Vol. 99, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANANA
Monday October 10, 1988
A lesson in fear,falling and flight
By Craig Welch
Kansan staff writer
GARNETT - A KU student lifted off for the first airplane flight of his life yesterday, but he never landed on a runway.
Brian Stewart, Clinton, Mo.
sophomore, stepped out of the
strut of the small Cissma. After one final glance to his left, he let go of the wing and began seven of the longest, most exhilarating seconds
"I was free. I was falling. I've never been more scared in my life." Stewart said.
But at the end of his seven-second freefall, a 12-foot-long static line putted opened his parachute and freed himself from the ground glide to the ground and safety.
"It was incredible. I'll definitely do it again, but not today." Stewart said.
A static line is a nylon cord that releases the parachute automatically.
Stewart, along with three other KU students, made their first skydiving jumps over a hangar Mid-America Sky Sports in Chicago south of Lawrence. Tom Lairson and Dave McDougall, the company's owners, opened their hangar for business about three months ago and they we've already coached 72 beginners through their first jump.
"Skydiving is one of the sports that gives you the most freedom, it's also one of the most indulgent and valuable said. "There are no cops up there telling you to down, so we only let mature people go through."
The course, which requires a $100 entry fee and the signing of a liability waiver, includes step-by-step training in equipment rental and one jump with a static line. After the first jump, Larson said, the student learns how to perform a static line, a static line, and jump costing $25. Then the student may make a freefall — a jump in which the student can release for releasing the narcissus培斗.
Mike Beckstead, Overland Park resident, made his first jump yesterday.
"I just turned on Friday." Basked before his jump. "I figured it was time to do something I'd never done before."
After his jump, Beckedan said he was glad he'd done it, but he didn't plan to tumor again soon.
"It's kind of like standing up in a roller coaster when it takes a wake-up call, or something there, along with nothing else." Bart Marriff, Chanute shope
"It it went smoothly." Pickert said. "I was a lot less nervous than I was on the rest of my humps."
Bart Parrish, Chanute sopho more; also took his first jump.
Mid-America Sky Sports is licensed by the Federal Aviation Association and is a member of the United States Parachuting Associ-
Photos by Catherine Wheeler/WANSAM
Allen Pickert, Atlanta sophomore, made his first freefall yesterday.
"I was no disoriented," Parrish said. "In those first few seconds, I put myself on the verge. My first thought was that I could have spent $100 in a lot better place."
ABOVE: Buck Hanna, an experienced jumper, adjusts his brake cords as he prepares to make his landing. Hanna is a resident of Lyndon, Kan. RIGHT: Steve Gardner, Overland Park sophomore, describes his first jump to his friends. After a three-hour training course, Gardner landed just a few feet short of the designated target. TOP: Allen Pickett, Atlanta sophomore, hangs from the wing as she airplane at an altitude of 3,500 feet. For Pickert, this was the first jump, but it was the first time he pulled his own rip cord.
than 100 times. Lairdon, who made his first jump as a civilian in 1970, has parachuted about 650 times.
ation: Lairson and McDougal run the business only on weekends.
McDougal made his first jump in April 1967 and has jumped more
Bush woos Missouri audience
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
LEE'S SUMMIT, M. — Patriotian fanfare of the Missouri kind greeted President Bush at Lee's Summit High School Friday.
Before Basha's arrival at 5 p.m. the audience recited the pledge of allegiance, was led in prayer and sang hymns from a choir singing by a country and western band and was addressed by such notables as former TWA captain and Middle East hostage John Testakrate. He performed his offertory and Missouri Sen. Kit Bond.
A ceiling-high U.S. flag and red, white, and blue flashing lights fill the kitchen where hush addressed a standing room only crowd in an air-conditioned room. The crowd was animated.
Preceded by the school's Tiger
acrobat, who is also a Republican
candidate walked to the stage, stop-
ping along the way to shake hands.
Bush was greeted with chants of "We want George." loud *laplause* and horn-blowing. As he was about to speak, several people in the audience held up masks a big nose, basky eyesbys and a diagonal negra strip. Massachusetts. Gov. Michael Dukes' Bush is democratic opponent.
Bush appeared to mouth, "What are they?" He then said jokingly, "You with the governor of Massachusetts faces you, can leave."
In his 15 minute address, Bush revived the one-liners the 1884 campaign has become famous for on such issues as taxes, inflation and crime.
