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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday
April 10, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 130
(USPS 650-640)
Students sweep Bottom Line into Senate
By LISA A. MALONEY
Stati writer
Students elected Jason Krakow and Stephanie Quincy, Bottom Line coalition candidates, as student body president and vice president yesterday by 429 votes, according to unofficial elections records.
President/Vice President
Student Senate Election Results*
Bottom Line received 1,432 votes, or 46 percent. Jeff Mullins and Brian Kramer, of the First Class coalition, received 1,023 votes, or 32.4 percent. The Synchronicity coalition, of the Synchronicity coalition, received 617 votes, or 19.6 percent.
"It it just proves that a positive campaign will produce positive results." Krakow said early this morning after hearing of the victory. "We're just very, very happy. We've got a great year ahead of us."
Quincy said, "It feels a lot better to win than to lose. We promised a lot of things during the campaign, and we want to make sure they get done."
President/Vice President
JASON KRAKOW-STEPHANIE QUINCY..BOTTOM LINE 1,452 46.0%
JOEFF MULLINS-BRIAN KRAMER...FIRST CLASS 1,023 32.4%
PHILLIP DUFF-GLENN SHIRLTFUCE.SYNCHRONICITY 617 19.8
Results are unofficial SEE FESTEN SENATE ELECTION RESULTS. PAGE 8
Elections results are unofficial until the Elections Review Board hears appeals and audits campaign spending.
Voter turnout for the presidential and vice presidential race was 3,155 students. Twelve votes were invalid, and 607 were counted. In the all, 377 students voted.
Bottom Line supporters were predicting a win for Krakow and Quincy as early as 1:30 a.m., when they the first race vote totals came in.
In races for senator positions, Bottom Line won 42 seats. First Class won eight, and Synchronity received one seat.
Bottom Line supporters camped out at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, 1116 Indiana St. until about 2:30 in the final results were announced.
Krakow said the two wanted to get to work immediately.
"We're going to establish those town meetings, first thing, and find out what's on students' minds," he said.
Student candidates from all three coalitions drifted in and out of the
house, undeterred by the fact that the beer ran out around 11:45 p.m. More beer was supplied, people danced on the sticky floors, and the party went on.
Elsewhere, near the phone, the mood of a small cluster of supporters was tense. The Student Senate Elections Committee had said that the first results would be ready by 10 p.m., but time passed, and the official estimates got later and later.
Quincy said that she thought a new balloting procedure was more efficient but that she couldn't understand why it took so long to get results.
"The waiting has always been a problem. This is the kind of balloting procedure that gives you ulcers," she said.
See WINNERS, p. 8, col. 4
Newly elected student body vice president Stephanie Quincy and Jason Krakow, newly elected student body president, celebrate their victory over First Class and Synchronicity coalitions. Unofficial results received at about 2:30 a.m. today showed that the Bottom Line coalition received 46 percent of the votes.
Officials hope plans end class overcrowding
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Anticipating another enrollment increase this fall. KU administrators are planning ways to prevent gridlock during summer orientation sessions.
Gridlock, which administrators use to refer to required classes filling up before all students have enrolled, is a worst-case scenario, administrators say. But a flood of new students who entered the University last fall, likely will limit the choice of classes for freshmen and sophomores.
"People are going to have to be flexible in terms of times," said James Carothers, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "The days are over when you could get any class you wanted on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:30."
KU's new application deadlines of April 1 for out-of-state students and May 1 for Kansas students should help prevent gridlock, said Lovely Uimer, coordinator of orientations. Students who apply this year after the deadlines cannot be admitted to the University until spring 1988, easing the burden on summer orientation.
Officials also have increased the number of orientation sessions from 14 last summer to 17. Eleven of those, from June 11 to July 21, are designated for students entering the college. Administrators also will not allow students who have not registered in advance to participate this year.
Another change is in the price for attending a session, which has increased from $9 to $25.
Also important, Carothers said,
will be an effort by summer orientation advisers to inform new students of their curriculum options.
"Students need to be advised of their alternatives," he said. "We need to make sure students understand there is a difference between courses they prefer to take and courses they must take."
But Ulmer said that the college's curriculum changes may compound the problem. New students will have fewer alternatives because they must enroll in courses in math and English.
Carothers said the changes might be an advantage, however, because
the new requirements would create more openings in courses that fulfill distribution requirements.
The importance of summer orientation will be magnified because of the large number of students participating, Ulmer said.
"It's not that we won't try to accommodate them in the fall, but we won't be able to promise what will be available for them," she said.
Ulmer said admissions officials tried to stress to new students the importance of attending summer orientation.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Law mandates separate jails
Concentration
Jody Ellis, of the Royal Lichtenstein Circus from Santa Clara, Calif., entertains a lunchtime audience with his juggling. The circus performed for about 250 people yesterday on the lawn in front of Watson Library.
By PAUL BELDEN Staff writer
Douglas County hasn't complied, could lose federal funds
Staff writer
Douglas County probably won't have a separate jail for juveniles by Jan. 1, even though a federal law requiring one will take effect on that date, the county administrator said Wednesday.
"It will be a physical and financial impossibility for Douglas County to comply with that law by Jan. 1, 1988," Chris McKenzie, the administrator, said.
Two cells in the county jail are set aside for prisoner prisoners, and one staff server is also.
