Campus and Area
University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 9; 1987
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Local Briefs
Ballot recount did not change race outcome
Three votes now separate a winner from a loser in Tuesday's Lawrence City Commission primary after a partial recount of ballots Friday.
Ballots from seven precincts were recounted after Douglas County commissioners discovered, during a canvass of primary results, a discrepancy between the number of people who voted and the number of ballots counted in those precincts.
But the recount did not change the results. Defeated City Commissioner David Longhurst gained only two votes in the recount and remained behind newcomer Ellis Hayden, who finished sixth.
If the new count stands, Hayden will have defeated Longurhist, 1,894-1,891 to qualify for the April 7 general election. The top six primary finishers advance to the general election.
County commissioners will meet at 10:50 this morning to try again to certify the results as official.
County Clerk Patty Jaimes said the missing ballots had not been counted Tuesday because some ballots jammed in the electronic counting machine. The workers mistakenly did not count the jammed ballots that were removed from the machine.
"It's just a human error. We're fairly new at using that machine," Jaimes said.
The county first used the counting machines in the 1986 general election.
Graduate students elected to council
Eight KU business students have been elected by other graduate students as officers of the Graduate Business Council for 1987.
William Beedles, director of the school's graduate program, said the council provided support services for students and aided the faculty and faculty in dealing with the 220 graduate students.
The council also sponsored workshops for new graduate students to provide information about their courses and master's program.
He said support services for the graduate students included a weekly faculty and student mixer, a student directory, a study lounge, a lecture series and various recreational activities.
The graduates students are Deborah Zabel, Pittsburgh; Kyle Exline, Lawrence; Andrew Hiss, Bucklin; Jill Dollins, Lenexa; Charles Bryan, Overland Park; David Chance, Larned; Tom Skrlaj, Kansas City, Kan.; and Ross Halsey, McCook, Neb.
Gynecologist hired to work at Watkins
Watkins Hospital has added a KU graduate to its staff. William Buck, the hospital's new gynecologist, said his goal was to offer all services normally performed in an open surgery when it was needed.
Buck said he dealt with several patients suffering from sexually transmitted diseases, but he said that the hospital followed a policy of strict confidence between patient and doctor.
Students need to have their aliment explained to them in addition to just having it diagnosed, Buck said.
From staff and wire reports.
Diane Dultreime/KANSAN
Chicago freshmen Brad Chesterli, left, and Mike Gallagher lip-sync "You've Lost that Loving Feeling," to Tara Murphy, Topeka sophomore. Chesterli and Gallagher imitated the rock group The Firm during the Students Against Multiple Sclerosis lip-sync contest Saturday night at Coqburns. 737 New Hampshire St.
'The Boss' wins SAMS contest Students raise $1,500 for MS; winners juggle prizes
By JOSEPH REBELLO Staff writer
Staff writer
The top prize in the 1987 Rock-Al Like contest organized by the KU chapter of Students Against Multi-Week Break spring break trip to Dayton Beach
But Greg Filerman, Chicago junior and the winner, didn't want it. Neither did run-uper-kari Schiech, Chicago sophomore
So the winning contestants struck a complicated bargain in which Filerman declined the prize and was knocked out KU in the regional competitions.
Schoch said she had other plans for spring break and passed the first prize down to third-place winner Jim Goodyear. St. Louis teammate Jason wrapped the spring break trip with Goodyear for a Kansas City trip.
For about an hour Saturday night, Filerman, Schoch, Goodyear and several other KU contestants donned make-up and costumes to become such rock stars for the movie. The princess, Prince and Riek Lee, Jones
At least 300 people crowded the dance floor at Cogburns, 737 New Hampshire St., watched 10 Rock A-Like finalists dance and lip sync, and later decided which contestant most closely resembled the mimicked rock star.
Filerman, who performed as Bruce Springsteen, received the most votes when three groups of
John Weber, Dallas junior and a member of the group that performed as the Beastie Boys, said his group and the other two had voted for Filierman because he had worked the hardest to raise money for SAMS and because Filierman's father had multiple sclerosis.
contestants, performing as the Beastie Boys, the Firm, and the Bangles, pooled the votes they had taken and cast them in Filerman's favor.
Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system.
But Filerman created a minor stir when he declined his prize.
Filerman said Schoch, who performed as Tina Turner, was ahead of him in votes until the three groups decided to vote for him.
"He did this because he was going for the cause, and not for the prize, which was what made him different from the other contestants," she said. "Winning the prize wasn't a priority for him."
Filerman said he had worked to raise money for SAMS for three months.
"My dad has MS," Filerman said. "But he's not your usual MS case, because there are a lot of people worse off than my dad. I am afraid canny can get MS. That's why I did this."
A videotape of Fileman's performance will be sent to the MTV office in New York, said Shane Langton, co-chairman of SAMS. MTV will pick the region's representative in the national finals to be broadcast during the last week of March.
Langston the contest had raised more money this year than it did last year. The chapter collected the Last year, it collected $5,000
Last night's round raised $1,500,
Langston said.
"Part of the reason is that this is the second year we've had the contest, and more people know us, and are receptive about it," he said.
After the performances, several people crammed the ballot boxes with votes for a favorite contender, and they were needed to support all of the contestants.
Tammy Jones, resident director of Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall, said she voted for all 10 acts.
"I gave a few votes for all of them, because all of them had enough guts to get up on there stage," she said. "I'm really impressed that university students are in support of a charity organization."
Goodyear, who won third place for his imitation of Prince, said he was taken aback by the audience's enthusiasm.
Former president of K-State dies
Mr. McCain died at the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he had been about nine months. He suffered a stroke in January.
Mr. McCain started the prestigious Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State, which draws prominent national and international leaders to the university each year. It is named after him and former Gov. Alfred M. Landon.
TOPEKA — James A. McCain, president of Kansas State University for 25 years and secretary of the Kansas Department of Human Resources until his retirement seven years ago, died Saturday. He was 79.
Mr. McCain left K-State in 1975 and a月 later was appointed state labor commissioner by former Gov. Robert Bennett. He was in charge of the reorganization of 14 labor-related agencies into the Department of Human Resources. He stepped down as secretary in January 1980.
United Press International
On Dec. 31, Mr. McCain received the Governor's Award of Merit from former Gov. John Carlin during a brief ceremony at the medical center.
Mr. McCain was born Dec. 8, 1907, in York, South Carolina.
GOP uses release of KU fees as chip Democrats charge
He earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1926 from Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., and a master of arts degree in 1929 from Duke University in Durham, N.C. He completed his doctorate in education in 1947 at Stanford University in California.
He married Janet McLean Henry in December 1930. She survives along with a daughter, Sheila Janet McCain of Denver.
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Countryside United Methodist Church in Tepeka.
Staff writer
The KU fee release has become a valuable bargaining chip for the Republican leadership in the Kansas representatives, some Democratic leaders.
State Rep. William Brady, D-Parsons, said the Republican leadership realized that the fee release was important to many legislators because other state universities were anticipating increased enrollment
"What a lot of us fear in the House is that it is being used as a bargaining chip." said State Rep. Betty Charlton, D-Lawrence. "But it makes us wonder what they're bargaining for."
"It's a basic policy issue we're handling here," he said. "The Republican leadership has picked up on that."
"The House Republican leadership has understood that the KU fee release is important to a number of Senate members," Solbach said. What they want is like going down a river and predicting the rapids.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that although the leadership seemed to favor a fee release, the issue would not come to point Senate and House conference until the end of the legislative session.
But State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said that if the Republicans intended to use the fee release as a bargaining chip, they would not have approved Hayden's KU fee release recommendation for 1988.
Winter called the comments a "to-do about nothing."
"The Democrats play partisan games just as well as the Republicans," he said.
The House Appropriations Committee approved in February the release of $635,612 of the $2.7 million generated by KU tuition fees. The release of $1.4 million and the release of $1.2 million, and Gov. Mike Hayden reported $853,418.
Solbach said KU could suffer if legislative maneuvering overshadowed the University's need to maintain successes because of increased enrollment.
