban would extend into the Lawrence area, with a student boycott of restaurants using Styrofoam. Hedrick said he would be willing to accept it.
Hedrick said they also would like start an organization to lobby the state legislature.
"We need to save our planet," he said. "It's going to take a lot of effort."
Babcock said an effective recycling plan would need to start locally and then extend to the rest of the state. Senate needs to work with Envirens with the recycling project, he said.
Faweett all sexually transmitted diseases needed to be addressed and not just AIDS. He said the best way to inform students about the dangers of AIDS was to print information in the Kansan on a weekly basis rather than setting up information booths. This way, students could take the information.
Jeff Morris, Common Cause vice-presidential candidate and Salma junior, said Common Cause would support condom machines on campus if they can assist them in the referendum in the election ballot.
Wika said he did not think condoms are a viable way to combat the risk of AIDS because they might rip. However, if condoms are used to prevent AIDS in campus, they should be distributed free, he said.
Steve Travnor/KANSAN
Up in smoke
As part of an art demonstration, Derrick Gomez, Topea sophomore, torches a student-made statue. Gomez and two other art
students performed a skit about the effects of nuclear war last night in front of the Art and Design building.
Haskell leader seeks end to problems
by Mary Neubauer
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Aimil allegations of violations of students' rights, censorship and unfair policy, most college presidents would be looking for a way out.
"I've only been here since Jan. 18, and I know all organizations have problems. Martin said, "I think those problems was that we could resolve those problems can be resolved."
But Robert Martin, acting president of Haskell Indian Junior College, walked face on into the contraction, recently has surrounded the collett.
Martin arrived at Haskell from the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M. where he is still president. Martin replaced Gerald Gipp, who was resigned to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in Washington, D.C., after allegations surfaced that he forced a Haskell instructor to change a grade for his daughter.
Martin will return to the institute in Mav.
To find solutions to the problems, Martin said a task force had been formed to review Haskell policies and issues. He added that they needed to be revised or abolished.
The task force comprises faculty staff members and students.
"The task force will clarify policies and procedures and make recommendations on that." Martin said. "My office and the Board of Regents will make decisions on the recommendations. And then in some cases,
See BYLAWS, p. 6, col. 1
KJHK manager rejects charges of unfair hiring
by Stan Diel
Kansan staff writer
KJHIK station manager Mike Ulin last night responded to allegations that he consulted a blacklist when making hiring decisions.
Uln testified at the first of two Student Senate Finance Committee investigative hearings. Further testimony will be heard at the final hearing, when the committee could take action against KHIK, based on its findings.
The committee also heard testimony from former KJHK employees, who said the station manipulated the staff to influence the staff's composition.
Tiiu McGuire, Golden, Colo,
juniar, and former KJHK employee,
said she was a victim of a blacklist
"My application was turned down," McGuire said. "I went and asked Mike Uln why it was turned down. He said it was because the board gave him a list of people not to be hired.
"I have been barred from the class by a formal list that was handed down from the board."
Ulin denied the allegations
"No list was given to me in any way, shape or form."
McGuire said she was denied the job because the JKHK administration thought she "worked against the grain of the station."
"There is no blacklist, there has never been a blacklist. There is only me going through the applications," Ulin said. "Why should I have to justify to every person I didn't hire, why I did not hire them?"
Pate said he would not identify those that worked at the station for fear that their jobs could be placed in jeopardy.
Jude Pate, Lawrence senior and former KJHK employee, said he had heard of a blacklist.
"There are three students outside the station and two inside who have heard Mike Uln say there is a blacklist." Pate said.
Jeff Listerman, Lawrence sopho
more and former KJHK employee, said a rule that no employee can work in the same capacity for more than three semesters in a row was applied selectively by KJHK administration.
"I had to give up my show because I had been on the air more than three semesters," Listerman said, "I think it's interesting that Mike Uln Jet Janet Cinelli do her show after more than three semesters.
"I was told I had to drop the class. I had been on the air about two weeks and that information just tricked down to me by word-of-mouth. That was certainly not a professional way to get me off the air."
Ulin said Cinelli, Lawrence junior did a women's show.
"I could not find anybody as quailied as Miss Cinelli to fill the position," Ull said.
Nick Huffman, Prairie Village senior and former KHJ employee, said he thought the three-semester rule had been abused.
"The board has used it to work out some of the people they don't think should work at the station," Huffman said.
"I think the board members and the people they appoint have abused the students' trust."
Ulin said the station was open to anyone who applied, but only a limited number of positions was available.
