VOL.101,No.115
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1991
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'Hawks hammer Hoosiers
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March madness continues to consume the University of Kansas. Last night, the Kansas basketball team moved into the Southeast Regional championship game by thrashing the Indiana Hoosiers 83-65 at the Charlotte Coliseum in North Carolina. The Jayhawks advance to the NCAA tournament final eight for the first time since 1988, when the team went on to defeat Oklahoma to capture the NCAA championship. Kansas' next opponent, the Arkansas Razorbacks, defeated Alabama 93-70 last night to gain a ticket to the title game. It is scheduled to begin at 3:40 p.m. and will be televised on channels 5 and 13. See stories and game photos on Page 13.
KU students flood Javhawk Boulevard after Kansas' 83-65 victory against Indiana. KU police blocked off part of Javhawk Boulevard.
Crowd celebrates basketball victory
By Jonathan Plummer and Patricia Rojas Kwanan staff writers
' We did it! ' We did it! ' he shouted,
' We killed them. This is the best.'
Gerry Breaux ran across Jayhawk Boulevard patting shoulders and shaking hands with strangers
Breaux, Rockford, III, senor, was one of about 300 people who crowded together in front of Wescue Hall after last night's Kansas victory, shouting "Let's go. Hawks!" and "We want Arkansas!"
Famed line the street like a receiving line, slapping the outstretched hands of passengers crammed into passing cars. Others simply shouted fists in the air joyfully greeting strangers.
Darrin Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. senior, said he arrived at Wescoe about the time the game ended.
KU police said traffic on Jayhawk Boulevard was blocked around 10:55 p.m. when cars began jamming the street.
"When I got here, there were about
to 20 people," he said. "the crowd
was like a lot of them."
Johnson said that the crowd was
'This is awesome. I didn't think they would win by as much as they did.
Jeff Hamilton Topeka junior
"If they win against Arkansas, it is going to be crazy" he said
not as big as the one that celebrated Kansas 1888 NCAA championship but that the excitement was there.
Jeff Hamilton, Topeka nomor who was celebrating in front of Wescoe, said the Jayhawks impressed him yesterday.
Planes collide; 27 feared dead
"This is awesome." Hamilton said. "I didn't think they would win by as much as they did. This is by far the best game I've seen this year."
Jessica Sparlin, Lenene freshman, said she and her sister. Nancy, who was visiting from New York, heard from her room at Watkins Scholars Hall up
"There was a lot of yelling," she said. "We just went nuts. It's a lot of fun."
The Associated Press
The Navy listed the crews as missing but there was little hope any of the crew members from the downd P-3 Orions survived.
SAN DIEGO — Two Navy submarine-hunting planes collided yesterday, and all 27 people aboard were feared dead in cold, choppy waters 60 miles off Southern California, authorities said.
The allweather planes were engaged in an anti-sabu marine warfare training exercise when they inched in bad weather, authorities said.
"I think we have to be realistic here," said Senior Chief Petty Officer Bob Howard, a Navy public affairs officer at North Island Naval Air Station. "It is very out of there. We're talking about what apparently is a mid air collision . . . two aircraft. I would say it would be very grim."
He said the accident occurred over the Pacific Ocean about 60 miles southwest of San Diego.
Search and rescue teams spotted some debris from the planes but found no signs of life.
A Navy helicopter crew flying in the area and sailors from the destroyer USS Merrill all reported a ball of fire and loud explosion at about 4:30 a.m., Howard said during a briefing at North Island Naval Air Station.
The collision occurred as one P-3 Orion was arriving to relieve the other, which had just completed its part of the exercise. Howard said, "We unanimously uncontact how much contact the pilots had before the crash, he said."
Two U.S. Navy planes collide
Two Navy P-3 Orions collided in the air during a training mission off California's coast.
Regents unsure of tuition increase
By Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
Not knowing the future actions of the Legislature as regards higher education financing, the Board of Education may in setting tuition rate increases.
The Regents were to decide whether to increase tuition for Fall 1992, but instead of planning for the new academic year, assisting on the coming academic year.
"Its seems to be changing moment to moment," Ray Hauke, director of planning and budget for the situation at yesterday's meeting.
A House amendment yesterday
reinstated $16 million for higher education in the state. But to receive $7.3 million of the money, the Regents would have to increase tuition by 20 percent for out-of-state students, 8 percent for in-state students and the largest Regents schools and 3 percent at the smaller schools.
For Fall 1991, the Regents originally planned to increase in-state tuition by 3 percent. The originally tuition out-of-state students was 10 percent.
