THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102.NO.69
(USPS 650-640)
SPORTS
Free throws seal victory
The No.2 Kansas men's basketball team edged No.15 Virginia 72-66 last night. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Rock Chalk expenses rise
This year's contestants in the variety show have spent more than in past years. Page 3A
NATION
City furious at death of girl
A father, a prince and a slew of social workers couldn't save a young New York girl from her crack-addicted mother. Page 9A
U. S. prepares to send troops
WORLD
Military experts arrived in Bosnia yesterday to scout the land before peacekeepers arrive. Page 8A
WEATHER
SUNNY
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High 65° Low 35°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Scoreboard . . . . 2B
Horoscopes . . . . 4B
National News . . . 8A
World News. . . 8A
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Lights... Camera... Kansas?
Ross Wulfkuhl's barn near Clinton Lake is blown up to simulate a nuclear attack. The barn and other portions of Wulfkuhl's farm were filmed for the ABC television movie "The Day After."
Scenery friendly folks lure directors to heartland
While the woman in the ladies' room of the Eldridge Hotel screamed, all anyone could do was stand around and watch.
Her struggle broke the mirror. But Jeff Johnson, the manager of the Eldridge, 701 Massachusetts St., wasn't worried. He knew it would be replaced.
And it wasn't as if the staff was too indifferent to help. They were busy getting ready for their scenes as extras in the 1992 television movie, "I Can Make You Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black," starring Brooke Shields, the victim in the ladies' room.
During three days of shooting, film crews transformed the Eldridge into a movie studio. They strigened the bar of all its Jawhay
paraphernalia so that it looked more like a bar on the West Coast. Journalists set up cameras in the lobby to interview the stars. Camera and lighting crews filled the bar, basement and rest
rooms with their equipment. It was chaos.
But if you ask Johnson, he and the Eldridge staff would be willing to go through it all over again.
"It may be a bit intrusive," he said. "But it's not bad for a short period of time."
Hollywood's attraction to Kansas, and even Lawrence, is growing.
See Movies, Page 5.
War flick starts local film boom
The man wanted to know if he could blow up Ross Wulffoul's barn.
Peter Wooley, art director for Paramount pictures, showed up on Ross and Margaret Wulffluhl's front door one day in 1982. He told them that their barn, near Clinton Lake, was perfect for the nuclear attack scene in their production of the ABC television movie "The Day After."
He also thought the Wulfhui's farm would be the perfect site for a fake missile silo. Then he realised
See Boom, Page 5.
1. What 1984 film, shot in Kansas, starred O.J. Simpson?
2. What film, shot in and around Overland Park, that was based on a Stephen King short story?
3. Glenn Close starred in two television movies shot in Osge County. Name either one.
4. What was the name of the song in an Aerosmith video shot in Wyandotte county?
5. Name four reality-based TV shows that have filmed segments in Kansas in the last two years.
6. What mint-series, shot in the Kansas City area, was based on a novel by Scott Turow?
7. What 1988 film, shot in Kansas, starred wrestler Hulk Hogan?
8. What former cast member of "The Honeymooners" starred in "Where Pigeons Go To Dia," shot in Lawrence?
9. The 1950 movie "Picnic" was filmed in three Kansas cities. What were they?
10. What television movie, shot in the capitol building in Topeka, used two state senators and five state representatives as extras? (Answers on Page 5.)
GTAs hope marchers help raise salaries
A protest rally will be held from 12:25 to 1 p.m. today
By Novelda Sommers Kansan staff writer
Graduate teaching assistants hope that a show of numbers at a rally today will move University officials to grant them a 3.5 percent pay increase in January.
The graduate teaching assistants' union will sponsor a protest march and rally from 12:25 to 1 p.m. today. Marchers will meet in front of the Kansas Union and walk down Jayhawk Boulevard to Wesco Hall for a 30-minute rally. Organizers said they expected 200 to 300 participants.
