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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL. 103, NO. 116
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TUESDAY. MARCH 8.1994
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Dvian tickets to go on sale tomorrow
- Tickets for the April 9 Bob Dylan concert at the Lied Center will go on sale tomorrow at two locations on campus;
8:00 a.m. at the SUA office — they will only take cash or checks
11:00 a.m. at the Lied Center (864-2787), or at Ticketmaster at the Riverfront Plaza Outlet Mall (841-2626). Buyers can call and charge their tickets.
The tickets are tentatively priced at $25 for general seating and $35 for gold circle seating. Seating will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. No student discount will be offered.
There will be about 2,000 tickets available for the concert.
'Sexpert' Dr. Ruth to speak at KU
KANSAN
Sex therapist to focus on love, relationships
Kansan staffwriter
By Roberta Johnson
Both the physical and emotional aspects of sex will be discussed tonight when Dr. Ruth Westheimer speaks at 9 p.m. in the Lied Center.
Westheimer, an internationally known
sex expert, will focus on how to have a responsible, caring relationship with a loved one, said Mary McDonald, her agent. The lecture also will include issues such as safe sex, the use of contraceptives and AIDS.
"You need to remember that she is a therapist and not an M.D." McDonald said. "She will answer questions to the best of her ability, but if it is too much medical-related she will not answer it."
Westheimer just returned from Europe on Sunday and was not available for comment.
Tonight, Westheimer will lecture and
then lead a question-and-answer session.
For those who might feel uncomfortable with asking questions, index cards will be available to write questions on. The moderator will collect them and ask the questions.
Westheimer's lecture is being in conjunction with Safe Break Week with Watkins Memorial Health Center, said David Stephens, chair of the forums committee of Student Union Activities.
SUA chose Westheimer to speak because of her popularity, Stephens said.
Janine Demo, health educator at Watkins, said that Watkins was not helping fund Westheimer's presentation but was working with SUA on promotion.
SUA ran out of ticket vouchers for admission to the event Friday afternoon, Stephens said. All vouchers must be redeemed between 7 and 8:30 p.m. tonight at the center. After 8:30, admission will be opened until the seats are filled.
A public reception will be held at the second floor of the center after the press conference, which begins at 10:30 p.m. Stephens said that no one would be allowed to re-enter the building.
Valerie Bontrager/ KANSAN
The gift that keeps on giving
Christie Templin, Overland Park senior, gives blood while LaTana Tucker, Wichita nurse technician for the Red Cross, writes down Templin's vital signs. The blood mobile was in the Ballroom at the Kansas Union yesterday. It will be there 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through Thursday. On Friday, the Red Cross will collect blood from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Templin Hall.
Midwestern colleges have low enrollment in classes
Asian-American courses hard to find
By Denise Nell Kansan staff writer
Quoc Trinh has discovered how difficult finding Asian-American courses at universities in the Midwest can be.
Trinh, Wichita senior and member of the Asian American Student Union, is researching universities that offer courses about Asian Americans to find out what he can do to get more courses at the University of Kansas. He is working to fulfill one of the groups long-term goals — the development of a department of Asian-American studies
Surendra Bhana, associate professor of African and African-American studies, said he taught the last course at KU exclusively about Asian Americans—a history seminar last spring called Asian-American Immigration. The next course, Asian-American Experiences, will be offered in the spring of 1995. he said.
Bhana said low demand limited the number of courses at KU about Asian Americans. "I think it has to do with the demand for the course," he said. "It remains fairly small. On the few occasions I have taught it, I have
attracted mainly Asian-American students."
"The simple reason we don't have one is because there has never been an interest among Asian-American people," he said. "I don't think there are a lot of Asian-American studies departments in the Midwest, period, just because of the population."
Trinh said that his research into other universities revealed that very few universities in the Midwest had Asian-American studies departments. Some universities on the East and West coasts have such departments, but those areas also have higher concentrations of Asian Americans, he said.
But KU is not unusual. Many of its peer institutions offer few or no courses focusing on Asian Americans. The University of Oklahoma and the University of Oregon do not offer any courses exclusively about Asian Americans, and the University of Iowa offers only one — an Asian American literature class.
Trinh said he had contacted professors in KU's American Studies department about the possibility of adding more courses about Asian Americans. But it will take increased interest from both Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans to get the courses off the ground, he said.
Of KU's peer institutions, the University of Colorado has the most developed program. At least seven courses about Asian-Americans are offered, said Steve Medina, staff assistant at Colorado's Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. He said the university hoped to offer a degree in Asian-American studies soon.
"There's a general lack of awareness in the Midwest and so people haven't thought about it very much," Trinh said. "At state universities in the Midwest, without interest and without money, it won't be done."
Trinh said he hoped that events, such as the Asian American festival, would help educate other cultures about Asian Americans and raise the interest needed to increase the number of Asian-American courses at KU.
"The United States is growing, and Asian Americans are the fastest minority group growing," he said. "And at the end of the century, the number might double. With that, everyone has to learn to live together. Everyone has to get along."
Clinton: Wife did no wrong in Whitewater
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton made an extraordinary and impassioned defense of his wife against any suggestion of wrongdoing in the Whitewater affair yesterday.
Amid news accounts that Hillary Rodham Clinton had ordered the shredding of documents at an Arkansas law firm, Clinton said, "I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life — ever. And I do not believe for a moment that she has done anything wrong."
Clinton's news conference, withvisiting Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze, was dominated by White-water questions.
Clinton said he had been unaware of two White House meetings where his advisers discussed the Whitewater investigation with federal regulators.
He did acknowledge being informed last October that the Resolution Trust Corp. was investigating whether his gubernatorial campaign had received improper donations from a Little Rock savings and loan.
