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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 100, NO. 21 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY
SEPT. 25, 1989
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Hugo hits home for KU student
By Kate Lee Kansan staff writer
For most KU students, Hurricane Hugo was pictures and words on a television screen.
But for Carmen M. Perez,
Lawrence graduate student, the storm 1,500 miles away was more than words and pictures.
Peres's mother and brother live in Puerto Rico's capital city, San Juan. Her mother lives in a highrise apartment building on the northern coast.
"I was pretty worried after seeing the pictures on TV of what it had done," Perez said. "It was pretty impressive.
“For some reason, I couldn’t get a call through to her. You couldn’t get a line. There was a recording telling you that the lines were down because of the hurricane on Wednesday, she called me.”
She said that her mother did not immediately leave her 14th floor apartment, but eventually moved inland to her son's home.
Perez said that the people living in the penthouse of her mother's building endured the storm in their apartments.
Her mother told her that those people said they stood in the hallway during the storm and could feel the building swaying.
"Half of that floor blew out," she said. "I can't even imagine that experience".
Perez, who has lived in the United States since 1972, remembered being in a hurricane when she was very young.
"When I was little, I remember there being a kind of excitement about it," she said. "We didn't have school and we could sit home in the dark and listen to our parents tell stories. We weren't really aware of the situation."
Perez said that she had talked to her mother again since Wednesday and that everyone in her family was OK.
"My mom is back home, although there is no water or electricity," she said.
KU grad on East Coast stares Hugo in the eye
By Tom Stinson Special to the Kansan
NEW BERN, N.C. — Somehow, hurricane destruction seemed so distant when I lived in Kansas. The news reports and footage of trees being uprooted and buildings being flattened were always from other parts of the world.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News / PAUL SOUTAR
Oh, I knew that hurricanes were killer storms and that one usually demolished some coastal city every year. But to me, they were just storms with high winds and flooding. I never was affected, until now.
Tom Stinson 1989 KU graduate
But, even living on the coast, I still downplayed the disaster, such as sarcastically coming up with hurricane names and joking about my storm supplies — an industrial flashlight and some beer and pretzels.
Heck, having the opportunity to experience a hurricane alert really was appealing to me — it was living on the coast, I reasoned.
'It's a chess match for your life, and you don't get to make a move.'
On Wednesday, I entered the John Morton music company and blurred out an anxious, "Man, you think it's gonna hit us?"
John looked up from a hurricane tracking map and responded, "God, lets hope not." His words were filled with emotion, but they were emotionless. It was the most serious comment I had ever heard
The friend, John Morton, owns a music store off the Neuse River in downtown New Bern. John's store is how others want their stores to be. His store is classy.
That appeal ceased after talking to a friend. Actually, it ceased when I looked into and through a child's eyes Wednesday afternoon.
from the usually laid-back John, but it wasn't the seriousness of his words that alarmed me. John's eyes alarmed me.
Terror wasn't in John's eyes. It wasn't that simple.
John's entire life was in that store, not unlike hundreds of other businessmen along the coast. That store is all he owns, and here he was tracking something that could be the demise of his store.
Would it hit? Where would it hit?
How much would be gone?
In his eyes burned a mixture — panic, fear, anger, anxiety, uncertainty. Was Hugo slow death or was production? Ask those in Charleston.
His plight was what virtually everyone went through in some form or another last week. Those last few days the questions stung — will your house stand? will you use your boat again? will carrying your possessions to higher ground help? what good would boarding your windows do?
It's a chess match for your life, and you don't get to make a move. A hurricane is unlike any other disaster I can imagine. There is the tornado season in Kansas, but if a tornado hits, it's often so quick that there is little time to react, let alone time to fathom its power and predict its path.
Oh, there were those who acted
relaxed. There were some in New Bern, and I'm sure there were some in Charleston. "This happens every year. Everybody always panics, and we never get hit."
Maybe downplaying Hugo was the best medicine. Maybe they'll never know.
The old-timers relived the direct hit of New Bern of the 1950s — Hazel, a killer storm in '54, and Ione, in '55. Their memories were warnings. All the old-timers' windows were boarded up.
Hugo didn't hit us. We just experienced a day of thunderstorms and cancellations. Hugo hit someplace else, this time Charles-
But, in Charleston, there is a John Morton who plotted the points and listened to the reports and secured his store and hoped and prayed.
In Charleston, there is a John Morton who lost everything. There is a John Morton whose eyes are empty.
Tom Stinson is a May 1989 KU graduate and a former Kansan staff member. He is now the sports editor at the Sun-Journal in New Bern, N.C.
AIDS projects try to educate local residents
By Melanie Matthes
**Common staff writes**
Kansan staff writer
After having two close friends die of AIDS, Richard Lynch decided that it was time to get involved.
"One friend had no support from the community and that was wrong," he said.
Lynch, chairman of client services for the Douglas County AIDS Project, volunteered when the project began last fall.
The Douglas County project is an outgrowth of the Topeka AIDS Project, said Thomas Christie, executive chairman.
Christie said project board members hoped the Douglas County organization would be able to function independently by November.
He said the project would offer educational services to Douglas County residents and direct support to car care services to people with AIDS.
Members of the Topeka project estimated that by fall 1990 there would be 10 people with AIDS in Douglas County, he said.
The Douglas County project now has four clients, Christie said. He said because services were not yet available in Douglas County, those four people were to go Topeka or Pasas City, Mo., for support services.
