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University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1963
News Briefs From United Press International
Truckers' strike, violence roll into their second week
Independent truck drivers, wheeling their big rigs through snowstorms in the East and bitter cold in the Midwest, yesterday began a second week of dodging rocks and bullets, with the strike's end nowhere in sight.
nowhere in sight.
Since the strike began there have been at least 570 shootings and 1,693 outrages of violence and vandalism. A trucker has been killed in North Carolina, 89 other people have been injured and police have made 119 arrests.
The strike by the Independent Truckers Association to pressure Congress, into rolling back price increases in fuel taxes and road-use fees caused some fresh food shortages and higher prices in metropolitan areas.
areas. The Agriculture Department's Transportation Office said, however, that, generally, the strike had not hurt food distribution across the nation.
"There is an adequate supply of trucking capacity and minimum delays in transportation in perishables, including fluid milk, fresh meat, poultry, seafood, cut flowers, and fruits and vegetables," Martin Fitzpaltz, agency director, said.
GM records profit despite sales drop
DETROIT — Despite an 8 percent drop in worldwide sales, General Motors Corp. announced yesterday it made $962.7 million in 1982, nearly triple the $333 million profit earned in 1981.
triple the $335 million profit due in 1987.
The No.1 automaker credited the profit to efforts to reduce costs and increased income from its financing and insurance operations and federal tax credits.
10. 4X The profit is GM's largest since 1979, when it earned $2.83 billion. It lost $762.5 million in 1980.
lost $62.5 million in 1980.
GM said the profit was equal to earnings of $3.09 per share, up from
$1.07 per share in 1981. The profit was right in line with predictions of
analysts who expected GM to make about $1 billion for the year.
analysis who expected cor to make about GM was the first automaker to report its 1982 earnings. Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. are expected to release their statements next week.
Agreement with EPA head sought
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has no plans to prosecute Environmental Protection Agency chief Anne Gorsuch for contempt of Congress and wants to work out an arrangement involving the secret papers at issue in the case, a top official said yesterday.
At issue is Gorsach's refusal to turn over documents concerning her agency's efforts to clean up hazardous waste dumps.
agency's efforts to clean up hazardous waste dump sites.
Meanwhile, President Reagan yesterday fired EPA official Rita Lavelle, who, facing two congressional investigations, fought Gorsuch's orders to resign.
Gorsuch ordered a guard posted outside Lavelle's office yesterday while her fate was determined. Then the locks on the doors were changed to secure critical files on toxic waste cases — many of which are the same papers Congress is seeking from Gorsuch.
Reagan ties re-election to economy
WASHINGTON  President Reagan for the first time yesterday tied his decision on whether to seek re-election to the state of the economy.
When Reagan was asked whether the lack of a recovery would be a guideline on his decision about seeking a second term in 1984, he said, "Yes. I would think that would be — If there's no recovery, obviously that would be a sign."
would be a sign.
As for stories suggesting he is not in control at the White House, the president said. "I've got a doll in my desk I stick pins into when I read them."
He insisted he made all final policy decisions.
He insisted he made an effort to help. The president said he was confused by some of the polls assessing his performance, saying the results depended on how the questions were asked.
Lawvers reject new codes of conduct
NEW ORLEANS — The policy-making body of the nation's largest lawyers group rejected new ethical rules yesterday that would have required attorneys to blow the whistle on clients to protect the public from fraud or financial harm.
The American Bar Association's House of Delegates, following an intense debate, refused to accept changes in the Code of Professional Responsibility that sanctioned breaking client confidence in certain circumstances.
circumstances.
Opponents of the change argued it would turn attorneys into policemen, while supporters said lawyers must be willing to step forward to head off crime if they are to maintain the public's respect
Under the proposal, which died on a 207-129 vote, a lawyer would have been called on to violate the traditional lawyer-client privilege in certain cases.
