Wednesday March 2,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 108 (USPS 650-640)
Lack of funds may postpone public forum
By Joel Zeff
Kansan staff write
The free speech forum that would bring the Ku Klux Klan to campus could be postponed because of a lack of funds for security, the spokesman for the student organization sponsoring the forum said yesterday.
The spokesman, Michael Foubert, director of Slightly Old Americans for Freedom, said that KU police had quoted a figure for security that was too expensive. Foubert declined to specify what the figure was.
He said that he might need more funds to pay for security but could not ask Student Senate because its meeting would be after the scheduled forum.
"I'm between a rock and a hard place," Foubert said. "If the KU police stick with the quote they gave me, then we would have to postpone the event. We'll just have to wait and see."
The plans for the forum, which would be a panel discussion on free speech, were announced Monday by Foubert. The forum is scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union's Woodruff Auditorium.
Foubert said yesterday that Pete Rowland, associate professor of political science, would participate in the forum.
Rowland acknowledged that he would participate but would not comment further.
Foubert said that the other confirmed participants in the forum included two members of the Missouri Knights and Ted Frederickson, associate professor of journalism. Foubert also said he was attempting to get another journalism professor and representatives from the black community.
Foubert said Monday that Diana Prentice, instructor in communications, had been confirmed as the moderator for the forum. But Prentice said yesterday that there had been a misunderstanding and that she was unconfirmed.
Prentice said that she had talked to Foubert yesterday about the misunderstanding and that she was concerned about the lack of participants in the forum.
"I view it as a discussion on free speech. With what he has now, I don't see that happening." Prentice said.
"If the other people confirm, then I will think about it."
Local black leaders said that they were concerned about the forum but would not comment on possible protests against the forum.
The Rev. William A. Dulin, president of Ecumenical Fellowship, said that he would not comment on any action the black community might take.
"I am very disappointed. They said one thing and did something else. I felt we were on the way to progress. Evidently, nothing has changed." Dulin said.
Both Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, were out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he hoped the sponsors of the forum would use the First Amendment responsibly.
"I hope this is more than just an act to show, 'Yes, we have this right.' There is a responsibility to any freedom and to any right," Brinkman said.
However, Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, said the purpose of the forum was only to give the Klan a platform to speak on campus.
"I have less of a problem with the student group inviting them than I did with the official invitation to the classroom during Black History Month. I will tolerate them, but they will be protested." Adams said.
Two members of the Missouri Knights, a Klan affiliate, were scheduled to appear on JKHK's JayTalk 91 and in a journalism class two weeks ago. Both visits were moved to off-campus locations.
Wayne Webb, president of the Black Student Union, said that he was unset with the idea of the forum.
"They are finally getting what they want. I hope they're happy." Webb said. "Apparently, nobody gives a damn about our feelings, or the Jewish feelings or other minorities."
How many?
Maggie Berg, Leavenworth sophomore, tries to guess how many jelly beans fill the jar at the entrance to Union Square in the Kansas Union. The jar was one of several drawings that attracted people to the third floor of the Union yesterday. The person who comes closest to the actual number of jelly beans receives a microwave oven.
Robertson wants end of libel suit
The Associated Press
SARASOTA, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson said yesterday that he would drop his libel suit against former Rep. Pete McCloskey rather than go to trial on Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the primary season.
Robertson, who was accused of avoiding combat duty in the Korean War through his father's influence, said he wanted to take the case to voluntary arbitration in an effort to clear his and his father's names. But he said that if McCloskey refused to do that, he would drop the suit anyway.
McCloskey's lawyer, George Lehner, said that a proposal to arbitration was rejected by Robertson's lawyers nine months ago and that to propose it on the eve of the trial "is a little disingenuous" and "a red herring."
Lehner has said repeatedly that McCloskey would not agree to settlement in the case unless Robertson paid legal fees, estimated at $400,000, piled up by the former congressman.
"We are prepared to go to trial." Lehner said after learning of Robertson's announcement. "If he wants to drop the suit," the lawyer said, Robertson must "pay the legal fees" byMcCloskey to defend the case.
McCloskey said it was "not for him (Robertson) to decide" to drop the suit, saying he would oppose any motion by Robertson to dismiss the case.
"I would rather go to trial." McCloskey said in a telephone interview. "He's called me a liar all over the United States. I would much prefer there be a verdict as to which of us has told the truth."
Robertson's $35 million suit accuses McCloskey of defaming him in a widely publicized letter contending that the former television evangelist had used the influence of his father, the late Sen. A. Willis Robertson, to avoid combat duty in the Korean War as a Marine Corps officer.
The case had been scheduled for Tuesday, the same date as Republican primaries and caucuses in 17 states.
“In order to compete in that trial, I would have to break off my campaign today and run the risk of losing Florida, Texas, South Carolina and other parts of the South,” Robertson said at an airport news conference.
KU considers sharing periodicals
Rising subscription costs, dollar devaluation cause shortage
By Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
KU'might join nine universities in the region in an effort to ensure access to periodicals that individual universities cannot afford because of inflation and devaluation of the U.S. dollar abroad.
Clinton Howard, assistant dean of libraries, said that many serial and journal subscriptions had been canceled because of serious financial difficulties.
Rising subscription costs and the devaluation of the dollar inspired the universities to attempt to unite so that each important journal would be kept by at least one university library in the region.
Under the plan, universities would share copies of journals that cost more than $200 a year. The universities came up with the plan at a meeting Feb. 10 at the University of Kansas.
Attending the meeting were Iowa State University, the University of Missouri, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, the University of Wyoming, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Oklahoma.
