INSIDE
Adjoining angles
Veterans and former protesters are united by Lshaped war memorial dedicated to Vietnam dead and missing.
Story, page 3
A tight ship
Ten crew members work overtime at Shawnee Lake to prepare for national rowing competition this weekend in Syracuse. N.Y.
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OUTSIDE
The forecast
Today. . Partly cloudy, showers possible, high 80s.
Tonight. . Mostly cloudy, chance rain, low 67.
Tomorrow. . Partly sunny, showers possible, high 82.
Weekend. . Little rain expected, highs 85-90, lows 60s.
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY
June 4, 1986
Vol.96, No. 147
(USPS 650-640)
AT&T strike goes on as mediators step in
By Dana Spoor
Staff writer
Rrrinngggg. Rrrinngggg
Rrrinngggg.
This may be the sound all callers hear when they try to dial a long-distance call with the help of an operator, according to one strike
"All customers are going to see long-distance calls with operator assistance affected," said Roberta Roberta, director for the Kansas City, Mo. Area, city.
The Communication Workers union at American Telephone & Telegraph Co. went on strike Sunday morning after workers and employers could not settle on a contract. Long-distance calls from Lawrence are handled by operators in Topeka or Kansas City, and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. handles local calls.
Federal mediators have been brought into the talks, Brown said. Striking employees still have hopes for an agreement.
"It is very encouraging to us to know discussions are still going on," she said. "It will last as long as it has to accomplish what it must."
AT&T is now handing operations with management personnel. Local service is not affected yet, according
to Brown, but businesses may have some problems.
Operator delays lasted about seven seconds Sunday and about 12 seconds Monday. Tom Landers, an AT&T employee, said the company he did not know of any complaints.
Although AT&T operators don't work in Lawrence, technicians work out of garages in the city. Businesses
'it will last as long as it has to to ac-complish what it must.'
—Roberta Brown Strike Director
that use these garages will see the effects of the work stoppage sooner.
The striking workers have three main areas they are concerned with: security clauses, wage packages and benefit packages.
"Security clauses need to be better recognized and protected," Brown said.
Strikers are not happy with the present benefit package either. According to Brown, the workers have
fought long and hard for the benefits they have, and AT&T wants them to either lose, or absorb, the costs of those benefits.
In response to the strike, AT&T is offering an 8 percent wage-hike over three years, with no cost of living adjustment. The company also wants to provide payments, but will is willing to repay them if it receives payment and a higher wage-hike.
The Communication Workers union will not accept this offer, Brown said. The union wants to keep an incentive plan at the plants.
The employees have made the money for the company, she said, and they are entitled to some of it through a wage package.
Workers are not happy with the strike. Brown said.
"Our people don't want this," she said. "When you don't have money coming in you get nervous, but the people feel very strongly about the fact that these issues must be discussed.
"The remarkable thing is that they have got, without a doubt, the most loyal, dedicated employees that they could find anywhere."
The Associated Press and United Press International supplied some information for this story.
SAE's suspension cloud lined with silver ending
By Kristi Schroeder
Staff writer
A KU fraternity has taken a negative suspension and turned it in to a positive experience. As a result, the university is the University of Kansas good standing.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 1301 W. Campus Road, was reinstated when the final year of a suspension was dropped in mid-May.
The house was suspended for violations of University regulations, and the University kept the violations confidential because they dealt with disciplinary matters. But a former president of the house said yesterday that the charges stemmed from a hazing incident that occurred in April 1985.
The members of the house found they had a lot to gain from the experience, said Jim O'Donnell, Overland Park senior, whose term as president ended at about the same time that the house was reinstated.
"The suspension was the best thing that could have happened," O'Donnell said. "I woke a lot of people up."
Under the suspension, the house was not allowed to participate in any University activities or the Inter-American Council's formal rush activities.
The house also was omitted from University publications, including the student directory, Ann Eversole, director of the Organization and Activities Center said
The house was placed under the direction of an alumni commission that was co-chaired by Edward Frizzel. The commission worked with the house to implement changes that would get the house recognized again as a registered University organization, said Frizzel.
"We put them on a track that was 'astest in getting them reinstated,'" he said.
O'Donnell said the house instituted stricter grade policies that changed the grade-point-average requirement for pledges from 2.2 to 2.5. Actives were required to maintain a GPA of 2.5 to remain in good standing with
The house was reinstated sooner than University officials had expected, but Frizzell said the house had been closed during its first year of suspension.
The fraternity also banned alcohol from the house and revised its pledge program to eliminate hazing. he said. The change in the program helped better feeling in the house and less division between activities and sledges.
"Everyone started taking classes a lot more seriously," he said.
Doug Urich, Overland Park junior and member of the house, said the suspension and changes were effected by the overall brotherhood of the house.
Not only were relations improved
within the house, O'Donnell and Frizell said, but they also improved between the house members and the alumni commission.
"It was an unfortunate experience that effected the alums as well as the boys," Frizel said.
The alumni commission will continue to work with the house members even after the commission no longer holds the charter, he said. The faculty is permission from the national fraternity to operate a local chapter.
The alumni commission has not met since the reinstatement of the house, so no decisions have been made regarding changes in the current policies, he said.
The ban on alcohol and the grade policies probably also won't change, O'Donnell said, but the decision is up to the alumni association.
Frizzell said any changes in the alcohol ban would be made in compliance with Kansas state liquor laws.
O'Donnell said the commission also still had the power to have people moved out of the house for grades or misconduct.
