VOL.100.NO.120
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1990
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Senate rejects abortion bill
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
Parental notification proposal barely defeated
TOPEKA - The Senate yesterday killed a proposal that would have required parental notification when girls under 18 sought abortions.
When told of the decision, State Rep. Jess Branson, D-Lawrence, said she recalled being a nursing student at the University of Kansas Medical Center before before made legal.
were at the Med Center suffering from infections caused by illegal abortions.
"I just can't see going back to those dark ages," said Branson, who voted against the bill when the House
She said six to eight women always
She said she was pleased by the 21-19 Senate vote, which killed a parental notification bill proposed by State Rep. Artie Lucas, R-Highland. The bill could be revived by Senate action today.
A 200-pound bag of potatoes was left on Lucas' desk yesterday before the Senate vote. The spuds were a reminder of strict abortion restrictions passed last week in Idaho. Lucas said he contributed the potatoes to the Let's Help the Homeless organization in Topeka.
The Idaho law is the most restrictive abortion legislation in the country, banning abortion in all cases except rape if it is reported within
The Kansas bill would have required written notice to be delivered to the parents of a girl under 18 at least 72 hours before an abortion was performed. The bill included a judicial bypass provision that would have allowed a girl to circumvent notification by turning to the courts.
"There are a lot of people who want to deter teen-age abortions who, after hearing the details of the bill, knew that it was so fundamentally flawed that it would not do what it was intended to do," said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence.
seven days, incest involving women under 18, severe fetal deformity and endangerment of the mother's health.
Lucas said that he was disappointed by the Senate action but that he was not surprised.
Officials unsure of dismissal methods
By Pam Sollner
By Pam Soliner
Kansan staff writer
For the first time, University officials must interpret procedures for dismissing a tenured professor. But knows precisely how it should be done.
It never has been done in the
Kansas' 124-year history
History was made Wednesda day afternoon when the Faculty Executive Committee on Tenure and Related Problems
Problems Dorothy Willner
announced its decision to dismiss Dorothy Willner, professor of anthropology. The decision came after 120 hours of hearings last semester and 11 weeks of deliberations this semester.
Willner has the right to appeal the decision to the Board of Regents. But she did not do so yesterday, the Regents office reported. At Wednesday's announcement, she said she would appeal.
Norman Jeter, Regents chairman,
said he had not reviewed the appeal
procedures but would review them
and Ayers, Regents general counsel.
Jeter said the grounds of Willner's request, if one was made, would determine how the Regents would review the appeal.
"We have all kinds of options in an appeal," he said.
The Faculty Executive Committee will decide how to implement the tenure committee's decision at their usual meeting Monday afternoon.
William Scott, chairman of FaxEx,
he has no formal plans for implement-
ing the system.
Scott said the implementation probably would be in the form of a letter of dismissal from Cancellor Gene A. Budig.
In a statement yesterday, Budig said, "While I have not had an opportunity to study the report in detail, it is clear that the members of the faculty committee made a careful and thoughtful review of all the evidence. The report speaks for itself."
S Scott cited several University rules and regulations that allow for a one-year dismissal notice. American professors (AAPI) regulations concur.
But the terms and rationale for Willner's administrative leave could complicate the issue. Willner has been on administrative leave with the company in 1888. Scott said FaceEx members lacked information about the leave.
E. Peter Johnson, president of the local AAUP chapter, said the 11-member chapter would issue a report about the University procedures that governed the hearings and the decision. The report should be completed by the end of the academic year.
Johnsen said that the dismissal procedures had been used before but that few reached the formal hearing level. He said other professors confronted with claims of unethical conduct or academic misconduct typically resigned or retired early. Others may have worked out the problems or waited until the charges were dropped.
Biking it
Members of the KU cycling club carry a proclamation, signed by Gov. Mike Hayden, toward Lawrence to promote the Sunflower State Games, which will be from July 27 to 29. See related story, photo. Page 3.
Bush emphasizes action, education in war on AIDS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush said yesterday that his administration was on a wartime footing against AIDS and called for compassion toward people infected with the virus.
"Our goal is to turn irrational fear into rational acts," he said. The speech, to the National Leadership Summit, is the first presidential address on the issue.
Bush said education was the key to curbing the spread of the deadly dengue virus.
"Every American must learn what AIDS is and what AIDS is not," he said.
AIDS activists dismiss the proposal as a small fraction of what is needed to find a cure and treat victims.
Bush vowed to push for further research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and the University for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Bush urged business executives in the audience not to fire employees infected with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. These people, he said, deserve the same compassion as others who are sick.
