VOL.100.NO.57 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY NOV.14,1989
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Warm weather is in the air
Charles Milde, Overland Park freshman, waits for a gust of wind. Milde spent time yesterday flying his kite near the Campanile. E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
November is usually a month for bundling up in heavy coats, but the weather has been unreasonably warm, encouraging KU students to keep their summer wardrobes out of storage.
the camerarware lobes out of storage. Curtis Hall, KU meteorology instructor, said the high temperatures in Lawrence were here to stay for a while longer.
"We're in an upper-air flow pattern much like what we would have in summer," he said. "The jet stream normally here this time of year is up by the Canadian border."
Bill Fortune, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Topeka, said the dominant storm track that normally would hit the Midwest at this time of year was pulling the cold temperatures north, taking precipitation with it.
"When the weather pattern is set up like this, the moisture is shunted off to the East," he said. "The Northern late states up by the Great Lakes has become more wet. We can't even seem to buy any precipitation."
Fortune said normal mid-November temperatures were highs in the mid-50s with lows near 32 degrees.
Hall said there was a chance of rain this week.
The abrupt change was because of short-lived variances in the air flow, he said, but because the upper-air pattern would remain unchanged, the cool weather would not be permanent.
which would cool Lawrence down.
Fortune said the temperature would be falling to the 40-degree range during the middle of the week, but a warming trend would show up again, but when the temperatures would rise to the mid-50s.
He said that with the exception of a couple of days this week, the extended forecast showed above normal temperatures until at least Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23.
East Germany selects new premier
BERLIN — East Germany's Parliament last night elected a leading reformer as the new premier, but hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Leipzig to say that Communist reforms are moving too slowly.
The Associated Press
After a historic weekend during which millions of East Germans took advantage of their new freedom to travel west, their Parliament also
picked a non-Communist speaker in the chamber's first secret ballot election and urged accelerated changes.
The government also said it was dismantling internal barriers that for three decades formed a notorious "death strip" between the Berlin Wall and the city's sealed-off eastern sector.
guage that declares their nation a socialist state.
Deputies appealed for free elections, a coalition government and removing from the constitution lan-
The parliament, known as the People's Chamber, then approved the Communist Party's nomination of well-known reformer and Politburo member Hans Modrow to lead a new government as premier. The government traditionally has been subservient to the party.
As deputies argued into the night in East Berlin, pro-democracy activists in Leipzig pressed for continued
change to prolong the spirit of hope sweeping the nation after the festival of freedom over the weekend. West German television estimated the number of protesters to be between 200,000 and 300,000.
At the session to approve Modrow, the first secret balloting in the Communist-dominated Parliament was held to elect a new speaker, Guenther Maleuda, who told the assembly it was duty-bound to heed the calls of the reform movement.
KU freshman, 21, dies from gunshot
District attorney will review the case
By Rich Cornell Kansan staff writer
A 21-year-old KU freshman died yesterday morning from a gunshot wound to the head, said Chris Mulvener, Lawrence police spokesman.
Brian Robinson, Topea freshman, died in an apartment at the Tanglewood complex, 961 Arkansas St. Robinson either shot himself or was shot by three other men who were in the apartment at the time, Mulvenon said.
The three men in the apartment were questioned by investigators yesterday, but no one was arrested in connection with the shooting. he said
"There was nothing at this time to indicate charges should be filed." Mulvenon said. "There had been a party. Somehow, throughout the course of the evening, an accident took place."
The district attorney's office will review the case to determine whether the investigation was thorough enough, Mulvenon said. Jim Flory, district attorney, then could recommend that the case be investigated further.
Mulvenon said several guns were in the apartment.
Scott Lundemo, 22, who lived with Robinson at 508 Frontier Road, said Robinson and the other three men had been out firing guns Sunday. Lundemo was not present when the accident occured.
Lundemo said that he had known Robinson since they attended high school.
"He was always a real nice guy," Lundemo said.
David Carr, Overland Park senior,
lives in an apartment near the scene
of the shooting. A car alarm near the
apartment woke him about 2:30 a.m.
yesterday, he said, and he heard
several people in the apartment.
"There was a lot of noise at the party," he said.
He returned to sleep and heard nothing else until police woke him for questioning shortly after 5 a.m. yesterday.
Carol Moddrell, county coroner,
said Robinson died from a single-
large caliber gunshot wound to the
head. Alcohol, toxicology and microscopic tests should be completed within two weeks, she said.
Phone company alters Chicago suburb's code KU students cope with 'wrong number'
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
Every suburb of Chicago that had a 312 area code will now use a 708 area code, said Ann Stachowiack, supervisor for Illinois Bell information.
Illinois Life Telephone Co. has taken a life-long possession from its suburban Chicago customers. The company is
She said that suburbs with area codes other than 312 would not change their codes. Customers inside the limits will still use the 312 area code.
The change was made Saturday.
Rachel Mark, Deerfield, Ill., freshman, said her mother called to remind her about the change in the area code.
the students from Chicago suburb said they would have to adjust to the new numbers.
"I've been using 708 just to get used to her said. "It throws me off. I hate it."
Jackie Finkel, Northbrook, III., would have had been more public about the report.
"If my parents didn't tell me about
Adam Pomerance, Deerfield, Ill. freshman, said that he was surprised by the change in the area code and that he would use the 312 area code until he had to use the new area code.
"It's a pain," he said. "It has been like that for yeafs. All my life I have had that same area code."
it, I probably would call them one day and think they moved on me," she said.
There will be a transition period, until Feb. 9, according to an Illinois Bell information service recording. Customers using the 312 area code will be able to complete their calls until then. After Feb. 9, customers will hear a recording, and the call will not be completed.
