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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1989
(USPS 650-640)
VOL.99,NO.121
Cubans cheer for Gorbachev
The Associated Press
HAVANA — Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev received a warm welcome yesterday as he arrived in Cuba for talks with President Fidel Castro, who said the Soviet leader's new pragmatic brand of communism.
Castro, wearing the green fatigue uniform that has been his trademark for three decades, walked onto the rain-soaked tarmac and threw his arms around the Soviet leader.
It was the third meeting of the communist chieftains.
Castro kissed Gorbachev's wife, Raisa, on both
cheeks before escorting Gorbachev on a review of the presidential honor guard.
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans summoned by local neighborhood committees packed the arrival area at Jose Marti International Airport and lined a 10-mile route through downtown Havana to the official guest house where Gorbachev will stay during his four-day visit.
Formal talks between the Soviet and Cuban leaders are to begin today.
Gorbachev and Castro rode to the capital standing side by side in an open, Soviet-built parade.
Although Castro is known for his ability to turn out thousands of people in this city of 2 million, the welcome for Gorbache appeared genuinely warm.
Official media in both countries have papered over ideological differences to stress the closeness
But the contrast between Castro's doctrinaire Marxism and Gorbachev's new-style openness and determination to modernize the Soviet economy is evident just below the surface.
See SOVIET, p. 6, col. 5
Giuliana Nakashima/Special to the KANSAN
Watkins will raise charges, cut hours
by Jennifer Corser
Kansan staff writer
A young female bobcat takes its cage to re-enter the wild. The bobcat was released by Nancy Schwarting, co-director of KU's
The wild life
Beginning next semester, Watkins Memorial Health Center will be closed nights, and beds will be charged for tests, a test, or oral said Friday.
Last week, Student Senate denied Watkins' request for a $7 increase in the restricted fee for next year. Senate instead passed an increase of $1.50, said James Strobel, director of fees. The fee will be $80.5 next year.
Strobil that Watkins needed a $9 increase to meet running operating costs but that it had asked for only $7
With a $7 increase, Watkins would have had to close at night and increase charges for gynecological testing, physical therapy, sports medicine, dental services, mental health services and some laboratory tests, he said.
With only a $1.50 increase in the restricted fee Watkins will also have to charge for all laboratory tests and for consultation with the dietitian.
"We hope the students who use the health center will work with us," Strobi said.
Animal Care Unit, Saturday at Clinton Wildlife Reserve. The Bobcat had been under the care of the unit for several months.
Strobl said Watkins needed the additional funds because of rising costs for malpractice insurance, salaries for classified employees, employee benefits and other operating expenditures.
In addition, some Watkins employees who now work year-round may be employed only nine months, he said.
Next semester, Watkins will be open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekends, Strobla said. However, a physician will be in the building at all times to treat serious injuries.
"These are the things happening to the health center that are totally out of our control," he said.
Students will pay $15 for after hours treatment of minor injuries
Students also will pay a fee if they want treatment after noon on Saturday or on Sunday.
Strobl said Watkins would operate in a way similar to a doctor's office to increase efficiency. Administration officials are considering having a nurse work with every two physicians so the physicians can move from examining room to examining room without having to spend time in the ward or the nursing room. That way, each physician could see more students, which means that Watkins could get by with fewer physicians.
"We'll continue to do anything we can to institute efficiency," Strobi said.
Jane Hutchinson, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said that Senate had not raised the restricted fee as much as Watkins did whom wanted because Watkins received a $12.00 increase last year.
"We looked at raising the restricted fee as raising tuition." Hutchinson said. "So we had to be careful."
Hutchinson said the $1.50 increase was a compromise between maintaining the level of student health and minimizing or minimizing tuition increases.
She said that the decision was valid but that senators probably would have been more comfortable making decisions, and more time to investigate the situation.
Senate had only about three weeks to analyze the information because Watkins only recently learned details about factors affecting its budget, such as increased premiums for malpractice insurance.
