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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1985
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News Briefs
Pentagon spokesman to talk on Star Wars
Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, a Pentagon spokesman, will speak about the Strategic Deviens Initiative, commonly referred to as "Star Wars," at 7 p.m. today in Aldersdon Auditorium of the Kapas Union
Graham's presentation is sponsored by the KU College Republicans.
Graham, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is considered an expert on "Star Wars," Jim Monty, publicity chairman for College Republicans, said yesterday.
"Star Wars" is a proposed ballistic missile defense system that would be based in outer snack.
Student Union Activities will sponsor an egg and milk carton sculpture contest tomorrow and Friday.
Sculpture contest set
Entries will be accepted from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days at the SUA office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. The works will be displayed at the Union open house Friday and must be picked up no later than 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place finishers.
Egg and milk cartons must be the primary medium for the sculptures. Glue, glitter, pipe cleaners and other craft materials are acceptable. Entry forms may be picked up at the SUA office. The competition is open to groups and individuals.
For more information, call the SUA office, 864-3477.
Professor to speak
Emy M. Pascasio, chairman of the language and linguistics department at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, will give a lecture, "Verbal Strategies in Interpersonal Communications: Examples," from 11 a.m. to noon tomorrow in 4086 Wescoc Hall
Pasecasi, also a professor of social anthropology, will meet informally with faculty and students from noon Friday in 3069 Wescos Hall
Both events are open to the public. Pascasio's KU visit is sponsored by the department of communication studies.
'Late Night' offered
Friday's Kansas Union open
Friday, "Late Night at the Kansas
Union," will feature a variety of
'inexpensive activities, including a
film festival and a "Plenty o' Nolan'" sale at the
Odisha Bookshop.
The festival, starring such film favorites as Charlie Chaplin and the Little Rascals, will be from 7 to 11 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium.
From 6 to 8 p.m., the book shop will offer a 15 percent discount on all items.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and mild, with a high in the low to mid 70s. Winds will be out of the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers toward morning. The low will be in the low 50s. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and a high between 65 and 70.
Liberty announces ticket, platform
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Promising to represent the unrepresented, the Liberty Coalition last night became the first coalition to formally announce candidates who will run in next month's Student Senate elections.
Lennie Wesley, Wichita junior, and Mark Gillem, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, announced at an informational meeting that they would run for student body president and vice president on Liberty's ticket.
From staff and wire reports
Tuesday is the deadline for candidates for student body president and vice president to file in the Senate office, 105B Kansas Union, and Oct. 29 is the deadline for senatorial candidates.
About 10 people attended the meeting in the International Room of the Kansas Union during which the coalition announced its candidacy for the Nov. 20-21 Senate elections.
Liberty's goal during the campaign and after the election is to involve more students in KU student government, Gillem said at the meeting.
wesley said, "I'd like to get 6,000 people out to vote this semester. I've won, even if I'm not."
More than 4,000 students voted in last fall's elections.
He said each candidate plus a few campaigners would talk to at least 75 people, and through this process, the coalition could reach 2,800-3,000 students.
He said, "I want to avoid running on A, B, C,
D just because they sound good. We want to be
open to suggestion.
"It doesn't make much sense for me to sit here and say 'campus lighting' if students say, 'I don't care.' They're not asked nearly enough what they do care about."
Gillem said, "If they were more aware, maybe they would care a little more."
He said members of Liberty hoped to spark senators' interest in the Senate by encouraging them to sponsor pertinent bills. They plan to increase committee members' interest by giving more power to Senate standing committees.
Liberty's platform includes raising student hourly wages and teaching assistant salaries and constructing a memorial to Dean "Deener" Neismith, a KU athletic trainer for 41 years who died Sept. 25 after a bout with cancer.
Neither Wesley nor Gillem have been members of the Senate, but Wesley has been a member of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee for three years and Gillem was a member of the Senate Finance Committee for one year.
"I've had a lot of experience in running senates." Wesley said.
He said he was a national representative to the senate of Boy's Nation, a summer program for high school students sponsored by the
Wesley said he knew and would follow basic parliamentary rules but would not be strict about using them because the rules could bog down meetings.
American Legion.
Gillem said of Wesley's ability, "He has a lot of potential and I know he's going to win. With my help, maybe he'll win big."
The coalition has 37 candidates for student senators. A full coalition would have a canny majority in Congress.
Wesley said, "We may not be the largest coalition, but we will be the most sincere."
Liberty Coalition is a part of the Kansas Political Awareness Committee. Wesley said members of the committee decided that running candidates for office would be the best way to get students involved in government.
KPAC was created at the beginning of 1985 and will conduct voter registration drives next semester, Wesley said.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
OLATHE — Bill Walton, right, and Hank Walton, second from right, escort Susumu Nikaido, vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, second from left, and about 25 members of a Japanese delegation along the road in front of the Walton farm. The visit yesterday was part of a U.S. tour by the delegation.
Christened in Kansas mud
Japanese officials tour farm
my Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
OLATHE — About 25 Japanese visitors climbed out of limousines and sunk their feet into Midwestern mud yesterday.
These men and women, including several high-ranking government officials, then began a tour of a 1,500-acre farm on the outskirts of town. Some donned rubber shoe covers before the group spent the next hour climbing on a tractor, observing a herd of cattle, and snapping pictures.
Susumu Nikaido, Japan's second-highest ranking government official as vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and a delegation of Japanese officials toured a cattle ranch on the outskirts of Olathe on the last leg of their U.S. tour.
