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Monday April 25,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 141 (USPS 650-640)
Iran attacks Saudi vessel
Gulf may be patrolled by U.S. Coast Guard
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Frank Carliucci said yesterday that the United States was considering sharing up its Persian Gulf fleet with Coast Guard ships, but U.S. officials downplayed an immediate retaliation for yesterday's Iranian attack on a neutral vessel.
Adm. William Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the "level of violence is much less" against the Saudi-owned tanker than in the mining incident that touched off last week's U.S. retaliatory strike against two Iranian offshore platforms.
"We consider our response on Monday a suitable response for the indiscriminate mining, and we do not contemplate any more violence unless Iran continues what we would say is an indiscriminate and a threatening pattern." Crowe said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation."
"And as you saw the report from the tanker, they did not feel that they
had been heavily damaged." Crowe said. "And we will certainly keep those events in the calculations of this review."
On the option of using Coast Guard vessels, Carliucci said that the use of the crafts would provide more flexible fuel but that no decision has been made.
"They have somewhat smaller ships which give a better patrolling capability. It would free our larger ships for other missions," Carlucci on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley."
Crove said the Coast Guard vessel would be ideal for assisting warships in the escoff of merchant vessels, watching sea lanes to prevent minelay and guarding offshore installations from attacks by small craft.
Reagan administration officials said Friday that the escort policy had been revised to allow the Navy fleet to assist neutral vessels under attack by American ships, the Navy was not permitted to intervene in raids on non-American vessels.
Economy is sound despite market fall
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It was the doomsday that didn't happen. The October stock market collapse, instead of ushering in a recession or worse, has been almost a non-event as far as the U.S. economy is concerned.
At least that's the opinion of many economists who have been watching with amazement as a string of eco-friendliness factors better-than-expected growth this year.
Employment gains have pushed the jobless rate down to a nine-year low; consumer spending, especially for autos, has been robust; and American manufacturers are enjoying booming export sales.
After a loss of a trillion dollars in wealth, nervous consumers would stop spending. Manufacturers, for instance, could lose unsold goods, would cut production
It was not supposed to happen this way. Right after Oct. 19, many analysts feared that the record 506 point spread would spell 129 all over an arm.
and lay off workers. That would push the unemployment rate up and further erode consumer confidence.
The result, according to those post-crash forecasts: a recession starting in the first quarter of 1988, a scenario with ominous implications for Republican hopes of keeping the White House.
But many economists believe that instead of declining, the overall economy, as measured by the gross national product, rose at a respectable annual rate of 2 percent or better from January through March. The government will provide the first official look at the GNP tomorrow.
In the view of economists, the simple answer is that employers, instead of cutting back on hiring due to the crash, actually boosted boosting.
In the six months since the market crash, an average of 362,000 new jobs have been added each month, more than twice the size of the average monthly employment gains before the crash.
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Kansas pole vaulter Scott Huffman checks his grip before making his second attempt at 18'3 $ _{1/2}^{2} $ .
Kansas pole vaulter wins a few events and a Relays watch
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas pole vaulter Scott Huffman did not get what he wanted in terms of height or competition, but he did accomplish what he set out for.
He won a Kansas Relays' watch
He won a Kansas Relays' watch.
Two actually — as well as being named the relays 'Outstanding Male Performer.'
Huffman won the men's pole vault on Friday with a vault of 17 feet, $54" inches. On Saturday, against a disappointing field in the national pole vault, the Quinter senior with a bump of 18 feet, $12" inch.
In the invitational, he failed on three attempts at 18 feet, $3\frac{1}{4}$ inches, the Olympic Trials qualifying, and slipping the bar on his first two tries.
"These were my first and second wins (at the relays)," Huffman said. "I had to get a Kansas Relays' watch before I left this place. I think I'll give one to my dad.
"I was really nervous going into today (Saturday). The second day, I usually have the kninks out, but I just really wanted to win. I felt I should have jumped higher though."
The invitational field was disappointing to the competitors and to the spectators as the relays' premiere event deteriorated.
Prior to the competition, American record-holder Joe Dial and 1984 Olympian Doug Lytle and Kansas All-Americans Pat Manson and Huffman were to highlight the field. But Huffman was the only one vaulting successfully on Saturday.
A Relays友顾, Dial failed to show for Saturday's event and was scratched. Kansas assistant coach John Reid said Attic said Dial had an injured leg,
Dial has been named the relays'
Outstanding Male Performer
three times and holds the relays'
high school, college and invita-
See HUFFMAN, p. 13, col. 1
Alan Lehman/KANSAN
Huffman vaults in competition Saturday at the Kansas Relays. Although Huffman won both pole vault events, he failed to qualify for the Olympic trials when he missed his attempt at 18 feet 3 inches.
KU appears ready to ax degree program
By Brenda Finnell
Personnel administration will probably no longer be a degree program at the University of Kansas after next fall, said James B. Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences.
The personnel administration program stopped admitting new students this semester. About 800 students are now majoring in the program, and they will be allowed to complete their degrees.
Carothems said that the task force studied the program's future would likely recommend a beginning of pre-termination procedures post-fall discontinuation.
