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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 120 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, March 28, 1985
Protesters expected to greet Farrakhan tonight
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Louis Farrakhan's speech tonight in Hoch Auditorium has stirred activity on campus even before his arrival.
Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam movement, is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. as part of the Black Student Union Lecture on Wednesday, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
KU police and the press have made plans for the black separatist minister's visit, and at least two groups plan to protest his speech.
Members of a group called Students Against Racism and Anti-Semitism plan to protest peacefully against Farrakhan at 5 p.m. in front of Hoch. At about 6:15 p.m., they are scheduled to be joined by members of Young Americans for Freedom, who plan to picket peacefully and distribute pamphlets.
RON MANDELBAUM, a spokesman for the SARA, said yesterday that his group had formed to alert the public about Fraakarhan's students and local residents compose SARA.
"We are not protesting specifically what he will say or his right to be here." Mandelbaum said. "But I know what he is about. He has made blatantly racist and anti-Semitic remarks, and the campus community should know about him."
*rarrakhan was quoted last spring as calling Judaism a "dirty religion" and Adolf Hitler "a great - wickedly great man."
Mandelbaum said he knew Farrakhan had claimed at news conferences that the press had written to him.
But Mandelbaum said. "That's the type of person he is. He talks in circles."
MANDELBAUM SAID SARA members would carry signs and distribute literature
and bumper stickers to audience members as they entered the auditorium.
Victor Goodpasture, chairman of the KU chapter of YAF, said his group would protest the use of student fee money to bring Farrakhan to campus.
Earlier this month, Student Senate allocated $3,600 for Farrakhan's appearance. The Senate provided another $800 for security at the speech.
"We have no qualms over him being here," Goodpasture said, "but we don't think they should use Student Senate money."
He said his group might march peacefully after the speech also.
LT. JEANNE LONGAKER, KU police spokesman, said police would let protesters carry banners inside Hoch if the banners
were not attached to sticks or anything that could be used as a weapon.
Students, faculty and staff who plan to attend the speech must show their KU IDs at the door. Members of the public may attend the speech only if they have door passes. Earlier this week, 300 passes were distributed at the Kansas Union.
KU police will be in and around Hoch Auditorium, but Longaker could not say how many officers would be there, their locations or their duties.
Police have not talked with Farrakhan. Longaker said, and they don't know how many security guards he plans to bring. The $3,600 allocated by Student Senate includes funds for Farrakhan to travel with one assistant.
FRANK BARTHELL OF University Relations said members of the press would be asked to present identification before entering the auditorium.
The University usually does not require this, Barthell said, but Alpha Phi Alpha requested that the precaution be taken.
Dale Brooks, secretary of Alpha Phi Alpha,
said. "We don't expect any problems. If nothing happens, great. But if something does happen, we want to be prepared."
Bartlett said about 15 television stations, six local radio stations and seven newspapers planned to cover the Farrakran speech. He said the program was followed by reaction from student groups.
"I suspect it's its controversial remarks that have drawn so much publicity," he said. "But I also think there is interest in the possibility of protests and conflict."
Barthell, who has worked at University Relations since 1981, said he couldn't remember any other campus speaker who had drawn as much press attention.
Blast rocks shop, booms in Lawrence
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Some information for this story was provided by Julie Mangan, staff reporter.
A loud boom was heard throughout much of southeast Lawrence shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday when a 500-gallon propane tank exploded in the front yard, south of 22rd and Louisiana streets.
No one was seriously injured in the explosion at Rey-Mac, the machine shop, two miles south of the city limits by 30 feet and eight feet by 30 feet, was damaged extensively in the explosion.
Carl Reynolds, owner of the shop, said he received minor scratches and was knocked over by the explosion while standing about 20 feet from the tank.
"It's a miracle how he wasn't really hurt," said L. Donald Schwartz of the Lawrence
The tank, about 12 feet long and 3 feet in diameter, sat outside the north end of the building. It blew out the north wooden wall and south glass wall of the building, filling the air with a gas smell that lingered for hours.
Rubble and flattened walls show the power of a propane tank explosion at the Rev-Mac machine shop. No one was injured when the propane tanks exploded.
