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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 13, 1992
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Fire in France affects KU student
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Andrew Darnell, Lansing senior, attempts a handstand on the parallel bars during a men's gymnastics class at Robinson Center. The class meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Event interrupts her school year
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
In addition to adjusting to a different culture, Maria Angeletti now must also find a new place to live.
The Lawrence graduate student, who is spending a year at a university in Montpellier, France, returned to her apartment house last Wednesday to find it on fire.
Angeletti was unhurt in the fire, but many of her belongings were destroyed, said her mother, Elvira Angeletti, Lawrence resident.
Richard Angeloleti, Maria's father, is a professor in KU's department of music and dance.
Elvira Angeletti said that her daughter was only able to salve her jewelry.
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injured or hurt, "she said. "We're just very grateful for that."
Elvira Angeletti said that Maria told her on the telephone Sunday that a gun and ammunition shop and a music equipment store occupied the basement of the apartment house.
She said her daughter told her that
the fire was started when someone was soldiering in one of the shops.
Maria Angeletti sent a letter and French newspaper clippings of the fire to her parents Saturday.
In the letter, she said that she and one of her roommates had gone grocery shopping Wednesday the second day of classes at the university.
Angeletti and her roommate returned to the apartment about 10:15 a.m. When they entered the apartment, the floor was shaking and small clouds of smoke were issuing from it, she wrote. The two women ran outside and crossed the street.
"Within thirty seconds, billows of black smoke were coming out from the armory below our apartment," she wrote. "Within minutes, the building was engulfed by flames."
Angeletti's school year in France is being sponsored by the Lawrence Rotary Club through Rotary International, sad Robert Candilin, chairman of the international student community, and Angelaetti had been in France for one month of intensive French training before the fire.
The women are currently living in a hotel while they work with the Rotary club in Montpellier to find new lodgings. Elvira Angelaetti said.
In the meantime, Maria Angeloetti, in making do with few belongings, her
"At one point, she said she had been in the same clothes for four days," Elvira Angeleki said.
Bus pass prices to rise this spring to $50 a semester
Higher operating costs force rates up by $5;
single rides to cost $1
Kansan staff report
Starting in the spring, students will pay $5 more for their bus passes and 25 cents more for single rides for KU on Wheels, the Student Senate-financed bus service.
Chrisy Kaiser, coordinator for Student Senate's transportation board, said that the board voted last night to increase the bus pass price to $50 a semester and the single fare to $1 because of an increase in costs for operating the busses.
She said the cost for bus passes still was a good deal.
The board has been discussing
increasing the bus fare for a while because of the population growth in Lawrence, Kaiser said. In the future, the board may have to add more buses to some of the routes.
"We want to provide transportation for as many students as possible," she said.
The policy for lost and stolen bus passes will remain the same. It is $50 for a replacement bus pass if students lose the passes and $40 if a bus pass has been stolen and a police report can be provided.
"We want the students' input on everything." Kaiser said.
Students can express their comments, concerns or questions about the increase in bus fares next week, when the transportation board will conduct a survey from 9:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 20 and 21 in front of Wescoe Hall.
University housing reports occupancy rate decrease
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but it's cheaper to live off campus," he said.
Sieser said rising costs every year at residence halls caused many students to move off campus.
Stoner proposed rate increases Thursday that would mean that students who plan to live in student housing units next year would pay between 2.1 and 8.1 percent more than this year's rates. The proposed increases are due to inflationary pressures, Stoner said.
Sieiser said last week's proposed 4.9-percent rate increase at the residence halls was a major reason he and his friends might not return to Oliver next fall.
"I think the rate costs are going to make a big difference if they stay on campus or go off campus," he said. "We have a lot of sophomores on our floor, and I think they're all going to move out."
A person in a double occupancy room receiving 19 meals a week in Oliver or other KU residence halls this year pays $3,080. A semi-private suite and meal plan for 19 meals a week costs a resident at Naismith Hall $3,698.
A resident splitting the cost with a roommate of a two-bedroom apartment at Colony Woods, 1301 W. 24th St., would pay about $1,960 without food.
Ken Martin, head of housing and contracts for the Association of University Residence Halls, said retaining students living in residence halls should be the housing department's top priority.
