A wrap-up on the KU football team's season paints an encouraging look ahead, and the KU volleyball team ends one of its most successful years ever.
T'was the season
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Finals
Today's Kansan is the last issue of this semester, and this is the last regular day of classes. Publication of the Kansan will resume Jan. 15, the first day of classes next semester.
A chance of light rain will accompany cloudy skies today. Temperatures will be in the mid 30s and the rain may change to snow tonight.
Agony of de sleet
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 73 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
December 8,1986
Proposed cuts ieopardize classes
By ALISON YOUNG
Kansas' bleak economic situation has hit home for KU students, hundreds of whom were turned away from full classes for next semester.
The University's budget, which already was strained by a record fall enrollment, faces more tightening because of Governor-elect Mike Hayden's proposed 3.8 percent budget cuts for all state agencies. KU officials said recently.
Administrators said last week that about 100 sections, in which students pre-enrolled, could be canceled because of proposed budget cuts.
Class offerings are so limited that the University may send advisory letters to students who have been admitted for the spring semester and plan to be
enroll next month, officials said.
Bruce Lindwall, director of admissions, said he didn't want students to pack up and move to Kansas if the courses they were expecting weren't available.
According to statistics generated by the enrollment center Nov. 26, after main enrollment was completed, several basic classes turned away hundreds of students.
The statistics show the number of students who tried to enroll in a course but couldn't because it was full. These figures may be inflated because a single student could have been turned away from several choices in the same department.
According to Western Civilization 104 enrolled 678 students.
■ Communications 150 enrolled 753 students, but turned away 837. COMS 130 enrolled 183 students, but turned away 256.
but turned away 399.
Economics 104 enrolled 303 students, but turned away 183.
■ Math 115 enrolled 330 students, but turned away 9; MATH 121 enrolled 188, but denied 23; and MATH 122 enrolled 382, but denied 51.
- Five of the seven liberal arts required 200-level English courses were closed, turning away a total of 758 students, including 26 juniors and one senior.
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
Faculty openings may not be filled
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
University of Kansas officials said yesterday that the University probably would absorb most of a nearly $1.8 million cut in its fund for salaries and wages by not filling vacancies that occur between now and June 30.
The $1,794,652 in the salaries and wages fund would not affect people currently under contract with the University. Mel Dubnick, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday.
He said contracted instructors included faculty, classified personnel and graduate teaching assistants.
The proposed reduction in salaries and wages will reduce the amount of money spent for all salaries and wages, combined, and not individual salaries in any specific department, said Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU budget director.
"That's not to say that salary turn back isn't significant. It is significant." Dubnick said, "but it's different when you say salaries are going to be decreased."
Thursday, the University of Kansas submitted proposed reductions for the rest of fiscal year 1987, which ends June 30, to demonstrate how the University would carry out a proposed cut of $3.166.697.
The University would absorb the cut during the next seven months.
Salaries and wages is one category among the reductions. It includes money for unclassified and classified salaries, student and graduate teaching assistant salaries and fringe benefits, Zimmerman said.
"Vacancies that occur may not be filled as fast or may not be filled until the end of the (fiscal) year," he said.
The revised plan had to be submitted because of a proposed 3.8 percent across-the-board cut in state spending that Governor-elect Mike Hayden ordered Nov. 19.
the Kansas Legislature, which convenes next month, must approve the cuts before they take effect.
"We're sort of in a bind." Dubnick said. "We're waiting around for what the Legislature will do."
Until the Legislature acts on a possible fee release, the University, in order to absorb the reecision, may cancel more than $200,000 worth of spring semester classes and about 25 percent of the 1987 summer session schedule.
Among the students wondering whether the reduction in summer session courses is going to affect them is Kelly Bailey, Tulsa, Okla., senior
'She said she didn't know yet whether she would have the opportunity to enroll in biology this summer, allowing her to complete her bachelor's degree in education.
Bailey said she had planned to enroll in both astronomy and biology next summer so she would be able to take electives in the spring.
But during pre-enrollment, she said, her adviser told her that of the two sciences, astronomy probably would not be offered.
baby would love to save biology for the summer," she said. "and if they don't offer it, then I'll have to go somewhere else to take it."
Kristie Calohan, Stanley senior, said the summer reduction might delay for an entire year her plans to become an elementary school teacher.
