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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 130 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, April 5, 1984
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William A Fowler, professor emeritus of physics at California Institute of Technology, uses a slide to help demonstrate a point
while lecturing a physics class, Fowler, who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in physics, was on campus Tuesday and yesterday
Nobel astrophysicist is down to earth
By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
He works in a realm of solar neutrinos and red giants, of isotopes and supernovae.
He and colleagues Charlie and Tommy Lauritsen invented nuclear astrophysics, and last year he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for "theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe."
But William A. Fowler, professor emeritus of
physics at the California Institute of Technology and guest this week of the physics and astronomy department, would as soon talk about his beloved Pittsburgh Pirates as about physics.
In fact, Fowler says that he and other scientists are more like average people than many would believe.
"The image that the general populace has of scientists in general, and physicists in particular, is erroneous," he says "The false image of scientists is given to the public by the media, I'm sad to say. And their distorted
"THEIR ARE LOTS of physicists like me who are interested in baseball or steam locomotives. Physicists fall in love, get married, have children and get divorced, just like everybody
picture of the scientist in his ivory tower is for the birds.
But physicists also work, and Fowler, 73, has been working at the W.K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at Caltech since his graduation from Ohio State University in 1933. Since World War
See FOWLER, p. 6, col. 3
Reagan pledges to draft chemical-warfare treaty
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday announced that he would make a new effort to negotiate a worldwide ban on chemical weapons with the Soviet Union.
Reagan said he would send Vice President George Bush to Geneva in two weeks to present a draft treaty to the Soviets for a chemical-warfare ban.
At the same time, Reagan stressed that the United States must maintain and upgrade its chemical arsenal to offset the present Soviet capability. He noted that the U.S. had built no nuclear weapons in the past 15 years, ever since President Nixon announced a unilateral moratorium.
The president said the proposal — described by U.S. officials as more comprehensive than a chemical weapons moratorium offered earlier by Soviet leader Konstantin Cherenko — would include "bold and sound" verification procedures.
"Without a modern and credible deterrent," he said, "the prospects for achieving a comprehensive ban would be significantly diminished."
Reagan has asked for $1.1 billion in his fiscal 1985 budget for chemical warfare projects, but Congress has balked at similar requests in the last three budgets he has presented.
Reagan yesterday also attacked congressional meddling in foreign affairs and said Congress had imposed "about 150 restrictions" on the president's power to act aboard in the last 10 years.
However, he avoided the question of whether he would save a Supreme Court ruling on the 2015 law.
Reagan said presidents had亡了 it necessary to use military force abroad 125 times before the Vietnam War inspired the legal curb on the commitment of American forces.
Student Senate to discuss discrimination allegations
Pressing his complaints about excessive congressional influence on foreign affairs — not only in regard to Lebanon, but also in Central America — Reagan said he thought the Constitution had settled the question of who should run foreign policy.
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Although he said "military strength is a definite part of diplomacy," Reagan said that remarks by Secretary of State George Shultz Tuesday about flexing U.S. muscle abroad does not mean "we're going to get more militant or anything like that."
The Student Senate Executive Committee yesterday called an emergency Senate meeting for tonight to consider the removal of four members from the Finance Committee who have been charged with discrimination.
Members of Praxis, Latin American Solidarity and Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas asked StudEx to recommend the removal of committee members Steve Bergstrom, Jay Smith, Eric Wynkoop and Bob Stern because the four members had publicly that they would finance certain groups solely had discriminated against the groups during budget hearings.
Three of the four members denied that their actions had been discriminatory. The fourth member, a former NYPD officer,
IN A LETTER to Carla Vogel, student body president, Stu Shafer, Praxis representative, said, "We feel that the Finance Committee has been tainted by the prejudiced and discriminatory attitudes and actions of these particular individuals.
"This is not a question of their 'right' to their opinions — they are free to express their bigotry, as distasteful as it might be. However, they are not free to act in a discriminatory fashion."
Vietnam will never go away for scarred Baldwin veteran
The Finance Committee last week heard budget requests for fiscal 1965 from 70 student organizations. The committee began deliberating the final budget Friday.
Staff Reporter
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Renorter
See SENATE. p. 6, col. 3
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the Finance Committee, said yesterday that he would postpone their deliberations until the Senate会议 be held. He also said about holding up the budget process. The Senate
For most people, the Vietnam War is a scar in the history of the United States.
For John Musgrave the scars will never neat. Musgrave, who lives in Baldwin, was still in high school when he enlisted in the Marines in 1967, he celebrated his 19th birthday in combat
over his four birthdays in combat.
"After you've been in combat for awhile," Musgray said recently, "you're not 18 any more. I was born in Missouri, but I grew up in Vietnam."
Mustragrge endured 11 months and 17 days in combat until his third and final wound sent him home in 1968, with internal wounds and limited use of his left arm and hand.
NO ONE CAN even pretend to imagine the terror and fear that Musgrave and his "buddies" endured in Vietnam. It is a fear, he said, that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Once an 18- or 19-year-old has been introduced to mortality, it stays with him forever, Musgrave said with the eyes of a man who knows.
He is now 35 and has had years to reflect on Vietnam.
Musgrau, who works for Job Service's disabled Vietnam veterans outreach program in Lawrence, says he can't forget, and he will not stop helping them. His buddies — who shed their blood in Vietnam
"I wouldn't trade serving with the men I served with for anything," he said. "They died for me. They shed their blood to protect me when I was wounded."
