Wednesday July 13, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 151 (USPS 650-640)
Wreck leaves one dead, many questions
Cycle-truck mishap under investigation
Rv Monica Havde
Kansan staff writer
A 20-year-old Lawrence man died late yesterday morning when his motorcycle and a city sanitation truck collided near 52nd Street.
Michael K. Samuel, 2420 Brookside Drive, who was traveling north on Kasold Drive on his motorcycle, and the sanitation truck, which was turning left from 25th Street onto Kasold Drive, collided shortly after 11 a.m., said
Chris Mulvenon, police department spokesman.
"It's still unclear exactly what happened," Mulvenon said at the scene.
He said yesterday afternoon that Lawrence police were investigating the circumstances of the accident.
Samuel's motorcycle was crushed under the rear tires of the truck. Samuel appeared to have been thrown from his motorcycle, but Mulvenon said that could not
Above, police and firemen gather information at the accident that killed Michael K. Samuel, Lawrence resident. The accident occurred at the intersection of 25th Street and Kasold Drive. Right, Samuels' helmet and glasses were found about 50 feet from the point of impact after yesterday's accident.
It's still unclear exactly what happened.
- Chris Mulvenon
Chris Mulvenon Police department spokesman
be determined yet. Samuel's body was about 30 feet from where the truck stopped dragging the motorcycle.
The injuries sustained by Samuel, the speed of both vehicles and the exact cause of the collision were still being investigated, Mulvenon said.
A city sanitation official said the sanitation department would conduct its own investigation into the accident. Three men, whose names were not released, were riding in the sanitation truck at the time of the accident, he said. No other injuries were reported.
A motorcycle helmet was on the roadside. Mulvenon said that although Samuel appeared to have been wearing it, whether he actually was had not been determined.
A section of Kasold Drive was closed yesterday while police and city officials collected evidence at the scene of the accident.
Dukakis gives nod to Texan
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Democrat Michael Dukekas tapped Sen. Lloyd Bentens as his running mate yesterday, setting up a home-state challenge to Bentens's fellow Texan George Bush, and stirring memories of the Massachusetts-Texas connection that won the White House in 1960.
The parallels between 1960 and 1988 are very close indeed." Dukakis told a cheering crowd of supporters packed into the steamy hall. "Then we had eight rather amiable but sleepy years of Republicans in the White House. We had a country that was ready for change."
Frederick says NCAA allegations not minor
Dukakis said Bentsen brought to the Democratic ticket years of experience and a deep commitment to civil rights that went back to the 1940s. He said that Bentzen, the chairman of the Democratic committee, stood for good jobs at good wages — a central theme of his campaign.
Dukakis noted that the Republicans nominated an incumbent vice president, Richard Nixon, in 1960, while the Democrats chose Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kenneth Sternberg choseSen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas.
He said that Dukakis, a son of Greek immigrants, was living out his parents' dream but wanted that team a reality for everyone in the U.S.
Dukakis, in selecting Bentsen,
served notice he would not concede
Texas and its 29 electoral votes to
Bush, who calls the state his home.
Dukakis also added Washington
experience and a philosophical and
geographical balance to the Democra-
tic ticket.
Bentsen said, "The fact that he's chosen a senator from Texas, a senator from the South, shows that we're going to fight for every state in the Union and we're going all out to win."
Still, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose actions could be critical to Democratic hopes for a harmonious convention, told reporters he knew nothing of the choice until they told him it was being reported — several hours before Dukakis announced it in Boston.
Bentens, cheered by the partisan crowd as he stepped to the microphone, echoed Dukakis, saying, "The Massachusetts and the Texas axis was good for the country and good for the Democratic Party in 1960 and it's going to be a real winner in November of 1988."
He said Dukakis later phoned him but they did not have a lengthy discussion. When asked if he was
By Tom Stinson
See DUKAKIS, p. 2, col. 6
Kansan sports editor
The NCAA rained on the Kansas basketball program's parade. The celebration and relief following Friday's hiring of new coach Roy Williams came to a standstill Monday morning.
Athletic Director Bob Frederick announced that the Kansas program was being investigated by the NCAA for 14 alleged recruiting violations, at least eight of which the University itself reported.
ul to appear on a radio talk show last night in Memphis, but did not show. He could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The alleged violations named in a National Collegiate Athletic Association letter of inquiry received by the Air Force on May 12, loaning an airline ticket for a recruit, loaning
a recruit's family money to pay a
unit bill and give a recruit $200
Frederick said in a statement Monday that the alleged violations appeared to be small items, but he added later that the NCAA did not issue a letter of inquiry for just minor allegations.
Sources following the investigation have speculated that Askew was involved in some of the alleged violations during summer 1986, when 10 of the alleged violations occurred.
"When I say that they were minor problems, it has a different connotation," said Frederick, who learned of the NCAA interest about two weeks after he replaced Monte Johnson as athletic director in May 1987. "The NCAA Enforcement Committee assigns different meanings. As I understand it, if you had nothing but minor violations alleged, it would not end up before the enforcement committee for infractions."
