Vol. 99, No.15 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday September 16, 1988
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
KU's Olympian goin' for the gold
By Mark E. McCormick
Kansan sportswriter
Danny Manning has finally found someone who can effectively guard him.
The Olympic team's security force in Seoul, South Korea.
The former Kan forward's discovery lets his mother, Darnell, rest a little easier.
"They are really heavily guarded." Darnell said. Manning
"Whennever they go out somewhere, they have four or five guards. It's fun, except for the guard's."
With the much anticipated Opening Ceremonies today in Seoul
may come the equally anticipated outbreak of terrorist violence. This possibility meets with the natural disasters of the Manna family.
"I'm disappointed that I didn't get to go." Darnell said. "I just wanted to be there with him."
The Mannings had planned to make the trip to Seoul, but Danny talked them out of it.
"Dan just wanted us to stay," she said. "We'd never get to see him besides in the game, he couldn't talk to him and he said every time he heard something he knew we were safe, here he'll know we're safe."
Now, all Danny has to worry about is the tough international
Parade, protests part of pre-Olympic activities
Please see MANNING. p, 14, col. 1
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of South Korea lined the streets, sat on curbs, stood on rooftops and hung out open windows to watch a two-hour parade that recreated a royal Yi Dynasty parade yesterday in celebration of the Summer Olympic games.
The Olympic tiger mascot ran along the route as beauty contestants, acting as royal princesses,
Nearly 1,580 men in the colorful uniforms of ancient royal officials, palace guards and riders marched in formation, many carrying sword banners and swords.
sat atop motorized carts disguised as sedan chairs. Warriors were on horseback, pick-up trucks were used for hauling equipment and musicians blew coch shells.
However, while other South Koreans celebrated the start of the games, modern day riot police were present in many areas in anti-government demonstration.
The melee began when riot police stopped about 600 students from the campus of A-ju University in Suwon, 25 miles south of Seoul, the Korean news agency Yonhap reported. Four students were taken to prison.
opposing a government ban on what they called legal demonstrations when the Olympic Games open in Seoul on Saturday.
Protesters shouted slogans
Protests during the past week have been small and attracted little support, with the majority of South Koreans and students ignoring demands that the Olympics be shared with communist North Korea to help promote reunification of the divided Korean peninsula.
As the athletes arrived in Seoul, death threats were reported on campus. A teammate of swedish tennis player Mats Wilander, Wilander pulled out over a racquet injury.
injury.
The Olympics may not have Libya when the games open on Saturday, and officials aren't sure whether the absence is because of the boycott in support of North Korea, a mix in arrangements between the two.
Libya's team was told in Tripoli it could not go to Seoul, and it never left the country, sources in Seoul said
In other Olympic developments, the Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer won the right to stage the 1994 Winter Olympics. Anchorage, the host city, was behind Lillehammer's Scandinavian neighbor of Ostersund.
Quayle to speak at fund-raiser in KC
By Terry Bauroth and David Stewart
Kansan staff writers
OVERLAND PARK -- Sen. Dan Woolley would be in fashion on the University of Kagasan campus.
A KU National championship T-shirt and a Kansas sweatshirt were placed in Quayle's room at the Marriott Hotel in Overland Park to welcome the senator to Kansas.
Quayle, the Republican vice presidential candidate, spent the night in Kansas City and will speak at a fund-raiser with the Johnson County Chamber of Commerce this morning.
Quayle spent yesterday afternoon in Wichita and arrived about 6 p.m. at Municipal Airport in
Kansas City, Mo. After a quick welcome by 25 people, he boarded a bus for the Marriott.
While Quayle was in Wichita, he mentioned how much he liked Jayhawk basketball.
"Coming from the state of Indiana, where we think we know how to play basketball. I'm delighted to be in the state of Kansas where they really know how to play basketball," he said.
Tull Simulian, director of marketing for the Marriott, said that the hotel staff had spent about a week researching Quyle's tastes. Sullivan discovered that Quyle liked basketball and left the shirts in
Sullivan said Quavle's stav last night was
intended to be low-kev and restful
About 150 people greeted Quayle with screams and signs that read "Jayhawks for Quayle," "Dan the Man," and one that mocked Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis, "Tax and spend again."
However, it was anything but that from the moment Quatile arrived until he stepped on the road.
However, there were a few protesters among the crowd, who carried signs such as, "Bush Quayle Government of the people, by the privileged and for the rich."
Please see QUAYLE, n, 10, col, 1
Coast readies for Gilbert's arrival
The Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Thousands of coastal residents from Mexico to Louisiana to higher ground yesterday as fierce hurricane Gilbert sent the first of its storms into Puerto Rico thrashing the Yucatan Peninsula.
"This is a killer storm," said Gordie Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency of Manatee for anybody for here wherever his lies.
The death toll from the storm's onslaught through the Caribbean islands and the Yucatan was at least 47, and damage estimates reached $80 million.
