Thursday February 4,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 89 (USPS 650-640)
House votes to eliminate contra plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A bitterly divided House voted yesterday to cut off U.S. military support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, rejecting President Reagan's aid request in the hope of spurring peace prospects in Central America.
The 219-211 vote, culminating six years of overt and covert military support for the rebels fighting the lefist Sandinista government, killed Reagan's request for $36.2 million in new aid to keep the contras alive as a fighting force through June.
It was a serious defeat for the president, who had lobbed hard on the issue for two weeks and had put the contras among the top foreign policy priorities for his final year in office. Only a day earlier, Reagan had argued that failure to extend aid would strengthen communist influence in the hemisphere.
"Today's vote is the end of a
chapter," said House Major Whith
"If you vote this package down, you'd better be prepared to bear the consequences," Michel said. "And who among you is smart enough to predict the path on which Daniel Ortega will take you?"
Current aid to the rebels expires Feb. 29, and democrats pledged to hold another vote before the month is out on an alternative package of purely humanitarian aid to the rebels, and to follow that up with a new emphasis on economic development aid for countries in the region that abide by terms of a five-nation peace accord.
The most controversial part of the defeated package was $3.6 million earmarked for weapons and ammunition, which Reagan had said he would withhold until March 31 to see how cease-fire talks went between the rebels and the Managua government. Those talks are scheduled to
The Other Campus
Nichols Hall:
studying the
Final
Frontier
BY JAMES BUCKMAN
Chalkboards line the walls of Nichols Hall. But professors don't write lecture notes on them. Researchers don't use them for calculations or mid-experiment scribbles. The chalkboards are tacked to the walls of what is commonly known as the "space building" so that professors can record ideas and messages for each other. The green boards hint at a unique philosophy that pervades the Nichols Hall, a commitment to communication.
Nichols Hall, set on West Campus, has been home for the Space Technology Center since 1972 when it was built with a $2 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA envisioned a place where many disciplines would work together to ultimately benefit the U.S. space program. The agency stipulated that the building not house classrooms, but for 10 years be used for studying space, with results available at no cost to the public. After 10 years, use of the building was left to the discretion of the University, but KU has kept the research in Nichols Hall space-related.
The space center is the glue that holds scientists to "the final frontier." But to understand the KU space center, one needs to understand the national space movement of
Jim West, Lawrence graduate student, checks the Source Seat computer, which measures microwave backscatter from sea ice and ocean floor vegetation.
the 1960s. President Kennedy, in the early 1960s, issued a U.S. goal — to land a man on the moon before 1970. A national space board was created, with James Webb as its head. Bill
Barr, director of the KU space center, says that KU's center originated from that movement and from Webb. "Here was a man that knew that, with as much as they were going to
put into the space program, they better have the schools all over the country involved in creating more scientists and engineers."
So in 1962. Webb convinced Congress to
Halftime acrobats entertain audience
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
Several athletes made spectaculari moves at last night's KU-Oklahoma basketball game. But they didn't just include Danny Manning, Harvey Grant or Stacey King
In fact, some of the best action occurred at halftime.
The Bud Light Daredevils, with the help of a mini-trampoline, fascinated the sellout crowd in Allen Field House with their acrobatic slam dunks.
The team will play at Nebraska tonight, Missouri Western tomorrow, Kansas State on Saturday and at the Topeka Sizzlers game on Sunday.
The Daredevils, who are based in Memphis, Tenn., perform around the world. The four-member team has played in over 150 colleges, in every National Basketball Association arena and in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Latin America and Australia.
Real surprised," Cobb said. "It always just for fun. I feel so really lucky."
obb's team includes his
her, Guy, Tim Lancaster and
th Eldred.
Cobb, coach and performer the Daredevilis, founded the when he was a cheerleader ie University of Mississippi in it. It was originally a part-time but when he graduated in 1983, he became a coach. Bob said was surprised at the success of Daredevil team.
art of the team's act is to pull ple out of the audience and get involved in the performance. caster said the involvement of the show.
Eye-to-eye contact — that kes the whole show." Lancasca said. "It's a real personal wake-up call to look like we're in a party."
ancaster said that at some ces, the crowd was not too aptive to the Daredevils' permanence and the Jay-ers were were.**a**
Oh yeah—that crowd—what a
near to come to,” he said. “It
a lot an lote to us. It’s been one of
best so far, for sure.”
ties
David Morris, president of the terfraternity Council, said that the uncle hadn't had a chance to review resolution yet but that it would be scussed at an upcoming meeting.
Jinnemus said that the association inted the fraternities to sign the solution too.
Anne Reese, president of Gama Phi Beta sorority and a member the panhellenic alcohol task force, id that the future might bring even医ister policies.
Reese said that a policy to ban chool from all functions, even for one who could legally drink, was discussed.
women imparable
I find it a little difficult to lieve," she said. "I hope it's true. we've got quite a long ways to
he said that even if the 70 percent were true, it was meaningless cause some women still don't get id as they are men, even though
Between 1966 and 1987, the average ecky earnings of women working I time rose by $13 a week, from $50 in 1966 to $64 in 1987. Earns $17, rose from $428 to $145.
Barbara Ballard, director of the daily Taylor Women's Resource center, said she didn't know what actors the study was based on but did she guess the percentage was sadly going up because more men were moving into higher
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