SINCE 1889
Ancestors on display
Museum exhibit has a Diatryma, the forerunner of the Jayhawk See page 3.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 1985, VOL 96, NO. 29 (USPS 650-640)
Mild Details page 3.
Fraternity canceling festivities
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
The Wheat Meet Party, once billed as the largest beer party in Kansas, will not take place this year after irate neighbors threatened to go to court to stop it, the party co-chairmen said yesterday.
The fifth annual Wheat Meet Party, scheduled for tomorrow night at the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity house, 2021 Stewart Ave., was canceled yesterday, said co-chairman Tom Black, Carlsbad, Calif., senior.
However, a threatened injunction was not the reason the party was canceled, he said.
"We ran into some problems with the neighbors," he said. "We put the party plans on hold until we could figure out a way to deal with the problem.
"Since we were doing it for a philanthropic cause, we wanted to make a profit, and this late, we wouldn't make a substantial profit."
The party was to follow the annual Wheat Meet Track Meet that took place Saturday.
The party, which was to benefit KU cancer research, usually is held in the Burge Union parking lot, Black said.
But after the drinking laws changed, they said we couldn't have it on campus" he said.
When he and co-chairman Pat McElhene, Lawrence junior, decided to have the party at their fraternity house, the neighbors took action
John Lechliter/KANSAN
The problem is not a new one, said Ann Eversole, director of organizations and activities.
"Some of it goes back to the last couple of years when there have been major outdoor parties on Stewart Avenue," she said. "The neighbors thought their rights were violated."
Linda Dick, 1745 W. 20th St., said she had complained about large parties on Stewart Avenue for several years. Her main complaints were of property damage, harassment and poise.
"Pictures fall off the walls, and my babies are awakened," she said.
Dick said party-goers "urinate over the back fence into the yard. They vomit into the yard."
Yacher said about 100 neighbors had requested that the parties be stopped.
"We neighbors really tried to work with the folks," he said. "After the Stewart Street Bash, any party over 500 would be held on campus. In return, we would let the fraternities and sororites have the Stewart Street Bash."
Last spring, the neighborhood made an agreement through Eversole with the Stewart Avenue fraternities, said Sherman Yacher, 1749 W. 30th St.
Black said the Wheat Meet party attracted 4,000 to 6,000 people in past years and raised about $10,000.
See PARTY, p. 5, col 1
Bayes Harsh 1300 Connecticut, clogs to a tune performed by the Allerd Packer Memorial String Band based in Lawrence. The band played yesterday as part of the Inside Out Arts Festival. See story, page 8
Foot loose
Man convicted of child abuse, manslaughter
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A 21-year-old Lawrence man was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and felony child abuse yesterday morning by Douglas County District Judge Mike Malone.
Genaro Ray Lewis, who was implicated in the Aug. 10 death of 21-month old Duanne Beers and in the June 30 abuse of 3-year-old Bryan Williams, pleaded no contest to the charges.
Malone ordered a presentencing investigation and set a sentencing date of Oct. 31. Lewis is being held without bond until sentencing.
The penalty for voluntary manslaughter is five to 20 years in the state prison system and a fine of up to $15,000. The penalty for abuse of a child is three to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Malone said
Pickens maps success' road
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said he entered the amended charges of voluntary manslaughter and one count of child abuse yesterday morning as part of a plea-bargaining agreement reached between the prosecution and defense just after midnight yesterday.
Lewis was originally charged with voluntary manslaughter of Beers, who died of head injuries while Lewis was babysitting him.
But last Friday, Flory increased the charge to first-degree murder after receiving the written autopsy report and a report from a consulting pathologist.
He also added two counts of felony child abuse, one in connection with Beers and one in connection with Williams, who had been burned
"You don't have to cheat to win," he said. "You don't even have to bend your principles."
He also said the state had evidence the barn marks found on Williams were caused by Lewis.
