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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1996
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.55
(USPS 650-640)
Clinton official expected to announce resignation
One senior administration official said Christopher was expected to go to the White House yesterday to announce his departure from the nation's top diplomatic post by Jan. 20. Inauguration Dav.
Clinton's objective is to pump new vigor into his administration as it begins a second and final four years.
Commerce Secretary Mickey Kanor, said to be bored with that job, was thought to be interested in becoming White House chief of staff or attorney general but now is said to have dropped those ideas.
There have been reports that some White House aides would like Attorney General Janet Reno to step aside, regarding her as not enough of a team player.
U.S. Army investigating charges of harassment
WASHINGTON — The Army has brought charges of rape and sexual harassment against two military trainers at the Army Ordinance Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
The Pentagon said yesterday that it had identified more than a dozen victims — all female recruits in their second eight weeks of military training. Up to 1,000 women who trained at the military facility are being interviewed by the Army to determine if there are any additional victims.
Maj. Gen, Robert D. Shadley, commander of the Ordnance Center, said one captain and two drill sergeants were charged in connection with the investigation.
Details of the allegations were released at a news conference at Ft. Monroe, Va., headquarters of the Training and Doctrine Command.
"All of us in the Army are deeply troubled by the allegations of sexual misconduct and rape," said Gen. Dennis Reimer, Army chief of staff.
Yeltsin claims he's ready to return to presidency
MOSCOW — Impressing doctors with the speed of his recovery. President Boris Yeltsin was on his feet yesterday and proclaiming he was back at work two days after a quintuple heart bypass.
The Kremlin portrayed the 65 year-old president as a man eager to be back at the helm and pursuing all of his presidential duties something his surgeon said could happen in 10 to 12 days.
Yeltsin has not yet appeared before the public but, clearly eager to reassert his authority, he issued a statement to the nation yesterday through his press service.
"Dear Russian! I'm glad to announce that the operation was successful. I'm back to work again. As I promised, the situation in the country was under control," Yeltsin said.
He also sought to counter attacks from the opposition Communists, who marched through Moscow yesterday and demanded he step down. At a rally on the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told about 20,000 cheerling demonstrators that the president was unable to govern.
Yeltsin will likely leave the intensive care unit at the Moscow Cardiological Clinic today for the Kremlin hospital, his lead surgeon said. Yeltsin has been pushing doctors to move him to the hospital, which has presidential offices and a homier atmosphere.
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Health care benefits subject of GTA rally
Jeremiah Savage, 2, helps his dad, Karl Savage, Lawrence graduate student, hold a sign at a rally for GTA health-care benefits in front of Wescoe Hall. "I wish I could be a GTA," Savage said at yesterday's rally. "But without health-care for dependents, I just can't afford to."
Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
By Eric Weslander and Mark McMaster
Kansas staff writers
Kansan staff writers
With his left arm in a sling, Estevan Herrera stood in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday to rally fellow graduate teaching assistants in their fight for health-care benefits.
"One hand washes the other ... I'm here to lend you my healthy one," said Herrera, a GTA in the Spanish and Portuguese department.
Herrera, who accumulated more than $3,000 in hospital bills after breaking his arm earlier this semester, was one of six speakers at a rally yesterday that drew a crowd of more than 100 chanting GTAs. After the rally, four GTA negotiators walked to the Burge Union to meet with University representatives for the third round of contract negotiations.
The Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition has focused on negotiating a general contract after being denied a 3.5 percent pay raise, which was given to other University employees last year. The coalition hopes for a contract that will give GTAs a yearly pay increase, sick leave, and health-care benefits, which were the focus of yesterday's rally.
"My students want me in class teaching Spanish, and my professors need my papers in time," Herrera said. "It's no use when I'm taking painkillers at night, and I'm kept awake with dreams of the collection agency coming to get me because I can't pay my bills."
Speakers at the rally said that meeting GTA needs would improve the University as a whole.
"When GTA's are treated with economic dignity, it's bound to be reflected in the quality of teaching and the quality of education that is given here," said Mark Horowitz, a GTA in the sociology department.
Rally organizer Laura Senio stood on Jayhawk Boulevard before the rally and sat at a table during the rally to provide information on the GTA Coalition.
"We are a hard-working group of people, and we are abused by the system," Senio said. "When undergraduates complain about GTA's, they also have to realize that they are complaining about the University treating us poorly."
The crowd chanted, carried signs and often booed the administration. However, University representatives said yesterday's negotiations were civil.