Over the objections of Democrats, Republicans pressed for congressional hearings into Whitewater, a tangled Arkansas land deal in which the Clintons were co-owners with James McDougal, the owner of a failed savings and loan now under investigation.
Clinton said the White House staff had been ordered to comply fully in the federal investigation. He said he would soon replace Bernard Nussbaum, White House counsel who resigned in the wake of Whitewater, with an attorney of "unquestioned integrity" in order "to inspire confidence in me that we are going the extra mile, not only in this case but in all cases, to deal with all matters in an appropriate war."
Acknowledging it had been a mistake for his staff to consult with federal regulators, Clinton said that a "firewall" of new guidelines had been erected to prevent improper contacts.
Increasingly, Hillary Clinton's role in the Whitewater affair has come under scrutiny.
She managed the family's financial affairs, including the Clinton's involvement in Whitewater. Also, as a Little Rock attorney, she represented McDougal's Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan with ties to Whitewater. She reportedly resisted giving Whitewater files to federal investigators and the appointment of a special prosecutor.
Clinton said there should be no question about his wife's conduct.
As for himself, Clinton promised to be forthcoming in the investigation.
Clinton's bad land deal
Key dates in President Clinton's real estate deal with the owner of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan of Arkansas and the ensuing investigation:
Clinton wins first gubernatorial campaign and appoints McDougal a top aide.
1978 James McDougal and his wife, Susan, form Whitewater Development Corp. partnership with Bill and Hillary Clinton to develop retirement accommodation homes on 200 acres in the Ozark Mountains
1980 Clinton loses re-election bid; McDougal goes into banking.
1982 McDougal buys Madison Guaranty; Clinton re-elected governor.
1984 Federal regulators begin criticism of Madison Guaranty banking practices.
1985 In April, McDougall sponsors a post-election fundraiser at Madison Guaranty to help Clinton retire a $50,000 campaign debt from 1984 Hillary Clinton prepares plan for state regulators to keep thrift open.
1989
89 Federal government closes the failed S&L,
and removes $7 million to $60 million to cover depositors.
1992
1993
A report commissioned by the Clinton presidential campaign says the Clintons lost $69,000 on Whitewater; Clintons sell their interest back to McDougal
In July, Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster commitsuis suicide. He represented the Clintonts when they sold their Whitewater boat to an insurer, who was part of the corporation's delinquent tax returns.
In October, Justice Dept. attorneys go to Little Rock to investigate Madison Guranty and Whitewater. Justice Dept. also is examining the house's handings of events after Foster's death.
In December, the White House agreed to turn
down the offer for a transgender woman,
which had been preparing to subpoena them.
1994 In January, Attorney General Janet Reno names Robert B. Flake special counsel to investigate the Clinton's involvement in the affair. The Foster suicide will be part of probe.
In March, the White House acknowledges presidential lawyer Bernard Nussbaum and Treasury officials met to discuss the Madison-Whitewater investigation. Clinton says that shouldn't have occurred. A worker at Hillary Clinton's former law firm tells a grand jury he was ordered to shred some of Foster's files; the firm denied the charge.
March 4: Six of President Clinton's senior aides were supoenaed to testify for special prosecutor Fiske.
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March 5: Nussbaum resigns.
Kansas freshman reliever Jason Schreiber pitched three innings yesterday in the Jayhawks'7-1 victory against Southeast Missouri State at home. Kansas improved to 8-4.
SOURCE: News reports Knight-Ridder Tribune/JUDY TREIBLE
R-E-L-I-E-F
Kansas' Proud out for season
Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams announced yesterday that freshman forward Nick Proud will miss at least the remainder of the season because of reoccurring knee injuries, the latest sustained in practice in early January.
Knee injury may end freshman's career
By Matt Siegel
Kansan sportswriter
He has not played for Kansas since. Williams said that damage to Proud's right knee was so extensive that he feared for Proud's health beyond the basketball court.
"It is likely that Nick's basketball career over," Williams said. "This is a blow to us, especially to the future of our program. Nick was an important part of that future. But it's not worth it to play and worry about whether or not you'll be able to walk when you're 40."
High School in Sandy, Utah.
proud first injured his right knee when he was 16. In years to follow, he suffered a series of injuries to the same knee, causing him to miss almost his entire senior season at Alta
"I've spent the last six years of my life trying to achieve playing on this level," Proud said. "It's tough when something you've worked for that long is basically thrown out the window."
The 6-foot-10 forward from Sydney, Australia, said he took the news hard.
Proud was listed as the 35th best college prospect by recruiting expert Bob Gibbons. In the two games he played his senior season before he was injured, he averaged 26 points, 17 rebounds and 10 blocked shots.
"I appreciate everything that Coach Williams and the staff have done for me," Proud said. "I also appreciate my teammates, who have supported me during this time. I will continue to support them in the postseason."
Proud said that at the very least he would finish up the spring semester
Proud scored a career high of 12 points this season against California in just five minutes of playing time.
Williams said he hoped that Proud would finish his education at Kansas. Proud said that at the very least he
NICK PROUD
BY THE NUMBER:
Averaged 3.2 points and 1.8
rebounds in 16 games at
Kansas.
MAJOR: Speech-Language-Hearing
NIGH SCHOOL NICKNAME: "The thunder from down under"
NOMETOWN: Sydney, Australia
COACH ROY WILLIAMS ON PROUD BEFORE
SEASON START.
Nick is a really skilled big man, I hope his knee will allow him to show the KU fans what he can do.
LAST GAME PLAYED: Home against Oklahoma,
Jan. 10.
KANSAN