Wednesday March 23,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 118 (USPS 650-640)
Holding on tight
Holding on tight
Pictures from Saint John's School, 1298 Kentucky St. learn the difference between playing with a parachute in the school gymnasium and playing with it outside on a windy day.
Congress upholds rights bill Both chambers reject Reagan's veto, Supreme Court ruling
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congress overrode President Reagan's veto of a major civil rights bill yesterday, ending a four-year battle to restore broad protection for women, minorities, the elderly and the handicapped.
A 73-24 vote in the Senate, followed by a 292-133 vote in the House, handed Reagan a severe political defeat and reversed a 1984 Supreme Court decision that sharply restricted the reach of four anti-discrimination statutes
The votes in both chambers exceeded the two-thirds majority needed to enact a law over a presidential veto. It was the ninth time Congress had reelected a Reagan veto.
the White House pledged to enforce the new law.
Reagan had called it a federal "power grab."
"We presented an alternative civil rights act which stated the president's strong views against discrimination in this country," a White House statement said. "The Congress chose to override the president's veto. We will work to implement the new law."
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said, "People who voluntarily take federal funds have an obligation to treat everybody else fairly." He supported the rationale of lawmakers who have been pressing for the Civil Rights Restoration Act since the high court ruling.
court ruling. The court said only specific programs or activities receiving federal aid had to comply with four major civil rights laws.
The restoration act bars discrimination by institutions, government agencies and some corporations that receive any federal aid. That means if a college physics department, for example, receives federal assistance, the entire college would fall under the civil rights laws.
would that Reagan and his congressional allies supported a less sweeping alternative, arguing that the act went far beyond simple restoration. They said it would curtail religious liberty and expand federal control over the private sector.
"it's a blank check to the bureaucats and the litigators," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
But House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, said in a statement that Reagan's veto was "wholly unnecessary and it provoked an unnecessary confrontation. The new law will not end illegal discrimination. But it does represent a step forward in making America truly a land of equal opportunity for all."
opportunity for it.
Supporters in the House erupted into cheers and applause when the two-thirds mark was reached.
In the Senate, the mood was more subdued.
in the Senate, the most important Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who was chief Senate sponsor of the bill, said the Senate had demonstrated that "this country does not want to retreat on protections of rights for the American people."
The opposition leader, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uah,
said, "Sometimes you win some, and sometimes
you lose some. That's the nature of our process."
Ralph Neas, executive director of the 185-group Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, called the votes "a bipartisan reaffirmation of civil rights and a bipartisan repudiation of the civil rights extremism of the Reagan-Bush administration."
Shultz, Shevardnadze talk again
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze had a session yesterday on nuclear arms control and human rights and opened a satellite link with Moscow to reduce the risk of accidental war.
The Associated Press
Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne L. Ridgway said Monday that there were "blanks" in the information both sides submitted.
She said many disagreements remained.
Shultz and Sheardnadze intended to continue their preparations for the next superpower summit meeting. A date — speculation centers on late May — might be set after Sheerdnadze calls on President Reagan today at the White House.
During the day, Shultz and Shevardnadze received brief reports from U.S. and Soviet arms control experts. Discussion of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, wars in
which the two superpowers have armed rival forces, were deferred until today.
Shultz has been pressing the Soviets to relax their emigration restrictions and liberalize cultural and religious practices. The Soviets, on the other hand, have made a point of the homeless problem in the United States and what they describe as a poor civil rights record.
In a brief exchange with reporters, Shevardnadze backed away from a Soviet pledge to withdraw the Red
Taking a break from their daylong talks, Shultz and Shevardnadze presided at the opening of a new communications center designed to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
Army from Afghanistan even if negotiators failed to agree on conditions for ending the war there.
The center is linked by satellite to Moscow for the rapid transmission of text and graphics. The aim is to prevent nuclear war by miscalculation or accident.
Researchers study premature babies
By Susan L. Feightner
lobby's mother searched desperately for information about premature babies. She found none.
Toby Jennings weighed only two pounds, six ounces when he was born. He was four months premature, and his parents were warned that he might not have a brain and that he might not survive.
Special to the Kansan
Toby did survive, and his recovery has helped researchers at the University of Kansas learn more about developmental problems that can affect premature babies.
"I was told by Toby's doctors to expect the worst and hope for the best," Toby's mother, Debra, said. "After 18 months of involvement with the Infant Study Center at KU, my fears about Toby have subsided tremendously."
Toby, now 21 months old, is one of more than 350 infants participating in the Kansas Infant Development Project at the KU Infant Study Centers. One of the centers is on the Lawrence campus; the others are at the Regents Center in Overland Park and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The KID project, a five-year research project, is financed by the National Institute of Health. It began in October 1985 and is halfway complete.
"The goal of the project is to study the developmental patterns of the premature baby," Marion O'Brien, project coordinator. said. "We're looking for behavioral differences between full-term infants and premature ones."
