University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFSS
Student faces forgery charges
Nancy Louise Gacek, Omaha, Neb.
freshman, has been arrested on charges of
felony forgery and misdemeanor theft,
Lawrence police said Monday.
KU police picked up Gaeck Friday on campus, and took her to the Douglas
ing and turned her over to Lawrence police.
KU police had received a report in November of a wallet stolen from Lindley Hall. The wallet contained a checkbook that Gaeek alliedly used to force checks.
The Douglas County sheriff then issued a warrant for Gaek's arrest, Lt. Jeanne Lemke and others.
The Douglas County district attorney's office said Monday that Gacek had been released on $5,500 bond.
92 warm hearts give $7,203
Arraignment has been set for 4 p.m. Tuesday.
The Lawrence Warm Hearts fundraising drive, which began Friday, has collected $7,203, a member of the campaign, said yesterday.
Carolyn Shelton, the campaign worker, said 92 people had contributed to Warm Hearts, a private non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to people who cannot pay their heating bills.
Shelton said the goal of the 14-day campaign was $25,000.
Animals' status subject of talk
The Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall will present "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Endangered Animals" that is part of the Panorama Room of the museum.
Gary McGrath, teaching assistant in environmental studies, will show slides and will speak on the current status of endangered animals in the United States and throughout the world.
The cost for the program is $1.50.
Skills workshop rescheduled
The academic skill enhancement workshop canceled last week because of bad weather has been rescheduled for tomorrow night.
The workshop, originally scheduled for Jan. 30, will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the studio at Walgreens.
The workshop, sponsored by the Student Assistance Center, will include information on time management, reading, listening and note-taking skills.
Philippines flu hits Wichita
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WICHTA — Patients suffering from a new strain of flu originating in the Philippines have been reported at all main hospitals in the city, officials said.
Clinical microbiologists at Wesley Medical Center isolated and confirmed the strain, called Type A Influenza Philippines, hospital officials said. The finding was further confirmed Monday by the Kansas Department of Health and Medicine in Topeka, which examined samples sent by Wesley laboratory experts.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a high from 15 to 20. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy. Tonight's low will be zero to five below. High tomorrow will be around 20.
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If you have a complaint or a problem,
ask for Matt DeCalaan, editor, or Diane
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Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Pari-mutuel plan draws fire in Senate
By NANCY HANEY
By NANCY HANE
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Opponents of pari-mutuel betting on horse racing yesterday told a Senate subcommittee that legalized betting was the last thing Kansans needed.
"For every winner at a race track, there are 1,000 losers," said the Rev. David Upchurch, pastor of the Christ Presbyterian Church in Toopeka and one of the opponents.
Lobbysts ended testimony yesterday before a subcommittee of the Federal and State Affairs Committee on a proposition to legalize pari-mutuel. The proposition, introductory, is sponsored by Kanatsu for Part-Mutuel, a nonprofit lobstery group from Topeka.
On Monday, committee members scheduled an extra day of hearings to accommodate the many lobbyists wanting to speak on the emotionally-charged issue.
Pari-mutuel is a system of betting in which winners divide the net amount bet in proportion to the sums wagered.
THE REV. RICHARD Taylor, a lobbyist for Kansans for Life at Its Best!, testified that pari-mutuel betting in Kansas would cause irreparable harm. Taylor tried unsuccessfully to speak on Monday's volatile tax which ended before all lobbyists could testify.
Taylor also said pari-mutel betting would be too tempting for some people. He quoted the Wall Street Journal, saying, "Too many are awunded out of money at the race track."
He said legalized betting would cause a significant increase in law enforcement costs because race tracks might attract organized crime. The profits the state would make from taxes collected on the betting would not make up for extra law enforcement, Tayloe said.
THE REV. JOHN Oales, pastor at the Capital City Church of God and vice chairman of Kansans for Life at Its Best!, agreed with Taylor.
"It victimizes many persons into thinking they can get something for nothing." Oales said
Oales said too many people could not afford to gamble would do so if it were less risky.
The committee also heard more testimony from pari-mutuel proponents. Jim Edwards, public affairs director of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, said his organization supported the resolution because of its economic advantages.
Taylor said, "What the proponents are calling a recreation product, organized crime figures are jailed for."
The testimony heard in the subcommittee will be sent to the full committee for review, and action on the resolution will be taken. Mr. Johnson was also asked by Edward Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth, said.
Members of the state's greyhound dog breeding industry also spoke to the committee to ask that the resolution include dog racing along with horse racing.
Norman Hansen, president of Kansas Greyhound owners for Economic Progress, said Kansas was among the leading greyhound breeding states in the country.
Traveler taking a hike after listening to God
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
Gene Ward is traveling across the United States the hard way — on foot.
"I asked God for direction, and he told me to take a hike," he said.
Three pairs of shoes and 1,500 miles later, the 37-year-old Ward strolled into town Monday night and bedded down on the handstand at 11th and Massachusetts streets.
"I woke up to a commotion this morning," he said.
Ward began his journey in June. He left Boise, Idaho, and trudged west toward Milford, N.J. — his final destination — with $140 and whatever he could carry on his back.
"I was the top news story in the mountain region" he said proudly.
