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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103.NO.27
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1993
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Workers assemble one of the many light banks shipped in for tonight's Lied Center opening. Six semi-trucks were used to transport the equipment used specifically for "The Secret Garden" performance.
Opening night for Lied Center
"Secret Garden is center's debut By Sara Bennett
Kansan staff writer
Less than 24 hours before opening night, "The Secret Garden" bore little resemblance to an award-winning Broadway musical.
Bird-shaped trees, perched amid black claxtes, only hinted at the elaborate production in the works. But the secret to transforming the Lied center stage into a child's garden lay hidden within those very crates.
The Tony Award-winning musical "The Secret Garden" opens with an invitation-only performance tonight at the Lied Center, ushering in the $14.6 million performing arts com-
plex's first season.
Eric Insox, stage manager for the touring company of "The Secret Garden," said he was excited to be involved with the center's first production.
"I feel kind of lucky in a way," he said, gazing into the crimson and blue auditorium. "It really is a treat. The house is stunning, and I just know it's going to sound wonderful in here."
Inso and his crew will spend 14 to 16 hours installing the six truckloads of equipment required for "The Secret Garden." Although the Lied center has new state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems, the touring company brought its own equipment, including an ornately painted proscenium, backdrops never before used on tour, lightsand a large turntable that rotates to
OPENING NIGHT: As the preparations for the first show go on, the Lied Center reveals a multiplicity of features. Page 7.4
OPENING NIGHT: Asthe
Lee Saylor, technical director for the Lied Center, said the center was providing 30 of its 44 rigging lines from which the troupe will hang scenery, more than 70 crew members and stage hands, spotlights and 100 pounds of dry ice.
change scenes.
Preparing for the center's first performance has been nerve racking, Saylor said.
"The Lied Center staff is tied up in knots," he said. "We've spent months getting ready for this and now it's here."
quality of the Lied Center was good enough to bring in other big-name shows.
Inco said opening a show in a new hall had inherent challenges, but the
"Phantom of the Opera" will be able to play here," he said. "I bet you'll see 'Les Miserables' within in the next two years."
Nevin Steinberg, sound technician for the touring group, said the Lied Center was one of the better halls "The Secret Garden" has played in.
"It's smaller than most, and the seating is intimate, which is good for this kind of show," he said. "I much prefer it to some of the caves we've played in."
As stage hands bustled about hanging lights and stacking crates, Inso shielded his eyes and peered into the Lied Center balcony.
"It is pretty wonderful, isn't it?" he said.
GTAs close argument in hearing
GTRUNION
Decision still far from made
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
Final testimony in the graduate teaching assistant status hearings was heard yesterday, but the issue is far from resolved.
Anthony Genova, professor of philosophy, and Diane Del Buono, director of student financial aid, were called as rebuttal witnesses by GTA general counsel Scott Stone.
The GTAs hope to establish their status as that of public employees so they can vote on whether to form collective bargaining units. The University does not consider GTAs public employees, but rather students who gain teaching experience while the University supports them financially.
Genova testified that he was not opposed to collective bargaining among GTAs. He said that among the 50 to 60 other professors with whom he had discussed the issue over the past two years, only two had expressed opposition to the idea.
Genova testified that he did not believe collective bargaining would drive a wedge between GTAs and faculty.
"If anything, it would enhance the collegial relationships at the department level," he said.
Del Buono testified that the stipends GTAs receive are not financial aid as defined by her office.
"It is not a form of federal, state or institutional aid," she said.
Stone said the highest hurdle – addressing whether GTAs are public employees or not – had been cleared.
"I feel fairly optimistic for the GTAs," he said.
What's next?
Feb. 1 - GTA and University counsels must submit briefs by this date.
June 1994 - An initial recommendation from the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board hearing officer must be made by this time; if an appeal is not filed, the ruling stands.
An appeals
Either party could appeal the officer's recommendation to the KPERB. Either party could appeal the board's decision to district court. Either party's court decision could be appealed to appellate court. Finally, an appeal of an appellate court decision could land the case in the state Supreme Court.
Source: Kansas Public Employee Relations Board KANSAN
University assistant general counsel Karen Dutcher said she had no reaction to the hearings.
The result of yesterday's testimony and that of the other 18 witnesses presented throughout the past week may not be revealed until next summer.
Stone and Dutcher agreed to submit their respective briefs to hearing officer Monty Bertelli by Feb. 1, 1994. Briefs are a written form of closing arguments and contain citations of laws that support the party's case.
Bertell said he did not anticipate making a final decision until June. At that time, either party may appeal Bertell's order to the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board. The board could review or accept Bertell's recommendation.
