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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 129 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, April 11, 1985
Football players investigated for assaults
By KATHY FLANDERS
Staff Reporter
Several KU football players are being investigated for their alleged involvement in three assaults, Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flervil said yesterday.
Flory said he may file charges against the football players in connection with the incidents if the investigation produces sufficient evidence.
None of the victims in the three cases filed charges against the people who assaulted them. But in all three cases, police identify the people involved in the assaults as KU football players.
Police would not release the names of the players being investigated.
The most recent incident reported by Lawrence police occurred Friday night at
Gammon's, 1601 W. 23rd St. According to police reports, a KU sophomore was allegedly assaulted by six KU football players in the nightclub's parking lot.
THE STUDENT APPARENTLY made a comment that a player took offense to, police said. A KU senior accompanying the sophomore told police that five football players surrounded and assaulted the sophomore while the other player held him.
sophomore players left him on the ground and ran off, the senior told police. When police arrived, the sophomore was still lying on the ground.
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Police said the student's shirt was torn, his face was covered with blood, one of his cheeks was the size of a baseball, he had a one-inch wound on the back of his head and his arms looked as if they had rug burns.
Hospital, where he was treated and released, police said.
He was transported to Lawrence Memorial
The student told police that he hadn't been beaten up and that he didn't want to press charges.
charges.
KU POLICE PICKED up the players, took them back to the parking lot and allowed them to leave after questioning, police said.
Mike Kirsch, owner of Gammon's, said about five incidents involving football players had occurred there over the past few months. Kirsch wrote about Friday's incident in a letter that appeared in Tuesday's Lawrence Journal-World and that appears in today's Kansan.
Kirsch said yesterday that he had written to Coach Mike Gottried in the past.
"Gotfried has taken action and I think he shares my feelings about how football players should act in public," Kirsch said. "They do whatever they please. That's
unfortunate because there are some team members who cringe whenever they hear about it."
GOTTFRIED COULD NOT be reached for comment yesterday. Athletic Director Monte Johnson said he was "not personally aware of anything except what I saw in the paper."
"I wouldn't prejudice anyone until I have all the facts," he said.
Kirsch said a football player hit a customer in the jaw six weeks ago.
"We kicked the football player out and called the police," he said. "They took a report from the customer who got hit in the mouth."
In another incident, a football player demanded a piece of pizza from a customer at Pizza Shuttle next door, Kirsch said.
"They got the customer so mad, he hauled off and hit the football player." he said. "There were about four to five football
players, and they chased him through the Pizza Shuttle and to the parking lot.
"WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, four football players were holding him down on the lot while the other was beating the guy up."
One of the cases that Flory is investigating occurred when football players allegedly beat up a student March 28 in Robinson Gymnasium.
Floy said he had tried to call two people who had been hospitalized and released after the assaults reported by the Lawrence police. He said he hadn't been able to reach them
"At this point, because of three situations, I want to talk to the people involved," he said. "We typically don't go out shopping for work to do."
Anti-gay speaker gets mixed crowd reaction
"We can still file a case if there's enough evidence. It's unusual but not impossible. Decisions of criminal charges are made in this office.
Staff Reporter
Homosexual men should be quarantined until researchers find a cure for AIDS, a national speaker against gay rights said yesterday.
Fraud Cameron, chairman of the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality in Lincoln, Neb., spoke about the medical consequences of homosexuality at a rally on the south lawn of the Kansas University. About 100 gay rights supporters protested Cameron's visit.
Ten supporters of Cameron's views marched from the west end of campus to the rally at the Union. The march, rally and Cameron's visit were sponsored by New Life Student Fellowship and the Lawrence Citizens for Traditional Values.
Cameron also will speak today at 7:30 p.m. in woodriff Auditorium of the Kansas Union, and toromorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
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Cameron said a quarantine on homosexual men would prevent AIDS from spreading to other homosexuals and heterosexuals.
CAMERON'S VISIT CONCIDES with Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, a week of films, speakers and music celebrating gay awareness on campus. GALA week is sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas. But the march, rally and Cameron's lectures are not associated with the week, Greg Nabors, president of New Life Student Fellowship said.
AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a disease in which the body's immune system becomes unable to resist infection. The illness is thought to be caused by an unusual virus identified last year.
AIDS is most likely to strike homosexuals, Haitians, abusers of injectable drugs and hemophiliacs. It apparently is spread by sexual contact, contaminated needles and blood transfusions.
DURING THE MARCH, Cameron's supporters carried signs that said "Save the Gays" and "Aware Gays Find the Way Out."
About 100 people already had gathered on the lawn to protest Cameron's speech when the marchers arrived. Many of the protesters
frequently yelled comments, such as "lies"
and "too home" during Cameron's speech
By the end of the speech, Cameron could no longer be heard over the chants of protesters who had surrounded him.
wbo the Lichtwardt, GLOSK director, said she thought the number of protesters against Cameron indicated that most Americans would not accept his proposals.
Cameron said identifying homosexuals for a quarantine would not be difficult because many of them openly admitted to it.
"AND HITLER FOUND out that as soon as you quarantine homosexuals, they will quickly list their lovers," Cameron said. "Within weeks, we would have the bulk of the homosexual community."
Under the quarantine, homosexual men would be confined to their homes until a cure was found for AIDS. But Cameron said he was not optimistic that a cure would be found soon.
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The quarantine would be enforced with a 'central receiving unit' that police would monitor, Cameron said. If the quarantine was violated repeatedly, devices such as injections or explosives could be used to enforce the quarantine.
BEV WRIGHT, LAWRENCE graduate student, said she thought the protests against Cameron showed a rebellion against God and nature.
"The number of protesters is a sign of man's rebellion against God," Wright said. "Man makes up his own rules even if it destroys life and causes problems."
Bob Shelton, associate professor of religious studies, questioned Cameron after the speech about his credentials.
"The language he uses is very unscientific, and in one section about the homosexual threat to children, he supports his statements with his own research. Normally, if you quote statistics, you go to other sources than yourself — if you're a scientist."
Andy Helma, co-director of GLSOK, said GLSOK had not organized the protest, but he was encouraged by the number of people who protested.
"We had them outnumbered 100 to 20." Helms said. "Everyone just kind of showed it. It's nice to see active, vocal people speak up for their rights."
Gay rights supporters surround Paul Cameron, chairman of the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, to protest his remarks against homosexuals. Cameron spoke
yesterday at a rally on the Kansas Union lawn after he and other gay rights opponents marched down Jayhawk Boulevard.
Liquor bills sent to Legislature
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Negotiators of a package of liquor bills, including the proposed liquor by the drink amendment to the state's constitution, yesterday broke their deadlock and sent the measures to the full Kansas Legislature for approval.
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But the House decided to wait until today to vote on two of the bills in the package. One of the bills includes enabling provisions that would enact the liquor resolution if it is approved by the state's voters. If voters approve liquor by the drink, an enabling bill would specify the regulations for its sale.
The Senate acted quickly to approve one of the bills in the package—a proposal to raise the state's legal drinking age for 3.2 percent beer to 21 by July 1, 1987. The bill passed 25-14.
The conference committee was formed in March to resolve differences between House and Senate rules of the liquor resolution, the drinking age bill and a pair of bills - one to toughen drunken driving laws and one to crack down on underage drinkers.
THE HOUSE PASSED by a 114-9 vote another bill in the package that would toughen the laws against drunken driving.
Negotiators from a House-Senate conference committee wrapped up almost three weeks of meetings on drinking legislation.
State Rep. Robert H. Miller, R Wellington and a member of the committee, said the conference committee's agreement was a good balance between House and Senate positions on the drinking issues.
"I'm very pleased." Miller said. "There's nothing in it I'm disappointed with."
The liquor amendment allows those counties that approve it to permit the sale of liquor by the drink. The enabling bill limits liquor by the drink sales to places that receive at least 30 percent of their income from food sales.
THE LIQUOR BY THE drink resolution is at the center of the package the committee returned to the two chambers. If approved by the House and Senate, the resolution would go to the state's voters in the 1986 general election.
