A novel idea
For all the times you've had to grit your teeth and sell a $30 textbook back to a bookstore for a handful of pennies. Tom Van Holt would like to rewrite the script. His
nonprofit book exchange, run by students and backed by the Association of University Residence Halls, is designed to cut out the middleman. See story, page 3.
Wintry
High, 30s. Low, 10.
Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 70 (USPS 650-640)
Two dispute complaints by GLSOK
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Formal complaints filed by the president of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas with the Office of Affirmative Action are "frivolous" and "harassing," said the respondents named in some of the complaints this week.
Tom Crisp, Lawrence graduate student,
was charged with sexual preference harassment in one of the complaints. The complaints were filed by Ruth Lichtward.
"It has come to my attention that the complaint filed with affirmative action and the complainant have been disclosed and are rapidly becoming common knowledge." Crisp said in a letter he said he planned to send to affirmative action.
defamed by the public assuming the content of the complaint, I feel compelled to disclose the entire document," he said in the letter
Greg Haunschild, Lawrence senior, also was named as the respondent in a similar complaint, he said yesterday. Haunschild said that he, Crisp, Steve Imber, Lawrence senior; and Young Americans for Freedom had similar complaints filed against them.
Imber said he did not want to comment on the matter.
"I don't think we're supposed to talk about this." Imber said.
Victor Goodpasture, chairman of YAF, also said he thought the matter was
Wednesday, December 5, 1984
"I would love to comment on it if I could." he said. "I have plenty to say."
"BUT I HAVE this letter here that says it is
supposed to be held in the strictest confidence, so I guess I'll play by the rules.
we believe this is a frivolous complaint. It is totally untrue, YAF has no policy one way or the other.
Crisp brought the complaint to the attention of the Kansan and responded to the claim.
The complaint against Crisp was divided into three descriptions of occurrences and the reasons for their occurrence.
The descriptions of occurrences are listed as "purchased ad space in U.D.K; passed around petition calling for G.L.S.O.K.'s removal from campus; harrassment of G.L.S.O.K. office workers when he dropped into office."
THE REMEDIES DESIRED are listed as:
"Tom Crisp either put on probation or removed from campus: public apology in the
U. D.K. and aired over JKHK during prime time listening hours; guarantee the this individual will cease his active persecution of gav and lesbian people on this campus."
Crisp said, "They should have been more specific. How am I supposed to make assumptions about who felt harassed by what?
"The way the damn thing is filled out is ridiculous. It's handwritten, hard to read in a font like this."
"Ruth told me that she didn't fill it out. She said she signed a blank sheet."
The form has Lichwardt's signature at the bottom and is dated Nov. 14.
Concerning the first charge, Crisp said, "I would have to admit this charge. Yes, I did purchase ad space in the UDK."
See GRIEVANCE p. 5, col. 1
Nazi horror remembered by survivor
By CHRIS CLEARY Staff Reporter
Gerda Weissman Klein, a survivor of the Nazi concentration produced to about 50 people in the Kansas Union yesterday, camps during World War II, waits quietly while being in. She spoke about her experiences as a teenager in the camps.
Names and faces often get lost among the numbers killed under the Third Reich.
But a concentration camp survivor who spoke yesterday at the Kansas Union remembers the people who suffered the horrors of the Holocaust.
Gerda Weissman Klein was taken prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp when she was 18 years old. She survived four Nazi camps and the deaths of her family and friends.
Klein told her story to almost 50 people in a speech opening the United Jewish Appeal's fund-raising drive in Lawrence. The organization sent Jews in the area and around the world
"Perhaps when you know my story, you will know how happy I am to be here to tell the story for those who can't tell it for me." In his 60, said with a trace of a German accent.
"When I was 15, the world I knew and loved was irreverently destroyed," she said.
Klein has written four books, including "Promise of a New Spring" and "Passion for Sharing."
When the Nazis occupied Klein's hometown on the Polish border, she and Ise were sold in war.
KLEIN SAID THAT she could tell many stories about her life in Germany, but that one story about a childhood friend named Ilse always came to mind. The two girls grew up together in Poland until Ilse went to Vienna, Austria, to study music. Ilse came home when the war broke out.
