Colorful comment
For more than 40 years, Max Falkentien has been broadcasting KU football and men's basketball games. On Saturday he began another season from "high above Memorial Stadium."
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Beam me up, Scotty
James Doohan, better known as "Scotty" from the Star Trek television series and movies, was meeting students and signing autographs in the Kansas Union Bookstore on Friday.
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Summer bummer
Today will be warm and humid, with a 30-percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the mid-80s, with winds from the south at 10 to 20 mph.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No.16 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday September 15, 1986
Margie Chambers/KANSAN
Flea while you can
Valerie Jennings, Lawrence resident, had her dog, Lillian, dipped for fleas Saturday by Roger Tuckel, owner of Lawrence Feed and Farm Supply, 545 Wisconsin. Lawrence Feed and Farm Supply offers to dip dogs monthly in front of the store.
Reagans warn of drug use
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President and Nancy Reagan, warning there is "no moral middle ground." exhorted Americans in a prime-time TV address last night to declare all-out war on drugs and the pushers "who are killing America and terrorizing it."
"In this crusade, let us not forget who we are." Reagan told a nationwide television audience. "Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. The destructiveness and human wreckage mock our heritage.
"We Americans have never been morally neutral against any form of tyranny. Tonight, we are asking no more than that we honor what we have been and that we are by standing together."
Speaking in urgent tones "as fellow parents and grandparents and as concerned neighbors," the Reagans asked U.S. citizens to take a pledge against drugs and the criminals who profit from them.
liter 19-minute talk, delivered from the White House living quarters, marked an unprecedented bid to use their stature and communicative skills as former actors to move the battle against drugs to the top of the national agenda
It also reflected the president's deepened involvement in an issue championed for the last five years by his wife, who was traveled more than 100,000 miles to 28 states and six foreign countries urging children to "Just Say No."
"There is no moral middle ground." Nancy Reagan said. "Indifference is not an option. We want you to help us create an outspoken intolerance for drug use. For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposite on to drugs."
saying drug abuse costs the nation at least $60 billion a year, the President established six goals for a new national crusade toward a drug-free America.
The goals are to establish drug-free workplaces for all Americans, drug-free schools from elementary to university levels, expand treatment and research into the health dangers posed by drugs, improved international cooperation to defeat global drug trafficking, an increased public awareness and prevention to encourage all citizens to "get involved in fighting the drug menace", and strengthened drug law enforcement and new initiatives that will "hit drug traffickers with renewed force."
The TV appearance set the stage for today's presentation of a detailed administration anti-drug program combining punitive measures against users and pushers with expanded prevention and treatment efforts.
In offering a brief preview of that program, Reagan did not mention perhaps its most controversial element: widespread mandatory drug testing of federal workers in yet-to-be-defined "sensitive" jobs.
The Reagans encouraged drug users to seek help, admonished young people to avoid temptation and bluntly warned pushers their days are numbered — if Americans respond to their call to arms.
"When we come together," the president said, "united -- striving for this cause -- then those who are killing America and terrorizing it with slow but sure chemical destruction will see that they are up against the mightiest force for good that we know. Then they will have no dark alleyways to hide in."
Nancy Reagan closed by urging a commitment "not to tolerate drugs anywhere, any time, any place" and asking all Americans to "join us in this great, new national crusade."
Census plan could cost city
Staff writer
Rv RFTH COPFIAND
rather than as a part of the college town.
Proposals to base reapportionment on a state census could cost KU and Lawrence a political voice and some representation, a state senator said Friday.
Wint Winter, Jr., Republican senator representing Lawrence's 2nd District, said the state's constitution required that reaportionment of congressional districts take place before 1989 - a year before the next federal census.
Since the last federal census was taken in 1980, reapportionment would be based on figures that were nine years old. Federal courts won't accept the outdated numbers. Winter said.
Some lawmakers have proposed using a state census, which would count college students as residents of their hometowns
Reapportionment is the process of periodically adjusting legislative districts based on changes in population.
Winter argues that by not counting KU students as residents of Lawrence, students' political power would be diffused across the state.
"That's absolutely insane." he said. "Students live, shop and pay sales taxes here. They should be counted here as well."
Moreover, he said that since Douglas County would lose about 20,000 student constituents, or about one-fourth of the county's population, his district probably would be increased into part of Jefferson County.
The shift, he said, would prevent him from devoting as much time to the University.
Third, Winter estimated that Douglas County would lose one of its four legislators if students were counted at home because representation was based on population.
Two proposals before the House and Senate Apportionment Committees involve a state census.
federal money for social welfare and public improvement programs was often given on the basis of population.
Finally, KU and Lawrence also could be targets for cuts, he said, because state and
One proposal would provide for a state census, probably to be conducted by the secretary of state's office, for the 1989 reaportionment. The price tag for this plan could run into the millions.
The other option would be to use a state census to reapportion by 1989 and then change the constitution to require reapportionment to occur after the federal census.
Some head for the Hill on game days
Winter endorses a third reapportionment proposal that could avert these problems, he said.
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The proposal would delay reapportionment until 1991, when figures from the federal census could be used.
