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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 9 (USPS 650-640)
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Ex-POW talks on war-camp survival
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Telling stories of his six years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp, Capt. J. Charles Plumb speaks to 200 Navy officer candidates.
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A Navy fighter pilot who was shot down in Vietnam spent almost six years in a prisoner of war camp and returned home to find his wife had filed for divorce and his best friend died.
Capt. J. Charles Plumb, the pilot from Lake Quivera, told KU officer candidates yesterday that his experiences taught him how to control his own destiny and that the years in the camp were the most valuable six years of his life.
“What’s going to bother me? What can affect me more than that?” he said.
Plumb spoke to about 200 officer candidates in 427 Summerfield Hall. He had been invited to speak by Col. Michael D. Wlyl, commanding officer of the KU Navy ROTC.
Plumb, the author of two books about his Vietnam experience and a Navy Reservist, said he now "flys an L.M.D." — Little Metal Desk — two days a month and two weeks a year.
By surviving an experience that brought him so close to death, Plumb said that he learned to appreciate life.
"Guilt, regret, blaming others, living in the past, these are self-destructive emotions. You learn that quickly in a prisoner of war camp," he said.
On May 19, 1967, he was shot down 20 miles south of Hanoi when a Soviet-built surface-to-air missile struck the F-4 Phantom jet he was flying, Plumb said. Five days before he was to be sent home from Vietnam, he was taken prisoner by the Viet Cong.
Plumb said he was tortured for information about the future missions of his naval unit aboard the aircraft carrier, the USS Kitty Hawk, for the first several days of his captivity, and then was placed in an eight-foot square cell.
"I could pace three steps in one direction, then turn around and pace three steps in the other direction," he said.
It was in that cell, Plumb said, that he first became aware of the need to discipline his thoughts.
"At first you blame one else," he said, "the president for sending you, the congress for appropriating the money, the mechanic who worked on your car, the doctor who played the role the dirty, ugly, ragged prisoner of war."
The sound of a cricket in one corner of his cell, Plumb said, interrupted his pacing. On closer examination, he discovered that it was not a cricket chirping in the corner, but a wire — stuck through a cement in the wall and scratching rubbish on the cement floor of his cell — that was responsible for the noise.
"I knew it might be an American," he said. "And oh,
United Press International
Violence erupts at children's protest
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Mine owners fired about 1,000 black miners yesterday for taking part in a strike that fell apart after two days, as police in Cape Town whipped youths singing the African famine relief song, "We Are the World," outside a shopping center.
In Cape Town, where 32 people have died in the last eight days of
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racial violence, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in daylong clashes with youths in at least five mixed-race suburbs. No casualties were reported.
Youths stoned and torched a bus in Athlone, stoned police in Kraaifonlinen, Scottsville and Scottsdale and gasoline-bombed the home of a mixed-race parliamentarian in the luxury Belharr area.
Police in Cape Town whipped
mixed-raced youths, known as "coloreds," as they sang the famine relief song, "We Are the World," outside a downtown shopping mall.
"Most of them were severely beaten and several of the kids were bundled into two police vans and driven away," said Brian Lombard, who witnessed the incident.
Lombard said about 20 colored children stood outside the Golden Acre shopping center, softly singing "We Are the World" when about a dozen policemen up dive and, without any warning to disperse, began to "lay into them with whips."
"They obviously just went for young colored school children, but they couldn't have known who were the ones singing. There were plenty of people following. Any kid who ran got slammed with a sjambok (whip).' another witness said.
Police confirmed the incident in a brief report from their Pretoria
The union suspended the strike — originally planned to involve 70,000 men pressing for wage hikes on seven shafts — pending an industrial court decision expected in about two weeks on whether companies could fire unionized miners who had the legal right to go on strike.
headquarters saying "police dispersed a group who had gathered illegally and, in the process, arrested five persons — one colored male and four colored youths."
The black National Union of Mineworkers, vowing to resume a strike that crumbled Tuesday after 48 hours, won an order in the Supreme Court halting the eviction of dismissed strikers from hostels, or living centers, at the Marievale gold mine.
Union leader Cyril Ramaphosa said the court banned the eviction of dismissed strikers without a final court order, "but they are already
Harry Hill, spokesman for the Gencor company that owns the mine, said the order was against "unlawful eviction of union members" and the mine was going ahead with the dismissal of 738 men at the Marievale site.
defying the decision and they are still busing men out."
A spokesman for the Gold Fields company said work resumed on its Deelkral gold mine with the exception of about 700 men "who indicated that they wished to leave the mine."
"As the mine has not and does not intend to evict illegally, the (decision) presents no problem to the mine," he said.
The union blamed mass employer intimidation — at least 16 people injured by police and mine security officials and 70 arrested — in calling off the strike. Support dwindled from 28,000 workers Monday to 21,000 Tuesday.
ASK director resigns post; cites politics
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
The campus director of Associated Students of Kansas resigned last night to protest what she called infighting in student politics, which she said hindered the work of the Student Senate.
"The system is getting, bogged down by people who see to it that nothing constructive is being done in the Senate," Sandra Binyon, the director, said at the Student Senate Executive Committee meeting last night.
"You all know who you are," she told the StudEx members. "I can't sit here and watch the Student Senate of Kansas to go pieces.
"I can't change it alone, so I'm resigning."
