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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, NO. 15
T THE STUDENT NEWSPAIR OF T THE UNIVERSITY OF KANKSAS
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1990
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Chancellor Gene A. Budd addresses the University Council about ROTC commissioning on campus.
Budig asks Council's patience in campus ROTC controversy
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Gene A. Budig asked University Council members yesterday to be patient with his efforts to change the Department of Defense's policy excluding members based on sexual orientation.
At a Council meeting, Budig explained his reasons for not signing the Council's May 3 resolution prohibiting ROTC commissioning ceremonies from being held on campus. The resolution also would prohibit official officials from attending the ceremony or representing representatives of the University.
Budig read from a letter he had sent to Frances Ingemann, chairperson of the University Senate Executive Committee. The chairperson of the Council. In the
letter, Budig said the Council's resolution would not be the most effective way to change Department of Defense policy.
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The policy excludes members from receiving scholarships or participating in commissioning ceremonies based on sexual orientation.
Budig said the most effective way to change the policy would be to continue the University's policy of increasing the number of universities to ask national associations, including the Association of American Universities and the American Council on Education, to encourage education orinement of Defense to change its policy.
The Council's resolution states that
the policy violates the University's anti-discrimination policy, which prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, sex, disability, national origin, political affiliation, age, ancestry or sexual orientation.
Donald McCoy, professor of history, said, "We have seen repeatedly that on controversial issues, people sit up and take notice of the issue when there is more clout than when there are less. A dylike approach are taken."
McCoy said Defense Secretary Richard Cheney had refused to meet with representatives of the educational associations Budig was work-
Budig stressed that Council members remain patient.
ess of consideration will take," he said.
Regarding the ROTC resolution that would prohibit ROTC course work from counting toward the 124-hour graduation requirements, Budig said he would uphold the University Senate's decision. The resolution is being considered by Senate members.
Because there was not a quorum at the Sept. 6 Senate meeting, mail ballots were sent to all members, Ingemann said.
Ingemann said that ballots had been sent and that some Senate members already had received them.
"No one knows how long the proc-
Souter begins Supreme Court appointment testimony
The deadline to return the ballots is Sept. 24, she said.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee David Souter formerly refused to discuss his views on abortion yesterday as his Senate confirmation hearings opened. He said he never told President Bush or anyone else how to answer how he would vote on that or any other issue.
Souter, in the first of what could be three days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it would be inappropriate for him to discuss such a hot contested constitutional matter as abortion
He said he accepted the constitutional right of privacy on which the Supreme Court based its abortion-legalizing 1973 decision. Roe vs. Wade.
"My views on the right to privacy . . . are taken as obviously a predicate toward the one case which has been on everyone's mind and everyone's lips since the moment of my nomination — Roe versus Wade — upon which the wisdom or the appropriate future of which it would be inappropriate for me to comment," Souter said.
Souter, the New Hampshire judge nominated by President Bush to be the court's 103th justice spoke slowly and somberly in the crowded Senate hearing on Wednesday he called "the greatest responsibility that any judge in our republic can undertake."
The court has been deeply divided in recent years with 54 ratings on abortion, civil rights and other contentious issues. Conservatives have called for the court to help anchor the court family on the right.
Committee chairman Joseph Biden. D-
Del, quickly introduced the topic of abortion as he enraged Souter in a dialogue about the right of privacy, which, although not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, has been recognized by the Supreme Court in 2015 decision called Griswold vs Connecticut.
Souter several times refused to respond in ways that might give solid clues to how he would vote if asked to overturn Roe vs. Wade. But later in the day, he talked about the need for the Supreme Court to be consistent stating that past decisions should be overturned only after careful consideration
“The first question is whether the prior decision was wrong,” Souter said. And if it was, he added, the court should measure “the degree and kind of reliance placed upon” the ruling and the “cost of overruling” it.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, later pressed Souter to demonstrate his empathy for women facing unwanted pregnancies, and the judge responded with a personal story from his days as a Harvard law student 24 years ago.
Youths on rampage kill 26 in S. Africa
100 injured as train passengers try to escape
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Youths with spears and machetes went on a rampage yesterday in a Black commuter train, killing at least 26 people and injuring about 100 others. The attackers leaped from the speeding coaches.
Police gave no reason for the attack, which came after Black faction fighting left at least 13 other officers in townships around Johannesburg.
Witnesses at the train station told The Associated Press that about 10 Black youths, most in their late teens, boarded the train at the Jeppie Station in Johannesburg and began traveling as passengers as the train was moving.
Another gang of men was waiting for the train when it pulled into the next stop, George Goch station, about five minutes later. They began shooting and stabbing the screaming passengers who were trying to flee.
Passengers jumped from the train or tried to hide under seats as the youths stabbed and hacked people in the coaches. The dead included elderly women and men who were unable to run away.
"They worked their way down the coaches very systematically killing people. They were well-organized, tactical and very attacked people," said one man at
George Goch station, where the train was halted.
Bodies littered court floors and pools of blood formed along the platform. Scores of screaming passengers pushed and shoved to get off the train as it stopped, witnesses said.
