KANSAN
Monday, September 14, 1981 Vol. 92, No.16 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Opposing Iranian student groups clash at Union
By PENNI CRABTREAT and MAJID ALI
Staff Writers.
Staff Writers
Pro- and anti-Khomeini Iranian student groups clashed violently at the Kansas Union Saturday night in a 15-minute glass-throwing spree that included one of one student and the beating of several others.
Akbar Akbari, 25, a Pittsburgh State University graduate student from Iran, was treated for a back wound at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and released. Jim Denny, director of KU police on the Lawrence campus, said his department had determined the instrument used in the stabbing.
KU police said violence between the two student groups erupted at 7:45 m. when a pro-
Khomini faction tried to force its way into a fifth floor room of the Union, where the Iranian Student Association was scheduled to hold a lecture on Iranian events.
POLICE SAID when ISA members who organized the event tried to stop the rival group from entering, blows were exchanged.
Denney said no arrests were made, but police were investigating several suspects.
Several of the estimated 14 Iranian students who attended the ISA event said the disrupting group was composed mainly of Muslim Student Association (Persian Speaking Group) members. The students were afraid to identify themselves or their attackers because of the threat of further violence.
"This will surely occur again," one Iranian student said yesterday. "These people have
power, if you measure power in guns and knives,
and they will use them."
A spokesman for the MSA (PSG) after first denying that his group knew anything about Saturday's clash, said reports that his group participated in the violence were false.
ONE STUDENT, who had been beaten severely by four of Iranian students, said he was a victim.
"I was not pro- or anti-Khomeni; I just came to the lecture, "the student said.
"It is absolutely false; they are giving false report," Cyrus Nassler, an MSA spokesman, said. "We have no idea who could have done it either."
1 was waiting for the meeting to begin and I saw about 25 to 30 people arguing at the door with some of the ISA people.
"Then they just rushed into the room, swearing and striking at us. Most tried to run, but I was pulled to the floor and beaten in the face."
According to students and police, most of the students attending the lecture tried to escape through exit doors. Several sought refuge in a catering kitchen next to the meeting room, where they threw plates and glassware at their assailants.
"There was broken glass, drops of blood and ash all over the place," Denney said. "They threw everything, ashtrays, cups and coffee pots."
Another similar incident happened Wednesday afternoon, when alleged MSA (PSG) supporters tried to overturn a table of anti-Khomeliine that was being distributed in front of the Timmers.
DURING THING incident, students who manned the table said the MSA (PSG) supporters tore up the literature and chained in them. And we knew that, We kill people and that is the right thint to do."
"Several of the students who tried to destroy the pamphlets and posters we had on that table were at the meeting Saturday night," a junior from Tehran said. "They are very angry over events in Iran, the assassinations and bombings. They try to force us to believe as they do, but people can see the ugly face of their beliefs through incidents like this."
Officers seize last 2 convicts
By United Press International
GOODMAN, Mo.—Law officers and national guardsmen yesterday tracked down and captured without violence two elusive convicts who were held in the day-200-mile trail of terror through two states.
Convicted rapist Everett Cameron, 32, and convicted murderer John Kichell, 28, had been described as "guys having nothing to lose." And the security safe way to stop them was "to shoot them."
BUT YESTERDAY, at 5:25 p.m., the wary fugitives finally gave up without a struggle. They were the last of seven inmates who escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
Cameron and Kitchell were married to separate county jail cells, unsmiling and soaked
Kitchall he said and his fellow fugitives might have had better success had they not "been laid down." The authorities say it
"It's nice, it's pretty country," he said. "Good for sightseeing, to be 'about all,'"
Kitchell told reporters following his capture that he might try it again some day.
"I didn't enjoy it," he said about his breakfast
time. "I didn't have time. We were lost all the
time."
An army of 375 national guardsmen and state law officers used bloodhounds and helicopters yesterday to search for the two convicts who led the attack, which was carried through the rugged terrain of southwest Missouri.
YESTERDAY WAS the second time in as many days that authorities had searched the area near Noel, Mo., in the extreme corner of the state. Saturday authorities captured a third escaped convict there and said they felt the other two were still in the area.
The convicts' final run for freedom came at midafternoon yesterday.
