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Vol. 94, No.110 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, February 29, 1984
Hart is victorious in N.H. primary
By United Press International
CONCORD, N.H. — Gary Hart, promising to lead "the crusade for this country's future," stunned Democratic front-runner Walter Monk after a dramatic upset victory in the New Hampshire primaries.
The surprise victory shifts the fragile momentum of presidential politics to the Colorado senator's camp, and throws a serious monkeywrench into what has been an unimpeded drive by Mondale for the Democratic presidential nomination
The results buried most of the crowded field, leaving three realistic contenders — Mondale, Hart and Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, who finished third.
"This is a massive victory," an elated Hart said, "obviously the product of an awful lot of things."
"I'm not prepared at this moment to claim the position of front-runner, but I know one thing — we've buried the label 'dark horse.'" Hart said. "What we have is something no other campaign or candidate has, that is the cause and the crusade for this country's future."
Mondale admitted defeat to a mob of supporters, telling them that "I won one, and lost one," referring to his victory last week in the Iowa caucuses. He predicted that in the primaries coming up in the next three weeks would defeat Hart.
With 95 percent of the total vote, Vicki Hart had 37,207 votes or 41 percent; Mon. 26,079 or 28 percent; Glenn, 11,223 or 12 per former Sen. George McGovern, 3,538 percent; civil rights activist Jesse Jackson or 6 percent; Sen. Ernest H. Johnson or 6 percent; Sen. Alan Crawford, 2,043 or 2 per form and form. Rubin Askew of Florida, 9.1 percent.
If those percentages up hold, Hart will wi-
delegate theocratic National Con-
ference and Montreal eight.
A group of conservatives had organize
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Church gets OK to start building plan
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In a 4-1 vote last night, the Lawrence City Commission gave the go-ahead for St. Lawrence Catholic Center officials to begin work on a new campus building. A student center at Crescent and Engol roads.
Commissioners vote 4-1; neighborhood may appeal decision
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
As this semester's candidates wind up the campaigns and begin taking down posters, the present student body president and vice president will begin cleaning out their offices.
Cancellor Gene A. Budig added two months to Ashner's and Cramer's terms when he ask them in January to resume their positions until new student body presidential election could be
Lisa Ashner, president, and Jim Cramer, vice president, tomorrow will complete the longer presidential term in the Student Senate history.
But John Nitcher, attorney for the Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association, said last night that the association was considering filing an appeal with the Douglas County District Court to see whether the commission's approval of the expansion violated city codes. If the com-
Asher said yesterday that she had accepted the chancellor's request but that her academi
The decision, a setback for women's rights advocates, bars sex discrimination in financial aid programs but holds that federal financial aid to students does not subject all school programs — such as sports, faculty matters and academic activities — to federal anti-discrimination guidelines.
Lawmakers immediately announced plans to introduce legislation broadening the application of federal laws barring sex discrimination.
Women's groups argued that a section of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibited sex discrimination "in any education program or any activity receiving federal financial assistance," should apply to institutions whose students receive federal aid. They said federal aid to students constituted indirect aid to the college.
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court refused in a unanimous ruling yesterday to ban sex discrimination from all programs that a college offers merely because its students receive federal financial aid.
The court rejected that argument, finding that the protections against discrimination could be applied to student aid programs at schools whose students got federal financial help, but that the sex discrimination rules could not be imposed on other programs at such institutions.
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explained that the court's decision came in the case of Grove City College, a Presbyterian-affiliated school outside Pittsburgh that refused to sign an anti-discrimination pledge requested by federal education officials. The school said signing the agreement would jeopardize its independence.
College sex bias allowed by court despite funding
Only Justice Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan sided with women's groups' arguments for a wider application of the discrimination ban. But they went along with the final court decision even though they explained their views separately.
Reptiles: Couple goes in search of creepy-crawly game
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A spitting cobra sprang in front of their 13-year-old daughter. After a moment's hesitation, she went one way and the poisonous snake went the other.
William Duellman, professor of systematics and ecology, and his wife, Linda Trueb, associate professor of systematics and ecology, have become used to such encounters.
