Political suicide
Farce hides harsh themes in banned play. See page 6.
SINCE 1839
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEB. 6, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 91 (USPS 650-640)
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David Epstein, student body president, and Amy Brown, student body vice president, present a plaque to Deanell Tacha, former vice chancellor for academic affairs. The plaque was from the Student Senate honoring Tacha for her appointment as 10th Circuit Court judge. Epstein and Brown presented the plaque to Tacha yesterday at a reception in her honor at the Kansas Union. See story page 3.
Gold cards tarnish for some
KLZR losing student fans
By Monique O'Donnell
Staff writer
Lawrence's radio station KLZRFM changed to attract new listeners with new hits, but some students who were loyal to the station's old format refuse to listen
On Dec. 30, KLZR formed a cooperative with a Dallas-based Satellite Music Network. The station adopted the network's rocking hits format and has since become unpopular with some students, Tim Savage, Overland Park sophmore, said yesterday.
Savage said he had written a letter to the editor of the Kansan advising other students who had complaints about the station's new top-40 format to send their KLZR lazer gold cards back to the station.
Bob Newton, station manager for KLZR, said that since Savage had his letter published in the Jan. 21 issue of the Kansan, 26 people had sent their cards back to the station.
The station offers the lazer gold cards to listeners. Card holders are entitled to various prizes and price reductions at some Lawrence businesses.
Terry Brown, Valley Center sophomore, said KLZR had lost its personal touch because they no longer played a variety of music. Before they changed their format, the station played music which was not necessarily on the top-40 charts.
"I don't listen to radio much any more," Brown said. "Top 40 music doesn't appeal to me. It's the image of the bands, not the quality of their music, that gets them on the charts."
Brown said the station also featured the disc jockeys from the
Dallas station, which he didn't like.
Dallas season, when he didn't call "I listen to the station the other day and the announcer sounded really sleazy," Brown said.
Newton said he thought it was odd that people didn't like the new DJ's. They are star announcers with great voices, he said.
Brian Courtney, DeSoto senior, also sent a letter to the editor complaining about the station's new format. He said he had received a letter from the station in response to his complaint.
The letter he received, Courtney said, explained that the station had joined the network because national surveys indicated a greater audience for this type of broadcasting.
"It doesn't make sense." Courtney said. "When you do market surveys you should look at the market. Lawrence is different because college students are a bit more progressive in their musical tastes."
Courtney said that he heard a lot of complaints from other students but that he thought few would complain to the station, because it would be easier to turn the dial than to call the station.
Newton said the switch was primarily a business decision instead of a response to a decrease in listeners. He said the change was an effort to increase the audience and improve on a coming trend in music.
"I used to be able to listen to KLZR and have variety, without having to switch the dial all the time," Courtney said.
majority of people who just turn on the radio and want to hear the current hits.
The problem, Newton said, is that the station's old format had a small group of loyal listeners who were more interested in music than the
Because Lawrence does not have its own radio rating system, Newton said, information on changes in the number of people listening to the station is not available now. The station does hire a rating service, but it is too soon after the format change to pinpoint changes.
But Newton said the satellite network had proven successful in 36 markets throughout the country and this was what the station took into consideration when it changed the format.
"The people who were intensely loyal to our station feel like we've messed with a good thing," he said. "Of course they'll be upset because they liked us the way we were."
"We don't want to lose that personal touch, but we are a business," he said. "We get our money from businesses advertising with us and we're trying to reach a larger audience for our advertising customers."
Newton said he didn't disagree with the complaints the students had, but even though some students had sent back their lazer gold cards, the station had received 300 requests for new cards from listeners.
Some students remain optimistic. Brown said he hoped the switch would work out like it did when Coke tried a new formula and then later brought back the original Coke. The station, he said, might realize the old format was more appealing to its listeners and return to the old way.
Reagan urges budget cuts
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, beginning a five-year drive to eliminate federal deficits, proposed a $994 billion fiscal 1987 budget yesterday that would cut deeply into domestic programs but continue increases in military spending.
In compliance with a new budget law, the proposal projects a deficit of $144 billion, which still would be the fourth largest shortfall in history.
The president asked Congress to have faith that his recommendations would do the job, but many legislators said his plan was economically questionable and politically impossible.