"We are open to all students that wish to apply at KJHR." Ulm said "Last semester, I got more than 200 applications for various positions in the station."
Ulin said he could hire only about half of those who applied.
"I receive the applications myself and review them. The first positions I fill are my top staff positions."
He said he consulted employees about applicants and promotions
"What I used was other people I had hired to tell me how they had done." Uln said. "We've got to have a direction in which we are going."
The Associated Press
Bennett announces plan to fight drugs
WASHINGTON — National drug policy director William J. Bennett announced today a multimillion-dollar federal effort to crack down on drug-related crime in the nation's capital, saying the District of Columbia government has failed to serve its citizens.
"Already in the first four months of 1989, the city has seen 135 new murders," Bennett said. "And that problem is getting worse, not bet-
Under the plan, approved by President George Bush, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will immediately accept 250 prisoners housed in the local jail. In addition, a 500-bed, detention facility will be built to house the prison staff and the criminal prison will be constructed for the Washington-Baltimore area.
A Washington-area drug task force will get an additional 57 federal, state and local investigators under the
plan, including 25 FBI agents and 11 Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
Five Defense Department intelligence analysts also will be assigned to the task force, which will conceive and distribute distributers in the Washington area.
The effort will cost $70 million to $80 million. Bennett said, adding that the money would be "redeployed" from other sources by the departments involved. He did not say what means the money would come from
Bernett said the plan should not be considered an assault on the principle of home rule, but he criticized the law's handling of drug-related violence.
He noted that Congress had appropriated $90 million three years ago for a new detention facility in Chicago, and he said he had yet been broken on the project.
Social groups think city could do more
by Scott Achelpohl Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer.
Lawrence city government has not made the effort to combat homelessness, say some social service organizations.
The groups needed more city involvement in the fight against poverty and homelessness, said Meredith Buenning, a partner in RESULTS, a national organization designed to help local, state and the federal government for help with their related problems.
"The conversations I've had with some representatives of social service organizations have said that the city is not meeting their needs."
Class project leaves KU students homeless for 24 hours
Buenning said.
Lani Oglesby, who has lived in government subsidized housing in Lawrence since 1981, said she knew the attitudes homeless people had toward city involvement in their own homes and homeless people temporary shelter.
"What the city needs is a homeless shelter, a place where people can go to get resources." Oglesby said. "The city doesn't want this done
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
After 24 hours, six KU students did something 500 people in Lawrence cannot do. They went home.
To increase awareness of the homeless in Lawrence and raise donations for the Salvation Army shelter, 946 New Hampshire S., six KU students camped up from 8 a.m. yesterday to 8 a.m. today on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
"A lot of people in Lawrence aren't aware of the homeless in Lawrence," said David Day, Lawrence senior and one of the students partici- pate. "I don't think we know all the lawyers my life and didn't know about it."
because they want these people out of their town. There's things people say they would do but don't do. They just make excuses."
By 5 p.m. yesterday, Day said the six had collected $100 for donation to the Salvation Army. To make the impact of the vigil greater, the students fashioned temporary cardboard lodgings designed to imitate what many homeless people sleep in.
The students distributed flyers that presented the numbers of homeless in Lawrence. The flyer said 300 homeless people lived in Lawrence. Of that number, 50 percent were single men, 33 percent were children and 10 to 15 percent were women.
"This time of year, once the summer starts coming around, people forget about the home."
Forrest Swail, assistant professor of social welfare, sad homelessness had become such a large problem
Cynthia Baker, Topeka junior and a partici-
that city government had to get involved.
pant in the vigil, said the group had given 100 envelopes addressed to the Salvation Army to Lawrence businesses asking for 50 cent or $1 donations
"Lawrence is a reflection of the national trend in regard to homelessness. 'Swall said, "Problem where volunteers don't meet the needs."
Baker said that close friends had helped her make the decision to do the awareness campaign.
"I had friends who worked for the homeless in Washington, D.C.," she said. "I got the idea from my friend."
Baker and Day said they had received mixed reaction to the 24-hour vignil from KU students.
reaction to me 24-hour vigh bhrn a r u sumens:
"A lot of people just look the other away,"
'A lot of people just looked the other away' Baker said.
"More recently, the federal government has withdrawn from social welfare concerns. Local government has not felt the need to be responsible because of this national commitment."
"People were shocked at our figures of homeless people in Lawrence." Dav said.
He said volunteer group lobbying
efforts to the city were also untraditional.
"The lose network of interest groups in Lawrence doesn't usually engage with elected officials.
See LAWRENCE, p. 5, col. 1