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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
VOL.103, NO.81
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1994
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Kansas was voted to the top of The Associated Press' and CNN/USA. Today's basketball polls, but a loss to Kansas St. spoiled the party.
The Associated Press top five
1. KANSAS ... 16-2
2. UCLA ... 11-0
3. Arkansas ... 12-1
4. N. Carolina ... 13-2
5. Duke ... 11-1
Team puts top spot in perspective
By Gerry Fey
Kansan sportswriter
KANSAN
With Kansas' 68-64 loss to Kansas State last night, the Jayhawks are in danger of losing their day-old No.1 spot.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said he wanted to put the Associated Press poll into the correct perspective for his players.
"I told the team this morning, 'It's just another indication of what you've done to this point, but it means absolutely nothing.'" he said.
Kansas jumped from No. 3 to No. 1 in the AP men's basketball poll released yesterday, but Williams said he didn't care what the Jayhawks were ranked during the season.
extra concern on us."
"I could care less if I'm M. 1 or 5,000," Williams said. "It doesn't put any extra pressure on us. It doesn't put any
Kansas moved to the top after No.1 North Carolina and No.2 Duke lost last week. The Jayhawks defeated Oklahoma last Monday, setting the stage for a top ranking.
"We played them last year, we were No. 1 and we won," he said of K-State. "We played them this year, and we were No. 1, we lost. I'd just as soon we didn't have any polls."
Williams said the rankings had no effect on either KU or K-State's performance.
The only thing the poll may have done was help K-State prepare for the game, Kansas sophomore forward Sean Pearson said.
"It made K-State more intense to play us and knock us down from No. 1," he said. "Coach Williams told us that we were No. 1, but everybody knows that in the middle of the season being No. 1 doesn't mean a thing."
Tom Leninger / KANSAN
Michael Ryan, left, Eudora freshman, and Travis Green, Kansas City, Mo. junior, react to the 68-84 loss to Kansas State last night in Allen Field House.
Death toll: At least 32 people reported dead.
Aftermath: 200,000 without water and 680,000 without power in Los Angeles County.
State of emergency: President Clinton declares Southern California eligible for federal aid. Severity: Deadliest quake in California since 1989.
L.A. digs out of the rubble
LAWRENCE
Students survive anxious hours, contact families
By Roberta Johnson and Susan White Kansan staff writers
While the Los Angeles earthquakes seemed thousands of miles away for some students, for others the shocks hit very close to home.
Barak Yaughn, Marina Del Ray, Calif., junior, said his family lived within ten miles of the epicenter of the earthquake. His mother contacted him early yesterday morning and said his family was not hurt.
At 6:30 a.m. yesterday an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hit the San Fernando Valley and was felt from San Diego to Las Vegas.
"My mom's apartment is in shambles," he said. "The plaster on the walls fell off, and everything fell and shattered."
"The hallway was bouncing so much that he was thrown wall to wall like he was in a fun house," he said.
Justin Anderson, Los Angeles junior, said that a friend in California told him of a frightening experience he had upon awakening to the earthquake.
The massive destruction and congested telephone lines have left some KU students wondering about family and friends.
Don Steeple, professor of geology, said that at least one aftershock typically will occur within one magnitude, or 5.5 on the scale, during the month after any earthquake. Steeple said the aftershocks could occur for several months.
Anderson said that his brother tried to call their family yesterday morning.
Leonard Ortiz / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
"The phone just kept ringing and ringing," he said.
He later learned that the house received minor damages and that his family was all right.
Students needing help coping with the crisis can turn to a variety of places.
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St., suite 202, also offers counseling services. A separate disaster-related services number is 843-9192.
Vaughn said that even though he has been in several earthquakes, he has never gotten used to them.
Nannette Stone, 68, of Sifmar, Calif., hugs Capt. Bob Ward of the Los Angeles County Fire Department yesterday after he and other fire fighters saved her mobile home from fire. The fire started after the earthquake ruptured a natural gas line.
