Pigskin pupils
Football's come a long way since the Four Horsemen rode over Army, but that fact hasn't discouraged head football coach Mike Gottfried. Last night, in the second of
two sessions, he and his staff quizzed fans on the importance of signals and strategy, but men weren't allowed. This class was for women only. See story, p. 3.
Windy High, 97. Low, 68. Details on page 3.
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KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 13 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday, September 12, 1984
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Gov. John Carlin talks with Leo Redmond, Overland Park junior, (left) and Kirstin Buterbaugh Myers, Shawnee sophmore, at the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center. Carlin discussed local and national politics with Redmond. Myers and six other members of KU College Young Democrats at a luncheon yesterday.
Carlin says Mondale will win election
Staff Reporter
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale should expect President Reagan to lead in the polls until he campaigns, Gov. John Carlin said yesterday.
However, as election day approaches, Americans will focus on the campaign issues instead of the candidates' personalities, and Mondale will win, he said.
The governor spoke informally during a lunch with eight members of the KU College Young Democrats at the K.S. "Boots" Adams University Center. He discussed several presidential race and the strategies Democrats needed to follow to be successful in November.
"REAGAN IS GOING to carry a pretty safe and comfortable lead in the polls right up to the election," Carlin said. "That will get very nerve-racking for Mondale supporters, but it is important not to overreact and become down and disheartened."
and become down and understated. Mondale will trail in the polls early
See related story p. 5
because Americans will continue to be dazzled by Reagan's likable personality, Carlin said.
"We have a very well liked president and he is very easy for most people to trust." Carlin said. "I like the President, he's a nice guy."
Reagan is also popular with students for the same reasons, Carlin said.
THE SAME REASON...WHAT DOES?
*STUDENTS THINK RONALD Reagan*
represents this image, they'd like to be associated with," he said. "But when the issues are laid out on the table, they don't agree with him."
agree with this. Carlin said, the Democrats should not try to turn the campaign into a popularity contest. The only way Mondale can win the election is by focusing on the issues.
"I would be very tragic if we don't have a series of debates between Reagan and Mondale on the issues." Carlin said. "I think there is a serious question as to whether the president is in the position to lead on the issues.
Ronald Reagan is apparently going to try to pull off this election without ever being
Kirstin Butterburn Myers, president of the KU College Young Democrats, asked Carlin
if Kansas was a lost cause for the Democratic Party because Reagan was supposed to sween the state.
"THERE DEFINITELY is a chance it can be turned around," Carlin said. "Kansans disagree with the president on the issues, so they want us to move away from the point of view that it can be done."
If Democratic voters think that their party can't win, Carlin said, they won't turn out to vote. This could hurt Democratic efforts in states like state legislative races around the country.
"There's more involved here than the national race," he said. "The turnout for the presidential race affects the legislative races. If Democrats don't turn out to vote for Mondale because they think it's hopeless, they won't be casting Democratic votes for other races, either."
Diana rages as thousands seek shelter
By United Press International
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Diana ragged off the coast of North Carolina early today, hurling 10 foot waves against aban denaches beaches with winds up to 135 mph.
As many as 100,000 people tied the storm. Winds of more than 100 mph roared through the streets of Wilmington, left almost empty by residents who rushed inland in such panic that 1,000 National Guardmen had to be called out to unsmart traffic.
TREES BENT AND snapped, signs blow away and walls of rain beat against buildings. Power lines were ripped loose and sparks flacked through the blackness and blinding rain. Transformers exploded with hollow booms.
tourism booms.
The storm was 20 miles south-southeast of downtown Wilmington, and at midnight EDT had moved only 10 miles in six hours.
Forecaster Mark Zimmer at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said it appeared Diana would angle into the coast between Wilmington and Morehead City. The National Weather Service in Raleigh predicted a landfall on the coast at Onslow County, near the sprawling Marine base at Camp Lejeune, in today's early morning
It was headed north of the area where Hurricane Donna killed 50 people and caused $1.3 billion damage 24 years ago to the day.
GOV. JIM HUNT called for evacuation north of Wilmington "in view of the apparent track of the storm and the expected flooding in the lowlying central areas." He urged coastal residents of Pamlico, Craven Beautiful, Hyde and inland hinterlands to move inland and called out the National Guard to assist in the evacuation.
At Camp LeJeune, a spokesman said the base was at "condition one-wind alert". Non-essential personnel were sent home and 3,000 people, most from their mobile and coastal homes, took shelter on the base.
Coastal battles took shipper Winds of 10 mph whipped the Oak Island Coast Guard station at Cape Fear, where Coast Guardsmen worked to save the two-man crew of a fishing vessel that failed to reach home in time.
FIRE SIRENS HOWLED out the storm warning at midday across the beaches and marshlands of the North Carolina coast from Wilmington to Cape Fear, the dreaded shoals
See DIANA, p. 5, col. 3
Staff Reporter
BY SUZANNE BROWN
When President Reagan told a Christian prayer breakfast last month that religion and politics were linked, he raised a cloud of controversy among politicians and theologians.
Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale reviled his opponent's stand on gun control.
But both local clergymen and KU professors are divided over the importance of the
"Religion has been a part of American politics for a tremendous amount of time," said Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science. "As long as polities are involved with trying to put into play the good life, religion will be involved."
CIGLER SAID THAT the debate about Reagan's remarks, which the president has since amended to soften what some said was their appearance of intolerance, was one of political strategy rather than of philosophical convictions.
"I think Walter Mondale wants to remind certain voters who are primarily Democratic, especially Catholics and Jews, of Reagan's fundamentalist views," he said. "He wants to remind them that Reagan is playing footie with the American right."
playing roles in the
president has long been associated
with conservative Christian groups that
support such government measures as
anti-abortion legislation and organized
praer in public school classrooms.
the tee. Jack Bremer, pastor of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., said that American churches always had involved themselves with social issues, such as slavery and prison conditions.
BUT HE SAID that Reagan wanted religion to be something other than a social institution.
To try to impose a single view like
Reagan has done is an effort to impose a partisan, sectarian view as public policy he
Bremer said Reagan's attempt to push a voluntary school prayer amendment through Congress was an example of the president's attempt to foster his own dogmatic views on the rest of the nation. The amendment failed, but the House of Representatives in July introduced a education bill that included a provision for voluntary silent prayer in the classroom.
DAVID TAIT, PASTOR at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St., disagreed. Tait said that every political leader had religious convictions, even if he was an antheist, and that politicians had an obligation to make these convictions known to others
Bremer said that he thought Monday had a point when he warned that Reagan's views sought to violate the separation of church and state expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
STITT RORINSON, PROFESSOR of history, said that the founding fathers would probably have greater sympathy for the Democratic Party than he stands on a clear power base.
In the pockeying for Americans' votes, both Reagan and Mondale have repeatedly called such historical giants as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison their allies.
"A person who says that religion is irrelevant to politics is either mistaken or a hypocrite."
However, Tait did not believe that any church should support one political candidate
Many (undamentals) Christian groups support President Reagan's re-election.
"They'd come closer to Mondale than they would to Reagan," he said.
The Rev. J.C. Ford, pastor at the north Lawrence Baptist Church, 445 Lions St., said he did not think that the current controversy was only a political play by both sides.
A student walks in the shade of a large elm tree near the Military Science Building. The tree, a favorite of many KU students, may be cut down soon to make room for a new science and technology library.
Elm tree may fall victim to libraryv
See RELIGION, p. 5, col. 1
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
CONSTRUCTION ON THE library should begin in 1987, said Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning. Last month, the university will draw preliminary plans for the library.
The elm — one of the largest and best-loved trees on campus — can't be moved and replanted because of the expense. Wiechert said.
A 50-foot American elm tree just north of the Military Science Building could be splintered into hundreds of pieces of firwood within three years.
"We're very conscious of the tree and have pointed it out to the architects," he said. "It's just too large and too old to be moved."
Contractors might have to cut down the 70-year old tree to make room for KU's long-awaited science and technology library, said Jim Matbes, assistant director of landscape maintenance for facilities operations.
The library is planned to be built between the Military Science Building and Hochs
santess said that to move a tree the size of the elm would cost between $4,000 and $6,000. The circumference of the tree's trunk is about 11 feet.
Even if moved and replanted, there is no guarantee that the elm would survive, he said.
WEICHERT SAID THE library might be built around the elm, the branches of which form an 18-foot umbrella over the grass and sidewalks outside the Military Science
Although constructing the library around the tree had not been ruled out, he said, he worried that the tree might die after the library was built around it.
"The concern I have is that because it is an elm tree and elm trees have had problems with Dutch elm disease, we would
Dutch elm disease plugs up the vascular system of elm trees, cutting off the flow of nutrients from the roots, and eventually killing the tree.
DURING THE LAST three years, several facilities operations workers, KU students and Lawrence citizens have told University officials their concerns for the free Mathes said.
not want to design the building around the tree," Wiechert said.
"American elms are becoming rare," he said. "Most elms on campuses were wiped out in the past."
Mathes said the tree was healthy, but was one of few elmains remaining on campus.
"It's such a special tree — one of the five largest at the University," he said. "It would be a shame to see it go."
Jocelyn Kitchen, Manhattan junior, became visibly upset when she heard about the tree.
Robert Suddow, professor of art, said he and other professors frequently had taken freshman drawing classes outside to work under the elm tree.
"No, not that tree!" she said "That's the nicest tree I've seen in Lawrence
"I usually don't go for causes, but I could save that tree. I'd lay in front of it and let them kill me first before they cut it down."
"ITS ONE OF THE best trees on campus, he said. I think if there's any tree we need to clean up,
Plans for the science and technology library have been discussed for more than a
See TREE, p. 5, col. 1