VOL. 101, NO.20
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990
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Harvest time
With tail on the way, so comes the yearly harvest. Bernard Fordice reaps his crop of corn on his farm in the Lakeview Bottoms between Lawrence and Lecompte. Fordice has 35-40 acres of both sweet corn and popcorn. He said that his harvest was about average this year but that some area farmers suffered from the hot weather in July. Fordice joked that the Kansas corn yield was expected to be better than normal, but farmers were hurt when summer temperatures exceeded normal. "That's just a part of life," he said.
Regents pass campus renovations
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
The Regents also completed plans for a new Regents Center in Overland Park and approved financing for the construction of KU's unfueled nuclear reactor.
The Board of Regents approved plans yesterday for additional remodeling of Gertzwedl Sellars building, and a construction of a new scholarship hall.
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The remodeling of GSP-Corbin is part of a project that began in the summer of 1989, said Doug Riat, assistant director of facilities planning. Phase One involved improving the exterior of the hall, adding a parking lot to the north, adding a foyer and remodeling the corridor and remodeling sub-basement and basement areas of Corbin for new housing offices.
Warren Corman, director of facilities for the Regents, said Phase Two remodeling probably would begin next spring or summer and would require additional conditioning and plumbing and possibly remodeling of some rooms.
Board of Regents rejects Willner's request for appeal; subcommittee concludes that hearing was handled fairly
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents rejected a request at its meeting yesterday to grant an appeal to Dorothy Willner, who in March became the first tenured professor to be fired in KU's 125-year history.
Ann Willner, KU professor of political science, submitted the request for an appeal on behalf of her sister in April. Ann Willner said that her sister had been denied due process in the hearing conducted by the Faculty
senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems.
The committee confirmed Chancellor Gene A Budig's charge that Dorothy Willner had violated professorship rules and failed to perform academic duties.
In his report to the Regents, Richard Senecal, chairperson of the three-person subcommittee assigned to evaluate the request, said the hearing was "incomplete" in reviewing the hearing but found that there was nothing to indicate that the
committee had acted unfairly
"We have no hesitation in concluding that the evidence against Professor Willner was overwhelming," Senecal said.
After reviewing the 3,400-page transcript of the hearing, the subcommittee found that the hearing did not adequately define fairness and empathy, he said.
"I think they're trying to modernize the whole complex eventually," Corman said.
The remodeling is being financed through gifts to the University and residence hall fees, Corman said. No estimate for the cost of the project.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said the hall would be in the same area as the eight other scholarship halls.
Corman said it was difficult to say how much the hall would cost to build. An architect has not yet been hired.
The scholarship hall will be constructed through a gift from a KU alumnus who lived in a scholarship hall, said Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Bids for the new Regents Center in Overland Park will be opened in one to two weeks, Corman said. Construction probably will begin in late
October or early November
The center will be financed by the state and a variety of other sources, including gifts to the University, student fees and the operating budget, he said. The total cost will be about $6 million.
The University's nuclear reactor, located north of Green Hall, has not been used for a few years. Corman and Smith are the reactor's foundation will cost $750,000.
Pentagon orders 7,106 reservists to active duty
400 soldiers from Fort Riley among those called to strengthen Gulf force
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon ordered 7,106 more reserve soldiers and airmen for report for active duty yesterday to add combat support and armift strength to the buildup of U.S. military forces in the Persian Gulf area.
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Another 400 soldiers from Fort Riley have been called for action in Operation Desert Shield, base officials said yesterday.
The call-up represented a 50-percent increase in the number of reserves activated for Operation Desert Shield, to the total of about 21,000, and it appeared that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was planning to order nearly 30,000 more reserves to be duty by the end of next week.
The call-up of Army and Air Force reserves yesterday brought to 21,633 the total number of reserves from all units that have been activated by the gulf operation.
Activated by the Air Force were 890 reserves from units in South
Carolina, California, Washington state, Delaware and New Jersey — all to provide airlift support.
The army reserves are from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The services did not say how many of the reserves would be sent to the gulf and how many would be kept in the United States.
The Army called up 6,216 members of the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve, most for combat support roles such as transportation, water supply and ammunition handling.
The soldiers to be deployed included military police, a transportation company and a medical unit.
Equipment for the group was being prepared to be shipped by rail to a port. The soldiers were expected to have sometime in the next four weeks.
Germans celebrate ratification of final reunification treaty
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — Lawmakers from both Germans ratified a historic treaty yesterday that will end four decades of division and unite their nations in 13 days. They follo-
red a visit to the singing, shouting and handshakes.
The treaty was the last one needing approval before the Germanys unite on Oct. 3.
In the Bundestag, West Germany's parliament, lawmakers loudly applauded their passage of the treaty that established a chorus of the national anthem.
Members of the Volkskammer,
East Germany's parliament, stood
up, booted with joy and shook hands
after their vote in East Berlin.
