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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103,NO.82
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL, SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19.1994
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Quake leaves Southern California battered
LA copes with loss of lives, freeways, water, electricity
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Under skies as bright and blue as ever, Southern Californians confronted a changed world yesterday.
The defining features of this region's life — water, power and freeways — were suddenly uncertain. In their place, long lines, hellish commutes and constant earthquake aftershocks.
A 16th body was found inside a flattened apartment building in Northridge, near the epicenter of Monday's powerful earthquake, bringing the death toll from the quake to 34. At least 2,600 people were injured.
But that was only the worst toll paid by people in this battered city.
Once again, the rhythms of life in
Southern California were snapped by disaster, much as they were after last fall's wildfires and the Los Angeles riots 21 months ago.
the effects of this disaster on the day-to-day lives of residents were likely to reach farther and fast longer.
"The days ahead will also be rough for us," Mayor Richard Riordan warned people in Los Angeles, even as he praised them for a cool-headed response to the crisis. "Let's all stick together."
A snapshot of a region in crisis yesterday:
Many offices, schools and stores were closed, and workers were urged to stay home. But the closure of four of the nation's busiest freeways still made commuting a frustrating adventure.
Aftershocks, some as strong as 5 on the Richter scale, continued to jolt the region.
About 100,000 homes remained without power, and between 50,000 and 100,000 were without water, almost all of them in the hard-hit San Fernando Valley. The Department of Water and Power said it could be a week or more before water was restored. A Pacific Bell representative said telephone lines were overloaded but not damaged.
The governor's Office of Emergency Services said only that property damage would be in the "hundreds of millions" of dollars.
Pete Wilson, who has fended off fire, flood, riots and recession as California's governor, answered questions outside the crushed apartment building in Northridge, the site of the greatest number of fatalities.
Unfortunately, Wilson said, it would take up to a year to rebuild fallen bridges that carry Interstate 10, the Santa Monica Freeway, over surface streets in Los Angeles.
Several hundred thousand people a day use the Santa Monica Freeway, making it the nation's busiest highway. Near the fallen bridges yesterday morning, traffic crawled on Fairfax Avenue at a rate of about four blocks an hour.
Fear drives many from homes
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Iva Erwin spent her 80th birthday sitting on a curb without her medicine, her shoes or a roof over her head. Yesterday, she was tired, confused — and scared to go home.
A few feet away, Jacqueline Jacquez, age 6, was clutching her father, her head burrowed in his shirt, still shaking from the predawn jolt that tore her from the warmth of her bed a day before.
For the young and old, the initial terror of Monday's earthquake is over, but the aftershocks and the fear that next time it could be the "Big One" have left them stunned, shaken and sleepless.
"I won't go back. No-ooo," said Erwin, who moved to a Red Cross
shelter after her apartment building was heavily damaged in the quake, which struck on her 80th birthday. "It just isn't safe."
"Scared is not the word," said Marion Sweet, a 44-year-old secretary staying in the shelter with her two teen-age sons, "I thought I woke up in hell. ... You don't want to go to sleep. You're afraid if you do, you'll go through the same night."
Sweet and nearly 400 others spent Monday night on cots or in the parking lot of Granada Hills High School, about five miles from the quake's epicenter.
Many, including Sweet, didn't lose their homes but were afraid to return immediately because windows were blown out, furniture was overturned and walls were cracked.
Martin Altstaedten / KANSAM
Paul McMaster, right, vice president of the Freedom Forum Center, talks with Paul Wenske, assistant professor of journalism. McMaster discussed issues regarding free speech on college campuses yesterday in Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Bans on speech illegal, he says
Speaker warns of loss of freedom
By Susan White Kansan staff writer
College campuses have been experiencing a growing phenomena stemming from the burning of books in the past, said the vice president of the Freedom Forum Center — the trashing, burning and stealing of school newspapers.
"Mark Goodman, the executive director of the Student Press Law Center, calls it an epidemic," said Paul McMasters, who spoke before a group in the auditorium of Stauffer-Flint Hall last night. "I call it an outrage."
McMasters spoke about the curtailing of the free-speech rights of students. He said the perpetrators of these acts had been administrative officials, faculty and some students who claimed that the newspapers were too insensitive about racial issues or too explicit about items that should have been censored.
McMasters said the reaction of university officials to the destruction of newspapers by students had been appalling.
"They have been scolding the campus police for trying to stop the actions," he said. "They call the newspaper trash, little more than litter. Far too many policies of the college officials have been to wink and walk away."
He said he thought that paper burning could become one of the most dangerous expressions of outrage. He said he feared that all discussion
about issues would cease.
"There are a number of reasons why speech codes should be on the way out," he said. "They enforce a form of ignorance rather than encourage education and enlightenment. They divert the dialogue from a focus on fairness to a preoccupation on censorship. They fail to adequately define acceptable and unacceptable. They trivialize debate. They exacerbate racial and other tensions."
"It's a sad recourse for people to come to an institution of higher learning where this is going on," McMasters said. "It it scares me. It is very important to get involved to stop censorship now."
McMasters said that campus speech codes — including those found in the KU Student Handbook — should be done away with.
But McMasters said not all campus
Students cannot simply depend on the administration to provide the right to free speech, McMasters said. They should empower themselves to fight for their First Amendment rights.
"They must take a stand," he said. "it's difficult to do."
