THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 81
Lawrence, Kansas
Monday
January 30,1978
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
Bonnie and Clyde
They may not rob banks, but they are always willing to steal a laugh from an audience. Bonnie Yoder, a third year law student
and ventriloquist has been doing a comedy act with Clyde for five years now. Bonnie does the work while Clyde sits around.
"Odd couple's" ventriloquism full of echoes
Staff Writer
Bonnie and Clyde make an odd couple. Clyde is obnoxious and insulting. Bonnie is pleasant and complimentary. Clyde is stupid and unpleasant. They are stupid and ugly and he tells them to stop.
Bonnie Yoder, 22, who is in her third year of law school, was born in Hessert
Clyde, who doesn't have a last name,
was carved from a tree by Foy Brown.
1713 Mississippi St. Brown is a wood
carving. Its family is ventricular fibrillation,
or dummies.
BONNIE AND Clyde have been together for five years.
"She puts words in my mouth and takes me out only when she wants to show me off." Clyde said.
Yoder said her interest in ventilrioquism probably started when she was about seven years old and a cousin brought a dummy to a family reunion.
THE ART OF ventriloquism requires practice and patience, not an innate ability, she said.
"ONE TIME during a law school party Flip spit milk in the eye of Barkley Clark, a lawyer, the professor." Oyder said.
Her figures include Clyde, numerous hand puppets and a penguin named Floyd Leo Irving Peamorek, or Flip for short.
Flip, who has been with Yoder only a short while, lays eggs shaped like footballs and "soils milk."
The hardest part of her routine, Yoder said, is finding skit material to use.
"I steal, beg and borrow my dialogue," she said.
YOER, WHO has performed before conventions as well as small gatherings, prefers working before adults rather than children.
She said people asked her whether she would rather be a lawyer or an entertainer.
Yoder said she thought she could do both, although she did not think she could combine the two.
"One dummy on the bench is enough," Clyde said, twitching his eyebrows like the late Groucho Marx.
Dead number 14 in KC hotel fire
From the Kansan's Wire Services
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Workers poking through the debris of the fire-gutted Coates House hotel in near-zero temperatures yesterday discovered five more bodies, one that of a small child, raising the death toll to 14.
"But you never know when or where these
Only an ice-coated shell remained of the hotel's south wing yesterday as the workers, aided by heavy equipment, dug through the rubble. Smoldering ruins on the shaky upper floors prevented firemen from immediately examining that part of the hotel.
The fire, of undetermined origin, swept through the 110-year-old hotel in downtown Kansas City.
FIRE CHIEF John Wass said nine bodies were found in or near the charred building Saturday and five others were recovered from the site of the six-story frame and stone building.
Eighteen persons remained unaccounted for, nine others were injured and 106 people were taken to the hospital.
Wass said that the longer the missing could not be found elsewhere, the better the chances were that they would be found dead in the hotel ruins.
The Coates Hotel, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was once the showplace hotel of the Midwest. It was the venture of Kercy Coates, a Philadelphiaian
An investigator from the Missouri state are marshal's office was helping police and firefighters to stop a vehicle.
people will show up," he said. "They might be visiting relatives or something."
MOST OF THE hotel's 174 residents, however, existed on meager incomes and many of them were elderly, renting rooms at the Kansas City showcase at $121.18 a week.
The cause of the fire remained undetermined yesterday, and Wass indicated that it probably would be some time before it was known.
Wass said the fact that the fire appeared to have started on one of the upper three floors seemed to discount the possibility of arson.
"IF YOU ask me, it was set," Rogers said. "I had known that damned thine could have burned so fast."
But the hotel had a recent history of arson incidents and at least one man, William Rogers, an elevator operator, said he saw compartment fires on the fifth and sixth floors.
who came to Kansas City in 1854 and later bought interest in the old Broadway Hotel, transforming it into his idea of a facility that could serve the rich and famous.
Construction of the Broadway Hotel, a project of W.A. Elridge of Lawrence, was interrupted by the Civil War. The builder's plans led to an federal troops as a stable for their horses.
IN 1866 Coates helped revive the project investing $10,000. Bricks from his kiln opened a foundry in New York.
Coates and a partner, J.R. Balls, bought out Eldridge, and Coates eventually became sole owner, buying Balls' interest. When he sold in 1867 his estate was valued at $2 million.
