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Vol. 108 • No. 87
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University of Kansas students stage an on-campus protest of the Vietnam War. KU students marched with flags and banners during 1971. Protesters also held teach-ins and other demonstrations. The Kansas Union was burned. The computer center in Summerfield Hall and the ROTC building were bombed. The signing of the Paris Accords peace agreement during 1973 ended U.S. involvement and released American prisoners of war. Contributed art
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Mixed feelings greet 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War
By Susie Gura
Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas students and professors have not forgotten the war that formally ended 25 years ago today.
Today is the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Accords peace agreement that ended the United States involvement in the Vietnam War and released American prisoners of war.
"This was not the actual end of the war, but somewhat of an end to the U.S. part of the war," said Philip Schrodt, professor of political science and government.
Some Vietnamese students do not consider this the anniversary of the war's end.
"I didn't think much of it because for the Vietnamese people, the war didn't end until 1975 with the fall of Saigon," Binh Thai, Larned freshman, said.
Although conflicts in Vietnam still continued, University of Kansas students have mixed feelings about today's anniversary.
Trang Duong, Liberal junior, has neutral feelings about the war issue.
"I'm in the new generation and wasn't affected by the war, but I'm happy that it is over for my family's sake." Duong said.
As he retraces the steps of Vietnamese culture, the Vietnam War is more understandable to John Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese American Student Association.
Nguyen, Wichita junior, said his father was in the South Vietnamese army and has many memories about the war, many of which he would like to forget.
"My parents speak of the sense of hopelessness they felt at the end of the war, but they had better hope when they came to the United
States." Nguyen said.
"I'm really lucky that I did not have to go through the suffering that my parents or their generation went through," Nguyen said.
The longest war in American history affected the University of Kansas with protests, teach-ins and demonstrations. The Kansas Union was burned, the computer center in Summerfield Hall and the ROTC building were bombed.
"There was a protest at the ROTC review in the football stadium. Many students were expelled, and there was an anti-war protest down Jayhawk Boulevard," said Bill Tuttle, professor of American Studies.
The Vietnam War and the ramifications that America felt were reflected at the University of Kansas, said Felix Moos, professor of anthropology.
"The Vietnam War divided the American public, and it divided students, faculty and the administration at KU," Moa said.
Moos teaches Vietnam: Identity and Conflict, a course that explains how Vietnam developed as a culture and a nation developed. The course also covers the effect of the Vietnam War on both Vietnam and the United States.
"I felt because I've been to Vietnam a few times that somebody at KU should make an effort towards teaching about the Vietnam culture," Moos said.
"A lot of students are interested and it's a way to expand our knowledge." Nguyen said.
Thai said that he hoped to learn a different perspective than his parents had told him.
Bar patrons over the line in greek lots
By Carl Kaminski
Kansan staff writer
Bar patrons who park in greek house parking lots may not find their cars where they leave them.
Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Chi fraternities have taken a stand against people who park in the house lots when frequenting three local bars, the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340-1342 Ohio St., Bullwinkles Bar, 1344 Tennessee St., or the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 1401 Ohio St.
University of Kansas scholarship halls located near the three bars also have complained about nonresidents parking in the hall's lot. The halls have succeeded in getting the KU Parking Department to issue tickets and tow illegally parked cars. The greek houses,
meanwhile, have been fighting the trespassers on their own.
Beta Theta Pi, 1425 Louisiana St., has had the most problems, said Cody Winter, chapter president.
Despite having a clearly posted sign warning that the parking lot is for members of the fraternity only, Winter said that fraternity members often found unfamiliar cars taking parking spaces.
"Our house seems to be the one that's most convenient for those three bars," said Winter, Liberty, Mo, senior.
Winter said that the fraternity has a fairly lenient policy toward towing cars out of the lot.
"It's worst on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday," he said.
Cars parked in the Beta Theta Pi lot first receive a notice on the windshield and are towed if the lot gets too full. Winter said when members see someone who is not a member of the fraternity pull into the lot, they try to catch them and tell them that they cannot park there.
He said that most of the frater
nity members do not think that it is much of a problem but that they don't like it.
Winter said that his biggest concern was that members' cars may get damaged. He said that he did not want people who were not members of the fraternity in the lot because they were not as careful around the cars parked there.
