Vol. 99, No. 63 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAK
Monday November 28.1988
Bush not part of visa denial
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President-elect George Bush was not consulted in the Reagan administration's decision to deny a visa to Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, a spokesman said yesterday.
The spokesman, Stephen Hart, said the decision to deny the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization entry into the country to give a speech to the United Nations was a State Department decision.
Related story p. 8, col. 1
"In that answer is the fact that he was not consulted," Hart told reporters traveling with the vice president on Air Force Two as he returned from a four-day Thanksgiving vacation in Maine.
Asked if Bush supported the mo. Hart declined comment.
But Hart added, "It was an administration decision and he has been a loyal supporter of the administration."
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said Saturday that Ardat would not be given a visa because he and the president had been in touch with Reagan endorsed Shultz's action.
Bush, his wife Barbaria and family spaniel Millie, returned here from the oceanside family vacation home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Barbara Bush said that she planned to accompany the vice president Dec. 7 when he travels to New York City for the Republican convention. The Soviet Leader, Mikhail S. Gershberg.
She said she was looking forward to meeting Gorbachev's wife, Raisa.
Earlier yesterday, the Bushes,
accompanied by daughter Dorothy
LeBloom, attended morning worship
at the Church of Neenkunbetturg.
Church of Neenkunbetturg.
Plan would aid museum budgets
By Mark Fagan Kansan staff writer
In a proposed budget of $229.7 million, science museums certainly deserve $60,000, a KU official said recently.
"The museums have a lot of potential," said Bob Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service. "They're underfunded. There's no question we can justify the need for $60,000."
Science museums are part of the $21.3 million academic support portion of the University of Kansas' budget proposal for fiscal year 1990. The proposal would allocate $60,000 for science museums as a mission-related enhancement under the Margin of Excellence.
Although Bearse, who oversees the science museums, said he was happy with the Margin overall, he said the museum's staff had received treatment during fiscal year 1989.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to raise total financing of Regents schools to 95 percent of their student bodies and salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
"They did not get what they needed out of the Margin, and they will probably not get all of what they need during fiscal year 1990." Bearse said.
This year's proposal asks for $45,000 to help finance 1.5 additional full-time positions and $15,000 for other operating expenditures.
Last year, the mission-related enhancement portion of the budget request asked for $100,000 for science museums. The museums actually received $125,000, which went for four full-time equivalent employees.
In the budget proposal, museums that would receive money from the Margin are
■ the Museum of Anthropology which would receive money to finance the salaries of a collection manager, an outreach coordinator and a contract archeologist. The positions were partially funded in the
fiscal year 1989 budget
■ the Museum of Entomology, which would add a collections manager.
■ the Museum of Natural History, which would add staff members to relieve the strain on graduate students working at the museum.
Bearse said the Herbarium, the botany museum on West Campus, also would receive money to hire a new director.
However, exactly how all the needs would be met remains undecided. Bearse said appropriations would not be approved and the concrete approval the budget in April.
KU's proposal now is being considered by the state budget office in Topoca. Gov. Mike Hayden will preside over appointments to the Legislature in January.
The Museum of Anthropology would receive additional funds for positions now funded mostly by money from research grants from the Institute of Museum Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Historic Preservation Office in Tokyo.
Alfred Johnson, director of the Museum of Anthropology, said the grant money could be used to increase the number and quality of exhibits and improve collection care management instead of paying the salaries.
"Grants will still be coming in, but they'll allow us to do other things that we otherwise wouldn't be able to do," he said.
Steve Ashe, director of the Museum of Entomology, said he accepted his present position at KU after receiving assurances that staff would be added. He came to KU on Oct. 25, after leaving the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
At the Museum of Entomology, the retirement of two leading entomologists has focused attention on staffing problems, the budget proposal
Please see MUSEUMS, p. 5, col. 1
Horsing around
TOP: Sam Hines, center, master of the foxhounds, and five riders, take hounds to the hunting grounds. The Fort Leavenworth Hunt Club met Saturday and has fox hunts every weekend and Wednesday from October to April. The hunt is for pleasure riding only, and no game animals are killed. The Hunt Club is a not-for-profit organization that is supported by the dues of the members. LEFT: Michel Phillip, Kansas City, Mo., jumps her horse over one of many fences encountered in the chase of the hounds. ABOVE: A rider tightens the girth on her saddle to ensure its stability for jumping.
Senate faces majority leader decision
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democrats gained only a single Senate seat in this month's elections, but the chamber is likely to undergo a personality change with the choosing of a new major leader this year.
efficient schedule and to make other reforms.
