VOL. 101, NO. 61
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1990
Bush rallies support in gulf
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PARIS — President Bush yesterday began a series of meetings with allied leaders aimed at solidifying support for his Persian Gulf policies. He urged German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to take a more active role.
in confronting Iraq's "challenges to peace and freedom."
During a rain-drenched half day in Germany, Kohl cautioned Bush against pursuing a military solution before exhausting all avenues of solution. Bush said he, too, would like to see a peaceful solution to the crisis.
The president then traveled to Paris for a 34-nation summit of North American and European nations. It was the third stop on an eight-day trip highlighted by the signing today of a conventional forces treaty with
the Soviet Union and Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
Bush was French President Francois Mitterrand's dinner guest yesterday and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was high on the agenda. Like Kohl, is stressing a non-military outcome to the Persian Gulf crisis.
In Rome, meanwhile, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said new ideas had emerged to avert a war.
Bush and Gorbachev plan to meet during breakfast tomorrow.
Bush is seeking to build support for a U.N. resolution authorizing military action to drive Iraq's Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater shrugged off Iraq's announcement that it would release the hostages it had been holding, letting them go in groups between Christmas and March 25.
The United States dismissed the offer and demanded the unconditional release of the captives. It noted that President Saddam Hussein earlier had selectively freed hundreds of hostages.
Iraq makes Christmas gesture with plan to release hostages
Yesterday, a U.S.-chartered jet
lair carrying 133 passengers,
most of them Americans living in
Kuwait, left bagback for London.
The last of the "guests," as Iraq calls the foreigners, will leave by March 25, " unless something would take place that mars the atmosphere of peace." the news agency stated
The Associated Press
Iraq is holding hundreds of Westerners and has sent some to strategic sites as human shields.
Paralyzed student full of optimism about the future
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
"Whenever you think you are at the end of your rope, just tie a knot and hold on."
Billy Snyder, former football player or the New England Patriots
W when times seem to get tough for KU student Jeff Gorman, he remembers those words by Stingley.
Gorman, who is paralyzed from the waist down, said he and the former football player, now paralyzed from the neck down after a philosophy play, shared a similar philosophy about life.
Stingley's words, published in an anthology of works about parallysis, stuck in Gorman's mind. (It would have been good to
"You don't have to be paralyzed to know that life can be tough." Gorman said. "You may think it hard for me but I consider myself lucky compared to quadriplexes.
A quadriprimate person has complete paralysis of the body from the neck down
Gorman, once a high school basketball player at Shawnee Mission East in Prairie Village, said he never would be satisfied in a wheelchair.
"I can't say that I will ever be totally
sure," I talk to him. "I walk, he said, "I will
never fully accept it."
Since the day of his accident, his progress toward his senior year at the University of
Kansas has been difficult at times, he said.
The night of the accident on January 1, 1988, Gorman had been drinking at parties with some friends in Kansas City, Kan. About a 3 m., german, said he decided to eat at the International House of Pancakes on Shawnee Mission Parkway.
With an acquaintance coming along to eat, Gdriver drove a friend's car down Shawneensboro.
Gorman said a policeman followed him on the parkway because he was speeding. In a panic, Gorman tried to lose the policemen by speeding onto Interstate Highway 35
He was going about 70 miles an hour when he lost control on an exit ramp. The car crashed into a guard rail and flipped over it, dropping down a 40-foot incline.
"I was a kid," he said. "I that a growing up period afterwards
The passenger suffered a black eye and a mild concussion. Gortman said.
"Not much happened to her but I feel bad just the it did, he said. I would have been able to live with myself if something had happened to her."
W with many broken bones, punctured lungs and a bruised spinal cord, the road to recovery was not easy for Gorman
"I have good days and I have bad days, just like everyone else," he said. "It was like
being a baby again in the beginning I had to relearn how to do everything."
In late February 1988, Gorman left the University of Kansas Medical Center, where for weeks he had been in critical condition. He went to Florida to participate in the Miami Project, a rehabilitation program at the University of Miami.
In Miami, Gorman gained back some of the 40 pounds he had lost since the accident and his family moved to Florida.
Gorman said the spinal-cord injury program in Miami surpassed others in the nation.
"All they (other programs) want to do is get you where you can take care of yourself and get in a wheelchair for the rest of your life," Gorman said. "In Miami, they're more optimistic. They'll get you a lot further. They'll build your legs and muscles. They're going to get you out and walking with braces."
German said the support he received from his parents, five brothers and two sisters was astonishing. "We are very grateful," he said.
Gorman's mother, Liz, said Gorman always was determined to recover.
