Campus and Area
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 31, 1987
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Local Briefs
Candidates will debate today at Union
The Associated Students of Kansas will sponsor a debate for Student Senate candidates at 6:30 p.m. today in the Jayawk Room at the Kansas Union.
Each of the three coalitions will present a four-minute opening statement and then will make a four-minute statement on state issues, including state financing of universities, faculty and student salaries, tuition levels and open admissions.
After the presentations, candidates will answer questions from the audience. At 7:30 p.m., the moderator will ask for a two-minute closing statement from each coalition.
Coalition members say rumor is untrue
First Class coalition members said they were not behind the rumor that if their coalition did not win the Student Senate elections, Kansas forward Danny Manning would leave KU.
"It's obviously a joke," said Brian Kramer, First Class vice presidential candidate. "Dannyanning has not mentioned it to us."
Kramer said a few students had jokingly asked him if Manning and Coach Larry Brown would leave if First Class Jost.
"I guess people assume that because we have a basketball player on our team, we have the endorsement of the basketball team," he said. "We don't. That would be illegal."
Freshman guard Kevin Pritch ard is treasurer of the coalition.
Tickets are on sale for area-made film
Tickets are on sale now for the world premiere of "Nice Girls Don't Explode," a movie co-produced by KU graduate Doug Curtis and filmed last summer in Lawrence, Ottawa and Overland Park.
Tickets can be purchased at the Granada Theater; Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, 209 W. Eighth St.; Jayhawk Bookstore, 142 Crescent Road; House of Usher, 838 Massachusetts St.; and at the Ottawa and Overland Park chambers of commerce.
The festivities will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts The movie will be shown at 8 p.m. and a reception will be held afterwards at Alvamar Country Club, 1895 Cross Drive.
Non-reserved tickets to the festivities and screening cost $10. Reserved tickets to the festivities, screening and the reception cost
Proceeds will go to the KU department of theater and media arts ad the Kansas Film Foundation.
The festivities will feature Curtis; John Wells, co-producer; Chuck Martinez, director; Paul Harris, writer, and actress Barbara Harris, who played "Mom" in the movie.
Program examines mom,daughter ties
A program examining the relationship between mothers and daughters will be at 7 p.m. today in the Pine Room at the Kansas Union.
From staff and wire reports
BSU will not retract complaint to Senate
Bv LISA A. MALONEY
Staff writer
Del Bynum, president of the Black Student Union, said the organization would not withdraw its affirmative action complaint against three Student Senate Executive Committee members.
"Whether or not we got revenue code status wasn't going to change my mind," she said.
The StudEx members named in the complaint said they wouldn't attend the hearings.
Brian Dougherty, BSU vice president; Eddie Watson, former BSU president; and Bynum failed the complaint during spring break. The StudEx members named in the complaint were Michael Foubert, minority affairs committee chairman; Steve Glychrist, finance committee co-chairman; and Gordon Woods, StudEx vice chairman.
The complaint's contents haven't been released, but Foubert said the charges dealt with StudEx's Feb. 28 decision to deny BSU revenue code status. The full Senate granted BSU revenue code status Wednesday.
Robbi Ferron, Affirmative Action director, said a complaint could be withdrawn.
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Affirmative Action," Foubert said. "There is racial, ethnic and sexual discrimination within this University, but this is a case where the process is being abused."
Foubert said the complaint was a blatant attempt by BSU to intimidate the Senate into granting BSU revenue code status.
"What they're saying is, 'You disagree with me, therefore you are a racist,' " he said.
Bynum said, "I think you get intimidated if you intimidate yourself. They shouldn't be intimidated by black people. It's not like we could have done anything if they had voted no."
Foubert said he tried to explain during BSU's. March 3 midnight march why he voted against granting BSU revenue code status.
Foubert, who is half-Korean, grew up in a small Montana town. He said he remembered the times other children would spit in his face
— Del Bynum president of BSU
'Whether or not we got revenue code status wasn't going to change my mind.'
"Because her skin was darker than mine, she thought she was more able to feel pain," he said.
"I remember being beaten up." Foubert said. "I tried to tell them, 'Look, I understand that almost everyone can feel discrimination.'"
Bynum said the woman probably just wanted to shake Foubert's hand to acknowledge his efforts to explain his position.
One woman in the crowd asked him to put out his hand, he said. When he did, the woman said, "See, you're white."
"A lot of people can say that they're a minority when it's convenient," she said. "There's a lot of people who can pass for white, but when you're black, there's not much you can do about it."
Bynum said that after the march, she and BSU received anonymous, harassing phone calls, in which the callers uttered racial slurs.
Ferron said the hearings would take place even if the three StudEx members didn't show up.
Bynum said, "It's his decision. Either he'll regret it or he won't. I believe it's up to the Discrimination Hearing Board to decide whether it is an issue of racism or not. They're the experts."
Woods said, "As far as I'm concerned, the DHB can do what they want. It's an abuse of the system, and if the Affirmative Action office wants to let the system be abused like that, it's fine with me."
Bill would require consent in teen-age abortion cases
TOPEKA — Pregnant girls under age 16 would be required to have written consent of either their parents or a district judge before they could obtain an abortion under a bill endorsed yesterday by the Senate.
The Associated Press
The upper chamber rejected a related proposal that would have mandated sex education for Kansas schoolchildren, despite the argument that education of children would reduce the number of pregnancies and the need for abortions.
