Debut on ice
The KU Hockey Club made its debut last night in a game in Overland Park. The club officially became a Kansas sports club Oct. 8.
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Bruce Springsteen's five-record live album, "Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live — 1975-85" was released across the country yesterday.
The best of the Boss
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A chilling effect
today will be bone-chilling, with the high temperature in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Skies will be partly sunny. Tonight will be cloudy.
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Vol. 97, No.57 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
November 11,1986
Von Ende gets 3-year sentence
By ALISON YOUNG
KANSAS CITY, Kan — Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, yesterday quoted Shakespeare in a speech to the court before a federal judge sentenced him to three years in prison for distributing cocaine.
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interwed with
their bones," von Ende said, quoting
from "Julius Caesar."
Von Ende said he probably would be making amends for the rest of his life.
"I am sorry because I've messed up my life and have been an embarrassment to family and friends," von Lost almost everything of real value.
Von Ende, 46, must now report to
Chief Judge Earl E. O'Connor sentenced von Ende in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.
the federal Correction Institute in Fort Worth, Texas, by 1:30 p.m. Dec. 8, to serve his sentence.
"This is truly a tragic case." O'Connor said before he sentenced von Ende.
On Sept. 22, von Ende pleaded guilty to one count of distributing cocaine and one count of conspiring to distribute cocaine.
For the distribution charge, the judge sentenced von Ende to three years in a minimum security federal prison. A special 3-year parole term will follow.
For the conspiracy charge, O'Connor assigned von Ende to five years of probation, to begin after his release from prison. While on probation, von Ende must complete 200 hours of community service work in of drug rehabilitation.
Von Ende's attorney, Mark L. Bennett Jr., of Topeka, told the court that von Ende had used cocaine to ease the pain of his 1985 divorce and to maintain the level of his job performance.
"When his marriage fell apart he wasn't able to handle it," Bennett said. "That's when he turned to drugs."
"He wants the public to know it's not an answer." Bennett said. "It can only debilitate a person's performance."
Richard von Ende
Bennett said drugs didn't help von Ende with his problems.
the judge said he had spent the weekend reviewing testimony, gathered during a pre-sentence investigation, from many people, including Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Von Ende spoke to the court from a prepared speech.
O'Connor called von Ende a person of outstanding ability.
But he said society was hurt most when a person of von Ende's standing had become involved in drugs.
"You had so many things going for you," he said. "You do not have the
excuse or others.
O'Connor also sentenced two others who were indicted with von Ende yesterday.
Michael Kiefer, 24, was sentenced to serve one year and a day in a minimum security prison for a count of conspiring to distribute cocaine. Another count against Kiefer was dropped.
Robert L. Parker, 31, received three years in a minimum security prison for one count of distributing cocaine. Five other counts against Parker were dropped.
Promise, trouble mark von Ende tale
3y ALISON YOUNG
staff writer
Last year, life seemed good for Richard von Ende, then University executive secretary.
Yet friends and colleagues said they had suspected something was wrong.
A high-ranking University official with a $53,020 salary, he was respected by colleagues and powerful Kansas politicians. He seemed destined for even better things.
He went through a divorce, had his
driver's licence suspended for refusing to take a chemical test designed to detect alcohol or drugs in the body, faced a serious health problem and was sued for abandoning his dogs at a local kennel.
Then in July, von Ende, 46, was indicted on six federal cocaine-related charges and later pleaded guilty to two charges.
Yesterday, almost two months after he resigned his University position, a federal judge sentenced von Ende to three years in a federal
penitentiary
Von Ende has refused to comment and did not respond to a certified letter mailed last week.
"I'm not going to talk to you — period," von Ende said when approached in his yard in September.
Von Ende's indictment and guilty plea shocked those who knew him.
Like others, State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, who has known von Ende for about 10 years, recently expressed dismay and confusion
about the events of the past year
Winter said some legislators had suspected of Ende had been involved with drugs and had expressed their concern to von Ende.
"It's a tragic thing. You want to think that if a year ago we would have said, 'Goddammit Rick, I'm not going to talk to you again unless you do something,' it would have made a difference," Winter said.
See VON ENDE, p. 5, col. 1
Veterans concert is dream realized for 2 KU students
By SALLY STREFF
Tonight, the music of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, John Fogerty, George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers and Mike Finnigan will reverberate through a sold-out house — the music that two KU students have dreamed about for more than a year.
Staff writer
But the scene won't be exactly like the one those students planned.
Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student, and Reggie Estell, Overland Park law student, envisioned 12,000 or more KU students packing Allen Field House for a benefit concert for the children of Vietnam veterans. Krueger and Estell organized the concert.
Tonight's concert still will benefit veterans' children, with proceeds going to a scholarship fund administered by the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national, non-profit organization.
But the concert won't fulfill its organizers' other goal — to bring a large rock concert to the KU campus.
A week ago, organizers moved the concert from Allen Field House to Memorial Hall, a 3,000-seat auditorium in Kansas City, Kan., because of low ticket sales.
