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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 59 (USPS 650-640)
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Vietnam vet angered over drawing's theft
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Within 24 hours of its being placed at the site of the planned Vietnam memorial Monday, an architect's drawing of the memorial was stolen. A Vietnam veteran says this isn't a typical college prank.
The drawing, in a Plexiglas and stainless steel frame, was placed on a metal pole at the planned memorial site during a consecration ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday and was discovered stolen at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, KU police said.
Police said they had no suspects.
Police said they had no suspects. "I don't know why anyone would do something like this," Lisa Ashner, a member of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, said yesterday.
Jonn Musgrave, a veteran of the Vietnam War, said he remembered a time when people did this sort of
thing too frequently, and why they did it.
"This is a cowardly act made by a person or persons wishing to make some sort of twisted statement about the war or the policies that led us there by attacking the first physical evidence of the memorial," he said.
Mustgrave, who has worked for two years to see the memorial become a reality, said the theft had not been the first act against the memorial project. The pole the drawing was to be placed on was stolen before the ceremony he said.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said his staff worked to replace the pole in time for the concession ceremony Monday.
Musgrave said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial.
"But of course, that's not the case now," Musgrave said. "Speaking as a Vietnam veteran, as a member of
the committee that ias worked for two years for this memorial, my impression is that this is not a random act of vandalism or a high-spirited college prank."
college gravel, who joined the peace Musgrave, who returned from Vietnam, said he thought whoever took the drawing was behaving in the same way some people behaved during the war — blaming the veteran for a situation he had not created.
"Far too often the Vietnam vet has been held up to ridicule and to blame, when we did nothing more that what our forefathers had done — we served our country."
Musgrave said that foremost in his mind when he heard about the theft were the faces of some of the people who had attended the consecration ceremony — the widow of a man who was killed while serving with the
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House, Senate buy time to hash out budget plan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate yesterday approved different versions of a small increase in the federal debt limit to buy another month to work on balanced budget legislation and avert a U.S. default while President Reagan is in Geneva.
But because the two houses failed to agree on how to approach the short-term increase in the government's borrowing authority, the issue was still unresolved.
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Wolf Creek de rehearing on
United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday denied a rate rehearing to utilities that own the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, but did adjust its order to permit two of the firms to earn an additional $6 million.
In an administrative meeting, the commission rejected utility arguments that it had acted arbitrarily when it declared $3.05 billion Wolf Creek plant should be valued like a cheaper coal-fired plant. Also rejected was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
The KCC did agree with utility
arguments that formula to initially to recov investment the over life of Gas & Electric Power & together own plant — commission rate base up may earn a r. The comm with KCPL utility income cost of nucle. The res.
William Easley and Jeff Polack, student body and vice president, end their term next Friday say their greatest accomplishment was to organization" to Student Senate
icbard Pryor has been making his often-checkered life the basis of his art for many years. Gritty subjects like racism, drug abuse, sex and violence—they're all there in Pryor's legendary
stand-up shows. But until now, little of the 'real'
Richard Pryor has spilled over into his film roles.
There can barely help but be plenty of Pryor in
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, the new film Pryor wrote, produced, directed and in which he stars. Consider that *Dancer* is the story of a well-known entertainer "at the peak of his popularity and at the bottom of his self-esteem" who has a serious accident at his home.
(Left, clockwise from top) Debbie Allen, Tanya Boyd, Barbara Williams and Fay Hauser as the women in JoJo's life. (Above) Richard Pryor.
He is rushed to the hospital, and, as he lies in intensive care, reviews the events of his life. The parallels between the Pryor behind the camera and the Pryor in front of it become almost too close for comfort.
Says Pryor, "when you mess up and you're talking to an expert in messing up ... the only way to put it behind you and get on with life is to be brutally honest. Self deception is one of the worst drugs there."
Pryor is talking about his own accident, when he was seriously burned while preparing drugs (today Pryor
no longer takes drugs and campaigns against drug use). Just as dancer director Bob Fosse used his own life and heart attack as the basis for his acclaimed film, *All That Jazz*, so Pry or feels *Jo Jo Dancer* is "my vision. It's not a documentary; it's not the story of my life. Like any writer or director or actor—or in this case all three" I've used what I know about to create something everybody can relate to. And these days, I think I finally say I know about myself
Taking on twin acting and directing burdens was an education, Pryor says, since, "the two jobs take a different kind of energy. There were times when I was dead on my feet as an actor, but the other half of me, the director, was ready to go all night."
To help him through the production, filmed on locations around Los Angeles and in the Midwest, Pryor
had such experienced hands as cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Norma Rae, Chinatown) and production designer John De Cuir (Three-time Oscar winner for Hello, Dolly, The King and I and Cleopatra.
Populating Pryor's "fantasy concept" which spans four decades from the 1940's to today, are Billy Eckstine as a showman, Carmen McRae as Jo 1o's grandmother, Diana Abbot
and Scoey Mitchell as JoJo's parents and Debbie Bellar, Barbara Williams and Tanya Boyd as the very different women he has wooed and won.
Carrand won.
So, does JoJo learn from the experience that almost killed his creator?
"You'll have to see the film to find out," says Pror, "but Richard never felt better." Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling opens nationwide this December.
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