THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100, NO.113
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 21,1990
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Homeless counted in county census
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
Workers from the United States Census Bureau took to the streets and area shutters last night to count the members of the Lawrence community.
This was the first nine in the history of the census that the homeless were included in the count.
Dan Anderson, census operation supervisor for the 26 county area, said the statistics would not be compiled until later in the year because the totals would have to be sent to Washington for evaluation.
He said the count was completed in two phases.
The shelter phase, in which workers went to homeless and battered women's shelters in Douglas County, took 6 p.m. and lasted until midnight.
The street phase began at 2 a.m.
today and lasted until 6:30 a.m.
Census Bureau workers counted the United States' homeless people last night. Here's the schedule they followed:
U.S. census count of the homeless
6:00 p.m.-midnight
Anderson said the census workers in this phase went around the county and counted people who were living in boxes and in abandoned buildings.
Counted people in shelters and hotels
2:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.: Counted
people on the street.
Jennie Blankenship, director of the Salvation Army Safehouse, 924 New Hampshire St., said she did not think homeless people would avoid the census-takers, but they, were becoming harder to find
Some questions asked in two-minute interview
Are you:
4:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.: Counted people in abandoned buildings as they left the buildings.
However, homeless people could be hard to find in several of the locations.
It is often difficult to distinguish
the homeless from other people, she
said.
Census officials said that some of the homeless would be missed but that by identifying the more likely areas of habitation, an accurate sampling would be achieved.
A person who usually lives here or who stays here most of the week while working?
A person with no usual place of residence?
A person away from your usual home for a short time, such as on a vacation or business trip?
SOURCE: Bureau of the Census
Census street workers were Instructed:
Not to wake sleeping people.
To count only visible people in selected sites.
To protect the confidentiality of homeless respondents.
Not to search cars, dumpsters or hidden places.
To stop operation if anyone tried to photograph or record intenti-
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Blankenship said she was concerned about the accuracy of the census. She thought the totals would be a misrepresentation of the actual number because not all Lawrence homeless would be counted.
"They're not going to count everyone," she said. "Most homeless people live from place to place with others, and those won't be counted at all."
The census, which is taken at the beginning of each decade, was conducted in Douglas County by 10 people assigned in pairs to different areas.
Knight: Röder Tribune News/MARTY WESTMAN
Anderson said that although the workers circulated throughout the county, most of their attention was focused on Lawrence.
A list of locations where the homeless could be found was compiled by the Complete Count Committee. The committee was appointed by the Lawrence City Commission.
Barb Smith, executive director of the Douglas County United Way, said she expected a large increase from the recorded 1980 census population because the homeless would be included.
KU retirement plan to be reviewed soon
By Pam Sollner
Kansan staff writer
Higher education administrators are concerned about the uncapping of the mandatory retirement age, but KU officials predict little change for University faculty.
"This will probably not have a major effect on retaining and gaining faculty," said Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor.
An exception to the Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1986 permitted compulsory retirement at age 70 for tenured faculty. The exception terminates in 1993, leaving the age of retirement up to the faculty member.
Ramaley said universities that had voluntarily eliminated mandatory retirement had experienced little change. Most faculty members still retire between the ages of 65 and 70.
E. Peter Johnsen, president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said the board was concerned about recent national attention about the change. He said that KU administrators and the Board of Regents had a joint responsibility in the issue but that nothing official had been proposed to deal with the potential consequences.
National attention has focused on the possibility that tenured faculty would continue teaching for an unlimited length of time. This would make it difficult to fire incompetent faculty.
Johnsen said tenure was not a lifetime guarantee of employment but a guarantee of academic freedom and due process. Tenure gives faculty protection to teach
and seek the truth with political freedom. It gives faculty freedom to express unorthodox ideas.
"The University is supposed to be about the pursuit of ideas, and tenure has been about that for the last 100 years," he said. "It doesn't protect incompetence." Presently, the U.S.
Presently, the University has a flexible retirement plan in which work and salary are gradually reduced.
But Johnsen said in a recent AAUP report that the University should plan ahead for unforeseen consequences by making retirement more attractive with each retiring salary.
Ramaley has asked the Campus Planning Advisory Committee to review the issue in its long-range plans for the 1990s.
Ray Moore, co-chairman of CPAC, said the committee might make alternative retirement recommendations in six to nine months.
"No one actually knows what is going to happen winn the uncapping," he said. "It's going to be a management problem for higher education. There may not be a recipe that will work for all institutions."
Richard Mann, director of informational resources, is the University's representative on a Regents ad hoc committee that deals with employee benefits
Mann said a subcommittee was reviewing the need for special faculty retirement enhancement programs for the seven Regents schools. He said the committee would recommend proposals to the Regents next fall so that the board could develop a retirement package to present to the Legislature.
Any statutory changes in retirement benefits must be approved by the state.
Namibia gains independence
The Associated Press
WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia became the world's newest nation yesterday, ending 75 years of South African rule and its status as Africa's last colony. The country celebrated with traditional tribal dances and liberation songs sung by choirs.
