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Friday, April 4, 1986
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News Briefs GLSOK office gets phony bomb threat
The office of the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, on the third floor of the Kansas Union, received a bomb threat yesterday afternoon, Lt. Jeanne Longaker of KU police, said.
Longaker said the threat came from an unidentified male caller at 1:15 p.m. No offices were evacuated, and no explosive devices were found by investigating officers.
Steve Menaugh, director of public relations for the Kansas University Endowment Association, said yesterday that he had accepted the position of director of regulatory information and public participation for the Kansas Corporation Commission in Topeka. Today is his last day of work for the Endowment Association.
Bill Towns, operations manager for the Kansas Union, said he thought the call was a prank and "no big deal."
GLSOK is currently celebrating Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week.
The Endowment Association is interviewing applicants for a replacement and wants to fill the role by early to mid-May, he said.
KUEA official leaves
Menaugh has worked in public relations at the Endowment Association since December 1982.
Imitator to compete
The regional competition for the celebrity look-alike competition for Students Against Multiple Sclerosis will be this weekend.
Steve Pope, Prairie Village freshman, who imitated rock star Billy Idol and won the celebrity look-alike competition at the University of Kansas, will compete against 15 contestants from regional schools tomorrow.
The lip-synching competition will begin at 8 p.m. in Jesse Hall Auditorium at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The competition will be taped by MTV. The winner will attend the national competition in New York in about a month. The exact location and date for SAMS national competition has not been announced yet.
Democrats to meet
Democratic leaders from both Kansas and U.S. capitals are scheduled speakers for the Kansas Young Democrits 53rd annual state convention this weekend in Kansas, hosted by KU Democrats.
The event kicks off at the All Season Motel at noon tommorow when Gov. John Carlin receives the 1986 Young Democrats lifetime membership award.
U. S. congressman Jim Slattery and Dan Glickman and gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Tom Hicks scheduled to speak at the luncheon.
The keynote address will be given by farm activist and former congressional candidate Darrell T. Ringer at 8 a.m. banquet.
The convention ends Sunday when the 10 Young Democrat chapters elect state officers.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms and a high between 65 and 70 degrees. Tonight and tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy. The low tonight will be in the mid 40s. The high tomorrow will be in the low 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Speaker wants change in S. Africa
Daniel Purnell is a man with a mission.
Bv Brian Kaberline
As the leading spokesman for the Sullivan Principles, Purnell has traveled across the country speaking to such audiences as the United Nations and the U.S. Congress.
Staff writer
But he spoke with no less conviction to the 25 people gathered in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
the Sullivan Principles are a voluntary code calling for U.S. companies that operate in South America.
The speech by Purnell, executive director of the International Council for Equality of Opportunity Principles, Inc., was sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity as part of its annual Alpha Week celebration.
total divestment from companies that operated in South Africa. But he thought more could be accomplished by working for change within the country.
Purnell said he respected those who called for
He illustrated the reasoning behind the Sullivan Principles in a story about a young South African man who stood in line overnight just to apply for a job.
"The point that he made was simply this." Purrell said. "When the new South Africa comes, first we want freedom. Don't ever forget that. Then we want to live. We want jobs. We want an education for our children. We want health care. We want all of these things."
The principles help blacks by asking U.S. businesses to contribute money to the country's schools, health centers and housing projects and by treating all workers equally, he said.
Purnell said the principles could help provide these things through urging the end of apartheid by training blacks to take over managerial and high-skill positions in the country, not by toppling the old system all at once and having to start over.
The standards of the principles are rising all of the time, Purnell said. When they first came out in 1977, the principles called for companies to contribute one-half of a percent of their total profits to help black South Africans. Soon, he said, the principles will call for a 6.3 percent contribution.
Companies that follow the code are regularly checked by questionnaires from the International Council for Equality and their contributions are certified by accounting firms.
Purnell told the students in the audience that blacks in South Africa had said they would like to have more contact with blacks in the United States.
Budget cut to bare bone for Regents
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
TOPEKA - Minutes after the full House voted down a revenue increase yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee convened and cut the Board of Regents budget to the bare bone.
The committee voted to delete $13.2 million worth of additions that the Senate added to the Regents budget when it waused its version last week.
Faculty and student salary increases and other operating expenditures all fell under the House committee's budget ax.
"We've held off and held off until we could find out what we could do in terms of revenue," said State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, chairman of the committee.
"It's clear we need to put all these issues in conference committee," he said.
If the House gives final approval to the committee's recommendations, a Regents budget compromise would have to be worked out in a conference committee consisting of legislators from both houses.
The fate of specific programs for the University of Kansas and the other Regents schools has yet to be decided.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Bunten opened the meeting by making a motion that the committee vote down all additions the Senate had made in systemwide issues. The motion later passed on a voice vote.
Included in the Senate's package was a 3 percent increase in faculty salaries and a 1 percent addition to faculty retirement benefits.
Gov. John Carlin proposed that the state pay all 11 percent of the employee's contribution to the retirement program but not include a salary increase.
Solbach said other representatives were looking to the Ways and Means committee for leadership, which he the governor if the budget outbacks were passed.
