In the swim
The women's swimming team won 11 events as it outclassed the opposition in the Jayhawk Invitational Friday and Saturday at Robinson Natatorium. The performance of
the men's team, marred by the departure from the team of standout Todd Neugent,
was good enough for third. At left, junior Cathy Coulter competes. See page 16.
Pleasant
High, 60s. Low, 30s.
Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 51 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, November 5, 1984
Theft reports lead to student's arrest
By JOHN REEMRINGER and JOHN EGAN Staff Renorters
Templin Hall residents yesterday filed at least 20 reports of theft, burglary or attempted burglary. University of Kansas police said yesterday.
A student was arrested yesterday in connection with some of the thefts and
Kenneth John Kepchar Jr., Kirkwood, Mo., freshman, and a Templin resident, remained in the Douglas County Jail last night in lieu of $12,150 bond.
Kepchar, 18, is charged with two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of attempted theft, possession of stolen property, the opening saloon and possession of paraphernalia.
BURGLARY INVOLLES ENTERING but not necessarily breaking in with the intention of committing a crime. Theft is stealing without violence or threat of violence.
Police are investigating the reported thefts at Templin LI Jeanne Longer said a man was arrested on suspicion of stealing.
Longaker said last night that police had not determined how much property may have been taken, or the value of the missing property.
Some Templin residents who reported
thefts said the thefts occurred early yesterday morning. Longaker said some of the thefts were from his apartment.
Mike Osterburr, hall director at Templin, said many Templin residents felt betrayed because the suspect of some of the reported thefts lived in the hall.
"So I think there's a sentiment of anger,
disbelief." Ostebauer said yesterday.
SOME OF THE residents who had reported property missing said their room doors had not been locked when the thefts occurred.
"We've been asking residents since the beginning of the year to lock doors,"
In the wake of the thefts, Ostherbaud said he would post signs throughout the hall to alert residents about the burglars.
"We need to reinforce the idea that people from next door may not be as trustworthy as they think they are," he said.
Templin has no security monitors. The hall contract approved last month for the next school year provides for a roving security monitor to check each floor at night.
Dave Eckles, Omaha freshman, said he was missing $14. He said that if Templin had security monitors, the thefts might not have occurred.
ECKLESS SAID HE would begin locking his
Dan Lingel, Freeport, Ill., freshman, practices his debating techniques in Wescoe Hall. He was directing his remarks Thursday to Gregg Turner, assistant debate coach. Behind
See TEMPUN. p. 5, col. 1
Lingel, members Darvin Fritten, Topeka freshman, left, and Andrea Richard, Laramie, Wyo., prepare, prepare the
Reagan's lead greatest among younger voters
By United Press International
And first-time voters this year, reversing a four-decade trend, registered Republican rather than Democratic or
independent by more than a 2-to-1 margin.
WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan, 74,
the nation's oldest president, is enjoying
some of his greatest support among voters
young enough to be his grandchildren.
"The most important long-term story of this election is that young Americans, for the first time, are identifying in a strong majority with the GOP," said Bill Greener, chief spokesman for the Republican National Committee.
See YOUTH, p. 5, col. 3
College papers choose Mondale, poll shows
By United Press International
College newspapers, apparently bucking national polls showing wide support for President Reagan among young voters, have endorsed Walter Mondale in large numbers, a UPI survey shows.
UPI surveyed 40 college newspapers nationwide. Of the 26 that endorsed a presidential candidate, 23 supported Mondale and only three backed Reagan.
(The Kansan backs Walter Mondale. See endorsement, page 4.)
The college editorial writers offered heated denunciations of Reagan on the economy, foreign policy and the fairness issue. The Stanford Daily, for example, suggested that re-electing Reagan could result in a return to "the high standard of living for white males only."
"The UNITED STATES has its weakest... and most ideologically extreme leader in decades," said the Daily Texas at the University of Texas. "That is why it is not entirely accurate to define the presidential race as Reagan vs. Mondale, Rather, the
See COLLEGE, p. 5, col. 3
Team debates 'stuffy' reputation
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Dan Lingel clutched a yellow legal pad and scouted the competition.
Competitors from 25 schools milled in the corridors of Wescoe Hall during the weekend, anxiously awaiting the next round of the Javahawk Fall Forensics Tournament.
Three men from Baylor University, dressed in suits and ties, huddled around a desk and plotted their strategy. Two women from the University of Kansas, one in a pink dress and the other in a gray flannel skirt. Cokes while discussing the day's results.
Lingel, a Freeport, ill., freshman and member of the KU debate team, waved to a
"THERE'S A LOT of socializing at these tournaments," he said. "You see these people every week and gradually everybody becomes pretty good friends.
Each week, the 28 students and eight graduate student coaches on KU's debate team travel to tournaments across the country arguing the pros and cons of everything from the space shuttle to nuclear destruction.
"But during rounds, we go at each others throats."
Final rounds of the Jayhawk Fall Forensics Tournament will begin at 8 a.m. today in
Team members insist that despite the legal pads, ball point pens and briefcases they lug
to every tournament, debate isn't the stuff intellectual pastime it is often thought to be.
