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Vol. 94, No.16 (USPS 650-640)
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Friday morning, September 9, 1983
Patrolman Larry Kasson, left, with paramedics Pat Mayo and Don Andreus, helps lay Edward Seyfert, Lawrence, on a stretcher to take him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Seyfert was thrown
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from the cycle yesterday near 40 Highway and Kossold Drive after braking to avoid the patrol car. Seyfert suffered a sprained shoulder.
Area residents hurt in motorcycle accidents
By the Kansan Staff
Three Lawrence residents were slightly injured in separate motorcycle accidents yesterday.
A Lawrence woman was hurt when the motorcycle on which she was a passenger collided with a truck on U.S. Highway 40 near Big Sorings yesterday afternoon.
Big Springs Yesterday
The woman, Joann Shove, 19. 2 Kentucky
Court, was treated at Lawrence Memorial
Hospital for cuts and bruises and was released
According to a dispatcher for the Kansas Highway Patrol, a truck driven by Michael Murphy, 23, of Topeka, was heading east on Highway 40. A motorcycle driven by Jerry Spurlock, 41, Eudora, was heading west on the highway.
highway.
The truck attempted to turn left, the dispatcher said, and the motorcycle collided with it. The accident occurred at about 3:25 p.m.
In the other accident, Edward Seyfert, 32, of Lawrence, suffered a sprained shoulder when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a Lawrence police car.
Spurlock was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for cuts and bruises and was released, a nursing supervisor said. Murphy was also unhurt, the dispatcher said.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Lawrence Police Officer Edward Brun had been sent to one mile east of the intersection of Kasold Drive and a direct entrance to a grass field in the area.
The dispatcher said that smoke from the fire apparently obscured Seyfert's vision of the patrol car. When he braked to avoid the car, the motorcycle went down.
Shortage of teachers expected in a few years
Staff Reporter
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Despite a recent glut, a shortage of elementary and secondary teachers in Kansas is only a few years away, an academic officer of the Board of Regents said yesterday.
the Board of delegates said yesterday that Joe McFarland, Regents director of academic affairs, testified in hearings earlier this week before an interim legislative committee on education. He addressed the issues of a teacher shortage and the condition of Kansas education in relation to the April report from the National Commission on Excellence in Education.
Carland said, "The teachershort is very real." McFarland said, "The public hasn't become alerted to it, but we've been tracking that graph for 10 years."
THE CAUSE OF the shortage. McFarland said, is tied to the way American society has changed in the past 10 years.
changed in the past to years "The public school system has benefitted from having some of the best minds in the country locked into the classroom — I'm speaking of
women," he said. "Now there are doors open to women that have never before been."
women that have never been in professional schools, such as business, law and medicine, has grown steadily in that time, he said.
grown section in the room. "Those are coming right out of our classrooms, or potentially out of our classrooms," he said.
The shortage has been helped along by the falling enrollment in public schools, McFarland said, which created a temporary oversupply of teachers and discouraged potential education students. Now, so few people are being attracted to teaching, he said, that the shortage is becoming real.
becoming real:
ONLY BY INCREASING salaries enough to attract and retain good teachers, McFarland said, could the shortage be reversed.
rooms, he said.
McFarlane told the interim committee that Kansas schools were in line with the recommendations made in the National Commission on Excellence in Education report. "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform."
said, could the store be "open"? "But I think people don't want to pay for the benefit of those people locked into our classrooms," he said.
The commission, appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, recommended a required high school curriculum almost identical to that proposed by the Regents in February
One difference, McFarland said, was that the commission recommended a semester of computer science, which was not proposed by the Regents because they thought computer use could be better taught in other classes.
could be better taught. Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education, agreed that the teacher shortage would occur soon, and cited a prediction from the National Center for Educational Statistics indicating that the shortage would occur in two or three years.
"THERE HAVE BEEN some reports from some superintendents that they are having more difficulty in finding people." Scannell said. "Of course, the shortage right now will vary with the teaching field."
teaching field
The state needs teachers in vocational subject special education, mathematics and science, he said. A bill to provide scholarships to education students who intended to teach math or science was introduced in the Kansas Legislature last session.
U.S. Navy frigate shells Druse posts near Beirut
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The U.S. Navy, protecting embattled Marines onshore, joined Lebanon's escalating civil war for the first time yesterday by shelling Moslem artillery posts in the hills ringing Beirut.
