THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
VOL. 101.NO.71
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY DECEMBER 6.1990
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KU engineering students reject fee proposal
Engineering student Christian Johnson votes in the tuition referendum.
But K-State supports by wide margin
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
Seventy-five percent of KU engineering students who voted Tuesday and yesterday rejected a proposed $18-a-credit-hour fee. Thirty-six percent rejected the engineering students at K-State supported the fee.
The engineering fee was proposed by the deans of engineering at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University to repair and replace equipment.
The Board of Regents requested the vote to help them gauge student opinion about the fee. The Regents will vote on the proposal Dec. 20.
Regents requested that students vote on the proposal, which would be implemented in State.
Out of about 2,100 students in the KU School of Engineering, 198 students voted for the fee and 586 voted against it, said Tom Peer, head of the Elections Commission.
At K-State, which has about 2.650 students
in its engineering school, 730 students voted for the fee and 380 voted against it.
Results of the vote at Wichita State are unavailable until tonight.
"The large difference does surprise me, said Becky Sway, St. Louis sophomore at KU." "I don't know what the circumstances are there, but I would have thought they would have the same environment surrounding the fee as we do here."
Regent Linwood Sexton said the Regents requested the vote because the students would be most affected by the fee and because they were the ones who would pay it.
"It's a real interesting vote, but I don't know how to interpret it," he said. "But the people who make up the group
Carl Locke, KU dean of engineering, said he was not surprised by the results of the KU vote because of comments he had heard about the university's forums where the fee was discussed.
"It sounds like the student government was more effective here than at K-State in
forming students' opinions against the fee.
Locke said, "But I think students feel something magic will happen and the equipment problem will be solved."
The student governments at both universities have said they do not support a restricted use of computers.
Don Rathborne, K State dean of engineering, said the vote showed that students were willing to commit to financing a quality program.
Locke said he thought he'd had a reasonable chance to swair students toward supporting
Rathborne said that he and the K-State student body president, Todd Heltschmidt, had debated the fee proposal several times. He would have to argue it would support the engineering students' vote.
"I don't know how to explain the difference between the votes except to say the environment here was obviously a better one than Dean Locke had to work with." he said.
Brian Culliss, KU Engineering Student
Counsel president, said he expected the KU
instructor to continue.
students he had spoken with about the fee said they thought the University should supply the financing to repair and replace equipment.
"My opinion is that if any one school is falling behind, the University is responsible to keep them up to date," he said. "But I do support a tuition increase to get the money for equipment."
Steve Malek, KU Kansas City, Mo., senior who supports the fee, said, "I know how much people like to hang on to money, but I don't see other ways to get the money for equipment. I also think that since we use the equipment, we should have to pay for it."
Budig's success result of work high aspirations
Richelle Ahlvers, KU Courtland junior who does not support the fee, said she thought that only half of the engineering students who voted against the fee were informed about the proposal well enough to vote against it for solid reasons.
"I think the other half just did not want to pay for it." she said.
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Gene A. Budig is in his 10th year at KU, he比他 climb to the chancellorship of a major university has not been easy.
In fact, if it were not for his parents, Angela and Arthur Budig, and the town he grew up in, m. Cooke, Budig might not be where he is today.
He was one of three children the Budigs adopted.
Budig's mother was a part-time nurse and his father was a mechanic who left for work early in the morning and came home late at night.
"I'm very proud of the fact that I'm adopted," Budig said. "My parents were of little means who sacrificed a lot for me and my brother and sister. We are very fortunate."
Angela Budig said her son had always been dependable and hard working.
"My mother really gave the direction in the family," he said. "I always felt wanted and an important part of their lives."
Angela Budig said, "He has made a good impression on people from the time he was a little boy. He really was a sharp little rascal."
Budig began working when he was in third grade. He distributed advertising flairs for stores in town
She is proud of her son and likes to tell a story about how Budig bought a baseball glove with his own money.
H went into a sporting goods store to buy the glove and after choosing the glove he wanted, the salesperson gave the pay for the glove in installments.
Budig lived up to his promise to pay for the glove and the town's salespeople used him as an example for the other children.
But like any child, Budig had his mischievous side.
While Budig was a young boy growing up in Nebraska, a house was being built across the street from where he lived. One afternoon, Angela Budig called her son in for dinner. When he did not respond the first time, she went outside again to call him.
"I went downstairs to the base-
ment and when I got back upstairs,
Gene was standing in the back door
on the landing," she said. "After I
asked him where he had been,
he waited for a couple of minutes and
said, 'Son of a bitch, son of a bitch,
son of a bitch.'
"I pulled him upstairs and washed his mouth out with soap and I have regretted it ever since, because it wasn't his fault that he learned those words. It was the construction workers' fault."
Small town virtues
In addition to his mother guiding him, Budig learned several of his values from the small Nebraska town.
