THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday March 1, 1988
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No.107 (USPS 650-640)
Klansmen invited to free speech forum
By Joel Zeff
Kansan staff writer
After two Ku Klux Klan visits to campus were canceled last week, a student organization spokesman said yesterday that the organization was sponsoring a forum on free speech that would bring the Klan to campus.
The spokesman, Michael Foubert,
Lawrence graduate student and director of
Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, said
yesterday that he was putting together a
forum on free speech, which would be held
Monday at 8 in n woodruff Auditorium.
"Part of being educated is being able to make a choice. In a university, you make choices." Fourbert said. "Choices lead to the education of the human being. We are
offering the students and University community the different sides of a particular issue."
Foubert said that the idea for the forum originated with the recent issues involving free speech on campus.
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 campus visits were canceled by the faculty involved and moved to off-campus locations.
The forum would be in a question and answer format, with Diana Prentice, instructor in communications, moderating the discussion. Foubert said.
Foubert said that the confirmed participants in the two-hour forum included two or three members of the Knights and Ted Frederickson, associate professor of journalism.
Foubert said that he was attempting to get another journalism professor, a political science professor and representatives from the black community to participate in the forum.
Rev. Leo Barbee, president of Ecumenical Fellowship, said that he had been contacted by Foubert but that he would not participate in the forum.
"There is no difference between what happened last week and this. They're just the same."
Barbee said that he would review the
situation before deciding how to respond to it.
"I think if you don't allow someone to speak, you diminish everyone's freedom of speech." Frederickson said.
redrickson said that he didn't know how people would react to the Klan's participating in the forum but hoped people would learn it and speak and then react to what they had said.
J. Allen Moran, exalted cyclops for the Missouri Knights and a possible participant in the forum, said yesterday that the forum was a step in the right direction.
"A torum atmosphere is nice, but we would like for once to address the entire student body." Moran said.
Moran, who said he planned to file a lawsuit this week against the University of Kansas for violating his right to free speech, said that Tom Robb, the Klan's national pastor, was traveling from Arkansas to participate in the forum.
Foubert said that he planned to limit the Khan to two representatives because he wanted them to be more involved.
Legislators seek to make paying for college easier
"There is a broader question if all sides participate. This is an opportunity for intellectual and rational communication," Foubert said.
See KLAN, p. 10, col. 4
By Elaine Woodford
Kansan staff writer
In response to decreased educational budgets and increased college expenses, state legislators have introduced two separate bills designed to boost endowment funds and encourage parents to plan for their children's future.
Because contributions to colleges and universities have declined since the stock market decline in October, one legislator wants to make donations to state colleges and universities more attractive to contributors.
State Rep. James Lowther, R- Emporia, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would give income tax credit for contributions to postsecondary educational institutions.
Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, said the bill would encourage more contributions to the University.
"I think it would be a positive thing. Other states have passed similar laws that have been very beneficial," he said. "It would be an additional benefit to contributors."
In addition to encouraging individuals to give money to universities, some legislators have come up with a plan to help parents save money for their children's education.
State Rep. Elaine Hassler, R-
Abilene, and State Rep. Rick Bowden, D-Goddard, are sponsoring a bill that would create the Kansas educational savings plan trust.
The trust would be a way for parents to start saving money for their children's education. Parents would not be the only ones who could invest in the trust. Companies, corporations and others who are interested in the trust could invest or donate to the trust.
Other legislative news p.3.
Both Hassler and Bowden agreed that the bill was created in response to the increased costs of college and the difficulty that middle-income families have in obtaining financial aid from other sources.
Under the bill, investors can purchase agreements with the trust and deposit funds into the trust which would earn interest. When the child is ready to enter college, a parent can withdraw money for tuition and other expenses.
the money from the trust plan could be used at any two- or four-year college or university in the state. Hassler said the bill might be amended to include trade or vocational schools.
Hassler said, "It is getting harder and harder, year after year, for parents as college expenses keep rising. We hope this would help parents plan for their children's education."
The trust would be administered by a seven-member board of directors, which would operate the trust much like a bank. The board would include one member each from the Board of Regents, the State Department of Education, Independent Colleges, the Associated Students of Kansas, the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System and two members from the general public.
Jane Hutchinson, KU director of ASK, asked ASK support the bill.
"Any plan that would encourage parents to plan ahead for their children's education has our support," she said.
Hutchinson said that there has been a significant problem with financial aid and that the KU financial aid office couldn't possibly handle all the requests.
Families whose incomes fall in the $25,000-$50,000 bracket find it very difficult to receive any type of aid.
"Families who might have three or four children to put through college and fall into that income bracket often fall through the cracks," she said.
Tutu arrested during protest
The Associated Press
Members of a procession Tutu and his colleagues had led recited the Lord's Prayer as police sprayed them with with jets of water and loaded them into vans.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other religious leaders from all races were arrested yesterday while kneeling near Parliament with a petition against government bans on anti-apartheid groups.
All of the detainees were freed within a few hours, and the churchmen said they would continue protests regardless of the consequences. Their petition referred to an order last Wednesday that prohited political activity by 18 major anti-partheid organizations.
Riot police blocked Tutu and two dozen other clergymen as they tried
to march toward Parliament from nearby St. George's Cathedral, the main Anglican church in central Cape Town.
They knelt and linked arms as a policeman called through a bullhorn that the gathering was illegal. Officers escorted the protesters into vans as others aimed jets from water cannons at scores of protesters who remained on the sidewalk praying and singing an African hymn.
After being told at a police station that charges might be filed later, the white, black, mixed-race and Indian clergymen were freed. The held a news conference at St. George's, which was surrounded by policemen.