Bertell said the matter could go as far as the state supreme court if future decisions were appealed to the district and appellate courts.
Bertelli said a decision in favor of the GTAs would set a precedent in Kansas and possibly pave the way for GTAs at other state schools. Likewise, if the University prevailed, the decision could thwart future movements toward collective bargaining, he said.
"I think you'll find this case is a keystone for these questions," Bertelli said.
Clinton urges United Nations to limit peacekeeping missions
The Associated Press
"The United Nations must know when to say 'no,' he said.
President Clinton told the United Nations Monday that the American people will support sending U.S. troops to keep peace around the world only if new missions are sharply limited.
Clinton insisted on new rules for "new times" as he outlined his foreign-policy views with a mixture of caution and high purpose.
Clinton is prepared to send as many as 25,000 American troops to Bosnia
if peace terms can be worked out.
He proposed a network of nuclear arms restraints, including a worldwide ban on stockpiling of weapons-grade uranium. He hinted he might abandon his three-month old ban on underground weapons blasts if China resumed its testing program.
At a news conference later with Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, Clinton said the United States sent peacekeepers to Somalia in December "with our eyes open" but "may have underestimated" the difficulty of restoring political stability
ing American forces to a NATO peace-keeping unit in Bosnia.
Clinton said there would have to be "a clear political strategy" for the peacekeeping mission, and the deployment would have to be endorsed by Congress.
He also listed conditions for deploy-
"We would have to know what our financial responsibilities are," the president said. "Then we would have to know that others would do their part as well."
Elaborating on his speech, Clinton said that none of the current peacekeeping missions was "ill founded"
but that "there are limits to what we can do" in the future. "I want to see us go into these things with our eyes open," he said.
Clinton, in proposing curbs on mushrooming international peacekeeping ventures appeared to be looking for a practical way out of a growing dispute with members of Congress who are questioning American intervention in foreign conflicts.
"The United Nations simply cannot become engaged in every one of the world's conflicts," Clinton said.
He offered to pay within the next
few weeks a $400 million U.S. debt for peacekeeping, but he also said the United States was paying too heavy a load. A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the idea was to scale back from 30.4 percent to 25 percent and have Germany and Japan, among others, make up the difference.
Clinton said the United Nations must "weed out waste" and he suggested the appointment of an inspector general to investigate any abuses.
In Washington, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas said Clinton's speech failed to address the
increasing gap between U.S. interests and U.N. operations. Specifically, Clinton did not spell out what U.S. interests are in the operation in Somalia, Dole said.
"We must avoid adopting the U.N. agenda whether in Somalia, in Bosnia, in Haiti, or elsewhere when it does not meet our standards and principles," Dole said in a statement. "The key to making the world safe for democracies and not for dictators, is not to 'reinvent' the United Nations but to assert U.S. leadership in support of U.S. interests."
A strong mental stroke
Kansas swimmer David Lewis is the team'sfirst-ever Rhodes Scholar nominee.
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Fate of atmospheric studies debated
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Kansas state writer
Kansan staff writer
About 60 people crowded into the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union yesterday evening for the discontinuance hearing on bachelor of arts, bachelor of general studies and master's degrees in atmospheric science.
Twenty-five people spoke in front of the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee during the three-hour hearing.
The department of physics and astronomy was notified in Fall 1992 that the B.A., B.G.S. and M.D. degrees in atmospheric science had been recommended for discontinuance during the University's academic program review.
More than 100 students are enrolled in those degree programs this year.
Only the department's bachelor of science degree has not been recommended for elimination.
Joe Eagleman, professor of atmospheric science, spoke for 20 minutes at the hearing.
He said program review had changed its goals.
When the review began in Fall 1991, the goals were to eliminate program duplication and cut costs.
Eagleman said eliminating the degrees did not meet either of those goals because KU has the only atmospheric science
program in Kansas. In 1991, the three tenured professors in the program each handled 600 student credit hours, compared to a normal high of 300 hours for a professor, he said.
"Are we not essential to the state?" Eagleman said. "I say we are."
Several professors and students argued the state needed KU's atmospheric science program and research because of Kansas' extreme weather.
"This is a severe-weather state, and interest in the weather is great," said Ray Ammar, head of the department of physics and astronomy.
Andrew Kula, Leawood senior, said the entire program hinged on the availability of the master's degree.
"Without graduate students, the bachelor of science program will not survive," he said.
Curtis Hall, professor of meteorology, discusses why available degrees in atmospheric studies should not be eliminated.
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, spoke at the end of the hearing.
He said that even though the review committee rated the atmospheric science program as "good," the Board of Regents still required six faculty members for any program with bachelor's and master's degrees, and the Regents would not approve additional faculty members for the program.