University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 17, 1986
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News Briefs
Judge gives sentence to Lawrence man
A Douglas County district judge Friday sentenced a Lawrence man who was found guilty of voluntary homicide in 2013 and three years and 10 years in prison.
Curtis White, 30, originally was charged with second-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death of Russell Gensler, 26, in Centennial Park, Sixth and Iowa streets. But the trial jury found him guilty of second-degree murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
The sentence for voluntary manslaughter ranges from a minimum of 3-5 years and a maximum of 10-20 years.
James Paddock, the judge, said that because a gun was involved, that White would have to serve three years before he could be eligible for parole.
Washburn man dies
TOPEKA — A student from Washburn University was killed early yesterday morning when he accidentally walked out of a third story opening at a building under construction in south Topeka.
John A. Strehlow Jr., 19, apparently was exploring the vacant construction site when the accident occurred, said Topeka Police Det. Don Longren.
The accident was reported to the police by someone who was with Strehlow, Strehlow, who was from the Kansas City area, crawled over a chain link fence to get to the construction site. Longren said.
Vets' clinic to open
A medical walk-in clinic will be open from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St., for all U.S. military veterans. A medical team from the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Administration Medical Center in Topeka will screen veterans for general health problems and colon cancer. The team also will arrange medical care for health problems including psychiatric problems and alcoholism.
Fiction prof to read
For more information, call the Medical Outreach Team at the VA Medical Center, (913) 272-3111, ext. 453 or 320.
A Wichita State University English professor will read some of his fiction at 8 p.m. today in Gallery West of the Kansas Union.
The KU English department will sponsor the reading by James Lee Burke, the professor.
St. George boy dies
ST. GEORGE — An 8-year old boy drowned Saturday after he fell through ice on a pond at a traitor court two miles west of St. George, according to Potatwaomie county and Fort Riley officials.
Dietrich Good, son of Sgt. Larry and Inez Good, was pronounced dead at St. Mary Hospital in Manhattan.
The boy apparently was playing with his sister and a friend when he walked onto a pond at 12:30 p.m. and fell through the ice, said Pottawatomi County investigator Gerald Schmidt.
Weather
Skies today will be party cloudy with the high temperature 50 to 55. The winds will be variable 5 to 15 mph. Tonight skies will be partly cloudy, and the low temperature will be 30. Tomorrow, the high temperature will be in the mid- to upper 50s.
From staff and wire reports
IOWA CITY, Iowa — John Stonebarger, a student activist at the University of Iowa, sifted his way through $ \mathring{h}e $ throng of travelers — student activists from across the Midwest — to answer the telephone in his apartment.
Student activists meet at Iowa conference
By SHANE A. HILLS
"Yeah, come on over," he would tell each caller. "We'll find a place for you somewhere."
His house wasn't hard to find. A banner hanging across the front porch read, "Hell no, we won't go. We won't die for Amoco."
Coats and sleeping bags piloted up in a corner of Stonebarger's apartment. About 150 student activists, many of them looking like hippies, came from as close as Des Moines or as far as Miami for the seventh annual Progressive Student Network Conference in Iowa City
body president who now lives in Minneapolis, attended the conference. Vogel said she thought activism had mellowed at KU because most of the die-hard activists had graduated and left Lawrence.
KU graduate Carla Vogel. 1984-85 student
Several KU students had planned to visit. However, only Christian Colbert, Lawrence senior, and Mary Lyn Roberts, Ottawa senior, attended.
The conference concentrated on apartheid in South Africa, President Reagan's plan for the Strategic Defense Initiative, U.S. military intervention in Central America and gender issues such as equal pay for women and sexual discrimination.
Students from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the University of Wisconsin in Madison made up about one-third of the activists who attended the conference.
"It itted out just being a picket, but then it became a pushing and shoving match," she said. "Police started macing us."
"We ended up breaking some glass on the doors of the entry of the building. We were just freaking. We'd never actually dealt with violence before."
