VOL.100,NO.152
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY JULY 18 1990
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Democrats plan Georgia run-off in primary race
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Lt. Gov. Zell Miller finished first in Georgia's five-way Democratic primary for governor yesterday and will compete in a runoff with Andrew Young, who seeks to be the state's first Black chief executive.
With 54 percent of
2,446 precincts
reporting, Miller had
210,698 votes or
41 percent;
Young h a d
140,557 votes or
27 state;
Sen. Roy Barnes
had 108,968 votes
or 21 percent; state Rep. Lauren "Bubba" McDonald had 39,656 votes or 8 percent, and former Gov. Lester Maddox, the one-time arch segregationist, had 17,113 votes or 3 percent. Georgia law provides for an Aug. 7 vote on the top two candidates, unless one wins a majority in the primary.
Young had trailed Barnes at some points early in the evening, when most of the returns came from rural, mostly white counties. He surged ahead to stay as the heavily Black, urban counties reported.
"Tonight I believe I can hear Georgia singing," a happy Miller told supporters as he laid claim to a run-off berth. "I hear Georgia singing a new song full of hope and harmony . . . a new song full of dreams and the determination to make them come true."
The Republican primary was won by state Rep. Johnny Isahton, 45, a real estate executive from the north Atlanta suburbs who was piling up 71 percent of the vote against three challengers.
The question is no longer whether a Republican can be elected governor of Georgia," the well-financed, conservative Isakson declared. "We tonight have laid that question to rest."
He said Georgians will choose him instead of "a liberal who fights to preserve the ways and failures of the past."
Young, a one-time aide to Martin Luther King Jr., went on to be a congressman, ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of Atlanta, hoped to follow in the footsteps of L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia. Wilder last year became the nation's first elected Black governor.
The campaign was notably gentle, free of the mudsliding and negative advertising that have marked many recent high-profile political contests. Race was mentioned far less than in the past, about a legalized gambling and the economy.
Young predicted Monday he would run more strongly in predominantly white areas than pollsisters and other observers expected.
About 25 percent of Georgia's voting age population is Black.
"A lot of people who say I couldn't get votes in south Georgia have implied there's something backward about south Georgia, and I think they've underestimated south Georgia again," he said in Columbus. "We're going to surprise people in where we get votes."
Miller, 38, is a moderate who enjoyed Black support in his 16 years in the state's No. 2 job. He made himself the principal advocate of an issue of growing popularity in the state — legalization of a state lottery.
Young, also 58, stressed his experience traveling the world to bring business to Atlanta and said economic development was a cause that could bring Blacks and whites together.
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New law affects part-time students
Bv Brvan Reber
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Division of Motor Vehicles has developed a residency definition that may affect the vehicle registration of many KU students.
maintain vehicle registration in their home counties.
Ken Clark, public information officer for the Kansas Division of Motor Vehicles, said KU students who live in Douglass County but maintain their vehicle registrations in other counties could be affected. If the students were to leave Douglass County, their vehicles must be registered in Douglass County.
University and college students enrolled in nine or more hours can
"If a student is a resident of Pottawatomie County and wants to retain residency in Pottawatomie County, he will have to attend the university for at least nine hours," Clark said.
Gov. Mike Hayden signed the law, which became effective July 1. Violation of the law could result in a maximum fine of $2500.
The KU Office of Institutional Research and Planning keeps records on students enrolled in 12 or more credit hours and six or less. No records are kept by the office for
students enrolled in between six and twelve hours. In Spring 1980, 4,750 students were enrolled in six or fewer hours.
Donna Huline, assistant director of parking, said students who had parking permits could not be identified by location of their vehicle registration.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence Police Department spokesman, said, "This is probably what should have been done by students anyway. If they live someplace for nine months out of 12, that is their primary residence, and I think that's where they should have their vehicles registered."
cannot foresee officers going out only to enforce this ordinance," he said. "It would be done primarily in conjunction with infractions other than offence."
Sgt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Police said he was not aware of the change.
Chris McKenzie, Douglas County administrator, said he thought the law clarified the residency requirement.
Ramaley departs KU for Portland State
Bv Melissa Bularen
Kansan staff writer
Although Judith Ramaley left Friday to assume the presidency of Portland State University, her programs and ideas will remain at the University of Kansas.
During her three years as executive vice chancellor, Ramaley sought to improve KU by
creating an environment in which research, teaching and various programs are all related.
"What we're trying to do is to get people together, not just interacting, but focusing on important questions," she said.
Ramaley said she particularly was proud of her work on
a campus-wide planning process. The process involved all levels of administration in the development of University goals.
"The program created a sense of what the University of Kansas was all about," she said. "The program showed what we're especially good at and what we need to improve. It showed we need to continue to be a major university that, at its core, have deep commitment to undergraduate education."
Ramaley said the process was designed to strengthen existing programs and to provide students with the skills they need.
Senior administrators, with the help of faculty representatives and deans, developed 26 planning priorities, including larger faculty salaries and improved student advising.
Ramaley said the priorities would help guide efforts and allocations for the next several years.