Brady said, "I know a lot of House Republicans were behind the governor's recommendation. But for them to overturn a Republican governor means there is a lot of political maneuvering going on."
Later, an amendment was proposed in the House to reinstate Hayden's recommendation, but was rejected by the publicans supported the amendment.
"They've already got a million dollar expenditure this year to provide classes for the extra students," he said. "The University gambled a ton on it." He released it. It's clear they need at least the 75 percent fee reinstatement."
Brady said that for the past few years the Republican leadership had used this type of legislative maneuvering to get what it wanted.
"Holding out gives fewer people more control at the end of the session," he said. "Those people are the ones holding out now."
Solbach said he regretted that KU's fee release had gotten mixed up in the Legislature's political maneuvering.
"I think it's irresponsible and short sighted on the part of the Legislature," he said.
Students come to aid of ailing lecture series
Staff writer
By TIM HAMILTON
After the School of Architecture eliminated state financing of its lecture series because of budget cuts, architecture students offered their own money.
More than 250 students paid $4 each to bring Eric Owen Moss to KU on Thursday night. Moss, who has taught at Columbia University and the University of Southern California Institute of Architecture, is scheduled each at the University of California-Los Angeles in the spring quarter.
"We took it upon ourselves to improve the lecture series," said Ken Manaugh, Kirkwood, Mo., junior, and one of the coordinators. "We have almost no lecture series in the school."
Underfinancing of the series and low student attendance at lectures were the main reasons the lecture has been traditionally poor; he said
Lucas said the budget cuts forced his school to finance the lecture STPs.
Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design, said. "Our lecture series is supposedly funded through the University," he said, those funds with private sources."
Despite the fact the series hasn't been cut, the students decided that their venture would help the school and themselves.
Mannaugh said the success of the effort depended on the speaker.
"We knew we needed someone who
could wake up the students visually." Manaugh said. "We hope this will be a turning point for the lecture series."
Schmidt and Laura Cohen, St. Louis freshman, said they enjoyed Moss because he was a controversial architect.
Many students at Moss' two-hour lecture said they thought they got their money's worth and hoped students would bring in more speakers.
Andrew Schmidt, Wichita senior,
said he would have paid more even to
say he
Sudt Bergmann, St. Louis senior,
sad he enjoyed the lecture and found
Mustela's teaching compelling.
"There are a group of architects in California that are against the grain," Schmidt said.
Bergmann also said he hoped to see more student-sponsored lectures because of the school's traditionally poor lecture series.
Moss said this was the first time ever that he had lectured at a program sponsored by students.
"I think it's extraordinary," Moss said. "I don't remember ever being in a situation where the students generated the program."
Lucas said student-sponsored lectures were unusual because most schools' lecture series were supported by alumni contributions, endowments and other private sources.
The School of Fine Arts also has reduced its lecture series because of the budget cuts.
SOCCER: THE REAL SPORT
Mandatory Manager's Meeting:
Monday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the North Gym *Mandatory for team to be represented
Instant Scheduling: Tuesday, March 10 from 8:30—4:00
Wednesday, March 11 from 8:30—4:00 Pay fees as you schedule in room 308 Robinson.
Entry Fee: Trophy League — $10
Rec League — $5
Open To: Students, Faculty & Staff
Play Begins: Monday, March 23 at 23rd and Iowa
Official's Meeting: Monday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 208 Robinson
Clinic: Tuesday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. in 208 Robinson
*People attending manager's meeting have priority during instant scheduling.
IMPORTANT NOTICE WATKINS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES WILL BE CLOSED
DURING NIGHTTIME HOURS ONLY (11 p.m. until 7:30 a.m.)
From Saturday, March 14, 1987, through Saturday, March 21, 1987
WE WILL BE OPEN FROM 7:30 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.during this period.
We will resume our regular schedule (24 hours a day) on March 22,1987.
If you need medical care during closed hours, please call:
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 749-6162
325 Main
KU POLICE DEPARTMENT 864-4100 or dial 911
or dial 911
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