The law will forbid states to keep juvenile prisoners where they possibly could come into contact with adult prisoners. It also will require separate staffs, including management, security, counseling and education, for juveniles and adults, and entirely separate activities.
Mkenzie said it was not clear what could happen to Douglas County if the deadline was not met.
"The mandate is clearly on the state, not on local governments," he said. "But unless we comply with this requirement, we do stand a chance of losing federal funding. It's the old carrot and stick approach, which we've seen before."
Even so, the federal government might withhold about a million dollars from the state if counties didn't comply with the federal law, said Allen Beck, a consultant to the state Department of Education on Juvenile Offender Programs.
But McKenzie said he thought some state officials had mixed feelings about making the counties comply with the law.
The Kansas Legislature in 1986 passed a state law requiring all Kansas counties to submit by April 1, and requiring juvenile and adult prisoners.
The Douglas County plan lists five proposals; no policy change; joining
with neighboring counties to build a regional juvenile jail; using juvenile jails in Johnson, Shawnee and Waydette counties; remodeling the existing jail to conform with the federal requirements; expanding the use of fenced prison phones and intensive supervision; and using more home detentions.
McKenzie said that before juveniles could be separated from adults, the county would have to study the alternatives. If it decides to build a separate juvenile jail, the county will have to do location and design studies.
"One of my biggest problems is that statistics on juveniles are not assembled and compiled regularly at the local level, and there are no state-wide statistics at all." McKenzie said.
The only statistics available for the county indicate that from January 1985 to June 1986, 208 juveniles spent time in the county jail.
Ex-pilot counsels phobiacs
Students plan to put pedal to metal
BY JENNIFER WYRICK
But, aerobiaophobia, the irrational fear of flying, can present real problems
Staff writer
To combat this fear, W.H. Gunn, a psychologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center, counselled five people with apherophobia April 2 in a session designed to explain their fear and to answer their questions.
Ophidiophobia, the irrational fear of snakes, and triskaidekaphobia, the irrational fear of the number 13, are common, garden-variety fears, both relatively harmless.
The clinic was one part of a two-part seminar. In the second session, participants will visit the TWA simulator at the airline's Kansas City, Mo., offices. The cost of the program is $90.
Gunn was a TWA pilot for 39 years before he became a psychologist.
He said he had found that most aerobiosis had a distinctive personality. They are of above-average intelligence, professional, skilled, artistic, imaginative, creative and possess a tremendous ability to visualize.
One of Gum's patients is a middle-aged woman who is forced to fly frequently because of her husband's business trips. She has had a panic attack on an airplane, which was not necessarily caused by anything but her anxiety about flying.
"Her fear is justified because once you've had a panic attack it is the scariest thing to think about having again." Gunn said. The woman's fear is compounded by an inner ear imbalance that makes things appear to be
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KU students may shave a few minutes off their driving times if Kansas raises the speed limit to 65 mph on rural interstates, but some said yesterday that it wouldn't make much difference.
See PHOBIAS, p. 6, col. 3
Staff writer
She hasn't received any tickets going 65, she said, and she is passed by other drivers. She may have seen a car from Manhattan Beach, Calif., senior.
"I think people will go faster," she
said. "It will be even worse - more
luckier."
Paula Owen, Shawne freshman,
said she already drove around 65
miles an hour and would speed up to
70 if the limit were raised
"When you get up around 75, man, you are flying." Polizotto said. But he doesn't speed much on his way home to the Los Angeles area, even through the New Mexico desert, to avoid costly tickets.
Polizotto started driving just before the speed limit dropped to 55. City driving was more dangerous
A higher speed limit would be good for professional drivers such as truck drivers, Polizzotto said, but it's not a good idea for everyone.
then, he said. But the change wouldn't have much effect, he said, because traffic already moves at 65 in many areas.
"There's a lot of people out there that shouldn't be on the road to begin with."
"I think there's going to be law breakers and people who drive within a reasonable, safe speed," he said.
The state Senate already has passed the bill, which would take effect May 1. The House is expected to pass a bill thatHayden has endorsed the change.
A bill now in the Kansas House would raise the speed limit to 65 on rural interstates. The change was permitted recently by the U.S. Con-
But the Kansas Highway Patrol lobbed in the Legislature against raising the speed limit because it could cost lives, said Bill Mooam, acting superintendent of the highway
patrol.
Mooma said that now the patrol didn't begin enforcing the law at any set speed and that it wouldn't if the speed limit were raised.
"The troopers out here on the road write what they can write," he said. "If everybody out here is running 70 or 75, they'll take what they can get. They'll probably take the fastest ones they see."
They probably won't get Kristie Calohan, Stanley senior. She drives around 55 or 60, and she'd like to keep it that way.
"I think that it was lowered for a purpose — to limit accidents," she said. "I think they're kind of defeating the purpose by raising it up." But if the speed limit does become 65, she'll drive that fast.
"I think most people are conscientious enough not to drive much faster than 65 or 70," he said.
Kevin Nasseri, Topea junior, also would drive a little faster with a higher speed limit, he said, but not longer. "I don't think other people will, either."
Party pics
University Photography has domi nated the party photography busi ness at the University of Kansas, capturing 78 percent of the mark ot. See story page 4B.
Drought ends
The Kansas men's baseball team ended its 15-game winless streak yesterday b sweeping a double-header from Baker University at Quigley Field 9-1 and 17-6. See stories page 11.
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