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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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rOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL.104,NO.86
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1995
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Holocaust survivor remembers Auschwitz terror
By Brian Vandervliet Kansan staff writer
Louis Frydman, associate professor of social welfare, was 14 when he was brought by train to join thousands of other Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz, Poland, in October 1944.
His body, which had withered from a diet of potatoes and bread, was small compared to the German soldiers whom he described as monstrous.
As he was unloaded from the train, he could see his brother, Abraham Frydman, ahead of him. He was too frightened, however, to talk to his brother or anyone else. He remained silent until he came to the German officer at the end of the line.
"What do you do?" the officer asked. "I am a very good road builder," Frydman replied.
Frydman said that the officer continued to look him over and asked a few more questions. After a minute, the
officer, dressed in military green, waved his arm to the right. The guard judged Frydman healthy enough to work, and Frydman was allowed to join his brother and about 400 others who were transported to a work camp in France.
Frydman said he felt no sense of joy at having been selected to live. He knew too well what would happen to the women, children and sick who walked to the left.
"If you looked at the faces, you knew exactly what was happening," said Frydman. "They were clearly marching to their death."
An estimated 1.5 million Jews were killed at the Auschwitz death camp. It was the prime site used by the Nazis for their plan of extermination of the Jews. Up to 8,000 people a day were killed in the four gas chambers and crematories at Auschwitz before Soviet soldiers liberated its prisoners on January 27, 1945—exactly 50 years ago today.
Frydman's stay at the camp was brief.
Within a few hours after he was selected to work, a whistle blew, and he was loaded onto another train. But, he said his time in Auschwitz was especially terrifying.
"If anything came close to hell, that was it — all those people in one big place, not knowing if they're going to live, not being sure if they want to live," he said.
Jarosław Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, has known Frydman since 1970 and described him as a saint. In 1975, he and Frydman went on sabbatical together to Poland. He said that it was important to remember the survivors like Frydman and the lessons of Auschwitz.
"All of us should cry for the death, and all of us should pray that it never happens again," he said. "That should be a lesson for all of us about racism and discrimination. Each time we think that someone is inferior to us, we are doing the same thing as the Nazis. Maybe not in action but in thought."
Dogs, such as the ones above and right, are left on campus on leashes connected to anything from statues to handrails while their owners are in class.
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Campus canines KU dogs,like their owners,often try to socialize with friends while on the Hill
Story by Paul Todd Photos by Paul Kotz
It's a dog's life.
Dasha spends most of her day digging up the bush next to Lippincott Hall and peering out at students' sneakers as they pass.
Dasha is one of the campus dogs who faithfully accompany their owners to class every day, even if it means being chained by a door or to a tree for a few hours.
Ellen Paul, Stevens Point, Wis., graduate student, brings Dasha to campus almost every day and chains her to a tree near Lippincott Hall or a railing near Frasier Hall during class.
"She has more of a social life than I do." Paul said. "She meets a lot of dog friends."
Even when the weather is cold, Dasha enjoys being on campus, Paul said.
"The dogs love it," she said. "They like thinking that they're waiting for their owners."
Paul said she didn't leave her dog out.
side for more than two hours at a time.
One of Dasha's favorite pastimes is crouching low to the ground and barking at unsuspecting students as they rush to class. Except for an occasional pat on the
"She stunk like a cesspool," Paul said.
On Tuesday, one clever dog named Montana found a way to unhook himself from his cable in front of Lindley Hall. Montana's owner, Marci Ainsworth,
head from a passerby, Dasha is left alone to dig and chew the leaves off a nearby bush.
But once, someone let Dasha off her chain, Paul said.
"She had to have beet go," she said.
"There was no sign of distress."
Luckily, one of Paul's roommates saw Dasha rolling in the mud and took her home. Paul skipped
"She has more of a social life than I do. She meets a lot of dog friends."
two classes to look for the dog and went home to find Dasha covered with mud.
Shawnee, junior panicked.
Ellen Paul Stevens Point, Wis., graduate student
"I thought someone tried to steal him," Ainsworth said.
Ellen Paul
Ainsworth looked all over the hill and around the Art and Design building. She finally found him snacking on handouts begged from students at Wescoe Terrace.
dogs will be picked up by Lawrence Animal Control and taken to the Lawrence
Humane Society.
