THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.90.No.127
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Friday, April 11, 1980
Returning clergymen tell of 'cautious' Iran
Staff Reporter
By LYNN ANDERSON
KANSAS CITY. Mo.—Three clergymen from IRAN return from Irian night and said the American hostages were physically, mentally and emotionally in better condition than was expected.
But they added that without some conciliatory steps from the U.S. government, no end to the crisis would be in sight.
The clergyman, the Rev. Jack Bremer of Lawrence, the Rev. Nelson Thompson of Kansas City, Kan., the Rev. Darrell Rupiper of Omaha, Neb., went to Iran to perform Easter services under the sponsorship of the American Crisis Resistance Committee.
They were greeted at Kansas City International airport last night by about 75 joyful supporters who loaded them with bouquets of daffodils, hues and handshakes.
But when the jubilation died down, all the U.S. governments will have a recent diplomatic and economic sanctions of the U.S. government would make it easier for the iranians to release the hostages.
They reached this conclusion, they said, after five and one half hours with the hostages and extensive talks with the students holding the embassy.
Bremer said he had two overwhelming impressions: that the students, administration and Revolutionary Council were feeling more united in the face of U.S. pressures, and that a U.S. military attack on the hostages danger death for the hostages.
"The key stop," Bremer said, "is a new challenge to the idea of seeking dominance through the support of an oppressive dictatorship like the shab's, but which seeks an independent and non-align."
Ruppier said neither public outcure, future sanctions, transfer of the hostages nor military intervention would bring an end to the crisis
"It seems clear to me that the release of the hostages depends on a clear indication to Iran that we are considering the demands they have made since the beginning," he
Ruipier said the demands were that the United States admit to complicity in what the students called the crimes of the shah's regime, recognize the right of the Iranians to put their former leader on trial, and accept the collars of Iranian money in U.S. banks.
"Which of these demands is unthinkable," Rapiper asked, "when we know that meeting them would bring the hostages back?"
Thompson stressed that the hostages
suspect CYBERGX were killed.
See CLERGY page nine
Rosalynn Carter
First lady rallies support for Carter in Kansas City
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-They had a pep rally here yesterday and the person U.S. News & World Report calls the nation's sixth most influential person led the cheers.
Missouri's presidential caucuses are April 22.
First Lady Rosalyn Carter, who last week became the first woman ever ranked among the magazine's '10 Most Influential Americans', came to the Radisson Hotel to expound on the virtues of her husband
*We need to be courageous and make the difficult decision, she will増 more than 200 Carter-Mondale
Mrs. Carter was in Kansas City just an hour and 50 minutes in the midst of a whirlwind campaign that began on April 13.
Her Missorium stop was sandwiched between a visit to the St. Louis Cardinals home baseball opener and an attempt at a victory in the game.
IN KANSAS City, the first lady held a brief press
conference about her commitment to 80 minutes.
She then handed hands for 12 minutes.
"We haven't had a two-term president since Eisenhower," she said in her soft Georgia draw. "It's no wonder we can't solve our problems. We need continuity. We need time."
"We have to start over again with new people, new policies. But we has good programs, good people."
Mrs. Carter applauded her husband's move this week
in the Iran hostage crisis and his recent economic policy statement.
"If you see other candidates talking about simple solutions, you can be sure they don't know what they're talking about," she said. "If there were simple solutions to the problems, they would've been solved by now."
THE FIRSTLAY blood laimed high oil prices for the country's economic woes but predicted an inflation rise.
At the press conference she said, "We feel that we can't turn around and turn down, I'm very confident in what the press said."
"The inflation rate is so high because OPEC raised the price 120 percent in the last year. That's more than the price has increased in the history of oil. It's a worldwide problem. A good energy policy is crucial."
Little fanfare surrounded the first lady's visit, outside of the traditional Secret Service security hideout.
In fact, many in the neighborhood had no idea that a block on Baltimore Street in front of the hotel.
"Who are we waiting for?" asked one man.
"Resalvate Carter."
Academic Affairs budget trimmed
Barricides bordered the sidewalk and attack dogs barked from nearby police cars.
"Oh yeah," he said, turning to a friend. "Let's find a cab. I don't want to see her."
Others, though, were more receptive. Some watched attentively from nearby windows as she arrived at rush
One man even tossed a frisbee to her. Secret Service agents intercepted it, but allowed Mrs. Carlo to toss it.
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
Humorous outbursts eased the tedium and cooled debate at the Student Senate budget hearings last night—although the Senate did not vote to sponsor the bill from the Academic Affairs committee budget.
