The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, March 7, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 112 USPS 650-640
Three horses graze west of Lawrence in yesterday's spring-like temperatures. Today will be cooler with a slight chance of rain.
Pope leaves Costa Rica, heads for Nicaragua
Editor's Note: J. Laurence Day, professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, is reporting for Universal Press Syndicate in Central America. He is serving as director of the United States Air Force University of Costa Rica in San Jose, and will return to Lawrence for the fall semester.
By J. LAURENCE DAY Special to the Kansan
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Tens of thousands of Costa Ricans bid farewell to Pope John Paul II yesterday morning as he continued a Central American pilgrimage marked on one side by an enormous outpouring of love and support among the faithful.
On the other side, one political analyst described the Roman Catholic pontiff's pilgrimage as "the gravest days in church history in this century."
the pope arrived in Costa Rica Wednesday,
begining the eight-day, eight-country trip.
By the time of his arrival in Guatemala from El Salvador late last night, the population of which were 167,000.
THE POPE will offer counsel to similar groups in Guatemala today and in Honduras tomorrow. He will飞 to Belize and Haiti Wednesday, on his way back to Rome.
carefully targeted at such important church constituencies in Central America as the religious orders, the parish priests, the family, country neoone and church educators.
For many faithful Catholics from Costa Rica, John Paul's visit was an event of a lifetime.
Isabel Paniagu, 32, of Naranjo, Costa Rica and her two children, ages 13 and 11, spent all night in Sabanna Park, the site of the pope's first Central American mass.
"I would have stayed two days if necessary right in this spot to see his holiness and participate in the mass. It is a moment to be filled, life, perhaps even an eternal moment." she said
Miguel Antonio Castro, 57, who walks with a cane, sat for hours on a curb, then struggled to his knees to receive the host from the hand of one of the priests who priested them made their way through the crowd.
THROUGHOUT HIS journey, the pope stressed the religious aspects of his presence in
Central America and said several times that he now understood and had shared the pain and suffering of victims of natural disasters, sickness, political unheaval and violent death.
Although he stressed the apolitical nature of the journey, the trip has had inevitable political overtones and, perhaps, overriding implications for the region.
After one and a half days in Costa Rica, the pope flew to Nicaragua where the Sandinista government has fostered a "church of the people," not countenanced by the Vatican, and where Roman Catholic priests serve as officials in the leftist government.
One widely circulated photograph of the pope's one-day visit to Nicaragua showed him admonishing Ernesto Cardinal, a priest who serves as Nicaragua's minister of culture.
THE POPE told Cardinal, "You must get yourself straight out with the church."
During a mass in Managua, the pope gave no indication that he was sympathetic to the liberations theology that many Latin American churches have espoused.
The pope's speech at the Managua mass was
"For pope."
Needs exceed funds says KUPD director
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
The KU Police Department needs more money to patrol and protect the campus more effectively, the director of KU police said last week.
James Denney, the director, said that his department needed more police officers, better training and staff.
The department needs four or five more officers to have enough officers on patrol at all times, Denney said. Last year, he said, the department averaged 3.5 men on the street at all
RODGER OROKE, WHO divides state funds between facilities operations and KU police, said that the department would have to adjust its own budget to come up with the funds required to hire extra employees. He said the department could also increase that would allow new police officers.
"I think the KU community needs five police officers on patrol," he said. "Our main business is not fighting crime and or evil. Our main business is protecting life first and property second."
FOR 1843, the funds available to KU police were $1,060,000. However, from that amount the department had to give up Gov. John Carlin's 4 percent cut, which amounted to $36,359, Denney
Oroke, director of Support Services, said that the department could expect only a 6 percent increase in its budget for operating expenses and a 4 percent increase in salaries.
Shrinkage is the amount the Kansas Legislature includes in the budget for positions that go unfilled after an employee resigns or is fired.
Because the department does not have enough police officers, Denney said, officers spent too much time actually responding to calls or doing paperwork.
"The age where police officers fight crime with a gun is gone," he said. "Today, police are under attack."
Ideally, Denney said, police officers should spend about 55 percent of their time responding to calls and 45 percent on patrol.
