Thursday February 11, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 94 (USPS 650-640)
Iran-contra case ready Walsh retains judge to handle challenges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh said yesterday that he was poised to bring criminal charges in the Iran-contra affair by hiring a former federal judge to fight legal challenges to possible prosecutions.
The "use immunity" conferred by Congress prohibits Walsh from using the immunized testimony of a witness, or any leads derived from it, as evidence against that person in a criminal proceeding.
Walsh, himself a former federal judge, announced in a statement that former U.S. District Judge Herbert J. Stern was being retained as a special outside counsel "to represent the Office of Independent Counsel in the course of any courtroom proceedings which may challenge a possible prosecution because of limited immunity grants by Congress."
These targets include retired Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter, who is a former national security adviser; Lt. Col. Oliver L. North; and arms dealer Albert Hakim.
A number of witnesses, including several targets of Walsh's investigation, gave testimony before Congress under limited grants of immunity from prosecution.
Walsh carefully insulated his staff from news coverage of the congressional hearings and filed under court seal evidence his investigation turned up to prove he was not relying on witnesses, even under limited monthly grants.
Court action challenging this procedure is expected from people who are expected to be inicted by Walsh's grand jury in the coming weeks.
Last month, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord unsuccessfully tried to force the grand jury that Walsh paneled to consider the congressional testimony of North and others that he contended would exonerate him.
Second, who appeared at the congressional hearings without immunity, also sought court permission to testify before the grand jury and refer to congressional testimony given under limited immunity grants.
Walsh successfully opposed Secord's attempt on the ground that it would taint the grand jury and the prosecutors, although the prosecutors on his staff were unable to read most of the legal briefs filed by Secord's lawyer.
A federal appeals court here yesterday rejected Secord's appeal of a U.S. District Court judge's decision in the case.
Meanwhile, Robert Gates, deputy CIA director, testified yesterday before the grand jury impaneled last year by Walsh to investigate the sale of U.S. weapons to Iran and the diversion of profits to the contras. The nomination of Gates to succeed the late William J. Casey as CIA director was withdrawn last March amid questions about his role in the Iran-contra affair.
House gets deluge of last-minute bills
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Measures calling for re-establishment of a presidential primary, for establishment of a state-run savings fund for parents who want to send their children to college, and for expansion of the state Supreme Court were among a blizzard of bills introduced in the House yesterday.
More legislative news pp. 9 and 10.
In all, 97 bills were introduced. Yesterday was the deadline for individual members to introduce legislation.
Rep. Donna Whiteman, D-Hutchinson, introduced two proposals designed to get more citizens involved in government.
The first proposal would allow voters to put legislative questions on the general election ballot through a successful petition drive. No more than three initiative questions and proposed constitutional amendments could appear on a ballot.
Whiteman's second bill would establish a presidential primary in
Kansas, to be held a year before the general election. Thus, the state would hold the first primary in the nation's presidential nominating process.
Kansas held a primary in 1980. Opponents contend that primaries are too expensive.
Another bill, sponsored by State Reps. Rick Bowden, D-Goddard, and Elaine Hassler, R-Abilene, would set up the "Kansas Educational Savings Plan Trust," controlled by a seven-member board of directors appointed by the governor.
Parents who hoped to send their children to college could open a savings account with the trust, much as they would at a bank. The money in the trust would be invested, as funds for the state's retirement system are, but there would be no absolute guarantee that the money in a person's account would increase over time. Bowden said.
Another bill sponsored by Bowden and Hassler would give a state income tax credit of as much as
See BILL, p. 9 col.1
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Bill Daniels, Lawrence resident, reaches inside his truck after not hurt in the accident, said his back tires locked up as he turned overturning it at Ninth Street and Emery Road. Daniels, who was onto Emery Road, causing him to lose control and slide.
Winter storm hits city with snow, icy roads
By Julie Adam
Kansan staff writer
While most children were eagerly awaiting sledding and sliding in the snow yesterday, most adults were dreading slipping and sliding on the streets.
And slide was what almost everyone did.
Officer Ernie Gwin of the Lawrence Police Department said 10 to 15 accidents had been reported between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.
At 4:30 p.m. yesterday, Paul Frantz, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Topeka, reported snow accumulations of 4 inches in Lawrence, 3 inches in Topeka and 4 inches in Bonner Springs. He said the heavy snow was over.
Frantz said the main problem with the storm was blowing snow. Wind speeds were reported at 20 mph with some gusts of 35 mph. A wind chill advisory was issued yesterday by the National Weather Service, with wind chills ranging from 20 to 30 below zero.
Frantz said that normal temperatures this time of year were in the low 40s but that temperatures this
morning were expected to range from zero to 5 below zero.
Classes after 3:30 p.m. were canceled at the University of Kansas and at the Regents Center in Overland Park yesterday, said Cindy Howry, an employee in the vice chancellor's office.
