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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 44 (USPS 650-640)
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Breach of contract suit filed by softball pitcher
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
A breach of contract suit was filed Friday in Douglas County District Court by a former KU women's softball pitcher against the University of Kansas and Bob Stanclift, women's softball coach.
The suit asks for more than $10,000 in actual damages, more than $10,000 in punitive damages and $8,982 and the accrued interest for damages under contract for Colette Seitz-Creshman. Topeka junior
The suit alleges that the University breached its contract with Seitz-Crenshaw when it terminated her athletic scholarship on Feb. 6, 1984, because of an injury she suffered while playing for the KU women's softball team.
Edwin P. Carpenter, one of two Topeka attorneys representing Seitz-Crenshaw, said yesterday that the University and Stancill persuaded Seitz-Crenshaw to finish high school one semester early by promising her a four-year scholarship but reneged on that promise after she suffered injuries to her arm and elbow.
The suit also alleges that the University negligently contributed to her injury by requiring her to pitch after she had been told by a physician that she risked permanent injury if she continued to do so.
The University and Stanclift negligently breached their duty to protect Seitz-Crenshaw while she was participating in softball under their supervision by "forcing her to pitch against sound medical advice;" according to the suit.
Carpenter said the suit was filed because repeated attempts by Seitz-Crenshaw and her attorneys to get the University to reinstate her scholarship had failed.
Neither Seitz-Crenshaw nor Donald Barry, the other attorney representing her, could be reached for comment yesterday.
Carpenter said the terms of Seitz-Crenshaw's scholarship prohibited the University from canceling it because of injury. He said the University said it was justified in canceling the contract because Seitz-Crenshaw had quit the team.
"She was willing to do everything she needed to, short of pitching, to keep her scholarship," he said. "She
See SUIT, p. 5, col. 1
Italian police move hijacker
United Press International
GENOA, Italy — Police transferred one of the Achille Lauro hijackers to a secret location yesterday amid reports that he confessed that Palestinian leader Mohammed Abul Abdus masterminded the hijacking, police sources said.
Officers moved the man, who is said to be the killer of American Leon Klinghoffer, from a jail in Spolete in central Italy to the northern port of Genoa for interrogation, then took him to a maximum-security penitentiary in the northern region of Liguria, the sources said.
The sources did not identify the Palestinian, but Italian state-rum television RAI quoted semi-official sources as saying he was the gunman who shot and killed Klinghoffer, a disabled American, during the hijacking. Investigators were examining the evidence carefully, the RAI report said.
della Sera of Milan, the left-wing La Repubblica of Rome and the Communist Party organ L'Unita, reported the hijacker was thought to have asked to turn state's evidence. The newspapers quoted information that apparently came from sources close to the case.
Several leading newspapers, including the Corriere
The question whether Abbas was in charge of the hijackers was the main issue in a diplomatic dispute between the United States and Italy, which released Abbas despite a U.S. request for his detention, and led to the collapse of the Italian government.
There was no official confirmation of the reports, which the newspapers stressed were unconfirmed and
See HIJACKER p. 5 col.
Mike Horton/KANSAN
Class in the grass
Graduate teaching assistant John Gardner, Lincoln, Neb., explains the use of possessive adjectives to Kara Olson, Lawrence freshman, left, Kelly McCarthy, Chicago freshman, Steve Hogan, Chicago freshman, front, and Patrick Ramsey, Kansas City, Kan, freshman, in Gardner's Spanish 104 class. The class met behind Hoch Auditorium yesterday afternoon.
ROTC to test for AIDS next year
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
All members of the KU Reserve Officers Training Corps will be tested for exposure to the AIDS virus in the next year as a result of a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense.
The test, now limited to U.S. military recruits, will be introduced in stages and will check all 2.1 million members of the U.S. military, a spokesman for the Department of Defense said yesterday.
The spokesman, Glenn Flood, said the actual policy regarding the testing would be released in the next few days.
"The policy is being considered by Secretary Weinberger," Flood said. "Right now there are so many
unanswered questions as to where, why and when the tests will occur. We hope to announce the plans by Monday."
AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a fatal disease that destroys the body's immune system and it defenseless against infection.
Several cadets and officers in the KU Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC are aware that they will be tested for and think the test is a good idea.
"It's nothing new," said Lt. Col. James Laster, professor of military science. "We get tested for everything. It's part of the military. In the military have to be physically fit and ready for war at all times."
The test will be part of the routine
physical that all active duty person nel are required to nass. Laster said
Bruce Willett, Kansas City, Kan. senior and cadet in the Air Force ROTC, said that he and several other cadets had not been officially informed that they would have to be tested but that he had learned about the testing through reading newspapers and information sent to him by the U.S. Air Force.
"We've heard it through the grapevine," Willett said. "I really haven't heard anyone complain. We just think of it as another test."
Julie Farrell, Lawrence junior and
jadie in the Air Force ROTC. agree
"I think it's a good idea," she said.
"They will test us for AIDS just as they would test us for TB. It's a
See ROTC, p. 5, col. 4
Explosion verdict appealed
United Press International
TOPEKA -- In the last of 13 lawsuits stemming from a Dec. 15, 1977, explosion in Lawrence that killed two people, the Kansas Public Service Co. yesterday asked the Kansas Supreme Court to overturn a damage award levied against the gas company.
The gas company asked the high court to reject a Douglas County jury verdict awarding $103,000 in actual damages and $100,000 in punitive damages to Leroy McDermott, a KU doctoral candidate. McDermott lived in an apartment that was among the downtown Lawrence buildings that were damaged or destroyed by the natural gas explosion.