The only alleged violation involving a player concerns the two-game suspension of Milt Newton in November. Newton had bought a plane ticket through the athletic department, violating NCAA rules even though he paid for it himself. Frederick said the issue had been resolved from the student-athlete perspective with the suspension, and Thomas added that the review of the earlier violation was just a formality.
Askew had announced that he would transfer to Kansas and attended classes here that summer before returning to Memphis State.
Kansas has until Sept. 2 to respond to the NCAA and could appear before the Infractions Committee by the end of September.
The alleged violations occurred between June 1986 and April 1987, during which time former associate athletic director Gary Hunter and assistant coach Kevin Thomas worked with the NCAA in reporting the violations.
"From the time the initial information was provided, we have worked with them as we learned about information." Thomas said, echoing Frederick's Monday statement.
None of the allegations involve the eligibility of any of the players from
Kansas' 1988 national championship team,nor can the allegations jeopardize that championship, Frederick said.
Frederick and Hunter declined to mention any recruits or University staff members involved in the allegations, but Frederick said some of the staff members involved still worked at Kansas.
Vincent Askew, a former guard at Memphis State who briefly attended Kansas in summer 1986, was sched-
Confirmation expected for nominee
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Richard L. Thornburgh, picked by President Reagan to head the troubled Justice Department, pledged yesterday to "follow the evidence wherever it may lead" in the matter of outgoing Attorney General Edwin Meese III.
Thornhurth declined to answer questions about Meese in an appearance at the White House with Reagan, who announced the nomination and urged him to leave office. The administration will be in office for only six more months.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the No. 2 Democrat on the committee which will review Thornburgh's nomination, said he expected a rapid response.
"I have the greatest respect for Dick Thornburgh," Kennedy said. "The state of justice in the U.S. would be very different today if Dick Thornburgh had been attorney general for the past three to four years instead of Ed Meese."
Thorntburgh, 55, had been mentioned as a possible running mate for Vice President George Bush, the likely Republican presidential nominee. And because Thorntburgh's name surfaced on Monday as Reagan's probable choice for the attorney general's job, there was a concern that he would be the Justice post during a possible Bush administration.
Fitzwater said Bush was consulted about the nomination.
When asked whether Thornburgh would remain in the post in a Bush administration, Bush spokesman Stephen Hart said, "I think it's premature to even speculate about that."
Thornhurth gained national recognition in 1979 when, after only 72 days as governor, he was faced with the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident, at Three Mile Island.
He was barred by law from seeking a third term as governor, and left Pennsylvania at the end of 1966 to head the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Coach Roy Williams talks with former University of Kansas guard Mark Turgeon. The two spoke after a news conference Friday at the Holiday Inn Holdome. 200 McDonald Drive.
Kansan staff writer
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Bv Paula Messbarger
Local legislators urge Hayden to increase classified salaries
Four members of the Lawrence legislative delegation have asked Gov. Mike Hayden to implement a plan that would increase the salaries of 32 percent of all classified employees 350 University of Kansas employees.
State Reps. Jessie Branson, John Solbach and Betty Jo Charlton, all Lawrence Democrats, and State Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, sent a letter to Hayden last week urging him to consider the full implementation study for state employees in fiscal year 1989, which began July 1.
Kathy Peterson, the governor's press secretary, said Hayden had received similar letters from legislators and that he was reviewing the reclassification study done several years ago to see if it could be updated. It would take, she said, a few months to decide the needs.
Phase three would include salary increases for KU service and protection employees, food and janitorial service workers, security officers, the KU police and hospital workers. The salary-increase amounts have not been determined yet.
Branson said the letter sent to Hayden was a response to letters and phone calls the legislators had received from state employees.
The first two phases of the reclassification study were implemented by the 1986 and 1987 Legislatures, increasing the salaries of state clerical employees and machine operators. During the 1988 Legislature, phase three was not included in the governor's 1989 budget.
"I think at this point the governor is well aware that we are responding to our constituents, to let him know it is unfair not to implement phase three." Branson said.
Branson said a group of legislators were able to come up with $770,000.
for part of the employees covered by phase three for the last month of fiscal 1889, but Hayden vetoed it.
The Lawrence legislators are asking the governor to reconsider the full implementation of phase three, which would cost $15.4 million. Because of the almost $140 million in unexpected tax revenues, the state treasury has been left with a balance of $250 million.
"I feel it is inconscionable that with an excess of $250 million in the state treasury that the state cannot provide the salary upgrade as previously scheduled for some of its lowest-paid workers," Branson said.
On June 29, the Executive Council for Classified Employees at the University of Kansas passed a resolution that opposed additional financing for the Margin of Excellence plan until the reclassification study could be sufficiently financed. The council represents about 1,200 KU employees.
Donna Hultine, secretary of the executive council, said that many employees thought the reclassification study was sacrificed for the Margin plan.
Diana Dyal, a library assistant at Watson Library and an executive council representative, said that she was not opposed to Margin plan, but that she, along with other senate members, would not support it until phase three funding was allocated.
"Last year, we were asked (by Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor) if we would support the Margin of Excellence," Dyal said. "But they didn't say our study would be vetoed."
Branson said, however, that phase three should have nothing to do with the Margin plan.
"It is another need," she said.
"It is another need," she said. "The governor should speak with the governor about their request."