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University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 3, 1986
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News Briefs
Finalists announced for HOPE award
Four professors are the finalists for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award, the committee announced Friday.
William Carswell, assistant professor of architecture; Louis F. Michel, professor of architecture; John Michel, professor of speech-language-hearing, and Zouhnu Chen, associate professor and University orchestra conductor, are the finalists.
Timothy Bentgson, associate professor in advertising, was named as a finalist but withdrew his scholarship he was last year's HOPE prize.
The winner will be announced Nov. 15.
Seniors may vote for this year's winner Nov. 5 and 6.
KU official improves
James Bibb, associate University director for business and fiscal affairs, was transferred from the coronary care unit of Stormont-Vaial Regional Medical Center in Topeka to a regular hospital room Saturday evening, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Bibb, who still is listed in stable condition, is recovering from a heart attack he suffered Oct. 18.
Halloween 'quiet'
A Lawrence police spokesman said yesterday that this year's Halloween crime was not as bad as it had been in past years.
"It was a pretty quiet Halloween," said officer Ernest Gwin, the spokesman.
lawrence police made 22 reports between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday for offenses rang from property to attempted arson.
Gwin said writing 22 reports on a weekend night was not unusual.
weekend when he was too unlucky.
Gwin said he was unsure why the crime rate for Halloween night seemed to fall this year but thought one reason was that officers took care of some incidents at the scene and did not need to fill out a criminal report.
Reception planned
The KU International Club, in cooperation with the University of Kansas and members of the Lawrence business community, will have its second annual Chancellor's International Student Reception at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will speak and recognize Herman Dehinnin; Belgian ambassador to the United States, who will attend the reception.
Professor to speak
"University Aparthid in South Africa" will be the topic of the weekly lunchon forum at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Surendra Bhana, Langston Hughes professor of history, will discuss the ideological reasons for passage of the Extension of University Education Act in 1959 and the creation of separate universities for blacks in South Africa.
Reservations for lunch must be made before noon Tuesday by calling the center at 843-4933. The cost is $4.25.
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KU graduate shot; no suspects held
By a Kansan reporter
A KU student was taken to a Kansas City, Mo., hospital Friday night with a critical wound after being shot Halloween night.
Amy Thompson, 23, Kansas City, Mo., senior, was shot in the back of the neck after leaving a party. She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City and was critically condition yesterday.
Sgt. James Nunn, a homicide detective with the Kansas City, Mo. metro police, said Thompson was on duty on Wednesday to the 400 block of Wyandotte Street.
Nunn said Thompson was in the driver's seat of a car waiting for a friend to leave the party about
10:30 p.m. When the friend left the house, he said, she was accessed by two men and taken to the car that Thompson was waiting in.
Nunn said one of the men got in the car.
"The story gets somewhat confused at that point," he said, "but somehow a gun went off and Amy was hit."
"The reason we don't have any suspects is that we don't have any type of suspect identification," he said. "After the shoot, the men took off in unidentified directions."
Some local churches working to defeat the "sin" amendments have urged their congregations to vote no.
Nunn said four detectives had been assigned to the case.
Nunn said that police did not have any motives or suspects.
Churches urge 'no' votes
Kansans will vote tomorrow on five constitutional amendments — including lottery, part-muist wagering and liquor by the drink.
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"It's like robbing from Peter to pay Paul," said the Rev. Ronald Mickley, of the Clinton Parkway Assembly of God Church, 3200 Clinton Parkway. "We feel that it is contradictory to the word of God."
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decided to put the three "sin" issues on the ballot, opponents of the amendments have left voter lobbying churches and other organizations.
The Rev. Richard Taylor, president of Kansans for Life at its best!, a group that opposes the three amendments, said opponents did not enough money to mount a large campaign against the three amendments.
He said the argument of the state's increased revenue was not a good defense in the controversy.
Mickley said he had informed his congregation on the evils of the "sin"
Supporters of the constitutional amendments say that if voters pass the amendments, the state would receive extra revenue that would reduce the chances of increased property taxes.
The Rev William Dulin, of the Calvary Church of God in Christ, 646 Alabama St., said his church also was against the three amendments.
"It'll be opening a can of worms we
not be prepared to deal with," he said.
"It's an admonition against God," he said, adding that the state would be using evils to strengthen
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"Righteousness doesn't need evil," Dulin said. "Righteousness can stand alone and be strengthened."
He said that regardless of whether liquor was by the drink or by the gallon, the church was against all strong drink.
Dennis Karpowitz, bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 3650 Yale Road, said that although the church had strong rules against gambling and drinking alcohol, it had not asked members to vote either way.
"We urge people to be active in their political work," he said. "We are very careful, however, not to tell people how to vote. We let it be a matter of conscience."
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Country's debaters travel to KU for tournament
Barry Pickens, Winfield sophomore, stresses his point in a debate against Washburn University of Topeka. KU was host to preliminary rounds of its annual national debate tournament Saturday and yesterday in Wescoe Hall. The debate continues today.
By PATRICIA FEENY
The final rounds of competition are today at the Kansas Union.
Debaters came to KU from across the country to debate this year's topic of the First Amendment. They argued that it was unjustified by the Warsaw Pact and due process.
Staff writer
When Teresa Gonsalves, a freshman at Claremont McKenna College, flew from California to Kansas for a debate tournament, she had no idea what lay ahead.
