Good eats
Deb Washburn has a message for anyone who eats: get serious. Her class at the Zen Center called "Cooking for Health and Vigor" is about macrobiotic diets, which she
says emphasize natural foods, focus on how foods affect your body and promote longevity. Among the no-nos are most of your favorite junk foods. See story, page 3.
Warming
High, 65. Low, 48.
Details on page 3.
The University Daily
Vol. 95, No. 38 (USPS 650-640)
KANSAN
Wednesday, October 17, 1984
Candidates wrangle as K.C. debate nears
By United Press International
Walter Mondale, in his harshest attack of the campaign, said yesterday President Reagan has suffered "profound confusion" about American security for 30 years and questioned Reagan's ability to respond to a nuclear crisis.
Monday, whose come-from-behind campaign was lainey by his first television encounter with Reagan, said he welcomed the governor as one of which candidate "is out of touch with reality."
In the last scheduled major address before the debate Sunday with Reagan in Kansas City, Mo. the Democratic presidential strategy with his fierce verbal blast so far.
REAGAN YESTERDAY pursued his campaign to woo the nation's youngest voters, campaigning at the College of Du Page outside of Chicago and charging that his opposition represents "torpor, timidity and taxes."
He called his opponent's tax hike proposal.
"I think my opponent's tax plan will be a hardship for the American people and I believe it will bring our recovery to a roaring stop," Reagan said. "At least it gave me an opportunity, I could find a way to dress up as his tax program. I could go out and scare the neighbors."
the "Mondale Mortgage," and said it would lead to "more than a few foreclosures."
"The truth is, if my opponent's campaign were a television show it would be 'Let's Make a Deal' — you get to trade your prosperity for the surprise behind the curtain. If his campaign were a Broadway play, it would have been like if his administration were a novel, it would only have a happy ending if you read it backwards."
MONDALE MSO campaigned on a campus yesterday, receiving a tumultuous reception from a crowd of about 1,000 students at Stanford University. Although the rally was moved indoors because of a rainstorm, the students were enthusiastic.
See POLITICS, p. 5, col. 1
Proposed riverfront mall wins city officials' praise
Staff Reporter
By CHRIS BARBER
The proposed riverfront mall, a 200,000-square-foot development that is to include a major department store and about 55 smaller shops, received a boost from the Lawrence City Commission last night.
All five commissioners said they supported the idea of the development, proposed by Steve Clark of Steve Clark Commercial Real Estate, 1611 St. Andrews Drive.
The proposed site of the mail is along the Kansas River from New Hampshire to New York.
ALTHOUGH THE commissioners supported the proposal, they agreed that no action could be taken until some "kitchen work" was done by city staff to answer their questions.
"I support the concept," Commissioner David Longhurst said, "but we should ask the staff to pursue the appropriate documents.
*In general terms, this is an exciting development.* *You can't determine tomorrow if it can happen.*
City Manager Buford Watson will seek staff reports on commissioners' questions about the development's possible effects on the area.
Watson said that by referring the matter to the commission approved parlaying the plan.
Clark presented his proposal and outlined the three requests he had for the city.
Second. Clark wanted a lease on the city owned parking lot east of City Hall, and air rights to build a portion of the mall above the lot.
FIRST, HE ASKED for a lease on the riverfront property underneath the Bowersock Mills Buildings, which are to be included in the development.
Clark's third request was for the maintenance or improvement of Rhode Island, New
See CITY, p. 5, col. 3
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Peter Michel and Maja Noser, both first year applied English students from Glarus, Switzerland, try to keep their balance riding down the sidewalk in front of Stauffer Flint Hall.
Clergyman applauds Nobel pick
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
The selection of Desmond Tutu of South Africa to receive the 1848 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday brought a pleased reaction from a local chaplain who has met him.
Tutu, a black Anglican bishop, yesterday was named to receive the peace prize for his advocacy of a non-violent end to apartheid South Africa's official policy of racia
Peter Casparian, chaplain at Caterbury House, 1116 Louisiana St., said he had spent four days with Tutu at a conference in New York and attended a lecture. He called the award selection a good one
"HE HAS BEEN one of the most articulate spokesmen for peace in South Africa," he said. "He is personally a joyful, optimistic and clever person."
Canterbury House is the campus ministry of the Episcopal Church, which is the church in the United States that is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
"He talked about how God calls us all to
trademark and newness of life and that we can
reach our potential."
The conference was a national gathering of about 400 Episcopal students in Estes Park, Colo., where Tutu gave several meditations and taught faith to South Africa, Caspian said.
Casparian said that Tutu, though only about 5 feet 4 inches tall, was a forceless speaker who mixed righteous anger and anger in his voice. Casparian also enjoyed informal hours with Tutu.
