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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Details, page 2
Monday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
February 23, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 101
(USPS 650-640)
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Flavio Valladares Lopez, political science graduate teaching assistant, lectures to a political science class Darcy Chang/
GTA remembers Nicaragua's past
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
Flavio Valladares Lopez remembers the day the bandits took over Nicaragua.
Valladares was surprised
It was July 17, 1979, the day Anastasia Osborne Debyle fled for his life leaving control of the U.S. embassy in the front of National Liberation.
"They had been telling me throughout the years that this was a good system of government, these are good people who are in charge.
"We heard from the papers that the Sandistas were like mean, leftist guerrillas trying to overthrow the government, and the United States was a friendly nation always helping us."
He had never doubted it, he said. "Then came the revolution and from one day to the other the whole history of our country changed, the whole vision of religion changed, our whole values changed. That made me start thinking for myself."
Valladares was 22 at that time, studying law in Managua, Nicara
gua's capital
He is now a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Kansas, working toward a doctorate in political science and teaching a course in international politics this semester.
He has studied at the Institute for European Study in Brussels, Belgium, the Free University of Paris and the Diplomatic School of Madrid, Spain.
He said he hoped to work on Nicaragua as a diplomat. But in the summer of 1979, he didn't even complete history of Nicaragua.
"That was the first time we had Marxist theory in the courses," he said. "And it was the first time I heard the name of Sandino, other than very vaguely. The impression they wanted to give us was that he was a troublemaker.
"During the whole Somoza regime, the image and the personality of Sandino was buried. The memory of Sandino was buried so that his actions were hidden from the people."
Augusto Cesar Sandino, the father of the Sandinista movement, led a guerrilla band in the 1920s and '30s. He was killed in 1944 during the regime of Somoa's anastasia Somoa García.
Before the revolution, Valla dares said, he seldom thought about the nation's unrest. Borrich, he had little reason to.
His parents owned an ice factory, a cotton plantation, two cattail ranches and several smaller farms. They shopped yearly in Miami.
Meanwhile, the peasants on the plantation picked cotton. Valladares seldom gave them more than a moment's thought.
"It was there — all this reality. Masses of people with nothing to eat but beans and tortillas every day.
"In cotton season, we would hire seasonal workers, maybe 150 of them. They would get paid by the kilo, $40 a week maybe," he said.
"I never cared to ask why these people were living in the countryside pickin' cotton for $40 a week with no labor laws.
"After the revolution, I had a
See VALLADARES, p. 6, col. 4
State language bill draws fire from bilingual backers
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
TOPEKA — A plan to make English the official language of Kansas would leave Hispanic residents feeling left out, a state legislator says.
"I think it sends the wrong message across the state of Kansas to the 200,000 to 200,000 Spanish-speaking residents in Arizona." "D-Wichita, said Frida."
Spanish-speaking Kansans may look at the bill as a threat to disenfranchise them from state programs, he said.
Julio Vasquez, president of the Latin American Students Association in New York, said, "I don't think any language should be the official language."
Kansas is too diverse for one official language, he said.
"There are other influences," he said. "There are Oriental speakers and Spanish speakers."
But the bill's primary sponsor,
State Sen. Bill Mulich, D-Kansas City, said, "I've got as much respect for those people as anybody in the world. It's got nothing to do with that."
'I don't think any language should be the official language.'
- Julio Vasquez president of the Latin American Students Association
The bill's purpose is to promote English and to enact in statute what already exists in reality. Mulich said. The bill would not require any action
but would designate English as Kansas' official language.
"I think everybody ought to be informed and educated in that language," Mulich said. "It should have been on the books years ago."
Fleciano said the bill could threaten the state's bilingual education program, in which Kansas public schools must teach English to students who speak another language.
But Mulich said his bill was not directed at the program.
The bill wouldn't take away anything from non-English speakers and was not meant to hurt financing for bilingual education program, he said.
But, he said, "There's only so much money to go around."
Fee release request generates confusion, not return of funds
See ENGLISH, p. 6, col. 6
State Rep. Denise Apt, Iola Republican and chairman of the House Education Committee, said the program would not be affected by the bill.
Staff writer
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
TOPEKA — Board of Regents budget strategy and legislative politics may have caused a state House committee's confusion last week about the fee release request for the University of Kansas, some state officials say.
The House Appropriations Committee discovered Thursday that it had underestimated the revenues generated by KU's record fall enrollment. On Wednesday, the committee had rejected a proposal to reinstate 75 percent of the fees recommended by the Regents and, instead, approved a 50 percent reinstalment
"I do not understand the confusion," Chancellor Gene A Budig said after a Regents meeting on Friday that an investigation discussed has been reported publicly.
Committee chairman Bill Bunten R-Topeka, said the committee mis
took the Regents $1.2 million tree release request to be the total revenue from the increased enrollment. But the committee later learned that the increased enrollment actually generated $2.7 million
Tom Rawson, Regents budget director, said the committee might not have understood completely the release request and the actual amount.
"We knew the University had received about $2.7 million in additional revenues, but politically our request was the most defensible position to take," Rawson said.
If approved by the state Legislature, the committee's recommendation would return $65,612 to KU and $7,093 to the general fees into the state's general fund.