"The program makes sure we don't lose track of our purpose as to what's important." Ramaley said. "It also makes sure we don't wander off the path in non-profit directions. Yet, at the same
time, it allows for lucky opportunity."
Raymond Moore, co-chairman of the Campus Planning Association Committee, said the University had benefited from Ramaley's participation.
Ramaley said another priority should be increasing KU's minority population.
"We can't be a great institution without coming to terms with diversity." she said.
Ramaley said the University also should focus on improving students' first contacts with KU. Whether they hear about KU through a brochure, high school counselor or friend, she believes the first impression should deliver a clear message that they can succeed at KU.
Ramaley said she had worked on many other programs but that she was unsure of their future.
"It a project dies when I leave, then it was not a project that people supported, and it is not important to Uniview that Universität build around the people, money and space and how to put these elements together."
Grissom trial date delayed until fall
New attorneys have not received case documents
The Associated Press
The trial of Richard Grissom Jr., accused of killing three Johnson County women, will be further delayed, a judge ruled Monday.
Grissom is suspected in the June 1899 disappearance of Lenexa roommates Christine Rusch and Teresa Brown, both 22, and KU graduate Joan Butler, 24, of Overland Park.
The case already has been delayed several times due to extradition proceedings, hearings and attorney changes.
The trial was scheduled to begin Aug. 27, Johnson County District Judge William Gray moved the trial to Oct. 15, after the attorneys had received documents necessary for the trial.
Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison said there was nothing he could do to expedite the trial since Kansas law stipulated that time had to be allotted for such circumstances.
"I'm sure the judge did what he thought was best," Morrison said. Crissie's, newly, appointed
attorneys, Thomas Erker and Kevin Moriarty, told Gray that they had not received case files from Grissom's previous attorneys and that they could not defend Grissom without them.
Johnson County Deputy Public Defender Andrew Warren and Michael Bartee were dismissed from the case last month. Both men cited a professional conflict of interest when another man listed by their office was listed as a coasile witness for Grissom's trial.
Gray estimated that the trial would last five weeks and should be completed before Thanksgiving. He said it would be difficult to get a jury if the trial continued past the holiday.
Erker and Moriarty filed a motion Monday asking the judge to order Grissom's former attorneys to turn over the files. A hearing on that motion was scheduled for July 24.
Gray criticized the Johnson County Public Defender's Office and threatened to issue a court order forcing the office to comply.
Gray said he would not condone any action by the public defender's office to interfere with Grissom's right to a fair trial.
Kansan reporter Ann Sommerlath contributed information to this story.
NASA continuing to work on difficulties in space program
The Associated Press
CAPE CANVERAL, Fla.
NASA officials said yesterday that they would attempt to launch at least one shuttle in the next two months, which they say would be lucky and Atlantis' hydrogen leak can be corrected at the pad.
"Not only do we see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I believe we are out of the tunnel," WilliamLenoir, of NASA's space flight program vain.
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Earlier in the day, President Bush expressed support for NASA Administrator Richard Truly's handling of
the troubled National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
"I have confidence in NASA," Bush said. "It is a perilous business, I guess, why you put people up to work, but the record has been very good."
Bush said he "went semi-ballistic" when he read weekend news reports suggesting there would be an investigation of NASA.
The space agency has been hit by the most severe criticism since the 1986 Challenge disaster because of its lack of proper imperfections on the Hubble Space
Telescope that make a precise focus impossible.
"These shots are highly complex," the president said in Washington. "We have been the leaders in space and we must continue to continue to be the leaders in space."
The Bubb administration on Monday announced it would form an outside committee to look at long-term space goals.
Leinor said NASA is not under any pressure from congressional critics or anywhere else. The space agency will have to time the $23 billion space station, a
planned Earth study called "Mission to Planet Earth," and the president's announced goal of a permanent manned base on the moon.
"We're all motivated I would say, more so than pressured, to find what's wrong, to fix it and go fly, and that's exactly what we have done." Lenoir said. "We're not hurrying to do it, but on the other hand we're not going to take a year off and study it to death either."
NASA plans during the next few days to begin trying to repair Atlantic 'fuel line at the launch pad, Lennoir said.
Atlanta' leak was discovered during the first tanking test June 29, which prompted NASA to ground the three-shuttle fleet. Columbia's leak
Engineers believe the leak is somewhere around a flange on the external tank side of a 17-inch diameter valve. The valve is in a pipe that carries fuel from the tank to the main engines.
If the flange's seal is not cracked, workers will tighten the 48 bolts in that area, Lenoir said. A third tanking test will be conducted next week to see if that was enough to resolve the problem.
was detected during fueling for a May 30 launch attempt.
"If it passes, then we have been lucky because in all honesty we do not expect what we can on the do pin to fix the problem," Lenoir said. "It costs us nothing to try and see, so we will."
Lenor said "the ultimate test is when we tank it to go fly" — what happened with Columbia and would have happened with Atlantis. "If we were going to wall it will see it in danger of flying with a dangerous situation."
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