THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1989
Between attempts at studying for an exam in Economics 104, Jeffery Sosnow, Mission freshman, and pledge of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, naps in the Kansas Union.
Needed nap
Residence halls to lower single room costs
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
The cost for private rooms in the residence hall system will be reduced by $416 next year, a housing official said yesterday.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the cost was being reduced as part of a campaign to attract more upperclassmen to residence hall life.
"In the past, we've catered primarily to incoming students because they've had the greatest need to familiarize themselves with the community and the campus." Stoner said. "Living in a residence hall provided them with that opportunity."
Another aspect of the campaign is to offer
students an unlimited number of single rooms or double rooms used as single rooms.
Previously, the department has placed a restriction on the number of private rooms available in each hall. About 10 percent of each hall has been set aside for single occupancy in the past, said Fred McElhenie, associate director of housing.
The cost for a private room will be $2,924 in all hills except Hashinger, which will be $3,028.
Stoner said about 200 students currently lived by themselves in either single or double rooms.
"Most of the residents who live in double rooms by themselves, are doing so because their roommate moved out and no one was found to take that person's place." Stoner said.
That's what happened to Julie Cornwell, resident of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall.
"My roommate's parents took her out of school at semester and now I have a double room to myself," said Cornwell, Omaha, Neb., freshman.
Melissa Williams, Atwood sophomore, lived with a roommate in Elwisorth Hall last year and specifically requested a single room this year because she wanted more privacy.
McElhenie said he thought the idea would appeal to many students because it was
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have all the privacy they want," he said.
Stoner said he expected more students to ask for private rooms next year because many of them don't want them.
About 4,000 students live in residence halls this year, down 400 from last year. Stoner attributed the decrease in the number of students to a decrease in freshman enrollments.
According to University • Relations, last year's freshman enrollment was 4,743, and this year's first day freshman enrollment was 4,186.
Stoner said he did not think that next year's housing budget would be affected because he believed more students would live in the halls.
North case delay ends Attorneys debate fairness of trial
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court lifted its stay delaying the start of Oliver North's trial yesterday, but North's lawyers complained that he could not get a fair trial under a deal struck by his prosecutor and the attorney general for handling testimony involving national secrets.
"Defendant, North still faces two governments, rather than a single prosecutor with full power to make all trial decisions," said Brendan Gershom, an attorney in the defense team, in papers filed on U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell
The Supreme Court, meanwhile, lifted a stay that had been requested by attorney General Dick Tornburgh while he was still arguing with independent counsel Lawrence Walsh on whether rules disclosing classified information were tight enough.
The newest Thorpurgh Walsh arrangement "would impose intolerable burdens on the court, the witnesses, and the jurors." Sullivan said. He asked Gessel to tell the attorney general that he could take action to dismiss the entire case or any of the 12 criminal charges but that he would not "have the right or the opportunity to intervene in the trial."
In the arrangement announced Wednesday, Walsh agreed to ask Thornburgh for an affidavit whenever Walsh believed that undisclosed secrets were about to be revealed. The general would stay out of the courtroom while the independent counsel took action on the issue.
Sullivan said that the independent counsel's proposal would empower the attorney general to step in "whenever the going gets tough, precisely what the court has forbidden him from doing."
In response, Walsh said that North's lawyer misunderstood how the prosecutorial plan will work.
Sullivan said that the new arrangement would guarantee frequent interruptions as challenges would be made and resolved.
The Associated Press
The bounty for killing the writer has doubled to $5.2 million, and Britain's airlines, including British Airways, tightened security after receiving bomb threats against some flights.
Britain protested to kill伊尔西 dayesterday as a result of Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini's orders to kill Salman Rushdie the author of "The Satanic Verses"? Religious students in Iran insisted succinct attacks on Rushdie.
The $2.6 million bounty offered by Iran was matched by Mohammad Hasheman, religious leader in the southwestern city of Kerman, who offered the cash reward "to any group or individual who carries out his work with his publishers." That brought the total bounty to $2.2 million.
Non-Iranians will be paid $1 million if they get to Rushdie first.
The death threats against Rushide, whose book has been denounced across the Muslim world as blasphemous, were called "appalling" by the U.S. State Department. A leading Islamic theologian who opposes the Islam in Egypt that Khomini ered by giving Rushide a chance to repent.
Rushdie, who was born in Bombay, India, but no longer practices Islam, is a naturalized Briton whose novel has sparked violent protests from Islamic fundamentalists. He has canceled a promotional
tour for the book in the United States and remains in hiding with his American wife, Marianne Wiggins.
Mussims have said that the allegorical novel offends their faith by satirizing the prophet Mohammed as failible; implying that Islam is not the only true religion; portraying Mohammed's wives as prostitutes; and suggesting he wrote the Koran, rather than receiving it from God.
Report says most Lawrence S&Ls stable
The British Foreign Office summoned Iran's lone diplomat in Britain, told him Khomeini's threat was "totally unacceptable," demanded special protection for its Teheran Embassy and froze plans to expand diplomatic relations with the Islamic state.
