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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 104 (USPS 650-640)
BIOLOGY
Mild Details page 3.
Rebels install Aquino, isolate Marcos
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Corazon Aquino was sworn in as president of a provisional government today by rebels who blacked out the inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos and ran a John Wayne movie instead.
'Sovereignty resides in the people, and all government authority emanates from them.'
Corazon Aquino
Corazon Aquino
Marcos was about to be sworn in during live broadcasts on three independent television stations in the Broadcast City complex when attacking rebels finally managed to gain control of the stations just after the national anthem and an ecumenical prayer.
See related story p. 8.
Ferdinand E. Marcos
The master of ceremonies said,
"And now the moment you've all been waiting for, the inauguration of the president." Then television screens suddenly went blank. A panel of three commentators said there were technical difficulties, and moments later Channel 9 played a John Wayne movie.
order, she appointed Laurel as prime minister-designate.
"My dear countrymym," Aquino told a cheering crowd at an elite sports stadium in the Manila suburb of Greenhills, "sovereigny resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them.
Aquino, who claims that Marcos cheated her out of victory in the Feb. 7 election by fraud, was sworn in for a six-year term by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Claudio Teehankee. In her first executive
"On the basis of a people's mandate, I and Salvador H. Laurel are taking power in the name and by the will of the Filipino people as president and vice president, respectively."
The proclamation resolution by the opposition members of the National
Assembly named Aquino the duly elected president and declared null and void the Parliament's Feb. 15 ratification of Marcos as victor in the presidential balloting.
In her second executive act, Aquino renamed Juan Ponce Enrile, one of the co-leaders of Saturday's
rebellion, as defense minister and promoted the other co-leader of the mutiny, Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, to a full general and named him armed-forces chief of staff.
Marcos vowed to attack the rebels, and loyalist troops were preparing an assault on Camp Crame, the mutineers' suburban headquarters. Enrile said he doubted whether Marcos still had the power to order an assault.
"I'm just wondering why Mr. Marcos would do that, knowing fully well that he has no more capacity to govern the nation," Enrile said. "If I were in his place, I'd probably call it a day, retire completely from politics and rest for the rest of my life."
Marcos, besieged in the presidential palace, gathered his family, his loyal military chief, Gen. Fabian C. Ver, and several hundred heavily armed soldiers, for his oath-taking. About 2,000 people filled a courtyard in front of the palace to attend.
But his isolation grew throughout the day. Rebel forces seized Manila's international airport, cutting off a possible escape route for the man who has ruled the Philippines for 20 year.
See PHILIPPINES, p. 5, col. 1
Prof leaves KU for Minnesota, cites low wages
Staff writer
By Tom Farmer
The lack of funds necessary to compete with other universities has forced the University of Kansas to say goodbye to its director of women's studies and professor in communication studies
Karlin Kohrs Campbell, women's studies director for three years and professor in communication studies for 12 years, said yesterday that a better salary offer from the University of Minnesota was a deciding factor in her leaving KU at the end of this academic year.
"Money is the key to all of this," Campbell said. "I'm terribly upset about the commitment of the state of Kansas to education. We are having to do more and with less and less.
"The Legislature has the notion that without providing more money for faculty salaries, that they can keep people who are attractive to other institutions, and that's just not true," she added.
Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that the state's commitment to education was actually pretty good but that with so many other financial demands, the state was in a tough spot.
Lineberry said a proposed 7 percent increase for Board of Regents faculty salaries to be voted on Thursday by a Senate committee would help alleviate the problem of faculty leaving for more attractive salary offers.
"I think that it would be a good start," Lineberry said. "The faculty members know the state of the state is not good."
Campbell cited several advantages to accepting the position at Minnesota. The foremost was a substantially better salary than what she received here.
In addition to the raise in pay, Campbell said, she will receive more than $2,000 in word processing equipment and software, which she doesn't receive here, more research support and more time to concentrate on women's studies and teaching.
Minnesota also offers an extensive center for feminist studies for graduate students, which allows students to concentrate solely on their women's studies. Campbell said.
Claire Jerry, Oxford, Ohio, graduate student, has been working on her dissertation — a study of the role of newspapers in the 19th century women's movement — for two and a half years under Campbell. She has another year of work before it is completed.
She and seven other graduate students face the problem of who will take over in assisting them in
See QUIT, p. 5, col. 2
Shauna Norfleet/Special to the KANSAN
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, director of womert's studies and professor of communications studies, will be leaving the University of Kansas after 12 years of teaching. She said she would be going to the University of Minnesota to teach next semester because of inadequate salaries for faculty at KU.
Bv Abbie Jones
Staff writer
Prof seeks salary boost for faculty
A KU business professor asked a Kansas Senate candidate yesterday for a 7 percent increase in salaries for Board of Regents faculty to keep the University of Kansas on top of academic competition.
Morris Kleiner, executive board member of the American Association of University Professors, said he pushed for the 7 percent increase to keep professors from leaving the University for better paying jobs at peer schools.
"We are just not able to compete," Kleiner said. "The effect is that we lose senior people and replace them with junior people. The end result is that students suffer."
But the Regents may get a political alternative Thursday when the Senate Ways and Means Committee plans to vote on the measure.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said the committee probably would consider a 3 percent to 4 percent increase in faculty salary and a 1 percent salary contribution to its retirement fund. Faculty members now pay 5 percent of their salaries into the fund.
Gov. John Carlin does not include a faculty pay increase in either his base budget or investment budget.
However, the investment budget asks the state to pick up the cost of faculty members' contributions to their retirement fund, costing the state about $9.5 million, Winter said.
