University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 9, 1986
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News Briefs Bennett to visit KSU for lecture series
William J. Bennett, U.S.
Secretary of Education, is scheduled
to present the 73rd Landon Lecture
Series at Kansas State
University today.
His main address is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in McCain Auditorium
In his speech, "Once More, A Plea for History," he will address the need for U.S. grade schools to bolster basic core subjects.
The Landon Lecture Series is named after Alfred Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee and two-term governor of Kansas.
The lecture is sponsored by the Landon Lecture Series committee and coincides with Landon's 99th birthday.
Bennett will speak to students and faculty of the K-State School of Education at 9:30 a.m. in the K-State University's Little Theater.
Candidate to speak
The College Republicans will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Phill Kline, the Republican candidate for the 2nd District of the U.S. House of Representatives, will sneak at the meeting.
He will face an incumbent, State Rep. Jim Slattery, in the Nov. 4 election.
Kline, a past president of the College Republicans organization at the University of Kansas, is expected to talk about involvement in the organization and about his campaign.
All interested people are invited
Subjects sought
Carlos Dujovne, director of the Lipid and Arteriosclerosis Prevention Clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is seeking people with blood cholesterol problems to participate in the clinical testing of two new medications.
The medications, Synvindin and Epastatin, have been shown in previous tests on humans to reduce cholesterol in the blood between 25 and 50 percent of the time.
Tests using Synvinolin are in progress, and testing for Eptastatin will begin in about a month, said an assistant at the clinic.
The Med Center clinic is one of 14 clinics in the country chosen to test Synvinolin and one of six chosen to test Epatstatin.
The clinic, which also offers free cholesterol tests, is the only clinic in the Kansas City area with blood testing accuracy standardized by the National Center for Disease Control.
Dietician to speak
Georigne Larsen, registered dietician at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, will speak on "Nutrition for Good Health" at 7 p.m. today in the Doctors' Conference Room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
The talk will be based on "Dietary Guidelines for Americans," prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The speech is free and open to he public.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with a high temperature around 80 degrees and southerly winds between 15 and 30 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low temperature in the mid-60s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance for thunderstorms.
From staff and wire reports.
State of siege concerns Chilean student
By SHANE A. HILLS
Thomas Opao says his family and friends back home in Chile can be thrown in jail and tortured, without a trial, for being suspected leftists.
Staff writer
His family and friends can't assemble freely. The government can censor the newspapers they read and the television and radio broadcasts they hear.
Chile's president, Augusto Pinochet,
declared a state of military siege — a condition
allowing the government to ignore civil rights
— after guerrillas tried to assassinate him Sunday night.
Opazo, Santiago, Chile, graduate student, said yesterday that his freedom would be severely limited in his native country.
"I'm not surprised about the siege, but it angers me greatly." Opazo said. "If the government has the slightest suspicion that you are involved in a leftist plan, they'll grab you, and you'll disappear.
"There's no way you can prove your innocence."
The left hand of Pinochet, 70, was slightly
wounded Sunday when a group of guerrillas ambushed his motorcade with submachine guns and hand grenades. Five of his body guards were killed and 10 were wounded.
Pinochet blamed communist-backed guerillas for the attack.
Opazo was 13 years old when Pinochet led a military takeover of the Chilean government in 1973
"I was all for it when Pinochet took over," Opazo said. "The Allende government, which he overthrew, was turning Chile into a Soviet satellite."
Robert D. Tomasek, professor of political science, specializes in Latin American affairs. He said Pinochet became dictator of a country that had a history of active democracy.
"That's the tragedy of Chile." Tomasek said. "It had a very sophisticated, multi-party democracy that just could not solve the socioeconomic problems of Chile. It is a very literate country with a tradition of highly-spirited party newspapers. The election process was very vigorous.
"That's partly what Pinochet stood for — a calming effect. He argued that the parties split
the society." Tomasek said. "He stood for order and stability and used the lack of unity among the parties to further his own military junta."
Pinochet promised the Chilean people that he would call for free elections, but has not done so. This is a strong cause of unrest in Chile today. Tomasek said.
Pinochet improved the economy in Chile and secured popularity among the people during the first few years of his administration.
"He sold off a lot of state enterprises to private owners, and invited foreign investors," Tomasek said. "But in the late 70s the economy started to go sour. Pinochet became unpopular because of the economy and because he would not call for free elections.
"Politically, he was brutal. He tortured socialist and Marxist party leaders and exiled them. Pinochet has relied on a strong allegiance from the Chilean military to stay in command."
Tomasek said said the United States had taken a quiet approach toward encouraging Pinochet to call for free elections.
"The one thing the United States does not
want to do is to create a political vacuum whereby a socialist or communist regime could rush in," he said.
But now the United States is starting to show its impatience with Pinochet's human rights violations and refusal to call for free elections, he said.
Tomasek said it probably would become difficult for Chile to borrow money from the World Bank or other American banks that loan to South American countries until free elections were called.
"That's what the United States should have done a long time ago." Opazo said,
Meanwhile, Opazo said he had learned from the U.S. media that his family and friends in Chile were being oppressed. They can't say anything against the government, he said.
anything against the government, so he
if he calls home, the telephone could be tapped. If he writes a letter, government officials may open it.
The last time Opazo was home in 1984, Chile was under a military siege just as it is now.
"I could feel the political climate in the streets," he said. "People were unhappy, depressed — I sensed that."
Bo March, Lawrence resident, puts finishing touches on the woodwork in the Glass Onion. March works for Triple C Carpentry, which was contracted to do all the woodwork for the coffee shop.