For the couple, who are the curators of the Museum of Natural History's herpetology division, sharing a swamp in South Africa with snakes, crocodiles and hippopotamuses feels "just like home."
Duellman and Trueb had recently returned from a month-long specimen-gathering tour of lower Africa. The two of them elaborated on some of their findings, before Duellman left last week for South America to study marsupial frogs.
During their travels in South Africa, the couple spoke at the Fifth International Symposium on African Amphibians. They decided to extend their trip to Swaziland and Lesotho, two South African kingdoms, to search for specimens.
"After spending 25 hours on a plane to get there and going to a three-day meeting it seemed foolish to just jump on the plane for another 25-hour flight," Duellman said.
Duellman and Trueb brought back 465 frogs, lizards and turtles to add to the herpetology division's acclaimed collection of reptile and amphibian specimens. With nearly 200,000 specimens, KU's collection ranks sixth in the nation. Duellman said.
To gather specimens, the professors attach lights to their foreheads; don heavy boots and venture into swamps in the middle of the night. On a good night, they might collect as many as 100 specimens.
began. Trueb said "Preparing them to be transported home is what takes the most time."
The specimens must first be photographed and then killed. After being layed out for display, they are soaked in or injected with formaldehyde
Each specimen must also be tagged, numbered and recorded in a field catalog along with notes as to who gathered the specimen, where, and in what kind of habitat. Each specimen is individually wrapped in cheesecloth soaked with formaldehyde, and then are put in a plastic bag and shipped to KU.
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"Because it takes so long to get each specimen prepared, we are limited in the number we can get done." Trueb said.
Duellman said, "We could have easily brought back two or three thousand specimens, but we just don't have the time to fix them. I can't imagine us accomplishing any more than we did, and that feels good."
Both of the researchers said the success of their trip is attributable in part to the assistance they received from colleagues in South Africa.
received from colleagues there who helped us out knew exactly where to go." Duellman said. "That saved us a lot of time and money."
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And knowing where not to go is just as important,
Trueb said.
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Trueb said.
"We had one guide tell us not to stop in a particular place while we were in this swamp."
Trueb said. "Turns out, the guy who owned the farm adjacent to the swamp was prone to shooting first and asking questions later."
But snakes and humans were not the only threat the couple encountered in the African swamps — crocodiles and hippopotamuses also lurked in the murky waters and on the river banks.
murky waters. "It shocked me how fast a hippo could overtake a man on land. I had always assumed they were slow." Trueb said. "The locals said that the hippos kill about one man a year. They don't eat them or anything, they just get mad and mangle them."
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Library exhibit has the word on words
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
By LAURETTA SCHULZ Staff Reporter
Noah Webster's first dictionary, published in 1829, defined cat as "a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful."
extremely spelled.
Such definitions and examples of historic dictionaries are included in a new exhibit titled "Words, Words, Words" at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
Kenneth Speicher research center The exhibit opened last week in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the first complete dictionaries of the English language.
"I believe, that at some time. Mr. Webster must have been bitten by a cat," said Eleanor Symons, humanities bibliographer at Watson Library, who put the exhibit together.
pher at Watson LDA. In February 1894, the first fascicle, or 64-page section, of A New York Encyclopaedia of Historical Principles, was published. Early in 1928, the Oxford English Dictionary, as it came to be known, was completed in 10 volumes.
was created. Oxford English Dictionary is now available in a compact edition of two volumes. The set also comes with a magnifying glass, however, because the pages are composed of four standard pages photographically reduced to fit on one.
such as "The Oxford Dictionary was really the first complete dictionary of the language and includes the history of each word, its different uses, and illustrations of some of these uses in quotations found in literature," said Symons.
The Third Dictionary depends heavily on volunteer readers who are asked to read certain works of literature and report on the usage of words in those works, said Symons, who has worked as such a reader in the past.
worked as such a reader in the book. "The Oxford items are the center of the exhibit," Symons said, "although a great deal of other material dealing with dictionary has been included."
One section of the exhibit is a display of various old dictionaries that points out the manner in which they defined the word cat. The definitions include "a creature well known," "a domestic animal, the enemy of mice," and Webster's definition, which editorialized even further.
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