The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence. Kansas
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.159
Thursday, July 31, 1980
KU photojournalist puts Afghan plight in focus
By DAVID 31H Staff Donorter
Bv DAVID STIPP
Copyright © University Daily Kansan (July 31,
1980)
During his summer vacation, Madi A. Jali,
Lawrence bench, walked more than 300 miles at night,
caught dysentery, survived two helicopter-launched rocket attacks and escaped a war-torn country by riding a camel for eight hours across a mountain range.
All returned to Lawrence last week from Afghanistan, where he lived 21 days among Afghan rebels in an effort to capture on film their war with the Soviet invaders. A photo essay by Bob Brayer.
An American Muslim who grew up in New York City, Ali, 42, said he became interested in Afghanistan when he came to Lawrence in 1976 to attend the KU School of Engineering. One of the first people he met in Lawrence was Ahmad Shah, an Afghan whose wife was a student in U.S. law school. He stayed with her and kept in touch after Shah left that year to work as an engineer in Saudi Arabia.
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Shah moved to Peshawar, Pakistan to help in the war against the invaders. Shah provided All with the connections he used to enter Afghanistan this
"I knew people were being killed over there, but there didn't seem to be much about it in the media here," Ali said. "No one seemed to give a damn."
Ali said he decided to go to Afghanistan to bring a more vivid picture of the war back to America. He planned to use skills he had developed in KU photojournalism and film courses, which he took as diversions from his engineering work.
But Ali's photography background turned to be more than a diversion in Afghanistan, where he took scores of pictures, some of which he has already sold to several newspapers, with national wire services and magazines likely to follow.
"I thought maybe I could be the last of the red hot film makers," he said with a chuckle. "But there was no way. I could get enough money to make a film."
"So I invested in a few cameras, borrowed some money, got a plane ticket and away I went."
All, who speaks a little Arabic, arrived in Peshawar on June 23 and got in touch with Shah, who was working for a group called the Islamic Society of Afghanistan.
The Society took Ali to visit a refugee camp.
"The heat was unbearable, sometimes getting up to 118, 119, 120 degrees," he said. "Most of the camps were out in the open, in the blazing sun. In one camper five babies died of heat prostration."
Despite their hardships, the refugees didn't seem disheartened. Aijs said, because they
see AFGHANISTAN page five
Merchants oppose mall
Rv LAURALICKERT
Staff Reporter
Some downtown Lawrence merchants are concerned because they think Lawrence residents are forgetting that an alternative to downtown redevelopment is no development at
"Why is everyone always talking about whether they want a cornfield mail or a downtown mall?" Jack Arensberg, owner of Arensberg Shoes, 819 Massachusetts St., said this week. "I am afraid we are losing sight of the fact that we still have the alternative of no mail."
ARENSBERG, THE only member in the Action 80 group to vote against an enclosed downtown mall, said he did not favor a downtown mall because he thought the downtown was already a healthy and viable shopping area. A former tearing down many historical shops, he said.
Action 80 is a private citizen's group that was formed by individuals wanting to redevelop development sites.
ROB ERNST, OWNER of Erst and Son Hardware, 826 Massachusetts St., whose grandfather began the business in 1905 and whose building would be torn down to make way
for the new mail, one of his main complaints about the enclosed mail plan was that it looked
Mike Sullivan, co-owner of Sunflower Surplus,
804 Massachusetts St., said the blocks that would be torn down for the enclosed mall contain some of the oldest buildings in town.
"The downtown area is very Americana," saluin said. "The mail might look so plastic."
BOB CAMPBELL, OWNER of Campbell's Men's Wear, 81 Washington St., said he thought Lawrence needed a full-time department but did not need a large enclosed shopping mall.
"What we are faced with are retail chains that have indicated, they want to operate in Lawrence," Campbell said. "We didn't invite them to the office and allowed them to dictate where they will be located."
Campbell said he thought the decision about a downtown mall should be left up to the people of
"If the people want a cornfield mall," he said,
"then we should have a cornfield mall."
FORUMS, PERSONAL interviews, and a consumer preference survey will be conducted
DREW TORRES/Kansan staff
see MALL page seven
DREW TAYLOR @shannonsummer.com
Shannon Summy, 3, 1900 W, 31st, seems to be a bit apprehensive at riding shotgun, but her sister, Angela, 10, freezes on down the street.
Weary Afghanistan fighters relax at guerrilla headouarters in Dibundi in
the Logar Province after a long hike. Ali, a KU student, is third from the left. Only invigilated guerrillas ride the few camels or donkeys in the country.
Degrees may elude gridders
BY JAN SIMPSON
Staff Reporter
Of the freshman football players on scholarships who entered the University of Kansas in 1975 and 1976, less than one-third surveyed have earned a college degree.
Fifty-three football players entered KU in those years. In a poll of 29 players, nine, or 31 percent, said they had gotten a bachelor's degree from a college or university, usually in business or liberal arts. The remaining 24 players could not be reached for comment.
The 1974 Buckley Amendment, designed to protect the privacy of student records, prevented an examination of athletes' transcripts, including whether the athlete had graduated.
NINE OF THE TWelve men from the class of 1670 reached by the Kansan said they had a plan to attack them.
Twenty-eight players entered KU in the fall of 1970. Of the 15 available for questioning, one, or six, were KU players.
Betty Hazlett, an athletic tutor, said, this week, "Some of the players are marginal to begin with, and the demand on their bodies and time is out of sight. They have an extra burden.
"The first semester is just a killer, at least the ones I've seen."
Some players said the amount of time budgeted for practice, games and traveling hurt their ability.
