THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday March 30.1988
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No.123 (USPS 650-640)
Dole quits presidential race
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole ended his campaign for president yesterday, saying he was "bloodied but unbowed" by the series of bruising primary losses that finished his candidacy.
Dole withdrew before a supportive audience of Senate and House colleagues and offered congratulations to the all但一antoned GOP nominees.
Dole had signaled for days that he was ready to how to the inevitable.
"My friends know that I am a fighter; I don't like to lose," the Kansas senator said. "I have been beaten before and no doubt will be again. But I have never been defeated and never will be."
"One thing you learn how to do pretty well in our business is to count," he said in his withdrawal announcement. "You come to trust your instincts to tell you when it's time to say my heart, I know the time is now."
"So I return to the Senate as the Republican leader, . . . ready to do all I can to elect Republicans in November and doing all I can for our nominee, George Bush."
Bush, in Wisconsin, said he had telephoned Dole to thank him for a "very generous statement." He added, "It been a hard-fought campaign, and I respect the tenacity of Bob Dole."
Pat Robertson, in a statement
patred from his headquarters in
Chicago, criticized the decision.
State GOP will back nominee
Bv Iill less
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden and state Republican party chairman Fred Logan Jr. said yesterday that they were disappointed with Bob Dole's withdrawal from the presidential race but that the state party would support whoever was nominated.
The two spoke at a news conference at the state GOP headquarters here after Dole's announcement of his withdrawal.
"While today's news is disappoiwe, we point the same pride in Senator Dole as we did the morning of November 9, when we gathered in Russell," Hayden said.
Dole kicked off his campaign in Russell, his hometown.
first ballot as a show of support
Logan said Kansas delegates to the Republican National Convention in August in New Orleans would cast a vote for Dole on the
He said he had told all but one of the 34 delegates to the Republican National Convention of the party's plan.
By the Republican by-laws, the delegates now are technically uncommitted. Logan said.
But both Hayden and Logan said that if Vice President George Bush were the nominee at the national election, he would be a Republican. Republicans would govern him.
Ken Martinez, chairman of the Douglas County Republican central committee, said he thought the vice president was the best choice now that Dole had withdrawn.
magnificent competitor." The former television evangelist, with almost no delegate support, conceded that it seems obvious" that that he nominee but said anew that he wouldn't withdraw from the GOP contest.
"His experience is incredible," he said. "I think he'd make a great president."
Hayden said that the Dole campaign had not had strategic problems but that a reported lack of organization might have
accounted for the senator's difficulties.
Robert McCurdy, chairman in the Russell chamber of commerce and an avid Dole supporter, said Mr. McCurdy's Russell were disbanded by the news.
But he said the news was not a surprise.
"We may not be the most sophisticated politically, but we can read the newspaper." McCurdy said.
He also said he would support whoever the Republican nominee was
McCurdy had traveled with the Dole campaign selling souvenirs supporting the senator. He said he had noticed a lack of organization when he traveled to four towns where he reported that to the campaign problems.
Logan said that although the campaign was over, it had strengthened the Republican party in Kapsas.
White House spokesman Marlin
Dole made his exit before an audience jammed into the Senate Caucus Room, a historic room where John F. Kennedy was installed as president, bid and the site of the Senate Watergate hearings 15 years ago and the
ira-ncontra hearings a year ago.
Fitzwater said that President Reagan had not changed his policy of neutrality, despite Dole's action.
Surveying the crowd and hearing an effusive introduction by Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., Dole began by saying, "Maybe I ought to change
Student health fees may be raised $12
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
Students could end up paying $12 more a semester for health care under a request from Watkins Hospital to raise the student health fee.
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night unanimously approved the request, which will go before the full Senate April 6.
Hospital officials said the fee increase, the first one in five years, was necessary to maintain current standards of treatment.
"We feel we're doing quality work and we would like to continue that," said James Boyle, assistant director of the hospital. "We want to make students feel good and proud of the health service."
Boyle said the fee increase also was necessary to dispel rumors about confidentiality problems arising from students who work in the health center.
Stephanie Quincy, student body president, said she had received reports that some students who worked in the Watkins admissions office, clinic, and lab of lice had made contact with that they had access to student medical records. Hospital officials could not confirm these reports.
The increase, which would raise the health fee from $68 to $68, would go to increase salaries of Watkins employees by about seven percent. It
also would add three medical staff positions and increase the hospital's insurance coverage.
In addition, seven full-time employees would replace 22 students who worked in sensitive record areas. The number of students working in these areas fluctuates each semester.
Ray Walters, associate director of the hospital, said he knew of no problems with breaches of confidentiality, but he said that some students' perception of the hospital had changed and that denying students access to records could improve the hospital's image.
"In order to meet the needs of the students, I think it is necessary we do that." Walters said. "We had no instances where there was a compromise of confidentiality, but we were concerned, too."
As long as the health service informed students of personnel changes, the health-fee increase could be justified, said John Penny, Finance committee member. He also said that keeping students from handling records was necessary.
Committee examines need for honor code in School of Business
"I was for this to clear up all the rumors go around," Penny said. "With a little more professionalism in staff, you would get rid of all that."
The Board of Regents has final approval of the proposed fee increase and will consider it at its next meeting.
Kansan staff writer
By Dayana Yochim Kansan staff writer
The path to academic success for some of Larry Sherr's students is not inspiration or perspiration.
"On three out of four surveys, over half said they had cheated on an exam at KU," he said. "One on one, over one third said they had."
For the past few years Sherr, a professor of business, has distributed the Anonymous Random Response Survey to find out if his students have ever cheated on an exam at the University of Kansas.
Sherr said those results were not unusual when he compared them with the results of similar surveys at other universities.
"The problem we have here, I
them also a national problem."
Sherry said.
