University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1983
Page 3
Activists unite at newsletter benefit
Bv ANNE FITZGERALD
By ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Reporter
The benefit Friday, sponsored by Praxis, a campus newsletter, had all the trappings of a full-blown banquet; food galore, speakers promoting their causes, tables of literature and an award with an acceptance speech.
But this was no ordinary banquet.
About 120 people representing causes from human rights in Iran to nuclear disarmament gathered at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave, to support Praxis and to their concern for world injustices.
Praxis, which means the application of thought or theory, reflects the ideas of various campus and community organizations.
TOPICS COVERED in the most recent issue includes U.S. foreign policy issues.
Su Shafer, assistant instructor of sociology, said that in publishing Praxis, they had learned that there was a need to find ideas of ideas at the University of Kansas.
The banquet marked the first time so many local progressive groups joined for an evening in support of Praxis, organizers said.
clothes were reminiscent of the 1960s. One man were faded overalls with an enormous flower tucked in the bib. Another one had a bandana tied around his head; others wore their long hair in ponytails.
Representatives for Latin American Solidarity, the Iranian Student Association, the KU Committee on South Africa, Spinners Books and the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice spoke at the dinner. The crowd was of a wide variety; people wanted to learn about others' causes.
Not only their causes, but their
Global issues such as exploitation of the Third World, human rights and nuclear proliferation were the order of business.
"EVERYONE THAT was involved was really pleased," said Allan Atkinson, Norman, Okla., graduate student. "It's hard to feel like a minority sometimes. It's invigorating and a relief to realize that there are others."
Aikinson said Praxis developed from the need of a number of activist groups to coordinate their efforts. The news about the arrest seven times since it began a year ago.
Grenade explodes in embassy
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — A hand grenade exploded yesterday in the courtyard of the West German Embassy on the 50th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the city's police chief said.
No one was injured.
was injured.
The blast occurred despite beeted-up security around the three-story embassy in the quiet residential neighborhood in an exclusive area of Tel Aviv, said Aravham Turgeman, police chief.
A Romanian-born Israeli standing near the embassy said, "After 50 years, someone has given them a reminder."
The incident took place as Israel Television screened a report from West Germany on ceremonies at the Reichstag building, the occasion of the Hitler anniversary.
DURING THAT ceremony, Germans were urged never to forget the horrors of the Nazi past.
Willy Brandt, Social Democrat Party leader and former chancellor said, "I say to all young people distrust all those who invite us to forge our history or flatter us. The danger lies in silence, which would provide hiding for the guilty and rob us of the weapons we need to make a future.
"To forget would be to fundamentally damage our future."
Chancellor Helmut Kohl said, "We are moved with grief for the victims, the cities and the countries laid waste, the murdered, the martyred, the fallen grief over the damage to European nation about the divided German nation."
The official press agency ADN in East Germany said that in East Berlin, thousands of East Germans led by Communist Party chief Erich Honcker remembered the anniversary by raising a coffin for victims of fascism and the 50 million dead of World War II on the memorial on the main street, Unter Den Linden.
In Jerusalem yesterday, Israelis held a simple memorial service commemorating the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Nazi Holocaust.
PRESIDENT YITZHAK NAVON,
addressing the assembly, said memories of the Holocaust should help to eliminate racial tensions in Israel.
Histor was appointed German chancellor Jan. 30, 1933, and shortly afterward his Nazi Party began a campaign against German Jews that escalated into the attempt to exterminate all European Jews.
The Israeli president said Jews had two obligations in the wake of the attack.
First, he said, they should multiply their numbers because one-third of the Jewish people were slaughtered during World War II.
"Second, is to strengthen the state of Israel, which is the symbol of everything Hitler would like to destroy," Navon said.
SenEx 'lacks clout' with state
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
Members of the University Senate Executive Committee, frustrated by their lack of clout in state budget decisions, said at their meeting Friday that they thought students were being used to damage the Kansas Legislature than they did.
Ernest Angino, ex officio member of SenEnX, said student lobbying groups such as the Associated Students of Kansas had more claw with the State's senate.
Angino said students should carefully use this clout to push important issues. He criticized ASK's efforts against proposed legislation to raise the drinking age in Kansas, calling it a waste of lobbying power.
"That just doesn't sell a bushel of potatoes over there." he said.
GERALD MIKKELSON, SenEx member, asked whether SenEx
should try to wield more influence by meeting more often with the Board of Reensits about budget matters.
Angino said that faculty should go to the budget meetings, if only to give first-hand accounts of the effects of budget decisions.
"They really don't know what's going on down in the trenches," Angino said.
But SenEx member Charles Kahn said he thought faculty members would never have time to become so well-versed in the budget that they
"You can be an observer," he said. "But any wish to influence budget decisions is more of a philosophical desire."
KAHN SAID HE thought administrators let faculty members attend budget hearings mainly to make faculty think they were participating in decisions, although the faculty's actual influence was slight.
Tom Berger, SenEx member and Lawrence graduate student, said
SenEx committees had little time to really understand budget matters.
