UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 18, 1993
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Paul Knotz / KANSAN
Grant Goodman, retired KU professor of history, recently showed a historical document to the Japanese press that confirmed that the Japanese government had sponsored prostitution houses for its soldiers in World War II.
Professor reveals evidence proving WWII prostitution
By Kathleen Stolle Kansan staff writer
For nearly 50 years, retired KU history professor Grant Goodman knew the truth. But he didn't know that the truth would shock the world.
"I was surprised that there was any doubt that the Japanese government-sponsored houses of prostitution had existed, since I was involved in translating materials which absolutely 100 percent substantiated that they did exist." Goodman said.
Earlier this month, the Japanese government begrudgingly acknowledged its direct involvement in the military brothels and forced prostitution in occupied territories during World War II. A military intelligence report, which Goodman possessed, helped bring the truth into the world's consciousness.
Goodman acquired the damaging report while translating captured documents for the U.S. Army in the
Philippines in 1945. Nearly five decades later, in 1992, Goodman read about a Japanese professor struggling to prove the government's involvement in forced military prostitution. He then decided to share his information with the Japanese press. Goodman, who lived in Japan during the first year of U.S. occupation and has since visited the country about 30 times, said the Japanese briefly did acknowledge their wrongdoings following the war.
take a nooning Japanese economy and renewed national pride erased many memories, he said.
"This is a half a century later, two and a half generations later, and obviously people of younger age in Japan and elsewhere in the world seemingly didn't know about this," he said. Carl Lande, professor of political science and East Asian studies, said the pride of the government and the low status and shame of the Asian women
— about half of them Japanese — were other forces that kept the matter suppressed.
Lande also said that after the occupation of Japan, the Japanese Ministry of Education busily began rewriting history, erasing blenishes such as the government's foray in forced military prostitution.
Lande said the Japanese government would not have confessed without Goodman's document.
"They do have a respect, perhaps a grudging respect, for outside scholars," he said. "I think the fact that he was an American and that he had worked there gave it a kind of credence."
Goodman said his role was coincidental.
"It's interesting that it's attracted all of this attention in both Japan and the United States," he said. "I hope it contributes."
New factory outlet center to open in North Lawrence
By Liz Klinger
A group of about 50 people tried to keep their cool yesterday at a groundbreaking ceremony for Lawrence's newest factory outlet mall at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Highway 59.
Kansan staff writer
Wearing a suit despite the 90 degree weather, Steven Tanger, vice president of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc., said he hoped that the future Tanger Factory Outlet Center would create an attractive gateway to Lawrence, offer customers upscale merchandise at a reduced price and provide the community with approximately 300 new jobs.
The 90,000 square-foot outlet mall will feature 23 designer and manufacturer stores. Tanger said the mall will open with a few stores by Thanksgiving and will probably be completely filled by mid-February.
Mayor John Nabandian said the mall would offer a larger variety of retail products in Lawrence and open North Second Street to some investment opportunities and redevelopment that will add to city property and sales tax funds.
"We hope that we will bring North Lawrence and Lawrence together as one megalopolis," said Tanger president Stanley Tanger.
Both Steven and Stanley Tanger said they hoped that their mall, one of 17 in 17 different states, would bring in customers that would visit other shopping areas in Lawrence such as those downtown and at the Riverfront Plaza.
"We feel people will visit both our property and the ones downtown," said Steven Tanger. "The downtown merchants have become allies and friends of ours."
In addition to building in Lawrence, Tanger said his 12-year-old company wanted to be considered a part of the community. At the ceremony he presented Sherri Cannon, executive director of the Ballard Community Center, with a check for $250. Cannon said the social service agency will use the money to restock the food shelves deplenished by flood victims.
Wint Winter, left, former state legislator, gives KUT t-shirts to Steven, center, and Stanley Tanger. The Tanger family is building a factory outlet mail south of Interstate 70 in North Lawrence.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Kelvin Heck of Stephens Realtors,2701 West Sixth Street, who helped them select the site, said the location chosen for the mail was because it was easy to spot for people coming off of I-70.
Catholic priest draws ire for advertisement
The Associated Press
MOBILE, Ala. — A Roman Catholic priest drew an ultimatum from church officials Tuesday for trying to run a newspaper ad that advocates killing doctors who do abortions: recant or resign.
Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb issued a statement saying he had given the Rev. David Trosch "the alternative of publicly abiding by my judgment on this erroneous teaching or relinquishing his public position in the church."
He added that Trosch indicated he would recant.
In an interview published Sunday in the Register, Trosch said he designed the ad, which shows a man pointing a gun at a doctor who is holding a knife over a pregnant woman.
Trosch, who tried unsuccessfully to place the ad in *The Mobile Register*, did not return phone messages seekwhere he performed abortions, Trosch said his anti-abortion feelings were intensified by the shooting. An abortion foe, Michael Griffin, has been charged with Gunn's slaying.
Two words accompany the picture:
"Justifiable homicide."
"If 100 doctors need to die to save over 1 million babies a year, I see it as a fair trade," he said.
Trosch, 57, is pastor of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church at Magnolia Springs and founder of Life Enterprises Unlimited, which is not connected to the church.
Magnolia Springs is about 30 miles from Pensacola, Fla., where Dr. David Gunn, an Alabama physician, was shot to death in March outside a clinic
The archbishop returning from the pope's International Youth Day, denounced Trosch's position.