Senate is looking at ways to work with Walkins throughout the year, Hutchinson said which could involve the Student Health Advisory Board.
Haiti's coup attempt is suppressed by loyalists
The Associated Press
A government communiqué read on state-run television said "certain officers besieged" the palace "and urged to overthrow the government."
PORTA-UPRINCE. Haiti — The government said it foiled an attempt by rebel army officers yesterday to overthrow Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril. The militants apparently rescued Avril as he was driven away to be deported.
Earlier, sources in Haiti had said military commanders had ousted the 6-month aid government. It would have triggered a civil war in the Caribbean country, in less than a year.
The communique did not explain how the map was suppressed but said "Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril is in control of the situation and guarantees peace in the streets and the security of life and property."
The communique said he would address the nation on television later.
U. E. Embassies spokeswoman Susan Clyde said reports indicated the coup attempt occurred about 4 or 5 a.m. and was detained for a period of time.
"But it appears that when he was being taken to the airport to be deported . . . members of the presidential guard arrived at the airport and escorted him back to the palace to be president again," she said in a telephone interview from Port-au-Prince.
She said there apparently was no bloodshed during the ouster attempt and that the city was calm.
There was no word on the fate of
the coup leaders, who included the army commander-in-chief, Maj. Gen. Herard Abraham. The attempt came four days after the discharge of four top army officers accused of drug trafficking.
Haiti's international airport was closed and large numbers of soldiers were at the palace and on the streets.
A Haitian government source said shortly after daybreak three military officers, including Abraham, had ousted Avril and that Abraham had been put in charge of the government.
Gunfire was heard twice near the palace in the pre-dawn hours, witnesses said. Several hours later, heavy gunfire broke out in the same area.
Another source said Abraham had refused to accept the presidency. Abraham was foreign minister under Hamid Namphy, then his Henri Namphy, whom Avril replaced.
Five soldiers of the Presidential Guard arrived at independent radio station Liberte at 11:45 a.m. and read a statement denying that Aviad had
Manigat, Haiti's last civilian president, was elected in violence-marred elections in January 1988. He replaced a judaa led by Nambam that had governed Dover forged fidelity to exile in 1986, ending a 29-year family dictatorship.
A State department official who asked not to be identified by name said Abraham was involved in the coup attempt and claimed at one time that he was a spy.
Namphy overthrew Manigat in a
coup June 20, 1988.
Computers on line to help advising
by Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
Undecided liberal arts undergraduates will have access to faculty advisers before meeting faculty adviser this summer.
Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who have not declared a major can get help in planning their schedules from the Enrollment Assistance System (EAS) in the Rotunda at Strong Hall, said Pam Houston, assistant to the dean of liberal arts and sciences.
For the next two weeks, the 1,800 students who are undecided about their majors can pick up a computer disk from 102 Strong Hall with their student records on it. Students who have access to the computer desk will be at 4:30 p.m. during the two weeks of advising, which begin today and continues through April 14.
"It gives them the information they need when they're putting together a schedule," she said. "By taking care of what we call the technical aspects of advising, it free up both the client and advisor to talk about things people should be talking about rather than searching through the timetable."
"Not only does it tell them what requirements they haven't fulfilled, it tells them what courses are being offered next semester that fulfill those requirements," she said.
Instead of students searching through the timetable, the catalog and their confidential folders to figure out a schedule, EAS will do it for them. Houston said.
Last semester, 900 students were chosen to participate in the program. Besides being expanded this semester to include all undecided students, changes have been made based on suggestions of students who used the system last semester to make it more efficient, she said.
Last semester, for instance, a list of all courses offered by a department would appear on the screen. Now, if a student knows what course he wants to take in that department, he can call up all the times that course is offered instead of having to go through the entire list, she said.
Students who use EAS can print out a tentative
schedule to take to their advising session. Houston said that if the schedule was approved by the adviser, students could take that schedule along with their green permit-to-enroll form to the enrollment center without having to transfer the information.