The new area code is being introduced to keep pace with a demand for additional numbers in the metropolitan area, the recording said.
This change will not alter calling rates or customers' seven-digit telephone numbers. Customers who have Illinois Bell calling cards and who are affected by this change will automatically be sent new calling cards with the new numbers on them.
Computer glitch slows enrollment
245 die in El Salvador as fighting escalates
By a Kansan reporter
The computers at the enrollment center crashed twice yesterday, disrupting some students' enrollment times.
Edith Guffey, assistant director of student records, said the computers crashed at 10:45 a.m. and came back up at noon. They crashed again at 12:45 p.m. and were not operating until 2 p.m.
However, students who were scheduled to enroll in the afternoon were told to come back later yesterday afternoon.
Students who were scheduled to enroll daily morning were given a stamp on their enrollment forms that would allow them to enroll any time during enrollment, she said. Enrollment ends Nov. 21.
Guffey said that if the afternoon students were not able to come back yesterday, they would have schedule their enrollment times.
"The reason we gave the students in the morning a stamp was because we knew when the computers would be down and about what time they'd supposedly be back up," she said. "We have an hour during the morning where we don't enroll anybody. We had a window we could work with. In the afternoon we don't have that."
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Rebels held large parts of several poor neighborhoods yesterday and battled soldiers in a third day of the worst fighting the capital has experienced in a decade of civil war.
At least 245 people have been killed and 378 wounded since the rebels attacked on Saturday in their biggest offensive since 1981, according to the military, civilian morgues and hospitals, and unofficial military figures.
Thousands of civilians were trapped in their homes by exchanges of gunfire between the army and guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo National Liberation Front. Helicopter gunships and military planes flew
Cristiani government halts flow of information
The army press office stopped providing information yesterday. Whether combat continues in the provinces is not clear. Telephone calls to provincial cities did not go through.
No new official counts of dead and wounded were given, but the armed forces mortuary had the bodies of 55 soldiers, 29 more than the army included in its official count.
over the city to attack rebel positions.
Fighting also was reported outside Usulutan, a major city in eastern El Salvador, but not in the city itself.
President Alfredo Cristiani
Cristiani, who took office June 1, leads the rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as Arena. His party has been linked to death squads that operated with near impunity early in the war and is blamed for most of the 70,000 deaths.
announced a state of siege and a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew Sunday. Legislators were considering more restrictions on civil rights.
U. S. Embassy spokesman Barry Jacobs said an army counteroffensive had been slowed because solitary orders ordered to avoid civilian casualties.
The Bush administration said Cristiani's government had not requested U.S. assistance in repelling the rebel attack.
Fifty-five U.S. military trainers are stationed in El Salvador but are not supposed to participate in military missions.
During the weekend fighting, fev
people knew much of what was going
"It's our belief that they are in control of the situation at this point," said White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Asked whether he
would rule out U.S. involvement in the fighting, he said: "We can never predict the future, but at this point it's not anticipated."
At the United Nations in New York, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said it was "essential that minimal conditions be restored which will permit talks to resume and the peace process to be put back on track" in El Salvador.
The rebels began their offensive, attacking 35 to 40 military posts in the city and others in the provinces, after pulling out of peace talks to protest attacks on leftist political and union leaders.
Under the state of siege declared by Cristiani, free speech, freedom of movement and the right to assemble are suspended.
on around them. After fighting began, the government ordered news programs off the air.
Newsmakers from '70 recall turbulence, conviction at KU
This article is the second in a three-part series about student activism. Today's installment examines the campus newsmakers of 20 years ago. The third part, which will run tomorrow, will look at the current campus activists and their organizations.
Sometimes the times make the man, sometimes the man makes the times.
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
A little of both scenarios occurred at the University of Kansas during the 1969-70 academic year. The following profiles depict some of the
campus newsmakers of the time, what they were involved in 20 years ago and what they are doing and thinking today.
E. Laurence Chaimers Jr., was chancellor from 1969 to 1972. Today he is president of the San Antonio Museum Association.
Chalmers played down his role as chancellor, calling himself the spokesman for the University. His actions in that role, he said, would be the one thing he would do differently if given the opportunity.
"After that first year I would have become more pro-active with University Relations." Chalmers said. "In
the case of the Union fire, I should have put that information out immediately," he said of student help in fighting the fire, "instead of answering 'Was this the start of the revolution in the Midwest?'"
Despite the turbulence during his time at KU, he said, he carried a degree of respect and affection for the University.
"In one sense it was a wonderful time," Chalmers said. "I know it sounds strange, what with arson and ROTC, but there was a coming together on a very large campus that I had never experienced before and would say there has never been since."
David Awbrey was 1969-70 Student Senate president and now is the assistant editorial page editor for the Wichita Eagle.
"I never thought I was doing any different than what John Brown would be doing." he said.
Ahwrey attributed his activism as home grown from Kansas' radical political history. His tenure saw the presidency take on national topics, such as the anti-war effort and civil rights as well as campus issues.
Awbrey also learned a lesson about the judicial process. He was jailed briefly after pleading guilty to violating curfew after the April 20, 1970, Kansas Union fire.
"I served several weeks," he said.
"An unair-conditioned cell in Lawrence during August is not a pleasant place to be."
By working with Chalmers during several crises, Awbrey said he developed a strong respect for the chancellor.
"He was a brilliant psychologist," he said. "You knew he was anti-war. He'd say, 'They want a confrontation,' and ask 'Do you want that?'
"He would confide in us, explain what his problem was, ask 'Can you help us?' and made me part of his problem.
See ACTIVISM, p. 6