Bonus question
Who was Time's non-human Man of the Year?
For answer, see page 3
SINCE 1889
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1986. VOL. 96. NO. 92 (USPS 650-640)
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Benefit attracts bogus stars
By Monique O'Donnell Staff writer
It looked as if Mick Jagger, the Go-Go's and Billy Idol all turned out last night to raise money for a good cause.
But the stars were counterfeit. They were really KU students decked out for a celebrity look alike contest.
The event was part of the Students Against Multiple Sclerosis fund-raising campaign. It started at Coghurs, 737 New Hampshire St., and moved to two other halls during the evening.
At 9 p.m., the students arrived at Cogburres in costumes a la Dolly Parton and Billy Idol. Five girls, imponating the Go Go's, were only dressed in bathtowels with small bathing suits underneath. But Kristine Gordon, Overland Park sophomore, said she wasn't cold.
"No, we're fine," she said.
"We're having fun."
All participants wert on stage, and the audience voted for its favorite contestant.
Steve Vogel, chairman of SAMS,
said each person had two votes
because each had payed a $1 cover
charge of when they arrived.
Each contestant also was sponsored by people in Lawrence All the proceeds collected at Cogburns, The Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., and Gammons, 1601 W 23rd, will go to SAMS, Vogel said.
Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that most often affects people between the ages of 18 to 43, he said.
Other events in the SAMS campaign are a Valentine's Day Heart of Rock 'n' Roll Battle of the Bands featuring area rock bands Feb. 14, a fund raising dinner Feb. 21 and a rave/rock Alike competition Feb. 22.
The top fund-raising contest will win a trip to the Caribbean, donated by Holiday Travel Service, 2112 W 25th St., and will be able to compete for an MTV internship. Vogel said.
KU's football team also participated in the bar entertainment. About 25 football players dressed in tuxedos got on stage to perform the "MS. Shuffle."
Craio Sands/KANSAN
Rex Boyd, Overland Park
sophomore, impersonates Mick
Jagger as part of a celebrity look
alike contest. The event, sponsored
by Students Against Multiple
Sclerosis, began at Cogburns,
737 New Hampshire St., last night
and proceeded to two other bars.
All proceeds will be donated to
SAMS and MS research
8 apartheid protesters acquitted
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
A Douglas County District Court judge yesterday overturned convictions in eight criminal trespassing cases stemming from anti-apartheid protests last May. The judge upheld three convictions of protesters in other trespassing cases.
Associate District Court Judge Jean Sheard ruled seven protesters were not guilty of criminal trespassing during a May 9 demonstration at
Youngberg Hall, the home of the Kansas University Endowment Association. The court also acquitted one protester arrested at a May 3 demonstration at Youngberg Hall. All eight were arrested outside the building.
Shepard said there was no evidence the Endowment Association had authorized the KU Police Department to arrest anyone who was outside the building.
torney, represented the protesters. City Attorney Mike Glover was the prosecutor. The case was heard Jan. 29 in district court.
Shepard overturned the convictions of Gabrilele Otto, Lawrence senior; Kristine Learned, Mulvane sophomore; Judy Brow, KU library assistant; Clark Coan, a 1979 KU graduate from Lawrence; Michael Foubert, Lawrence graduate student; Aimee Alderman, Olathe
Jack Klinknett, Lawrence at-
junior; and Kathryn Steger,
Lawrence senior
Each was arrested during the May 9 rally.
The court also overturned the conviction of Jane Ungerman, Lawrence senior, who was arrested during a May 3 protest at the Endowment Association.
The court upheld convictions of three protesters who were arrested
See APPEALS, p. 5, col. 1
Deaths reported as Filipinos vote in bitter election
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Amid mounting reports of widespread ballot buying, intimidation by "goon" squads and violence that left at least 29 dead, Filipinos voted by the millions today in the bitter election between President Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino.
Opposition officials said 15 Aquino supporters riding to the polls in the challenger's home province of Tarlac were killed when a grenade was thrown into their truck.
The official Philippine News Agency said 14 other people, most of them opposition supporters, died in election violence in this nation of 54 million people, bringing the death toll to at least 80 in two months of bitter campaigning.
Election officials said 80 to 85 percent of the 26 million registered voters cast ballots, for a turnout of 22.1 million. They said they hoped for an accurate but incomplete projection of the winner in 24 hours and first results of the Manila vote by 11 a.m. EST. No results were available as of 6 a.m. EST today.
Reports of violence began reaching Manila only hours after the 86,000 polls opened at 6 p.m. EST, and mounted steadily by the time the polls closed at 2 a.m. EST. A "mount of reports of fraud and violence are piling up," an Aquino spokesman charged.
Police in the southern city of Davao said an opposition leader was shot and killed and another wounded by gunmen while on their way to monitor the bailout.
An independent monitoring group said a polluter in a helicopter was forced down north of Manila by two unidentified helicopters and
there is no word on the monitor's fate.
The nation's entire armed force of 250,000 soldiers and paramilitary police were on "red alert" to keep order. But a mini army of independent militia officers "goo" squids and armed men forced to leave polling stations.
A spokesman for the poll-watching Independent National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAM-FREL) said the "goons" manhandled some pollwatchers and smashed the cameras of others.
