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Vol. 94, No. 30 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, September 30, 1983
Senate panel approves student monument plan
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
A proposal for a Vietnam War memorial on the KU campus received preliminary approval from the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee last night.
The proposal would provide $10,000 for the memorial. It still must be approved by the full Senate on Wednesday, and by the Building Commission, which is chancellor's office, before action can be taken.
The memorial would list the names of all KU students who served in the war, said Lisa Ashner, student body president. She said the Senate would ask the Veterans Administration in Washington to compile a list of the soldiers from Kansas who served in the conflict.
The VA records would be cross-checked with University admission records, she said
ASHINER SAID SHE would rely heavily on publicity from University Relations and the University of Kansas Alumni Association to help organize out-of-state students who served during the war.
Asher said that she and several other student leaders had been working since June to drum up support for the project. Asher and the students not working as an official committee of the Senate.
"From everyone we've approached on the idea
TENTATIVELY, THE MEMORIAL would be a fountain situated in the Chandler Courtyard of the Burge Union, Ashner said. The committee were working for completing the project were about $20,000.
we have gotten very favorable response," Ashner said.
Asher said the Senate would ask for contributions from University living groups and from other contributors to get the $10,000 needed to help the Senate contribution to complete the memorial.
A contest has been tentatively set to begin Oct. 15 in which students would submit proposals for the fountain's design. Ashner said a panel of judges, including Jim Mayo, associate professor of architecture and urban design, would select the winning entry by Jan. 15.
Mayo is working on a book on the symbolism of war memorials and has traveled throughout the country.
"THERE ARE DESIGN limitations that you have to look at with this kind of project," Mayo said. "In considering a site you have to find an area that should command respect."
Tom Berger, a Lawrence graduate student and a member of the Students Honoring Students Committee that initiated the project, said that the memorial would be an expression of concern for fellow students, not a symbol of protest or approval of the controversial war.
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Tentative plans call for a Vietnam War memorial to be built in the Chandler Courtyard, just south of the Frank R. Burge Union. The proposal received preliminary approval from the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee last night.
which opened last November, lists the names of all U.S. soldiers who died in Vietnam.
WASHINGTON — Vietnam veteran Fred Strother, who lost a leg in 1966, views the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial,
Vietnam War memorial depicts sacrifice paid to failed crusade
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Vietnam memorial, an angle of polished black stone subtly submerged in a gentle slope, is an artistic abstraction. Yet its simplicity dramatizes a reality. For the names of the dead engraved in the granite record more than lives lost in battle. They represent a sacrifice to a failed crusade, however noble or illusory its motives.
Thousands of Vietnam veterans streamed into Washington on a crisp November weekend in 1982 to dedicate this memorial, accompanied by their families and the families of the dead. Some
were paraplegic, others amputees. Some wore fatigues, some business suits, and several came in full combat gear. They recited the names of the dead and missing in action. Many wept.
FROM AFAR, the crowds resembled the demonstrators who had stormed the capital during the war to protest against the conflict. But past controversies were conspicuously absent from this display of emotion. Now the nation appeared to be redeeming a debt to the men who had fought and died / saluting their contribution, expiating their suffering.
Whether they consider the war to have been a valid venture or a misguided endeavor, most Americans would not want it.
proportions. Looking back, many Americans are trying to assess the lessons and legacies of
The original intervention in Vietnam was largely rooted in the conviction that it was America's obligation to spread its values of freedom and justice around the world. President Kennedy expressed that view most eloquently in his inaugural address in January 1961, when he pledged America to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
See VIETNAM, p. 5, col. 3
Rickover blames Congress for defense contract abuses
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Retired Adm. Hyman Rickover told members of a House subcommittee yesterday that Congress, not the military, was to blame for profiteering by defense contractors "because you don't do your damn job."
Rickover, who pioneered development of the Navy's first nuclear submarine, called for revival of a board created to curb profit-taking in the Korean War. Congress let it die in 1976.
"I hate to see this wonderful country being maltreated by contractors and by some of you people up here because you don't do your work in the building." The naval officer told a House subcommittee.
HIS CAUSTIC COMMENTS irritated many committee members and led Rep. Doug Barnard Jr., D-Ga., to suggest it was not congenial for congressional committee to criticize members.
"You may not think I'm doing my job, but my constituents do," the Georgia Democrat snapped.
"They may be wrong." Rickover retorted. Rickover said he had appeared "year after year, year after year" in congressional committees, but nothing had changed.
"What is the purpose of my being here?" he asked sarcastically.
His main criticism was that Congress had failed to extend the life of the Renegotiation Board, although he also complained that the members were "given the job as a political plum."
"IT IS CONGRESS, not the military, that is to blame for the situation we in," he said. "Congress dismantled all systems of screening for excessive profits and for recovering money."
"That was the only safeguard you had and you abolished it." Rickover said.
The admiral, who retired last year after being allowed to stay on active duty longer than anyone, said profiteering by arms merchants had existed for centuries.
Gov. Carlin injured in D.C. accident hospitalized with lower back injury
He quoted George Washington's description of war profiteers as "the those murderers of our cause" and "the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America."
