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University Daily Kansan, October 3, 1983
Event tests athletes 'til they drop'
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Family, friends and coaches crowded against the window overlooking the pool as many of the athletes windmilled their arms and prepared themselves for a half-mile swim.
The whistle sounded, the stop-
watches started and a different group of athletes jumped into the pool every five seconds.
"Once it starts they're timed from there 'till they drop," said Mary Chappell, associate director of KU recreation services.
THE HALF-MILE SWIM was the first of three grueling events in yesterday morning's second annual Jayhawk Triathlon at Robinson Center. The athletes dashed from the pool to compete in the other two events — an 18-mile bicycle race and a four-mile footrace.
Many of the 76 athletes were competing in their first triathlon.
"IT'S MY FIRST and possibly the last," Roger Thomas, Liberty, Mo., graduate student, said before his second-heat swimming competition.
Thomas said he had been training for six weeks in an attempt to complete all three events in less than two hours.
"I ride and run on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and I lift weights and swim on Tuesday and Thursday. I take a long bike ride on Sunday, he said.
Thomas endured the triathlon, and achieved his goal. But the long trek took its toll on him, however.
"I feel terrible," he said as he was going to relax in the late-morning meal.
HOWEVER, SHELLY FOX, KER, Colo., graduate student, said that he felt so good after the competition and then played to play football later that afternoon.
"I thought it was great," said Fox, one of 14 women to compete in the triathlon. "It was my first one."
Fox, an assistant softball coach at KU, has trained several years in volleyball and softball, she said. But those two are challenging for her.
"I'm not built for any of these sports," she said. "People do things that they are good at, and don't tolerate themselves on things that they do so well."
Fox said the people participating in it made the event even more enjoyable.
"I don't know if it's camaraderie, she's really encouraging" she says.
Jim Buswell, Lawrence sophomore,
said, "Swimming was the hardest
part because it was crowded trying to
pass people."
AFTER THE SWIM, the athletes ran, many of them dripping wet, to the tennis courts where their bikes were parked. After the 18-mile ride to and from Clinton Lake, they ran four miles around campus.
Mario Estrada; Lawrence senior, said he was pleased that he finished the course in less than two hours. He did not bike much to prepare for the 18-mile trek, he said, and after the race recruited his lack of preparation.
"If I ever do this again," he said,
"I'll certainly ride a lot more. The bikers ate me up."
Bussell said the bicycle ride to the lake was difficult because the cyclists were supposed to stay on the sidewalks.
The hills on the KU campus also were challenging, some said.
"That was kind of tough because there were a lot of bumps and rocks," he said. "A lot of people rove in the street anyway."
"The running was pretty tough going up the hills," Bussell said.
Some athletes competed yesterday in preparation for larger, more difficult competitions.
SARAH ELDER, Oberlin, Ohio, junior, who came in third in the women's student division, said she played in the annual Hawaii Triathlon.
"That's where you swim in the ocean and bike a hundred miles," she
Mark Hodges, Shawnee, a veteran of 11 triathlons in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, said he competed because he enjoyed the event.
"I'M TOO BIG to ever be too terribly competitive." he said.
And yesterday, he did not compete in his usual way.
"I forgot my shoes," he said.
He placed third in the men's open division, even though he ran barefoot.
His wife, Julie, didn't fare as well, he said, because she had a flat tire in the bicycle race.
Free T-shirts were given to all triathlon participants. Athletes who finished first or second in their divisions received ribbons.
The winners were:
Faculty/Staff Division, Ed Morris, associate professor of human development; Men's KU Student Division, Howard Holman, Fairway junior; Men's Open Division, Clark University; Men's Open Division, Pam Leuthold, Baldwin; Women's KU Student Division, Teresa Watkins, Topeka sophomore.
NEW ORLEANS — An Englishman who has been denied U.S. citizenship intends to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a narrow decision by a large appeals panel barring homosexuals entry into the United States.
Man plans to appeal decision
Gay U.K. man denied citizenship
By United Press International
"I don't think I've got much choice," said Richard John Longstaff during a telephone interview from his clothing store in Houston after last week's decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
"The government has made it quite clear that they would start deportation proceedings against me (if I lost)," he said. "I feel I have to appeal."
and hairdressing store in Dallas, said he felt the 1952 Immigration & Nationality law interpreted by the firm fashioned and from the McCarthy era.
Longstaff, who also owns a clothing
"I NEVER THOUGHT this would happen to me when I applied for citizenship in 1976," he said. "But there are some bad laws and this is one of them."
Legal entry is a prerequisite for naturalization
In a 2-1 decision, the federal appeals court ruled Longstaff entered the country illegally in 1965 as a homosexual. In 1980, he have a medical certificate to that effect.
The 43-year-old Dallas resident claims that he was unaware when he filled out his visa application 18 years ago that homosexuals were included in
a category of "psychopathic personalities" and required medical certification.
"Congress" . . . use of medical language . . . was not intended to lay down a clinical test for exclusion dependent on the vicissitudes of medical opinion," the 5th Circuit judges ruled in a 31-page opinion.
The opinion by the New Orleans panel conflicts with a Sept. 7 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which declared a homosexual without a government-issued medical certificate could not be denied U.S. entry.
"IF CONGRESS' POLICY is misguid, Congress must revise that policy . . . and the injustice to a deserving person who wishes to become a citizen must be corrected by lawmakers."
Feds want firm to pay dioxin costs
By United Press International
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The government this week will ask a federal court to order the firm blamed for producing dioxin in Missouri to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for costs involving a contaminated site.
