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FRIDAY. MARCH 21, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 117 (USPS 650-640)
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House rejects Reagan's bid for contra aid
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday rejected President Reagan's appeal for $100 million for the Nicaraguan rebellion battling the Sandinista government, slapping aside his offer to hold back some military aid during a new bid for peace talks.
In a statement read by presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, Reagan said the 222-210 defeat must be reversed.
See related stories p. 10.
He woved to shift his campaign today to the Senate in a bid to salvage the request, which called for $70 million in military assistance and $30 million in non-lethal aid.
The narrowly divided House split almost along party lines in turning down the aid request, with 46 Democrats backing Reagan, along with 164 Republicans. Aligned against the president were 206 Democrats and 16 members of the GOP.
On Capitol Hill, post-vote assessments focused on two points—the tactics Reagan used to build his case, which foes called dirty tricks and a low-road approach, and the prospects that a compromise on aid to the contrains would emerge from the Republican-controlled Senate.
Reagan had a hurried strategy meeting after the vote with senior White House officials, Secretary of State George Shultz and two key players in the Senate debate, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana.
The president had argued that the contras needed U.S. assistance immediately to keep up the pressure on the Marxist-led Sandinistas, who he had said posed a direct threat to U.S. security.
In a final bid for votes, he offered
Wednesday to withhold all but crucially needed military supplies for 90 days while pursuing peace talks with the Sandinistas.
Alan Cranston of California, the assistant Senate Democratic leader, forecast the House vote could spur anti-aid sentiment and reported votes had begun shifting within hours.
From an initial tally of 49 for, 40 against and 11 undecided on the initial $100 million package. Cranston said a second count showed 48-41 for the aid with 11 undecided.
Cranston's count showed 43 Republicans and five Democrats supporting Reagan, with 34 Democrats and seven Republicans opposing the aid. Among the undecided, he said five were leaning against.
It was expected that a new package, stressing diplomacy with a call for restoration of civil liberties in Nicaragua, could emerge during Senate maneuvering that would give Mr. Garrison the choice he wants but with strings attached.
Tom Foley, D-Wash., assistant House Democratic leader, said statements by administration officials and groups outside Congress questioning the patriotism of aid opponents worked against the
"That was scandalous and unfortunate and finally ineffective," Foley said.
The House showdown vote came after Speaker Thomas O'Neili, D-Mass., delivered a stirring appeal to his colleagues to reject Reagan's Central American policy, not as a partisan issue but as a matter of conscience.
"Just as covert aid became overt aid, just as humanitarian aid became lethal. I see the pattern continuing, step by step, into a situation that brings our boys into the fighting," O'Neill said.
See CONTRAS, p. 5, col. 1
Chris Bunker, president of the KU Committee on South Africa, listens as Phil Kline, president of the KU College Republicans, answers a student's question. The two participated in a debate on divestment from South Africa yester day in Green Hall. See story on page 3.
Diane Dultmeler/KANSAN
Alumni Center declared tax-free
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
The University of Kansas Alumni Association will not have to pay a $65,000 property tax on the Adams Alumni Center, the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals ruled yesterday.
In a 3-2 vote, the tax appeals board reversed its ruling of last September by deciding that the Alumni Association was a proper alumni association and thus was entitled to a property tax exemption.
Brad Smooth, the Alumni Association's lawyer, said a state law that was passed last year granted a tax break to alumni associations, but the tax board had adopted a strict definition of "alumni association" that made the law meaningless.
The board decided in September that an organization didn't qualify for a tax break as a university's alumni association unless all its members had attended the university.
In reversing its decision, the board considered testimony from Fred Williams, executive director
of the Alumni Association, and Jean Sagan, an attorney representing the Board of Regents.
Williams and Sagan said all state alumni associations had "sidewalk alumni," or members who didn't attended the school.
Yesterday's decision indicates that the board realizes none of the state's alumni associations could meet the previous test. Smoot said.
The Alumni Association paid about half of the $55,000 tax before it appealed. Smoot said. It will
Because of changing property taxes, Smoot said he could not estimate how much money the Alumni Association would save in the long run.
Smoot said the Alumni Association had never been assessed property taxes before and the Alumni Center was constructed on property that hadn't been taxed since a private residence stood there in 1974.
In its decision, the board noted the close connection between the Alumni Association and the
University, Smoot said.
Chris McKenzie, the counselor for Douglas County, had urged the board to deny a tax exemption because the alumni center was not being used exclusively for alumni association activities as state law requires.
Thirty programs unrelated to University activities were conducted in the center during one month, he said.
But the board decided that the center fell under the 1985 law's exclusive use program because it was not open to the public. Functions had to be sponsored by Alumni Association members, and the center was not used for commercial, political or religious activities other than weddings.
McKenzie said he had not yet decided whether to appeal.
United Press International supplied some information for this story.
Lawrence restoration
Students resurrect history
Staff writer
By Grant W. Butler
The stones of an Italian castle that were impregnable one generation lay crumbling the next.
