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Tuesday, November 4. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Envoy praises small nations
By BETH COPELAND Staff writer
Small countries in the United Nations have the power to achieve compromise in foreign policy and influence superpowers, a Belgian ambassador said in a speech last night.
"We're a small country, but we play the role of compromisers in that we try to draw together European countries with a community view." said Herman Dehennain, Belgian ambassador to the United States.
The speech, sponsored by the Douglas County United Nations Association, attracted about 100 people in Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Earlier yesterday, Dehennin attended the Second Annual Chancellor's International Students Reception, sponsored by the KU International Club. University administration and the Lawrence business community.
Thaer Laham, president of the International Club, said the reception allowed students from various countries to meet and exchange opinions.
"This is a way to bring people together and give them a chance to talk," said Laham, a Syrian graduate student.
what Dehennin called the strength of the United Nations.
The open-forum theme paralleled
"Diplomacy comes to its full strength when you have all these countries meeting together in an international Dehennan said of the United Nations.
"Here, Belgium is a small country," he said. "We tried to have a common stand for sanctions against South Africa, but we failed."
Small countries can be effective instruments in achieving a common view about international problems within the United Nations, he said.
Herman Dehennin
Dehnenn said that in other ways, the voice of smaller countries was more effective. He cited the example of Afghanistan, where a Russian Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
The ambassador's trip to Lawrence stems from the experiences of a Lawrence real estate agent after World War II.
Gehn Kappelman, of Calvin, Eddy & Kappelman Real Estate Inc., 1011 Westdale Road, explained that his army unit in 1945 freed Belgium's royal family of King Leopold III, which was in German custody.
His platoon was assigned to guard the country, and Kappelman became acquainted with Dehennion, who was the grand marshal of the royal court
and later became the U.S ambassador.
Kappelman invited the ambassador to Lawrence last year and today presented him and his wife, Mimi Denvil, with a photo album recording the 1945 liberation of Beleium.
During his two-day trip to Kansas, Dehnenn traveled to Topeka, where he met with Gov. John Carlin and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Ordinances may raise utility fees
By IOHN BENNER
Staff writer
Water, sewer and trash collection fees in Lawrence may increase because of two proposed ordinances to go before the City Commission tonight.
Most apartment dwellers would pay 49 cents more per month on the combined bill, while bills of those who pay the city for trash collection would increase by a total of 79 cents per month if the ordinances pass.
The proposed 29-cent increase in minimum monthly sewage fees when added to the proposed 20-cent increase in municipal sewer charges.
The proposed ordinance states that sewage and water fees must increase to pay for rising operating costs and for maintenance.
A memo sent to the city commission by Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said the proposed increase in monthly water bills was outlined in a 1985 report that set a schedule for nearly utility rate increases through 1990.
Of the current $6.26 minimum bill. $3.00 pays for water use and $3.26 for waste water disposal
The report asked that the city raise the monthly minimum bill for water and sewage from $6.26 to $7.53.
customer uses less than 2,000 gallons of water that month.
Under the proposed plan, a customer would pay $2.90 for each additional 1,000 gallons of water used up to 18,000 gallons. The current charge is $2.79 for each additional gallon.
Most apartment dwellers pay the minimum water bill and are not assessed by the city for trash collection.
But those who require trash pickup from the city would pay an additional 30 cents under another proposed ordinance.
A memo from city staff to the City Commission stated that the proposed increases in both residential and commercial trash collection rates were necessary because of an increase in the weight of refuse collected by the city since 1983.
The current monthly assessment for residential trash collection is $5.96 and would increase to $6.26 under the
George Howell yesterday described his daughter Kathryn as outgoing, friendly and compassionate.
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Student loved KU, friends say
Staff writer
"She attracted people and was able to sense people's feelings," he said in a telephone interview from Crystal Lake, Ill.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m today at the Bethany Lutheran Church in Crystal Lake, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago. Burial will be in Windridge Cemetery in Cary, Ill., and Querhammer Funeral Home of Crystal Lake is handling arrangements.
Kathryn Howell, Crystal Lake freshman, died Friday night in an auto accident near Higginsville, about 45 miles east of Kansas City, Mo.
The family requests that memorials be made in Miss Howell's name to the National Association for Down's Syndrome.
Miss Howell was very active in a variety of interests, her father said.
"Through life, she was involved in gymnastics and was on the high school varsty tennis team for four years," he said.
He said she also threw the discus and shotput on the high school track team and was involved in student government.
At KU, he said, his daughter remained active.
"She was elected vice president of her dormitory floor, she was a Sigma Alpha Epsilon little sister and junior variety sculling year, he said.
"About a week and a half before her death, she was told by the coach that she would be a competing member of the team."
