THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 100, NO.86
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, FEB. 5, 1990
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Fee raise allocated for work on union
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Memorial Corporation on Saturday approved an $8 increase in student fees.
Six dollars the increase will help finance the $4.5 million Phase II renovation of the Kansas Union, said Jim Long, Union director. Two dollars will be allocated for building operations.
Student fees will pay for $4 million of the Phase II cost, and $500,000 will come from Union reserves. Long said.
The proposed increase will go before Student Senate for approval. B. Jake White, student body president, said the increase would be discussed at budget hearings later this month.
He said he supported the $2 increase for Phase II, but was unsure whether the $2 increase for building operation costs was nec-
Student Senate will study the details of the proposed $2 increase before making a decision, he said.
Long said if the increase was approved, Fall 1990 student fees would increase from $33 to $41. Because it would be paid off in 10 years.
The proposal also must be approved by the Board of Regents and the Legislature before an architect for the project is chosen.
Phase II renovation 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.
Regents to get S. Africa plan
The $6.5 million Phase I, completed in January 1989, was financed by a $3 increase in Fall 1986 student fees. Improvements were made to food services, the bookstore and the student organi-
Group wants KU to divest
By Jonathan Plummer Special to the Kenyan
Special to the Kansan
See INCREASE. p. 5
A plan to divest from companies doing business in South Africa will be submitted to the Board of Regents, Arda Tippett, spokesman for Students Against Apartheid, said last
Apartheid is the system of government in the nation of South Africa that instituted racial segregation by law.
night.
The plan was developed expressly for the University of Kansas by Hillary Shelton, a congressional labor leader. The program for the University of Missouri,
Tippett said sanctions and divestment would help the people of South Africa, even if some Blacks lost their
lobs for a short time as a result
Tippett said that she was reluctant to give details of the proposal until it was given to the Regents, but that the group planned to stage demonstrations to emphasize its commitment.
Mandela not released yet
Also under consideration were plans to distribute leaflets and pins, stage sit-ins and silent vigils and construct shanty towns on campus
that resemble the homes of many Blacks in South Africa.
"I want to do protests in conjunction with things, not to be a reaction to things." Tippet said. "This will be an activist group, not a reactive group."
Tippett said there were 30 to 40 people at the group's first meeting in December who had expressed interest in becoming members.
Tippett educated students about South Africa was the main
objective of the group. The organization plans to stage debates and discussions and sponsor speakers to achieve this goal.
Last night's meeting was organized before South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the legalization of the African National Conference group. The same group, De Klerk also announced that the group's founder, Nelson Man
Freshmen Jennifer Bagby, Lyndon, (left) and Lauren Bensman, Memphis, Tenn., collect leaking water.
Oliver's leaky roof irks residents
See APARTHEID p. 5
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Residents of Oliver Hall's 10th floor dodged dripping water all weekend after the building's-roof began leaking Friday.
Friday's snow and rain found its way into cracks in Oliver's roof and caused the leaks, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing. Oliver Hall is located at 1815 Naismith Drive.
The water dripped into seven rooms and in the floor's north hallway, and continued to drip last night.
Oliver residents Jennifer Bagby and Lauren Bensman had 11 garbage cans and four cups placed strategically in their room Sunday to catch the ball. He and his brother emptied the containers two to three times a day since Friday.
Stoner said the 24-year-old root had leaked periodically since Fall 1989. Sudden changes in temperature to buckle and allow water through.
Maintenance workers check the roof after it rains and make necessary patching and repair work, he said.
Stoner said the housing department discovered the need for a new roof during inspections last fall. He said bids for the estimated $100,000 repair would open this spring.
He said workers would try to patch this cracks on Oliver's root early this year.
In the meantime, Oliver's 10th-floor residents are covering their belongings with plastic and trying to find some place dry to study and
sleep.
"They're supposed to provide us with safe shelter, and this just isn't cutting it," said Bensman, Memphis, Tenn., freshman.
but the problem resurfaced.
Bagby and Bensen first experienced the leaking on a rainy Jan. 19 afternoon, said Bagby, Linden freshman. The leaking stopped on Jan. 21.
Bensman said she slept in a friend's room because her bed was under a leak. She said the only damage to the room was a stained carpet and some ruined medicine.
Stoner said the University was not liable for damage resulting from the accident.
students acquire insurance for such situations.
A leak in the southwest corner of Kat Sobieski's room forced her to put plastic over her bed and bulletin board.
"Every time it rains, we have to do this," said Sobieski, Emporia sophmore. "You can't study or sleep."
Bush budget gets support from Cheney
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Richard Cheney said yesterday it "makes no sense" to cut major weapons programs despite political changes in communist countries.
