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VOL.104,NO.133
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
ADVERTISING 8644358
(USPS 650-640)
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1995
NEWS: 864-4810
Dole throws in hat
photos by Valerie Crow / KANSAN
BELLOW: Samantha Bowman,
Wichita freshman, left; Chad King,
Overland Park sophomore; and
Mike Pimer, Shawnee Mission
West High School senior; cheered
Sen. Bob Dole's arrival at the
Kansas Exporter yesterday.
Sen. Bob Dole announces his presidential candidacy at a rally in the Kansas Expocenter in Topeka.
Senator announces from home state
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — America needs to rein in the federal government, cut taxes and the deficit and give power back to the states and the people, Sen. Bob Dole said yesterday when he announced his bid for the presidency at Landon Auditorium in the Kansas Exocenter.
"I have come home to Kansas with a grateful heart to declare that I am a candidate for president of the United States," he told a crowd of about 3,000 members of the media, citizens, Kansas and federal legislators and government officials.
Dole, who is from Russell, said Kansas was a place of common sense and uncommon sensitivity.
"My mandate as president would be to rein in the federal government in order to set free the spirit of the American people," he said.
He quoted the 10th Amendment when he said that government had grown too large and had taken away constitutional powers and rights from the states and the people.
Riding the wave of recent Republican congressional victories, Dole said he would lead the fight for fundamental governmental change.
"In the last elections, with rare clarity, the people reaffirmed their faith in themselves and a healthy amount of skepticism in government," he said.
Dole said the government could streamline by cutting wasteful programs, specifically the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by spending money more efficiently.
"Let's close down the education department and spend the money on the children, not on the bureaucracs," he said.
Chad King, Overland Park sophomore and member of KU College Republicans, said he wanted to work for Dole's cam-
pagain staff once the election got under way.
He said Dole was right in wanting less government in education.
"Let the parents choose, especially in the public schools," he said.
Dole said it was possible to cut taxes and balance the budget at the same time with a presidential line-item veto and a balanced
budget amendment
"And balancing the budget will also be a ton priority."
Dole said affirmative action, already being scrutinized by congressional Republicans, was not needed.
"This is America," he said. "We should have a color-blind society."
Dole said America should never be ashamed of its national strength and should look out for its own interests before those of the United Nations.
sexual orientation — were not mentioned.
He said Americans should never discriminate by race, ethnic background or sex. Two phrases common to that list — religion and
"We will vow that American foreign policy will be determined by us, not by the United Nations," he said.
Dole also took his stabs at President Clinton.
"In 1992, Clinton ran as a candidate for change," he said. "In 1996, he will run as a candidate fighting to pre-
With two failed attempts at the presidency under his belt — one in 1980 and one in 1988 — the 71 year-old graduate of Washburn University is already this year's front-runner in media polls for the Republican nomination.
Near the end of Dole's speech, a voice rang out from the audience and said. "We want Bob."
"Thank you," Dole said confi-
dently. "You're gonna get him."
Campaign '96: The race to the race
1996 presidential candidates are announcing earlier than their
1992 counterparts. Early candidates in the two races:
Kun Tian / KNIGHT-RIDDER TRIBUNI
Coalitions argue issues
Transportation advising top debate issues
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
The debate between the presidential and vice presidential candidates for the United Students coalition and the REAL coalition started at 8 p.m. at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Both coalitions have emphasized the importance of improving campus transportation as part of their platforms,
The REAL coalition proposed that Student Senate work with the city to improve the current busing system at KU.
Stephanie Guerin, who is running for student body vice president with REAL, said that working with the City of Lawrence would decrease the cost of busing for students and possibly make it free for student use eventually. She said that the quality of the buses needed to be improved.
"The buses are old, and residents
are complaining," she said.
Guerin said that the University of Iowa had a program in which the city helped to coordinate the school's busing system. She said REAL would model its new system after Iowa's.
But United Students candidates said that the possibility of working with the city on busing was a farce.
Cocks said that working with the City of Lawrence would cost each student $35 in student fees and an additional $60 for a bus pass.
"I think that it is unfortunate that Stephanie is misrepresenting the truth to you," said Kim Cocks, student body president candidate with United Students.
Next year students will be paying $12 each to finance campus transportation. A bus pass currently costs $55.
Cocks said that Bryan McClatchey, director of transportation at the University of Iowa, personally discouraged KU students from changing their current busing system.
The REAL coalition focused much of the debate on the issue of student representation within the two coalitions.
David Stevens, who is running for student body president with REAL, said that 80 percent of the candidates in the United Students coalition were members of either a fraternity or a sorority.
"Senate and the United Students coalition represent one small segment of this University," Stevens said.
He said that other students would be misrepresented if United Students won tomorrow and Thursday's election.
"I don't see how that represents "anybody in the scholarship halls," Stevens said. "I don't see how that represents anyone on Daisy Hill."
