University Daily Kansan / Wednesdav. September 17, 1986
KU plans to invite Schlafly
By SALLY STREFF
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Phyllis Schlafly and the lawyer who successfully argued the Supreme Court case legalizing abortion have been invited to debate at KU in October, David Epstein, the student body president, said yesterday.
The University of Kansas Student Lecture Series Board plans to sponsor a debate between Schlafly, an anti-abortion and anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist, and Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court, Epstein said.
Weddington and Schlaifly would debate at 7:30 p.m. Oct.16 in the Kansas Union Ballroom, he said.
"They will be debating issues of the '80s," Epstein said. "They will obviously talk about abortion and women's issues."
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Epstein said Weddington and Schlafly had debated before at other universities.
The board, which is financed by the Student Senate, will pay $6,000 to bring both speakers to campus, Epstein said.
Schlaffy, 62, is the founder and president of the Eagle Forum, a conservative, political organization. She also is the national chairman of Stop ERA. She has a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
Weddington, 41, is a law professor at the University of Texas in Austin. She was former President Carter's chief adviser on women's affairs from 1977 to 1980.
Epstein said organizers expected protesters at the debate but didn't anticipate security problems.
Student Senate formed the lecture series board last semester and appropriated $25,000 from the unallocated fund to start the program.
The board is scheduling the speakers through Kepler Associates, a booking agency in Washington, D.C.
John Turin, a Kepler representative, said the contract between the agency and the Lecture Series Board would be signed within 10 days.
The speakers would answer questions from the audience after the debate. Eostein said.
The Lectures Series Board wanted to bring two more speakers to campus this fall, he said.
ASK director seeks a guide on colleges
A director for the Associated Students of Kansas yesterday suggested the idea of a guide to Kansas colleges and universities to an interim committee of the Kansas Legislature.
By a Kansan reporter
Mark Tallman, the director of legislative affairs for ASK, said the idea was just in the planning stages and had not received any backing from the committee or the Legislature.
The Legislative Educational Planning Committee could choose to endorse the idea, which might influence the Legislature to consider financing the project, he said.
ASK is a statewide organization that lobbies for student interests in the state Legislature and the Board of Regents.
The guide would provide information about educational programs at Kansas colleges and universities, Tallman said. It also would provide information about careers stemming from various academic programs and majors.
"It's targeted to juniors in high school," he said. "But it also could be helpful to college students who are interested in transferring."
Committee members will decide within a few weeks whether to endorse the idea, Tallman said.
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Adeeb Radwan, Palestine senior, left and Saleh Farhn, Saudi Arabia graduate student, march with about 25 members of the General Union of Palestinian Students at KU yesterday afternoon on the fourth anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres in Lebanon.
Rally marks anniversary of attack
By SHANE A. HILLS
About 25 Palestinian students rallied yesterday at the Strong Hall courtyard, displaying signs that said the Israelis were terrorizing the Palestinians
Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of a 1982 massacre in two different Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. According to flyers distributed by the marchers, about 2,000 men, women and children were killed in the attacks.
The refugees, who lived at the camps of Sabra and Shatila, had no guns or other means of defense against the Lebanese Christian militiamen who committed the three-day massacre.
About 10 students from the Total Response Agenda, a KU student group organized to respond to anti-Semitic viewpoints, followed the rally from the Kansas Union to Strong Hall. They handed out leaflets that named the Palestinians in the Middle East as terrorists.
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Ahmad Naseeb, Palestinian-born president of the General Union of Palestinian Students, which organized the rally, said he thought the U.S. media had a Zionist influence and depicted the Palestinian Liberation Organization as the "bad guys."
After the rally, several students from the Total Response Agenda engaged in a heated discussion with the Palestinian group outside the
Jordan Yochim, Lawrence senior is a member of the Total Response Agenda.
"The Israelis have killed Palestinians, destroyed their homes and confiscated their land, and then they call us terrorists." Naseeb said. "You call it terrorism. I call it fighting to get our land back. The Palestinians don't have jets like the U.S.-backed Israelis. They must fight with what they have."