By early yesterday evening, the first thunderstorms and showers in the outermost spiral band of the storm had reached southwest Texas.
The weather service issued a hurricane warning for Mexico's northern coast and the southern half of the 750-mile Texas coast from Brownies-to Port O'Connor. A hurricane watch remained in effect for the port, which has been rated Port O'Connor north to Port Arthur near the Louisiana border.
At 8 p.m. CDT, the storm center was about 300 miles southeast of Brownsville, moving west-northwest between 12 and 15 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
The weather service said warnings might be extended northward, depending upon Gilbert's path.
Texas Gov. Bill Clements sent National Guard units to Alice, McAlen and Corpus Christi, the first deployment for the hurricane, to assist in communications and rescue duties
Clements also issued an emergency proclamation allowing local authorities to suspend laws that prohibit safety and welfare of the public.
Bob Sheets, director of the Bureau of Coastal Center, said the son would likely make landfall this afternoon on the northern coast of Mexico or
In Brownville, Texas 's southern city, cites winds to pick up a plane and crash it. Cast skies. Police said they were asking residents to consider evacuating.
"We've never evacuated the city and the point is, where are you going to move 100,000 people?" said Sgt. Dean Poos.
A Greyhound-Trailways bus spokesman said the company was doubling its schedule of outbound buses to accommodate those fleeing
Lorenza Curry, who has lived in Brownsville since 1935, said she plans
Jamaica declared a disaster
The Associated Press
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Edward Scae declared a major section of hurricane-devastated Jamaica a disaster area where were empowered to force stores to quickly avoid shortages.
The area contains more than 1 million of Jamaica's 2.3 million people and embraces four of the island's parishes on the badly hit east coast.
Seaqa said in a nationwide radio broadcast that in the one-month "period of public emergency" "was put into effect" to enable normalcy to resume in the shortest possible time, and the rebuilding process to begin.
Under the emergency regulations, police can force gas stations and all stores selling food, hardware, drugs and fuel to open this morning and all other stores to soon as electricity is available.
At least 26 people were killed when Hurricane Gilbert, the strongest storm this century, swept through Jamaica on Monday, the government run Jamaica officials said. Officials fear the toll will mount as communication is re-established with the interior.
Five people were reported killed in the Dominican Republic and 10 in Haiti, where the military government declared its own state of
Please see JAMAICA, p. 6, col. 4
to ride out the storm. "I've been through them before. I'm going to stick around at my home."
Gilbert silenced the gulf after battering the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with 160 mph winds, forcing tens of thousands to flee.
After crossing the peninsula, Gullibert's winds weakened to 120 mph, but forecasters predicted the storm would move as it moves over next water.
"The showers and thunderstorms that we see taking place around the planet are being organized, more vigorous, so we think it's starting to strengthen."
Sheets said the hurricane's sus
Please see GILBERT. p. 6. col. 6
Debt payment due before enrollment
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
Students who think they may never get caught for an unpaid parking ticket or library fire will soon be unpleasantly surprised.
About 6,000 bills will be mailed to KU students next week requiring them to pay the fines before the new hold process begins during early enrollment in October. The hold process requires holding the registration step in January.
Students will receive a notice with the bill which states: "You are expected to pay in full the amount due on the enclosed bill by Oct. 3."
the bills are not paid, those students will chance sacrificing early enrollment.
Holds are caused by overdue financial obligations to the University such as housing payments, parking tickets and fines at Watey Library.
Students who do not pay the bill in fall by July 3. Omit a find a statement on their enrollment card when they to go to school enroll. Early enrollment begins in October when students have enrollment cards and go through advising.
Students who have a hold must obtain a validation stamp, or receipt, on their enrollment card and submit it to Clyne O'Laugherty Lary Hall. A student who has incurred any additional charges since the first hold will have to pay those charges as well.
"I would guess that about 200 students will have holds," said Gary
Thompson, director of student records.
He predicted such a low figure because most students will be expecting the bill and will pay it before it becomes a problem.
Thompson said the change was one of the first steps of upgrading the enrollment procedure at KU and is part of the University's long term plan to improve its services. Thompson's own goal is to get rid of the entire registration step at KU
Gary Laws, a systems coordinator for the comproller, said that having holds during early enrolment is an advantage. But it is that it is gang to work well.
"We want to find a better way to do it than have students come back a week early and stand in line at the Union." Thompson said.
Student numbers will be scanned,
Laws said, and then there will be a statement on how much the student owes and how much he has paid.
"It makes the system run much more smoothly," Laws said.
Thompson said he guesses that about 10 students will not be able to early enroll because of holds.
"Those aren't going to be the students who owes $5 because of a late book." Thompson said. "These are students who have substantial bills."
Living dangerously
Davet Rrandt/KANRAN
A student is dressed for the weather in an appropriately worded shirt. There is a 30 percent chance of rain today.
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