KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, June 25,1981 Vol. 91, No.151 USPS 650-640
TBACEV THOMPSON/Kanada Staff
The recent hot, humid weather has provided Lawrence Lemonade stands with all the business they can handle. The proprietors of this stand at the corner of 20th and Massachusetts streets are, from left, John Paradise, Jill Paradise, and Judd Kraft, Caylen Paradise (center), a friend of the iceed tea and orange juice merchants, finds out how business is.
Carlin requests aid for tornado victims
By MARCHERZFELD Staff Reporter
The federal government may come to the aid of victims of last Friday's tornado, if Governor John Carlin's plea for Federal Emergency Management funds is accepted.
The tornado killed KU graduate student Stanley Pittman and caused $18 million damage to Lawrence businesses and homes. Carlin said that the damage was 100 to 40 percent uninsured.
TO QUALLY FOR THE emergency aid money, and 10 percent of the damage must be either initial or full.
Carlin yesterday requested about $1,350,000 in
grants and additional aid in the form of low- interest loans.
The grants would be a maximum of $5,000 for each individual, and the interest rates on the leases would be from 12 to 14 percent, depending on the amount of money you would be made available to low-income families.
OF THE $18 MILLION damage, $2 million was to private homes, $5 million to mobile homes and $5 million to businesses. Thirty-five homes sustained major damage, while about 75 mobile homes were destroyed and 145 sustained major damage. Twenty-five to 30 businesses were damaged.
"There is no specific set deadline," Carlin is no aware of the need and importance of a timely response.
Carlin also made a back-up request to the Small Business Administration for low-interest
FRED BEGLEY, public affairs officer at the Region VII Federal Emergency Management Agency in Kansas City, Mo., said no specific date for the rescue would be set until federal amputations were complete.
loans, in case the emergency federal fund request was not approved.
President Reagan has the ultimate decision of whether to grant the aid.拜ley said.
Begley added that the federal damage appraiser was in Lawrence yesterday.
"We have excellent credibility with the federal government," Carlin said.
Vietnam veterans fight proposed budget cuts
By CHRIS TODD Staff Reporter
By CHRISTODI
As the plane circled mist-shrouded Seattle, its military passengers wondered what it would be in store for them when they finally became civilians again. They had just completed active combat missions and outposts of Vietnam and had heard that some Americans bitterly opposed the Asian war.
One soldier left the airport quickly. As he crossed the sidewalk and headed for a bus that would take him into town, he passed a woman in front of him, who looked at him angerily and shouted, "Baby killer!"
The civilian encounter was the first that the soldier had after returning from Vietnam in 1967, according to Walter Thorpe, a friend and himself a Vietnam veteran.
Thorpe served in Vietnam in 1972 and 1973 during the last stage of American involvement in the war. After the peace agreement was signed in January 1973, he used his benefits as an Air Force veteran to attend the University of Kansas. He received a bachelor of science in journalism degree last May and lives in Lawrence.
Since January, Thorpe and other Vietnam veterans living in Lawrence have been concerned about budget cuts that might affect veterans' benefits and programs.
In March, the Reagan administration projected that about $900 million would be cut from the Veteran Administration's 1982 fiscal budget. Veterans said that would have meant a loss of $340 billion as well as a decline in the quality of medical care, which they already deemed inadequate.
Veterans' reaction was immediate. Influenced by thousands of letters to congressmen, and by protests organized by the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and other veterans' organizations, Congress forced the Reagan administration to limit VA budget reductions to $110 million.
IN ADDITION, Operation Outreach, a coun-
sultant by veterans for veterans,
would have been cut.
As a result, according to Thorpe, the budget would have little effect on Vietnam veteran
"We won't know anything for sure until the budget is approved and out of Congress." Thorpe
said, "but right now it looks like nothing substantial will be cut."
Brock L. Place, a staff member at the Administration Center in Tokuca, agrees
"The accepted compromise between Congress and the Reagan administration came out such that our services won't be substantially cut." Place said. "We're getting by at the present time because it is far from optimal. We could use more personal in surgery, psychiatry and a few other areas."
ARTHUR SEARLE, a general practitioner at the Wedworth VA Medical Center in Leavenworth, said that medical services would stay the same but that some minor VA programs would be cut.
"From what I've heard from various VA reports, they'll just cut a few small non-medical programs." Searle said. "I've heard, for instance, that they're going to restrict veterans from using the GI Bill for flight training courses and for some correspondence courses."
While there might be only minimal cuts in the
Budget Cuts
VA's 1982 budget, some Vietnam veterans in LA's still mentioned problems with the VA.
