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University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1982
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Teach-in held on nuclear war
A teach-in on the prevention of nuclear war drew about 170 people to the Kansas University Ballroom last night to hear a four-man panel talk about the possibility of nuclear war, and the effects involved, and effects of such war.
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science and moderator for the panel discussion, said the teachin was an idea taken from the '60s and early '70s. He said a teachin was a means of informing public opinion about war and nuclear disarmament and the prevention of war.
The teach-in was part of the Ground Zero Week activities, sponsored by the Lawrence for Peace and education various departments on campus.
"There are no experts in nuclear war, and I hope we never have any," he said.
Panel members were John O'Brien, associate professor of systematics and ecology; Harry Shaffer, professor of economics and Soviet and East European studies; Joseph J. Duerksen, physician from St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri; Drew Vought, faculty member of the U.S. Army Command and Staff College at FT Leavenworth.
The four panel members covered such topics as the effects of a nuclear blast, how far nuclear arms have proliferated, the medical and educational resources in the blast and the ultimate United States and Soviet Union showdown.
Duierken talked about the effect of nuclear destruction on the medical provision. He added that a killing Kansan City would cause 1000 times more
deaths and injuries than the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster. But he could also be a central addition of the medical profession "far beyond what we an imagine."
He said tens of thousands of people would probably have to come to Lawrence for medical help.
Shaffer also said that all of the bombs used in both the European and Asian theatres of World War II were contained in one nuclear bomb.
"The destruction which would ensue is pretty much beyond our comprehension," Duerksen said.
Vought said that people tended to consider nuclear war unthinkable, "but World War I and II were too, but they managed to creep in."
New KU police captain assumes position
Duerksen and O'Brien discussed several problems of a possible nuclear war. There would be severe famine, starvation, loss of communication systems and power, contamination of down-wind areas and the problem of taking care of the injured and dying, they said.
He said the United States had enjoyed supremacy in the world from about 1945 to 1980 and there was no outbreak of a large-scale
But since that time, he said, the United States has been in a constant state of preenration for war.
"What kind of madness is it that tells us we should go on building more and more weaons?" he said.
Shaffer said the capacity to kill every human being 40 times over now exists in the world.
Other activities for the week include a showing of anti-nuclear war films today in the Forum Room in the Union.
After three months, the KU police department has a captain again.
By BECKY ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
John Courtney, the new captain, and his family arrived in Lawrence from Huntington Beach, Calif. last week so he could begin his new job with the KU police force. Courtney has spent the last week learning KU police operations.
The previous captain, John Mullens,
left his job to become the KU Coordinator of Public Safety on Jan. 1. The police department was new to the KU police department.
"I like the area," Courtney said yesterday. "I ran across an ad for the job in the paper and I thought it sounded like a good, interesting job."
Courtney's wife, Betty, is from the Lawrence area, so he had visited Lawrence several times before, he said.
As police captain, Courtney's duties include taking charge of the patrolmen.
John Courtnev
"I'm going to rest," Denney said. He was playing captain and director for the game.
"I'm not really sure myself yet, but the basics of my job are overseeing shifts, going over reports and records, tracking all the events, and the dispatch center," Courtney said.
Before coming to KU, Courtney worked with the Los Angeles County sheriff's department for about 15 years in a variety of jobs.
Angeles area such as riots, fires, floods, earthquakes and fights in the county jail.
For the past three months, Jim Denney, director of the KU police department, has been fulfilling both the administrative responsibilities.
"I was a patrolman for about eight years and I worked detectives for four
years," Courtney said. "I spent two and a half years as a sergeant and I worked the SWAT team.
"Interrelating with the students would be the biggest problem with campus police," he said.
The SWAT team was the most glamorous of the many of Courtney's jobs, he said. The SWAT team dealt with special problems in the Los
"Ive also worked administrative jobs. I was in charge of a special federal grant to reduce traffic fatalities and accidents in a four-city area."
seen any immediate changes he wanted to make as captain.
Courtnev said that so far he hadn't
Courtney said he would like to see KU students have positive attitudes toward the campus police.
"I have a feeling—intuition—they do have a generally good attitude," Courtney said.
Title IX report retribution for complaints
By BARB EHLL Staff Reporter
She said she hoped the University would come through with its promises to eliminate athletic program inequities.
Anne Levinson, a 1980 KU graduate who filed a TIX complaint against KU in 1978, said yesterday that she thought the report compiled by the Office of Civil Rights on the KU athletic program was fair.
TITLE IX, which was passed in 1972 under the Education Amendments, calls for equal opportunity and equal per capita spending on students involved in men's and women's athletic programs.
Levinson filled a complaint in July 1978, and in Aug. 1978, Elizabeth Banks, professor in the department of classics, board member, filed a second complaint.
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It took almost four years to get an answer.
Levinson said the decision, to eliminate inequities in KU's program, could help improve KU women's athletics.
"If it actually gets put into effect, and they do believe that the department of education will check up on them, it will be effective," said Lewinson.
Levinson said she realized that if KU
had not been found in compliance with Title IX it would lose federal funding.
Levinson said she filed the suit claiming the athletic department was not in compliance in every area of the program so that the entire program would be investigated. At that time, Title IX stated that only the areas with complaints filed against them could be investigated.
"It's not that I wanted funding taken away," she said. "Taking away money wouldn't help because we wanted more money."
"At times, I felt like people were saying, 'It's just a little point,'" she said. "If they didn't have to listen to me, they had to listen to HEW."
Levinson, who was on the field hockey team at the time she filed the complaint, said that in an attempt to receive equitable treatment for men's and women's athletics, she lobbed Student Senate for additional funds for sports programs that were capitulated as a student representative on the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, and participated in a council of women athletes who sent
Levinson said she realized that valuable areas outside of the athletic program would have been affected by having had KU not been found in compliance.
Wachter said that gate receipts, Big Eight conference money and ticket money would provide the capital outlay additional lighting for the softball team.
She said the increase in women's basketball scholarships from $42,000 to $73,000 would come from the Williams Educational Fund.
Del Shankel, acting athletic director, Vicki Thomas, University General Council, and Chancellor Gene A. Budig who had the full report and KU's plan.
Several KU coaches and administrators would not comment because they had not seen the full 50-team report and KU's 15-page response plan.
Susan Wachter, business manager for athletics, commented on how the budget would cover some aspects of the plan.
out letters and contacted the state Legislature and former Gov. Robert Bennett.
Banks said Sunday that she too was glad the report finally came out.
Federal investigators finished their investigations at KU in 1980, and 1983. The last time they were there was in
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With regard to living arrangements, Wachter said, "It depends on the financial aid agreement of the coach and whether they pay for housing at all."
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Wachter said travel arrangements would still have to come from what each coach received in his or her budget.
As for the plans for training tables and equitable housing, Wachter denied to comment because several alternatives were still being considered.
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