Fired up
Pushed and prodded by fierce southwest winds, a grass fire yesterday in southern Jefferson County scarred 800 acres of rangeland and drew firefighters from
several cities. The hot wind was no help at the fire, but the blustery day was a breeze for Charlie Perry, who has a windmill on his farm near Lawrence. See page 3.
Breezy High, 95. Low, 60. Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 10 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, September 7, 1984
U.S. nuclear first use possible, Ferraro says
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Geraldine Ferraro said yesterday that she could foresee a time when the United States might have to use a nuclear weapon first.
But the Democratic candidate for vice president would not describe the battle conditions that might force the United States to fire a nuclear weapon before its opponent.
Ferraro appeared at a reception and lathonete at the Hilton Plaza Inn in Kansas City, Mo., to garner support from Missouri Republican candidates. He voteregistration drives for the 1984 campaign.
Registration drive At a news conference before the $1,000-a person reception, Ferraro explained the difference between a first strike and a first use of nuclear weapons to about 50 reporters.
"A first strike is you decide that you're going to take all your weapons and throw them," she said. "I was absolutely correct in saying that I don't see conditions for a first attack."
HOWEVER, A FIRST use of weapons, she said, occurred when nations were involved in a war using conventional, non-nuclear weapons, and government leaders of one country decided to attack another. Such nuclear weapons, such as artillery shells, as a deterrent to the enemy.
Herrero said in a statement. Ferraro said that the United States could
not even discuss a no-first use policy until it had strengthened its conventional forces in Europe to match those of the Soviet Union. When asked whether she could conceive of a first-use policy by the United States, Ferraro replied "Yes."
Ferraro was polite but firm in her reponses to reporters' questions. The 49-year-old Queens, N.Y., congresswoman appeared poised throughout the 20-minute conference, furthering media opinion that she has successfully weathered last month's storm of controversy over her and her husband's finances.
Reporter at yesterday's conference did not mention the finances.
FERRARO REITERATED IER belief that the threat of nuclear war was the most important issue in this year's campaign. She laughed when a reporter mentioned Vice President George Bush's remark that Ferraro was scaring people with her talk of
"I'm sorry I'm frightening Vice President Bush," she said "You can't go through life pretending that everything is just rosy You don't protect people by not telling them what's going on."
See FERRARO, p. 5, col. 1
KC campaign visit draws aid, support from students
By JOHN HANNA
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Susan Rohman yesterday leamed against the steering wheel of a maroon van, the 17th vehicle in the 18-vehicle motorcade of Rep. Geraldine Ferraro. Democratic candidate for vice president.
Rohlman, Zenda freshman, was one of about 20 members of KU's College Young Democrats who worked with the Democratic campaign of Walter Mondale and Ferraro as it stopped in Kansas City yesterday and Wednesday.
"We're about time we had a woman in there," Rohlman said as she waited in the parking lot of the Hilton Plaza Inn.
Ferraro arrived about 11:30 a.m. at the Hilton to attend a fund-raising reception and luncheon and to meet members of the local and national press.
ROHMAN AND THE OTHER members of the College Young Democrates spent the two days of Ferraro's Kansas City visit driving vehicles in the motorcade, carrying luggage, typing schedules and running messages for Ferraro's staff.
Alison Young, Ormah, Neb., freshman also was working for the campaign as a member of the College Young Democrats. She said she was impressed with Ferraro's energy when she typed the candidate's schedule Wednesday.
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"It had 'free time,' in all caps," she said, "and she had about 15 minutes."
Later, at Kansas City International Airport, the College Young Democrats met with Ferraro.
Young said she had missed about seven hours of class in two days.
of hours in a two day.
"My teachers don't know," she said. "This
See CROWD; p. 5, col. 4
Geraldine Ferraro, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, ty. Mo., Hilton Plaza Inn. About 300 people paid $250 each to talks with guests at a fund-raising luncheon at the Kansas Ci- attend the lunchun, which was yesterday.
KU, WSU ready for game
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
If misery loves company, then the Kansas Jayhawk football team should welcome Wichita State with open arms when the two teams square off in KU's season opener tomorrow.
Game time is 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium
KU's football prospects haven't been too promising so far. The Jayhawks are picked to finish last in the Big Eight conference this year. They are under a 2-year NCAA probation. Four key players have been declared academically ineligible. Sylvester Byrd, last year's starter at tilted end, is redshifting this year.
