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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Wednesday
February 25,1987
Vol. 97, No. 103
(USPS 650-640)
Heated debate ends with commission vote to put mall on ballot
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
It was citizen vs. city commission and citizen vs. citizen at last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting
But the commission's vote came only after three hours of raucous
The commission voted unanimously to put three advisory questions regarding the proposed downtown mall on the April 7 election ballot, and the question circulated in a petition by the Citizens for a Better Downtown.
CBD organizers Pat Kehde and Phil Mhinkin, who had wanted their question to be binding on the city, said in a statement that they were very disappointed.
"I think you do a disservice to yourselves and to the community." Kehde told commissioners. "You wonder about the credibility you're losing with developers. I think you should consider the credibility you're losing with the public."
Mayor Sandra Paeger, who sparred with CBD members and appeared unhappy after the meeting, told the commission did what it had to do.
Praeger had faced cries of anger at the meeting's start when she tried to pass quickly a motion by city commissioner Mike Amyx to put two advisory questions on the ballot. Only a representative of the mall developers, who had been invited by Praeger, had spoken at the time.
Lawrence resident David Hann interrupted the commissioners, demanding that CBD members have a chance to speak.
"This is outrageous," Hann said.
“This is outrageous,” Hann said. But Praeager said the commission had nothing else to discuss, to which CBD members reacted with shouts. Amyx withdrew his motion, and a heated discussion ensued.
CBD supporters reacted angrily to comments by commissioner Ernest Angino that they were naive. Mall
developer representative Dick Zinn also angered the supporters when he accused them of having a secret agenda to kill the downtown mall.
"It's so simple, the fact is people don't want Massachusetts and Vermont to be too big."
Eleven residents asked commissioners to put the CBD question on their minds.
However, Jerry Cooley, assistant city attorney, said that the commission could not initiate a binding referendum under the Kansas Constitution. But the CBI petition could not be pressed by the ballot because of incorrect wording.
The CBD question asks whether Massachusetts and Vermont Streets from Sixth to 11th Streets should be vacated or closed. The proposed mall would permanently close the 600 West Vermont and Massachusetts Streets.
The other questions ask whether Lawrence should be allowed to use public money to assist in the construction of an enclosed mall and whether any streets in downtown Lawrence could be closed for an enclosed mall.
The commission initiated those questions but rejected a question that would give residents a chance to vote on alternatives to a downtown mall.
Commissioners and townpeople argued about what would happen to mall proposals if the referendums passed in the April elections.
Zinn said, "Unless we persevere,
we end up with a suburban mall."
He also said a public vote at this time would only serve to delay the project. Developers said they wanted a public vote in November, instead, so they have completed lease negotiations and other preliminary work.
But Terry Smith, Lawrence resident, said, "People want to vote on this proposal now. Delay because the people oppose it is no delay."
Danny Ray KANSAN
Dance, dance, dance
Above: Scott Morrow, a professor of dance who studied with a guru from India for six years, teaches the basic steps of the Indian dance, Bharata Natyam. Morrow instructed the Expressions Dance Club and a dance styles and performance class last night at Robinson Center. At right: Robyn Stanley, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, practices the steps to the 2000-year-old Indian dance.
Secretary says memos altered
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WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Oliver North's secretary has told the special prosecutor that, acting at her boss's request, she altered four memos on the sale of arms to Iran days before North was fired for allegedly diverting profits to Nicaraguan rebels, sources said yesterday.
The alterations by Fawn Hall, the secretary, in mid-November 1966 apparently masked the role of North's superiors, according to the Washington Post. The newspaper said it could not be determined who the superiors were.
Hall also told the team. led by
The originals, dated in 1985 or 1986, were addressed to either former national security adviser Robert McFarlane or his successor, Vice Adm. John Poindexter, the newspaper said.
The sources said that those messages were of the same type that Hall told investigators were shredded four days earlier with North's participation. Hall has received a promise of immunity from Walsh.