"Intentions can change overnight . . . and we have to deal with the Soviets' military capabilities and not just intentions," Cheney said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" program. "There is still enormous nuclear capability" targeted against the United States, and the Soviets have provided no evidence they are prepared to change that, Cheney said.
Cheney defended President Bush's proposed continued financing of the MX and Midgetman missile programs as well as the level of proposed U.S. troops cuts in Europe.
Congressional critics have said the two missile programs weren't needed, and more troops should be brought home.
Congressional leaders, meanwhile, suggested that deeper defense spending cuts are needed for the fiscal 1991 budget than the administration proposed last week.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, called the continued spending for the MX missile program "wasteful" and unnecessary.
Water damages lot at Towers
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Kanean staff writare
A small hole in the upper level of the west parking lot at Jayhawker Towers forced KU police to close the lot yesterday, KU officials said.
Vic Str碳, KU police lieutenant,
said the department was called out
yesterday to inspect the hole. Police
were set up, and the lot was
closed.
Some students, identified by their license plates, were asked to move their vehicles. Strnad said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he was notified by KU police at about 2 p.m. yesterday.
Police blocked off 43 spaces on the upper level and eight spaces on the lower levels.
Stoner said the hole in the upper
The lot will be closed until tomorrow when engineers will review the damage. Stoner said he thought the collapse occurred because of rain-soaked concrete in an area where the concrete was not poured evenly.
level had caused pieces of concrete to fall to the lower level. From the upper level, the hole appears to be the size of a 50-centre piece. Viewed from below on the lower level, it is about a foot across.
Mary Breulen, Barrington, Ill., junior, and a towers resident, said she was upset by the situation. She said now she would have to risk being ticketed for parking at the FI Bleta house or house at Templin Hall.
"It's a no-win situation," Breslin said. "The parking at the Towers is a joke."
The lot was not built by the University. It was built by a private contractor when the Towers was privately owned about ten years ago, Stoner said.
He said that the collapse was not a structural problem and that it might only need a steel plate put over it before it became usable. The upper level is not heavily used, and the entire section could be shut off until the repairs were completed.
A similar incident occurred in September when a deteriorating section of concrete collapsed in the east lot at the Towers, closing 28 spaces. At that time, Jim Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said the estimated cost of repairs was about $28,000.
Attack on Israeli bus leaves many dead in Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt — Guerrillas armed with guns and grenades attacked a bus carrying about 30 Israel tourists near Cairo on Saturday, killing several people and injuring at least nine, officials and news reports said.
Shimon Shamir, Israel's ambassador to Egypt, said that people inside a car passing a tourist bus opened fire on the passengers then apparently boarded the bus and threw hand grenades.
The Associated Press
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Egypt's state-owned Middle East News Agency said an undetermined number of Israeli tourists were killed and wounded and that senior Egyptian security officials rushed to the scene of the attack in the desert.
Soviet reformers rally for government power
The protest, perhaps the biggest in Moscow since the Bolshevik Revolution, came on the eve of a party Central Committee meeting during which President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is expected to propose that other parties be allowed to compete for power. The move will likely spur an intense struggle between hard-liners and reformers.
MOSCOW — Hundreds of thousands of cheering protesters filled the streets of the capital yesterday calling for the Communists to surrender their stranglehold on power.
The Associated Press
The crowd waved huge white-red-and-blue flags of pre-revolutionary Russia and held signs warning party officials to "Remember Romania," while the revolt last year toppled the Stalinist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
The masses stopped next to Red Square for a rally that was meant to influence the pivotal Cqmunist Party plenary meeting that opens Monday.
"This plenum is the party's last chance," declared BORNis N. Yeltis, a populist Communist leader who promised to place the crowd's demands before the 251-member Central Committee.
Others, harkening to the revolution that overthrew the czar in February 1917 before being swept away by Lenin eight months later, said a new revolution was under way.
Yelisin, who remains a member of the 251-member Central Committee despite his populist campaign against party privilege, promised to present the crowd's demands to the Kremlin meeting.
"Long live the beginning of the peaceful, non-violent revolution of February 1980!" historian Yuri Afanasied told the cheering crowd.
Many Moscow observers expected a concentrated effort from conservatives in the Central Committee to stop the reforms they believe have brought the Soviet Union to economic ruin and ethnic strife.
Sorry, Billy
Oklahoma head coach Billy Tubba expresses his dleym about his bench being assessed a technical foul. The foul was called with 16:48 remaining in the second half when an Oklahoma player jumped from the bench onto the floor. Kansas beat Oklahoma on Saturday at Allen Field House, 85-74. See related story page 9.