Also added by the Senate was a 4 percent increase in student salaries and $1.6 million for other colleges. The proposed no student salary increase or fee return.
Another committee member, State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he opposed the motion because he thought the committee should make a budget decision rather than cut the entire package.
State Rep. James Lowther, R-Emporia, agreed. "If we can't resolve the revenue issue, I don't think we should make the decision in this buil.
A motion to delay debate on the budget was struck down on a voice vote.
"I hate to see all these things go in to conference without any vote or decisions by the committee," Solbach said.
Mike Horton-Special to the KANSAN
Tom Sweringen, director of exhibits at the Museum of Natural History, began the restoration project on Comanche, the only cavalry survivor of Gen. George Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn. The museum's 100-year-old attraction was drenched in a museum flood in early March and has been wrapped in gauze since then to ensure that skin and stuffing would dry at the same time. Comanche's dousing was caused by a frozen bird, an African rhea, that slipped down into an upstairs sink while thawing and switched on a water valve. The plastic encasing the bird clogged the sink and caused the overnight flood that damaged Comanche.
Wrapped up
Protesters plan rally for today
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
A rally to mark National Divestment Day and begin a string of events protecting apartheid will take participants from Strong Hall to Youngberg Hall, home of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
"This is kind of a get-together rally," Dan Parkinson, Scott City graduate student, said yesterday. "We haven't been doing a lot lately."
The rally will be a springboard for future protest activities concerning South Africa and Central America, Parkinson said.
The rally will begin at 11:30 a.m., when protesters plan to display and hand out posters in front of Strong Hall. For about 30 minutes speakers will express their opinions on divestment in an open microphone session, Village law student and president of the KU Committee on South Africa.
The group will then march to Youngberg Hall, where protesters have set up eight tents and a makeshift shanty as part of a "campin" to protest Endowment Association investments in South Africa.
"We hope to get here about 12:30," Bunker said at his campsite in front of Youngberg. "Just in time to welcome all the nice people from KUEA as they come back from lunch."
Protesters will place divestment signs around the campsite.
Finally, they plan to conduct a sing-a-long near the office window of Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association.
"We're going to stand there right off the property line and serenade Todd Seymour," Parkinson said.
Bunker, who has marked off the boundaries of Endowment Association property with ribbons, said he didn't plan to cross those boundaries during the rally.
However, he said he saw no reason why other protesters could not cross that boundary.
"Just because we're on their property doesn't mean we're guilty of criminal trespassing." he said. "As long as we're not asked to leave, I don't see anything wrong with crossing the lines."
Former museum director dies at 83
Staff writer
By Tim Hrench!r
Mr. Hall was chairman of the department of zoology from 1944 to 1961 and director of the Museum of Natural History from 1944 to 1967. He was a Summerfield Distinguished Professor from 1958 to 1972.
E. Raymond Hall, emeritus professor of systematics and ecology and former director of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, died Wednesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was 83.
Philip S. Humphrey, who replaced Mr. Hall as director of the Museum of Natural History, said yesterday, "He was extraordinarily productive, and he was well-known worldwide for his studies in mammalogy."
museum received grant money to build a new wing
E. Ravmond Hall
During his time as director, the
500 books, articles and papers,
including the two-volume "Mammals"
of John H. Burchard
He also was active in conservation efforts and served more than 30 years on the National Park Advisory Council and National Park Advisory Commission as board of directors 14 years for Save the Tall Grass Prairie, Inc.
Mr. Hall wrote and co-wrote about
In 1980, the Environmental Protection Agency honored him for personal contributions to improving the quality of the environment.
Mr. Hall's students have gone on to important positions across the United States. One of them, Sydney Anderson, is curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Mr. Hall received many honors, including Guggenheim Fellowships in
1942 and 1943, and a Fulbright Research Professorship in 1968.
Mr. Hall was born May 11, 1902. He earned a bachelor's degree from KU in 1924, and went on to earn a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
Before he came to KU, Mr. Hall served at the University of California at Berkeley as an associate professor of vertebrate zoology, curator of mammals, and acting director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
He was married to Mary Frances Harkey on Aug. 9, 1924.
Survivors include his wife, three sons, William J. Hall, Champaign, Ill., Hubert H. Hall, Esher, England, and Benjamin D. Hall, Bellevue, Wash.; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Confronted with pressure to reverse action that killed a proposal to increase the statewide sales tax, the Kansas House of Representatives voted last evening to revive the bill and place it back on
the chamber's debate calendar.
House Speaker Mike Hayden said afterward that the measure might again come up for debate during the first part of next week, after Republican and Democratic leaders have a chance to finish negotiations on how money generated by the sales
tax increase will be spent.
The Senate-passed proposal, which went to the House floor, is considered to be one of the few options the state has to solve its financial problems, by calling for an increase in the sales tax by 1 cent, from 3 cents to 4 cents on the dollar.
Despite approving a change that would cut the proposed increase in half, the chamber surprisingly voted 67-45 yesterday afternoon to kill the measure.
Hayden said he had 38 votes on the republican side of the aisle for a half-cent increase.