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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 141 (USPS 650-640)
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Washburn ends ASK affiliiation
Staff writer
By Barbara Shear
Washburn University pulled out of the Associated Students of Kansas on Wednesday night, Jeff Myers, an adult body president, said vesterday.
ASK represented the six state universities and Washburn, until Washburn pulled out.
The university, which paid about $6,500 a year to be a member of ASK, decided not to finance the student organization anymore. Myers said.
"Because of declining enrollment, our budget was cut about $20,000," Myers said. "ASK was helped Washburn in the past, but I’m not sure if it is relevant to our needs now." He adds that Washburn concerns about the organization.
Mandatory financing of ASK, and having the organization take a stand on political issues, were the primary philosophical concerns of the students. One Washburn student, Colin Chapman, Topeka senior, said theulatory financing was his main complaint about being a member of ASK.
"I think it is unconstitutional," he said. "They can't force someone to pay for speaking. Students are forced to be in ASK when they are opposed to it. I think we should gel Washburn because our rights are being violated.
"There is also little support of it from the student body," Chapman said. "Most people here who support it are put down as ASK on their resumes."
After the legislative assembly in February, Myers said Washburn delegates were upset because the legislature had invested a portfolio of (burds in South Africa
"It is not that students were opposed to divestment, but that it was a political issue." Myrs said.
Chapman said there had been a drive since September to get
Washburn to pull out of the organization. Posters were hung on campus that read, "What does ASK do for you? Nothing but take your money."
At the legislative assembly last week in Topeka, Jeff Kahrs, Wichita State University student body president, and David Epstein, KU student body president, proposed legislation asking Washburn to pull out of ASK. Myers said the proposal had nothing to do with that.
'It is like a dream come true. I think now ASK will take a stand against Washburn entering the Regents system.'
Amy Brown Student body vice president
One factor that was part of the decision to pull out concerned Washburn entering the Board of Regents systems. Myers said he could not understand financing an organization that would not support Washburn on what it considered its most important issue.
"ASK is supposed to be the lobbying force that represents the students," Myers said. "Yet, they would not support us in our major venture — how do we become a state school?"
Epstein and Amy Brown, student body vice president, said they were very pleased when they heard Washburn was pulling out of ASK.
Anti-hazing bill dies is revived soon after
Staff writer
By Abbie Jones Staff writer
TOPEKA - Ant-hazing legislation died under Gov. John Carlin's pen yesterday, but the Senate majority introduced a similar bill within minutes.
Carlin vetoo a measure that would make reckless hazing as a condition of membership into a social or fraternal organization a class B misdemeanor, punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
The original measure was tacked onto a routine House bill concerning criminal procedure and won overwhelming approval in the House on April 10. Carlin said the state Container two dissimilar subjects.
Senate Majority Leader Bud Burke, R-Leawood, after hearing of Carlin's veto, quickly reintroduced a different version.
The second bill did not include the dissimilar portion, which would allow the Sheriff's Department of Shawnee County to perform forensic analysis at a preliminary examination without the forensic examiner
In a message to the House, Carlin
said he could not rationalize a bill that contained such unrelated subjects.
"I would encourage the Legislature to divide the issues into two new bills and forward them me for consideration." Carlin said, "I do request that I issue objectionable, rather the method of their proposed enactment."
The new bill defines hazing as willfully coercing, demanding or encouraging a person to perform anything that would result in bodily harm, disfigurement or death as a condition of membership into a organization such as a fraternity or sorority.
Burke said legislators and a revisor had studied the bill and interpreted it to be constitutional.
Legislators will have to work fast since the session is scheduled to end this weekend, Burke said, but the new measure should get support from both chambers and the governor.
"It will be a very unusual and extraordinary effort on both houses." Burke said. "This will have to take its place in line."
The House is expected to debate the proposed law tomorrow.
Special to the KANSAN
TOPEKA — KU basketball players Greg Dreiling and Calvin Thompson Kansas House, while State Rep. Jess Branson, D-Lawrence, looks on. Drell receives congratulations on their trip to the Final Four from legislators in the city and Thompson also received well wishes from Governor John Carlson.
Legislators welcome senior players
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
TOPEKA — It's been almost a month since the Jayhawks played in the Final Four in Dallas, but Gov. John Carlin and the Kansas legislature yesterday still cheered a visit by two of the basketball team's seniors — Greg Dreiling and Calvin Thompson.
Pages, aides, secretaries,
representatives and senators were
among the autograph seekers who
gathered around Dreiling and
Thompson as the players tried to
carry their way through the
Statehouse.
The duo signed postcards of the Kansas flag, calendars, official
memos and scraps of paper. The standard excuse among autograph hounds was that the memos were for their children.
"They say it' s for all their kids and grandkids," Dreiling smiled and said, "but we know that's not always true."
The seniors first stopped at the governor's office, where 7-foot 1-Dreling and 6-6 Thompson double-treaded the much shorter Carlin. The governor took some ribbing about his size, but replied, "I'd look (Mark) Turgeon right in the eye."
Female members of his staff were disappointed, Carlin said, because the third senior, Ron
Kellogg, was unable to attend.
the governor gave the Jayhawks lapel pins with the official Kansas seal and wished them to represent the National Basketball Association draft.
State-Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, continued the festivities in the Senate by making a resolution congratulating the Jayhaws and coach Larry Brown for their outstanding season.
Winter presented Thompson with a banner commemorating his 26-point performance against Michigan State in the semifinals of the Midwest Regional in Kansas City, Mo.
the Senate require Dreiling to keep the flattop he sported for the trip to Dallas.
