He's a genius
Ed Metzger was on campus yesterday promoting his one-man show, "Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian," which he will perform Saturday in Ottawa. Metzger has portrayed Einstein for eight years.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Each Christmas the Rev. Karl Schoenrade shares his love for the German language by delivering a Christmas sermon in German. Schoenride is a KU graduate student.
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Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature around 40 degrees. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low temperature in the mid-20s.
Fun in the sun
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 71 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
December 4,1986
Record enrollment closes courses
Staff writer
By ALISON YOUNG
Although every student who participated in main enrollment for the spring semester received a complete schedule, students who still must enroll in January may not get into the classes they need. KU officials said recently.
Freshmen and sophomores probably will face many closed classes when they go to the enrollment center in the east wing of Strong Hall, the officials said this week.
The officials blamed anticipated problems on this semester's record enrollment. In addition, the state's fiscal problems and a planned 2.3 percent cut in KU's budget for academic programs may exacerbate the problem.
"I it's going to be difficult to help those students," Gary Thompson, director of student records, said
yesterday. "Enrollment is like a store going out of business. The later you shop, the less there is left on the shelf."
Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said classes filled much earlier this year than in past years because of the increased number of students enrolled at the University.
"There aren't anymore slots in key areas." Lineberry said.
About 250 courses were full at the end of main enrollment last week, including primary courses such as SPAN 104 and 105, GERM 104, ECON 104 and JOUR 240.
Lineberry said space also was tight in upperlevel courses.
Additionally, KU officials Tuesday announced that proposed state budget cuts had forced the University to cut about $200,000 worth of spring
semester classes, or about 100 sections
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said students whose spring semester classes might be affected by the cuts would be notified by the University before Jan. 1.
Even without the loss of 100 classes, students who enrolled last month for the spring semester experienced problems.
About 1,300 students participated in a "completion enrollment" Nov. 25 because they didn't receive full schedules on their first trip to the enrollment center.
The students stood in a line that at times went as far back as the Strong Hall rotunda and the office of student records, in Strong's west wing.
See ENROLL, p. 5, col. 5
Epstein suggests revision of rules
By SALLY STREEE
Staff writer
David Epstein, former student body president, last night turned the Student Senate over to his successors, but not before trying to ignite them to action.
Epstein, calling the Senate's written rules "a running joke on campus"; it a copy of the rules and held busking sessions; in the session of old and new senators.
He suggested new senators throw out the rules, which have governed the Senate since 1972, and set up a new set of guidelines.
There's no reason to revere them as if they were the U.S. Constitution.
He also gave new senators and student body officers some strict advice, telling them state budget cuts in education were the most pressing problem they faced. Governor-elect Mike Hayden has asked state agencies to cut 3.8 percent out of their current budgets.
"Canceling classes have become a possible mode of action," Epstein said. "There is a crisis staring us in the face, time for Student Senate to grow up."
Epstein suggested that senators hold the Senate retreat, which usually occurs at the beginning of each week, in the Capitol rotunda in Topeka.
"Tell them we are suffering," he said, adding that other issues the Senate might work on paled in comparison to the budget crisis.
He also said because of possible increases in tuition, the Senate should resist the temptation to raise the student activity fee.
But Brady Stanton, the new student body president, said the Senate also had a responsibility to work on students' concerns on campus.
"We have good issues," he said, mentioning a guide to off-campus housing and a plan to lobby the Lawrence City Commission to allow under-age admittance to taverns.
"Budget cuts are important, but we shouldn't concentrate on that to the exclusion of everything else," he said.
Stanton, who spoke to new senators after the old Senate was adjourned for the last time, said the Senate had the potential to accomplish great things, despite the fact neither coalition that ran in the election had won a majority of seats.
He stressed that senators from the two coalitions needed to work together.
"These are no longer Cheers issues, no longer Initiative issues, they're Student Senate issues," he said.
The new Senate approved Jason Krakow, Prairie Village sophomore and Nunemaker senator, as chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee. Stanton and Kelly Milligan, student body vice president, chose Krakow.
Krakow, who is the campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas, a non-partisan, statewide lobby-
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 4
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Gary Mason, associate professor of journalism, makes a splash during the March of Dimes Jelly-O Jump at the Holiday Inn Holidome. 200 W, Turnpike Access Road. Mason raised $200 for the last jump last. see story p.3.
Getting slimed
Bush says mistakes from Iran arms deal damaged credibility
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Vice President George Bush, breaking a monthlong silence, said yesterday that the administration's credibility had been damaged by mistakes in carrying out a covert arms deal with Iran.
But he supported President Reagan's decision to open the door to "moderate" elements in the revolutionary Islamic government as necessary to fend off possible Soviet aggression in the Persian Gulf.
In as close to an admission of error as any administration official has made, Bush told a luncheon meeting of the American Enterprise Institute, a private study group, that mistakes clearly were made.
However, Bush, a former CIA director, said that although he was aware of the arms deal, "I was not aware of and oppose any diversion of funds, any ransom payments or any circumvention of the will of Congress."
In his first public comment on the scandal, which involved the U.S.-backed sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels, the vice president said, "There can be no denying that our credibility has been damaged by this entire episode and its aftermath."