President Reagan yesterday promised U.S. forces in Lebanon that they would be provided with "whatever support it takes to stop the attacks on you."
Reagan made the guarantee in a telephone call from the Oval Office to Cmdr. Tim Geraghty in Beirut after a Navy frigate shelled Druse artillery positions in Lebanon that had fired on the Marine peace-keeping force.
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Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said
Rick Ridley and Geraghty, commander of Task
Force 62, in a three-minute telephone conversation,
"I am determined to see to it that we provide whatever support it takes to stop the attacks on your position."
attacks on your position
A KEY HOUSE chairman said yesterday that he would push to cut off funds for the U.S. peace-keeping force in Lebanon unless President Reagan formally seeks congressional approval to keep the troops there.
approach to keep it closed.
Rep. Clarence Long, D-Md., chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, cited the deaths of five Marines in Lebanon and said that American soldiers were "sitting duck targets in an undeclared war."
Congress will exercise its "power of the purse" if Reagan does not comply with the 1973 War Powers Resolution and seek formal congressional approval to keep them there, he warned.
Under that law, the president must notify Congress when he sends U.S. troops into hostile situations. Congress then has 60 to 90 days to vote on whether the troops can remain.
Reagan has contended that the troops, dispatched to Lebanon last year to participate in the multinational force, were sent in for peace-keeping duties, not combat.
BUT LONG TOLD a news conference. "The situation today in Lebanon can be described in no other words than one of hostilities.
no other World that shall “our Marines” too precious to the American war to let them be wasted as sitting duck targets in an undearled war, a war disguised as a peacekeeping operation where there has never been, from the very beginning, any peace to keep.”
any peace to keep. No American casualties were reported in the latest fighting near Beirut airport, where two U.S. Marines were killed earlier in the week.
Most NATO allies agree to ban on Soviet flights
State-run Beirut radio said late yesterday that unidentified planes flew over western Lebanon, a day after U.S. and French warplanes flew reconnaissance missions and the French defense minister threatened to bomb Druse artillery if it did not cease bombardments.
By United Press International
MADRID, Spain — All but two NATO allies need yesterday to a two-week suspension of air links with the Soviet Union in retaliation for the Russian attack on a Korean airliner, and President Reagan ordered U.S. offices of the Soviet airline Aeroflot shut down.
Soviet battle veteran star came at the end of the NATO agreement came at the end of the European Security Conference in Madrid, where Secretary of State George Shultz met Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in the first high-level American-Soviet encounter since a Russian fighter shot down the Korean Air Lines jet last week.
jet last week.
Shultz dismissed Moscow's account of the attack, saying "the preposterous explanation the Soviets have offered and continue to offer to a disbelieving world has only compounded the problem."
problem.
Diplomatic sources said NATO foreign ministers agreed to halt all flights to and from the Soviet Union beginning Sept. 15, the date on which the International Civil Aviation Organization begins a meeting in Montreal to discuss the attack. France and Greece dissented from the decision.
The United States had urged its allies to adopt stronger measures in retaliation for the attack on the jet carrying 269 people. Canada has imposed a 60-day ban on Soviet flights.
authorities the Soviets had found debris of the Boeing 747 but none of the bodies of the passengers or crew.
European airline pilots associations began boycotting flights into and out of the Soviet Union.
Union.
WHITE HOUSE spokesman Larry Speakens said the Reagan administration was considering limiting or canceling Soviet trade credits but he made it clear that Reagan continued to rule out a new grain embargo or disruption of nuclear arms negotiations.
arris neglected.
The president reaffirmed the ban on the student Aeroflot flights, which the United States imposed in January 1982 after mortal law was declared in Poland. He also asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to suspend the Aeroflot's right to sell tickets in the United States.
right to sea
Reagan also asked the CAB to bar U.S. airlines to passengers with Aeroflot tickets, to direct U.S. airlines to suspend interline service with Aeroflot and bar them from accepting Aeroflot tickets for travel into or out of the United States.
the United States.
After a one-hour session, Schultz said Gavinko's response to U.S. demands for an apology and steps to prevent a recurrence of the disaster was "totally unacceptable."
A U.S. official said Shultz ended the meeting by saying there was "no point" in continuing if Gromykwo would not change his position.
