Vol. 99, No. 42 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday October 25,1988
Arguments begin in Stephan court case
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - Attorney General Robert T. Stephan broke his word when he made public terms of a lawsuit settlement three years ago this week, the attorney for Marcia Tomson told a federal court jury yesterday during opening arguments in a multi-million-dollar lawsuit.
Stephan didn't break his word because he never agreed to terms of the settlement, Stephan's attorney said. In reality Stephan was himself accused of stealing blackmailing the attorney general of money and ruin his political career.
Opposing counsel in the widely-publicized Stephan-Tomson litigation, which dates back nearly five years, outlined their cases to a fourman, four-woman, jury selected to hear evidence in a breach of contract lawsuit brought by Tomson against Stephan.
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The attorney for another defendant, former state Sen. Bob W. Storey of Topeka, said Storey did nothing wrong in appearing at a news conference on Oct. 29, 1985, when Stephan made public terms of the settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by Tomson after he fired her from his staff in December 1983.
Kansas football coach Glen Mason and punter B.J. Lohsen are part of a program that hasn't had a victory in over a year. For more details see page nine.
Garden City ethnic groups studied
By James Farquhar
--others come to make enough money to leave, he said. The town, however, has adjusted well to the changes.
GARDEN CITY — For several years, Garden City has been an anthropology experiment waiting to begin a final experiment is finally underway.
The ethnic landscape of the rural southwestern Kansas town has changed drastically during the 1980s.
Once a quiet, largely homogeneous farming town, Garden City's 1800 population of more than 18,000 people increased to 25,000 people by 1985.
Thousands of job opportunities in the beef processing industry have drawn many newcomers to the town. Large groups of Hispanic immigrants and Southeast Asian refugees have arrived in Garden City for the well-paying, but extremely dangerous jobs in beet packing plants.
Garden City's more than 3,000 Asians, primarily Vietnamese, compose proportionally one of the largest immigrant populations in the United States.
Although the town's population has leveled off in the last couple of years, a more than 100 percent employee turnover rate in some beef packing plants keeps the town's makeup in continual flux, said Don Stull, a KU associate professor of anthropology who is involved in a study of the town.
Many workers come to stay, while
10. The population of City has jumped from 10,000 to 25,000 since 1900.
2. Students representing 17 separate ethnic backpacking groups escaped of the students in the school district.
"Many townspeople believe Garden City has benefited from the growth." he said.
This summer, Stull joined a team of researchers who began a two-year qualitative study of Garden City's unusual ethnic mixture. Through formal and informal interviews and observations, seven researchers from Midwestern universities are studying the town.
They will produce a final report in December 1989.
The Ford Foundation invested $1 million into six such research teams in cities rich with minorities. The Kansas town took its place among some of the largest U.S. cities. Houston, Miami, San Francisco,
Instead of focusing on statistics, the study will examine the daily interactions of the townpeople.
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Juan was 16 when he was stabbed at Garden City High School in 1984. A skirmish between three Hispanic sophomores and two Vietnamese juniors had gotten out of hand.
Juan, not his real name, recovered after a brief stay in the hospital. But the experience shook up the rapidly growing population in Pauma, his birth school counselor.
"It really made the town reassess its priorities," he said. "We were all really shocked."
Challenging glasses led to racially charged words; eventually one student pulled out a knife. No one was there when the fight began. The racial friction was beginning to show.
Later that same year, a hot and bumpy late afternoon bus ride home again aroused tempers.
Padilla said a group of concerned parents organized to ride the buses with their children to calm the tensions.
"Once the parents showed that they could get along with others, the situation with the students improved a lot." Padilla said.
Tulio Tablada, director of the school district's bilingual/English as a second language program, said.
students representing 17 separate ethnic backgrounds composed 32 percent of the students in the school district.
Seven languages are spoken among the school district's 6,000 students. he said.
Arthur Campa, co-principal investigator of the Garden City project, said with a few exceptions, the community remained a town of peaceful coexistence. Most of the apparent violence was the Hispanics and the Southeast Asian.
"From what I've seen, there is little, if any, interaction between the Hispanics and Southeast Asians," said Campa, who directs two programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Education.
Candidates still trading insults
"Hispanic sometimes resent the Southeast Asians because they are getting direct help from the government as refuerees." Padilla said.
Padilla agreed.
Hispanic immigrants, largely from Mexico, don't receive the same assistance, he said. Language also can be a problem.
Michael Dukakis accused George Bush yesterday of resorting to "outright lies" to avoid real issues. Bush replied that Democrats were desperate and said Dukakis was soft on the issue and "that's the inescapable truth."
"When someone speaks a different language, you might wonder if they're talking about you." Padilla said.
The Associated Press
"Hitler would have loved these people." Democratic Rep. Richard Gephardt said of the Republicans as he campaigned for Dukakis.
There was no letup in a White House campaign never noted for civility.
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With 15 days until Election Day, Bush and running mate Dan Quayle were doing their best to protect a lead in the national public opinion polls. Bakks and running mate Rick Santorum came to catch fire – but never belatedly.
"Maybe with the benefit of hindsight, I should have tried to respond earlier to Republican attacks, and I would have been on the ground at the King, lay show on CNN.
He appeared to be doing his best to make up for lost time.
For example, Dukakis told National Public Radio in an interview, that he agreed with Bentons argument that Iran had contained elements of racism
And from a sparsely attended appearance in Los Angeles to a speech before a throng of 10,000 in Los Angeles on the day Populist Campisthe theme through
the nation's biggest state. He said Bush would personally receive a $22,000-a-year tax break from his proposal to cut the capital gains tax.
