Tuesday, March 25, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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$5 student fee hike to go to full Senate
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night approved a $5 increase in student fees to pay for the Kansas Union renovation project. The recommendation will be presented for a full Student Senate vote at tomorrow night's Senate meeting.
The Senate's decision will be considered by Chancellor Gene A. Budig before he asks the Board of Regents for the increase.
The committee also heard the last of the budget requests from various campus organizations.
Two Lawrence residents were arrested yesterday morning at a roadblock in rural Douglas County after being chased by Lawrence police and county sheriff's deputies.
Grant Steinle, chairman of finance committee, said only two organizations, the Jayhawk Singers and Praxis, would not be considered for the budget because they did not get their requests in on time. Forty- three organizations will be considered.
The two were arrested on outstanding misdemeanor warrants, said Sgt. Dot Dalquest, of the Lawrence police. Dalquest was charged with traffic and other violations resulting from the chase.
The chase, which lasted about 10 minutes, started near 13th Street and Haskell Avenue when a Lawrence police officer tried to stop the car because it had an expired license tag. Dalquest said.
Suspects arrested
Police chased the car through East Lawrence until it headed east on 15th Street and out of the city limits.
Greek awards given
The suspects were arrested a few minutes later at a roadblock set up where two county roads crossed east of Lawrence, Davaluest said.
The final event of Greek Week,
the awards ceremony, was Sunday
night in Hoch Auditorium, Greek
Week was March 18-23.
Best banner award went to Delta Chi fraternity and Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. The award for best party favors from parties over the entire year went to Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Winners of Saturday's bed race were Alpha Epsilon Pi, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Chi Omega. Winners of Greek Sing on Sunday were Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Kappa sororities and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
The All Greek Week trophy for the house that accumulated the most points for participation and awards during the week went to Alpha Epsilon Pi. The Greek Activities Trophy for the most outstanding house went to Sigma Nu fraternity. The award was based on grades and overall participation in the Greek community for the past year.
Correction
Because of a copy editor's error, the address of the owner of a pit bullterrier, Peter Albrecht, was incorrectly reported in the March 7 Kansan. The residents at the address in the story do not own a pit bull.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and breezy. The high temperature will be in the mid- or upper-70s. Southerly winds will blow at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a 20 percent chance for thundershowers. Tomorrow's low temperature will be around 45 and the high will be 60.
From staff and wire reports.
Racist flier outrages Sanctuary owner
Bv Brian Kaberline
Advertising fliers containing a swastika and the initials of the Ku Klux Klan have astonished KU faculty and administrators and outraged a local club owner.
Staff writer
The fliers, altered advertisements for the Sanctuary, Seventh and Michigan streets, began appearing on campus Sunday.
The words "whites only" and "no coloreds" are incorporated into copies of a Sanctuary advertisement, with a swaastka and the letters KKK along the bottom. They were found on bulletin boards in the Kansas Union
Ace Johnson, owner of the Sanctuary, said he first learned of the posters yesterday morning in a call
r from David Katzman, chairman of the University Senate Human Rights Committee. Seven or eight other people also called to notify him later in
Johnson said he was outraged. He thought the fliers were put up by someone who was kept out of the club because of age or lack of membership.
Julia Mayben, a teaching assistant in the Spanish department, said when she saw the poster she called Johnson to see what he planned to do about it. She said if Johnson did not publicly denounce the action and deny all association with the Nazi party and the KKK, she would consider tearing up her club membership.
"I was appaled by what I saw," Mayben said.
Johnson said he did not know what actions he could take because it would be difficult to find out who was responsible for the posters.
He said he would turn the matter over to the Douglas County district attorney's office and take any legal action he could.
"Whoever did it is definitely in line for one heck of a lawsuit," he said.
The posters have upset people, but they may not have violated any criminal statutes, Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney said.
Flory said that because he knew of no similar situations in the past he would have to research the case to see whether any legal action could be taken.
Although the posters probably were meant to harm the Sanctuary, their effects reach much further. Katzman said.
"There's a problem on campus when people feel bold enough to do this," he said.
Katzman said he had seen three or four anti-black or anti-Semitic incidents on campus this year.
The human rights committee has made plans in the past to start an education program on campus, and Katzmian said this incident may speed up those plans.
Education and publicity about racist activities are the best ways to sensitize people about the problems
such activities cause and to lessen their effects, he said.
Because of this, Katzman said, he urged Johnson to publicize the posters.
People cannot expect to change the views of people who take such actions, Cobb said.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, was one of the first people to notify Johnson about the posters. He said it would be hard to catch the people responsible because such actions were usually one-shot items.
Jacki Kelly/Special to the KANSAN
Landon Lecture
The best that could be hoped for would be to get the majority of the people to live civilly to minimize the effect of the actions, he said.