The version of the liquor provision passed by the House would have included the 30 percent food provision in the constitutional amendment. Senators on the committee and many House members opposed including that provision in the state's constitution.
The enabling provisions, added to a bill that bans drinking promotions such as happy hours and drink-and-drown nights, also requires an earlier closing time for clubs.
The conference committee compromised on a 2 a.m. closing time for clubs. The House had asked for 1:30 a.m. closing hours.
IN THE COMPROMISE reached yesterday, the committee also stripped several provisions from the drinking age bill passed last month by the Senate. They were put in a separate bill that will follow the liquor resolution through the Legislature.
Included in that bill are provisions to allow carry out sales of 3.2 beer on Sunday and to allow the Board of Regents to designate one building on the Regents schools' campuses where liquor could be served.
The drinking age bill approved by the Senate would raise the legal drinking age for
portion to then form the STATE SEN. PAUL Burke, R-Leawood and a member of the conference committee, said the committee reached its agreement early yesterday. Members of the committee had been meeting unofficially all week in groups of two to try to resolve their remaining differences.
3. 2 beer to 19 on July 1. Beginning July 1, 1986 the drinking age would be 20, and starting July 1, 1987, it would be 21.
July 1, 1987. It was the change in the drinking age was necessary to comply with federal regulations that required all states to have a uniform drinking age of 21 by Sept. 1, 1986 or lose a portion of their federal highway funds.
The panel then met for about 40 minutes to sign the conference report.
A glitch in the drinking age bill showed up during debate on the report in the Senate. State Sen. Phil Martin. D-Pittsburgh, noted the bill did not include a provision to return the drinking age to 18 if a pending court case succeeded in overturning the federal requirement.
The provision was left out by mistake, senators said, but conference committee members had to meet again to sign an amended report that included the previous
an amended report that this committee THIS SPARKED A quick recess and hurried meeting of conference committee members on the third floor rotunda before the measure could return to the Senate for a vote.
The bill now goes to the House, where it should be decided along with the other bills in the package.
the package.
The conference committee's plan is to send the package of bills through both chambers to Gov. John Carlin ___
See LIQUOR, p. 5, col.1
Soviet studies center loses federal grants
A denial by the Department of Education to renew the annual federal grant for KU's Center for Soviet and East European Studies deals a serious blow to KU's program, the chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literatures said yesterday.
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
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On Tuesday, the center learned that the Department of Education would not renew its annual grant of $150,000 to $175,000 to the center for the next three years. Since 1965, the center has received the federal grant every year except the 1973-1974 school year.
IF THE UNIVERSITY does not come to the center's aid to restore funds now lost, Mikkelson said, one-third to one-half of the graduate teaching assistants will be let go. He also said the writer in-residence program, the graduate studies' programs and almost all department library acquisitions would be either eliminated or
school year.
"This center is one of 11 in the country designated by the federal government as a national resource center." Gerald Mikelson, the director, said. "We're the only university between the Rockies and the Mississippi that has a graduate program in Slavic studies. Our center is quite highly respected. But without this money, our programs will be tremendously hurt!"
severely cut back. Some classes in less popular languages could also be dropped.
Mikkelsen, said, however, that most undergraduate classes, such as those in Russian and Serbo-Croatian, would not be affected.
“This grant allowed us to be a cut above the other universities,” Mikkelson said. “We could also try to get funding from other private sources, but that would take a lot of time with no guarantee. We also really don’t want to solicit other grants if a couple of years without the money will set our programs back at least five to ten years.”
"THOSE CLASSES ARE THE foundation of our whole department," he said. "We certainly will do everything we can to keep those classes from being cut. In general, most undergraduate classes will not be affected in any way."
William Fletcher, chairman of the department of Soviet and East European Studies, said most students in the department would not notice any real change in the programs.
"The grant added a lot of prestige and drew a lot of attention to the state of Kansas." Fletcher said. "But it was really an extra, added bonus that allowed us to do some rather exotic things. The department has always had a strong base and will continue to."
Mikkelsen said emergency financing
See CENTER, p. 5, col. 1