The girls became each other's family after that.
Klein's parents were killed at Auschwitz, she said, and she doesn't know what became of her 19-year-old brother.
"ONE MORNING ON her way to the factory, I found a raspberry." Klein said. "She carried it in her pocket all day to school. When she was home, the word when a treasure is given to a friend?"
Klein recalled a day in the camps that Ise surprised her with a raspberry.
"Iuse died in my arms in a cold meadow in Czechoslovakia when she was 18 years old during the death march. She gave me the
greatest gift of all then — the gift of my own life."
Klein said she had asked her to stay strong for just a week longer. A week later, to the day, perhaps even the hour of lise's death, he walked into the prison prisoners were freed by American troops.
"It was in an obscure village in Czechoslovakia," she said. "We heard American planes overhead and American guns nearby. You feel at such moment." I felt pothing.
The Americans were looking for someone who could speak English or German, and Klein was pushed forward. She said she had been so conditioned by the Germans that the first thing she said to the American soldier was, "We are Jewish, you know."
"I REMEMBER VERY clearly my first visual impact of freedom. It was an American jacket, falling down the road. There were people who cared about disbelief that there were people who cared."
"He did not say anything for some time,
Klein said. "Then he said, 'So am I.'
The soldier asked her where the other ladies were, and as they walked into the building, he held the door open for her. In that simple gesture, Klein said, he restored her faith in humanity. That American soldier was the man Klein eventually married.
"I want people to understand the Holocaust," Klem said after her speech. "I want them to understand the past, and the preciousness of life."
TODAY, KLEIN, THE grandmother of five, is living in the United States and touring the country speaking about her life in Germany.
Still the memories never will be erased Klein said the snow yesterday reminded her of a night in a concentration camp, Bolkenkhan, when she was 18.
"I was looking out at the falling snow at the camp, and I asked myself if there was one that was not in my view."
want most? Besides freedom of course, that was as necessary as breathing. What do young girls dream of? Being beautiful? Successful?"
SHE SAW A picture in her mind of her living room at home where her father was smoking his pipe, her mother was embroidering her brother and she were doing their homework.
"I stood struck by the enormity of the thought that these were nights that I took for granted I called them boring evenings." Klein said "To be a part of my family for one more night would be a driving force for me." Klein graduated students of the young
Klein reminded students of the young peoples perseverance and optimism in the face of challenges.
"We were all in a camp, all of us were hungry," Klein said. "And there were no suicides, no nervous breakdowns. What an enormous tribute that the young took life over death. The darker the night, the brighter the dawn."
Death count in gas leak keeps rising
Hundreds of pyres choke Indian city; toll exceeds 1,000
By United Press International
BHOPAL, India - Hundreds of funeral pyres choked city streets with smoke yesterday and hospitals were swamped with thousands of people sickened by deadly gas that escaped from a U.S. owned pesticide plant and killed at least 1,000 people.
Officials questioned at three burial grounds said a total of 763 people killed when the cloud of methyl isocyanate from Monday had been burned or cremated.
Doctors at scene said the death toll had passed 1,000 and could rise because hundreds of the estimated 20,000 people exposed to the gas were hospitalized in extremely serious condition. Hospital officials said they ran out fuel to burn bodies and stacked them on the hospital grounds.
"WE HAVE BEEN working non stop to treat the people and still they are coming," said medical volunteer Satshi Chavan. "They came choking on their own vomit and unable to open their own eyes. They were hirrifying, like nuclear war."
A day of mourning was decreed and all government offices and schools were
"I is a very sad scene." Gandhi said. This is a terrible tragedy whose full horror is not yet known.
"The people of Bhopal must have courage," said Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who appeared visibly shaken after visiting children at Hamdia Hospital, where 400 victims lay near death.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS said they believed scores of bodies were still inside mud huts in a dozen shanty towns surrounding the pesticide plant Chelsea Ltd., a locally owned subsidiary of Dunbury, Conn., based Union Carbide Co.
Five Indian supervisory officers of Union Carbide India Ltd were under arrest for "causing death by negligence."
