University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Trying to revive KlTs chimes Time has taken its toll on the University of Kansas ' most audible landmark, the World War II Memorial Campanile. The carillon, whose biggest bell is 7 tons and smallest is 1 punds, has degenerated to the point that KU backed out of being host of next June ' s conference of the Guild of Carilloneurs in North America, said carilloneur Al bert Gerken, a KU professor of music theory. The campa nile serves as an emotional symbol at every KU com mencement when graduating stu dents walkthrough the chiming tower and take their traditional march down Mount Oread, enter Memorial Stadium, and receive their degrees. The campanile is one of many projects designated in the KU Endowment Association ' s $1 77 million fund drive. But gifts to repair the bell tower have fallen short of the $300,000 to $500,000 needed said Gerken. Miss U.S. wins Miss World pageant Miss United States, 21 -year-old Gina Marie Tol- leson of Spartanburg, B.C., won the 40th annual Miss World beauty contest the evening of November 8. Tolleson was crowned at the London palladium by last year ' s winner, Aneta Kreglicka of Poland. First runner-up was Miss Ireland, 20-year-old air stewardess Siobhan McClafferty. Miss Venezuela, 19- year-old dance teacher Sharon Raquel Luenso Gonzales, was second runner-up. A familiar sound: President Bush promises no new taxes In a new twist to his political gyrations over taxes, President Bush promised that he would never again break the no-new taxes promise that he broke last summer to win Democratice cooperation in the federal budget fight. Beginning what he called the remedial work to reclaim his position within a divided Republican Party and heal his campaign wounds, Bush said he had serious regrets about being forced to abandon his central campaign promise to block any attempt to raise taxes. I ' m girding up my loins to go into battle to beat back the tax attempts that I think are coming. Because I think the American people are fed up with it, Bush said. They ' re going to do it over my dead veto, or live veto, or something like that because it ain ' t going to happen, I ' ll guarantee you, he said. Milken receives 10-year term for crime Michael Milken, who revolutionized Ameri- can finance in the booming 1980 ' s but became a symbol of its excesses, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the biggest scandal !}n Wall Street history. The sentence by U.S. District Jedge Kimba Bvl. Wood was by far the stiffest in the govern- Vnents insider-trading probe that focused on Milken ' (after speculator Ivan Boesky confessed to ram- pant lawbreaking in late 1986. Milken, 44, sobged at points during the proceeding but stood expressionless as Wood ' announced the punishment. Prime Minister Thatcher resigns Margaret Thatcher, beset by a challenge from withing her own ruling party, stunned Britain on November 22, by resigning as prime minister. Thatcher ' s decision to step down under fire came during a fractious fight for the Conser- vative Party leadership - and only a day after she had vowed in the House of Commons: I fight on, I fight to win. The feisty, right-wing Thatcher has been prime minister longer than any other British leader in this century and has never lost an election. 2?

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Budig says he ' ll stay with KU Grissom gets four life terms University of Kansas Chancellor Gene A. Budig apparently withdrew his name from consid- eration for the presidency of the University of Nebraska less than a day after his interview with the Nebraska Board of Regents on November 12. In a written statement, Budig said he could not leave KU until he finished dealing with a series of significant matters which will impact KU ' s long- term future. Budig, who has been KU ' s chancellor since 1981 , did not specify what those significant mat- ters were or when they might be completed. Mill! Vanilli outside, not inside Milli Vanilli, the funky dreadlocked dance pop duo who won a Grammy award as best new artist of 1989 for their debut album Girl You Know It ' s True, didn ' t sing a note on it group member Rob Pilatus confessed. The album which had sold 7 million copies and made Pilatus and Fab Morvan international stars, was recorded entirely by others. The disclosure was initially made in Munich a day earlier by Milli Vanilli ' s German producer, Frank Farian, after he fired the performers because they insisted on actually singing on a planned follow-up album. Finney defeats incumbent Hayden Joan Finney, who once confided she believed she was destined to become the first woman gover- nor of Kansas, has realized her dream. The one-time Republican who became a democrat 16 years ago to run successfully for state treasurer, captured the governorship Tuesday by proving the pollsters and pundits wrong. She defeated incumbent GOP Gov. Mike Hayden by nearly 48,000 votes, garnering 49 per- cent of the vote to Hayden ' s 42 percent and inde- pendent candidate Christina Campbell-Cline ' s 9 percent. Mrs. Finney told Democrats and supporters at a post-election celebration she was absolutely honored to be the state ' s first woman governor. 