Hove stopped short of threatening to break diplomatic relations. But in an address to a Foreign Press Association luncheon, he said "a stable and serious relationship ... will not be possible while Iran fails to respect international standards of behavior."
"We recognize that Muslims and others may have strong views about the contents of Mr. Rushdie's book," British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Hove said after his office summoned him to charge "d'Afaires Mohammed Basti."
“However, nobody has the right to incite people to violence on British soil or against British citizens. Ayatollah Khamenei’s statement is totally unacceptable.”
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
The parent companies of most Lawrence savings and loans are financially sound, according to an industry analysis.
The latest "Sheshuunoff & SLA" Quarterly Ratings & Analysis" report was compiled in September by Sheshuunoff Information Services, an Austin, Texas, bank consulting company that monitors the financial industry.
According to the report, the only area savings and loan with problems was Anchor Savings, based in Kansas City, Kan. Its net worth as a percentage of assets is negative 0.84, using the trifftech instrument.
Anchor Savings has a Lawrence branch at 900 Ohio St.
The Saving Bank of Lawrence, 1400 Kassold Drive, was not included in the report because it began operation on 21, after the report was compiled.
The other Lawrence thrists listed in the report are Columbia Savings, 544 Columbia Drive and Pioneer Savings and Loan. 2301 Iowa St.
A thrift is technically insolvent if it owes more money to depositors and other creditors than could be raised by the sale of its assets.
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington, D.C., requires thrifts to have a net worth as a percentage of assets at at least 3 percent. If a thrift's percentage is negative, it is considered insolvent.
"The 3 percent is not a hard and fast rule. It is more of a ballpark
Lawrence S&Ls: How strong are they?
Five S&Ls have branches in Lawrence. Of those, only Anchor Savings has been declared insolvent by the government. Savings Bank was opened after the figures were compiled. All of the figures below were taken as of
Savings & Loan (millions) (year to date) per cent
Anchor Savings*
840 -4330 -0.69
Columbia Savings 943 1465 2.82
Pioneer Savings 306 4818 4.34
Capital Federal 2985 21539 8.74
Savings Bank N/A N/A N/A
Source: Sheshunoff Information Services
guideline," said Kim Gromiger, public information officer for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, 200 S.E. 6th St. "Each institution has its own individual reserve requirement."
The Federal Home Loan Banks were created by Congress in 1952 to be a central source of credit for banks in their districts. Groninger said,
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She said the banks were operated as non-profit, tax-exempt corporations, and reported to the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board in Washington. D.C.
The Topeka bank is responsible for thrifts in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Nebraska.
Groomer said the Home Loan Bank decided on a case-by-case basis whether or not to step in and help a victim fell below its reserve "requirement."
The Bush administration's savings and loan bailout proposal would raise the reserve requirement to 6 percent, the level currently required for
banks.
Topeka-based Capitol Federal Savings meets both the current and proposed requirements.
"We have always stressed safety. Our reserves are three times what the federal government requires." Richard Holzmiser, vice president of the Capitol Federal branch at 1025 Iowa St.
Holzmeister said that Capitol Federal had a conservative management that stressed profits, safety, and strength over growth.
Judge enters not guilty plea for five men who stood mute at hearing
by Angela Clark
Kansan staff writer
After five men, including a KU police officer, stood mute in a Lyndon court Wednesday, an Osage County district judge ordered the county to guilty to charges of marijuana possession
The men's pleas were incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan as that of no contest. The men stood mute, and the judge entered not guilty pleas.
Stan Davis, associate professor of law,
said the judge was required to enter a not
guilty plea if the defendants stood mute in
court.
"If you don't say anything, they have to put a plea down of not guilty." Davis said. "They have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you are not guilty that, you cannot be convicted or punished."
"A plea of no contest means that you do not contest the charge." Davis said. "It is
the equivement of a guilty plea, but not amounting to an admission of guilt."
If a plea of no contest is entered, a trial is not assigned to the defendants, said Dennis Prater, associate professor of law.
Rick Kirkpatrick, Osage County acting undersheriff, said that he did not understand why the men stood mute rather than submit a not guilty plea.
"But from what I understand, it's basically the same thing - standing mute and
pleading not guilty," he said.
Cheryl Stewart, Osage County district attorney, said the men were following the investigation.
"It is just one of the forms that they can use," she said. "If they don't say anything, you can't."
James Michael Hough, a KU police officer, was one of the five who stood mute in the Lyndon court. Hough, 29, was charmed last week with marjana poses-
sion.
The other four men charged are David C. Linton and Jeffrey W. Crocker, both Osage county sheriff's deputies. Ryan P. McGraw, a state attorney, Jerald P. Schecher, a state game agent.
The jury trial for Hough is scheduled for April 5. Smith is to appear April 13, and Linton, Crocker and Schecher are to appear April 19.
All five were released without bond.