VOL. 100, NO. 51 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY
NOV. 6, 1989
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Lebanese pick new president, plan for peace
The Associated Press
KLEIAT, Lebanon — Lebanese law-makers yesterday elected a Christian president and approved a peace plan designed to end 14 years of civil war, despite threats by a Christian general to punish them for "conspiracy."
Parliament elected deputy Rene Mouawad, a 32-year veteran of Lebanese politics and a 64-year-old Monaron Christian. Legislators first stripped the president of some power, giving more authority to Muslim leaders.
Fifty-two of Parliament's 73 surviving lawmakers voted for Mouaward in a second ballot of the special session. Six members abstained.
Lebanon has had no president since
Aoum rejected the Arab League-brokered peace plan, first approved by the lawmakers at a session last month in Saud Arabia because it failed to guarantee a withdrawal of the 40,000 Syrian troops who control much of Lebanon.
interim Cabinet until a new president could be named, rejected Mouawad's election.
He considers the Syrians an occupying army and fought them for six months until a cease-fire was called Sept. 22 by the Arab League. Police say 930 people were killed and 2,744 wounded, most of them civilians.
The general declared Saturday that he had dissolved Parliament. Most legislators declared his move illegal, noting that under Lebanon's constitution only the president can
Drive for memorial kicks off
By Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
The ROTC units kicked off a fund-raising drive on Saturday to collect money to build a Korean War Memorial at the University of Kansas.
Cadets and midhiphop from the three ROTC branches took donations after the Kansas-Oklahoma State University football game to raise money for the memorial.
The fund-raising kickoff was part of KU ROTC Day, which also included a fly-by of four F-16 fighter planes before the game, a pre-game march and rifle队 demonstration by the three ROTC branches.
"Our goal is to try to have a memorial in place within two years on Veterans' Day Nov. 11, 1911," said Capt. Todd Renner,
Fab five Lady Jayhawks fly with nationally ranked recruits
By Kate Lee Kansan sportswriter
Dick Vitale says it is the 12th best recruiting class in the country.
Kansas women's basketball coach Marian Washington advises watching them closely because "they're really going to grow."
They are Misti Chennault, Shannon Kite,
Stacy Truitt, JoO Witherspoon and Tarra
Yoder, the five freshmen on this year's
team.
Last year's freshmen received more playing time than usual because the team lacked experience. This year's class hopes the same training, too, but they also want to sit back and learn.
"I want to contribute, but I'll enjoy not be a leader," says Chennault, valedictorian of her graduating class in El Reno, Okla.
"My time will come," she says.
Witterspoon says that the pressure is not on the freshmen as much this year, which will give her the opportunity to get into the flow of the game.
"We'll have the time to take it step by step," she says.
Washington says she looks forward to being able to let these freshmen come along.
"I want them to be understudies," she says. "I want them to enjoy their rookie year with not as much pressure."
Yoder, along with senior Liz Roark who is
Yoder, who is from Oklahoma City, says he always knew she wanted to play basketball.
"I've come up for basketball camp for a long time," she says. "My dream has been to be a Lady Jayhawk. It's been tough, but I’ve gotten a lot of support."
a walk-on, says she knows that the team is deep this year and that she might not see much playing time.
Yoder and the others say that much of the support comes from the coaching staff.
"I know my role," she says. "I'm not going to be negative, though. I'll work hard and wait for a chance."
"It's something about Coach Washington," Chennault says. "You can't describe it. There's a glow about her that sets her apart. It's not really tangible."
Witherspoon says that Coach Washington and Kansas itself are everything she is looking for in a school.
"She thinks of you not only as a player, but as a person," she says. "She's concerned about your academics, your family — she's great."
Truitt says that what impressed her the most was the way the coaches talked to her during her campus visit.
"They made me feel at home," she says.
"They didn't put any pressure on me. They just laid it out on the table: 'This is what we can do for you.'"
Truitt, who Vitales says is one of the best freshmen in the country, says that does not
put any extra pressure on her.
"I play for me," she says. "I don't have anything to live up to. I can't put pressure on myself because of what people think I should do; that's never been me and it's not going to be."
Chennaul says the transition from high school to college has been difficult, although not impossible.
"It's really a dedication thing." she says.
"A typical day for us starts with classes from 7:30 to noon and then practice from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., weights until 4:30 p.m., study hall until 6 p.m., dinner and then starting on homework. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we start with a workout at 4:30 a.m.
"A lot of people don't realize how much it takes."
Truitt says the team's togetherness will go a long way toward making good things happen this year.
"We tell each other before practice, 'help me get through practice. If I'm falling down, pick me up,'" she says. "Part of helping to keep someone up keeps you up. We're young, we're in this together. At study hall we're together, at lunch we're together."
There are four seniors on the squad, and the freshmen agree that they already have learned a lot from them.
"Any kind of help I can get from the
seniors, I'm going to take," Truitt says.
Yoder has looked especially to Roark for guidance.
"She's my big sis," she says. "She's helped me through some things. She's a great role model."
Although they have not yet experienced a season on the college level, the five have definite ideas about what is to come and where they want the season to end.
"We want to give it all we have for 40 minutes," Truitt says. "Every game, we want to put it on the line.
Kite says that it can be difficult to keep going but that the team's and the seniors' goals help, especially at 4:30 a.m.
"The goals they have for themselves remind me of why I'm here," she says. "That's why I have to get up. I'm helping myself and the team."
"In high school, when I was a freshman we made it to the quarter finals of state," she says. "My sophomore year, we made it to the semi-finals. My junior year, we won our division and lost at state. My senior year, we won everything. Year by year, hopefully, we can come up with an NCAA championship."
"We want to get the seniors out of here with a Big Eight championship and then go for the national."
Witerspoon says she wants to start with the Big Eight championship as a goal but move up from there each year.
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which will be dedicated on Satury, cost $20,000 to build.
Award
The other four finalists were Daryl vans, associate professor of sociology; Herman Leon, professor of civil welfare; Tim Mitchell, associate professor of art history; and velyn Swartz, professor of curricum and instruction.
"It was very close," she said. "All a finalists were impressive and highly backed by the students. It all made me feel good about how you feel about teaching and their students. They are all incredible ole."
Drees estimated that 300 seniors tied in the final contest. Only alums belonging to the respective hools of the five finalists could it.
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Paul Fambriani, Washington,
C. senior, was an extra at the
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Fumbrini said he left before the
tank take was filmed, though,
suspect it was cold and raining.
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The extras did not get paid but a receive free T-shirts, Fambrini id.
Ann Duncan, Kansas City, Kan., morg, also donned a KKK robe for an
"It was starched really stiff, so it kept flopping over," Duncan