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments say
From Kansan wires
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
Honduran warplanes and troops ferryed by U.S. helicopters yesterday attacked about 1,000 Nicaraguan government forces who had violated Honduran territory, the United States and Honduras said.
In Managua, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto said U.S. warplanes had bombed two Nicaraguan towns along the border, injuring eight people.
The State Department said that President Reagan had approved the use of U.S. helicopters to transport Honduran troops as requested by President Jose Azcona and dismissed Managu's charges of U.S. bombing attacks on Nicaraguan targets as propaganda.
A Nicaraguan military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the raids on the villages were made by the Honduran air force flying its own U.S.built A-37 and French-made Supere Mystere B-2 iets.
A senior Honduran military officer denied the charge.
"Our airplanes have not entered Nicaragua, nor attacked populations in that country. The Honduran air force did not fly over Nicaragua," the official said.
The government said Honduran warplanes had strafed Nicaraguan
troops along the two countries' border in response to an incursion Thursday by 290 Nicaraguan troops who allegedly attacked a border outpost, wounding three Honduran soldiers and capturing two others.
In Tegucigalpa, U.S. and Honduran officials refused to reveal how many U.S. aircraft were used or how many Honduran troops were ferried to Jamastran, about 48 miles east of the capital.
The Jamastram airstrip, built by U.S. troops in 1984, is about 30 miles east of La Troja, a base camp area for Nicaraguan rebels, known as contras, and scene of recent clashes between the contrasts and Nicaraguan troops, according to a U.S. official who requested anonymity.
Honduras has remained neutral in the conflict since the contras began their fight to oust the Nicaraguan government five years ago.
Rebels fighting the Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government operate freely from supply bases in the border area. The Nicaraguan army has been mobilized and planned to strike at the insurgents' camps, officials said.
The State Department issued a statement saying, "Honduras requested U.S. airlift assistance to help move Honduran troops to a military airfield in eastern Honduras approximately 25 miles west of the conflict."
Clark says drug use is socially addictive
Staff writer
By RIC ANDERSON
He had only one problem — he was adicted to cocaine.
Christopher W. Clark was having a good time in the spring of 1986.
Clark, a 24-year-old Lawrence resident, partied for days on end with a group of influential friends and was a self-described inhabitant of the city's fast lane.
His friends had introduced him to the drug. Then, as result of the cocaine abuse, Clark said, he watched his house, his house-painting business, his relationship with his girlfriend and his health go down the drain. His abuse also led to federal and state prison sentences for distributing and delivering cocaine.
"I started in mid-February, and within a couple of weeks I was buying a lot," he said Thursday, the night before his sentencing in Douglas County District Court.
"I was spending at least $700 on cocaine a week from February to March. That's not counting the drinks I bought in all the bars we went to."
Clark said one incident, involving a $5,000 vase he owned, perhaps described how he had fallen during the spring. During a party at his house, he walked into the room while he watched a guest take a golf club and the tazer of his porch.
"It would be all right until I saw my friends," he said of his addiction. "Then we'd be right back on the same kick. It's socially addictive."
The fun ended in July, when Clark was indicted. On Nov. 14 he was
sentenced to two years in prison for his federal charge of distributing cocaine.
He was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court to three to 10 years in prison for delivering cocaine, a sentence that will be served concurrently with the federal charge.
"Once you get out of control, it takes something like this for you to stop." Clark said. "If something like this doesn't happen, you're going to die or live in the gutter — one of the two.
"We didn't think we were hurting anybody. But what we did not realize was that we were hurting ourselves."
Unlike many of the 21 people indicted in Lawrence on July 22, Clark did not plea bargain. Instead, he held to a not guilty plea and, therefore, had to withstand two trials.
"I'm tired," he said. "I've been through two trials and many hearings. I just want to drop them because I feel that if I spend another minute on this it would be a waste of my time."
The pressure of the trials led Clark to take up smoking and has caused him to be pessimistic about his pending appeals.
Clark said he never denied that he committed crimes. But he plied not guilty because of his disdain for the information that could informal informants in drug investigations.
"I don't think the government should use criminals to do the work of the justice department," he said.
Clark must report Jan. 5 to federal marshals in, Toneka.
