The University Daily
Missile talks
Soviets give mixed signals
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KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 66 (USPS 650-640)
Girl in a blue shirt running.
High, 64. Low, 43.
Details on p. 2.
Monday morning, November 21, 1983
Costume party coalition won election in re-tally candidate Walker says
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
Dennis "Boog" Highbierger and Carla Vogel of the Costume Party Coalition unofficially have won last week's student body election, another presidential candidate said yesterday.
But the official winners of the election won't be known until the Elections Review Board meets in Philadelphia.
Scott Swenson and Dennis Stricktian or the Priority Coalition originally were named the winners of the election, the closest in Student Senate history. But Julie Menge, chairman of the elections board, said yesterday that errors had been made in the tallying.
MOMENTUM PRESIDENTIAL candidate Kevin Walker said that an election official told him that the board re-failed the ballots Friday and determined that Costume Party won the election by one vote. Walker declined to identify the official.
"It is such a simple procedure to count the beat. Walker said "I don't see how they could wake."
Menze agreed that election officials had re-tallied the votes, but she declined to say which coalition was found to be the winner. Jim Clark, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, and Chris Edmonds, secretary of the student committee, also declined to name the winner.
"After the discrepancies were found, there was a new winner," Menzel said, "but we haven't officially named a new winner because there is no difference. We came up with the same discrepancy twice."
disrepair twice.
THE ELECTION BOARD will count the ballots again at 9:30 this morning in the Centennial Room in the Union. Menge said that each presidential candidate would be allowed to have a representative in the room.
Priority originally had 1,049 votes, Momentum
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 1
Local viewers express shock disbelief at 'The Day After'
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Lawrence has survived The Day After.
After months of media attention and controversy, KU students and Lawrence residents last night viewed the ABC TV movie in living rooms. The film's focus on a teenage television lounges in University residence halls.
Reaction to the film, which depicted the aftermath of nuclear war, varied greatly. More than 200 people watched the film on a large screen in 3140 Wescoe. The silence in the room was broken only when television commercials provided comic relief for the audience.
But tension peaked when the nuclear missiles were launched. Most people kept their eyes glued to the screen, while others began crying and covered their faces in disbelief. No commercials were shown throughout the remainder of the film.
"It was very depressing," said Lisa Couch, a resident of Overland Park.
"It had a negative effect on me because it is something I wouldn't want to face. You may ask."
"It was positive in that it made me more aware of my surroundings and I appreciate things more," she said. "I think we should be something like this and not just close our eyes to it."
Carol Enos, 2023 Quality Creek Drive, said that she thought the chance of recovering from a
"I was not shocked by it," she said. "I thought
See related stories p. 7
the devastation would be much worse. There would not be as many survivors. The only ones left would be so ill from radiation sickness. Who would want to live through it?"
TOM WAECHTER, MEXICO, Mo., senor,
said that he had seen the film before but that
he watched the film in Wescot to see the
reactions of other people.
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
"I saw the film before and I didn't care to see it again," he said. Waechter, who was an extra in the film, said that he was shocked and dazed after seeing it the first time.
Scott Turner, Shawnee Mission sophomore, is subdued by a KU police detective, left, in a windbreaker, and a Lawrence police officer. Turner and Mike McCann. Shawnee Mission freshman, at right, were among the thousands who flooded the
Police fail to stop downing of posts
field Saturday after the Jayhawks defeated Missouri, 37-27. Both goal posts were torn down by fans, though police officers briefly attempted to prevent the posts from being damaged.
By JEEF TAYLOR
Assistant Campus Editor
announced over the public address system.
Still the fans kept coming, climbing over the
wall.
Spectators on Campanile Hill began drifting toward the football field in the darkness of Saturday's rain-cold afternoon. Thousands of people had been abandoned as many beaded for the addictive
"Ladies and gentlemen, there are still 44 seconds remaining in the game." Howard Hill
When time expired, thousands of fans rushed onto the field to celebrate KU's 37-27 victory. The goal posts in both end zones were torn down, and scattered fracases broke out when police briefly attempted to prevent the spectators from damaging the goals.
WHILE POLICE TRIED to restrain the crowd, a few used bily clubs and Mace.
Police officials said yesterday that officers had been instructed to defend themselves if necessary. The officers were also instructed to use only marginal force, police said.
Because the police wanted to avoid injuries and excessive force, officials said, they did not attempt to stop the crowd after it became too large to control.
Minutes after the first fans reached the south
See GOAL POST. n. 5. col. 3
Susan Murphy, Olathe junior, and Richie Roberts, Olathe sophomore, share a quiet moment at the candlelight vigil sponsored by Let Lawrence Live, an anti-nuclear group. More than 1,000 people attended the rally last night following the presentation of ABC-TV's "The Day After."
