KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 13, 1981
Vol. 91, No. 115 USPS 650-640
Senate hears allegations on Iranian student group on last day of hearings
Staff Reporter
By KAREN SCHLUETER Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee last night outlined four allegations levelled against the Tranian Student Association for investigation.
Mahmood Amiani, engineering student senator, presented the allegations to the com
The first allegation made was that the ISA did not hold open and well-publicized officer elections. Amii told the committee that he had signatures from at least 70 Iranian students who had not received notice of the group's elections. There are about 250 Iranians at KU1.
The second allegation the committee will investigate is that ISA lied to the University on its Student Organization Registration/Recognition form. On the form, the organization is described as a service, academic discipline, social, cultural and sports organization.
Amani, Mashhad, Iran, sophomore, contends that ISA is primarily a political organization, and should represent itself as such to the University.
AFTER THE MEETING. Loren Busby, committee chairman, said that he did not think the Senate had the power to investigate this allegation.
"No, it's not up to the Senate to investigate whether IA sled to the Office of Student Organizations and Activities," he said. "That's something that should come down to that paraphrase."
The third allegation involves the use of Senate funds disbursed to ISA through the International Association of Tax Collectors.
Amani, International Club vice president, said that the ISA used the money to run an advertisement for a film about the Chilean revolution.
"They are not an honest organization," he said. "They have never acted in good faith. They have cheated the University and the people they save they represent."
"They have lied to us as franfans by saying they represent our culture. They represent views that we don't agree with."
The fourth allegation involves the misuse of money allocated to ISA for postage. No specific instances of abuse were presented during the hearings.
Arami wanted to add an allegation that the group was not the true representative of Iranian nuclear powers.
Iranian Students Association, but Busby ruled him out of order.
"Any group can have any name it wants,"
"these students don't have to represent all"
"Iranian students."
DAVID VAN PARYS, treasurer, told the committee that it must find strong evidence to show the need for a new law.
"You've got to differentiate between someone who misuses funds accidently intentionally," he said.
Bubby asked Shahrok Azedi, ISA spokesman, whether she wanted to address the allegations on his behalf.
Azied declined to discuss the allegations, but repeatedly asked Busby two questions concerning last week's Cultural Committee meeting when the allegations surfaced.
Aziedi used Busby whether Amani said during the meeting that he took pictures of SA leaflets in the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard. He also asked whether Amani told the committee that the ISA printed a slogan urging death to imperialism on its leaflets.
Bursay said he recalled Arami saying that he took the pictures, but later qualified his answer with a remark about the story.
He said that Amiam discussed the slogan but later said that he did not recall the exact words.
According to an Iranian who did not wish to be identified, the slogan "death to American imperialism, the true enemy of the Iranian nation" is a sensitive subject for Iranian students.
IRIANIAN STUDENTS supporting and opposing Amani's allegations were upset over the exact words Amani used when discussing this slogan.
"I'm sure that's because they write those things not for American audiences," the Iranian said. "If this is published in English, it shows Iranian feelings toward Americans."
"They target those slogans for the Iranian population, and they don't want them to be translated to Americans because they don't want to be a minority that is resented by Americans."
The slogan appeared on an ISA flier, written in Farsi, directed against Amani last weekend. Amani was accused of spying for the United States.
Busy scheduled a meeting for the first week in April. He said that the accusers could then present evidence to support the allegations and ISA could defend itself against the allegations.
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Many of KU's sports teams vie for rankings in tourneys
With the excitement of the KU men's basketball team going to the NCAA post-season tournament, the activities of the other KU sports teams may have gone unnoticed.
By the sports staff
Standing in silence, Paula Brighs, Raystown, Mo. freshman, prays for the black children murdered in Atlanta. About 100 people attended a prayer last night at Pottery Lake Pavilion. A silent vigil was held Tuesday morning at Pottery Lake Pavilion.
The basketball team faces Mississippi tonight at Wichita's Henry Little Vena. Areta is 7:08.