"You don't realize he is disabled because he makes you at ease," she said. "Out of all the people of them would have had to have an account, mind Jeff handle it the best and he $$$!"
See GORMAN. p. 5
Jeff Gorman was paralyzed from the waist down after a 1988 car accident
Trafficway opponents file lawsuit
Kansan staff writer
Bv Elicia Hill
The lawsuit, filed in Douglas County District Court, also sought a restraining order from the court to expenditures county expenditures on the roadway.
Citizens for Appropriate Roads and Environmental Safeguards filed a lawsuit frist protecting the explainer video for the South Lawrence Pewsbelt ballot for the South Lawrence Pewsbelt
Commissioner Mike Amyx said a statement about the lawsuit would be released today at the Douglas County Commission meeting.
In addition to the CARES group, two Lawrence residents, Tim Miller, assistant professor of religion, and suing the county commissioners, are suing the county commissioners.
Boyer explained her reasons for filing the suit.
"I was concerned when I read that the explanatory statement said the bond would not raise taxes, because that was a blatant lie." she said. "The taxes have been raised since 1986 when the bonds were first approved by the county commissioners for representation, and I'm tired of treating the population of Lawrence as spoon-fed idols."
The lawsuit states that the ballot question was incomplete, confusing and misleading when it told taxpayers their taxes would not be raised.
■ The exact amount failed to mention that the annuity leased for $230,000 in taxes every year to pay for the bonds.
- The ballot led the voters to believe that a negative vote would result in an overall increase in tax bills by $128,000 in additional property taxes to defuse the bill, but it failed to mention that rejection of the trafficway would result in a $207,000 reduction of taxes each year.
■ The explanatory statement said that no new bonds would be issued for the trafficway, but the bonds would pay only for the initial two lanes of the trafficway. In other words, the principal Impact Statement, the proposed trafficway is a four-lane highway.
The lawsuit also states, "The issuance of no future bond issuances in regard to the South Lawrence Trafficway as proposed is a mistreatment of the law, in that current county commissioners do not have
This bologna care package had no first name or second
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
Members of a citizen action group received letters full of bologna Friday after a lawsuit against the city's South Lawrence Traffictail law.
Four members of the Citizens for Appropriate Roads and Environmental Safeguards each retaining a piece of bologna with an attached note that stated, "For your support of CARED — The Coalition of Assholes and Retards Enlightened Development.
Each envelope had a 50-cent postmark. The typed letter did not include a signature or return address.
Don Strole, CARES attorney,
said he showed the bologna letter
he received to his 12-year-old son
Most of the recipients laughed off the matter, but the letter communicated an unspoken message to each of them.
"Last week, I received a threatening phone call from a real estate agent who said he was very angry about real estate being tied up over this," he said. "This just shows me that any time that you stand up for your rights you risk being ostracized for it."
Les Bleivens Sr., who sued the county last year for the right to vote on bond issuances, said he had received the mail being used for the prank.
"This also makes us feel really good that someone is so worried about our organization that they would go to this much effort," he said. "Someone wants this roadway very, very, very tough. These people want this road at all costs, or someone is kind of sick."
Tim Miller, assistant professor of religion, also received the letter. Miller is out of town until Wednesday, but his wife, Patty, opened the letter yesterday. She responded with laughter.
as an example of the extent vindictive people would go to.
Jeffery Stephens, treasurer for GAGES, said he thought the letters were written because the person responsible is riding behind a veil of anonymity.
Patty Boyer, who also is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said she was disappointed because she did not receive the letter.
"The person who mailed this is a coward," he said. "I do have some concern that they don't move to more violent actions though."
"I if I could enshrine this as a memorial to an ignorant person, I would," he said. "But I'll keep it only long enough to show my girlfriend. She'll get a good laugh out of it."
Don Strole, the attorney for CARES, said that the lawsuit was a precedent on explanatory statements be clarified for future election issues.
to eat the meat, 'she said.
Most recipients said they would throw away the meat, except for Stephens.
the power to so limit any future county commissions."
The $4-million bond originally was issued in 1986 under the county's home rule authority. However, the law locked after a Lawrence resident, Blevins Sr., sued the county for issuing the bonds without vet approval.
"I feel left out," she said.
The proposed South Lawrence Trafficway has been an issue since 1986.
"We cannot allow the county to get away with this outrageous explanatory statement," he said. "All we've ever asked from the Blowes case is now that the county hold a fair up-and-down election. They have consistently taken every advantage to slant election issues."
The court did allow the commission to keep the bonds, but the county may hold an advisory election to determine what voters thought about the issue.
The case finally was decided in the state Supreme Court this year, and it changed home rule authority of commissions across Kansas. The court ruled that never again would a commission be allowed to issue general obligation bonds in that amount without voter approval.