"A lot of times they will just walk away," Winter said. "That makes us want to tow them even more."
fid a round the car's pal near me. Sigma Chi president Greg O'Brien, Troy, Mich., sophomore, said that his fraternity, 1439 Tennessee St., used to have a problem but that it has not been too bad this year. He said that a sign posted at the entrance of the parking lot and actively towing trespassers had helped.
"The word got out that we were towing more often," O'Brien said. He said people decided that it was not worth the hassle to risk parking in the lot and started walking instead.
O'Brien said that a new light in the parking lot has helped keep unwanted cars out and that people were more aware that they could not park there.
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Winter said that it was still too early to tell, but the problem did not seem to be as bad since the Jayhawk Cafe and Bullwinkles Bar were forced to reduce hours and close at midnight.
Medical Center bill up in air
By Brandon Copley
bcopple@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A legislative conference committee could meet within the next two weeks to discuss the possible reorganization of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
republican Sen. Dave Kerr, chairman of the Hospital Governance Conference Committee and Senate Ways and Means Committee, discussed the reorganization bill yesterday at the Ways and Means Committee meeting. He said he wanted the conference committee to meet within the next two weeks.
The reorganization legislation, Senate Bill 373, was proposed during the 1997 legislative session. The bill could enable the Med Center to survive in a competitive health-care market.
The bill would create an independent board of directors to govern the Med Center and would allow the hospital to avoid state purchasing procedures and other bureaucatal processes.
"The reorganization bill is the overarching legislation right now," he said. "Everything you do relates to that bill somehow."
Marlin Rein, University of Kansas director of governmental relations, said any legislative action regarding the Med Center was related to the reorganization bill.
The bill passed both houses last year. The conference committee received the bill after the House of Representatives amended the Senate version. Both houses must pass identical versions before it is submitted to the governor.
The House amendments included a provision banning certain abortions at the Med Center and a provision that would require a legislative presence on the hospital's governing board.
the conference committee was unable to compromise about those amendments before the legislature adjourned for the year, and the bill was held for the 1998 session. It remains in the conference committee.
On Friday, Kerr said he would call a meeting of the conference committee when House members proposed new language to address the controversial amendments. He said he preferred to reach an agreement on some of the issues before the committee convenes. The issue of legislative board members is the main sticking point, Kerr said.
Republican Rep. Michael Farmer, the conference committee's ranking House member, said he wanted to act on the bill as soon as possible. Speaker of the House Tim Shallenburger also said he wanted the bill pass early in the session.
Marlin Rein and Chancellor Robert Hemenway are working with conference committee members and the Med Center in an attempt to foster an agreement on the issues.
Online trivia game quizzes diners
Players challenge others nationwide
By Tamara Miller
tmiller@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Cody Simms, Wichita junior, is a trivia addict.
There is nothing wrong with spending a few hours at the Old Chicago restaurant on a Friday afternoon playing online trivia with friends, he said.
Old Chicago, 2329 Iowa St., is challenging patrons with an online trivia game called the National Trivia Network, said Craig Miller, manager at the restaurant. There is no charge to participate.
"After I was there for two hours,
I started feeling like a loser."
Simms said. "But I always come
The restaurant started the game in September. Miller said the idea to start the game came from other Old Chicago restaurants.
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Players check out keyboard boxes and sign into the game. The game is displayed on televisions. The boxes have antennas that allow the player to select answers received by the televisions.
A new trivia game begins every half hour, said Michael Regnier, manager of Old Chicago. The topics range from sports and entertainment to more specific categories such as real-estate trivia.
"People can compete against each other in the bar and against other players online across the nation," he said.
The answers are posted on the televisions, Miller said.
"Obviously, we have to ask the rest of the bar if it's OK to turn on real-estate trivia," Regnier said.
Regnier said the trivia game attracted a wide variety of people, including businessmen and college students.
"We have people in here every day," he said. "There are certain
people who no matter what grades they get, or what they do, they like to know dumb things."
Although the game is popular in the bar, it can be played anywhere in the establishment. Miller said.
"Bar sales have gone up around 5 percent." he said.
Regnier said that the competition always remained friendly.
The game can be played anytime during restaurant hours, but the most competition is during lunch time and late at night.
"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who share and those who don't," he said. "We get the kind who like to share answers."
Jamie Neijm, Wichita senior, NTR code name "Bonnie," and Samantha Bowman, Wichita senior, "Red," play NTN at Old Chicago. They played last night, one of several times they said they would play during the week. Photo by Holly Groshong/KANSAN
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