Pless express
All Big Eight linebacker Willie Pless broke Kyle McNorton's KU record for career tackles last week, nailing the Oklahoma Sooner for 25 tackles in a stunning 28-11
upset. Just a junior, Pless should have lots of time to build a record that will stand a few years, if he keeps knocking the opposition down at this rate. See story, page 16.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 49 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, November 1, 1984
Profs. students uncertain of India's future
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
The assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has left some professors and Indian students concerned about continued civil unrest but reasonably confident that the government will remain stable.
Robert Minor, associate professor of religious studies and acting director of the Center for East Asian studies, yesterday predicted that the assassination could increase violent acts by both the government and minority factions.
Gandhi was assassinated by two members
of the Sikh religious sect who served as part of her personal body guard. The Sikhs, who represent about 2 percent of India's population, practice an offshoot of Hinduism.
"THINGS WILL FLAME up." Minor said. "The government will tighten its reign quite a bit, increasing the potential for divides and strife; there will be great chaps in the government."
In New Delhi and Calcutta, Hindus yesterday went on rampages by setting fire to dozens of automobiles and Sikh-owned shops. At least one person was killed and more than 60 fires broke out, authorities reported.
The Sikhs have demanded greater auton-
amy from the majority Hindu government for decades, but Howard Baugartgert, professor of psychology, predicted that Gandhi's assassination would send the country into a period of great internal strife.
"The government and the army have the power to suppress any insurrection," said Bangmatger, who has traveled to India five times and spent part of this year there. "But when you are in a position where you are many factions in India who want more regional autonomy, most notably the Sikhs."
SURENDRA N. SINGH, associate professor of business and adviser of the KU India Club, said, "Most of us are very shocked and saddened, but I don't foresee this conflict
Rajesh Patel, president of the KU India Club, said several Indian students planned to pay homage to Gandhi for the celebration of the Hindu festival of lights. Diwali on Saturday.
According to the office of foreign student services, 53 Indian students are enrolled at the University of Kansas this semester. Many of them have moved to Lawrence with
turning into a civil war. I think the country is very valuable. We have strong constitutional principles.
Minor said the assassination was a retaliatory move against Gandhi's order four months ago for army troops to attack the
Golden Temple of Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest place of worship, in the state of Punib in northwestern India.
NEARLY 600 SKIKS were killed in the attack, which was ordered after armed Sikh militants had seized the shrine as part of a coup that set up an independent government in Punjab.
"In one sense the news of the assassination is a great shock." Minor said. "But in another sense I'm not surprised, considering the feeling of the extremist Sikh factions."
Singh said that the acts of the Sikhs were
See GANDHI, p. 5, col. 2
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Willis "Carly" McCorkill, a KU on Wheels bus driver, draws ing his route. He said yesterday that he had worn the face amusement from students with his cienn pointed face dur make students laugh and lighten up their day.
Storm haunts Halloween's bravest
BY CHRIS CLEARY and JOHN EGAN
Staff Reporters
Lawrence resembled Transylvania last night as a thunderstorm barreled in with enough thunder and lightning to please the most tinicky vampires.
Wind fit for watches riding broomes whipped out leaves across dark, slick streets. blowing jacket linters became beacons or coffees to creatures brazing the blush weather.
A tiny Superman was scooped off the sidewalk by his father, Ernie May, 1709 Illinois St., a KU graduate student Father and son took refuge under a black umbrella. "LIKE THE RAIN," said 4-year old Paul
"LIKE THE RAIN," saun j. 4,
May, "because the trees grow taller."
Janea Hooge, 9, dressed as a princess,
kicked wet leaves off of her slippers.
Her father, John Hooge, 1703 Indiana St., said the storm added to the spooky atmosphere of Halloween.
"I don't like it," Jamaa said of the rain. "If we weren't training, I love to out sit tu"
Although the lightning created the perfect Halloween backdrop, it became threatening when it struck a house on the 3000 block of West 27th Terrace and a tree on the 1500 block of West 21st Terrace. No damage was reported in either incident, the Lawrence county officials said.
"I like the lightning," Hooge said as the family dog, Raven, tugged at his leash. "I think it's great."
A MILE NORTH of Carbondale, about 20 miles southwest of Clinton Lake, two deaths
See STORM, p. 5, col. 1
Gandhi's son to serve as India's new leader
By United Press International
Raji Gandhi was sworn in as India's new leader yesterday only hours after his mother, Prime Minister Indra Gandhi, was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards as she walked to her office for a meeting with British film star Peter Ustinov.
Enraged by the most stunning assassination in India since Mohandas Gandhi was slain by a radical student in 1948, Hindus attacked Sikhs in Calcutta and New Delhi where authorities said at least one person was killed and more than 60 fires broke out.
THE VIOLENT DEATH of Gandhi, considered the most powerful woman in the world, also touched off disturbances in the states of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh.
Gandhi, 66, was pronounced dead six hours after two of her bodyguards opened fired with a revolver and a submachine gun, hitting her with 16 bullets.
The government said one of the two men who shot Gandhi was shot to death by other security guards while the second was shot. The second was said to be out of danger from his wounds.
