THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1989
VOL. 99, NO.123
Turnout is 36 percent for city elections
378 votes decide winners; top 3 agree on most issues
Steve TrumpKANSAN
After unofficial results were posted, Lawrence City Commissioner elect Bob Walters celebrates his victory with his wife, Pam, and his son, Mike. Results are announced last night at the Douglas County Courthouse.
by Angela Clark and Carrie Harper Kansan staff writers
As Dennis Constance sat at yesterday's City Commission meeting, election votes were being counted at the polls. But a few months ago for Constance, there weren't enough
Shirley Martin-Smith won with 5,882 votes, followed by Bob Walters with 5,151, and David Penny with 5,504.
Constance, a two-year incumbent on the commission, lost by 1,743 votes and will not be in his usual commission chair at next week's meeting. Constance, residence hall manager and placed fourth in the election vestitions.
"I always said I don't take things
for granted," Constance said "As it
turns out, it was not even close."
Only 378 votes separated the top three finishers, however.
Martin-Smith, who owns Martin-
Smith Personnel Services, will serve a four-year term.
Martin-Smith said the top three candidates' attitudes most affected the results of the election.
"It was a concern, a sensitivity," she said.
Martin-Smith predicted that the three would work well together because they all supported such projects. They worked in crossway and neighborhood concerns.
Bob Walters, who placed third in the primary and second in the election, said he did not think he would win. Walters will serve a four-year
He is manager of research facilities for the KU Space Technology Program and secretary-treasurer at Ethan A. Smith Moving and Storage.
Walters said views about transportation and a progressive attitude toward city growth were the deciding factors in the election.
"There's going to be some difference in the way we look at and treat
our transportation problems," he said.
Dave Penny, who placed first in the primary election, will serve a two-year term. Penny owns Kaw Sand
He said he saw a clear mandate in the election results.
"You could tell we were blocked together," he said.
Penny said that he, Martin-Smith and Walters represented a progressive approach to city growth, while Constance and Marci Francisco represented a little or no growth philosophy.
"They don't want to see Lawrence grow much." Penny said. "We're more inclined to let it take its natural growth."
Learning how the city runs is the top priority, he said.
"I have no agenda." Penny said.
"We have a lot of new green coming in. Any changes to the commission will be more long-term than immediate."
Francisco, an assistant director of facilities planning at the University of Kansas, placed fifth in the election, just as she did in the primary.
"I think the media put a lot of emphasis on the trafficway, which was really a county issue and had already been voted on," she said.
Jeff Arensberg also finished in the same position as in the primary. Arensberg, part owner of Arensburg, part owner of sixth yeared with 3,200 jobs.
"I think the bypass (trafficway) made a big difference," Arensberg said. "The support groups got out in strength and got out and voted."
Arensberg said he would run again for City Commission because he thought that his campaign had been effective.
Barry Shalinsky, a member of the Organization for Wise Leadership
A Political Action Committee, said that the people who did not vote
in this election were really making the strong statement.
"If there had been a 60 percent turnout, things could have been different," Shailsky said. "A lot of people didn't really understand what was behind a lot of these candidates." There were a lot of hidden agendas."
OWL-PAC endorsed Constance and Francisco, who both lost in the election.
Constance said that the 36 percent voter turnout signaled voter complacency.
Patty Jaimes, Douglas County Clerk, said 10,370 of the 28,917 registered voters in Lawrence voted. The county officially will be canvassed Friday.
The new city commissioners will be sworn in at Tuesday's City Commission meeting.
Shirley Martin-Smith
Bob Walters
David Penny
Dennis Constance
Marci Francisco
Below are the official results of yesterday's city elections. The winners are denoted with a check in the corresponding box.
Jeff Arensberg
School Board
Stephen Kline/KANSAN
✓ Barbara Ballard
✓ John Tacha
✓ Alice Fowler
□ Larry Morton
□ Gary Condra
Tacha joins incumbents on board
by Angela Clark and Carrie Harper Kansan staff writers
John Tacha will join two incumbents on the Lawrence School Board in July after the three were voted into office yesterday.
on the yesterday
Tacha, Barbara Ballard and Alice
Fowler all won four-year terms on
the seven member board.
Tacha, who received 5.675 votes,
said he knew he would have a base of
votes because of his participation in
community activities.
"I am more humbled by this than happy." Tacha said. "We've got a lot to do. I am anxious to get to work."