"Kansas is the center of American culture," Nikaido said yesterday through an interpreter. "I'm very pleased to be here in the midst of the trade issue."
The delegation, consisting of Nikaido, five members of the Japanese House of Representatives, other officials and members of the press, visited the farm of Bill and
Nikaido was referring to an announcement from Japan yesterday that the country would take measures aimed at increasing demand for imports and stimulating its domestic economy.
Diana Walton. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan, extended the invitation during his visit to Japan in August.
The delegation has been in the United States since Oct. 5 and has visited Washington, D.C., where they met with government officials, including Vice President George Bush and Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block. The group also met staff members of Forbes magazine in New York and visited Boston and Indianapolis. They will return to Japan within the next few days.
"We will encourage Japanese companies to make more direct export deals."
During the two-day visit to Kansas, the group met with business and farm leaders throughout the state.
"We had been to all of the coastal places, but not the heartland," said Wataru Hiraizumi, member of the house of representatives. "It is very nice. Nice climate."
"In Japan, we don't have much grass, not much land. We feed our livestock with grain, and meat is rather expensive. Since 12 percent of the grain export goes to Japan, we are your biggest purchaser."
man of the special committee for economic measures, said the farm seemed large.
Hiraizumi looked at some of the cattle grazing in the field.
"I'm looking at those faces," he said quietly. "They look nice."
"It's wonderful," he said. "Japan is a little smaller than California, so we don't have this sort of very big farm."
Esaki said that 18 percent of America's agricultural exports were going to Japan.
Masumi Esaki, member of the House of Representatives and chair-
"Japan buys 21 million tons of grain from the United States," he said. "We only produce 10.5 million tons of rice in Japan, so I hope the United States would continue to export food."
M. J.Keep, member of the Keefe Co., a government relations firm in Washington, D.C. that works with Japan, said he had been traveling with the delegation to ensure that everything went smoothly.
"Our government wanted these people to see a farm and to hear from a farmer what his problems are," Keefe said.
Diana Walton was enthusiastic about the delegation's visit.
"I think this is wonderful." Walton said as she served coffee and rolls to the visitors in the barn. "I hope they'll start some beef dealing. It costs so much to buy beef in Japan — $8 a pound."
Nikaido said, "I'm so happy that the people of Kansas, especially the farmers, know Japan is the best customer of Kansas meat products. I like to see the farmer and hear the farmer's opinion."
Disabled students face KU's hurdles
By James Suhr Special to the Kansan
Although the University has an extensive program to help disabled students through college, some of the students say that they need more.
How much more they receive is determined by the amount of money the state gives KU each year.
Robert Turvey, architectural barriers committee chairman and assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, said yesterday that one state-financed project each year was designed to help the disabled.
This year's project, the renovation of Strong Hall elevators, will begin in 1986 and will cost about $180,000. Turvey said.
Robbi Ferron, director of the office of affirmative action, said the most common complaints from disabled students were of inaccessibility to buildings and insensitivity from faculty, staff and students.
"A lot of people don't know much about blind people, or any disabled people for that matter," Arthur Turner, Lawrence sophomore, said. "I still have a brain, two eyes and I walk and talk. I'm human."
Turner lost his eyesight in 1980 because of a rare eve disease.
He and one of his close friends, Barb Lumley, Lawrence sophomore, are two of 140 students participating in a program for the disabled at the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall. The program provides counseling, tutoring, transportation and other assistance to help disabled KU students.
An improved awareness of the needs of these students will increase their educational opportunities, access to resources, and teacher center of the Student Assistance Center.
"I do think there are some faculty and students who treat disabled students with regard and respect in a very natural way," Zimmer said. "They are people who feel that a student with a disability does not belong in college."
The number of disabled students in the center's program has grown from 15, when the center opened in 1979, to about 140 this year. Zimmer said.
She said she didn't know how many disabled students were on campus because some had found ways to circumvent their disabilities and therefore didn't seek help from the center.
Turner said most disabled students' problems developed when disabled students were treated differently by the non-disabled.
"When you start treating people differently, that's when people get hurt," he said. "Some people will ask you if you need help, and that's great."
But disabled students don't want others to hold their hand and lead them."
Lumley, who has multiple sclerosis and is confined to an electric wheelchair, echoed Turner's sentiments.
"I still eat supper at the dining room table," she said. "I can drive a car and show takers like everyone else."
Physical barriers also must be eliminated so disabled students can achieve academic success, Turner said. He criticized the assistance center for not supporting the disabled students' requests for early enrollment.
Zimmer said, however, that allowing the disabled to enroll early could be viewed as favoritism. Having classes one after the other was strict; the matter of preference, because some students preferred a break between classes.
Both Turner and Lumley also said changes were needed in several campus elevators, which weren't designated by the state when they deprived them of independence.
Turvey said the Strong Hall elevator would be replaced with an updated one that had an automatic door. Buttons would be at wheelchair level, and raised lettering would be installed for the visually impaired.
The type and extent of service the assistance center provides to handicapped students depends on personal characteristics. Zimmer said.
For those students with reading or writing disabilities, accommodations can be made in the classroom. For example, the instructor may assist by extending the test time limits or summarizing the lecture after class.
Under federal guidelines, state-financed student aides are hired as note-takers to allow disabled students to concentrate on the lecture.
Tape-recorded books are available from Services for the Blind. KU's Audio-Reader Network provides audio news, books and other programming.
The assistance center also promotes a transportation system. Students are transported to and from classes on a bus financed by the Student Senate through KU on Wheels. The bus accommodates those students whose disabilities prevent them from riding the regular student buses.
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