As a preliminary step, each library is sending the titles it has from a list of 6,000 periodicals to a data base at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Charlene Grass, associate dean of libraries at K-State, said she thought an alliance of universities could help overcome the problems of cancellations of serials.
"Each university should try to maintain its core periodicals, but I think sharing the peripheral titles would work very well," she said.
By the end of March, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln should have all of the data from the libraries. Then, another meeting is planned to decide whether the libraries should proceed with the plan, Howard said.
Another option or addition to the network might be the development of electronic document transmission. Howard said such systems were expensive but ultimately would be less expensive than subscribing to journals with escalating yearly costs.
"There is some possibility for a cooperative arrangement to work out, but the existence of copyright law really does limit how much libraries can do," he said. "It would be better than no access, though."
Howard said copyright law limited the number of copies that libraries could trade to six copies of a publication within one year.
Devaluation of the U.S. dollar has hurt library subscriptions and acquisitions the most, Howard
“Out of a $3 million budget for fiscal year 1986, the library has spent 40 percent of it in foreign currencies,” he said. “For every percentage point the dollar has declined, we’ve been losing about
$12,000 to foreign publications."
Last year, the library had to cancel $200,000 in periodicals and subscriptions. Howard said.
Book acquisitions also are down. During the last fiscal year, the library has decreased acquisitions by more than 30 percent, from 49,000 acquisitions in fiscal year 1987 to a projected 34,000 acquisitions in fiscal year 1988.
Even with the cuts, the library has still gone $200,000 over its $2.8 million budget for fiscal year 1988. Howard said.
The biggest hope for the library now depends on full funding for the Marinet of Excellence plan.
Ward Brian Zimmerman, director of budget, said that if full financing were provided, KU libraries would receive $350,000 from the state, $100,000 of which would be specifically for acquisitions, including books and subscriptions.
KU libraries also would receive the equivalent of 11 additional full-time positions and $61,000 to increase librarian salaries. Also, the new science library would receive $100,000 and the equivalent of four full-time positions.
"For fiscal year 1987, we increased the acquisitions budget by 2 percent," Zimmerman said. "But prices of domestic subscriptions rose over 9 percent, and the price of foreign journals really hurt us, with an increase of 30 percent."
"The University library has a very high priority with the administration, and we provide what we can, even though it may not be enough for their needs."
Shultz preparing to resume Middle East peace mission; Hussein praises U.S. efforts
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Secretary of State George Shultz appeared last night on the verge of a decision to resume his diplomatic shuttle in the Middle East after reporting to President Reagan.
A U.S. official said King Hussein of Jordan told Shultz at a meeting in London earlier yesterday that he was interested in Shultz's effort to set up Arab-Iraeli negotiations.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Hussein did not directly endorse the U.S. initiative but told Shultz he appreciated the effort being made to open talks.
A statement issued by the Jordanian Embassy in London said Hussein had reiterated Jordan's position that an international peace conference should be attended by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Britain and France — and "all parties to the
Shultz arranged to confer with Reagan before the president began his talks in the Belgian capital.
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Israel was willing to exchange for peace those parts of the occupied territories not crucial to its security, but Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has opposed the arrangement. The two men are partners and rivals in Israel's tenuous coalition government.
conflict, including the Palestine Liberation Organization."
The concept of trading territory for peace is an element of the new U.S. proposals that Shultz has pursued in the past week.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, in his first comment on his talks with Shultz, said yesterday that he had reservations about the U.S. plan and that he would disclose them only after a final formula was reached.
Mubarak and Shultz conferred Sunday in Egypt.
Professor studies effects of society's new tests on individual
Bv Brenda Finnell
A computer spits out a number, and immediately someone is sent to the employee area. The corresponding worker is tapped on the shoulder, taken out of line and asked to produce a urine sample for a drug test.
Kansan staff writer
This scenario is the way some random drug testing occurs, said Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology. Hanson is studying the role that testing plays in contemporary society.
By studying things such as drug testing, lie detection and aptitude testing, Hanson hopes to discover how humans define themselves as persons through tests.
"As we are increasingly known to other people and ourselves through testing, we are somewhat fragmented as personalities," he said.
Some people are interested in a person's scholarly aptitude or whether he can pass a driver's exam. Others want to know whether he takes drugs or tells the truth, Hanson
said.
"We seem not ever to be reconstituted as whole human beings, certainly not by the organizations we work in, ideal with in mass society," he said.
Hanson said that he was not attempting to make value judgments about testing but that he wanted to look at society as an objective scholar and see how testing affects it.
Hanson studied drug testing last summer and lie detection tests the summer before. He will go on sabbat-
next year to work on his research. He said that he expected it would occupy much of his time for the next couple of years.
He said he planned to use his research to write a book on testing in
Most of Hanson's research is done through personal interviews in the Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City areas. He observes organizations and individuals who conduct testing, including manufacturing, transportation, chemical and heavy industry
The term technology of power
companies and athletic organizations.
"I try to get something of a perspective, from those who give the tests, those who order them to be given and the employees who take them." Hanson said.
Hanson said that he got the theoretical inspiration for his research after studying Michel Foucault, who wrote about the change in the "technology of power" after the early 19th century.
refers to how people's behavior is controlled by encouraging socially acceptable behavior and discouraging socially unacceptable behavior.
Before the 19th century, the masses observed proper role models such as George Washington and improper ones such as Attila the Hun and then conditioned their behavior to be similar to the good model. Hanson said.
But in the early 19th century, a dramatic shift took place, Hanson
See TEST, p. 11, col. 1