"I don't think there are 25 votes in the United States Senate for the budget," said Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J.
Even an influential Republican, Sen. Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said the deficit goal mandated by the new law could not be met by Reagan's proposed spending cuts with a tax increase.
The president also proposed selling federal assets, some outstanding loans owed to the federal government, and federal land and buildings.
Reagan again ruled out general tax increases to trim deficits and said that in addition to broad spending cuts, some programs should be eliminated, including Amtrak, the passenger rail service, and the Interstate Commerce Commission. In all, about 90 programs would be killed.
He also recommended requiring able adult welfare recipients to look for work, increasing premiums for Medicare insurance for the elderly, and capping Medicaid spending for the nation's poor.
Reagan wants a nearly 12 percent military spending increase before adjusting for inflation. The plan would continue every large weapon system under development unabated.
He added, "We can hardly back
Education faces axe in Reagan's budget
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The administration, willing to inflict "a certain amount of pain" to reduce education spending, proposed deep cuts in vocational education and student aid yesterday and dared critics to come up with a better plan.
The proposed education budget for fiscal year 1987 would cut spending for vocational education in half and cut out aid to 20 percent of college students who are now eligible for financial aid.
It would increase money for teacher incentives, magnet schools and government research for studies and statistics, and allow for a $1 million Christa McAuliffe scholarship program for teachers in honor of the New Hampshire teacher killed on the shuttle Challenger.
"In some cases our budget will produce a certain amount of pain," said a top Department of Education official in announcing an total proposed budget of $15.2 billion, down $3.2 billion from 1986's $18.4 billion.
But he said the effects would not hurt as much as raising taxes or
failing to reduce the federal deficit.
"It's better than taxing taxi drivers to pay for kids to go to school to become lawyers," another official said.
He said the proposed budget "puts us on a firm floor to debate" and dared colleges to criticize it without coming up with alternatives.
He said they would be happy to discuss serious proposals.
Education Secretary William Bennett said federal spending represented less than 7 percent of the nation's revenues and state funding was rising.
"Under this budget every student that wants to get a college education will be able to do so," Bennett said. "I know they certainly don't, but out the
. . . perhaps in some cases choosing a lower-cost institution."
"We certainly don't rule out the possibility in some cases of some students having to make choices
But the National Education Association accused the administration of closing the book on education reform with a 15 percent education budget reduction that
See EDUCATE, p. 5, col. 2
away from our defense buildup without creating confusion among friends and adversaries alike about our determination to maintain our commitments and without jeopardizing our prospects for meaningful arms control talks."
Reagan's new Pentagon request totals $274.3 billion in actual outlays, up $15.9 billion or almost 6.2 percent compared with the current year after the March 1 cuts already required by
Staff writer
the balanced-budget law are taken into effect.
But because much of the Pentagon's purchases take place over several years, Congress focuses on Reagan's budget authority request, which includes long-term money to acquire ships, planes and missiles. This would jump by $33.2 billion or 11.9 percent to $311.6 billion in the year starting Oct. 1.
Bv Frank Ybarra
See BUDGET, p. 5, col. 1
Brown asks fans not to stand
Basketball head coach Larry Brown gave two pregame talks before last night's game against Colorado — one to his players, the other to his fans.
About an hour before the start of the Kansas-Colorado basketball game, Brown gave a short talk to the fans who were sitting behind the KU bench.
bleachers could not see.
Brown told the fans sitting in the section not to stand throughout the entire game. He asked them to cooperate and only stand during moments when the game was exciting.
The problem with the seating came after the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board received complaints about a group of students who were standing throughout entire basketball games.
The students were standing in areas of Allen Field House where new bleachers were installed last fall. The new bleachers are six feet higher than those they replaced. As a result, fans who sat behind those
Brown said he had seen a decrease in enthusiasm after the KUAC Board distributed a letter before the Louisville game to the students asking them not to stand through the whole game.
"The last thing any of us want to see is if we infrize on you." he said.
But Brown, in answer to a student's question, said fans in the section needed to sit because many people who sat behind them could not see the game, even if they stood.
Also before the game, the KUAC Board placed a letter on the reserved seats on the second level of the field house behind the KU bench.
The letter explained the board's decision and told fans the board appreciated their patience.
