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VOL.100.NO.129
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
T THE STUDENT NEEPSFARF OF THE T UNIVISITY OF KAANSA FARF
THURSDAY APRIL 12, 1990
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Protesters descend on Strong
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Gene A. Budig addresses protesters about minority recruitment and retention, and recent racial tensions.
Budig outlines steps to end racial discord
Bv Eric Gorski
and Jonaman Piummer
Kansan staff writers
Chancellor Gene A. Budig spoke in a packed Strong Hall rotunda yesterday after about 80 students who were upset about the racial climate at KU marched to the administrative offices and demanded action.
Budig, who was attending meetings at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., returned to Lawrence when he learned about the protest. He arrived at Strong about 4 p.m.
About 350 people filled the room and lined the second-floor railing to hear Budig address minority issues and other student concerns. Budig responded to questions submitted by more than 60 students representing minorities.
The protest in Strong began at 12:20 p.m. when Mark McCormick of Black Men of Today led a crowd of about 80 to the second-floor administrative offices. The group entered Strong because their initial protest, blocking traffic for 10 minutes on Jayhawk Boulevard, was thwarted when KU police blocked off the street.
Gene A.
Budig
Chancellor
"The reason for the protest is that we have no avenue for communication," McCormick said. "This is what I want to get to an audience of administrators."
When Budig arrived about three-and-a-half hours later, he told the crowd, "I share many of your concerns, and I welcome your views. Cultural diversity is and will remain an issue. The problem must be solved, and I believe it can be solved through the educational process."
'Today, I offer the institution's apology to Ann Dean. I have asked the executive vice chancellor to take appropriate action, remembering the importance of due process, and rules and regulations.'
— Gene A.
Under the glare of television lights, Budig apologized to students for the lack of communication about steps to improve KU's environmental environment.
Budig said the University had generated scholarship money for women and minorities to pursue careers in science and health services. There will be a mandatory program for new students in Fall 1990 about racism and sexism. Also, more Black and female faculty are being
hired for the fall semester.
"It is essential to improve the reception of the campus to minority recruitment, both faculty and student, minority recruitment." Budig said.
He said he was committed to conducting a fair search for a permanent minority Affairs, Marshall Jackson and his interim director for nine months.
Chronology of yesterday's protest
See BUDIG. p. 6
Noon. About 70 protesters march from Strong Hall to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 1301 West Campus Road. They deliver a get-well card to the fraternity.
12:20 p.m. A slightly larger
group of protesters gathers outside University administrative offices in Strong Hall. They chant "We want action" and demand to see Cancellor Gene A. Budig.
1:20 p.m. The crowd receives
word that Budig, who is in Kansas City, Kan., on his way back to Lawrence to meet with students.
4 p.m. Budig speaks to a crowd of about 350 in the Strong Hall rotunda.
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
About 70 students deliver a get-well card to Sigma Alpha Epilon.
First day voters turn out in force
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Eleanor Macish, Senate Election Committee chairman, said, 2,321 students voted yesterday. A total of 2,575 ballots were cast
Poll workers reported heavy turnouts yesterday during the first day of Student Senate elections, and some students complained that fliers were distributed too close to rolling places.
Some tables were running out of ballots for student senators, said Jeff Morris, student body vice president.
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KU Printing Services had to print more ballots because of the large turnout, said Linda Weeks, customer service consultant. She said that to her knowledge, the service had never had to print additional ballots during an election.
Eleanor Macish, chairman of Senate Elective Committee, said 600 ballots for residents-at-large were gone by 12:30 p.m. All the votes were in favor of national law, resident-at-large and national candidate candidates were gone by 3 p.m.
"It's great news," Macnish said. "People are actually standing in line to vote."
Several campaigners distributed literature near Watson Library, Wesco Hall and the Kansas Union. Richard Parker and Dan Simon, Senate candidates, said they had been handing out flyers for several hours in front of Watson.
"Some people just laugh a little when they walk past us." Simon said. "One person said he already had five of our flyers."
$15 fee curbs application deluge
Kansan staff writer
By Pam Sollner
Kenyon staff writer
The $15 University application fee has done just what the Board of Regents intended it to do: reduced applications.
Application figures compiled by the Department of Educational Services this week show that 9,147 freshmen and transfer students applied to the University of Kansas this year. That's 2,616 fewer applications, or a 22 percent decrease, from last year. The application deadline for incoming freshman and transfer students was April 1.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, attributed the decrease not only to the application fee but also to a smaller number of high school graduates who are applying to fewer schools.
Stanley Koplik, executive director
the application fee was mandated for Regents institutions in Fall 1989 to reduce the number of multiple applications.
Because Kansas schools had open admissions policies for in-state students and no application fee, Koplik said, students commonly sent applications to three or four schools just because it was free.