Most of Musgrave's buddies never made it home, he said, but the ties are still strong, and the commonality of experience creates a bond that is difficult to break among combat soldiers.
"I D TELL MYSELF I couldn't make more
See MUSGRAVE, p. 6, col.1
Senate postpones vote about drinking age
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — After more than an hour of intense debate, the Senate yesterday decided not to vote on a bill that would raise the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer from 18 to 19, and instead sent the bill back to a committee for hearings.
But supporters of the bill said last night when the Senate adjourned that they had not given up the fight to push the bill through today before the Legislature adjourns.
The Legislature probably will recess this afternoon for two weeks. Lawmakers will return sometime during the week of April 23 for a few days of final work before adjourning to
But before they leave, supporters of the drinking age bill might have in their playbooks one or two more plans to win approval for the bill.
ONE STRATEGY WOULD require one of the legislators who voted to send the bill back to the
committee to suggest that the Senate reconsider its decision.
If that plan succeeds, senators would debate the bill again. And if supporters of raising the drinking age could garner enough votes, a proposal would be made, and the Senate would take a final vote.
If that plan fails, those in favor of raising the drinking age have a second strategy.
State Rep. Robert Miller, R-Wellington, said if the Senate did not approve the bill, he might suggest today that the House pass a similar measure that would raise the drinking age to 19. The bill is already on the House calendar awaiting debate.
Miller said that enough representatives favored raising the drinking age to 19 that the bill would have no trouble sailing through the House.
LEGISLATORS WERE CONFUSED after the Senate voted 21-19 to send the bill back to the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Many legislators questioned whether the
rules of the Legislature had been violated by the vote to send the bill back to committee and whether a conference committee that proposed the drinking-age bill still could meet.
After the Senate voted to send the bill back to the committee. Sen. Paul Hess, R Wichita and one of the leading supporters of the bill, called a meeting of the conference committee.
But the committee did not meet because only Hess and State Sen. Richard Gannon, D-PA, co-chairs the committee.
MILLER, THE CHARMAN of the conference committee, said he and the other three committee members did not attend because Hess had no authority to call the meeting.
"There is only one way that a meeting can be called — by the chairman," Miller said.
Also yesterday, Attorney General Robert T. Stephan said he would not investigate the actions of the conference committee.
In a letter to Gannon and two other senators who requested the investigation, Stephan said the committee had not violated the Kansas meetings Act as the three senators had alleged.
KU's broadcast program was awakened to homeless reality
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
A gift of $3.5 million is the stuff dreams are made of.
Four years ago the University of Kansas learned it would receive a $3.5 million donation to construct a new building on West Campus for the broadcast program in the School of Journalism.
But dreams don't always come true.
The $3.5 million gift was donated in August 1900 by Gulph Rud Ward and his wife, Josephine Gulph. The gift is still held by Gulph.
ON THAT DAY, Budig said that the "post-ponement of construction activities" should not be taken as a lessening of interest on the part of the Weirs.
But on January 18, 1983, Chancellor Gene A. Budig woke up the University with the announcement that the Weirs had rescinded their donation.
And that was the last information given by the University regarding the 'won' donation.
Wear said that he had intended for the money to be used to establish a "School of Communication" that would have administrative status equal to that of the School of Journalism.
Recently, Weir said that he and his wife took back their money because the stipulations with the bank were unfair.
according to Weir, would have forced the present journalism administrative structure to be
HOWEVER, DEL BRINKMAN, dean of the School of Journalism, said recently that an independent communication school would be impossible at KU because studies in communication are divided between the School of Journalism and the division of speech and drama in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Brinkman said that although the Weirs, former owners of a cable television company based in Junction City, did say they wanted a cable TV station at KU, he did not think it was a requirement.
Weir said that he donated the money with the stipulation that the new program would have a "dean of communication," who would oversee a "chief of broadcast" and a "vice dean of journalism."
Establishing a "School of Communication,"
"WEIR HAS IDEAS for the University," Brinkman said, "but the people who should make the decisions are those people closest to you. You doesn't understand the organization of KU."
But Weir said, "I'm not willing to give the
children University and let them do what they want."
The words "and Mass Communications" were added to the formal title of the School of Journalism in April 1982, but Weir said that wasn't good enough.
Weir said he wanted the title to be the William Allen White School of Communication — not the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
"This is the day of electronics," he said, "not the day of the newspaper anymore.
"The School of Journalism is 50 years out of date.
"I was willing to build KU a building — provided the other stipulations were met first."
divided the other step.
Building or no building, KU journalism faculty agree on one thing — something needs to be done to improve the present broadcast program.
THE GROWTH OF KU'S program has been limited by the fact that TV and radio equipment and studios are in temporary facilities all over the campus. Brinkman said.
Radio and television classes are being taught in Stauffer-Flint and Jollife Halls. And although the TV studio is in Joliffe, most of the broadcast faculty's offices are in the Blake Hall Annex.
KU radio station KJHK is run from the Sudler House, which is near the intersection of West Campus Road and 11th Street, and KANU is in Hill Hall, a small building behind Marvin Hill.
Jim Kobbe, Wichita senior and news director at KJHJ, described KU's broadcast equipment
KOBBE SAID THAT the University could not tute top-notch professors because applicants
See BROADCAST, p. 10, col. 1
FILE PHOTO
Above is a model of a proposed broadcast building that was to be financed by a $3.5 million donation promised to the University four years ago. The building was never built because the donation was rescinded last year.