IN 1881, police officers spent only 24 percent of their time on patrol, Demney said.
But Denney said he raised that figure to 34 percent in 1982 by eliminating certain services.
escorted KU employees who carried money from KU concessions or parking to the Kansas Union
to make deposits. He said that he would provide escorts only when a large amount of money was involved.
He also said that officers were no longer routinely assigned to meetings and speeches by the police.
ALTHOUGH officers are spending more time on patrol than they did in 1981. Denney said he did not think that enough officers would be required to respond such as natural disasters or serious crimes.
"If police officers are responding to a call, they need time to disengage from what they are doing before they can respond to an emergency," Denney said.
Denney said the large population of the KU campus was one of the reasons he needed more
However, he said that if police officers were responding to calls only 55 percent of the time, half of the officers on duty would always be able to respond immediately to an emergency.
When the campus is busy, Denney said, as many as 50,00 people are under KU police jurisdiction. He said that the KU community was roughly equivalent to a city of 34,000 people.
BECAUSE OFFICERS are too busy answering calls, requests for police assistance can pile up with the dispatcher, who then assigns priority to the various requests, Denney said.
Because of the large amount of such paperwork that the KU police department must maintain, the department needs a computer badly. Denney said.
The dispatcher received 147,000 calls last year and every call was logged on a card, he said.
Denny said that a computer also would make it much easier to keep important statistics that help the department solve crimes and predict patterns and trends in crime. The department would be able to keep more detailed information with a computer.
"There are two ways to run a police department. One is sort of by a seat-of the pants feeling," he said. "The other is to run it by using an intelligent data base."
A COMPUTER would help maintain that data base. Denney said.
Oroke said he thought the department would get a computer by July.
"We've been asking for one for several years," Donney said.
But he said he did not plan to increase the police department's proportion of the state funds he allocated between the police and facilities operations.
"For every argument that the police department makes that they need funds, facilities operations can make a similar argument," he said.
Takeoff stopped; rat found in food
By United Press International
DALLAS - Passengers aboard a crowded American Airlines DC-10 feared a bomb threat or hijacking because of cockpit commotion, followed by the pilot taxing to a remote area of Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
Most of the passengers, however, were relieved when a flight attendant announced later that the only problem was a rat in a first class that apparently had gotten aboard the plane in a food
"WE WEERE taxing for a takeoff," said one of the passengers. Don Dryson, "Takeoffs and landings are televised throughout the plane on our aircraft." And we noticed a lot of angitation in the cockpit.
"The crew kept looking and behind them, and one crew member jumped up and went out of camera view. Other crew members entered the room, and a decidedly abnormal operation before takeoff.
"Most of us thought it was a bomb or a hijacker when the pilot announced we were going to a remote area of the airport where we could get someone to open the door.
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Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high around 50.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and cooler with a high in the mid- to upper-40s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. There is a 20 percent chance of light rain and winds will be from the northwest at 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the 20s.
Home recorders, copyright fate rests with justices
By JOHNNIE BETH FISCUS Staff Reporter
Once again, technology is in trouble; this time,
the issue is the video cassette recorder. And
again, the consumer is caught in the middle of a
legal struggle.
The "Betamax Case," which questions the legality of taping from television, is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case, dated June 18, but a decision is not expected before June.
Hollywood producers claim that VCRs are robbing them of profits and depriving them of the royalties they deserve each time a copyright work is broadcast.
THE MOTION picture industry wants to put a royalty tax on every new video cassette recorder and every blank tape, said Allan Schlosser. The movie "Recordings Rights Coalition," Washington, D.C.
The coaltion is made up of manufacturers, retailers and consumers who want to protect the rights of people who tape programs on video cassette recorders, he said.
Although the various television markets that buy rights to a movie must pay a royalty tax, consumers who tape with VGIs do not. Some movie companies would such a tax would be unrealistic. Schlosser said.
Manufacturers of VCUs raise a royalty tax is unnecessary because the motion picture industry requires only the lowest possible
IN ADDITION, making the consumer pay the industry again would not be fair. Schlosser said.