DAMAGE TO THE building and equipment in it will not be estimated until sometime today. Schwartz said. The cost of a propane tank is about $500.
Louie McElihaney, Wakarusa Township fire chief, said several expensive welders and a boring mill, which cuts metal, were damaged.
McElihaney said the tank probably exploded because of a leak or because the tank was low on propane, which caused pressure to build inside it.
"I puzzled, though, as to why it blew out the north and south walls if it was sitting east of them."
The explosion could be heard for miles, and neighbors, said the ground shook.
About three miles away at So Fro, 711 W
23rd St., Renee Rau, an employee, said she
heard an explosion that shook the windows
but thought it was only thunder.
BLACK SMOKE COULD be seen rising from the building, said Reynolds' wife, Irene.
"I don't have any kitchen windows now," she said. "The compression did it. All my air conditioning was broken."
She said that when she heard the thundering explosion, she ran outside to the shop. Her son Kevin was standing outside the window where the windshield was shattered in the explosion.
But then she realized Carl was inside
"I was scared, but I'm always scared with a machine shop," she said.
When the tank exploded, it flew into the air directly over Carl Reynolds' headquarters, said All that remained of the tank were scars on the metal scattered around the building and yard.
he sat in the rubble in the east end of his building was not so hopeful.
IRENE REYNOLDS SAID she thought her husband would be back in business in a few days. But the look on her husband's face as
Reynolds declined to talk about the explosion as he began to examine the damage done to the large machinery in the shop he has operated for more than 15 years.
Broken cement, shattered glass and wood filled about a third of the shop after the explosion. Boring mill handles were hidden beneath the rubble, which was several inches thick.
Officer taking military photos before shooting
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Administration officials acknowledged yesterday that Maj. Arthur Nicholson was photographing Soviet military equipment before he was shot by a Soviet sentry but insisted that there was no justification for the killing.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the administration was considering "dipolitical-related steps" in response to Sunday's shooting in East Germany.
In the late afternoon, the State Department summoned Oleg Sokolov, the No.2 diplomat in the Soviet Embassy, to a meeting with Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt. Sokolov declined comment as he entered the building
A senior administration official said no serious economic or political sanctions were given.
"These are things that would not exacerbate the relationship." he said.
TWO OFFICIALS FROM the Pentagon and State Department acknowledged Nicholson, a U.S. military observer, was photographing him in Syria, and was formerly designated a restricted area.
But the officials, speaking on the condition they not be identified, repeated that the shooting was completely unnecessary and said the fact that Nicholson had no medical attention for an hour was particularly inhumane.
"They had a right to detain him, but not to shoot him," said one official.
At the White House, Speaks said possible steps against Moscow were being discussed, but State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb had no comment.
Deputy press secretary Bob Sims, said, for instance, that the Soviet naval attack, now touring the West Coast with attaches from Russia, will be moved to Washington to be delivered a protest.
But he characterized the diplomatic steps as no big deal.
Group blamed for animal problems
See OFFICER, p. 5, col. 1
By GREG LARSON
Staff Reporter
He said information about the care unit's rusty cages and renovation needs never reached the Med Center administration
An advisory committee of the animal care unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center is partly responsible for problems in the care of animals. In a report, a new care unit official said Tuesday.
Jacob Frenkel, chariman of the animal care committee, said the the committee was not responsible for the communication breakdown.
John Mulder, who will become director of the Med Center animal care unit April 1, said C.C. Templeman, the former director of the unit, filed a number of memos that never reached the administration because the animal care committee took it upon itself to
before a February report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The report said the care unit, on fifth floor of Wahl and Hixon halls at the Med Center, contained such deficiencies as rusty equipments and unclean pharmaceuticals and unclean animal living conditions.
sional committee concerned with the animals, not the engineering of the unit, he said. "We want to see healthy animals. The administration water and air defend on the administration."
"The animal care committee is a profes.
MULDER SAID, "I think the administration was aware of the problems, but I don't know how."
Nine members, elected by faculty of the College of Health Sciences, compose the committee and advise the administration on changes and spending for the unit.