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Dave Hubbel of animal control said owners must pay a $10 fee to the Lawrence police to bail their dogs out of the pound.
Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek of the KU police said dogs needed to be on a leash or within voice control of the owner when they were on campus.
"If the dog is loose, we find the animal and call the city animal control officer," she said.
Zak Grove, Oakland, Calif., junior, said many people brought their dogs to the hill around Potter Lake in the evenings between 5:30 and 7 p.m. There, the dogs can socialize with other dogs—and the owners can socialize with other owners.
Rozmiarek said tickets could be issued to dog owners, depending on the individual circumstances.
"It's good for dogs because they need to play with other dogs," he said. "It helps their temperament."
No charges filed against running back
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
Henley was arrested Jan. 12 for allegedly assaulting a Lawrence woman in the courtyard behind Jayhawker Towers, according to KU police.
The woman, Tracie Simmons, 19, reported to police that she and Henley were arguing behind Jayhawker Towers when he pushed her to the ground. He was arrested by KU police and taken to the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center.
After his bond hearing that day, Henley posted $500 and was released.
Henley said the media had blown the incident out of proportion.
"I didn't like the way they tried to put me down like that, like I'm a bad person," he said. "It was just a little argument."
Henley said that he and Simmons, who have a child together, did not have any hard feelings.
"Iknew she wasn't to press charges," Henley said. "She didn't want to see me go to jail."
Henley said he had not expected to be charged with battery because he did not push Simmons to the ground as police reported.
"I have no more to say about it," he said. "It's a dead issue."
Simmons said she would not have cared if Henley had gone to iail.
"If he weren't in college, trying to make something of himself, it would be a whole different story for June," she said.
Kansas football coach Glen Mason, who has spoken with Henley about the arrest, said that Henley was still a member of the football team and that any discipline against him was a private matter. Mason said that if charges were filed against Henley he would wait until he saw the outcome before taking action.
Halley Kampschroeder, Henley's attorney, could not be reached for comment.
In a separate matter, Henley is scheduled to appear at an 8:30 a.m. hearing Tuesday to decide a paternity issue. he Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and Simmons have filed a petition requesting that Henley pay $232.50 for assistance provided to the child.
The Kansas men's and women's basketball teams will face the No.1 and No.2 ranked teams from Connecticut tomorrow.
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Lack of mainframe memory delays computer enrollment until new system is purchased
KU enrollment system lags behind peers
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staffwriter
When the University of Kansas postponed distributed enrollment, which would have allowed students to enroll from computers across campus, it fell behind in the technology race with its peer schools.
KU's five peer schools are the University of Oklahoma, the University of Iowa, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Colorado and the University of Oregon.
Of those schools, only Oklahoma still hangs onto an enrollment system similar to KU's.
Colorado, North Carolina and Oregon use phone enrollment systems.
Distributed enrollment at KU, when implemented, will be patterned after the system at Iowa.
Jerald Dallam, university registrar at Iowa, said that Iowa's system was more effective than their old system, which was similar to KU's current system. One advantage of Iowa's computer enrollment system is that students can enroll at night and during weekends. Dallam said.
Computer enrollment also has increased the accuracy of students' addresses, Dallam said. Students can change their addresses in the computer system.
"We have the best addresses we've ever had since I've been at Iowa," he said.
"We see the system become more dynamic every day," Dallam said.
Dallam said Iowa had decided to use computers rather than telephones for enrollment because the computers provided more options for students. For example, the office of financial aid posts job openings on the system.
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At KU, distributed enrollment was delayed by a programming language problem, said David Gardner, director of computing services. The new system was supposed
to be implemented this spring.
But computer programmers recently realized that the University's mainframe had neither the memory nor the processing power to run the program, Gardner said.
The problem could not have been foreseen, Gardner said, because the language used for the database program was new.
John Dillard, assistant director of administrative computing, said programmers could not have determined how much space the program would require.
Amdahl, the manufacturer of the mainframe, did not warn the University that the program might not fit on the mainframe, Dillard said.
Before distributed enrollment can be implemented at KU, the University must determine the amount of computer space needed, Gardner said. After this is determined, the University will begin bidding for a bigger mainframe.
The cost for another mainframe probably would not exceed the annual maintenance costs for the current mainframe, he said.