Jeff Polack, student body vice president and KU representative to the ASK board of directors, said the resignation did not surprise him.
"There are some major personality clashes within the Senate," he
"I can understand her reasoning, but I don't think the Student Senate is bogged down," Polack said. "We get a lot more done than people give us credit for. We did a total of about 55 pieces of legislation last spring in addition to all the funding and other projects we have going on."
After the meeting, Binyon said that it was between 10 and 15 senators who created a stressful situation in the Senate.
"It's not the entire & Toto Too coalition, but for the most part it's that faction," she said.
The & Tolo too coalition's student body presidential candidate finished second in Student Senate elections last fall.
Binyon said the group of senators she was talking about had manipulated the Senate rules to clog the wheels of the Senate.
"It's so childish," she said. "They didn't win the election, so now they are poor sports."
Tim Boller, & Toto Too's vice presidential candidate in last fall's elections and a member of StudEx as chairman of Student Senate Rights Committee, said Binyon had a flair for the melodramatic.
"It's sad if she views disagreeing as being an obstruction," he said. "It's foolish to blame a group for not letting another group have their way.
"I can see how the Senate's long meetings can be frustrating, but it's the only way to let everybody have access," he said. "We have called for a organizational."
Boller said Binyon's own role had not always been constructive.
"She's just as guilty as anyone else of stalling and using the rules to stop ideas she didn't like."
Binyon said continuing rumors about cutting funds to ASK also was a contributed to her resignation. She said she thought the movement last spring was a part of the infighting
See DIRECTOR, p. 5, col. 1
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Ex-adviser asserts officials inexpert
The Athletic Department doesn't have the expertise to successfully advise student athletes, Nancy Hovarter, former department coordinator for academic affairs, said yesterday.
"They're trying to duplicate the university process, but they can't do it. We need to get the student athlete out of the Athletic Department and up on the Hill," said Hovater, who resigned her position at the department June 28.
Hovarter said if the department treated student athletes like other students fewer problems would arise.
Richard Lee, assistant athletic director for support programs, declined comment on Hovater's statements. Monte Johnson, athletic director, was not available for comment yesterday afternoon.
Horvartier compared student athletes to working students.
"Working students don't have a special program. It's all available at the University," she said.
Instead, she said, players who have academic problems are left at the end of the semester trying to get their grades changed or facing ineligibility.
Eight football players were held out of the team's first game of the season Saturday because of academic problems. Their eligibility for the rest of the season remains in question.
Hovartier was hired last November to be the academic coordinator. She said she thought she would be assisting and advising student athletes, something she had done at Spalding College in Louisville, Ky., and St. Benedict's College in Ferdinand, Ind.
But Hovarter said when she came to work here, after leaving Benedictine College in Atchison where she was a professor in history, she found out her duties were secretarial and clerical.
Hovarter said that on June 7, Johnson and Lee told her she could either stay with the department and continue her duties or leave the department.
Students find pets bring responsibility, expense
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
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Randall Lockwood, director of higher education programs for The HESU, said college was a time of upheaval, transition and unstable circumstances which made owning a pet inadvisable. Cats especially he, said, are upset by changes in their feeding and sleeping schedule.
A cuddly puppy or kitten may be a warm addition to a new, empty apartment, but most students should think twice about taking on the responsibility of a pet, a director of the Humane Society of the United States said yesterday.
He also said students too often were unwilling or unable to make a serious commitment to the care and training of their pets.
Lockwood said his biggest concern was that many animals were abandoned at the end of the year.
"An animal that was cared for — perhaps quite deeply — during the year is abandoned when it's time to go home." Lockwood said.
"Student adopters make pretty good homes," Tesch said. "Although they do need to think about Christmas and Spring Break and find kennels or responsible people to care for their pets. You can't just leave for a week or two."
Roma Tesch, manager of the Lawrence Humane Society, said the end of the school year didn't seem to
bring an increase in abandoned animals in Lawrence. In fact, she said, the animal shelter usually uses a boost in adoptions around graduation when students want pets to take home.
A student's budget also may preclude pet ownership. Teach said a dog needed a variety of services to stay healthy including rabies shots, disemester shots and heartworm services alone can cost more than $50.
Lockwood said that, although the expense varied with the type of pet, many students didn't provide veter care even if they had the money.
"They figure the dog takes care of itself," he said.
Lockwood urged students who wanted a pet to consider small, easily cared for animals such as fish, gerbils or hamsters. He also sug-
Tesch said even smaller pets such as gerbils and hamsters took time to learn.
Joe Beckmann, St. Louis junior,
said the hamster he kept in his
Ellsworth room last year wasn't
much of a problem — except for
the couple of times it got lost.
"Everything has to be cleaned pretty often or the neighbors complain," she said.
"It got a lot of attention," he said.
"People always wanted to take it out and play."
Although the KU residence halls have a policy forbidding all pets except fish, many people try to sneak them in, said Bruce Willett, Kansas City, Mo., senior and Oliver Hall desk assistant.
Other living groups have no such restrictions. The Evans Scholars have had a dog for five years, and she is well taken care of, according to Joe Saliba. Evans Scholar president.
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Members of Evans Scholars don't agree with studies that show that pets and education don't rhix. They have kept their dog, Easy, at their house, 1942 Stewart Ave., for the last five years.