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The University Daily
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 115 (USPS 650-640)
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Wednesday morning, March 7, 1984
Hart arising as Reagan's foe
Hart buries Mondale in Vermont; third win on road to nomination
By United Press International
Sen. Gary Hart buried Walter Mondale in a landslide in Vermont's non-binding primary yesterday, grabbing his third straight victory in nomination for the Democratic presidential nomination.
With 97 percent of the 264 precincts reporting at 11:30 p.m. CST, Hart had 49,213 votes or 71 percent, Mondale 14,273 or 20 percent and Jessie Jackson 5,465 or 8 percent. Even though Reubin Askew dropped out of the race last week, he still got 415 votes, less than 1 percent of the total.
Campaigning in Florida, Hart noted that in Vermont a lot of Republicans apparently crossed over to vote for him and he said that meant he could beat Ronald Reagan in November.
"I believe the result in Vermont shows this campaign does have a chance to reach out beyond the Democratic Party to expand the frontiers of our party and to expand the electoral base of our party." Hart said. "I intend to defeat Ronald Reagan."
MONDALE STILL LED in the battle for delegates to the Democratic National Convention. He had 132 to 29 for Hart. Many of Mondale's delegates were House members picked earlier this year to go to the convention and they could change their pledges.
Mondale dismissed the Vermont results, saying, "We were not really contesting Vermont. No delegates were being selected in the contest."
HARTS STUNNING Vermont victory — his most impressive to date — gave the Colorado senator a clean sweep in northern New England over the past eight days.
hart was favored to score another victory Saturday in Wyoming, a friendly western state adjacent to his home state of Colorado.
That would mean he would be building on a string of four consecutive wins going into Super Tuesday, March 13, when 11 jurisdictions hold primaries and caucuses to pick 511 delegates.
There was already indication that Hart's building momentum and Mondale's failure to
See VERMONT, p. 5, col. 2
Reagan is ahead maintains Carter
WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter said yesterday that President Reagan would win if the 1984 election were held today but the Democrats "have a good chance" in November if they can overcome his charm, dramatize the issues, and unite for the first time in 20 years.
By United Press International
"Today, I think President Reagan would win," the former president said.
But, Carter said, "I think the Democrats have a good chance provided we can delineate the issues and overcome this personal attractiveness of President Reagan, and provided we have a unified Democratic Party."
*He opposed sending U.S. Marines to Lebanon from the very beginning, because embracing President Amin Gemayel was "a political kiss of death" to chancies for a Lebanese
Among Carter's observations on other foreign and domestic issues;
See CARTER, p. 5, col. 2
Gemavel asks factions to talks
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Amine Gimemayi yesterday formally invited Lebanon's factional leaders to meet in Switzerland next week, saying a country split by nine years of civil strife.
Beirut radio said invitations went to leaders of Lebanon's fractured political and religious communities asking them to meet Monday in Lausanne, a Swiss resort.
But scattered clashes in Beirut and the nearby hills threatened a truce that took effect when Gemayel gave in to Syrian and rebel Muslim demands Monday and scrapped the May 17 peace accord with Israel.
wounded when army units in the Shouf mountains came under mortar fire from gunners suspected to be Druse Muslims. Sniper fire also crackled in downtown Beirut.
In south Lebanon, Shiite Muslim protesters reportedly hurled stones at an Israeli patrol in Qana, a village near Tyre. Christian radio said they were part of the attack, but Israel officials denied shots were fired.
FOREIGN MINISTER Elie Salem said in an interview that "everything is on - no hitches at all" for the second round of national reconciliation talks scheduled for Monday in Switzerland.
A single rocket-propelled grenade exploded against the heavily guarded French Embassy in west Beirut after nightfall, but no casualties were reported, a French spokesman said.
MILITARY SOURCES TOLD Christian Phalange radio two government soldiers were
"I am optimistic the meeting will take place and there is a very good spirit about it," Salem said. *
In Bern, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said the talks would take place in Lausanne's Beau Rivage, a 380-bed luxury hotel in a park overlooking Lake Geneva.
An opposition spokesman said the Muslims had two chief goals in the Lausanne talks — negotiating a fair power-sharing plan and assigning responsibility for the army's destruction of Druse villages and Shite Muslim slums in February.
The first round of national reconciliation talks, held in October in Geneva, made no progress in attempts to expand the Muslim majority's role in government and to end nine years of bloody sectarian strife.
AND LIVE AS A NATION UNDER CHRIST!
WASHINGTON — Polish Freedom Fighter Jozef Mlot-Mroz, Salem, Mass., attends a school-prayer vigil near the Capitol Building in Washington. The rally lasted throughout night Monday. See story p. 2.
United Press International
College OK's tougher computer science standards
Staff Reporter
By JENNY BARKER
The assembly, the governing body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, passed a proposal from the acting chairman of the computer science department that will set new standards for eligibility to take some computer sciences courses above CS 200 and CS 210.
A proposal passed yesterday by the KU College Assembly will exclude some KU students from some upper-level computer science courses after this semester. The grade point requirement is inquisitive requirements.
According to the new policy, students who enroll in courses beyond CS 210 without having established eligibility automatically lose their places in those courses.