While none of them have Byrd's knowledge of the rules, the candidates have appealed to fellow Dancers.
The current majority leader, Robert C. Byrd, D.W.Va., is stepping down to become chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, taking with him his parliamentary expertise and style.
Running to replace him in one of the toughest elections they may ever face are Sens. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, J. Bennett Johnston, D-La, and Linda C. D Maine. The election takes place tomorrow.
Inouye, 64, is the oldest of the three and the most senior in the Senate. His served his first term as a senator in 1962.
While he won praise for his eloquence and incisiveness during the 1973 Watergate hearings, Inouye's reputation was seen by some to be tarnished when the Iran-Contra hearings he helped direct turned into a televised platform for White House aide Oliver North. He has also been criticized in a spreading bill $8 million in federal aid for a school for North African Jews living in France.
Inouye, once favored to replace Byrd, is now considered the long shot.
Johnston is perhaps most like Byrd in his command of the legislative labyrinth, but he is also
the most public in pushing for change.
The 56-year-old senator, in his third term, has been rapidly gaining influence. He is chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and chairman of the Appropriations energy subcommittee. He has paid a lot of difficult bills on the Senate floor for retiring appropriations chairman John Stennis, D-Miss.
Johnston has the support of Southern senators including Lloyd Bentts, D-Texas, and Sam Nunn. D-Ga. If that conservative wing of the party is supported by Mr. Cruz, he will help the Democrat's势头 a less liberal image.
George Mitchell, 55, has only been in the Senate for eight years but has quickly developed a reputation as a thoughtful and well-spoken lawmaker.
Campus planners advise Ramaley about priorities
Planning for tomorrow
By David Stewart and Laura Woodward Kansan staff writers
Such developments are the result of clear-sighted planning. As Allen Wiechert, director of facilities and planning, said, the University is moving out of a building mode and into a renovation mode.
KU officials have peered into their crystal balls and have seen the year 1992.
Science students will be using their new library; companies will be sending their employees to the new Regents Center; enrollment on the Lawrence campus will stabilize around 26,000 students; and telecommunications will be the educational buzzword.
But not so long ago, the crystal ball was muddy.
On March 6, 1987, Sid Shapiro, chairman of the Planning and Resources Committee, said the University would have an organized plan for the future.
By then, most people who attended the University of Kansas in 1888 will have graduated and moved on.
Del Shankel, then acting executive vice chancellor, said that planning did occur but that it had to be done on a one-year-at-a-time basis. He said that the University of Kansas did not permit a university to be or a published plan for the future.
"The University doesn't plan, as far as we can tell," Shapiro told the University Senate Executive Committee.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that Shankel was reflecting accurately how hard it was at that time to plan ahead.
"It's very hard to plan without a
date when you have rocketing ad-
missions."
Now, KU's total enrollment is down; 28 fewer students attend the Lawrence campus now compared with fall 1987. Also, this year KU received money from the Margin of exchange and received extra finances as compensation for the expanding enrollment of earlier years.
Please see PLANNING. p. 12, col. 1
KU to stabilize enrollment until '92
Kansan staff writer
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
From 1983 to 1987, KU was getting fat, and its buttons were nooning.
By 1992, Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, plans to have the situation controlled, but not through a diet for the University. Instead, KU will stabilize its size at the fall 1987 amount and increase the size of its belts.
The University of Kansas experienced an unprecedented 6.6 percent population boom between fall 1983 and fall 1986. Although that could prove KU's popularity, it also created a strain on the University.
In fall 1987, Del Shankel, then acting executive vice chancellor, set up a 12-member enrollment planning team.
According to KU's fiscal year 1989 budget, "An enrollment increase of the magnitude experienced by the University of Kansas impacts not only the instructional mission of the University but also the academic and institutional support functions and the student service sector of the institution."
This year, Ramaley told the enrollment planning group that she wanted the enrolment to stay within 1 million.
That way, she said, the University's financial base could catch up to its population.
But Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the stabilization game wasn't as easy as it sounded.
fall 1987, until about 1992.
"I think the University would like to believe that it is possible to come up with procedures that would allow the University to be more involved."
This fall, he said, the numbers looked good. Enrollment on the Lawrence campus was down by 286 students, overshooting Ramaley's 1 percent goal by 23 students.
But, he said, "Maybe more luck was involved than skill."
Still, the task remains with the group to try to find how much to attribute to luck or skill.
Burchill said that the group was analyzing what happened with this year's enrollment but that it was a wave of new students.
"You can't have a trend with one year's figures," he said.
Please see ENROLL, p. 12, col. 5