"In terms of the dynamics at the table, they handled themselves very well," said Marc Adin, director of human resources. "I know they're making a good-faith effort, as we are, to reach an agreement."
Although the GTAs were willing to negotiate, they want significant results soon, said GTA negotiator Richard Buck.
"If today we find out we're not going anywhere, the University is going to hear a lot more voices next time we have a rally," Buck said.
Sunflower rivalry survives ages
Student pranks are part of game
By Andrea Albright
Kansan staff writer
Goal posts, underpants and Uncle Jimmy Green: the rivalry between Kansas and Kansas State has had it all.
Don Fambrough, KU football player in 1946 and 1947 and football coach in the 1970s and '80s, said the rivalry is old, but pranks have mostly been in good spirit.
"I can vouch for the last fifty years," Fambrough said. "Most of it was funny, and it didn't cause harm of anykind."
Emotions always have run high the weekend of the Governor's Cup. But during the past 25 years, friendly pranks have escalated into riots.
Fambrough said in those days, K-State fans often painted the statue in front of Lippincott Hall.
"They'd paint Uncle Jimmy Green purple," Fambrough said. "We never
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could catch them. We'd spend a couple of weeks cleaning him up and two years later he'd be purple again."
According to old editions of the University Daily Kansan, a series of incidents was sparked in October 1971, when three KU students collected more than 150 red and blue pairs of underwear from sororities and fraternities across campus and flew them to Manhattan. The men wanted to drop the underwear on KSU Stadium during the game, but the KU athletic director asked them to refrain
In the 1970s, the rivalry had a sense of mischief rather than menace.
Kansan archive photo
Instead, they dropped the load on the K-State campus on a weekday afternoon before the game.
In 1976, 12 KU students armed with fire extinguishers full of paint, walkie talicles and 200 feet of rope, rappelled down the hill overlooking KSU Stadium. They erased key segments of an "S" that were part of a
KU students flew more than 150 pairs of red and blue underwear in October 1791 to Manhattan, Kan., as a prank for the Kansas-KState game
giant KS sign and added paint to make the sign read "KU" the night before the game.
The rivalry got ugly when K-State fans attacked the KU band in 1982. Bob Foster, band director, said K-State fans threw trash and fruit at
the band.
"The tuba player was hit in the face by a grapefruit," Foster said. "It broke his glasses and his nose. He was on about the fifty-yard line."
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Recent law alters leader selection for committees
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Student Senate has revoked the rights of new senate committee members to vote for their committee representatives.
In a 26-21 vote Wednesday night, the senate passed a bill changing how senate standing committee representatives are chosen.
Co-sponsored by Ann Marchand, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, the bill dramatically alters the committee representative selection process.
"This is a new way to do things that will solve the problems that exist now," Marchand said.
However, Jordan McKee, holdover senator, adamantly opposed the bill.
"This bill goes against the fundamental ideas of Student Senate," McKee said. "I cannot support this."
The Senate's student rights, finance, multicultural affairs, University affairs and graduate affairs committees are made up of senators and volunteering, unelected students. The committees review legislation before it goes to senate.
The committees used to vote on representatives during the first meeting of the year.
However, under the new rule, representatives for the next year will be chosen by the committees the year before. In other words, next year's representatives will be chosen at the end of this year.
Jamie Partridge, Nunemaker senator and a co-sponsor of the bill, said it would solve two problems.
Now, nominees give a three minute speech during the meeting and are voted on afterward. Partridge said for new members of a committee, three minutes was not enough to decide who was qualified. Under the new bill, she said, people who have worked with committee members all year would know who was and wasn't qualified.
But Jason Angilan, graduate senator said the bill was not the answer.
"These committees are a chance for people not elected to be part of the system," Angilan said. "The three minute speeches are not perfect, but at least they allow new members to be a part of the process. This bill doesn't allow new members to choose the head of their committee."
But Partridge said the bill solved another problem.
"This bill would stop stacking." Partridge said.
Stacking is the idea that at the first committee meetings, friends and colleagues of people wanting to run for representative show up to vote for their friend. Then they don't come to another meeting.
"This bill would mean that people in the committee who had been there all year would elect the chair," Partridge said.
Sullivan said people drop out of the committees by the end of the year. That means the only people left on the committee are student senators, who have to be there, and a few students. This, he said, creates a similar problem.
However, Scott Sullivan, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said the bill did not solve stacking.
"You know who will be voting at the last meeting? People who are on the same coalition as the people running for chair. Then all you will have are the student senators voting for the chair and students will be involved even less," Sullivan said. "It will be even more political."
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