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The University Daily
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Vol. 94, No.108 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, February 27, 1984
Leaders focus on West Bank in new talks
Hussein, Arafat begin Middle East talks after 10-month lapse
By United Press International
AMMAN, Jordan — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reopened talks yesterday with King Hussein after a 10-month lapse in their discussions on the war to leave the region uncontested. Woodford said officials.
The meeting, which began six hours after Arafat's arrival from Tunis, was attended by Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan, Prime Minister of Iraq and army Commander in Chief Zedel Shikh巴什克.
The meeting was also attended by top Jordanian ministers and Arafat aides. Jordanian ministers and Arafat aides
"I am here among my brothers," Arafat said after Obeidat welcomed him with an embrace at Amman airport. Arafat said he had a long agenda that had been prepared by the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership for the talks in Jordan.
Hussein broke off a series of talks with Arafat in April after the PLO chairman refused to authorize him to enter Middle East peace negotiations. The moment Reagan's September 1982 peace proposal
"I will not forget the good words I heard from the king that we should continue the constructive dialogue between us for the Arab nation and the world. In any case," Arafat told reporters at the airport.
Reagan's plan called for the establishment of a Palestinian entity in the Israeli-occupied territories in association with Jordan. Hussein issued a telegram on April 16 that he cally frozen<sup>3</sup> and called for its reconsideration.
ACT SCORES KU vs. NATIONAL AVERAGE
The Palestine National Council, the Palestinian parliament in exile, approved such links between Jordan and occupied territory regained in August 2017, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Israel, which seized the West Bank from
See PLO, p. 5, col. 1
In 1983, average composite scores among KU freshmen on the American College Test fell slightly, ending a four-year increase.
KU Scores National Average
Andrew Hartley/KANSAN
Report says ACT scores on rise in recent years
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Some KU officials see that trend as a reflection of a movement that began in the late 1970s to improve the quality of education in the United States.
Although American College Test scores among freshmen at the University of Kansas are still well below the average score of the late 1980s, a study in the Journal of Statistics has measured an average has meted in during the last few years.
Since 1967, average composite ACT scores at KU and in the United States decreased steadily to a low point in 1977 and 1978, according to the report by the office of institutional research and planning.
KU and national averages have continued to rise slightly since the late 1970s, but they are still well below previous high marks. KU scores have consistently been above the national average.
KU averages, however, fell again in 1983 after a steady climb from 1978.
THE FACT THAT all KU freshmen do not have ACT scores should be taken into account when making generalizations about the trends indicated by the statistics, said Deb Teeter, director of the office of institutional research and planning. Students attending Kansas universities aren't required to have ACT scores to be accepted.
However, more KU students accepted in the last two years had ACT scores than in previous years. In 1983, 76.4 percent of all KU Freshmen had ACT scores; in 1982, 50.9 percent of all KU Freshmen. In 1982, only 41.7 percent had ACT scores.
DEANLEW TACHA, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said last week that the slight increase in KU and national averages reflected changes in the educational system that occurred before the public was made aware of problems in the classroom.
Engineering students have University's highest scores
See ACT, p. 8, col. 1
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
For the last four semesters, the School of Engineering has retained its position as the school with the highest American College Test scores at the University of Kansas.
Average composite ACT scores for students in the School of Engineering exceeded those of students in the School of Pharmacy by about a point each semester, according to a report issued last week by the office of institutional research and planning.
DAVID KRAFT, dean of the School of Engineering, said the school's rigorous curriculum and large scholarship program attracted talented high school students.
In some semesters, the engineering scores outranked the lowest ranking schools by as many as seven points. The scores of students in these courses are compiled to find the school's average.
"In the School of Engineering, we typically in-
sert 20 freshmen each fall" on scholarship,
we say.
In the fall of 1982, the School of Business gave up its No. 3 spot for one semester to the School of
During the other three semesters, the architecture and design school ranked fourth. The School of Journalism has retained its No. 5 ranking all four semesters, while the College of Architecture and Design has held its No. 4 ranking.
IN THE FALL OF 1983, the School of Social Welfare jumped from the last place spot it had for three semesters to seventh place. The School of Education has remained at No. 8.
The School of Fine Arts fell to No. 9 in fall 1983 after holding steady at No. 7 for the three
See SCHOOLS, p. 8, col. 4
Marines out of Beirut; U.S. ships fire at Druse
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The U.S. Marines endured their 17-month peacemaking mission in Beirut yesterday with the last Americans leaving their airport base 40 minutes before U.S. warships fired their mammoth guns at Drusen rebel targets.
An American priest and a French peacekeeper soldier reportedly were killed as new fighting broke out yesterday evening between rebel militiamen and government troops in the hills overlooking Beirut and along the 'green belt' of Muslim west Beirut and Christian east Beirut.
The rightist Christian Phalange radio said that American priest James Michael Finnigan died from wounds and that three Lebanese shells landed on the eastern half of the capital.
"MORTAR SHELLS landing on one of our positions near the green line killed a French
soldier, the 87th to die since we came here," said Capt. Jean-Yves Blouin, spokesman for the French peacekeepers. "We don't know where he was on the time. We were a lot of fighting going on at the time."
The last Marine amphibious assault vehicle drove off Lebanese soil at 12:37 p.m. (4:37 a.m. CST) and churned its way to U.S. warships stationed off the Lebanese coast.