During their search of the security council offices, sources said, investigators also seized an appointment book Hall kept, listing North's visitors, travel plans and out-of-office meetings.
Walsh declined to comment on the reports about Hall. Immunity for would mean she could not be preschooled. She was also altering or altering documents related to the
scandal.
At a photo session yesterday, Hall refused to discuss her actions and described the press attention as "a little overwhelming."
"One of my friends said, 'Andy Warhol once said that everyone is famous for 15 minutes,' the part he said, "I kind of feel like that right now."
Investigators are considering the possibility that the events recounted by Hall were part of a cover-up aimed at protecting senior White House officials involved in the Iranian arms deals.
Sources said Hall could not remember details of the four documents she was asked to retype in mid-November on the same IBM Displaywriter that was used to produce the originals, except that they dealt with Iran.
memos to reproduce, the requested changes had been marked, the sour
She recalled destroying the originals on North's instructions, but the revised versions were left sitting on her desk, the sources said. The Post reported that investigators have recovered carbons of the originals, but the Los Angeles Times said copies did not exist.
She said that when she was given the original numbered and indexed
The alleged document altering occurred shortly after the first public reports disclosed the administration's secret arms deals in early November Later, on Nov. 25, Meesie announced that North had been fired, and Poindexter had resigned because of the attacks against a division to Nicaraguan rebels of between $10 million and $30 million in profits from the arms sales
Financing for LA&S summer classes cut by 50 percent
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
summer will be available in late March.
A 50 percent cut in financing for summer classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may slow some students' progress toward degrees, college officials say.
And some faculty members also will feel the effects of the budget reduction.
"People who were expecting to use this summer session to work toward completing their programs for graduation will have more problems than usual." James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts, said last week.
"It will cause severe financial hardships for faculty who anticipated teaching courses that were eliminated," said Norman Yetman, chairman of the department of sociology.
A timetable listing courses offered this
State budget cuts have dealt a more severe blow to liberal arts and sciences than to other schools within the University, said Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor.
"Most other schools have found other ways to meet the recision problems," he said. "But because of their recent influx of new students, they are now more deeply into their summer session."
The 3.8 percent budget cut ordered by Gov. Mike Hayden in the fall and passed this spring by the Kansas Legislature forced the college to finance this summer's courses with funding for the fiscal year starting July 1, said Robert Adams, associate dean of liberal arts.
The budget cut has forced the college to spend money this spring semester that was earmarked to finance classes during June.
It will cause severe financial hardships for faculty who anticipated teaching courses that were eliminated.'
— Norman Yetman chairman of sociology
Adams said.
Therefore, the college will finance both months of the summer session with money that would have been used only for July.
"The money for June has gone into the recission." Adams said, "so July money will be used to smooth out courses over the whole summer."
Shankel said the chances of restoring summer school classes that had been cut depended on what percentage of excess teachers in the state Legislature would decide to release.
"If we get the fee release that the governor has recommended, we will be able to add some critically needed classes that departments would like to offer," he said. "If that is cut substantially, it would be difficult to improve beyond the current status."
The House Appropriations Committee last week rejected Hayden's proposal to release 75 percent of the excess fees as the Board of Regents recommended. Instead, it endorsed releasing 50 percent, or $635,612.
Carothers said students who needed classes not offered at the University this summer might have to make other arrangements.
"If a student needs a particular course to graduate and can get it another institution, we will make every effort to accommodate them," he said.
Adams said the college had given priority to maintaining financing for courses that were offered only in the summer and courses that were most in demand by students.
Unique summer courses given priority include summer language institutes in foreign countries and field camps offered by the geology and geography departments.
John Augelli, chairman of geography, said,
"Thank God that we were able to hang on to
the field camps, otherwise some students
would not be able to meet their degree
requirements."
In addition to predicting and recording daily weather forecasts, meteorology students at the KU Weather Service answer all types of weather questions from inquiries callers. See story page 3.