"I don't think the American consumer is particularly eager to pay a tax earmarked for them."
But George Rasmussen, assistant professor of journalism, said that taping a show without compensating the producers was unfair.
The best solution would be for Congress to create a royalty tax that would be added to the retail price of VCRs and blank tapes, he said. The revenues from the tax would be distributed by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, a federal agency that distributes royalties to copyright owners.
THIS SOLUTION would be similar to one worked out by composers and lyricists. In that
Several bills to design a similar arrangement for videotaping television programs have been introduced in both houses of Congress. These bills would committee, pending the Supreme Court decision.
arrangement, money is paid to royalty holders through a fund set up by the American Society of Composers, Artists and Performers and also by Broadcast Music Inc.
The Court has the final say on whether video recorders are an infringement of copyright laws, and the Court may order that such records be removed.
Depending on the Supreme Court decision, congress can pass whatever laws it deems necessary.
BECAUSE MANY VCRS are already on the
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Gordon Parks reviews career, speaks on success
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
The 1920s were years when Parks struggled against poverty and was forced to drop out of the Fort Scott high school, he said. At an age when boys must throw away boyish things, he learned to fight the racial slurs of those white men who hated black men.
MORE THAN half a century later, Parks, an accomplished director, photographer and writer, leaned against a lectern on the stage in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union and told about the fights he and other black men waged on rough roads to succes.
Summer dust from each country road in southeast Kansas was soft beneath his feet in those boyhood days of the 1920s. Gordon Parks could remember long rainy days and snow that piled deep during the seasons that changed as he changed.
"It is not yet easy to be born black in this country. America is still a racist nation, and black people are still perplexed when they meet the injustices face to face." he said.
Parks was the main speaker Friday for "The American Dream in Kansas: A Black Perspective," which was funded partly by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities and the KU department of African Studies. Parks spoke to about 500 people.
PARKS SAID countless black writers from the '60s had become dishwashers. Their talents were wasted by people who had tired of reading
about the struggles that troubled blacks had faced
Parks has written several novels, including "The Learning Tree" and "Born Black," and has directed such films as "Flavio" and "Shaft." From 1959 to 1982, he worked as a director in the 1980s and won a Rosenwald Fellowship for his photographs of Chicago's South Side.
"It has come to the point where whites don't want you to write about them," he said, "and they don't want to read any more about blacks. So what's a poor black writer to write about?"
WHILE TAKING photographs in Chicago during the early '40s, he said, he learned that
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the problems that blacks in the city faced seemed more severe than those he had faced as a boy growing up in the country.
Children of the ghetto find drug use an escape, he said, but eventually are destroyed
"I eased the pain of hunger by turning to a mulberry tree or digging a tump from the ground or plucking an apple from a tree," he said when he was a kid. "I only turn to garbagears."
"I was fortunate that the love of my mother and father proved greater than the adversity I faced."
AT 16, Parks left Kansas and headed to New York, where he began a career in photography.
He traveled widely, he said, and discovered during the years that he lived in France that French people did not care about the color of his skin
He said he could have remained an expatriate but decided to return home, where he saw more clearly than ever the intolerances that lived in some people's hearts.
Sometimes he had to drive his family nonstop on trips from one part of the country to another or to sleep in the car, he said. Few motels in those days accepted blacks.
"Integration is a very elusive thing, Parks said. "It has a lot to do with an individual. I don't think in terms of blacks going out and embracing all whites."
SMALL DROPS of perspiration filled the deep lines in his 70-year-old face and a whisk-broom mustache bobbed up and down as he encouraged black members of the audience to understand the emotion of such writers as James Baldwin. But he said they should read Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald as carefully.
"Listen to the music of Duke Ellington and Count Basie but leave room for Mozart and Beethoven." he said.
"Luck comes to all of us," he said. "But if you're not ready, you're not prepared when it comes in your direction, it might as well not come your way."
PARKS REFERRED to Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" and said a person had to remember that decisions made at diverging roads could not be changed.
Gordon Parks, a novelist, director and photographer, was the main speaker Friday for "The American Dream in Kansas; A Black Perspective" in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
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