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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 9, 1989
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Indians, police talk about Dawes case
By Jennifer Metz
Kansan staff writer
Members of the local Native American Indian community met with area law enforcement officials Tuesday to express concerns about the handling of the case of Cecil Dawes Jr., said Dan Wildcat, instructor of social sciences at Hankell.
Dawen' body was found Oct. 24 in the Kansas River, after he had been missing for more than a week. Dawes, a former student at the University of Kansas, was a Cheyenne-Arapaho-Creek-Seminole Indian.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said that standard procedure for missing persons was used in the Dawes case.
Last spring, the body of John Sandoval, a former Haskell student, was found in the Kansas River after he been missing almost five months.
Wildcat said, "If you are an American Indian parent in this town with college-aged children, that might begin to make you worried."
Loren Anderson, Douglas County sheriff, said that the whole perspective of missing persons was discussed at the meeting. Anderson, the police chief Ron Olin, and Lt. Mike Hall all were present at the meeting.
Anderson said the disappearances of Sandoval and Dawes raised concern because the cases of their disappearances and deaths were alike.
Donald Dalquest, Douglas County undersheriff, said about 90 percent of reported missing persons returned home or were located by officials within 24 hours.
The majority of missing persons who appear or are found later have disappeared because of domestic problems of some sort, Dalquest said. There also are voluntary runaways who disappear because they
cannot cope with stress
"There are many people who just get mad and walk away," he said.
Mulvenon that about one missing person case was filed each week, but that most cases were false alarms.
He said that people 18 years and older were free to leave anytime they wished, and that there was not much officials could do in terms of investigating, unless the disappearance pointed to foul play.
If someone has reason to believe a friend is missing, a missing persons report can be filed without waiting 24 hours. Dalquest said.
Mulvenon said if the missing person lived on campus, the disappearance would normally be reported to the KU police. If the person lived in Lawrence, it would normally be reported to the Fulton department. Missing persons from the county will be reported to the Douglas County sheriff's office.
After a missing persons report is filed, the report often is entered into the National Crime Information Center. If no reports are not filed automatically,
The NCIC is a national network for law enforcement which is based in Washington D.C., Dalquest said. A segment of the NCIC system handles missing persons, but the system also handled wanted persons and stolen property. The NCIC's sons are kept in NCIC indefinitely, or until the person is found.
Missing persons cases are treated in a different manner if the missing person is less than 18 years of age, Dalquest said. If a missing child is found, the case might be defined through the justice system as a child in need of care. The child could then be placed with relatives or in an alternative home.
If foul play is suspected, the police or sheriff's department immediately begins an investigation, he said.
Stacey Gore/KANSAN
Lindenbaum, a Holocaust survivor, remembers Kristallnacht.
Holocaust victims are remembered
By Jennifer Metz Kansan staff writer
Today and tomorrow mark the anniversary of Kristalnacht, a time for Holocaust survivors and members of the Jewish community to remember Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, when tens of thousands of European Jews were attacked by Nazis.
The term Kristalmacht means the night of broken crystals, Martin Wollmann, a Holocaust survivor, said.
Jews were beaten, synagogues were burned, houses were ransacked and more than 30,000 Jews were incarcerated camps that night, he said.
"I was there, and I was 11 years old," Wollmann said.
At 5 a.m. nov. 10, 1938, the Nazis came into his home in Germany. He said the Nazis did not arrest him, but they took his parents and six-year-old brother to a concentration camp.
Wollmann, director of Watkins Memorial Health Center until 1983, said that after his parents were mastured, he had to ford himself.
"You can't imagine what it is like," Wollmann said. "Maybe that is a good thing."
He was left in Germany, but he escaped in March 1939. He then went to Palestine.
Siegfried Lindenbaum, KU professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, said his family was in Poland at the time of Kristalnacht. They had been taken to Poland with about 25,000 other Jews about a year before Kristalnacht because they were not German citizens.
"It was obvious after Kristallnacht that Jews would be taken to
He said Kristallnacht was the first public atrocity by Germans against a minority group.
concentration camps," he said.
While in Poland, Lindenbaum's family received papers stating that he and his brother and sister should leave their parents and go to England along with 10,000 other children as part of the Kinder Transport. Lindenbaum said he was nine years old at the time, his brother was seven and his sister was 12.
"Our parents had to make the decision to accept a safe haven for their children," he said.
Lindenbaum and his younger brother were sent to England on Aug. 28, 1839. His sister was sup-
pended in the same boat but was left behind.