Dan Hare student body vice presidential candidate with United Students said that 60 percent of the United Students candidates were members of either a fraternity or sorority, as opposed to 80 percent.
"I don't care where you live, these are things that affect you," Hare said. "We represent every student at this University."
Cocks said that United Students was committed to improving advising for students.
"I think that we pay a lot of money to come here, so we should be able to be advised," Cocks said, explaining that students aren't getting the advising that they need. "They are sent to a department that they are not even interested in."
Poster upsets student
Flier incorrectly promotes voting
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
Out of the hundreds of posters across campus, one grabbed the attention of David Young during spring break.
Young, Lawrence graduate student, was upset by posters in Learned and Snow halls encouraging graduate teaching assistants to vote in the Monday and Tuesday unionization election. A simple majority will determine whether GTAs will be represented by the Kansas Association of Public Employees/American Federation of Teachers for bargaining purposes.
Young didn't object to the encouragement. But he had a problem with a sentence typed at the bottom of the poster.
The sentence read: "The majority of GTAs who vote will determine if all GTAs join a union."
But that is not true, Young said.
"What it says is very simple, and what it saves is wrong." He said.
Kansas is a right-to-work state, which means no one can be forced to join union.
said that the poster had come with another informational post sent by the office of academic affairs, Young said.
But Andrew Debicki, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said that the posters did not come from administrators. Anything publicizing the GTA election must be cleared with academic affairs and the University's legal counsel, Debicki said. The posters were not approved by the administration.
Young, concerned that other GTAs would be misled by the statement, went to a secretary in Learned to find out where the poster came from. The secretary
"They put it up without running it through Strong Hall," he said.
No one is sure where the posters came from. David Reidy, a former GTA and a leader of the GTA unionization movement, said that Carl Locke, dean of engineering, has denied adding the posters to the other posters from academic affairs. Locke was out of town and could not be reached for comment.
Reidy said that he was more concerned with how much the poster hurt the unionization campaign than with who sent it and whether the mistake was intentional.
GTAs in the School of Engineering are less supportive of unionization than GTAs in other schools, Reidy said. Some of the opposition stems from confusion about the issue, he said, and the poster might confuse things even more.
Karen Dutcher, KU's associate general counsel, said that action had been taken to correct the error.
Casting doubts casting ballots
GTA unionization vote:
On April 17 in the rotunda of
Strong Hall and on April 18 in
the computer center, all graduate teaching assistants will be able to vote on whether they should affiliate with the Kansas Association of Public Employees/American Federation of Teachers for collective bargaining purposes. Voting hours on both days are 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
If the affiliation is approved, GTAs will not be required to join the union.
Tomorrow, the graduate student council will sponsor a forum with both administrators and GTAs to discuss the election. The forum will be held in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union from 4-6 p.m.
KU police report contains odd facts
Hidden between the number of thefts on campus and the number of drunken-driving arrests in the KU police department's annual report are unusual statistics such as the day of the week crimes are most likely to occur.
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
"We have extra stuff in the report that you don't normally see," said Rose Rozmiarek of the KU police department.
Because there are no state or federal guidelines for the KU police department's annual report, Rozmlarek said there were no requirements as to what should be included in the 1994 report.
Zromiarek said the statistics included areas that are of interest to people in the University community. If the department received a lot of questions about certain statistics or cases during the year, Zromiarek said KU police would print that information in the annual report.
This year, more crimes were reported on
Tuesday than any other day, although 650 cases handled by KU police did not indicate a specific day of the week, according to the report.
During 1994, most crimes were reported to have occurred around 5 p.m., according to the report. Rozmirak said people usually left for the day around that time and came back the next day to find that a crime had been committed.
Another area of interest was the number of arrests for operating under the influence, or drunken driving. Since 1985, arrests for drunken driving had remained fairly constant until 1992, when the number of arrests skyrocketed to more than 200, according to the report.
Rozmiarek said there was no way to completely pinpoint why there was an increase in drunken-driving arrests but said there were factors that could be associated with the increase.
When the number of arrests increased dramatically in 1992, KU police went through extra training in drunken driving
"You could correlate that with the makeup of the Lawrence community," Rozmairek said.
About 75 percent of those arrested for drunken driving in 1994 were white males, according to the report.
"I'm not sure why we've had that drop," Rozmiraek said. "I feel we're going to go over that number this year."
detection, she said. Officers were trained to look for and handle drunken drivers and utilize the intoxilizer machine at the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center, she said. But the number of OUI arrests dropped tremendously since 1992, down to 37 arrests in 1994, according to the report.
KU police statistics showed many of the drunken-driving arrests were of people between the ages of 20 and 25.
Nearly one quarter of these arrests occurred on Fridays, according to the report. During the weekend, there's usually an increase in drunken driving arrests, Rozmiarek said.
KU Crimes
The following are some interesting statistics from the recently released 1994 KU Crime report.
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