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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.58
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1992
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POW recognizes sacrifice
Patrick Tompkins / KANSAN
Veteran relives his captivity in Philippines
By Christine Laue Kansan staff writer
Ben Lohman spent 43 months of his service in the U.S. Marine Corps as a prisoner of war during World War II.
Army ROTC cadets Pat Quinlan, Lawrence freshman, and Robert Cline, Branson Mo. freshman, guard the POW-MIA flag at the Vietnam Memorial near the Chi Omega fountain. The cadets will conduct the 24-hour vigil until noon today.
prisoner of war during World War II. "It was not like an American prison," he said, but a hot spot for dysentery. People got diseases. People did not get medical attention."
Lohman spoke yesterday in front of Strong Hall at a noon ceremony recognizing POWs and military personnel missing in action. Members of KU's military ROTC units raised the U.S., Kansas and black POW/MIA flags up the flagpole, as the Campanile towerbell struck 12 times and a heaviest fell on the crowd.
KU's chapters of Angel Flight/Silver Wings, a national service organization, and the Arnold Air Society, its counterpart consisting of Air Force ROTC cadets, organized the annual ceremony in recognition of National POWMIA Week and today, Veterans Day.
After Lohman's speech, three ROTC members carried a lamp with a flame to the Vietnam Memorial on Memorial Drive, where they will stand guard for a 24-hour vigil.
Lohman, who now lives in Fairway, told of his experience as a POW in the Philippines and Japan from 1942 until the war ended in 1945.
He said he and thousands of other military personnel worked like slaves in the rice paddies and other crop fields.
"I believe the reason I survived was that I had to and did change my thinking, from wishing things would be different to the realization that no one else would be forthcoming," Lohman said.
"You had to have hope because lack of hope can kill you like any disease,"
He also attributed his survival to prayers from his parents, who were told repeatedly that he would not survive, his faith and prayers to St. Jude, the patron saint in hopeless causes.
Lohman said he thought his general should have given the military personnel the chance to survive on their own rather than surrender to Japan.
"We would've had a chance then," he said. "A lot of guys would've been living that aren't living now."
Kansas Union sports brand new look
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
One week ago, plastic covers dressed the new furniture at the recently renovated south portion of the Kansas Union lobby. But since the opening of the south entrance at the Union Monday, KU students have been covering the furniture.
While some students yesterday used the new couches as napping spots, others sat and talked with friends or tried to study, despite hammering and drilling by construction crews working on the north part of the Union.
"Once the drills get out of here, if it be better," said Ryan LaRue, a Lenea freshman who was studying yesterday in the lobby.
Joe Cheah, KualaLumpur, Malaysia freshman, said that he liked the renovated lobby because it was larger and not as noisy as the north lobby, which is now being renovated. Students had to use the north lobby while the south end was being renovated. Cheah said noise from the construction did not bother him.
But LaRue and other KU students said they liked the look and feel of the newly renovated south end of the Union.
Kevin Beyers, Reading, Penn, senior, said the Union's architecture and the temporary redirecting of the traffic provided a better study environment.
"If you are concentrating on something, I don't think it bothers you," he said.
"I guess since the space is more open, noise doesn't bounce around as much." Beyers said.
He also said the lobby had more comfortable furniture.
Carol Thobae, Houston, Texas,
freshman, agreed. But unlike some
people who smoke, she thinks people should not be able to smoke in the lobby.
"It's nice and new, and you don't want it smelling like smoke," she said.
Pat Beard, manager of building services at the Union, said last week that Union officials had not decided whether smoking will be allowed in the lobby.
Christine Courses, a Lawrence freshman who works at the information counter, said a lot of people asked about smoking. Employees at the counter direct smokers to the third level.
Lawrence animal code
Draft amendments to the city animal code were approved by the City Commission last night. In response to complaints from citizens about wild animals, including a mountain lion, the code laws not prohibited within city limits.
All animals except the following will be prohibited:
Domesticated cats (except wild canine hybrids) * Domesticated dogs (except wild canine hybrids) * Domesticated cats (except wild canine hybrids) * Domesticated European horses * Rabbits (no more than three) * Birds * Nonvenomous snakes less than 8 feet long * Nonvenomous lizards * Turtles * Amphibians * Fish (*
Dan Schauer / KANSAN
City commission to limit animals allowed as pets
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
In a 5-0 vote, the commission approved draft ordinance amendments to Articles 1 and 2 of Chapter 3 of the code. The changes specify what kinds of animals can be kept in the city as pets. The current code prohibits only pigs.
