MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1995
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.66
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
A team effort
Strong play lifted No. 2 Kansas to a win against No. 8 Utah. Page1B
Dancing gains popularity
CAMPUS
Latin dancing emerges from the shadows and heads for the spotlight.
Page 3A
NATION
Bosnian treaty will not change
Defense secretary William Perry says the pact hammered out in Dayton, Ohio will not be altered. Page 6A
Israeli police detain rabbis
WORLD
James W. Grau/KANSAN
Two rabbis were interrogated for allegedly giving religious justification for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Page 6A
WEATHER SNOW POSSIBLE
High 43° Low 21°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ...4A
Horoscopes ...4B
National News ...6A
World News ...6A
Scoreboard ...2B
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History sets student apart
Kathy Peltier is a freshman at Haskell Indian Nations University. Her father, Leonard Peltier, has been incarcerated at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Father convicted of 1975 shooting
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
No one can fault Kathy Peltier for being cynical.
"I don't trust it," she said.
When it comes to her view of the federal government and its case against her father, Leonard Peltier, she has few words.
Dressed in black pants and a white sweatshirt, Kathy Peltier looks like any other college freshman. She worries about the same things they do: grades, classes and what comes after school. After graduating from Haskell Indian Nations University, Kathy Peltier's goal is to study film at the University of Kansas. She is interested in making documentaries and dramas.
"It's one of my dreams," she said.
Yet being the daughter of Leonard Peltier sets her apart from other Haskell students.
All her life, people have wanted to interview her about her father, she said.
She said that she only learned of the significance of her father when she was 8 or 10 years old.
"I don't think I would have comprehended it if I was younger," she said.
Since then, Kathy Peltier has studied the facts of the June 26, 1975, shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota that left two FBI agents and a Native American dead and earned her father two life sentences.
Through the years, Kathy has had little contact with her father and last saw him in January 1993. Prison regulations allow Leonard Pelletier to make phone calls but prevent him from receiving calls. Letters to him have gone unanswered for reasons she won't say.
To complicate her life further, she
and her mother, Renaye Begay,
moved around constantly.
Kathy Peltier graduated this year from Lawrence High School. Her mother lives in Denver.
After reading about the case against her father, Kathy firmly believes in his innocence. Two of the defendants were acquitted and charges were dropped against a third, so Leonard Peltier was the last one left to convict for the murders.
"The government wants someone in jail for the deaths of the two FBI agents," she said. "How could I trust the government if they do that?"
"I don't have too much hope in the judicial system," he said.
Leonard Peltier said that he wanted some kind of restitution for his incarceration and that a presidential pardon could be possible after the next election.
Meanwhile, Kathy Peltier lives without her for her's influence.
without her father's influence. Growing up, Kathy lived off-and-on with her grandmother in Twin Lakes, N.M. At home they spoke Navajo. Although Kathy cannot speak much of the language anymore, her friends at Haskell have worked to help her relearn both her native language and culture.
Kathy would like to continue to help her father's case and get to know him better as a father rather than a media object.
"We were always taught to help your family," she said.
Appeals denied.
Leonard Peltier has served nearly 20 years in prison for the deaths of two FBI agents.
June 26, 1975 — FBI agents Jack Color and Ronald Williams are killed.
Feb. 6, 1976 Leonard Pettler is arrested in Canada.
Leonard Peltier is convicted for the two deaths. — Sept. 14, 1978 U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Peltier's conviction.
Oct. 11, 1988 U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
demes appeal.
July 7, 1993
December 1993 — Parole denied by U.S. Gov. George W. Bush. Court of Appeals demes appeal against.
15 years must be served before he can be reconsidered.
Source: Leonard Peltier Defense Council Jodie Chester / KANSAS
University appeals 1996 budget cuts
KU and the Med Center are asked to absorb $13.9 million in cuts.
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center have appealed nearly $14 million in budget cuts recommended by the state budget director.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway sent a letter to Gloria Timmer, state budget director, asking her to reconsider the cuts.
"I believe a fair appraisal of Kansas history would conclude that in both good and difficult times, there are sufficient monies available for those programs that are priorities," Hemenway wrote.
Timmer recommended that the 1996-97 expenditure budgets of the state's six Board of Regents universities be trimmed
by $27 million, of which $13.9 million, or 51 percent, would come from the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center. The cuts would reduce the University budget by 4 percent and the Med Center budget by 3 percent.
Hemenway also asked Timmer to maintain the current budget base by offsetting tuition shortfalls with state general funds. According to Kansas Board of Regents estimates, the University will have $2 million less in tuition revenue this year than what was budgeted primarily due to a 306-person drop in non-resident enrollment.
"The University of Kansas feels particularly victimized by what transpired a year ago when the Legislature only partially offset a tuition shortfall." Hemenway wrote.
RECOMMENDED BUDGET CUTS FOR 1996-97
Hemenway also requested that a tuition accountability proposal be advanced for next year's budget. The proposal would give the University control of any tuition income resulting from future rate adjustments or increases in enrollment.
