Tuesday February 9,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 92 (USPS 650-640)
Gephardt has slim lead over Simon, Dukakis
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrat Richard Gephardt, who tailored an intense grassroots campaign to Iowa voters, stubbornly clung to a lead in Iowa's precinct caucuses yesterday.
Gephard held a narrow lead over Illinois Sen. Paul Simon who was followed closely by Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, but Iowa gave a cold reception to one-time frontrunner Gary Hart.
- See related story
See related story p. 8.
Hart said he was disappointed but not discouraged by his showing in Iowa, which had sent him to New Hampshire in 1984 as the alternative to Walter Mondale.
"I'm back in the role of the underdog, a role I cherish," he said.
With 69 percent of the state's 2,487 precincts reporting Gephardt led with 27 percent of those voting, and Simon narrow lead over Simon with 24 percent.
Dukakis followed next with 21 percent, while Jessie Jackson stood in fourth place with 11 percent and former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt
at 9 percent. There was a 6 percent slice of uncommitted voters while Gary Hart had 1 percent and Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr. had no measurable support.
Gore chose not to compete in the Iowa caucuses, focusing instead on his native South and its round of "Super Tuesday" voting.
"I think exactly what I've been saying here will apply throughout this entire country," Gephardt said. "People are worried about regaining control of our economic destiny."
DEMOCRATS Percent of vote
Gephardt said his assault on the
police and political establishment
sold well.
1988 Campaign
Gephardt 27%
Simon 24%
Dukakis 21%
Jackson 11%
Babbitt 9%
Hart 1%
Gore 0%
Uncommitted 6%
"I think people are really con-
dious about where we headed." he said.
Dukakis, who is favored to win in next week's New Hampshire primary, said, "Obviously, I'm looking forward to returning home."
"It's not a big loss," said Teresa Vilmain, who ran Dukakis' Iowa campaign. "It keeps us alive. Since it's a tight race, if we stay with the leaders we consider it a victory in Iowa."
Simon put the best face on his showing, saying people bought his
69% of precincts reporting
REPUBLICANS Percent of vote
Dole 38%
Robertson 24%
Bush 19%
Kemp 11%
du Pont 7%
Haig 0%
Uncommitted 1%
94% of precincts reporting
"That message is really catching on," Simon said. "I think it's clear that going into New Hampshire we're going to have at least two strong candidates contesting for the Democratic nomination there."
"I've been using that same message everywhere. I haven't tailored it to my needs."
These figures reflect the unofficial count as of midnight yesterday.
A subdued Babbitt told supporters, "Cheer up. This is not a wake."
Volight Biddes Nennen Graphi
"It's not as great as I would have liked," Babbitt conceded. "I have an important message and I'm going to go on."
Meeting with reporters in his Des Moines hotel, Babbitt said, "I never had any illusions when I got into this race. We've come a long way."
Simon badly needed a strong showing in neighboring Iowa, while Dukakis is expecting a boost from his expected win in New Hampshire next week.
Gephardt was the first to open his campaign for Iowa's precinct caucuses, and he tirelessly stumped the state for two years with an organizational effort that resembled a gubernatorial campaign.
The Associated Press
Dole wins as expected; Robertson shocks Bush
As expected, Dole won the presidential straw poll that was the main order of business at the Republican precinct caucuses. The big surprise of the night was Robertson's strong second-place finish, easily out-distancing the vice president.
"I think it puts a whole new focus on it," Dole said when asked about the Robertson showing. "We haven't talked about it. We thought Bush would finish second."
"To come in with a solid victory over a sitting vice president is going to ignite my campaign like it's got a rocket engine behind it," he said.
Rep. Jack Kemp of New York and former Gov. Pete duPont of Delaware, who had hoped to pull off a surprise in Iowa, teamed for behind
Robertson was exultant
der M. Haig Jr. wrote off Iowa months ago and concentrated his attention on New Hampshire, where the first primary will take place on Feb. 16.
supreme in form, trained to be sen-
former Secretary of State Alexan-
With 94 percent of the precincts reporting, Dole had 38 percent, Robertson 24 percent, Bush 19 percent and Kemp 11 percent. DuPont received 7 percent and Haig less than 1 percent.
Robertson's rivals welcomed his supporters to the party but predicted he would have a harder time in the New Hampshire primary than he had in the Iowa caucuses.
