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VOL.100, NO.22 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SEPT. 26, 1989
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Late night in art and design
Teachers visit, supervise work
By Bryan Swan
Kansas staff writer
Despite an accident last March that severely injured a student in the Art and Design Building, students working late nights with little supervision are still the norm, but officials said problems are few.
Jerry C. Moore, associate dean of fine arts, said that the Art and Design Building was frequented by faculty at night.
"We run classes up there at night in drawing, painting and design," he said. "There are probably a lot of youth who drop in from time to time."
James Skinner, an industrial design major and Olathe senior, was seriously injured in March when he fell 25 feet down an open stairwell at the school. He had been rappelling down the stairwell when the accident occurred.
The studios at the Art and Design Building and at Marvin Hall are exercises in both chaos and creativity. The studios are imaginable tool or needed supply.
Late at night music from portable
stereo falls down the lonely, darkened
halftone.
"It's better than studying for most professions, where you just look at books," said Susan Scheer, St. Louis, Mo., junior and third year architecture student. "This way, we've got some real work to do, what it is like in the real world. I plan on getting a job right after I get out of school."
Students work in groups, usually unsupervised by faculty members during the late night sessions. But instructors do drop in from time to
time. The professionalism of the students is what makes the late-night arrangement work, said William M. Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design.
"We have a special agreement with the University because in order to work on large, architectural design projects students need access to equipment," he said. "The students who are going through they choose to do so. We've had relatively few problems caused by keeping it open."
Some architecture studies at Marvin Hall are like second homes, equipped with the latest lock system and computer-generated keys that are issued to students, Lucas said.
"They all have keys to the studio." said Barry Newton, associate professor of architecture and urban design, referring to the students who spend countless hours in studios working on projects. "They can stay up there all night if they like."
Newton said the students usually were not supervised but that faculty members occasionally dropped by.
"Sometimes they are there but not as a matter of purpose," he said of the faculty. "The studio classes meet 12 hours during the week and spend probably twenty hours a week working on projects outside of class."
Some students, however, concentrate more on their future career than possible dangers.
"it's kind of nice here at night," said Melanienie Flynn, Olathe junior and third year design student. "I hope it's like this when I land a real job."
Many students spend late nights on campus working on projects.
Bush offers to reduce chemical weapons stock
The Associated Press
Bush's proposal, in his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly as president, was designed to spur a 40-nation conference in Geneva to ban chemical weapons entirely within 10 years.
UNITED NATIONS — Declaring that the world "has lived too long in the shadow of chemical warfare," President Bush offered yesterday to slash U.S. stocks of such weapons more than 80 percent provided that the Soviet Union reduces to an equal level.
He also used his appearance to salute "freedom's march" around the world — in Hungary, Poland, Latin America and Africa — and to praise the Soviet Union for removing a number of treaties to reduce long-range nuclear weapons, troops and tanks in Europe.
Bush noted progress on those issues and on matters regarding talks last week between Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Lukyanov to hold a summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail K. Gorbachev by early next summer.
"Let us act together, beginning today, to rid the earth of this scourge," Bush said in his comments
on chemical weapons. Shevardnadze said after the speech that the Soviets had "a positive view" of the plan but that it and other Bush proposals "will have to be studied additionally."
Brent Scowcroft, the president's national security adviser, said that the Soviets had been given an outline of the U.S. initiative in advance and that "they really have not responded."
He also told reporters at a briefing that Bush's proposal did not include biological weapons, which some critics consider as deadly as poison gas.
Bush's chemical weapons proposal has three key elements:
The United States was "ready to begin now" by eliminating more than 80 percent of its stockpile while working on a treaty, provided the Soviets also made their cuts.
In the first eight years of a 40nation treaty the United States would destroy nearly all, 98 percent, of its chemical weapons if the Soviet Union joined the ban.
> All U.S. chemical weapons, "100 percent, every one," would be destroyed within 10 years, once all caps were placed on buildings with weapons signed a total ban treaty.
What nations have chemical weapons
There is no official list of countries with chemical weapon capability. However, five countries are known to have them: the United States, the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq and Vietnam. U.S. officials believe 14 others have the capability. President Bush referred to 20 nations in his United Nations speech yesterday but did not name them.
One year ago, during the first
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presidential candidates' debate, Bush had said, "I want to be the one to banish chemical and biological weapons from the face of the earth." The United States has in the past accused the Soviet of developing
biological weapons.
Congress has passed legislation requiring the administration to destroy old chemical weapons by making more advanced weapons are stocked.
Watkins reports recent outbreak of stomach flu
By Holly Lawton Kansan staff writer
If you've been suffering through flu-like symptoms in the past two weeks, you're not alone.
The University of Kansas is experiencing an outbreak of gastroenteritis, commonly called stomach flu, said Dr. Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"We're seeing a lot of it," Yockey said. "Much more than usual at this time of year." He added that five to six students per day had reported symptoms of gastroenteritis in the past two weeks.
Jody Woods, nurse practitioner at Watkins, said that there was no particular reason for the outbreak, but that illnesses often ran rampant at KU at the beginning of the school year.
"We have kids coming in from all different cities, states and countries at one time. They're probably just going to go home and spreading it around," she said.
Yockey said that the illness was extremely contagious and could be spread before symptoms ever occurred. He said students eat or drink after each other
or even by simple casual contact, he said.
He said that it was important not to confuse gastroenteritis with influenza. Although the symptoms can be similar, Yockey said, they are very different illnesses.
"Gastroenteritis can't be prevented by vaccination like influenza can," Yockey said. "It is a self-limited illness."
