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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.16 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY SEPT. 18, 1989
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Student alumni win host bid
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Student Alumni Association will play host to the September 1980 SAA/Student Foundation convention.
The association won the honor at the 1989 convention this weekend at East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
The association presented a 10-minute presentation for the convention titled "Escape to Mount Oread—Looking to the '90s," which included a video, speech and skit. The presentation helped the association win a majority vote from approximately 800 delegates, said Laura Graham,
Association edges out UCLA
the association's president.
"This is so very rewarding because we worked so long and hard on it," she said. "We were very visible and enthusiastic."
enfluence.
Given Wichita senior, said KU
edged out UCLA a year after
planning and working on the presentation.
"It it was very apparent that we had worked long and hard," she said. "I don't even know how to describe the feeling — totally ecstatic."
Loren Taylor, director of membership development for the University of Kansas Alumni Association, accompanied 19 student alumni association members and Judy Ruedlinger, the Alumni Association's adviser, to the convention.
"The only thing I can liken it to was when the clock \*u\ n out in the national championship." 'Aylar said. "I think this is a big thing for KU."
Andrew Fox, student alumni association member, said there was also a five-minute question-and-answer session in which delegates could ask
anything about KU and UCLA. He said questions ranged from what the weather would be like to what kind of nightlife Lawrence had.
Taylor said he was impressed with the professionalism shown by the students.
"It was a three day effort," he said. "The students were remarkable because they got to know over 800 people in that amount of time."
Graham said the association, which has about 100 student members, would complete the bulk of its convention preparations late in the spring semester, although some details have already been worked out, such as a schedule and budget.
Residents cash in on front yard lots
Football fans park on the grass
By Liz Hueben Kansan staff writer
Illinois Street just north of Memorial Stadium bustled Saturday morning.
It was game day and that meant business to this neighborhood. The business is parking cars — wherever they'll fit.
Parking has been a moneymaker for as long as most of these residents can remember. Some homeowners said they had been using their lawns and driveways for profit for 30 years or more.
Ben and Myrtle Grewing have one of the biggest lots in the neighborhood and said they had been using it to accommodate football ticket holders for 30 years.
The Grewings have many regulars who have been parking in their yard for up to 25 years, Myrtle Grewing. Many of them are season-ticket holders who attend every home game.
On Saturday, the cars in the Grewings' lot played host to tailgate parties. Several people in the yard said they liked to park at the Grewings' because it was always a lot of fun.
Mrs. Grewing said she and her husband typically made $80 to $120 per game.
Most of the neighborhood's residents said a typical Saturday yielded $80.
Kathy Daniels, the Grewings' neighbor, said, "There is kind of an agreement among the neighbors that we would all charge the same amount. $5."
The charge at almost any of the makeshift lots in the neighborhood is $5 for the day. Parking in the stadium's lots costs $3.
"It's a really fun time. It's not a competitive thing, unless someone jumps out in front of you and yells '$2.'"
Lawrence residents Tom Cole and Steve Michnick have a different approach. They don't use the hard-sell tactic. While their neighbors run around in the streets with signs and partially hoarse voices, they lie back on the street. They live outside the stadium, they live only four houses from the stadium.
"We don't over-exert ourselves," Cole said. "We just wait until everyone one else runs out of room for the cars and leaves, or give any problem filling up our yard."
Like many of the students living in that neighborhood, Cole and Michnick use the money to have parties. Because they would could assure them a keg of beer.
Acacia fraternity members also charge for parking.
Steve Randle, Acacia member, said the money they collected would be used for pledge funds.
He said the members of the fraternity, at 11th and Indiana streets, had been lackadaisical in charging for parking so far this season, but that was going to change.
Randle said the parking business was their main fund-raiser and that they would probably use the money for a pledge party.
Myrtle Grewing pays her taxes with money from game parking.
Game days mean big bucks for city merchants
By Steve Buckner
Kansan staff writer
Crisp air, tailgate parties, band music, the roar of the crowd and the ringing of cash registers all over town.