Members of the chamber enjoyed the resolution, but Senate President Robert Talkington, R-D., insisted, saying it was out of order.
He then made a resolution that
If the resolution had passed, Dreiling said the haircut would have remained.
"What's the law is law," he said. In the House, Thompson and Dreling received a standing ovation. The Jayhawks received the legislative resolution and thanked the representatives for their support.
Stroller hopes to see the light
Staff writer
By Juli Warren
Eileen Smith often strolls to campus from her apartment near 15th Street, but a problem arises after the sun sets.
"You can't even see right in front of you," she said yesterday. "You can't even see the ground at your feet."
Smith is working to light up the street and to do that, she is trying to organize a neighborhood association.
The boundaries she has set up for the neighborhood are Iowa Street, Kasold Drive and Ninth and 15th streets.
"I think they want to see the numbers behind me," said Smith, who lives in Apple Land Place apartments, 1408 Palm Beach.
The idea for a neighborhood group came from city of officials, she said, when she called about the possibility of the group.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said he had sent Smith examples of bylaws and a list of the presidents of the city.
There are 10-12 neighborhood groups in Lawrence in various stages of organization, he said.
Wildgen said there were no city regulations for the organization of neighborhood associations but he thought it would not be easy to organize a group.
Smith agreed, pointing out that area residents lived in apartments, townhouses and houses.
What she visualizes, she said, is a network of neighbors with all the different pockets of people represented.
The group, which she named Apple Trails Neighborhood Association, had its only meeting April 3. Only two people attended, she said, but that might be due to the raining and the meeting was not in the neighborhood.
Since that time, she's received supportive telephone calls from about five more people.
"I think I have the support I need," she said. "I just need to get organized."
Smith wants to schedule another meeting for next week, she said, and is looking for contributions to rent an apartment.
Although residents at the first meeting also came up with ideas for a biopsy, they had to deal with neighbors who said the main issue still is lighting.
"I think the lighting on 15th is much more important than the neighborhood association," she said.
Lighting the street, Wilden said, would be a costly investment. He would depend on the number and wattage of lights, he said.
The city normally lights intersections and main streets. Wilderen said.
A request to do more than that would be investigated and sent to the public works department for a recommen-
KPL Gas Service pays for the lights, he said, and the city pays for electricity.
Fight continues over handgun ordinance
By Juli Warren
Staff writer
A local attorney representing the National Rifle Association is circulating a petition against the ordinance. John Barrett, the attorney, said yesterday that he was halfway to the number of signatures needed to repeal the present ordinance or force a public vote on it.
The ordinance, which was passed by the commission on a 3-2 vote, requires a 72-hour waiting period for all employees may take possession of a handglove.
About a month has passed since the Lawrence handgun ordinance was enacted, but the gun fight continues.
It also requires dealers to make a record of the purchase which is then open for inspection by police officers
Maj. Ron Olin of the Lawrence police department said that 26 handgun sales had been reported since the ordinance was put into effect.
It is too soon, he said, to gauge the economic effect of the ordinance.
Oln said it would be impossible to tell whether the ordinance affected the suicide rate, although no suicides were reported since it went into effect.
Barrett said between 1,100 and 1,200 signatures had been gathered so far by about 75 people.
Signatures of 25 percent of the number of voters in the last city election are required, said Dorothy Baldwin, deputy county clerk.
Barrett said he did not have a time goal to finish gathering signatures.
The last election was in April 1985, she said, and about 2,201 signatures will be reminded.
But, he said. "We need to get it done while it's still fresh in everybody's minds."
Whether the ordinance is subject to referendum at all is under dispute.
dinance, which he said was subject to a public vote with the required
Barrett said it was a legislative or
A legislative ordinance is one of three types, he said, and it creates new policy or changes existing policy.
She disagrees, however, with Barrett that the handgun ordinance is legislative.
An administrative ordinance fulfills or makes easier existing policy and is not subject to referendum, he said. A charter ordinance from an legislative set and is subject to a referendum by a different process.
See GUNS, p. 5, col.1
"I have a feeling it's an ad-
Vera Mercer, city clerk, said she agreed with those categories, with the addition of the category of special occasions, which set up benefit disklets.
Compromise on Nicaragua is possibility
The Associated Press
Lawmakers and other officials said they were encouraged that a such compromise was even being discussed, and they credited presidential envoy Philip Habib for pointing the way.
WASHINGTON — A potential compromise is emerging between the Reagan administration and the Sandinista leadership of Nicaragua which would end U.S. support for the contrasts in exchange for guarantees of peaceful behavior by the San Martín general congressman said yesterday.
Habib, they said, spelled out the potential for resolution of the problem in an April 11 letter, which drew little attention at the time.
Such a potential compromise is only in the formative stages, and the attitudes of President Reagan and the Sandistas are not known. As recently as Wednesday, for instance, Reagan pledged his full support to the contras, whom he calls "freedom-fighters."
But in the April 11 letter, Habib said the administration interpreted existing speech proposals by the so-called Contadora nations "as requir-
See CONTRAS, p. 5, col. 4
Clocks need setting
it's a time to spring forward.
At 2 a.m. Sunday, students will learn about the daylight-saving and partying time, as daylight-saving time starts.
Setting the time ahead one hour in the spring began during World War I, when Congress passed legislation to get people to bed and out of bed an hour earlier to save fuel for lighting and heating.
The time is usually moved up the last Sunday in April and moved back the last Sunday in September.
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