26 Richard Grissom Jr., was sentenced No- vember 20 to four consecutive life prison terms and must serve at least 1 05 years before being considered for parole. Three of the terms are for the murder of three Johnson County women, and the other is for the kidnapping of one of the women. Johnson County District Judge William Gray also sentenced Grissom to an additional 90 to 360 years - the masimum possible under Kansas Law - and urged him to ponder the pain he has caused the victims ' families. Among the courtroom spectators were 13 of the jurors and alternated who found grissom guilty earlier this month of k illling Christina Rusch, Theresa Brown, and Joan Butler. Grissom stood motionless with eyes downcast and hands folded in front of him as Gray imposed sentence. United Way drive reaches its target The 1990 Heart of America United Way, fie: Campaign raised $32.5 million, surpassing its total of last year by nearly 1 percent and meeting its goal for r: this year. General campaign Chairman Jack Knuth an- .... nounced the total Thursday, November 8, at a gather- j ing for about 500 volunteers at Beth Shalom Congre- gaion. The nation ' s economic worries made the effort all the more praiseworthy, he said. Three women win governor in the nation Jubilant feminists say Ann Richards ' triumph) in the hard-fought Texas gubernatiorial race shatters?; a glass ceiling for women candidates. Joan Finney captured the governor ' s mansion in Kansas and Barbara Robertss triumphed in Ore- gon ' s statehouse race. But Diane Feinstein trailed ini California and women went down to a string of sena- torial defeats. Ikei

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The day the earth stood still Q-Day came and went Monday, December 4, and the atmosphere was as much party as panic. Despite Iben Browning ' s projec- tion that a killer eartyhquake was likely to hit the New Madrid fault Monday, all was normal for this town of 3200 - or as normal as could be with dozens of reporters milling about and tourists making a seemingly endless loop through downtown. The reaction was much the same from St. Louis to Memphis as residents appeared to pay close, but skeptical, attention to Browning ' s forecast. Murder charges for ' suicide doctor A doctor who invented a device that a woman with Alzheimer ' s disease used to commit suicide was charged with first-degree murder November 4. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, 62, of Royal Oak, Mich., was arraigned and ordered jailed after failing to post $150,000 bail. Kevorkian connected Janet Adkins, 54, of Partland, Ore., to an intravenous solution that would stop her heart, but she activated the switch that allowed the solution to flow into her veins. She oneo dram Maximum reservists number for active duty up by 63,000 Defense secretary Dick Cheney raised by 63,000 the maximum number of military reservists who can be or- dered to active duty for Operation Desert Shield. there are now 96,834 members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard reserve oon active duty under a call-up authority granted by President Bush on August 23. Thou- sands more have been alerted to pre- pare to mobilize. The Pentagon gave no reason for increasing the call-up limit to 188,000. The previous limit was 125,000. Space shuttle finally lifts off Columbia blasted off today after - [J an agonizing half-year delay withi undei seven astronauts and an astronomi- cal observatory that will examine some j SJO n of the hottest objects in the heavens. The 100-ton spaceship floodedjU-S the sky with light visible hundreds oft [ miles away as it thundered toward a| , 218-mile-high-orbit. Its journey into! space was supposed to have been in|fa May, then September, but was post- poned repeatedly by hydrogen leaks. Monet work and other stolen art is recovere , ' roc Nine impressionist paintings stolen from a- Paris museum in 1 985, including a Claude Monet ' ' fj]gfy masterpiece that gave impressionism its name,. ' ' have been found in Corsica, authorities said. , The works, including Monet ' s famed Imn pression Sunrise, were stolen from the Marmot- tan Museum in a daring daytime theft witnessedjkjnp, by more than 30 people. Police disclosed few details about the break- !OU(||[ through in the case, but said seven persons had;;, been taken into custody on the MediterraneartpH island and were expected to be transferred soo to Paris. 9ft