Itty-bitty burgers
A local restaurant sells silver-dollar-sized Tommyburgers for 33 cents, and the owner says he's just starting to successfully wage war with the big burger boys.
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The NCAA yesterday restored full eligibility to 60 University of Nebraska football players who had been declared ineligible for violations involving complimentary tickets to games.
Big Red reprieve
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Wade a minute
Today's partly cloudy skies and 80-degree temperatures should give way to thunderstorms tonight with a low temperature in the mid-60s.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 97, No.13 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday September 10, 1986
Triathalon accident takes student's life
By RIC ANDERSON
Paul Childs, the 20-year-old Fairway senior who was critically injured Sunday during the bicycling portion of the Baptist Medical Center triathlon, died early yesterday morning at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo.
A hospital spokesman said yesterday that Mr. Childs, who had been in critical condition since Sunday, died at approximately 1:35 a.m.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. today at the Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village.
Greg Hammond, Webster Groves, Mo., sophomore, was Mr.Childs' roommate last year in Oliver Hall. He said he hadn't known Mr. Childs before he came to Kansas but after meeting they quickly became friends.
Hammond said he would remember Mr. Childs for his rigorous training before athletic events and for never boasting of his accomplishments.
Hammond said Mr. Childs, who was majoring in pre-medicine, was a good student and was on the Dean's Honor Roll his first semester with a 4.0 grade point average. When Mr. Childs wasn't absorbed in his schoolwork, Hammond said, he often
read running and triathalon magazines.
"He was always in his bike shorts ready to go somewhere," she said. "He was always active. If he was sitting, he was studying."
Shelly Brown, Prairie Village sophomore, and a friend of Mr Childs', said he often visited her and her friends when they lived in Oliver.
Mr. Childs is survived by his parents, Richard M and Donna Childs, two brothers, Carl and Mac, all of Fairway; and his grandmother, Olive Steeplees of Plainville.
Mr. Childs was injured when racing along the 19.25-mile bicycling portion of the triathalon. As he was racing toward the finish line with his head down, he slammed into a truck that had moved into the intersection of Wade Road and Missouri Highway 150.
No charges have been filed against the Lee's Summit reserve police officer stationed at the intersection or the driver of the truck.
Vince DiPalermo, a detective with the Lee's Summit police, said the department was conducting an investigation to find the cause of the accident.
Mr. Childs, who was wearing a protective helmet, suffered severe head and neck injuries
U.S. educator kidnapped by Muslims in west Beirut
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim gunmen kidnapped an American educator in west Beirut yesterday. The pro-Iranian Islamic jihad group which already holds up to four American hostages, claimed responsibility and called him a U.S. spy.
Police and a U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed that Frank Reed, director of the Lebanese International School, had been kidnapped.
Officer Youssef Midjel told United Press International that Reed was kidnapped by gunmen in a Volvo sedan near the Beirut Hospital in the Jnah area of Muslim west Beirat at
11 a.m., but said police had no further information.
A witness said four gunmen in a sedan intercepted a van with a foreigner and four Lebanese in it at Ramlet el Baida, an area near Jnah. Two gunmen got out of the Volvo and, at gunpoint, took the foreigner, presumed to be Reed, with them.
The fundamentalist Islamic Jihad group, which is holding as many as four other American hostages and three Frenchmen, released a statement by telephone to Western news agencies in Beirut, saying it found documents inculpating Reed as a U.S. spy.
See REED, p. 5, col. 1
Ashley Richardson, Kansas City, Kan., junior, left, and Kristin Dressler, Leawood senior, plant mums in front of the Kappa Alpha Theta house.
House mums
Liquor proposal may not kill private clubs
By KAREN SAMELSON
If the proposed state liquor by the drink amendment passes in November, club cards won't necessarily become obsolete, the director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, said yesterday.
Some clubs might be forced to stay private, whereas others might choose to retain their private status, said John Lamb, division director.
If Kansans vote in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment Nov. 4, the 1987 Kansas Legislature would then draw up guidelines to implement the change, he said.
The club just started selling food
The amendment would permit clubs to sell liquor to anyone of legal drinking age without requiring a club membership.
The new regulations probably wouldn't go into effect before July 1, 1987.
Gammon's, 1601 W. 23rd St., might find itself in that position, said Shane Lee, the owner.
The proposed amendment specifies that the open clubs must obtain at least 30 percent of their gross sales from food, Lamb said. Clubs selling less than that wouldn't be able serve liquor by the drink.
this summer. Lee said, so he doesn't know what percentage of sales are food.
"It's taking some time to develop a clientele," he said.
But if he has a choice, he said he definitely would open Gammon's to liquor by the drink.
Most owners of local clubs are optimistic that passage of the amendment would increase sales.
Doug Compton, owner of the Mad Hatter, 700 New Hampshire St., said it would boost business because he wouldn't have to turn away non-members of the Hatter or reciprocal clubs.
Compton said the revenue from membership sales probably was less than 1 percent of his receipts. He said he would trade the membership money for the chance to gain more customers.
The Hatter has to turn away a lot of people, including KU alumni returning to Lawrence for football games, Compton on.
Lamb predicted that if Kansans approved the amendment, liquor sales would show a short-term increase and then stabilize near the current level.
