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VOL.101.NO.145
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1995
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Top 10 Endangered Rivers
The following is a list of the 10 most undangered rivers in the United States, according to American Rivers, a national river conservation group.
1. Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River (Montana, Wyoming)
2. Los Angeles River (California)
3. Columbia and Snake River system (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho)
4. Animas River (Colorado)
4. MISSouri River (Ole rado)
5. Missouri River (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
6. Kansas River (Kansas)
7. Mississippi River (entire length)
8. Cheat River (West Virginia)
9. Penobscot River (Maine)
10. Thorne River (Alaska)
Kaw makes endangered list
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas River now is one of America's 10 most endangered rivers, according to American Rivers, a national river conservation organization based in Washington, D.C.
About half of Lawrence's drinking water comes from the Kansas River.
The announcement was made yesterday at Burcham Park in Lawrence by representatives from three conservation groups: Friends of the Kaw, The Kansas Natural Resource Council and the Kansas
Sierra Club.
Kelly Kindscher, a scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey, said damming, dredging, chemical runoff from farms and waste discharge from cities had caused the river to exceed the recreational-use criteria established by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Needless to say, fish from the Kansas River are not safe to eat, Kindscher said. He said that a person should eat only four ounces of fish a month from the Kansas River. Eating more than that could cause a person to get sick from the chemical chlordane, which collects in the
river's sediments.
"In 1952 someone caught a 150 pound flathead catfish, but the system can no longer support that," Kindscher said. "Eating four ounces per month, it would take someone 40 years to eat that fish."
Bill Craven, legislative coordinator for the Kansas Natural Resource Council, said children who drank tap water taken from the Kansas River could exceed the lifetime amount of atrazine intake advised by the Department of Health and Environment by the time they were
See RIVERS,Page 7A
The amateur draft has turned baseball into:
THE BIG MON
Kansas pitcher Jamie Splittorff, drafted by the Kansas City Royals after high school in 1992, passed up a chance to play professional baseball to attend college. Nearing the end of his junior year, Jamie is ready for another shot at the big leagues. "If it doesn't work out, you have some money. And you can always go back to school," he said.
Jarrett Lane / KANSAN
Story by Tom Erickson
W when the Kansas City Royals called, Jamie Splittorff was at McDonald's.
His girlfriend Shauna Smith answered the phone.
"This is Art Stewart," said the director of scouting for the Royals. "Jamie was drafted in the 25th round. We'll call back later with more details."
But Stewart's call didn't matter. Jamie's decision was made long before the high school senior was drafted. He was going to Kansas.
His parents, Paul and Lynn, know professional baseball. Paul Splittorff won 166 games as a pitcher for the Royals from 1970-84 and is a
member of the Royals Hall of Fame.
"My parents told me, 'You're going to college,' and I basically had no say in it," Jamie said. "I was 18 years old, and they said, 'You're going to school,' soI said, 'OK.' It was the first time he was drafted by a professional baseball team. But it won't be the last. Now in his junior season with the Jayhawks, Jamie is
preparing for a second chance at the big leagues.
A VERY DIFFERENT DRAFT
The Major League Baseball amateur draft is a system that almost everyone agrees needs complete restructuring.
Many say it has too many rounds.
And unlike football or basketball,
the draft weakens college programs.
But instead of changing the status quo, Major League teams seem to be tempting more and more 18-year-olds away from school by flashing big money and big dreams.
College always will be there, the young players reason; baseball won't.
Professional football and basketball teams draft their players after college. But baseball chooses its players after high school. Football and basketball drafts are measured in hours; the baseball draft is measured in years.
Baseball uses a minor league system to groom talent.
Players can be drafted many times: after their senior year of high school, after one season at a junior college, following their junior season in college or after all four years of their college eligibility have been used up.
Jamie isn't the only Jayhawk who said 'no' to pro baseball after high school. Senior pitcher Dan Rude, junior pitcher Clay Baird, sophomore outfielder Isaac Byrd and freshmen pitchers Mike Terry and Linus Williams have also turned down the majors once already.
SIMILAR PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS
Although many agree that the baseball draft needs restructuring, the last attempt to do so failed.
GTAUNION
The NCAA tried to implement a new rule in 1992 that would have allowed a team to draft a player out of high school and have the rights to him for five years. That way, even if an athlete went to college, the team could sign him after his junior or senior year, removing unnecessary pressure on both the athlete and the
See MONEY Page 5A
GTAs win fight over affiliation
Chancellor says union is move in wrong direction
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
Four years of hard work ended in a landslide victory yesterday for leaders of the KU graduate teaching assistant union movement.
