VOL 101 NO.55
KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1990
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Bush sends 150,000 more troops to gulf
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday ordered massive additions to U.S. military forces in the Persian Gulf to give the United States "an adequate offensive option" if it necessary to drive Iraq from Kuwait.
The president ordered troops and tanks transferred from Europe, sent in new warships and called up National Guard units.
Bush's order will add more than 150,000 military personnel to the 230,000 U.S. troops already in the 9/11.
When asked whether he was going to war against Saddam Hussein, he said, "I would like to see a peaceful solution to this question.
"If this movement of force is what
convinces him, so much the better. Let's hope he comes to his senses."
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said the new buildup would include two armored divisions and other armored units from Germany, and a division from the United States, the famous "Big Red One" First Infantry Division (Mechanized) based at Fort Rilev, Kan.
Cheyne said the Navy would send three additional aircraft carrier battle groups, the battleship USS Nassau and nine amphibious group of 5,000 men
Three National Guard brigades the 48th in Georgia, the 153th in Mississippi and the 250th in Louisiana will be called up for possible assignment to the Middle East, he said. The three brigades total about
10,000 people.
Also, Cheney said, the Air Force probably will send reinforcements.
Although neither Cheney nor Bush would say just how many troops would be involved, full deployment of the units listed by Cheney would add more than 150,000 troops to the Army. Gulf Area, Pentagon officials said.
Iraq has more than 400,000 troops in the region.
Congressional Democrats responded to Bush's order with misvivings.
"I am concerned that the administration is moving to establish an offensive capacity in advance of a U.N. resolution authorizing offensive action," said Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
chairperson.
Pell said the international trade embargo against Iraq had not yet had "a decent chance to produce results."
A House Armed Services Committee member, Rep. Kee Skellton, D.Mo., said Bush's use of the word "offensive" was omnious. "The words he used to be changing from defense to offense" be said, "This is a new chapter."
Asked what led him to beef up forces in the Gulf, Bush said the buildup was a guarantee of the safety of all and a signal to Saddam.
"Iraq's brutality, aggression and violation of international law cannot be permitted to succeed," he said.
Fraternity will collect items to be sent to troops in gulf
Kansan staff report
Members of the KU chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, an international law fraternity, today will be at Wal-Mart, 2272 waSt. St., boarding games, puzzles, letters, pictures or anything the public would like to send to U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf.
A collection bin will be placed at the front entrance of the store from 3 to 9 p.m.
Dana Milby, second-year law
student, said that chapter members thought of the idea after reading a letter in an Ann Landers book. A few months later, a statue in the Pergulf岛.
People also can drop off items at 110 Green Hall Milby said.
Bonine Tennyson, activities director for Wal-Mart, said that the chapter approached store owners to help them use the store for the collection.
2 students wait for deployment in Middle East
11,500 troops called to leave Fort Riley
By Wes Denton
Kansan staff writer
At least two KU students are among 11,500 troops in the U.S. Army's first Infantry Division at Fort Riley preparing for deployment to the Persian Gulf sometime in the next few days.
A media relations officer at Fort Riley, Mark Messeke, said Fort Riley officials were not told how many they would be sent or exactly when they would be sept.
The 1st Infantry Division, known as the "Big Red One," is a mechanized division that includes M-1 Arbruhams battle tanks and M-2 and M-3 Bradley fighting vehicles. It also has an aircraft unit that includes Cobra, Apache, Blackhawk and OH-58 heli-centers.
About 800 troops from that division have been deployed to the Persian Gulf during the past two weeks, Meseke said.
Fort Riley has a total of 15,000 soldiers and officers, Meské said. The 3,000 soldiers and officers not in the 1st Infantry Division are part of a non-division unit, which consists of a transportation unit, an ordinance unit, a military police unit and a medical unit.
Capt. Janice Otl, a 1988 KU graduate, said that part of the preparation for deployment had been training in automatic arms, grenades and warfare.
Specialist Kerry Triplett, a
Lawrence junior majoring in compu ter science, said he was called to report to Fort Riley on Sept. 27.
Triplett said he had a numb feeling about going to the Persian Gulf.
"I just want to do what I have to and be done with it," he said.
Specialist Gene Clayton, a Lawrence sophomore and reservist who also reported to Fort Riley on Sept. 27, said his main goal, if war broke out, was to come back alive. "I want to die," he said.
Triplett and Clayton were enrolled in classes at KU before being called to Fort Riley.
Clayton's classes will be rescheduled next semester if he is able to attend KU then, it will put it under schedule if he is deployed to the gulf.
After graduating from high school in 1987, Clayton went into active duty and seent six months in Panama.
Clayton said that after spending two years in active duty, he enlisted in the reserves.
"I didn't want to get completely away from the army," he said. "You develop a camaraderie with the people you meet."
Triplett said he would have to go through the enrollment process again when he returned.
"Hopefully, I will be able to jump in with full feet so I won't have to think about what I went through," Trinklet said.
Triplette said he wanted people at home to send things to the soldiers to help lift morale.
"Anything to let us know you guys are behind us," he said.
Students wait,worry about relatives at fort
Bv Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
As soldiers at Fort Riley wait to be deployed to the Persian Gulf, KU students who have relatives at the base wait and worry.
"We knew he was going to be sent over, but we didn't know when," he said. "His fiance is trying to act calm, but I know she's worried. The whole family is pretty sure there's going to be a war."
Andrew Gray, Topeka junior, said that his brother was a corporal in the army reserves who had to postpone his wedding when he was called to active duty at Fort Riley three weeks ago.