Ah. football Saturdays
Many Lawrence merchants agree that there's nothing quite like a game day to stimulate sales.
"We have lines out of the door," said Melissa Bottorff, head waitress at Buffalo Bob's Smokehouse, 719 Massachusetts St. "We'll be busy for four hours steady."
Jaci Eckert, manager of The Palace, Eighth and Massachusetts streets, said she liked to get into the
Bottorff said the restaurant averaged a 50 percent increase in business on game days.
spirit of the day to attract business to her card and gift shop.
"Any time you bring in 15,000 people from Kansas City, Wichita or wherever, it sure helps," he said. But we may do just as well next season with students coming in to shop instead of the crowd at the game."
Tim Arensberg, co-owner of Arensberg Shoes, 825 Massachusetts St., said his store stayed open an extra hour to accommodate fans after the game.
"We try to be festive by hanging KU wind socks outside and having red and blue balloons," she said. "Our sales increase 20 to 30 percent of a normal Saturday."
"It's the busy time of year for us," said Dana Sail, director of sales for the Holiday Inn Holdmile 200 W. Chevy Road. "We're next week, too."
Officials of two local motels said they were staying busy with and without football fans.
She said the Holidome had been sold out for the remainder of the season for six to eight months.
The Eldridge Hotel, 701 Massachusetts St., also is booked solid for the remaining game weekends, as well as this weekend, said Kurt Mathews, guest services manager.
Mike Huntington, bellman at the Eldridge, said he noticed a difference between guests in town for a football game and those in town on business.
"It's a vacation atmosphere," he said of a game weekend. "People are freer with their money and have a little more fun."
Mathews said the Eldridge was
booked a year in advance for football weekends. He said that he was swamped with calls for rooms and that he referred people to other motels in town and then to motels in Topeka, Kansas City and Ottawa.
Joe Flannery, president of Weaver's Inc. Department Store, 901 Massachusetts St., said his sales dropped slightly whenever KU had a home game.
"We normally do a little bit better when the team is on the road," he said. "And you can see why, when there are 30,000 fans in the stands, and most of them are from Lawrence.
"Still, I would not trade a home football game for anything because of its excitement and atmosphere for the town."
'Open door' has U.S. preparing for Soviet surge
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Now that the doors of the Soviet Union have opened after 20 years of American knocking, the United States is faced with the dilemma of handling an unprecedented surge of Soviet emigres.
Critics charge the administration's response, as presented this week on Capitol Hill after seven months of deliberations, is inadequate, unimaginative and risks missing a historic opportunity.
Some say the U.S. government could learn a thing or two from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's open door policy.
The administration argues it is doing its best in the face of shrinking budgets and the problem of dealing with 14 million refugees worldwide, many of whom would like to move to the United States.
Of the 125,000 refugee slots allocated for fiscal 1990 — that starts Oct. 1 — 50,000 will be reserved for Soviet applicants, most of whom are Jews.
An internal State Department report used by Immigration and Naturalization officers in Moscow concluded that glasnost, with its liberalized rights to free speech and press, has spawned discrimination against Jews throughout the Soviet Union.
Religious groups and many on Capitol Hill also argue that Gorbachev's reforms and his political future are by no means assured success, and their failure could
The administration predicts as many as 150,000 Soviet Jews will apply for refugee status in fiscal 1990. Jewish groups say as many as 500,000 Jews may seek to come here in the coming years if the doors remain open, especially in light of rising anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.
Members of Congress say if tight budgets are the problem keeping more Soviets from coming to the United States, "creative financing" should be considered.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, suggested the government help additional refugees by lending them money for their relocation, which would be paid back once they're settled.
strand thousands of persecuted people wishing to leave.
"When the faucets start open... the United States finds itself totally incapable of dealing with the very high cost of rep. Speak Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif."
The administration agreed. "The United States is to some degree a victim of its own success," said Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eadleburger.
But he argued that although the demand for liberalized Soviet emigration was a cornerstone of U.S. policy for nearly 20 years, "never was it said that the U.S. has an obligation to take them all."
He urged other countries, like Western European states, Australia and Israel, to share the burden.