State Rep. Rochelle Beach Chronister, R-Neoheades, was chairman of a committee this summer that reviewed state financing of Regents
institutions, including a Regents request for the release of increased enrollment generated revenue.
Chronister said the fee release request for KU was a Regents decision and not a legislative one. Chronister's committee eventually recommended to release 75 percent of the $1.2 million. Gov. Mike Hayden endorsed the committee's recommendation.
"The Regents gave us the $1.2 million fee release request after internally deciding on that figure." Chronister said. "It has not been a legislative question but a Regents policy."
To come up with the fee release figure, Rawson said, the Regents estimated the average cost to KU for each additional student, using the existing student population as a reference.
See REGENTS, p. 6, col. 3
United Press International
Secretary talks on North papers
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Oliver North's secretary told investigators that she and her boss had shredded documents in his White House basement office just hours before the first search of his files for Iran-corruption evidence, sources said yesterday.
The disclosure, along with concurrent reports that White House aides fabricated a chronology of the Iran arms policy designed to shield President Reagan, has spurred special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh to consider seeking obstruction of justice charges against some administration officials, the government sources said.
Walsh has granted immunity from prosecution to Fawn Hall, who was North's personal secretary when he was a member of the National Security Council staff. She recounted how they destroyed a "mammoth" stack of documents Nov. 21, the Washington Post said.
Later that day, Justice Department officials conducting a preliminary
Attorney General Edwin Meese went to North's office to begin reviewing his files.
On Nov. 25, Meese announced that $10 million to $30 million from the secret Iran arms deals had been diverted to the contries.
North, asked about the report of Hall's disclosure as he drove away from his suburban Washington home yesterday morning, replied, "I'm very pleased that anybody whose counsel advises them to cooperate is doing so."
INSIDE
A girl's diary
Tom Osborne, director of the New York Anne Frank Center, told app proximately 150 people about the legacy of Anne Frank's diary. See story page 3.
Mary Lou Scheckel's business, ISC Grocery Express, will deliver groceries to people who do not like to shop or who cannot get to the store. See story page 14.
House calls
Stanton vetoes crew bill
By LISA A. MALONEY
Staff writer
It's back to square one for the KU crew team.
Saturday, Student Senate Finance Committee and Executive Committee denied vote 6-1 to deny revenue code status to crew. The team now will have to seek financing as a student organization.
Friday, Brady Stanton, student body president, vetoed the bill that would have given the team $24,800 to purchase two new racing boats.
Scott Long, Kingwood, Texas, junior and crew team captain, said the crew would try to get the Senate to override Stanton's veto with a two-thirds vote at Wednesday's Senate vote.
"I feel like a cad who's just taken away a good little kid's allowance." he said. "It's kind of like being a parent. You're not always the most popular person, but you have to be responsible.
"We think we'll be able to get our budget," he said.
Stanton he looked for any reason not to veto the crew bill.
Tom Woods, Senate treasurer, said the Senate had a total of $1,234,800 to allocate, not including the more than one-third in the Senate's unallocated account.
"We do have some money, and it should be spent on students. But we don't know how much."
Revenue code groups are organizations large enough to have their own
autonomous support staff, including their own treasurer or business staff. They receive two-year Senate allocations during revenue code hearings, after re-establishing revenue code status.
Stanton said he listed reasons for vetoing the bill in a letter sent to Long; crew Coach Cliff Elliott; david Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs; Athletic Director Matee Johnson; and all the senators.
sensors.
Stanton wrote that the crew had not presented any long-range financing plan; there was the question of the University's liability if an accident occurred; the amount requested was more money than all the athletic clubs combined receive; and crew had grown too large for Senate to continue to finance as a student organization.
Student organizations receive financing every year and are held accountable to the Senate treasurer.
Woody Browne, liberal arts senator and author of the original $37,450 crew bill, said, "Part of crew's long-term plans have been to seek revenue code status. This is not a knee-jerk reaction to the veto."
At the revenue code hearing, Browne presented a revised two-year budget of $24,673 for 1988 and $25,258 for 1998.
The two-year budget includes $12,400 for one eight-man racing boat; eight oars at $1,520; a $470 coxswain's amplifier; 27 life vests at $1,215; and a $1,800 motor for the
coach's boat.
Woods said he supported granting revenue code status to crew because it had clearly outgrown student organization status.
"We should either fund them sufficiently or not at all," he said.
But Michael Foubert, graduate student senator, said revenue code status should belong to groups that were part of the body that could not be duplicated.
"It's not something you give to someone because they have reached the magic number of student members." Foubert said at the hearing. "I think they have demonstrated that they need two years of budget."
Stanton said he was disappointed that crew was not granted revenue code status.
"I felt this was the vehicle, but it was seen as setting an evil precedent," he said.
Of the 12 groups that applied for revenue code status, only the crew and the Jayhawk Course Source were denied status.
The groups that received status were: Legal Services for Students, Associated Students of Kansas, Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services, Student Senate internal budget, Graduate Student Council, the Kansan, KJHK-FM, Recreation Services, Lawrence Women's Transitional Care Services and Recreation Facilities.
Alan Hagman/KANSAn
A KU crew member listens as Scott Long, crew captain, left, and Woody Browne, liberal arts senator, appear before the Student Senate Finance Committee requesting revenue code status for crew. Members of the crew team attended the hearings Saturday in the Kansas Union. The Senate voted 6-5 against their request.