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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 27, 1987
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Local Briefs
1,279 students receive degrees in fall semester
Last semester, 1,279 undergraduate and graduate students completed degree work at the University of Kansas. That's a slight increase from fall 1985, when 1,232 students received degrees.
Graduate degrees were granted in October. Undergraduate students who completed degree work in the fall semester were granted degrees in January and early this month.
The University conducts a formal commencement ceremony only in May. Therefore, many students will be completed their degrees in the fall will take part in commencement exercises in the spring.
Annual art show to open Sunday
The fifth annual "Gold Show," a high school art exhibition and scholarship competition, will open Sunday at KU's Art and Design building.
The show, which opens at 1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery, will run until March 13. The gallery is open to the public from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
The School of Fine Arts and the departments of art and design are sponsoring the show.
Postcard contest to raise money
The Old West Lawrence Association is sponsoring a postcard art contest for students and Lawrence residents. Winners will receive $25 and $15 prizes for first and second place.
The association plans to reproduce the artwork, which must portray some aspect of the Old West Lawrence neighborhood, on postcards and sell them to raise awareness about the neighborhood projects. The neighborhood between Sixth and Ninth streets between Kentucky and Michigan streets.
Entry fees are $2 for college students and Lawrence residents, $1 for high school students. No fee applies to students in the death district. The deadline is April 1.
Artists may use ink, block print,
photography, screen print, collage,
etching or any reproducible
form. Artworks must be only color,
unmatted and unframed. The
artwork also must be two-dimensional
and should be 8- by $ 9 \frac{1}{2} $ inches.
For more information and an application form, contact the association at Box 1553, Lawrence.
Lawrence city commissioner
David Longhurst's comments
about Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbache's stance on nuclear arms were incorrectly reported in Wednesday's Kansan. Longhurst said Gorbache wanted to achieve nuclear disarmament.
Correction
From staff and wire reports
House approves reapportionment for state census
From staff and wire reports
TOPEKA — If the Republicans want a census, says state Rep. Robin Leach, D-Linwood, they can pay for it themselves.
But the state would bill the foot for a census to help redraw legislative district lines in 1989 and 1992 under new laws. The governor's house tentatively approved yesterday.
Leach jokingly suggested making the state Republican party pay the estimated $3 million for the census in many partisan speeches yesterday.
But after three hours of debate and party-line votes, the House approved a proposed constitutional amendment requiring reapportionment in 1989 and 1992 and a bill that would have the secretary of state supervise the census in 1983. Final votes on the measures are scheduled for today.
Each time, Republicans argued that the measures were the only way to comply with a federal court mandate to reapportion the House by 1990 and the Senate by 1992, the first time in the 1990s that senators will be elected. The Legislature has not been reapportioned since 1979.
Republicans shot down four Democratic attempts to amend the proposed amendment and four attempts to make changes in the bill.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, and State Rep. John Solbach. D-Lawrence, proposed amendments to count students and people in the military in the towns where they currently lived, but both of the amendments failed.
If KU students were counted as Lawrence residents, Douglas County probably would get another seat in the House, Charlton said.
Students will be denied equal representation under the bill, she said, but they still may register and vote in Lawrence as they do now.
Students are counted as Lawrence residents in the federal census, Charlton said, and Lawrence Hayes based on the student population.
Democrats complained that the bill and the proposed constitutional amendment were poorly drafted and that it would be too expensive and poorly done.
"No one today knows exactly what the court will do," said Leader Minority Leader Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg. "I'm willing to take the risk. I would love to see us throw this to the judge."
The constitutional amendment would require reapportionment of both houses twice in four years, even though a redrawing of Senate district lines more than once in that period would serve no practical purpose. When Democrats protested, Republicans have to look at a court who have to look at both house districts to determine whether the reapportionment was fair.
For final approval, the amendment needs the support of two-thirds of the House, or 84 of 125 members. There are 74 Republican and 51 Democrats in the House, so the GOP cannot adopt the resolution to submit the constitutional amendment without help from some Democrats.
4 new Beatles CDs sold 8 days a week
By JENNIFER FORKER
Staff writer
Listen. Do you want to know a secret? You can't buy me love, but you can buy a Beatles compact disc eight days a week.
Four Beatles discs, the first Beatles tunes released on compact discs in the United States, were distributed to local music stores yesterday. Each disc contains about 14 songs from original British releases. The retail price is $14.99 each.
Steve Wilson, manager of Kief's Discount Records and Stereo Supply, 2100 W. 25th St., said Beatles albums that were released in the United States in the 1960s were cropped. The albums released in Britain became the official British Albums States, he said. But the discs are the same as the original British albums
David Zachariah, Omaha, Neb., freshman, bought the "Hard Day's Night" disc, and said he planned to buy the other discs, "Please Please Me," "With the Beatles," and "Beatles for Sale" later.
"Capitol records and the United States, at least in the 1960s, were more intent on squeezing every available dollar out of this phenomenon they had on their hands," Wilson said.
Lane Turner, manager of Pennylane Records and Tapes, 844 Massachusetts St., said he expected the Beatles' discs to sell well.
"We're going to run out for sure," he said.
"I like the Beatles a lot. they're one of my favorite groups," he said.
By 2 p.m. Pennylane had sold ten tols since the were received by the police.
Greg Kamen, Chicago freshman, said the Beatles were his favorite group.
"I plan to buy all four in the set," Kamen said. "They're the last major group to come out on compact disc, which makes it kind of special."