"For some reason, people think something is wrong with you because you're interested in school and want to learn as much as you can. Maybe your teacher Dude Dicke, Lee's Summit, Mo., sophomore."
DETERATORS SPEND DOZENS of hours each week researching cases at libraries and jotting evidence on thousands of index cards. Research is crucial, but the payoff for most debaters during tournaments, said Jerry Gaines, Houston senior.
"When you get up there in front of the judges, it's just your ideas against the other person's ideas — your mind against theirs." Gaines said. "It's almost kind of a high.
"In many ways, debate really is a sport. The competition is fierce."
KU'S TEAM HAS compiled an impressive record at its tournaments. If sportswriters ever ranked college debate teams, KU certainly would make the top 10, said Donn Parson, professor of communication studies and director of the team.
KU has sent 46 teams to the National Debate Tournament in the last 38 years — more than any other school. The other Big Eight universities combined have sent only 27 teams. KU has won the national debate tournament in the last 19 years, in 1970, 1976 and 1983.
During class sessions, Parson paces in front of the debaters like a football coach, scrawling results from the team's weekend tournements on the blackboard.
"HE'S AWE-INSPIRING." Langel said.
"He's the head Jayhawk. As far as debate goes, I never really considered going anywhere else."
Debaters compete in pairs in either junior-level or senior-level divisions. After eight preliminary rounds, the top 16 teams advance to single-elimination competition.
One general topic is selected each year by a National Debate Tournament committee to govern the content of all debates. This year's topic is space, which is broken down into a myriad of smaller subjects.
A DEBATE BEGINS with one team presenting its affirmative argument, in which one speaker has 10 minutes to state the team's policy and describe its advantages. The other then has 10 minutes to refute the affirmative's evidence and offer evidence of its own.
Each side then presents another 10-minute argument. Then each speaker presents a statement.
The judges score each team on a scale from 1 to 30, awarding points for soundness of evidence and refutation of the opposing side's claims. The final round was awarded to individual speakers for style.
To prepare for tournaments, debate team members often work into the middle of the night in their practice room on the first floor of Westoe Hall.
"ITS LIKE A think tank." Lingel said of the room, which is littered with newspapers, photocopied magazine articles and library books.
See DEBATERS, p. 5, col 5
Russian teacher turns WWII memories into tales
Tamerlan Salaty, assistant professor of Soviet and East European studies, stands next to a Soviet map of the United States. The top line of the map says "United States of America."
Chris Magerl/KANSAN
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Reporter
The scar on Tamerlan Salaty's neck is revealed faintly when he turns his head to the chalkboard to review Russian verbs.
His scar has faded. But the memories of counting bodies on battlefields for the Russians during World War II and of the shrapnel that gouged his neck have not paled.
The 62-year-old man is a 20th-century storyteller.
safety, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures, has lived through events that most people know only through history books.
students like to listen to my stories. Sassy said "Some purposely ask questions so they can learn."
SALATY WAS BORN in a small town in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas near the Soviet-Iranian border. He will not divulge the name of his hometown because he is afraid the Soviets will track him. He grew up speaking Ossitan, an Indo Iranian language, and began learning Russian at school when he was 14 years old.
His father was killed in 1922, the year Salaty was born, and his mother went to live with her parents. Salaty moved in with his
paternal grandfather and uncle on a collective farm.
Salaty was 19 years old when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. He was drafted into the Soviet army in 1942 when the Germans marched into the Caucasus. His job was to dig ditches and build obstructions against German tanks.
"The work was hard," he said, "and the girls with a long hair got in their hair."
The Soviets also used him to count bodies on battlefields in the Caucasus.
THE ONLY CREATURES moving me and a few cows and horses, running from
MONDAY MORNING
shelter to shelter," he said. "I could have just hid in a bunker, telling the Russians that there were so many dead there and over there, but I continued. I was badly wounded in the neck by shrapnel from a bomb."
Salaty ran away from his job when he discovered that his uncle had been exiled to Siberia for leaving work to search for food and fuel for his family. Salaty hid in the Caucasus Mountains and fought both Soviets and Germans.
"Surviving the Russian winter was tough enough," he said, "but to have survived with neither a coat nor a fire to keep warm was a
miracle. Once I was forced to lie flat on the ice for two straight hours just to keep from being detected and shot."
In 1943 the Germans captured Salary, and he spent about seven months in prison camps.
"WE USED TO sleep in old, abandoned barns with no glass on the windows or doors." Salaty said. "We were packed in there like sardines, and we had to sleep standing up because there was no room. In the morning, we had to carry away the bodies of the people near the door who had frozen to death during the night."
He was forced to march to Germany in 1944 to work in labor camps.
"There was a rumor in the prison camp that the Russians were bombing the camps because Stalin considered any Russian that became a prisoner to be a traitor.
"Every soldier was told to kill as many Germans as he could and then save the last bullet for himself so he would not be taken prisoner," he said. "Stainal said all prisoners were traitors, so he sent no relief food or summons to the Russian prisoners."
"WHILE THE RUSSIANS were starving to death, American and British prisoners in nearby compounds who received Red Cross
See SALATY, p. 5, col. 1