At Union Carbide headquarters in Danbury, Comm. officials promised a full 10-week extension.
Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson said the $9 billion worldwide conglomerate stood by to do whatever it could.
On the New York Stock Exchange,
Union Carbide stock was down % to 45 *
The company said there would not be a substantial effect on earnings.
ANDERSON, WHO LATER flew to India to join the investigation, confirmed the five Indian management employees of the plant were under house arrest but expressed confidence in them.
"The tragedy is something we want to get to the bottom of." Anderson told a news conference at a hotel near the firm's office in Belfast before departing for the trip to India.
See INDIA, d. 5, col. 1
KUAC to stop using Kansas Union concessions
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation for the first time will not use Kansas Union concessions at KU athletic events because KUAC and the Memorial Union Corporation have not been able to reach an athletic director Monte Johnson said yesterday.
Johnson delivered his announcement at the regular KUAC meeting. He said that the "door was not totally closed" but that the two groups agreed to allow each corporation to meet its goals.
Jim Long, director of the unions, who was met at the meeting, said yesterday that he
"AS AFAR AS I know," Long said, "we made a proposal, and they will react on it by Jan. 1. I knew they took the proposal and they would go to work with others. They may or may not have."
KUAC's concessions contract for 25 or 30 years.
Johnson did not say what other proposals the board had or would consider.
Long said the union corporation had held
NED CUSHING, KUAC finance committee chairman, said higher basketball ticket revenue would cover the shortage in football ticket revenue.
Also at the meeting, Johnson said that next year, single basketball game tickets might be eliminated because more tickets had been sold this year than expected.
"That will probably put us back in the top 10 nationally in attendance." Johnson said
As of yesterday, he said, 13,000 season tickets had been sold. Last year at this time,
The football revenue this year was about $77,500 short of what was budgeted, said Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager. The football revenue has increased about $85,100.
Football revenue was expected to be about $1.7 million and basketball revenue was expected to be about $0.8 million.
With other miscellaneous income, the
corporation is at a break-even point. Wachter said.
The present budget report does not include income that KUAC will receive from bowl games played by other schools in the Big Eight Conference, she said.
JOHNSON ALSO ANNOUNCED that the Fred B. Anschutz Sports Pavilion might be shared with the department of health and physical education next semester because some classes have been moved to the pavilion from Allen Field House.
The pavilion was not scheduled to be opened until tail of 1985, after the athletic team won its first national title.
Johnson also said that the corporation plans to install permanent seating on the ground floor of the field house by the 1986-87 basketball season.
Floyd Temple, an assistant athletic director, said permanent bleachers would increase capacity by 300 to 600 seats. Because the final plans have not been completed, he said, it is too early to be sure how many seats will be added.
The portable bleachers now seat about 2,000 people. Temple said.
Johnson said the permanent seats would save on maintenance costs.
Temple said the permanent seats would save six hours of labor for four or five people each game.
"ALSO, THE BLEACHERS are getting old." Temple said. "They are to the point now that we replace boards they don't make those kind anymore and so we are running into all kinds of maintenance problems."
The track in the Sports Pavilion, which opened in October, will be used as the indoor running facility.
The new structures also would increase storage space. Temple said, although the temple is too small to store its contents,
Also at the meeting, Tony Redwood, chairman, said that for the first time KUAC executive, finance and academic committees would review the proposed National College Athletic Association legislation and make recommendations to Chancellor Gene
A. Budig, Del Brinkman, NCAA faculty representative, and Johnson.
Brinkman will cast KU's votes on various issues at the January NCAA convention.
IN THE ACADEMIC committee report, Norm Yetman, committee chairman, said several changes had been made in academic advising, orientation and support for student
A new policy, Yetman said, is that athletes must have the approval of the academic coordinator, Nancy Hovarter, and their faculty adviser before they can drop or add classses. Athletes' freedom to change their class schedules in the past had presented problems, he said.
A new committee will help coaches review potential recruits' academic abilities. Yetman said. The committee will then advise the coaches about potential recruits' chances for academic success at the University of Kansas.
The committee will be composed of a representative from the office of academic affairs, the KUAC committee and the admissions office. Yetman said.