University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFSEmFrom Staff Reports
9:30 classes canceled today
All 9:30 classes are canceled this morning so that KU employees and students can attend the 118th opening convocation at the University of Kansas.
The convocation will be in Hoch Auditorium. Chancellor Gene A. Budig will be the speaker.
racutty members planning to march in the procession should gather on the first floor of Strong Hall between 9:10 and 9:20. Academic regalia will not be needed.
Stephen Grabow, professor of architecture and urban design, has been named university associate marshal. Norton J. Greenberger, professor and chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is the chief marshal.
Prison director will fight demotion
LANSING — Gary Rayl, demoted from his post as Kansas State Penitentiary director, said yesterday that Michael Barbara, corrections secretary, "should have got his facts straight" before transferring him for alleged wilful obedience.
Barbara transferred Rayi on Friday to the position of director of the state's two honor camps. The secretary said Rayi had until today to say whether he would accept or challenge the demotion or quit the Kansas Department of Corrections.
"I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to do," Rayl said in a telephone interview from his home on the state prison grounds at Lansing. "I'm obviously going to take some action."
Also on Friday, Barbara promoted two other directors. Herbert Maschner moved from the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory at Hutchinson to the penitentiary, and Robert Hannigan transferred from the honor camps at Toronto and El Dorado to the reformatory.
Men of KU calendar is now on sale
More than 100 men applied to model for the Delta Delta Delta sorority calendar, which will go on sale today in residence halls, sororities and on campus for $4.
on Campus for Revenue from the calendar sales will be used to pay for a Delta Delta scholarship, said Laura Mulvany, Overland Park junior and Tri-Delt member. All female undergraduates at the University of Kansas who plan to attend classes next fall are eligible for the scholarship.
Applications are available at the Tri-Delt house, 1630 Oxford Road, she said. Applicants will have to submit two references and a letter about career goals. The winner is eligible also for the national Delta Delta delta scholarship.
ON THE RECORD
Police said that $300 was stolen from a cash register and $10 was taken from a desk drawer at Garber & Garber Country Chicken Restaurant, 1500 W. Sixth St. Police said that the intruder pried through a back door sometime between 1 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Francis Sporting Goods, 731 Massachusetts St., was broken into sometime between 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:16 a.m. Sunday, police said. The intruder entered by breaking a small window in the store's front. Police had not identified what was taken.
A UT-100 utility trailer was stolen from Russell Ford Tractor, 1105 E. 23rd St., sometime between Tuesday and 8 a.m. Saturday, police said. The trailer, valued at $450 was pulled from a display lot by a vehicle with a trailer hitch, police said.
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The bloody riots from July 24 through Aug. 3 pitted the dominant Buddhist Sinhalales against the minority Hindu Tamils in Sri Lanka, the former British colony of Ceylon, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.
The anti-Tamil violence diminished the hopes of moderates for compromise between the two groups, Tamil politicians said.
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — A guerrilla war to create a separate Tamil homeland threats to further divide Sri Lanka, already torn by nationwide riots that killed 350 people and left 127,000 homeless.
But the violence increased support for establishment of a separate Tamil nation, known as Eelam, in the Tamil-dominated west, north and east coastal areas and teared off southern regions despite the odds against a successful rebellion.
groups exist, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Army, but no reliable estimates have been made of their strength.
THOUSANDS OF Tamil-owned homes, stores and factories were looted and burned, and some Tamils charged that government security forces had done little to stop the violence.
Guerrilla war widens Sri Lanka division
"It is suicidal to demand independence, but we are suffering genocide already," a well-educated Tamil said. "We want a homeland just like the Palestinians demand."
A Tamil political party, the Tamil United Liberation Front, has 17 members in parliament, and they have demanded a U.N. peace-keeping force. The 17 will soon lose their seats, so the party has decided to take a pledge, required under a new law, in which they disavow support for a separate Tamil state.
'I underwent guerrilla training in more than one foreign country. Our training stopped in 1977 but started again in 1982 because we needed further training in heavy arms, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades. We capture all our own weapons.'
— Uma Maheswaran
Liberation fighter
TAMIL MODERATES hope to defuse
But because many frightened Tamils fled Sinhalese-dominated areas, the island of 15 million already has sustained a de facto partition.
the escalating violence through an end to discrimination. Some Tamilis think that greater autonomy for Tamil-animated areas may improve conditions.
"I underwent guerrilla training in more than one foreign country," said Uma Makeshaw, general secretary of the Organization for Tamil-Elam.
Others consider armed revolt as the answer.
"Our training stopped in 1977, but started again in 1982 because we needed further training in heavy arms, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades. We capture all our own weapons.
Because Sri Lanka is only 20 miles off India's south coast, and many Tamils have relatives in India, the violence has inflamed passions in New Delhi.
"I immediately after liberation of Eelam, there will be a limitation of the petit bourgeois and capitalists. We will nationalize all property."
Some observers think that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wants to remain the dominant power in South Asia, but could benefit from a divided Sri Lanka.
MAHESWARAN SAID he had 500
armed guerrillas. Two other rebel
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