D. KAY CLAWSON, executive vice chancellor for the College of Health Sciences, said, "My perception is that the deficiencies cited were not viewed as significant by the animal care committee. The committee is not interested in the environment the animals are living in as long as they are healthy.
ney are serving on the committee to
Couple, car take surprise night plunge
He said he always cooperated with the administration but he insisted that the administration couldn't handle anything.
See ANIMALS, p. 5, col. 4
By KATHY FLANDERS
Two KU freshmen took an unexpected swim Monday night when the car they were in rolled into Clinton Lake.
When the man parked the car, a 1974 Ford Mustang, he left it in neutral and didn't set the parking brake, the Douglas County sheriff's office said yesterday.
The students, a man and a woman, both from Prairie Village, had parked in the man's car at the edge of Clinton Lake Reservoir by the Rock Creek Access Area.
Staff Reporter
About 10 p.m. the man and the woman were in the hatchback area of the car when it became rainy.
The car rolled over the edge of the lake, into a 5 foot drop off and plunged hood first into a hole.
The car started sinking with the two inside.
"The pressure on the doors from the water was too much to get them open," said the man, who asked not to be identified. "We had to roll the window down and swim. We got out before it went down completely."
The car started sinking with the two inside
"I waited until my girlfriend got out of the lake before I went to get help. I ran up a gravel road about one-fourth mile and through some woods.
"I was barefoot - I didn't want to stay on the gravel. I'm cut up pretty good. My legs are wide."
The man finally reached a house, and the people at the house called the sheriff. The
sheriff's office called a wrecker service to tow the car out of the lake.
"They had to call a civil defense diver," the man said. "He had to go under the water about 5 feet — the car was sitting nose down and back a chair in a pull out lull."
"It cost a couple of hundred to have it pulled out. The diver was the biggest part of the bill."
The car was pulled from the lake about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, the car's owner said. A sheriff's deputy took the man and the woman home.
A sheriff's deputy issued the man a ticket for not having proof of insurance in the car.
"The sheriff thought it was funny," the man said. "I didn't and still don't."
Senate fails to override veto of athletic petition
Staff Reporter
By JULIE MANGAN
Student senators last night could not raise the two-thirds vote needed to override a presidential veto of a petition asking the Athletic Department to revoke a football player's scholarship and to remove him from the team.
The petition, addressed to Monte Johnson, athletic director, and Mike Gottried, head football coach, asked that Roderick Timmons' scholarship and team membership be ended because of Timmons' seventh year of sexual battery, a maleideemer.
The conviction stemmed from an incident in Jayhawker Towers in March.
The Endowment Association has been criticized for investing in companies that
Timmons is on athletic scholarship as a defensive lineman. He has not played since the 1983 season. He was dismissed by Hoffman this season, instigated by Gottfried earlier this spring.
The resolution, which has no binding power, also asks that the Endowment Association reveal its financial investments to the Senate once every six
IN OTHER ACTION last night, the Senate approved a resolution to "strongly suggest" that the Kansas University Endowment Association develop and put into action by Sept. 30 a plan for divesting companies doing business in South Africa.
sell products or otherwise do business in South Africa, which operates under a government-sponsored policy of racial segregation called apartheid.
Earlier this month, the petition asking that Timmons be kicked off the football team and taken off scholarship was attached to a bill to finance women's and non-revenue sports, which include all sports but men's football and basketball.
THE SENATE PASSED the financing bill two weeks ago with the condition that the Athletic Department abide by the athletic codes for women's and non-revenue sports.
William Easley, student body president,
said he vetected the petition after David
Ambler, vice chancellor for student
affairs, told him the Senate did not have
the right to set Athletic Department
policy.
Amy Kincaid, Nunemaker senator and one of the authors of the original petition, told senators last night that she wanted the Senate to uphold the veto. She said she wanted the Senate to consider new legislation instead.
"The main point is that I think the two things we submitted since then are the same."
AFTER EASLEY VETOED the petition,
members of the Senate University Affairs
Committee rewrote the petition and
divided it into two actions.
The first action, a petition, requests that students convicted of felonies or sexual
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 3