Miss Howell was studying occupational therapy at KU, her father said.
"She was very anxious to help others in that way," he said. "She chose KU for that specific reason.
"She loved KU tremendously and was very happy she chose KU.
"She really blossomed as a student and a young lady. Her mother and I were super proud of her."
Wendi Roecker, Wichita sophomore, was Miss Howell's resident assistant at Gertrude Sellards Pearson residence hall.
"She was always friendly and always had a smile for everyone," she said. "Everyone on the floor will miss her."
Roeker said that Miss Howell's death would create a very noticeable absence on the floor.
"Everyone loved to be around her," she said. "She was funny and liked to laugh.
"She loved the floor, loved the girls and loved KU — everthing about it."
Besides her father, survivors in
addice her mother, Janet, of the
home, a sister Christina Howell,
his brother, brother,
Gregg, also of the home.
Senate hopefuls reveal plans
Stait writer
RV SALLY STREFF
The two sets of candidates running for student body president and vice president last night outlined programs they hoped to start, and explained how they were trying to improve minority participation in the Student Senate.
The candidates spoke to about 50 people who attended a debate in the Kansas Union sponsored by the Black Student Union.
Black Student Union members voted after the debate not to endorse one set of candidates but to take a poll of members' preferences instead.
Members said they didn't want to endorse one pair of candidates because they didn't collectively
agree that one group represented black students' interests more than the other.
The results of the poll will be published in the organization's minutes, which will be available today. Eddie Watson, president of BSU, said.
Betsy Bergman, presidential candidate with the Initiative coalition, and her running mate. Stephanie Quincy, said they hoped to expand the advising system if they were elected.
Bergman said some professors wanted to advise students but many did not.
Initiative's plan, which is based on recommendations made by a Board of Regents committee, would stipulate that all freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences be advised by advising center employees familiar with schools' requirements.
Brady Stanton, presidential candidate with the Cheers coalition, and his running mate, Kelly Milligan, said they hoped to start a no-interest, short-term loan program that the Student Senate would administer.
Both sets of candidates agreed that minorities were not well represented in the Senate.
Quincy said she and Bergman had tried to address that problem by recruiting a diverse group of students to run with the Initiative coalition.
Stanton said he and Milligan also had searched for a diverse group of people to run with the Cheers coalition. In addition, he and Milligan would allow BSU and other student groups to petition to become revenue code groups next spring, Stanton said.
Revenue code groups are the large student groups, such as Legal Services for Students and KJJK radio station, that receive a portion of the student activity fee.
Watson said another reason BSU had not endorsed a candidate was because members didn't want to risk penalizing either coalition.
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Instead of providing me with the scientific data for which I had asked, Ms. Weddington noted that our society frequently treats birth as the beginning of life. The feverish round of applause which greeted this blatant evasion convinced me that that flock of inquisitive Jayhawks raptly listening had suddenly metamorphosed into a herd of compliant sheep.
During the recent debate between Phyllis Schaffly and Sarah Weddington--the attorney who in 1973 persuaded seven Supreme Court Justices that every woman has a constitutional right to undergo an abortion--I asked Ms. Weddington the following question: "For over a century the scientific community has recognized that life begins at conception. What scientific evidence did you present to the Supreme Court upholding your claim that an unborn child is only, in Justice Blackmun's words, 'a potential life.'"
Although an unborn baby's heartbeat begins between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth day well before the intrauterine infant has been observed responding to stimuli during the fifth week after conception; Ms. Weddington, the American Civil Liberties Union and other domatic entities hold that life begins at birth.
Although an unborn baby's body is more complex than ours because his amniotic sac, umbilical cord, and placenta all develop from the original cell; self-styled libertarians say its (the unborn baby's) dependence renders it unworthy of legal protection.
Although a group of distinguished physicians, two of whom are past presidents of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told President Reagan in a February 13, 1984 letter: "That the unborn, prematurely born, and the newborn of the human species is a highly complex, sentient, functioning, individual organism...(which responds) to stimuli is...established scientific fact"; a majority of our Supreme Court allows abortions to kill 1.6 million unborn babies annually because it (this majority) considers all of these tiny victims to be merely potentially alive.
Although this herd of admittedly aroused sheep I observed in the Student Union thatateful evening is genuinely concerned about oppression in the Soviet Union, South Africa, Iran, and El Salvador; it is part of a national group which studiously avoids any examination of an abortionist's activities. Understandably reluctant to face either how or whom the abortionist mutilates and executes, this contingent unquestioningly accepts and uses terminology, e.g., "choice", "reproductive freedom", "potential life", designed solely to camouflage a procedure which constitutes the ultimate act of oppression.
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