But Kamen couldn't decide yesterday if he should buy a Beatles disc. He turned to leave Pennylane, but he didn't stay up a daze, and then decided to wait
"Okay, I'll come back tomorrow," he said.
Turner said he thought that might be why it took so long for Capitol to reach an agreement with the owners of the Beatles' songs, which prolonged the release of discs in the United States.
Turner said Japan released a Beatles disc a year or two ago, under the stipulation that the disc not be exported to other countries. But the disc was exported, and Japan lost its rights to produce further discs.
Wilson said Capitol probably wanted to wait until the market was less saturated before releasing the discs. He said other discs would be packed every two or three months to constantly renew the Beatles' type.
The staggered fashion gets more exposure and hype around them," We said.
Faculty Council members indignant at budget cuts
Some faculty members' indignation at budget cuts surfaced yesterday at a Faculty Council meeting.
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
"The state clearly thinks that here we live high on the hog, and they can cut, cut, cut," Robin Davis, professor of physics and astronomy, said.
Davis was protesting a $300,000 cut in science library subscriptions to scientific journals. The reduction resulted from a 3.8 percent cut in the University's budget that the Kansas Legislature passed this semester because of a state fiscal crisis.
Several other council members joined in protesting University budget cuts. By the end of the meeting, the council had decided to invite Chancellor Gene A. Budig to answer questions at one of its meetings.
The council also decide to send a letter to KU administrators calling the council to investigate.
Sid Shapar, presiding officer of the council, read a preliminary draft of the letter, which said the cuts would hurt research and be inconsistent with the University's goal of being a large research university.
Davis' motion to oppose the library cuts was not on the meeting's agenda but was introduced as part of the council's new business.
Davis said KU's science libraries had been ordered to cancel 20 percent of their total serials fund. "Howls of indignation" should come from faculty members, he said.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of cutc
culum and instruction, said faculty
members should challenge the state-
derated cuts.
"We don't protest very much," she said. "We have to start voicing our opinion."
Felix Moos, professor of anthropology, said the library cut was only an example of a larger problem.
"It's the tip of the iceberg," he
said, a symptom of a lot of
things happening in New York.
Davis said the University had a habit of "building fretically."
The University is planning to ask the Legislature for authority to issue revenue bonds to finance a $5 million parking structure. The Board of Regents approved the University plan last week.
"What is more valuable, a well-stocked science library, or a $5 million parking lot?" he asked.
Arthur Skidmore, associate professor of philosophy, said after the meeting that the mood of the council had been unusually sharp.
Moa’s said some University departments were beginning to wonder if
they could live up to expectations under poor budget conditions.
Some council members said at the meeting that the library cuts and other cuts were a good argument for a faculty union at the University.
Earlier in the meeting, the council accepted a report from an ad-hoc committee formed by the University and the College to study collective bargaining.
The report, which was submitted Feb. 9 to SenExN, said faculty unions improved working conditions at uni- but had little effect on faculty pay
But Clifford Griffin, professor of history, questioned some of the committee's conclusions at yesterday's meeting.
Griffin, who has helped organize moves to form a faculty union at the University, said the committee's conclusion about faculty pay was inconsistent with an article in the committee's report.
The article, "Faculty Collective Bargaining: A Status Report," came from a book of essays on faculty collective bargaining published by Stanford University. The article said faculty unions had "increased compensation a modest but not insignificant amount on the average."
Right: Leroy Garvin, a social worker at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Topeka, performs for about 60 guests at a dinner observing black history in the United States. Above: Part of the Kansas Black History Collection that is on display at the Spencer Research Library
Staff writer
Exhibit highlights black history
By LAURA BOSTROM
Kansas claimed to be the grandest, greatest and freest of all the states when it entered the Union in 1861, even though the state constituted a block the right to bear arms, served as marines or attend integrated schools
The black experience in Kansas has had pitfalls and glories, and a collection at the Spencer Library to illustrate that experience.
The exhibit, "The Black Experience in Kansas," opened yesterday with a reception at the library and a dinner at Adams Alumni Center. The exhibit is part of the Kansas Black History Collection, which was started about a year ago.
State Rep. Clarence C. Love, D—Kansas City, said the exhibit was fabulous.
"Some of it brought tears to my
eyes when I thought of my struggles and the struggles that others went through," he said.
Part of the exhibit is dedicated to black legislators. Included are a 1889 photo of Rep. Alfred Fairfax, who served as president and letters from current legislators.
Jacob Gordon, the project's director and associate professor of African studies, said the legislative exhibit was a first for Kansas
The collection also contains personal items, such as letters, photographs and diaries. Deborah Dandridge, a KUIEL historian and archivist, said she often found such materials collecting dust in attics, basements and file drawers.
"People are surprised they have things of interest," she said.
The black experience is a composite of economic, political and psychological effects, but the psychological effects are the most
significant, Dandridge said.
"The psychological effects, you can't document," she said.
called 'o' offended, 's' said.
the more that blocks inform them,
the more inform them, the more acceptance they will receive.
Dandridge said.
The Spencer exhibit is part of national black history month, which Dandridge said had been abandoned every February since 1926.
February, the month of Frederick Douglass' and Abraham Lincoln's birthday, is a celebration education of black history, she said.
At the exhibit, descendants of the Solomon Thompson family donated a small genealogy book that documents a century of additions and deletions to the Thompson family. The script begins in Charleston, Va., in 1815 and tracks the family to St. Louis and Pittsburgh.