As a result of the blast, McDermott lost his personal belongings and
draft doctoral dissertation and 15 years of research accompanying it. The gas company contested the amount of the award, which included $95,000 for his academic materials.
Topека attorney Justice B. King, representing Kansas Public Service, said Douglas County District Judge James Paddock should not have found the company to be liable in the case simply because the Supreme Court deeply declared the gas company liable for the lawsuit won by Edgar Dale and Helen C. Kearney, whose business, Pier 1, was destroyed in the blast.
King also challenged the jury award of $100,000 in punitive damages to McDermott, when the Kearneys already had received $80,000 in punitive damages.
jurors after the trial indicated some jurors had been reading about the case in the newspaper during the trial, which would constitute juror misconduct. He complained that Paddock did not allow him to question the jurors on the issue.
McDermott's attorney, Pedro Irigonegaray, Topeka, said the explosion had been caused by the separation of a plastic gas pipe joined to a metal pipe by a coupling that was not made to bear the weight of the plastic pipe.
He said Kansas Public Service had been warned by the maker of the coupling that it was not to be used as "an anchoring device."
King also alleged that remarks of
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the appeal Dec. 6.
Homophobia rampant,prof says
Mike Horton/KANSAN
Dennis Dalley, professor of social welfare and faculty adviser for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, spoke about homosexuality on campus at the University Forum yesterday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Onread Ave. Dalley said homophobia — "an extreme rage and fear reaction to anybody or anything that is homosexual" — was prevalent at the University.
ampant, prof says Homosexuals face anger discrimination in society
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Homosexuals on campus lead lives much like those of their heterosexual peers in the KU community, Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, said yesterday.
"Homophobia is like any other phobia," be said, "It 's an extreme rage and fear reaction to anybody or anything that is homosexual."
About 65 people heard Dailey's speech, "Homosexuality on Campus; 1985," at the University Forum's weekly Incheon at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
However, one thing sets them apart - the hatred and discrimination they experience because of their homosexuality. Dalley called it homophobia.
He told of an incident that occurred in a small Midwestern, college town, which he did not identify. Six men attacked four lesbiles as they were leaving a party. One woman suffered a ruptured spleen. Another's checkbone was broken, and another's another were crushed in a door door.
Dailey said such incidents were not unusual.
Dailey said homophobia assumed three forms. One form is blatant discrimination or violence against homosexuals.
"I could spend the rest of this time, this day or the rest of my life giving you examples of homophobia," he said.
Heterosexuals are not immune to the effects of homophobia, Dailey says. It is a barrier that keeps fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, siblings, and close friends from showing affection for fear that they would labeled homosexual.
"Homophobia is what keeps a father who loves his son from hugging that young man, especially he gets a little older," he said.
Dailey said he did not care about the number of homosexuals in our society. He said, however, some researchers thought that 8 to 10 percent of women and 6 to 9 percent of women were homosexual.
Homosexuals develop these feelings because they have spent their lives hearing about the evil and immorality of homosexuality, he said. Heterosexuals make jokes about homosexuals and forget the jokes are personal insults.
Homosexuals harbor their own hornophobia, Dalley said.
See DAILEY, p. 5, col 2
"It takes the form of self-hate, low self-esteem, feelings of unworthiness," he said. "And I consider that a two-shaft technical foul."
Glass' music evokes conflicting responses
By Jill White
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Bold, striding notes played loudly over turbulent melodies vibrated senses and evoked conflicting emotional responses during the Philip Glass concert last night in Hoch Auditorium.
Nearly 1,400 people attended the concert, which featured Philip Glass, a graduate of the Juilliard School, and his eight-member ensemble. Responses to the mesmerizing music varied from distaste to indifference to enthusiasm.
"This is the kind of music that I imagine is left after a total nuclear holocaust," said James Moeser, dean of fine arts, who left at internment. "I just don't see any musical craft there." There's no content. It's totally void.
"It's only virtue is that it's loud, and that becomes its greatest fault. People aren't able to discern subtlety anymore."
Glass, who was named 1885 Musician of the Year by Musical America.
Bob Price, associate professor of art, said the music was interesting because it irritated listeners' nervous systems and forced them to deal with their boredom.
"It's like - Mondayian — all pure form," Price said. "Most music picks you up in a linear fashion and takes you smoothly to an end. Glass" music brings you into the present moment and holds you there like a fountain bubbling up and into present time reality."
Glass' performance also included Prelude to the Koln Section of "the CIVIL war"; a tree is best measured when it is down," Akhntenan, Act 2, 8. "Dance," Dance," "Dance No.1" from "Elmstein on the Beach" and "Glass Pieces."
New York, is probably best known for his musical score for the film "Koyaanisqatsi." His ensemble blended electric keyboards, woodwinds and six synthesizers to perform "Gig 10," a piece from "Koyaanisqatsi."
Jackie Davis, director of the Concert Series and the Chamber Music Series, said students had requested a concert series for a concert series performance.
"When we invited Philip Glass to perform, we knew there would be different reactions to his music." Davis said. "I think it is healthy that there are differences of opinion about all the music.
"I think it's important for an institution of higher education, especially one like the University of Kansas, to offer new music for students, faculty and the community."
Al Berman, assistant director for development at KANU-FM, which co-sponsored the event, said it was an important contrast for audiences in this area to be exposed to different emotional and conceptual kinds of music that they normally did not hear.
The eight-member ensemble included: Glass, synthesizer; Jon Gib
See MUSIC, p. 5, col. 4