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Two weeks ago, starting safety Wayne Ziegler grabbed two errant passes in KU's game against Wichita State. Now the former quarterback from Nickerson, who calls the
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Thursday, September 20, 1984
Vol. 95, No. 19 (USPS 650-640)
Buddy Mangine/KANSAN
Pam Lesis, a former KU student, stresses her point during a segregation. Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice rally, against apartheid. South Africa's system of racial president, stands in the background.
Apartheid rally draws crowd
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
The juggler with the painted blue lips and white face tossed three lighted torches furiously for the large crowd gathered in front of Watson Library yesterday afternoon.
As he jumped from the stage in front of the library, the crowd responded with applause and cheers. Behind him, a long, red banner with black letters fluttered in the breeze.
"Rally against apartheid," it read. "I've always thought that theater was the best way to tell people about things." Frank Krug, the jugger, said after his 15-minute performance. "We need more jugglers against apartheid."
KRUG, A 1981 KI graduate, was a participant in a two-hour rally designed to focus attention on the Republic of South Africa. He was part of an apprehension of apprehension of racial segregation.
About 200 people attended the rally, part of this week's South Africa Week activities sponsored by the the Student Senate's temporary Committee on South Africa
Speakers at the rally included members of the KU College Young Democrats, Praxis, the Socialist Workers Party and the Anti-Angriff groups, a formation of eight groups in the Kansas City area.
Members of "Common Ground," a Law
rence reggae band, began the rally with percussion music.
Six speakers criticized the South African government's policy of aparthand and called for the Kansas University Enforcement Department to stop enforcement in companies that do business in South Africa.
STEVE MENAGH, DIRECTOR of public relations for the Endowment Association, said yesterday that only Todd Seymour, Endowment Association president, could answer questions about the Endowment Association's possible ties to companies that do business in South Africa.
Seymour was on vacation and could not be reached yesterday.
Amenghai said the Endowment Association offered donors the option of not having their money invested in companies that do business in South Africa.
Dennis "Booq" Highlighter, student body vice president and South Africa Committee member, said that he and Carla Vogel, student body president, would meet with Seymour on Wednesday to discuss South Africa and the Endowment Association's possible divestment in companies doing business in South Africa.
HIGHBERGER ALSO SAID he would introduce a resolution at the Sept. 26 Senate meeting calling for the Endowment Association to gnd its investments in companies doing business in South Africa.
Highberger was at the rally to introduce speakers yesterday afternoon.
"We can change the world and have a good time doing it," he told the crowd.
A few in the audience carried homemade signs, and the audience clapped and cheered after each speaker finished.
Norma Hill, president of the Kansas City, Mo. chapter of the Black Social Workers, a group in the Anti-Apartheid Network, told the crowd that under apartheid, blacks in South Africa could not vote and were separated from white society.
SHE ALSO URGED the University of Kansas to join the Anti Apartheid Network
"Apartheid means separation," she said.
"South Africa has taken the word and taken
Pete Wickland, a member of the College Young Democrats, said in a prepared speech that he and his organization supported an end to apartheid in South Africa.
"Yes, mainstream America is behind the activists," he said. "And yes, students here at KU will work toward the end of aparthood."
Wicklund also criticized the Republican Party because, he said, it did not actively call for an end to apartheid in its platform for the November election.
That criticism was echoed by Wells Todd, a
See PROTEST, p. 5, col. 4
By United Press International
ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, Alaska — Five American seamen detained for a week by Soviet authorities in Siberia returned to the U.S. early today aboard their own supply ship with a Coast Guard escort.
Looking rested and calm, the men were greeted in a light drizzle on the gravel beach of the remote Alaskan island by about 175 km. The Kaktovik isimo inhabits of the village of Gambell
THEIR ARRIVAL MARKED the end of an ordeal that began boarded their supply ship, the Freida K., and accused them of intentionally straying into Soviet waters. That night they were taken to a military installation on the Siberian coast and quartered in a hench
Tab Thoms, skiipper of the Freida K. told reporters after the Freida K. landed that the Soviets tried to pressure him into confessing that he had violated their territorial waters. But, he said, "I signed nothing from the time I got there to the time I left."
All five seamen said they felt no hostility toward their captors.
charlie Burrall, 29 the Frienda K cook admitted the experience was trying
dramatically the experience.
"I was never frightened for my own life but I was afraid I might not be coming back to the United States."
THE MEN, ALL active Christians, complained that the Soviets confessed their
bibles. "They told us their country believes there is no God." Thoms said.
The seamen arrived at St. Lawrence Island several hours after a rendezvous with the Coast Guard cutter Sherman, with the Frored K. accompanied from Siberia by a Russian ship.
Asked if he would continue to sail his supply ship in the Bering Strait where the incident occurred, Thoms said "Yes. More carefully. Yes."
While on the way to the island, Thomas said in a ship-to-shore linkup with the ABC Nightlife program that he and his crew were treated fairly during their detention except that Soviet officials put psychological pressure on them, unsuccessfully, to sign papers admitting they purposely entered Russian waters.
"At no time were we physically mis-treated. 'Thoms said.' "They did no physical damage to us at all."