"The question remains of how the administration could violate its own policy of not selling arms to Iran. Simple human hope explains it better than anything else." he said.
"The president hoped that we could open a channel that would serve the interests of the United States and our allies in a variety of ways. Call it leadership, give 20-20 hindsight and call it a mistaken tactic; call it whatever you want — it was risky, but potentially of long-term value."
Noting a legitimate and arguable approach to Iran had become entangled and further clouded by actions of the National Security Council, Bush reiterated Reagan's explanation that the United States was trying to approach moderate elements in Iran who might succeed the Aatollah Ruhholl Khomeini.
Praising Reagan for taking fast action to investigate the spreading scandal, Bush predicted, "As the various investigations proceed, I have this to say: Let the chips fall on your head and tell the truth. The president wants it. I want it. And the American people have a fundamental right to it."
"If the truth hurts, so be it. We must take our lumps and move ahead.
"A storm is now raging, but when the full truth is known and it will be ... then a forgiving American people — in spite of their misgivings about Iran and weapons and diverted funds — will say, 'Our president told the truth. He took action. Let's go forward together.' "
Bush and his staff members have previously been linked to a shadowy network of private contra arms suppliers, and the speech to the conservative public policy group was critical to his own political standing.
The vice president has been silent during the weeks that the scandal has grown and many conservatives faulted him for not defending the president sooner.
Others have publicly wondered about Bush's professed role as a foreign policy adviser and confident to the president in light of his denial of any involvement in the diversion of aid to the contras.
Reagan read Bush's speech beforehand, as did members of the White House staff. Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said.
Slattery says Regan should be removed
By KAREN SAMELSON
TOPEKA — Rep. Jim Slattery yesterday called on President Reagan to re-exert his authority and fire White House chief of staff Donald Regan.
"It's critical that the president remove Donald Regan, the one person that stood between him and Admiral Poindexter and Colonel North." Slattery said at a news conference at the Statehouse.
Speaking about diversion of profits from Iranian arms sales to Nicaraguan contrasts and its possible effects on the administration, he said, "I think that before this matter is completely resolved, there will be others that will go."
Slattery, a Kansas 2nd-District Democrat, said he wouldn't be surprised to see the removal of CIA director William Casey.
Slattery said that he supported the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the matter but that he
thought the request for a special session of Congress was premature.
"I just don't think we have the facts together to act," Slattery said. Next month, when the new Congress convenes, will be soon enough, he said.
"I honestly hope and pray we can get the issue behind us in the next 60 to 90 days," he said.
But, he said, the affair could drag out for months if Regan isn't removed. He said Regan either was lying to the affair or had neglected his duties.
The scandal already may have caused irreparable damage to the administration in the eyes of foreign leaders, he said, because for years the United States has said it wouldn't deal with terrorists.
President Reagan and Vice President Bush repeatedly have said they didn't know what Lt. Col. Oliver North, a former National Security
See SLATTERY. p. 5, col. 6
parent rise in accidents disturbs officials
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
During the past two years, several KU students have been seriously injured or killed falling from buildings, driving automobiles, sledding and in other accidents.
And what seems to be an increase in student deaths and injuries has caused concern among some University of Kansas officials.
According to a 1985 National Safety Council report, accidents are the leading cause of death among college-age persons. In the 15- to 24-year-old age group, accidents take more lives than all other causes of death combined.
Among people of all ages, accidents are the fourth leading cause of death.
"Some students have been hurt very seriously this year and that's a matter of concern regardless of whether there are statistical increases or not." Brothers said.
Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said it seemed that more students had been involved in serious accidents recently than in past years.
The accidental death rate in Kansas has
been between 1981 and 1984,
according to the report.
Getting statistics to back up the possible increases is difficult, because most city and state organizations' data doesn't distinguish students from other people.
The KU Police Department is the only Lawrence organization that keeps data specifically about KU students. But, while its faculty and staff have a majority of the University, figures do show increases.
On the KU campus, injury accidents were up from 20 to 25, an increase of 25 percent, and service calls to KU police were up from 69 to *n*<sub>1</sub>, a 31.8 percent increase, for the first three quarters of 1886 compared to the same time period for 1884, according to KU police records. The first three quarters cover January through September.
Jim Murray, who has worked for the Douglas County Ambulance Service for 12 years, also
He said the figures did not include accidents that happened off campus, at fraternity or sorority houses or outside Lawrence.
Non-vehicular accidents, which include bicycle accidents, have increased by 37.5 percent, from eight during the first three quarters of 1984 to 11 this year.
Although Brothers said he thought student injuries and deaths had increased, he said that the futures were a small sample.
occurred during the past two years.
Accidents involving falls from windows or roofs tend to be the most dramatic and serious, Murray said.
Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center, agreed
Several dramatic accidents have made people more aware of student deaths and injuries, but
"I think the reason I was aware of it was because there were two or three very, very serious accidents very early in the year," Zimmer said. "Right out of the block we were having some very serious problems."
Records from her office show an increase in services to injured students.
Since 1844, the center has increased the
See ACCIDENTS. p. 5, col. 1