"McCook emphasized the importance of personal worth." Budig said. "It encouraged its young to seek out public service opportunities. It was important to give something back to society."
Religion also played an important role in Budig's life. It still does.
"I always prayed a lot." he said.
See BUDIG n.9
Gene A. Budig, KU's chancellor since 1981, dreamed of being a baseball player and someday hopes to work in major league baseball.
Ex-Panamanian officer caught
The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY, Panama — U.S. troops arrested a Panamanian former senior police official yesterday after he escaped from prison and seized national police headquarters before he president called a coup attempt.
Former Col. Eduardo Herrera and about 50 armed supporters surrendered after shots were fired.
A police officer was reported killed, and three civilians were reported injured during the fray.
Herrera and 35 followers were arrested and placed in the custody of Panamanian authorities for trial, Vice President Ricardo Arias Calderon said. He said about 15 supporters escaped before they could be taken to a police compound.
Herrera himself made a brief getaway after surrendering, but U.S. troops captured him at a building nearby.
lermo Endara, was installed one day after the United States invaded Panama in December and topped Gen. Antonio Manuel Nor
It marked the first challenge to the government of President Guil-
Herrera, a former Noriega associate, said it was not his intention to overthrow the government.
Endara said yesterday evening,
"The punishment for all the military and civilians who participated in the attempted military coup will be execlmpion. The administration of justice will be expedited."
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate revises policy book
The code identifies and defines many of the University of Kansas policies and regulations that KU students are expected to follow. Students may subject to disciplinary action they fail to comply with University policy.
After Roger Ross, Student Rights Committee chairperson, reviewed every article in the revised Student Rights Commission, the senate pass it by voice vote.
Senate reviews the code every two years. Chancellor Gene A. Budig must approve the revised code before
it can become University policy.
Senate passed the code with little discussion.
"I don't know why it was so unconfrontial," he said. "But we did discuss the concerns at the last Senate meeting. We spent two hours discussing it and addressed most of the questions then."
Ross said he was surprised that Senate made no motions to amend any part of the code.
Darci Davenport, Nunemaker senator, said she thought there was little debate about the code at last meeting. The senator had discussed the code informally
last week.
She said many senators might have passed the bill because they thought the Student Rights Committee, which made the recommendations to amend the code, had considered the recommendations carefully.
David Suroff, committee vice-chairperson, said that of the 99 students who responded, those that most affected students:
* Expanding the definition of the
ones that most affected students:
- Expanding the definition of the term "hazing."
Extending the authority of the department of student life to enforce
See SENATE, p. 14
Baker outlines Iraqi meeting
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Iraq has accepted President Bush's offer to meet to discuss the occupation of Kuwait, but the gap between the two sides remains wide as Secretary of State for Afghanistan continues talks on Capitol Hill today.
Baker plans to use his trip to Baghdad to reiterate three U.S. demands — that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait, free all foreign hostages and permit the return of the ousted Kuwaiti government.
But Sadiq al Mashat, the Iraqi ambassador, said yesterday that the Palestinians' dispute with Israel was the "backbone" of Iraqi policy.
"It has to be addressed some way or another," he said. "Let us negotiate and arrive at a peaceful settlement, and interest of everybody in the region."
Al Mashat also warned the United States that, "If you are going to war you are going to receive ashes and animosity."
Baker, who appears today before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will go to Baghdad after tarqi Aziz, the Iraqi foreign minister, comes to Washington for talks with Bush.
Testifying yesterday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Baker appealed for broad support for the administration's Persian Gulf policy.
He said he would not negotiate with Saddam and added a new warning: "If force must be used, it will be used suddenly, massively and decisively."
Amid rising dissent, Baker said,
"We ought to send a clear signal here
that there is a willingness and a
resolve to threaten the use of force in
a credible way so this man (Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein) will know if he doesn't leave peacefully
force could be used against him."
Meanwhile, Bush said in a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that the United States would be giving Saddam a face-saving way out.
“When naked aggression takes place, it’s not a question of finding face for the aggressor,” Bush said. “When a country is literally raped and pillaged, should the world go out and try to find a way to save face for he who has raped and pillaged that country?”
GSP-Corbin RA called to duty;
Riley soldier faces charge p. 12
Dole: Saddam may link crisis with Palestine
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It will be difficult for the United States to avoid the Palestinian question while trying to resolve the Persian Gulf crisis, Senate Security Leader Bob Dole says.
Dole said that he did not want to see Iraq aggression linked with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hussein could force the issue.
"Sooner or later we're going to have to have an international conference or some way to try to resolve it to try to protect the right of Israel to live in peace," he said. "Of the Kansas City Star in an article published yesterday."
"I think in the long run it may have to happen," he said. "It would complicate things right now, trying to link these two. He'll try to do it; we've got to be able to resist it."