St. Helens land brings offer of $540
SEATTLIT — How much is a square inch of Mount St. Helens worth? Land promoter Wallace McCulley sold 2,500 square inches of the mountain property at $20 a square inch until the government condemned the land for a national monument.
condemned that the government now wants to pay him $540 for all his property, 17,000 square feet, which McCullay is worth millions.
square feet, which MD McCulley, 42, formed a corporation called Mount St. Helenes Volcanic Guide Service Inc. following the 1980 eruption, and had bought two mountain lots that were buried under about 450 feet of volcanic debris.
In the midst of the controversy, lava oozed out of a 250-foot wide hole in the dome inside the volcano's crater yesterday, forcing evacuation of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crew.
Last of Soviet satellite incinerated
WASHINGTON — The months-long saga of a derellect Spy spy satellite came to a fiery first yesterday when its nuclear core and fuel vaporized in the atmosphere over a remote area of the South Atlantic, the Pentagon said yesterday.
the Payload and final chunk of the satellite, estimated at weighing up to 1,000 pounds, was incinerated by the time it reached a point about 1,000 miles east of Brazil, officials said, relaying information from space trackers at the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
A Pentagon spokesman said, "We assume it has re-entered the atmosphere and burned harmlessly."
atmospheric air in Moscow. Soviet officials declined any immediate comment on U.S. report that the reactor had burned up.
reports that the request was not up. "You will have to wait for any announcement," said a spokesman for the official Tass news agency.
Bolivia hopes expulsion will help image
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian officials say they hope the expulsion of accused Naif war criminal Klaus Barbie will close a chapter on the country's image as a haven for right-wing international frugives.
By United Press International
The decision to expel the former Gestapo chief in Lyon, France, was also a risky one for President Hernan Siles Zuaro.
will be tried against them.
However, six groups representing victims of Nazi atrocities yesterday filed suit against Barbie and politicians called for restoration of the death penalty for crimes against humanity.
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Barbie now is in jail in the French city. He previously was sentenced to death but the death penalty has been abolished in France since then and he will be tried again.
Long, demanding Barbie's extra-
dition, France probably will intensify its campaign in Europe to convince Common Market countries to provide economic aid to Bolivia, which is one of the most acute foreign exchange shortages.
FRANCOIS LEOTARD, leader of the opposition Republican Party, urged Parliament to restore the death penalty for crimes against humanity. The penalty was abolished in 1981 by President Francis Mitterrand's Socialist government.
UNTIL SILES became president last October as many as 400 former maiz may have lived in Bolivia, joined in recent years by Italian, French and Argentine right-wing terrorists, mercenaries and drug traffickers.
caries and lesions. Barbie, 70, often was identified as their ringleader, allegedly organizing fellow fugitives into paramilitary torture and death squads that worked for Bolivian dictators.
Bolivia's expulsion of Barbie Friday was carried out in secrecy, with interior ministry officials going at lengths to deceive journalists.
Pierre Escorbia, Montluc prison director, said Barbie spent his second day in prison under close surveillance of special wards of a possible suicide attempt.
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BARBIE, called "The Butcher of Lyon" for his alleged hand in the deaths of thousands of Jews and resistance
Nazi occupation victims and families of victims filed six civil suits against Barbie. Two suits charged he sent 41 Jewish children from a refugee dormitory in eastern France to their deaths inuschwitz concentration camp in Poland
fighters during World War II, also was isolated to prevent assassination attempts.
The suit said 41 French Jewish children quartered in a refugee dormitory in the village of Izieu were arrested on Barbie's orders April 6, 1944 and all were shipped to their location at the Auschwitz camp in Poland.
In Paris, families of two children killed in Nazi concentration camps filed suit against Barbie for crimes against humanity.
IN AMSTERDAM, a spokesman for the Netherlands War Documentation Institute said Raribie sent 300 Dutch soldiers to Germany during the summer of 1941.
Court officials said Barbie could be tried only under civil suits. His war crimes were ruled out because the
In the United States, the Justice Department yesterday filed suit to revoke the citizenship of a 72-year-old man government attorneys said helped the Nazi's slaughter hundereds of Ukrainian Jews during World War I.