Wild animals in the city limits will soon be a thing of the past since city commissioners took a preliminary step night toward amending the Lawrence animal control code.
The changes are being made in response to an April 7 incident in west Lawrence, said David Corliss, assistant to the city manager. A mountain lion that was being kept as a pet in the 3000 block of Steven Drive got looted and wandered the neighborhood for several hours before it was captured by Lawrence's Animal Control Division.
The commission directed city staff to amend the code late this summer. Corliss said city officials had received many reports about the lonon since the April incident.
"There have been different reports of what the owners have allowed the mountain lion to do," Corliss said. "Since we've started reporting on this issue, our reports of other people in the city housing wild, exotic animals."
Mayor Bob Schulte said he had received calls from citizens reporting other wild animals in the city.
"I got a call, not the mountain lion call, but another call about a possible leopard in a duplex," he said.
There is no specific time frame indicating how long owners of prohibited animals will have to comply with the new ordinations. However, Corliss said the city would cooperate with those owners in dealing with the animals.
"We're not going to simply start issuing tickets the day this law is enacted," he said. "We're not interested in issuing citations. We're interested in the compliance aspect."
Debbie Burns, head of the Sunset Hill Neighborhood Association, said the association would like the new ordinances to be enacted as soon as possible. She lives in the neighborhood where the mountain lion is kept. She said residents feared for their children's safety because of the animal.
"We would like to have owners of animals like this in the city brought into compliance as swiftly as possible," she said. "I have seen the animal. It is in the front yard on a rope on occasion, and we feel it is a real detriment to the neighborhood."
The amendments to the code contain an exact list of what kinds of animals may be kept as pets in the city. All animals that are not on the list are prohibited within city limits, except in special situations such as a fair or livestock show.
The code also contains a "grandfather clause" that allows city residents who had goats, sheep, horses, cows, mules or donkeys prior to the amendments to keep those animals, as long as ownership remains with the same person on each animal. The code also says that exception was made because those animals were not regarded as a threat to the public.
"The argument is, those animals have not been a public safety hazard in the past," he said. "That has not really been too much of an issue."
After the commission voted to put the draft ordinance up for formal consideration at next week's meeting, commissioner Bob Schumm made a motion to direct city staff to send a registered letter to the owners of the mountain lion advising them that they would have 10 days to get rid of the lion after the new ordinance goes into effect. That motion also passed 5-0.
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See story, Page 3.
Grissom still faces life
The Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed yesterday that Richard Grissom must stay in prison for life. But he will be resentenced on two counts of aggravated burglary and four counts of robbery.
See story. Page 12.
American Indians urge understanding at racism forum
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Michael Haney, of the United Indian Nations of Oklahoma,
speaks to about 300 people in Alderson Auditorium.
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
From a traditional American Indian prayer to a performance by American-Indian rap artist Julien B., an audience packed into Alderson Auditorium saw many elements of American Indian culture last night at a forum called "Racism and Native Americans."
Members of the American Indian Movement, scheduled to speak in a panel discussion sponsored by the Native American Student Association, missed their plane from Minneapolis and did not appear. Michael Haney, a coordinator for the United Indian Nations of Oklahoma, and American Indians from Lawrence spoke about American Indian issues to a standing-room-only crowd.
Haney said he had met earlier in the day with representatives of the
Kansas City Chiefs to talk about why they had reinstated the tomahawk chop at Arrowhead Stadium.
Hanley also is involved in efforts to remove American Indian remains from museums to rebury them in sacred spots across the country.
"I look at this type of racism as very similar to alcoholism," he said. "Racism is a disease. The Chiefs admitted they had a problem earlier this year, but they fell off the wagon a couple weeks ago."
"People always want to learn about Indians, so we have archaeologists digging up our bones all over the place," he said. "But if you want to learn about Indians, why not let the
Haney said the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media will hold a rally Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City before the Chiefs game against the Washington Redskins.
bones rest where they were buried and talk to some live oyes?"
"They've got more dead Indians on this camp than live ones," he said
Haney criticized KU's Museum of Natural History for having American Indian remains.
this campus must be given Lawrence resident Willie Sevier spoke about his death of his son, a boy who was shot by Lawrence police in the Sevier's home more than a year ago. Sevier said attorneys were still working to bring federal government attention to the case. Many in Lawrence feel the police officers involved in the shooting violated police procedure during the shooting.
"Since Gregg's death, we've been fighting to make people aware of this case," he said. "We've traveled all over the country and met a lot of people. We're doing this so our future generators won't have to face problems like this."