Storm center
The Missouri Tigers scored a double basketball victory yesterday, beating the Kansas State Wildcats 80-75 and pulling half a game ahead of the Jayhawks in Big Eight play. See story page 13.
Double victory
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Dark horse Gephardt hits trail in home state
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt, off and running on his dark-horse bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, breezed through here yesterday on the second day of his campaign.
Staff writer
Gephardt announced his candidacy Monday in his home district of St. Louis. He was in Kansas City yesterday to help raise the money and need on the road to the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta.
"If you look at the history of presidential elections, what you see are dark horses doing well," he said at a press conference after his arrival at the downtown airport. About 20 supporters greeted him.
Harry Shaffer, professor of economics and adviser to the KU Democrats, said that Gephardt's cause was helped last week when potential candidate Mario Cuomo, governor of New York, announced that he would not seek the Democratic nomination for president.
"He is an unknown, but with
Chemo pulling out. I guess everybody
has been having a rough time."
He said that Gephardt had a better chance of getting the vice president's
spot on the Democratic ticket. But if former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado wins the presidential nomination, he shouldn't be the choice for vice president.
Gephardt predicted that he could win the Democratic nomination by scoring upsets in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries a year from now and building momentum before the "Super Tuesday" primary in southern states.
Parties traditionally seek a geographic balance on their presidential tickets, Shaffer said, and Colorado and Missouri are too close. Hart is considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.
Gephardt has been a strong supporter of federal tax reform. In the last session, Congress voted to slash tax rates and tax exemptions. Critics asserted that the tax revision just created confusion and didn't go far enough.
But Gephardt said, "When the American people really see tax reform and its effects, they're going to be pleased."
Gehardt headed to a fund-raiser at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorate conference, where supporters paid $20 a couple to benefit his campaign.
New group plans to tackle budget, enrollment woes
Panel will offer ways to maintain high-quality education
Staff write
By ROGER COREY Staff writer
Nine KU administrators charged by Chancellor Gene A. Budig with maintaining the University of Kansas' quality of education met for the first time Saturday.
The Enrollment Planning Group will tackle problems arising from recent budget cuts and increased enrollment.
"The problem is urgent." Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor, said yesterday. "I expect the group to make a list of short-term recommendations in a couple of weeks."
Without increases in faculty and state financing, Shankel said, the
The growth came at the same time the University received a 3.8 percent budget cut from the Kansas Legislature.
The University's enrollment grew by more than 1,000 students from fall 1985 to fall 1986, and preliminary estimates for fall 1987 indicate that another big increase is likely.
University will lack adequate resources to continue providing a high-quality education for its students.
"We want the students to know the group exists and has the goal of maintaining the quality of education," said Shankel, who will convey the groups' recommendations to Budig.
Shankel said legislators' reluctance to release excess fees collected this year had caused the University to reassess its policies on the recruitment, admission and retention of students.
Budig asked the KU group to look at possible solutions to the university's immediate problems, long-term enrollment planning.
Last week, the House Appropriations Committee rejected Gov. Mike Hayden's proposal to reinstate 75 percent of the excess fees as recommended by the Kansas Board of Regents. Instead, it approved a 50 percent reinstatement, or $635,612.
The group has been asked to:
Inventory and analyze existing policies and practices.
Construct enrollment models that reflect current enrollment and admissions practices.
- Develop enrollment goals that allow the University to best use its resources and meet state needs
The recommendations will be reviewed with appropriate deans and faculty governance groups before further action is taken.
Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, will lead the group. Members include Robert Adams and James Carothers, associate deans of librarians; Peter Farris, Lindvall, director of admissions; and Jerry Moore, associate dean of fine arts.
Other members are David Shulenburger, associate dean of business; Deborah Teeter, director of institutional research and planning; Wes Williams, dean of research; Ralph Zerkwik, vice chair vice censor for research, graduate studies and public service.