A different perspective
A two-day workshop this weekend brought people from Oklahoma, Washington, Nebraska and Arkansas to Lawrence to relax their bodies and get in touch with themselves.
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The Famous Chicken gave a soggy performance at Memorial Stadium on Saturday as the Jayhawks fell to Iowa State 13-10 in their Big Eight season opener.
Waterfowl
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Three-alarm chilly
Today should be downright brisk with a high temperature in the upper 40s and winds from the northeast from 5 to 15 mph. The temperature will drop to the 30s tonight.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 36 (USPS 650-640)
Monday October 13, 1986
KU student shot Saturday in KC dies from wound
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
A KU student died yesterday from a gunshot wound she suffered in a shooting Saturday at a formal wear rental store in Kansas City, Mo.
Patricia Heitzman, 20. Eudora sophomore, was one of three employees killed in the shooting. She was taken off life support equipment at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., a police spokesman said.
Also killed were Norma Menninger, 59, and Junior Allen, 72, both of Kansas City, Mo. Police discovered the three bodies in a rear office of a building shared by Royal Master Cleaners and Sir Knight Formal Wear in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
All three victims were shot in the head. The investigation is continuing, and no suspect or motive has been determined.
Miss Heitzman, a 1954 graduate of Eudora High School, was studying political science and communications and hoped to go to law school, her father, Paul Heitzman, said yesterday.
Miss Heitzman's father, a teacher at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, said she was very studious and loved attending the University of Kansas.
"I've never seen a kid take to college like she did." he said.
He said Miss Heitzman also was a good athlete.
She lettered in basketball all four years in high school. She played point guard and started for three of four years, her father said. She also lettered in volleyball for three years, played for the Lawrence Lancers, a fast pitch softball team, and played summer league basketball in Lawrence.
During high school, Miss Heitzman excelled in forensics. At KU, she participated briefly on the debate team, Paul Heitzman said.
Miss Hitzman liked her job, her father said, because she was able to study during times when the store was not busy.
"She was extremely serious in her studies and always put her studies first." he said.
Bill Folks, Eudora, a Pittsburgh State University freshman, said he had known Miss Heitzman since grade school and was a close friend.
Patricia Heitzman
"She was great," he said. "She was very unique and had her own style about her. She was very outgoing and intelligent and got along very well with everyone."
Folsk said that he was shocked but that Miss Heitzman's death hadn't sunk in yet.
Thais Holladay, Eudora sophomore, also had known Miss Heitzman since grade school. Holladay said she had seen Miss Heitzman the day before the shooting.
"She was talking of having a party." she said.
Holladay said Miss Heitzman was very informed, opinionated and fun to be around.
"Her classmates are going to try to get a scholarship at Eudora High School in her name," Holiday said.
"I don't know what to say. This just doesn't happen to people you know," she said.
Miss Heitzman was born in Lawrence on Oct. 1, 1966, and had lived in Eudora all of her life. She belonged to the Hesper Friends church in Eudora.
She is survived by her father; her mother, Marilyn; a sister, Sally, 17, of the home; and a brother, Richard, 21, also of the home. Funeral arrangements are still pending with the Rumsey Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
U.S. provides aid for quake victims
From Kansan wires
WASHINGTON - The United States has provided $330,200 in aid for victims of the El Salvador earthquake, and U.S. search and rescue teams are helping survivors in the rubble, the State Department and the Agency for International Development said yesterday.
The aid included blankets, tents and other supplies for victims of the earthquake, which devastated a 20-block area of San Salvador, said Renee Bafalis, a spokeswoman for the State Department's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
The International Red Cross said relief workers had confirmed that 350 people were killed. 7,000 were injured and the homes of 40,000 families were damaged. The State Department was reporting 260 confirmed dead, 140 missing and up to 8,000 injured. Bafalfa said.
relief workers — including a search and rescue unit from Dade County, Fla. — to San Salvador, she said. The Florida unit, a private team under contract to the State Department, also worked in Mexico City after last year's earthquake there.
The State Department has sent 31
There were no reports of serious insistence on being allowed to test space weapons outside the laboratory. "Who was going to accept that?" he said. "It would have taken a madman to accept that."
See EARTHQUAKE, p. 5, col. 2
The Associated Press
REYKJAVIK, Ireland — President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, on the verge of an agreement to destroy all their offensive nuclear weapons over the next 10 years, ended their summit in disappointment yesterday over a dispute concerning the testing of U.S. Star Wars technology.
The dispute involved the Soviet's insistence that research on the anti-missile system be confined to laboratory work. Reagan declared, "This we could and will not do."
Gorbachev said he had made "very serious, unprecedented concessions and accepted compromises that are unprecedented." But he said there was disagreement over U.S. insistence on being allowed to test space weapons outside the laboratory. "Who was going to accept that?" he said. "It would have taken a madman to accept that."
See related stories p. 8.
The Iceland impasse was so complete that the leaders did not set a date for a third superpower meeting, and the future of arms control talks was left in doubt.
Gorbachev told reporters, "The Americans came to this meeting empty handed."
Top Soviet official Georgi Arbatov described the summit as "the dead end to which (the Americans) have driven the whole issue of arms control."
Secretary of State George Shultz said the two sides had verbally agreed to cut long-range missile and bomber arsenals in half in five years and eliminate them completely by 1996. In addition, they were prepared to eliminate all but 100 medium-range missiles on each side — including all those deployed in Eurasia.
- during the first five-year phase,
Shultz said.
enemy from launching a successful nuclear strike. Shultz said.
