Gaining the upper hand
The KU volleyball program has gained respectability in the last two years. Today, KU volleyball is a thriving operation with a 16-3 record and a coach who has spurred the team to achieve long-awaited success.
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A new connection
The Lawrence Connection, a non-alcoholic club, is scheduled to open Oct. 17 at the corner of 9th and Mississippi streets in what was formerly the Pladium bar. The club will cater to people ages 14-25.
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Today will be sunny with temperatures in the 70s. The low tonight will get down to the mid-50s. Tomorrow also should bring temperatures in the 70s.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 32 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
October 7, 1986
Group fasts to protest Nicaragua policy
Erin Wauch/KANSAN
TOPEKA — A group of Lawrence residents gathers in front of the Federal yesterday in protest and a World War II veteran and three Vietnam Building in Topeka to protest aid to Nicaraguan contras. The group fasted veterans are fasting in Washington, D.C., for similar reasons.
By TONY BALANDRAN
TOPEKA — A group of about 15 concerned citizens yesterday staged what they called a fast for peace at the Frank Carlson Federal Building and United States Court House.
Kansans Fast for Life in Central America, made up mostly of KU students and Lawrence residents, organized a daylong fast and picket protest to help direct attention to U.S. involvement in Nicaragua, said Erik Kilgren, a Lawrence graduate and member of the group.
Yesterday's activities also were designed to point out that three Vietnam veterans and a World War II veteran have been fasting at the U.S. Capitol. he said.
On Sept. 1, Charlie Liteky, San Francisco, and George Mizo, Boston, began fasting on the Capitol steps in protest of U.S. foreign policy toward Nicaragua.
On Sept. 15, they were joined by Duncan Murphy, a World War II veteran from Fayetteville, Ark., and Brian Willsen, Chelsea, Vt.
The men object to U.S. aid to the contras partly because of the rebel's record of alleged human rights violations.
In a prepared statement to the U.S. people, the four veterans said, "We are here because we want to make it absolutely clear that if our government insists on supporting proxy killers, if it insists on violating the right to self-determination of other nations ... they are not going to do it in our name.
The Rev. Jack Bremer, a member of the group at the federal building in
Topeka, said the Kansas group was more of a "concensus" that was protesting what it considered the foolishness and inhumanity of U.S. foreign policy. Bremer is also campus pastor and director of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries,
1204 Oread Ave.
He said the group fasted to persuade congressmen in Washington to take time out to talk with the four veterans.
dent, Anastasio Somoza. Somoza was overthrown in 1979, when the communist Sandinistas took over.
Nicaragua had been repressed under the regime of former presi-
Many of the contra positions were filled by former members of
See FASTING, p. 5, col. 1
Senate 'no' to concert illustrates restraints
By SALLY STREFF
A student organization's failure to obtain money from the Student Senate for a benefit concert for Vietnam veterans illustrates the limits of what the Senate can finance, several senators said yesterday.
Meanwhile, although the status of the planned concert is uncertain, the yearlong effort to stage it continues.
The Student Senate Finance Committee last week killed a bill that would have the Senate make a $45,300 no-interest loan to Youth for Vietnam Veterans, a student group that would sponsor the concert.
Staff writer
Tom Simmons, 15, concentrates as he jumps his skateboard off the steps at Wescoe Hall. Simmons and some friends spent Sunday afternoon practicing skateboard stunts on campus. Simmons is a student at Central Junior High School.
The concert, which would feature George Thorogood and the Destroyers and two other bands, is still scheduled for Nov. 11 at Allen Field House.
Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student and the organization's treasurer, and Reggie Estell, Overland Park law student, another member, said yesterday that the organization would not continue to try to get money from Student Senate.
Krueger accused the Senate of being more concerned with its own rules than with what students on campus wanted.
See CONCERT, p. 5, col. 4
Hang 10
Diners bugged by food additives
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
Some residents of McCollum Hall found an extra ingredient in their beef stroganoff at dinner last night.
Weevils, a type of beetle that feeds off plants and plant products like wheat and flour, were found by about 30 students in the beef stroganoff and plain noodle dishes during the first 15 minutes of dinner.
Cafeteria workers removed the food items that had the tiny, black and brown bugs in them soon after they were discovered.
