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VOL.101,No.109
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOPEKA, KS 66612
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1991
Miscue in Mulvenon article yields reassignment
By Lara Gold
and Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writers
Public outrage over a recent article in a Kansas police journal led to the reassignment of the Lawrence police representative yesterday.
"I have reassigned the duties of Chris Mulvenon . . . Mr. Mulvenon's reassignment is immediate, and appropriate disciplinary action is in process," said Ron Oln. Lawrence police chief, in a predeem statement.
The statement, which included an apology to the American Indian community, was issued in response to Mulvenon's comment in his article
for the Kansas Fraternal Order of Police magazine.
Mulvenon wrote in his article that a Wall Street Journal reporter came to Lawrence to inquire about the deaths of several Douglas County American The reporter concluded in her article that the murders were committed by a serial killer.
Mulvenon's suggestion in the article that the only "serial" link in the deaths of four American Indians was "cereal malt beverage" has angered members of the American Indian community and other Lawrence resi-
Although Mulvenon no longer will
be the media official for the police department, he will continue to conduct research and draft reports for the department.
Mulvenon could not be reached for comment.
In his apology, Olin said serious mistakes were made in dealing with members of the American Indian community.
"I apologize personally for the publication of the article and the damage it has done to the working cooperation between the police department and the Native American community," he said.
Olin, who also has been accused of
racism, said statements he had made in the past were not meant to be insensitive.
"Racism, in any form and by anyone in our city, is unacceptable," he said. "The staff officers and I work inside and outside the department."
Although some called the apology a good start in mending racial tensions, others were skeptical.
"It's a step in the right direction," said Don Bread, whose son Christopher was killed in March 1990. "What I ask is, 'Is it enough?'
Bread said that one statement would not wipe out his pain.
"It was my son who was brutalized," he said. "I pray for Muvionen and Olin that their words are true."
Bob Martin, president of Haskell Indian Junior College, said Mulvenon was not the only problem in Lawrence.
"He is a symptom of the problem," Martin said.
He said all forms of racism and discrimination needed to be eliminated from Lawrence
"The City Commission has recognized that they need to take positive steps." he said
Mayor Shirley Martin-Smith said she was glad that Olin had issued an
apology on behalf of the police department.
"I think Ron's statement is a good beginning," she said. "I was anxious to see it released."
However, the apology is only the first of several steps the city will have to take to heal tensions, she said. She will meet with City Manager Mike Wildden today to outline a plan that would prevent city employees from making prejudicial remarks while representing the city.
KU groups sponsor abortion forum
"The apology was intended to be just the beginning," she said. "We still have a lot of work to do."
Panel discusses differing views
By Patricia Rojas
Kansan staff writer
Pro-choice and antiabortion advocates met last night without picket signs at a forum they co-sponsored.
About 100 people gathered last night at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union for the forum, organized by the KU Pro-Choice Coalition and KU Students for Life. A five-hour discussion both sides of the issue
Antiabortion panelist Rose Press, a Topeka nurse, said there had been about 25 million abortions performed in the United States since the landmark decision of Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion in 1973.
She said there were about 11,000 abortions performed in Kansas every year.
Cristi Hansen, state coordinator for the National Organization for Women, said the controversy of abortion was an issue of control.
Cindy Patton, legal liaison for Kansans for Life, emphasizes life before birth with a picture of a fetus in the womb.
Hansen said that carrying a pregnancy to term was a woman's private decision and that government should not restrict that decision.
He asked pro-choice advocates to explain why it was morally correct to kill a human being. He asked antibortion advocates to explain why it was morally correct for the government to control a woman's body.
Joseph Reitz, professor of business and a member of the audience, asked both parties to defend their positions from a moral perspective.
Hansen said the question seemed easy to her.
"I'm sorry," she said. "I do not feel a fetus is a person. Therefore, an abortion is not taking a life."
Darlene Stearns, state coordinator for the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights in Kansas, said there was no general consensus among the U.S. public about when a human life began.
Stearns said different religious groups had different ethical and moral opinions about when and why a fetus should be considered a person.
"The state must allow every person to make decisions within their own religion," she said.
In defending the morality of anti-bortion advocates, panelist Cindy Patton, legal liaison for Kansans for the rights of the fetus, should protect the rights of the fetus.
She said every baby that was aborted had a heartbeat and brain waves.
The mother's life should not be considered more valuable than that of the fetus. Patton said
said that she thought the event was informative but that the facts both sides had presented seemed contradictory.
Paige Johnson, Lincoln, Neb., sophomore, who attended the forum.
"I guess I'll have to get my own background," Johnson said. "And try to get it first from an unbiased source."
No 16 percent student salary increase amounting to a loss of $275.047.
- An increase in salary and wage shrinkage to .05 percent amounting to a $672,865 reduction in KU's salary and wage budget.
- No 4 percent Other Operating Expenditures increase amounting to a loss of $711,986.
- No increase in the Graduate Teaching Assistant feewaiver amounting to a loss of $242,510
- A loss of $1,272,157 in enrollment adjustment financing
- No Margin of Excellence financing amounting to a loss of $3,956,100.
A tuition increase of 8 percent for residents and 20 percent for non-residents raising undergraduate tuition from $613 to $662 and $2,175 to $2,610 respectively for fall 1991
A 1 percent decrease in general fund spending amounting to a loss of $994,430
A loss of $490,000 that was to go toward financing the Marvin Hall bridge addition project.
Melissa Unterberg/KANSAN
House committee OKs Regents plan
Kansan staff writer
By Joe Gose
TOPEKA — Kansas is broke. And there is no immediate relief in sight.