Thorpe said that the VA was not providing funds for veterans who were contaminated by Agent Orange, a chemical used to defoliate Asian interns during the Vietnam war.
"Agent Orange contains a high percentage of dioxin, one of the most poisonous substances known to man." Thorpe said. "It has been directly linked to cancer and birth defects. Many are starting to show symptoms now, since it takes at least 10 years to take effect."
CURTIS KAILEIKI, another Vietnam veteran living in Lawrence, said he came in contact with Agent Orange near the North Vietnamese border in 1967.
He said that he had not felt any effects, but that he worried constantly about the effects of the stress.
Kaleikin also said that the VA did not provide adequate care for some Vietnam veterans.
"Some of the vets are really getting shattered," KaltikiNP said. "When we were over there, guys
...When we were over there, guys
See VETS page 8
Scholarship services criticized
Staff Reporter
By MARTHA BRINK Staff Reporter
However, the KU director of financial aid said that services were no guarantee of scholarship money.
With federal financial aid dollars drying up, students might be tempted by the bold promises of several nationwide scholarship locating services.
ONE SERVICE in Houston asserted that $135 million in non-government scholarship money was unclaimed last year in the United States. For a $4 fee, the service promises to provide a student with a list of at least five scholarships that he is qualified to receive.
The company provides the name of the source, but cannot ensure actual money for the student.
Jerry Rogers, KU director of financial aid, said that he thought the services were legitimate.
"The ideas that scholarships go unused is a fallacy," he said.
Weather
It will be partly sunny today with a slight chance of scattered thunderstorms, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds are from the northeast at 15 to 15 miles an hour. The high will be 88.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a con-
fusion of thunderstorms. The low will be fi-
ghty from 5 to 8 pm.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a highnear90.
THE SERVICE would probably give a KU student a listing of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant and a few Kansas scholarships available through the financial aid office, Rogers said.
According to Eden Rosenwasser, owner of the Houston-based Student College Aid, information about all the scholarships can be found in any university library. However, it would take more than 4,000 hours for a student to do the searching himself, he said.
Rosenwasser's service uses a computer to quickly search 250,000 listings of grants and scholarships. For example, the computer might send information needed for the descendants of Confederate sailors.
A few such scholarships exist, Rogers said, but they have such tight distribution requirements that often students in need of financial aid cannot qualify.
For instance, the donor of one KU scholarship specified that it go to a non-Catholic business or engineering student participating in vocal lessons. The teacher requests that the student be from Elkart, Kansas.
Strict guidelines are one of the biggest problems the financial aid office confronts when trying to distribute all of the funds available. Therefore, the Kansas University Endowment Association often encourages donors not to place such narrow restrictions on money. Rogers said.
ONE SCHOLARSHIP requires a student to be free an Eastern seaboard state, and another stipulates that the student live west of Highway 81 in the western third of Kansas.
In the past, many small scholarships were not given out every year because it was more feasible to let the money accumulate. Rogers said KU now uses a computer that makes it easier to match up students with several scholarships.
Because of budget cuts, financial aid will be harder to get in the future, Rogers said. Congress is now discussing tighter restrictions for guaranteed student loans.
"Before, if we had $140 or $98 we might have it 'is so piddling, let it go this way,' he said. "
Now, however, a student might receive 10 small awards to equal the needed amount.
BESIDES REGISTERING at the financial aid office, Rogers suggested that students who needed help should consult community groups in their home towns. Often groups like the Elkos Club or the Veterans of Foreign Wars provide scholarships to local students, he said.
For KU students needing financial aid, no lucrative source of unclaimed scholarship money exists. However, a Presbyterian student from Kansas majoring in business might be in luck.
He said that cuts had already been approved in the National Direct Student Loan program and the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, now called Pell Grant. program.
According to Rogers, these changes will probably mean a significant loss of funding.
Collections' thefts question security
By ACHAL MEHRA
Staff Writer
The theft of a valuable tintime more than a year-and-a-half ago has led to a revaluation of the security system of the theatres at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
Officials at the collection were particularly disturbed because they were not aware of the theft until early 1981, when the FBI began to scan of libraries, was contacted by the FBI.
The FBI had caught a gang of document thieves who had struck the Kansas Collection, the State Historical Society in Topeka and a collection in Dodge City.
Collection officials believe the theft occurred in November 1979.
Glinka refused to comment on the theft, saying that library security would be enforced.
"Why do you want to print this?" he asked.
Glinka referred all queries to the curator of the Kansas Collection and refused to send them.
SHERYL K. WILLIAMS, CURATOR of the Kansas Collection, also said publicity would have a negative effect on library security.
