CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 11, 1983 Page 7
Arms forum may lure Cranston
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Presidential hopeful Alan Cranston is interested in attending a candidate forum Nov. 22 on nuclear-armes anti-nuclear group said yesterday.
Allan Hanson, the coordinator of Let Lawrence Live and a KU professor of anthropology, talked enthusiastically about the forum and other groups he has planned to coincide with the ABC-TV movie "The Day After."
The movie, to be broadcast Nov. 20,
depicts the effects of a nuclear attack
using scenes filmed in the Lawrence
and Kansas City areas.
THE LAWRENCE COALITION for Peace and Justice recently formed Let Lawrence Live to orchestrate events surrounding the airing of the movie Hanson is also chairman of the College Faculty Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science which is sponsoring some of the events.
He said that his group had invited the Republican and Democratic candidates to the forum, which is planned for 8 p.m. Nov. 21 in the Kansas Union Ballroom, but that only Cranston had said he was interested in attending the
forum. A campaign worker for Walter Mondale told Hanson that he was considering the invitation.
"If one or two will say yes, the rest will come." Hanson said.
The group also has invited two scholars who have written about the effects of nuclear war to a forum at 11am, 21 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
PAUL EHRLICH, A KU alumun and Stanford University professor, will talk about the ecological effects of nuclear war. Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatry at Yale University, will talk about the psychological effects.
The Campus Coalition for Peace and Justice, a KU student organization, will sponsor a poetry reading at 2 p.m. Nov. 20 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Also, a candelight ceremony is to begin 20 minutes after the movie ends that evening.
A town meeting, led by Mayor David Longhurst, is scheduled for noon on Nov. 21 in Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. and Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., is expected to attend the meeting.
Rather than direct opposition to the peace movement, Hanson said, the group was more concerned with apathy. Groups with differing views have been heard from infrequently.
Several students have recently distributed information about Peace Through Strength, which supports continued construction of nuclear weapons to maintain an effective deterrent.
ALTHOUGH MANY MEMBERS of Let Lawrence Live support an unilateral arms freeze, Hanson said, the group has not endorsed a particular method of disarmament in an effort to appeal to a wider audience.
"It disturbs me that students are not very attentive to this issue," Hanson said.
That could be because most students do not remember a war or the last international confrontation, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Hanson said, and thus do not see a cause for concern.
Another reason is what he called "psychic numbing," which leads people to ignore ideas that are too painful to face.
"The terribleness of a nuclear war happening is truly beyond imagination," he said. "It would mean the end of our planet if faced of that, it easier to tune out."
Rather than tune out, Hanson said, any person who fully realizes the seriousness of the threat of nuclear annihilation an obligation to become an activist.
Independents challenge election odds
By PETE WICKLUND
Staff Reporter
The four major coalitions running in Wednesday and Thursday's student body elections collectively have 103 Student Senate candidates, but those numerical odds have not bothered several independent candidates.
Five of the eight independent candidates on the ballot said this week that they were confident they would defeat the coalition candidates they oppose.
BUT HENDRICKS he thought the advantage of being affiliated with coalitions was that coalitions could get people to vote for their candidates.
Frank M. Hendricks, Prairie Village freshman who is running for a Nunemaker seat, said he entered as an independent because he did not want to be tied down to coalition platforms. He and Eric Matheis, Overland Park campus, and a Nunemaker candidate, are working to coordinate their campaigns.
He said he was asked to join a coalition, which he would not name, but said he declined the offer. He said that he obtended the effectiveness of a group effort.
Michael Foubert, Lawrence graduate student, said he wasn't worried about winning because generally fewer grade-pointed students than the Senate allocated to them.
"I think coaltions are rather pointless," Foubert said. "What you have with a coaltion is a group of people who don't represent anything tangible.
"IN MOST cases the coalition creates issues to base their campaigns on. Most of the problems are going to arrive in the day to day operation of the Senate."
Phillip Duff, Columbia, Mo., sophomore and a candidate for an architecture seat, said. "Having a coalfiton's that much in the School of Architecture
But despite their confidence in running independently, only Mathets said he had attended a KU Student Union meeting and agreed his dependents said they had previous
student government experience, and all that were aware of Senate process.
Foubert said he was involved with the student government at Gonzaga University, a Jesuit school in Spokane, Wash. and John Haynes, Wamego freshman and vice president of McColum Hall, said he had been involved with the student government at Fort Scott College Community.
BECAUSE of their lack of familiarity with the Senate structure, several of the independents said that they did not want to address any issues until they found out whether they had been elected.
Foubert and Haynes said that their purpose in the Senate, if elected, would be to relay opinion between the Senate and their constituents.
