University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 18, 1986
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McGovern to speak in KU lecture series
Former Democratic Sen George McGovern of South Dakota is scheduled to speak at the University of Kansas next month as part of the Pearson Lecture Series, the student body president said yesterday.
McGovern is scheduled to speak on "The Reagan Foreign Policy: A Critique" at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas University, said David Epstein, the president.
McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1972, lost to Richard Nixon. He was a senator from South Dakota from 1963 to 1981.
The Pearson Lectures Series was founded by former U.S. Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan.
The $2,000 fee for McGovern's speech will come from money allocated to the Pearson Lecture Series by the Student Senate.
Manager leaving KU
Steve Word, manager of the KU Bookstores, resigned Sept. 8 to accept a position as director of bookstores for Mississippi State University at Starkville.
Word also is director of licensing at the University of Kansas. His resignation is effective Oct. 10.
Word has managed the Kansas Union Bookstore and the Oread Bookshop, the KU Bookstore and Computer Store in the Burge Union and the Regents Center Bookstore in Overland Park for the last six years.
Mike Reid, assistant manager of the Kansas Union Bookstore, will take over Word's duties until the University hires a new manager.
Career fair today
The Business Placement Office is conducting a Business Career Fair today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Students will be able to talk to more than 70 company representatives and discuss career goals. Company personnel also will give information on available jobs, salaries, employee benefits and advancement.
All KU students interested in business careers are invited.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan about Supportive Educational Services' tutoring programs incorrectly stated the charge for tutoring.
Marion Boyle, associate director of SES, said students who were eligible and had been accepted by SES received tutoring free of charge.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high temperature in the mid-80s and southerly winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy also with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and a low temperature in the upper 60s.
Where to call
Readers who have ideas for stories or photographs may call the Kansan at 864-4810.
For ideas about campus and area coverage, ask for Abbie Jones, planning editor. For arts and entertainment ideas or On Campus items, ask for Grant Butler, art editor.
For sports, ask for for Frank Hansel, sports editor, and for photographs, ask for Jacki Kelly, photo editor.
To report any problems or complaints, ask for Lauretta McMillen, editor, or Kady McMaster, managing editor.
From staff and wire reports.
KU Amnesty group demonstrates to get prisoners released
By SHANE A. HILLS
Staff writer
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness, a co-founder of the KU chapter of Amnesty International said yesterday.
"That's our motto," said Maura Piekalkiewicz, co-founder of the chapter. She and her husband, Jarek, a professor of political science, started the chapter in 1979.
"We know we cannot save the world," she said. "But we can try to effect the release of individual prisoners who we know have been unjustly incarcerated."
Amnesty International is a a worldwide coalition based in London. The KU chapter of Amnesty International assembled yesterday east of Wescoe Hall.
The 30 active members took turns announcing the names of more than 200 people around the world who, they think, have been incarcerated for their religious or political beliefs.
Some people have been skeptical about the group's effectiveness. Ever since Armesty began, she said, they've heard remarks about the futility of their activities.
However, she said the KU chapter had helped to secure the release of three prisoners — in Pakistan, Uruguay and Czechoslovakia.
"Torture, execution and detainment of political and religious prisoners is occurring all over the world," said Bill Foreman, Shawnee senior and coordinator of the group. "It's not just a practice in communist or authoritarian governments."
Maura Piekakiewicz noted the indifference of the people walking past
The KU chapter swamped Congress, foreign governments and prisons with letters expressing concerns with the incarcerations, albeit said.
Foreman said prison conditions improved after wardens at the foreign prisons were bombarded with letters from Amnesty.
"We've heard from prisoners on our list who have been released," he said. "They said they got better food and that their cells were cleaned out."
Wesco Hall. But she encouraged members to read their lists.
"By far the most important thing we are doing is giving the prisoners hope for release. They know someone behind them and working for them."
Once Amnesty receives word of a person imprisoned supposedly unjustly, it investigates by speaking or exchanging letters with anyone who may know the circumstances of the arrest
Amnesty thoroughly verifies that each person it records as a "prisoner of conscience" has never advocated violence and is indeed incarcerated because of his or her political or religious beliefs. Foreman said.
Amnesty can remain impartial because it endorses no political ideology, he said.
After the investigation, any one of the chapters worldwide may adopt the mission of encouraging the release of that prisoner.
Foreman said the KU chapter soon would attempt to investigate whether Mohammed El-Nesrioui, a prisoner in Morocco, should be recorded on Amnesty's worldwide list.
