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Vol. 99, No. 60 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday November 18,1988
Bush names chief of staff, GOP chairman
WASHINGTON — President-elect George Bush named New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu as White House chief of staff yesterday and tapped willy campaign strategist Lee Atwater as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
The Associated Press
Bush's selection of Sununu as his top White House adviser prompted Craig L. Fuller to reveal that he would quit working for Bush after the transition ends in January.
Fuller said he informed Bush last month he would accept no post other than chief of staff. Fuller told The Associated Press that Bush gave him a day in Occupation Day that he was giving that job to Sununu.
Bush said he would like Fuller, co-chairman of the transition team and his chief of staff since 1982, to consider a role in his campaign. He added that because he was the "right man for the job."
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"John Sunumu has the background and experience necessary to work not only with his former colleagues in the nation's state house of Congress, but also with him with the J. S. Congress," he said.
of President Reagan's term and return to Nevada to practice law.
Bush said Atwater's function will be "winnin elections." While Republicans have won the presidency in five of the last six elections, they have been less successful at the congressional level, where Democrats hold comfortable majorities.
"I'm a nuts-and-bolts politician." Atwater said, "I will be extremely campaign-monitoring."
The Republican National Committee will formally act on Bush's choice in January.
Bush made the announcements after meeting over breakfast with Mindy of Prime Minute.
weekly lunch with Reagan. Also on his schedule yesterday was an evening centennial banquet of the National Geographic Society.
Both Sununu and Alwater share reputations as adept players of political hardball.
Atwater is considered a master of negative campaigning, and was an architect of the strategy that helped Bush wipe out a 17-point poll lead by Democrat Michael Dukakis and ramp to a 40-state victory in the presidential race.
Sumum, 49, an engineer by training and a former Tufts University professor, has no previous experience in Washington. He has a reputation for being a quick study, highly
intelligent and assertive. Some also regard him as as arrogant and abrasive, traits that could hurt him in working with Congress.
Sunum made light of that reputation yesterday.
"I'm a pussycat," Sunum said. "Let me tell you about Washington. Certainly I have a tol learn in regard to the details. I think I'm a quick learner. I consider a great number of congressmen to be close friends, both Democratic and Republican."
Jewish lobbyists have criticized the New Hampshire governor for being the only governor to refuse to endorse a proclamation that would allow a resolution that equated zionism with racism
darren Cook, facilities supervisor for the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, and D.W. Acker, KUAC maintenance worker, reinstate the goal posts at Memorial Staucium. Both goal posts were welded and repainted for tomorrow's game against Missouri.
Set for Saturday
'78 cult massacre taints .Jonestown
The Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Three charred poles rising from a thicket are all that remain of the jungle pavilion where the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 Americans to their death in a macabre ritual 10 years ago.
The Jonestown suicide-massacre still haunts this impoverished land of 780,000 on the northern coast *South America*, and its image abroad may be permanently tainted by one of history's most bizarre disasters.
"Once you leave the shores of Guyana, that's the first thing you have to face," said Alice Thomas, an editor for the independent newspaper Stabroek News. "Guyana and Jonestown go together."
Many Guyanese regard Jones' San Francisco-based Peoples Temple as an American aberration that had nothing to do with Guyana other than its location. Successive governments also associated themselves from the affair.
"It's really hard for us to explain what motivated 900 Americans to take their lives," said Patrick Denny, a government spokesman. "If the media didn't show any interest, we wouldn't have remembered that it was 10, years" since the tragedy.
But Cap, Gerry Gouviea, 32 clearly recalls the carnage wrought by Jones on Nov. 18, 1978, when the culprit leader urged his disciples to drink grape-flavored pouch laced with potassium cyanide. Most were poisoned, some forcibly. Some were shot by security guards.
In all, 913 people, including Jones, died. He was found with a bullet wound in the head. It is not known where he was shot or committed suicide
A second lieutenant in Guyana's air force at the time, Gouviea went in a few days later to help recover bodies for burial in the United States. Most lay at the roofed pavilion where Jones held communal meetings and twice-monthly suicide drills known as "White Nights."
"The magnitude of the thing was so great that you were hoping it was going to just rewind and everybody was going to get up and everything was going to be all right," Gouviea said.
"I remember looking at the children and feeling pity and wondering who were the adults who did this thing."
The massacre occurred hours after Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., three news-
Please see JONESTOWN, p. 16, col. 3
Report says architectural engineering should be cut
By Debbie Miller
Kansan staff writer
By Debbie McMahon
TOPEKA — University of Kansas officials disagreed with a recommendation to discontinue the architectural engineering program at KU which was presented to the Board of Regents yesterday in Topeka.
The recommendation was one of several in a review that was conducted last summer by hired consultants. No action was taken yesterday, but the Regents will try to resolve the issue at its December meeting.
The report reviewed the engineering programs at KU, Wichita State University and Kansas State University
The report stated, among other things, that KU's architectural engineering project discontinued its construction and was affiliated by K-State.
Judith Ramaley, KU executive vice chancellor, said that although the review was helpful for further examination, accepting every recommendation would not be beneficial to the programs.
She said the report had errors. For example, the consultants didn't talk with Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design. She said 80 percent of the architectural engineering courses are taught in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, and the consultants looked only at the engineering courses.
