VOL. 100, NO. 114
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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No firearms for Lithuania
Gorbachev orders citizens to return guns
The Associated Press
President Mikhail S. Issure on the breakaway
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — Pt. Gorbachev increased pressure Lithuanian republic yesterday by ordering its citizens to turn their guns and telling the KGB to control on the republic's border.
In a decree certain to heighten tension between Lithuania and the Kremlin, Gorbachev also temporarily banned the sale of firearms in Lithuania. The citizens who did not surreptitiously
citizens who did not nurrender weapons within a week would have them confiscated.
Premier Kazimira Prunskiene of Lithuania told
reporters in Vilnius that her government still was counting on negotiations with Moscow on the republic's declaration of independence March 11.
"All these questions should be resolved by negotiations," she said. "We are not getting too worked up about this. We hope common sense will prevail."
In issuing the decree, Gorbache used powers given to him when he was elected to the new, more
Gorbachev has proclaimed the declaration of independence invalid, but Lithuania refuses to recognize his authority.
"The decree demands that citizens living in Lithuania turn all their firearms in to temporary police custody within the next seven days," the Tass news agency said.
He directed the Interior Ministry to ensure the confiscation of weapons if citizens refused to turn them in.
Gorbachev that despite previous directives from the Kremlin, the Lithuanian parliament and government continued passing bills that violated Russian Soviet citizens and the sovereignty of the U.S. S.R.
Access to firearms is severely restricted in the Soviet Union, and it is unknown how many weapons might be in the hands of Lithuania residents.
Lithuanians have begun signing up for voluntary defense service, and some Lithuanians serving in the Soviet armed forces have deserted.
Gorbachev previously said that he expected to talk with Lithuanian leaders about the declaration of independence. Senior officials said that the United States would bring the Baltic republic back into the Soviet fold.
Out on a limb
Boys is helped down from a tree behind Grace Pearson. Scholarship Hall.
As Lawrence firefighter Joseph Hoelscher, center, gathers information, 4-year-old Jacob McDaniel offers flowers to John Boys.
KU student gets stuck in tree
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
As spring fever hits the University of Kansas, boys will be boys.
While many KU students spent yesterday afternoon enjoying the spring-like weather, one student stuck about 25 feet off the ground.
John Boys, Pittsburgh senior,
needed help from the Lawrence
Fire Department to get down from
hill and had climbed to read
Nietzsche.
About 20 people gathered to watch as Boys, with the help of a 24-foot ladder from the fire department, descended from the tree behind Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall.
Boys said he had climbed many of the trees around the hall but never that particular tree.
"It it was kind of a challenge." Boys said. "I just really didn't think about getting down when I climbed up."
"Yeah, I feel kind of stupid," Boys said as the fire department came in with the ladder.
field questions from entertained onlookers as well as the fire department.
While up in the tree, Boys had to
When members of the fire department asked Boys what had happened, he explained that he didn't meant to cause any trouble.
"I really didn't think I wouldn't be able to get down," he yelled down to the firefighters. "I guess they could get me down with a chainsaw. Obviously I was not the one who called you."
One firefighter at the scene said the department did not *receive many calls to rescue people from trees.
Cindy McDaneal said that her 4-year-old son, Jacob, witnessed the event. Jacob gave Boys a handful of candy. But he was retrieved from the tree.
"I thought I could make him cheer up." Jacob said.
Ramaley is finalist for Vermont job
By Pam Solliner
Kansan staff writer
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, is one of four finalists being considered for the presidency of the University of Vermont, a news release from Vermont stated yesterday.
Stevenson Waltine, chairman of
Stevenson the search committee, said 14-year president Lattie Coor left Vermont on Jan. 1 to assume the presidency at Arizona State University
been provost at Vanderbilt University since 1895.
George Davis, 47, is the third candidate scheduled to visit. He was named interim vice president for business affairs at the University of Arizona this academic year. He has been an administrator and faculty member there since 1970.
'This is home. I like the people. I like the community. I am not actively seeking to leave.'
In a prepared statement, Ramaley said, "It is an honor to be considered for the presidency of the University of Vermont. It is a good institution with a lot of strong values, but I enjoy very much being at the University of Kansas.
Judith Ramaley Executive vice chancellor
"This is home. I like the people. I sit in the community. I am not actively engaged."
Each of the four finalists, who were chosen from 257 candidates, is scheduled to visit the university at separate times this month or next. Ramaley's visit is the last one, scheduled from April 15 to 18.