Pittsburgh State University. Both schools are close to state lines, and enroll many students from neighboring states.
Robert Creighton, Regents chairman, said the large tuition increases were a special concern for the University of Kansas and
He said that if tuition were too high, neighboring students paying out-of-state tuition would be discouraged from enrolling.
Creighton said a three-tiered tuition schedule would be a possible solution.
The rates would be divided into three categories: in-state rates, out-of-state rates, and a rate for neighboring states, Creighton said.
The middle rate would serve as a compromise between the higher
out-of-state tuition and lower instate fees.
Regardless of future action, the Regents were optimistic about the action on the House floor.
"I was very pleased with the action taken yesterday because it is what I consider a breakthrough," Creighton said.
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, also was optimistic.
Koplik said that it was a good building block and encouragement, but that the Regents would have to wait for an outcome before any decisions concerning the budget could be made.
House approves education finance bill
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — What representatives giveth, senators taketh away.
That appears to be the scenario as the House approved the higher education financing bill yesterday after it was submitted to the Board of Regents institutions.
well as addressing the Regents systemwide budget bill, the full committee is broken into subcom- mitted work on individual Regents institutions.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig testified yesterday before the subcommittee that will review the KU budget.
The Senate Ways and Means committee will begin work on the bill today, and indications are that the tax increase, cuts will be made again.
Although he focused on KU's present budget concerns, he also called for full financing of Gov. Joan Finney's recommended budget, which would pump an additional 824 million into the Regents system.
“If the state has a true commitment to higher education, the means will be found to correct the current course and place us back on a course that will strengthen higher education and enable it to contribute more fully to the economic, social and cultural future of Kansas," he said.
Budget said that if the governor's recommended budget was fulfilled, unclassified employee salaries, the Margin of Excellence and classified employee salaries would be modified to what the House restored.
However, State Sen. Jim Allen, R-Ottawa, a member of the subcommittee, said there was little chance of finding the $18 million, much less of financing the governor's recommendations.
"I think we probably will cut some of what came over from the House," he said. "Specifically, the $16 million."
Allen said that the Senate Ways and Means committee had been cutting state budgets 2 to 3 percent
and that it would continue to do so until tax increases provided more revenue.
"The revenues are not there right now, and until the revenues are forthcoming, we have to operate from within our budget," he said. "When the revenues are there, and if they are there, then there will be a boost at the end of the session to build the universities back up."
But Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said he hoped the House's $16 million restoration bill will be in the budget at session end.
"I hope the action taken by the House today will be sustained," he said yesterday. "I understand the state's financial position, but I think that the way to strengthen our condition is through education."
Unemployment numbers soar; recession may be worse than expected
WASHINGTON - The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits shot up to an eight-year high of 519,000 in the week ending March 9, the government said yesterday in a report viewed as a blow to hopes for a quick end to the recession.
The Associated Press
The Labor Department said initial claims rose by 45,000 from the previous week, hitting the highest level since the 546,000 filed during the first week of January in 1983. That was at the tail end of the last recession, the steep 1981-82 downturn.
Bush administration officials and Federal Reserve Chairperson Alan Greenspan have expressed the hope that a quick end to the Persian Gulf War, by providing a boost to consumer confidence, will help to ensure that the current recession will be short and mild.
However, private economists said yesterday's report on jobless claims was not an alarming sign.
"This suggests that more people are being laid off and it signifies a continuing weakening of the economy," said Samuel Kahan, chief economist at Fuji Securities Inc.
Chicago.
Kahan cautioned that the initial jobless claims report can be volatile from week to week. But he noted that the four-week claimunas has been moving higher since December.
Paul Getman, senior economist at Regional Financial Associates, said a number of U.S. industries — from airlines to food and clothing — were stressing with thousands of layoffs occurring.
mistic about the end of the recession.
He said that some analysts, lured by gains in the stock market, have been overly_pati-
The new jobless claims report was viewed as especially worrisome because it provided one of the first looks at how the economy was performing in March. Some economists said they expected the broader jobless report for the month to take another turn for the worse.
In a further gloomy assessment of the economy, the Chamber of Commerce said yesterday that its latest survey of 8,390 businesses nationwide found that more businesses were planning to fire workers than to hire them through August of this year.
The number of businesses forecasting that they would have to fire employees rose to 21.7 percent versus 17.8 percent expecting to be hiring workers.
The survey also found that 33.9 percent of the businesses expected their sales would decline in coming months versus 35.3 percent forecasting an increase in sales.
This marked a deterioration since the chamber's last survey in September. At that time, 18 percent of businesses expected to lay off workers and 28 percent were expecting a sales decline.