But Brown's influence seemed to carry a lot of weight with the students.
Kip Strauss, Prairie Village freshman, and Steve Brown, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, have sat behind the KU bench for most of the games this year.
Before Brown came out, both said
they would stand the entire game if they thought the game was exciting. But after the coach spoke, they said they would do what he asked.
"He's a belluva coach and he definitely knows what he's talking about," Strauss said.
Kenneth Noever, a Lawrence resident who sits in the second level behind the bench, said he didn't hear what the coach said, but he thought a statement by Brown would help.
After Brown finished talking to the fans, they applauded.
Noever said that he had leg problems and could not stand through the whole game and that his view often was blocked by students who stood.
"It takes cooperation on all parts," he said.
Even after Brown's statement, several of the fans in the section behind where the students stand said they were unhappy that the athletic department had built the seats without realizing that the students
Bill stiffens enforcement of drug laws
See SEATING, p. 5, col. 5
Members of the Kansas House of Representatives voted 119 to 1 yesterday to make it a felony instead of a misdeanor to distribute drugs to a person under the age of 18.
A bill now awaiting Kansas Senate approval may make one think twice before passing a joint at a concert, although the chances of getting caught are small, a local police officer said yesterday.
By Abbie Jones
South African urges sanctions
State Rep. Diane Gjerstad, D-Wichita, was the only legislator to oppose the bill.
Police don't have the manpower to arrest people who smoke marijuana or give it to other people at concerts, said Sgt. D阿拉德 of the Lawrence Police Department. Police normally try to stop drugs at the door and maintain order during concerts.
Staff writer
"How could one policeman hold
See DRUGS, p. 5. col. 2
See DRUGS, p. 5, col. 2
By Tim Hrenchir Staff writer
An exiled South African newspaper editor last night urged economic sanctions against South Africa and divestment from its businesses.
Woods has spoken against apartheid on more than 100 college campuses in the last seven years and has testified before congressional committees about the use of divestment to end apartheid.
"The one hope of stopping bloodshed in South Africa is massive economic pressure," said Donald Woods, former editor of the East Loadon (South Africa) Daily Dispatch. Woods spoke to about 200 people in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union as part of the University Lecture Series.
Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said Woods' appearance was part of a continuing University effort to promote understanding of apartheid.
Apartheid is a form of racial segregation practiced in South Africa.
Woods said the main effect of economic sanctions and divestment would be psychological. Such actions would show the South Africa government it could not count on help from other countries.
He said South Africa's oppression of blacks was based, in part, on fear. Other reasons include hatred and a deep reulsion that sometimes takes on maniacal tendencies.
When he was editor of the Daily Dispatch, Woods was subject to 22 publication restriction laws, some that restricted criticism of the government. He was prosecuted seven times for violating those laws, and in 1977 was banned from writing and speaking publicly, and from being in a room with more than one person.
He escaped from South Africa in 1977, dressed as a priest.
"Prostitution and cocaine selling
Woods is a special adviser to the 49-nation Commonwealth Secretariat in London. The Secretariat is the primary agency that coordinates all commonwealth activities.
Woods criticized organizations that refuse to divest in South African companies because of potential profits. He said those companies are supporting an immoral government and could make profits in other immoral manners.
will raise even more money," he said.
Every dollar invested in South Africa goes for a government that uses guns and tanks to shoot black people."
Woods said United Nations economic sanctions had been stalled by vetoes from the United States and Great Britain. South Africa conducts a massive, highly financed campaign to maintain U.S. and British support.
Several myths about apartheid have been spread in the United States, Woods said. These include beliefs that tribalism is still a large factor in South African politics and that the country's blacks would suffer more if apartheid ended.
Black South Africans clearly want divestment and economic sanctions, he said.
The speech was followed by a question and answer session
If blacks are harmed by a change of government, Woods said, they are prepared to pay that price because it will save them from the worse fate of continuing anarheid.
In response to one question, Woods called President Reagan's policy toward South Africa a fatal policy that killed many people.
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Donald Woods, former editor of a South African newspaper, talks about the segregation of blacks in South Africa. Woods was banned in 1977 from writing and speaking publicly in South Africa because of his anti-apartheid beliefs. He spoke to about 200 people last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom.