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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEB 10, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 93 (USPS 650-640)
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Prof sends info home of election
Bv Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
Nobleza Asunción Lande has been getting first-hand information about the Philippine elections from her husband, Carl.
Carl Lande, professor of political science, was sent to the Philippines in January by the Asia Society, a New York based foundation for public education of Asian culture, to study Philippine politics.
A turbulent election is taking place in the Philippines between Corazon Aquino, wife of slain opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, and Ferdinand Marcos, the current president.
Yet she remains extremely calm about the election that some have said could lead to a revolution, even though her husband is studying amidst periodic outbursts of violence.
Asuncion-Lande, professor of communication studies, was born in the Philippines and has relatives living there.
Any Filipino, she said, can tell you that elections in the Philippines are turbulent. The citizens' reactions to this election aren't any different from their reaction to other elections, she said.
"Sometimes I ask him what he's doing these days and he tells me to just quit worrying about him," she said.
But, she sometimes worries about her husband getting caught in the violence, she said.
"Filipinos are very passionate and keen on expressing thoughts and ideas." she said.
Carl Lande, who graduated from Harvard in the late 1950s with doctorate degrees in government and politics, is the only academic member of the group sent to study in the Philippines.
Daniel Bays, director of the center for East Asian studies, said Lande was nationally recognized as a pioneer expert in Philippine politics. Lande has about 35 years experience in Philippine studies, and is frequently called by the national media for comments when something happens there. Bays said it was an honor for the University and Lande to be the only academic member selected by the Asia Society.
Asunción-Lande said her husband was one of a few Americans in the Philippines concerned about the long-term effects of the election. Many are concerned only with the short-term results.
Much of the violence of the election has been blown out of proportion by the media in the United States, she said.
"I think they should keep cool, observe what's going on, and not try to influence what's going on, she said.
Workers sav Philippine ballots falsified
"I think there has been some exagregation," she said. "There is an ex
The Associated Press
--known as Namfrel, had Aquino in the lead by 5,576,319 votes to 4,806,166 for Marcos, or 53.7 percent to 46.3 percent.
MANILA, Philippines — Thirty computer operators marched out of the government's election commission yesterday, claiming the ballot-counting that showed President Ferdinand E. Marcos defeating Corazon Anuino was falsified.
Meanwhile, an international observer group accused Marcos partisans of vote-buying, intimidation, snatching ballot boxes and tampering with election returns in Friday's special presidential election.
The computer operators wept on each others' shoulders after parading single-file out of the Marcos-appointed commission's counting center.
"What's posted on the tabulation board does not tally with the computer板, and we don't know who is doing it," a woman former said.
The woman, who refused to give her name, told the Associated Press that workers spotted the problem Saturday night when Aquino was leading in the commission's count by 100,000 votes. By noon yesterday, Marcos had taken the lead.
By this morning, with 28 percent of the precincts reporting, the commission's unofficial tally gave Marcos 3,056,236 votes to Aquino's 2,903,348, a split of 51.28 percent to 48.72 percent.
See LANDE, p. 5, col. 1
An independent count by the National Movement for Free Elections, a citizens' ballot-monitoring group
The Namfret tally represented 40.14 percent of the Philippines' 86,036 precincts. Final election results from the Philippines' 7,100 islands are not expected for days.
After the workers — 27 women and three men — marched out, tabulation was suspended. The total number of workers tabulating was not known but there were 300 computers in the center.
forts. Savellano said the commission's count was based on authenticated tally sheets which are beyond doubt and which anyone could see.
Citing the difference between the two counts, Political Affairs Minister Leonardo Perez said he would seek the assembly's approval to terminate all other vote-counting immediately.
Marcos, who initially predicted an 80 percent landslide, was hard-pressed throughout his first seriously contested campaign since 1969. In that election Marcos defeated former Sen. Sergio Osman Jr.
In 1972, Marcos imposed martial law, which lasted until 1981. Marcos then won another election, but no significant opposition parties fielded a candidate. Marcos has held power for 20 years.
Certification of the election result is up to the National Assembly, which was due to begin its own separate canvass today.
Marcos' latest six-year term was to expire in 1987, but he called the special election to show domestic and foreign critics, particularly in the
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., co-leader of a 20-member U.S. delegation observing the elections, said the election was "teetering on the brink of disaster but still in place."
United States, that he still enjoyed overwhelming support.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley" in an interview from Manila, Lugar said, "No one has any idea who's ahead."
A Lawrence firefighter, above, uncoils a hose in a smokey warehouse at the FMC Corporation. 9th and Maple streets. Two firefighters, right, carry out a comrade who is pretending to be injured.
Machine feigns fires
By Brian Whepley
Where there's smoke there's fire.
But that wasn't the case Friday when the Lawrence Fire Department used a new artificial smoke-making machine to simulate fire conditions.
Jerry Karr, training officer for the department, said the machine was used to recreate the confusion and disorientation that firefighters experienced in smoke-filled buildings.
Monday Morning
The department used the machine to fill a warehouse at the FMC Corporation's phosphorus plant at 9th and Maple streets to simulate a real fire.
The machine that creates the fake smoke sounds like a chainsaw. Firefighters filled the building with the artificial smoke, which smelled like formaldehyde, and then practiced rescue drills.
Firefighters often become disoriented in smoke-filled buildings because they can't see where they are going, Karr said, and toxic gases created by burning materials further increase confusion.
Firefighters acting as victims were placed inside the warehouse and other firefighters tried to rescue them. The firefighters followed the firehoses so they wouldn't become lost in the thick smoke.
FMC Corporation has drilled with the department many times, said Dennie Steffen, personnel manager at the plant. FMC has a brigade at the plant that responds to emergencies in the plant. Members of the emergency brigade strapped on oxygen tanks and also took part in the rescue drills.
