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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1986, VCL. 96, NO. 121 (USPS 650-640)
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ABOVE — Showing her support for the Jayhawks, Katy Monk, Athelson sophomore, listsens to basketball team members. The players spoke to a crowd of about 1,500 fans at a pep rally outside of Allen Field House yesterday. ABOVE RIGHT — KU center Greg Dreling shows off his new haircut while Ron Keilog and Calvin Thompson look on. The three seniors spoke to the crowd before leaving for Dallas.
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'K-U, K-U Rally cheers Jayhawks on to Final Four
By Frank Ybarra Staff writer
Staff writer
The crowd was screaming "K-U, K-U" as the clapping of 1,500 fans and the beat of a bass drum echoed off the east wall outside of Allen Field House yesterday afternoon.
Soon after, the KU basketball team left for Dallas.
And the fans made sure the team knew there would be a lot of cheering on in both Dallas and Lawrence when the team takes the court against Duke University on Saturday. The team will play in the semifinals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four.
The cheering on the field house lawn began about 4:30. It was part of a rally sponsored by the Rock Chalk organization to support KU athletics.
The KU pep band and spirit squad helped work the fans into a frenzy with a round of the KU fight song and several KU chants.
But the crowd saved its biggest cheers for the players, who emerged from the field house about ten minutes after the rally started.
Calvin Thompson, KU guard, winked to the crowd as he walked up on a stage just outside the main entrance of the field house. As KU center Greg Dreiling and forward Ron Kellogg followed Thompson to the stage, the screams from the crowd grew louder.
"We wish you all could be down there," Kellogg said as the crowd cheered. "We know they only gave you 170 tickets."
Dreiling, sporting a new crew cut, pointed at two fans in the audience with similar hairstyles.
"I want to know who cuts your hair," he said.
In the past two days Drelling and several other members of the team had their hair cut short.
But the loudest yells were saved for Dreiling.
"I call it the Clyde Lovelle haircut," Dreiling said after the rally. Lovelle was an All-American on the 1952 KU team that defeated St. John's University 80-63 for the NCAA Championship.
After the three seniors left the stage, the crowd chanted "Danny."
Danny." Answering their applause, KU forward Danny Manning took the stage.
"We're going to go down to Dallas and do the best we can," Manning said.
Next was KU guard Cedric Hunter.
"We promised you guys we'd be where we are now," he said.
A few boos could be heard from the crowd when Max Falkenstien, color commentator for the Jayhawk Network who emceed the rally, announced that head coach Larry Brown would not make an appearance. Falkenstien said the coach was recruiting for next year's team.
However, assistant coach Mark Freidinger, who took the stage next, was able to rouse the crowd again with one sentence.
Pari-mutuel receives first-round approval
"I guess that shows you he's not going anywhere," he said.
"We wish we could put you all on the plane," Freidinger said, "but we know you'll be yelling your asses off back here."
The Associated Press
The action, which came on an unrecorded voice vote, advanced the resolution to a final vote in the Senate today. A similar resolution passed the Senate last session with 29 votes. It seemed he hearty enough that it will again clear the chamber.
TOPEKA — With a minimum of debate, the Senate tentatively approved yesterday a resolution which would let voters decide whether to amend the Kansas Constitution to allow pari-mutu wagering on horse and dog racing.
"I don't expect any problems," said Senate Majority Leader Bud Burke. R-Leawood. "I think we have the votes."
The Senate must give it two-thirds approval, or 27 votes in the 40-member chamber; before the proposition can be placed in the hands of
The House has adopted the resolution, and the Senate did not amend it. Therefore, if it wins approval today, it will go directly onto the November general election ballot. An attempt to
change the vote date to the August primary failed on a voice vote.
The resolution does not require the signature of the governor, but Gov. John Carlin strongly supports submission of the pari-mutuel issue to voters.
"The vast majority of the voters in Kansas are tired of waiting for the chance to vote on this issue," said Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth. "We cannot afford to bury our heads in the sand anymore. We need to enhance our economy and our image. This would make a significant contribution to the state's future economy."
Reilly predicted pari-mutuel wagering on horse and dog racing would generate $15 million a year simply from the tax on bets. He said the development of race tracks would pump millions more into the economy indirectly through increased collections from sales, income and lodging taxes.
Reilly also rebutted arguments that the state would be unfairly temp-
Senate votes $5 increase for renovation of Union
See PARI-MUTUEL, p. 5, col. 5
Student Senate haggled for more than four hours last night before endorsing a $5 increase in student fees, which would help finance the planned $10 million Kansas Union renovation.
Staff writer
By Piper Scholfield
The bill for the increase passed by a two-thirds majority vote and now will go to Chancellor Gene A. Budig for approval.
The Senate could not make a fair decision about the bill. Duff said, because not enough information on the renovations was available and further consideration should be given to the architects' plans.
The Senate approved the increase despite opposition from some senators who said the increase was not needed and would remain in place after the Union renovations were paid for.
Philip Duff, architecture and urban design senator, told the Senate he opposed the proposed increase. This year, $7.50 of student fees is allotted for the Union renovations.
