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SINCE 1889
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 25 (USPS 650-640)
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2 players certified to travel
By Mike Snider and Frank Hansel Of the Kansan staff
KU tailback Lynn Williams and linebacker Dane Griffin were certified yesterday as academically eligible by the University of Kansas.
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said the University certified the players to the Big Eight Conference yesterday.
A Douglas County sheriff's deputy walks through friends of anti-apartheid protester Shawn Holstrum in a hall of the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The group held a vigil last night as Holstrum began a 24-hour sentence on a criminal trespassing charge.
Williams, Griffin and another player, Doug Certain, on Sept. 19, fitted suit against the University. The three players had been declared academically ineligible, and they sued to regain their eligibility.
Certain was removed from the case on Wednesday.
Thomas said the University had sent a letter to the conference last week, after a restraining order that said the University could not refuse to certify the players as eligible.
"The wording of this order is a little different," she said. "We will send another one today. I believe we are in compliance with the order."
Head football coach Mike Gottfried said he had not decided whether the players would play in tomorrow's game against Florida State, but they will travel to Tallahassee, Fla., with the team this afternoon.
The order prevents the University from not allowing Williams and Griffin to play football until further court action.
Williams and Griffin are eligible to play under Gottfried's discretion, according to an order signed Wednesday by Johnson County District Court Judge Phillip L. Woodworth.
J. Stewart McWilliams, attorney for Williams, said, "Now, it's up to the coach's discretion. That means if
See PLAYERS, p. 5, col. 3
Vigil honors jailed protester
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Candles flickered in the brisk air as nine persons stood outside the Douglas County jail last night to show their support for an anti-apartheid protester required to spend 24 hours in jail.
Shawn Holstrum, Wichita, a KU student at the time of her arrests on campus in May, was escorted into the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center at 8 p.m. yesterday by about 15 friends.
Holstrum appeared in court Wednesday and told Lawrence Municipal Court Judge George Catt that she couldn't pay her $75 fines.
She asked the judge at the time to give her a jail sentence or community service.
She was arrested May 3 and 9 during protests over the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies that do business in South Africa.
The 24-hour sentence is for Holstrum's first conviction on criminal trespassing charges. Catt ordered Holstrom to do eight hours of community service for her second conviction on similar charges.
Before she entered the jail, Holstrum said she was happy. She said
she would use her time in jail to relax and read.
"I have a really weird attitude," she said. "I plan to write letters to people I haven't written in three years."
After the protesters escorted Holstrum to the jail door, they sat in a room with their feet socks on.
Then they walked to an area of the parking lot directly across from Holstrum's cell and conducted the sound testing. The stirring followed a moment of silence.
"We're here as a group," said Michael Maher, Roeland Park
See VIGIL. p. 5. col. 1
Gloria blasts N.C., chases 1 million out
United Press International
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — Hurricane Gloria banks last night and aimed her awesome 130-mph winds — a power equal to an atomic bomb — northward for a 1,000-mile coastal assault from Virginia to New England.
Forecasters said 25 million people on the Eastern Seaboard were "looking down a gun barrel" at Gloria.
"It's not going to lose much strength when it goes over the Outer Banks." Frank warned, "and then accelerate quite rapidly to the north."
"It's most likely that the center will be staying close to the coast, with hurricane conditions all the way to New England," chief hurricane forecaster Neil Frank said.
Hurricane warnings flew from North Carolina's Little River Inlet to the Merrimack River in northern Massachusetts. Hurricane watches extended northward to Eastport, Maine.
A 200-foot pier at Atlantic Beach, N.C., was smashed, and storm tides flooded streets in Beaufort, N.C. City officialsMorehead City Dark to street level.
Thousands huddled in storm shelters in schools, churches and govt.
The National Weather Service reported that the ocean had spilled over Cape Hatteras and said the area of Ocracoke Island had flooded.
"We're going to take a good beating from the wind, but the tidal surge is what we've got to worry about," he said.
ernment buildings. More than 1 million people in low-lying areas of the East Coast were urged to evacuate, including 300,000 in Rhode Island.
In New York City, police set up an emergency command post. Officials evacuated all but a few stragglers from Fire Island and warned 80,000 people living in flood-prone areas of Long Island to leave.
The World Trade Center was closed, and workers moved the Statue of Liberty torch inside and tightened scaffolding around the famous monument in New York Harbor.
Massachusetts officials urged thousands of residents living in vulnerable mobile homes from Boston to Cape Cod to seek safe shelter
At 11 p.m. Central Daylight Time, Gloria was about 50 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C., near latitude 34.5 north, longitude 75.8 west.
Hurricane forecaster Bob Sheets said Gloria was moving slightly east of due north, at 20 to 25 mph. The hurricane was expected to continue its general course, with its forward speed increasing to more than 30
The governors of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Deleware, New York and New Jersey put National Guard troops on alert.
Officials feared millions of people in the New York, New Jersey and New England area who have never felt the force of a major hurricane would ignore warnings that Gloria was a dangerous storm.
Some did.
See GLORIA o.5 col.1
Mailbox newest tool in finding violators
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
If a student doesn't find a KU parking ticket on his car, he still may find one in his mailbox.
This year, tickets are being mailed as well as placed on car windshields to ensure that parking violators receive them. Donna Hultine, assistant director of KU Parking Services, said yesterday.
Sometimes the wind blows the original ticket off the windshelf, or someone else takes the ticket, she said.
Now parking services sends carbon copies of tickets either to the address that was given when the parking permit was purchased or to the address on the vehicle's registration.