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Since 1947, when the United Nations partitioned Palestine to create the Jewish homeland of Israel, the
"I won't deny that what happened in Sabra and Shatila is horrible," he said. "But I will deny that Israel was wholly responsible."
Palestinians have relocated to refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries.
Several Palestinian students said later that they suspected the massacre was deliberately ignored by Israeli soldiers who patrolled the refugee camps.
Dan Breslauer, associate professor of religion, said Lebanese Christian militiamen massacred the refugees at the camps of Sabra and Shatila in 1982 because they considered the Palestinians to be the root of Lebanon's problems.
In 1948, the Lebanese Moslems, who practice Islam, as do most Palestinians, agreed to provide refuge in Lebanon for the Palestinians.
"Christian and Muslim tension escalated because the Muslims of Lebanon did not do anything to keep the Palestinians from raiding Israel," said Breslauer, who specializes in Islam and Judaism.
"That's what caused Israel to bomb Beirut." he said.
Naseeb said that Israel should return all the land taken from the Palestinians and that only the Jews born in Israel should be allowed to stay.
If this were to happen, Naseeb said, it would be possible for the Palestinians to live peacefully with Jewish neighbors.
Farms worry Kansans most, poll says
TOPEKA — Kansans are more concerned about the problems facing farmers and agriculture than any other issue, but their concern about drugs is on the increase, a new poll indicates.
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The poll, published yesterday in the Topeka Capital Journal, shows 39 percent of respondents listed the agriculture depression and low farm prices as a concern. The issue was cited more often than any other.
Central Research Corp. of Topeka conducted the telephone poll for the newspaper from Sept. 5-9. asking 500 voting-age Kansans what they con-
ly and strongly have mentioned low farm prices and the deteriorating agriculture economy as the biggest problems facing Kansas. In the largely rural 1st Congressional District, agriculture was cited by 43 percent of respondents, and in the 5th District, by 46 percent.
sider to be the most important problem or issue facing the state.
The need for more jobs and economic development was mentioned most often by respondents in the 4th District, which includes Wichita and Hutchinson.
Of the 500 respondents, 27 percent said jobs and economic development, 14 percent mentioned taxes, 11 percent each cited education and the poor economy and 5 percent or less mentioned highways, the oil industry and the state budget.
Drug abuse was cited most often by respondents in the 2nd District, where 12 percent mentioned it. More women than men mentioned drug abuse as a problem.
Concern about drugs appeared to be on the increase. In the poll, 8 percent of respondents said they were concerned about the incidence of drug abuse. That compares to just a few respondents in the newspaper's May poll and 1 percent of those polled in July.
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TOPEKA — The Kansas State Rainbow Coalition yesterday urged Lt. Gov. Tom Docking to reconsider his position supporting grain sales to South Africa.
In response, Docking reiterated his position that grain embargoes are not effective, and one against South Africa would only hurt the victims of that country's racial separation policy of aparteid, as well as Kansas farmers.
"We can ill afford to press for economic sanctions on the one hand and then send the wrong signal by selling our goods for profit," said a statement issued in Topeka by Darryl Gray, state coordinator of the Rainbow Coalition.
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"We hope that they will re-evaluate their position on this issue, and that the electorate will assist them in this endeavor," Gray said.
He said the position taken by Docking and state Rep. Norman Justice, D-Kansas City, supporting sale of Kansas wheat to South Africa showed either a lack of understanding of the situation in South Africa or a serious error in judgment.
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Docking's opponent in the governor's race, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Hayden, has said he supported withholding sale of grain to South Africa as part of a total package of sanctions.
"Further, the issue for us in Kansas is also the plight of our farmers. Grain embargoes have not been effective as sanctions. They have only hurt our agri-business economy."
"They are a valuable resource for our state as we strive to pull ourselves out of our present economic slump. I pledge to my fellow veterans an administration that will be aware of and responsive to the needs of those outstanding Kansans."
Also yesterday, formation of a "Veterans for Mike Hayden" organization was announced in Topeka. Statewide chairman of the group is Tom Hanna, a veteran and a member of the Shawnee County Board of Commissioners.
"I appreciate the support of my fellow veterans." Hayden was quoted as saying. "These veterans know the sacrifices necessary in difficult times because they've made them.
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