He said private clubs in Kansas reported gross liquor sales at least
$90 million last year.
But not all club owners see passage of the amendment as a boon for business.
Bob Zibell, owner of Showcase Inc., which owns the Loft Restaurant in Topeka and markets Showcase club cards, said he was somewhat hesitant to change.
Zibell said he was reasonably satisfied with the present club system because he had been in business when liquor laws were stricter
"I don't feel that I would gain any additional customers." Zibell said.
He said he didn't have to turn away many people because most of the Loft's customers were members there or at reciprocal clubs or hotels.
If the amendment passes, Zibell said the Loft might remain a private club so he could retain some control of his customers. If they wrote a bad check or caused trouble, he could find their addresses on his membership list, he said.
The club also might gain status if it was the only private club in Topika Zibell said he didn't know how many memberships Showcase had sold. The memberships are reciprocal with 300 clubs in the state.
tuary, 1401 W. Seventh St., said Showcase had a strong marketing program and probably sold more club memberships than any other club in the state.
Showcase could lose some of its income that comes from membership sales if it was opened for liquor by the drink. Johnson said.
Although Johnson said he planned to open the Sanctuary for liquor by the drink if the amendment passed, he also said he, too, might consider remaining private if the Legislature added undesirable regulations.
Ace Johnson, owner of the Sanc
"I if I feel that it's going to be advantageous to remain a private club, then I will," Johnson said.
Johnson wants to make sure that owners retain the right to refuse service to people when necessary.
Even if the amendment passes statewide, clubs in certain counties will remain private, because the changes would affect only those counties that approved the amendment. Lamb said.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said the details of the amendment were not perfect.
"But it beats what we have now," Winter said. "I stand on the side of eliminating what I think is hypocrisy in our system."
MANHATTAN — William Bennett, U.S. secretary of education, speaks to reporters at a press conference at Kansas State University. Bennett's speech, which he gave yesterday, was part of the Landon Lecture Series.
Bennett says aid cuts have minimal effect
By BETH COPELAND
MANHATTAN - U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett yesterday said that cuts in financial aid had only slightly affected college students and would benefit colleges and universities in the long run.
But in a news conference after his speech, Bennett also commented on the financial aid situation and added that reductions in scholarship and fellowship grants gave a break to taxpayers whose money financed public institutions.
"In the long run, colleges are the beneficiaries of social prosperity," he said.
Bennett, speaking at the 73rd Landon Lecture at Kansas State University, criticized the curricula of many elementary schools, saying they should increase their emphasis on U.S. history.
In his Landon lecture, Bennett said adults were to blame for stressing "human betterment" in the classroom rather than teaching "a precious historical legacy."
"Too many of our young people are ill-educated about the history, values and basic principles of our nation and our civilization," he said.
Bennett also criticized teacher certification requirements that say public school teachers must have a degree in education.
The Landon Lecture Series honors Alfred Landon, 99, a two-term Kansas governor and the 1936 Republican presidential nominee.
"I don't think it' s a bad thing to have a received a liberal arts degree
in history and then go teach history," he said.
"Two-thirds could not place the Civil War within the period of 1850 to 1900; one-third did not know that the Declaration of Independence was signed between 1750 and 1800; one-third did not know that Columbus sailed before 1750; one-half could not locate the half-century in which World War I occurred."
In his attack on grade-school curriculum, Bennett cited a 1985 survey by the National Assessment of Educational Progress that concluded American 11th-graders knew astonishingly little about U.S. history.
The fault, Bennett said, lies with adults who follow tenets of social efficiency, which concentrate on social studies — what Bennett called "a smorgasbord of this and that."
Instead, Bennett advocated an elementary school curriculum similar to one recommended by the National Education Association in 1892 that outlined a core curriculum with an eight-year course in history from fifth through 12th grades.
Bennett was asked whether, in Kansas, a thorough knowledge of agriculture would be as important as a wide background in history.
He stressed, however, that changes in history requirements must be financed on the state and local levels, rather than on the national level.
rte responded. "If you were to ask me where a loaf of bread came from, I'd say Kansas. It's important to know, but I wouldn't put agriculture on the same plane as the study of history."
Resignation of chairman is requested
Staff writer
Rv SALLY STREFF
A graduate student senator is calling for the removal of Tim Henderson, chairman of the Student Senate Finance Committee, from office.
The senator, Michael Foubert, also is asking the Senate to complete revenue code hearings — which divide the revenues from the $28 student activity fee — by Oct. 31.
Foubert's resolutions were approved by the Student Rights Committee and sent to the Student Senate on Monday night. Foubert charges that Henderson deliberately failed to follow policy dictated by the Senate.
Members of the Student Senate Executive Committee said the resolutions probably would be on the agenda of tonight's Student Senate meeting.
The resolutions will not be binding if approved by the Senate.
David Epstein, student body president, said he hoped Henderson would follow the wishes of the Senate.
"I don't think the resolution has a very good chance of passing," Epstein said. "I think some people support what Tim did."
Foubert said Henderson ignored the Senate's instructions to begin preparations over the summer for revenue code hearings. He also said that Henderson deceived members of the Senate about his progress on revenue code.
Henderson said he was being attacked because he had disagreed with Foubert.
"At this time, I do not foresee resigning if the resolution is passed," Henderson said.
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 1