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Dan Rowlett moved the charcoal around in his barbecue grill then wiped his blackened fingers on his shorts.
"Did you already put the lighter fluid on?" Rowlett, Wichita senior, asked one of his friends. "Great, we're all set."
Rowlett turned, stretched and got himself a beer as he heard a distant roar from the bottom of the Hill.
He and his friends, who call themselves the "Hambones on the Hill," squinted toward the playing field down the Hill. It was impossible for them to see what had happened, but by the roar they knew someone must have made a good play.
He isn't alone.
"You know, in four years, I've
On game days, Rowlett and his friends are just a few of many fans who sit on the Hill overlooking Memorial Stadium.
On Saturday, the Hill was littered with blankets, lawn chairs and taming bodies. Although radios were tuned to the Jayhawks' losing cause against the North Carolina Tar Heels, the spectators on the Hill concentrated more on Frisbees, footballs and eating lots of food.
For the Hambones, it was a backyard barbecue.
pork chops and barbecued chicken." Rowlett said. "We call it barbecueed Jayhawk. It's kind of a pain to bring the grill up here, but it's worth it."
Down the Hill from the grill, the atmosphere was more relaxed as the Miller family lounged in the shade of a tree.
On a blanket, Les and Shirley Miller, Lawrence residents, listened to the game on their portable radio while their two children, Scott, 6, and Kelly, 8, chased each other around the tree.
"Today we're having hamburgers,
"The kids wanted to see the skydiwers, so we decided to try it out." Les Miller said. "You can't see the game very well from here, but it's fun."
It was the Millers' first time to watch from the Hill.
The Hill also offered a place for the Miller children to run and play.
"They'd never be able to sit through a whole game down there." Shirley Miller said. "There's no reason to pay their admission when they'll get bored by the first quarter. They're having a lot more fun up here."
Except for a few glances at the playing field, the Millers were content to rely on their radio for the play-by-play action.
"You don't come up here for the view," Rowlett said as he sat looking down at the miniature players on the football field. "I've watched a game from the stadium before. It wasn't that great. You can't get away with much down there.
Paris police officer dies in bomb blast
United Press International
PARIS — A bomb planted by suspected Arab terrorists in a bouquet of flowers at a crowded restaurant exploded yesterday after it was carried to an underground garage, killing a police officer and seriously injuring two other people, police said.
The fourth terrorist incident in Paris in 10 days occurred at 5:30 p.m. on the tourist-packed Avenue des Champs-Elysees, less than an hour before Prime Minister Jacques Chirac announced strict new measures to control the number of
foreigners, particularly Arabs entering the country.
An Arab group called the Partisans of Right and Liberty claimed responsibility for the bombing in a telephone call to a Western news agency in Beirut.
The group, along with the Committee of Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners, announced Sept. 1 a campaign of "tougher and tougher attacks" to pressure the government to free a jailed guerrilla leader.
See BOMBING, p. 5, col. 1
They go shop in the night
Customers seek beer, munchies
By PAM MILLER
They walk through the shadows of the night...
Staff writer
They shop at one of the seven allnight grocery stores in Lawrence for many reasons, according to some
Monday morning
They are the midnight grocery shopers, searching for potato chips and beer.
In the darkness, they begin a quest to satisfy their cravings.
cashers who work graveyard shirts. Carol Baker, a cashier who works the late shift at Dillon's, 1740 Massachusetts St, said recently that late-night shopers were amusing to watch.
cashiers who work graveyard shifts.
Baker, an Olathe junior, said students were the main late-night customers.
"When the students came back, it really picked up." Baker said.
"A lot of drunks come in with the munchies. Some are college students, others are older people. They're funny when they come through the check-out line."
"They'll come in right before midnight and buy their beer, potato chips, whatever.
Terry Jensen, a cashier at Rusty's Food Center, 901 Iowa St., checked L.D.s of two shoppers who wanted a pack of cigarettes. He said some people had difficulty remembering to pay for their groceries and were in a great hurry to leave the store when they shopped late at night.
Last semester, an older man came into the store, locked himself in the bathroom and drank eight beers from a 12-pack. Baker said.
Students usually storm in right before midnight on their beer runs, she said. Between 10 p.m. and midnight, 50 to 75 customers come into Dillon's each night.
"Every once in a while, people would grab beer and run," he said.
Bruce Wilkus, Overland Park
senior, works at Food Barn, 1900 W.
23rd St. He said about 50 customers would come in for beer on weekend nights around 11 o.m.
But not everyone shops only for beer. Some shop simply because midnight is the only convenient time for them.
John Summerville, Leawood senior, and Rick Cromwell, Overland Park senior, are both habitual late-night shopper.
Summerville had an unusual reason for shopping at Food Barn.
"They used to play the radio in here on KCFX late at night," he said while he was checking out the magazine rack. "I'd come here to listen to it while I was shopping."
Although Food Barn stopped playing the music this semester, Summerville still shops there.
Cromwell said that he shopped late at least twice a week and that he often went on snack runs.
"Just in the habit, I guess," he said. "It's a good study break."
"It's quick and you don't wait in line," he said.
See SHOPPERS, p. 5, col. 1