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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL.101.NO.108
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1991
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Committee approves budgetary cuts
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - The fiscal 1922 Board of Regents budget request continues to shrink at the expense of student programs.
After two hours of discussion yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee approved a subcommitteeposal for higher education financing.
The committee approved the removal of a program that provides
financial aid to students.
The program, Career Work Study,
helps off-campus employers pay students who would otherwise be unable to receive education at a Regent's university.
The Regents had requested almost $500,000 to continue the program.
"What we're doing here is raising tuition on students who have financial need, and we are taking away money to help them." Rep. Sheila Hochhauser, D-Mahat
tan "It is highly unlikely that most of these employers are going to continue to hire these students if they
have to pay full salary."
But State Rep. George Teagarden,
D-LACygne, said it was necessary to
cut the whole program.
"When we looked at this budget, we made the cuts in the requested OOE (Other Operating Expenditures), Margin of Excellence and all the other programs that we've already named," he said. "What we did in turn was to ask the students to pay a little more of their fair share."
'I am not sure if the work study
program itself is the reason that employers hire students."
A motion to save the program was killed
The committee also amended the budget proposal to cut $47,000 from the Regents operating budget.
Stanley Koplick, executive director of the Regents, said the cuts would hurt.
"There's a few weeks left, so
h hopefully we can get it back," he said. "But if this budget goes through in April, it will roll back a number of good things we've been able to do. Hopefully, things will change."
The committee also approved a cut of $12,500 from the distinguished professor program and a total cut of $83,461 from the state scholarship program, the teacher scholarship program and the vocational scholarship program.
Picket power
Classified employees from KU and other Board of Regents schools chant, 'The cost of living is 6 percent; 1.5 won't pay the rent' during a protest on the north steps of the state Capitol in
Topeka. The employees were protesting Gov. Joan Finney's proposal for a 1.5 percent cost-of-living salary increase. About 80 classified employees participated in the protest yesterday.
Racial issues force review of city policy
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
Mayor Shirley Martin-Smith announced last night that the city would establish policies to prevent discriminatory practices making discriminatory remarks.
Martin Smith's statement, which followed an hour-long executive session of the Lawrence City Commission, was prompted by an article by Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police representative, in a recent issue of the Kansas Fraternal Order of Police magazine.
The article, a satire on the media's coverage of police affairs, criticized a Wall Street Journal reporter's inquiry into the deaths of several Douglas County American Indians. The reporter, Mulvenon wrote, was determined to link a serial killer to the deaths.
But Mulvenue's suggestion that the only "serial" in the Native Americans' deaths was a "cereal malt beverage" has sparked a cry of outrage from the American Indian community, particularly the parents of Christopher Bread, whose body was (found March 19, 1900).
pated in a news conference yesterday morning in response to Mulvemon's article, said the city would establish a plan immediately to improve relations with the American Indian community.
"The City Commission wants to acknowledge that we have a problem," she said. "We accept that we are working hard and we are working hard to solve it."
Martin-Smith, who also partici-
The policy will require all city employees to submit articles that they write to City Manager Mike Wilden to be reviewed, Martin-Smith said. In addition, the City Department has sent Kansas Fraternal Order of Police magazine renouncing Mulvenon's article.
The mayor also said the city would reprimand or ask for the resignations of any city employees who made slurs while representing the city.
"We want to make it clear there will be zero tolerance for racist remarks," she said.
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ROTC credit for college to face assembly's ballot
By Sarah Davis
Kansan staff writer
A decision on whether hours earned in ROTC courses should count toward a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences degree was referred to mail ballot last night during a meeting of the College Assembly.
"We need to summarize the arguments for and against the issue," he said.
Jim Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the 661 members of the assembly probably won't be allowed to issue before the end of the semester.
A proposal submitted to the assembly Feb. 5 asked that ROTC courses not count toward a liberal arts and sciences degree.
The intent of the amendment was to bring the College into compliance with University of Kansas' anti-discrimination policies.
'if we lose our ROTC programs . . . then I think we are no longer effective in trying to work for a change.'
Del Shankel
Many students attended last night's meeting in support of counting ROTC courses for credit.
Todd Brace, Derby senior and member of ROTC, was one of those students. He said that not counting for credit could hurt innocent people.
Interim executive vice chancellor
"I definitely don't think it's fair to take away the credit," he said.
Brace also said students might choose to attend a different university if they were denied ROTC credit at KU.
"The University has a possibility of losing some very smart minds," he
said.
adheres to its policies."
Anne George, St. Louis junior,
agreed that KU could lose students.
But she thought students might steer
their way to safety if its policies
were not followed.
University policy states that students may not be denied the right of access to or participation in any University-sponsored or approved activity because of sexual orientation.