Carl Locke, KU dean of engineering, said the judgments were made in too short of a time period.
Also, the review recommended reducing enrollment in chemical engineering and expanding aeronautical engineering. Locke said that information he had received about job placement said more chemical and fewer aeronautical engineers were needed.
Regent Norman Jeter also questioned consolidating the two programs if more resources would be needed for K-State to be the sole architectural engineering school. He also urged to compromise both programs by consolidating them.
Donald Rathbone, dean of engineering at KState, said the review was a good one, and that positive things could come from it. He said that the Regents should adhere to it in its entirety.
"Buy into the total or don't buy it at all," Rathbone said.
The architecture deans also requested that students be charged an equipment fee in addition to tuition.
Dean Locke and William Wilhelm, dean of engineering at Wichita State University, said that a $10 per hour fee would help with their equipment costs.
However Rathbone said that a 75 fee per semester would be better for his school's equipment needs.
In other matters, the Regents approved plans for a new University Press office building on West Campus. The $170,000 construction project would be self-supportive, funded by the University Press book sales income.
Representatives from the Kansas College of Technology in Salina and Pittsburgh State University said they would favor having a $10 per hour equipment fee for their engineering departments too.
Regents discuss plans for Washburn
By Debbie McMahon Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Board of Regents considered the fiscal implications of bringing Washburn University into the Regents system at its meeting yesterday in Tooeila.
The Regents took no action, but executive director Stanley Koplik said that lines of communication with organizations would remain open.
Three variables were considered in estimating the costs that could be incurred by the affiliation.
The time frame for implementation would affect the costs. By joining the Regents, Washburn would lose many of the funds it receives through tax levies, which now total about $6.2 million. However, the funds would be available while the university is in transition.
A second variable was the increase in Washburn's budgetary needs and the uncertainties of inflation.
A third variable would be the university's financing methods, which would change through state affiliation. Two basic factors separate it from the financing of Regents institutions.
One is the inclusion of local mil levies in the general use operating budget, which for the fiscal year 1989 is projected to be $6.3 million from two local operating levies. Another is that Washburn's higher tuition is projected to total $9.7 million in milleure, instate Washburn undergraduate pays $1,064 per semester.
The Regents considered four cost scenarios.
The first contrasted the various state affiliation options if the present methods of finance would be continued.
The second considered the immediate financing of Washburn as a Regents institution. It contained the cost of the immediate elimination of local property tax levies and the reduction of tuition and fees to 25 percent of the general use budget.
The third considered a six-year phase out of local property tax support for Washburn, with tuition waived. The University requests this option.
The fourth scenario considered keeping the existing methods of financing, but state financing would pay for any budgetary increases. This option is currently not being advocated by any party.
Increased funds proposed for research
Four new staff positions are part of KU's $160.000 Margin request
By Mark Fagan Kansan staff writer
Legislature in April 2014
■ the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project, which would
Research is listed as a priority in KU's budget proposal for next year because the University has not kept up with the financing of its peer institutions, a KU research administrator said yesterday.
day.
"Because we haven't had any money in the past, we have had less buying power," said Frances Horowitz, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service. "We're trying to recover; this is not going ahead."
Margret of Boeuf
The $160,000 is part of the proposed budget, now being reviewed by the state budget office in Topeka, that would allocate a total of $24.8 million for research. The total also includes some money for museums.
to recover, this time.
However, the University is trying to change things for next year, asking for $160,000 under the Margin of Excellence.
Four KU research groups that would receive Margin financing if approved by the Kansas Legislature in April are
gain an additional field engineer.
the Kansas Geological Survey, which would receive funds for either another research assistant or another scientist.
- the Institute for Life Span Studies, which would add another classified staff member.
the Institute for International Programs, which would gain another classified staff member.
The proposal under the Margin would provide $135,000 for the four new staff positions. The other $25,000 would go for operating expenditures including equipment, paper and chemicals.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three year plan to increase total financing of Regents schools to 95 percent of their peer institutions and faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
Horowitz said research had not received sufficient funds under the Margin. She was happy that the money was proposed but was unsure which group would receive the most money.
"When you have a drought and everything is thirsty, how can you say which is more important? This is not hard (definite)," Horwitz said of the proposal. "Sometimes we don't get all of it."
"If we don't, then we have to reset our priorities. We always reserve the right to allocate it as we see fit."
The Tertiary Oil Recovery Project, which extracts oil from ground previously abandoned by private oil companies, would gain an unclassified staff member.
Don Green, co-director of the project, said another field engineer desperately was needed. Right now, the project has one.
"He is extremely busy." Green said. "He just doesn't have enough time to get to it all. We need another to work with all the operators in the state."
The field engineer would act as a liaison between the project and Kansas oil operators. There already is a six project backlog, and the engineer has to coordinate the project with the engineer and coordinate special courses for oil companies.
Lanny Schooling, the project's lone field liaison engineer, is looking forward to the addition.
"I could keep him busy for the next year, just with what I have now." Schooling said.
Please see RESEARCH, p. 16, col. 4.
Under the Margin of Excellence, the University is asking for $160,000 to help finance four additional research staff and to cover some operating costs.
Research financing
Source: KU Legislative Budget for fiscal year 1990
Dave Eames/KANSAN