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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
The University Daily
Monday, February 8, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 91 USPS 650-640
Delegates discontent after first divestment talks
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The KU Committee on South Africa, meeting for the first time with trustees of the Kansas University Endowment Association, asked the KU Foundation to invest in South Africa for the next two years.
Laird Okie, Lawrence graduate student and member of the KUSA committee, said the committee, the American Association of University Professors and the Endowment Association met in a closed-door session Saturday.
The unprecedented meeting was finally scheduled after months of delays by Endowment officials.
Okie said he was not optimistic about the outcome of the meeting.
"I feel it was disappointing because they won't engage in open dialogue," he said.
Okie said he also was disappointed that the media were not allowed into the meeting and that the committee was not permitted to tape record the statements made at the meeting.
KANSAS ATTORNEY General Robert Stephan has ruled that the Endowment Association, a private foundation, is not subject to the Kansas Open Meetings or Public Records acts.
The trustee committee members who were reported present at the meeting were Olin Petfish, Lawrence, committee chairman; Dolphin Simons Jr., Lawrence; and Robert Riss, Merriam; and William Martin, Topeka, of the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
Todd Seymour, Endowment Association president, and Richard Porto, Endowment Association treasurer, also were reported to be present.
None of the trustees were available for comment.
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Okie said Seymour said at the meeting that the American investments continued for the beterment of blacks in South Africa.
Elizabeth Banks, professor of classics and a KUSA committee member, said the Endowment Association should consider the moral implication of supporting a racist government.
"It is a political issue," she said, "and the
Association does not want to be involved in poli-
cies."
OKIE SAID the Endowment Association lacked any sense of social responsibility.
re said Seymour also said the Endowment would suffer a loss through divestment.
"That argument doesn't hold water," Okie said.
Banks the Endowment Association held to the "prudent man principle" and thought that they would abdicate responsibility to their contributors if they didn't invest money in stable
Edward P, Dutton, professor of social welfare and the group's adviser, said he also was disappointed there wasn't much exchange between the two groups.
"We need to responsibly move into dialogue," he said.
Dutton said he thought the meeting was a perfunctory gesture. He said it would be an exciting process to have the whole campus involved in the issue.
"Then the University would be the leader it should be," he said.
BANKS ALSO thought KU should be among the universities throughout the country to take the first step in pursuing the issue of divestment.
"Why aren't we in a leadership position on this issue?" she said.
Odile, Dick and Wambui Githora, Kenya,
graduate student, appeared before the trustee
Stu Shafer, Great Bend graduate student, refused to go in to the meeting protestings that two other members of the delegation. Banks were involved in the protest, and were not allowed in the meeting as observers.
The Endowment Association committee once supported years ago. It started its movement for divestment.
Lawrence officials' dispute develops into recall drive
Three AAUP members also meet with the trustee committee in a separate meeting.
"We think they should consider the role social
Spec. AFICA page 65."
BvSTEPHEN BLAIR
Staff Reporter
Dave Shulenburger, professor of business and AUAP president, said their role extended beyond and beyond the academic.
A drive to recall Lawrence City Commissioner Tom Gleason, who asked for the resignation of the city manager, has reached an organizational stage. former mayor Ed Carter said yesterday.
The effort to force a vote on whether Gleason should remain in office began Saturday after public disclosure of Gleason's letter to City Manager Buford Watson suggesting that Watson
Watson said, "He thought my employment was controversial in the city and on the commission."
Gleason was not available for comment.
Ocasion was not available for criminal Carter said petitioners would try to get the signatures necessary for a special election to vote Gleason out of office.
Should the commission desire to fire Watson, the commissioners would have to vale for the argue.
COMMISSIONER Nancy Shontz said she expected the five-member commission to go into a closed session at the regular meeting Tuesday night to discuss Gleason's letter.
monitor said issues discussed with Watson in an evaluation by the commission last fall were still unresolved.
"I think Gleason is attempting to use Watson as a scapegoat for the things the commission hasn't been able to get done," Carter said. "It's a radical approach, not a professional approach. You can just go back to when he was in college in the 80s."
Among many issues discussed earlier with Watson was the problem of control of information, she said. Commissioners questioned the manner in which he briefed them about issues researched by the city's planning staff and whether the commission could be given more options.
the commission also discussed with Watson the issue of whether he was overstepping his bounds by making policy or whether he was merely implementing policy, she said.
Although Shoriz confirmed that these matters were discussed during the evaluation, she did not know how to conduct the evaluation.
WATSON ALSO confirmed that these issues were discussed during the evaluation.
"What they wanted, of course, was for us to be more sensitive to a broad range of the community," he said. "They said we should be interested in all groups in the community
"They felt like when we made recommendations that we should present several
He said they also talked about the role of a city manager.
"That's an old textbook definition of whether the city manager makes policy or implements it," he said. "I suspect in the modern day he has a role in both."
Myles Schachter, a member of the city planning staff five and a half years ago, said commissioners were given incomplete information by the planning staff then.
Schachter, 1643 Rhode Island St., emphasized that he had no information about the internal
See WATSON page 5
Weather
It will be mostly cloudy today with highs ranging from 25 to 30 and winds blowing from the northeast at 10 to 20 mph, aeph as the National Weather Service Topoki.
Chances of snow are 30 percent for tonight with lows in the teens. Chances of snow early Tuesday will be acerated by cold and windiness and cold with hinds in the 20s.
Zoologist Joseph Collins displays a coachwhip snake in one of the newly refurbished snake exhibits at the Dyche Museum of Natural History. See story page 42.
Squad hopes tests show cause of fire
By BECKY ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Arsenon Squad expects to get results of tests later this week that could help determine the cause of a fire last Wednesday that caused $400,000 worth of damage in downtown businesses.
Fire Chief Jim McSwain said Friday that the fire apparently started near the center of the basement at the Royal College Shop, 837 Massachusetts St., in an area used to store boxes
of shoes. However, as of yesterday, investigators had not been able to find the cause of the fire.
The Royal College Shop suffered the
rampage of 100,000 to the building and the merchant inside.
McSwain said three surrounding shops suffered an estimated $32,200 smoke damage.
The Town Shop, $89 Massachusetts St., an adjoining shop south of the Royal College Shop, suffered the most smoke damage, an estimated $30,000 damage.
reported smoke damage. The Jay Shop, 835 Massachusetts St., sustained about $1,200 damage and Campbell's Clothing, 841 Massachusetts St., about $1,000 damage.
OTHER Massachusetts Street businesses also
McSwain said that investigators from the Lawrence fire and police departments, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, and the Rocky Mountain Fire Department visited this week to find the cause of the fire.
McSwain said last week that the arson squad investigated any big fire until a cause was detected.
Gisela Dresdnhoff, courtesy assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Edward Zeller, professor of geology, space technology, astrometry and physics, discuss their recent trip to Antarctica where they studied radioactive materials.
JOHN EISELE/Kansan Staff
In forbidding Antarctica KU profs live, research
By SCOTT KNOX
Staff Reporter
It is the windiest, coldest, driest and most forbidding place on the planet. Here, life is scarce, overnight temperatures are biting cold and volleyball can be a deadly game.
This is Antarctica. Two University of Kansas professors recently returned from an extensive minerals study on this polar continent.
Edward Zeller, professor of geology, space technology, astronomy and physics, and Gisela Dresschoff, courtesy assistant professor of physics and astronomy, spent most of December and half of January in North Victoria Land, about 1,000 miles from the coast. The area was primarily interested in studying the continent's radioactive materials.
"Where we work, we see no life at all," said Zeller, who has spent nine summers in Germany. "We don't think of people as robots."
Zeller and Dreschhoff spent most of the summer working season in a low-flying helicopter, measuring radioactive resources with a gamma ray spectrometer—a device used to radiation in carrying levels available to distinguish between different chemical substances.
URANUM AND THORium, both potential nuclear fuel sources, have been found in some of the most active areas.
But Dresschof's main concern is for the preservation of the environment.
"It's one of the concerns that everyone has." she said.
Dreschoff said that scientists had started the first negotiations on Antarctica's mineral resources. The general interest of both the United States and the Soviet Union, she said, was to maintain and preserve the conditions of the continent.
"It's difficult to say what the outcome will be," she said.
Mineral resources in the polar continent are protected by the Antarctic Treaty, signed in
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1861 by 13 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty maintains scientific cooperation and prohibits political claims until 1981.
"We do have a lot of cooperation under the treaty," Zeller said. "It's the best working treaty there is. But it really doesn't run out and hurries, it just goes up for re-ratification."
YET LIFE IN Antarctica is all mineral exploration and research. Physical activity is
"The most dangerous thing in Antarctica is sports," Zeller said. "We've people rip fingers and dislocate ankles. It's really deadly."
"You don't really have a lot of control over your motions when you are playing on solids."
leer said that the food in Antarctica usu-
self. See DOE page 5