Vigil reveals nuclear concerns
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
More than 1,000 people gathered around an American flag flapping from a pole on Campanile Hill last night silently waiting for a candlelight vigil in support of nuclear disarmament to begin.
A thin layer of smoke floated up from the glowing candles as students, faculty and Lawrence residents listened to people express concern after watching a movie "The Day After," which portrayed the catastrophe of nuclear war.
"It looked like the bombs were being launched from Jayhawk towers," said
Before the ceremony, people talked softly to their friends, and the silence was broken only by the laughter of four small children who raced down the hill.
Volunteers from Let Lawrence Live filtered through the crowd, passing out petitions.
"I put my head in my pillow and closed my ears," said a boy of about 10. "I went to school with him."
SOME OF THE comments showed concern about what people had seen in the room.
"It made me sick to my stomach," said one vounge man.
"I can't buy a Commodore computer," shouted another man, referring
to the boycott of advertisers proposed by Rev. Jerry Falwell.
"Now 75 million people will think of
men and women and sex when they think of
Kansas."
He was me with a curt "Don't joke about it, Don." from one of his friends.
KATE TORREY. A representative from Let Lawrence Live, the group that sponsored the vigil, told the crowd at about 9:45 p.m., "It is with the spirit of somber realism that we gather here tonight."
About 30 members of the Young Americans for Freedom gathered on one side of the crowd, carrying signs that proclaimed "Peace Through Strength" and shouting comments at the speakers.
Mayor David Longhurst quoted from this is Lawrence. Kansas. Randall Boudy.
"We saw our community destroyed," he said. "We saw civilization annihilated. Our nightmares came true. I think we have to be a preview of comer attractions."
"The movie didn't have a happy end. I couldn't see a future for my son."
LONGHURST URGED THE crowd to join him in asking the leaders of the United States to do something to prevent nuclear war.
"What is it that two countries whose
fates are so intertwined never communi-
cate?"
Actually, it's "what is it that two countries whose fates are so intertwined never communi-cate?" The comma after "communi-cate" is a typo. It should be "communicate."
The Young Americans for Freedom sang "God Bless America" and chanted "Peace Through Strength" as they burned replicas of the US flag.
Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, compared the farm wife in the film, who made the beds as the bombs were falling, with the average American.
"We are so busy with everyday things, and we fill our minds with daily activity," he said. "We push nuclear war out of our minds.
"The difference is that we live in the day before. We have other options."
HE URGED THE audience to write their congressmen and tell them that their reelection depends on a vote for disarmament.
John Linscheid, pastor of the Lawrence Mennonite Fellowship, said that the movie had shown the country that peace through strength would not work.
"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword," he said. "I know that what man has done is to be a sword."
The YAF shouted obscenities against the Soviets as the pastor spoke of Stalin's atrocities.
The crowd slowly joined in a chorus of "America."
For almost an hour after the ceremony, people gathered in small groups on the hillside to discuss the film, and to talk with television reporters about their reactions to the horror of nuclear war.
Kansan editor, business manager are chosen for the spring semester
Doug Cunningham, Pipestone, Minn,
senior, and Dwan Wanaka, Leawood
senior, were selected Friday by the Kansan
Board to be editor and business manager of
the University Daily Kansan for the spring
semester.
The Kansan Board is the governing body of the Kansas.
Cunningham now is managing editor of the
Kansan and Wanamaker is retail sales manager.
Applications for news and advertising staff positions will be available after 10 a.m. today in 119 and 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall, the Student Senate office in 105 B of the Kansas Union and in the office of student organizations and activities in room 403 of the Union.
The applications should be turned in to 200 Stauffer Flint Hall by 5 p.m. Nov. 29.
KU life came to a standstill when JFK was killed
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHI
Staff Reporter
Most people were eating lunch about noon on the Friday before Thanksgiving 20 years ago. There was no reason to weep. It was going to be a happy, busy weekend.
Football fans were planning to attend the KU-Missouri game, a sellout and the final game of the season, on Saturday afternoon. The die-hards and the coaches were preoccupied with the thought that the flu would keep Gale Sayers out of the Jayhawks' starting backfield.
MONDAY MORNING
Students who didn't have a ticket to the game might have paid a dollar at the Varsity Theater to see "McClintock." a western comedy starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. They might
have listened to jazz musician Miles Davis perform Sunday in the Kansas Union.
A cold rain fell at lunchtime — as if to underscore tragedy, though no one anticipated it. But the rain was only passing through lavae, and the game-day forecast called for sunshine.
On cue, the sun shone on Saturday. But Memorial Stadium was empty. The teams stayed home. The game was postponed for a week, and a few members of the crowds of every theater in Lawrence were dark.
A RIFLE SHOT in a city 550 miles away had ended the life of a young president.
On a weekend in which there should have been no reason for sorrow and grieving, when there should have been football and movies and television, the next day there was instead an assassination of a president
See KENNEDY, p. 5, col.1