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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 30, 1990
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Ankle deep
Covered with mud, Jennifer Nelson, Lawrence High School junior, serves the ball during the fifth annual mud volleyball tournament sponsored by the Lawrence chapter of Students Against Drunk Driving. The non-alcoholic event, conducted yesterday east of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, was designed for students, teachers and parents as an attempt to raise awareness of alcohol abuse.
Nomination of Moseley to ASK post irks some
Candidate withdraws to criticize nominee
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
The nomination of Bill Moseley as campus director of Association Studen ts of Kansas continued to divide supporters
Moseley
nents of Moseley's nomination during the weekend.
Last week, Student Senate cast a vote for the confirmation of Moseley, and Senate is scheduled to vote again Wednesday on the nomination. Mike Schreiner, student body president, nominated Moseley from the four applicants for the position.
for the position.
Schreiner said yesterday that he probably would nominate Moseley again this week.
Aaron Rittmaster, who said he would withdraw his application for the position today, accused Moseley of insensitivity and of using political loyalty to gain the nomination.
He said Moseley asked a question at a Senate Finance Committee meeting this semester about when KU minority organizations would be satisfied with their allocated finances.
"He has done serious damage as a representative to the Legislature," said Rittmatter, who said he withdrew from contention after the impeachment it applied to accuse Moselle while being a candidate.
Moseley said that he supported minority scholarships while serving on the ASK board of directors in which his mother's accusations were unfounded.
He said that as a member of Senate and the Finance Committee, he treated minority organizations in any other organizations' requests.
Rittmatter said that Moseley used political leverage to gain the nomination. Moseley, who was denied the nomination for ASK campaign manager in 1984, was the campaign manager for the Common Cause coalition in 1989.
Schreiner and Aimee Hall, student body vice president, were members of Common Cause last year.
youth.
Moseley laughed at the accusation and said politics had nothing to do with his nomination.
to do with his homeland. Schreiner also disagreed that Moseley's nomination carried any political implications. He said that he filled positions with the most qualified applicants and that his appointment of Pat Warren as Student Senate Executive Committee Chairman proved that party ties were not a factor in his decisions.
"Coalitions are pretty much dead after the elections are over," Schreiner said.
Warren, Fast Break candidate for student body vice president, ran against Schreiner and Hall's YOU coalition.
Jane Hutchinson, Spring 1988 ASK campus director, said that Moseley's outgoing character sometimes bothered people. She was a former high schoolical joyalty playing a role in the nominating process.
"Strong personalities evoke strong response, either positive or negative," she said. "He is a hard worker, but being a hard worker doesn't mean he is right for the job."
Of Moseley's nomination, Marty Aaron, former ASK director, said, "I worry about someone who is a loose cannon."
Mark Tallman, executive director of ASK, said that Moseley had worked hard on minority issues and on other student concerns and that his energetic personality was sometimes misunderstood.
Moseley said, "I think I'm always honest and sincere on all the issues. It's important for student leaders to be effective and clearly reflect those issues.
Candidates discuss education
Bv Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
Fred Phipps, Democratic gubernatorial candidate,
said Saturday that overcrowded classrooms and faculty shortages were not a problem at the University of Kansas and other Board of Regents schools.
and other Boehler fellows. Phleps took part in a Democratic男院公论党 sponsored by Kansas Young Democrats at Alderson Auditorium. Other participants were former John, Carolin and State Treasurer Joan Finney.
The candidates answered questions submitted by the University, Daily Kansas, the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Kansas State University Collegian.
He said that according to state studies overcrowded classrooms and faculty shortages were an aberration.
and the Kansas State University. When asked 'whether he would support qualified admissions at Regents schools, Phelps said there was no need to limit the number of students allowed to attend.
classrooms that "increases in enrollment at Regents schools is not dramatic," he said. "If enrollment at Regents schools doubled, it could easily be handled at no additional cost because, according to these books, there is sufficient faculty and space."
"I'm telling you that this campus is loaded with preferension, that don't do anything at all," he said.
physics space
Phels said visiting faculty at KU should not be stressed because they were spending their time doing "trivial research" and teaching one class a semester with four or five students.
professors that don't do anything at all. Carlin and Finney agreed that qualified admissions should be opposed, but they did not share Phelps' reasoning.
Carlin and Finney said that the elementary and secondary education systems in Kansas needed to be changed.
"For every dollar we invest in early education we save at least $4 in remedial education, welfare costs and crime costs," Finney said.
- Pennyley that a college preparatory curriculum needed to be established in all state high schools and that all high school students should be required to take the classes in that curriculum.
"We have too many students coming to the universities that have not taken enough of the courses required to continue their education," he said. "The university level is the most expensive. Doing remedial work there more than is necessary is not fair to the taxpayer."
The candidates agreed that the greatest problem facing the taxpayer and local governments was the property tax dilemma now challenging the Legislature.
their solutions varied from an undisclosed plan to abolishing the property tax system.
displosing the paper, a tax rollback proposed by Gov. Mike Huckabee that is not feasible. A rollback would, in effect, be an across-the-board cut, causing sales and income taxes to increase.
She said she had a comprehensive tax relief plan that she would unveil after the wrap-up session adjourned.
she would drive race cars.
Carlin agreed that a backtack was the wrong approach to the problem and said a local-option tax proposed by Havden would be ineffective as well.
He argued that rural communities had no choice if property taxes were cut. Other taxes would have to be increased.
