VOL.100,NO.139
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1991
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Nation/World Kohl's challenger is stabbed in neck
Doctors at University Clinic in the Cologne suburb of Lindenhal were trying to save the life of Lafontaine, chosen by the opposition Democrat Party to challenge the incumbent national elections; a television network reported.
The stabbing suspect, a middle-aged woman, sat impassively as a throng of policemen screamed at her, "Who are you? Who are you? Tell us your name! Say it!"
A woman in a white dress approached Lafontaine in an auditorium at another College subbar holding a bouquet of flowers and stabbed him in the neck with a knife, television ZDF reported.
The woman said nothing and the television showed her being taken out of the hall by a group of policemen.
Chamorro installed in office
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took the presidential oath yesterday, ending 11 years of leftist Sandinista rule in Central America's capital. She also signed a political amnesty and ended the military draft.
"This blessed Nicaragua, instead of burying its son
This blessed nicaragua, inatee in a fratricidal war, will burry its weapons forever, so the cannon will never roar again. Chamorro told a crowd of 15,000 inside a Managua baseball stadium.
The transition follows nine years of a U.S.-backed insurgency in which 30,000 people died. Chamorro inherits a legacy of suspicion and distrust, a nation of 3.5 million residents, that resplends
Chamorro
an armed camp and an economy shattered by the U.S. trade embargo and rampant inflation.
The inauguration of Chamorro, a conservative elected in February, brought immediate U.S. aid and support.
Outgoing President Daniel Ortega lashed at the United States, which backed the Contra rebels, for supporting a war he called unjust and cruel. He promised to lead a constructive opposition and said that if civil war broke out again, the elections would have been for nothing.
Bush's actions criticized
WASHINGTON — President Bush, bitterly criticized by Lithuania, said yesterday "I don't need any defense" for refusing to penalize the Soviet Union for economic squeeze on the breakaway Baltic republic.
"The policies, decisions I've taken have had strong support from the American people, and that's who I know."
While Bush has won support from some congressional leaders for his strategy, there also were signs of restiveness yesterday about the lack of a U.S. response.
Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell said Bush should take some action to express disapproval.
He suggested slowdowns in U.S.-Soviet talks on the environment, taxes, investment or trade but also said it was "unnecessary" to do so.
For a second consecutive day, Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis denounced Bush's refusal to curb economic ties with the Soviets in reaction to coercion of Lithuania.
Princeton students protest
PRINCETON, N.J. — Twenty-nine Princeton students occupied the university president's office Tuesday in a takeover aimed at forcing the school to offer more counseling for victims of sexual assault and harassment.
The students invaded President Harold Shapiro's office shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday. Shapiro left his office on Wednesday.
"We don't know how long this is going to go on. We've stated our demands," protester Antonia Merronzo
Talks between the students and university officials were at a stalemate, but student spokesman Matthew Gilligan said the two sides were on track.
Officials said they had no immediate plans to remove the students but that they could not bow to pressure and increase financing for a program in the middle of the school year.
School spokeswoman Jacquelyn Savani said the students' names were recorded and the university planned to discipline them. If they end their occupations, the teachers would be suspended if they continue, she said.
Last Sun sets in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Sun, which hoped to be the first major metro newspaper to make a successful launch in this country since World War II, unexpectedly folded yesterday after seven months.
At a news conference, Ralph Ingarsoll II, editor in chief of the new newspaper, said the St. Louis Sun had "received a lot of positive feedback."
"Closing the Sun was a decision the St. Louis marketplace made for us," Ingersoll said. Since launching the paper Sept. 25, the newspaper had published 213 editions.
"It is clear that we could not achieve sufficient circulation to make this enterprise viable and so we have concluded that there is no longer room in St. Peter's Church of Christ the King." Suburban Journals and the Post-Dispatch, he said.
The Sun struggled to overcome higher-than-expected costs, revolving-door circulation, limited advertising and a murky image. The newspaper also had troubles acquiring everyday readers.
From The Associated Press.
K-State students protest cut
By Eric Gorski and Rod Griffin Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA — A protest rally by Kansas State University students at the Capitol yesterday angered some, including KU and KState student leaders.