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"Right now it doesn't look too good," said Benjamin Lozare, an official of NAMFIRL which sent 50,000 monitors to the polls in the strategic Southeast Asian nation.
Sen. Richard Lugar, sent by President Reagan to head a U.S. poll-watching team, also said: "We've seen some irregularities in the sense of administration problems and slowness."
Most of the reports of violence involved attacks against supporters of Aquino, widow of opposition leader and Marcos' acrival Benigno Aquino, assassinated in 1983 at Manila Airport.
"We have just pulled our volunteers out of Danao city in Cebu because of massive intimidation and harassment of our workers," Lozare of NAMFREL said. "Armed men and goons have threatened them physically, and I understand some people have been injured."
Lozare said a helicopter with one of his officials was forced north of Manila by two unidentified helicopters. "The last word we heard from him by radio is that armed men
See ELECTION, p. 5, col. 4
Staff writer
By Abbie Jones
Opponents argue over abortion bill
Lobbyists from opposing sides of the abortion issue yesterday debated a House bill that would require doctors to keep a record on all abortions.
The House State and Federal Affairs Committee heard testimony regarding a bill that would require all doctors who performed abortions to keep a record of pregnancies that were legally terminated. The present law requires only hospitals to record the information. Other clinics and physicians report voluntarily.
"What we are seeking is to get the truth out," said EKerns, lobbyist for the Right To Life of Kansas. "Abortion reporting is a sham."
Kerns said the public needed to know the accurate number of abortions performed, methods of abortion, the conditions of the women a few months after the procedure and their ages.
"Clinics and doctors aren't reporting," he said. "If people see the true figures they will be appalled by what they see."
The bill says a yearly report must be sent to the state and must include the number of pregnancies terminated, the type of facility, its address and name. Names of women who received abortions would not be on the reports, and all information would be confidential.
Sarah Trulove, a board member for the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights in Kansas who was not at the hearing, said abortions were
private and statistics were unimportant.
Trulove, who is also KU's assistant director of administration at the Hall Center for Humanities, said the antiabortion advocates wanted statistics for propaganda.
"I don't want to know how many abortions are performed," she said. "I don't want to know how many appendecties are performed. This is a private, personal issue. I don't see what else we need to know."
"It is simply another attempt to cause pain and suffering to the individuals and families who chose abortion," she said.
Belva Otl, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Kansas, said the number of physicians who would submit reports under this bill would be unchanged.
"I don't think there is going to be any more who send in reports than me," he said.
my more who send in reports than what you have right now." Ott said. Pat Goodson, a spokesman for Right To Life of Kansas, said that 50 percent of the abortions performed in Kansas were not reported.
“Abortion cannot be equated with a tonsillectomy or any other medical procedure,” she said.
Opponents of the bill also say that requiring physicians or clinics to sign abortion reports would increase their chances of getting harassed.
Adele Hughey, executive director of Comprehensive Health Associates of Overland Park, said clinics already were victims of bomb threats.
Faculty opposes pension bill
By Leslie Hirschbach Staff writer
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in December that might drive faculty away by limiting the amount of money University employees could put into pension plans, Sidney Shapiro, Senate Executive Committee chairman, said yesterday.
Richard Mann, University director of personnel services, said the bill would limit faculty members to contributing $7,000 to their pension plans each year. They can now put up to $30,000 into their pension plans in a year.
The proposal hurts lower-paid faculty members who typically put more money away for retirement and other employees who want to put more than $7,000 away each year.
Shapiro said the current pension plan was an incentive to stay at the University for faculty members who could be making twice as much money elsewhere.
If the amount they can contribute is reduced, he said, faculty members will be.
"We've got to find ways of keeping people in universities by compensating them," Shapiro said. "It's an important feature in maintaining a
good faculty."
In November, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole urging him to make sure the Senate didn’t pass the bill, which was called The Tax Reform Act of 1985. The bill will be considered by the Senate this year.
The bill, which was written in response to President Reagan's tax reform proposals, would do great harm to retirement plans of teachers in educational organizations throughout the nation, Cobb said.
See PENSIONS, p. 5, col. 3
Officials favor vicious-dog law
Staff writer
By Juli Warren Staff writer
Douglas County officials and city officials from around the county took one more step toward restricting vicious dogs last night at a meeting at the County Courthouse.
All cities represented last night
-Baldwin City, Leptonom,
Eudora and Lawrence — spoke in
favor of an ordinance that would
limit the number of most favored some sort of compensation to victims of dog bites.
walt of the proposed ordinance that he presented at the meeting was stricter than what the city officials wanted.
Chris Mackenzie, county counselor, said he thought the
According to the draft of the proposed ordinance, it would be illegal to keep or own a vicious dog within the county.
A vicious dog is defined as one which the owner knows or has reason to know has a tendency or disposition to attack when unprovoked, to cause injury or otherwise endanger the safety of human beings and which has attacked or attempted to attack a person.
County commissioner Nancy Hiebert said she thought the idea of the compensation statement stemmed from concern about the 3-year-old boy mauled in December by pit bulls in Eudora.
The family of the boy had no health insurance, she said, and faced large hospital and rehabilitation bills.
Hiebert said after the meeting that Mackenzie would hone down the draft of the ordinance, add the suggested compensation state-
See PIT BULL, p. 5, col. 1