Mina Wood, a Minnesota sophomore, attended the rally during which police arrested 35 students who rushed the building.
The Wisconsin campus still harbors some of the busiest student activists in the Midwest, despite the University's divestment in 1976 from companies that do business in South Africa.
students for jobs.
In spring 1985, for example, about 2,000 students camped for two weeks inside the state capital as a protest against Wisconsin's law in companies that do business in South Dakota.
student, said, "I can't tell you how unbelievable it was, it was wild. We had church groups bringing us food and hordes of people banging on drums.
Andrew Sessions, a Wisconsin graduate
"Finals started to come up and we got burned out after two weeks. Right now we've got 18 out of 50 legislators willing to divest."
Pedro Nogura. student body president at the University of California Berkeley last year and who led the movement for complete divestiture at Berkeley, spoke Saturday morning and received a standing ovation.
"You don't build a movement by protesting every time a right-winger comes around. Noguera said "Organization and management are what give a movement meaning."
"A parade might make us feel satisfied, but it is meaningless if all it does is serve as our own theroy."
Kansan reporter Kirk Kahler contributed information to this story.
Speaker lived through Kent State shooting
By ATLE BJORGE
Staff writer
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Alan Canfora still has two scars where a National Guardman's bullet ripped through his wrist May 4, 1970.
He said his close friend, Jeffrey Miller, was one of four tour people and killed by the National Guard from a hilltop. Nine others were wounded, one of them paralyzed.
"The bullet went in here," he said, pulling up the right sleeve of his brown jacket, "and it went out here."
Sixteen years later, Canfora has cut his hair down to average length. In speaking at the Progressive Students Network Conference in Iowa City this weekend, he said he
In 1970, Cantora was a flag-waving front figure in the student demonstration at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. The demonstration became what some called the Kent State Massacre.
hadn't forgotten what happened at Kent.
"I still need a feel need to reveal the truth to the American public," he said. "Especially now with the renewal of the students' movement. I have a fear that it may happen again."
Canfora has spoken at about 50 college campuses since 1977.
He has appeared on ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America and said he now was writing a book about the anti-war movement at Kent State.
From his home in Barberton, Ohio, he runs the Kent May 4 Foundation, which distributes information about the Kent State incident.
"I have been involved in trying to get a memorial for a few years," he said. "Now, I don't want to have to wait."
"Again, someone may be on a hilltop with his finger on the trigger."
The memorial will be on the Kent State
University campus, he said. The memorial estimated to cost $750,000, will be a 70-foot, square granite platform.
The protests at Kent State started April 30, 1970, when President Nixon announced that the United States had invaded Cambodia. The next day, Canfora said, some students
On Sunday, May 3, the National Guard came to town, he said.
"That evening there was a peaceful gathering of students," he said. "We were sitting in the streets singing peace songs.
"The National Guard attacked with tear gas and stabbed six students with bayonets."
The next day, 1,500 students gathered on campus, he said. The National Guard charged at the students, who then ran over a hill and settled in a parking lot, Canora扮.
The students responded to the threat by shouting slogans, he said. Some people threw
stones.
"After a few minutes, the Guard seemed to retreat," he said. "When they got to the top of the hill, about 15 members of the Guard stopped, turned and fired into the crowd.
"I heard the guns go off, and I thought they must be firing blanks," "Canora said. Canora was hit just as he slid behind the only tree in the firing line, he said.
"I heard bullets zipping by on both sides of the tree and through the grass." Canfora said.
Chris Modrow/KANSAN
"That oak tree saved my life," he said.
"It's my favorite tree. It still there."
Canfura said he had read a statement in April 1970 by Ronald Reagan, who was governor of California at the time.
Jerry Collins, cameraman, owner of Co-Art Production Co. of Lawrence films a commercial with basketball head coach Larry Brown, members of the KU basketball team, cheerleaders, pompom girls and Baby Jay for KU Students Against Multiple Sclerosis. The commercial was shot at Allen Field House on Friday afternoon.
