The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, October 12, 1981 Vol. 92, No.36 USPS 650-640
Federal probe may mandate grant return
By PENNI CRABTREE Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas could be forced to return thousands of dollars to the federal government as a result of an investigation into a KU professor's alleged misuse of research grants, several KU and federal officials said last week.
A final investigative report, the culmination of a five-year probe by the National Institutes of Health into charges that KU anthropology professor Michael Crawford missent federal funding for research, released soon, Francis Horowitz, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies said Friday.
"The University hasn't officially received the report, but we expect to within two weeks." Herowitz said. We will conduct its own investigation for our committee and evidence are presented by the NIH report."
The investigation was prompted by a complaint made by two of Crawford's graduate students.
THE STUDENTS, Liz Murray and Nancy Mempoliis, charged that Crawford had misappropriated federal grant money and used imitations of the trip to the Central American country of Belize.
The charges made by the two graduate students sparked several federal, KU and professional association investigations. Two witnesses, both at the federal level, are still underway.
Murray and Sempalski were named as defending champion for 5 million slander suit filed by Congolese players.
According to a Washington Post article
Friday, a draft of an NIH report obtained by a
See GRANTS page 5
Lansing inmate stabs, kills guard
By United Press International
LANSING-A Lansing State Pentitentiary innate apparently angered about a disciplinary report a prison guard was going to file, stabbed and killed the guard yesterday, prison officials
rspokeswoman Linda Moffin said Robert Duane Hurd, 41, died early yesterday afternoon from stab wounds received in an alleged assault by Mark Osborne, a prisoner serving a life sentence for assorted convictions in Siedlewang, among aggravated kidnapping, solomy and rape.
Hurd, from Öathe, had two major wounds, one between the neck and shoulder and another in an arm. He was also hit by a bullet.
Obserne then went to his cell, but returned to the guard and assaulted him, according to Mefei.
Moffin said the alleged assault happened about 1:50 p.m., about 10 minutes before Hurd was to go off duty in cellblock B. Hurd, according to Moffin, told Osborne to lock himself in his cell. The two then argued and Hurd threatened to write a disciplinary report on the incident.
An officer about 20 feet away ran to Hurd's assistance and the assailant fled the scene, Moffin said. The assisting officer then sounded the alarm and Osborne was apprehended shortly afterward with a homemade knife in his possession.
Hurd was transported to a Leavenworth hospital where he died about an hour later.
Moffin said Osborne would be charged with first-degree murder today in Leavenworth.
Weather
RAIN
It will be mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers today, according to the National Weather Service's high will be in the mid to upper 80s.
In the lake
Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 per-
cent chance of rains. The low will be
around 60.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with the high in the upper 60s and the low around 60.
Peter Haack, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hack, Lawrence, grips his umbrella as he watches the Homecoming Day parade along Jayhawk Boulevard Friday afternoon.
Kassebaum justifies first-strike power
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
Advocating a peace through power strategy.
Nen, Nancy Landau Kassbeen, R-Kan., said yesterday that President Reagan's recent comments about the Iraq war signaled a new era in the nuclear arms debate.
Kassebaum, who was the keynote speaker for the second annual Conference on International Relations at KU, said that by gaining a firsthand understanding of how could develop a base from which to negotiate.
"I's important to have a strong, sound defense system, because we can't negotiate with nothing." Kassaebaum told an audience of about 150 in the Kansas Union.
THE MX MISSILE program, proposed by
BANDAFIT of a new $180 billion strategic
building
Rainy day
Some of the MX missiles may be deployed in reinforced Titan II silos in Kansas, Arkansas and Arizona beginning in 1986, an action which Kassebaum favors.
"This new era doesn't need to be a commutation of the arms rather potential for an interoperable initiative."
"It was, it was, we weren't getting anywhere with the TI H talks, because the Russians were so far ahead," said Scott. "It was all about the distance."
Kassaeum admitted that it might sound ridiculous to "build up in order to tear down," but that was the only choice the United States bad
"Starting to talk about winning nuclear wars is better than talking about losing them - no one
likes to talk about nuclear arms but we have to confront it."
If the Soviets refuse to negotiate even after the United States has started to build up a first-strike ability, Kassebaum said she would "sketch that scene after they refuse."
There is a chance that the arms race might accelerate without any meaningful limitation talks, Kassbaum said, but that is a chance the United States must take.
"It's just like a poker game, . . . you don't necessarily trust the people you play poker with, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't sit down and see what's at stake."
The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat *tipped the balance*' but that was not her only reason deciding to support the AWACS sale. 'We asked to cough out to Arbutheu.'
IN A PRESS conference earlier in the day,
Kassbaum commented on her recent decision to
support Reagan's plan to sell Airborne Warning
and Control System jets to Saudi Arabia.
"Besides, the Saudis could buy similar planes from other countries."
Kassebaum warned "there is some danger in any of us trying to construct the worst possible scenario, if we start with what we think is the worst, then we are already down the road."
The United States needs to pour money into its defense system now because it had deteriorated for so long after the Vietnam War, she said.
But Kassebaum said that just funneling money into the defense budget was not the solution.
Kassebaum said that because defense had deteriorated while some educational programs, such as the guaranteed student loan program
See KASSEBAUM page 5
Kassebaum receives post-graduate 'A'
Staff Reporter
By TERESA RIORDAN
Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kan., got a passing grade yesterday—at least from one of her former KU professors.