Jennifer Sparkman, left, Kansas City, Mo., senior, reads aloud names of political prisoners from around the world an Amnesty International demonstration. The group handed out brochures yesterday in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. Beside Sparkman are Ann Lally, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior; Herenia Mussi, KU Guarani language instructor; and Thomas Milton, Asuncion, Paraguay, sophomore.
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
Police say they can't inquire into theft for lack of victim
By a Kansan reporter
Lawrence police can't take any action in the reported theft of $2,000 worth of computer equipment on July 22, a spokesman for the department said yesterday.
"There's no doubt that there was some fraud involved, but the companies have not filed any
charges." he said.
Lt. Wayne Schmille of the Lawrence Police Department said he could not proceed with an investigation because, technically, the case had no victim.
On July 22, someone called a computer company in California and another in Illinois, placed an order for computer equipment and billed the University of Kansas. Schmille said.
Jerry Niebaum, KU director of computer services, said, "The caller apparently gave the companies false purchase order numbers and the computer center billing account number. The account number is public information."
Niebaum said the equipment probably was mail ed to an off-campus post office box.
Schmile said the two companies had contacted a collection agency attempting to get the University to pay for the equipment.
He refused to identify the two companies because Lawrence police had not been able to contact them yet.
KU police decided yesterday to turn the case over to the city police after determining that none of the activity had taken place on campus, said Sgt. John Brothers of KU police.
Night in laundry chute wins Journey for junior
Staff writer
By PAM MILLER
At the time, however, it was the worst date of her life.
Getting stuck in a laundry chute was one of the best things that ever happened to Jennifer Brown.
Brown, Valley Center junior,
told a disc jockey at radio station
ZZ99 on Aug. 20 about being lodged
in a laundry chute at her home for
30 minutes, while her date unsuccessfully tried to free her.
For recounting that experience, she was registered in the station's "worst date" contest. On Aug. 23, she was notified that her name had been drawn at random from about 60 other participants who shared their experiences on the air.
Her prize is two back-stage pass tickets to Sunday's Journey concert at Kemper Arena, dinner at the Peppercorn Duck Club and a free limousine ride from Lawrence to Kansas City with a companion of her choice.
Brown said she was driving home to Valley Center from Lawrence on Aug. 22 when she heard about the contest on the radio. She stopped at a pay phone in Ottawa, about 25 miles south of Lawrence, and called the station.
occurred the summer after she graduated from high school. She invited a guy she had a crush on over to her house in Valley Center and made dinner for him.
"We started drinking and we got a little tips," she said. "We started kidding around, chasing each other around the house.
"I jumped in our laundry chute to get downstairs before he caught me. And I not stuck."
Brown said that her worst date
She was stuck in the laundry chute for 30 to 40 minutes, she said.
Brown laughs now as she talks fun when it happened, she said fun when it happened, she said
"At the time, for about the first 15 minutes, it was funny," she said. "But after that, it was scary, because I couldn't breathe. I started crying."
Cheryl Youngblood/KANSAN
Her date was unsuccessful at pulling her out of the chute by himself, she said, so he called the fire department. But before the fire trucks arrived, her family came home — her four sisters and her parents.
The entire family collaborated on the effort, and Brown was pulled from the laundry chute. The incident has been a family
was pulled from the laundry chute. The incident has been a family joke ever since, she said.
"They think it's absolutely
Jennifer Brown, Valley Center junior, won the Z299 Worst Date Contest. Brown won two back-stage passes to Sunday's Journey concert at Kemper Arena and dinner at the Peppercorn Duck Club in the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
show, because of personal scheduling problems. she said.
A limousine from Prestige Limousine service will drive her and her date to Kansas City. The limousine is big enough to seat six and is equipped with a television set and a bar.
Robertson to run if three million sign a petition
The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — The Rev Pat Robertson said yesterday that he would run for president if 3 million registered voters showed their support for him during the next 12 months with their work, prayers and money.
At a news conference before he was to address a rally at Constitution Hall, the television evangelist said, "If that many people were truly active in support of any candidate, it would virtually guarantee victory.
"If by Sept. 17, 1987, one year from today, 3 million registered voters have signed petitions telling me that they will pray, that they will work, that they will give toward my election, then I will run as a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for the office of president of the United States of America."
The 56-year-old evangelist said that Americans had permitted an assault on religion and values that would have been unthinkable to past generations of Americans.
"We have taken virtually all mention of God from our classrooms and textbooks . We have taken the Holy Bible from our young and replaced it with the thoughts of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and John Dewey."
On the same day that Robertson spoke, he ran into criticism from a liberal group that monitors the activities of the religious right.
People for the American Way held a news conference to show a film made up primarily of clips from Robertson's "The 700 Club" which is distributed by his Christian Broadcast Network, which has its headquarters in Virginia Beach, Va.
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