THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.131
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1990
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Ramaley decides to stay a 'Hawk, turns down offer
By a Kansan reporter
The day before Judith Ramaley,
executive vice chancellor, was to
sity of Vermont to interview for the university presidency, she pulled her name from consideration for personal reasons.
Stevenson Waltien, chairman of the University c
university of Vermont board of trustees search committee, said Ramalea called him Saturday morn- out of conversation for the presidency.
"We were suprised and disappointed with her decision," Waltien said.
He said that Ramaley cited personal reasons for withdrawing but said that she did not elaborate on them.
Ramaley was nominated for the presidency and agreed to become a candidate, Walten said. She was the only woman of four finalists.
Ramaley was to arrive at the university yesterday evening and stay through Wednesday for a series of meetings with university trustees, administrators, faculty and students. She was the last of the finalists scheduled to visit the university.
The Vermont presidency opened Jan.1 when former president Lattie Coor assumed the presidency at the University of Arizona.
Ramaley, 49, became executive vice chancellor at KU on Aug. 1, 1987. She replaced Robert Cobb, who resigned in December 1986 to return to teaching English.
In March, Ramaley said that although she agreed to the visit, she was not seeking to leave KU. She could not be reached yesterday for comment.
More measles cases cited
Six now suspected in county
By Steve Bailey
See other health story p. 11
Kansan staff writer
The number of suspected measles cases in Douglas County has risen from four to six, health officials said Friday.
Two new cases were reported Thursday afternoon that involve infants, said Ann Ailor, commi-
cable diseases nurse at the Douglas County Health Department. The four other cases involve two KU students and two Lawrence residents.
The cases will not be confirmed until blood test results are received later this month. It takes seven to 10 days for confirmation.
The first case of measles reported in Douglas County was April 9 when a KU student was diagnosed with measles. Watkins Memorial Health Center,
Charles Yockey, Watkins chief of staff, said Friday that the health center had treated two suspected cases of measles.
"We haven't seen any messes here since the two cases earlier this week," Yockey said. "But we have been very busy with measles-related activity."
Yockey said students from Salina had been calling Watkins asking if it was safe to go home for the weekend or if they needed another shot. Callers were advised that the Salina-Saline County Department of Community Health had discouraged travel to Salina, which had been hit recently by a large measles outbreak.
Yockey said it would be interesting to see if new cases would arise as students returned from Salina after Easter weekend.
"With the number of students
here from Salina, there is a possibility we could see more cases in the next few weeks," he said.
People exposed to a suspected case of measles are being advised to receive a second measles, mumps and rubella vaccination if they have not had a second shot since 1800. However, Yockey said a large outbreak could present problems because of the limited amount of vaccine.
"We are in a situation where we have to ration limited medical supplies," he said. "If there was a large outbreak, I don't think we would have the vaccine to immunize everyone exposed to a suspected case."
Lithuania ignores Soviet warning
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Lithuanian leaders yesterday ignored a Kremalin deadline to back down on their drive toward independence despite Moscow's threat to cut off key supplies to the Baltic republic.
Ozolas went on Lithuanian TV as the 48-hour deadline set by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev expired. He said the republic's president and prime minister would meet today to discuss Moscow's ultimatum.
Ozolas said that neighboring Estonia would
appoint an ambassador to Lithuania today.
Gorbachev demanded Friday that Lithuania rescind independence-oriented actions and threatened to cut off products the Soviet Union sells abroad for hard currency if the republic's leaders failed to act by yesterday.
appoint an ambassador to Lithuania today.
Lithuanian Deputy Prime Minister Romualdas
South Africa De Klerk to propose changes in apartheid
A leading newspaper reported yes.
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa -
erday that President F.W. de Klerk plans to make a statement of intent this week to eliminate remaining apartheid laws.
The Sunday Star of Johannesburg, citing polit-
insiders, reported de Kierk was expected to outline his plan in a document.
De Klerk has initiated a series of reforms of South Africa's system of racial segregation since assuming power in August. He said he wanted to dismantle apartheid and negotiate a new constitution that would include the country's 28 million Blacks.
Mandela admits ANC torture p. 7
He opposes a one-man, one-vote system, however, saying it will replace white domination with Black domination. He also has not spelled out his position on several major apartheid laws.
The laws include the Group Areas Act, which segregates neighborhoods by race; the Population Registration Act, which classifies all South Africans by race; and the Land Acts, which allocates 13 percent of the land for Blacks, who make up 75 percent of the population.
The newspaper quoted sources as saying that de Klerk is likely to make a statement of intent this week to do away with these measures but is not expected to scrap them unilaterally. He apparently would prefer to negotiate the final details with opposition groups, the newspaper reported.
The speech had been timed to increase the momentum of political reform heading into ground-breaking talks with the African National Congress guerrilla movement scheduled for May 2-4, the newspaper reported. The talks are designed to clear the way for formal negotiations on a new constitution.
Constitutional negotiations would include several opposition groups in addition to the ANC, the government said.
— and they accept it — that the next government will be mainly Black.'
De Klerk legalized the ANC and more than 60 other anti-apartheid groups in February as part of his effort to launch power-sharing talks between Blacks and whites.
The newspaper quoted an unidentified member of Parliament as saying:
The same mouth, he freed Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela from prison. Mandela, deputy president of the ANC, had been imprisoned 27 years.
Engineering student Terrv Bruster, Lawrence senior, tests a competing vehicle by climbing the stairs.
KU students create vehicle to withstand all-terrain test
Bruster was one of seven KU mechanical engineering students who competed in the 1990 Western Regional Mini-Baja Competition in Norman, Md. The team returned with its mud-covered, student-constructed entry Saturday evening but waited until yesterday morning to unload it and climb the 45-degree incline of stairs.