See related story page 2
The women's team meets South Dakota at 1 p.m. today.
THE JAYHAWKS' opponent, Ole Miss, has the worst record in the NCAA tournament—16-13.
The men's track team is in Detroit this weekend for the NCAA indoor championships, and the women's team is competing at its home venue. The AIAw championships in Pocatello, Idaho.
"They are the hottest team in the Southeastern Conference," Head Coach Ted Owens said. "That includes Kentucky and Louisiana State. Of the coaches that I've talked to most have said they had to play Mississippi or LSU (fourth nationally) they would rather play LAU."
But the Rebels won 10 of their last 15 games, including three in the SEC post-season journey.
But the Jayhawks will be playing under a shadow—a shadow in the shape of a sun devil. Should KU knock off Mississippi, the Jayhawks would face Arizona State Sunday night. The Sun Devils are ranked fifth nationally and beat them No.1. Oregon State by 20 points last week.
But back to the Rebels. Despite Mississippi's end-of-season surge, tradition makes the Jayhawks the favorites. KU has been in the NCAA tournament 12 times. The Rebels' barge
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Prayer vigil held in remembrance of 20 murdered Atlanta children
By EDDIE WIL Staff Reporter
A crowd of 100 stood silent beneath dark and cloudy skies last night in remembrance of the 21 missing and murdered Atlanta black children.
KU students and faculty meet at Potter's
university building sponsored by the
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.
During the ceremony, 21 candies were lit
nourished with flowers. The congregation
nourished a one-minute silent prayer followe
The program was conducted by Jules Rovaris, Topea senior, who asked that the wearing of green ribbons in an inverted "V" continue for two reasons.
"The first as a symbol of mourning for the lives already lost. Rovaris said she wished to remember others with other names."
concerned people nationwide to show that we cannot tolerate this action.
"It is indeed tragic that 20 black children lost their lives to make more stark the reality that a black life still does not hold much value in our justice system."
The group also is collecting donations to send to Atlanta to help pay for the cost of the investigation. Containers for the money are located in various residence halls, Rovaris
The green ribbons can be obtained in the
public offices of the City and
Communications office in the Kansas Union.
Rovaris said that the Kansas Senate passed a resolution yesterday to make Sunday a day of prayer.
The measure was sponsored by State Sen. Billy McCrav, D-Wichita.
A community sponsored half-mile silent march from City Hall to the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center is also scheduled for Sunday. The march will begin at 3 p.m.
Senate aids suspended tenure bills
By GENE GEORGE
Staff Reporter
Committee members yesterday seemed willing to consider it.
TOPEKA-State Rep. Joe Hoagland has enlisted the help of the Senate Way and Means Committee to release his legislation on faculty tenure from a bottleneck in the House.
Hoagland, R-Overland Park, sent a letter to committee member Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, asking Gaines to introduce a carbon copy of his tenure bills in the Senate committee.
Gaines' announcement that he would introduce the requested legislation early next week caught on television.
John Conard, executive director of the Regents, said that the board planned to discuss the tenure legislation being studied by a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee at its monthly meeting March 19 and 20
"It was my understanding that the House Witch Committee was willing delay action, Conan said."
He said the House members whom the Regents talked to did not see any particular urgency to take action.
Conard said the board had not talked to enough senators to find out whether the upper house suggested a proposal.
"We've devoted our time to working in the House since that's where the bills were introduced."
Hoagland introduced the tenure legislation because he thought the Regents institutions did not have enough control over the activity of tenured faculty members.
The bill was sent to the Ways and Means Committee, because House Speaker Wendell Lady, who supported the bill, thought it would have an easy chance of passing.
The bill is now tied up in the Ways and Means subcommittee, may die there. Subcommittee member Loren Hohman, D-Topeka, has said that fellow subcommittee member Bob Arbuthnot, R-Haddam, was part of an anti-Lady Tennessean campaign to enforce legislation to discredit the House speaker.