Quent McClung, Metamora, III, senior and an evening parking dispatcher, said that although mailing ticket copies was serving its purpose, it also was causing a few problems.
McClung said he received two or three calls every night from people who were in the building.
"They send the ticket home to the owner," he said, "then parents call up and say they weren't on campus.
"I got a call just tonight from an elderly woman who said she got a
Memory clinic offers workout for the mind
ticket for illegally parking a motorcycle. That was the best one yet. She said it could have been her son or grandson. She wasn't sure.'
Jeff Burgess, Lenexa senior, said he thought the new procedure was a good precaution for parking services to take.
"Students who don't have the money could say, 'Well, I'll just say I lost the ticket.' It's an easy way out," he said.
George Laham, Wichita senior,
said he was ticketed less than a week
age but hadn't received a copy in the
mail vet.
"I can see that lots of times someone might take the ticket off the car," he said. However, he said he didn't think tickets should be mailed home.
"They ought to either find you up here or forget about it," he said.
Hultine said many students complained last year because they hadn't seen tickets until they received a bill for the fine — with a $5 late fee
The University withholds enrollment clearance and transcripts for unpaid tickets, but it won't hold grades or diplomas.
"It's really hard to believe they didn't get one," she said. "The big surprise was at enrollment."
Jan Erland, director and founder of Mem-ExSpan, a three-week clinic designed to improve visual and auditory memory, concentration and perception, said yesterday. "Thinking processes can improve. They are not static. In college, higher grades can be easier to achieve."
Too many college students "pigeonhole" themselves on one level of intellectual thinking, says the director of a local memory expansion clinic.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Erland, a former elementary school teacher who received her master's degree in learning disabilities from the University of Kansas, started her program in 1980
After several of Erland's friends asked her to help their teen-sugars with what she called "thinking and memory-processing blocks," she researched and designed the clinic, which she teaches out of her home. 2002 Quail Creek Drive.
The idea for Mem-ExSpan developed when Erland gave intelligence tests to her son, who was earning C's and D's in high school. Her daughter was an A student. Erland said she refused to accept the idea that her son was not as gifted as her daughter.
She now is writing a teachers' manual so she can train others to expand her program to schools, nursing homes and centers for juvenile delinquents.
Sae.CLINIC, p. 5, col. 5
Freshman collects for quake victims
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
A shiny line of relief is growing from Wescoe Hall to Mexico City.
The "Mexico relief quarter line," an attempt by a KU student to solicit contributions for earthquake victims in that country, was started yesterday in front of Wescoe Hall.
Antonio Luna, Mexico City freshman, who conceived the quarter relief line idea for the victims, said yesterday that he would miss his classes to stand watch over the line non-stop through today.
"I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do," he said. "It's what my father taught me. It's what being a Mexican citizen is all about."
Luna, who stood solemnly in a dark suit next to a yellow memorial wreath, said the money he collected would be given to the organizations handling relief efforts in Mexico City. He said he probably would deliver the money to Mexico himself.
More than 4,500 people died after two earthquakes hit Mexico last week
Luna's quarter line extended from a sign resting against a concrete planter onto the sidewalk. At the end of the line, which was four-quarters wide, lay paper money and more coins. Contributions from passers-by made the line grow.
Although the KU police department said that Luna wasn't authorized to collect money on campus, Luna said he probably would file a petition for a permit today. He said he had to wait to get a permit because he hadn't known until 5 p.m. yesterday that a permit was needed to collect money.
Although Luna's quarter relief line was more than 5 feet long and had some $1 and $5 bills alongside the quarters, he said he didn't know how much he had collected. To him, the amount didn't really matter.
"The thought, the principle, is what's important," he said.
This thought has been received
well by students, Luna said. However, he said the students didn't understand the situation in Mexico very well.
"Most students don't know the condition of the people down there," he said. "They are probably concerned, but they still not aware of the problem." How way for the people that care or can care in help those in Mexico."
Apparently, some KU students did care about the condition of the people in Mexico City, but not all of them contributed to the relief line.
"It looks like a lot of people are contributing to it," said Gay Thomas, FT. Sheridan III, junior. "But you just never know where the money goes." He adds, "I know one knows that guy, but it's a nice thing for him to do."
John Brucato, Chicago freshman, wasn't so skeptical about the collecting effort.
"I would contribute if I had some money," Brucato said. "But it's a silly way he's doing it. It's a good idea, but the money would be gone in two seconds if it was in Chicago."
Michelle Ducey and Susan Pinches, Lawrence Juniors, said they didn't like the somber air about Luna and wished he would move or sit down.
"I feel like I shouldn't talk loud," Pinches said. "I feel sorry for the people in Mexico City and I might contribute tomorrow. It's a good gesture and a good cause."
Ducey said she hadn't contributed yet either but said she had been thinking about it all day.
Luna, who said he had "family, friends and everything" in Mexico City, said he would guard the relief line through the night until sometime today.
"They said on TV not to give money to someone unless he was authorized to collect," she said. "But I might contribute tomorrow. It was the babies crying on TV that really got me. The relief workers could hear them crying but they couldn't get to them."
"I'm going to stay here all night," he said. "I know this place will clear out, but it's something personal."
Paul Goodman/KANSAN
Antonio Luna, Mexico City freshman, is raising money for earthquake victims in Mexico. Luna began his "Mexico relief quarter line" yesterday in front of Wescow Hall and said he planned to stand watch over the line today. He is still waiting to hear from his relatives in Mexico.