Christmas spirit
Number of the University's Chamber Choir, Concert Chorale and Concert Choir sing "Go Tell It on the Mountain" last night at Vespers.
Owner wants to make Sanctuary into housing
Staff writer
Johnson said the decision was the result of long hours he has worked at the club for the last 22
Bv KIRK KAHLER
People who spend a lot of time at the Sanctuary are often accused of living there. Next fall, they might get the opportunity.
At tomorrow night's Lawrence City Commission meeting, Johnson plans to bring his proposal to the commissioners.
After almost 22 years of owning and operating the Sanctuary, 1401 W. 7th St., Ace Johnson has decided to convert his club into an apartment complex
years.
years.
"Twenty-two years is too long," he said. "The apartments will make me more money with less headaches than what I'm doing now."
The Sanctuary, formerly called the Stables, was built in 1948. Johnson said. He bought the establishment in 1965. Johnson said he had no regrets about closing the popular club, but his attitude was not shared by everone.
red Lockhart, Portland, Ore., senior, said he couldn't believe the Sanctuary was closing
"We go there all the time for the Thursday night specials," he said. "That's the best party night of the week. It's the only bar that's a little more
relaxed and doesn't have the hustle-bustle. It's got to be the best bar in town."
Johnson said he hoped construction would begin next month, but the closing of the club would depend on the success of the KU men's basketball team.
Johnson gets large crowds to watch the basketball team play in post-season tournaments on his big-screen television.
The new apartments would be called the Sanctuary Apartments, and Johnson said he hoped they would be completed and full of tenants by June
See SANCTUARY, p. 5, col. 1
Ottawa plant's closing takes jobs, leaves memories
OTTWA — After the Lee Co. plant closes Dec. 19 in Ottawa, Willa Spencer and about 15 others will remain at the factory until the building is sold.
Bv BILL RAYNOLDS
Staff writer
Spencer, now a label clerk, considers herself fortunate to stay at the plant in the denim laundering operation. About 350 employees will lose their jobs when the doors close at the factory that is important to the economy of Ottawa.
The plant was the last Lee plant to produce the waist-length, button-up jackets. It also made Lee's basic five-pocket denim jeans.
phases when she heard of the closing. Lee has operated the plant since the company bought it from another manufacturer in 1949, and Spencer, 63, has worked at the plant since 1951.
"At first you are shocked," she said. "Then you're hurt. Then you get angry, but you don't know what you're angry at. Tempers are getting shorter around here.
Spencer went through several emotional
it's sad. People don't know what they're going to do."
Ottawa, the Franklin County seat, is a town of 11,000 about 20 miles south of Lawrence
The loss of the 350 jobs at the Lee plant in Ottawa will increase the number of unemployed Franklin County workers by 43.9
percent and the jobless rate from 7.3 percent to 13 percent overall. More than 6,100 people work in the county.
However, Spencer said the decision to close the plant before Christmas was wise.
"It was an abrupt decision to close the plant, but it would have cost the company more on inventory taxes if the plant were closed in January," she said.
Tony Ahnemann, vice president for industrial relations at Lee in Merriam, said the plant would close because of a decrease in the denim jacket's popularity and the high cost of operating the plant.
"Employees will be paid severance pay and given assistance in locating other
employment," Ahnemann said. "They also will be given the opportunity to transfer to other Lee locations where openings exist."
Ahnemann said the company would contract with smaller manufacturing companies to produce the jacks under the Lee label.
By contracting for production, the company expects to be able to react quickly to future demands, Ahnemann said.
"Life goes on," Whitworth said. "Some will draw unemployment and some will look for
Bob Whitworth, director of economic development for the Ottawa-Franklin County Economic Development Group, said the Lee plant in Ottawa had an annual payroll of $4.5 million.
other jobs."
But Whitworth is not pleased with the timing of the closing - six days before Christmas. He said the decision to close the plant then would have a negative psychological effect on the families affected by the closing.
"I wish they would have waited until after Christmas to close the plant." he said. "Rather than a ho-ho-ho holiday season, it'll be rather dismal for the families of those who will lose their jobs."
Meanwhile, Spencer has fond memories of her job and of her co-workers at Lee.
"I loved it," she said. "Every day was a new challenge. This is my life."