Gaines said he would not discuss the bill at length until debate started next week.
"It tells the Board of Regents that they've got to draw up a code of prescribed conduct (for faculty members) that's within the restraints of the First Amendment," he said.
In other action, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Hess told the committee that he would introduce a bill lowering the residency requirement for out-of-state students at Regents
Hess, R-Wichita, said that Wichita State University's requirement from 12 months to six months was $35 million.
Yesterday, the committee finished up its work on all the appropriations bills for the 1982 budget.
The committee voted to restore slightly more than $173,000 in KU's civil service pay plan for the remainder of this year. That measure now goes to the full Senate.
Hess commended the committee for finishing up one day ahead of its self-imposed deadline.
He said the House and Senate committees combined, cut more than $28.2 million from Gov. John Carlin's proposed 1982 budget of $2.78 billion.
The Senate will start debates on next year's budget next week, with the Regents system-wide vote to take place later.
State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, said she still would try to amend the Regents appropriations bill to restore the cuts made by the committee.
Opinions still differ on genetic engineering safety
Paul Berg
By ANNIKA NILSSON Staff Reporter
During the first years of genetic engineering research in the early 70s, both scientists and lay people raised questions about what hazards genetically manipulated organisms could pose.
Editor's Note: This is the second of two articles dealing with the process and ethical questions of gender equality.
“There is no reason to have elaborate guidelines,” he said. “I think we are maintaining them at present levels mostly because of political reasons.”
National Institute of Health guidelines, which require safe guards to confine organisms used in gene research to the laboratory, have been continually eased since they were first enacted. Engineering involves transplanting genetic information from one organism into another.
In an interview last night, Paul Berg, 1980 Nobel laureate in chemistry, said the safety of hydrogen fuel is crucial.
Berg said scientists continued to follow the guidelines out of obligation to the nublic.
However, in the 1980 November/December issue of Columbia Journalism Review, science writer Rae Goodl criticized the press and politicians for dropping the safety subject and
listening only to pro-genetic engineering sources.
"The nuclear industry may have its Three Mile Islands and the chemical industry its Love Canals," she wrote, "but the genetic industry is somehow different, foulproof."
ACCORDING TO RICHARD COLE, KU professor of philosophy and Robert Shelton, associate professor of religious studies, the most significant ethical question raised by genetic engineering involves its application in biological warfare.
"Because this kind of research is inexpensive and can be pursued by private individuals, private firms and small nations, this problem does not have the burden of nucleus weapons does not have," Cole said.
According to Robert Weaver, associate professor of biochemistry, the cost of equipping a laboratory with such equipment is $40,000.
Cole said that there probably could not be any credible international control of genetic materials.
"You can have national regulations," he said, but that does mean anything because the top government agency has been involved.
Shelton said the major questions with genetic engineering were who would decide what to do with the new knowledge and technology, and what motives these decisions would be made.
Commercial application of genetic
engineering has raised questions whether university students them, with the quickly developing gene index.
WITHIN THE LAST YEAR, several companies have applied genetic-engineering technology to produce clinically important human insulin and the antiviral agent interferon.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said he thought it was possible for faculty members to combine commercial development of genetic engineering and basic research.
Harvard faculty members considered starting their own genetic engineering company but decided against it because of potential conflicts among faculty members and possible effects on basic research that was not immediately profitable.
However, Shankel said the relationship had potential for problems.
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Berg said that a relationship between universities and industry was nothing new but
"It needs a lot of careful definition to make sure the scientific integrity of the researcher is maintained."
According to Shankel, University guidelines governing consulting jobs should apply. Those guidelines dictate that faculty members' first responsibility be his own research and work with students.
Weather
It will be partly to mostly sunny today with slightly cooler temperatures, according to the KU Weather Service. It will be $8. Winds will be light and variable.
Tonight, it will be mostly clear with a low of 30.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with the high in the low to mid 60s.