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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 25 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, September 23, 1983
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KANSAS CITY, MO — Two Kansas City firefighters bottle a five-alarm blaze that destroyed seven buildings and damaged four others in an industrial and stockyard area west of
downtown. There were no reported fatalities in yesterday's fire, but two firefighters suffered minor injuries.
Century-old buildings destroved
Fire ravages K.C. industrial area
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A five-alarm fire raged through this city's stockyard and industrial area yesterday afternoon, destroying 100 of the old buildings by burning two fire fighters.
The blaze began shortly before 3 p.m. and started in a cardboard company in an area of the city called the West Bottoms. Seven buildings burned to the ground, and four other structures were heavily damaged, fire officials said.
At least 25 fire companies were at the scene fighting the blaze, which moved southeastierly
through the 1100 block of West 11th Street. Three of those departments were trying to control spot fires ignited by falling debris. The fire was brought under control by about 6 p.m., although fire fighters remained at the scene and did not explain the cause of the blaze had not been determined.
AFTER OBLITERATING the five-story cardboard company in about fifteen minutes, the blaze spread next door to a six-story building a raag company, destroying it.
Fire officials were not sure if any people were in the buildings when the fire broke out and were asking owners of the companies to assist in an employee check.
Fire fighters had a hard time getting to the
blaze because of crumbling, burning buildings that sometimes crashed to the ground two stories at a time. So many fire hydrants were used that water pressure was low, said Harold Knabe, spokesman for the Kansas City Fire Department.
Knabe said that two fire fighters received minor injuries.
The intensity of the fire made smoke visible across the metropolitan area, and rush-hour traffic streched for miles because of road detours set up by police and fire departments in
Officials said it would be late last night or early today before fire fighters could enter any
Mental testing of Bryan Bell ordered
By Staff and Wire Reports
A Douglas County judge yesterday ordered the man accused of killing Frank Seurer Sr. to undergo a mental evaluation at Lared State Hospital.
Associate District Judge Mike Elwell ordered the evaluation of Bryan Keith Bell, 23, during a hearing in Douglas County District Court.
Bell will be transferred to Larned State Hospital today. He has been in custody in Douglas County jail on $300,000 bond.
Bell's attorneys filed notice on Sept. 12 of an intention to use the defense of insanity.
The motion requested that Bell be examined to determine his competency to stand trial and to determine whether he was insane at the time he allegedly stabbed Seurer.
ben is charged with second-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the stabbing of Seurer, the father of KU quarterback Frank Seurer Jr.
Seurer's body was found Aug. 2 on the kitchen floor of his restaurant, Pop's Bar-B-Q, 2214 Yale Road. An autopsy revealed that he had been stabbed 23 times.
Bell pleaded innocent to both counts Sept. 1.
His trial has been scheduled for Nov. 7.
Committee says Marines will remain in Lebanon
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 30-6 yesterday to let U.S. Marines stay in Lebanon another 18 months, despite a revolt by some Democrats against the war powers compromise with President Reagan.
The vote came as American warships off the Lebanese coast and French jets shelled Moslem rebels in the mountains overlooking Beirut, where 1,200 Leatherncks are stationed. It was the fifth naval bombardment in three days.
The attack by eight French Super Etendard jets on rebel armillary units in the Syrian-held mountains marked the first time members of the multinational peace-keeping forces used air strikes against the Druse Moslem militiamen trying to oust the government of President Amin Mnajjah.
Gemayer.
AT THE SAME time, the House leadership moved to quell a revolt by Democrats on the Appropriations Committee, which voted 20-16 Wednesday to cut off funds for the Marines unless Reagan invoked the war powers act.
The tug on the purse strings threatened to undermine the compromise plan crafted over the past week by the White House and congressional leaders.
The Foreign Affairs Committee will send the compromise resolution to the full House for a vote, probably next Thursday. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote on a similar measure Friday, clearing the way for Senate action early next week.
The compromise is essentially a compromise over the war powers dispute between the White House and Congress. Congressional leaders say Reagan will "acknowledge" the War Powers
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Resolution when he signs the measure, but the deal allows the president to state his disagreement with the law.
THE LAW. PASSED in 1972 to assure that U.S. forces would not get involved in a Vietnam-type conflict without congressional assent, allows lawmakers to order troops home within 60 days if the president reports their assignment to an
Enrollment down slightly
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 1
By DONNA WOODS
Staff Reporter
Twentieth-day enrollment figures released yesterday show slight increases in campus enrollment at the University of Kansas, but those increases were offset by a decline in off-campus enrollment.
the campus head count in Lawrence is 22,520,
an increase of 149 students over last year's 20th day
enrollment of 22,371, according to figures
released by Gil Dyck, dean of the department of
educational services. Campus enrollment at the
College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan.
is 2,401, an increase of 53 over last year's 2,348
students.
But total off-campus enrollment for programs in Topeka, Fort Leavenworth and Overland Park was 1,699, a decrease of 330 students.
determine what effect a lower FTE figure would have on state financing until FTE figures for the 1984 spring semester were also determined also.