"He is telling us that in caucus states he can be a real threat," said Dole. "I think in primaries it's not that great."
As for his chances of beating Bush in New Hampshire, Dole said, "It's going to be a tough race. Let's face it." The Boston front-runner in New Hampshire."
Robertson said Iowa was "the test I had looked for to see if the base that supported me could indeed be broadened. I think the voters of Iowa have given a sense of the fact that
Caucus results get varied reactions from local groups
See REPUBLICANS, p. 8, col. 1
Bv Elaine Woodford
Kansan staff writer
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., emerged as the front-runners in yesterday's Iowa caucuses, but local political observers said the future of the Republican and Democratic nominations remained unclear.
Jeff Feist, Wichita sophomore and state chairman for College Republicans said,
Among the Republicans, Pat Robertson captured a surprising percentage of the vote, finishing second, and Vice President George Bush finished third.
"We're just ecstatic about the results. They couldn't have been better."
"Robertson hurt Bush, which can only help Senator Dole in the future." he said.
Feist, who supports Dole, said he wasn't concerned by Robertson's action.
The race for the Democratic nomination remained close. Sen. Paul Simon. D-III… was
shamed Doe in the future, he said.
Feist said that the work had just begun for
Dole supporters. He said Super Tuesday
would be the next challenge.
"The results clearly showed that Dole is a very viable candidate for the nomination. We blew Bush out of the water," he said.
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The results clearly showed that Dole is a very viable candidate for the nomination. We blew Bush out of the water.'
College Republicans state chairman
Jeff Feist
running a close second behind Gephardt, and Massachussetts Gov. Michael Dukakis was in third.
Joe Orrick, Prairie Village junior and president of KU Democrats, said, "It's still up in the air, but it's not what I had expected."
Orrick said that Gephardt had a distinct advantage in the caucuses because he was from the Midwest, but that Dukakis was expected to win in New Hampshire next week.
"I was really more surprised at the Republican results," he said.
Gary Hart failed to make a significant showing, running near the bottom of the Democratic caucuses.
Don Strole, Lawrence attorney and Kansas coordinator for Gary Hart, said that Hart's lack of organization cost him votes.
"It doesn't really surprise me that Hart had so few votes. The caucus takes quite a bit of organization and Hart just didn't have enough time to get out and get the vote," he said.
Strole said he thought Hart would continue to seek the Democratic nomination since it was expected that the state would
"I expect that Hart will persist all the way through the race," he said. "It's still early."
Financial aid office understaffed
By Joel Zeff
Kansan staff writer
In a crowded office in the basement of Strong Hall, the smallest financial aid office in the Big Eight Conference serves the largest enrollment in the Big Eight.
The University of Kansas, with an enrollment of about 26,000, has a financial aid office that last year processed more than 11,000 aid applications and made more than 100 student appointments each day, according to financial aid records.
The student appointments, ad applications, correspondence and telephone inquiries are handled by a staff of about 15 professional and support employees with additional help from about 15 student employees.
Compare KU's figures with one of the smallest Big Eight schools and KU's problems are magnified. Oklahoma State University, with an enrollment of about 18,000, processes 10,500 aid applications a year with a professional and support staff of 31
Hayden's recommendations would not finance extra help
and about 40 student employees, a KU financial aid survey indicated.
"The financial aid office is one of the most critically underfunded and understaffed offices in my division." said David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs. "If students don't have the money to go to school, then you won't have the students to provide a quality education. Financial aid is directly related to why students are here."
This year's budget for the financial office is slightly more than $257
Ambler said that hiring additional staff was a high priority for the financial aid office, but that the only solution right now was additional financing contained in the Margin of Excellence and the enrollment adjustment programs. However,
Gov. Mike Hayden's recommendations for the Margin of Excellence did not include financing new positions in the financial aid office.
"The staff is so busy and so stressed, they don't have time to be as accommodating to the individual student," Ambler said.
"We couldn't keep up with the work. We can't spend the time to verify the tax returns against the student gives us," Rogers sald.
Rogers said that because of the small staff he had to save time by only verifying about one-third of the financial aid data forms.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said that the most valuable commodity in his office was time.
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said it was important
for the office to provide additional services for students. The additional services would include more budget counseling, loan counseling and debt counseling, he said.