Even the most controversial request for increased funding, from the Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Black Students (MBE) held the floor for less than one-half hour.
IN YESTERDAY's hearing, the Senate reviewed 22 Academic Affairs budget requests, which increased funding for three requests and cut seven budgets.
SCOMBEEM was one of the organizations that successfully appealed for increased funding to the organization.
Full Senate budget hearings began Tuesday night and will finish with consideration of the Cultural Affairs Committee budget this Tuesday.
engineering symposium had bounced in committee hearings from zero to $1,700 to $23.50 after hot debate, and was restored in Senate to $11,000.
The symposium, held at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., was designed to acquaint minority students with engineering industry representatives.
The Academic Affairs Committee had committee SCoMEBE funding in a pressured vote to stay under budget. SCoMEBE had requested that the committee be covered partial costs of the $10,000 event.
Leon Brady, SCoMMEBE adviser, said the team has worked closely among the scientists. SCoMMEBE's purpose is to solicit scholarships and funds from industry and encourage black enrolment in the engineer field.
"One of the biggest problems we have is that we are more like a corporate business than an interest club, and it sure trips the student out." Brad said.
SENATE ALSO increased funding by 75 for the Astronomy Associates, added $126 to the Minority Business Council and revived the KU Model UN.
KU Model UN an organization that represents various UN countries in competition with national teams and plays a preliminary Academic Affairs Committee budget budgets because of lack of funding. KU Model UN is an international university.
In Senate cuts, funding for the KU AD Club was completely cut because they didn't spend this year's allocation. The KU AD Club had requested $398 in funding.
The KU German Club's request of $1,750 for a Cultural Fest was sliced to $400 after members questioned German Club calculations and the need for the amount of funding.
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS approved budgets and requests were:
- Chancery Club: $292; $292.
- Undergraduate Anthropology Association:
B547: 1.301
- Undergraduate Biology Club: $188; $598
- Counseling Student Organization: $686.22;
$1,478.17.
- OBASA: $190; $889.63
- Astronomy Associates of Lawrence; $420.40;
$150.
- Psvchology Club: $155: $214.60.
- Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Black Engineers; $1,945; $6,000.
* Student American Pharmaceutical Association; $317; $330.
- Student Association for the Combined Health Sciences $400; $400.
- Women in Law: $595; $1,139.
- Women in Law: $995; $1,139;
* KI Biochemistry Club: $345; $400
- KU Biochemistry Club. $345; $400.
- KU Model United Nations: $815; $1,385.
• KU Advertising Club: $0; $396.
- KU German Club: $870.90; $3,540.90.
- KC Genuine Club $80.50 $50.50
• Minority Business Council $578 $452
- Coalition of Student Social Workers: $341; $426.
- Student Occupational Therapy Association:
$187..$831.
- School of Education Student Advisory Board:
$400; $400.
Senate also approved Academic Affairs items last night. A item line allocation is structured into the Senate budget and cannot fully cut as other organizational requests.
Line item allocation approvals were:
- KLL Extension - $5,128
- Graduate Student Council : $17,216.30
- Architecture and Urban Design Council: $580
Secret Action 80 mall planning talks continue
Bv ANN SHIELDS
Staff Reporter
Members of Action 80 and two city commissioners met in secret yesterday to discuss plans for informing the public about Action 80's work on a downtown mail proposal.
Action 80 president Warren Rhodes said that although the group still had not finished its proposal for the city commission, members agreed with the public within the next few weeks.
Mayor Ed Carter said he encouraged the public meeting to eliminate the secrecy that has made many neighborhood associations nervous about Action 80's plans.
**ACTION 80** is a non-profit corporation formed by Lawrence businessman last summer to promote the growth of the company.
However, some people are still skeptical and question whether the two commissioners—
"There's been a lot of misunderstanding from day one," he said, "about their selection of developers and the structure of their organization," he said.
Although the meeting probably will not stop the opposition, he said, it will help people appear more professional.
"I'm sure there will still be a lot of people
that you'll know, "but at least they'll
know that they're capable."
The law prohibits a majority of the quorum, or two commissioners, from meeting in private to discuss commission affairs or vote on commission issues.
Carter and former mayor Barkley Clark—had violated state open meetings law by attending
BUT CLARK said he did not think he and Carter had broken the law.
"That would mean that any time two commissioners got together on the telephone," he said, "they would be violating the open meeting law."
"You have to look at the intent of the law. It applies to when commissioners as well."
missioners are discussing commission business."
