VOL.100,NO.60 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY NOV.17, 1989
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Regents discuss extending school year
Kansan staff writer
By Kate Lee
TOPEKA — All but one of the Board of Regents institutions should be required to increase the number of instructional days in their academic calendars, the Regents recommended yesterday at their monthly meeting.
A recently completed Regents staff study of the number of instructional days showed that only Pittsburg State University had not decreased the number, said Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Regents'
"We believe quite strongly, frankly, that this trend is in the wrong direction," he said. "We see the need for the trend to be halted and for some days to be restored."
The report recommended four options to remedy the problem, Kopik said. Each of the options would require the University of Kansas to increase the number of instructional days in the 1992-93 school year. One plan would require the addition of as many as 10 days.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said she did not think there was an educational value in
adding days.
adding days.
She said that KU easily could accommodate the two proposals of the Regents to increase the number of instructional days by six, but that adding eight or 10 days would not be possible until the University had fee payment by mail.
"Right now we use some of our academic calendar days for fee payment," Ramaley said. "We hope to have fee payment by mail sometime in 1992."
Norman Jeter, chairman of thelegents, also announced that he could meet with Gov. Mike Hayden
and state Budget Director Michael O'Keefe next week to appeal the Regents budget recommendations for fiscal 1991 made by O'Keefe.
He said that although the Regents were aware of the budgetary problems facing the state, they were concerned about the impact on the level of education expected of the Regents institutions.
The recommendations reviewed by the board reveal serious obstacles in the path of the board achieving its objectives under the Margin of Excellence. Jeter read from a prepared statement.
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
O'Keefe has made several reductions in the Regents budget request, including changing the faculty salary increase from 5 percent to 2.5 percent, Jeter said.
cent, Jeter said.
Ray Hauke, financial officer for the Regents, said there were no recommendations that allowed for an increase in university financing for rising student enrollment.
The airport hopes to receive federal funds. Jim Graham, Lawrence Municipal Airport employee, surveys the airplane parking area.
KU pilot Bob Custer, left, and mechanic Dave Loomis Inspect an airplane part.
Federal funds may not get airport system off the ground
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
A federal transportation bill that would assist the Lawrence Municipal Airport might not allocate enough money to purchase needed equipment, a local official said.
equipped.
The bill, expected to be signed by President Bush this month, would provide an unspecified allocation for instrument landing systems to various U.S. airports, including Lawrence. Earlier reports, during the bill's debate, had Lawrence receiving $250,000. If that amount is accurate, said Bob Newton, chairman of the Lawrence Aviation Advisory Board, it would not be enough to buy a landing system.
"We love it, but we don't know how we're going to pay for it," he said. "If Lawrence gets $250,000, that's not enough to buy it."
A complete landing system would cost $500,000. Newton said.
The airport now has a navigation system known as ARNAV, he said. The ARNAV system, he said, net-
mits a plane with special navigation equipment to land at the airport when the cloud ceiling is at 530 feet, but most planes do not have such equipment.
Depending on the amount of money received, he said, the airport could buy a localizer, which is part of a landing system. The airport has an agreement with an Overland Park firm to install a localizer for test purposes with an option tobuy it for half price, or about $125,000. Newton said. A localizer gives lateral guidance, he said, and lowers the ceiling distance to 300 to 400 feet.
A full landing system provides lateral and horizontal guidance, Newton said, and lowers the ceiling minimums from 200 to 300 feet, depending on visibility.
"there's no question in my mind that if we had an ILS-(instrument landing system), the airport would have increased use," he said.
"It's not just the days you can't make it, but even if it's marginal, you're not going to try it," he said of landing in Lawrence.
Newton said that flights bypassed Lawrence even if the weather exceeded the minimum ceilings.
"It would be of great benefit to the University," he said. "A lot of times we have to cancel a flight or land at Topapec or Kansas City and rent a car to get to Lawrence."
Bob Custer, a pilot for the University of Kansas, said the landing system would be a boon to the airport and KU.
Jim Graham, an airport employee, said the landing system was easy for pilots to use.
Salvadoran Jesuits killed at university
"I tracks the plane and then the pilot trains on the ILS." he said. "The ILS will bring it in, line it up with the runway and practically take over the landing itself."
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador — Armed men killed and mutilated six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter yesterday after bursting into their house at a leading university. A witness said unformed government troops were involved.
The government denied responsibility, condemned the slayings as "savage and irrational" and said an investigation had begun.
If this spiral of violence continues, death and destruction will sweep away many.'
— Arturo Rivera Damas Roman Catholic Archbishop
The killings were committed "with lavish barbarity," said the Rev. Jose Maria Tojeira, the Jesuit Provincial for Central America. "For example, they took out their brains," Tojeira said.
Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas compared the killings to the slaying of his predecessor, Oscar Arnulfo Romero. That 1980 assassination marked the beginning of years of killings and kidnappings by right-wing death squads.
"If this spiral of violence continues, death and destruction will sweep away many, especially those who are of most use to our people," said Rivera Damas after leading a prayer for the victims.
The slayings came on the sixth day of fierce combat in and around this capital after an attack by leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front guerrillas.
A witness said the killers were part of a detail of about 30 uniformed army or police troops that entered the house before dawn, said a priest who lives nearby. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said the U.S. ambassador would ask the Salvadoran government for "a full inquiry into this horrendous act." She said William Walker, the U.S. ambassador in San Salvador, would raise the subject with Cristiani in a meeting yesterday.
meeting yeah. The educators had received death threats since the heaviest fighting of the 10-year-old war began Saturday. Callers to radio talk shows ha ve heavily chastised Jesuits as subversives and demanded their expulsion or punishment.