The statement said. "These students seek to prove that this system of ours, when faced with crises, will not work. If it takes a blood-bath, let's get it over with."
Popularity of Brown helps SAMS' cause
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
When basketball head coach Larry Brown, people listen.
At least that is what KU Students Against Multiple Sclerosis was hoping when it filmed a public service announcement Friday afternoon at Allen Field House.
"Coach Brown is the most visual person we could think of," Shane Langston, co-chairman of SAMS said. "When he talks, people listen. Anything that he could do for us, he's done."
The announcement featured 40 people, including KU men's and women's basketball players, cheerleaders, pompon girls, SAMS members, and Baby Jay.
All KU students were invited to participate in the announcement.
George Baumchen, St. Mary's sophomore, said he had noticed the fliers promoting the announcement and thought it would be a good way to get involved with the KU campus.
Jessica Potucke, co-chairman of SAMS, said it was designed to raise people's awareness about multiple sclerosis and what KU SAMS was
SAMS is a fund-raising and awareness program of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, progressive disease of the central nervous system. About 250,000 Americans have it.
In the announcement, Brown told viewers that almost 200 cases of multiple sclerosis are diagnosed each week. The disease usually strikes people in their 20s or 30s.
He said the only way to fight multiple sclerosis was with team work. He invited viewers to be part of a winning team and fight the disease.
Jerry Collins, co. of Co-Art Production Co. of Lawrence, donated his equipment and time to film the commercial.
After a couple of takes, bursts of laughter and slurred words, the announcement was filmed.
"When they approached me, I said yes." Collins said "Anything for MS, it's a good cause."
Langston said it would run on Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City area stations. The air play schedule will be announced later.
Lawrence man sentenced for drug distribution
Staff writer
By RIC ANDERSON
TOPEKA — A U.S. district judge denied a Lawrence man's motion Friday for retrial and sentenced him to two years in prison and four years probation on a federal cocaine charge.
Christopher Clark, 24, 414 E. 14th St., was indicated in federal court July 22 on one count of distributing cocaine. After Richard Rogers, the judge, denied the motion, an assistant U.S. district attorney recommended that Clark be sentenced to two years in prison and four years probation.
"When you choose to behave the way Mr. Clark has chosen to behave, there's a penalty to pay," said Allene Castellani, the assistant district attorney. "Maybe this will be a lesson to everybody on that hill at KU. If you do something like this you have to pay a price."
Rogers took the government's recommendation for sentencing Clark, adding a fine of $50. The maximum sentence for distribution of cocaine is 15 years in prison and a fine of $125,000.
Rogers said Clark's sentence was partly a response to Clark's unwillingness.
trial.
"Your story throughout this whole trial was that you were just a little puppet that was being manipulated by all of these informants." Rogers told Clark. "You seem to have never stopped and said that using cocaine is the dumbrest thing anybody could do to themselves."
"The use of cocaine there is apparently so prevalent that nobody thinks it's a violation of the law," he said.
Rogers said Clark's opinion of the harmlessness of cocaine might be extended to Lawrence residents in general.
Rogers said he would recommend that Clark serve his sentence in a drug rehabilitation center in Fort Worth, Texas, instead of in a maximum security prison.
Clark's attorney, David Gilman, Overland Park, said he would probably appeal the decision.
Clark was the only one of the 21 people indicted in Lawrence in July to be tried in both federal and state courts.
He was found guilty of distribution of cocaine in federal court Oct. 2. Clark also was found guilty of distribution of cocaine Oct. 17 in state court.
His state sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 5 in Douglas County District Court.
Clark's motion for retrial stated that a government agent had done "outrageous activities" during Clark's trial.
The motion said that the agent, a confidential informant, had coerced a defense witness from testifying.
a defense when the witness
After the sentencing, Gilman said
he had a tape of a telephone call between the witness and the informant.
"He told her that if she came forward and if she told the truth, then she, too, would be prosecuted," Gilman said.
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