Of the 688 GTAs who voted in the elections, 486 voted to affiliate with the Kansas Association of Public Employees/American Federation of Teachers for collective bargaining purposes; 202 voted to have no representation.
Three sides of the room were lined with GTAs. On the fourth side, where there were only four chairs, two administrators sat quietly by themselves.
Dan Murtaugh, a leader of the GTA union movement, sat nervously squeezing a foam stress ball.
He and the movement's key supporters had reason to be nervous. They'd been waiting for this day for four years.
At stake was what Murtaugh last week called a needed institutional voice that would give GTAs input on health care, child care, how many hours they work and the level of work that would be expected of them.
What was at stake for administrators was collegiality. Throughout the campaign, administrators said that the union would strain faculty-GTA relations.
As Karen Dutcher, the University's legal counsel, recounted the last stack of votes, the talking in the room died down.
University administrators didn't share in the elation.
As an employee for the association announced the number of affirmative votes, the room erupted in cheers, smiles and hugs.
University administrators didn't share in the elation. Chancellor Del Shankel said he was disappointed by the election results and that he continued to believe the University was better positioned to represent the GTAs before the Kansas Legislature.
"However, I appreciate that our GTAs have concerns — in particular concerns about insurance benefits," Shankel said. "The University will immediately begin work with GTAs within the framework of the state public employees relations law."
Dick Mann, University director of administration, simply nodded his head when the outcome was announced and quickly left.
The GTAs have spoken, Mann said.
But Mann said that he was glad that the turnout for the election was so large. About 66 percent of the 1,035 eligible GTAs voted.
David Reidy, Lawrence graduate student and a former GTA, said he was pleased with the turnout for the election.
"That is a superb showing," Reidy said. "This bodes will for a positive future."
The future may be positive, but it will not be easy.
GTAs in KU's union organization, the Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition, have to begin organizing themselves. Reidy said that the coalition hoped to set goals and write bylaws this summer and hold officer elections this fall.
Although a balk call was overturned in the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded, the Kansas baseball team still pulled out a 6-5 victory against Kansas State last night.
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Coin toss breaks tie in election
Student Senate seats decided by chance
By lan Ritter
Kansan staff writer
The fate of four Student Senate candidates was decided by a coin and not a vote last night.
Selzer, who ran with the REAL coalition, became a law senator and Hilts, who also ran with REAL, became a liberal arts and sciences senator.
Josh Selzer, first-year law student, and Yero Hilts, Fort Riley sophomore, became student senators after a coin toss.
The coin was flipped because there was a tie between two candidates for the final law seat and for the final liberal arts and sciences seat. Two law seats and 11 liberal
Wendy Hills, a Topeka law student who ran with the United Students coalition, tied for second with Selzer. Each received 40 votes.
Eileen Force, Mundelein, Ill., sophomore who ran with United Students, tied for 11th with Hilts. Each received 387 votes.
Selzer said that after three weeks of campaigning, flipping a coin was a rather arbitrary way to determine election results.
arts and sciences seats were available.
"It's kind of like when you ask someone out on a date, and you don't know what the answer is yet," he said.
Selzer said that another vote should take place to break ties.
Hills said that she thought Selzer would do a great job, and she wasn't upset by the results of the toss.
"As much of a hassle as it is to get
Hilts said that he didn't think flipping a coin was the best way to decide, but he couldn't think of a better system.
Moore also was unhappy about the coin toss system.
people on campus to vote in the first place. I think a run-off election would be even more of an asshile," she said.
Moore said that as a member of the elections commission, he planned to write a recommendation to implement a different tie-breaking system.
He said that holding a separate election for the tied candidates was not feasible because of lack of finances.
"I think it's unfortunate that it has to come down to a coin toss," he said. "The students aren't deciding who their senators are with the toss of a coin."
Faculty salaries to be published
The section will list the salaries of all professors, administrators and unclassified employees who make more than $10,000 a year. Unclassified employees include librarians and research scientists.
Tomorrow's University Daily Kansan will include a 16-page special section about faculty salaries at the University of Kansas.
Kansan staff report
In the section's listings, 1995 salaries will be compared to 1994 and 1990 salaries. The percentage changes from 1994 to 1995 and from 1990 to 1995 also will be listed.
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The section culminates more than two semesters of work by Kansan staff members.
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