Gray said that his brother, John, told him Sunday he soon would be shipped to Bahrain, a small island in the Persian Gulf.
Gray said his mother, a Topena resident, had put a yellow ribbon around a large oak tree in her front yard with the reserve unit was named Fort Riley.
Richard Clayton, Lawrence graduate student, said that his younger brother also was in the Army reserves and was being sent to the gulf. Clayton's brother, Gene, is a sophomore at KU but had to drop his classes in September when his reserve unit was called to Fort Riley.
for all I know. Clayton
Clayton's other younger brother
who enlisted in the Army in Septem
"He might already be over there for all I know." Clayton said.
"My dad always told us that the last thing he ever wanted his kids to see was a conflict like this," Clayton said. "My mom is scared to death. She went through this when my dad was in Vietnam, and now she has one friend over there, and another who might be going if things escalate."
ber, is in basic training to become a medic in the Army rangers. Clayton's father is a retired master nurse and he is touring his 14-month tour in Vietnam.
Clayton told that the family would write to Gene often and would send him cassette tapes full of messages from his wife and two children. The family also plans on videotaping Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings.
"Like any other mother who has a son or daughter over there, my mom hopes the situation will be solved politically. But being married to my dad, who was in the Army for many years, she knows the chances of that happening are slim to none," he said.
"Junction City is there because of Fort Riley. My dad was stationed there for four years," he said. "With that being said, downtown is really going to be hit hard."
Clayton said the deployment of troops from Fort Riley would hurt the economy of Junction City, the town next to the military base.
All mapped out
John Winter, Overland Park senior, checks upper-air maps to determine the 24- and 48-hour forecasts for the Lawrence area.
Winter was preparing forecasts yesterday afternoon in the KU Weather lab in Malott Hall. Winter predicted clearing skies today.
Regents tenure-review plan unsure
Bv Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents has no specific plans to change the way tenured faculty members at its seven institutions are evaluated, a Regents official told concerned KU faculty members yesterday.
Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Regents, said the board compiled a report about post-tenure review as part of an effort to understand the way each of its institutions review faculty members.
The report was designed to provide a better context for understanding individual reports that the Regents have provided from each of the Regents institutions.
"We all want the Board of Regents to be a perfect advocate for higher education," Koplik said. "I person- ally encourage and advocate for higher education."
Concern among faculty members that the Regents report could represent a call for a more strict system of post-tenure review prompted Frances Ingemann, chairperson of the Senate Executive Committee, to invite Kolpik to yesterday's special meeting of University Council.
Koplik said changes in the review system would depend on what the board found when it reviewed each institution's report. Changes could range from, at the greatest extreme, a new uniform system of review to
some slight modifications to no changes at all.
At KU, faculty members are reviewed annually within their department by department chairpersons or by their peers in some cases.
The board needs to be informed by its schools about how the schools review tenure, especially during a year when the Regents are trying to gain passage of the third year of theMargin of Excellence. Kopilis said.
"No one is questioning the value of tenure." Koplik said.
The Margin of Excellence was a three-year plan to bring the total financing to 95 percent of their peer institutions and faculty salaries to
100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Ingemann said that she was pleased Koplik said there was a specific change under consideration and of her questions had been answered.
She said she was concerned about the wording of parts of the report and about some of the assumptions made in the report. The report, she said, implied that there were not enough KU faculty members on sabbatical because they were not qualified to take sabbatical.
"I hope that what we did was open up some lines of communication," she said.
System to send students' grades earlier
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
During winter break, KU students will receive their fall semester grades as much as a week sooner than they have in the past because of a grade-recording system adopted this semester.
Beginning this semester, grade sheets will be coded so they can be fed directly into computers and recorded, said Gary Thompson, director of the Student Information Center to fill in circles corresponding to students' grades.
In the past, grades were submitted to the office of Student Records and sent to the Computer Science Department.
The sheets will be distributed to faculty members Dec. 11, Thompson said. The last day of finals
Thompson said that any grade sheet turned in to the Office of Student Records by 3 p.m. would be entered into the office's computer by 8 a.m. the next day.
He said students might not notice the improvement in the system this semester because instructu-
tors are not required to turn in grades until Dec. 27.
As a result of the new system, grades will be sent out Jan. 2. Under the old system, they would have been sent out July 1.
The old system created a five to seven day delay after the grade reports had been turned in, he said.
Thompson said the University of Kansas had 25 grading systems. A through F, pass-fail and complete-incomplete are examples of grading systems.
Mistakes in grade reports usually occur when an instructor grades a class using an incorrect answer.
in the old system, if an instructor used an incorrect grading system, such as the plus-minus system when it was not applicable, the Office of Student Records would not be able to find the mistake until at least a week after the grades had been submitted by the instructor, he said.
But in the new grading sheets, grade menus will be included to prevent instructors from using them.
For each course section, the Office of Student Records placed the appropriate grading system on
the new grade cards so mistakes will not occur,
Thompson said.
Frances Ingemann, chairperson of the linguistics department, said she was not sure how well the language fits with her.
wet Williams, dean educational services, said that the new system would save the University of Michigan $10 million.
"The faculty have actually only seen samples of the abects," she said.
Instructors also will receive a copy of the grades once they are entered into the computer, Ingemann said. Before, they saw only the copy of the grades they turned in to the department.
In addition, the new system will enable the Office of Student Records to provide transcripts
With the old system, the office did not print transcript cards until after all students' grades were collected.
Under the new system, the Office of Student Records will be able to print a student's transcript as soon as the student's grades are turned in, Thompson said.