Karr said firefighters had found that people caught in burning buildings usually could
The most common places victims are found are near doors, windows and walls. Fire fatalities usually are found in those spots, Karr said, because the victims are trying to get out but are overcome by smoke or toxic gases.
The smoke-making machines haven't been on the market very long, he said.
New York City public schools have used the machine to educate children about fires, he said. Because so many arson fires take place in New York, the firefighters tried to lessen the fear so the children could react rationally and get out of burning buildings.
Lynn Marotz, a registered nurse at the department of human development and family life, said that because children were so afraid of fire they needed to be familiarized with fire conditions.
Marotz said she was watching the drills to see whether the smoke-making machine could be used to show children what to do if a fire occurs.
By Debra West
Staff writer
After almost five years of business as a tavern, the West Coast Saloon, 2222 Iowa St., opened Saturday night as a private club.
Shaun Trenholm, owner of the club, said he thought it was only a matter of time before the tavern was forced to change to a club, so he decided to do it now.
"No beer bars are going to make it when the age changes to 21," he said. "Why would anyone go to a tavern when they can have everything at a club?"
Trenholm said to change his bar from a tavern to a club he had to change his liquor license and the plumbing and electrical fixtures behind the bar. He also had to build extra storage area for the liquor.
Memberships to the club cost $10. The membership isn't reciprocal, because law requires that a club receives 50 percent of its receipts from food to be reciprocal, he said.
The graduated change in the drinking age from 18 to 21 in Kansas is
Regular customers of the tavern don't need to worry about any change in atmosphere, Trenholm said.
"I don't want it to be like Gammons," he said. "It's a mellow place
where you can come to shoot pool and have a few drinks."
Other Lawrence taverns also plan to change to private clubs, but some owners said they thought taverns could still be successful.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe. 1340 Ohio St., said he thought the Hawk would remain a tavern.
A bill now in the Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee would give taverns another advantage, because clubs would no longer be able to have ladies' nights or dine draw nights, he said.
Wallace said there were no laws now that would eliminate 3.2 percent alcohol beer. Therefore, taverns would be able to remain in business.
Taverns had some advantages, he said. They pay lower taxes than clubs, so they usually serve less expensive drinks.
Doug Compton, owner of Bull Winkles Bark, 1344 Tennessee St., said Bull Winkles also would remain a tavern because of its size.
The proposal says no price can be set that is lower than that charged to all other buyers of drinks during that week and prohibits owners from selling lourin as a meal package.
"It only holds about 50 people. There will always be enough people."
Hall residents grab a Coke and a smile
By Peggy Kramer
Staff writer
Students in all residence halls will have the real thing by tomorrow.
Fountain Coke machines were installed in the cafeterias of Gertrude Sellard's Pearson-Corbin and Joseph R. Pearson Halls Thursday and in the cafeterias of Oliver and McColum Halls Friday.
Residents of the halls will have access to the complete Coca-Coa beverage line, Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said Friday.
Classic Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Diet Sprite, Mr. Pibb, and Cherry Coke will be available.
Ellsworth and Hashinger Halls will receive the Coke fountains sometime today and the machines will be operating in Templin and Lewis Halls tomorrow. Stoner said.
Drew Blossom, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said pop served in the cafeterias was something the students had had on their wish list for several years.
Students were excited, Blossom said. They now can drink pop with cafeteria meals without paying 50 cents for a can from the vending machines.
He said AURH first began thinking about installing the pop machines in the cafeterias last November and suggested the idea to the office of student housing during contract proposals last semester.
Specifications for the bid proposal were borrowed from Ohio State University and the University of Tennessee. The $45,700 bid was given to the Coca-Cola company in Atlanta, Stoner said.
"It is going well so far," he said,
"we hope the pop up a positive change
Stoner said that in July, the office of student housing had begun to discuss the possibility of installing
pop fountains in the residence hall cafeterias. By the end of the summer the decision was made to purchase the machines.
See SODA, p. 5, col. 3
Group wants ban on student voting in county
By Juli Warren
Staff writer
Citizens who think that KU students should not be allowed to vote in county elections will soon get a chance to voice their opinions.
But several government officials and a professor questioned the feasibility of prohibiting students from voting.
Petitions asking, in part, that students who are temporary residents be barred from voting, should be circulated sometime this week by members of Douglas County Citizens for Responsible Development, Barbara Richardson, secretary of the group, said yesterday.
About 40 members of the group decided two weeks ago to circulate
the petitions and send them to state legislators.
One legislator, State Sen Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said he disagreed with the petition's pro- change the residency requirements.
Student turnout in local elections, Winter said, is low, and students who vote do so responsibly.
"The facts don't bear out the idea that students are voting in elections where they don't know anything." Winter said.
"Students should have the opportunity to decide whether they're more closely tied to their home community or here, where they spend nine months of the year," he said.
Daryl Richardson, president of the
The citizens group has been vocal in its opposition to the bypass, for which $4 million in general obligation bonds were issued last summer.
Barbara Richardson said last week, "The most important thing, we feel, is the bypass part."
group, said after a recent meeting that group members thought students were more liberal and would vote for costly projects such as a proposed bypass south of Lawrence.
The first half of the petition deals with students voting and the second half opposes the law that allowed Robert Stephan, state attorney general, to decide last summer that a public vote was not required to issue the bonds.
The petition states that letting students vote even though they are not permanent residents "has created untold problems by upsetting the normal balance between taxpaying voters and voters who have no financial interest in the welfare of the community."
Winter and State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said legislators would consider any petition sent to them.
However, Branson said, the legislation that the group wanted would have applications in all counties with institutions of higher education.
"To get through the Legislature, it
See PETITION, p. 5, col. 3