"Dbt counseling was not something seriously needed 10 years ago. We need to respond to new needs. Our main function is financial aid, but there are other functions we would like to perform. But you can't with the current staff and physical space," Weinberg said.
Weinberg said that there was some hope that additional staff would be available at the beginning of July. Until the additional staff arrives, the office would try to rely more on student help.
However, Rogers said that the lack of staff members was just the first part of the problem. The second part is finding space.
"If we get more staff, you have to have a place to sit down. We have to move files just to scurry up a little nook. We continually have a space problem." Rogers said.
FBI didn't investigate KU men,official says
Kansan staff writer
Bv leff Moherø
Although the FBI and officials from Center of Constitutional Rights still dispute whether the FBI conducted surveillance at KU in the early 1980s, the center confirmed yesterday that it mistakenly said two men affiliated with KU had been investigated.
Bernice Crane, a spokesman for the center, erroneously confirmed FBI surveillance on two University of Kansas men. Crane said she had been referring to a Wichita State University couple and inadvertently said they were affiliated with KU.
She offered no explanation why she said two males were investigated when the Wichita State students were male and female.
But Crane said yesterday that the FBI had worked at KU.
She said documents her organization had obtained said, "Kansas City
field office investigation is continuing at Kansas City, Mo., and Lawrence, Kans., (University of Kansas)." The document was dated February 1984.
On Friday, the FBI's Kansas City office denied it had conducted surveillance at KU.
Robert Davenport, director of the office, said FBI agents never spied on or talked with anyone at KU in conjunction with the FBI's investigation of persons opposed to the Reagan administration's Central American policies. The FBI conducted those investigations from 1981 to 1986.
"The Kansas City FBI office conducted a thorough review of its files and determined that the FBI did not conduct any surveillance or interviews with groups or individuals at university of Kansas," Davenport said.
Davenport could offer no explanation of Crane's reference to operations at KU.
Ruth Jacobson/KANSAN
Kerry Niemann, Leavenworth sophomore, smooths the arm of "Warren," the sculpture she has been working on since last semester. Niemann works about 12 hours a week on the project, which she hopes to complete by May. "Warren" is made out of chicken wire, burlap and plaster.
Plaster pal
KU stores have computer sales edge
By David Sodamann
Kansan staff writer
Some local computer store owners are angry about the low prices at which KU's two bookstores are able to buy and sell Apple Macintosh computers.
"Seriously — I'm couching my words — I'm very upset," said Myles Schachter, president and owner of Foresight Solutions Inc., which operates Computer Outlet, 804 New Jersey and another computer store in Manhattan.
"My tax money is going to pay part of their costs," he said.
For the last year, the KU bookstores have been selling Apple Macintosh computers to students, cash and staff at discounted prices.
KU's bookstores are selling the Apple Macintosh Plus computer, with keyboard, one disk drive and mouse for $1,200. The bookstores' regular price is $1,560. The retail price in one Lawrence computer store recently was $2,199.
Ted Briscoe, an Apple Computer
sales representative, said Apple sold
the iPhone in 2013.
- Mike Reid bookstore manager
'Our sales of computer
Our sales of computer products are up since we added Apple. That seems to be the make everyone wants.'
State law prevents the University of Kansas from reselling computers to the public, but because the Apple Computers program is being handled through the Kansas Union Bookstore, the University, it is legal. Briscoe said.
turn, resold the computers at reduced prices. In this way, he said, consumers could take advantage of a university's buying power.
The fact that the transaction is issued in local computer store owner's from local computer store owner's.
The two bookstores are not part of KU and do not rely on the state for financing. Student fees, however, do provide the Union some money.
Schachter said he found it ironic
that the University was trying to encourage small business and also was contributing to something detrimental to small business.
Schachter said his store was not selling Apple products now, although it had been asked to, and likely would be asked to, what the KU bookstores were doing.
Schachter's Manhattan store was selling three to five Macintosh computers a week until the Kansas State University bookstore decided to sell Apple computers at reduced prices. He said that in the past two weeks, his store had not sold any Apple computers.
Richard King, manager of Computerland, 1414 W. 9th St., said the Apple computer sale at the KU bookstores had had a big effect on his store's business. Computerland dropped its Apple product line entirely last week.
King said the store still had a few Apple computers and related items in stock, but when they're gone, he won't be ordering anymore.
See APPLE, p. 6, col. 1