"You should be more involved," he said. "You are better than all of this. You are the hope of the future. You are the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow."
officials across the nation wanted censorship.
Philip Alfano, president of the KU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, said he had found the speech to be thought-provoking.
"McMasters came off as more extreme than I thought," he said. "I didn't realize that he defended everything about the First Amendment."
Students volunteer services worldwide
Work experiences offer new outlooks on cultures, they say
By Mark Burnstein Kansan staff writer
"You can talk about helping people and compassion, but the key is putting words into action," said Richard Sheriff, Minneapolis, Minn., senior. Sheriff spent 10 days in December working in a medical clinic in the Philippines.
Past and present KU students who go to the other side of the world to do volunteer work find the experience is well worth it.
Sheriff went to the Philippines as part of a medical mission sponsored by the Philippine Medical Society of Greater Kansas City. This was the group's first year, and it included doctors and nurses from Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
But this is not the only avenue for volunteering. Two former KU students recently completed two years in the Peace Corps.
"The great thing about the Peace Corps is that you come back empowered," said Barbaria Hilman, who spent from 1990 to 1992 in Poland. "You feel like you can do anything that needs to be done."
Jane Hundley, a 1901 KU graduate who returned from Mali in July, said the experience had taught her something that she never could have learned at home.
"I got a very personal and intimate appreciation of a culture I knew very little about." she said.
All of the volunteers said they thought that their experiences would be useful in their future endeavors.
The experience was invaluable, Sheriff said, because he was allowed to do things that he would not be able to do in the United States, like perform simple surgeries and help deliver babies. He also had contact with patients that he normally would not get until medical school. The experience was such a positive one that he
plans to go again next year and maybe again after that, he said.
"I will want to do volunteer work more as a doctor because I will have more to give," he said.
The medical mission also had an unintended positive effect, Sheriff said. The presence of the medical group spurred the Philippine government to fix up its medical facilities.
Medical missions may be a new idea for KU students, but the Peace Corps has been in existence since 1961.
Hundley is one of many KU graduates who have taken advantage of the program. There are now 46 KU graduates serving in the Peace Corps and 12 who are planning to go on an assignment in the near future.
And she did.
"I wanted to travel and see another part of the world," Hundley said. "I really wanted to learn about a different culture."
Hundley lived in a two-room mud brick house with another Peace Corps volunteer in a village of 350 people. The house had no running water or electricity, and she received most of her news by listening to BBC broadcasts on a transistor radio.
Hilman, who graduated from KU in 1960 and is now a Peace Corps recruiter assigned to the University, went into the Peace Corps because her own life took a turn for the worse, and she wanted reassurance that it wasn't that bad, she said.
Hundley said she had felt isolated at first but soon became busy with health demonstrations in villages in the Bambara area of Mali.
"I wanted to go help somebody in worse shape than me," she said. "My problems turned out to be nothing compared to the people I saw."
Sheriff also came back with a new perspective.
Hilpman agreed.
"It really made me appreciate the health systems in the United States," he said.
"It's a very rewarding experience," she said. "You definitely get more than you give."
CNN anchor to receive journalism award
By Stephen Martino
If one staff writer
nansanstan writer
The spotlight is the last place that journalist, such as Bernard Shaw, want to be.
Shaw anchors "Prime News" and "Inside Politics" for the Cable News Network. His travels have taken him to Iraq, where he was one of CNN's three reporters who covered the bombing of Baghdad at the outset of Operation Desert Storm. He contributed 30 continuous hours of live coverage to the student uprising at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and he has moderated a presidential debate and several presidential primary debates.
But Shaw will have to step into it long enough to accept the William Allen White Foundation's national citation in February at the University of Kansas.
"Bernard Shaw is an example of the best that television news has to offer," said Mike Kautsch, dean of the School of Journalism. "While his medium is different than that of William Allen White, I believe Mr. White would have respected the diligence of Shaw's reporting and the insight he provides to his viewers."
The citation is presented annually to a journalist who "mirrors White in service to profession and country." White was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Emporia Gazette. The school is named in his honor.
"Bernard Shaw is at the forefront of upholding the highest ideals of reporting and journalism," said Del Brinkman, journalism program officer with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami. Brinkman, former dean of the school and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said White would approve of
having his name attached to anyone who was a top-level journalist, even a nonprint journalist.
"Bernard Shaw epitomizes what journalism is," said Adrienne Rivers, associate professor of journalism. "He has a firm conviction to get out and get the story for his audience. He has a consistency that is always there, and he isn't afraid to ask the tough questions."
Shaw has been able to maintain a consistent image because of his straight-forward, no-nonsense style, said John Broholm, assistant professor of journalism.
Shaw will receive the citation and give the annual William Allen White Day address at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. It is part of the two-day celebration commemorating White and recognizing contributions of modern journalists.
BERNARD SHAW
HOMETOWN:
Chicago
CAREER:
1971-1977 Correspondent in CBS Washington Bureau
1977-1980 Senior Capitol Hill
correspondent for ABC News
Anchor of CNN's "PrimeNews" and "InsidePolitics"
1980-present — With Cable News Network since its inception
Reported live from Baghdad, Iraq, during first wave of Allied attacks during Operation Desert Storm
Reported for 30 straight hours from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, during student protests
Moderated one presidential debate and several presi-
dential primary debates
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