November 2.1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Missing babysitter, twins found dead near home
ARLINGTON, Kan. — Three bodies found by a man at dusk yesterday in a wooded area have been identified as those of a babysitter and two-year-old twin boys missing since Monday, Reno County Sheriff Jim Fountain said.
Randy Smith, an Arlington man who bows hunt in the area, found the bodies of James and Andrew Vogel상 and their children. The Mooney Monroe of Arlington, Fountain said.
Smith found the bodies only a half mile northwest of the farm home of the twins' parents, Deborah and James Vogelsang
Fountain speculated the trio had been dead since Monday, but said he had no idea where they were.
Fountain said the area was sealed off and an investigation was scheduled to begin at daybreak today. The bodies were not to be removed from the area until then.
Todav last day to receive 'W'
Today is the last day for students to receive a "W" if they withdraw from undergraduate courses offered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Architecture and Urban Design the School of Education, and graduate and graduate courses offered through the School of Social Welfare.
A student who withdraws from undergraduate courses that the student is failing will still receive an "F" if the course is offered through: the School of Allied Health, the School of Engineering, the School of Fine Arts, the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, the School of Nursing, the department of therapy, the Department of Pharmacy. The same policy applies in all graduate school courses except those offered through the School of Social Welfare.
Law symposium sponsored $ ^{d} $
A 'W' indicates only that the student withdrew from the course.
The Kansas City, Kan. Bar Association and the Kansas Committee for the Humanities will sponsor a symposium on the topic at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in Green Hall
speakers at the symposium will discuss the historical development of the National Bar Association, law, race and the American Constitution and Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, a 1954 Supreme Court civil rights case.
Fred D. Gray, an Alabama civil rights lawyer, will discuss the National Bar Association's effect on the Kansas legal profession and race relations.
Annual Arabic Day tomorrow
Arab students will display information about their cultures at the Second Annual Arabic Day, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas University Ballroom.
Each of the 18 countries represented will display posters, crafts, books, brochures and national games. Arab students will wear national costumes. Slide shows and documentary movies about the countries will be shown.
Pianist to lead master classes
Claude Frank, 1984-85 pianist in residence in the School of Fine Arts, will conduct a series of master classes for upperclass and graduate piano students from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 10:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Swartwater Revital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Students were selected for the master classes by members of the piano faculty. The classes will be open to the public for observation.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and the high will be from 55 to 60 degrees. Winds of 10 to 20 mph will be from the south. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. The low tonight will be in the upper 30s. Tomorrow will be mild and the high will be in the mid-to upper 60s.
- Compiled from United Press International reports.
Athletes' personal adviser quits, official says
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
The athletic department's director or personal support for athletes announced yesterday morning in a public hearing that he had resigned and would leave his position Nov. 15, an athletic department official said yesterday.
Mike Fisher, director of personal support and former academic counselor, announced his resignation at a campus hearing in which
Mike Frederick, former football team quarterback, appealed an athletic department decision not to renew his scholarship, said Lonny Rose, assistant athletic director.
When asked if he had called for Fisher's resignation, Rose said. "I am his immediate supervisor, so I guess you'd say I did."
But yesterday afternoon, Fisher said he didn't see his announcement as being final.
"We're going to sit down and talk about he said of Rae's comment that he already knew that."
Rose said Fisher's resignation was a personnel matter. He would not comment on specific reasons for the resignation, including a lack of experience in eligibility in football players this season.
not prepared to make a statement right now."
Rose said he did not know whether Fisher would be replaced. The department has been redefining the roles of personal support director, academic support director and the entire academic support system.
Fisher's position was created in August
when the athletic department decided to divide the responsibilities of academic support and personal support for athletes.
Fisher had been in charge of both, Rose said, but in August his responsibilities were limited to providing personal support for athletes.
In the absence of an academic support director, Rose said, the department has been relying on the help of Paul Buskirk, special assistant for athletic advising to the vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Scientist says most species don't survive
BY STEFANI D Staff Reporter
Larry Martin. a paleontologist and a curator of the Natural History Museum, displays saber-tooth cat skulls.
Extinctions are normal. Survival is rare, a KU, pediatologist said recently.
"We can read directly from the fossil record that the normal outcome of any evolutionary life is extinction," said Larry Martin, the paleontologist and a curator of the Natural History Museum. "The rarity is survival."
But Martin said extinctions might not be all bad...
"I can guarantee that if the dinosaurs were still around, mammals would never have amounted to much beyond shrews," he said. "In a sense extinction, gave us our chance."
Martin has studied fossils of North American land mammals of the past 38 million years and found that extinctions occurred every 2.3 million years.
Martin's office is filled with evidence of cyclic extinctions gathered through the past 20 years. Ancient bones cluster the tabletops, but they contain nothing but articles relating to his theory.
A DUTCH PALEOBOTANIST, Thomas Van der Hammen, discovered similar cyclic changes for plants, indicated by plant pollen in Colombia.
The cycles Martin and Van der Hammen found differed from another theory that has proposed cycle extinctions. Last year, David Kaup and John Seppksi, paleontologists from the University of Chicago, announced that a new species of size that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs died, came in cycles of 26 million years or so.
