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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1985. VOL. 96. NO. 18 (USPS 650-640)
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Members of the General Union of Palestinian Students commemorate the massacre of 1,800 people three years ago at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon. About 30 students marched yesterday from the Kansas Union to Strong Hall and back.
Students remember massacre of refugees
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
About 30 KU students marched from the Kansas Union to Strong Hall and back yesterday to commemorate the 1982 massacre of 1,800 people in two Palestinian refugee camps.
Three years ago Monday, Lebanese Christian forces entered the West Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and began a two-day slaughter of hundreds of Palestinian people.
Although the march was in memory of the massacre victims, most of the signs bore pro-Palestine Liberation Organization and anti-Zionist slogans such as "Zionism is Terrorism" and "Zionists treat Palestinians like Hitler treated Jews."
James Seaver, professor of history, said, "Zionism is the word that is used to refer to the resettlement of Palestine as a home for the Jewish people."
Awda Mustapha, president of the General Union of Palestinian Students, the KU group that organized the march, said Zionism was a political movement based on racial hate.
"Palestinians are human beings," Mustapha said. "We are not terrorists or barbarians."
lists of barbarians.
He said he didn't always agree with the methods the PLO used, but he agreed with their fight with Israel over Palestine, which is now part of Israel.
"The PLO is the only representative of our people. They just want to"
fight back," he said. "If you are under occupation, you have to struggle to fight back."
Mike Geller, St. Louis senior and Jewish student, said he probably could speak for the majority of Jewish students.
"I think a peaceful protest is fine," he said, "however, when there is a lack of accuracy, an opposing side needs to be heard.
Mustafa Hussein, West Beirut, Lebanon, senior, carried the Palestinian flag in the march. Hussein lived in the Shattah refugee camp for 13 years, he said.
Reagan vows fight for weapons
"They are saying Israel complied. This is untrue. The massacre did happen but it was proven that Israel had nothing to do with it."
From Kansan wires
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said last night that he would rule out any summit agreement with the Soviet Union that would block testing and development of his controversial "Star Wars" space-based missile system.
But the president, answering questions at his first formal news conference in three months, indicated that he might be willing to negotiate with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev over the deployment of the controversial system.
The the Reagan-Gorbachev summit is set for Nov. 19-20 in Geneva.
The president also defended the recent test of an American anti-satellite weapon. He said the Soviets have tested such a system, adding that he has already taken them to have a monopoly on the ability to shoot down satellites."
Besides discussing the summit meeting, Reagan answered questions concerning the trade deficit and trade barriers, his policy toward South Africa and federal financing to help combat the deadly disease AIDS.
In his nearly 40-minute session with reporters, his first formal news conference since his cancer surgery, the president appeared vigorous and showed no signs of his July surgery.
On U.S. satellite weapons testing, Reagan defended his tough stand by also saying that such a system could eliminate "horrible nuclear weapons."
Reagan, while cautiously warning that the Soviets may be trying to "raise expectations" about the results of the summit, said he wanted to have serious discussions with his
Russian counterpart, not just a get-acquired session.
Reagan also talked tough on the seeming rush on Capitol Hill for new trade barriers, although he insisted his relationship with Congress was "outie well right now."
Reagan decried what he called a "mindless stampede toward protectionism," which he labeled a "one-way trip toward disaster."
He said protectionist legislation would "invite retaliation" from other nations and could strike an "eco-
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 6
Violence rocks S. Africa again
From Kansan wires
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Police firing shotguns, rubber bullets and tear gas clashed yesterday with one group of students boycotting classes near Johannesburg and another demanding the reopening of hundreds of schools around Cape Town.
Mixed-race youths burnt harricades of tires in Cape Town's Athlone township and blocked roads with hijacked buses. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas and arrested about 176 people — including parents, teachers and the school principal — to break up the protests.
The country's military kept quiet the day after it opened an air and ground assault into southern Angola, where the government says it is chasing guerrillas fighting for the independence of South-West Africa, also called Namibia.
A military spokesman in Pretoria characterized the fighting as "small groups of troops following tracks," and said communication with men in the field was poor. Correspondents are barred from the area.
the area.
The military's top commander, Gen. Constan Viljeon, said in announcing the invasion Monday that it was intended to derail a planned artillery offensive by the South-West Africa People's Organization.
to break up the protests In other developments:
SWAPO, which has its military power base in southern Angola, has fought a guerrilla war for 19 years against South Africa's administration of Namibia.
Louis le Grange, minister of law and order, was quoted by a pro-government newspaper, the Citizen, as saying "there is a definite decline in the number of incidents of unrest in the country."
Car crash in Rockies may have killed prof
■In the sprawling black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, a black youth was badly injured outside a school when he tried to steal a car, and the driver and passengers attacked him with sticks.
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A car belonging to a KU professor went off a mountain road in Colorado and burned Monday evening, killing the driver, Colorado State troopers reported yesterday.
Thomas Mikkelson, associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, may have been the man killed. Troopers said the body they removed from the car was burned beyond recognition.
