VOL.100.NO.140
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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KU joins in racism forum
By Carol B. Shiney
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Input from KU students, faculty and administrators eventually will be included in recommendations for policies and procedures from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to President Bush.
Nine people from the University of Kansas presented information yesterday to the commission's Kansas Advisory Committee at a community forum about the rise in racial and religious tensions on Kansas college campuses, sponsored by the committee, was at Washiburn University of Topeka.
Ana Riaos, chairman of the committee, said the information would be submitted to the commission in Washington through its regional
office.
"This hearing is the input for this area." Riojas said.
She said that after the commission reviewed the report, commissioners would make civil rights recommendations to the president.
Coincidental timing
It was just a coincidence that the hearing, which was scheduled in March, occurred soon after race officials were reported at KU, Rios said.
"I think that based on the timing of this meeting and recent events, this might be the boost that's needed to make things happen quicker," she said.
During the forum, 20 people from
Kansas colleges, universities and area communities made presentations to the committee about problems with racial tensions on campuses. The March 30 incident at the campus was the first time certainity was mentioned several times.
David Katzman, professor of history, said his main concern was the inadequate response by the University to hate crimes.
"Beyond words, the University has done very little to protect all minorities on campus," he said.
Although biketight-related incidents and harassment are a growing problem on campuses across the country, it is not surprising that incidents increased, because it always existed.
"I don't believe people are more racist or anti-semitic today," he said.
"The theyint feel free to express it." Daveen Liewin, director of KU's New York division, sentiments at KU since the Ku Klux Klan's visit to the University in 1988.
"All minority groups on campus are deeply affected when one minority group experiences violence and discrimination," she said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that his office had been working closely with Hillel and the Anti-Defamation League to address the problem of the anti-semitic incidents.
Dan Wildcat of Haskell Indian Junior College linked the recent deaths of three Native American youths to a climate that allowed
See FORUM. p. 6
Give me shelter
Jackie Estis, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, provides her own shelter as she waits for a bus in the rain. Scattered showers dampened campus yesterday and today's forecast calls for a chance of thunderstorms and a high of 65 degrees.
Cheney calls for big cuts in B-2 plans
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Dick Cheney yesterday called for slashing Pentagon plans for the B-2 stealth bomber and other sophisticated aircraft, citing a diminishing Soviet threat.
In addition to cutting the proposed number of B-2 bombers from
Cheney, pressed by congressional Democrats to cut
Cheney, pressed military spending in response to rapid changes in Europe, testified that his plan would trim $2.4 billion from President Bush's $307 billion defense budget for 1991 and would save $34.8 billion through 1997.
Proposed Pentagon aircraft purchase cuts Secretary of Defense Cheney wants to cut the number of these planes bought in 1901-94.
Proposed Pentagon
Plane type Savings (millions)
A-12 attack plane $200
ATF fighter 1,252
B-2 'Stealth' bomber 9,270
C-17 transport 4,156
SOURCE: Dept. of Defense
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
said he intended to cut planned purchases of the C-17 long-range transport plane and the Navy's A-12 attack aircraft and to delay purchases of the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Aircraft and the Advanced Tactical
See related stories p.11
Cheny told the House committee that Soviet military capability would continue to be robust, but that the U.S. could afford to slow down the pace of developing and fielding the next generation of aircraft.
He said NATO faced fewer enemy aircraft and a reduced ground threat as a result of the dramatic changes sweeping Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Cheney said his proposed cutbacks would lower the projected cost of the B-2 program from $7.4 million to $6.1 billion. But he said building fewer planes would save $300 million in plane from about $300 million to more than $800 million.
Cheney said he intended to cut the number of B-2 aircraft to be purchased in the next fiscal year to two planes. Five were to be purchased at a cost in the fiscal 1991 budget of $5.5 billion.
Senators refuse KSU's demand for adjustment
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Senate yesterday rejected a proposal to increase the enrollment adjustment at five Board of Regents schools, including Kansas State University. The amendment was defeated 19-13.
State Sen. Lana Oleen, R-Manhattan, introduced the measure as an amendment to the omnibus budget. It would have raised the enrollment adjustment from an average 57 to 75 percent of the Regents original request for the five schools.
The adjustment would have increased state spending at K-State, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Pittsburgh and the Kansas College of Technology in Salina by $1.47 million.
Of that total, $862,773 would have gone to K-State, raising the enrollment adjustment there to $3.5 million in fiscal 1991.
Oleen said the rally by about 300 K-State students at the Capitol on Wednesday influenced her action. It demonstrated that students have the capacity of government enough to become involved in the government process.
"We talking about students from across the state calling on their senators and representatives. The number of students don't lie."
K-State students said Wednesday that the Legislature was obligated to pay the enrollment adjustment. Without it, 300 classes would have to be cut from the curriculum.
Oleen said that figure was exag-
gerated. She said some class sections
would not be offered, but
entire courses would not be eliminated.
But State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee, said the enrollment adjustment was financed as a percentage of students changed. He said students were using threat tactics to get the funds.