RICKOVER DREW LAUGHTER when someone suggested he did not like politicians. "Oh I like politicians, but the protested,"iliiil said, "the fact is to compare them. They're both necessary."
Rickover was asked at one point what other steps might be taken against cheating doctors.
"So you see," he said, "I'm in pretty good company."
"There's one thing you could do," he replied. "That's to throw one of them into
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin was injured early yesterday in a two-vehicle accident in suburban Washington, D.C., and is expected to remain in pain for five days, a week, for Carlin said yesterday.
Mike swenson, Carlin's press secretary, said the governor and his executive assistant, Shirley Allen, suffered lower back vertebrae injuries, but neither one was disabled by the accident.
By Staff and Wire Reports
THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE, Karen, and one of
Both were listed in good condition late yesterday at the National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation in Arlington, Va., a Washington suburb.
his security guards, George Bruce of Topeka, also were passengers in a taxicab that hit a stalled, flat-bed truck on an off- ramp leading to National Airport at about 5:30 a.m. CDT, Carlin, 43, and his party were on their way to catch a flight back to Kansas.
Joseph Kaye, the physician overseeing Carlin's care, said, "The governor received two compression fractures to the second and third vertebrae. His fractures are considered to be mild. We do not anticipate he will have any neurological problems. The governor is on strict bed rest and is receiving pain killers by infection."
A HOSPITAL SPOKESMAN yesterday said
See CARLIN, p. 5, col. 1
Bioanalytical research center planned
By DONNA WOODS
Staff Reporter
A new center for bioanalytical research at the University of Kansas, billed as the first of its kind, will participate in the state's "C centers of technology program for improving high technology research."
"As far as we know, the center will be the first of its kind in the world." Larry Sternson, professor of pharmacy and pharmacology, said yesterday.
The "Centers of Excellence" program was devised last spring in the Kansas Legislature to promote high technology research, KU, Kansas State University, Wichita State University and Pittsburg State University were chosen to participate in the program.
UNDER THE PROGRAM, $130,000 in state revenue will be used to expand bioanalytical research at KU. To get the money, though, the University was required to match the state's
appropriation with $185,000 from federal or private funds.
Takeru Higuchi, professor of pharmacy, pharmacology and chemistry, said that Oread laboratories Inc., a Kansas firm supported by the University Association, had agreed to sponsor the program.
The money will not be used to construct a research building, Sternson said, but will be used to expand bioanalytical research at the University.
"It WILL BE dedicated purely to bi-analytical research and is expected to serve the needs of public agencies, commercial organizations and not only nationally, but internationally." he said.
Sternson said that the research center would concentrate on developing methods to detect, identify and analyze traces of biologically active contaminants in environmental contaminants in living systems.
Results from such research can be used to detect foreign substances in the body that are
FACULTY MEMBERS CONDUCTING bioanalytical research include chemistry, pharmacy and pharmacology professors. However, these researchers are not all included in researchers in the biological sciences.
"One would hope that the program is going to grow," Harmony said.
Bioanalytical research is in demand for both medical and environmental purposes, Sternson said. He said such research might eventually prevent dioxin poisoning and other tragedies.
potentially harmful, he said, and could lead to methods for treatment.
Because a tremendous demand for bioanalytical research exists, he said, the University should be able to attract enough financing to be self-sufficient within two or three years.
"This is an area that is mushroomed," said Marlin Harmony, professor of chemistry.
Transfer students having trouble Profs question value of juco English classes
By CHRISTY FISHER
Staff Reporter
Students who transfer basic English composition classes from junior colleges seem to have more trouble in KU English classes, a KU English professor said yesterday.
Michael Johnson, the director of freshman and sophomore English, said concern was growing among the English faculty about problems some transfer students were having in their classes.
"We do know in general that students who transfer to KU with the equivalents of English are better prepared."
Although the department keeps no specific records on transfer students, Johnson said the department realized a problem existed when faculty members did informal surveys and found that many transfer students had trouble in English classes.
"NO TEACHER INTENDED to find out who the transfer students were. It's just that a substantial number of the students who were having problems wound up being transfered."
James Carothers, associate professor of English, agreed.
"These students are a significant enough number to consider it a problem," he said. "I've had a few."
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whether they can fulfill a requirement at other institutions."
Last fall more than 2,790 students transferred to the University of Kansas, according to William Kelly, associate dean of education services. His office did not keep records on transfer students in the spring semester, but estimated that the yearly figure was much higher.
Norma Henley, credential evaluator for educational services, said that all equivalent
English classes from the 21 accredited junior colleges in Kansas transferred to the University. Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the English department, was sure of the reasons for the
"IT MAY BE because the junior colleges do other things or they may be doing the same things, but probably not quite as well or as thoroughly." he said.
Some English faculty are also concerned about the number of KU students who take the basic composition equivalents at junior colleges to avoid taking a basic composition class at KU.
THE OFFICE OF academic affairs conducted an informal survey in the summers of 1979 and
See TRANSFER, p. 5, col. 1
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