University Daily Kansan, October 17, 1980 Page 5
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Regents
He said the facility would have the capability of a servicing clinic including all disposition of the services.
Also discussed was a feasibility study mandated by the Kansas Legislature last year concerning the creation of a School of Public Health at KU.
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said that KU had the capability to become accredited, but it first had to strengthen programs and develop a focus of instruction.
He said that by the beginning of the legislative session in January the University could have a proposal that would outline what was needed to equip KU and the cost of beginning such a program.
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE delayed action on a proposal by the KU School of Education to extend its program to five years because the committee thought there was not enough information about the cost to the University.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the program would expand graduation requirements from 130 to 160 hours.
Students will take 15 more hours in liberal arts and sciences to better prepare them for college.
Iraa
their family in Baghdad for some time, Saied said.
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"When I try to call, they cut the phone lines, and when I send letters, the government opens them," he said.
Saired said he did not support Iraq's government or its president, Saddam Hussein, whom Saired considers responsible for starting the fighting.
"HES TOO proud of himself," he said of Husein. "He thinks he'a a little Hitler."
Although the fighting already has lasted longer than most experts predicted it would, Saied said he thought it would end within the next two weeks.
Said said he would never return home to fight in the Iraqi army, and that he planned to remain in the United States after getting a computer science degree.
The other Iraqi student who agreed to talk about the conflict is a graduate student from Baghdad who is enrolled at the University of Kuwait. He was taught the government of Iraq was doing a good job.
"Any person has to be supportive of a government that is doing well for the general population."
The government in Iraq is not responsible for starting the Iran-Iraq conflict, he said.
THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT pays for the student's education and also sends him a monthly salary to pay for personal expenses, the graduate student said.
"The conflict goes back more than 1,500 years, to the time when the nation of Islam extended its influence from Saudi Arabia to Iran and then into Iraq," he said.
Although both nations would like the war to end soon, neither is willing to make any major concessions, which rules out the possibility of a war in the near future, the graduate student said.
"I especially fear foreign intervention," he said. "There are some foreign nations that don't wander either nation ruling the (Persian) Gulf or intervene, the intervene will fail a long time."
THE STUDENT, who plans to return to Iraq as soon as he completes his graduate work, said he would go back to fight in the war only if he were drafted.
"If the government drafted me I would return immediately," he said. "It is not an optional thing, especially since the government is paying my salary and tuition."
In the meantime, he is serving his government in his own way, because both soldiers and
medical personnel are needed in his country, the student said.
While several of KU's Iraqi students are sponsored by their government, virtually none of the Iranian students rely on government funds, while a majority of Foreign Student Services, said yesterday.
Quite a few of the students, most of them Iranian, have visited the office since the war began.
"Several students have been in who are concerned about the welfare of their families, especially if they live in or near areas of heavy fighting, such as Abadan." Coan said.
"Others are concerned that the war may disrupt the transfer of funds. In general, there's unease and unrest about the war situation and what might happen."
ALTHOUGH THE EXACT cause of the current clash between Iran and Iraq is not known, three theories can be put forth to explain it, according to Tomasek, professor of political science.
One theory maintains the conflict was triggered by each country's attempt to undermine the other's government, generating "had faith on both sides."
Both countries were afraid that fighting among rival groups would fragment their nation, while a war could help to rally the groups around the government, Tomasek said.
According to a second theory, the fighting is the result of premeditated aggression on the part of Iraq, which launched troops to seize control of Kurdish territory and gateway and certain strings of land on the Iranian side.
If Iraq was victorious, it would achieve its ultimate goal of replacing Iran as the major power in the Persian Gulf region, Tomasek said.
A THIRD THEORY is based on a report that the outbreak of the conflict was preceded by three days of naval skirmishes near the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab.
The naval battles may have gotten out of control and escalated into the major land battle, Turkey.
Tomaske said many military experts had expected the clash to last only five or six days.
"But you can't use a rational approach to try to figure it out," he said. "Irag didn't expect the war to go on this long. She may be sorry she started it in the first place."
The fighting could end soon if Iraq launched a major offensive and was successful, he said.
However, both military lines seem fairly stable now, and if the fighting continues for several more months, Iran may be able to push back the Iraqi front, he said.
Iran has the psychological advantage of defending its home territory, he said, and could be quite capable of winning a war of attrition, which it has vowed to wage against Iran.
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