THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100.NO.115
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1990
ADVERTISING: 864-4358
(USPS 650-640)
NEWS:864-4810
Idaho passes strict abortion law
The Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Senate passed and sent to the governor yesterday the most restrictive abortion law of any state, one that could become a test of the U.S. Supreme Court's commitment to legalized abortions.
If signed by Democratic Gov. Cecil Andrus, the measure would take effect July 1. Andrus has declined to announce his intentions on the bill but has reiterated his long-held anti-abortion stand.
"Abortion in my opinion is cruel and unusual punishment," Republican Sen. Roger Madsen told the Senate before the 25-17 vote. The Boise attorney helped draft the legislation.
"It is the destruction of life, and what can we say about the future of our society when defenseless victims are destroyed for the convenience of personal choice?" Madsen said. "If we are to make a mistake on this issue, we must make it on the side of life."
The law would make abortion illegal except in cases of non-statutory rape reported within seven days, incest if the victim is younger than
18, severe fetal deformity or a threat to the mother's life or physical health.
Both sides agree that it would ban more than 90 percent of the,1,500 abortions performed in Idaho each year.
Right To Life forces already had begun focusing their lobbying effort on the governor. Andrus was also the man who wished to keep the battle alive, who vowed to keep the battle alive.
"We don't intend to quit," said Sally Trott of Freedom Means Choice. She cited polls indicating that Idahous may oppose abortion but they were more opposed to government intervention in their lives.
"We will fight against the governor's signature on this bill, and we will fight after that," Trott said. "We will repeat our recourse. We will repeal that bill."
The bill was patterned on a national Right To Life model that has been rejected by other states as too restrictive. But it is the version that abortion foes want for the tiez of the U.S. Supreme Court's commitment to its 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
Senators want parents notified
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A Senate committee endorsed a parental notification abortion bill yesterday, after making it stronger than a version passed by the House but still weaker than some anti-abortion activists had hoped.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee's action ended confusion that had arisen concerning the bill's provisions. The committee appeared to have endorsed an even stricter version of the bill Wednesday but when the result was questioned, the committee took the bill back.
The committee yesterday endorsed the measure on an unrecorded 6-3 vote.
Senate Majority Leader Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, has said the Senate will discuss the issue next week.
The bill would require doctors to notify at least one parent 72 hours in advance when a girl under 16 seeks an abortion.
The confusion about the bill arose over what age teen-agers would be affected.
Kansas '90 Legislature
Some constitutional experts have warned that the bill is so restrictive that it likely would not withstand the high court's scrutiny and could cost the state as much as $1 million t
Committee Chairman Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, said he thought the committee approved an amendment increasing the age from under 16 to under 18. He acknowledged that he made a mistake in counting votes.
Parents who do not receive notice could receive up to $30,000 in civil damages from the doctor who performs
"We know it will be struck down (in the lower courts))," said Kerry Uhlenkott of Right To Life of Idaho. "That's what we want."
Soviet armor pass through Lithuania
defend.
Republic urges global support
The Associated Press
In his escalating war of nerves, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev also demanded yesterday that he sign up its own volunteer forces.
Right To Life forces maintained the issue was whether Idaho would lead the nation in protecting the lives of the unborn.
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — Soviet armor rolled through Vilnius in a show of strength yesterday and leaders of this rebellious Baltic republic for world support to forestall the possible use of force in Lithuania.
"It is clear that another republic is going to use force against Lithuania and its citizens," said a Lithuanian government appeal. "We are asking people to prevent this by protesting the possible use of violence against a member of the world community ... against Lithuania and its citizens."
Vytautus Landsbergis, the republic's president, pledged that Lithuanians would keep peaceful their drive for full independence from Moscow
"If tanks are sent to take away
shotguns and hunt rifles, we won't
shoot at the tanks," said Landsbergis. "Our resistance will be non-violence."
President Bush yesterday implored the Soviet Union not to use force to block Lithuania's secession but also urged the republic to recognize certain realities of Moscow's control.
Commending the Kremlin for dealing peacefully with changes in Eastern Europe, Bush said, "Please continue to exercise that kind of wisdom and humility and force." He said both sides should negotiate their differences.
The president's comments came as Soviet armored personnel carriers and trucks drove through the Lithuanian capital in a show of force. Bush declined to criticize Gorbachev for demanding that Lithuanians surrender their guns. "They should talk about that." Bush said,
Separately, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said any resort to military might would damage the forms being championed by Gorbachev.
Fifteen Soviet armored personnel carriers and five trucks towing military equipment rumbled through the capital yesterday afternoon.
Survey: College sex shows little change
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
College students are more likely to use condoms, but otherwise their sexual practices have changed little in the past 14 years.
"I think the media has made me more cautious than I would have been in the past," Lyons said. "I
Tim Lyons, Springfield, III,
junior, said he was concerned with
the threat of contracting AIDS.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said it was not uncommon for Watkins to treat cases of chlamydia, genital herpes and genital warts.
despite the advent of AIDS, a survey published yesterday shows.
Also, public health campaigns have not substan- tally changed the
habits and behavior of college students, the study reported in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine.
The study, conducted at Brown University, found that college women reported as much potentially risky sexual behavior last year as they did in 1975, before AIDS and some other sexually transmitted diseases became concerns.
In addition to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, genital herpes and chlamydia since have transmitted sexually transmitted diseases.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said it was not uncommon for Watkins to receive cases of chlamydia genital bergneri.
