University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 8, 1986
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Seven die in Kansas in weekend crashes
Seven people died on Kansas highways this weekend, including two Baldwin City residents who were killed in an accident late Friday in Johnson County.
The men, John H. Wright, 53, and Duane J. Thurk, 28, were killed in a one-car accident on U.S. Highway 56, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported. They were pronounced dead at 11:50 p.m. at the scene.
Officers said the car, driven by Wright, struck a guardrail and traveled 50 to 60 feet in the air before jumping on its side in a shallow creek.
Two Pratt teenagers died on a county road near Pratt about 1:30 a.m. Saturday when their car struck an embankment.
The patrol also reported the death Friday night of a Garnett man who was struck by a car while walking along Interstate 35 near the Wellsville exit.
A woman and her 2-year-old son were killed Friday night when two pickup trucks collided at the intersection of a Labette County road.
The patrol said the accident occurred just after 7 p.m. at a rural intersection northeast of Edna, a southeast Kansas town about 20 miles east of Coffeville.
Workshop offered
The office of student financial aid is offering a budget workshop at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in 4047 Wescoe Hall.
The workshop is intended to show students how to design a budget that allows them to keep their expenses within their income
All students are invited to attend.
Nominations sought
Nominations are being accepted for the 1986 Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award, which recognizes teaching contributions made by faculty with 15 or more years of service at the University of Kansas.
The award includes a $5,000 stipend and honors a member of the faculty who best exemplifies a commitment to outstanding teaching at the University.
The award was organized in 1977 by members of the Chancellors Club, which provides the funds.
Nominations should be submitted by Sept. 26. The recipient will be announced at the Chancellors Club dinner Oct. 10.
Students, faculty, staff and alumni may send nominations to the office of academic affairs, 129 Strong Hall. Nominations, where appropriate, should be accompanied by a curriculum outline, by supporting comments and by departmental or school endorsements.
Applications are due
Applications for student positions on University Senate committees and University boards are due at 5 p.m. today at the Student Senate office, first floor of the Burge Union.
More than 49 positions are available on six committees and four boards, said Gordon Woods, vice chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee.
Weather
Today's weather will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. The temperature should reach a high in the lower 70s. Winds will be south to southeast at 16 to 20 mph. Tonight the temperatures could dip to 55.
From staff and wire reports.
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The president of the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants came to campus Saturday to criticize news coverage of her union's dispute with Trans World Airlines.
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By NANCY BARRE
Attendants allege sex discrimination
Her complaint was that reporters and editors had missed the real story — sex discrimination.
She and about 60 others were at the Kansas Union this weekend for the National Organization for Women State Conference. Vicki Frankovich, the union president and an active NOW member, delivered the keynote speech.
Among the 60 participants in the conference were nine area striking TWA flight attendants.
fully or fairly reported the reasons behind the strike, which began March 7 when more than 6,500 TWA flight attendants walked off the job.
"The media selectively releases information," she said. "As victims of the fight, we're being blamed for it."
She said Carl lecan, chairman of the board of TWA since a corporate takeover in 1985, never wanted to settle the strike. Instead, she said, he wanted to provoke an aging crew of flight attendants into quitting so he could hire an entirely new and younger work force at a lower price.
The strike began after TWA asked all of its employees to accept wage cuts. The airline said the cuts were necessary because federal deregulation of the airline industry had increased competition.
"They asked the pilots and ground crews to take a 15-percent wage cut," she said. "Then they get to the flight attendants, who are 86-percent women, and they ask us to accept a 44-percent wage cut . . . now you tell me that's not sex discrimination."
She said that when Icahn was asked why the flight attendants were asked to take deeper cuts, he replied that attendants could accept pay cuts easier because they weren't the primary breadwinners of the family.
Betsy Fisher, a Lawrence resident who had been a TWA flight attendant for 20 years, said she was proud of the action she and her co-workers had taken. However, she said times had been difficult since the walkout.
has 10 lawsuits pending against TWA, including two concerning bad faith bargaining and sex discrimination.
"A large percentage of our workforce were ages 35 to 40, and we no longer fit the male fantasy image of a flight attendant," she said. "He just wanted to wipe out an entire workforce and replace us with younger women."
"Since the strike, I've been on unemployment, I've taken a flag job with a road construction crew and my husband has filed for divorce." Fisher said.
to do."
The flight attendants' federation
Also speaking at the convention were several local politicians. State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, a member of NOW, said she actively supported pay equity and women's health care measures in the legislative session and the interim session.
Diane Bryan, also a flight attendant from Lawrence, agreed that times since the walkout had been hard.
"Sure, it's been tough," she said.
"But ethically, it was the only thing
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, DLawrence, also a member of NOW, said that she was proud of the large number of female politicians Lawrence had produced but warned that the fight for women's equality was a continuing battle.
500 attend Ceremonies cap 3 years of struggle
Nancy Hiebert, Douglas County commissioner and NOW member, said it was important for women to get into politics if they wanted to help other women.