New cafe to offer food, no alcohol
By ATLE BIORGE
Staff writer
Imagine the smell of cappuccino and pastries floating around white-clothed tables and pieces of friendly conversation at a continental cafe.
Jeff Morrow and his wife, Kathy, who own the building at 624 W. 12th St., said they planned to serve food and beverages at the cafe.
The hand-printed menus mostly will list hot and cold beverages like fruit juices and varieties of coffee, he said.
Soups, salads and pastries also will be available. Morrow said.
but no beer or alcohol will be served," he said, stressing the last word, "or brought on the premises," added Kathy Mgrow.
The Glass Onion will be an alternative for students below the legal drinking age, she said.
Dareen Smith, a folk-singer and songwriter, is scheduled to perform Sept. 17, Morrow said. Other performers may be scheduled after the business opens.
"We'll move into music as the spirit moves," he said.
Morrow said he wasn't concerned about noise from the Rock Chalk, a bar next door which often has live music, because the Glass Onion could close its windows.
He said the remodeling had been expensive and time consuming. To build a new floor, he said, construction workers first had to build new walls downstairs to support it. They also raised the roof.
A solid oak staircase leads up to the coffee house, which will have plenty of interior neon lights, he said.
Jeff and Kathy Morrow own two other Yellow Sub stores, in addition to the one in Lawrence — one in Boulder, Colo., and one in Pullman, Wash.
Jeff Morrow also owned the Rock Chalk, then called Hawk's Crossing, until 1985.
They are thinking about starting a Yellow Sub restaurant in Chicago or Santa Cruz, Calif., he said.
The Morrows said they liked to have restaurants in cities with lots of recreational possibilities.
Official blames squirrel for campus power outage
By BETH COPELAND
Mother Nature reminded KU students and faculty of their dependence on technology after a four-minute power outage yesterday.
"Probably a squirrel got between an energized power line and a grounded piece of equipment, causing a short," said Gene Pence. "We found the Lawrence division of KPI, Gas Service."
The 1:30 p.m. power outage led to reports that an elevator in the Kansas Union had fallen, and that a fire had broken out in Malott Hall. Firefighters, police and facilities operations officials investigated the scenes. Safety devices, activated by the electrical short, misled people into thinking that something was wrong.
when power went out at the Union, an elevator's automatic brake was activated. This caused the elevator to jail to a halt, said Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance for facilities operations. But the elevator did not fall.
But the elevator did his run. No injuries were reported, and Porter said said he didn't think anyone had been in the Union's elevators at the time of the outage.
Porter couldn't say how many buildings the outage affected, but said most of the buildings on the east side of campus suffered a power outage.
Wescoe Hall, Strong Hall, Bailey Hall,
Stauffer-Flint Hall, Watson Library, Fraser
Hall and the Union were all confirmed as
having lost power.
he said no damage had been reported. However, maintenance workers are checking buildings to survey any damage and to restart equipment that would have shut off during the power failure.
A diesel generator in Malott Hall automatically started up as a result of the power outage. Exhaust from the generator caused black smoke to bellow out the vents, Porter said. No fire was found in the building.
Pennel said that when the short occurred, the power line failed to reactivate. Normally, a protective device would sense the power failure and would begin transmitting power again seconds later. The protective device was temporarily disconnected to protect contractors installing new power lines on 19th Street.
Facilities operations officials initially speculated that the outage was a result of power-line switching, in which electricity is transferred from one line to another.
Bill Pesek, operations production manager of the Computer Center said safety devices on the computer systems prevented any damage or data loss.
Pennel said that the electric company had done some line switching that day but that the squirrel was a more likely cause.
South-bound monarchs stop on route to Mexico
By PAMELA SPINGLER
The wind rustles through the trees, and an early cricket chirps from the bushes.
A monarch alights on a maple tree. Suddenly, hundreds of the orange and black butterflies fill the air with color.
More than 500 monarchs were resting on two maple trees in front of the chancellor's residence yesterday afternoon, taking a break from their migration south.
George Byers, chairman of entomology and director of the entomology museum, said the butterflies followed this route every year.
"They fly from all across North America and follow the route from south-central Canada through Texas into Mexico, where they winter." Byers said.
The butterflies usually fly individually, he said, but cluster at night in large groups.
"It's just some natural habit of congregation," he said.
Byers said the monarchs spend the winter northwest of Mexico City in medium elevation mountains.
In the winter, thousands of monarchs literally hang from the trees. The temperature is very cool because they are 7,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level, he said.
"I've never personally seen the monarchs in Mexico, but I did see over 500,000 of them during the migration in Oklahoma and the branches of the trees were actually bending because of the weight of the butterflies." Byers said.
Depending on the tailwind, the butterflies can travel tremendous distances in a day.
Ernie May, entomology graduate student, said that until recently, scientists were unsure exactly where the monarchs spent the winter.
Byers said the monarchs would start the trip back across the United States in April.
'I've never personally seen the monarchs in Mexico, but I did see over 500,000 of them during the migration in Oklahoma.'
George Byers Chairman of entomology
When they reach Texas, they feed on milkweed, which is just starting to grow. The butterflies lay their eggs and then die.
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"Monarchs live to be about a year old, stay said. Monarchs are unique in that they can
The monarchs are unique in that they can withhold poison in their bodies, May said.
with blood poison in me,
"If a bird eats a monarch, they will get very
large amounts on the butterfly," he said.
did from the poison in the butterfly," he said.
Birds soon realize that they shouldn't eat the orange and black butterflies, May said.
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