The bugs apparently were boiled when the cafeteria workers made the noodles for dinner, so the insects were not alive when they appeared on students' plates.
they appeared before she. Sheryl Kidwell, food manager at the hall, said that she was upset about the situation and that in the future she would inspect pasta closely for the bugs before preparation.
However, Kidwell said the bugs were not harmful to humans.
"I ate it; my cooks ate it. There is nothing that is going to harm them or make them sick." she said.
Ed Wonders, Newton freshman, was the first hall resident to notice the bugs, which he found in his meal of plain noodles. He told several of his friends about it, and they talked to cafeteria workers, who had discovered the weevils about the same time.
Mike Brosseit, Overland Park freshman, said he also had discovered the weevils in his meal, but after he already had eaten some of it.
"I feel kind of sick, but I think it's psychosomatic," he said.
John Palmer, Lenexa freshman, said Wonders showed him the weevils in his food and then Palmer found some in his own meal.
Palmer said he also had talked to a kitchen employee. He talked with about 25 other residents, he said, and almost everyone said they had found bugs in the food.
Kidwell said the noodle order was a fresh one, ordered just this fall. The noodles are stored in a walk-in refrigerator, "to try to avoid this very thing," she said.
The noodles came in sealed packages, Kidwell said. It is possible that the weevils were eggs when the noodles were packaged and then hatched during storage, she said.
Lenoir Ekdahl, director of food services, said she would talk with the company that sold them the noodles, Lady Baltimore, Kansas City, Kan., this morning about the problem.
Edkahl said the eggs could have hatched anywhere along the way to McCollum Hall.
Kidwell said she thought only one box o noodles had the weevils in them.
The same brand of noodles also was used at Lewis Hall last night, and no problems were reported. Ekdahl said.
"We will watch it more carefully," she said. "But when you're cooking quantities of food for so many people, it's harder to see them.
Modern Mary story mav cause protests
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
"Hail Mary," a movie sponsored by Student Union Activities, will arrive on campus this week with protest and controversy trailing it.
"Hail Mary" is an updated version of the story of the Virgin Mary. In the movie, Joseph, Mary's husband, is a cab driver who enjoys rock 'n' roll music. Mary appears nude in some scenes.
The movie, to be shown tomorrow and Thursday nights in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union, probably won't escape protest while it is running.
Slobodnik said he and several of his friends would show up to hand out pamphlets explaining what they consider blashemous in the movie.
Francis Slobodnik, of Paxico, has organized a protest by citizens who think the movie is sacrilegious. He said yesterday that a group would be coming to Lawrence to picket outside the Union.
The movie, made in France and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, has inspired protests in several cities
across the United States.
When a Kansas City, Mo., theater announced this spring that it would show the movie, some area residents voiced their opposition, said Mary Lou Devonshire, an employee of the Catholic Key, the newspaper of the Kansas City Catholic Diocese.
Slobodnik said that in New York City, more than 8,000 people had protested the showing of the movie.
The theater in Kansas City canceled the showing.
"It's giving a person a chance to form his own opinion after seeing it."
"The main reason I chose it is that it is a film by a world-renowned filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard." Price said "The movie hasn't been seen in Lawrence before, so we are trying to provide a service for people to have the opportunity to view the film.
Gary Price, SUA film chairman,
said he knew of the controversies
and protests but chose to show the film
anway.
Slobodnik said no Lawrence organizations had contacted him to join in the protest against the movie.
United Press International
Brown case revived by racism charges
TOPEKA — The Topeka school district yesterday was accused of continued racial disparities in the classrooms that were the focus of the historic 1954 Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education desegregation case.
Thirty-two years after the Supreme Court declared an end to "separate but equal" educational facilities for blacks, opening arguments began in the third trial of the case.
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Linda Brown Smith — a 7-year-old when her parents filed the lawsuit in 1951 — has seen two of her own children graduate from Topeka schools. Yesterday, she sat at the plaintiff's table, mainly as a symbol of the effort to ensure equal education for black children.
The revived Brown case, seven years in preparation, promised to be a three- to four-week battle of boundary maps and statistical charts showing enrollments and test scores, with little of the emotion of the trials of the '50s.
"We are not interested in emotional issues," said U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers, who is hearing the case without a jury.
Topeka lawyer Richard E. Jones, representing the plaintiffs, promised to show that vestiges of segregation remained in the Topeka school system.
See BROWN II, p. 5, col. 1