THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.132
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1990
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Ramaley says Vermont job 'wasn't right'
By a Kansan reporter
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, changed her mind about contending for the University of Vermont because she said "I wasn't right for her."
"I simply wasn't the right career move for me, so I decided not to do it," she said yesterday.
Ramaley would not comment on whether she had been offered another job.
Stevenson Waltien, chairman of the University of Vermont board of trustees search committee, said Ramaley called him Saturday morning, a day before her scheduled visit to the university. She informed him of her decision to pull her name out of contention for the presidency.
Waltien said the committee would choose a candidate to recommend to the board from the remaining three
finalists. Ramaley was the only female candidate.
He said Ramaley's absence would not delay the decision, which is expected in early May.
Last month, the University of Vermont announced the four candidates for the presidency, who were chosen from 257 applicants.
Ramaley said last month that she had been nominated for the position and that she was not actively seeking to leave the University of Kansas. She said she intended to visit the university during her scheduled interview April 15-18.
She was the last of the finalists scheduled to visit the campus.
Ramaley, 49, became KU's executive vice chancellor on August 1, 1897. She replaced Robert Cobb, who returned in 1966 to return to teaching English.
KU considers minority programs University may take control of BSU, HALO recruitment
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
The University will decide whether to institute the programs before the end of the semester.
Recruitment programs sponsored this year by student minority groups may become annual events sponsored by the University, an assistant director of admissions said yesterday.
Chico Herbison, assistant director of admissions, said his office had submitted a proposal to the administration that would make recruiting sessions such as the ones sponsored by Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Black Student Union annual events.
HALO and BSU organized programs that brought minority high school students to campus to learn about the University and special programs for minorities. The groups had to request money from the University for busses and lunches for the students participating in the program.
'After seeing us taking on all of this by ourselves, I see no reason why the University could not take it over by themselves.'
Angela Cervantes HALO president
HALO president
Herbison said.
he said that the sessions, although relying on HALO and BSU, might have a broader focus than those this year.
"What form they will take we are not sure of." Herbison said. "They may not concern any specific minority. The direction may be more minorities in general."
Instead of organizing the entire conference themselves, the student groups primarily would select the students who were to attend and create the content of the programs. Herbison said.
"One hundred students, 'I'd like to see that.' Cervantes said. "I'd like to see more speakers come in inspire them and get them done."
"I'd like something a two-day event, where on Friday we could show speakers and on Saturday we could give tours of the campus and maybe take them to a game. All this is possible."
Angela Cervantes, HALO president, said she hoped the University's involvement in the program would mean more students could come to campus and stay longer.
Cedric Lockett, BSU president, also said that he hoped the University would make the programs longer and that the administration could take a greater role in the presentations with the students.
"A lot of kids said they really liked meeting the students on a one-on-one basis" Lockett said. "They were sold on the Blacks
here. It would be good for the administrators to meet them on a one-to-one basis too."
Cervantes also said the University could make presentations more specific to Hispanics.
"KU could say exactly all the scholarships that are available to Hispanic students," she said. "And with the greater amount of time, we could have them fill out the scholarship forms right here because you can send them home with all the forms, but you don't know how many get them filled out."
Cervantes said a national Hispanic group, which conducts similar recruitment conferences, contacted HALO this year to set up the conference because they thought the group was able to take on the responsibility. HALO then contacted the Office of Minority Affairs for financial help.
"After seeing us taking on all of this by ourselves, I see no reason why the University could not take it over by themselves," she said.
Lithuania requests Gorbachev meeting
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Lithuania yesterday asked Mikhail S. Gorbachev to meet with the republic's president to provide details of Moscow's threatened economic sanctions so that Lithuanians could be prepared.
It would be Gorbachev's first meeting with Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, who was elected after the republic declared itself independent March 11.
In a telegram to the Soviet president, Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimieras Prunskiene said Lithuania wanted to explain to its people just what difficulties they might face if they ignored an ultimatum Gorbachev issued Friday.