Tacha, who owns the Bureau of Lectures and Concert Artists, said curriculum and budgeting were two of the biggest areas where he could help, but he said he did not have any hidden agendas.
"We're going to have to really jump in." Tacha said.
Barbara Ballard, a four-year incumbent, led with 5,987 votes. Ballard is director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and associate dean of student life at the University of Kansas.
Ballard said she thought people knew she would continue to do a good job on the board because of her hard work during the past four years. She said it was an honor to finish first in the election.
"I can't say I was surprised because I was hoping for it," Ballard said. "I worked hard for it."
Alice Fowler, current school board president, placed third in the election with 5.466 votes.
Fowler, a clerk-typist for the Lawrence Fire Department, said she might celebrate after the election but
See ONE, p. 6, col. 5.
Daley wins Chicago mayoral race
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Richard M. Daley appeared headed toward victory yesterday and a claim on the mayor's office his father held for 21 years, with many saying he "wrote" his hope of extending black control of City Hall.
Daley appeared likely to benefit from a strong turnout in the predominantly white Southwest and Northwest Side wards. Turnout in Evans' black strengthons on the South and West Sides, meanwhile, lagged as many as 10 percentage points in state early election officials who declined to be identified.
Black turnout in recent elections has trailed white turnover by 2 to 5 percentage points, and Evans' campaign strategists pegged his chances for an upset victory on preventing that gap from
Minutes after the polls closed at 7 p.m. CDT all
three of Chicago's network television affiliates projected Daley would win, based on exit polling.
Maverick Republican Edward Vrdolyk was not expected to be much of a factor in a contest Democrats have won without fail since 1931 — including six straight terms captured by the late Richard J. Daley, last of the big-city political bosses.
A victory by the younger Daley, who defeated Mayor Eugene Sawyer in February's Democratic primary, would make the nation's third-largest black mayor, and the nation to replace a black mayor with a white.
Tom Leach, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, said the board's latest estimate was that 68 percent of the city's 1.56 million registered voters turned out. That would be the third-highest turnout for a Chicago municipal election, below the numbers that carried Harold
Washington, the city's first black mayor, to victory in 1983 and 1987.
The election was ordered by the courts to fill the two years remaining in the second term of Washington, who died of a heart attack in November 1987.
Daley, 46, is a three-term Cook County state's attorney, Evans, 45, is a Democratic South Side alderman who skipped the primary to run on the Harold Washington Party ticket. Vrdolyak, 51, is a former Democratic alderman who has not won elected office since his party switch in 1987.
Evans' most prominent supporter, Jesse Jackson, also voted in the morning, noting yesterday was the 21st anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s slaying.
"This is not a day to throw bricks," he said. "We must build with bricks."
Speaker says racism can be stopped
Julian Bond, former senator from Georgia and civil rights activist,
urges blacks to take action.
E. Joseph ZuraiKANSAN
hv Marv Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
Today's blacks need to take action in small groups that already are organized if they hope to achieve further civil rights, Juhan Boneh and Jacob activist and activist, said in a speech last night. Georgia, said in a speech last night.
"In the 1960s, we didn't say, 'Why doesn't Martin Luther King do something about that?' he said. "We said, 'Let's do something about this. Let's go to Woolworth's and buy toothpaste and notebook paper and sit at the lunch counter.'"
Bond said Martin Luther King Jr., had freed blacks from American apartheid and that without his changes might never have occurred.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity sponsored Bond's speech in the Ballroom at the Kansas Union as part of its seventh-annual Alpha
"For those Americans whose skins are black or brown, the poverty grade went up, while many of their children down," he said. "Poverty for black and Hispanic senior citizens went up. Poor children got poorer."
But conditions of black people remain unchanged today. Bond said. He called the past eight years a party for America's rich.
The civil rights movements of the past have been criticized for helping only middle-class blacks. Bond said.
gap between rich and poor grew wider."
“Racism is the cause, its elimination is the cure,” he said. “In retrospect, we were foolish to believe a society, which values material wealth over human life, could be cleansed so quickly or too easily that it has proven more deadly than any plague yesterday or today.”
Bond said lessons taught today from television films about the
"Today the music of the '60s sells raisins," he said. "The myths of the 1960s sell movie tickets. The 2010s sell books. The Klan wives, FBI agents, northern summer student volunteers, white southern college coeds — everyone except the black women and men who lived and died in freedom's
southern struggle for rights in the 1660s were that a war on racism was fought by noble white Americans and that the good guys finally
Jesse Jackson said much about Reagan's inability to face the damage that his eight years in office had done.