FTE is calculated by dividing the total number of credit hours by the average full-time course loads for undergraduate, graduate and law students.
FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT figures (FTE), a measure the Kansas Legislature uses to determine the University's operating funds, declined by 384, from 21,974 last fall to 21,590 this fall.
Keith Nitcher, director of business affairs,
said that the University would not be able to
Nitcher said a direct correlation between FTE and financing could not be made because credit hours in certain areas of study cost more and bring in more state revenue than do others
NITCHER SAID CLASS size, equipment used and the level of the class were factors contributing to varying costs among classes
in a press release yesterday, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said that the campus enrollment figures were higher than the administration had anticipated.
The number of high school students graduating each spring has steadily declined since the late 1970s, causing school administrators to predict lower enrollments.
prefect bower on the hill.
But Deanell Taeha, vice chancellor for academics affairs, said that had not happened at KU partly because more non-traditional students were returning to school and bolstering the enrollment figures.
She also said she thought nationwide tuition increases might have caused more students to go to schools in their own state.
Although KU had a 22 percent tuition increase last year, she said, the University's tuition is still competitive nationwide.
Both Budig and Tacha said the enrollment figures reflected the quality of education at K11
Marcos says he won't resign
Ferdinand E. Marcos
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday that the Philippines could suffer economically but would “do its thing alone” if President Reagan cancels a November visit because of security problems.
By United Press International
In Washington, a source at the White House told UPI that Nancy Reagan, who is to join her husband on the journey to Manila, was strongly opposed to the embattled trip, fearing "that he might be in danger."
Panel discusses school system
In an interview at his Malacanang Palace, which was the target of 5,000 angry youths during anti-government violence Wednesday, Mr. Sengseng said that the end of his term, which expires in June 1987.
See MARCOS, p. 5, col 2
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
The public education system is like the great American watch, some educators say — a watch the American society has wound up and left to tick. But schools have been left to tick by themselves for too long. Lawrence educators said last night.
Speakers representing different aspects of the educational system spoke to more than 80 people at Lawrence High School during a public forum. Parents and representatives from higher education, vocational education and the business community spoke.
The forum was inspired by a report released in February by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The 18-month study was conducted to evaluate the public education
A MAJORITY OF the panel members said that the public education system was failing to prepare students to move past the high school level. The United States is running the risk of functionally illiterate population if something is not done to correct the problem, they said.
Tom Erb, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, was one of those who said that the educational system in the United States was in trouble.
system and make recommendations to improve it, according to the introduction of the report.
"Ten million adults were illiterate in 1946," he said. "And, more than 357,000 had to sign an 'X' mark when they registered for the draft."
But the problem still exists, he said, and it only appears to be get<g> worse.
See EDUCATE, p. 5, col. 3
HOWEVER, HE SAID, the report did not
Eldridge Cleaver
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Patriotic ideals thaw Cleaver's bitter anger
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
Cleaver's speech was the keynote address in a program commemorating National Constitution Week, which ends today. The Topeka program was sponsored by the Topeka Center for Constitutional Studies, the Freeman Institute and the Washburn Criminal Justice Association.
TOPEKA — The former Black Panther who in 1968 wrote a sizing indictment of the United States in "Soul on Ice" had nothing but warm words last night for the country he once abandoned for communism.
Eldridge Cleaver, 48, wearing a red-and-white tie and a blue blazer, recounted his years as a Black Panther and his eventual disenchment with communism to an audience in White Concert Hall at Washburn University.
Clever had first entered prison in 1954 for possession of marijuana. He turned to writing, he said, to regain respect that could not be maintained through other diversions of prison life. The result was a startling manifesto of black activism, "Soul on ice," which was published in 1968.
THE MEMBERS OF the audience occasionally smiled, perhaps remembering the Cleaver of another era, the Cleaver who was wounded in a shoot-out with Oakland, Calif., police in 1968 and who fled the country to escape prosecution.
In that book, he writes. "The police are the armed guardians of the social order. The blacks are the chief domestic victims of the American social order. A conflict of interest exists, therefore, between the blacks and the police."
and the police.
It was that attitude, with the adoption of communism, that brought Cleaver to the newly formed Black Panther party after his release from the California state prison system in 1966.
the California state prison system in 1860.
"I sharpened my knife, and I fanned the flames of my anger," he said last night. "When I was released from prison, I was a weapon. I was a bomb ready to go."
egan in terrorist operations that or garnished "we bombed, we burned, we agitated, we organized," he said.
HE JONED THE Panthers, which had existed only two months, and began in terrorist operations with that organization.
The blunt militancy, contrasting sharply with the exhortations of non-violence from Martin Luther King, led to the eventual shoot-out with Oakland police in which one Panther was killed and Cleaver was wounded and captured.
"King told me, 'You fight water with fire.' But those words were lost on me." Cleaver said. "So I turned to the left and I picked up the gun."
After the shoot-out, he was released from jail on a technicality. Ronald Reagan asked him to plead no contest to leaver. Ronald Cleaver noted that the Panthers referred to
See CLEAVER, p. 5, col. 1
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