Phephis proposed the ultimate property tax relief. "All property taxes should be abolished," he said.
"And no new taxes should be imposed. He pledges an billion of lost revenue could be recovered through cuts in the state budget."
Covered through club funds.
"Pat is in the state budget, and it should be debilitated." he said.
Phelps called the Social and Rehabilitation Services department a "fat cow with too many chiefs."
department he's hot on her heels.
"I advocate cutting back severely on the bureaucracies," he said. "When somebody retires or resigns, you don't rush in there to replace them."
All the candidates said the state should play a larger role in protecting the environment.
Carlin said decisive action was required at the state level when environmental issues were involved. He cited action taken during his administration to ban burial of hazardous waste.
"It doesn't take a genius and it doesn't take an expert to know that is an absurd work," he said. "The only reason the state hasn't done anything about it is special interests keep it from happening."
But Philips said the current state system was incapable of dealing decisively with environmental issues.
Finney said she would appoint people who cared enough to enforce environmental laws.
He said the state ranked 11th in the amount of toxic waste released into the environment.
enough.
There are laws on the books that would provide relief." she said. "But we are not enforcing them."
Concrete canoe passes test, floats to victory
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
It was either sink or win for the KU engineering students participating in this weekend's concrete canoe competition in Manhattan
They won.
Members of the KU Concrete Canoe team returned to Lawrence on Saturday with a trophy for the best overall team and several plaques for top finishes in three of the four events.
Twelve two-person teams raced in men's, women's and co-ed events.
events.
"It was a lot of fun," said Connie Brewer, Lawrence junior and member of two of the teams. "The water was cold, but it wasn't too bad."
She said the KU canes, the "Kansas" and the "Youth Gone Wild II," were the best canoes at the competition.
the competition.
"The others weren't very canoe-looking," she said.
Brewer said the object of the competition was to race canoes made of concrete 200 meters, circle a buoy counter-clockwise and return to the start.
"It was basic canoeing," she said. "One group in Nebraska tipped in."
Steve McCabe, assistant professor of civil engineering and one of the team's faculty advisers, said this was the 16th year a KU team had participated in the event at Manhattan. Because the teams won the regional round, they will advance to the national competi-
The object of the competition is to race canoes made of concrete 200 meters, circle a buoy counterclockwise and return to the start.
— Connie Brewer Member of the KU Concrete
Canoe team
tool.
Ocacbe said the 19-foot-long, 180-pound canoe was built from a mold made from a competition ra인eance canoe. The mold is filled with a concrete mixture reinforced with window screen.
The canoe was made from a special mixture of concrete and plastic foam. Plastic foam was used rather than sand because it added buoyancy without extra weight, thereby keeping the canoe afloat.
"The challenge is building one that's buoyant and stable," McCabe said. "The idea is to construct it so that it has the right strength, shape and can be manuvered."
in addition to the canoe's performance in the race, it was judged on construction, design and construction of the on the construction and process.
He said the experience was positive for the students because it was a chance for them to use concrete in a non-traditional fashion.
SCAD, HALO strive toward different goals
By Carol B. Shiney Kansen staff writer
Members of Students Concerned About Discrimination displayed frustration and disappointment at their meeting last night because of tension between SCAD and Hispanic American Leadership Organization.
At an April 23 meeting, HALO voted not to officially endorse SCAD. Three members abstained from voting and about 30 voted against endorsement. No one voted to endorse SCAD.
A new director for the Office of Minority Affairs, SCAD wants a director that would be more proactive and open to all students' concerns.
Angela Cervantes, president on HALO, said HALO did not support SCAD because of some of the issues SCAD supported, which include:
certs.
■ The extension of the minority affairs office to include gay and lesbian people. Cervantes said some HALO members were uncomfortable with this issue.
She said HALO also needed to know where it stood as a group before it could fully support another one.
"We need to address our own concerns with Hispanic students first." Cervantes said.
SCAD, which includes members of several minority and student groups on campus; as well as individuals, formed this semester.
Michael Sullivan, who was endorsed as the official representative to SCAD from the St. Lawrence Student Council, said SCAD formed to bring students from different organizations together to work with KU administration toward policies about discrimination.
Four members of HALO had been active with SCAD, not as representatives of HALO but as concerned students. However those students did not attend the SCAD meeting yesterday.
Cervantes said the four people sat out to think about the reasons why they were involved with SCAD.
She said that there was some tension between the two groups but that she was confident the tension would be resolved.
Andrea Katzman, facilitator for SCAD, said the group had HALO for endorsement because it was important for SCAD to have input from all groups in an attempt to be sensitive to all minority concerns.
The most effective way is to have representatives from different groups at the meetings, she said.
She said HALO's decision not to support SCAD hurt some people in the group but did not hurt SCAD's credibility.
"I think I feel sorry that there are some people who don't realize that we're stronger united than we are divided." Katzman said.
SCAD is requesting to attend a meeting tonight of Black Student Union to ask for that group's official endorsement.
Michael Diggs, SCAD member,
saidSCAD had not approached Black
Men of Today for official endorse-
ment and did not plan to do so.
"To ask them to endorse us is not only unnecessary, but also could be misconstrued as an effort to steal their thunder, and we don't want to do that," he said. "We're both working toward the same thing."
Student Senate, Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas and Hilliell officially support SCAD. The St. Lawrence Student Council supports SCAD's goals.
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