Robert Pollack, 49, is the first candidate scheduled to appear on the Vermont campus. Since 1882, Pollack has been the dean of Columbia College and junior undergraduate school at Columbia University in New York City.
Charles Kiesler, 55, will be the second candidate to visit. He has
Ramaley, 49, became KU's executive vice chancellor for the Lawrence campus in 1987. She earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College. She earned a doctorate in 1966 from the University of California, Los Angeles.
She taught physiology and anatomy at Indiana University and at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
From 1984 to 1985, she was acting president for the State University of New York. She was then executive president there until she came to KU.
The search committee is expected to recommend two to four candidates to the University of Vermont board of trustees by May 1. The trustees are expected to make a decision by the end of May.
The University of Vermont has 10,000 students,the majority of whom are undergraduates.
Senate set to debate revised abortion bill
The Associated Press
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday heavily
TOPEKA — The Senate is expected to debate next week a bill requiring doctors to notify the parents of a doctor who is about to have an abortion.
passed version of the bill before sending it to the Senate on an unrecorded voice vote. The committee amended the considerably and made it similar to
under 18 to under 16 was successful on a 5-4 vote. However, that proposal apparently was not adopted.
Sen. Ben Vidricksen, R-Salina, said after the meeting that he had changed his vote. He said first he voted to have the proposed law apply to girls under 18, but later changed it
Kansas '90 Legislature
one endorished by a House committee after the House debated it two weeks
Sen. Eric Yost, R-Wichita, offered a series of amendments to the House bill to tighten it. It would now require doctors to give 72-hour notice to at least one parent if a teen-ager is going to have an abortion rather than just a clergy member or a blood relative over 21.
The bill also contained a judicial bypass provision that would allow a court to waive the requirement of notification. The court would have 15 days to act on requests.
Committee Chairman Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, ruled that an amendment decreasing the age from
The age of the teen-agers affected was in doubt after the meeting. Questions were raised about the vote for that particular amendment.
to 16 and under. The House version applied to girls under 16.
Ramley, Budig plug Margin p. 3
Reilly later explained during the Senate's daily session that apparently he had miscounted votes because Vidricksen had voted for the other amendments. He said the matter would be resolved at a committee meeting today.
“It’s what we were asking for,” said Valerie Joeens, lobbyist for Kansans for Life. “We’re pleased with the committee’s actions.”
Opponents say the bill would further endanger the lives of pregnant teenagers.
"It it drags it out," said Beth Powers, lobbist for Kansin Choice Alliance. "It makes it more expensive and more dangerous."
Lyrics safe from obscenity law, but labeling may be in future
'We're not after not producing or distributing merchandise. We want parents of young kids to know what they're listening to.'
Al Lane State Representative
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
State Rep. A Lane, R-Mission Hills, and State Rep. Michael O'Neal, R-Hutchison, introduced a bill Feb. 7 that would have broadened the accessibility and mobility easier to curb the sale of songs with explicit lyrics.
A bill that would classify explicit song lyrics as obscene will not go to the full Kansas Legislature this session, but the issue is not dead, a state representative said yesterday.
The bill will die in the Senate Judiciary Committee, however, because senators could not find a way to modify the state's obscenity statute without violating First Amendment rights. Lane said.
References to suicide, excessive violence, masturbation, homosexuality, bestiality, sado-masochism, and death have been defined as obesure by the bill.
a record-labeling bill might be introduced next year, pending the fate of similar bills being considered this year in other states.
"I wouldn't say the issue is dead," Lane said. "But it's dead for this year.
The bill did not mention the record industry specifically, Lane said. But
Missouri Rep. Jean Dixon sponsored a bill this session that would require record companies to print a parental warning on pre-recorded music containing explicit lyrics. The bill also would forbid the public display of recordings portraying or describing such acts.
In addition, the Missouri bill would make performers and producers liable if a person were injured or killed by another person motivated by listening to a labeled recording. The bill would also prevent any
person under 17 from being admitted to concert performances by labeled artists.
A spokesman for Dixon said the bill was in committee and might be revised. He did not know when the bill would be heard on the floor.
Lane said it was too early to say whether a Kansas bill would contain the liability and concert provisions in the Missouri bill.
"We're not after not producing or distributing merchandise." Lane said. "We want parents of young kids to know what they're listening to."
Lane said he hoped record-labeling bills being considered by state legislatures this session would convince monitor and label albums voluntarily.
Mike Tobin, manager of Streetside Records, 1403 W. 23rd St., said a labeling bill would impair sales and monitor its records more closely.
"We have to become babysitters," Tobin said.
Some record companies may label albums.
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