The parental consent provision was tacked on a bill that makes it a crime to encourage children to run away from home or to hide
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-D Augusta, proposed the parental consent amendment and launched an hour-long debate on the rights of parents to be informed about the health of their children versus the needs of young girls to conceal their pregnancies.
"What if your 17-year-old daughter fell down at school and cut her leg and they took her for treatment," Gaines said. "Do you think they'd touch her without first getting the consent of her parents? Absolutely not. Does the medical community perform any other services on children in which parental consent is not absolute? No."
State Sen. Robert Frey, R-Liberal, fiercely opposed the amendment, saying Gaines and parental consent supporters were out of touch with the real world.
He also criticized Gaines' amendment for failing to deal with the boys who are responsible for the pregnancies.
Immediately after adoption of Gaines' amendment, State Sen. Audrey Langworthy, R-Prairie Village, offered an amendment that would have required all Kansas schools to offer "health and human development" courses to all students, kindergarten through senior high.
"You're trying to prevent abortions after the pregnancy occurs," she said. "I want to prevent the pregnancy."
Debate focuses on bypass, mall
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
The candidates not endorsed by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce didn't waste any time striking back last night at a Chamber-sponsored city commission candidate debate.
Friday, the Chamber's political action committee endorsed what it called pro-economic growth candidates Ernest Angino, Howard Hill and Bob Schumm. The PAC also announced that it would raise $5,000 to help the three win commission seats in the April 7 city election.
Earlier this month, though, the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association-PAC endorsed Schumm, Mike Rundle and Dennis Constance.
Only Ellis Hayden hadn't received an endorsement, and he lashed out at what he called rich special interest groups.
Rundle and Constance also spoke out. Rundle said, "No one is against
"What do they expect to get in return for that kind of money?" he said. "Trust me to protect your tax dollars."
business and economic development.
We are asking important questions and are simply not willing to go blindly forward."
Constance said economic development would not solve all the city's problems. "We want our neighborhoods cared and our economy good," he said.
Hill and Angino defended the current commission. Angino said the commissioners had worked together to bring jobs to Lawrence and keep taxes low.
However, Angino said that while all candidates talk about economic development, some of their actions don't match their words.
Hill said, "The issue in this campaign is momentum. This election is about moving forward or returning to the past, which didn't work too well."
In response to a question about whether the candidates would support the current downtown Lawrence mall proposal if it were altered, Angino. Yin said they benefited from the results of the April 7 mail referendum.
"We have the cart before the horse." Hill said.
Schumm, however, said the current commission had ruined the project.
"I think it's totally wrong. There has been no public input, no public process," he said.
process. Constance said the mall site, the 600 block of Massachusetts and Vermont streets, was wrong.
"It's a lousy location. You can't build and grow around it," he said. "Half of the viable area is at the bottom of the Kansas River."
Rundle said the mall plan was too large and too far from the downtown district.
The candidates also took stands on the proposed southern Lawrence trafficway, or bypass, although a bill that included $7.2 million for its construction was vetoed and returned to Congress on Friday by President Reagan.
Staff writer
Rundle said further study was needed
Angino said the truck traffic on 23rd Street had grown to dangerous levels, requiring a bypass.
Hill said, "The overloading of 23rd Street, which we all experience, is reason enough."
Recent cold weather causes loss of spring crops
Bv IERRI NIEBAUM
Cold weather has caused many University of Kansas students to snuggle back into their winter jackets, but spring bulbs, blossoms, crops and livestock don't have such a retrieve from the cold.
Peaches, apricots and plums won't grow in Kansas this year unless their blossoms were protected from the freezing temperatures.
Bill Hundley, director of the Douglas County Extension Office, said fruit trees would be hit hardest by the cold.
"Those trees were completely in bloom," Hundley said.
He said apple crops weren't completely lost, but orchards would suffer.
Rachel Rees, of the family-owned Rees Fruit Farm on U.S. Highway 24, said the farm had lost all of its peaches and plums and many of its apples.
She said some of the later blooming apples, such as the York, Winesap, Red Delicious and Rome varieties, might still produce fruit if there wasn't another freeze later in the season.
Rees said the farm would have to buy apples and other fruits to sell in its produce market.
duce so we can fill up our storage," she said, adding that the market had to buy fruit last year after a similar freeze.
He said wheat yields would be low this year anyway because of rain in the fall that kept farmers from planting. He said about 2,000 acres would yield winter wheat, compared to 23,000 acres normally.
We really need our trees to pro-
Jack Lindquist, agricultural agent for the extension office, said winter wheat would suffer some leaf damage. It will not bezee, but not enough to affect yields.
Lindquist said corn crops wouldn't be damaged by the cold because they were planted later than usual because of March's wet weather.
The corn isn't up, but the animals are out, and farmers should be sure dry bedding is available for newborn lambs and calves, Lindquist said.
He said weather fluctuations and extremely cold temperatures could stress the animals' respiratory systems and cause pneumonia. Farmers should have their animals treated immediately if they show signs of illness. Lindquist said.
Lindquist said the forsythia and spring flowers that had bloomed already would turn brown soon because of the freeze.
Area tulips didn't survive the weekend's frigid temperatures. Mercury readings that dipped below the 30-degree mark killed many of the flowers on campus.
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Madama Butterfly will be performed with English sub titles
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