University Daily Kansan, March 25, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Sexual exploitation reported
A 12-year-old Chicago boy apparently was a victim of child exploitation last summer while visiting his father in Lawrence, police said yesterday.
The boy was in Lawrence from June to August visiting his father. When he returned to Chicago, where he lives with his mother, it appeared that he had been sexually exploited.
According to Lawrence police, the boy said he had been forced to disobey and put himself in danger.
Detective Joe Burns of the Chicago police special investigation unit called Lawrence police Wednesday to report the incident to them.
Lawrence detectives picked up the boy's father and interviewed him, but no arrests have been made yet in the case.
Local developer's hearing set
Steve Clark, the developer charged with making a terroristic threat against a former business partner, will have a preliminary hearing April 18.
The date was set Friday at Clark's arrangement in Douglas County District Court. Clark is the president of Lawrence Riverfront Mall Inc., a group that wants to build a riverfront mall near City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
According to Lawrence police, Clark allegedly made the threat against his former partner, Mike Hickman, in a phone call with Hickman's attorney March 1.
A sculptor from Paraguay plans to make a presentation at 10 a.m. and at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the sculpture foundry, room 104 of the Art and Design Building.
Sculptor to give presentation
Herman Guggiari, the sculptor, will discuss the sculpture of Paraguay and South America. The discussions will be into English and will be open to the public.
Book contest deadline April 8
Guggiari is visiting KU to examine the foundry. Elden Tettf, KU professor of art, said Guggiari wanted to study the foundry because he planned to build one for a fictional Puruquay, where he lives. Guggiari has been in New York City showing his work.
The deadline for entries in the 29th annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest is 5:30 p.m. April 8. Entries should be taken to the Snyder Book Collections in the Spencer Research Library.
The contest is open to students enrolled in six or more hours. The Oread Book Shop will award certificates of $100 for first place and $50 for second place in graduate and undergraduate divisions. Previous first-prize winners are ineligible.
Students should submit bibliographies of 25 to 50 titles from their personal collections with brief statements of the authors of the publications and the methods used to build them.
Eight finalists will show their collections during judging April 12 and will be honored at a luncheon in the Kansas city where the winners will be announced.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny, with increasing cloudiness tonight. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. The high tonight will be in the low 70s; the low tonight will be around 40. Tomorrow's high will be in the 60s, with gusty southerly winds of 15 to 30 mph.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press international reports.
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War memories linger in prison camp
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The east Lawrence countryside hides a 40-year-old secret.
A tangle of bare trees protects a decaying wall in a prisoner-of-war camp from the outside world.
At first glance, the crumbling buildings resemble an abandoned motel. But closer inspection reveals reinforced steel doors and windows protected with metal screens and bars.
The camp, which imprisoned as many as 300 German soldiers in 1945, evokes the feeling of trespassing upon a grave. No graffiti is scrawled on the worn wall of the prison, and the desolate site. It's as if no one feels comfortable disturbing the visible reminder of a war.
Left unattended, a Nazi prisoner of war camp in East was home for as many as 300 German soldiers on leave from a Lawrence has fallen into ruin. During World War II, the camp larger camp at Fort Riley.
The camp, near the intersection of 11th Street and Haskell Avenue, was built on a 3/4-acre tree bordered by Santa Fe Railroad tracks. The crew disembarked and paraded the soldiers from the outside world.
"I ASKED A guard why in the heck kept them guarded because there was nowhere for them to go," said Park Hetzler Jr., RFD 2, whose land was used for the prison. "We had guards who were for. The guards were there to keep the little girls from the prisoners."
The camp was built so POWs could supplement Lawrence's work force, which was depleted because of the war. The agriculture industry was particularly hard.
The W.J. Small Co., a Lawrence hay and grain company, signed a contract with the federal government that permitted it to build the camp and bring in prisoners. The camp provided security for Army specifications: On the edge of town, with heating, electricity and water.
HETZEL, WHO STILLL the camp site, said he was approached by the W. J. Small Co. to help with the project because he owned sections of buildings that had been dismantled at the Sunflower Ordnance Works between Eudora and DeSoto.
"Building materials were scarce because of the war, and somehow they found out I had not been there," she said.
He provided the land and materials for the camp and supervised its construction.
A small structure was built for military guards, and two 106-by-30 buildings housed the kitchen, mess hall, guard quarters, bathrooms and bathrooms. The prisoners lived in lengts.
Relies from the past, such as a cracked leather shoe, a rusted pot belly stove and about 200 metal-frame beds remain.
CARDBOARD CELLINGS hang in huge pieces, revealing the rattles, heat ducts and water pipes, and a thick layer of decomposed wood from the cement litter the cement floors.
On March 30, 1945, a Lawrence Journal-World headline announced."10 Nazis at work at the camp site." Prisoners transported from a POW camp in Ottawa helped build the Lawrence camp.
The camp was completed in about two months, Hetzel said, but the task was difficult because of the language barrier.
"Hetzel motions to helpers, grunts at them, and one or two German words that he knows, writes of English, and manages to get the job of prisonsmen," a journal World reporter wrote.