"They're well-conditioned for this," a Lawrence County deputy said. "They had been working out with weights. They can cover a mile or two in an hour easy."
Patrol officers at a roadblock in Anderson, Mo., spotted the two men hiding in a boxcar of a Kansas City-bound freight train as it speed by at 3:15 p.m. Fifteen minutes later, guardsmen stopped the train 15 miles north of the main search area.
Cameron gave up peacefully, but Kitchell fell into a tucket and was captured two hours later.
POLICE SAID that during the eight days, the convicts had been involved in nine abductions, two shotouts and about a dozen thefts of money, food and clothing. A prison guard was injured during the escape and a Bonner Springs police officer also was wounded while in pursuit.
Residents in the path of the convict's escape route said they found themselves sitting behind locked doors normally kept casually open. Spotlights normally tucked away from the grasp of small children, were kept in the open within easy reach.
See CONVICTS page 5
Crowds jammed the midway of the Kansas State Fair on opening daySaturday. The fair, which runs through Sunday, is being held in Hutchinson
Fair offers chance to show talents
By MARK ZIEMAN
Staff Reporter
HUTCHINSON—The Kansas State Fair began its 69th year Saturday amid victories, failures and a bit of government intrigue.
"I got a blue in pears, my peach bombed out and I don't know what happened to my apricot," said Carole Finan, Salina canner, during the canning judging.
While updating a list of her ribbons in a fair handbook, he watched the judge check a jar of seashells.
Sarah, her 11-year-old daughter, gave her a questioning look.
"They put the lid on too quick," her mother whispered, "so I don't know . . .
“You need hunks in your preserves,” a judge said to no one in particular as he placed the winning entry on blue, red and white jelly. The answer was the blue mat was Finan’s apricot preserves.
The judges seemed to agree. By the end of the day they had awarded Finan 17 ribbons, including the Best of Show in crabapple jelly, apricot butter, pickles and canned meat.
"Once in awhile you can something and
you'll say, 'That's it, that's a blue ribbon,
and you're going to cry.'"
THE SALINA canner calmly circled the apricot division in her handbook. She motioned toward the winning jar.
The second-year veteran of the state fair looked at the winning jars in front of her with enthusiasm.
"I can go to three fairs and win or lose, I can still eat them," she said, laughing.
GLANCING DOWN the row of jars, Sarah disclosed a family secret
in the sweepstakes and she started bawling," she said with a giggle.
Monday Morning
"Last year she walked in and her jelly was
Across the domestics building, in the Governor's Cookie Jas competition, another success story.
Jane Rife, food clerk, gave a conspiratorial look to those around her.
"I don't know if they want me to tell such things," she said, "but I saw the winning jar—it was simple and I thought it was the best. But actually the judges said the cookies were better and the cake was down were better, but they didn't want to give the governor a jar decorated like a clown."
COOKIE JUDGES were not the only ones using psychology at the fair, however. Teresa was one of them.
"I can see the psychology in that, you know." she said.
She nodded, giving her listeners a serious look.
and repeated recordings coaxed, begged and ordered fair visitors to try their luck, see a show and eat a burger—all in a jumble of words.
The 41,382 fair-goers strolled through the attractions, taking advantage of opening day of the week-long fair, which ends next Saturday. The campus is about 180 miles southwest of Lawrence.
KU Detective Sgt. Paul Schultz gathers evidence around a cadiver found near Potter Lake yesterday morning. Police said the cadiver was apparently stolen from Snow Hall.
One farmer stopped to win his wife a stuffed animal at the dine-toss. As his 45th dime slid off the plate onto the mat, he laughed, shook his head and turned to go.
"I just ain't worth a damn," he taking his family toward the industrial building.
Inside the building hundreds of booths displaying the finest in Kansas industry covered the floor and walls. At the KU booth, there was a display with a cave slide show and a whirling tornado.
BOB BURDICK, associate director of University Relations, squirmed through the course.
"We've been busy all day," he said,
"we've been lined up four-deep at the snake
Across the grounds in the agricultural building the page was slower.
Standing up to his ankles in sawdust and manure, Mitch Young, 15, waited for the shorthorn judging to begin. As he waited, he stroked his cow. Sunshine, with a show stick
See FAIR page 5
Cadaver found at Potter Lake
Staff Reporter
By LILLIAN DAVIS
Pranksters broke into Snow Hall, store a cadaver and placed it on a red beach towel at Potter Lake late Saturday night or early yesterday morning, according to KU police.