At his death a new wing at the south end of the building, which received the worst damage in the fire Saturday, was being built. By the fall of 1887 the addition was completed to completion to house President Grover Tolek land and his bride on their honeycomon tour.
Pearson director dodges forum
OTHER FAMOUS persons who were said to have been guests of the hotel included Presidenta Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Rosevelt, William McKinley and Ulysses S.
In 1888, Coates' family demolished the
Rv ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Without the presence of its director, Dennis Quinn, the Integrated Humanities Program was assured today in what had been in progress.
A forum at the All Souls Unitarian Church drew about 200 people to hear a scheduled discussion between the Rev. Vern Barnet, chairman of the Committee for Academic and Religious Liberties; Carl Bangs, professor of historical theology at Saint Joseph's College; Glen Wayward, professor of English. However, Quinn canceled his part of the program Saturday night because the forum was open and the press would be present.
"DENNIS QUINN decided not to appear because the press would be here," Barnet, minister of the Shawnee Mission Unitarian Society, said yesterday. "I don't know why."
Quinn said yesterday that when he agreed to participate in the forum he had a verbal agreement with Barnet that no representatives of the press would be at the forum. When he found out Saturday that the forum would be open he canceled his agreement.
unless he was afraid he would be caught in one of his numerous lies."
THE PRESS is more interested in accusations than good advice. Quinn said. Good advice good good advice.
Quinn said he thought Barnet was interested in the publicity of the issue and that as the defendant, the program could only be harmed.
The IHP is a freshman-sophomore
philosophical, literary
and historical work of
professionalism.
Barnet's group has charged that HPF professionals to students to promote through class lectures.
"It would have been like inviting General Patton to address a group of Quakers," he said.
IHP professors, he said, tell their students, "We expect you to chase after knowledge as we students chased after Socrates."
Barnet accused the program of causing "bright intelligent students to become neurotic."
QUINN SAID he had decided that the
congregation would have been a hostile audience.
But what they were implying, he said, was that students should chase after IHP
Quinn, however, said that the members of Barnet's group and another group. Concerned Parents, they "much worse dogmatists than they accuse me of being."
hotel, leaving only the south side. The rebuilt hotel has remained almost unchanged. Edward Miszek, a historian for the Landmarks Commission of Kansas City, said an east wing was added and removed in the early part of the century.
In 1870 the Coates Opera House opened across the street and many of the actors and actresses who performed on the stage stayed at the hotel. In January 1901 the Opera house burned, less than one hour before a certain closed on the play "Heat and Sword."
"They nearly all have personal reasons," he said. "Their children have chosen ways of life they do not approve of. They blame us for our failure, and front those people in a public forum at all."
The grand hotel was sold six years after the opera fire by the Coates estate for $350,000 and bought by the Interstate Hotel Company.
KU construction may cause floods
By MELISSA CORDONIER
Staff Writer
More homes south of campus are likely to be flooded in coming years than before, partly because of expansion at the University of Kansas, according to Dennis Lane, assistant professor of civil engineering.
Heavy rains last summer produced severe flash floods in some parts of Lawrence, particularly in areas between W. 19th and 3rd streets and between Ousdaid and Louisiana streets. The rains flooded all damaged cars and stripped asphalt from streets.
Last semester, under Lane's supervision,
a senior engineering class completed a
project for a company.
He said the construction of more buildings and parking lots on the south part of the campus would decrease the amount of parking available. The result would be more runoff from heavy
"YOU NEED to consider the absorption capabilities of the area, the intensity of the rainfall and the area you expect sewers to bundle." Lane said.
MIKE WILDGEN, assistant city manager, said Friday that although the report was the only flood study completed by officials, the entire flood problem was being discussed.
Although the report contained specific solutions to flooding around 22nd Terrace and Alabama Street – the area most heavily impacted by flooding – in the other flooded areas south of campus.
rains and more flooding problems, Lane said.
See FLOOD page two
"I'd hate to see something like this create a split between the city and the University," she said.
LANE SAID the study recommended that the capacity of the sewer lines in the area be increased and that a retaining wall be built west of Olive Hall to slow down the runoff from the watershed. Lawrence created a temporary pond over the practice field there. Last summer's floods, which created unexpected ponds in parts of Lawrence, prompted Lawrence city commissioners to request a flood study report, which they received Tuesday from the city.
