University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 3, 1986
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News Briefs Harvard divests S. Africa holdings
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University divested itself yesterday of $158.7 million in holdings in companies doing business in South Africa but maintained its investment policy had not changed.
Harvard's Committee for Shareholder Responsibility reported it divested holdings in five oil companies, one automaker, an oil drilling firm and a mining company.
The university sold off $74.7 million in stocks and $84 million in bonds. The university had $427.7 million in stock and $99.6 million in bonds invested in companies operating in the racially segregated nation.
"There has been no change in our policy," committee chairman Roderick MacDougall said. "We have adhered to our policy of selective divestment right along, and these sales reaffirm that policy."
Harvard divested holdings in
Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, Exxon,
Royal Dutch Petroleum and Ford
Motor Co. because all six公司
companies sold products to the South
African police and military, he said. Harvard also sold stock in Schlumberger Co., which drills oil wells, and Phelps Dodge, a mining company, he said.
MacDougall praised the companies for following the Sullivan Principles, a set of standards for businesses that operate in South Africa, including goals for the hiring and treatment of minorities.
"the companies have their hands tied." MacDougall said. "Many are very good performers in South Africa. They have high Sullivan ratings and progressive minority performance records."
However, MacDougall said a company must couple its strong opposition to aparthief with stopping sales to police and military.
Attorney to speak
Bruce Finzen, an attorney in the Bhopal, India, chemical leak case, will address law students at 12:30 p.m. Monday in 104 Green Hall. In December 1984, lethal gas leaked from a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal and killed more than 2,000 people.
The event is open to the public and is part of the Noon Forum program sponsored by the School of Law.
Libel law speech
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, William Marimow, will speak on "Investigative Reporting and Libel Law" at 3:30 p.m. Monday in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Marimow has worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1972. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1977 when he co-wrote an article with Jonathan Neumann about criminal violence by Philadelphia Police.
He won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1984 with a series of articles about Philadelphia's K-9 police dogs attacking officers and citizens.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy today with a 60 percent chance of rain. The high temperature will be near 70. The winds will be from the east at 5 to 15 mph. Skies will be cloudy tonight with a 70 percent chance of rain. The low temperature will be near 60.
From staff and wire reports
Condemned signs mark apartment units
A condemned sign is posted beside the door of one of the units at Jayhawk West Apartments, 524 Frontier Road.
By PAM MILLER
The sign is proof of rain-aggregated leaky roofs and flooding in the complex, and the manager said yesterday that her hands were tied by bankruptcy court.
Staff writer
"If anyone would give me the money, I'd fix these roofs," said the acting manager, Jacuelyn Adams.
Lawrence building inspector
Margene K. Swarts inspected apartment 12F of building 518 on Aug. 6.
She issued a notice the next day to local management and to the owners of the apartment complex, Jayhawk
'If anyone would give me the money, I'd fix these roofs.'
- Jacquelyn Adams
Jayhawk West acting manager
Partners Ltd., to have a leaking roof repaired by Sept. 8, or the apartment would be condemned.
When the conditions were not fixed by that day, Swarts posted a condemned notice beside the door, and the tenant, Sharon Eades, moved into another apartment.
Yesterday afternoon, Swarts inspected and issued a notice on the apartment next door, 11F, of the same building, also for a leaky roof and a leaking toilet. Terry and Theresa Burkart rent that apartment.
If the management does not fix the conditions of their apartment, a con-
Condemning one unit of a building is not unusual, Swarts said. Condemning means that the building is not fit for residents and the owners have a responsibility to bring the building up to appropriate housing standards.
Diane Duttmeier/KANSAN
denned notice also will be posted beside that door.
Unfortunately, the local management's ability to fix the problems has been limited severely since the owners filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 3, Adams said.
Chapter 11 bankruptcy means that the business will have to reorganize and present a plan to the United States Bankruptcy Court within one year after filing. Until then, Adams said, the bankruptcy court has control of the money.
"We'd love to fix the property," Adams said. "All we can do is tell them (the court) about the problems. They have to decide what money goes where."
Adams said her regional supervisor and the maintenance worker were going to collect bids for roof repairs and submit them to the management company, which is in Texas.
"The attitude of the local management was that they don't have any money and won't make any repairs." Swarts said. "When the time (30 days) was almost up, I called the management and they said, 'We don't have the money and we're not going to be able to fix it. Post the notice.'"
The hole in the roof of the condemned apartment was about the size of a football. Swarts said.
The carpet was soaked where the water had leaked in, she said, and the hole in the ceiling was getting bigger.
Eades, the tenant of the condemned apartment, said the management
A toadstool has sprung up in the wiener of Terry and Theresa Burkart's bedroom in Jayhawk West Apartments.
was nice about remedying the situation. They had placed her in another apartment and given her free rent for a month.
The Burkartis requested that their apartment be inspected because one corner of their southeast bedroom had been soaked so badly that mold and toadstools were growing in the corner.
"I hate walking in the bathroom. It's always wet," Theresa Burkart said. "One night we had to sleep in the middle of the floor in the living room because of the leaking.
They also have a toilet that leaks and has never been fixed.
"It ites to be a pain, getting up at 3 a.m. to put buckets down."
The Burkarts, who are expecting their first child at the end of this year, said they just wanted another apartment in the complex that didn't
A drainage pipe, recently connected to the ceiling of an unoccupied apartment at Jayhawk West, 524 Frontier Road, carries water out that had leaked in through the roof. The pipe prevents water from flooding the apartment below.
had inspected other apartments at Jayhawk West for water-related problems. But when she had issued notices to the management, the repairs had been made within the required time.
Swarts said that in past years, she
"Unless we had a reason to get into all the units, we wouldn't condemn an entire apartment house," she said. "We inspect by request only."
