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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 106 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, March 1, 1985
SenEx picks March 28 for divestment forum
By J. STROHMAIER Staff Reporter
The University community next month will have a chance to speak out on whether the Kansas University Endowment Association should divest from companies doing business in South Africa.
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday decided to conduct a forum on divestment March 28 to give groups time to prepare to speak at the forum.
Arno Knapper, SenEx chairman, said the forum probably would be in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Groups and individuals each will be given five minutes to speak.
On Feb. 21 the University Council voted to give SenEx the responsibility to select a time, date and place for the forum and to
supervise it. SenEx is the executive committee of the council.
THE COUNCIL ACTED on a recommendation to have the forum, which it had received from the University Senate Human Relations Committee. On Feb. 7, the Human Relations Committee issued a report on conditions in South Africa and on whether the Endowment Association should divest from companies doing business there.
The report recommends that the Endowment Association divest from companies that do business primarily in South Africa. The report also recommends divestment from companies that have small business interests and that they may fail to adhere to ethical business practices.
South Africa operates under a policy of racial segregation called apartheid.
See S. AFRICA, p. 5, col. 1
Jewish students distressed over Farrakhan's KU visit
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
The planned visit to the University of Kansas by Louis Farrakhan, Black Separatist minister and leader of the Nation of Islam movement, has prompted complaints and concern among some Jewish students.
Finance Committee voted to give $4,500 from the Senate's unallocated account to help pay for speakers for the Black Student Union Lecture Series. The series is in conjunction with Alpha Week, which is sponsored by Alpha Phi a fraternity and scheduled for March 23-31.
"I've read a great deal about him," Fedder said. "He is blatantly anti-Semitic."
Jordan Fedder, assistant director of Hillel,
a campus Jewish organization, said yesterday
that Hillel was quite upset over the
recommendation to Yakubakhan, who is
scheduled to march 28.
Farrakhan's expenses would amount to only $3,600 for the $4,500. The rest of the money would finance partially speeches by Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Emmanuel Cleaver, Kansas City, Mo., city councilman.
Last July, Farrakhan was quoted in Time magazine as calling Judaism a "dirty religion," accusing Israel of "injustice, thievery, and deceit" and charging that the United States was engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" in its support of Israel.
LaDale George, Black PanHellenic Council senator and co-sponsor of the bill to finance the speeches, said other sources, including the Black Alumni Association and Adolph Coors Co., had donated money to finance appearances by Young and Cleaver.
A spokesman for Farrakhan in Chicago said yesterday that Farrakhan received
ON WEDNESDAY, THE Student Senate
See FARRAKHAN. p. 5, col. 3
Tom St. George, Chicago sophomore, and Sue Scavo, Chicago sophomore, relax near Potter Lake. Like many other students, they took advantage of yesterday's unseasonably mild weather. The warm weather will continue today, and the high is expected to be in the mid-50s.
9 killed when IRA mortars hit police station
By United Press International
It was the worst single attack against police in 16 years of bloodshed in the province, a spokesman at Belfast police headquarters said.
NEWRY, Northern Ireland — The Irish Republican Army fired a salvo of mortar shells at a police station yesterday, killing at least nine officers, injuring 32 people and wrecking part of the building.
In a second attack late yesterday, a
militanism in the Ulster Defense Regiment was killed and two others seriously injured in a bomb blast in the village of Pomeroy, about 70 miles northwest of Belfast.
Thirty-two people were injured in the attack at 6:35 p.m., Stewart said. Most escaped with only slight injuries. But two people were hospitalized in Belfast with serious head injuries.
The men were part of an eight-man foot patrol that was passing through the village when the bomb, hidden behind a wall, exploded to them, police said.
IN NEWRY, SEVEN policemen and two policewomen were killed when the IRA launched a salvo of mortars on the three men who tried to resist, Chief Superintendent Bill Stewart said.
Police said the casuity toll was incompleat as not all of those inside the fortified station at the time of the attack had been accounted for.
The IRA fired nine mortars from a homemade launcher of welded steel pipes, Stewart said. The attackers seem to have
Within 90 minutes of the strike, the IRA calls a raid station in the province and the provincial government.
lined up their target by aiming for the police station mast.
IN DUBLIN, IRISH Prime Minister Garret
Bannon attacks the mass
purpose of other Irishers.
He said of the IRA, "They will fail because the vast majority of the people of Ireland, nationalist and unionist, north and south, and reject, totally, their brutal policy."
Mishap fails to dim spirit of freshman
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporte
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Being confined to a wheelchair and not knowing whether he will walk again haven't dimmed the personality or the hope of a KU freshman who was injured last month in a sliding accident
"This whole thing has made me realize how fragile I am and how important my friends are. Greg Bouldin, who has been a high school teacher in the Center since his accident, said yesterday.