"She was very clear, didn't jump to conclusions and is not above changing her mind," said Walter Sandelius, professor emeritus of political science.
"I would like to talk to her about reducing the climate of conflict as well as increasing the climate of hope in the nuclear arms race," he said.
"She's on the right course as far as the AWACS go, though."
ragstrip provides thrills, fast entertainment
Staff Reporter
By JOE REBEIN
As the cars pair up the ritual begins.
Water is poured behind the tires and the drivers "burnout" by spinning their tires until they stop.
The burnout leaves the tires more pliable and better able to hug the track at the start of the race.
TWO CARS move up to the starting line. It's Lawrence driver Rod Urish against Olaite driver Dad Finders. The "Christmas tree," a multicolored staging light restrains the drivers at the line until the green light frees them for a six second dash down the drack.
Finders has the handcap against Urish and he takes off first in an ear-deafening roar. Urish at the line for a split second before the too heets down the Tarmac track toward the finish line.
It's a close race with both cars coming smoothly off the line.
Hundreds of people run toward the end of the raceway shouting that one of the cars wrecked. The mad dash carries the crowd to where Urish's car less crumpled in a newly planted wheat field.
But screams from the crowd signal that something has gone wrong.
It's Saturday night at Lawrence Dragway.
Urish is already out of the car, holding his brushed shoulder and looking at what used to be on his lap.
"What happened Rod, the car screw up?" someone asks Urish.
"Nah, it was my fault, I put on the brakes too hard at the end and it swung out of control," she said. "and could do was hold on to the steering wheel and say. Here we go as the car slid off the track."
A CROWD of 1,500 people has turned out at the dragstrip two miles west of Lawrence to
Monday Morning
watch Urish and Finders and 190 other racers
from North Carolina race for a $1,000 price-price.
Urish's 140 mph carnival ride was something the crowd had not expected.
"As soon as he got along side of me, I could tell him was out of control. Finders said after the crash that he had been drunk."
The cars rolled onto the race track, christened with such names as Fat Albert, Stainless and Steer and Chevrolet.
Some were back-engine dragsters, long rail cars with large balloon-like tires and motors that belched blue flames.
Most of the cars, however, were street cars — Camaros, Vegas and Pintos with beefed up, large horsepower motors, roll cages and heavy-duty transmissions.
THE TIME TRIALS earlier in the day had separated the cars into three classes: Street Eliminators, which cover the eighth-mile track in zero to 7.75 seconds; Super Streets with times of 8 to 9.5 seconds; and the Selecta division for cars that just come in off the street.
After Urish's car was towed off the track, the races continued.
In the pits, a grassy area south of the track, hundreds of racers and spectators stood watch.
Beer seems to be the common denominator among the racers, with tool boxes and beer coolers sitting side by side.
Walking through the pits, contrasting racing sytles can be seen. Some competitors have $20,000 to $30,000 race cars with rolling workshops. Others have spent only a few hundred dollars to make their cars more competitive.
See RACES page 5
A dragster speeds from the starting line at the Lawrence Dragway. Races are held Saturday nights at the track, located about two miles west of Lawrence.
Jerek Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, said he agreed with the senator's sentiment but questioned the need to build up American nuclear power.
Other professors, who were not around when he started his student, still had commentary to offer on her speech.
"This is getting to a vicious circle ... I am
going to start a nuclear war. The U.S. is foolish
enough to start a nuclear war."
"We're already capable of destroying each other several times."
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said he did not believe that American nuclear forces were inferior to Soviet arms, as K萨基堡 had implied.
He said there was no sense in building up the overkill from five times to six times just to sit down and talk about going back to capability of wiring it out four times.
"I do support the necessity for negotiation," he said.
"We have to open up talks and decrease nuclear weapons as quickly as possible. The arms race doesn't lead to anything. How many times can you destroy each other?"
"It all comes to a rough equivency or parity... no one has a first strike capability."
Ketzel also said he thought SA17 'I was not a loss although it was a popular failure that it bled'
NASA clears KU paraphernalia for Columbia trip
Staff Reporter
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
When the space shuttle Columbia rockets into outer space Nov. 4 with astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly guiding the flight, some surprise treasures will also be making the journey.
Col. Engle said yesterday that several items have been approved for the trip.
INCLUDED AMONG the privileged assignment will be a KU flag, a KU hat and a KU pen and pencil set, which Engle will return to the University as memosets of his space flight, said Richard Wintermote, director of the Alumni Association.
"We sent them down to NASA several weeks ago," Wintermote said yesterday. "He (Engle) asked us if we had something he could take with him and return as a memento."
THE KU paraphernalia are not the only cargo that will accompany Engle and Truil on board Columba.
The exact nature of all the things approved,
however, remains a mystery even to Engle.
ENGLE SAID he was taking souvenirs from several different institutions.
"There are some items that have been approved to present to various institutions after the
When Engle returns from his five-day mission he said he hoped to present the memoirs to each other.
Engle graduated from KU in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering.
The flight, originally scheduled for Oct. 9, was postponed because of a caustic fuel spill, which damaged 376 of Columbia's 30,922 heat-resistant tiles.