Campus bus service was also canceled last night, with buses making their last stops at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., said Charles Bryan, coordinator for KU on Wheels. He said he would know early this morning whether buses would be canceled for today. Decisions to cancel buses and cancel classes are made independently, Bryan said.
Although some KU students got out of going to class yesterday afternoon, Lawrence elementary and high school students were not as lucky. The Lawrence Board of Education did not cancel any classes, although many Kansas City schools canceled classes or closed early.
Snow-removal crews were among those who did not get to go home early.
David Jones, the supervisor for
Kathleen Flanagan, Overland Park senior, waits for a bus inside Bailey Hall. Blowing snow forced the cancellation of all classes after 3:30 p.m. yesterday. The KU Weather Service predicts a high of 15 degrees today and a low of 2 degrees tonight.
Lawrence Public Works, said that snow-removal crews started work early yesterday morning and would be working all night. He said that yesterday he had six trucks plowing, and four trucks sanding and salting the streets. He said the trucks were working on only priority one and two streets, which include Sixth, Ninth, 23rd and 1ava
streets and Lawrence Avenue.
The trucks will start clearing other streets when the city advises them to do so, Jones said.
Mike Falter, the manager of the Kaw Motor & Salvage Co., said that all of his tow trucks had been out since about 6:30 or 7 a.m. yesterday, putting cars out of ditches.
FacEx discusses salary plan
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
Salary allocation procedures would be written formally for the first time under a draft of a salary distribution proposal by executive vice chancellor Judith Ramaley.
the draft specified that salary money from the state would go from Chancellor Gene A. Budig to Ramaley, and then to vice chancellors, who would distribute the money to deans. Deans would distribute money to department chairmen and heads of units.
Last week at the Faculty Executive Committee meeting, Ramaley presented a draft of how salary money might be distributed in the future.
In addition, money would be set aside to provide raises for faculty who are promoted. The draft also suggested the creation of reserves by the viceancellors to meet special situations that might arise during an academic year, such as offering competitive wages to attract new faculty.
Proposal would define allocation procedures
Sharon Bass, associate professor of
journalism and FacEx member, said that Ramaley's draft was similar to procedures for salary allocation used in the past but represented the first time that they had been formally written.
Keith Nitcher, director of business and fiscal affairs, confirmed that Ramaley's draft was a formal proposal of the current informal procedures used to distribute salaries. He also said it would be the first time such procedures were written down.
At the FacEx meeting, committee members were concerned about how money set aside in reserve funds under the draft would be managed.
Faculty generally understand the need for promotional reserves but are sensitive to the thought that another part of a salary increase
might not reach them, Bass said.
She also said that Ramaley's draft was unclear because faculty didn't know if the reserve would be taken from the general increase or from the proposed Margin of Excellence increase.
In addition, FacEx requested a written definition of salary compression. Salary compression occurs when new faculty are hired at salaries that are comparable to or greater than the salaries of present faculty.
FacEx asked Ramaley to specify how large an amount might be set aside as a reserve and to whom the vice chancellors would be accountable.
Jeanneette Johnson, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said Monday that Ramaley was still considering the comments from the FacEx meeting.
Carolyn Kelly, assistant to the vice chancellor, said that salary increases for unclassified employees depended solely on merit. Under Ramaley's draft, salary increases would continue to be based on merit.
Merit criteria are determined by a review committee within the department or unit.
In the School of Engineering, chairmen of different departments make recommendations to the dean for the salary increases they need for their departments.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said that faculty raises were distributed on a merit basis that each department determined.
A reserve is set aside for faculty promotions and for an equity pot to deal with salary compression and unusual circumstances that may arise. The amount of the reserve depends on the demand at the time, Locke said.
See FACEX, p. 5, col. 1
Art museum's search for director successful
The appointment of Andrea Spaulding Norris, the new director, was announced today by Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic a*fairs. Norris will join the museum staff in June.
The chief curator of the Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas-Austin will be the next director of the Spencer Museum of Art.
"We are very pleased that we could match up her background and experience with this key position," Brinkman said. "We were determined to continue the search until we found a top-flight candidate."
By a Kansan reporter
The director's position has been vacant since March, when Jay Gates resigned to become director of the Seattle Art Museum. The appointment of Norris ends a year-long search for a new director.
Norris has been chief curator at the Huntington Art Gallery since 1980, and previously was assistant to the director of Yale University Art Gallery.
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vice chancellor for academic affairs
We were determined to continue the search until we found a top-flight candidate.'
Norris has doctoral and master's degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. She has taught at Queens College, Flushing, N.Y., Yale University and the University of Texas-Austin.
In addition to her academic specialty of Italian Renaissance art, Norris has lectured on contemporary American and Latin American art.
Norris was an intern with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and received a Ford Foundation museum training fellowship.
Douglas Tighman, assistant direc-
tor of the museum, has been acting
as curator.