Final results of the Nov. 6 South Lawrence Trafficway ballot were 13,679 "yes" votes to 10,815 "no" votes.
Strole said he thought that the public was swayed by the explanatory statement.
Douglas County Commissioners Nancy Hiebert and Louie McElhaney could not be reached for comment yesterday.
County could spend $480,000 to prevent plowing of prairie
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
In the pre-dawn hours yesterday 30 acres of the fragile Elkins Prairie were plowed.
Jack Graham, owner of the 80 acres of prairie in the northwest corner of the intersection of U.S. Highway 2 and County Route 13 in Dauphin County, decided he could plow his private property and legally he was right.
But at sunrise, the sight of the tilled prairie appalled not only environmentalists but also city and county officials.
Responding to the public outcry, the officials arrived at the site and asked Graham not to plea anymore.
He agreed but gave the county officials a 5:30 p.m. ultimatum; they said the land if they wanted it. If not, he was sent the best of the 50 acres, the officials said.
Graham could not be reached for comment.
The Douglas County Commission called an emergency meeting at 4
p. m. yesterday to respond to Graham's request.
Kim Forehand, Lawrence graduate student, said 16 concerned citizens and local officials were at the meeting.
After an executive session to discuss the land acquisition, the county announced that it would purchase an option to buy the property with 10 percent down for Graham's price of $6,000 an acre. This would be a deposit of $490,000, including plus $48,000, and percent down payment. Graham wanted a commitment from the county last night.
However, county officials were still negotiating with Graham's attorney, Tom Murray, at midnight yesterday to ensure the exact financial arrangements.
Elkins Prairie is the sight of two environmentally protected species, Mead's milkweed and the western prairie fringed orchid.
Both of these plants receive federal protection under the Threatened and
Endangered Species Act.
Carol Kuhn, Lawrence graduate student, said the commission fears that federal assistance for the South Lawrence Trafficway could be lost upon the department's contingent upon the trafficway not being interfering any federally protected vehicle.
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Commission will have to determine if this act of plowing has impacted or endangered the species," she said. "The funding could be pulled if the species were in danger."
Kindersch, along with several other KU students, camped out near the property last night in an effort to prevent theft from plowing any more of the land.
"It's our local wilderness," he said.
He said the prairie could be saved if the sod were flipped back over.
Law students want recruiters banned
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
A group of KU law students is concerned that KU's anti-discrimination policy is not being observed by prospective employers recruiting at them, and that no action to ban those employees from the campus is being taken.
Tom Emerson, third-year law student, said the Judge Advocate General Corps, which is not an equal organization, allowed to recruit at the law school.
Emmerson said he and four other law students approached the dean of law two weeks ago and asked why the AG Corps had been allowed to storm alumnus when its policy directly conflicted with the University's policy.
"I would like to see some employers actually banned for their discrimination policy." Emerson said.
The Defense Department policy conflicts with KU's anti-discrimination policy, which states that a student may not be denied the right of
The JAG Corps is a group of attorneys that works for the Department of Defense, which has a written code of conduct and rules on the basis of sexual orientation.
"We're looking to the placement center to set the tone," Brinkman said.
"We do not require any employer to sign any kind of form," Six said.
Brinkman said Academic Affairs let each placement center decide which recruiters to allow on campus.
"Non-discrimination should be the guide in any decisions regarding prospective employers," Brinkman said.
She said employers were aware of KU's anti-discrimination policy. Prospective employers do not have to believe that KU's policy with a written statement
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the anti-discrimination policy protected students from discrimination in all University activities including placement activities.
Linda Ski, director of career services at the law school, said the Army, Navy and Air Force JAG corps had been assigned to the law school to recruit in September.
access to or participation in any KU activity because of race, religion, sex, disability, national origin, political affiliation, age or sexual orientation.
Terry Glenn, University Placement director, said the University Placement Center would not allow students to work at the center's facilities if they did not comply with the University's policy. The center has an Equal Employment Opportunity statement, which requires that applicants submit an UPS' policy while they are on campus.
The law school's placement center and the University Placement Center are separate. Glenn said. He has no questions to ask about the policy of the law school's placement center.
"Our position is that we follow the University's policy, and any employer who did not follow it could not use our facilities." he said.
Bob Jerry, dean of law, said the law school had an anti-discrimination policy of its own. The policy is published in a brochure that all prospective employers receive before recruiting on campus. It does not prohibit discrimination against discrimination based on sexual orientation, he said.
Jerry said the policy did not include sexual orientation because it had been drafted before the University's policy.
See LAW, p. 5