THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOPEKA, KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1995
SECTION A VOL.104, NO.156
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DU: The First Renovation
The Delta Upsilon house has gone through its first renovation in more than 60 years.
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CAMPUS
The sound of jackhammers
Compiled from The Associated Press.
Repairs are under way to strengthen the structure of Memorial Stadium.
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Tears mark Smith trial
UNION, S.C. — Susan Smith's ex-husband broke down sobbing yesterday as he told the jury how all his dreams for his sons died when he learned that his ex-wife had drowned the boys.
"Everything I had planned — teaching them to play ball, taking them fishing, teaching them to ride bikes, watching them go to school the first day, watching them grow up — all that has been ripped from me," said David Smith.
Three of the 12 jurors who will decide whether to sentence Susan Smith to death or life in prison also wept during the wrenching testimony.
David Smith has said he believes his wife, who was convicted Saturday of two counts of murder, should be executed. Her lawyers hope to persuade the jury to sentence her to life in prison instead.
Those lawyers had been expected to grill her ex-husband about his taking a $20,000 advance for a book on the case, as well as allegations he had abused her during their marriage. But they decided not to question him.
Citadel to admit female as cadet
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge Monday cleared the way for Shannon Faulkner to join The Citadel's all-male corps of cadets.
The only way the state-supported military college can prevent her from becoming a cadet is to persuade a higher court to block her. Faulkner knows the fight isn't over.
"Even if I don't enter the corps, some other woman will because I'll fight it to the end," she said.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in April that Faulkner must be allowed to become a cadet unless South Carolina developed a program giving similar training to women.
The state came up with a $10-million women's leadership program at Converse College, a private school in Snartown, S.C.
U. S. District Judge C. Weston Houck will rule on the program's constitutionality, but he said there was no time to do that before Faulkner became a cadet on Aug 12.
Chancellor prepares for budget cuts
Top brass says shortfall will not hurt students
By Kimberly Crabtree
Kansan staff writer
In light of a $3 million budget reduction, Chancellor Robert Hemenway announced last week the specific amounts to be cut from four general areas of the University.
The areas and amounts cut are:
academic affairs, $1,695,086, a 1.5 percent decrease; administration and support services, $925,498, a 3 percent decrease; research, gradu
ate studies and public service,
$295,335, a 1.6 percent loss; and
student affairs, $97,102, a 1.75
percent decrease.
According to the July 13 memorandum declaring the dollar amounts, Hemenway would like the recommendations to be discussed by staff, student leaders and the University Senate Executive Committee before the list is brought to him.
Hemenway said that Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, and his staff proposed these amounts after comparing KU funding with other schools.
The vice chancellors will be responsible for working with deans and individual departments to determine specific areas for the cuts, Hemenway said.
The University absorbed a $3 million-budget shortfall this year by delaying faculty raises and by implementing a hiring freeze on July 1. Hemenway's budget-cut proposal will take effect in 1996 and accommodate, on a more permanent basis, the same budget shortfall that required the hiring freeze this year.
Academic affairs, which makes up 67 percent of the total University budget, will lose the greatest dollar amount. The $1.6 million loss is 1.5 percent of that area's budget.
By Nov. 15, the proposals will be delivered to the chancellor. Hemenway will announce the final budget-reduction plan by Dec. 1, and the plan will be put in place for fiscal year 1997, which begins July 1, 1996.
"Academic affairs was cut the least
percentage-wise, and that's my desire." Hemenway said.
As for the impact students will feel, it should be minimal, said David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"Students that notice the cut may find there's not a section offered when they need it," he said. "And there may be a few instances where some units reduce the hours they're open. But most students probably won't notice the cut."
Hemenway agreed that classroom
quality will be minimally affected.
"It will cause there to be larger classes and some longer lines, but I don't believe actual classroom quality will be affected," he said. "We'll just have to get greater efficiency out of classes."
Shulenburger said certain areas would not be cut, including the summer-school budget and library acquisition funds.
"Library acquisition funds have sustained high inflation for a number of years, and there's no way we can cut that," Shulenburger said. "The library has to be able to buy new books and keep subscriptions for students."
Shulenburger said the summerschool budget would not be cut because that budget is all instruction costs. And instruction won't be cut.
Still, administrators are not allowing the cuts to get the better of them.
"Cutting the budget is not the direction we want to go, but it's not a crisis." Shulenburger said.
Thousands of Deadheads and vendors gather in the parking lot near Soldier Field on the Fourth of July.
THE DEAD ARE STILL ALIVE (and grateful)
Text and photos by Edmee Rodriguez
Although the band canceled its July 4 show in Deer Creek, Ind., when thousands of ticketless Deadheads tried to break through the gate, The Dead finished its 30th year on tour with fireworks in Chicago.
The Grateful Dead is still alive.
After the unpleasant turn of events in Indiana, band members wrote a letter to fans condemning the Deadheads' behavior and warned them the tour would stop if the incident recurred.
At Soldier Field in Chicago, the band started out the first set with "Touch of Gray" and ripped it in the second set with "Shakedown Street" and "Sampson and Delliah."
Phil Lesh showed his stuff with the delicious ballad "Unbroken Chain," then Jerry Garcia followed with "Sugar Magnolia" and "Black Muddy River." Lesh finished the show with "Box of Rain."
The Grateful Dead ended its 30th summer tour with fireworks and Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star Spangled Banner" blaring in the background.
Kenyon Charity, Lawrence freshman, sits outside the gate at Soldier Field in Chicago, waiting for The Grateful Dead show to start.
The Grateful Dead plays "Touch of Gray," in Chicago, during the first set of the band's final show of the summer.
Olympic torch to burn through Lawrence
Kansan staff report
The torch for the centennial Olympic games will be making its way through Lawrence on May 16. The torch is scheduled for a relay that will cover 42 states and more than 15,000 miles. It is the longest torch relay in the history of the games.
The torch is scheduled to arrive from Kansas City along Kansas Highway 10. The official route in Lawrence has not yet been set. Torchbearers will be chosen by the Lawrence community.
The torch relay is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on April 27, 1996. More than 10,000 runners will have a chance to carry the famous torch.
After 84 days, the torch will reach Atlanta on July 19,
1996 for the start of the games.
Noah Musser / KANBAN
Trial of Phelps follower pushed back by dog bite
The Associated Press
EMPORIA — A mistrial was declared Tuesday in the case of a follower of anti-homosexual activist Fred Phelps Sr. because a witness became sick from a dog bite.
The move allows Charles Hockenbarger to be tried at a later date on a battery charge in an alleged
attack on a rock musician last yearin'Toneka.
The man Hockenbarger is accused of attacking, Damian "Brit" Schiesser, was to be a key witness for the state.
But he was bitten by a dog Sunday night and was taken to a Lawrence hospital early Tuesday, prosecutor Joan Hamilton said.