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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 12 (USPS 650-640)
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MANHATTAN — Vice President George Bush speaks about President Reagan's upcoming summit meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S.
Gorbachev. Bush spoke yesterday at Ahearn Field House at Kansas State University in the first Landon Lecture on Public Issues series speech.
KU students join picketers at K-State
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Members of the KU Committee on South Africa and the K-State African Student Association rallied for economic sanctions against South Africa as Vice President George Bush spoke yesterday at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
About 20 members of the Committee joined with about 30 K-State students in a picket line during Bush's speech and a rally afterward,
Jane Ungerman, Lawrence senior and member of the committee, said yesterday.
Ungerman said the KU students arrived at about 10:30 a.m. and joined the picket line, which had started already.
The students picked outside the doors of Ahearn Field House, where Bush spoke about the upcoming meeting between Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan.
The demonstration and rally were
planned with the African Students Association about two weeks ago when the two groups discovered that the student was speaking at K-State, Ungermain said.
She said last week, "It's pretty rare that one has the opportunity to directly address the president or vice president of the United States.
"We couldn't miss this opportunity to let the vice president know we are in favor of economic sanctions for South Africa."
"A student union is a good central place to reach people," Ungerman said. "A lot of people stopped and looked at our signs and asked questions.
demonstrators conducted a rally across from the Kansas State Student Union. About 250 people listened to speakers for about an hour.
After Bush's speech ended, the
"I think we did reach some people today."
Professors and students from KU
and K-State spoke about a variety of
See PROTEST, p. 5, col. 1
Bush lectures at Manhattan on arms race
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
MANHATTAN — "To the stars through difficulties" is Kansas' state motto when translated from Latin.
Vice President George Bush said yesterday that the motto would be a fitting slogan for the upcoming meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Bush delivered the first address for this year's Landon Lecture on Public Issues Series at Kansas State University's Ahearn Field House. The speech coincided with the 98th birthday of the lecture series' founder, Alfred M. Landon, former Kansas governor.
"The emphasis on dividing Western opinion makes the Soviets
About 20 demonstrators from the University of Kansas were on hand to protest American policies in South Africa. About 250 people took part in a rally for South Africa near the K-State Union after the speech.
When Reagan and Gorbachev meet Nov. 19-20 in Geneva, Switzerland, Bush said, the administration's goal is to work out a plan to thaw frigid U.S.-Soviet relations and devise a timetable for discussing key issues such as the arms race.
"We want arms negotiations that lead to reductions in existing nuclear arsenals and reductions that preserve and enhance the security of both sides," he said.
Although he does not oppose open debate of public issues, Bush said that in the months before the meeting, the Soviets had been employing a familiar strategy of denouncing the United States repeatedly in the Western press. In this way, they influence Western public opinion, and therefore, the course of negotiations, he said.
extremely tough bargainers," Bush said.
"As we've seen in recent weeks, they know how to reach the West through its own media, and they know how to tailor their message to have a very broad appeal."
Despite the Soviet use of propaganda, Bush said negotiations with the Soviets were not impossible.
"They share with us and recognize that they share a basic common interest — survival," he said.
Bush said the meeting also must cover some issues that had strained U.S.-Soviet relations in recent years, such as Soviet development of chemical weapons.
Bush said chemical weapons were a field devoid of international competition until the Soviets developed such technology. The United States was forced to evaluate its own capability in this area, he said.
Soviet research in anti-satellite weapons also poses a problem. Bush said that 10 years ago, when he was director of the CIA, he learned that the Soviets had already successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon.
Violations of the rights of Soviet Jews and the continued Soviet presence in Afghanistan were also sore spots between the two countries, Bush said.
Bush shared the stage with several dignitaries, including Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, Gov. John Carlin and Duane Acker, Kansas State University president. After the speech, Acker presented a poster, which advertised Bush's appearance at the university, to the vice president.
Following the presentation, Bush left for Topeka to greet Landon at his home and to wish him a happy birthday. Bush also was to have appeared last night at a Republican Party fund-raising dinner in Topeka.
Arson is suspected in apartment blaze
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
All of the residents of the building escaped the blaze without injury.
A fire early yesterday morning threatened to block the only route of escape for six people, including a 15-month-old girl and four KU students, when it filled the stairwell of an apartment building at 2526 Redbud Lane with smoke and flames.
Arson is suspected and a special fire investigation squad has been appointed to investigate the fire at Pinecrest Apartments, Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSwain said yesterday.
McSwain said this was the second fire to occur in the stairwell of the building in less than a month.
The fire was reported at about 5 a.m. yesterday by one of the residents of the building, McSwain said. Firefighters arrived at 5:04 to find the stairwall blocked by smoke and flames, and the upper floor residents trapped in their apartments.
A police officer arrived shortly before the fire truck, McSwain said, and woke the only occupant of the first floor, Robert Loveil, who escaped through a window.
A second pumper truck and a ladder truck were called to the scene, and while some of the firefighters worked to extinguish the flames, he said, others raised the ladder to the second floor window on the west side of the building and rescued an 18-month old baby and her parents.
McSwain said the fire was the second to be reported in the hallway of the two-story building, which contains three apartments and the rental office.
The fire was extinguished, McSwain said, within two or three minutes, and two men who were in the east-side second floor apartment were brought down the stairs by the firefighters.
The first fire, also believed to have been set by an arsonist, was reported on Aug. 16 by the office manager.
who said the fire had occurred sometime the night before. MeSwain said the first fire had extinguished itself before it was discovered.
The fire yesterday morning caused about $2,000 damage. McMain said.
McSwain said two fire investigators, Lt. Larry Stemmerman and Lt. Gregg Crossman, were investigating yesterday's fire. The Douglas County Fire Investigation Board met yesterday and appointed additional investigators from the Douglas County Sheriff's office, the KU police department, and the Lawrence police department, he said.
