Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
Second Section
University Daily Kansan
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Groups seek new members
By Juli Warren
Staff writer
Springlike weather may have hit campus earlier this week, but response to the activities carnival at the Kansas Union wasn't exactly warm, some participants said.
Campus organizations set up booths to recruit members from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. yesterday and Monday at the Union.
One veteran of 14 activities carnivals described the spring semester carnival as less frantic than those in the fall.
"It's always a lot calmer in the winter," said the Rev. Peter Casparian of the Canterbury House, who had been sitting at his booth all day.
"The metal chairs are just as hard as always."
In the spring, Caspian said, he usually sees people he already knows rather than recruiting new people to his organization.
Scott Lawrence, Greensboro, N.C. senior, said only six people had signed Monday to join his group, the Rock Chalk Rowdies Pep Club.
Members of the Rock Chalk Rowdies, like many of the clubs at the carnival, rotated shifts at their booth.
However, he said, the time spent manning the booth wasn't lost because most of the club members passed by on their way to pay fees and stopped to find out the date of the first meeting.
The KU Amateur Radio Club also rotated the duties of manning their booth.
George Bednekoff, Pittsburgh senior, said his club had an out-of-the-way table, but that response improved when members moved it across from the Student Union Activities ticket window, where students were lined up to buy bus passes.
The radio club recruited about 75 members last spring, Bednekoff said.
The club has a ham radio station set up in Learned Hall, and members send radio messages to both within and outside the United States, he said.
Organizations as well as clubs had boots at the carnival.
In the Streets, a campus newspaper, distributed copies of their newspaper to passers-by.
"People who sign up here don't usually pan out," said Tim Hamilton, Wichita sophomore and staff member of the paper.
One student who is trying to start a new club, KU Modern Arnis, said that 11 people had signed in the five hours he showed his color videotape at the carnival.
Usually,he said,new members are people who have been contacted by other staff members.
Jay Livingston, Lawrence junior and organizer of the club, said members would learn arnis, a form of martial arts that started in the Philippines.
Patricia Kehde, assistant director of organizations and activities, said about 60 campus groups had registered for booths at the carnival and she thought nearly all of them had shown up.
She said the carnivals were the only events where the groups could get together and let the public know they exist.
Lewis said the average level of support for 20 selected issues was only 40 percent in the Senate and 45 percent in the House.
Group ranks Congress poorly
United Press International
But there is far better news in the record of those elected for the first time in 1984," she said, noting that such issues drew a 79-percent rating from freshman senators.
"The overall record is not good," ADA Director Ann Lewis said in releasing members' votes records on issues on which the organization has taken a stand.
She also said voting records showed a widening gap between the Democratic and Republican parties, with Democratic support for liberal issues on the rise.
"Democratic senators scored an average of 69 percent compared to 15 percent for Senate Republicans," she
said. "House Democrats scored 67 percent, while House Republicans averaged only 15 percent."
Zero ADA ratings went to 18 senators — all Republicans.
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas was among those getting the zero rating, while his Democratic counterpart, Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, scored 65 percent.
Five senators, all Democrats, scored 100 percent in the ADA ratings: Alan Cranston of California, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, Tom Harkin of Iowa and Gary Hart of Colorado.
No Republican scored 100 percent, but Sens. Lowell Weicker of Connecticut and Charles Mathias of Maryland were credited with passing liberal grades of 70 percent.
Republicans with zero ratings were Idaho senator, Steven Symms; North Carolina senators, Jesse Helms and John East; and Nevada senators Paul Laxalt and Chic Hecht.
Other Republicans ranked at the bottom included Frank Murkowski of Alaska, William Armstrong of Col-
In the House, 100 percent ADA ratings were awarded to 20 Democrats, and zero ratings went to 17 Republicans.
Among House leaders, Speaker Thomas O'Neill was not ranked because he rarely voted. But Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas scored 50 percent, and Democratic whip Tom Foley of Washington. 75 percent.
Votes on which members were rated covered a broad range of judicial, social, economic, foreign and military issues.
They included the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings amendment sponsored by Sens. Gramm, R-Texas, Warren Rudman, R-N.H., and Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., calling for a balanced budget by 1991 — with a vote against it considered a plus.
Heart woes more deadly than cancer
United Press International
SARASOTA, Fla. — Cardiovascular diseases will claim more lives this year than cancer and accidents combined, yet people often worry more about cancer, said the president-elect of the American Heart Association.
"In many ways, cardiovascular disease has not had the dramatic impact cancer has," said Dr. Ken Shine, president-elect of the association. "But I believe heart transplantes have made people more aware of cardiovascular problems."
Cancer killed about 440,620 people and accidents about 91,290 in the United States in 1983. That same year, about 899,400 Americans died of heart and blood vessel diseases, such as heart attack and stroke.
The latest figures the association had were from 1983.
Heart attacks are the leading killer of Americans, followed by all kinds of cancer and then strokes.
Shine, chairman of medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles, spoke Sunday at the opening of an American Heart Association seminar.
Despite the high percentage of cardiovascular-related deaths, the actual toll has declined, the association said in its annual report. It said that between 1972 and 1983, total deaths from such diseases fell 30.7 percent in the United States.
Deaths from strokes alone dropped 47 percent and deaths from heart attack by 31 percent, according to the report.
"There are many reasons for this, foremost perhaps is the increased awareness about health among the population," Shine said.
"The decline in smoking, especially by middle-aged males, alone has had a tremendous impact," he said.
Of the 230 million people in the United States, more than 63 million people suffer from some of form of cardiovascular diseases, the report said.
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