To deal with the problem of cheating, the School of Business is trying to determine if it needs to establish a student honor code.
The only KU school with a student honor code is the School of Law.
An honor code is a set of guidelines and rules that establish the standards of student conduct. The code is given to students, but it also give a moral obligation not to break it.
David Shulenberger, associate dean of business, said that a student
honor code was one way to deal with academic misconduct.
"I don't believe cheating is any worse in the business school than in any other school on campus," Shulenberger said. "Something needs to be done about academic misconduct at this University in general."
Sulenberger, Sherr and Kenneth Cogger, professor of business, organized the Honor Code Committee, with business school associations.
Sue Ann Hong, committee member and New Buffalo, Mich., senior, said the committee was still trying to find other students wanted an honor code.
"This is not going to happen overnight," Hong said. "We can't just impose an honor code on students. We are going to ask them what they think the student's and teacher's obligations are."
Hong said that some of her peers were skeptical about the establishment of an honor code but that she thought it would be valuable.
The Honor Code Committee will conduct a meeting to discuss the development of the code. The meeting is open to all business students.
"A degree is much more valuable if you know you got it honestly," Hong said.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. April 7 in 427 Summerfield.
Snake tales
Joseph T. Collins, a zoologist with the KU Museum of Natural History and an author and editor, shows a bullsnake to the Hillcrest Elementary School Cub Cup pack no. 3053. Collins told the scouts
Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN
last night that snakes weren't as bad as people made them out to be and that they served useful purposes. He also dispelled popular ideas about treating a snake bite.
Mountain lures student into ordeal
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
"At 4 o'clock Sunday morning, I,
heard a tent zipper, and I thought,
a tent, that means warmth," he
said. "Then, I heard myself saying,
I've been lost in the mount,
and I'm not sure where to sit
in your tent where it's warm."
After sleeping in a warm place for the first time in more than 90 hours, Kun, Topeka sophomore, was finally on his way home.
After spending four days and nights lost in Arizona's Rincon mountains last week, David Kun heard a sound that told him his ordeal was ending.
Kun said it was about 9 a.m. when he left their car, which was parked in a dry river bed, to explore and climb a mountain.
"I call it a mountain, but out there, they call it a hill," he said. He found a stream while he was
climbing, and because of the heat, he decided to strip down to cut-off shorts to take a swim. Tucson authorities said the area had been having a record heat wave and temperatures had reached about 100 degrees during the day.
Kun came back down the mountain to where his T-shirt and boots were, but the heat forced him to find a boulder large enough to shade him from the sun, he said. Kun stayed there for about four hours, until the sun started going down.
After the swim, he continued climbing, clad only in the shorts and without shoes. he said.
Kun reached the top of the mountain by about noon, he said, and by then, his back was starting to be badly sunburned. He later learned that he had suffered third-degree burns.
"I went back to where I parked the car in a dry river bed, but I was in the wrong river bed," Kun said. After he realized he was lost, Kun began retracing his steps.
"When the night crept up on me,
I couldn't distinguish one mountain from the other," he said.
"That's when I lost my bearings." For the next four days, Kun lived on nothing more than water from mountain streams and a handful of chocolate chai cookies.
Sgt. Jim Kermse of the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office, said Kun hiked at least 30 miles over the mountains while he was lost.
Kermse, who investigated the incident, said Hurst told him she was in voice contact with Kun for much of the first morning. When Kun didn't return for lunch, she drove to a ranch and telephoned for help.
Kermse said that about 70 people spent four days searching for Kun but that their search area was about 10 miles southwest of the campground where Kun reappeared.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Arizona National Guard, the Southern Arizona Rescue Association, an Air Force helcopter and a mounted posse made up of local ranchers all participated in the search effort, Kermsse said. Kun said he heard that kids on mountain bikes also participated.
Kun returned to Lawrence last night after being released from St. Mary's hospital in Tucson yesterday morning.
He had been hospitalized for observation late Sunday, St. Mary's hospital officials said. He was sunburned over most of his body, was dehydrated, had lost 15 pounds to muscle deterioration and was bruised and marked by puncture wounds from cactus thorns.
Kun said that overnight temperatures in the mountains were in the upper 20s.
Kun said he stopped walking only for 15-to-20-minute sleep breaks.
"It was too cold to sleep at night, and during the day, I wanted to get back so bad that I just kept walking," he said.
"I was searching frantically for any hole, or anything, that I could get inside of to stay warm," he said. At one point, he climbed into a cave and pulled himself completely inside his T-shirt in an attempt to stay warm.
Military intervention possible in Panama, Reagan official hints
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration expressed growing impatience with the regime of Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega yesterday and hinted that U.S. military intervention was being considered to deal with the rapidly deteriorating situation there.
The Associated Press
President Reagan discussed with top advisers yesterday various options for dealing with the changed situation in Panama. Afterward, a White House official said no action was imminent.
"There are limits to our patience," presidential spokesman Martin Fitzwater said after a violent crackdown by Panama's military against opposition forces and the detention of several U.S. journalists.
"It has always been a principle that we will protect American citizens as best we can and, while we have said that we don't plan to go in militarily, it's also important to note that there are limits," he said.
According to an administration official who demanded anonymity, the meeting adjourned without any decisions being made on future action.
Several proposals for increasing pressure on Noriega were discussed but use of U.S. military force was not among them, the official said.
During the past month, administration actions have effectively cut off the flow of dollars into Panama, leaving the country near insolvency. Reagan has called on Noriega to step down.
On Monday, thousands of anti-government demonstrators were routed by government forces with the help of guards, tear gas and water cannon.
Later, security agents forced their way at gunpoint into the offices of four U.S. networks at a local hotel and confiscated tapes of the demonstration. Eight foreign journalists, including Americans, were detained for several hours before being released.