Israel may be the only clear beneficiary of the surge of emigration, which could go a long way to beeping up the Jewish population and countering a growing Arab population domestically and in neighboring states. Israel officials said privately this week that once Soviet Jews realize their entry to the United States was sharply restricted, they might choose Israel.
Hope is disintegrating in East German cities
The Associated Press
LEIPZIG, East Germany — Outside of East Berlin, the country's showcase capital, East Germans live in dreary and decaying cities where nagging shortages and chronic pollution aggravate a rigidly regulated life.
"Everywhere you look outside the city centers, where most foreignigners go, the country is disintegrating. It's crumbling before your eyes," said Helmut Lange, a Leipzig student who recently joined an exodus to the West.
Although East Germany's standard of living is the envy of its Eastern European neighbors, thousands are embarrassing the Communists by fleeing shortly before next month's 40th anniversary celebrations.
Many of them come from the provincial cities where life is the toughest and the harsh crackdown on dissent is a universal complaint. Travel to the West is severely restricted.
The appeal of West Germany is especially strong. Unlike most other refugees, East Germans are granted automatic citizenship and help in building new lives immediately after their arrival in West Germany.
Most have left family and possessions behind to flee their bleak homeland.
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In East Berlin, the Communist leadership has invested millions in modern, concrete housing blocks and launched an ambitious building and restoration program — part of an effort to compete with the Western part of the city.
But rural and regional capitals have withered and decayed. Provincial residents face an awesome shortage of materials and construction labor.
Young singles in this nation of more than 16 million can expect to wait up to 10 years for an apartment of their own.
"After I left home, I ended up in a dormitory and had to share a room with two other women," said Renate Friese, 23, who recently joined three other young friends in the trek to the West.
More than 15,000 East Germans have crossed Hungary's border to the West in the week since Budapest suspended a treaty with East Berlin and allowed the refugees free passage. In all, 25,000 have either fled or crossed legally through Hungary since May, the largest movement of East Germans to the West since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961.
Male women's studies major accustomed to being in minority
Kansan staff writer
Bv Stacy Smith
Todd Rowlett, Chicago senior, is a minority in his choice of major. Rowlett is Black, gay and a professed feminist, but even those attributes do not make him stand out from his classmates.
The fact is that Rita is in the only male student at the University of Kansas who is matriculating in women's studies.
"It's been a personal growth issue for me," he said. "I've had some very influential women in my life who guided me. That's probably the reason that I decided to major in women's studies."
Ann Schofield, director of the women's studies program, said that 14 students were listed as women's
studies majors but that the unofficial estimate was closer to 20. She said that although women dominated the major, the number of men taking women's studies courses was growing.
"It's a major that's more attractive to women, but there's no bias against men," Schofield said. "There are many men enrolled in the classes."
Women's studies courses began at KU in 1972. Four years later, the classes developed into a major. Schofield said the classes developed from the women's studies department and were designed to bring into view people who hadn't
"The classes teach the whole range of history and how it relates to women, including the history of the family, the suffrage movement, the work place and feminism," she said.
Rowlett said he could relate to women's studies because of the image of women being nominal in society.
"Being Black and being gay, I've felt like that a lot. I can totally relate to it," he said. "I think I'm just beginning to appreciate the various differences about people as a whole."
"This major has allowed me to discover how incredibly wonderful the differences between men and women are."
"You need to look at other groups of people from a different perspective," he said. "I would say that men would not only learn about women, but they'd learn
Rowlett said he would encourage other men to take at least one women's studies course, regardless of their major.
Laura Alexander, Reklew, Texas, junior, said she also thought people should take a course in women's studies. She said the male perspective of issues was all that most students were exposed to throughout the educational system.
about themselves as well."
Sofield said that any type of job was available for someone with a degree in women's studies. She said students also could combine the major with another area of study to open job opportunities in other fields.
Students with women's studies degrees could find jobs in civil service, social work and journalism, or they could go to law school or graduate school, she said.
Rowlett said he planned either to go into public relations work or to attend graduate school.