The male cadaver, wearing only sunglasses,
passes by a passer-by about 10 a.m.
yesterday.
KU police said the body had been taken from 605 Snow, the anatomy laboratory, after the burglar apparently broke a door windowpane and unlocked the deadbolt from the inside.
Mike Davis, 1829 W. 22nd St., said he reported the body to KU police after a couple, who had been walking in the park, asked him if he had seen the body.
Although police have recovered the body, a white vinyl body bag still is missing.
Davis, a former KU student, said he told police he thought the body was a cadaven.
"It didn't really bother me, but the girl was a little upset," Davis said.
The upset, Davis said.
The couple left before police arrived. he said.
David Cannatella, Lawrence graduate student and an anatomy lab instructor, agreed with police that the choice in bodies had been random. The bodies were found in any better condition than any of the others.
"It was just the closest to the door," Jim DuFrançois of KU police on the Lawrence rampage.
Although police were aware that it was a prank, they said that the burglaries were nothing more.
"It wouldn't have been funny if children or dogs had found it first," Denney said.
Detective Gtul, Paul Schultz said that KU had been entrusted with cadavers, a responsibility not all universities were allowed, and that the department was upset about the incident.
"We have these cadavers under special conditions," said Gunther Schlager, chairman of the division of biological sciences. "If we can't them better than this, we shouldn't have them."
"It was a senseless prank," Denney said.
No suspects have been named in the case, police said.
Detective Schultz agreed, and said it was especially in poor taste if anyone knew someone who had donated their body to science.
Schläger said that the windowpanes would be replaced with a wood panel and that the department would start looking into a security lock system.
Students grab federal loans
By TERESA RIORDAN
Staff Reporter
KU students grabbed more than $713 million in guaranteed student loans - 17 times the amount taken out this time last year – in a scramble for money before new federal regulations go into effect.
"Requests for GSL funds have skyrocketed since the government announced it would limit loans to families with incomes of less than $100,000. Rogers, director of financial aid, said last week.
THE NUMBER of loan applications jumped from 3,896 last year to 6,337 this year, a 62 percent increase, he said. The loans, less than the last September, currently are at $17,340.00.
Although students whose family adjusted gross income meets the $30,000 maximum will still qualify for the loans, they face more stringent regulations:
Many students from high-income families realize that they soon will not qualify for the loans, so they are making a dash to borrow more money while they can, Rogers said. He pointed out that professional people with annual incomes of $70,000 and up have been financing their children's education with the loans and investing their own money elsewhere.
- The grace period before repayment has been shortened from nine to six months after graduation for students taking out loans after Jan. 1, 1981.
- At the end of the grape period, students get interest in the previous 7 percent of the previous 7 percent.
- The $2,500 annual undergraduate limit now applies to undergraduates who have declared independent financial status, who could formerly borrow $3,000 annually.
- All students applying for loans since Aug. 8 must pay a 5 percent origination fee, in addition to the guarantee fee. The charge is $125 for each $2,500 loan.
The GSL program is an effort to increase the amount of federal money going to the private
Under GSL, the student borrows from a private lender, usually the Higher Education Loan Program of Kansas for KU students, and the University guarantees repayment and subsidizes the interest.
The program, which started in 1966 with an income ceiling of $15,000, expanded in 1978 when the family income limit was eliminated, allowing regard, regardless of income, to qualify for a GSI.
CURRENTLY, undergraduates can borrow as much as $2,500 a year, up to a total of $12,500. A graduate or professional student can borrow up to $25,000 during his entire undergraduate and graduate career, at a maximum of $5,000 annually.
The government pays all the interest while the student is in school and everything above the 7 or under it.
Students have from five to 10 years to repay the principal and the interest.
Recent congressional slashes in education funding have cut primarily the GSL program and Pell Grants, formerly Basic Opportunity School. Such are Federal scholarships for needy students.
It will be partly cloudy today with a high in the mid 80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Winds will be out of the north at 5 to 10 mph and there is a slight chance of thundershowers.
Tonight's low will be in the mid 8s.
Tomorrow will also be partly cloudy with a high in the 8s.