1995-98 Budget 1996-97 Budget Amount of Cu
$176,563,221 $169,631,782 $8,931,440
221,702,044 214,748,900 6,953,144
186,340,724 180,244,109 6,096,615
76,798,378 73,582,345 3,216,033
32,562,924 31,272,788 1,290,136
35,640,250 34,334,605 1,305,645
32,389,507 31,199,198 1,190,309
761,997,049 735,013,727 26,983,322
Hemenway's letter was combined with similar letters from the state's other universities. Governor Bill Graves will decide on Timmer's budget recommendations in mid-December and will present the final budget to the Kansas Legislature in January.
Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor, said that the low budget recommendations and the subsequent appeals happened every year.
Eakin said the budget director typically gave gloom and doom forecasts so that the governor could then add money back. But with a new governor and a conservative legislature, no one is sure what will happen.
"The budget director always has terrible recommendations," he said.
Institution University of Kansas KU Medical Center Kansas State University Wichita State University Emporia State University Pittsburgh State University Fort Hays State University Total
"It's a question of who will try to out conservative each other," Eakin said.
Ted Ayres — Regents general counsel and director of governmental relations said that because of the state's economic woes he wasn't sure how successful the appeals would be.
"We make the strongest case we can and hope for the best," he said.
Violators support KU parking department
By Sarah Wlese Kansan staff writer
And excessive violators — repeat customers, if you will — are doing the department a big favor.
All the parking tickets in the little pink envelopes really do add up — for the violator and the parking department.
Even though a $2 ticket here and a couple of $10 tickets there don't seem terribly consequential, fines accounted for about a third of department's revenues in fiscal year 1995 — $504.291.46.
Although $1.6 million in annual revenues seems like a lot, the department is completely self-supporting, said Don Kearns, director of parking. Parking isn't out to make money. It just wants to cover costs.
"All we're trying to do is continue lot maintenance, build new lots as needed and improve campus lighting in the lots," he said.
Although their numbers are few, excessive violators are the largest individual parking beneficiaries.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said ticketers found and towed many of the violators through random license plate checks with hand-held computers. Even if a vehicle is parked legally, excessive violation status leads to the tow anyway.
Last year, the department ticketed and towed close to 216 excessive violators. And Hultine said at least as many violators managed to elude the department.
"For some people, the fine isn't punitive enough," she said. "They treat it like it's just part of going to school."
Hultine said many excessive violators didn't seem to be bothered by the mounting tickets.
Some end up getting towed again and again, only paying when they absolutely have to, Hultine said. Others come in once a month to pay their fines.
Many excessive violators are habitual. Pink envelopes littering the car's interior and yellow window markings indicating past tows make them easy to spot, even without a handheld computer. Huline said.
"It's pretty easy to find them, and they're the ones that violate over and over and over," she said.
The department depends on violators. And the violators are delivering.
Kearns said that through the years, the fine revenues had held steady at about a third of annual revenues.
E-mail has changed how KU gets down to business
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
The old-fashioned phone call and two-minute meeting at Strong Hall are being replaced by a few strokes on the keyboard and a click of the mouse.
E-mail is starting to replace the facsimile machine as a way to transfer documents quickly, and some of the University's offices that receive the largest volume of phone calls and student visits have been helped by e-mail.
KU administrators are taking full advantage of the last five-years' worth of information technology available to them.
"If students want to contact us or ask a question, they can send us a
note by e-mail rather than by writing a letter," said Deborah Boulware, director of admissions.
Boulware said the University had a home page on the World Wide Web that helped prospective students get information on admissions policies.
Bill Crowe, dean of libraries,
could be one of the University's
Internet kings. He's not surprised to
receive 50 or 60 e-mail messages
each day, he said. He keeps in contact with his colleagues and research libraries around the world by using the Internet.
Crowe said he understood the apprehensions of those who still hadn't explored the Internet.
"Two generations ago, there were people who didn't want to talk on
the phone," he said. "This is similar."
it's a very effective way of communicating," said Hemenway, who receives about 15 messages each day. "It's a way for people to contact me without playing phone tag."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway is a big e-mail fan.
Hemenway said he hoped everyone in the University would have access to e-mail within two years. Ethernet hookups were being planned at all applicable buildings, he said.
Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, is an Internet veteran. He uses the Internet to trade ideas with his colleagues at other universities. E-mail is the communication of choice between him and
Strong Hall, Richardson said.
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Eakin said many documents from the Board of Regents office in Topeka still were transmitted by fax machine, even though the Regents had the ability to use e-
"it's still not quite the coffee pot," Eakin said, referring to the familiar image of a gathering spot for coworkers. "But we use it quite a bit."
But many discussions still are face to face — the old-fashioned practice of peeking into offices and asking for a few minutes, he said.
strongly in his hair. Linda Ecky, vice chancellor for administration and finance, said his office had been using e-mail for more than five years. The system is a good way to transfer documents and letters without the poor quality of a fax, he said.
mail.
E-mail comes in handy for lesspressing issues, said Andrew Debicki, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies. Things that can't wait until the next meeting usually are discussed in person or on the telephone, he said. But he admitted to not being much of a web surfer.
Debicki recalled when he had sent a request by e-mail for information on graduate enrollment procedures from universities across the country.
The response was exceptional, he said. The office received about 25 responses.
"In about three days, we were able to compare our situation with others," he said.