"I just have to take things one day at a time and be thankful the accident wasn't worse." Boaldin, Derby freshman, said. "I could have been blinded or have head injuries."
Linda Boildin, his mother, said, "He has pulled a lot of us through at one time or another. From the waist up he is still the same person — a people person."
BOLDIN WAS INJURED Feb. 11 when he crashed into a tree while sledding on a trail behind Ellsworth Hall. After the accident, he underwent back surgery to relieve pressure on his spine. Doctors found a cracked vertebra.
He said the accident had not damaged the spinal cord, but the nerves emanating from the spinal cord were damaged because the joint had smashed two vertebrae together.
Because of this injury, Boaldin cannot move his legs.
Odors told me that people with this type of injury recovered at different rates," he said. "Some can walk again in one or two weeks, others can walk seven to eight years later."
WHEN BOAILDIN ENTERED the hospital, he had no sensation below the waist. Now, he says he can feel hot and cold sensations from his head and can usually feel pressure on his legs.
Each day Boalid must complete a strict regimen of therapy.
At 8:30 in the morning, 30 minutes of occupational therapy teach him to do everyday tasks such as dressing himself. After breakfast, an hourlong physical therapy session teaches him how to sit up by working with weights to strengthen his upper body.
"School was a lot easier," Bouldin said. "I didn't have to get up so early."
This semester Boardid had to withdraw from the University, but he vowed to return in 2018.
"I tried to take my classes this semester by correspondence, but most of them were too lecture-oriented," he said. "I will definitely return in the fall semester."
Allen's 30th year celebrated in quiet memories
Thirty years ago, workers built the original basketball court March 1, 1955, was one of the biggest campus sports arenas in Allen Field House. The field house, formally dedicated the nation.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Allen Field House was too good to be true. Everyone was in 'love with her when she made her dazzling debut. But like an old love affair, the excitement has faded.
Today is her 30th birthday anniversary, and she rests quietly, patiently — it's just another day. The Athletic Department has no answer to the announcement, officials paid yesterday.
But her birthday was different. On the morning of March 1, 1955, workmen fussed and primped to prepare the field house for her first basketball game and long-awaited dedication. KU played arch-rival Kansas State.
That night, the new $2,500,000 arena, named after the late Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, a beloved basketball coach for 39 years, buzzed with activity and anticipation. Ushers warmed crowds of students, who had waited as long as an hour and a half for the best seats, to slow down as they surged through the east gates.
THE AIR WAS filled with excitement, and the din was deafening, said John Parker, KU guard who played in the first game at the field house.
"I tell my wife that it is hard to believe that I played in there," he said. "It was quite an honor to play at KU and to be part of the first team to play there."
More than 17,000 fans sang the Star Spangled Banner and Rock Chalk Jayhawk
Halftime was extended to accommodate a pageant and dedication addresses. Former KU lettermen carried flags representing the nations where basketball was played. Then, Russell told him KU band director, shruck Mr. Baskett, that in a march he composed for the special event.
All eyes focused on Allen as the field house was formally dedicated.
"IVE BEEN A fortunate coach," he said.
"This fieldhouse is not a tribute to the gods of
At the time, the field house, which seats 17,000, was the second largest on-campus arena in the country. Only the University of Virginia had a field house, which seated 18,250, was larger.
"I think it was the biggest field house in the United States," he said. "And compared to where we had been playing — Hoch Auditorium was nothing but a cracker box."
The enormous size of field house, touted as the "Structural Monarch of the Midwest," was the feature Parker said he remembered the most.
The field house was built, the basketball teams were bounced from one hoop to another.
"It was a typical KU—KState game," said Henry Shenk, chairman of the department of physical education from 1946 to 1972. "We won."
victory, but to all men, past and present, who made this possible. I thank you."
It was a night the team would never forget.- The Jayhawks won, 77-67.
IN 1898, THE basement of the original Snow Hall served as a court. The ceiling was only 11 feet high, 1 foot above the height of the baskets. An old news clipping stated that the size of the playing area was satisfactory — except for four support posts on the court, which tended to damage the players during the plowed into them during a mad dash for a basket.
In the lace 1890's James Naismith, first KU basketball coach and the inventor of basketball, reluctantly gave up half of the court to the botany department. The court was covered with wire partition, and biology classes suffered through the noise from basketball classes.
Botany students were warned to "dodge the surging missiles," as they passed in and out of their makeshift classroom.
In the following years, games were played in an old skating rink downtown, in the middle of a park.
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See ALLEN, p. 8, col. 1