The car, registered to Mikkelson, was traveling east on U.S. Highway 40 at about 7:30 p.m. Monday when it went off the road about 3 miles west of Empire, Colo., Trooper Patricia Snyder said.
Snyder said.
An investigation by the Colorado State Patrol found that the car hit a large boulder, then rolled about 25 feet down a rocky embankment before coming to rest against another boulder and bursting into flames, Snyer said.
Lloys Caldwell, Clear Creek County coroner, said the car was traced to Mikkelson by its Kansas license plate. Dental records will be used to determine whether the crash victim is Mikkelson.
Mikkelson's brother, Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic languages
and literatures, said, "He's probably dead. It's 99 percent sure he was killed in that car accident."
killed thru a roadkill said it would be impossible to identify the driver until the dental records were received. He said that once Colorado authorizes had the records, a forensic pathologist and a forensic dentist would try to identify the body, then would conduct an autopsy.
Snyder said the investigation had not revealed why the car left the road. Weather conditions were good, the curve was not sharp and no skid marks were left on the pavement, she said.
Caldwell said that because of the body's condition, it probably would be impossible to determine whether the driver had fallen asleep or become unconscious before leaving the road.
Gerald Mikkelson filed a missing persons report last Wednesday with Lawrence police, saying his brother had been missing since Sent. 3.
Howard Mossberg, dean of pharmacy, said Thomas Mikkelson had been on sick leave since Aug. 15. He had been seeking treatment at a hospital in the Kansas City area, Mossberg said.
"We didn't know where he was at that point," he said.
Athletes' advising analyzed
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Recent publicity by the academic ineligibilities of seven football players has focused attention on possible inadequacies in advising athletes, Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday.
But comparable attention should be given to efforts to ensure players' eligibility, he said.
engagement," you say. "You're sometimes unfairly judged by your failures instead of your successes," Johnson said. "But I'm not satisfied with even one failure."
He said the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and the Athletic Department staff were doing allthey could to give student athletes at the University every opportunity to play sports and still receive degrees.
"When you have kids who are insolible, it hurts everybody," the
"Not only do we want the student athletes to graduate, we're doing — and have done — everything we can to help them.
faculty, the athletic staff and the University administration as well as the students," Johnson said. "My concern is mainly for the athletes.
year. Richard Lee, assistant athletic director in charge of support services, said the Athletic Department was committed to the academic successes of the athletes.
"Even though it's difficult to have a perfect system, every effort and every resource will be applied to make ours as fall-safe as we can."
The sports information office announced last Wednesday that seven KU football players had been declared academically ineligible for this year. Ten football players were declared academically ineligible last year.
successes of the materials
"The mechanisms we have in place
"We're well on our way because of the backing of key faculty members and administrators," he said. "With that kind of cooperation, we can't help but grow and become a viable part of the University community."
Lee said he thought KU would eventually have one of the best academic support systems for athletes in the region.
—and will set in place — will definitely enhance the graduation rate of our student athletes," he said.
Norman Yetman, professor of sociology and American studies and chairman of the KUAC board of directors' academic committee, said the committee met yesterday to discuss methods of ensuring the academic progress of KU athletes.
The most important issue discussed by the committee was aca-
See SOLUTION, p. 5, col. 1
Show boosts rape awareness
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Everyone - women and men alike -
is a potential rape victim, a volunteer from the Douglas County Rape Victims Support Service said last night during a program on rape awareness.
"Rapists choose the first vulnerable victim they can get," said Craig Miller, Ottawa junior and the support service volunteer.
The hourlong program gave information about rape and its prevention and described ways to mobilize an attacker.
immobility film, "Not Only Strangers," showed the steps a college student went through after she was raped by a classmate on their first date. The steps included reporting the incident to the police
depicted a girl who was followed home by her attacker.
A KU police slide presentation
The program is organized by the Student Senate and is presented by the KU and Lawrence police departments and the Douglas County Rape Victims Support Service. It combines the police department's usual presentation with that of the support service.
The program was shown to about 50 people in Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall last night and will be presented to some sororities, scholarship halls and residence halls through Oct. 4.
Jeff Polack, student body vice president, described the program as "maximum information with minimum boredom."
Kim Milbourn, Overland Park freshman, said the program answered a lot of her questions about rape.
She said she would change her behavior on campus because of some of the things the film pointed out.
"I'm not going to walk in as many places as I have been," she said, "and I'm going to try to find a friend or someone to walk with at night."
Susan Gage, Lawrence freshman,
said, "I think it was a good thing to
have because there are so many girls
here."
Sgt. John Brothers of the KU police department said that under Kansas law, rape was "sexual intercourse with a person that does not consent to the intercourse."
Miller said, "According to statutes, anytime you're forced unwillingly, it's rape."
B. Rape Rape is a class B felony in Kansas and is punishable by 5-20 years in prison.
Daily duty
One of the daily responsibilities for Willie Steel, left, and Mike Rilev of facilities operations is to take down the flags in front of Strong Hall.