BUT WUS'T OUTLOOK is just as grim. They, too, are under NCAA probation. The Shockers are rebuilding under first-year head coach Ron Chismar. They're in
in their season-opening game last Saturday, WSU lost 38-13 to Southwest Texas State, an NCAA Division I A team that moved up this year from Division II.
danger of losing NCAA Division I-A status if they don't average 21,000 fans at home games this year. While KU has only 81 players on scholarship, the lowest total in the Big Eight conference, WSU has only 75 players in all.
THE SHOCKERS HAVE one advantage in that they've already played a game, but that has its drawbacks, too. Chismar points out.
"We've got a very young program," Chismaar said. "We're not to the point where we can concentrate on individual threes or try and get slick and fancy."
Chismar said his team concentrated on
the just basics' in preparation for this
winter season.
See WSU, p. 16, col. 3
Late arrival puts some in smaller rooms
Bv JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
Monica Olivera, a freshman from Lima,
Peru. still hasn't unpacked her suitcases.
She has lived in an ironing room on the seventh floor of Oliver Hall since she arrived at the University of Kansas about two weeks ago.
Olivera was assigned to the temporary room — next door to a trash chute at the end of the hallway — because regular rooms in the residence halls already were booked.
"I'd kind of like to stay here now," she said. "It's going to be terrible to have to move in the middle of the semester. It'll disrupt my studying, and I'll have to meet new friends."
Olivera said she didn't know when she would be moved to a regular-sized room in another hall.
students were living in the smaller end rooms and ironing rooms in Hashinger, McCollum and Oliver halls.
FRED MCEHLENIE, DIRECTOR of residential programs, said yesterday that 57
Most of the students assigned to end rooms arrived late at the University and came to the office of residential programs asking for a place to stay.
About 20 students are placed in temporary housing at the beginning of each school year, McElhenei said. These residents move to regular rooms as students drop out of school, join fraternities and sororites or decide to move off campus.
"the hails have been fuller," McElhenie said, "but this year the problem seems to be a little more pronounced."
The designed capacity for the hall system, not including end rooms, is 4,751 students, he said.
MCCELHENIE SAID HIS office and resident directors in KU's eight residence halls were working to find space for students now living in end rooms on a first-come, first-served basis.
But first, McEhene and his staff will work to move about 45 students who were reassigned to McCollum Hall because of a computer error.
"we try to take people out in the order they came in," he said.
"The computer, essentially, overbooked Elsworth Hall." he said.
For example, McElhennie said, the computer assigned two students to room 316 in Ellsworth, which is the office of Ellen Swadley, house manager.
WHEN THE STUDENTS who were incorrectly booked into Ellsworth and are now in McCollum are reassigned, students in end rooms will be contacted as space becomes available.
In past years, end rooms have been rented to prospective KU students visiting the campus, graduate students finishing research and students needing housing during holiday breaks. The rental fee is $10 a night. McElhene said.
Undergraduate women less sexually active, study show
By HOLLIE MARKLAND
Staff Reporter
Women on college campuses are less likely to enter into a sexual relationship now that they were five years ago, according to a recent study by a KU associate professor of psychology.
"The number of undergraduate women engaging in sexual intercourse has gone back down to the level it was in in early 1970s," said Meg Gerrard, the professor
Gerrard said that only 38 percent of the women surveyed from 1983-1984 indicated that they were sexually active. Gerrard defined sexually active as having sexual intercourse at least once a month.
In the late 1970s, slightly more than 50 percent of the women who were surveyed indicated that they were sexually active.
"It surprised me that the decline was so dramatic," Gerrard said.
GERRARD CONDUCTED THE first of the three-part survey of 19 to 20-year-old women at the University of Texas at Austin
Gerrard returned to Austin to canvass Texas women five years later during the 1978-1979 school year and again during the 1983-1984 school year.
nuring the academic year of 1973/1974. She found that 35 percent of the undergraduate women indicated that they had had sexual intercourse at least once a month.
She plans to return to Austin in five years to continue the survey.
years ago at the University of Kansas, she said.
The findings from her survey were roughly comparable to a similar study conducted free-
EVIDENCE FROM OTHER universities also supported the results of her survey, she said, but she could not draw a direct conclusion about KU women from her research in Austin.
Gerrard attributed the decline in sexual activity among college women to a generally more conservative mood on campuses nationwide and to increased concern about venereal disease.
She said that today's women were more
assertive about sex.
"In the late 1970s, women felt that everyone was doing it and that they had no right to say no." Gerrard said. "Now women are making their own decisions about whether to be involved in a sexual relationship."
Gerrard said the women's movement indirectly had influenced the results of her survey.
"THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT has allowed women to take more responsibility for decisions than they used to," she said.