Flory said he agreed to the plea bargaining because, although the state had enough evidence to support the first-degree murder charge, a jury in Barton County had handed down a lesser conviction in a similar case.
In exchange for the amended charges, Lewis waived his right to a trial by jury by pleading no contest
Flory also agreed not to ask in longer sentences under the habitual criminal act. He said that in November 1983, Lewis was convicted of felony theft in Johnson County District Court.
The child abuse charge in connection with the death of Beers was dropped, and the first-degree murder charge was replaced with voluntary manslaughter in the plea agreement.
several times while being babysat by Lewis on June 30.
Flory said the state's evidence would have shown that Beers had "experienced trauma, by blows or pressure, to the torso, legs and neck, and more than one blow to the head by a hand or other object," while Lewis was alone with the child.
By Gary Duda
Pickens, a so-called "corporate raider", shook the business world with his recent publicized attempt to control Phillips Petroleum and a similar attempt last year to take over Gulf Oil.
Of the Kansan staff
"First-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 15 years," Hazlett said.
Defense Attorney Stan Hazlett said Lewis had decided to agree to the terms of the plea agreement after the two had "examined the state's evidence at length."
Hazlett said that if Lewis was sentenced to eight years for the current charges, he might be eligible for parole in six to seven years.
money by playing by the rules, he had no reason to apologize.
"It's about akin to the guy that doesn't want to bet in the poker game," he said. "He doesn't want to bet until he sees all the cards. You don't get to see all your cards in
Pickens said many times people didn't take the time to analyze their situation. Instead, they rushed into business deals without knowing all the facts.
Analyze and motivate people — but don't cheat. These are the three keys to success in business, T. Boone Pickens told more than 500 people last night.
Pickens, president and chairman of the board of Mesa Petroleum, Amarillo, Tex., spoke at Woodruff Auditorium in a speech sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Pickens said that when he made
"Never apologize for making money honestly," he said. "There is no apology needed. Making money honestly creates all kinds of things. It helps the economy. It creates jobs. It gives you great fulfillment."
business, but you do have to analyze well and then decide what you're going to do."
Pickens said that in addition to being honest, he had to make business decisions carefully to be successful.
"Learn to analyze well," he said.
"Look at the data you have and then get more."
Pickens said to be successful it also was important to know how to motivate people.
"Don't forget what drives people," he said. "It is the profit motive that drives them. That's what the free enterprise system is all about, it's to make money."
Pickens said the Mesa management was driven because it enjoyed what it did and knew who it worked for — the stockholders.
"Many management today in corporate America have lost sight of the fact that stockholders are the owners of the companies," he said. "And with that, those managements have lost the entrepreneurial spirit and in some cases they never really had it."
See PICKENS, p. 5, col. 2
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T. Boone Pickens, president and chairman of the board of Mesa Petroleum responds to questions at a press conference.
Student to give aid to victims of quake
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
When Antonio Luna began a "Mexico relief quarter line" a week ago to collect money for earthquake victims in that country, he didn't know the project would mean he would have to withdraw from the University.
Luna, Mexico City freshman,
collected $68.35 in front of Wescow
Hall during his two-day effort,
will have to withdraw from the
University to deliver the money
personally, he said yesterday.
Although Luna said he had had second thoughts about going to Mexico City to deliver the money, he finally decided to go because he could not reach anyone to send the money to and had no other way of getting the money to the right people.
Crisis. I am.
“There are a lot of problems since I am going,” Luna said. “But it is worth it. It is there is no point for me to stay here if there is nothing down there.”
people. He said he was going to withdraw from the University so he could stay in Mexico through Christmas.
One of Luna's concerns about leaving school was whether he would lose his scholarship that paid his tution. But he said he had talked with administrators who said his scholarship would be renewed when he returned next semester.
Lara said he still did not know whether his family and friends had survived the two earthquakes that devastated the city Sept. 19, 20 and
Luna also hesitated in making his decision to leave school because he could not get out of his contract at McCollum Hall.