However, the extinctions that Martin and Van der Hammen studied were not as extensive as the one at the end of the Cretaceous period. In that extinction, about 65 million years ago, the most prominent life forms perished.
In the more normally sized exinctions, such as the one after the ice age 10,000 to 12,000 years age, approximately half the animal species died.
MARTIN SAID HIS theory of cyclic extinctions was based on studies of the distribution of warm-blooded, fur-bearing mammals in North America He plotted when such animals lived and found periods of time abundant with life separated by periods of extinctions.
Martin also found that animals that developed after extinctions tended to look like their predecessors. He came to the conclusion that "extinction may not be forever," at least in terms of basic morphological types.
The same sorts of animals became extinct
and were re-formed "so we find fossils that are not closely related to later or living animals but that look a lot like them." Martin said.
Saber-tooth cats were an example of cyclic extinctions. They have evolved and become extinct in North America four different times.
MARTIN SAID NO one knew why some animals kept dying out while others, such as some fox-like dogs, survived. Their structures did not seem to be inherently flawed. He suggested that these were "perfectly good animals," but the rules of the game changed.
Martin said that many explanations for cyclic extinctions had been proposed but that most were inadequate because they did not
take into account the relatively short intervals between extinctions or explain why some animals were more vulnerable than others.
Many scientists have speculated extinctions were caused by asteroids crashing into the earth, throwing tons of debris into the atmosphere and blocking most of the sun's radiation, which is vital to life.
Martin did not agree with the asteroid theory as a reason for all extinctions, but did not reject it completely.
He said the reason for extinctions probably was not caused by asteroids but might be astronomical.
"If someone was clever enough," he said "he might come up with an explanation."
Students,profs remember hostage crisis of 5 years ago
Staff Reporter
By HEATHER R. BIGGINS
On a gray Sunday five years ago tomorrow, students invoking the name of Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans as
The hostage crisis — a key factor in President Jimmy Carter's defeat for a second term in office — helped propel Ronald Reagan into the White House a year later.
The United States found itself engaged in a test of will against an unruly gang of Iranian militants.
Their demand: surrender the deposed Shah of Iran, undergoing treatment in the United States for cancer of the lymphatic system and other illnesses, as the price of the Americans' release.
remembers his appeal for student compassion and understanding.
ON CAMPUSES, IRANIAN flags were torched and Khomeini was burned in effigy. KU was also unmistakably distressed over the actions of the Avalatollah.
"KU was a typical campus in terms of being indiscriminate in its hostility and frustration."
"We were fortunate that we didn't have some of the violent confrontations that occurred in other parts of the nation. Students became overly hostile when Iranian students held demonstrations, jeering and suggesting that they go home American students showed insensitivity toward them as human beings."
Looking back, many remember the time clearly. Some refuse to talk about it David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs,
BUT 23-YEAR-OLD FARMHAD Azad, a KU student then and now, contends that some of the hostility came from the various Iranian factions on campus.
"We had a tough time amongst ourselves," said Azad, a native of Tehran, Iran. "All of the Iranian political interest groups were trying to get non-affiliated students to support them."
Under the pro-American Shah, Iran had some 50,000 students on American campuses, by far the largest group of foreign students in Asia, and the largest group was 14,000 Taiwanese students.
According to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, about 18,000 Iranians
received some kind of Iranian government subsidy, and most were enrolled in engineering, business or science courses.
CLARK COAN, DIRECTOR of foreign student services, said that 250 Iranian students attended KU in 1979, but Iranian enrollment has since dropped here and nationwide. Now, only 113 Iranian students attend KU.
in response to the hostage crisis, Carter ordered the INS to check on the status of all Iranian post-secondary students. Among the items Iramans had to provide to establish a dormitory were clothing, enrollment and residence, up-to-date arrival and departure records, and valid passports.
Hussein Seyed Gerami of Tehran, Iran, who was a KU sophomore in 1979, said he'll never forget the INS interviews.
Gerami, who now lives in California, was arrested in front of the foreign student office in Strong Hall. He was charged with keeping other iranians from attending interviews with INS investigators and with not carrying identification papers.
HE WAS ARRAGNED in a Topeka federal court and, according to Gerami, was told to leave the country. He did, but later returned to study in California.
Gerami said that his right to freedom of speech had been violated and that the INS investigator arrested him to frighten other Iranian students.
The tension on campus was accented when Norman Forer, professor of social welfare, made an unsuccessful attempt to bring the hostages home.
Departing for Iran in December of 1979, Forer and Clarence Dillingham, who was an instructor in social welfare, intended to deliver a letter drafted by the Committee for American-Iranian Crisis Resolution to Khomeini.
THE LETTER PROPOSED sending "ordinary American citizens" to meet with the Iranian people to "discuss methods for reconciling both our peoples in the spirit of justice."
Forer received no University administration support or authorization for his trip to Iran.
Forer recently said he was not bitter, but refused to elaborate. Dillingham was unavailable for comment.
"The media treated me unfairly," Forer said. "I'd just as soon forget about it and go on with my life."
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