Thursday April 7,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No.129 (USPS 650-640)
Senate to pay for forum Rule suspended to finance $3,200 security costs
Kansan staff writer
By Jeff Moberg
By two votes, Student Senate last night passed legislation that will pay for the security expenses resulting from the March 7 free speech forum that involved members of the Ku Klux Klan.
By passing the bill by a vote of 18-16, Senate agreed to pay the $3,208.06 to KU police for the security it provided, thus suspending a rule that prohibits Senate from funding an event that has already happened
Michael Foubert, director of Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, the group that sponsored the forum, hugged one of the senators who had sponsored the legislation after the vote was announced.
Referring to the rule suspension, Foubert said that Senate had been put on the spot but that he felt the group's situation was unique.
"I think it was a very difficult
decision for Senate to make, but I'm glad it's over," Foubert said.
Before Senate's meeting, the Student Senate Executive Committee voted not to place the bill on the agenda because of the rule suspension. The bill then needed a two-thirds majority of senators plus one quarter. The First motion to debate the bill failed to achieve the needed votes.
Foubert then lobbied about five senators who had voted against debating the bill, and another motion resulted. This time the vote was 22-1.
Under Senate rules, Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, had to cast the deciding vote, and she voted that the bill be debated.
Jason Krakow, student body president, said the rule suspension would cause the group did not support the Senate for funding. He also sym-
pathed with the position of the KU police because by University policy it had to charge the group for providing security at a special event.
"Security needed to be there," Krakow said. "This is a bill that needs to be paid. We don't want KU police to have to cut back on their budget simply because of a bad policy. The policy is something we're going to work on."
Don Hermesch, graduate senator, disagreed with Krakow and some senators who said that the forum needed to happen quickly to resolve growing racial unrest in the community. He also said the group could have postponed the forum, until Senate's assistance was requested and that Slightly Old Americans for Freedom should pay its own bill.
"If you're going to do something, then you should be able to back it up," Hermesch said. "From what I've seen, the forum didn't accomplish anything. The majority of the debate had already happened in the papers."
Also last night, StudEx asked that the Senate Elections Committee reconsider its decision regarding the dismissal of nine senatorial candidates from next week's elections because the committee made its decision without quorum. Quorum is the amount of members needed to operate.
Roger Templin, StudEx chairman,
said that because only three members of the committee attended Tuesday's meeting and made the decision, the only move the committee should have made was to adjourn.
According to Senate rules, at least nine of the committee's 17 members needed to be present to conduct business.
Templin said that StudEx recognized the decision even though a quorum was not present.
Newest champions to meet president
By a Kansan reporter
The Kansas men's basketball team will travel to Washington, D.C., to meet President Reagan at noon Monday at the White House.
The Jayhawks, 1988 NCAA national champions, will meet with Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., before meeting the president.
Both Dole, a KU graduate, and his wife, Elizabeth, a Duke graduate, attended the Final Four games at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
Dole called KU coach Larry Brown to offer congratulations after the Jayhawks defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 83-79 in the 50th NCAA tournament.
"It was very meaningful to me to hear from Senator Dole personally." Brown said. "I've always admired him very much."
Brown will travel to Atlanta on Thursday to receive the Naismith Coach of the Year award.
The Jayhawks also will be guests of the Kansas City Royals Sunday, when the Royals play the Detroit Tigers. Danny Manning, winner of the 1988 Wooden award, will throw the first pitch.
On Wednesday, the Jayhawks will be the guests of honor in the parade in downtown Lawrence. The parade will start at Seventh and Massachusetts streets and will continue south, ending in South Park at 12th and Massachusetts streets. The parade will begin at 4 p.m.
Janine Swiatkowski/KANSAN
Body Motion
Bob Berky, 1988 Professional Swarthout Society Resident
Artist, demonstrates movement exercises to a KU ballet
class in Robinson Center. Below, Berky helps Stacey Polack, Topela sophomore, keep her head still while she moves the rest of her body. He believes that "movement is a mental perception and a
physical reality."
'Alchemedians' performer visits KU as Swarthout resident artist
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
The dancers tried hard to keep their faces in a fixed position while swaying their bodies to the left and to the right. But Berky saw every nod. One dancer glanced to the floor and she got caught.
Bob Berky roamed among 13 students in a dance studio in Robinson Center yesterday, watching for moving heads.
Beryk said he began his entertainment career studying the French horn, but lost interest after spending some time playing in a conservatory. He is now widely respected as a traveling clown and mime artist. His business was mentioned in a notice as one-half of "The Alchemerians," the comedy duo that opened the KU New Directions series.
The students laughed, the tension eased, and Berky, the 1988 Swarthout Society Resident Artist, resumed his workshop.
"Don't care how your feet are," Berky said. "Don't look beautiful, just do the damn exercise."
Berky began his four-day tenure Monday with a performance and workshop for students at South Junior High School. Since then, he has demonstrated mime and movement skills for several local groups, including the Rotary Club, the Lawrence Senior Center, the Lawrence Arts Center and the Sallie Mae Corporation.
Sonia Baker, membership coordinator and head of the society's education program, said Berky's question would be a tough act to follow.
His final performance in Lawrence will be at 8 p.m. tonight at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. There will be no admission charge, but Berky said he does not want that to scare people off.
sored by the Swarthout Society will perform in Lawrence.
"We just love him," she 'said.
"He is spoiling me for every other year."
"It's free, but I'll still work hard." he said.
"I don't call myself a mime." he
said. "I'm not a mime in the true sense of the word. I've had little dance training, but I'm called a dancer of sorts because I do eccentric movements."
Berky said his labels as a mime and a dancer were not entirely accurate.