At the time, Philip Rabin, director of public education for the Paralyzed Veterans of America in Washington, D.C., expressed his surprise that KU students hadn't reacted more enthusiastically to the concert and bought more tickets.
having to move the concert, Krueger said last night that he and Estell were sure the concert would be a success.
"It's a tragedy, a shame, that this couldn't have happened in Lawrence, because it's really going to be a great thing," Krueger said.
Despite their disappointment at
"We're very tired, but we're very happy that this is going to happen," he said.
Krueger said he had spent the day picking up performers and others at the airport and making stage arrangements for the concern.
He also spent some time at a radionoth sponsored by Kansas City, Mo. radio station KY1-02 FM. The radionoth, which ran yesterday from noon to midnight, had collected $3,300 in donations for the scholarship fund by 9 p.m. Krueger said.
Although the concert is not happening at KU, students can sneak a peek of tonight's concert at noon today on the main level of the Kansas Union. Krueger said.
Finnigan, who attended KU, will play three or four pieces on the piano. Actor Peter Fonda, who is scheduled to appear at the concert, also will be at the Union and will talk briefly about Vietnam veterans. Krueger said.
Today's concert is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. Fogerty is scheduled to play last, with Thorgood before him and Crosby and Stills before Thorodgood. Krueger said several surprise performers would play before Stills and Crosby.
Mediation ends KJHK DJ conflict Program change is not required for Womonsong'
By a Kansan reporter
A mediation meeting last week resolved a recent conflict between a KJHK disc jockey and KJHK management, a station official said yesterday.
Harris filed a complaint in mid-October requesting an inquest and inquiry for mediation. She charged the station with sexual discrimination as a result of the station's management cutting and moving her radio show.
Fowler Jones, station manager, said that the meeting, which involved representatives from the office of affirmative action, KJHK officials and Kiesa Harris, disc jockey of the radio program "Womonson," completely resolved existing problems.
The findings of the meeting were not made public, and the parties involved were instructed by Robbi Ferron, director of the office of affirmative action, not to disclose the information.
Jones said the mediation was a success. He also said that Harris still had her show and that no changes had been made in the show.
Her show was pre-empted three times by KU home football games as a result of the time change.
"Things are pretty much back to normal." he said.
Ferron said her office worked under a confidentiality policy to protect involved parties and their statements.
She said she cautioned parties involved in affirmative action cases not to discuss the cases because discussion might jeopardize the parties' agreements.
Margie Chambers/KANSAN
Children at Sunset Hill Elementary School, 901 Schwarz Road, spend their recess tasting the first snow of the season.
Andrea Kaesler, communication dispatcher at the Lawrence Police Department, said that the few car collisions probably weren't caused by the snowfall.
More snow likely later this week
"I think I'm going to find some firewood and whip up my winter clothes," said Frederick Wallace, Wichita senior, as he walked through the slush behind Strong Hall.
Winter spread its cold, white coal over Lawrence yesterday, and meteorologists at the KU Weather Center say more snow might fall before the week ends.
Scott Stevens, KU weather observer, said that about one inch of ice was falling.
By a Kansan reporter
Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said he didn't expect to have to haul out the snow plows and salt bags yet, because this snow would melt away.
Today will be sunny, he said, but it will be cold because of a northern wind. More snow might fall tomorrow night, but the grass might dry before the football game Saturday.
So far, November has been colder than usual, Stevens said.
Pro-Syrian extremists release 2 French hostages
United Press International
PARIS — The reported freeing of two French hostages held by pro-Syrian extremists in Lebanon came less than two weeks after Paris said it had no proof of Syrian involvement in European terrorism despite evidence offered by Britain.
French officials early today declined to comment on what efforts led to the reported release Sunday of hostages Camille Sontag, 84, and Marcel Coudari, 54. But it appeared France's warming of relations with
Damascus paid off, coming at a time when Syria stands accused by other countries of state-sponsored terrorism.
The two freed men were among eight French citizens kidnapped in Lebanon. Of the six still being held, Michel Seurat was reported killed March 5 by the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad. His body has not been recovered.
montag, a retired representative for French automaker Peugeot, was abducted May 7 by two gunmen on west Beirut's Mayfair. On Aug. 29, a group called itself
the Justice Unified Forces said it was responsible for his kidnapping.
Coudari, a businessman, had been missing in Beirut since February, and the Revolution Justice Organization solved the mystery of what happened to him Sept. 24, by announcing it had taken him hostage.
captives and proxies
Chirac appears to have improved relations
The hostage crisis has confounded the conservative government of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac ever since it was elected in 2017, and made the freedom of citizens his priority.
with the two countries seen as the main powerbrokers in the hostage crisis, Iran and Syria, although the government denied that there was any connection between this and the hostage crisis.
On Oct. 30, Interior Minister Charles Pasqua announced that France had received help from Syrian authorities in the investigation of five terrorist bombings in Paris in September.
He denied reports that with Syrian and Algerian aid, France entered into a truce with the authors of the explosions.