House passes flag-burning ban p. 6
He called K-State, his alma mater, the "largest agitator." He said the school would receive an $8,487,631 increase in spending from fiscal 1990 to fiscal 1991, referring to tentative conference committee recommendations allocating that amount.
"If the threat works, you're going to be threatened again and again," he said.
Bogina also expressed concern about the Regensburg budget, which is stranded in his conference committee because a consensus cannot be reached in revision in the University of Kansas Medical Center portion of the bill.
State Sen. Jim Allen, R-Ottawa, said that although he was a devout fan of the Wildcats, he could not fund the enrollment adjustment.
A table of conference committee recommendations distributed by State Wint. Went Jr., R- Lawrence, showed a 6.4 percent general fund increase at K-State from fiscal 1990 to fiscal 1991.
The University of Kansas would receive a 4.7 percent increase.
The Associated Press
Senior Bush adviser quits; sources blame treaty talks
WASHINGTON — Edward L. Rowney quit yesterday as a senior arms control adviser to President Bush. Sources said Rowney resigned because of what he felt was undue haste in completing a treaty with the Soviet Union to limit strategic missiles.
Bush accepted Rowny's resignation with regret and said he had always valued his adviser's candor and loyalty.
"You have served as one of the principal architects of the American policy of peace through strength." Bush said in a letter the 73-year-old,
retired Army lieutenant general.
Rowny, who will leave his job June 30, said in a statement that he looked forward to contributing to Bush's efforts for peace through strength.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Rowny had authorized him to say there was no disagreement or reason to leave other than a desire to take the positions outside government.
But sources said Rowynt disagreed with Secretary of State James A. Bush's push to complete thearm treaty, and Rowynt thought was too fast a pace.
Blast in high school sends 21 to hospital
The Associated Press
RICHMOND - A chemistry exper-
RICHMOND — A imed explent shortly before noon yesterday, and emergency crews raced 20 mph to the teacher to a hospital.
Eldon Burgess, a media specialist at Central Heights High School, said he was eating lunch in the teacher's lounge when the explosion occurred in the biological sciences room next door.
chemistry exper-
He said he had — heard that ethyl alcohol and oxygen were mixed in the class and that somehow a flame was lit.
High school
"They just started filing out, holding their heads, and blood was trickling everywhere," Burgess said. "We were in lunch and heard this explosion and said 'What was that?' Kida started screaming. It was scary."
Pam Kaines of Rancon Memorial Hospital in Ottawa said all 25 stu-
dents with cancer had been admitted emergency room, but only about 15 required treatment.
'They just started filing out, holding their heads, and blood was trickling everywhere.'
"What we're seeing basically is glass cuts and abrasions," said Kanies, the hospital's director.
She said the students didn't appear to be suffering from chemical burns, and all but a few of the injuries were minor.
A student who suffered minor injuries told an Anderson County medical technician that the blast occurred after the class mixed ethyl alcohol with oxygen. Then, someone threw a bottle into the five-gallon glass container.
"It must have been a shock for some of the students, but they seemed to handle it OK. Sometimes I was more than the adult do," Ertman said.
Cockroach-cluttered heat tunnels intrigue students
Kanies said one student was flown to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., for his graduation. He was in stable condition, she said.
Assistant Principal Bob Erisman said the students' parents had been notified.
The entrance to the tunnel west of the Facilities Operations building is closed off by a locked iron gate.
Erisman said school officials were so busy treating the students and notifying parents that they had not yet investigated the explosion.
After the blast, the injured students and the teacher, Jim Hartman, rested in a hallway while ambulances from Franklin, Miami and Anderson counties rushed to the scene.
By Mark McHugh
Kansan steil writer
Mysteries of the underground tunnel system at KU lure people to explore the channels, but the only things intruders find are large cockroaches, cables, silt and siliverfish, a KU facilities operations official said.
"I's narrow, it's confining and the humidity level is high down there," said Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant facilities and operations at Wellesley College. "I've seen cockroaches of up to three inches in length down there."
But the 2.5 miles of tunnels have fascinated some students who have explored them.
"It was really cool," said a graduating senior who asked that his name not be used. He and a friend were tunnels once during Spring 1989.
Getting into the tunnel network was simple, he said. They entered through a grate outside Robinson bob into Robinson bob way of the tunnel.
"While one person holds the grate, the other can get in," he said. Trash in the tunnel indicated that people had been there before.
Another graduating senior who asked to remain anonymous said that he had been under campus three times since Fall 1987.
He said that he entered the tunnels through a manhole by the flagpoles outside the Military Science building.
He and his partners once traveled past the basement and workshops of
the art and design building and to the intersection of 18th Street and NaiSmith Drive, he said.
"If you poke your head up, you
head's going to be in the middle of the
intersection." he said.
Porter said anyone caught in the tunnels could be charged with breaking and entering and trespassing.
He said that during the past six years he had heard of three or four incidents where people got into the ventilation shafts, which are connected to the tunnels, and entered Allen Field House to get into basket.
The tunnels were built in the 1890s to house steam pipes that heated buildings on campus. Since then, branch tunnels were added to the main line, and coaxial and electric cables, along with telephone lines, have been placed there.