"There are always people who try to
remove something just to prove that it can be
frowned down."
Williams confirmed that a tintype of Billy Dixon had been stolen from the Collection. She said the FBI suspected that the occurred in February or March 1980, but their own records showed that it took place in November 1979.
Williams said a person using the pseudonym J.M McLaughlin signed out a folder from the stacks for study in the library. The folder returned the folder to the desk before leaving.
The gang used the same technique at the Historical Society in Topeka, according to the book.
Michaelia said two letters, one photograph, a postcard and a copy of an old book.
However, unknown to the librarians, he had removed one of the tintypes from the front cover.
State Historical Society officials also were unaware of the thefts until contacted by the authorities.
ALL THE STOLEN DOCUMENTS have been returned by the FBI, according to Michael's and Williams, but they do not mention that action has been taken against the thieves.
The theft in the Society occurred in April 1980. Michaels said. The thieves had checked out material under three different pseudonyms.
was not sure of their exact value, but said all items were valuable.
The thefts have exposed defects in the security systems of valuable collections. Michaelas said security was a national problem. The world-famous Smithsonian Institute complains of incurring thefts from its museums.
Both said this was the only theft in the collections they were aware of. However, they did not rule out the possibility of other thefts.
Williams said the Kansas Collection had a very stringent security system. She said the information would be stored on a server.
See THEFT page 8
Father's execution is viewed as martyrdom
BY CONNIE SCHALLAU Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
People in the United States often read about executions in Iran. However, their lives usually aren't directly affected by them.
This is not true for Mahta and Mehran Derakhshandean, an Iranian couple attending the University of Virginia.
Mahit's father, Naser Vafai, was executed on June 14 in the western Iranian city of Hamadan. He was executed along with six other leaders of the Hamadani Bahai faith community.
"THE FIRST CHARGE was that he preached the Bahai faith," Mehran said. "The second was that he was helping the Israeli government. The second charge was very wrong."
"My father was not a political man," she said.
"He helped everyone in Hamanad City."
Vafat, a physician, was a member of the Bahai Local Spiritual Assembly in Hamadan.
Mehran clarified the function of his father-in-law in the Assembly.
"The Assembly is only concerned with the Bahai faith," he said. "It does not concern itself with government or politics. It is only concerned with the Bahai faith." (See related page 3).
THE BHAIJA FAITH teaches that there is no need to fear death. The Derakshahdgaree are both the most faithful.
said. "Right now, my father, because he gave his life for the Bahai faith, is closest to us."
"I feel spiritually happy right now." Mahta
"I must congratulate my mother and my sister. They are so strong."
Mahut's mother and her 13-year old sister still live in Haradan. Mahut said she family had been able to afford a decent life.
"I don't know if they are in any danger," she said.
The interview was interrupted by a call from her mother in Japan.
During the call, her mother told Mahta what her little sister had said to her.
"She said that my mother shouldn't be sad, because our father now has the highest position in Bahal," Mahta said. Mohan alhazad.
"Marydormyn is the uppermost position in the faith," he said. "It is therefore an honor for him."
"Before he went to be executed, he wrote in his pocket calendar, 'Now I shall become everlasting.'
"The Bahai religion, its concept of death, is so
"IT IS HARD to explain. We are not happy that he will no longer be with us. But the position he now has is very important in our faith."
Chris Hamilton, Concordia graduate student and a member of the Bahai Local Spiritual Assembly in Lawrence, was present at the interview.
different than what most Americans believe and are taught," Hamilton said.
"It's very difficult to explain, and for a non-
Bahal to understand."
Hamilton also gave a brief history of the oppression the Bahais have suffered in Iran. He said the historical oppression has re-emerged and intensified since the 1979 revolution.
"We do not believe that this activity is a reflection of Islamic clergy." Hamilton said. "We believe it is the policy of the current revolution."
A KU IRANIAN student who was contacted by the FBI, who said she was at the Bahai's human were harmed and destroyed.
"The current regime is an Islamic republic and they feel everyone has to be Islamic," said one Iranian student who declined to give her last name.
Another Iranian student disagreed.
"If they were executed, it was not because they were Bahal," Reza Zouga, Tehran senior, said. That charge is used by the Western and anti-marja charge to 'discount the new government."
HAMILTON CALLED the Iranians' treatment of the Bahais very oppressive and said that it was becoming much worse with the power that the fundamentalist Moslems now have in Iran.
"We want the world to know about the systematic oppression of Bahais in Iran," he said. "We cannot allow a re-emergence of the 19th-century executions."