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Tuesday morning, November 22. 1983
Vol. 94, No. 67 (USPS 650-640)
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Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., addresses citizens attending a Lawrence town meeting at Plymouth Congregational Church who were concerned about the effects of nuclear war as portrayed in the ABC-TV movie "The Day After." Mayor David Longhurst, left, also participated in the meeting.
Speakers say nuclear blast to chill Earth
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
A nuclear explosion would blast people into a midnight-dark, frozen world of radiation, smog and social chaos, two experts on the effects of nuclear war told about 500 people in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
The two experts, Paul Ehrlich, a KU alumnus and a Stanford University professor of biology, and Robert Jay Lifton, professor of psychiatry at Yale University, spoke about the effects of nuclear war at a forum sponsored by the KU College Faculty Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science.
THE LAST PART of the forum,
beginning at 9:30 p.m., was broadcast on ABC-TV's "Nightline" Ted Koppel interviewed members of a panel of Lawrence citizens, a student and the two experts about the various issues raised by "The Day After," a movie on the consequences of nuclear war that was broadcast Sunday night.
The audience in the Ballroom could see the Washington "Nightline" studio on several television sets in the room. Belfried said that if 1 percent of the
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joint nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union was detonated, the world's temperature below 40 or 50 degrees below Zero Celsius.
The dust and smoke covering the atmosphere would be enough to asphyxiate survivors of the explosion and the ensuing radiation, he said. "The dust is so thick that asphyxic because it showed survivors stepping onto a world with sunlight.
Movie renews summit issue for Longhurst
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Lawrence Mayor David Longhurst announced yesterday that he had again invited President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Yuri Andropov to Lawrence for a summit meeting to estimate an end to the nuclear arms race.
Longhurst made the announcement yesterday at a town meeting at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St., where several Lawrence residents told of their fears of nuclear war.
He said that yesterday, after having
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Priority wins by 2 votes; coalitions attack results
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
The recent student body presidential election has become a "circus," "run-around" and a "game of musi-
tion." The coalition members said yesterday.
After a second official count, Scott Swenson and Dennis Striickland of the Priority Coalition are again narrowly beaten last week's Student Senate elections.
On Sunday, Momentum presidential candidate Kevin Walker said that an election official had told him that the Costume Party Coalition had won by one vote after the Elections Review Board re-tallied the ballots and discovered more votes for the Costume Party candidates. However, results from the re-tally were never officially announced.
Throughout yesterday's meeting of the Elections Review Board, Dennis "Bogo" Highberger and Carla Vogel, Costume Party president and vice presidential candidates, remained silent.
The Elections Review Board voted 3-2 to uphold a previous decision that invalidated ballots marked with
"Momentum" instead of the candidates' names. Altogether, the Senate Elections Committee invalidated 114 votes from the election, some because they were marked only with the word "Momentum."
But Mark McKee, vice presidential candidate for the Momentum Coalition, said, "It's not over. It is not over vet."
Walker said his attorney would file a formal complaint today in Douglas County District Court appealing the decision made by the board.
He also said that he had already
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arranged for an emergency meeting of the University's Judicial Review Board so that he could appeal the decision.
After hearing about the review board's decision not to count the ballots marked "Momentum," McCain said, "No way. This just isn't fair."
Walker also said that he questioned the ruling of the board.
"If we aren't Momentum, then who in the hell is?" he asked. Walker said he thought that the board's decision was biased because some members
had connections with the Perspective Coalition, which won last year's student body elections and this year supported Priority.
Jim Clark, chairman of the elections committee, said the review board had reached its decision because it had no way of knowing whether students intended to vote for him or when they voted for "Momentum."
Referring to Kansas state law, Clark said, "The rules state that you have to write in the names. Everyone knows that. The poll workers gave us somewhat of a problem. We had two isolated incidents where poll workers were telling people that they could Momentum, but I said, No more."
However, he said, the problems were not as great as Momentum said.
"Some people did make mistakes, but it didn't happen all 30 or 50 times that they said it did." Clark said. "We don't want to cover the poll workers' mistakes."
The review board re-counted the ballots yesterday morning. The official results were: Priority, 1,654 votes; Costume, 1,052 votes; Mo
Re-tallies, appeals delay results of election
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Since Thursday, several events have unfolded, clouding even further the closest election in Student Senate elections in November and decisions de rei since then.
Since last week's student body elections, the results have been tallied three times, apparently with two different winners.
- THURSDAY: Priority Coalition officially defeats Momentum Coalition by 13 votes. Priority candidates Scott Swenson and Dennis Strickland are eliminated, while Kevin Walker and Mark McKee receive 1,066 votes; Costume Party's
Dennis "Boo" Highbierger and Carla Vogel finish third with 1,004 votes; and Freedom the Steve Bergstrom and Greg Gausha get 246 votes.
However, 114 ballots cast in the election are declared invalid. Julie Menzel, chairman of the Elections Review Board, rules that some ballots are invalid because they are marked with only the word "Momentum" and not with the names of Walker and Menzel. The board asks for a recount and for repeal of the board's decision. Walker says that if the votes marked "Momentum" among the 114 ballots had been counted, his coalition would have won.
Walker and an election official both say that the sheets have been tabulated incorrectly, and Walker says that an election official told him that Costume Party had won the election by one vote.
- FRIDAY: Tally sheets used in tabulating the ballots are re-counted.