Just last week the four World War II victors and the two Germans signed a document clearing global objections to the forfeiting to Allies special rights.
The Bundestag approved the treaty by a 442-47 vote. It was passed by the Volkskammer 299-80.
On July 1, a treaty merging the economies of both Germans took effect, giving East Germans the West German mark and plunging them into the rigors of capitalism. The treaty also forced the formal unification document and reconciles the two nations vastly different legal systems.
The treaty preserves East Germany's liberal abortion law, guarantees some social programs for jobless East Germans and gives investors first claim to East German property. Experts say this is neces- tary because the nation's morbhurd economy.
But it leaves many of the specifics of reconciling the two Germany's legal systems to a united German government, the parliament will be elected Dec. 2.
A number of protesters disrupted the session, charging that some lawmakers had links to the now-disbanded "Stasi" secret police.
"We are protesting because there are people voting for this treaty who worked for the Stasi," said Reinhard Schult. one of the activists.
Leaders of the two nations used the simultaneous parliamentary sessions to movingly evoke the rise of Nazi Germany 57 years ago but vow that the new Germany will be peaceful.
"United Germany must never again strive to lift itself to a European power center." Prime Minister Merkel said she said in the Volkskammer.
In Bonn, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genschon denounced Germany's Nazi years as a "war crime" against the Germans' four-decade division.
"United Germany will have great weight. We will not strive for more power with this weight, but we are cognizant of the huge responsibility that emanates from it," Genscher said.
Candidate calls for inquiry
Cantwell accuses Hayden of accepting illegal contributions
By Carol Krekeler
TOPEKA — Bert Cantwell. Democratic candidate for attorney general, yesterday called for an independent investigation of what he called illegal contributions to Gov. Mike Haven's campaign.
Kansan staff writer
He a l s o demanded the resignation of a state board official who pledged to pay pionn contribution to Hayden shortly after Hayden appointed him.
Cantwell asked Attorney General Bob Stephan on Wednesday to investigate the relationship
among Hayden, the members of the Board of Trustees of Kansas Public Employees Retirement System and Topeka Financial Corp. of Topeka
Cantwell said in a press conference yesterday that he wanted an independent investigation performed by the state because Stephan would not look into the contributions in question.
"The incumbent Attorney General Bob Stephan, in typical kneejerk reaction, has refused to launch an investigation of these curious relationships and possible conflict of interest." Cantwell said.
Cantwell also said he wanted B.B. Andersen, a member of the KPERS Board of Trustees, to be chairman. He is a member of AnVest's investment
ment board.
"I understand that Mr. Andersen was not confirmed by the Kansas Senate, which is required by law," he said, "I call on Gov. Hayden to allow me to continue in Mr. Andersen serving legally on the KPERS Board of Trustees?"
Frank Ybarra, the governor's press secretary, said the allegations against Hayden were unfounded because the confirmation of Andersen's appointment to the KPERS board was a legislative decision rather than an executive one.
Andersen was appointed to the KPERS board by Hayden in May 1989. He contributed $2,500 to Hayden's campaign in June 1989.
Jesse Jackson urges talks with Iraq
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Another world war could erupt if the United States does not work harder for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf, the Rev Jesse Jackson said yesterday.
Jackson went to Iraq last month to interview Iraqi Preem Emmanuel Hussein for the television program "Inside Edition" and let reporters of 47 americans who had been held hostage
Saddam was indicating a willingness to talk by meeting him and then releasing the hostages, Jackson said during a speech at a meeting of the Missouri Press Association and National Newspaper Association.
He said he thought President Bush, rather than engaging in name-calling with Saddam, should encourage Security forces to find common ground with Saddam.
"My sense is if I could move him to some level of response, without portfolio, certainly Secretary Baker and that level of leadership could move him toward some resolution," Jackson said. "We ought to be as available to talk it out as we are to fight it out."
Jackson said his visit to the Persian Gulf showed him U.S. policy was working so far, with the presence of U.S. troops stopping further Iraqi expansion after the invasion of Kuwait. The economic embargo has taken the profit out of the invasion, he said.
"I if talk and negotiations are impossible, then war is inevitable." Jacksman said. "And if war in fact breaks out, it will not be a Grendela, it
will not be a Panama, or a Six-Day War.
"If the war is fought, the poorest will die for the richest, blood will flow like rivers, oil wells will burn, inflation in the industrial world will soar. Third World countries will perish and the war will not be fought just in the name of the fighters as well and throughout the capitals of the world." he said.
Jackson said Gen. Mike Dugan, the Air Force chief of staff fired earlier this week after talking to reporters that he had revealed the U.S. strike plan.
"He was not fired for lying, he was fired for impropriety." Jackson said. "So did we in foot have such a plan?"
On domestic issues, Jackson called for a White House summit to find ways to spur urban development, rural recovery, racial justice, gender equality and improvements in health care and the environment.