"We are not defying the law," said Tutu, the black opponent of apartheid who won the 1884 Nobel Peace Prize. "We are obeying God. We also obey God every day."
The Rev. Allan Boesak, mixed
race president of the World Allice of Reformed Churches, said the white authorities would view the protest as "an act of subversion."
"We told the South African government that we had decided we would obedient to God," he said. "That is a higher law to us."
In the petition addressed to President P.W. Botha and Parliamen, the churchmen said in part, "No matter the consequences, we will explore every possible avenue for continuing the activities which you have prohibited other bodies from taking."
State Department spokesman Phyllis Oakley said in Washington that the United States condemned "the forceful repression of peaceful demonstrators. By criminalizing and suppressing the exercise of basic political and human rights, the South African government is shutting off avenues for non-violent change."
Catching ravs
Marla Rose, Wilmette, Ill., junior, basks in the sun in front of the Kansas Union while she waits for a bus. KU Weather Service is predicting mostly sunny skies and a high of 64 today but a 40 percent chance of rain tonight.
Parking board recommends changes
Plan would alter restrictions on visitors, residence halls
Ry Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
KU's parking board has recommended limiting visitor parking privileges to increase the use of new metered parking areas, Ray Moore, chairman of the parking board, said yesterday.
The recommendation includes other changes, such as restricting parking at Joseph R. Pearson Hall to residents only and allowing non-restricted parking at residence hall lots after 5 p.m. Friday instead of noon Saturday.
"The board's philosophy on the recommendation is that parking is quite an expense on campus, and it's not fair to students and faculty to subsidize visitor parking," Moore said.
If the recommendation is approved, it would eliminate the privilege allowing visitors two free parking tickets each year.
The proposal would provide visitor courtesy permits for no more than three hours. Visitors staying longer than that would be charged $1 from 7
a.m. to 1 p.m., $1 from noon to 5 p.m.,
or $2 for the day
"We need to get long-term visitors out of the stickered spaces and into metered spaces. We want them contributing either by pre-paying for a pass or by paying a quarter an hour. It's not right to have metered spaces empty," he said.
Moore said, "If we keep the same freebie parking for visitors, there will be no incentive for visitors to park at the long-term meters provided for their use.
Moore said the meters behind the Kansas Union would not be used by long-term visitors if the University continued to allow free guest parking.
Visitors would park at long-term meters only.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said the office had received complaints about the parking lots behind the Union and south of Robinson Center.
Half- and full-day passes for visitors would be good only at metered spaces.
" Their biggest concern is that they are parking in the back of the zoned
parking and are walking past empty metered stalls," she said. "There are still plenty of spaces, they are just being moved farther away.
"Hopefully, next year that will correct itself," Hutine said.
The plan was presented during the University Senate Executive Committee meeting Wednesday but faces several other hurdles before it can be implemented.
The change would raise more than $220,000 for fiscal year 1989, Moore said.
On Thursday, Moore will present the plan to the University Council. If adopted, the recommendation would face a public hearing sometime in April, where the public can express reservations or support of the plan.
It then must be approved by the executive vice chancellor and chancellor before it goes on to the Board of Regents for final approval.
Moore said, "If a viable objection is raised at any one of those steps, the recommendation would be struck for this year.
"Even if everything works with the timeline, the board will not implement changes until the beginning of
the next academic year," he said.
The plan would also change a privilege allowing visitors to park in residence hall lots for one hour during weekdays.
"The residence halls said they don't want to have hall monitors vouch for valid guests at the hall," Moore said.
The status of the JRP parking lot would be changed from use by all students with a residence hall pass to JRP use only.
"Last fall, we ran into a problem with parking at JRP," Moore said. "If a JRP resident left in the evening, there wouldn't be a spot for him to park. Residents were parking way down the hill because students from other halls were using JRP as a commuter lot."
Originally, in conjunction with other residence halls, JRP requested an all-dorm permit, so that residents of one hall could park in other residence hall lots, Hutline said.
"Because JRP was the closest lot to campus, it became evident that there would be a problem for the residents," she said.
Supreme Court agrees to hear drug test case
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday set the stage for its first ruling on mandatory drug testing, agreeing to decide whether the U.S. Customs Service can force applicants for drug-enforcement jobs to be tested.
The testing is defended by the Reagan administration as a necessary step in fighting drug smuggling.
Arguments in the case will be bared in the fall, and decision is likely.
The court said it would hear a challenge by a federal workers union that denounces the taking of urine samples from employees as a humiliating invasion of privacy.
The outcome will affect directly only those drug tests conducted by federal, state or local governments, not those by industry.
The National Treasury Employees Union, which is challenging the policy, welcomed the high court's action.
Union President Robert M. Tobias said the court's ruling would clear up "a legal and moral morass . . . and, we hope, destroy Reagan's plans for
wholesale testing of the federal work force."
The justices will review a ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court that the Customs Service tests are lawful.
The appeaes court said the tests might be considered searches but did not intrude unnecessarily on the privacy rights of workers.
The tests require workers to provide urine samples in restroom stalls as a person overseeing the procedure waits outside the stall.
The tests are given to those in the Customs Service applying for promotion to drug-enforcement jobs and to outside applicants for those jobs.
Government lawyers said the tests were important now because the Customs Services planned to recruit some 3,000 new employees, including many in the 18-25 age range, in which use of illegal drugs is most prevalent.
The tests were halted in 1986 after a federal trial judge ruled them unconstitutional and ordered them stopped.
But after the 5th Circuit court overruled the judge, the Supreme Court permitted the tests to resume in May.