"I support the Regents request," Winter said. "Politically I think 7 percent is not a reality. My job is to find the highest acceptable political reality."
He said the Legislature's alternative wasn't changing the amount of cost to the state, just dividing it up differently.
Kleiner said the University lost 18 faculty members in the 1984-85 school year to schools that offered better salaries, professional advancement and research programs.
In the 1983-84 school year, the
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 6
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Filipinos see rebels as victors
By Sandra Crider
Staff writer
The people of the Philippines agree it's time for a change. And the will of the people will bring an end to the oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, several local Filipinos predicted yesterday.
"On election day, what impressed me most was that ordinary people did everything they could to protect those ballot boxes." said Ray Dean Salvosa, Baguio, Philippines, graduate student.
People now are willing to sacrifice even more in the rebellion, which began Saturday.
"The people, with their bodies, are now protecting soldiers that have joined forces with them," Salvosa said. "Soldiers who were once tools used to oppress them."
"What you're witnessing is a very magnificent display for democracy."
There may be more trouble before Marcos steps down because of his pride and legalism. Because the assembly originally declared him the winner, Marcos thinks he should remain president. Salviosa said.
Modesto Gonzales, a recent KU graduate from Quezon City, Philippines, also said she thought that Marcos would fight.
"I'm sure calm will prevail. Everyone agrees it's time for a change." Gonzales said.
Two KU professors are intimately involved with the situation in the Philippines, Carl Lande, professor of political science, has spent the last month in the Philippines studying the politics there.
His wife, Nobleza Asunción-Lande,
said her husband was in Australia
and planned to return to Lawrence
next week. She said he would not
comment on the situation until he
returned to the United States.
He was selected by the Asia Society, a New York-based foundation for public education about Asian culture
Lande had planned to return to the Philippines after visiting Australia. His wife said his plans changed when he found he might not be able to get another flight out of the country.
Grant Goodman, professor of history, is in Washington, D.C., at an academic conference on the Philippines. The conference was organized to analyze recent events and discuss the possible future of the country.
Goodman specializes in East Asian history and was a visiting professor at the University of the Philippines last spring.
The Filipinos are more optimistic now and will be more content if the regime changes hands. But a different president would not necessarily bring about significant improvement in the country's situation, Goodman said.
Marcos and Aquino are distantly related and come from similar oligarchic backgrounds, he said.
Meanwhile, the KU students are watching anxiously for the next development in the troubled country.
"Whether it is possible to anticipate some dramatic change is open to question," he said.
Salvosa's family still is in the Philippines. He has been unable to contact them since the rebellion began. His brother lives just a few blocks from the center of rebellion activity, near Camp Cram, and probably is involved in the demonstrations, Salvosa said.
"I'm very concerned about them," he said. "But I can't say I'm sorry about what has been happening.
"If it gets rid of Marcos, this is cause enough."
Airline woes may not hurt break plans
Ry Russell Grav
Staff writer
KU students who travel on Eastern Airlines for spring break probably will not be affected by a takeover of the company, travel service managers and an airport official said yesterday.
- Eastern announced yesterday that it will be taken over by Francisco Lorenzo's Texas Air Corp. If Eastern had not sold out, it would have had to file for bankruptcy because of strike
Plunging oil prices drain job openings
- See related story
Consumers love it. Farmers praise it. But oil companies and petroleum engineers fear it.
See AIRLINES, p. 5, col. 2
By Sandra Crider
At $14 dollars a barrel, it calculates to the cheapest gallon in over seven years. Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. While a boon to many, lower prices mean fewer jobs for some, KU professors and students said recently.
Staff writer
"The hurt will come a lot quicker than the benefits," said Floyd Preston, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
Opinions were divided on whether the downward price trend was new or part of a cycle. But everyone agreed the cause was political, brought about by Saudi Arabia's decision to flex its well-oiled muscles.
Other countries, unwilling to be cut out of the world market, had to match the Saudi Arabian prices, then began undercutting one another to gain more revenue, professors said.
One of the repercussions of the low prices is less demand for petroleum engineers.
Phil Walton, Wichita senior and a petroleum engineering student, said no one would interview for petroleum engineers because of the price war.
"Right now there are no companies interested in petroleum engineers," Walton said. "It's definitely hurting our chance of getting jobs."
Sheryl Steck, Lawrence senior, is graduating in May with a degree in petroleum engineering and said she still had not found a job. She is considering a move to
Dallas or Los Angeles where larger markets may improve her chances of finding a job
"There's got to be jobs out there somewhere even though they might not be very good," Steck said. "It just doesn't look good."
However, Preston was more reassuring.
Some students are rearranging their academic careers to avoid seeking employment while jobs are scarce, said Paul Willhite, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
"People try to stretch their graduation date out to keep active interests and graduate when the job market is more favorable," he said.
However, Preston was more reassuring. He said, "As long as there is petroleum produced, there will be a need for petroleum engineers."
Willhite said the effects already were devastating.
"In the short-term, our graduates in May are going to have to hustle to find jobs." Willhite said. "In the long-term, if jobs for petroleum engineers are going to go down and the demand for them goes down, our enrollment will go down drastically."
An example for the opposite case occurred during the energy crisis in the mid-1970s. Prices were high and a degree in petroleum engineering was like gold. The average starting salary in 1977 was $18,144 a year.
Facing graduation in three months without employment, Steck agreed that jobs and the price of oil were closely intertwined.
"Jobs are directly proportional to price drops in the market," she said.