"The alumni commission will remain in effect, and the charter will remain in our custody for probably another year," he said.
But regardless of what the commission decides, the house can now take part in University activities.
Shauna Norfleet/KANSAN
Along for the ride
Casey-Jack Kitos, 2, hitches a ride down New Hampshire Street with his father, Pete Kitos, 1123 Oregon St. The Kitos were enjoying the nice weather yesterday.
2 arrested on charge of murder
By Judy Scott
Staff writer
Two Lawrence men were arrested Monday night and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting that occurred early Saturday morning in Centennial lawrence police said yesterday.
Curtis White, 1306 Tennessee St., and Sherman Tollerton, 810 Lawrence Ave., were arrested and charged with the second-degree murder of Russell Gensler, 1408 W. Third St. But Tolbert was charged with the killing and abetting, said Jim Flory. Dallas County district attorney.
State theory means that Tolbert is charged with being an accompice to the person who actually committed the murder. Flory said. But Tolbert has been charged with second-degree injury under the state theory charge.
The minimum sentence for second-degree murder is 5 to 15 years and the maximum sentence is 20 years to life.
During the arraignment yesterday morning, the preliminary hearings were scheduled for June 9. Flory said. The judge at the hearing must decide whether a felony has been committed and whether there is enough evidence for the men to stand trial.
Both men were jailed on $100,000 bond, Flory said, and counsel has been appointed by the state.
Fliary said a dispute arose between two different groups, but said he would not comment on whether it was a racial dispute.
"The case developed to a point where we felt probable cause to file charges." he said.
By Sunday, law enforcement officials had recovered two weapons from Clinton Lake. The Douglas County underwater diving squad and gangland and the police not but these weapons not concluding evidence in the arrests, Floyd said.
Gensler was shot once in the left cheek at close range by a small caliber weapon in the lower north parking lot of Centenial Park.
"But we obviously feel they are related in some respect," he said.
See HOMICIDE, p. 5, col. 4
Senate fills Brown's vacancy
By Karen Schmidt
Staff writer
The resignation of Amy Brown as vice president of the student body and the transition of Kris Kurenbach into that office is the largest problem facing the Student Senate now, David Body, said recently.
"Senate is going through a lot of changes. Right now we need to portray continuity and unity. This is difficult with the transition," Epstein said. "But we are going ahead with projects, and I think this will be seen as a minor blip in the future of Senate."
Brown resigned when she decided
to accept a position as a copy editor with the Argus Leader, a Sioux Falls, S. Dak, newspaper, instead of going to school at the University of Kansas.
Kris Kurtenbach, Associated Students of Kansas campus director and off-campus senator, was a unanimous choice to replace Brown. She was chosen in an emergency session on May 16th to be the Executive Committee on May 16.
Brown said, "It was a Student Senate commitment versus a real life commitment. It was an opportunity dropped up. I did not think I would turn it up.
the fall looked less attractive as the summer approached, she said. After one or two years of working as a jour- ncelor in school, she might consider law school.
If she does return to KU, she said, she probably would not become involved in Senate again.
The idea of going to law school in
"I don't think I'd come back to it, but I may find out it's so much in my blood that I'll get involved again," she said.
Kurtenbach said she regretted the way she became vice president, but she would try to make the transition a smooth one.
See BROWN, p. 5, col. 1
Shauna Nortier/KANSAH
Secretary of State Jack Brier
Brier extols wealth of freedom in U.S.
By Ann Henry Staff writer
Brier, who spoke to about 800 members of the American Legion Boys' State of Kansas in Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall, out that the freedoms Americans have often are taken for granted
Secretary of State Jack Brier said last night that the greatest freedom Americans possess is the freedom of choice.
See Boys' State p. 83
"A couple of years ago when I visited the Soviet Union, I realized just how lucky we are." Brier said. "The people there don't have health insurance, and people don't participate in government. Here you are the government."
American Legion, teaches high school seniors-to-be about state government, from local elections to the gubernatorial election.
"Boys' State, as well as girls' State, are two of the finest citizenship programs I've ever been associated with." Brier said. "Here the kids spend a week learning about government."
Boys' State, sponsored by the
"In government, often there are no right or wrong answers. This session shows them how to deal with the situation and the problems they'll have to deal in later life."
Brier also related stories about the visits he made to El Salvador and the Philippines to observe their elections.
"I saw miles of people line up at 5 a.m. to vote," he said. "I was so amazed to see these people, who didn't have a chance at all, care
about their government enough to vote."
Those attending Boys' State have the ability to make their own choices, Brier said, but these choices come with a price to pay.
Brier also said he had seen one unfortunate thing come from his experience in politics — too much empathy. He was placed on winning and losing.
"The price you need to pay is one single word that you're learning this week: participation," he said. "I've been fortunate enough to see those
"Babe Ruth didn't have the best eyes in the world, yet he was never afraid to swing." he said. "All of you may have had misfortunes, may have lost at something, but all of you are here because you are winners. There isn't a person in here who can't make a contribution."
Though the secretary of state is also a Republican candidate for governor, he kept politics out of his speech.
who have no liberty, and I've been fortunate enough to see the small price we pay for ours. All it takes is a little careing."
But after the program he said he would publicly announce on Thursday that Harlan Priddle, an agricultural businessman from Hays, would be his running mate for the office of lieutenant governor.
Two more speakers will conclude this week's Boys' State session. Attorney General Robert Stephan will speak today and Governor John Carlin will give his presentation Thursday. Both programs will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Crafton-Preyer Theatre.