The extreme right has accused local Jesuits and their university of fostering subversive ideology for more than a decade.
Falling tree kills at least 7 children Dangerous storms bash eastern coast
The Associated Press
NWBURGH, N.Y. — A tree crashed through an elementary school cafeteria wall during a severe thunderstorm Thursday, killing at least seven children and injuring 18, authorities said.
The accident occurred as pupils ate lunch, according to Carole Armstrong, a secretary for Valley Central School District. Police and firefighters pulled many children out of the rubble, said district spokeswoman Faye Goldstein.
The school is about five miles west of Newburgh, a city of about 23,000 people about 60 miles north of New York City.
Gary Fryer, *u.* spokesman for New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, said the State Emergency Management Office had unconfirmed reports that a tornado hit the school.
a turmoil in the storm.
Tim Massie, a spokesman for Central Hudson Gas and Electric, said utility employees clocked winds at 58 mph in the Newburgh area during the storm.
Fred Ostby of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said the storm system was the same one that moved through the South on Wednesday, spinning off tornadoes that killed 17 people in Huntsville, Ala.
The National Weather Service reported that the path the tornado tore through Alabama covered between eight and 10 miles and that its wind speeds were as high as 250 mph.
"It's like taking six to 10 city blocks and putting them in a blender and putting it on liquefy." Huntsville rescue worker Bob Caraway said.
Alabama Gov, Guy Hunt said he would ask President Bush to declare Huntsville a disaster area to open the door to millions of dollars in federal relief. Mayor Steve Hettinger said no firm damage estimates were expected until Friday, but he put the number of homeless at 1,000.
Roof repairs will weather storm temporarily at Allen Field House
Hunt assigned nearly 200 National Guardmen to assist in the cleanup and law help officers guard against looting. Police spokeswoman Susan Williamson said there had been minor looting the night of the storm but no arrests.
Tornadoes were reported Wednesday in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana. Alongter, the storms were blamed for at least 28 deaths and more than 500 injuries over the two days.
The storm system roared up the Atlantic Coast yesterday, accompanied by tornadoes, high winds and heavy rain. At least one person was killed in New Jersey by the storm.
By a Kansan reporter
The weather service had posted a tornado watch yesterday for large parts of the East Coast from Maryland to New England, including the Newburgh area and metropolitan New York.
The office of facilities planning has been repairing the field house roof to temporarily stop the building's leaks, said Doug Riat, assistant director of facilities planning.
In West Virginia, high winds believed to be tornadoes swept Jefferson County, near Louisville, Ky., early yesterday. Four members of one family were injured, two of them seriously.
While the action takes place at Allen Field House this winter, the women and women's basketball teams can be reasonably sure they will stay dry.
A tornado warning, a more urgent advisory, was posted for Westchester County, one of the counties between New York and Newburgh.
Jim Moot, campus director of facilities planning, said, "We are making temporary repairs, but there is a flat area that is like a gutter."
He said the repairs were "kind of a Band-Aid approach" to rooftop patching.
gutter.** Modig said that facilities planning officials had requested money for a new roof, but that he wouldn't know until spring whether the
He said the project would involve replacing about 80,000 square feet of roof with a metal one. Modig said the project would cost $799,000.
money would be allotted. Modig said he hoped the money would come through in fiscal year 1991, which begins July 1, 1900.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director of facilities, said he thought the temporary renovrs were adequate.
"They're just now finishing up the project. They feel pretty comfortable that they have solved the problems temporarily. You can't tell, of course, until the first big rain storm," he said.
ing will be a problem,
"We'll have to work around basketball,
track meets, academic scheduled events in
the area and whatever else," he said.
Finding the time to replace the roof without disrupting the scheduled events in the building will be a problem, Modig said.
Kansans lure Japanese research,production
By Steve Buckner
Kansan staff writer
A well-organized schedule kept Elias Michaels buay during his first trip to Japan, and now he and the University of Kansas await the outcome.
Michaelia, chairman of the pharmacology and toxicology department and director of the Higuchi Bioscience Centers, returned this week from a one-and-a-half week trip to Japan. He was part of a contingent of Kansas officials who called on Japanese pharmaceutical companies to attract possible research to IU and build a manufacturing plant in Lawrence. The group was looking for production possibilities in Kansas. The trade delegation, led by LT. Governor Jack Walker, included House Speaker James Headen, R-Clay Center and Commerce Secretary Harland Pridda
Michaelis said he was impressed by the precise planning that enabled the group to meet with 12 companies, key academic figures and representatives of both the office of the minister of health and the Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturing association.
tion to both sides.
Although the meetings went well, he said, if it will take time before the group sees tangible results from its efforts.
consultants.
The consultant company, Michaels said, did a professional job identifying and contacting companies, organizing meetings and providing background information to both sides.
"Queen I think it was a very successful first approach," he said. "It was extremely well organized by the Department of Commerce and by a representative in Japan called International Investment Consultants."
anginite results from its errors.
The next step in the process will be to
requested at the
"In the next few months we'll
details on research and development that
they're interested in and try to open
dialogue concerning these areas."
Michaelis said.
write letters to everyone he contacted and supply them with additional information requested at the meetings, he said.
Michaelus said. The technology available at the bioscience centers plued the interest of three medium-sized companies, he said. Michaelus said that a Japanese endowment in research could happen within a year but that any Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturing in the United States would be a long-term possibility because all manufacturing is done in Japan.
ring is done in Japan. Rich Epp, public information officer for the Kansas Department of Commerce, said the group also traveled to Thailand to meet with the largest agricultural industry in that country and to Taiwan.