The lawsuit filed against North Eastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Co., two of its former officers and a former employee, is scheduled to begin today before Judge Russell Clark in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Missouri. The trial is expected to last up to two weeks.
THE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS that North Eastern, a Delaware corporation which dissolved 10 years ago, should
pay the cost of investigating and monitoring a chemical dump on the James Denny farm in Barry County in southwestern Missouri, where some of the highest dioxin levels were found three years ago.
debate.
EPA's costs have exceeded $100,000 and are continuing to increase, the laws say.
The suit also asks that the defendants be ordered to aid the dioxin cleanup at the Denny farm, which is now being operated by Synex Corp. under a consent decree.
Dioxin, which is a waste product created when certain pesticides are produced, is extremely toxic and causes cancer and birth defects in laboratory animals. However, the effect dioxin has on people is under
EPA officials said they believed this was the first time a recovery suit brought under the 1980 Superfund hazardous waste cleanup law would go to trial. In the past, the EPA recovered millions of cases through negotiated settlements.
Benefits sent after death of applicant
The lawsuit concerns the waste-disposal arrangement that North Eastern allegedly made with Ronald Mills, a former shift supervisor. The government claims Mills paid Verona plant worker James Deny to bury about 9 drums of dioxin-contaminated waste on the Denny farm.
NORTH EASTERN MADE hexa-chlorophene — a germ killer which produces dioxin — in 1970 and 1971 at its Verona, Mo., plant.
By United Press International
"Both of his arms would easily fit within the circumference of my thumb and forefingers," Phoenix, attorney Mark Caldwell recalled.
WASHINGTON — Robert Ayer's weight plummeted to 73 pounds as he lay in a hospital bed, suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and pancreatitis his attorney had taken government to win him Social Security benefits.
Still, the government rejected Ayer's application for disability benefits in March 1982 — three months after he applied — on grounds that his weight had stabilized.
John Svahn, former Social Security commissioner and now head of the White House Office of Policy Development, asserted in an interview that the administration is not responsible for the Social Security program."
He said the agency has approved more than 30 percent of disability applicants — compared with 28 percent in the Carter administration.
On May 31, 1982, Ayer died.
On May 31, 1982, Ayer died.
Two months later, the Social Security Administration sent Ayer a letter.
But Caldwell tells a different story, charging that unjustified cutoffs of disability are not the only problem with the administration's handling of the program. Caldwell said he had represented numerous clients with serious medical ailments who have been rejected in their initial applications for disability.
Students prepare variety show for China Dav
"Shortly, you will receive a payment for $1,520.10, which represents all benefits due you through June 1982," the letter said.
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Chu-ha Lee plucked at the strings of a Chinese zither, called a Ku-Cheng, as a nostalgic, distinctly Chinese melody filled the air.
Lee, Taipei, Taiwan, special student,
was one of 25 Taiwanese students
rehearsing yesterday for a variety
show to commemorate China Day, a
tremendous occasion, the anniversary of
Taiwan's independence from the Chung
Dynasty in 1911.
China Day is sponsored every year by KU's Chinese Student Association. This year's celebration is set for Oct. 9, the eve of Taiwan's independent day.
The celebration will include Chinese martial arts, opera, dancing, chorus and dance.
DURING THE REHEARSAL, Pao-Chen Shen, Taipei, Taiwan, special
student and a professional dancer, rehearsed a Chinese dance, called Len-Shan, for which she used two metal sticks with bells.
Uy-Ling Lee, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student, said independence day was the most important day of the year for the Taiwanese.
Frances Tao, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student, and the show's hostess said. "We want to present a program that is more accessible and understandable of the Chinese culture."
There are about 170 students from Taiwan attending KU, she said, and many of them are eager to contribute teams to make China Day shows exciting
On Sunday, Chu-hwa will play the Chinese zither, which has sixteen metal strings stretched over a hollow, rectangular wooden box. It produces the kind of harp-like sound often associated with Chinese music.
Uu-Ling Lee said, "Chinese music is soft. It needs to be played in quiet. It is not like rock 'n' roll that you can play really loudly."
She said not many American students usually attended China Day celebrations.
BUT THE CHINESE student organization is making a special effort this year to make the celebration worthwhile for students to attend. Tao said
"We want to give people a sense of the different aspects of Chinese culture."
The show will be presented from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union and Art Museum of Chishauk of Chinese painting methods.
The show will be followed by a banquet at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Community Center, 11th and Vermont streets.
Pao-Chin Shen, Taipei, Taiwan, special student, rehearses a dance called Len-Shan in preparation for a China Day celebration to mark Taiwan's independence. Members of the Chinese Student Association practiced yesterday for a variety show scheduled for Sunday to commemorate China Day.
Childbirth listed as top reason girls in hospital
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — More adolescent girls are hospitalized for childbirth than any other reason, while boys generally are checked into hospitals because of broken bones or other injuries, a new government report says.
THE SURVEY SHOWED hospitals discharged 2.8 million patients between the ages of 12 and 19, with that number accounting for only 7 percent of all people in the same age group make up 14 percent of the total U.S. population.
The report by the National Center for Health Statistics found that girls between the ages of 12 and 19 are far more likely to be hospitalized than boys. Girls with sexes have shorter average hospital stays than the general population.
The agency's report, written by analyst Edmund Graves of the Division of Health Care Statistics, based its conclusions on a 1980 survey of records
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Of the adolescent boys discharged from hospitals, about 10 percent, or 105,000 were hospitalized because of broken bones, the report said. It said cuts and open wounds accounted for another 47,000 discharges and appendicitis and related diseases accounted for 46,000.
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