Bond said former President Reagan's attacks on people like
Bond does not expect the current administration's view to differ very much from Reagan's.
"Despite the president's rhetoric on Martin Luther King's birthday, the new Bush team at the Department of Justice promises color blindness, but that promise only means they are blind to the effect of color consciousness in American life." he said.
Bond said the civil rights movement of the 1960s grew from the willingness of ordinary people but that today's citizens are more involved for a cause.
He urged those present to take the initiative.
After his speech, Bond said he did not know why the Neo-Nazi and the Ku Klux Klan movements were gaining popularity. He guessed that the groups joined the groups simply because adults would disapprove.
"You know why Klansmen wear those tall, pointed hats, don't you?" he asked. "It's to make up for the fact that Klansmen in other parts of their bodies."
Darren James, Alpha Phi Alpha president and Normandy, Mo. junior astronaut, will speak tonight the campus about civil rights issues
BOCO candidates voted on this week
by Candy Niemann
Kansan staff writer
Board of Class Officers Elections will be conducted today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the rotunda at Strong Hall.
Bobby Jann, BOCO senior class president, said all BOCO presidents were involved in the Rock Chalk Revue advisory board. The BOCO junior class is in charge of homecoming planning.
The senior class organizes elections for the Honorary Outstanding Progressive Educator award and the Citation for Leadership and Achievement in Student Services award. The class also is in charge of the senior class gift and the class banner, and co-sponsors the commencement breakfast with the Student Alumni Association.
Several coalitions are running for class offices
The Big Eight coalition candidates include:
For junior class officers: Greg Hughes, Merriam, president; Mike Evans, St. Louis, vice president; Elizabeth Kennedy, Dublin, Ohio; secretary; and Colleen Lawler, Kansas City, Mo, treasurer.
For senior class officers: Bill Leslie, Deerfield, III., president; Jamie Solem, Lincolnshire, III., vice president; Karen Dewits, Wichita, secretary; and Anne French, Prairie Village, treasurer.
Leslie said his coalition wanted to organize BOCO's finances and sponsor social activities such as a senior class party. Hughes said the coalition sought to make homecoming more of a community event.
Candidates for Excel coalition include:
Candidates for Insight coalition include:
McIntosh said his coalition wanted to set a precedent by getting involved with Student Senate and creating a sophomore board to work
For sophomore class officers:
Jason McIntosh, Tulsa, OKa., president;
Beth Godfrey, Merriam, vice president; Sue Griswold, Overland Park, secretary; and Dan Golds mith, Northbrook, Ill., treasurer.
For junior class officers: Dan Carlson. Rapid City, S.D., president;
John Hamilton, Bellevue, Neb., vice president; Katrynn Monahan, Omaha, Neb., secretary; and Tracey Miodoenzie, Lawrence, treasurer.
Hamilton said Insight wanted to make junior class cards, which are purchased during fee payment, count toward discounts at local businesses. He said the condition he wanted to meet was a spirit week before homecoming.
Candidates for Klimax coalition include:
For junior class officers: Dustin Devaughn, Enid, Okla., president; James Westphal, Washington, D.C. vice president; Jennifer Phelps, Hawks, secretary; and Audrey Curtis, Haws, treasurer.
Devaughn said his coalition wanted to bring new ideas to BOCO and increase participation in homecoming.
Candidates for People's Voice coalition include:
For sophomore class officers:
Tyler Garnetron, Wichita, president;
Jamie Immel, Lawrence, vice president;
Kell Johnson, Overland Park,
secretary; and John Matthews,
Wichita, treasurer.
Matthews said his coalition wanted to be active in the student body and keep the class informed about activities.
Candidates for Prerogative coalition include:
For senior class officers: Bill
Kovack, Harrisonville, Mo., president;
Gina Simanacu, Omaha, Neb.
vice president; Greta Yudla, Tula,
Okla. secretary; and Tim Raynor,
Overland Park, treasurer.
For junior class officers: Joel Joyce, Prairie Village, president; Tim Keel, Leawood, vice president; Julie Axlan, Overland Park, secretary; and Hallie Hudson, Overland Park, treasurer.
For sophomore class officers, Jeff Robbins, Overland Park, president; Aaron McKee, Wichita, vice president; Julie Siefkes, Wichita, secretary; and Molly Morrison, Salina, treasurer.
Kovack said PrePrengacy wanted to sponsor a benefit concert in the spring Joyce said he hoped to please participation in homecoming.