"Movement is a mental perception and a physical reality." Berkly told a University Dance Company class yesterday. "When you put them together, it becomes a spiritual reality. You have to put your human spirit into dance, or else no one will give a damn."
But eccentricity is not the only aspect of movement Berky teaches.
Berky's methods are a combination of what he was taught and what he developed himself. "As you work and learn, you boil methods together in your own kitchen," he said.
"He's great," she said. "He gives us another way to look at problems we deal with every day. We all work to find meaning through movement and any way of finding that meaning is wonderful."
Susan Grubb, instructor in ballet, said Berky had a refreshing style of training.
8 area people arrested for drug involvement
Two-year investigation brings bust
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
Six people were arrested yesterday in the largest local drug bust since July 1986.
The arrests are the result of an undercover investigation that was conducted intermittently in 1986 and 1987, Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said yesterday.
Flory said 14 arrest warrants were issued after the investigation. Eight people were charged.
Undercover officers purchased marijuana, cocaine methamphetamine and LSD during the investigation. Fourteen arrest warrants were issued after the investigation. Eight people have been arrested.
Jim Flory
The six people arrested and charged with drug-related crimes yesterday were:
Douglas County District Attorney
He said that undercover officers purchased marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD during the investigation but declined to say how much money was spent or to elaborate on the quantity of drugs seized.
John E. Couter, 27, 1520 Powers St. He was arrested on a felony
Flory said that officers from the KU police department, Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff's Office and Kansas Bureau of Investigation began making arrests about 6 a.m. yesterday.
■ Gregory B. Porter, 28, rural Perry. He appeared in Douglas County District Court yesterday to answer two felony charges of sale of marjuanja and was returned to Marjuanja County jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.
charge of sale or delivery of cocaine. He was released from the Douglas County Bank after posting $5,000 bond. Lonney R. Teichmann, 28, 1817 Brook St. He appeared in Douglas County District Court yesterday to answer three felony charges of sale or delivery of cocaine. He was returned to Douglas County jail in lieu of $15,000 bond.
- Victoria Kennedy, 23, 710 Locust St. She was arrested on felony charges of sale of marjana and sale of LSD. She was being held in Douglascounty County jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.
- William L. Klemme, 1340. 1401 E.15th St. He was arrested on a felony charge of sale of methamphetamine,
and was released on $5,000 bond.
and was released on $5,000 bond.
Robert M. Ramskill, 624, 94th St. He was arrested on two felony charges of sale of marijuana. He was released on $10,000 recognizance bond.
Flory said two warrants had been served earlier. The first person arrested was Duae Cook, 37, 304 N. Crestline Drive.
Cook appeared in Douglas County District Court March 17 to answer felony counts of possession of marjuana and possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
Cook was released March 18 on $5,000 bond.
Also arrested as a result of the investigation was Jerry Lander, 944 E. 19th St., who was charged March 30 with one count of delivery of cocaine and three counts of possessing cocaine with intent to sell. Lander was being held yesterday in lieu of $40,000 bond.
Hospital requests $12 fee increase
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
Students would have to pay $12 more a semester in health fees under a proposal that Student Senate passed last night.
Watkins Hospital officials requested the increase to maintain its current standards of treatment and to hire more full-time employees to replace student employees in sensitive positions.
Health fees are automatically included in tuition charges.
The Board of Regents will have the final say on the measure. If passed by the Regents, the request would be a major increase in health fees in five years.
With the fee increase, the hospital would be able to remove student workers from areas such as gynecology and admissions, where they have had access to confidential information or employees would assume those jobs.
James Strobl, director of Student Health Services, told the Senate that the students currently working in sensitive areas would not be fired.
Instead, those students would be reassigned to non-sensitive jobs in such places as the billing office. The hospital usually loses most of its student workers over the summer, Strobl said. He said new students would not be hired to fill the vacancies in sensitive areas.
Jason Krakow, student body president, said that he had heard many concerns that having students in
"The confidentiality problem would be significantly lessened with this change," he said.
areas where they were able to see sensitive test results threatened patients' privacy.
The fee increase, from $56 to $68,
also would move the hospital from a
projected $150,000 loss in fiscal year
1988 to a projected profit of more
than $16,000 in fiscal year 1989.
Ray Walters, associate director of Student Health Services, said the extra money would help the hospital meet its payroll and other operating costs during the summer when there was significantly less student fee money available.
Walters said that steadily increasing enrollment had allowed the hospital to keep the fee at $56 the past few years.
While the medical portion of the consumer price index and student insurance rates have risen more than 60 percent during the last five years, the health fee increase would reflect only a 25 percent increase during the same amount of time.
But Charles Yockey, chief of staff at the hospital, said that rapidly rising insurance and equipment costs have made the large jump necessary. Without the extra money, he said, the hospital would have to cut some of its programs and charge for such things as lab services, which currently are paid for by the student health fee.
By a Kansan reporter
Local man is victim of shooting
A 34-year-old Lawrence man was shot in east Lawrence last night.
Derrick Wayne Overly, 1600 Haskell Ave., received gunshot wounds to the right upper thigh, the right hand and the groin, to Rose Chop, nursing supervior at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
He was transported by ambulance to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri at about 11:39 p.m. Chop said.
Lawrence police said the shooting occurred outside an apartment at Edgewood Homes, 1600 Haskell shortly after 8 a.m. p.m. yesterday.
Police searched east Lawrence for about two hours for a man who was seen walking away from the shooting scene, but they were unable to locate the man.
Police said they were looking for a black male who is about 6 feet 3 inches tall. Police said witnesses told them the man was dressed in blue jeans and a short-sleeved blue t-shirt.
About 9 p.m., another man called police to report that someone who fit the description of the man who shot Overly had threatened him with a gun in the parking lot of a business in the 1100 block of East 13th Street.