Without restoration, a part of history slowly slims away.
For Harris Stone, associate professor of architecture and urban design who teaches ARCH 648, Introduction to Historic Preservation, the restoration of castles in faraway lands is important for maintaining history, but preserving the buildings along Massachusetts Street is just as important.
Historic preservation, Stone said, must include everyday buildings because they can reveal how common people used to live.
Harris Stone, associate professor of architecture and urban design, sits in front of some of his students' work in the building yard behind Marvin Hall. He said students built the structures as practice for their future careers.
The information in history books is of kings and queens, he said, and not of the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. All knowledge of how common people lived is found in the buildings they built.
"The people who built Massachusetts Street were just everyday people." Stone said. "They were not kings, bishops of the church or presidents of the country. They were little businessmen and small contractors."
"It's the history of all those people who were not kings and princes that's manifest in those buildings on Massachusetts," he said.
Students in Stone's course consider how to return dilapidated structures to usefulness, while maintaining their historical, contextual and environmental integrity.
The work for the store expansion, Boorboor said, didn't require a lot of design work, but there was concern about maintaining the store's continuity with other downtown structures.
But the work isn't all sketches and models, Stone said. Students in the class can get hands-on experience working with downtown merchants.
Some students in the class are working on plans for a crumbling Italian fortress, but working in Lawrence made the Massachusetts Street store project applying Boor-
"It's downtown, so it's in a historic
context," he said. "You can't introduce something that will clash with the character of downtown."
boor said he would easily be able to check on the progress of construction and document his work.
"It's a realistic project," he said,
"It's not something far away or across the ocean."
See CLASS, p. 5, col. 4
KU may lose med students
By Lori Polson
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kansas may lose many of its top medical school candidates if efforts aren't made to keep them in the state, officials from the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday.
The Board of Regents heard the testimony at the Med Center campus at their monthly meeting. The meeting continues through tomorrow.
Eugene Jacobson, dean of medicine, said the number of Kansas applicants dropped to 250 this year from the 300 who applied last year.
Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center, said the faculty would try to attract more students by sending information to undergraduates with 3.5 grade point averages or higher who are now attending the Regents schools. They also will consider visiting high schools across the state to talk with students enrolled in honor programs.
There is a wide shortage of good students who are interested in medical school in the United States, Jacobson said.
"In the last six years, the overall pool of applicants has declined by 20 percent," he said.
"We had almost as many applicants from California as from Kansas," he said.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig told the Regents that efforts were being made to interest more students, especially Kansas students, in the Med Center.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
"We are being very aggressive in the pursuit of able young people,"
Budig said.
Med Center personnel will inform
New education dean calls job a challenge
By Sandra Crider
Staff writer
Edward Meyen says he is looking forward to the challenges he will confront when he takes over as dean of education in July.
"I'm excited about the opportunities," Meyen, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said. "I'll assume a role where I'll be dealing with some great challenges."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig announced yesterday that Meyen would be the new dean.
Meyen will replace Paul Haack, who has been acting dean since the former dean, Dean Scannell, left the University of Kansas in July 1985. Scannell is now dean of education at the University of Maryland
A committee had been searching for a new dean since last fall.
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 2
He said he would focus on how to best train high quality educators and how to begin researching the problems of the public schools.
Meyen has been associate vice
Public scrutiny of education has intensified as the quality of public schools comes under fire and as people begin to look to education to help improve the Kansas economy, Meyen said.
chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service since 1978. His experience in that position and as a professor in and chairman of the department of special education will be helpful in directing faculty and research, he said.
Del Shankel, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, agreed that Meyen's experience would help him
Meyen has been the principal or coprincipal investigator for grants and contracts totaling about $6.5 million for training, research and development.
"He was a very successful department chairman in the School of Education," Shankel said. "Our special education department is on hold."
Meyen still is an active professor in special education. He came to the University as chairman of the department in 1973.
"it was extremely pleased when he emerged as first choice for the position." he said.
Haack also praised the committee's selection
Meyen's proven skill as a fundraiser while an associate vice chancellor, his creativity and his strong commitment to education are other strengths he will bring to the job. Shankel said.
Shuffle song gets new life
By a Kansan reporter
The Jayhawk Shuffle is reemerging in a different form, according to the writer of the song and an ad in yesterday's Kansan.
Mike Kirsch, co-owner of Gammons, 1601 W. 23rd St., said last night that the song had been remade but he didn't want to comment on the new version of the song.
"My previous comments made too much media attention."
He did say that none of the KU basketball players' names were used in the new version of the song.
An ad in the Kansan yesterday said, "The song has been modified to comply with NCAA interpretations." The ad also said Kirsch was now taking orders for cassettes of the song for five dollars.
Two weeks ago Kirsch decided not to go ahead with plans to sell the original version of the song. He said then that he would no longer play or play the song because of concern about the eligibility of the players.
The original song used the names of several players. According to National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, the use of the players' names for commercial gain is a violation of rules.