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Vol. 95, No. 117 (USPS 650-640)
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Greg Booldin, Derby freshman injured in a campus sledding accident Feb. 11, tells stories of his stay in the hospital to friends John Sharpe, Merriam freshman, and Ruth Mesloh,
Derby freshman. Boaldin returned to his room in Templin Hall on Friday for the first time since his accident. About 12 friends jammed into the room to visit with him.
Sledder has Templin homecoming
Bv GREG LARSON
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
Half-erased notes, obviously scrawled hurriedly at an earlier time, blended into the background of a message board on the door of a fourth floor room in Templin Hall.
But one crisp, clear message stood out from the rest — Greg Bouldin's address and phone number at the University of Kansas Medical Center
Soon that address will have to be changed because Boaaldin, Derby freshman and Templin resident who was injured Feb. 11 in a car crash on Friday was released from the Med Center on Friday.
He has been at the Med Center with a cracked vertebra since the accident. He is not in his hips, but regained some movement in his hips and experienced improved feeling in his legs
down to the knees. But he still must use a wheelchair.
BOLAIND'S FRIENDS from Tempin picked him up from the Med Center Friday and took him to the hall, where he spent his first night out of the hospital.
"It feels really good to be out of the hospital and say" this represents a new transition in my life.
Boadin started his transition by eating at his favorite restaurant.
"I got my Wendy burger like," he said. "Hospital food is just like dorm food."
Boaldin he wanted he to stay at Templin his first night out of the hospital because he missed his friends. Also, he said, Lawrence was a teacher and was in a centered Center than Derby, a town near Wichita.
HE RETURNED TO Derby on Saturday with his agents.
He said he had withdrawn from his classes
this semester, but definitely would be back for classes next semester.
"I'm even thinking of taking some summer courses at Wichita State," Boaldin said. "I'll be working with computers in my father's office across the street from the hospital."
The hospital across the street is St. Joseph Hospital, where he will undergo daily therapy treatments, he said. The purpose of his work is to help improve the musculoskeletic limber and detect any new movement.
"The treatments at the hospital will cut my therapy time by a third." Baldin said.
Every three months, he must return to the Med Center for checkups. He said the accident pinched nerves between two vertebrae and caused spinal shock.
"I feel like I've progressed in the last six weeks of therapy," he said. "I found out in therapy that I had muscles I didn't even know existed."
Committee requests divestment of funds
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
A resolution calling for the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest from companies doing business in South Africa was approved last night by a Student Senate committee.
The resolution calls for the Endowment Association to develop and execute by Sept. 30 a divestment plan of its holdings in corporations and financial institutions with business ties to South Africa, a country that holds a form of racial segregation called apartheid
The Senate's Social Responsibilities Committee approved the resolution after about two hours of debate. The resolution carries a binding force on the Endowment Association.
The committee included in the resolution an amendment asking the Endowment Association to reveal its investments to the Board of Directors and to进展 its progress toward its divestment policy.
CHIRS BUNKER, committee chairman, said that because the Endowment Association was a private corporation, it legally could withhold information about its holdings. The Endowment Association invests money from donors or other sources and uses
the profits to help the University financially.
points to help the University financially. Bunker also was the chairman of the Senate's temporary Committee on South Africa and helped write a resolution that put the South Africa question to a campus vote in November.
The Social Responsibilities Committee was formed this semester to see that the goal of the committee is achieved.
THE RESOLUTION approved by students last fall condemns apartheid because it "violates the fundamental human rights of the people in the Republic of South Africa."
A copy of the resolution approved last night will be sent to Todd Seymour, president of the WTO.
The resolution will still have to be approved by the full Senate.
The resolution precedes a week of campus activities focusing on apartheid and development from companies doing business in the capital city. The organisation offered through protests, films and a forum. *
At 11:30 a.m. today, tomorrow and Wednesday in front of Strono Hall student
See SOUTH AFRICA, p. 5, col. 1
Fierce fighting erupts along Beirut barriers
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rival Christian and Muslim militiamen clashed yesterday with mortars, grenades and machine guns along the Green Line dividing Beirut in the fiercest outbreak of fighting in the Lebanese capital in nine months.
Police reported one civilian wounded and said the casualty toll was low because the streets were nearly deserted during the nine-hour overnight battle.
The fighting erupted Saturday night in a bombed-out area near the Fuad Cheah bridge, one of six main crossing points through the Green Line that separates Christian east Beirut from the capital's mainly Muslim western sector.
THE HEAVY FIGHTING died down yesterday to occasional bursts of snipfire and volleys of submachine-gun bullets between Christian and Muslim gunmen.
Security sources said it was the worst sustained clash since last June 11, which came to be called "Black Monday" after rival militiamen killed more than 100 people and wounded almost 400 in a night of heavy artillery shelling of Beirut. Barricades along the Green Line, a branch of gutted buildings cutting through the heart of Beirut, were hit with shells on Thursday. The security plan last July 4 but militiamen have been spotted recently up in new barriers.
The fighting came as Christian President Amin Gamelyel returned from Damascus with a strong pledge of support from Syrian leader Hafez Assad, whose government has replaced Israel and the United States as the dominant foreign influence in Lebanon.