"George Bush wants to give people like George Bush a tax break that's more than the average California worker makes in a year." Dukakis look in the mirror and ask yourself. Is George Bush on your side?"
Bush said at a rally in Williston, Vt., "These guys can dish it out but they can't take it."
The vice president defended his tax proposal as good for creating new jobs. He said Dukakis was likely to raise taxes if he got the chance and the nation could face an "economic crisis" of liberals took over the White House."
Campaigning through New England, Bush made an unusual departure from his prepared speech to reject Dukakis' charges of campaign distortions and deceptions. He said he could document allegations in television advertisements criticizing a Massachusetts prison farlough program and his rival's record on defense.
"There are signs showing in the opposition camp of desperation using ads that accuse us of lies. Well, the record on that furlough program — the unique furlough program, no federal government, no other state in the country had one like it — that record is no lie.
Drug testing bill
Kansas to test state employees
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Calling for a workplace free of drugs, Gov. Mike Hagen yesterday announced a new program that will allow Kansas to test certain state workers for narcotics use.
The new program, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, will require new job applicants and current employees under suspicion of drug use in certain "safety-sensitive" cases to be tested for illegal drugs.
"Constitutional safeguards are at the cornerstone of our drug-screening program," Hayden said at a Statehouse news conference. He be used by other states and private businesses.
The new program will affect 19 state agencies and nearly 2,300 positions in state government, including prison guards, people who carry firearms, the state police, cabinet and staff, the lieutenant governor and the attorney general.
"Leadership by example is extremely important and also extremely important. Example is a drug-free workplace should be set at the very
highest level."
The program, created by a bill passed by the 1988 Legislature, requires drug screening for all new applicants to safety sensitive positions. Current employees in such positions will not have to take the test unless they are suspected of drug use by their supervisors.
Employees whose tests are positive will be referred to a treatment program. Hayden said, and will not answer that they are subject to retesting, however.
"Our program is designed for reha blilitation." the governor said.
Dr. Forest S. Tennant Jr. of West Covina, Calif., who is an expert in the field of drug detection, said the first one of its kind in the country.
Tennant is medical consultant for the National Football League and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Tennant said the tests were foolproof, and a person examining the results can draw distinctions between persons who use illegal drugs occasionally and those who are addicted. The five major use categories are cocaine, marijuana, amphiphetines, boron and phenycidine.
Peace activist says military increases spell U.S. downfall
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
For the world to survive, it must hold fast to three things: truth, justice and peace.
"If the truth be told, most Americans don't want to know what their country has been up to in the last eight years," the long-time civil rights and peace activist said, referring to the plight of the poor and the increase of military power.
Thus said the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr to an audience of about 450 people last night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kan-
But, he said, U.S. citizens must hold fast to truth because their personal salvation and their country's survival depend upon "
Despite his criticisms of the U.S., Coffin had a good word about the Midwest.
"The Midwest could save the whole country," he said. "There is more sanity and energy here than in other parts of the country."
In a speech peppered with humor and quotes from Albert Einstein, Jewish rabbis, biblical prophets and playwrights, Coffin
spoke vociferously on disarm ment issues.
Social responsibility was the topic of a lecture given by the Rev. William Stane Coffin in Woodruf Auditorium last night. The speech was sponsored by the Roy A. Roberts Lecture Series.
He is the president of SANE/FREEZE, a national organization that advocates disarmament and military spending to social programs.
Coffin's history includes stands against racial segregation, against the Vietnam War and for draft evasion. He has served as chaplain at Yale University and is the founder of In Manhattan, N.Y. Coffin has bachelor's degrees in government and divinity from Yale.
He was scornful of the U.S. policy of low-intensity conflict, as practiced in Nicaragua, calling the United States a terror nation and policy we've come up with yet."
His address was the second in the fall 1988 Roy A. Roberts Lecture Series at the University of Kansas.
In Central America and Africa, the United States demonstrated it was more concerned with disorder than justice. Coffin said.
He is parodied as the cause-crazy Rev. Scott Sloan in the Doonesbury cartoons.
"The U.S. decides who has
might and right and who lives and dies in other countries," he said, referring to U.S. financing of the Nicaraguan contras.
Coffin said U.S. citizens didn't care how many died in such conflicts, as long as it wasn't them.
He was critical of Vice President George Bush's campaign assertions that the Soviets only understood peace through strength.
"Wrong, Mr. Bush!" he said, adding that the Soviets had proposed nuclear restraint measures and threatened to use them against the United States did not respond.
He called the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty a good first step but a late one.
"Research will produce more accurate, lethal weapons to offset reductions," he said.
He advocated a nuclear freeze, a nuclear test ban, a 50 percent reduction in intercontinental ballistic missiles and a reduction in conventional forces and weapons in Europe. Coffin also suggested unilateral initiatives to reduce armaments.
In a question and answer session after his speech, Coffin spoke of a meeting he and 200 other non-goverment people had with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in May. He said he suggested to Gorbachev that more countries should be at the negotiating table on disarmament.
"He gave me a big smile; on that one they're too proud, just as we are." Coffin said.
Reviewing the cycles of Soviet
reforms, Coffin predicted that if Gobachev失败, extremes fascism could result. He said for that he was important to help Gobachev succeed.
After the speech, Steve Hamburg, assistant professor of environmental studies, called Coffin a "killingsmith" for his fwelling thought and action in people.
Tim Lewis, a KU graduate and Lawrence senior, said he thought Elie Wiesel, who spoke a week ago for the series, and Coffin were a good combination.
"Last week Elie Wiesel gave us background," Lewis said. "Coffin took that same background and gave us practical applications."