Donna Pogue, another tenant, said she had a hole in the roof of her living room that was about the size of a quarter. The management hasn't done anything, she said.
"It's really frustrating," she said. "There's must and mildew, and I have allergies. It's been this way for several months. It's really an inconvenience."
Nancy Reagan takes anti-drug theme to KC
First lady instructs students in saying 'no'
By BETH COPELAND
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nancy Reagan said no yesterday to two eighth-graders who pretended to offer her cigarettes.
Reagan's role playing was part of her daylong visit to Kansas City, Mo., to attend a United Negro College Fund awards dinner and to take her anti-drug message to area school children.
After arriving at the Kansas City Downtown Airport, Reagan visited Martin Luther King Jr. Junior High School to observe and participate in STAR, a classroom program on drug education.
Last night, Reagan received the UNCF Frederick D. Patterson Award for her efforts to convince youth to avoid drugs. The first lady is a member of the board of the UNCF, which provides operating expenses for 43 historically black colleges and universities.
Project STAR, which stands for Students Taught Awareness and Resistance, was introduced to Kansas City schools in 1984. The program is intended to teach students how to recognize and respond to social pressure and resist involvement with drugs and alcohol.
In the session, 15 eighth-graders and their teacher, in the midst of about 25 journalists, reviewed material from several STAR lessons.
Bobbie Alexander, life sciences/earth sciences teacher at the school, explained the three techniques of peer pressure.
"The second method is teasing: 'Come on, baby, are you scared?' "
"The third is using high pressure: 'If you don't smoke a joint, I won't be your friend.'" Alexander said.
The class also reviewed methods to refuse drug offers, and students participated in role playing to practice saying "no."
"The first is friendly." "Hey, do you want to drink some beer?" "she said.
Even Reagan took her turn at role playing. Alexander, set the scene; Nancy, Reagan
walks into a bathroom at school to comb her hair because there's a boy in her class whom she wants to impress.
"Is his name Ronnie?" the first lady asked. Two girls walk in and offer her cigarettes. Reagan used the "broken record" technique, meaning she repeatedly refused the offers.
"I just don't want to," she said again when pressured.
Rain continues to soak area
After a third refusal, the student became frustrated and said, "Ain't nobody gonna know."
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Pitter-patter. Pitter-patter.
By NANCY BARRE
In fact, he said, the rain became downright scary.
Chanay, Kansas City, Kan., junior, commutes to Lawrence from Kansas City every day for classes.
Dennis Chanay said that the sound of the steady downpour of rain on his roof relaxed him when he was trying to sleep, but that the recent spell of stormy weather suddenly changed character when it became time to leave for school.
"I like to hear the rain in the morning and at night," he said. "But it's scary driving when there's been so much rain. It makes the roads really slippery."
Regardless of whether rain is good or bad.
Lawrence has had a lot of it lately, with no end in sight, said John Dulovic, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and a student forecaster for the KU Weather Service.
"We've just had the second wettest September in 120 years, and it looks like we're well on our way to having the wettest October." he said.
Last month was the second wettest September in Lawrence since 1869, when the weather service began keeping statistics, Dolusic said yesterday. Lawrence received 12.21 inches of rain, and the average for September is 3.94 inches. The wettest September came in 1973, when Lawrence received 12.85 inches of rain.
Fugitive takes own life
Lawrence has received about an inch of rain since the beginning of October, he said.
From Kansan Wires
WRIGHT CITY, Mo. — Fugitive Michael Wayne Jackson, who eluded authorities for 11 days after a three-state spree of murder and abductions, was found dead late last night in a barn by a shootout less than a quarter mile from where he was last seen on foot.
Jackson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Hal Helterhoff, head of the FBI office in St. Louis.
Jackson had shot himself with the same shotgun he had used throughout his crime spree, which began Sept. 22, Helterhoff said at a news conference in Wright City early today. A positive identification was made through fingerprints, he said.
we are very happy to report the final resolution of this case," he said. "We're pleased to bring peace and quiet back to Wright City."
Jackson had fired shots as authorities surrounded the barn about 6:30 p.m., and police lobbed eight tear gas canisters inside after unsuccessfully trying to coax him out. No one was hit by the gunfire, and police did not return fire.
Agents and officers had entered the barn in a routine check when they heard a shotgun blast that sounded muffled.
One of the officers hit the ground when the shotgun went off and the others fled, he said. The officers outside fired two shotgun blasts at the barn to cover the escape of the remaining officer from the barn.
SenEx meets to reaffirm core curriculum issues
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
A special meeting of the University Senate Executive Committee reaffirmed yesterday the sequence of issues leading to the adoption of a universitywide core curriculum.
needed for graduation from all schools.
"I'm trying to separate out the chickens and the eggs." Mel Dubnick, SenEx chairman, said
The core curriculum proposal, which has been discussed for about four years, would establish a common set of course requirements
The committee reaffirmed that three issues needed to be addressed before the core curriculum proposal could be adopted.
The first question is whether the University is empowered to adopt and enforce course requirements over the individual schools and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Each school now decides its own graduation requirements.
Other committees are studying how much core curriculum will cost and how it will affect individual course enrollment.
The final question, involves plans for implementing the core curriculum, if it is adopted.
Dubnick has slated the issue for discussion at the Oct. 30 University Council meeting.
The special meeting was called in response to an action on the third question by the University Organization and Administration Committee.
The committee tabled discussion of the implementation and enforcement of core curriculum requirements. SenEx had asked the committee to study these issues.
Because the core curriculum hasn't been adopted, the committee tabled the assigned tasks, saying they were premature.
Dubnick said the committee did not realize it was asked to neither endorse nor challenge the core curriculum proposal. He said the committee was just asked to develop implementation plans that could be proposed if the core curriculum passed.
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