October 4,1984
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The University Daily KANSAN
1980 presidential hopeful to speak Oct. 25 at KU
John Anderson, an independent presidential candidate in the 1980 election, will speak at 8 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Kansas Union Building, sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Anderson, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, retired in 1979 and worked year career in the House of Representative, who nominated the Republican nomination for president.
During the 1980 primaries, Anderson switched from a Republican to an independent candidate. He won 6.6 percent of the vote in the general election.
During the 1980 campaign, Anderson spoke at the University of Kansas. Since 1980, he has taught at the University of Arizona and Stanford University in California.
Anderson recently endorsed Walter Mondale for president.
Austrian troupe to perform
Theatre Brett, a mime troupe from Vienna, Austria, will bring its silent stage art to campus in two performances next week.
the performances, sponsored by Crafton-Preyer Theatre and the International Theatre Studies Center, will start with the production of *Saworthat* Recital Hall in Murray Hall.
Dollar day at game Saturday
The mime troop was founded in Vienna by Nika Bretschneider and her husband, Lukvib Kavin, after the couple was exiled from Czechoslovakia in 1977.
General admission tickets for the performances are $3, with discounts for students and senior citizens. Reservations must be made during the Murphy Hall box office. 844-392-8
Any student with a football season ticket can bring a friend to Saturday's football game for $1.
Saturday will be "Take Me Out to the Ball Game Day" at Memorial Stadium for the game between the University of Kansas and Iowa State University. The event is sponsored by the Student Senate Sports Council.
Editors' Day draws press here
The $1 tickets may be bought only at the booth at the southeast corner of the stadium. Guests must have a KU identif-
icator and a 2,300 hosts will receive a free KU T-shirt.
The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications will be host to members of the Kansas press Saturday in the school's annual
Hosts and guests will sit in the student open seating section.
The day includes naming of the 1984 inducee into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame, to be announced by Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism.
Kansas editors and publishers, members of the Kansas Press Association and Kansas Press Women and guests of the school will attend the event.
Del Brinkman, dean of the school, will preside at the 10 a.m. general session in Adelson Auditorium in the Kansas Union, where he spoke. A Budd will give a welcome speech
Charlie Waters, Gannett professional in residence and editor and publisher of the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier, will be one of the speakers.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and there is a 50 percent chance of rain and thundershowers. The high will be in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Winds will be from the south to southeast at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy and the high will be in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and the high will be in the low 70s.
Correction
Because of a copy editor's error, the headline on a story in yesterday's Kansas incorrectly reported the date of a study skills workshop. The workshop, "Prepare to learn" is from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Jayhawk Box of the Kansas Union
Senate panel passes S. Africa bill
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
A bill that would prohibit purchases from companies that do business in South Africa by the Student Senate or any campus where it has been approved last night, by the senate Finance Committee.
The voice vote came after about two hours of debate on the five-nage bill.
Loud applause from about 30 spectators greeted the bill's passage.
"This bill, although it is not a cure-all, does what we can do," said Chris Bunker, Prairie Village law student and chairman of the county's temporary Committee on South Africa.
THE BILL WILL go before the full Senate on Wednesday.
Bunker and Dennis "Boop" Hightberger, student body vice president, co-sponsored the bill. Both have said they disapprove of the use of apartheid, a form of racial segregation.
The bill would affect all money the Senate allocates, about $383,000 for fiscal year 1985. The Senate receives that money from the $24 student activity fee included in tuition each
Before discussion began, Bunker pointed to the spectators. The spectators interrupted debate several times with applause.
But Bob Stern, Kansas City, Kan, senior and a committee member, said he objected to the bill because it did not address a student issue.
"They came because they wanted to show their support." Bunker told committee members. "This bill has very broad support."
Senate should be concerned only with governing students, he said.
"I honestly do not believe the bill belongs here in Student Senate," he said.
HIGHBERGER SAID HE had expected discussion to last as long as it did because the bill was 208 lines long. He said he also expected a lengthy debate at Wednesday's
"I was pleased that it passed," he said.
The bill also would set up a Social Responsibility Subcommittee of the Finance Committee to keep and update a list of companies doing business in South Africa. The chairman of that subcommittee would act as a violations investigator.
Bunker said groups financed by the Senate would use the list to avoid purchasing supplies from companies doing business in South Africa.
"If we spend money in a responsible way"
Baker said, "we can do something for the benefit."
"ITS REALLY MUCH easier than it looks.
We live in a free enterprise system. If one
thing can be bought from one group, it can be bought from another."
Any group violating the bill's rules three times in three years would lose funds for up to three years. But the bill allows for "mitigating circumstances," such as when an organization can buy something only from a source with ties to South Africa.
Higherberger said, "The intent of this bill is not to punish or coerce or anything. The goal is to be able to work with people."
"Last time you said it wasn't specific,
"Bunker said. "Now it's specific."
A similar, shorter bill was killed by the Finance Committee earlier this month because committee members said they would contain enough specifics about its provisions.
In other action, the committee voted to spend $2,200 to bring a nationally-known speaker to campus for Expo 84, a job fair sponsored by the University of Kansas Alumni Association's Office of Minority Relations.
The money will come from the Senate's $140,000 special-projects fund.
The committee also voted to give the Solar Energy Club $277 for telephones. That money will come from the Senate's student organization, which allocated account, which contains about $8,500.
Prof leads scholarly round table
The committee also voted to allocate $400 to the KU. International Folk Dance Club for the group's tour.
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Renorter
As a child, Norris Lacy read the medieval legend of the boy who pulled the sword Excalibur from the stone to become king of England.
While a doctoral candidate at Indiana University, he studied French "fabiaux," which he called "just medieval dirty stories."
After completing his dissertation, Lacy, professor of French, explored the legend of King Arthur, the kingdom of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table.
