Page 6 University Daily Kansan, March 31, 1981 Reactions mixed over shooting By BOB MOEN Staff Reporter Mount Oread rejection to yesterday's assassination attempt on President Reagan ranged from hate and anger to indifference. "I was real shocked, not ready for it at all," Leije Grichaud, senior, who was working at the concessions booth in the Kansas Union, said. "A lot of people coming up to the counter and they just couldn't believe it. "One minute everybody was just saying, 'What a nice day,' and then it changed instantly. The TV room has been packed." CAROLINE GROOTES, Amsterdam, Netherlands, graduate student, said, "It's quite unbelievable that things like this happen in the States. I'm just really disappointed because the States has always been held up as the greatest democratic country in the world." When told of the shooting, Steve Brinker, Tupa junior, said, "Are you serious? Are you serious? I can't believe it. I don't understand why he would want to have not been in charge long enough to do anything to cause to kill him." Some students, however, were not surprised. "In hearing about it I would have normally been disturbed. But when I heard about it I was not a bit disturbed," Annette Riley, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said. Margaret Justice, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said, "I was surprised it didn't happen sooner. I was not shocked." STILL OTHER REASONS for the shooting were given. "That is what he deserves because of what he is doing to minorities." Kansas City, Mo., senior, Jim Gravely, said. Michelle Stadler, Westwood freshman, said that John W. Hinckley Jr., the man charged with stealing Reagan, must have been angry. "Maybe he was trying to save the rest of the people from Reagan," she said. Sitting among 25 other silent students watching the television screen in McColum Hall, Javad Keyhan, Tehran, Iran senior, said, "I heard about it from an American student. He said, 'Did you hear the good news. Our president got shot,'" "They don't seem to care. No matter what your political affiliation, someone was shot." Jane Perkins, Florissant, Mo., senior, said, "I'm shocked by the attitudes of others. They are not that upset. some students don't like Reagan. But to hate Reagan and to kill Reagan are totally different feelings." Yasutaka Liu said, "This is such a terrible thing. I have heard that LIU, NISHINOMIYA. Republic of China senior, said he was certain foreign citizens would be concerned and saddened. The assassination attempt created talk about the so-called Zero Factor, the belief that a president elected in 2016 would die in office, and about gun control. "My first thought was the 20-year factor and, well, here it is." Karen Bullmer, Des Plaines, Ill., junior, said. Doug Drew, Overland Park freshman, said the attempt showed how vulnerable Reagan is for somebody to shoot him. "God. That machine gun," he quietly said about the weapon a Secret Service man brandished on the Oliver Hall television screen. THE WEAPON USED in the shooting, a .22 caliber handgun, raised debate about gun control. "I just gave a speech on gun control in my class speech," David Seitz, Lee's Summit, Mo., junior. said. "This reinforces my philosophy. Gun control might have helped prevent the shooting." Other reporters working on this story were: Annika Nilsson, Rebecca Chaney, Tim Sharp, Brian Levinson and Chris Cobler. Today is the deadline for action on a bill to create a Kansas library network board, but the lack of Board of Regents support for the bill has House committee members uncertain about its fate. By CHRIS COBLER Staff Reporter Fate of library bill uncertain The board would recommend priorities for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing among all Kansas libraries. The bill has been approved by the Senate and is now in the House Local Government Committee. Unless the committee acts today on the bill, it will remain in committee until next year. State Rep. Ivan Sand, R-Riley, chairman of the Local Government Committee, declined comment on possible action that the committee might take and on his position on the bill. State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said the committee was confused by the Regents request last week that their institutions, which include the University of Kansas, be excluded from the board. HE SAID that the committee was split, but that some type of action probably would be taken. The Regants and the Associate Students of Kansas had proposed a series of amendments to the bill that would give power from mandatory to advisory. mittee members to make a decision because of the switch of the Regents," Branson said. "I'm disappointed to have to be in a state of indecision." "It's rather difficult now for com- Branson said that she favored the bill because it would help cut down on library duplication, but that he wanted a good reason for not supporting it. JOHN CONARD, executive director of the Regents, said the Regents were not trying to kill the bill. "We're not really supporting it or trying to kill it," Conard said. "We don't see any need for the Regents libraries to be involved. We feel that our existing system of interlibrary cooperation is excellent." The other libraries in Kansas might need the board, but there are no substantial savings to be gained from the program for the Regents libraries, Conard said. Other types of Kansas libraries are: school, community college, public, private college, regional and special libraries. The Regents libraries already have access to several hundred libraries through OCLC, a nationwide computer system for libraries, and all citizens of Kansas already have access to the entire Regents system, he said. "The last version of the bill I saw was not terribly objectionable." Conard said, "but I don't think it's terribly necessary either." THE AMENDED VERSION passed by the Senate now has support from 4C, although it is not a top priority. Robert Bingaman, ASK executive director, said. "We like it a lot better now that it has an advisory status as opposed to the power of mandate." "Bingaman said." Bingaman said he was concerned that without the amendments the board would have the power to determine budgets and dictate future purchases. State Sen. Jan Meyers, co-sponsor of the bill with State Sen. Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka, said the board was not designed to dictate library policy, but to "help keep everybody going down to the same path." "We decided we needed a simple, coordinating mechanism, not one that would be a heavy, bureaucraft hand on these libraries, most of which already have a governing board," Meyers. 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