That is the message the House Appropriations Committee is sending to the Board of Regents.
The committee approved the final draft of the fiscal 1982 Regents budget proposal yesterday after two days of approving cuts.
The proposal reduces State General Fund spending by more than $40 million from Gov. Joan Finney's recommended 1992 budget and increases student tuition by more than $7 million.
The bill moves to the full House for debate next week.
Reaction to the recommendations was acrid.
"What the committee has recommended is a large hike in student tuition and a significant cut in the operational budget," Chancellor Gene A. Budig said. "It undercuts the Regents attempt to meet their obligations.
"Any such action would be a dramatic step in the wrong direction, and it would send a devastating blow to our university," denants at the Regents universities.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that the situation could turn around when the bill moves to the House floor next week.
"I think we will attempt to restore some of the governor's recommendations of higher education," he said. "I think we can justify doing that since we've made a $30-million cut in the highway fund and significant cuts in other areas that are not high priority."
Budig said it was important to turn the situation around this session.
"The state cannot afford to retreat at this critical juncture," he said. "This possibility is especially distressing given the fortuneway the Regents were treated in the last legislative session."
Stolen equipment can crunch KU departments
State purchases uninsured and are often irreplaceable
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
It may be as innocuous as a small blurb buried in the police report.
Something along the lines of, "Computer equipment valued at $1,500 was taken, KU
But to the department the equipment was taken from, it may mean a significant budgetary crisis. KU equipment is not insured, by University already are facing tight budgets.
She said the state was not insured because "basically, it would cost millions of dollars to pay for insurance, and the Legislature must have less of a loss to not pay the premiums."
authorized by the Legislature.
Kansas law states that University property is insurable only in three instances:
Fran Welch, of the state contracting office,
said the state could buy equipment only when
■ When it is financed by a bond issue that specifies that the property must be insured. ■ When the property is willed to the University the will specifies that the property be insured.
When the cost of the property is being paid for in installments by the federal government.
insurable only in three instances:
• When it is financed by a bond issue that
Jim Peterson, technical director of University Theatre, said the department of theater and film periodically lost equipment because of theft.
He said it was difficult to maintain tight security because the theater facilities were used at odd hours for rehearsals.
"We've lost a lot of sound equipment," he said. "Fairly recently, we lost a CD player."
"Essentially, we have to do without the equipment or find a way to replace it, and that's a real problem since we're undergoing a severe budget crunch."
"We've even had people try to break in through the roof," he said.
KU police records show that property valued at $17,064 was stolen from the University last summer.
One example of the cost of stolen property affecting future budgets of a department can be seen in KJHK. During winter break, three salesmen at about $300 each were stolen from KJHK.
Besides damage and normal wear to equipment, the stolen tape decks were reasons Tim Menseniek, general manager of KJHK, told the Student Senate Finance Committee that the station needed more money during the revenue-code hearing last month.
Menskind said the problem was that there was no insurance for stolen property and that the station had not been able to catch the thieves.
Mitchell Gage, program assistant in journalism for the radio-TV sequence, said the possibility for financial problems occurring from lost equipment was large in their department.
SAFANW, Iraq — Iraqi tanks are升 up imp救 bulb homes and soldiers are scattering the bodies of executed dissidents in the streets to discourage further opposition to Saddam Hussein interviews with refugees yesterday.
Iraqi army destroys homes to discourage further anti-Saddam sentiment
The Associated Press
"Basically, we're sending students out with $20,000 worth of TV equipment when they go to shoot something," he said. "We try to budget the maintenance as well as catastrophic disasters."
Brock Matthews, a refugee, said he
Iraqi rebels who fled said they had asked allied forces to aide their cause but got no response.
Saddam's Republican Guard has crushed much of the rebel movement that at one point controlled most of Iraq, and second-largest city, the refugees said.
has lived in Kuwait for 19 years and helped the resistance after Iraq's invasion. He was arrested by Iraq troops about the time the war started and was freed from an Iraq prison and anti-Saddam rebels, he said.
Matthews said that he was in Basa earlier yesterday and that all the fighting had stopped, except for a few police officers who jumped from pockets of rebel resistance.
In Saudi Arabia, Brig. Gen Richard Neal said the unrest in Iraq continued, mostly south of Baghdad and isolated areas north of the capital.
He said there was no active resistance in Basra.
"It's an internal problem and one I assume the government and the military will eventually resolve," he said.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Iraqi refugees arriving in Iran as saying Bassar entered in the hands of rebel forces.
One refuge quoted by IRA said the cities Amarah, Kut, Nasiriya, Zubair and Tanuma also were under control of dissidents.
The refugee said anti-Saddam demonstrations were staged in the
Kurdish-populated cities of Sulaimaniya, Kirkuk and Mosul in northern Iraq.
in triaj refugee, Jabar Saleh said that there still was fighting in Basra when he left the city earlier yesterday but that rebels in the center of the city were surrounded by Republican Guards.
He said he saw tanks and artillery, from the Republican Guard diring during the trip from Basra from Iraq. He said he rebels responded with rifle fire.
Two Iraqi refugees, living in a camp near U.S. Army positions, said that they worked in the rebel movement to resist respective cities, Basra and nearby Zab扎, after the Republican Guard showed up on Monday.
He said his 3-year-old girl was killed when Republican Guards fired a rifle at his car as his family stopped Sunday by a river to do laundry. By the end of daughter was hurt in the attack and he left her in a Basra hospital.
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