However, Ron Smith, lobbyist for the Kansas Press Association, said the law was to be in effect.
"The law was designed to open everything with the exclusion of a very few instances," he said, "and applies to a prearranged meeting where city business is discussed."
Rhodes said the downtown mall proposal was not ready to be presented to the commission for a vote because two department store chains had not decided what they wanted.
"I'm as frustrated as you are," he said. "Would really love to have come forth before me."
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Double take
Kansas city second baseman Frank White completes the relay throw to first base during a double play in the ninth inning. Double play wasn't enough to offset the performances of rookie pitcher Jack Morris and outfielder Kirk Gilmor, however, as the Royals lost their season open last night - 5 in 1Rays Stadium before 34,901 fans. See game story here.
Sale of pet skunks causes stink at health office
Staff Reporter
By DON MUNDAY
A pet skunk may be an unusual companion and a good way to scare children, but for health officials it is better not to treat them.
This spring, the Kansas Bureau of Epidemiology has once again issued its annual warning to remind Kansans that skunks are the most common carriers of rabies in the state.
Add to that the threat of rabies, governmental regulation and rising costs, and the skunk-selling industry is finding itself in trouble—and not only from an olfactory point of view.
The biggest problem skunks present to man is not an overpowering personality, but rather the chance to attack them.
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Spring is an especially bad time for the threat of bacterial meningitis, and the are coming out of their winter inactivity breed. Marmosets and May are the months that concern health officials more burdened by Robert French, assistant director of the Office of Disease Control.
Habits is such a dangerous disease that only one person can survive if symptoms begin to appear. it's too late to combat the virus.
Douglas County reported no confirmed rabies cases last year, according to Kay Kent, administrator of the county health department, which said the animal has been identified as rabid. It was a skunk.
CONCERN THIS spring has been heightened by the fact that 1979 was the worst year for confirmed kansas in Kansas since 1972. Out of 130 cases of proven swine infections were dogs and cats. A staggering 107 were skunks.
"Rabies is basically a disease of the animal world but man is susceptible," French said. "When it spreads over to man, the results are always disastrous."
THE PROBLEMS associated with skunks have caused many pet shops to stop selling them, although a few animal dealers in the region still sell them or sold them until recently.
One Johnson County pet shop stopped selling
skunks because no vaccines on the market could guarantee that it could keep skunks from contracting the disease.
"There's no way of being sure that they've never been exposed," said Kirk Smith, owner of the Pet Shine in Shawney. "I'm leery of anything I can't be sure of, so I just shyw away from them."
Mike Chambers, manager of Petville in Overland Park, said he did not sell skunks because purchasers would have to pay for them.
"The parents might get mad at the store that sold it to them in the first place. We don't want that."
"It's just bad customer relations," Chambers said. "Suppose you sell someone a skunk for their kid and the skunk bit the next-door neighbor. They'd have to be on a leash, not not, and either way it means the kid without a pet.
In addition to the lack of adequate vaccinations, akums are becoming less popular among pet stores.
"The prices last year were really too high for most people to buy them." Brinkerhoff said. "They were going to nearly $100 and they go higher this year we are expecting even more." A skunk just isn't worth $10. I don't think.
THE ONLY animal pet store in Lawrence, Pet Stop, sold skunks last year and may again use this well-known brand. The owner, Brikerhoff, shop owner, said the price of skunks ranged from $50-$100 last year, depending on the breed.
FRANK NESHIM, chief of law enforcement for the Kansas Fish and Game Commission in Pratt, which issues pet stores licenses to sell skunks, said that it has been driving many pet shops out of the skunk business.
rabies after the sale. Skunks in capacity have been known to carry rabies. French said.
"I know if my wife brought home a skunk and it bit my kid and turned out to be rabid, I sure use for everything I could. And all they would be mime, I guess." "I don't imagine very many pet shops still selling skunks."
Brinkerhoff said that as long as the skunks were not diseased at the time of the sale, and as long as the customer was aware of potential problems, the pet shoes should not be considered responsible for skunk
"There's nothing we can do about it if they know beforehand when they buy it and then later it comes into contact with something that gives it rabies." Brinkerhoff said. "We'll talk to the person who wants to buy it before we order it for him to make sure he buys it before the skunk shouldn't be roaming outside at free will.
"I don't know anybody who has a skunk that isn't kent as an indoor animal."
BY LAW, records about the purchasers of skunks are kept by the pet store and are forwarded to the sheriff.
See SKUNKS page nine