"HE HAD a heck of a time understanding me. But if I asked him to drive the pickup, five of them would jump at the chance and literally fight over the job."
"I couldn't talk German and they couldn't talk English." Hetzel said. "If I wanted them to dig a ditch I would say, 'Fritz, pick up that shovel.'
On April 30, 1945, an army convoy rolled down Massachusetts Street carrying 112 German soldiers from Fort Riley. The transport trucks carrying the prisoners were guarded by jeeps bearing machine guns and heavily armed guards.
The first prisoners. Hetzel said, were members of The German Afrika Korps captured in North Africa under the command of General Erwin Rommel — the Desert Fox.
"They were the pick of the German Army," he remembered. "They were fine looking German boys — blond-headed and blue-eyed."
The soldiers were non-commissioned officers and under regulations from the Geneva convention, they were not required to do manual labor. However, all of the men signed contracts permitting them to do so.
THE MEN WERE paid 80 cents per hour,
but were allowed to keep only 10 cents of their
hourly wage. The government kept the rest.
They earned $25 cents and 25 cents a day was deducted from the wages.
On May 5, 1945, the soldiers began working for several local companies. Many farmers used the soldiers as farm hands during the spring and summer pea and potato harvests.
It was the responsibility of the employers to pick up and return the prisoners to the camp each day, said Herb Altenberd, a farmer who employed 15 to 30 prisoners.
The prisoners were not supervised on Allenbern's farm. But the men were
friendly, bright and never caused problems, he said.
The men, he recalled, were in awe of his John Deere tractor.
"They had never seen anything like that," he said. "But they were smart, and I knew they would soon have tractors in Germany after seeing mine."
During July's potato harvest, more than 200 gallons of water are hours picket potatoes in the lawrences.
"We got along real good," said Emil Heck Jr., FRD 3, a potato farmer.
That fall, a drought reduced area alfalfa crops. As a result, one of the plants that employed the soldiers temporarily was shot and wounded by the prisoners were sent back to Fort Riley.
By November, only 74 prisoners remained. The camp shut down at the end of the month and the rest of the Germans were returned to Fort Riley.
"The soldiers would come to me begging me to try to keep them." Hetzel said. "They liked this country. They had opportunity here. Germany was in pieces."
Assembly discusses required course changes
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA SKALLA
A proposal that would have required students to take a wider variety of courses to satisfy proposed distribution requirements in the College Assembly and opposition Saturday in the College Assembly.
The distribution requirements are part of a proposed College of Liberal Arts and Sciences core curriculum released in February 2018. The program is offered on Undergraduate Studies and Advising.
The College Assembly, the governing body of the college, met informally in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union to discuss the proposed core curriculum.
The decisions made by the assembly will be recommended to CUSA, and the assembly plans to make a final decision on the core curriculum proposal later this spring. The assembly's recommendations are not binding on CUSA.
Under the proposed distribution requirement, students would have to take nine hours in each of three divisions — natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences and humanities.
ments on proposed foreign language and rhetoric-logic requirements. The proposed math requirement passed unopposed.
Changes in the core curriculum would only affect incoming freshman in the fall of 1987 or institution.
Within each division are subgroups from which students would only be able to take one course. Each department would be able to teach all courses that could satisfy the requirement.
For example, to satisfy the natural science and mathematics distribution requirement, students would have to take nine hours in any combination of one biological science course, one physical science course, one earth science course and one mathematics course.
THE ASSEMBLY ALSO passed amend-
THE ASSEMBLY AMENDED the proposal so that students would be required to take courses from two rather than three of the subgroups within each division, which would allow them to take more than one course in a specific area of study.
According to the amended proposal, students would have to take either a
biological or a physical science course to satisfy the lab science requirement.
For example, students could take two courses in biology and complete the requirement by taking a course such as computer science.
Students in the college now are required to take nine hours in each of the three divisions. But students can take two courses in one department such as biology and can take the other in an entirely different department do not have to limit the number of courses they offer that can satisfy the requirement.
ROBERT LINEBERRY, dean of the college, said the purpose of the new distribution requirement was to ensure that students learned about a specific area of study.
The distribution requirement now allows students to take any classes they want without learning anything about the field, he said. For example, he said, it is possible for distribution requirements in the natural sciences and never take biology or chemistry.
But Donald Marquis, associate professor of philosophy, said he thought limiting the
classes students could take would weaken a student's education, not strengthen it.
DEPARTMENTS WOULD decide to offer general survey courses, Marquis said. Although students would take a wide variety of courses, the bigger would learn about one subject in depth
The assembly also amended the foreign language requirement proposed by CUSA. The proposal no longer would allow students to fulfill the foreign language requirement by taking 10 hours of two foreign languages, but not requiring them to take 16 hours of one foreign language.
The assembly voted to recommend to CUSA that students be allowed to take 10 hours of two foreign languages.
The proposed rhetoric-logic requirement, which would replace the current communications requirement, would require students to take three hours in either rhetoric or logic. The requirement would be satisfied through Communications 130 or 230 or Philosophy 148 or 149.
The assembly amended the proposal so students also could take Communications 150 to fulfill the requirement.