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VOL.100,NO.129
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1990
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Protesters descend on Strong
Budig outlines steps to end racial discord
By Eric Gorski
and Jonathan Plummer
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. One of the students responded to questions submitted by
'Today, I offer the institution's apology to Ann Dean. I have asked the executive vice chancellor to take appropriate action, remembering the importance
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First day voters turn out in force
By Matt Taylor Kansan staff writer
Eleanore Macnish, Senate Election Committee chairman, said, 2.321 students voted yesterday. A total of 2, 575 ballots were cast
Some tables were running out of ballots for student senators, said Jeff Morris, student body vice resident.
Poll workers reported heavy turnouts yesterday during the first day of Student Senate elections, and some students complained that flyers were distributed too close to polling places.
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KU Printing Services had to印 more ballots because of the gye turnout, said Linda Weeks, stomer service consultant. She that to her knowledge, the service had never had to print additional ballots during an election.
Eleanor Maenish, chairman of nate election Committee, said 10 ballots for residents-at-large ere gone by 12:30 p.m. All the allots for non-traditional, law, sident-at-large and engineering indicators were gone by 3 p.m. "It's great news," Macnish said. People are actually standing in ne to vote."
"Some people just laugh a little when they walk past us," Simon aid. "One person said he already and five of our flyers."
Several campaigners distributed literature near Watson library, Wescoe Hall and the amasan Union. Richard Parker and Dan Simon, Senate candidates, said they had been handing ut flyers for several hours in front of Watson.
ust stay Bush says
able."
Shevardnadze, in a magazine article to be published next month, pressed interest in dual NATOarsaw Pact membership for aited Germany.
Fitzwater also said that during last sek's Washington visit by Soviet reign Minister Eduard Shewardz, "the Soviets indicated that aited Germany does not necessarily be to neutral, but there was no nition as to what this would tail."
Fitzwater raised the possibility of a NATO summit meeting later in the air to discuss Germany and the tearing change role of NATO.
Previously the Soviets had insisted a neutral Germanv.
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ge independence
Bush met for more than an hour ih 13 Baltic-Americans representing the interests of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, which were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 140.
Mazela har了urged Bush to extend
facts recognition of Landsberg's
verment, one step short of formal
cognition.
Members of the group said they ad been seeking a meeting with ush since January, recognizing that crisis was looming in Lithuania's rise to secede from the Soviet Union because its refusal to let it go.
Members said that the mere fact at Bush met with them would be in the Baltic states as a positive ep.