Gonsalves and Fallon are one of 34 senior teams that competed in the preliminary rounds at the KU fall debate tournament this weekend. Eighteen junior teams also competed in the tournament.
For such a tournament, the KU debate teams act as hosts to as many out-of-town debaters as they can in their homes, and the remainder stay in nearby motels. Because of Satur- rame, some had to stay in Ottawa.
"It's a bummer." Gonsalves said.
"We have to get up earlier to get here and we are usually up late the night before working on debate."
When she arrived her luggage was lost. She had no makeup, and her debate team had to buy her a sweater to wear during competition.
Because of Saturday's football game, she and her teammates had to stay in Ottawa, 20 miles from Lawrence.
Gonsalves' debate partner Brad Fallon, also a freshman at Claremont McKenna, said the Ottawa arrangements were annoying because he couldn't combine fun with his debate work.
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"It keeps us away from experiencing Lawrence nightlife," he said.
In the third round of competition Saturday, KU debated against
Baylor University.
Barry Pickens, Winfield sophomore, said competing in a tournament for which his school was host was difficult.
"It's hard to compete and host," he said. "I never do well in our tournament. It's the fourth-floor Wescoe linx."
"I look forward to seeing friends,
he said. "It's simply lovely to come back."
Rowland graduated from KU with the most wins in the history of KU debate. He won the national debate tournament when he was a junior.
Robin Rowland, a 1977 KU graduate who now coaches at Baylor University, said he was a Jayhawk and enjoyed coming back every year.
KU debated against the University of Northern Iowa in the second round
Keith Dotseth and Todd Syerson, two seniors who debate for the University of Northern Iowa, said they enjoyed competing in KU's tournament. They competed here last year.
"There are good judges, which makes a big difference." Dotseth said. "Besides, it is always fun to Kansas on their home ground."
Dotseth said he operated from a very simple strategy during tournaments.
Phil Michelbach. Goddard sophomore, said a good debater had speed, intelligence and great evidence.
"Beal the other teams," he said. "It's a simple, straight forward strategy. Be aggressive."
The KU debaters had their own opinions of this year's topic and what it takes to be a good debater.
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Soviets re-evaluate after Chernobyl, reporter says
By BILL RAYNOLDS
The Chernobyl nuclear accident forced the Soviet Union to be more dependent on other countries and to re-evaluate the nation's failing economy and political system, a writer for the Washington Post said Saturday.
Walter Pincus, Washington Post national security correspondent, was one of several specialists in physics, medicine and international affairs who discussed the implications of the Chernobyl accident. The conference took place this weekend at the University of Kansas.
This year's conference, titled "Chernobyl: Implications for the Future," was the sixth annual Conference on International Affairs, sponsored by KU and Sen. Nancy Kassebaum.
Pincus said the Chernobyl accident had led to an unprecedented international confession of Soviet failure.
"This is a symbol of a country that's in real trouble," he said. "This system has failed, and the people know it has failed."
Pincus said the Soviets formally had admitted their failure in August at a conference in Vienna and gave additional economic aid to
However, Pincus said the United States should be sensitive to the new Soviet attitude if relations between the two countries were to improve.
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"We should reach out to them and not dance on their failure," he said. "During the 1940s and 1950s, this country feared that communism would take over the world, and this fear still exists to some degree. We can't allow that attitude to continue."
On Friday, Jack Geiger, Arthur C. Logan professor of community medicine at City University of New York, gave a speech titled, "Implications of the Chernobyl Accident."
"This cry for help is truly extraordinary," he said.
Geiger showed slides of victims in the hospital who lived in plastic-lined rooms to keep radiation contamination from spreading. The victims had no hair or eyebrows, and the flesh on one man's legs and buttocks sloughed off and became infected.
Thirty-one people died in the accident and 30 people are still in the hospital. At the time, the 300 people with the most serious health problems were taken to hospitals in Moscow and Kiev.
"This magazine came out with what we would call an expose," he said. "It questioned the reason for the location of the Chernobyl plant being where it was, and it said it was a political decision made without regard to its impact on the Ukraine. It was a very un-Soviet thing to do."
"The Soviets still won't admit to the '57 incident; they're still covering that up," he said. "It's not a matter of saving face now with Chernobyl. They want to solve the problem."
Pincus also said a Ukrainian magazine published an article that openly criticized the Chernobyl plant.
"Television became the means of informing the Soviet people." Pincus said. "It's an important point that they used such a Western means."
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Geiger emphasized the difficulty in dealing with the catastrophe, from evacuating people near the Chernobyl plant to treating the victims.
Pincus said the new openness resulted because Soviets had realized that communism was failing. The Soviet's request for help from the US signaled a change in the Soviet attitude, he said.
Poland, which was affected by radiation from the Chernobyl accident.
The Soviets also had a nuclear accident in 1957, which they covered up. Pincus said.
Geiger also said that the Soviets had difficulty estimating the dosage of radiation people received and that they used crude methods, such as asking people whether they smelled strange gases, to determine radiation dosages.
"We need to avoid the blind reassurance and nightmare arguments of nuclear power through increased public information and communication," he said.
The approach the Soviet government used to
nform the public had a distinctively Western
lavor, he said.
the resources available in Moscow, " he said. " Suddenly, it was real, not an abstraction I tried to multiply the multiples involved in the attack, nuclear weapons. I found it very sobering."
This relatively small catastrophe strained
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