Karen Hellekson, union president, said the marchers would chant "Keep alive our 3.5" and "Two, four, six, eight - Why won't you negotiate?"
KU officials announced in May that the 3.5 percent pay increase that the 1995 Legislature approved for KU faculty would not be given to GTAs because funds were not earmarked for GTA raises.
Hellekson called that justification a smoke screen, and said that the real reason GTAs were denied a raise was that administrators were retaliating against GTAs for unionizing. She said KU administrators could grant the pay increase to GTAs if they wanted.
"If they do, this whole thing will go away," she said.
Faculty pay will increase 3.5 percent on Jan. 1. A similar increase for GTAs, who number about 1,000, would cost the University $160,000, said Mike Johnson, press contact for the union.
In August, the union filed a complaint against the University before the Public Employee Relations Board, charging that the University had refused to bargain in good faith.
THE CONTROVERSY
Marc Adin, KU director of human relations and representative in negotiations with the GTA union, said when it came to the pay increase issue, administrators' hands were tied. Because the University relies on the Legislature
THE UNIVERSITY announced in May that the 3.5 percent pay increase the 1995 Legislature approved for KU faculty would not be given to GTAs because funds were not earmarked for GTA raises.
KU GTAs say that the real reason GTAs were denied a raise was that administrators were retaliating against GTAs for unionizing. She said KU administrators could grant the pay increase to GTAs if they wanted.
to allocate funding, to defy it would be a bad move,
he said.
"Our position has been that the Legislative intent was for us not to grant a pay raise," Adin said.
The two sides met earlier this month with a mediator, but the Department of Administration, which was also named in the August complaint, moved to end mediations.
The relations board set a hearing for Dec. 7 and 8 to resolve the issue.
Hellekson said the union would call on legislators to testify at the hearing that the Legislature did not intend for the University to withhold a pay increase from GTAs.
Adin said the relations board officer would have 21 days after the hearing to decide whether the University had acted in ill faith.
Haskell, Environs call for one more trafficway hearing
By Joann Birk
The forum will By Joann Birk Kansan staff writer Widela
the last chance Students from the University of Kansas and for students Haskell Indian Nations University are taking what may be their last chance to affect the future of to voice South Lawrence Trafficway.
nions KU Environics and the Haskell Student Senate are sponsoring a public hearing on Sunday to encourage people to voice their opinions before a final decision on the trafficway is made.
trafficway alignment proposals
Douglas County Public Works has set Dec. 4 as the deadline for comments.
John Pasley, project manager for the trafficway, said that all comments submitted before the deadline would be considered before a final decision was made.
A public hearing was held Nov. 8, but both KU Environs and Haskell Student Senate voiced opposition to the hearing's organization. The public was allowed to ask questions of various parties involved in the trafficway debate, but no speeches could be made.
council to be Sarpbal Hundal, Olathe senior and a member of KU Environs, said that Sunday's hearing would allow people to speak in a more open forum.
"We felt that the way they had the hearing last time was not as effective in getting information out and hearing each others' comments," he said. "This way there can be a lot of people, together in one place, voicing their opinions on the trafficway."
At the November hearing, both Haskell and KU students said that they opposed all three proposed alignments for the trafficway. The three alternate alignments, which were suggested in the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement in October, were 31st, 35th and 38th streets.
Gurpal Hundal, Olathe junior, said that KU Envi.
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rons had submitted a statement to Douglas County Public Works outlining its "no-action" position on the trafficway, but other students could still submit statements at the student-sponsored hearing or by mail.
KU Environs and Haskell student senate have been united in their op
position to any alignment north of the Wakarusa River. In 1993, KU Student Senate passed a resolution stating that the trafficway was inconsistent with the educational and community responsibilities of the University because it would infringe on Haskell's rights.
Hundal said that anyone could attend the hearing. It will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Haskell Auditorium. People will be available to videotape, type statements and answer questions about the trafficway and the Haskell-Baker Wetlands.