He said those multiple applications impaired a processing burden on schools.
W. Wes Williams, dean of educational services, said he was not surprised by the decrease. KU's institution is not different from the national trend.
"Students and families should be more careful and deliberate about the application process." he said.
from 3 percent to 50 percent. Of a list of 50 universities nationwide, he said only one had experienced an increase in applications.
Williams said universities were experiencing decreases, ranging
He said the fee weeded out those students who were only interested in KU if they were not accepted to other schools.
The percentage of students who are admitted and decide to attend KU in the Fall is more important, Williams said. The University's intention is to raise that figure, which is normally 60 percent.
Other Regents schools have experienced decreases, but many can only estimate the decreases because they do not have application deadlines.
Dick Elkins, director of admissions at Kansas State University, said applications had decreased about 20
"I think we have more serious applicants," he said.
percent.
But Elkins said he expected the decrease. He said the fee was intended to eliminate the casual shoppers who put a processing burden on the school.
Jim Parker, director of educational services at Pittsburg State University, said applications had decreased 30 percent.
When someone tells me that they 've applied to 18 schools, they haven't taken a lot of time to think it out,' he said.
"I'm convinced that the $15 application fee did have an impact on that," he said.
Jim Kellerman, registrar at Fort Hays State University, said applications had decreased 32 percent. But he was not concerned that freshman enrollment would decrease.
Germany must stay in NATO, Bush says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration rejected a Soviet plan yesterday under which a united Germany temporarily would be part of the Allies and the Warsaw Pact and insisted that the U.S. side with the Western Alliance.
President Bush thinks German membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is "the best guarantee for long-term peace and continued stability." said press secretary Martin Fitzwater.
"That Germany should be a member of NATO and the Warsaw Pact is another formula for neutrality," Fitzwater said. "It is a status that we believe, the Germans themselves and their neighbors believe, is undesirable."
Fitzwater also said that during last week's visitation by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, "the Soviets indicated that a united Germany does not necessarily have to be neutral, but there was no definition as to what this would entail."
Previously the Soviets had insisted on a neutral Germany.
Fitzwater raised the possibility of a NATO summit meeting later in the year to discuss Germany and the future changing role of NATO.
Shevardnadze, in a magazine article to be published next month, expressed interest in dual NATO-Warsaw Pact membership for a united Germany.
Lithuanian unrest prompts reactions from Kremlin, White House
Gorbachev warns of 'bloody carnage
He told members of the Communist Youth League that he had spent more time thinking about whether he should allow changes in the country's political map than any other issue and that he decided against it.
MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gorbachev warned in remarks broadcast yesterday that recarving internal Soviet borders would lead to civil war and "such bloody carnage we won't be able to crawl out of it."
The Associated Press
More than 100 ethnic groups inhabit the Soviet Union. Under Gorbachev's democratic reforms, many have begun to clamor for more freedom from Moscow and for lands that were historically theirs.
Gorbachev has issued dire predictions about ethnic conflict before, but his statements Tuesday at a question-and-answer session with a congress of young Communists, broadcast by Soviet TV yesterday, appeared pointed at Lithuania.
Lithuania based its March 11 declaration of independence on claims that it was illegally annexed 50 years ago.
Gorbachev said redrawing Soviet boundaries "would pit all peoples and all nations against each other.
In the broadcast remarks, Gorbachev said he was sure residents of Lithuania would vote against the republic's independence once they understood the frightening array of problems it created.
The redrawing of Soviet boundaries would pit all peoples and all nations against each other and bring about a situation In this society the likes of which has never been witnessed by our country or by the world.
Gorbachev
The U.S. must avoid taking actions that would inadvertently make Lithuania's task more difficult by inflaming the situation, and we must stress the importance of quiet diplomacy.
Bush will not recognize independence
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush spurned appeals from Baltic-American leaders yesterday to recognize the renegade government in Lithuania. He declared support for its struggle for independence but voiced concern about the impact on the Soviet Union.
"Our policy, we believe, is the correct one, and it does not involve recognition." White House press secretary Marlin Flitzwater said.
Anthony Mazeika, director of the Baltic American Freedom League, said league members were disappointed with the official policy of the Liberals in the government of Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis.
Bush met for more than an hour with 13 Baltic-Americans representing the interests of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, which were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940.
Mazeika had urged Bush to extend de facto recognition of Landsberg's government, one step short of formal recognition.
Members of the group said they had been seeking a meeting with Bush since January, recognizing that a crisis was looming in Lithuania's drive to secede from the Soviet Union and Moscow's refusal to let it go.
Members said that the mere fact that Bush met with them would be seen in the Baltic states as a positive step.