That means the individual must take the initiative to get rid of the illness, be said. If symptoms occur, a strict diet of clear liquids should be maintained as soon as possible. He said that this helped avoid dehydration, a serious complication of gastroenteritis.
"Solid food will keep the syndrome going," Yockey said.
Common symptoms of gastroenteritis are headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal cramps, Woods said. She added that many students had been experiencing severe cramps.
"In a case like that, when there is severe pain, you need to be seen by a doctor," Yockey said. "It could be the flu, but it could also be something that can't wait, like appendicitis or food poisoning."
D.C. judge orders mother out of jail
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia judge released a physician yesterday who was jailed for more than two years for refusing to let her daughter visit the girl's mother, the woman's former husband.
Elizabeth Morgan emerged from jail in a car with her lawyer, wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit and carrying a dozen yellow roses.
"I feel very happy and very grateful to everyone who has helped me," she said.
Morgan's release was the result of a law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush last week limiting civil contempt in the case of lumbia to 12 in jail. The law expires after 18 months.
Morgan, 41, went to jail voluntarily in August 1867 for contempt of court after refusing to produce her daughter, Hilary, now 7, for court-ordered visits with Hilary's father. Eric Foretch.
She evaded questions outside the jail on whether she had had contact with her daughter during her two years behind bars.
Morgan has alleged that Foret
sexually abused the child.
Foretichdenies
those charges.
Asked whether she had heard
from her daughter, Morgan responded, "Yes, but I won't tell you how." When asked whether she planned to see Hilary, Morgan said, "If I were going to my daughter, I would not tell you."
After a half-hour hearing, Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Alprin signed the order releasing Morgan and two other attorneys in the Court of Appeals earlier in the day.
Elaine Mittleman, attorney for the father, asked the judge to impose conditions on Morgan's release, such as preventing her from leaving the District of Columbia and requiring her to check in with court officials regularly.
Stephen Sachs, Morgan's attorney, called the request "wholly inappropriate and improper."
Alprin said he would like to impose conditions, but the appeals court order did not give him that leeway.
The appeals court left open the possibility of further consideration of Foreitch's challenge to the new law.
Morgan's release will not change her mind about refusing to reveal the girl's whereabouts, her clothing, and an interview outside the courthouse.
Foreitch's attorney maintained in a 12-page filing with the appeals court that the new law was unconstitutional.
Soviets will cut arms spending Government takes radical steps to improve economic outlook
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet government will slash military spending by more than 8 percent and cut its huge deficit in half in a 1900 "crisis" budget made necessary by the nation's poor fiscal health, Soviet Finance Minister Valentin Pavlov said yesterday.
Pavlov made these predictions as he unveiled the proposed budget on opening day of the Supreme Soviet's fall legislative session.
Under dire need for more revenue and fewer expenses, the Kremlin plans to implement a progressive income tax for Soviets earning 700 million dollars more than three times the average wage — and float a $23 billion bond issue, the nation's first, to help finance new construction, Pavlov
The session's sweeping two-month agenda of about 80 bills includes proposals to radically alter some of doing things in Soviet politics.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev presided over the 542-member legislative body, which reconvened at a time of widespread turmoil and discontent caused by the often conflicting demands of the nation's more conservative factions and the private economy's failure to meet many basic needs.
told lawmakers.
Many people were looking to the 4-month-old legislature for solutions. It was given expanded powers and a full-time political role by Gorbachev's drive for democratization. It also happened at the Kremlin and heard government officials give a bleak assessment of recent economic performance.
Deputy Premier Lev Voronin told them, "The dynamism of the economy this year has been steadily falling in many major areas, social and economic issues. The national economy has been losing its balance."
Trying to parry shortages of goods ranging from tea and meat to salt
and matches, the government plan for 1990 calls for a 20 percent increase in factory-made consumer goods, Voronin said, with the total produced by converted defense plants growing by almost 35 percent to $61 billion.
Pavlov said the proposed 1990 budget was designed to shore up the ruble and improve the inadequate social safety net now offered most Sovietis. Pensions for 60 million reti-
lations, paid by an average of 15 percent, Pavlov said. Poor enough rubles are available to go to all who deserve them.
The plan to cut military spending from $119 billion to $109 billion, or by 8.3 percent, is in keeping with a directive from the Congress of People's Deputies to reduce defense spending by 14 percent by 1991. The 1989 Soviet deficit, officially said at one point to equal $192 billion, was greater than the U.S. government's 1989 deficit of $161 billion and relatively more serious because the Soviet economy is much smaller.
Unwanted books fill Watson dumpster
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
The garbage dumpster below Watson Library was full yesterday, but it was not full of what most people consider garbage.
Yesterday, books were garbage.
Tuesday, books were garbage.
The library had to discard about 900 books that were not sold at a duplicate book sale held Sept. 21 and 22, said Rachel Miller, head of the acquisitions department at Watson.
Uaed books fill a trash dumpster behind Waterloo Library
Duplicate books are ones the library already has. The library usually acquires them as gifts from people who move or die, she said.
"We don't have the space to store these books," she said.
Miller said the library had about 8,000 to 11,000 books that were not needed before the sale. Some of those books were business text books that will be given to the Howey Reading Room in Summerfield Hall.
"It always bothers us to have to throw things out in the end," Miller said. "The community and students
Miller said that the library tried to accept only books it wanted but that sometimes it received duplicates.
She said another option was to make a list of the books and offer them to other libraries.
had a chance to buy them. We also attempted to give them away free for half a day."
"But we are not staffed at a level where we can do anything more,"
she said. "If we knew of some other institution that we could give them to we would, but, again, that would cost money.
"We don't want to pass on things we haven't been able to use onto someone else."