"We don't ask for names," said Headquarters director Marsha Epstein. "It's very low-key. We don't sit in the office across a desk."
Headquarters, Inc., located at 1419 Massachusetts St. , is open 24 hours a dav. and students can walk in or call.
"If you have ever been in an earthquake, then you know it's one of the scariest things you've ever experienced," Vaughn said. "There's an inside fear that it's going to happen, but you're never really sure when."
Major earthquakes in California
Source: News reports; research by Pat Carr; Associated Press
Oct. 17, 1989:
A quake of 7.1 magnitude in the San Francisco area kills 63 people.
Jan. 24, 1800:
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of San Francisco
damages a nuclear
weapons
laboratory.
Feb. 9, 1971:
A 6.5 quake in the San Fernando Valley leaves 65 people dead.
March 10, 1933:
A 6.3 quake in Long Beach kills 11.5 people.
CALIFORNIA
Ron Coddington and Jeff Dionise/ KNIGHT RIDDER-TRIBUNE
Residents reeling from fire, aftershocks
The Associated Press
According to CNN early this morning, at least 32 people were killed, 14 in the apartment building where more victims were believed to be trapped in the rubble.
LOS ANGELES — Body after body was pulled from a crumpled apartment complex yesterday after an earthquake that snapped freeways like matchsticks, left hundreds of thousands without power and water and turned the nation's busiest highway network into a commuter's nightmare.
The quake hit at 6:31 a.m. CST, shattering the sleeping suburbs of the sprawling San Fernando Valley, 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Freeway traffic was minimal in the pre-dawn hours on the holiday honoring the late Martin Luther King Jr. The only traffic fatality was a motorcycle policeman who rode off a fractured freeway as he drove to work.
Measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, the quake was felt from San Diego 125 miles to the south, to Las Vegas 275 miles to the northeast.
Telephone service was erratic as long-distance phone companies routed calls away from the region to prevent communication gridlock.
By yesterday evening, at least 680,000 customers were still without power in Los Angeles County, and 200,000 were without water, officials said. Valley residents were able to obtain water from trucks at area high schools.
Though the bulk of structural damage was centered in the valley, power was disrupted as far away as Canada, and traffic lights were knocked out in downtown Los Angeles as well as in the valley.
By sunrise, dozens of homes had been lost to fires that broke out on cracked and flooded streets. By sunset, scores of aftershocks, including one with a magnitude of 5.7, had left residents fearful for their homes.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
The American Red Cross is taking monetary donations to help earthquake victims. Students interested in donating should contact the Red Cross at 2120 W. 25th St., suite B, or at 843-3550.
A freight train carrying sulfuric acid was derailed, and Los Angeles International Airport closed briefly.
About 700 patients were transferred from quake-damaged hospitals. About a dozen hospitals sustained minor damages and could not accept new patients, said Cindy Shamrock of the state Office of Emergency Services.
Less than 10 hours after the earthquake, President Clinton declared Southern California a disaster area, making residents eligible for federal aid.
"We intend to do everything we possibly can to help the people of Los Angeles and Southern California to deal with the earthquake and its aftermath," Clinton said in Washington, D.C.
Gov. Pete Wilson and Mayor Richard Riordan declared emergencies. Riordan instituted a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Los Angeles to protect "life and property."
California National Guard troops were sent in, and the state emergency agency sent about 300 search-and-rescue teams.
At least 14 people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in Northridge. The building housed mostly students from nearby California State University-Northridge.
Thousands were treated for injuries.
In Los Angeles, Cedars Sinai Medical Center was receiving "a tidal wave of walking wounded," spokesman Ron Wise said.
Five interstates and three state highways were closed at several points after the quake.
Fires fed by gas and oil main ruptures destroyed other homes in the valley. Concrete the size of bowling balls fell from overpasses onto area freeways and streets.