About 300 students from K-State gathered on the south steps of the Capitol to protest legislators' refusal to provide enrollment adjustment for the school
Without the adjustment, K-State would receive $2.1 million less than requested to compensate for its Fall 1899 enrollment, which increased by 1,300 students, said Todd Johnson, who is a faculty member at the university received $4.6 million.
The cut could cause K-State to eliminate up to 300 classes, Johnson said.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said legislators were unable to release the funds because of a tight 1991 fiscal budget.
The funds generated for K-State by the release are important, but other state-financed programs need the money more, Winter said. The students' effort came too late in the legislative session to be effective.
Todd Heltschmidt, Associated Students of Kansas representative from K-State, said that the students' trip to the University proved successful in the 1981 session.
"Legislators who met with students today will not forget it. They know we're concerned." Heitschmidt said.
Johnson said that K-State deserved the funds because of its efforts to improve higher education in the state. He was disappointed that Mike Schreiner, KU student body president, and Bill Moseley, KU assistant campus director of ASK, declined his invitation to attend the rally.
Accusations flew between student representatives of each school.
Johnson said, "A few years ago when KU needed an adjustment, KJ shortsighted. They are thinking of what's best for KU now instead of
what would benefit the entire Regents system in the long run."
But Moseley said he did not attend because he thought that K-State students' demands were not in the interest of Regens schools.
"I think it was a selfish maneuver on their part to get money for K-State," Mosley said. "I really believe they sought a higher enrollment. They're trying to undermine ASK priorities and Regents priorities."
Schreiner said, "I don't want to see KU and KState battle over a specific issue. We should be looking at the Regens system as a whole."
Pat Bosco, K-State associate vice president dean of student life, attended another rally at the K-State
campus yesterday afternoon. He said that although he was aware of the state's budget crisis, K-State still needed financing.
"This enrollment adjustment dilemma is not just a K-State problem," Bosco said. "But very rapidly, it becomes a dilemma for everyone in our state who is concerned about higher education."
Heitschmidt said he planned for the Capitol rally to be attended only by K-State students because he thought the enrollment adjustment was a K-State issue and not a Resens issue.
"We're trying to keep a positive image, a new activism," Heitschmid said.
Although the K-State administration supported the rally, students organized it and acted independently, Heitschmidt said.
Winter said that although he was encouraged by the concern of the students, he thought they were being bullied by the K-State administration.
Letters sent this month to parents of K-State students by the K-State Alumni Association national presidents. The letters do not belth the K-State cause, he said.
"One would think that if they were really interested in doing something, they would make some personal effort to said Winter, who was not contacted.
Kansan reporter Mark McHugh contributed information to this story.
'A few
'A few years ago when KU needed the adjustment, K-State fought for it. KU is being short-sighted.'
— Todd Johnson K-State student bdv president
Schumm denies rumors
By Stephen Kline
Special to the Kansan
Former Mayor Bob Schumm said yesterday that he had been a victim of rumors that he was involved with illegal drugs.
He said that he was not involved with illegal drugs and that the rumors began during the April 1989 city election when Dave Penny, a candidate for city commission, raised the issue of voluntary drug testing.
Schumm, speaking to a journalism class, said that he did not know who started the rumors but that they stemmed from his public opposition to voluntary drug commissioners—level city employees, including city commissioners.
"There are some things, despite the rumors, that I will stand up for." said Schumm, now a city commissioner.
Fenny said is a telephone interview yesterday that the community had before the last campaign and that the community had
"There is absolutely no reason he shouldn't have tested." Penny said. "The community wants to know."
Schumm said, "I do not use, sell or participate in any illegal drug activity in any way."
One of the rumors, which claims that Schumm had been stuffed into the holding tank of an outhouse at Clinton Lake during a failed drug deal in August, is false, according to Lawrence Fire Department records. Those state records that a rural Douglas County man fell into the holding tank while trying to retrieve his wallet
The man confirmed the department's account. He also said that he was not involved with drugs and that he had actually fallen into the tank while reaching for $200 that had fallen out of his pocket.
Schumm said he thought that the rumor was manufactured to fit that incident.
"I simply wasn't there," Schumm said, "I wasn't even in the country at the time."
Schumm's passport shows that he was in Barcelona, Soin. when the incident took place.