ORIGINALLY, THE NEED to preserve the environment fueled Ward's journey, but he said God became more important to him as the trip wore on.
"I see visions and situations before they happen because I have let go, and God is in control," he said.
Ward did not prepare himself physically for the 3,000-mile trip. By the second day of his journey, he said, he did not think his knees and feet could take another step.
"Physically I did nothing," he said. "But before I left I sold everything I owned to free up my mind, so there would be nothing to worry about."
For eight years, Ward taught global survival techniques in the Air Force.
The hike through Colorado was the most difficult leg of the journey, he said, even though a company sponsored him and took care of his needs.
"It became more like a job," he said.
"They wanted to set up lectures, and provide me with food. It took away the challenge."
NOW WARD EATS when he can. He stops at cities along state and county highways and teaches the necessity of a positive mental church congregations and police departments.
Ward said 95 percent of the people he had met during his travels were encouraging and positive. Thirty Kansas families provided him with food and shelter, he said.
"Afterwards I pass my hat," he said, "I can sound $20 as easily as $20."
"Kansas has some of the friendliest and hospitable people I've met thus far." Ward said. "Thank God, because I'm not impressed with the landscape."
Dressed in as many as six layers of clothing, he irredent from sunup to sundown.
AND THERE IS NO mistaking his mission. Under his green feather-down parka he sports a T-shirt that says, "Walking Across America."
"At night, I keep getting people to invite me in." he said.
But some nights, he said, a park is his bedroom.
Ward said his parents supported his journey across the country.
"They think it's the best thing I have ever done," he said. "I'm finally picking up from the depression, I suffered from my divorce nine years ago."
With Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Kansas under his belt, Ward has six more states to go. He said he planned to arrive in Milford in late spring or early summer.
"I would have been there by now if I would have followed my original plan," he said. "But I met many fascinating and interesting people along the way."
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Gene Ward strolls down Jayhawk Boulevard en route to Milford, N.J. Ward, who began his hike from Boise, Idaho, said yesterday he had met with dull landscapes but friendly people in his journey through Kansas.
Chinese experience recounted by poet
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL TOTTY
'What about the plants and the animals? The real exploited class is the plants.'
When poet Gary Snyder visited China last fall, his Chinese hosts took him sightseeing.
At the Great Wall, he asked his guides how long the rolling hills that the wall crossed had been without trees. His guides said they had always been treeless.
But his studies in Chinese history indicated that the hills around the Great Wall had been covered with an oak forest as late as the 12th century.
"At that point," Snyder said in a lecture last night. "I realized how profound and how deep the environmental problem in China is."
Snyder, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, described his trip to an audience that filled Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The talk, titled "Arts of Politics in Action: A Writer's Visit to the People's Republic of China," was presented as part of the Humanities Lecture Series offered by the Center for Humanistic Studies.
SNYDER VISITED China with a group of American writers that included poet Allen Ginsberg, novelist Maxine Hong Kingston and historian Harrison Salisbury. The group
Gary Snyder
Pulitzer prize-winning poet
At the writers' conference Snyder and his companions attended, they tackled the question of the responsibility of the artist. The Chinese party members consistently answered, "To serve the people," Snyder said.
met with members of the Chinese Writers' Association, the official Communist Party organ for writers.
In his talk, Snyder mixed anecdotes from the trip with his translations of contemporary and classical Chinese poems and two poems he wrote while in China.
He found China an odd mix of Communist Party orthodoxy, the beginnings of artistic innovation and the survival of classical architecture. He said his receptiveness to his own ecological concerns.
"I TOLD THEM, 'I agree,' " Snyder said.
"But who are the people? Are we going to
stop our criticism of exploitation and repression with the merely human?
"What about the plants and the animals? The real exploited class is the plants. They redo the primary labor of transforming solar energy through photosynthesis.
"We must form committees with the rivers and hold meetings with the mountains.
"They just loved that. 'Why didn't we think of that,' they asked."
After the conference, the writers traveled for 10 days through China, Snyder said. In the city of Suzhou, Snyder visited the temple of Han Shan, an eightth century poet and monk whose poems Snyder translated in the 1950s.
HE PRESENTED a copy of the poems to the monk who took care of the temple. He also composed a poem on the spot, which was immediately translated by the group's
interpreter and published the next day in the local newspaper.
There was also some surprising interest in Buddhism and Zen meditation. Snyder found. He has practiced Zen meditation since the late 1950s, when he lived in Japan.
Ke Yan, a woman poet who is a member of the writers' associatlon, told Ginsberg and Snyder that she was a practicing Buddhist, and that even her husband, a high ranking member of the Party, practiced Buddhism occasionally.
He and Ginsberg also discovered an alternative school of poets, called the "murky school" by the offical Chinese writers. He read a poem by one of the "murky poets," which he called "an affirmation of the continuing possibilities of socialism in China."
During his travels around China, Snyder said he found an old temple that had been converted into a museum. On the walls, the religious scenes had been replaced by murals showing prehistoric epochs. In the center of the room, where normally would be found a statue of Buddha, was the skeleton of a large dinosaur.
"Not daunted," Snyder said, "I went up to the dinosaur and bowed to it."
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