Staff Writer
By NANCY DRESSLER
Med Center lawsuit involving libel begins
Testimony begins today in a labibel suit involving former students and officials of the University of Kansas Medical Center but the suit poses no threat to KU, David Dysart, legal counsel for KU's College of Science and Hospital, said last night.
Dysart said the $1.4 million suit was between private individuals.
Rempson was relieved from that position effective Dec. 13, Dysart said.
THE SUIT WAS filed in 1975 by Dante G. Scarpelli, former dean of academic affairs and former chairman of the department of pathology at the Med Center.
"The University's involvement is strictly limited to the appearance of several administrators as witnesses." Dyvart said, "to most of the events involved in the suit."
Chester Rempson, former head of the Med Center's affirmative action program, also is
Named as defendants in the suit are Charles K. Lee, Nolan C. Jones, Charles Floyd and Ernest Turner. All four were students at the Med Center in 1974 and now
Scarpelli, now a professor at Northwestern University, charged that four former Med Center students had libbed him in a complaint they filed in 1974.
"SCARPELLI HAS charged that the students and Rempons labeled him, invaded his right of privacy, maliciously persecuted him and conspired to violate his consensual rights because he is white. Tim Wigglesworth, attorney for the former students, said.
Scarpelli seeks $275,000 in damages against each defended named in the suit.
Dysart said the suit resulted from a Department of Health, Education and Welfare investigation conducted in 1973 into that adversely affected minority students.
"The four students had filed an informal complaint within the University and later it got out and went to HEW." Dyard said. "They were charged with assault," Scarpell was accused of discrimination.
The complaint, endorsed by the Student National Medical Association, was filed by Jones, a student at the time. The discrimination charges against Scarpelli were made in behalf of all minority medical students, Dysart said.
DYSART SAID that nine questionable areas where Med Center practices might be in violation of federal laws were raised by investigation but that none were ever proved.
The libel suit to begin today has been slowed by the legal system and also by its detailed nature, Dysart said. Attorneys for Scarpelli will present testimony today and answering testimony by the defense will follow.
Winglissgern said David Waxman, the Med Center's executive vice chancellor, and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes were among those who had been asked to appear as witnesses.
Dysart said University attorneys would be on hand throughout the trial in case legal experts were required.
"We'll be trying to keep the University out of this," Dsyart said.
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Canadian inmates free 2
NEW WESTMISTINSTER, British Columbia—two hostages were released yesterday from a British Columbia Pententiary, where inmates had been holding them since Saturday.
Ten hostages, including five women, remain in the prison. They were among the group taken when police entered the compound.
Boy kept alive by machine
DALLAS—The legal and ethical entanglements surrounding a comatose 18-month-old-boy declared clinically dead by doctors apparently have just begun. A district court judge Friday ordered life support machines to be returned to Charles Rachek, although his mother asked that they be disconnected.
The boy suffered irreparable brain damage Jan. 21 from a baiting. His father has been charged with injury to a child.
The boy's mother, Karen Lee Hachek, pleaded with District Court and McLennan to clam up a respirator child to school.
Locally . . .
Governor Robert F. Bennett told Kansas businessmen Friday that the state economy was healthy. But there are possible problems in the state's farm economy, Bennett said.
Bennett and Herbert Stein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for Presidents Nixon and Ford, spoke at the Economic Outlook of Kansas Conference Friday at the Kansas University. See story page three.
Ban on satellites said to be needed
WASHINGTON—Energy Secretary James Schlesinger said yesterday that it was inappropriate for satellites containing nuclear reactors to orbit the earth but that he did not know how they could be banned.
He said that it would be necessary for all powers to agree on a ban and that there was no possibility of that unless the Soviet Union agreed not to use the form of satellite that fell from orbit Tuesday with a nuclear reactor aboard.
Talks to resume in Cairo
JERUSALEM-Irael yesterday decided to resume military talks in Cairo, presumably some time this week. Mr. Trump said the situation is "very serious."
However, there was no indication of when the parallel political negotiations in Jerusalem might resume. Egyptian President Abu沙孜 travels to the United States and meets with a senior American Carter, outlining future negotiations. See story page two.
Pregnancy test developed
NEW YORK—A newly developed test can determine pregnancy in the privacy of a woman's home as early as nine days after the woman has missed an expected menstrual period, Arthur Flamagan, vice president of medical services at Johnson & Johnson, said recently. The kit contains chemicals that should detect a pregnancy hormone. See story page two.