The suit seeks to revoke the citizenship of a Mykola Schuk, of Northampton, Pa., described as a native of Texas, and the district of Gordisholic, Ukraine.
SCHUK CAME to the United States in 1947 and became an American citizen in 1961, according to the suit filed in U.S. court by the Justice Department.
The suit alleges that Schuk, before coming to the United States, concealed from authorities that he had been a member of a police force set up by Nazi occupation forces in his native district in the Ukraine.
Senate committee to consider Burger's call for special court
The suit said that when he applied for an immigration visa to come to U.S. Schuk hilf claimed he had been born in Stolin, Poland, lived there until 1943 and had engaged in forced labor for the Nazis from 1943 until May 1945
military, courts and the death sentence no longer exist in France.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday promised prompt, sympathetic consideration of Chief Justice Warren Burger's call for an experimental court to ease the work load of the Supreme Court.
Burger told delegates to the American Bar Association convention that the high court was overloaded with cases that could be relieved by a special court of appeals.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., however, said his first priority was to straighten the collapsed bankruptcy court system.
drawn from the ranks of appeals court judges, would resolve disputes between the 12 Circuit Courts of Appeals on an experimental basis for five years.
THE NEW COURT, with members
Burger, in a speech Sunday in New Orleans, said he offered the suggestion "to provoke ... a vigorous debate and discussion."
Sen. Howell Helfin, D-Ala., former chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court, already has introduced legislation to accomplish that, an aide said. And Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., chairman of a judiciary subcommittee on the Justice Department, introduce a similar bill Monday and hold hearings on it later this month.
dated during the past few years, and a special panel — which would hear cases assigned to it by the high court — would help substantially in reducing the burden on the justices."
"I agree with the chief justice that the need is there," Dole said. "The Supreme Court docket has been inun-
But Rodino said, "The singlestem immediate face facing the federal judiciary . . . is the disarray in our bankruptcy courts. Before considering any other judicial matters, Congress must fashion a constitutionally sound bankruptcy court system. When that is done perhaps then we can take up Chief Justice Burger's proposal."
A new system of bankruptcy courts set up by Congress in 1978 was declared unconstitutional last year by the Supreme Court because its judges were not given the same protections as other federal judges.
Newsman will speak at banquet
Burt Killtz, co-anchorman for the CBS Morning News, will speak at the 11th Annual Banquet for Higher Education on Feb. 26.
Kurtis, who is a graduate of the KU School of Journalism, will talk about his work and the future of high schools in *m* in the Union Railroad.
ART FARMER, assistant director for student activities and organizations, said Kurtis was invited to speak at the banquet because of his knowledge of world affairs and because he is an alumnus.
"He should have some interesting things to say about the world, as it is, because he is right in the middle of many events," Farmer said.
Nurses say low pay keeps men from joining field
Staff Reporter
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Terry Schreiber, a registered nurse at the Med Center, said the low salaries in nursing would, in the future, discourage men from becoming nurses.
Male nurses are still far outnumbered by female nurses and will probably remain in the minority unless salaries for nurses increase, male nurses at the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday.
SCHREIBER said that because he was single, he could make it financially, but that if he wanted to maintain a family in reasonable income, advance to hospital administration or to a more specialized type of nursing.
He said that most men in nursing tended to go into higher-paying fields, such as nurse anesthesia, which would require two and a half years of schooling in addition to a bachelor of science degree in nursing.
Rita Clifford, director of the School of Nursing, said that the status of a nurse in society was not as high as those of many other health professions, which sometimes discouraged men from becoming nurses.
last year Chancellor Gene A. Budig requested that more male students be admitted to the School of Nursing.
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Clifford said that 7 percent of the junior nursing class and 5 percent of the senior nursing class was male and that she had 23 of the school's 260 applications for next fall were from men.
Schreiber also said public stereotypes contributed to the lack of males in nursing.
CLIFFORD SAID there has been a slight increase in male applications this year, but that no steps were taken to recruit male students.