Local project members will meet next week with an advisory council to determine what kinds of educational institutions in Douglas County, Christie said.
"Direct service is extremely important," he said. "But I think that
the educational services are just as important. If we can educate, then I think that's where our hope lies in this project."
Project volunteers complete a training course called AIDS 101, Lynch said. The course teaches sensitivity to AIDS and death.
"It tells you what the virus is, how you can get it, how you can't get it and what kinds of protection to use against it," he said.
Volunteers who want to be involved in home health care attend a second training course that teaches volunteers for critically ill people, Lynch said.
Members of the project hope to offer the home health care training course in Douglas County by January or February. Lynch said.
He said he would like to have eight to 10 trained volunteers who could offer direct health care services to AIDS patients.
Christie said volunteers also could work in areas outside of direct health care.
He said volunteers were needed to organize educational and fund-raising projects.
Joanna Jones, a Lawrence resident who attended an informational meeting about the project Sunday, said needed to declare a war on AIDS.
"This thing is rolling," she said.
"It's like a forest fire. It's really moving and no one is doing anything about it."
Those interested in volunteering for the local project can get information from Headquarters, at 841-2345.
The Associated Press
Sandinistas pick Ortega as presidential nominee
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The ruling Sandinista party late yesterday named President Daniel Ortega to head its slate of candidates for next year's elections and picked Vice President Sergio Ramirez as his running mate.
Interior Minister Tomas Borge introduced the nominations during the daylong convention, and the 1,746
delegates approved the choices by acclamation.
Ortega, 44, who led the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power with the 1979 overthrow of dictator Rafael Trujillo, has been expected to win the nomination.
He will run against the opposition coalition candidate, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, publisher of the newspaper La Prensa, in Feb. 25 elections.
Bush announces plans for '90 summit in U.S.
The Associated Press
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — President Bush, disclosing plans for a 190 summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said Saturday he hoped the talks would produce an agreement on arms control.
Baker and Shevardnadze signed a chemical weapons accord and a half-two dozen other agreements aimed at lowering superpower tensions during talks in Jackson Hole over the nuclear weapons agreement for inspection of U.S. and Soviet underground nuclear weapons test.
The president also said he was "very pleased" with agreements reached by Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shewardnadze during talks at Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Bush took a break from golfing through a rainstorm with his national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, to receive a phone call from Baker on the 10th hole at the Cape Arundel golf course. He summoned reporters to tell them the news.
The president said he hoped that the summit would produce agreements on arms control and added that "there'll be plenty of other things to discuss in addition to arms control."
Asked what he hoped to achieve in the meeting, the president said he would be talking about reaching a common goal and giving chance for agreement of that nature.
"We will be continuing to work on the arms control agenda," Bush said regarding possible accomplishments. "It's not my view that sums must have arms control agreements, but we're going to be working toward it."
The president, in a written statement released by the White House in Kennebunkport, said: "I envision a broad discussion of the full agenda that the two sides have established — human rights, bilateral relations, arms control, regional issues and transnational issues."
Bush said the summit with Gorbachev would be held in late spring or early summer most likely in Washington, which he described as "proper for this one." He added, "Undoubtedly it will be in the United States."
Bush said that there was a commitment by the Soviets to hold the summit in the United States and that he had discussed it with Shevaradnazde when they met in the Oval Office last week.
Asked about the timing of the summit next year, Bush said, "It could be sooner, but this is the agreed timetable." He said it would give time for the bureaucracy to "move forward on a lot of frons" and work on a more results-oriented summit.
On another topic, Bush was asked whether the resignation of Colombia's Monica de Greff, who has been the target of death threats from drug lords, meant that the drug lords were not faded by the crackdown against them. Bush said, "I don't think so."
Record-low cold marks first day of fall
Bush told reporters that at the summit he would be "going forward in every way to achieve further arms reductions."
Bv Travis Butler
Kansan staff writer
Fall officially began Friday. And Jack Frost made sure it was noticeable as a high-pressure bubble of cold air from Central Canada and record-low temperatures hit northeast Kansas.
On Saturday night the temperature dropped to a record-low 31 degrees in Topeka, said Ernie Cobb, a National Weather Service meteorologist. The former record low had been 35 degrees.
In Lawrence, the temperature fell to 36 degrees by 7 a.m. Sunday, said Mark Bonger, KU Weather
Service observer. The record low temperature, set
But temperatures should be warming this week, Cobb said.
"The large high-pressure system that brought us the cold has moved east to the Ohio Valley," he said. "The cold spell is over for now."
Although there should be a slight drop in temperatures tomorrow, it should be dry and mild through Thursday, he said.
"There will be a little cooling Tuesday, with temperatures in the 60s," Cobb said. "But it'll be back to the 70's by Thursday, more or less to
"What happened was there was a dip, or trough, in the jet stream," he said. "Hugo caused this trough to become bigger, bringing super-cold air down from Canada."
Bogner said the cold weather was related to Hurricane Hugo's passage Friday through the East Coast.
Bogner said that although temperatures should mellow this week, fall weather patterns have definitely arrived.
"We're definitely out of the summer pattern now," he said.
Stacory Gore/KAN5AN
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A sprinkle a day
Bill Olin, Lawrence resident, waters his lawn at 1512 Massachusetts St. Olin took advantage of sunny skies in some yard work.