The South African flag was lowered for the last time at midnight local time, and the new blue, red and green Namibian flag was raised as thousands of Blacks and whites cheered and clapped at independence ceremonies.
The huge, arid territory of 1.3 million people on Africa's southwest coast was a German colony until it
was captured by South Africa during World War I.
"The day was chosen as a sign of solidarity, not only for the people of Namibia but also with the people of South Africa," said Hifkepunye Pohamba, who will become the home affairs minister in the new government.
W. Germany's aid to end for emigres amidst unification
Program replaced by unity emphasis
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — West Germany decided Tuesday to scrap a 40-year-old aid program for East German resettlers by this summer, saying it expects major strides toward unification by then that would make the aid unnecessary.
The Bonn government also stepped up pressure on its new East German allies to come to a quick decision on the current governing coalition in East Berlin.
Volker Ruehe, head of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, met in East Berlin with leaders of the three-party conservative alliance that placed first in Sunday's East German elections. Among them was the leader of the democratic Union chairman Lothar Maizerei, the likely new premier.
Nearly 500,000 East Germans have resettled in West Germany in the last 14 months. The exodus has devastated East German's economy, strained West German housing and job markets and worn out many West Germans' patience for the newcomers.
Wolfgang Schaeuble, West Germany's interior minister, said the Cabinet had decided to end the resettlement program for East Germans after then, arriving East Germans would not be given special treatment.
Schaeuble said that Bonn expected major steps toward unification in the wake of the East German election Sunday and that improved conditions for East Germans would make the special aid unnecessary.
"We assume that by summer we will be able to achieve a currency, economic and social community," he said.
The two Germans are negotiating a monetary union in which the West German mark would replace East Germany's currency. The two states also plan other links as part of an economic union to help rescue East
Economic unity
Germany's run-down economy and prepare for unification.
West Germany further plans to provide massive social assistance to East Germans as the nations come
Nearly 500,000 East Germans have resettled in West Germany in the last 14 months. The exodus has devastated East Germany's economy and strained West German housing and job markets.
closer together.
Hans Klein, Kohl's chief spokesman, said the next steps toward unification were the main topic at the Cabinet meeting. He quoted Kohl as saying East Germany would have to undertake a series of constitutional changes to achieve the planned currency, economic and social stems.
Under the Cabinet decision, as of July 1 any new East German arrivals would not be able to receive special benefits such as guarantees of a place to stay, starting out money and low-interest loans.
Kohl said that he did not expect elections for a united Germany to occur until after West German's Dec. 2 elections. He previously had said all-German elections were unlikely until sometime next year.
Schaeuble said West Germany wanted to send a psychological signal to East Germans thinking about moving west and that it was possible emigrants would be encouraged to return voluntarily.
Emigration discouraged
Justifying the decision, Schaeuble said he expected the incentive for East Germans to move west to wane because their improvement with West German help.
Kohl was under enormous pressure from leaders of West Germany's 11 states, the population and politicians from a broad spectrum to eliminate or drastically reduce the special aid.
East Germans already receiving social assistance apparently won't be
Fifty-one photographs from "Rolling Stone: The Photographs" will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Published celebrity photos draw small town audiences
Rolling Stone takes a coffee break on campus
By Mark McHugh
By Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
Forget having that ordinary coffee break today when an opportunity to spend time with Mick Jagger, Prince and the Grateful Dead is right here at KU.
An opportunity, that is, to see their photographs and hear their music.
In a 25-city tour of college campuses, Maxwell House is presenting a display of original celebrity photographs from the book "Rolling Stone: The Photographs." The show, which began Monday, will run today to 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The display features S1 photos that have been published in the magazine from the 1960s to the 1980s, and the coffee company is filling complimentary mugs to the last drop for visitors.
Christopher Washko, tour manager for Entertainment Services Inc., who is grooming the
exhibition, said Lawrence was the second-to-last city to be visited by the tour, which began in September.
He said audience reception in smaller towns such as Lawrence and Lincoln, Neb, was greater than in bigger cities such as Los Angeles
'People here are really into it. I don't think they get a cool thing like this that comes in too often.'
and New York.
— Christopher Washiko tour manager for Entertainment Services Inc.
"People here are really into it," he said. "I don't think they get a cool thing like this that comes in too often."
Washko said the exhibition attracted about 1,200 people Monday.
Nancy Colyer, director of Independent Studies, said she liked the picture of John Belhuzi
wearing goggles and snarling with a half-smoked cigar dangling from his mouth.
"He looks like the quintessential sort of jerk." she said of the late actor. "But I guess you get from that picture a lot of the driving energy that he had."
Jennifer Immel, Lawrence High School senior, came to the exhibition to get some artistic ideas.
She particularly liked the portrayal of Keith Richards, guitarist for the Rolling Stones, and being able to see the changes in him by comparing two photographs.
"He looks more mature here," she said of a 1988 picture. "I don't see how he could get much healthier, though. And at least he's not holding a joint but a cigarette."
Susan Heutink, program adviser for Student Union Activities, said Rolling Stone magazine had contacted SUA in August to see if it wanted to host the show.
SUA and Delta Sigma Pi, the business fraternity, are providing security and volunteering services for the show.
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