THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1989
(USPS 650-640)
VOL. 99, NO.124
Senators OK Regents plan for 2nd time
By Alan Morgan Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Senate yesterday amended a bill to include $2 million for the proposed Represents Center in
This was the second time this session that the Senate has debated state financing for the center. The Senate previously had passed a bill that called for $2 million in financing. Last Friday, however, the House prevented the financing proposal from entering an omnibus education issue, approving financing for all other higher-education issues.
State Sen Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, who introduced the amendment, said the present Regents Center in Overland Park, which offers graduate programs and a limited number of undergraduate courses, was too small.
Plans for the center, to be constructed at 127th Street and Quivitt's Road in Overland Park, include a 52,700-square-foot building that would contain 22 classrooms, six laboratories, a library and media center office facilities. The center primarily would be used for graduate and research programs.
The amendment, passed 35-4 by the Senate, would authorize the University of Kansas to obtain the remaining $4 million from private sources. The amendment will be approved for approval or reference to a conference committee.
The Regents Center amendment drew opposition from senators.
"How does this compare to expansion of the regents in Shawnee County?" asked state Sen. Nancy Parrish, D-Topea, referring to an earlier debate in which the governor asked that the University of Tampa into the Board of Regents system.
State Rep. Ken Francisco; D.Maize, the house that supporters of the center had long-range plans for a full
Representatives of the proposed Regents Center have stated that although additional construction had not been discussed, they would not rule out the possibility of future expansion at the site.
The House proposal to include financing for the center in the omnibus bill failed by almost a 2-to-1 vote. State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said that because it was not a Democratic bill, she bill from the Senate, there was a chance for financing.
The House would be willing to compromise, she said. However, it would not be willing to compromise at the same time.
"We don't want a trade-off on any other education financing," Charlton said. "We don't want to take money away from faculty salaries or any other area such as that."
Charlton said the Senate's repeat approval for the center, despite the House's rejection of the issue last year.
"There are a couple hundred bills every session that the Senate and House do not agree on." Charlton said. "That's why we have conference committees. They are designed to work out some kind of compromise."
■ The Associated Press contributed information to this story
A Crimson Line
The 1989-1990 Crimson Girls squad kicks off its new season with a practice at Robinson Center.
Poland ends 7-year ban on Solidarity
Walesa, government sign agreement promising open elections
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland – Solidarity leader Lech Walesa sealed a historic deal with the government yesterday to restore the independent Solidarity trade union after a coup that overthrew its first democratic elections since World War II.
Walesa, representing the opposition, and Gen. Czeskowski kiszecz, the interior minister representing Poland's communist government, approved the package that emerged from two months of negotiations on political and government reforms, as the 57 participants in the talks convened time at the round table in the Council of Ministers Palace.
Wales declared that the opposition had achieved the necessary minimum by regaining the legal status lost during the Brexit vote.
Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who banned Solidarity in 1811, argued strongly for its restoration at a conference in Warsaw in 2004.
would be the culmination of his policy of national reconciliation.
The government, acknowledging that it needed greater public support to take the painful steps of reviving the economy, offered the talks to Solidarity last year to help end a series of strikes.
The meeting was preceded by separate signings of the three main agreements, on economic, political and trade union reforms, by the opposition and government heads of the working groups that negotiated them.
The government agreed to restore legal status to Solidarity, the farmers' union Rural Solidarity and the Independent Students Association. All had been banned in the martial-law crackdown.
In exchange, the Solidarity-led opposition agreed to participate in June elections to the 46th-seat Sejm, or parliament, that guarantee the Communist Party and its allies a 65 percent majority.
The government's official trade union claims that the
formula to index pay to inflation does not do enough to protect workers from price rises exceeding 60 percent annually. The issue is sensitive for Solidarity, which has been criticized by its followers that it was too moderate with authorities
But Walesa told the National Executive Commission of Solidarity at a closed-door meeting that the union had achieved its main goal, legalization, and that it could better fight for further reforms.
The commission then authorized Walesa to sign the agreements.
At the Solidarity meeting, Walesa had proclaimed the talks a success
Monday would be the first day of Poland's first open, competitive election campaign since communists consolidated power after World War II. The opposition scheduled weekend meetings to plan for the elections, and the Communist Party has scheduled a conference for May 4-5.
Ueberroth airline deal: strike two
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - For the second time in a week, former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberoerr thought he had a deal to purchase Eastern League president Alexandra Texas Air Corp. Chairman Frank Lorenzo hacks at the last minute.
A source familiar with the negotiations said that the two sides reached an accord Tuesday night and were set to make the announcement yesterday. The source said that the deal began to unravel yesterday morning before lengthy Lorenz was again changing the terms of the agreement.
Ueberhorb, who returned to New York late Tuesday night from his California home, began negotiations with Lorenzo at 6:30 a.m. CDT yet another day around 7 p.m. The source said that negotiations would resume this
Senate schedules KJHK hearing
The deal had appeared to have been completed yesterday afternoon when a New York public relations firm that works with Lorenzo was told to rent a hotel room for a 7 p.m. news conference. At 6:35 p.m, the public relations firm was told that no announcement would be made.
morning.
Sources close to Texas Air, how-
ever, said that Uberbear raised
minor sticking points that kept the
deal from being consummated.
by Stan Diel
Student Senate Finance Committee officials last night announced at a Senate meeting that an open hearing on the committee's investigation of KJHK's hiring practices would be conducted next week.