"I know KU has anti-discriminatory policies," she said. "I hope it
Eddie Lorenzo, undergraduate student representative, submitted the amendment to Assembly last month because he said the department of military science violated the University policy by prohibiting homosexuals and lesbians from completing ROTC programs.
vice chancellor, said, "If we lose our ROTC programs . . . then I think we are no longer effective in trying to work for a change."
Shankel and Frances Ingemann, chairperson of the University Senate Executive Committee, plan to travel to Washington, D.C., during spring break to present this issue to the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Association of American Universities and the American Council of Education.
Del Shankel, interim executive
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Iraqi unrest not U.S. affair, Bush says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said yesterday that it would steer clear of the civil strife that has hit Iraq following the gulf war and warned Iraq's neighbors to do the same. The Pentagon made plans to welcome home up to 15,000 veterans of the war during the next week.
Pentagon military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 4,400 members of the Army's XVII Airborne Corps, including members of the 82nd Airborne Division, would be in the first group returning March 14.
President Bush hailed the troops as U.S. heroes and said home towns all across America would welcome them home soon.
Within a week of the initial return ceremony, up to 15,000 members of all service branches are expected to be back in the United States from the gulf area, said a senior Pentagon official.
Overall, Cheney has said it would take at least six months to take the full contingent of U.S. forces in the out of the region for reassignment.
In Kuwait, at least 10,000 foreigners, including Palestinian residents, are expected to be expelled for collaborating with Iraq during its bloody seven-month occupation, Kuwait officials say.
Sheik Ahmed al-Sabah, head of the main military-based resistance group and nephew to the rulling emir, said Kuwaitis should not single out any nationality. He said many among Kuwait's 350,000 Palestinian residents helped thwart Iraq blockades or performed other services.
There have been rumors of Palestinians being killed by Kuwaits seeking vengeance for relatives murdered by the Iraqi. But Col. Jesse L. Johnson, head of U.S. Special Forces working with the Kuwaits military in clearing the city, said he had no such reports.
That is the estimated number that helped the Iraqis, including looking for false identification cards at the houses of senior officials.
"It just the people who betrayed us will be expelled," said Sheik Ahmed, whose father, Sheik Fahd al-Sabah, was killed defending the Islamic State in first day of Iraq's invasion. "At least 10,000 people will be kicked out."
At the State Department, representative Margaret Tutwiler cautioned Iran and other outsiders to stay out of the conflict that had afflicted a dozen Iraqi cities.
"The United States respects and believes in the territorial integrity of Iraq, and we do not believe that other states should involve themselves in
Iraqi factions
Iraq's defeat in the gulf war will bring a power struggle among these factions;
Baathist Party, ruling party of Saddam Hussein; secular in outlook; most members are Sunni Muslim Arabs
Islamic Revolutionary Party Iraq, headed by Mohammed Bakr Hakim, in exile in Iran; members are Shite Muslim
Iraq Kurdistan Front, headed
Noshray Zebari; members are mostly Sunni.
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Iraqi Salvation Movement, an umbrella group formed by opposition leaders with Saudi Syrian help; includes fundamentalist Muslims,
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against President Saddam Hussein had occurred inside Iraq, but that the United States and its coalition partners wouldn't get involved.
the internal matters of Iraq," she said.
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Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said significant unrest directed
28 journalists are thought lost and in danger in Iraq
The Associated Press
The journalists, from U.S. British and French news organizations, drove into Iraq from Kuwait to gather information on a reported rebellion against the President of President Sadam Hussein.
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Twenty-eight western journalists have disappeared in chaotic southern Iraq, and the U.S. military said yesterday that some were thought to be in danger.
The U.S. Central Command in Riyadh reported that 11 of the journalists left Kuwait for the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday without a military escort and were thought to be in serious danger.
It said the 11 included four reporters from U.S. organizations: Neal Conan of National Public Radio, Chris Hedges of The Grapes, and Greg Lemoto and Tyrone Edwards of Cable News Network.
Bernard Gwertzman, foreign news editor of the New York Times, said the newspaper was working exhaustively to learn the whereabouts of Hedges and the other journalists.
In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry said another 14 French journalists had been missing in southern Iraq since Sunday.
A three-member crew from Britain's Independent Television News has also disappeared in southern Iraq, an ITN correspondent in Dhahran reported. He said the crew was in a convoy that tried to follow senior Iraqi military officers back to Basil after their meeting Sunday with allied commander Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf near the border with Kuwait.
France has asked the Soviet Union, which represents French interests in Iraq, to intervene with Baghdad to try to determine the cause whereabouts, presidential representative Hubert Vedrine said.
Sonia Goldenberg, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, said, "The situation is very unclear, but we are very concerned and would like to urge all parties in the region to help provide information of their whereabouts and help ensure their safe return."
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