The public's perception of male nurses is that they are effeminate, he said.
"A lot of men want to become mres," she said, "but they are afraid."
HE SAID it did not matter to him what people thought about his profession. However, he said, much of the blame was on friends and family members had been positive.
family members.
"Most patients, when you tell them you're a nurse, will say there should be more male nurses," he said.
Ken Ranum, also a registered nurse at the Med Center, said people tended to underestimate the highly technical qualifications of a nurse.
Students said many of the problems were caused more by their perception of themselves than by the perceptions of others.
Martin Kinsman, Kansas City, Kan., seni der, said he felt misplaced as a man in a woman's profession.
He said that he had not had problems with other people, but that he did not feel comfortable being identified as a nurse.
"It doesn't bother some people and it didn't bother me in the beginning," he said. "I guess I'm less idealistic now."
KINSMAN, whose wife and brother are also studying nursing, said he did not know whether he would work as a nurse once he gets his degree.
Terry Schreiber, registered nurse at the University of Kansas Medical Center, answers the phone at the emergency room desk. Schreiber is among the few male nurses on the Med Center staff.
Jey Huffey, Kansas City, Mo., junior,
said he had been stereotyped by female
nursing students and was expected to
fulfill the male role.
the said.
Huyett said several of the female students were wary of having a male around during hygienic exercises, such as when the students learn bathe the patients.
"They'll say, 'There's a 300-pound man. Let's get Jeff to help move her,' " he said.
He also said that all texts were in the female perspective and that everything was geared toward females.
Tom Shirk, Overland Park senior another male nursing student and an officer in the Navy, said an all-female
environment could create mental blocks.
HE ALSO said a lot of male nursing students tended to be older than the rest of the class, and that because of age they commanded more respect from the rest of the students.
Officials defend computer curriculum
By SALLY JOY OMUNDSON
Staff Reporter
KU officials defended the University's computer science programs yesterday, after a recruiter last week said the department was too theoretical and not sufficiently career oriented.
Michael Wiggins, a recruiter for Mutual of Omaha, Omaha, Neb., said that smaller universities, such as Emporia State University and Wichita State University, had more detail in their courses than KU and that their students were more likely to find jobs with his and other companies.
WIGGINS SAID the University should change the curriculum to emphasize more strongly computer training in the School of Business and business training in the computer science department.
He said his company would no longer
recruit at KU if the school did not make those changes.
University officials, however, said yesterday that both the School of Business and the computer science department adequately trained KU students for competition in the job market.
market. They said that although some KU students had more difficulty finding their first job compared to students from trade and technical schools, who might have more on the job training, KU students probably would advance higher in the company.
cost advantages in hiring people who needed little immediate training
DAVE SHULENBURGER, associate professor of business and director of undergraduate programs for the School of Business, said that both undergraduate and graduate business administration students were required to take a computer science course.
Shulenburger said some companies might now be looking for people with more experience because of short-run
It is almost impossible, he said, to complete a business degree with a computer science emphasis in four years.
needed in business. Business administration students are permitted to concentrate in computer science, he said, but problems with the degree concentration prevent many students from enrolling in the program.
IN ADDITION, he said, many students entered the program only to become frustrated because some of the required courses were not offered every semester or were offered at limited times.
BOTH COMPUTER science graduates and business students with a
Victor Wallace, chairman of the computer science department, said he thought that KU students received a good education from the department and that course offerings prepared students for employment.
computer science, background have little trouble finding a job, he said.
John Tollefson, dean of the School of Business, said that although he thought KU business students were sufficiently prepared for employment, the school should look for ways to improve its computer training.
"if we fail to move at this time while other institutions are moving in this direction," he said, "in the future our students may be disadvantaged."
HE SAID that the school wanted to expand computer science training for its students, but discussion of how to do that and financial problems made a specific date for improvement hard to predict.
Ed Evans, market manager for Homewell, Kansas City, Mo., said that his company was more likely to hire academically well-rounded students than students from schools that concentrated more on teaching a trade
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