"We have to make it a more attractive value for students to live in the residence halls," Martin said.
Stoner said the housing department was working to do so by installing cable television, building a new food court at Lewis Hall and renovating the halls so they would provide residents with more privacy.
Education, not protests, marks Columbus Day at Haskell
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
Columbus Day is a federal holiday. But at Haskell Indian Junior College, yesterday was not just another day off.
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Instructors at Haskell offered sessions on various American-Indian issues in a day-long program called "Rethinking the Columbian Legacy: Understanding the Past to Build a Future." The sessions, which were free to the public, packed classrooms throughout the Haskell campus.
Haskell's program was one of countless events held in observance of Columbus Day around the world yesterday. Parades and protest marked the day. In some Latin American countries, police were called in to control protesters committing symbolic acts such as spattering paint on statues of Christopher Columbus.
Haskell's event was one of several that focused on education rather than protest. In welcoming the public to campus, Haskell President Bob Martin said he was proud of the way Haskell was using Columbus Day to educate people about American Indians.
"When we began planning for the quincentennial last year, we knew we didn't want to celebrate, but we didn't want a negative pro-
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Martin said that it was important for the United States to understand its past so that the next 500 years would be more peaceful and tolerant.
Sessions ranged from "A Historical Perspective on Federal-Tribal Relations" to
More than 70 people packed into a small classroom to hear a panel discussion about being an American Indian in 1992. The panel answered questions from the audience about life on reservations, the Kansas City tomahawk chop and racism in Lawrence.
"People wonder why we protest the Columbus landing, which was 500 years
ago," said Dorothy Stites, a Haskell sophomore. "But all the stigmas and stereotypes exist today. We go into stores on 23rd Street, and we're watched the entire time. We go into stores downtown, and sales clerks show us the discount racks. These problems are real, and they exist right here in Lawrence, Kansas."
Connie Bread, secretary for the natural and social sciences department at Haskell, said she was outraged by the use of American-Indian themes in professional sports.
"I find all of that very offensive," she said. "We are the only race in this country that is set aside as a mascot. Names like the Chiefs or the Redskins only add to the stereotypes." In the keynote address, Walter EchoHawk, lead attorney for the Native American Rights Fund, spoke about the religious oppression that American Indians have faced since Columbus first arrived in the Americas.
"As soon as Columbus set foot in the new world, he began a myth that has been so destructive to all indigenous people," he said. "That myth is that the Indians had no religion or only had quaint beliefs and superstitions. This religious intolerance defines the way Native Americans have been treated over the last 500 years."
KJHKairs intercontinental forum
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
On the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas, American Indians and Spanish historians met via short-wave radio to discuss their viewpoints on the voyage and its impact on indigenous peoples.
KJHK and Radio Exterior de Espana of Madrid co-sponsored the hour-long discussion, "Columbus and Controversy: A New Look at the New World," which aired yesterday afternoon. It was the first collegiate broadcast of its kind to be aired worldwide.
American-Indian representatives included Dan Wildcat, head of natural and social sciences at Haskell Indian Junior College; Walter Echo-Hawk, lead attorney of the Native American Rights Fund, and Lori Learned, a member of the University of Kansas Native American Student Association.
Manuel Lacena Salmoral, professor of history at the University of Alcala in Spain, and Manuel Gutiérrez Estevez, professor of American anthropology at the University of Madrid, joined the discussion from Madrid.
Echo Hawk opened his comments by asking the Spanish people to apologize to American Indians for the negative impact of Columbus's voyage.
"We really have nothing to celebrate when it comes to Columbus or his voyage," he said. Through a translator, Lucena Salmoral responded by saying that an apology was inappropriate because today's Spain was different from Spain in the 1400s. He also reminded the audience that Spain's economy was damaged by financing exploration.
Wildcat said he did not think views toward indigenous populations had changed much since 1492. He said American Indians still were fighting for religious freedom, sovereignty and basic human decency.
Learned, KU senior, said after the show that the most important aspect of the discussion was its attempt to make people aware of the American-Indian view of exploration.
"I think education has been lagging on that," she said. "You just get the European viewpoint. The problem is, we're not only stereotyped here in America, but across the world as well."
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