MANHATTAN — Tom Brokaw, nightly news anchor for NBC, speaks about the effects of the media on the public. He addressed the issue of media coverage during the recent Philippine election and last year's TWA hijacking
Senator says funds available for lights
Staff writer
By Barbara Shear
Even if the Legislature does not pass the proposed i cent sales tax, other alternatives still may finance campus lighting, State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said yesterday.
"I think out of a $3.5 billion budget, we should be able to come up with $50,000." Winter said yesterday. "We need a combination of different funds."
Winter met with David Epstein and Amy Brown, student body president and vice president, to discuss the lighting issue.
One alternative, Winter said, would be to use part of a proposed $5 increase in student fees to pay for lighting. The increase has been designated to pay for the Kansas Union renovation and must be approved by Student Senate.
Other alternatives would be to take some of the money used for the new science library, to be built between Hoch Auditorium and the Military Science Building, to install lights
there, or to take money out of the housing fund for lighting around residence halls and scholarship halls. Winter said.
Winter also suggested the state could match funds provided by the students.
"If the students put up $50,000, then the state would put up $50,000." he said. "That seems reasonable. We can't afford not to do it. It is something that needs to be done."
Epstein had said last week that he thought it would be very hard to get money from the Legislature. Winter said that at the time this was true but that he did not think so anymore.
Brown and Epstein said they would meet with members of the House of Representatives next week in Topeka.
Brown and Epstein also met with State Sen. Bud Burke, R-Leawood, who, Winter said, also was in favor of campus lighting.
"I think their assessment was correct," he said. "However, there is more than one way to skin a cat."
Brokaw spoke yesterday at Kansas State University as part of the Landon Lectures, named for former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon. Seated are Charles Reagan, left, chairman of the Landon Lecture series and head of the department of history, and Duane Acker, president of K-State.
Committee endorses pari-mutuel betting
TOPEKA — The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday endorsed a house-passed resolution legalizing pari-mutuel waging on dog and horse racing with only one dissenting vote.
Although the resolution is very similar to a pari-mutuel amendment adopted by the Senate last year, its fate is unclear because it is tied directly to a lottery resolution before the House.
The lower chamber will debate the lottery resolution tomorrow — the second time the issue has been before the House. On Feb. 19, it fell five votes by winning the 84 votes needed for two-thirds approval.
The measure would let voters decide whether to amend the Kansas Constitution to allow a state-run lottery.
already passed the Senate in a slight- lv different form.
The pari-mutuel resolution would amend the provision of the constitution that now bans gambling on anything other than bingo. It has
However, Senate Majority Leader Bud Burke, R-Leawood, said the pair-mutual resolution was in limbo until the House agreed to a lottery.
The House is scheduled to debate the lottery today. Senate President Robert V. Talkington of Iola said last week that the Senate would take up the pari-mutuel proposal tomorrow, if the lottery resolution passed.
A proposal to legalize pari-mutuel wagering only on horse racing passed the Senate last year, 29-11. The lottery passed the upper chamber, 28-11, last session.
To be placed on the ballot, proposed constitutional amendments need 27 votes in the 40-member Senate and 84 votes in the 125-member House for two-thirds support.
The part-mutual resolution died in the House with only 74 votes. The House ran a new resolution this session and it passed, 90-35, in February.
Site plans for library spare tree
Staff writer
By Leslie Hirschbach
A gnarled old elm tree has won the battle to retain its spot on the side of Mount Oread.
According to final architectural plans, released Thursday, the University's new $13.9 million science library will accommodate the tree by taking root a few feet east of the original plans, said Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning.
"It will be built off to the side of the tree," he said yesterday.
Construction of the new library is scheduled to begin in the spring of 1987 and will be built between Hoch Auditorium and the Military Science Building.
The plans leave room for a library addition on the south side or an addition that would connect the library with Hoch Auditorium at the north. There are no plans for an addition on the west side where the tree stands.
A group of students protested the elm's possible loss last April by tying hundreds of feet of green ribbon on trees around campus. The group, which works for more student involvement in long-term planning of the University.
Todd Cohen, Alta Vista junior and a member of Greenpeace, said that the group was concerned about the abundance of concrete on campus.
Cohen said, "I'm glad they're saving the tree. We were concerned that they were building buildings left and right."
Cohen said the group made one small step for the tree and maybe a giant step for the future of the University's green space.
Weichert said, "No attempt was made to accent the tree, maybe because it's an elm and has a fairly short life span.
"Libraries continue to grow, so we have to continue to make additions."
The architects and a building committee of library staff members, faculty and students also made sure that the library would blend in with older buildings on campus, Weichert said.
Three limestone textures and classical details were included, he said.
"It now hinges upon whether the Legislature approves the construction funds, but it appears that they will." Wiechert said.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries and a member of the building committee, said the new science library would provide shelves for 500,000 books. Also it would take tremendous pressure off the current science library, which is overflowing with books and has no room for students.
"People have difficulty finding a seat," he said.
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