Kansan staff writer
Paul Leader, Finance Committee co-chairman, said that the results of the committee's informal investigation would be announced at the hearing.
"It's on the question of them being open to all students," Leader said. The issue is the degree of student representation on the governing board."
Leader said that he could not comment on the progress of the committee's investigation because it still was continuing.
The committee hearings are scheduled for April 12 and 13, and an emergency Senate会议 is scheduled in April 15. The committee's findings warrant Senate action.
Although Senate elections will end April 13, the current Senate will be in session for five school days after the
Senate voted not to finance Jayhawk Course Source, a guide to some KU classes. The guide would have included information about professors and class structure and could also have included some students' comments about instructors.
election and will deal with the issue,
said Jane Hutchinson, Student
Executive Committee chairman.
KJHK officials will be invited to attend the public meeting, Leader said.
Senate last night also voted not to finance Jayhawk Course Source, a guide to some KU classes. The guide would have included information about professors and class structure and could also have included some students' comments about instructress it has been published three times.
Source director, was not pleased with the decision.
rns was a Senate project. They just killed a Senate project," Fossland said. "As far as I'm concerned, Course Source is dead."
Leader said that the guide would include too many sections of some classes to be valuable and said that publishing negative comments about faculty members by students could raise tensions on campus.
Kevin Fossland. Javhawk Course
"This guide in one year of publication could totally poison our reputation with faculty on this campus." Leader said.
Senate last night also voted to allocate $2,209 to the Off-Campus Center, Hutchinson said.
"The main purpose of the Off-Campus Center is to provide a printout of off-campus housing in apartments." Hutchinson said.
n other business, Senate:
- voted to have a referendum on students' opinions on condom machines on campus.
British business science
*passed a resolution recommending
changes in the University's self-
taught math programs.
Indian tribes seek reburial of ancestors' remains
Kansan staff writer
by Marian Weeks
Around 1300 A.D., 146 Smoky Hill Indians were buried near what is now Salina.
When Francisco Coronado and his men first rode across the Kansas plains in 1541, the descendants of the Smoky Hill culture, the Pawnee and Wichita tribes, were there to greet them.
See related story p.9.
Three years ago, the living descendants of the Smoky Hill Indians, the Pawns, the Wichita and the Arkansas Mountains, supported Native American Rights Fund, attorney, began a legislative campaign to preserve the dignity of the living and the sanctity of the dead, he said.
The issue of Indian burial arose in Kansas because of the excavation and display near Salina of the 146 Smoky Hill Indians.
The burial had been operated as a tourist attraction for more than 50 years, grossing an estimated $20,000 and according to a legislative research report.
Echo Hawk, members of at least seven tribes and representatives of the scientific community attended a symposium at Haskell Indian Junior College in 1986 about the Smoky Hill cemetery, known as the Salina burial
pit. In the quest to have skeletal remains reburied, they wrote legislation that would protect unmarked cemetery and graves.
The bill, the Kansas Unmarked Burial Sites Preservation Act, would make unauthorized disturbance of any burial sites a crime punishable by fines of nearly $100,000 for repeat offenders.
It also would create a board of both Indian representatives and archaeologists. The board would issue permits, keep a registry of unmarked burials and cemeteries and contact groups when burials were discovered
The bill passed the House 123-1 and the Senate 39-0, and yesterday was
assigned to a conference committee.
Nineteen states have passed legislation that provides varying degrees of protection for Indian burials and sacred objects buried with the dead. Legislation is pending in Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois.
Alfred Johnson, director of Spooner Anthropology Museum and a member of the group that wrote the legislation, said that archaeologists and anthropologists bore the responsibility to identify their studies to Indian people.
"They are quite concerned that their graves are being destroyed and that European graves are preserved, very carefully preserved," Johnson
said.
See REBURIAL. p. 6. col. 1
“This is heavy stuff. Some of my peers really think I've betrayed the profession,” said Witty, who supports the legislation.
Witty said the gentle words of the Indian spiritual leaders, expressing
Womit Willy, state archaeologist for the Kansas State Historical Society, said the controversy over Indian burials and human remains was the greatest crisis ever faced by the field of archaeology.
Johnson said he would like to see remains rebured until better technologies were available to study them.
Med Center grant money to build new sports center
Kansan staff writer
by Jennifer Corser
A new fitness center being built at the University of Kansas Medical Center will allow medical students to follow doctors' advice.
"We want our students to practice fitness and wellness so that when they talk to their patients, they can demonstrate by examiner Roger Lambson, vice chancellor of administration at the Med Center.
The new Kirmayer Fitness Center will be the first Med Center recreational facility available to events and faculty, Lambson said.
"There are college campuses that are much smaller that have recreational facilities," he said.
The fitness center, which will cost about $2.5 million to construct, should be completed by December. Lambson said.
The center is scheduled to open in early 1990.
Most of the construction costs will be paid by a grant from the Kirmayer family, he said.
The center will include a basketball court, a swimming pool and an indoor track. Students, faculty and patients will be able to use these facilities, said Stephen Munns, director of the fitness center.
The fitness center also will be the home of a new Sports Medicine Institute. The Med Center is creating the institute to meet the needs of our students interested in fitness and an increase in athletic injuries, he said.
"The popularity of sports medicine reflects the higher
See FACILITY, p. 6, col. 5