"We still had time to get dressed and wrap the baby up," he said. "I'm glad we didn't have to jump with her."
As the arson investigation began, residents of the Pinecrest apartment building said they had no immediate plans to move.
Mr. Walker said that he had no plans to move his family from the apartment.
Robert Walker, Omaha, Neb., sophomore said the smoke detector in the apartment he shared with his wife, Ann, Valencia, Calif., sophomore, and 15-month-old daughter, Jessica, did not sound until after the fire department had arrived.
Pat Flowers, Wichita junior, said he and his roommate, Don Arnold, Wichita sophomore, had lived in the second floor apartment for two years and did not intend to leave anytime soon.
Flowers said the smoke detector in the apartment had alerted them to the fire, and that Arnold had called the fire department.
"There's no sense in running away," Flowers said. "Fires can happen anywhere. It just happened to occur here."
"The manager said he would put a lock on the outside door." he said.
"We just waited for them to get here. It was too early in the morning to do it."
"It took them four minutes to get here. We timed them." he said.
KU-K-State fall canoe race dropped
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
The annual KU-KState canoe race was canceled this fall because of organizational difficulties and scheduling conflicts, Kansas State University officials said yesterday.
For the past 16 years, the Association of University Residence Halls has sponsored the 102-mile race on the Kaw river from Manhattan to Lawrence's Burcham Park.
"We needed to take a year off to regroup and to start from scratch and to rebuild the canoe race Proile, K-Sate AURIJ advises.
Keith Petracek, K-State's AURH president, said another
reason the race was canceled was that the necessary information to organize the race was not available this fall.
"A student who was in charge of the race for the past two years took the files with him when he teet, and we can't get them back," Petracke said. "We did not find out that we would not have access to this information until late August."
The committee will be composed of students and staff from both universities, she said.
Proite said a new committee, 'members of which have not been designated, would decide how to redistribute the workload between KU and K-State, restructure the economics, designate registration deadlines and detail race routes.
Andrew Blossom, Topeka junior
The farmer gathered the trash that he found where caneers had supposedly eaten lunch and complained to K-State's president, Duane Acker, by ceremoniously dumping the whole load on Acker's front porch.
Petraek said the AURH executive board later discovered the trash had been left by other
"We've had phone calls off the wall wondering what's going on." Petracke said. "We're really disappointed too, but things in the past haven't run perfectly, and we want to set up this committee to make it a better race in the future."
The 1984 canoe race was a memorable one not only because it was the first year that KU won the residence hall title but also because of a disgruntled farmer who found trash on his property along the Kaw river.
and KU's AURH president, said the cancellation occurred because of a two-fold problem involving last year's trip and K-State's fall schedule.
Because K-State will sponsor the 1985 Midwest Association of College and University Residence Halls conference, it will not have time to organize the race this year. Andrew said.
Petracek said that about 400 people were expected to attend the Oct. 24-26 conference. The MACURH is composed of 28 universities.
canoers who were not affiliated with either school.
Bugs considered nuisance
No place to hide from insects as annual invasion swarms in
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
If you've been trapped in your apartment for the past couple of nights by armies of tiny flying green menaces, you're not alone.
Lawrence's annual invasion of leafhoppers has arrived, and most people are hoping the hoppers will hop out of town. Despite their tiny size, one-quarter inch long, they can be an extreme nuisance.
Robert Beer, professor of entomology, said the insects were bothersome because of their tendency to gather in large swarms around light. Leafhoppers are around all summer, he said, but it was during this time of the year that they developed to the point that they can fly.
"All of a sudden they transformed to the wing stage," he said. "En route to vegetation, they are distracted by light."
Leafhopper eggs are deposited on
leaves, Beer said. When they first hatch, the leafhoppers cannot fly, but develop the necessary flying muscles after several weeks. Until that time they live and feed on ground vegetation.
Leafloppers pose no hazard and do not bite, Beer said; they're objectionable only because they get into your home.
Amita Chaitman, Lenexa sophomore, said that the leafhoppers had invaded her apartment Sunday night. It was her first encounter with the green bugs.
Somehow the leahoppers had entered her bedroom, Chaitman said, despite the fact that she had her window closed.
"My roommate went past my bedroom and said that I had better come look," she said. "I saw a bunch of little black things everywhere, and my window was literally closed and locked."
Chaitman said she used insect
spray to kill the bugs. She had to remove more than a half inch of the dead insects from her window sill, she said.
"They do carry plant diseases," he said. "Several very serious diseases are transmitted only by leaf-hoppers."
Besides being a nuisance to people, Beer said, leafhoppers had the potential of being troublemakers for farmers.
People can expect more of the little flying pests to be around the area again tonight and for the next several nights, Beer said.
The leafhoppers also ate plant leaves. Despite the insects' small size, he said, it is possible for large swarms to do a lot of damage.
Beer said spraying wasn't necesary to get rid of the leafhoppers. Once they are without a food source they will die quickly.
Student dies on weekend hunting trip
By a Kansan reporter
A KU freshman from Otawa was killed Sunday evening when his shotgun discharged in a hunting accident, Franklin County authorities said yesterday.
Kenton King, 18, was hunting with a friend when he tried to cross a coupling link between two railroad boxcars about $2\%$ miles west of Ottawa, according to sheriff's Capt. Craig Davis. A shotgun he was carrying discharged and shot King in the chest, Davis said.
Mr. King's companion, Erik Brunner, Ottawa freshman, said he and Mr. King were hunting doves. They had started hunting only this year, Brunner said.
Mr. King graduated from Ottawa High School, where he was the senior class president. He also was the 1984/85 president of the National Honor Society and had received the
See KING, p. 5, col. 1