Terry Bruster celebrated his return from this weekend's offroad vehicle endurance competition with a victory lap around Learned Hall . . . and up the sidewalk stairs.
Kansan staff writer
Bv Sandra Moran
The competition was a project for undergraduate engineering students in which they worked as a team to design, build and race a mini-baja, or small off-road vehicle.
The three-day event culminated in a four-hour endurance race on a rough-terrain obstacle course that included a rock pit, speed bumps and a 10-foot-wide ditch. The purpose of the race was to test the
This was the first time a KU team had entered the competition.
'The best thing is that we finished the four-hour marathon.'
"We thought the endurance race was going to be a physical factor," said Bruir'er, one of three team drivers for the race. "But once you got out there, your adrenaline was pumping."
Donald Gyorog
Bruster, Lawrence senior, said the team anticipated the endurance race to be the most exhausting event.
vehicles on rough terrain at maximum speed without sustaining severe damage.
The vehicles were judged by the number of laps they made around the 3,500-foot track. Team members agreed that they lost track of how many laps they completed.
"The best thing is that we finished the four-hour marathon," said Donald Gyorog, faculty director, who pretty good for a first endower.
Gyorog, chairman of mechanical engineering, said more than
half of the 57 vehicles competing did not finish the race.
The vehicles had to be no longer than 8 feet and no wider than 5 feet. Each team had to use an eight-horsepower, four-cycle engine donated by Briggs and Stratton Corporation. Gyorg said the vehicle was capable of attaining speeds of 80 mph.
In addition, the car was judged for cost and design.
team members also drove their vehicles in tests of safety, maneuverability, acceleration and drivability up a steep, 30-foot hill.
It cost the team about $1,600 to produce the vehicle, Gyorog said. The money was raised by the students.
Participating schools included teams from Mexico, Maine, Louisiana and Canada, Gyorog said. He did not know when the KU team would receive its overall ranking, but he thought the team would be notified in about a month.
Scott Eudaly, team captain, said the group did not begin work on the vehicle until after spring break and took about one month to build it.
Taxpayers working longer to pay IRS Average citizen will work until May 5 to reach estimated 'Tax Freedom Day'
The Associated Press
If that prediction by the Tax Foundation proves accurate, it will be the latest "Tax Freedom Day" on record and two days later than 1899.
WASHINGTON — You won't be through with taxes for the year even if you beat the tonight's midnight deadline for filing your federal return. The average U.S. citizen will have to work through May 5 to satisfy the tax collectors.
The reason is simple, the nonpartisan research organization said yesterday in announcing the mythical date: "Tax increases will outpace the growth in individuals' income during 1990."
Tax Freedom Day is the foundation's estimate of how long it would take an average person to pay his or her state, federal and local taxes if all income went for taxes until they were all paid for the year 1990.
The calculations assume that all taxes are paid by individuals, including those collected from corporations.
For the millions of couples and individuals still struggling with 1969 returns, the Internal Revenue Service announced that its toll-free telephone service would remain open late tonight to answer technical tax questions.
Until this year, the latest date was May 4,1981, before a tax reduction took effect. The foundation said subsequent watering down of several deductions, increases in Social Security taxes and state and local taxes, and a gradual economic slowing have wined out that reduction.
The Postal Service said most post offices in cities with at least 30,000
population planned to station clerks at curside to receive returns.
Neither the IRS nor the Postal Service estimated how many returns were likely to be filed tonight. However, the IRS said it expected to receive about 23 million this week — or one of every five that would be filed this year.
About 6 million couples and individuals unable to file their returns on time were expected to receive a four-month extension by filing Form 4868 instead. The extension is automatic, but only if Form 4868 is accompanied by a check for estimated taxes owed.
Another estimated 650,000 U.S. citizens abroad, including military personnel, qualified automatically for a two-month extension by having their main business, home or duty station outside the United States and Puerto Rico.
Taxpayers who file their returns with the IRS Service Center in Andover, Mass. — residents of New England and most of upstate New York — have until midnight tomorrow to file. That is because today is Patrols Day, a legal holiday in Massachusetts.
A number of people have tax years that ended on days other than Dec. 31, 1989, and thus have other filing deadlines. Still others will simply miss the filing deadline, do nothing about it and subject themselves to separate penalties for filing late and paying late.
When all the returns are counted later this year, they are expected to total 111 million, an increase of about 1 million from 1989.
Recluse screen legend Greta Garbo dies at 84
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Greta Garbo, the screen star who turned her back on Hollywood in 1941 and became as well known for her passion for privacy as for her sculpted beauty and husky vibrato, died yesterday. She was 84.
"New York Hospital announces with great sadness the death of Miss Garbo," said hospital spokesman Andrew Banoff. At the family's request, he provided no other information other than that she died yesterday.
The Swedish-born star began her career in silent films and reigned as the supreme movie queen throughout the '30s. Some critics considered her the finest screen actress of all time.
After her retirement at age 36,
Miss Garbo, born in 1905 as Greta
Lovisa Gustafsson, never acted
again, but her luminous performances
in 24 films kept her name alive and made her a favorite of
While "Camille," and "Ninotchka" became film festival staples, the woman known worldwide simply as "Garbo" remained shuttered in her Manhattan apartment or at various retreats in France and Switzerland.
younger generations who saw in her an etheral ideal of the ultimate woman.
She suffered little illness through most of her life and was a health enthusiast who enjoyed long walks.
In comments published in Life magazine in 1989, Garbo described herself as a "sour little creature."
"I don't want any kind of attention from anybody, except that I know that someone likes me, and then otherwise, it's sickening," she said.
humors of love affairs were plenient but she never married, and in her later years she allowed only a few long-time friends to share her solitude.