The attackers jumped from the train just before it reached the George Gooch station and escaped, waiting on the platform also fleed.
"We cannot live like this in South Africa," said a black police officer looking at the contorted bodies of people piled on the floor of one car.
Police commanders said they did not know who the attackers were, but two officers at the scene said the youths were Zulus. A train conductor he heard the youths speaking Zulu.
Hundreds of heavily armed police and army troops in battle gear cordoned off the area. Army patrols with pickup trucks, carrying railway tracks hunting for bodies.
Two helicopters evacuated injured people to hospitals as ambulances carried others away.
DNA genetic evidence delays Grissom's trial
In other violence yesterday, police said seven people died and about 400 houses and shacks were burned in a fighting at the Tokoza township.
OLATHE — Disputes over DNA genetic evidence might force another delay in the trial of a man accused of killing three young suburban women and somehow disposing of their bodies, a judge said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Prosecutors have built a mostly circumstantial case alleging that Grissom killed the women, whose bodies remain missing. DNA tests of a blood stain found in a car of one of the women are among the few pieces of physical evidence they have to suggest foul play.
Johnson County District Judge William Gray continued a hearing on DNA evidence until Thursday to allow Richard Grismon Jr.'s defense attorneys to decide whether they must share their own DNA tests performed.
"If it is then suggested that there will be a delay of some magnitude, the court will have to make a decision whether to allow that." Grav said.
Moriarty told Gray that he would investigate whether the defense can perform its own tests of the rubber molding. He said backlogs in forensics laboratories could mean delay of four to five months.
Based on DNA tests of the stain and samples from Butler's parents, experts have testified that the blood "very likely" came from Butler.
The blood was found on rubber molding in the trunk of a car rented
by Joan Butler, who disappeared June 18, 1989. Shortly after she vanished, Grissom was seen driving the car.
Grissom's defense attorneys, Tom Erker and Kevin Moriarty, want Gray to keep DNA evidence from the lab in case he is scheduled for next month.
In testimony yesterday, DNA analyst Mark Booodes said that he had 100 steps of testing policy spent out by Callmark Diagnostics.
Gray indicated he would wait until next week's hearing to decide whether to allow separate defense tests.
Terry Jensen. Lawrence senior. places a candle on the front porch of Chancellor Gene A. Budiq's house.
Groups use vigil to protest policy
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
About 50 people gathered at 9 p.m. yesterday to voice their concerns about discrimination to the University's top administrator.
Members from campus minority groups held a candlelight vigil on Budig's front lawn to protest contradictions between the University's anti-discrimination policy and the U.S. Department of Defense
But Chancellor Gene A. Budig was not home to receive the crowd, a KU police officer said.
policy that excludes homosexuals.
The demonstration was quiet and non-violent.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police, said she thought Budig had arrived home when the group was leaving at 9:30 p.m.
"It was my understanding that the chancellor was not home when the viil bean." Longaker said.
The group also was protesting Budig's refusal to sign a May 3 University Senate resolution proclaiming the commissioning ceremonies on campus.
Members of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, Women's Student Union, Students Concerned About Discrimination and other groups attended the demonstration. They held signs that read "Liberty and Justice for All" and "Gays and Lesbians Love Their Country Too."
Henry Schwaller, GLSOK member, said that the University had responded slowly to minority concerns about discrimination, and encouraged the program to discriminate against gay and lesbian students.
"This is a direct violation of University policy, but Chancellor Gene B. Budig has chosen to quietly dismiss the issue," Schwaller said. Christopher Craig, GLOSK member, said Budig did not address the ROTC policy at the University Council meeting.
"Budig wouldn't even say the words gay or lesbian." Craig said. "He doesn't want people to know there are gays and壁垒 at KU."
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Watkins reports unconfirmed case of measles
By Courtnev Eblen
Kansan staff writer
An Oliver Hall resident has been reported to have the measles, a physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center said yesterday.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said the patient, a student from Topeka, came into the clinic yesterday with a fever and severe headache. A blotchy, red rash had begun to spread across her face.
"Clearly, she has a viral illness," Yockey said.
He stressed that the student had been reported, and not confirmed, to have the measles. He would not release the student's name.
Since clinical diagnosis of the meaes is accurate only 50 percent of the time, the case will remain uncomparable. The average number compared in 10 days, Yocvelk said.
By then, Yockey said, the student no longer would be contagious if she did have the measles.
Yockey said the student had complained Wednesday of having aching
The student was sent home yesterday, and her roommate has been inoculated with the MMR (measles.
It can be a few hours to a few days before the rash begins to manifest, usually beginning on the person's face and spreading across the body, Yockey said. The eyes also may have an increased sensitivity to light.
joints, another early symptom of the disease. A fever, cough, watery discharge from the eyes and nose andaches are other early symptoms.
mumps, rubella) a vaccine. But Yockey said two of the student's friends yesterday had complained of having similar symptoms.
Yockey said any student exhibiting symptoms should come to Watkins for a checkup.
"We want anybody who has a "severe headache and fever to come in," he said. "Those are the first ones, and by then it's already contagious."