Schumm said that he was in Spain visiting his wife and children. His wife, Sandra, had just finished teaching with the Spanish Summer Institute of the University of Kansas, and the family was traveling.
Schumm said that he thought religious fundamentalists, like Penny, were testing the constitutional limits of
Penny said support for drug testing did not stem solely from fundamental religiousist reasons. For example, he said, William Bennett, director of the Office of National Drug Control Agency of the Department, and had pushed for the same type of drug testing.
Schumm said that Penny was tough to work with and that the two had been on a collision course since Penny
Some members of the community have been unfair. Schumm said, and the Lawrence Journal-World has been blessed against him.
The reporters have been fair, but there has been an attempt, through the placement of stories and in editors', to improve Penny's political position while casting Schumm in a bad light. Schumm said.
Ralph Gage, general manager for the Journal-World said, "I would disagree with his position. I think those in the newsroom who make the news judgments would also disagree."
Tie vote cast for ASK director
In its first action, the new Student Senate last night cast a tie vote for the confirmation of Bill Moseley as campus director of Associated Students of Kansas.
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Senate is scheduled Wednesday to vote again on a nomination, said Senator McCain, an independent body vice president.
Senate voted
30-26 for Mosley's confirmation, said Pat Warren, newly elected Student Senate Executive Committee chair
Moseley
man. Four senators abstained from the secret-ballot vote, which created the tie.
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Moseley was the only executive nomination to receive a ballot vote. The other four executive nominations were unanimously approved.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, nominated Moseley.
Moseley declined comment after the vote.
During a previous Finance Committee meeting, Moseley reportedly asked when minority organizations would be satisfied with their allocated finances, said William Sanders, former StudEx chairman. San
ders mentioned the question earlier in the evening as part of his farewell speech.
Before the vote, Moseley said he had represented students on all levels in his involvement with ASK. He said he supported increases for minority scholarships and opposed cuts that it could curtail minority enrollment.
Moseley said he had served in several ASK positions.
Katrina Widholm, Pine Arts semi-
writer who spoke against his confirmation
of the death was the best person for the job. She
said she was present at the
Finance Committee meeting where Moseley the statement.
Lara Adams, Architecture and Urban Design senator who spoke for Moselle, said that the issue was misrepresented and that Senate needed to quit discussing it.
Others elected to executive positions last night besides Warren were Cassandra Turner, executive secretary; Carl Damon, treasurer; and Stuart Comfort, administrative assistant.
KU student charged in racial case
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
A formal complaint against a KU student involved in a reported March 30 battery at Sigma Alpha Epison fraternity was filed yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
In a prepared statement, Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said Matthew Willenborg, St. Louis freshman, was charged with one count of disorderly conduct and one count of misdemeanor battery. A summons for Willenborg to appear in court has been requested.
Matthew Willenborg, St. Louis freshman, was charged with one count of disorderly conduct and one count of misdemeanor battery.
Douglas County district attorney
Wilenborg struck Ann Dean, St. Louis sophomore, and uttered a racial insult to her while she was delivering pizzas at the SAE house, 1801 West Campus Road, according to Lawrence police reports.
The disorderly conduct charge, a class C misdeme-
nor, is punishable by up to one month in jail and a $500
fine. The battery charge, a class B misdemeanor,
is punishable by one to six months in jail and a $1,000
fine.
Flory said no further information about court proceedings would be available until the summons was
Willenborg voluntarily resigned from the fraternity Monday after he was involved in a separate reported battery during the weekend.
Willemberg and Greg McGivern, Topeka freshman, were arrested Saturday morning after battering a man who tried to convince them to report a vehicle accident to police, according to Lawrence police reports. McGivern also voluntarily resigned from the fraternity Monday.
Neither Willenborg nor McGlenn could be reached for comment yesterday. They are scheduled to appear for an arraignment at 7:45 a.m. on May 2 in Lawrence Municipal Court.
Dean said yesterday that Flory had not contacted her about prosecuting the case involving the March 30 incident but that she was glad plans were proceeding. He said that Silkenburg was involved in Saturday's reported battery.
"I'ts ridiculous that they didn't kick him out before." Dean said. "If I were in the fraternity, I'd be embarrassed if he had anything to do with me."