- YESTERDAY: After a third re-count, Swenson and Strickland are again declared the winners by two votes. According to the revised totals, Priority receives 1,054 votes to Costume's 1,062. Momentum finishes third with 1,038. The Elections Review Board also upholds its decision to invalidate the ballots marked "Momentum."
Walker she will he take the Review Board's decision to invalidate the 114 votes to the Judicial Review Board composed of students and faculty.
AT&T stocks welcomed in trading
By United Press International
NEW YORK - Wall Street greeted the long-awaited debut of eight new AT&T stocks yesterday with calm but active trading that produced few surprises.
The eight new companies will be created from the old American Telephone & Telegraph Co. when AT&T spins off its local operating companies Jan. 1. The divestiture will produce a new, trimmed-down AT&T and seven regional utilities.
Almost 14.5 million shares of stock in old AT&T and the eight new pieces were traded on the New York Stock Exchange when volume was counted up at 3:30 p.m. CST. That was close to the NYSE
estimate, but sluggish trading in other areas produced a total volume below 100 million.
Ambitous the new stocks will not be distributed until February, the NYSE permitted trading to begin yesterday under special "when issued" certificates for the delivery of the certificates in 90 days.
THE UNUSUAL PROCEDURES and the general confusion that has accompanied the diversite apparently kept small stockholders out of the picture.
Much of the action required to involve arbitrats — financiers who profit from hairline/infantile differences between the same commodities on different markets. With the old AT&T trading side by side with the eight pieces that will replace it Jan. 1, the arbitrators had a field day.
KU freshman dies of head injuries
By MICHAEL PAUL
Staff Reporter
An 18-year-old KU student died yesterday afternoon from injuries he suffered early Sunday morning in a fall from the roof of a fraternity house.
Tim Findley, Overland Park freshman, died at 3:25 p.m. at the University of Kansas Medical Center where he had undergone nearly four hours of surgery Sunday morning to relieve pressure on his brain, said Paul Rappoport, a graduate Alma Mia Epsilon fraternity, 1465 Tennessee St.
RAPPOPORT SAID that about 4 a.m. Sunday Mr. Findley and two other men were on the roof of the fraternity looking into a window. While they were running along the roof, he said, Mr. Findley fell about 10 feet and landed on a concrete porch.
In high school at Shawnee Mission South, he was an all conference offensive tackle, his father said, but he was not big enough to play college football.
He was then taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and was later transported to
"I'm liked people," his father said. "He had a tremendous number of friends. I never realized it."
Mr. Findley
Mr. Findley was majoring in computer science at KU; his father, Jerry Findley, said.
"THE ONE THING that impressed me was that whenever he saw you in the hallway, he would say, 'Hello,' or 'How's it going','" he said.
Rappoport said that Mr. Findley had one quality that stood out to most people he knew.
Jerry Findley remembered that his son was
also enthusiastic about one other thing
Christmas.
"Tim at 18 was still a little kid at Christmas. He would get so excited over presents. We never open them on Christmas. We had to open them on Christmas Eve." he said.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at D.W. Newcomer's Sons, 8201 Mctal Avenue, Overland Park. Mass will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Country Club Christian Church, 6101 Ward City. City, Mo. Burial will be at Johnson County Memorial Garden, 112th Street and Metcalve Avenue.
Besides his parents, Mr. Findley is survived by a brother, Richard.
The family requests that memorial conti-
nues on Sunday, the day's name to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
With autumn's job nearly complete, the only thing left for a child to do is to turn nature's work into a playground. Two-year-old Violet Blossor, 1226 Connecticut St., was helping her mother, Khelila, compress raked-up leaves in a trash can last week when she temporarily became a part of the pile.
Staff Reporter
After the last turkey from the Thanksgiving rank and file wobbles through the check-out stand on Thursday, customers can expect to see prices rise.
Fowl is fair game for Thanksgiving bargain hunters
By DONNA WOODS Staff Renorter
"Everybody gives away turkeys at Thanksgiving," said Al L阳, manager of Kroger Super Store. 23rd Street and Nissim Drive. "But by Christmas, you can expect to see the prices up."
Turkies struggle to fly, but prices seem to soar with ease. And soar they will.
During Thanksgiving, Long said, supermarkets sell the birds below cost to bring in customers who not only buy turkeys, but also buy shopping carts with all of the trimmings.
MARVIN HAUSCHLID, manager of Rusty's IGA, 910 low St., said the price of turkeys was at least 20 cents lower than a store's wholesale cost.
The "bottom-of-the-line" bird is selling for about 35 cents a pound in Lawrence, provided that customers spend a specified amount on other groceries.
Al Adams, extension specialist at Kansas State University, said that the average wholesale cost for a turkey this year ranged from 57 cents to 87 cents a pound.
But Victoria Witers, house director for Alpha Delta Pi sorority, said that most of the sororities and fraternities did not take advantage of lower costs, because they did not have the freezer space or because they ordered food from wholesalers.
CHERYL WILEY, kitchen manager for Ellsworth Hall, said that residence halls operated on a monthly bid system and could not buy extra bids, either.
The high cost of corn, milo and soybeans — the turkey's main diet — has made turkey-raising more expensive.
Adams said that the price was about the same as last year, even though the cost of raising capital was higher.
But the bird that Benjamin Franklin wanted to be a national symbol is not in danger of extinction.
"Somebody's always going to raise the turkeys, but it's going to be the small producers that make it."
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