Gromyko Gromyko refused to talk with reporters after the meeting, scheduled to last one hour.
Non-traditional students find return to school filled with joys and stress
By CHRISTY FISHER
Staff Reporter
Virginia Hunnel, like most students, was a little perky about her first day of classes.
Mostly, she wondered if she would fit in. The 39-year-old English major was also nervous about some things that don't bother the average college student. Does this campus belong to just 18-year-olds? Am I an intruder? Can I keep up with them? Am I too old?
She worried about the kinds of teachers she would have and whether she could handle her course load.
Census.
ACCORDING to the census, this age group now makes up one/third of the college population. If the trend continues, census officials expect the enrollment of non-traditional students to reach 7.2 million by 1990.
Hunnel, Lawrence senior, is one of about 8,000 students over the age of 25 attending the University of Kansas this semester. She is also one of about 3.9 million older students nationwide who opted to load up a backpack and head off to class, according to the 1980 U.S. Census.
Physicians once shunned Lawrence but now may find a doctor surplus
Going back to school is becoming an event for mom and dad as well as the kids.
See OLDER, p. 5, col. 1
By MATTHEW HARRISON
From the years 1965 to roughly 1974. Lawrence was a community shunned in the eyes of medical school graduates, Lawrence physicians say.
Staff Reporter
school graduates, Laww. With Topeka to the west and the University of Kansas Medical Center sitting to the left, general practitioners and specialists included that their services were not needed in Lawrence, James E. Reeves, a Lawrence podiatrist, said Thursday.
But now concern is growing among some local physicians that Lawrence may soon have more doctors than it can support.
doctors than it can support. Richard A. Orchard, an ophalmologist who moved to Lawrence nine years ago from Indiana, had reservations about setting up his practice after hearing about troubles that had unsettled Lawrence in the late 1960s.
settled Lawrence in the area he was "Some physicians were concerned about the
But while physicians agreed that Lawrence had a shortage of physicians some years ago, now a new problem is emerging — an excess of physicians in some areas of practice.
physiology.” “If you go down the line, most of the fields that you would expect to find in a town of this size are very well supplied,” said Henry W. Buck, a Lawrence gynecologist. “I can't really think of any area that is not saturated at this point.”
unrest on the campus in the late '60s, "he said. 'I heard this from other specialists in other parts of Kansas who wanted to settle in Lawrence.'"
LAIRD INGHAM JR., a Lawrence physician, said that even the Med Center was whispering that Lawrence was not a good place to set up a practice. For that reason, many of his classmates avoided the town.
Michael A. Well, a local physician in urological surgery, said most specialties in Lawrence had the maximum number of physicians that could sustain a practice.
See DOCTORS, p. 5, col. 4
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Bonnie Owens. 2125 W. 23rd St., speaks to a group of residents at Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts St., about her blindness and the barriers she has overcome. See related story p. 7.
FBI files link Einstein to plots; fail to prove he was a Communist
By United Press International
The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, showed that the FBI failed to substantiate suspicions that apparently sparked the 23-year probe, including an assertion that Einstein's Berlin office had been used as a "drop" for Soviet agents in the 1930s.
A file kept by the FBI on the Nobel Prize-winning physicist includes claims linking him to the Lindbergh kidnapping and the invention of a mind-control machine.
WASHINGTON — Decades of research by the FBI recently yielded allegations that tied "liberal thinker" Albert Einstein to a variety of plots including a Hollywood takeover but denied allegations that the physicist was a Communist party member.
"drop" for Soviet agents in the file. In one of the final entries in the file, the FBI said, "Extensive investigation in the U.S. reflected that Einstein affiliated or extensively associated with literally hundreds of pro-Communist groups.
"No evidence of Communist Party membership was developed," it added.
THE FBI FILE described Einstein as a "pacifist" and a "liberal thinker" affiliated in some way with more than 30 "Communist-front" organizations.
front organizations.
"He has opposed militarism and universal military training in the United States and has espoused world government," the file said.
The Einstein tile was released by the result of a request by Richard Schwartz, a professor at Florida International University who is studying the effects of politics on science. Einstein, who died in 1955, formulated a special theory of relativity. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, settled in Princeton, N.J., and became an American citizen.
Dr. Otto Nathan, executor of Einstein's estate
Do EINSTEIN, p. 5, col. 1
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