WILLIAM BULGREN, acting chairman of the computer science department, said he proposed
the tougher prerequisites in February because the computer science department could no longer meet student's demand for courses.
Bulgren said that the faculty and resources of the computer science department had not increased proportionately to the increase in the number of students wanting to take courses.
In 1974, students took fewer than 2,500 credit hours, Bulgen said. This year, students are taking almost 9,000 credit hours of computer science.
science.
"Over 10 years our faculty has been constant," Bulgren said. "It has not increased or decreased more than one faculty member."
nugreen said that in many upper-level classes
60 to 80 students were enrolled and that the
school is using a new system.
"THE QUALITY OF education declines when classes get so large students have a hard time interacting with instructors." Bulgren said. "There's a lack of personalized education."
Bulgren said in the proposal that some com puter science majors were unable to take courses they needed or wanted to take before graduation because of overloaded classes.
Under the new policy, students will have to take English 101; Math 121, or combinations of Math 115 and 116 or Math 113 and 114; CS 200; and CS 210 or Math 450 before being eligible for enrollment in courses above the 210 level.
A grade point average of 2.3 is required in the four core courses and in all other courses taken at the University. Previously, the computer equipment used the college's 2.0 GFA requirement.
Several KU computer science students said they supported the changes in the requirements.
JEFF BRODDECK. Olathe junior and computer science major said that he was in much of it, much more in very much of it.
Brodbeck said he had tried to enroll in CS 300 for three semesters, but had been unable to because the class was full. He finally took the course during the summer.
Mark Young, a Derby senior majoring in computer science, said he thought that the new policy was a change for the better.
"It as it goes right now, there are not enough teachers for the attention each student needs"
"I imagine there are going to be some people disappointed about it, but I think it's necessary." Young said. "The professors are really being overworked."
"I'm sorry that it has to happen — but it's something that's necessary. It's not really so bad."
— other schools, like the business school, lived requirements already, so it was just a matter of
"It will end up improving the quality of computer science. Hopefully, it will make computer science students work a little harder to achieve that goal."
See COURSES, p. 5, col. 1
Topeka man dies of a heart attack at Haworth Hall
By the Kansan Staff
A Topeka construction worker died of a heart attack yesterday afternoon while installing door frames on the second floor of the Haworth Hall addition.
One of Engle's co-workers said Engle was standing on a ladder installing aluminum door frames on the south side of the addition. Shortly before 3:30 p.m., Engle climbed down the ladder, sat on a sawhorse inside the addition and collapsed, he said.
Engle was employed by Forman and Ford, a Des Moines, Iowa, glass company doing some of the work on the addition.
Bill Engle, 56, was pronounced dead on arrival at Lawrence Memorial Hospital at 4:45 n.m
An ambulance was called at about 3:30 p.m. When it arrived, KU police officers were administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
adhence, ambulances and police continued CPR for about 45 minutes. They also gave him an intravenous injection and administered defibrillation.
Engle's son Thomas, Lawrence senior, was walking by Haworth Hall when he saw an ambulance, a police car and a small group of people looking at the part of the building where he knew his father was working.
Engle said that at one point his father's heartbeat was revived but that it was very irregular and weak. Paramedics and police brought Engle's father out of the building on a stretcher with a machine pumping his heart at about 4:30 p.m.
Bill Engle, 56, is carried to the ambulance after suffering a heart attack while doing construction work on the addition to
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Haworth Hall. He died yesterday afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Laboratory rats lose their heads to KU guillotine
By TODD NELSON
Staff Reporter
Rebels publicly executed Marie Antonette during the French Revolution in the late 1700s as part of the retribution against nobility.
Albeit for different reasons, some KU laboratory rats also have been victims of the guillotine.
Once a year, KU biochemistry students learn to operate guillotines on rats as part of a course in laboratory research techniques.
"Essentially, what it is, is an elaborate pair of scissors." Tim West, a biochemistry laboratory education technician, said recently.
"It's something that's used universally."
THE RAT GUILLOTINE consists of two concave, bevelled blades fixed in a metal frame and mounted on a wooden base. A handle raises and lowers the upper blade. West said that one of the guilolines costs more than $200.
Decapitating rats is only one of several ways that researchers commonly kill them for experiments. West said Rats can also be injected with a form or with injections of other chemicals.
jectors of our biology studies.
Students in Biology 759 learn to use the guillotine as a humane way to kill rats for experiments, said West, who prepares the rats, guillotines and other materials for the experiments.
experiments.
But students in the class rarely become squeamish when working with the rat guillotines, he said, because most of them are graduate students and upper-class students preparing for medical school.
"They may lack a little confidence, but they overcome that quickly, with the instruction that they receive." West said.
ONE KU STUDENT who learned last semester how to operate the guillotine said that she and most of her classmates were too busy to squeamish over the opera.
Ann Wyttenbach, Lawrence junior, who is majoring in biology, said that the rat-decapitating lab was the first experiment her class conducted.
"It was really all pretty businesslike," she said.
sad.
West said that decapitating rats was less painful for them than putting them to sleep with ether because it was faster.
with either because they are slower, there's probably more of a chance that the animal can suffer some discomfort." West said.
THE GULLOTINE'S speed also provides an advantage for researchers — the rats die without experiencing trauma, which would alter their biochemistry and make certain experiments impossible to conduct.
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