Bouncing back
After a two-match losing streak, the KU volleyball team last night defeated Colorado's fledgling team 15-3, 15-5 and 15-5.
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Exposed film
Officials at a fertilizer plant east of Lawrence yesterday acknowledged that their factory was the source of a chemical release last week that coated cars.
Not again
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Today should bring mostly cloudy skies with a 20 percent chance of rain or drizzle. The high temperature will be in the mid-60s, and winds will be from the north at 5 to 15 mph.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 45 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday October 24,1986
Media coverage in Latin America called inaccurate
By SHANE A. HILLS
Francisco Lopez, who escaped from Salvadoran soldiers two years ago, said last night that the U.S. metha were not accurately reflecting the problems in El Salvador.
In July 1984, government troops pounded on the front door of his family's home in San Salvador, the victim of a terrorist attack the door in their faces, he said.
"That was really a very brave thing for her to do," he said in Spanish, using Marta Brow, Lawrence senior, as his interpreter. "She gave me about $500 in cash and told me to run."
Lopez, 24, who spoke to about 50 people at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., said he was an electrical engineering student at the University of El Salvador when President Duarte's military forces accused him of being an onposition guerrilla.
ot having been guerrillas, had been decapitated." Lopez said.
And run he did — over roof tops and across the countryside — until he found a church to hide in.
"I found out later that two of my friends, who were also suspected
Three weeks later, after seemingly endless busrides through Guatemala and Mexico, and after he and two Salvadoran friends swam across the Rio Grande to Brownsville, Texas, Lopez finished his clandestine trip and arrived in Houston.
The KU Latin American Solidarity Union paid for Lopez's trip to Lawrence. Lopez lives in Houston and said he hoped his petition for U.S. political asylum would allow him to stay in the United States.
He helped found the Central American Refugee Committee and spends a great deal of time educating Americans about the plight of the people in El Salvador, he said.
After his speech, Lopez sat at a table with Brow, his interpreter; Jack Bremer, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries; and Bill March, a professor of slavic languages and member of the Latin American Solidarity Union.
See REFUGEE, p. 5, col. 1
Francisco Lopez talks about his escape two years ago from El Salvador and his quest for U.S. political asylum. Lopez spoke last night.
Chris Feeley/KANSAN
Blind students battle misconceptions
Staff writer
Bv NANCY BARRE
For Arthur Turner, walking to class takes concentration.
Turner, Lawrence junior, is blind and uses a cane to find his way around.
He said that many people had misconceptions about blindness and that when he was on campus, well-meaning people often asked him ridiculous-sounding questions and offered him unnecessary help.
"I don't wear dark glasses," Turner said. "But sometimes people come up to me and say, 'I thought you were blind, why aren't you wearing dark glasses?' or 'If you are
blind, why are you walking so straight?"
Turner has lived in Lawrence since 1968 and worked for the Lawrence Fire Department until 1980, when he lost his sight. He started at the University of Kansas three years ago and is enrolled in the School of Social Welfare.
When he first came to the University, he was disoriented, he said. But he came a week early to find his way around. He took a sighted friend and his class schedule with him and made about four practice runs to the buildings and the rooms that his classes were in.
"Now I know my way around really well." Turner said. "The only place I feel confused in was Wescole, but I heard everyone gets a little confused in Wescole."
He said that when he walked on the sidewalk, he used the cane to determine where the grass line was. He prefers a cane to a guide dog because a cane is sufficient for his needs and because a dog requires too much care, he said.
He rarely gets lost, but when he does, he just asks a nearby person to tell him where he is. He said people on campus were usually helpful. In fact, he said he sometimes faced the problem of over-helpful people.
"A lot of times students will open
the door for me," he said. "But real-
ly, it's best to leave the door shut."
When he touches a door with his cane, he uses the door as a guide post. But when someone opens the door without saying anything, he loses his sense of direction because the door is facing a different direction than he expects, he said.
"I usually don't get offended though, because I know they mean well. I just tell them, 'Thank you, but I don't need any help, I can do it by myself.'"
Turner said he thought he had an advantage over some blind people.
See BLIND, p. 5, col. 2
Center helps blind with academic life
By NANCY BARRE
Finding their way around campus is only the first step blind students must take when adjusting to University life. The next step is adjusting to academic life.
Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology, said blind students faced three problems in the classroom: taking notes, taking exams and understanding what was put on blackboards they could not see.
The Student Assistance Center helps visually impaired students
Visually impaired students require varying degrees of assistance depending on their capabilities, Michel said.
She said that the center hired academic aides, or readers for the blind and that this type of service was requested by visually impaired students.
Dan Keller, left, Leawood sophomore, Danny Deaver, center, Deerfield, il., pkin. The three carved the pumpkin yesterday in front of the Alpha Tau freshman, and Jim Kostoryz, Leawood freshman, design a face on a pum-
Omega fraternity, 1537 Tennessee St.
The readers, provided free of
See HELP, p. 5, col. 4
Cutting up
Lobbyist improving in Topeka hospital
By ALISON YOUNG
Bibb, 63, is in the hospital's coronary care unit.
James Bibb, associate director of business and fiscal affairs, was listed in stable condition last night at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka, recovering from a heart attack he suffered Saturday afternoon.
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Ruby Bibb, his wife, said yesterday
that Bibb's condition was improving. He's much better than he was she.
She said her husband's physician, David Hiebert of Lawrence, told her that her husband was recovering slowly.
Saturday afternoon, after Bibb experienced pressure in his chest, Ruby Bibb said she called an ambulance for her husband.
At about 4 p.m. Saturday, Bibb was transported from his Topeka residence to Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center, she said.
"He had congestive heart failure," she said.
Bibb and Marlin Rein, associate
hospital administrator of the University of Kansas Medical Center, were assigned to the legislative duties of Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, when von Ende went on sick leave from the University last summer.
Bibb was responsible for the Lawrence campus and Rein was responsible for the Med Center.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig, in a prepared statement released yesterday, said Rein would be freed from his duties at the Med Center to work full-time on the University's strategy for the 1987 Kansas Legislature.
"We are hoping that Mr. Bibb will experience a rapid recovery." Budig said. "His wise counsel is important to us."
The University is in the process of 'preparing briefings' of Lawrence University.
"I know of no one who is better prepared than Mr. Rein to represent the University's total interests," Budig said. "He has a record of exceptional achievement in state government. He is a proven administrator."
The lost hour returns
Most Americans will fall back in the sack this weekend and get back that hour of sleep they lost in the spring.
The annual ritual of returning to standard time occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, when clocks should be set back to 1 a.m.
That provides an extra hour of sleep — a boon to everyone except nightshift workers who wind up working an
extra hour.
Standard time remains in effect until April 5, 1987, when daylight-saving time returns. That is three weeks earlier than years past because of a change in the law.
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The switch affects Americans everywhere except Hawaii, Arizona and parts of Indiana, which have exx-
mptioned the switch from the semi-annual time changes.