ALTHOUGH all Senate candidates are limited to the same campaign spending limits, the independents said they would attempt to talk directly with people, rather than use extensive advertising.
Board helps travelers find riders
Staff Reporter
3y ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Renorter
But many students don't know about the map and are missing the opportunity to ride cheaply with with company, Gordon, Lenexa senior, said recently.
Susie Gordon checks the ride map at the Kansas Union regularly. Through the map, she found rides to commute to Kansas City, traveled to the East Coast for $20 and on the way made friends that she still keeps in touch with.
Gene Wee, staff adviser for Student Union Activities, said that the ride map had been mentioned in brochures in general the map got very little publicity
"We may overlook it because it doesn't cost us anything," he said, "but people don't."
The ride board, fixed to a wall to the right of the Kansas Union's south east entrance, consists of a wooden map of the area and a sign marking cities where people want to go.
Gordon said that sometimes people with cars weren't motivated to put up signs offering rides and that the major jobs were in those looking for rides, not for company.
Nobody at the Union seems to know for certain when the map was first put up and no one is really in charge of the board.
"It has been up there for a couple of decades. We said, 'We never matter.'"
Beverly Berens, supervisor of the Maupintour Kansas Union office, keeps the tags on which people print their names, phone numbers and destinations. SUA provides the tags.
"They could save a lot of money if they could take riders," she said. "That could be expensive."
If people are apprehensive about liking a prospective passenger, she said, they can arrange a meeting with the captain to ride to the East Coast two years ago.
"It basically runs itself," she said.
"It basically runs itself," she said. Wee said, "Generally the people that want rides outnumber the people who have cars."
"I went up to their house, talked to them and discussed the arrangements," she said.
Donna Rea, Manhattan sophomore, who has used the ride board several times, said that she found out about the ride by walking by the map in the Union.
Although the displays from the different countries varied slightly, a common cultural thread binding all the exhibits was apparent.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
"PEOPLE NOW have the idea that we are always fighting each other, but as students we have to show our civilization and unity." Ishan Alagha, Gaza Strip junior and president of the Arab Student organization, said.
Alagha said that mutual understanding of American and Arabic cultures was the primary motivation of Arabic day. Some members of the Arabic Student Organization, which includes cultural institutions, stereos, television sets and personal belongings that had cultural value to the show.
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'Arabic Day' shows unity among lands
ested in their culture to a free Arabic dinner at 6:30 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Orave Al.
Arab students share common bond in culture
Bombshells in Lebanon, warplanes in Iraq and violence in other Arabic countries did not cloud the atmosphere in the room, where Arabic music and a touch of cultural artistry and traditional, gold-embroidered costumes created a festive mood.
"Actually, there is no difference between Arabic peoples. The differences are between regimes," Alagha said. "We are glad we can get together in the United States, for we are not able to do this in our countries."
Students representing Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Saudia Arabia, Sudan, Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan assembled traditional items that they had brought to the United States over the years and displayed them in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union for "Arabic Day."
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Discord in the Middle East seemed far away yesterday, as KU students browsed through a display of crafts and real costumes from nine Arabic countries.
A student from Syria explained a traditional game, called Barsis, which is played on a hand-embroidered cloth and uses six shells for dice.
PALESTINIAN students displayed wooden figures carved on olive tree wood and recalled the history behind the carvings.
Saudi Arabian students gave visitors a taste of Saudi Arabian coffee, strongly spiced with cardamom spice and served in little, gold-midred cups. Sukine Fahs, Nabatiyah, Lebanon senior, said that Lebanon did not have a display because the war made it difficult for students to go to the country and bring back traditional items.
Majeed Al-Abad, Saudia Arabia freshman, displays some items native to his home country at "Arabic Day" in the Kansan Union.
Hallie Nations, in charge of reservations for the Union, said that state health laws forbade serving food not prepared by Union staff.
"I am proud to be Lebanese," she said. "But I am an Arab, and Lebanon is an Arab country. That there is a brother in each other. We are brothers and sisters."
Students used postcards, posters, music, traditional dresses, slides and maps to convey their cultural message. But one element was absent from a cultural hamlet for expressing hospitality with food — traditional Arabic food.
For that reason, the Arabic Student Organization is inviting guests inter-
ALAGHA SAID the students had wanted to make food part of Arabic day, but that health regulations did not allow food to be brought into the Union.
"Maybe in the future we will arrange to have some of these things for sale." Alagha said. "Students have been contacting their embassies to bring more materials. We hope that Ameri- can students can exhibit in the Arabic countries some day so there will be mutual understanding of each other's cultures."
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