He gave Lithuania 48 hours to rescind some of its pro-independence laws or face a cutoff of products the Kremlin supplies. Gorbachev did not say which items would be stopped, but Lithuania is dependent on the Kremlin for such crucial supplies as oil, gas, machinery, raw materials, chemicals and automobiles.
The deadline expired Sunday night with no visible out in deliveries
Prunkisneva's telegram said broad economic sanctions would damage the Soviet economy as well as Lithuania's. She suggested the best way to clarify the threat would be in a speech she gave at the elephant monument, braved by Lundbergts.
Gorbachev didn't make an immediate response.
Another Lithuanian leader was quoted as saying the republic would be willing to pay hard currency for Soviet goods but would expect Moscow to do the same for items Lithuania exported.
Vilnius Radio quoted Prunskiene as saying that Lithuanian leaders decided that "until we see definite physical measures against Lithuania's industry and economy, all contractual obligations to the U.S.S.R. must continue to be carried out by all our enterprises, so there should be no pretext for possible disruption of supplies by the Soviet Union."
The telegram was sent to Gorbachev yesterday after an emergency meeting of the Lithuanian Presidium, the leadership of the legislature.
Journalist Vilius Kavailiauskas, who spoke to a Presidium member after its meeting, said the leadership was told the republic had just two weeks' supply of natural gas and six weeks' supply of oil.
Indonesia receives all its oil and gas from the Soviet Union at prices just a fraction of those on the world market. The small Baltic republic has little foreign currency to buy fuel from the West.
It has only enough newsprint to publish Lithuania's newspapers for four or five days, he said.
Some economic sanctions against Lithuania could backfire on the Soviet Union, Kavaliauskas quoted the official as saying.
Members of the Alford Packer Memorial String Band entertain tax filers at the Lawrence Post Office.
Band turns taxing mailing into sing-along
By Chris Siron Kansan staff writer
The painful experience of mailing taxes was made a little more bearable last night as local artists conducted a jamboree in the Lawrence Post Office, 645 Vermont St.
During the last hours before the midnight deadline, the Alferd Packer Memorial String Band and the Lawrence Barn B storm Clog Dancers cheered up the weary taxpayers racing the clock. The performers sang bluegrass standards and encouraged the frazzled stragglers to join them in old-fashioned barn dancing.
Reynolds said some people had made the mistake of dropping their tax forms in post office boxes after the last pick-up.
Bill Reynolds, Lawrence postmaster, said that between 5:30 p.m. and midnight about 6,000 tax were dropped off at the post office.
Reynolds said about 40 people came in hunting for IRS form 4868, which extends the return deadline to Aug. 15.
"It was definitely not as busy as last year in the last hours," he said. "We had a lot more coming in and it was still very busy." It was still very busy in the evening.
"In my hometown they serve coffee and cookies at the post office," he said. "Tax day should be an American celebration."
His girlfriend, Heather Nye,
Detroit law student, said she could
not understand why people waited
until the last minute.
"They don't seem to understand we can't postmark something for Monday when it isn't picked up until Tuesday," he said.
Neil Christensen, McPherson junior, said that he had procrastinated on his taxes but that he was glad he came down last night.
"I filed a long time ago," she said. "I just got my refund back
Mr. Shackelford, a Lawrence resident who declined to give his first name, had the dubious distinction at 11:58 p.m. of being the last Lawrence resident to mail his returns off to the IRS. He raced through the lobby as the band played the "William Tell Overture."
His 17-year-old daughter lost her W-2 form yesterday and did not find it until yesterday evening, Shackelford said.
He then had to find a store that would fill a $1 money order so he could pay his daughter's state taxes.
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Student challenges Lawrence noise ordinance
A petition filed in Lawrence Municipal Court yesterday states that the ordinance, which became law March 14, violates First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
By Kathryn Lancaster
Don Strole, a Lawrence attorney, filed the petition on behalf of Derek Bridges, Dodge City junior. Bridges was the first person cited under the noise ordinance.
Less than six weeks after becoming law, the constitutionality of Lawrence's noise ordinance is being challenged.
Strole asked the court yesterday to declare the law unconstitutional and proposed an amendment to the original ordinance.
Kansan staff writer
The wording of the ordinance is vague, discriminatory and aimed primarily at KU students, he
Bridges, president of Sigma Phi Epidaure fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St., was cited March 18, four days after the law went into effect. Bridge's court date is April 27.
said. It is arbitrarily enforced with some people receiving warnings and others citations.
"It's akin to having a speeding law in which neither driver nor officer has a speedometer," he said. "There is no limit. It is up to the discretion of the officer."
The proposed amendment would require Lawrence police to warn people that a citation would be issued if noise levels did not decrease.
The amendment would give people a chance to comply with the law. Strole said.
Tom Porter, city prosecutor, said he needed time to study the constitutionality issue raised by Strole
"We are not going to have an ordinance that is unconstitutional," he said. "If someone can show that it is unconstitutional, it will be changed."
This is the first time the ordinance has been challenged, he said. Six KU students pleaded guilty March 21 to charges of violating the ordinance.
Porter said each was charged about $50 for the
misdemeanor offense.
Cris Mullenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said more than 20 people had been charged with violating the ordinance.
The problem could be minimized if people were more considerate of their neighbors, he said.
"It goes both ways." Mulvenon said. "We're not out to ruin anybody's fun, but we're in the business of maintaining laws and ordinances."
Strole said if the city adopted the amendment, his concerns would be decreased.
B. Jake White, student body president, said he was disappointed with the inconsistent enforcement of the ordinance.
"I am not trying to raise issues to allow people to go out and party all night," he said. "I am raising serious constitutional questions about police powers."
"Up to this point, I don't think it has been fair," said White, who worked with city officials to ensure that student concerns were addressed in the ordinance.
The Associated Press
Nepal's king clears way for interim leadership
KATMANDU, Nepal — King Birendra yesterday asked the once-banned Nepali Congress Party to form an interim government to rule until the first free elections in nearly three decades are conducted.
A leader of the party, Ganesh Man Singh, met with Birendra and said the king indicated that he would give up his wide powers. Singh said after the meeting that parliamentary elections would be conducted within a year.
Birendra approved Krishna Prasad Bhattarai as the new prime minister pending the vote, Singh said. Bhattarai is acting president of the Nepali Congress Party.
The palace press secretary was not available for comment.
The events capped a day of political victories for the Nepali Congress Party and its allay, the seven-party United Left Front. They led nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations that began in February.
Earlier yesterday, Birendra dissolved the non-partisan national assembly and announced the resignation of the 10-day-old government of Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand, clearing the way for the new interim government.
The concessions came after the king's decision April 8 to lift the 29-year-old ban on political parties in an effort to appease the pro-democracy movement, which included violent clashes between protesters and police.
Singh then suggested Bhattarai as the new government leader, and the United Left Front agreed, the statement
Bhattarai, 65, told reporters he would present the names of the members of his government to the king today.
A Nepali Congress statement said Birendra first asked Singh to head the government, but the 75-year-old leader refused, citing ill health.
"His Majesty accepted the suggestion and asked Mr. Singh to convey his pleasure to Mr. Bhattarai on his nomination," said the statement.
It added "Mr. Singh repeatedly emphasised the great benefits the country shall derive if his majesty very gracefully accepted the role of a constitutional monarch of a parliamentary democracy."
Singh later said Birendra expressed his inclination toward changing the country to a constitutional monarchy. "He did not say in explicit terms but favored the idea," Singh said.
Birendra invited Singh to the palace after talks between Chand and opposition groups on forming an interim government broke down Sunday.
The Nepali Congress and the United Left Front, who launched their movement Feb. 18, demanded multiparty elections, an interim government headed by an opposition leader, the dissolution of the national assembly and a new constitution.