"I will probably have to pay for the dorm until I come back," he said.
Lana, who stood in front of Wescow last Thursday and Friday guarding a line of money to which passers-by contributed, said he hadn't expected to collect such a large amount of money during his 20-hour vigil.
"That's 2,735 quarters," he said. "I also got 300 pesos and one canadian quarter. The first day I collected $150, so I only expected to get about $300. But a lot more people contributed Friday."
House approves funds to fight AIDS
United Press International
The additional money for research and treatment was included in the 1986 appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services and related agencies. The bill was passed on a 322-107 vote and sent to the Senate.
WASHINGTON — The House, on the same day that film star Rock Hudson died of AIDS, voted yesterday to substantially boost the amount of federal funds being used in the battle against the disease.
The measure provides $189.7 million for AIDS work, $70 million more than President Reagan had requested and 90 percent more than is being spent this year.
Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., said the bill would double funds for research "so that no stone will be left unturned in research into the causes and treatments and the potential cures of AIDS.
"There are now at least 12,000 confirmed cases of AIDS in this country. The number is doubling every 10 months. Eighty-five percent of those diagnosed with the disease die within three years." Conte told the House.
"It is the (Appropriations) Committee's intention that no avenue be left unexplored for lack of funding, that progress be made as fast as humanly possible." Conte said.
In addition, Conte said the committee was urging the Department of Health and Human Services to appoint a coordinator for the AIDS infarct, "in other words, an AIDS Czar."
Actor Rock Hudson is dead
From Kansan wires
LOS ANGELES — Rock Hudson, the cinema idol whose gallant admission of a yearlong battle against AIDS won sympathy and attention for victims of the disease, died yesterday at his home. He was 59.
Hudson, star of "Giant," a "A Gathering of Eagles" and several comedies with Doris Day on film and "McMillan and Wife" and "Dynasty" on television, "died peacefully in his sleep at 9 o'clock this morning," Hudson's publicist Dale Olson said.
"Please God, he has not died in vain," his friend and one time costar Elizabeth Taylor said in a statement.
Day broke into tears when she heard of Hudson's death.
People active in the fight against AIDS mourned Rock Hudson's death and said the actor's honesty about his fatal disease had helped mobilize the resources needed for battling it.
"Oh my God, what can I say," she said. "This is when our faith is really tested. It's so terrible I can't believe it. All those years of working with him I saw him as big, healthy and indestructible. I am saddened by this, and all I can do is uplift my thinking. Life is eternal. I hope we will meet again."
“There's been a lot of donations and a lot of calls for information since he revealed that he had the disease," Bernie Wagner, of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation said. "It has made more people aware of what AIDS is all about."
See HUDSON, p. 5, col. 2
Nine agencies have been engaged in the AIDS effort. Conte said, "What we need is a well-coordinated, well-planned effort, with one person running the show."
AIDS is a usually fatal disease that
weakens the body's immunity to cancer and other deadly diseases.
AIDS strikes mainly homosexuals, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs.
The National Institutes of Health would receive $140.6 million for research into the causes of AIDS. The amount is twice what the NIH requested.
The Centers for Disease Control would receive $45.6 million for AIDS surveillance, epidemiology and community health education and risk-reduction activities.
Another $3.5 million would go to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration for AIDS-related activities.
The administration had revised its original budget request for AIDS research, but critics said the amount was still too low and many members of Congress pressed for additional financing.
Reagan, during his Sept. 17 news conference, defended his budget recommendations for AIDS research, saying they represent "a top priority with us."
During debate on the appropriations bill, the House accepted an amendment offered by Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif., that would allow the surgeon general to use funds in the bill to close bath houses that may be responsible for transmitting AIDS. The amendment was opposed by Rep.
The closing of bath houses has been proposed by local officials in San Francisco and New York.
The bill includes a total of $104.9 billion for all programs of the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies.