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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 100, NO. 33 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY OCT.11,1989
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Atlantis grounded by faulty engine, not protesters
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
Despite a federal judge's ruling that the space shuttle Atlantis could be launched tomorrow with 49.4 pounds of plutonium aboard, the spacecraft will stay grounded temporarily because of a faulty engine controller.
During this time, members of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice, one of the groups that protested to prevent the launch, will appeal the judge's decision, Bruce Gagnon, the coalition's coordinator, said in a telephone interview.
The group was suing to prevent the nuclear-powered space probe Galileo from being launched aboard the shuttle. Galileo is designed to travel to Jupiter and send back pictures of the planet's surface.
NASA officials announced last night that the shuttle could not be launched for at least two days. A malfunctioning device that controls one of the main engines during liftoff must be replaced, officials said.
“This is not abnormal at all,” said Jeff Vincent, NASA spokesman. “There have been numerous delays because of hardware during previous launches.”
Gagnon said that although he was disappointed his group had lost the court case, he was pleased with the publicity the event had received.
"We feel that in a large part we succeeded," he said. "Now, people all over the country are talking about it. Three weeks ago, they weren't."
Two KU groups, the Academic Freedom Action Coalition, a cause-oriented group, and Enviros, a student environmental-awareness group, have been talking about the issue for some time. This week, group members are trying to share their knowledge through their "Plutonium is Forever" campaign.
Deirdre Goldfarb, Environs member, said she and other activists were concerned that a Challenger-like explosion would shower plutonium particles over Florida, contaminating food and water supplies.
She also said protesters were concerned that Galileo would fall into the Earth's gravitational field after it was launched. It will pass by the moon and then collide with Earth, said, coming as close as 185 miles that year.
Yesterday's "Plutonium is Forever" event drew several hundred people, said Lee Manloff, AFAC
member and student organizer of the protests. AFAC and Environs members staged a "Carnival of Death" with music and informative talks.
Maniloff said that protest events, which were scheduled for every day this week, would continue even the shuttle launch was postponed.
"The people who made the decisions are still making the decisions, and yes, we will continue," he said.
Goldbark said that, as of yesterday, protesters had collected about 350 signatures. She said she planned to send the signatures to the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Gagnon said that members of the Florida coalition would attempt to infiltrate the launch area to stop the flight if the appeal attempt failed. He will present the first group of students that will attempt to reach the launch pad at a press conference at 10 a.m. today.
"Whether we reach the launch pad is irrelevant," he said. "We will try. This is an important symbolic gesture."
Patricia Phillips, NASA public information officer, said that secu-
See PLUTONIUM, p. 6
wment Graduate student investigates squirrely activities
Endowment sets record in fiscal'89 Assets reach $233.6 million in book value
By Angela Baughman
Kansan staff writer___
The Kansas University Endowment Association revealed its record-setting fiscal year 1989 figures and elected five new members to its board of trustees at the board's annual meeting Sunday.
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, announced that the association's total book value of assets, which is a combination of solid investment income and fund-raising income, was $233.6 million, up 11.7 percent from fiscal year 1988 total.
"Campaign Kansas was a big part of it and the rest was anticipated annual growth. If assets were grown every year, I would say we weren't doing our job."
Koprowski searches for squirrels in Marvin Grove, east of the Campanile, to observe their behavior.
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One of Kombrowski's subjects peeks around a tree.
Broad-base support has come from hundreds of people who have cooperated and coordinated their efforts.'
Campaign Kansas national chairman
Jordan L. Haines
Campaign Kansas is the University's five-year $177 million fund-raising drive. Jordan L. Haines, national campaign chairman, announced at the meeting that total pledges totaled $136.1 million.
He said that the campaign would reach its goal before the target date of June 30, 1992, and that he was grateful for the wide support of the campaign.
Bernard E. Nordling, Hugeton, an attorney with Kramer, Nordling, Nordling & Tate, graduated with a law degree from KU in 1940.
"I'm grateful from the standpoint that friends of the University have been so generous," Haines said. "Broad-base support has come from hundreds of people who have cooperated and coordinated their efforts."
Seymour said the association's income from investments increased by 3.3 percent, to $22.1 million, and fund-raising income increased by 52 percent, to $26.6 million from 37,000 donations.
Dorothy W. Lynch, Salina, is a member of the Endowment Association's major-donor program, the Chancellors Club. She received a bachelor's degree from the School of Education.
= F.R. "Pete" Talbot, New York, a member of the Management Committee for the First Boston Corp. received both bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from KU.
The association increased direct spending on KU programs and facilities by $1 million more than last year, to $27.7 million. An increase from $5.6 to $6.3 million for the amount spent on scholarships, fellowships, awards and prizes is included in that figure.
Seymour said the new trustees were all dedicated to the University.
▶ Forrest E. Hogland, Dallas, Tex., chairman and chief executive officer of Enron Oil and Gas Co. of Houston, Texas. A degree in mechanical engineering.
John C. Dicus, Topeka, chairman and chief executive officer of Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association, received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Kansas in 1955.
By Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
Rain or shine, summer or winter. John Koprowski can be found with a pair of binoculars in hand gazing up at the trees in the open grass area east of the Campanile.
Koprowski, Cleveland graduate student, has been studying the social structures of gray and fox squirrels at the University of Kansas since May 1986 as research for his doctorate degree.
After more than three years and 1,000 hours of observation, he has marked and monitored 189 squirrels in the 10-acre area of Marvin Grove.
"There's really been little done looking at squirrel social behavior and how that relates to population numbers," Koprowski said. "I've really been able to tell you that they are a good individual squirrels over a good chunk of their lifetimes."
Koprowski said KU was an excellent location at which to study squirrels because the University had one of the
densest urban squirrel populations in the country, second only to a park in Washington.
To study the squirrels, Koprowski lures them into box traps with peanuts. The squirrels enter the boxes and step on triggers that close the lids behind them. Koprowski said he was always nearby, observing the procedure, so he could remove the animals within minutes.
"It doesn't seem like the trapping is very traumatic for them," he said. "I'm really trying to minimize any stress on the animals."
Koprowski then marks the squirrels with numbered ear tags or by shaving small patches of fur and treating them, which causes the fur to grow back white within a few weeks.
During cold weather, he said he marked the squirrels with black spots so their bare skin was not exposed before the white fur could grow back. Each squirrel he catches
See SQUIRREL, p. 6
Koprowski studies the social scene of gray and fox squirrels
Domino's may deliver, but some pro-choicers won't order
KU Democrats wage local pizza boycott
By Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Lawmakers and physicians expected that last summer's Supreme Court decision allowing restrictions on abortions would complicate their lives.
Pizza makes a choice. But pro-choice forces have launched a nationwide boycott of Domino's pizza because of anti-abortion positions supported by the company's owner.
Domine's owner, Tom Monahan of Ann Arbor, Mich., has contributed more than $200,000 to anti-abortion groups, said Pam McElwee, Lawrence sophomore. McElwee is public officer for the KU Democrat, which is sponsoring the local boycott of Pam McElwee on campus and talked about the pizza maker at a table in front of Wescow Hall.
Pizza makers did not.
The National Organization for Women, which called for the nationwide boycott of Domino's, also is suing Monahan, McElwee said. NOW says Monahan allowed anti-abortion groups to use Domino Farms, which
is in Michigan and which NOW says is public, but refused to allow NOW to use it.
"People have been ordering Domino's pizza for years and they didn't know what their money was going for." McElwey said.
"Because Tom Monahan is using his own money to fund an organization he thinks is good, they boycott his organization," said John Noltensmeyer, chairman of Students For America, a campus conservative group. "I think that's the wrong way to go about it. If they want to raise awareness, they should distribute pamphlets or something."
Supporters of Domino's say that 'says'
his death on his please, they say.
At a table in the Kansas Union yesterday, SFA distributed Domino's coupons and discussed various matters with Domino's controversy, with passersby.
Nottennameyer said some people stopped to debate the Domino's question, but for most, Domino's affected only lunch, not liberties.
"We have more people take coupons than stop and talk about it," he said. The SFA members had Domino's pizza delivered for lunch.
Sheila Zuschek, president of the KU Democrats, said she regretted working against local businesses, but
she thought it was necessary.
"We're really just trying to go out and say, 'This is what they are doing.' Make up your own mind,'" said Zuschech, who wore a shirt that said, "Her body. Her choice. Boycott Domino's."
Zaschek, Lawrence senior, said the KU Democrats voted last month to participate in the boycott. She said the official pro-choice position of her group did not necessarily reflect the views of each member.
"We go by majority rule," she said. "But in this case, we didn't even have any dissentions."
Debbie Bengtson, Junction City senior and a member of KU Democrats, agreed that the decision to boycott had not divided the Democrats.
"You're going to have dissension in any club," she said.
She said that the few KU Democrats who were anti-abortion had not been vocal.
See BOYCOTT, p. 6
"I saw it and I couldn't believe it," said Beeker, Prairie Village senior. He added that the College Republicans were trying to stay out of the
Jonathan Beeker, president of the College Republicans, said he had walked by the Democrats' table near Wescoe.
Court denies anti-abortion activists' appeal
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court turned away free-speech arguments yesterday and allowed the use of a federal racketeering law against 28 anti-shortion protesters in Philadelphia.
The Associated Press
The court let stand a successful lawsuit against the protesters by the operators of an abortion clinic in that city.
Similar lawsuits, each invoking the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), have been filed against anti-abortion activists in cities such as Pittsburgh, Chicago and Brookline, Mass.
Using the federal law lets those who win suits collect three times whatever financial damages they prove, a feature not available in many sued filed under state law. In the Philadelphia case, the clinic operators were awarded about $2,600 in triomed RICO damages.
The litigation strategy has proved troubling to some pro-choice advocates, who fear that political protesters will be labeled "racketeers" and held financially liable for nothing more than expressing their views.
For example, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Antonio Calilla recently wrote: "The ACLU believes that civil RICO's potential for chilling First Amendment rights of expression is enormous."
But in upholding a $108,000 award against the 26 Philadelphia protesters last March, the 3rd U.S. Court of Appeals said their actions "went beyond ... constitutional rights of speech and protest."
The protesters on four occasions from 1984 to 1986 unlawfully entered the Northeast Women's Center in Philadelphia. According to trial testimony, protesters threw medical supplies on the floor, damaged equipment, assaulted the clinic's employees and harassed patients.
"This is one battle in a long war," said Michael McMonagle, one of the 35 Philadelphia protesters and executive director of the anti-abortion Coalition of Southeast Pennsylvania.
"We intend to continue our efforts to non-violently save children and mothers from abortion at the abortion facilities. This case will not deter that one bit." McMonagle said.
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