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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 137 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, April 23, 1985
O'Neill says U.S. will resist unrest
By United Press International
MANHATTAN, Kan. — House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill yesterday said members of Congress from both sides of the political aisle would rise up if there were solid evidence that Nicaragua was fomenting military unheaval in Central America.
"We could not stand, and would not stand, for it," the Massachusetts Democrat said in response to questions from a Landon Lecture audience at Kansas State University.
However, O'Neil said the communist and instantiate government of Nicaragua had put a stop to the project.
Although he said he abhorred communism as much as anyone, O'Neill said there could be more to fear from the contra movement President Reagan was supporting in an attempt to overthrow the controlling Sandhistas. O'Neill said 38 of the 45 co-leaders were more members of the National Guard or ousted Nicaraguan dictator Assadan Somoza.
"NOBODY KNOWS WHAT the contras stand for," he said.
In a news conference prior to his address, O'Neill said Reagan would not be satisfied until he had American troops involved in Nicaragua. He said Reagan thought it was in the best interests of the country to have a military victory in Central America.
"I don't think he'll be happy until he has our troops, our boys, in Central America," he said.
He predicted the House would reject the president's proposal for $14 million in aid to the contra. Votes on the contra aid proposal scheduled in the House and Senate Tuesday.
O'Neill, in Manhattan to deliver the 69th Alfred M. Landon Lecture, said he presumed the House would reject the president's aid proposal, then probably pass a Democratic counter proposal. That plan would provide $5 million to the Red Cross, United Nations or
See O'NEILL, p. 5, col. 1
East Asian Studies loses federal grant
By PATRICIA SKALLA
The Center for East Asian Studies will lose more than $100,000 each of the next three years because the federal government is not renewing its grant, the assistant director of the center said yesterday.
The federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education had been used to finance graduate assistantships and other programs.
Staff Reporter
Marie Adams, the assistant director, said
the center had learned earlier this month
that a new study needed to be done.
Two weeks ago, the Center for Soviet and East European Studies learned that it also had lost financing from the Department of Education. The center will lose $150,000 to
ANDREW TSUBAKI chairman of the department of East Asian languages and cultures, said that because the department would lose 50 to 60 percent of the money it
used for graduate teaching assistants, it would be forced to make some changes.
"We will be curtailing our course offerings in one way or the other," he said. "It depends on how much money we get from the college."
The center is partially financed by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Adams said officials at the center now were discussing with college administrators whether the college could contribute more money.
Minor said he hoped the college would be able to help, but said he would not blame anyone if the college were unable to increase its aid because it had limited resources.
CLASSES SUCH AS first-year Korean and Japanese composition might have to be dropped to maintain other, more fundamental classes, he said. The department also must be forced to eliminate funds for some TA's who teach Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Steve Strom of the Marathon Christian Church, 927 Ohio St. voices his support at a rally to promote President Reagan's aid package for Nicaraguan rebels. About 10 people marched
yesterday to support the aid package, which is scheduled to be voted on today by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
See CENTER, p. 5, col. 1
Rally backs Reagan's contra aid
By J. STROHMAIER
Staff Reporter
Ten people marched down Jayhawk Boulevard yesterday to protest the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and to rally support for the Reagan administration's $1 million aid package for rebel forces fighting that government.
The march, according to one protester, was designed to make students and citizens aware that the U.S. House of Representatives are scheduled to vote on the aid package.
students or area citizens — to write to their congressmen, today or tonight, to voice their support for the freedom fighters (contra) in Clarksville, Tenn., junior.
Reagan's aid package would provide rebel forces with money for humanitarian purposes — food and medical supplies. However, the money could be used for military supplies if peace talks between the groups are not pursued.
"What our aim is, is to get people —
THE MARCH STARTED just after noon:
Supporters marched from the Chi Omega
fountain, at the corner of Jayhawk Boulevard
and West Campus Road, down Jayhawk
Boulevard to the Kansas Union and back to the Chi Omega fountain
As the supporters marchee, uey channe "Freedom fighters for freedom" and "Communists out of Nicaragua" All the activists signs showing support for the contra forces.
Some students shouted derogatory remarks at the supporters as they marched. One bicyclist yelled "Nazis out of America" at the marchers.
McDermott, student president of Maranatha Campus Ministries, said the march was not sponsored by one particular
See CONTRA, p. 5, col. 3
Scholarships, loans harvested from land investments
Staff Reporter
By ANN PETERSON
In the heat of the summer in southwest Kansas, farmers gather their wheat into trucks and haul a year's hard work to grain elevators. When the farmers arrive, they calculate their earnings by the market price of a bushel of wheat.
And in the dusty plains of Oklahoma and Texas, workers dig deep into the ground to find water.
their success by counting barrel after barrel of crude oil.
The Kansas University Endowment Association also counts these same bushels of wheat and barrels of oil each year, because they play an important role in determining the number of scholarships and loans it can provide students, Martin Henry, property manager for the Endowment Association, said recently.