LACY, A SPECIALIST in Arthurian literature from the 12th and 13th centuries, in August was elected president of the International Arthurian Society, a group comprised of scholars of medieval history, writers and academics academic tans of the King Arthur legend.
"My interest is primarily scholarly," Lacy said. "My interest developed through my graduate studies of medieval literature Arthurian legend dominated so deeply that I was thrown into it whether I liked it or not. It just happened that I liked it."
Eighty percent of the members of the International Arthritian Society are scholars, he said, and 20 percent are people who have an arthritian literature simply for pleasure.
Lacy was elected at the society's International Congress, which meets every three years, in Rennes, France. Lacy is the society's youngest president.
ABOUT 400 MEMBERS of the society gathered from Aug. 16 to 23 in the northwestern city of France. The members presented papers, discussed Arthurian literature and went on trips to places associated with King Arthur.
On another trip to France, Lacy said, and other society members traveled to the United States.
"In Exeter, we went to the ruins of Tintagel Castle," he said. The group also went to the supposed burial place of Arthur and his wife, Guinevere. he said.
The historical figure of Arthur, Lacy said, was a sixth century military leader.
Lacy has been a member of the International Arthurian Society for nearly 20 years and will serve a three-year term as president. He was the group's
"There is currently a lot of research into who the historical Arthur was and how he turned into a legend," he said.
secretary-treasurer for five years prior to his election this summer
AS PRESIDENT, LACY will direct the next triennial meeting of the International Congress scheduled for Europe. He said he had no plans to change the structure of the organization, but would try to introduce countable discussions at the meetings.
The society had its first conference in the 1930s. The tensions of World War II delayed meetings until 1949, when the group was formally founded.
The society has about 2,000 members in 25 countries, including the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, Japan, Germany, France, United States, France and others, Laicy said.
The United States belongs to the North American branch of the society, comprised of 450 members. Australia comprises 180 members. One of the North American branch, Lacy said.
THE SOCIETY ANNUALLY publishes a bibliography of new Arthurian literature, articles concerning Arthurian literature and conferences on Arthurian literature.
meetings traditionally took place in Britain or France. But in recent years, conferences had been in other European countries.
Every three years, the society publishes a summary of the papers presented at the conference.
"We always talk about moving the meetings, but the exchange rates make it too expensive for Europeans to come to the United States," he said. "Because of the annual holdings in the European libraries most Americans want to go there."
Lacy, the past chairman of the department of French and Italian, said he took this year off as chairman to finish his degree and reference book to be published in Fall 1986.
"IT'S A REFERENCE book of every
thing you ever want to know about King
Arthur."
The book includes entries about medieval literature in old and modern languages, medieval art, history, legends and folklore. Lacy said the entries were written by scholars in Canada, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands and the United States.
Prof predicts election loss for Mondale
Lacy said he wrote about 50 of the nearly 2,000 entries in the reference book. He is the main editor of the book and the author of the book's introduction and bibliography.
By SUZANNE BROWN
Staff Reporter
Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale has probably already lost the election unless President Reagan makes a move that would give the professor of political science said yesterday.
"I guess the Democrats kind of hope Reagan will fall asleep in the middle of a foreign policy debate," he said. "But it looks very good at this particular stage."
Allian Cigler, the professor, was the guest speaker yesterday at the University Forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Cigler, who also is the faculty adviser for the College Young Democrats, specializes in American politics and will teach a class that starts next week called The 1984 Elections.
CIGLER SPOKE TO about 50 people. Most of the questions following his speech included such topics as "What does a scientist do?"
Cigler named several problems plaguing Monday's campaign, many of which the press have consistently dwelt upon in the last several weeks.
These problems, he said, center on a negative attitude among voters toward Mondale rather than toward his stand on the issues.
Cigler said the main difficulty in the campaign was that Mondale lacked the leader image that served Reagan so well. This perception overshadows voters' belief that Mondale would be a compassionate president, he said.
"People do think Mondale would be more caring, more fair," he said. "What they haven't convinced people of is what you might call his toughness to govern."
CIGLER ALSO SAID the Democratic Party was no longer perceived as the party of optimism that it had been under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"For some reason, Democrats have lost that sense of optimism and future to the Republican Party, and they're losing young people because of it," he said.
Cigler said intangibles such as patriotism and leadership mattered more to voters than concrete issues such as the federal deficit or war and peace
Besides lacking an upbeat message, Mondale and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, also are alienating voters by using a word that most people don't like to hear, Cigarlier.
Though Reagan is usually the candidate associated with rectitude, he said, the president seems less somber about moral and religious issues than his opponent.
Mondale, however, becomes indignant over many Republican positions. Gicler said
"REAGAN'S STRENGTH, it seems to me,
is his absence of either self-righteousness or
sacrifice."
"To be against ERA, for example, or to wonder about Social Security, often gets turned into 'you're against old people and you don't like women,'" he said.
Reagan's perceived toughness, combined with his amiability, contrasts favorably with Mitch McConnell.
Cigler said another burden crippling Mondale's campaign was a Democratic Party that had lost many of its traditional voter groups to the Republicans.
THE FRAGILE COALITION of workers and minorities that supported the New Deal in the 1930s through the 1950s began to erode after many New Deal programs succeeded and voters had nothing more to fight for, he said.
Mondale now must fight to keep the voters who agree with him on economic issues, but still feel threatened by the Democratic Party's stand on civil liberties. Clerk said
CIGLER SAID MONDALE could try, in the time remaining before the election, to run a campaign based on issues such as tax break measures. But he said he feared it was a lost cause.
"He almost can't win," he said.
He almost can't win, 'he said.
Mondale's biggest hurdle, one which he is
powerless to surmount, Cigler said, is the
strength of the U.S. economy.
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