Robert Adams, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said advisers in the three departments that advised undecided students — English, biology and physics — would expect students to have gone through the EAS processing and have an initial schedule.
Adams said the system had its advantages.
SOME said the 35-year-old had a list of courses than the advisers could be expected to have, "he
Because the college is hoping to open the program to all students when it can afford enough of the $2,500 computers. Adams said student partition was necessary.
"We need the students to help us develop a good system," he said. "It's very necessary that we have students participate in these small-scale moments so we can get these systems to work right."
Financing for Regents Center in limbo
by John P. Milburn and Alan Morgan Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA — A proposed $2 million in state financing for a new Regents Center may have been left behind in the financing for higher education, said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence.
cellence, into a finance bill for fiscal year 1990. The omnibus bill now must go back to the Senate for approval. It is signed by Gove Mike Hayden.
The House on Friday transferred all other high education items from one bill, including the Margin of Ex-
However, financing for construction of the new Regents Center in Overland Park was left in a state of limbo, said State Rep. Michael Sawyer. D.Wichita. He said it was possible that the issue would come up for debate, but that the center's future did not look good.
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By a vote of almost two-to-one, financing of the Regents Center was
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said yesterday that the Legislature's action concerning whether was only a momentary setback.
left behind by the House when it rejected an amendment to include the money in the larger higher education bill.
"I think that when the final gavel sounds, the Regents Center will be funded in its entirety as recommend-
During House discussion Friday, several representatives took the opportunity to voice their opinions
about the center. State Rep. Ken Francisco, D-Maize, told the House that he did not approve of the financing.
"They want more than a center," Francisco said. "They want a full-fledged university someday."
State Rep. Don Crumbaker, R-Brewster, also spoke in opposition to the center.
I do not like the way financing for the center was handled." Crumbauer said. "It was supposed to be privately funded."
KU closes war on hunger with dinner that hits home
Kansan staff writer
Two dollars could buy as much as a turkey dinner - or as little as rice and water.
A nunner, sponsored by the Human Services Committee of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, was served last night at the Funeral for the KU student Huntus hunter week.
However, this dinner was not the same for all 62 people who attended.
It was divided into three categories: it established countries such as the United States, and countries such as the
Soviet Union and underdeveloped countries such as Ethiopia.
A table was set up in the basement of the center where people paid 2 and drew the coins on the table.
Those who drew an established country sat at the front of the room and received a turkey dinner, complete with mashed potatoes, green beans, with strawberry shortcake for dessert.
Drawing a developing country meant standing in a line to receive chicken.
People who drew an underdeveloped country stood in line for unflavored rice
and lukewarm water.
Tracy Schooling, chairman of the service committee and Tulsa, Oka., junior, said this was the first year the dinner had been conducted.
"It's amazing to see how bitter people become because their friends are overjoyed."
Amy Johnson, president of KU Students Against Hunger, which co-sponsored the dinner, said organizers tried to create an appropriate atmosphere.
"It's supposed to look as desolate as possible," she said, describing the developing landscape.
The buffet consisted of a large grey kettle full of bland rice and styrofoam cups sat on the floor.
In contrast, the tables of the established countries had plates, silverware and a bowl with brightly colored candy as the centerpiece.
"I would only resent it if this is the way I ate all the time," he said. "I but this rice I'm eating is a lot better than they do get in Third World countries."
Douglas Johnston, Wichita senior and underdeveloped countryman for the night, said the dinner was an enlightening experience for him.
Wendy Mall, who sat at an established table table, said, "It makes you feel bad, especially when they're waiting on you. You have to be patient." "You can have what I have left over,"
Daniel Nagenagel, speaker from Church World Services, said "It's kind of awkward to have you all in the same room. For example, I don't like and we don't see the hungry out there."
When Nagengast asked for audience reactions to the meal, one man in the underdeveloped countries section yelled out "I was ready to storm the first world."