Task force probably will follow Regents lead, end personnel administration major
A Board of Regents staff review in
November instructed that program admissions be stopped by fall 1989. It also requested that the college present a plan by this fall outlining the program's future.
Carothers said that the task force committee members had no disposition for revision of the program, so
One reason the program has problems is because of retiring faculty, said James Drury, director of the undergraduate personnel administration. Some staff members are also busy teaching in other subject areas.
that it could remain a free-standing program.
Developing and expanding existing departments is a possibility, Carothers said. Such expansions would allow students interested in related courses to take them, even though no major existed.
The curriculum now includes courses in math, political science, sociology, psychology, communications, economics and business.
Discontinuation procedures can take up to a full academic year, Carothers said.
After the procedures are complete
which would probably be April or
May 1989, current personnel admini-
tration majors would have three
academic years to complete their
degrees.
Last spring, 435 students were majoring in personnel administration. Carothers said a large number of students came forward as majors after the admissions moratorium was announced.
"It was almost like when a bank is going to fold, when there is a run to make deposits," he said.
Carothers said he encouraged freshmen to consider other majors.
Drury said he was sorry that the program would probably not be an option for students anymore.
Death toll up to 69 in Tripoli bombing
The Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — The death toll from Lebanon's worst car bombing in three years climbed to 69 yesterday after 15 of the wounded died in hospitals. One man was killed but alive from a wrecked building.
Tripoli's eight hospitals were filled to capacity with casualties, and morgues were "packed with corpses," police said.
Local officials in the northern port city declared two days of public mourning for the victims of Saturday's explosion in a crowded vegetable market that knocked down buildings and set dozens of cars ablaze.
Police said 111 people were wounded from the blast in the low-income Tabbaneh district of Tripoli, the country's second-largest city. Radio stations broadcast urgent appeals for blood.
Civil defense rescue teams who clawed through the rubble during the night called on their search early yesterday after dragging the 33-year old survivor, a grocer, to safety about midnight, police reported.
Wescoe cafeteria renovation should begin in fall 1989
Rv Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
Plans to renovate the Wescoe Terrace cafeteria are in line for some time next fall, according to facilities planning and KU concessions officials.
Bob Derby, manager of KU concessions, said, "Many members of the faculty, students and staff may have expectations that the caterer will be hospital, which is not what is being hoped. At least not in the near future."
Renovations include upgrading kitchen equipment and remodeling the ordering line and dining areas.
The remodeling will be split into two phases. Phase I, which is estimated to cost $190,000, will include upgrading of equipment and the old equipment.
About $60,000 of that will be used
for construction of a storage area, an office and employee break room and the remodeling of kitchen and new service lines. The office and employee break room will be in the northwest corner of the cafeteria, where a few tables and vending machines are located now.
The other $130,000 will consist of new equipment, tables, chairs, salad bars and other additions. Derby said, "We are planning to have more seating space by building an
At a Dec 2, 1987, meeting, original plans specified that bids for Phase I would be received for construction and the final construction would begin on May 20, 1988.
Remodeling for Phase I has been approved by the Board of Regents.
Phase II would involve adding more seating space by building an extension onto the terrace.
"Those dates were rather ambitious dates." said Allen Wiechert.
University director of facilities planning.
"It probably won't happen this summer. The architect for the project hasn't been selected by the state but has taken a longer time to get through."
"In 30 days, an architect should be chosen; then in about three months or so, we should have the drawings," Wiechert said. "The bids will then be approved for about 30 more days. It will probably be fall before the project is bid."
State statute requires a certain process to be followed in the planning of construction projects.
"We have to prepare a scope of work, advertise for two weeks for the architect," Wiechert said. "The options are reviewed by the state building commission, and then a committee also has to review the
choices before one is chosen. All of
that takes an amount of time."
Phase II will not be considered until at least January of 1990.
"Plans may involve a greenhouse addition similar to what some fast food places have done, but that may present a problem with the heating and air conditioning of those spaces." Wiechert said.
Derby said that he considered the new construction and equipment upgrading to be more important than additional seating.
"Most of our patrons get what they want from the service line and then move out," Derby said. "Our idea is to serve as many of the people as possible, as quick as possible. Some people may not siting or not really a problem."
Where Wescoe cafeteria could use more space and upgrading, however,
us in the kitchen. The existing equipment has been used since 1974 and is in need of improvement.
Bob Moody, public information officer for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said the first batch of food service cafeteria was in October of 1987.
"we definitely did encourage them to do some upgrading." Moody said. One specific notation was that they needed to install a hood over a fryer.
"The air-handling system doesn't work properly." Derby said. "It is always very warm in the kitchen. We have had health inspections where the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has said that we need to make some changes. There was a particular issue that had also been using the fryers without the proper exhaust system."
"In our view, there are some things that need to be done to bring the kitchen area up to modern-day standards."
Derby said, "We won't ever have a grill because there is no way we could get adequate exhaust to use it."
Currently, grilled food for Wescoa cafeteria is transported from the concessions area in the football stadium.
Part of the remodeling costs may involve a cooking system that bakes, fries and boils foods without using cooking grease or water, which would lower the risk of fire and erase the need for an exhaust system.
However, Wiechert said that improvements would be included in the Phase I upgrading but that there wasn't enough space to add a lot of new equipment.