Shultz said U.S. leaders were disappointed deeply in the outcome. His statement, the first word on the summit outcome, followed hours of high hopes built upon the statements of progress issued by both sides.
"A tremendous amount of headway was made," he told a news conference here, "but in the end we couldn't make it."
The problem: U.S. insistence on proceeding with testing of the Strategic Defense Initiative with the idea of using it a decade from now as an insurance policy to prevent any
Shultz told reporters, "The two leaders just decided they were not able to agree. At that point, the two leaders, being unable to agree, adjourned."
He said the leaders almost had agreed on ways "to deal effectively with intermediate range missiles," and had made progress toward an agreement on limiting underground
See MEETING, p. 5, col. 1
A group of Watkins Scholarship Hall alumnae carry a banner in the KU homecoming parade. The women returned to celebrate the 60th anniversary
Watkins alumnae observe anniversarv
Staff writer
By PAM MILLER
Stan Writer Former residents of Watkins Scholarship Hall visited the University of Kansas this weekend to come home.
More than 100 women who lived in Watkins, an all-female scholarship hall, from 1926 to 1986 returned to meet old friends and share memories of a common living experience at KU.
The theme of the reunion, "Coming Home to
Monday morning
"At the beginning of the semester, some of the residents weren't as enthusiastic about this weekend," Ashby said. "But with the women returning and sharing memories, the girls here were entranced at the last minute."
Watkins," was fitting for the 60th anniversary weekend, Kathy Ashby, hall director, said.
Alumnae and residents enjoyed other activities this weekend, which included bus tours of Lawrence and the University, slide shows and a
"I think it reinforces the idea of family living." The main activities on Saturday, including an open-house reception, coincided with KU's Homecoming Day. Watkins Hall residents and alumnae walked the parade route Saturday morning in the cold rain.
"I think it reinforces the idea of family living."
brunch yesterday at the Kansas Union.
Former residents took tours of Watkins, 1506 Lilac Lane, visiting their old rooms and observing the results of a two-year renovation project.
Jonya Wallace Redwine, Kansas City, Mo., and her mother-in-law, Joyce Durall Redwine, Greensburg, both lived in Watkins during war eras.
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Joyce Redwine, a 1948 graduate, attended school during World War II. Jonya Redwine, a 1975 graduate, attended the Vietnam War.
Touring the hall brought back different memories for the two women.
"our life was affected by the war," Joyce Redwine said. "Scholarship was an essential thing. The men were very serious about studying, because otherwise they would have to go to war. So that gave the women some competitiveness to study, too.
"It was very sedate. At that time we were all pulling for the same thing. There was unanimity of spirit."
spark.
Joyce Redwine also remembered the strict house rules during her years. The women were not allowed to use the front hall, except for very special events, and men were allowed no further than the front lobby area.
that the front row belonged to Attitudes were much different when Jonya Redwine came to Watkins Hall during the Vietnam War.
Students on campus protested actively by holding anti-war marches and wearing black arm bands. Several women who lived in Watkins were involved in the protests, Jonya said.
"When I came here from a western Kansas small town, I didn't know women were going braless and wearing jeans," she said. "I was still wearing polyester. I wasn't ready for the University."
The attitudes were more liberal then, she said. Studying wasn't given much attention when she first came to the hall, she said, but when the University began kicking out residents who didn't keep up their grades, the students began to study more.
Jonya said she had to keep her grades up because the low cost of scholarship hall living was the only way she could continue going to school
As Katherine Monroe Cook, 1933 graduate from Freemont, Ohio, toured Watkins, she remembered the kindness and generosity of Elizabeth Miller Watkins, the woman who donated the money for the hall.
Elizabeth Watkins once took all of the women in the hall to a chicken dinner. Cook said, and then gave them each $10. To Cook, who was nearly broke at the time, it was very meaningful to receive the gift.
"I'm really excited I feel that I'm part of something here bigger than myself," Cook said. "This was her dream, wasn't it?"
Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, discusses some of his ideas about how the universe is shaped and about its composition.
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Prof seeks answers to secrets of universe
By ATLE BJORGE
Staff writer
He is a physicist and a Unitarian minister, a tree farmer and a one-time inmate of the jail in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Adrian Melott, KU assistant professor of physics and astronomy, defies stereotypes of an academic physicist
Still, in a tiny office in Malott Hall, the burly but soft-spoken man makes computer models of gigantic chunks of the universe that some astronomers think may change ideas about the cosmos.
Melott leaned back in his chair and glanced out the window as if he was looking for something he forgot.
"I'm just trying to find some answers," he said.
"There is a lot of matter floating in the universe that we can only detect by its gravitational effects on other galaxies."
"We can't see it," he said.
Astronomers know that galaxies are much heavier than the weight of the stars in them and that something else must be there to add to the weight.
Invisible matter — physicists call it dark matter — may outweigh ordinary matter by 10 times or more, he said.
Melott said his study of dark matter may help explain why galaxies form huge clusters with gigantic voids in between, and what will happen
to the universe in the future.
"We think we know the universe began 10 to 20 billion years ago in a big explosion," he said,
"but we don't know why it happened or what came before."
If there is enough dark matter, the universe might collapse back on itself. Invisible matter, or dark matter, would need to outweigh regular matter by a 100 times to make the collapse possible, he said.
His research, and similar research being conducted in Moscow and at the University of California at Berkeley, is in a sense a natural evolution, he said.
See MELOTT, p. 5, col. 2