Please see BUSH. p. 14; col. 1
Pinochet refuses to resign
The Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile — President Augusto Pinochet acknowledged defeat in a referendum on extending his rule but again rejected opposition demands for his resignation and for his power in power for another 18 months.
Opposition leaders, meanwhile,
said they would ask the government
to take action on mobilizing
on talks on moving up elections
and hastening Pinchett's departure from
A list of proposed constitutional changes will be submitted in the draft legislation, a spokeswoman for the 16-party opposition coalition, said in an interview yesterday.
Ethnic issues disrupt Yugoslavia
"In other words, we will formally call on those holding power now, to talk to reach an agreement. We will take the initiative by making a proposal and a call to the armed forces," it quoted him as saying.
"I have no doubts whatsoever that we will be a negotiation. That's what wisdom mandates," the La Rue newspaper quoted a lawmaker as saying.
President Dizdarevic threatens to impose state of emergency
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — President Ralf Didzarevic warned yesterday that a state of emergency would be imposed throughout Yugoslavia and ethnic issues did not stop immediately.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets earlier yesterday. Students in the southern republic of Montenegro began a hunger strike to protest the military and demand the mother of migrant men initiates
Residents reported a heavy police presence and roadblocks around Titograd, the capital of Montenegro. Police officers were welding riot police in Titograd broke up an overnight rally against local Communist leaders.
Didarevic called an emergency session of the federal government, ordering it to take new steps to bring down the inflation rate, which is 217 percent.
Three people were reported hospitalized in Niksik, 15 miles northwest of Tittugad, where police fired tear gas Saturday to crowd a breakup. The authorities are saying the situation in Niksik was authorises as saying the situation in Niksik was
"It is the final hour to turn things around. President Dizardavec said in a nationwide speech on radio and television last night. He said a "state of emergency could be introduced in Yugoslavia if the trend of negative events in the country is not immediately stopped."
extremely serious" and said thousands of workers at a local steel mill put down their tools.
The presidency of Bosnia, another of Yugoslavia's six republics, issued a statement saying the protests are "most seriously jeopardizing our order and security of the country." Tajnag said.
At Cetijeng, 42 miles north of Triogad, authorities also increased security at workplaces and in public places. Tanjug reported without further detail.
In Titlagar, students went on hunger strike to protest the police violence and to demand that local Communist leaders resign. In an unusually outspoken demand for democracy, the Communist youth union also called for "direct and secret" instructions to get leaders the people would support.
About 20,000 people attended a rally in Serbia's southern autonomous province of Kosovo, where the Serbian minority alleges harassment by the "thiec Albanian majority."
Police did not report any incidents at the rally in Titovo Mitrovica, 145 miles south of Belgrade.
At dozens of similar rallies in recent months, Serbian nationalists have raided against the ethnic minorities.
In an apparent effort to prevent ethnic violence in Kosovo, Albanian Haiti Travičel told the crowd that Serbians and Albanians had forged links with each other and should not allow these ties to be destroyed.
About 10,000 more people rallied in Subtica, a town on the Hungarian border in Serbia's other southwest region.
The crowd denounced Montenegrin leaders for ordering police to use violence to break up
Serbians have been pushing for greater control over both autonomous provinces, backing the demand with street rallies drawing crowds of hundreds of thousands.
Tuition costs a barrier to many, survey shows
NEW YORK - Fewer than six out of 10 young people said they had saved for college, and nearly 50 percent said tuition costs prevented many from seeking a job. A study to a pulled release yesterday.
The Associated Press
In addition, more than one out of three teen-agers and young adults questioned in a survey commissioned by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education received the highest awards offered the best education.
Thirty-eight percent agreed that
The poll, aimed at measuring student awareness of college sports, interviewed 1,001 people, 13 to 21 years old, from August 24 to Sept. 7. The poll was released as part of the University's sports week which began yesterday. The poll, conducted by the Gallup Organization, had a three-point margin of
"the higher the tuition costs $n$, the better the quality of college," said Dr. Sawyer, among Pre-college students, the figures were higher: 53 percent of 15 to 15-year-olds agreed with the statement; 49 percent of 17-year-olds surveyed also agreed. But only 27 percent of current college students and graduates felt better.
Asked what they thought was the major reason more students did not take classes, they thought the reason was that college was too expensive and that it was too expensive.
Fifty nine percent of high school
amunts and seniors polled said they
had saved for their college education.
The rest said they hadn't.
Asked what they'd do if they couldn't afford the college they wanted, 37 percent said they'd try to get loans.
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