Page 12 University Daily Kansan, September 14, 1983
Texas dreamer picks football over 8th grade
JUSTIN, Texas — Kylq Burns, who dreams of being a football player at Texas A&M University, is repeating the seventh grade so he can be bigger and stronger than his fellow high school graduates in 1989.
By United Press International
Kyle, 13, a straight-A student who plays tight at Northwest Junior High School, would be 19 when he graduates from Northwest High School in the small town of Justin, 25 miles north of Fort Worth.
"I'm hoping I can mature a bit," said
pound.
"I think it will help me be better."
RED-SHIRTING, AS the practice is called, has been outlawed in Texas high schools since 1952 when the University Interscholastic League decreed that students must earn the eighth grade. he has five consecutive years of athletic eligibility.
But the UIL, which governs sports in the state's public schools, cannot do anything about a seventh-grader, or an eightth-grade student, being held back in school.
"We didn't force this on Kyle," said Clay Burns, Kyle's father. "He wants to play for Texas A&M and I want to give him every chance possible. If he doesn't get a chance at a school like A&M, he might get a scholarship at a place like Sam Houston or Angelo State."
LINDA BURNS, Kyle's mother, called the UIL office in Austin this summer to see if she could put a stop to her, but she was told she had no response.
“At first I was for it,” she said. “But now I see it as wrong. He's so much bigger than the kids he's playing with that is a monster. He could hurt someone.
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Pirates attack Vietnamese boat; only two survive
By United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand — Pirates in a radar-equipped trawler rammed a vessel carrying 28 Vietnamese refugees, repeatedly raped teenage girls and dumped the entire group into the Thailand, A.U.N. official said yesterday.
"There have been other attacks in the Gulf this year but this is the worst," the official said.
Tran Trung Tath, 10, one of only two known survivors of the incident, told officials in Thailand that he and
27 others were intercepted by pirates shortly after they left the Vietnamese port of Vung Tau on July 29.
THE BOY'S DESCRIPTION of the ramming attack was corroborated by the other survivor, Nguyen Minh Ngoc, who was interviewed separately after he drifted ashore at Palaul Bidong in Malaysia, the officials said.
"It is unlikely that anybody else on the boat could have survived," said the man.
Tran was quoted as saying he, his
year-old brother, two sisters aged
18 and 25, had been killed in a car crash.
taken aboard the pirates' boat after 23 fellow passengers were robbed and forced into the sea by pirates wielding bloody knives and hammers.
He said that the pirates raped both of his sisters repeatedly during several days of captivity before all captives were thrown into the sea.
Aid officials said that Tran, who reached the southern Thai port of Songkhla on Aug. 12 by clinging to a plastic water bottle, sketched a character he believed appeared to be a Thai fishing trawler equipped with a radar dish.
OFFICIALS IN Bangok and Songkla said that Tran would join 43 other Vietnamese boat people at a small holding center in Songkla and later would be sent to a larger camp near the Thai-Cambodian border.
Pirates have plagued Southeast Asian waters for centuries, but their activities have increased since 1975, when the exodus of Vietnamese seeking airlift abroad provided a steady stream of easy targets.
The U.N. official said that a $2.6 million anti-piracy program established last year by the U.N. High
Commission for Refugees and funded by 11 donor nations appeared to be cutting the incidence of piracy in the Gulf of Thailand.
He said that 57 percent of the boats departing from Vietnam from July 1, 1882, to June 30, 1883, were attacked by Chinese and Japanese ships, 124 rails and 118 abductees.
In the previous 12 months, he said,
69 percent of the departing boats were
attacked by pirates who killed 170
survivors and abducted 204 others and abducted
146 seafarers.
Dutch prelate chosen as new superior-general of Jesuit order
By United Press International
ROME — Jesuits yesterday elected Dutch prelate Peter-Hans Kolbenbach to serve for life as superior-general of the Catholic Church's largest and most powerful order in a move expected to end a long-standing rift with the pope.
The 211 representatives of Jesuits throughout the world made the surprise choice by a simple majority vote on their first ballot behind the locked gate. The ball just outside the wall walls. The balloting took just 45 minutes.
By tradition, word of the new "black pope" went first to Pope John Paul II who was in Vienna, winding up a four-day visit to Austria.
ASKED TO COMMENT on the election on his flight back to Rome from a four-day trip to Austria, the pope said that he has chosen a new superior-general."
"Thank God," he said. "I do not know him personally. Maybe I met him at some time, but I do not remember it." Asked if he approved of the Jesuits' choice, the pope said: "I never had a candidate of my own."
The successor to ailing Basque
Superior-General Pedro Arrupe, 75,
must prove the order's loyalty to the
pope, who has criticized Jesuit political
and religious leaders in recent years.
taken temporary control of the order.
Incapacitated by a stroke, Arrupe was the first Jesuit superior-general ever to resign. He was leader of the order for 18 years.
KOLVENBACH, BORN 54 years ago in Druten, the Netherlands, and orained in 1961 in Beurst, is a scholar and author of books on culture or in innovations, fellow Jesus said.
as the black pope because of the simple black caskock Jesuits wear. His election is for life and he wields immense power.
The Rev. Donald Campion, Jesuit spokesman in Rome, said that Kolvenbach's experience as provincial of the Republic was important to him and is an important factor in his election.
During 17 years in Beirut, he was responsible for Jesus's visit in Lebanon, Egypt and Israel.
As superior-general he will be known
Kolvenbach presently is rector and professor of linguistics and Armenian at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. He will leave the post to take
charge of the 26,000-member Jesuit order.
JESUIT SOURCES SAID that Kolbenbach was a man of dialogue, profoundly spiritual but excellent at governing and capable of healing the division between liberal and conservative Jesuits, and between the Jesuits and the pope.
As sector of the Oriental Institute, Kolvenbach headed a center for studies of Orthodox theology which maintains close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian is one of at least eight languages he speaks.
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