He said that the alternative made his parents' safety very unsure and that they could not survive the horror that followed Kristallnacht.
Lindenbaum said he and his brother lived in England in a home for Jewish boys. He continued to get letters from his parents and his sister for two years until communication broke down in 1941.
In June, Lindenbaum attended a reunion in England of children from the Kinder Transport. The 1,200 children from the 1893 transport attended the reunion to pay honor and memory to the British government and to share their experiences.
Lindenbaum said there was not much to hope for him when he was left at nine years of age, but now he could look back on a full life.
Wollmann said, "I think the world should commemorate the day. It's not a holiday or a festival, it's much deeper than that."
Latin group protests aid for Nicaragua
By Bryan Swan Kansan staff writer
Next to the Kansas Union yesterday, about a dozen members and supporters of campus Latin American Solidarity protested U.S. involvement in Nicaragua's upcoming elections.
I don't want my tax dollars supporting the killing of Nicaraguan citizens.'
Jacob Ossar,
Manhattan graduate student
Justin Palmer and members of Latin American Solidarity protest U.S. Interference in Nicaragua.
The protesters carried signs criticizing the U.S. policy and held up crosses bearing the names of those killed by the contras during the recently ended Nicaraguan ceasefire.
The protesters oppose the Bush administration's $12.5 million assistance to the Nicaraguan political opposition.
Stacey Gore/KANSAN
"I don't want my tax dollars supporting the killing of Nicaraguan citizens," said Jacob Ossar, Manhattan graduate student. "I want our nation's hand out of the ballot box."
Rhonda Neugebauer, founder of Latin American Solidarity, said the United States did not allow foreign financing of its elections. She said she wanted to see a free and fair election in Nicaragua that respected
Justin Palmer, Ulysses graduate student, said the Sandinista government had made serious mistakes in the past, and that the Bush administration might have a point when criticizing the lack of free speech and free press in Nicaragua. He said the U.S. contributions to the Nicaraguan
"Nicaragua is a desperately poor country," Palmer said. "The American embargo, the contra war, the mining of their harbors, and the hurricane that hit them last year — who are we to talk?"
that nation's sovereignty and autonomy.
who is affiliated with Latin American Solidarity, said that when covert money funneled into the election process by the CIA would be counted, the actual U.S. aid figure would be closer to $18 million.
election were not against that nation's law, but that such an action was hypocritical.
"Nicaragua has a population of about $3/4 million people," she said. "That comes down to more than $6 a person."
Liz Maggard, a Lawrence resident
New Senate committee created for graduates
By Lara Weber Kansan staff writer
Culminating a semester-long struggle to increase graduate student involvement in Student Senate, a new Senate Graduate Affairs Committee was formally established at last night's Senate meeting.
"I think the vote tonight has certainly shown support for a voice for graduate students in Student Senate," said Warren Hauk, a graduate senator who worked on the creation of the committee.
The new committee, which was endorsed by the Graduate Executive Committee, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and the 11 graduate senators, will deal with issues such as graduate representation on Senate and graduate/undergraduate relations.
Controversy was raised recently about the committee by James Muir, former graduate senator and former executive coordinator of GradEx.
Muir had expressed concern that the graduate affairs committee would infringe upon the authority of GradEx and the GSC.
Graduate students interested in creating the new committee meet with Muir at a GradEx meeting Monday to discuss ways in which the several graduate groups could work best together.
Muir, who had been instrumental in prompting graduate involvement in Senate, was not at last night's
meeting.
At a later Senate meeting, a letter from Muir stated that he had acted alone in his boycott and that GradEx and the GSC wanted to work with Senate to solve several of the graduate concerns.
"It it was something we weren't prepared for," he said. "But we've established a graduate affairs committee that will ensure that graduate needs will be represented on Senate in the future."
White said it was a pleasant sight to see graduate students fully represented at last night's meeting.
At the first Senate meeting this semester, Muir announced a graduate student boycott of Senate because he thought, in part, that the undergraduates were unable to deal effectively with graduate student concerns.
B. Jake White, student body president, said he was happy with the way Senate had handled the graduate concerns and Muir's boycott.
"It shows that Senate is, indeed, concerned with graduate issues. We made a full-fledged effort to get them more involved and excited for them to be here," he said.
Hauk said that the recognition from Senate would challenge the committee to facilitate communication with graduate students and ensure that graduate representation would not die in the future.
Since Muir's boycott, 11 vacant graduate seats have been filled.