Treasure tracker
"We see a lot of people with symptoms of chlamydia," Yockey said. "Chlamydia is the most common cause of infertility among women. We also see several cases of genital herpes and genital warts a month."
The survey found that 12 percent of women in 1975 said this partners always used condoms. That in 1984 and 1986 in 1868 and 41 percent in 1889.
Wendi Groves, Overland Park junior, said she did not worry about AIDS or sexually transmitted diseases because she was in a monogamous relationship. However, she did think that women were more careful when sexually active.
"I know that females now carry condoms themselves in case they get in a situation where sex could be a factor." Groves said.
haven't really changed my habits, but I would wear a condom."
In general, health officials recommend that people use condoms, avoid anal sex and limit the number of sex partners to reduce the risk of AIDS.
John Baughman, chief pharmacist at Watkins, said condoms were sold to both men and women.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Bill Goff of Eudora uses a metal detector to search for valuables in Marvin Grove behind Lippincott Hall. Goff fell chort of finding a treasure yesterday — he found two pennies. According to the KU Weather Service, today will be cloudy and cold with a chance of rain turning to sleet in the evening.
Kansas Union
Student fees to finance face-lift
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate last night reverses its second fee increase decision in three weeks when it voted that stu-
dent fees be raised to $150 per semester for the Kansas Union renovation.
The fee increase will produce $284,000 in annual revenue to help finance Phase II of the Union renovation.
A recently discovered technical allowment passage by a two-thirds vote instead of the three-fourths needed before, said Jeff Morris, student body president. The first vote would have fallen one vote short of two-thirds.
Last night's vote brings to $13 the total restricted fee increases approved by Senate this semester.
On Feb. 28, Senate killed the same proposal, 27-14.
"Senate really didn't change its mind tonight." Morris said.
tation last night,
before the vote
was cast. Roger
Templin, board
member, said
that immediate
financing would
be an investment
in the Union.
About $92,000 in
Phase II interest
payments would
be saved, along
with 4 to 5 percent
annual inflation costs.
Officials from the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation Board gave another presen-
'It's legitimate to ask students to pay for the Union. It's our Union. Let's do it right.'
— Aaron Rittmaster senator
Pam Holley, board president, said Phase II would help solve several problems, including *gyc* conser-
sor issues and maintenance costs and traffic circulation.
Phase II renovation is a $4 million plan that includes changes in the building's fourth and third floor entrances, increased space for the Student Union Activities board and a different floor plan on the fourth floor.
The fee approval allowed the Union to take a giant step forward, Jim Long, Union director, said after last night's voice vote.
Two speeches were made against the increase. Michael Diggs, senator, said the Phase II renovation was a good idea at the wrong time.
"We're taxing our constituents too much," Diggs said. "We must remember the other fee increases that have already gone through."
Bill Haldeman, senator, also said that the Union plan was a good project but that students were paying for the building every day.
Supporters of the increase said action had been taken to avoid a backlash in the future.
"Let's do it now," said Aaron Rittman, senator. "It's legitimate to ask students to pay for the Union. It's our Union. Let it do it right."
If the increase was broken down, students would pay four and one-half cents a day, said Pat Warren, cochairman of the Finance Committee.
Also last night, Senate approved a $38,496 student organization budget, $4 under its balance. Alan Lowden, co-chairman of the Finance Committee, said the committee submitted the budget $914 under the limit so Senate could reallocate money if necessary.
Family, friends deal with Chris Bread's death
Bv Yvonne Guzman
Special to the Kansan
No street lights illuminate the stretch of 15th Street between 1750 East Ave. and Lawrence's eastern city limit. To the north, barren land stretches into darkness, and to the south, all is motionless except the miniature headlights of cars inciting silently along Highway 10.
To the west, a hill blocks most signs of civilization except yellow and orange refinery lights and smoke that curls slowly skewed.
Nothing remains to indicate that this is where the body of 19-year-old Chris Bread was found after midnight three weeks ago.
Bread, a Kiowa-Cherokee Indian, is the fourth Native American to have died mysteriously in Lawrence during the past year. While officials search for the vehicle that took Bread's life, family and friends try to come to terms with his death.
it's entirely different."
"We don't go on normally because we can't," said Don D面包, Chris' father. "People that have lost children will understand that it's different. I lost my older brother suddenly. I lost my father, my grandparents. So I understand death, and I thought I understood it well. But losing Chris
After Chris' death, Don Bread was comforted to find at Chris' home the Bible that Chris often carried. Chris
Don Bread and his family find some peace in the knowledge that Chris' religious faith was strong.
"We can't hope to know God except through Jesus Christ and through the blood that Jesus shed for our sins." Don Bread said. "Chris understood that. So I imagine no matter what happened to his physical being, it's his spiritual life that was saved, and that's where we find comfort. If we dealt in the worldly aspect of what happened to Chris, I don't know if we could continue."
Chris is survived by his father; his mother, Martyl; his sisters, Connie, 23, and Erica, 8; and a brother, Joey, 1
had marked favorite verses, most of them in Psalms and Proverbs. Inside the Bible was a list of things he had planned to do one day about a week before he died. At the top of the list, he had written, "Please God help me."
He regularly attended the Lawrence Indian United Methodist Church, 950 E. 21st St., and was an active participant in church activi-
See BREAD, p. 5