"At any major university there is pressure to play," Mark Cuneo, a thenman who transferred to West Virginia University in 1977, said. "The time of day because you have to practice, certain time of day because you have to practice."
SORRELL HARVEY, a runningback who received a B.S. from Ottawa University after he transferred in 1977, said, "KU is ball first, school second. I don't think the coaches knew I was beginning to get into academics, but I wanted to get my paper too.
"Out of high school I was gung-hou for ball, but my ideals changed. I wanted to do both academics and football, but I didn't think I could."
Billy Griffith, a lineman in the class of 1980, was red-shirted to gain an extra year of eligibility. He said footbaim "has psychological benefits." He tried to concoce on two things at once. "
Red-shirt means an athlete has five years in
which to complete four years of eligibility. He retains his scholarship and practices with the NCHS.
Mike Fisher, academic counselor for the athletic department, said that in the past 20 years, 82 percent of KU senior football players are in college, including junior college transfers and red-shirts.
FISHER SAID the players who transfer to other schools, junior college transfers, players who quit and those who walk-on made an acronym of their number of players who earn degrees difficult.
He said the progress of players had improved since 1974 when the National Collegiate Athletic Association abandoned unlimited football with the rule that a Kickaway award 30 football scholarships in one year, with a total team limit of 95. Because each scholarship would receive one coach recruits players that will remain in school.
Fisher said, "The load on football players is so heavy that there is no way they can graduate in four years. They shouldn't carry as heavy a load as the normal student.
see JOCKS page seven
By DANTORCHIA
Staff Reporter
Delegates not vexed by Billy
Carter delegates and alternates from the 3rd District are not yet worried about growing sentiment for a "Dump Jimmy Carter" movement, started in Congress in the wake of the potentially damaging revelations of "Billygate."
Most said yesterday that Carter would be renominated on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention, which starts Aug. 11 in New York.
The president will be cleared of any implications in Biby Carter's dealings as a Libyan
IT WAS REPORTED last week that the Carter
administration knew about Billy Carter's financial ties to Libya and used the president's brother to contact Libyan officials on several occasions.
The White House had previously denied all knowledge of Billy Carter's action, saying it had been "the worst thing I have ever seen."
Area members of Carter's and Sen. Edward Kennedy's delegations are adopting a wait and see attitude, keeping an eye on developments while staving loyal to their candidates.
Delegates for Kennedy, seeing an 11th-hour chance for their candidate, are pushing against a rule, 11h, that would bind the delegates to vote for the candidate they are committed to on the ballot.
"I hope it does not happen," Ethan Smith, 333 Illinois St., a Carter alternate, said of the move to defeat the rule. "I think that would be going against the wishes of the people who elected the delegates. They were specifically elected to represent the candidates."
**SMITH SAID** the president had done nothing wrong, and he did not shift his support bet-
However a Carter delegate, Larry Gates of Overland Park, said he might switch his support if the Carter people insisted the delegates support Rule 11b.
if the rule were not invoked, the Kennedy forces would have a chance to air their feelings
Summer of our discontent teems with news
By MARK PITTMAN
Staff Reporter
It was the summer of our discontent. It will go down as the hottest summer since 1854. People spent it at home in front of the fan instead of at the lake. The electric blue sky baked day after day. The nights were sleepless and sweaty and without air.
But it wasn't just the weather that made the news.
Stop signs in town sported hand-lettering:
"Stop the War." "and" "Stop the Draft."
A mirror-lined coffin stood in front of the mood-lit display, displacing the mood of a mini-fault registration system.
The KU police arrested 12 persons at Commencement. Their crime was holding up a banner and refusing to leave. A man had his wrist broken in the scuffle.
And so people were once again complaining about scuffed radicals hanging around public
While professors and department heads were
The city prosecutor wanted to drop all charges, but the demonstrators wouldn't promise not to do it again. All but three will be tried separately.
This is the last issue of the University Daily Kansas for the summer session. The next issue of the Kansan will be the 64-page Back-to-School issue Aug. 21. The Kansan will resume daily publication Aug. 25.
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Sciences, became the executive vice chancellor.
still being inundated with forms and regulations from the office of Affirmative Action, its acting director was promoted to the top spot without the search required of all other departments.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes resigned.
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor, was named to replace Dwkes on Aug. 15.
Clinton Lake opened and provided the water needed to keep the campus greenery alive that morning.
Stop the presses
The Student Union Activities film board was troubled by dissension among its members.
The Ecumenical Christian Ministries chapel was burned. The Lawrence Fire Department
Ed Carter became mayor of Lawrence after the rotating system of mayoral duties was eliminated. Immediately after taking office, he demanded that paraphernalia sakes to minors be banned.
The Lawrence City Hall was finished and the developers for a downtown mall were chosen. The mall raised cries of outrage from some residents and dismayed the city experienced growing pains.
call it an tarson. They said the motive may have been resentment over Rev. Bremer's trip to Turkey.
Commissioner Marci Francisco said she would paddle her bicycle to California after the event.
see SUMMER page five
Weather
CLOUDY
The weather will be slightly cooler through the weekend with little chance of rain, and temperatures in the low 90s. The high temperature today will be 83 slightly cold skies and winds from the north at 10-20 mph. Tonight, skies will be clear ,and the low temperature will be about 67. Tomorrow will be sunny with little chance of rain, and a high temperature of 90. Tomorrow night the skies will be clear and the low temperature will be in the mid to upper 60s. Saturday will be similar to Friday with sunny skies and a high of 80. The afternoon drop to about 67. Sunday will be slightly warmer with a high temperature in the mid 90s.