Premature infants and their parents are recruited at area hospitals. Once the infant's condition has stabilized, testing begins and continues in three- to four-month intervals until the infant reaches 18 months of age. Parents are allowed to choose the study center site that is most convenient for them.
The infants are evaluated through various forms of testing, O'Brien said. Some of the specific levels that are measured are behavioral organization, visual and auditory skills, motivation levels, communication and fine motor skills.
and he had told me.
O'Brien said it was still too early to draw any conclusions about the data collected at this time.
She said that her assistants could recognize and monitor whether an infant was performing below normal standards for its age.
"If we see a child isn't performing at normal standards, we discuss it with the parents," O'Brien said. "We may make suggestions, but we don't intervene. We are only doing research. We usually will suggest that they talk with their pediatrician."
Toby Jennings's parents hope that their involvement in the project will help others with premature babies, what can be expected of their infant.
"Our involvement in the project has been very educational for us, but more importantly, it has given us a wonderful peace of mind about our son," Jennings said. "We feel very fortunate."
Students will pay more for KU all-sports tickets Admission to baseball games added to package
Bv Elaine Sung
Kansan sports writer
Next year's all-sports tickets will cost University of Kansas students $65, an increase of five dollars from this year's ticket price, officials in the KU ticket office said.
The baseball tickets are an addition to the package. This year, KU students with a KUID will be admitted at no charge to the home games. Starting next season, however, admission will be charged at the gate.
The package will include tickets for all Kansas home football, basketball and baseball games, as well as the Kansas Relays, said Diane Wehmever, ticket manager.
Applications for the 7,500 all-sports tickets will be available May 1 at the ticket office in Allen Field House. The forms also will be mailed to students' homes during the summer.
Although the moving of the Sept. 17 Kansas-Auburn football game from Lawrence to Auburn, Ala., had no effect on the price of the tickets, it decreased the cost of a football season ticket by $13. A season ticket will cost $76 next year.
All of this year's tickets were sold by the middle of the August enrollment period, Weehymeer said. There was no change in the number of available tickets.
Hob Frederick, KU athletic director, said officials at the Auburn University athletic department contacted him six weeks ago and said they wanted to switch the site of the game. The game was to have been played in Lawrence, creating a seven-game home schedule. Usually, the Jayhawks play only six games at home.
Auburn wanted another home game for its schedule and was willing to pay for it. The
original contract between KU and Auburn stated that the home team would pay the visiting team $100,000. The Auburn Tigers offered $400,000 for the Jayhawks to play in Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Applications for the 7,500 all sports tickets will be available May 1 at the ticket office in Allen Field House.
But with the home schedule that the Jayhawks have for the fall, it was mutually beneficial for the two schools to switch the site of the games. Konzem said.
Frederick consulted Glen Mason, KU football coach, and other administrators within the department before agreeing to the switch.
Richard Konzem, assistant KU athletic director, said the University was concerned that increased prices for tickets might have driven away some season ticket buyers.
“Finances being what they are, it was an opportunity we couldn't lose,” Frederick said. “With our schedule of seven home games, that would put us at $89 per ticket. We felt that $76 was a little more reasonable and would be much easier to sell the tickets at that price.”
"Sometimes you can price yourself out of some sales," he said. "We want to sell as many season game tickets as we can. They were willing to pay us, and we still have an attractive schedule."
The Jayhawks have home games against Baylor, New Mexico State, Nebraska, Colorado. Kansas State and Missouri.
Konzem said that Kansas was still talking to Auburn about scheduling a game in Lawrence between the two teams sometime in the 1990s.
Alan Lehman/Special to the KANSAP
A higher calling
Bob Duvall, of the Maranatha Campus Ministries, speaks on Wesco Beach about music. The ministries presents a lecture tonight in Smith Hall on singer Steve Winwood, whom Duvall called a "secular prophet." Winwood's song, "Higher Love," expressed feelings that young people understood but were unable to express, Duval said.
Russ Piacek, Wichita junior and host of KJHK's JayTalk 91, said Monday that he decided not to broadcast the show that began a controversy on campus in mid-February.
"The issues involved have been covered enough through the newspapers and through the free speech forum." Ptacek said. "Everything that we would cover in our thirty-minute show has been covered ten times over."
Pitcke said that a taped interview with two Klan members from the Missouri Knights had already been done but that because of the free speech forum two weeks ago he would not broadcast the show.
Pitacek's show, which involved bringing members of the Klan to campus, was moved off campus in late February by the faculty involved after protests by the black community.
Radio host says KJHK will cancel KKK show
By a Kansan reporter
A radio program dealing with free speech and the Ku Klux Klan has been canceled because the issue has already been covered, the host of the program said Monday.
Ptaeke said that his decision was not made under pressure.
John Broholm, KJHK faculty news adviser, said that the decision had been made by Piacek.