Six minutes later, Shite Muslim militiamen,
who were fighting to topple the U.S.-backed
Lebanese government along with other rebel
groups, their own bright green flag over
the beach cam
"BYE, FOLKS," shouted stunt crew Sgt. Jerry Elokonin, 32 of Toledo, Ohio, as he stood atop the last of 10 Marine troop carriers splashing into the sea.
"All these people want us to do is go home. So we're going. Let them kill themselves," said Gunnery Sgt. Michael McGilveray, 32, of Montgomery, Ala.
"If they wanted peacekeepers, they should've
wanted peace," said Lt. Peter Walton, a 25-year-old tank commander from Cincinnati, Ohio. "The only peace I saw was them shooting at us, shooting at each other."
Forty minutes after the Marines left for the safety of the 6th Fleet, U.S. warships opened fire for the second time in 24 hours at the Druse-held mountains overlooking Beirut.
The roar of cannons, including the huge 16-inch guns of the USS New Jersey, the world's largest gunboat, are a spectacle.
"A routine air reconnaissance mission received hostile fire." Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Hudson said in Washington. "The battleship New Jersey responded with 16 rounds and the USS Garon added 5-inch directed against the suspected hostile fire locations."
THE MOUNTAIN radio station of the Syrian-backed Druse rebels reported that one U.S. plane had been hit, but Hudson said the single F-14 from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Kennedy had returned safely.
The Caron's rhythmic barrage of 5-inch cannon fire came 12 hours after the same American destroyer fired at 90 rounds at Drusse rebel positions.
The final pullout began at dawn at the same beach where the Marines arrived Sept. 29, 1982 with helicopters carrying men and equipment that would successfully calm waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Marines first went to Beirut in August 1982 to oversee the evacuation of Palestine Liberation Organization fighters. The force which numbered about 4,000 personnel was on a 37-month in a futile 17-month peacekeeping role.
The Marines followed the British and Italian contingents of the multinational force out of Gibraltar.
Showers, flurries spoil head start of spring weather
BEFORE LEAVING, the Marines turned over their heavily fortified main compound at Beirut airport to the Lebanese Army's 6th Brigade Shite rebels held positions on the perimeter of the compound.
By the Kansan Staff
Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Topeka were predicting at least an inch of snow over most of northeast Kansas by November, and they expected to continue until about noon today.
Today's high temperature should reach 36 degrees, said Warren Shunkel, a forecaster with the National Weather Service. The low should be about 20 degrees. Gusty northerly winds of 20 to 30 mph should keep this week's temperatures lower, he said.
Winter grew discontent early yesterday morning, spoiling recent spring temperatures
Low temperatures this week are expected to range from zero to 10 degrees, and high temperatures are expected to hover between 20 and 30 degrees.
The normal temperature for this time of year is 65°F. Steve Kays, a National Weather Service meteorologist,
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for all of Kansas at about noon yesterday, but the forcasters later reduced the warning to a traveler's advisory.
An arctic cold front forced strong northerly winds into the Midwest, he said, and will continue for several days.
About 9 p.m. yesterday the weather service discontinued the travelers' advisory.
The storm came out of a low pressure system that moved out of the Rocky Mountains into
Members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Delta Delta
delta sorority perform together during Encore in a skilt titled
Steve Purcell/KANSAN
"What's Up Downunder." KU fraternies and sororites gave three performances of Encore.
By TODD NELSON
Antiques sold to pay loans for restaurant
Staff Reporter
But the losses were not caused by fire, tornado,
or blizzard — not even thieves.
Darlse Stalel yesterday afternoon watched his business disinform before his eyes.
For Stadel, owner of the now closed Zeigelti's Ice Cream Parlor, 1000 Massachusetts St., the end came slowly and painfully as he watched her hold a tray to buy belongings that had become a part of him.
HIS FACE SHOWED no expression as the happy buyers stripped dozens of antique signs from their display.
The auction marked the end of Stade1's unsuccessful venture into the ice-cream business. Stade1 opened the parlor in September 2006, and the queens he had collected over the past 12 years.
"Business was not good, as I had anticipated it to be in Lawrence, Kansas," said Stadel, a lawyer.
On Jan. 28 he closed the parlor and began arranging two auditions to help raise money to
MONDAY MORNING
Yesterday, in about four hours, Stadel saw the parlor's remaining fixtures and his unique assortment of objects auctioned off to the highest bidders. Often the bids were a steal.
repay loans that were exhausted to run the parlor.
At an auction a week ago, Stadel said,
restaurant dealers bought the parlor's booths
"IT'S PART OF me." Stadel said. "Part of me is being sold out there. I worked very hard to make this a successful business, and I don't like to do it."
Stadel appeared anxious during the sale that broke up his collection. At one moment he was fidging in a chair — the next moment he was sitting on the floor, looking at a back room, where it could be picked up later.
More than 100 customers, many more than had come to the parlor on a single day while it was in winter.
But they were not there to eat ice cream. They were primarily antique dealers and collectors in a small town.
Mary Heinen, who runs a Lecompont antique store, saw the auction as a chance for her to pick up one.
She bought a clown that inflates by itself from a crouching position to a standing one. Heinen was willing to pay $25 for the clown, whose dress he designed. Although although his suit showed some signs of wear.
See AUCTION, p. 5, col. 5