"There is only one way to deal with an individual who is sick — with dignity, compassion, care, confidence, and without discrimination," he said.
Bush urged Congress to pass a law to prohibit discrimination against government employees.
Two AIDS activists in the audience repeatedly tried to interrupt Bush.
In thousands
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control
they eventually were escorted out by security personnel.
When Bush said federal support for the AIDS fight had risen from $8 million to almost $3.5 billion, the heckler yelled, "Too little, too late."
Urtashi Vaid, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, waved a sign that read, "Talk is cheap, AIDS funding is not." She later said Bush had had some good comments but should have talked about immigration restrictions on AIDS sufferers.
Bush did not mention the controversy, which involves a 1987 congressional directive that HIV infection be added to the list of contagious diseases used to prevent foreigners from entering the United States.
Ignoring veto threat, House OKs day care
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The House ignored a White House veto threat yesterday and tentatively approved an ambitious Democratic plan aimed at helping families find and afford care for their children.
The House approved the plan on a largely party line vote, 263-158, after voting more narrowly to reject a conservative alternative that President Bush had endorsed.
'What we're talking about here may be the most important issue we're going to deal with this year. The world has
The House also turned back amendments aimed at limiting church-run day care centers.
The bill, which still must go to a conference to resolve differences with the Senate, would expand tax credits for working poor families to offset day-care expenses.
It would create a system of state-
mised subsidy vouchers for parents
of underprivileged children.
centers, and would expand the Head Start program for poor children.
It also would establish minimum standards for day care centers and provide money for a new program of day care based in public schools.
The vote followed eight hours of sometimes emotional debate that masked the fact that there was actually bipartisan agreement on major portions of the competing versions.
"What we're talking about here may be the most important issue we're going to deal with this year," said Majority Leader Richardcardo Mays. "The world has changed. Families need and want child care."
Just hours before the vote, presidential spokesman Marlin Flitwater said Bush would veto the Democratic version if enacted.
The Democratic version was estimated to cost $27 billion over its five-year phase in, and the White House campaign was pegged at nearly $20 billion.
Both child-care packages would be financed in part by ending the existing dependent care tax credit for upper-income families. That credit could help many households earning $7,000 a year and eliminated from those earning more than $90,000.
Students look to subleases as summertime remedy
By Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
KU students who plan to sublease their apartments during Summer 1990 need to start hunting now, or they might get stuck paying rent for a vacant apartment.
Julia Pitner, director of the Consumer Affairs Association in Lawrence, said subleasing often was difficult because the population dropped in summer when students left town.
Many rental contracts require the tenant to pay rent for 12 months. An alternative to paying rent is sublease. Tenants are responsible for rent and damages.
"In '88 and '99 there was a building spree, which definitely creates problems for subleasing," said Pitner, Lawrence junior.
She said most students would be forced to pay their summer rent unless they could work it out with their landlord.
Jane Hoss, manager of Trailridge
Apartments, 2500 W. Sixth St., said
about 30 percent of her tenants
sublumbered in the summer.
Another option is re-leasing. A new contract is signed by the subleaseholder, and the original tenant is no longer responsible for the lease.
Pitner said the type of subleasing was up to the landlord.
"We hope to get the apartments subleased." Hoss said. "If not, they will end up paying the rent. It's good to get an early start. A month from now everyone will have ads in the paper."
Trailridge offered 10-month leases in previous years but has switched to
12-month leases.
"It keeps us from being 75 percent vacant in the two months." Hoss said. "It would be a big loss of income.
"Most of the apartment complexes are sitting at 100 percent occupancy. Lawrence is on the borderline of being overbuilt. If they keep building in the next five years, it will be a problem."
Stephen Schul, Winfield senior,
said he started asking around in Fall
1989 for sublesees.
"We found them by word-of-mouth." Schul said. "We had to come down from $15 to $450 a month, but it cost us $250." We are not all paying the rent of all the $
Gerald Wilkes, St. Louis senior,
said he hadn't started looking for a
sublessee yet.
"We will go through friends first and then put an ad in the paper," Wilkes said. If he does not find someone to sublease the apartment, Wilkes said he would have to pay the summer rent.
**If you cannot find a sublessee, offer a discount on rent.**
Notify the landlord that you plan to sublease.
Pitner offered some suggestions for subleasing;
Get the sublease agreement in writing.
Pitner said students should not leave town without arranging for a sublease or continuing to pay rent.
"They might come back and find a court action against them," she said. "It is the landlord's right under the Landlord-Tenant Act."
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