The Endowment Association controls about 360,000 acres on 200 farms and about 210 oil and gas leases that are owned by the
University or the Endowment Association, Henry said.
"TM JUST looking in my crystal ball when I guess at the number of scholarships each year. Henry said. "The amount of revenue generated by scholarships, and I never count on too much."
But these land and mineral investments in the year reaped $1,307.59, compared to $1,286.40.
Mineral investment revenue increased 29 percent in 184 to $617,774, from $478,354 in 183, largely because of an increase in
production and exploration in some southwest Kansas oil and natural gas fields, Henry
Revenue from crops yielded $690,000 last year, an increase of 4.5 percent from $69,095
"The land is a great source of income for the University." Henry said.
ALMOST ALL OF the land is in southwestern Kansas, Henry said, although the University owns a few small wheat and soybean farms in western Texas.
mineral rights to the Endowment Association or the University may specify how the revenue from the land is to be used. Otherwise, Endowment Association trustees and University administrators can decide how to allocate the money.
Donors who give or bequeath land or
Steve Menaigh, public relations director of the Endowment Association, said one of the largest bequests came from a law firm in Lawrence banker J. B. Watkins. She gave the University 24,000.
Radical filmmaker shares ideals
Bv NANCY STOETZER
See ENDOW. p. 5. col. 4
Staff Reporter
Emile de Antonio is a political being, a filmmaker and a person of the left.
The 65 year-old director, who is visiting KU this week, speaks candidly about his political and personal ideals and how they are incorporated into his work.
The themes in his films speak for themselves through a form of documentary he invented, known as "seamless." There is no narration, no intrusion of the outside voice. His films use actual footage from events as diverse as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the political career of Richard Nixon.
He is a man of many backgrounds — a Harvard graduate and a World War II veteran who has made some of the most radical documentaries in American film
"I'm not like a Hollywood film person," de Antonio said yesterday. "I don't just make a film and throw it out into the world and go on to the next one. I'm committed to those
DE ANTONIO'S VISIT is sponsored by student activities and several academic programs.
During his visit, he plans to lecture to classes and speak at free showings of his films. He is scheduled to speak in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union after the showing of his film "The King of Prussia" at 7 tonight.
Another of his films, "Painters Painting," is scheduled to be shown at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
"The King of Prussia" tells the story of the 1800 anti-nuclear activities and subsequent trial of a radical pacifist group in Pennsylvania, whose painting "injuring" examines the New York art world.
"I thought about making it here because of 'The Day After' and because I like the way this area Lawrence looks. But if I talk about what would happen if someone else because it would be bored to me."
De Antonio plans to partially shoot his next film in Lawrence and Topeka.
De Antonio said that his 1989 film about the Vietnam War. "In the Year of the Pig," which was shown on campus on Sunday, was a groundbreaking film nominated for an Academy Award.
"I WANT TO make a positive film about the atomic thing," he said. "I thought 'The Day After' was a cheap ride on a major issue. People were only seized by it momentarily."
"I was angry about Vietnam from 64 on," he said. "I didn't want to make something that was just a shout of anger against the enemy. I wanted to make a history of 'Nam in film."
"In the Year of the gimp" employs a collage of news footage, political propaganda and anti-war speeches to demonstrate the filmmaker's feelings about the war.
"WAR IS LIKE football. That's why people like football. You've got to be up for it to win it."
De Antonio says he has been influenced by artists who think that art can be created out of paper.
"The footage I have is not pretty," he said.
"I'm terrily interested in the aesthetic value of it."
Hollywood makes is some sugar-decorated wedding cake."
"First, his passions for films gravitate toward great issues — the Warren Commission, Vietnam. Second, his technique not to use voice-overs, not to explain, forces the viewer to come up with his own explanation, his own interpolation," he said.
Chuck Berg, professor of radio, TV and film, said de Antonio had had a terrific effect on documentary filmmaking for two reasons.
De Antonio, who calls himself a New Yorker, studied at Columbia University before graduating from Harvard. Before he became a filmmaker, he worked as a longshoreman, a barge captain, and taught English literature and philosophy.
De Antonio's belief in the left started at an early age.
"I don't know why I became a radical. My father was a non-believer. I was raised without any religion and I separated myself from the world early in school. I used to refuse to put my head down for the Lord's Praer
"Having no religion separates you, it makes you radical. And you become political."
He was arrested five weeks ago for demonstrating outside the South African consulate in New York.
"IT'S PART OF why I hate the media," he said.
"You commit those acts and you go to the trouble of getting arrested so people will know about it, and so other people will do it. It seems to me the media closed down."
"Allen Ginsberg was there and he read a poem in honor of the demonstration and the arrest we were going to have. Not a paper in New York had a line about it.
Terry Burkart/KANSAN
Emile de Antonio, a controversial filmmaker, speaks about his film, "Point of Order," in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The film was shown last night as part of an SUA series on films produced by de Antonio.