"If his comments concerning abortionists, as repeated in print and television are correct, he is in serious error as a teacher of Catholic moral theology," the archbishop said.
"While recognizing the great evil of abortion and the destruction of innocent human life as a result of it, the Catholic Church cannot espouse the teaching that abortions are to be killed in defense of human life," Lipscomb said.
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"He has maintained his commitment to that organization, not only for the value he saw for his own three sons, but I think he really believes it's an organization that's good for young people," Ambler said. "And he's been willing to make a commitment of his own time and energy for it."
Professionally, Ambler said he appreciated Shulenburger's commitment to quality education.
It was a difficult transition from faculty to administration, Shulenburger said.
"David's a true academician," Ambler said. "Somebody who really believes in academic life and subscribes to the values of an academic institution. I think that's extremely important for the person who is going to be your chief academic officer."
Shulenburger's loyalties are with the academic side of the University.
"If the gathering of funds weren't a constraint, we could certainly get by with a much smaller administration than there is," he said. "But the reality is that people don't just give you money and say 'go do good with it.'"
Lessig said he had known Shulen burger for almost 20 years. They have been professional colleagues and fell low Bov Scout leaders.
Shulenburger, who began teaching at KU in 1974, has a reputation among his students and colleagues for his high standards and academic abilities.
"Fairness is a strong hallmark of Dave," said Parker Lessig, Pinet distinguished teaching professor of business administration.
As a former faculty member, Shulenburger understands the needs of the faculty, said Del Brinkman, former vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"I've always been impressed with his judgment, integrity and leadership ability." Lessig said. "He was an outstanding choice for this position."
Brinkman put Shulenburger in charge of undergraduate programs when he first entered the Office of Academic Affairs as associate vice chancellor.
"I think you're an advocate for the faculty," Brinkman said. "If you lose sight of that, you become a bureaucrat."
the czar of program review," Brinkman said. "He took to that naturally. He has a value system which says that high quality undergraduate instruction is important."
Program review was a process in which the Board of Regents instructed the University to review its programs and suggest ways in which they could run more efficiently.
"We used to jokingly call him the
cair of undergraduate programs, then
"I think what the office always faces is the serious issue of being able to stretch the budget to cover all the things that need to be done and to make decisions along the way that will allow the budget to be used in such a way that maximum productivity is developed," Brinkman said.
Brinkman said that intellectually and in terms of experience, Shulenburger was the perfect person for the job because he can be decisive on difficult as well as easy tasks.
"I have a super aversion to righteousness in people." Shulenburger said. "I define righteousness as always having the right answer without the discomfort of thought and the discomfort of having to confront people with different views.
"At the same time, I really hate accomplishing nothing. Those are a bit of opposites. People who are righteous, they at least know where they're going. There's direction about them. They get things done. So you take those two: an aversion for righteousness and the desire to get things accomplished, then my method of operation is to really find out what people think about an idea, a course of action, to research it. But once I've done that, I do make up my mind, and we go at that point. We get 'things done."
Shulenburger's background in labor relations prepared him for working with the many facets of the University community. Brinkman said.
"What's important about a university like this one is balance," Shulenbur said.
burger begins his day with National Public Radio, "I've got lots of rituals," he said. "One is reading the New York Times; I read it daily. It's here every morning when I come in."
He said he thought that undergraduate studies, graduate studies and research were of equal importance.
Brinkman said that as vice chancellor, Shulenburger probably was working 60 to 80 hours each week.
"There's a lot that needs to be done," he said. "But, at the same time, there comes a point at which you don't have anything left to give, if you give it all, so it's important to stay recharged."
To keep abreast of the world, Shulenburger reads newspapers avidly.
But Shulenburger said he was not a workaholic.
"I read the Kansas City paper before I come up to the office, the Times, the Journal World and I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, so I get the range," he said. "And I feel like given the things I'm involved in I need the kind of information that I'm getting and the entertainment."
Shulenburger said he tried not to be too busy for his three sons: Luke, 13, Neal, 17, and Adam, 19.
He enjoys reading a great deal of nonfiction, including what he called works on the "soft side of science" and books about exploring the West. His favorite fiction writer, at present, is "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurty.
"I try not to take too much of the work home," Shulenburger said. "We discuss some things, because the guys are of an age where they ask, and they wish to know when they read things that are going on, my perspective, so I take a little bit of work home. But I would rather come back to the office. I just don't like to really mix the two that much."
As assistant scoutmaster for his sons' Boy Scout troop. Shulenburger spends time camping and hiking.
"It's fun to work with kids, and at my age, it's fun to be a kid and enjoy things." Shulenburger said.
"I like the outdoors," Shulenburger said. "I can't be outdoors all of the time. But I can be in my reading."
His interest in the West and involvement with the outdoors and the Boy Scouts may come from being raised on a farm, Shulenburger said.
"I have never had a life plan. And I still don't. And I don't intend to create one," he said. "It interferees with enjoy- ing the moment."
Vice chancellor for academic affairs is usually a midlife, short-term appointment, Brinkman said. Shudenburger could go on to a presidency or back into teaching, he said.
What next?
Shulenburger's view, true to the man, is pragmatic.
"I intend to enjoy the job as much as is possible. When I qut doing the job I intend to do something interesting," he said.
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