"The data that goes into the budget just boggles your mind," he said.
blerger, who is vice-chairman of the SenEx Planning and Resources Committee, said he was amazed at the time needed to work on a budget.
ANGINO SAID SenEx had discussed in the past a budget committee whose members would stay on for three years instead of one.
Berger said the yearly turnover of SenEx committee members also made it difficult to work with the budget. He said each new committee budget information that had taken the previous committee a year to learn.
In other business, SenEx decided to wait until March 1 for opinions on a program discontinuance policy it sent two weeks ago for review to Deanell Korsik. The senex also recruited affairs, Francis Heller, professor of law, and three SenEx committees.
Senator`condemns proposed freeze
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
a freeze would affect state employees including KU faculty.
A local legislator yesterday condemned a suggestion by two state Republican leaders to freeze the wages of state employees, including those who work at the University of Kansas.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said statements made by Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, and House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Rowley, did not represent his attitude toward a state pay freeze.
Doyen and Hayden said House and Senate Republicans supported a wage freeze to help tighten the budget. Such
HAYDEN, WHO has advocated tax increases to balance the budget, seemingly changed his position Thursday with his talk of budget
Winter said he thought the statements were merely trial balloons by the Republican leaders to test Gov. John Carlin's proposed programs and did not represent the prevailing attitude of the Legislature.
Although the wage freeze suggestion could be introduced into the Legislature, Winter said, such a bill would be irresponsible.
Carlin Friday said the state had to have the 4 percent salary increase he had proposed for state employees to keep its employees.
JAMES SEAVER, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said he was not reassured by Carlin's stand against Doyen and said he was already discouraged by the proposed 4 percent pay increase.
"It would be devastating to faculty and classified employees;" he said.
Suzanne Cupp, acting president of the KU Classified Senate, said she thought the talk of a wage freeze was against Carlson's tax coverage.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton,
D-Lawrence, said, "It's political
posturing. It's partisan rhetoric."
EFFECTIVE LISTENING
February 7 and 9
Two Class Sessions
9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Register and pay $10 materials fee at the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall.
--second pair additional.
HAWK'S NEST 9:00 am-3:30 pm M/F KANSAS UNION LEVEL 2
FEBRUARY SPECIALS
MONDAY
Double Cheeseburger
French Fries
12 oz. Fountain Drink-Blue Cup $2.55
Chili Dog
Onion Rings
12 oz. Fountain Drink-Blue Cup $1.65
Soup w/2 Packages Crackers
Small Tossed Salad
12 oz. Fountain Drink-Blue Cup $1.50
TUESDAY
BBQ Sandwich Bag of Chips 12 oz. Fountain Drink-Blue Cup $1.90
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY
Fish Sandwich
French Fries
Small Shake $1.75
Also featuring our own Bakery Buns.
--second pair additional.
the GRAMOPHONE
shop
842 1811 ASK FOR STATION +6
$299 each in case of 10 KIEF'S DISCOUNT RECORDS & STEREO
913. 842 1544 25TH & IOWA-HOLIDAY PLAZA 913.842 1544
1422·W.23rd St.
COO RECORDS
2 PAIR OF GLASSES FOR THE PRICE OF 1
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
* Arnold Palmer
* McFadden
LOOK INTO FASHION. COME IN TO HUTTON OPTICAL AND GET ACQUAINTED. WE HAVE THE LENSES YOU NEED WITH THE FRAMES YOU WANT. GET TWO PAIR OF GLASSES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE.
- Oleg Cassini
- Anthony Martin
- Jordache
Bring in your prescription and save, pay full price on a pair of high fashion glasses and get a second pair of single vision glasses for free. Multifocus on the second pair additional
PICK OUT ANY ALBUM IN THE STORE AND PAY
THE FULL PRICE FOR IT, DO WHATEVER YOU
WANT WITH IT, BUT BRING IT BACK WITHIN 24
HOURS IN THE SAME CONDITION AND YOU'LL BE
REFUNDED EVERYTHING BUT THE RENTAL
PRICE—USUALLY $1.50 OR $2.00. THE CONDI-
TION OF ALL RECORDS IS GUARANTEED. WE
ALSO HAVE THE LOWEST BLANK TAPE PRICES IN
TOWN (NOT COINCIDENTALLY!)
Sale ends February 19, 1983
Boutique frames excluded
NO SPECIAL ORDER FRAMES
842-5208
OPTICAL CO.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
841-0256
RENT-A-RECORD
Sat. 10-2
742 Mass.
Mon.-Fri. 10-5
We start with sizzling hot flame-broiled beef.
We add fresh tomato, crispy lettuce, crunchy onion—and other tasty fixins. And then we serve it just the way you want it.
Jan. 31st thru Feb. 6th
Whopper Sandwiches® 99¢ EACH (no limit)
Please present this coupon before ordering.
Not to be used with other coupons or offers. Void where prohibited by law.
Good only at:
1301 W.23rd St. Lawrence, Ks.
---
Burger King/Whopper-Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off. ©1982 Burger King Corporation