BUT HE SAID. "They used every way possible that I could possibly see it to get us to sign." At first they called us detainees and detained us from all our personal possessions and communications with the outside world.
"They split up the crew into two separate groups and we were not able to talk or communicate."
The incident started Sept. 12 when the Frieda K pulled up next to what turned out to be a Soviet warship
Year in Scotland inspires student's golden designs
Staff Reporter
By ERIKA BLACKSHER
Andrew Dankwerth, a fourth-year architecture student, went to Scotland expecting to learn more about architecture and to experience the culture
He didn't expect to be the first exchange student to win a prestigious medal awarded by the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"It was a great honor," he said. "I wouldn't expect them to give it to someone who was just visiting their program."
The University of Kansas and the Scottish university began an exchange program in 1973. Two architecture students from each university study at the other school each year
THE AWARD — called the Third Year Gold Medal — was given to the student who showed an overall sensitivity to design and incorporated the different components of architecture into his design, said Dankwerth,
who studied in Edinburgh during the 1983-84 academic year.
Growing up in the United States and being confined to American architecture limits one's architectural perspective. Dankwerth said
"By going over there you start to see things in a different light." he said. "It starts to increase your architectural vocabulary from simple areas, as in doors and windows, to the connection of structural components.
"I feel that going over there has widened my scope as a designer and increased my capacity to accept new ideas and use them or synthesize them into my designs."
DANKWERTH'S FINAL project at the Scottish university was a crematorium design. He said he chose to do the design because of the complexity of combining two distinct functions
"You had to be very sympathetic to the mourner, yet it had to be an efficient design because it is a mechanical process," he said.
See AWARD, p. 5, col. 4
Nicaraguan's appointment left intact despite protest
By JOHN EGAN Staff Renorter
In response to a KU business professor's protest last week, two KU administrators yesterday supported the appointment of a Nicaraguan government official to a visiting professorship.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said she would not revoke the appointment of Mariano Fuilles, president of Nicaragua's Supreme Election Council, to the Rose Morgan Professorship of political science in the center for Latin American Studies.
IN A SEPT. 12 LETTER to Charles Stansister, director of the center, Arthur Thomas. Arthur Young Distinguished Professor of Business, said Failos' appointment was "roughly comparable to having appointed a member of a Nazi puppet government to a KU visiting professorship during the late 1830s."
Stansifer said yesterday that he had received Thomas' letter and had responded to it in writing. But Stansifer said he would not comment further on the matter until Thomas had responded to the letter.
'My opinion is that he will contribute to the diversity of ideas at the University.' she
Tacha said Fiallo was highly respected in academic circles.
NOMINATIONS FOR the Rose Morgan
"Those who know about such matters consider him to be one of the most distinguished educators in the Americas," he said.
Professorship may be accepted from all KU schools and departments A committee considers the nominations.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, also defended Fiallos.
Tacha said she had ultimate responsibility for approval of the professorship.
IN NOVEMBER, NICMAGUACS Sandiista government will hold its first national election since Gen. Anastasio Somoza Dhavleh lost power in 1979
Fiahols, whose daughter is a KU senior,
graduated from the University of Kansas in
1974.
As director of Nicaragua's elections, Fiallo has been touring the United States, explaining the Central American country's electoral process.
Besides Fiasola, another Rose Morgan Professor will come to KU next semester, said Cairn Prentice, administrative assistant at the School of Architecture. The professor will teach in the School of Architecture.
Fiallos took leave of absence from his job as an administrator at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in Managua to direct Nicaragua's elections.
Learning to stem the mess of stress
A Rose Morgan Professor will also teach next fall in the department of systematics and ecology, she said.
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporting
Staff Reporter
The person.
The landlord wants the rent check. The roommate wants to know why the apartment looks so messy.
The pressure piles up.
The alarm doesn't go off for that 8:30 a.m. class. These two papers due Monday still aren't finished
All 24,000 students at the University of Kansas will feel the stress of the college routine sometime this semester, health officials say.
"We all experience stress," said Dean Kerkman, a psychologist at Watkins Hospital "Some of us, however, have learned madeible ways of coping with
STRESS CAN BE CAUSED by a myriad of factors. Kerkman said.
Family conflicts, fights with friends, financial troubles and on the job pressures can make anyone depressed and crabby.
crudely.
Add to those the responsibilities of college, Kerkman said, and a student's life can become a mess.
"The pressures of academia tend to induce erratic hours," Kerkman said. "When students aren't sleeping or eating regularly, and when they're propping themselves up in chairs, snubs, caution and cigarettes, the odds are it's come to catch up with them."
students stay up all night typing term papers, pumping their bodies with coffee or Cokes
But every semester, countless KU
In Cakes And every semester, some students try to escape from stress. They nap all afternoon instead of going to biology lab, or slam a few beers instead of studying for the next day's psychology exam.
IF STUDENTS DONT learn to cope
Kerkman said, they can "stress them themselves sick."
Pal Walker, a physician at Watkins,
estimated that 10 percent of the patients he
treated died.
Tests have shown that stress can lead to depression, irritability, exhaustion, insomnia.
See STRESS, p. 5, col. 1