People, politics are life of former civic leader
CHRISTIAN AND Muslim militiamen have fortified positions along the Green Line since Samir Geagae, a pro-Iraeli leader of the "Lebanese Forces" Christian militia, announced a revolt against Gemayel March 12 over Gemayel's year-old alliance with Syria.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Frank McDonald's Lincoln Continental never leaves the driveway any more.
The 86-year-old Lawrence man lives alone, surrounded by memories and recollections.
But the former civic leader's life has encompassed Kansas politics, Haskell Indian Junior College, the University of Kansas, the beer industry and, most importantly, people.
Black and white photographs, a wall hanging of an American Indian chief and certificates of merit decorate the walls of his office. He himself behind a desk and cigarettes a cigarette.
His eyes grow misty as he remembers a life that most men could only dream about.
**AS HE SLOWLY rummages through drawers and sifts through treasures from his past. McDonald comments on each yellowed piece of his picture, remembering every name and date.**
"IT WAS IN this office that I got George Docking to run for office!" the Kansas native said. "I was there."
The American Indian became a part of McDonald's life in 1920, when the head football coach of Haskell, Madison Bell, offered McDonald a job as Haskell's assistant football coach and head basketball coach. During that time he played during the summer, McDonald says, while working for the Chautauqua circuit, a traveling entertainment show.
"I love the American Indians," he says,
"they are the most appreciative people I know."
But as he traces his past, he frequents one segment of his life more than the others.
"HE SAID, THERE won't be much pay," McDonald says, "because they don't have
BUT HE STEPPED onto the Haskell campus fresh out of Baker University and checked in as the new coach. He became the athletic director in 1927.
Haskell played college football teams in its early years, even though the highest grade
"When I arrived at Haskell," McDonald
says, "the best player was in the fourth grade."
Turner Cochran, a close friend of McDonald's, says Haskell football team was good.
McDonald's voice shakes as he discusses the treatment of the American Indian. He recalls a remark made by Knute Rocke, former University of Notre Dame football coach and friend, who said, "the blackest man in America" had the treatment afforded the American Indians."
Money raised from athletic events helped support Haskell, McDonald says. Haskell was able to hire professors from KU's department to teach school classes.
MCDONALD'S DREAM OF building a strong athletic program at Haskell slowly began to take shape in 1923, when the Haskell Board hired a new head coach. McDonald described their conversation:
But in three years, he collected $185,000 from oil-rich Osage and Qapaw Indian tribes, enough to build the stadium and buy the land on which it would be built.
"McDonald, he said, 'the Indians like you. Why don't you go down to Oklahoma and see if you can get money from the Indians so we can put in concrete bleachers?' "
"EVERY DIME CAME from the Indians, I am proud to say, McDonald says. "It was a blessing."
"You don't just knock on a tepee door and get the dough," he says.
In 1978, McDonald was inducted into the American Indian Athletics Hall of Fame.
The task wasn't easy, McDonald says.
"He's the only white man in the American Indian Athletics Hall of Fame," Cochran says. "And I suppose he has more Indian than any other white man in the country."
McDonald also influenced KU's athletic program. As chairman of the KU Quarterback Club, he helped recruit athletes McDonald's son, Clifford McDonald, says his father was responsible for recruiting Clyde a former All-American basket-ball player.
"THEY DIDN'T HAVE firecrackers in
See MCDONALD, p. 5, col. 1
Area stores say no sale to Playboy
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Represent
And the magazine shelves of the grocery store, 23rd Street and Naismith Drive, will remain bare of adult magazines until publications such as Playboy protect their bunnies with a protective seal or cover, he said.
Staff Reporter
A new Kroger Super Store policy prohibiting the sale of adult magazines is keeping Miss April and her playmates out of shopping carts — and the hands of youngsters, store manager Al Long said last week.
Local management started the policy three weeks ago, Long said, because teenagers found Kroger's adult magazines, Playboy and Playgirl, enticing it. The managers tried to peek between the covers because the magazine rack is in the back of the store.
The magazines were profitable, he said, because the store reaped a 25 percent profit from each magazine sold. Kroger is offering grocery store to sell adult magazines.
"There were too many kids going through the magazines," Long said. "It wasn't so bad."
KROGER CONTINUED to sell adult magazines despite a two-year-old company policy prohibiting their sale. The Lawrence branch sold adult magazines because local management judged them to be appropriate for the area. Lone said.
Jim Roberts, manager of Rusty's Food Center, 901 Iowa St., said Rusty's stores never carried adult magazines and never would.
"I don't think it is necessary to sell those," he said, "are plenty of other materials."
ADULT MAGAZINES sold at the candy counter on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union recently became hot items, so to speak. Helen Harrell, manager of the
See MAGAZINES, p. 5, col. 3
Adult magazines and grocery don't mix, Lawrence grocers say, because too many teen-agers gaze at the magazines in the store. Officials at Kroger Super Store, 23rd Street and Naismith Drive, decided three weeks ago to stop selling Playboy and Playgirl magazines. But determined fans still can find their favorite magazines at book stores and convenience stores in town.