"BEING AROUND SOMEBODY who is truly humble is incredible," he said. "He befriended everyone."
"It was like following the sacred with the mundane," he said.
Casparian said the selection of Tutu was valuable because it called attention to issues the U.S. government had not faced adequately.
That prospect of attention to U.S. ties to
See AFRICA. d. 5. col. 1
Two committees seek new site for proposed Vietnam Memorial
By JOHN HANNA
Staff Reporter
The groundbreaking date for the proposed Vietnam Memorial on campus remains uncertain as KU officials and members of two committees search for a home for the monument.
planning, said yesterday that he hoped construction on the $30,000 memorial would
The memorial probably will be built somewhere between the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art and the Campamile, said but, an exact site has not been chosen.
University S Art in Public Spaces Committee last week decided to move the site from the Chandler Court, south of the Frank R. Burge Union.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities
MEMBERS OF THE Vietnam Memorial Committee, the KU administration and the
"We really want this to be a fine memorial," Wiechert said. "That's the reason for the hesitation toward charging in on the project."
The decision pleased John Onken. St. Louis senior. Onken and Bud Bortner, Overland
Park special student, designed the memorial.
"Now it's not a question of getting it done as soon as possible, but getting it done right." Onken said. "Of course, I'd like to see it go on."
THE DESIGN for the memorial features nine limestone posts standing eight feet apart. Three large slabs surrounding a pool of water are included, as are the figures of
three soldiers and a plaque with the names of former students who died or have been listed
Onken and Bortner now must modify their design to fit the area being considered for the new site. Onken said he expected to finish by Nov. 1.
"It's a much prettier site," he said. "It's a
See VIETNAM, p. 5, col. 4
Byron R. White, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, speaks to a full house in Woodruff Auditorium.
Justice defines role of U.S. courts
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
Staff Reporter
Decision makers should expect to have their work questioned and must always be able to defend their rulings. Byron R. White, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,
White told about 500 people in Woodruff Auditorium about the development of the American judiciary system and the role of courts in today's society. He was the inaugural speaker for the Stephenson Lectures in Law and Government.
"Decision makers will frequently be in hot water," he said. "It is not surprising that great controversy should surround Supreme Court decisions."
WHITE STRESSED THAT the judicial system's purpose, especially at the Supreme Court level, was to define and protect the intent of laws created by legislative bodies.
"Whether we are right or wrong in any case," he said, "our saving grace is that we can live."
The increase in the number of laws created by legislative bodies has relegated courts to interpreters of law. White said. He also said this was a favorable trend.
"The relative importance of the courts as a source of law has decreased with the proliferation of legislation," he said. "That's the way it should be."
"If there is a defensible construction of a law by a legislative agency, it should not be
The lecture series, financed by an endowment by Donnan and Patricia Stephenson, will bring leading law and government officials to speak at KU. Stephenson, who served as a New Mexico Supreme Court justice for six years, graduated from the KU Law School in 1948.
"This is a significant development," he said. "This gives the School of Law the opportunity to showcase many of the key issues in government. This is an excellent beginning."
Chancellor Gene A Budig, who introduced White, said after the lecture that the series "has been a great success."
"I AM TREMENDOUSLY impressed with tonight," he said. "I hope and feel sure that Justice White's coming here for the inaugural lecture will give the series a certain
WHITE WAS BORN in Fort Collins, Colo.
He graduated from University of Colorado in
1938 and from Yale Law School in 1946.
White, 67, was appointed to the high court in 1962 by President Kennedy to succeed Charles E. Whittaker, who had retired. White was deputy U.S. attorney general at the time. He had been appointed deputy attorney general in 1961.
He acquired the nickname "Whizzer" when he was an all-American halfback at Colorado. He later played professional football to help finance his law studies.
The longevity of the Supreme Court is due to "built-in correction mechanisms," which continually adjust the court's stands on issues. White said.
"The first is the constitutional amendment," he said. "It is hard to acquire, but can overturn a line of Supreme Court decisions."
The second is the mortality of judges, White said.
"Judges do not live forever, and they do not rule forever," he said.
WHITE ALSO SAID, "Decisions are subject to criticism, and prior decisions may be reversed."
White now belongs to a group of four justices who are often referred to as the "swing bloc." Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Dahl and Richard S. Reagan are the other justices who make up this group.
Ideologically, these justices rest between Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Sandra Day O'Connor and William H. Rehnquist, considered the conservative wing of the Supreme Court, and William J. Brennan Jr and Thomas J. Burger, considered liberal activists on the hugh court.
The way the members of the "swing blee"
vote often determines the court's decisions