The assassination came four months after Gandhi ordered her troops to storm the Golden Temple of Amritsar, the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion, to flush out armed militants blamed for a wave of terror in Punjab, where Sikh militants want to set up an independent state. Nearly 600 Sikhs were killed in the temple attack.
SHARDA PRASAD, GANDHI'S press secretary, said Gandhi was gunned down as she walked from her home to her office to meet Ustinov.
Ustinov was to interview Gandhi on the
lawn outside her office for a television film series about world leaders.
Prasad said Gandhi, escorted by two aides and a bodyguard, was about to reach the gate separating her residence from her office when the attack was made by two members of the security force stationed at the complex.
One Sikh guard opened fire with a revolver and "she stumbled and fell," Prasad said. The second guard then emptied his submachine gun into her body.
Prasad and Ustinov were behind the hedge separating the residence from the office
"THERE WAS TIME ENOUGH for people to speculate that these were firecrackers," Ustinov said of the first shots. "But then, it was emptied the whole magazine into her."
Bleeding protifically, Gandhi was rushed to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where she was pronounced dead six hours later from the gunshot wounds.
"All resuscitatory measures were taken by senior surgeons and despite their best efforts, she could not be saved," said M.S. J. physician who headed a team of 12 surgeons.
Gandhan appeared to have had a premonition of her death, saying at a public meeting on the eve of the attack. "Even if I die in the service of the nation, I will be proud."
"Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation," she said.
IN NEW DELHI AND Calcutta, members of the Hindu religion majority went on rampages against Sikhs, burning dozens of
See INDIA, p. 5, col. 2
Application forms are available in the Student Senate office, Bito Kansas Union;
The Kansan is now accepting application auditor and business manager positions.
Kansan accepting applications
Applications are due by 5 p.m. Nov. 15 in 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Two KU seniors are potential Marshall Scholars
U. S. Gen George Marshall started the European Recovery Program in 1947 to provide economic assistance to help Britain and other European countries rebuild after World War II.
Since 1963, Britain has tried to thank the United States with the Marshall Scholarship program.
Thirty students in the United States receive the scholarships annually. According to the scholarship application, a Marshall Scholar must be "the possessor of a keen intellect and
Marshall Scholarships are managed by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, in independent body established by an act of the British Parliament.
The program allows U.S. citizens who are graduates of U.S. colleges and universities to study for a degree at a British university for at least two academic years.
In addition to filling out applications, prospective Marshall Scholars go through interviews and write lengthy essays.
Two KU students, Glenn Dettweider and Joseph Shields, have been nominated by a campus selection committee to be Marshall Scholars. A state committee will consider their applications Dec. 12. Eight students from each of five U.S. regions will be
Schwertfleger and Shields will compete in the Midwestern region.
Glenn Schwerdtfeger
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Glenat Schwerdterfeger lings to return to the high green countryside of the British Isles.
"It was a lot of fun and a very good experience." said Schwertfeger, Bushion senior, of his year in Scotland. "The education I found very good. I found it to be a very beautiful place, very hospitable, very friendly."
A year in Scotland at St. Andrew's University captivated Schwertfteger and led him in September to apply for a Marshall Scholarship.
“It’s certainly nerve-racking to think that we’re going to take 30 from the nation,” he said. “The more interviews I go through, the more confident I get. There’s nothing to lose by trying.”
Schwerdftferg said he felt nervous about competing for the scholarship
Schwerdtferger said his parents never had put pressure on him to become an academic teacher.
But he said, "I've always done well in school.
At the University of Kansas, he has plumed his altar as spending much of each day in worship.
"This semester, in particular," he said,
"I ve spent an awful lot of time studying."
Mostly he concentrates on his major, the classical languages of Greek and Latin. He wants to become an ordained minister and thus those languages will help him in that job.
Schwerdtfreer also is interested in psych-
ology, notical science and literature
"There would be lots and lots of things I would like to study if there were just time," Schwerdfeger said.
Joseph Shields
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Joseph Shields has his head in the stars.
Joseph Shields has his head in the mortar. Shields, El Dorado senior, took an astrophysics course when he came to the University of Kansas and became hooked on astronomy, the scientific study of the universe beyond the earth.
Because of his interest in the stars, he applied to be a Marshall Scholar. He wants to attend Cambridge University in England, he said, because the university has a respected reputation.
"I recognized that it would require some effort," Shields said. "But I thought it was well worth it."
He hopes to use his bachelor's and master's
Shields said he liked the challenge of figuring out problems and that's why astronomy and physics as a double major attracted him.
Applying for a Marshall scholarship was an opener challenge.
Shields plans to attend graduate school and has been applying to several universities around the country in case he isn't selected as a Marshall Scholar. He said his postgraduate work would be in astronomy and astrophysics.
degrees for a career in research and teaching at a university.
Shields said about his academic talent, "I was probably always good but not great. I don't think there's been any radical change in my performance in college."
However, Shields doesn't let his studies rule his life he said.
"The majority of my activities revolve around school, but they're not strictly studying," he said.