500 attend dedication of new Catholic church
Archbishop Ignatius J. Strecker, center, blesses the altar with incense at the dedication Mass of the St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 1631 Crescent Road. Also pictured are from left, the Rev. Blaine
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The time for celebration had arrived
Five hundred people packed into the new St. Lawrence Catholic Church, designed to hold 392 people. But they didn't seem to mind standing in the aisles and in back as they sang the verse: "How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord."
After three years of campaigning for funds and fighting opposition from neighbors, the members of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center dedicated the church at a Mass on Saturday afternoon. The Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Ignatius J. Strecker, was one of several events that went on during the threeday celebration.
KU's Catholic community finally had its own church.
Schultz, a guest from Benedictine College in Atchison, and the Rev. Vince Krische of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center. The dedication was Saturday.
The Rev. Vincent Krische, director of the center since 1977, began planning the new
For 28 years, Krische said, Sunday Mass had been held in University buildings such as Murphy Hall, Smith Hall and, most recently, in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. With increasing KU enrollment came larger numbers of Catholic students, and it was time those students had their own church, he said.
The house that the center had occupied for 15 years was remodeled and painted. That building houses offices and classrooms. The cost of the entire project came to $3.9 million.
With the new building, the center expanded to 29,000 square feet. The church building, 1631 Crescent Road, includes a kitchen and a social area for reception and dances.
In 1983, when the center announced that the proposed site for the church was the corner of Crescent Road and Engel Road, neighbors voiced opposition to the plan.
The Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Associa
tion appealed to the Lawrence City Commission to oppose the construction and even brought a lawsuit against the city. But in March 1985, the suit was settled out of court after center officials agreed to limit parking to the center's lot.
In June 1985, Archbishop Strecker broke the ground.
Krische said the challenge was worth it.
"You don't achieve anything without having to struggle for it," he said. "Whenever anybody challenges, the challenge is good. It brought unity to our effort."
"I have an overwhelming feeling of gratitude to the people who have made this happen."
Linda Pitner, Omaha senior at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said she was proud of the priests.
ple were involved in the campaign to raise money and plan the building.
Seven committees were formed and 150 peo-
Alf Landon to observe 99th
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"This is the first time most of us realized the struggles they had been through," she said.
TOPEKA - A cane is his constant companion since he broke a hip $3^{1/2}$ years ago, and his hearing and eyesight sometimes inhibit conversation. But time has not robbed Alf Landon of his keen wit, searching mind and insatiable appetite for information.
Landon will observe his 99th birthday tomorrow, a milestone he never thought he'd reach. Now, he thinks he'll see 100.
"Oh, yes, why not?" he said.
"That's just one more year. Yes, I
think I can make that."
As he turns 99, Landon is aware of his place in Kansas and American political history as the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, two-term governor of Kansas and father of Sen. Nancy Kasebaum.
forever after a landside loss to popular incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He won in only two states — Maine and Vermont — but never showed any bitterness.
"I took it all in stride," he said.
"After you've been beaten for the top man, why run for anything else?"
Despite his lopsided loss to Roosevelt, Landon lived to realize a special niche in political history. Three times he was recognized at Republican national conventions for his contributions as Grand Old Man of the GOP, and party leaders have beaten a path to the door of his old Colonial-style mansion in Topeka.
Landon left candidate politics
"They're still trying to tell me what I have to do," he said. "But I want everyone to know that I'm still, at 99, deciding for myself what I'm going to do."
President Reagan came to Kansas on Landon's 65th birthday, and Vice President George Bush came last year. Other visitors have included former Presidents Nixon and Ford and the late Sen. Robert Kennedy.
this year, partly because of Landon's fractal physical condition.
As many as 70 school children, teachers and school officials are scheduled to call on Landon tomorrow afternoon, reviving a ceremony begun almost two decades ago.
Nobody of that stature is coming
They are former students of Landon Middle School, a junior high school about a half mile from Landon's home. The local school board closed the school last spring to save money.
"The visit of the students, that's what I really appreciate." Landon said. "I'll be there to give them greetings, and maybe a word of advice."
A second appearance for a top assistant to Chancellor Gene A. Budig is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. today in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.
Richard von Ende. University executive secretary, was charged in July with three counts of conspiracy to sell cocaine and three counts of selling cocaine. He later pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Michael Kiefer, 24, and Robert L. Parker, 31, both Lawrence residents, also are scheduled for second appearances in Kansas City. Kan. Kiefer is charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of selling cocaine. Parker is charged with two counts of conspiracy
In a second appearance, attorneys for the men could file any pre-trial defense motions. If no motions are filed at that time, the cases will be scheduled for jury trial.
The three men were among 21 people indicted in July on drug-trafficking charges after a yearlong investigation by federal, state and local officials.
Cocaine hearings continue; Von Ende to appear in court
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Von Ende continues to be absent from his $53,020-a year position on paid sick leave. He went on sick leave three weeks before he was indicted.
Von Ende was the University's chief legislative lobbyist from 1974 to the end of this year's session.
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