That amount should provide enough money for the renovations without asking students for more, Duff said.
"This big express dining service they have planned looks like a cattle chute to me." he said.
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 1
Duff said he also opposed the fee increase because the Union was not increased.
In the School of Architecture and Urban Design, Duff said, a dozen students had jokingly asked whether the Union could be moved to a more
By Abbie Jones
House to decide Washburn's fate
Staff writer
Financial questions still confront efforts to include Washburn University under Board of Regents jurisdiction after a House committee passed the widely debated bill on a voice vote yesterday.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved the bill, which would establish Washburn as an institution under control of the Regents on July 1, 1988. The house voted to before the full House for debate.
If Washburn was added to the system, Epstein said, the University of Kansas and other Regents
"I think it's a tragedy that passed the committee," said David Epstein, KU student body president. "Unfortunately this gives the idea legitimacy. It has much more backing behind it."
Some have feared that either Washburn or the University could lose its law school since the Regents system strives to get rid of unnecessarily duplicated graduate programs. But legislators and university officials said that was not a possibility.
But adding Washburn would help improve the school's services, he said, and also would increase
"I think that the Regenis institutions that are already in the system are being underfunded," Solbach said. "It's a slice that will diminish our ability to adequately care for the other institutions."
Bringing the school into the system would cost the state only an additional $2.5 million in fiscal year 1990 and 1991, which would be affordable then, he said. The state now allocates about $4.5 million to Washburn. Local property taxes now help support the university
schools would lose money. The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
"It's our feeling that it is a state school," Buten said. "It's no longer a small municipal university. We should bring it under the Board of Regents and let them regulate it."
"You have a pie and you're going to have to divide that pie into another slice," Epstein said. "Somebody is going to be hurting."
"The Washburn issue should not be answered until the long-range issues are addressed."
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, chairman of the committee, said financial worries were unnecessary.
"It would make it easier for the Board of Regents to sell its budget to the Legislature," he said.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Dawrence, said he voted against the bill because the present state law prevents the state continually for needed money.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said the state should first consider which Washburn programs could be transferred among Regents schools, enhanced or retained.
support of the entire Regents system from legislators who are from Toneka.
and would continue under the approved plan.
"No additional state general funds would need to be appropriated for Washburn if they came into the system today until 1900," he said.
Contra aid supporters project victory
WASHINGTON — Efforts by Senate Republicans to reach a compromise with Democrats on $100 million in aid to Nicaraguan rebels failed yesterday, but GOP leaders predicted a narrow victory for President Reagan's plan.
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"I think it's possible to pass it. It is going to be close," Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters after talks with Democrats stalled.
Republican leaders held up action on the bill, trying to consolidate their margin by accommodating wavering Democrats. Late in the evening, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole announced that all action on the measure was postponed until today.
Dole said a substitute version of the aid package was ready but indicated that more overnight discussions were necessary fororts to come closer to an agreement.
On the Senate floor, harsh debate over Reagan's plan to help the
rebels, or contras — including a renewal of military aid — was the order of the day.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., called for an end to all aid to the contras. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., said the aid should be approved with no conditions on how it is spent to meet the threat of communist subversion that Reagan says the Sandinista movement is spreading in the Americas.
"President Reagan's policy of shooting first and asking questions later will only lead to a wider war." Kennedy said, resurrecting arguments that helped defeat the indecisive attacks in the Democrat-controlled House.
"You don't find good faith on the part of the commies anywhere in this world," Helms said. "They don't believe in democracy. What they believe is making a sucker out of the United States."
Helms discounted arguments by Reagan's opponents that peace talks involving Nicaragua should be linked to any aid, maintaining that negotiations would be fruitless.
Prospects for a Reagan victory in
the GOP-controlled Senate were bolstered by reports from Honduras
— northern neighbor to Nicaragua and haven for the contras — that Nicaraguan troops had crossed the border to attack the contras.
Reagan dispatched $20 million in emergency military aid to Honduras, and U.S. aircraft flown by U.S. pilots were used to ferry Honduran troops to the battle zone. Nicaragua denied the request of U.S. forces to Honduras to attack contra strongholds.
"The Sandinistas say that will not occur," Sasser said. "I suspect the White House feels its hand has been
Sen. Jim Sasser, D-Tenn., said Reagan's national security adviser, Adm. John Poindexter, torpedoed a compromise by insisting that any negotiations between Washington and Managua be tied to talks between the Sandinistas and the contras.
The hopes of the GOP leadership to win by a wide margin were snagged on the Democrats' call that the United States and Nicaragua hold direct talks and that Congress have a second vote in 90 days on releasing all of the $100 million.
strengthened by the rumors of the Sandinista invasion of Honduras."
Lugar disagreed and said the issue of allowing Congress a second vote to deny the aid was crucial. "Nobody torpedoed anything," he said.
Both Sasser and Lugar sat in with Dole and Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia during several hours of futile talks to piece together a bipartisan package. Poindexter was also present.
Final Four Coverage
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