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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.37
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1992
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Earthquake kills more than 300 in northern Egypt
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Egypt in modern times topped buildings yesterday and caused deadly stumpedes of panicked residents. The government said 370 people were killed and more than 3,300 injured.
A mother, holding her dead son and shouting for help, was pulled from the rubble of a building more than seven hours after the afternoon earthquake that registered 5.9 on the Richter scale.
schools.
Many victims were trampled to death, including more than 100 schoolchildren in the Cairo area, said Maj. Gin. Rida Abdel-Aiz, an assistant interior minister. They were killed as they rushed from swaying
Rescuers struggled into the night to dig survivors from debris.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in this city of 14 million people.
The quake was centered about 20 miles southwest of Cairo, a few miles from the pyramids and the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau. But Information Minister Safat el-Sherif said major monuments survived the 20-second temblor.
The quake was preceded by a roar.
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A lawyer. "Then I saw people running, and I realized it was an earthquake."
downtown square, tears streaking
down their cheeks.
Thousands crowded around the ruins of a 14-story apartment building in the northern suburb of Heliopolis late yesterday while four builderos cleared debris under floodlights.
An ambulance worker said about 15 people were pulled out alive before nightfall, including mother Samia Rabag Khail.
Her condition was unknown. She was removed, dazed, on a stretcher, after she was found holding her dead son and shouting for help.
The dead in the southern suburb of Maadi, where many Americans and other Westerners live, included six Egyptian schoolchildren.
Maadi resident Fahima Tala Aby
Suleiman said she saw a 14-year-old
girl, wearing a school uniform, ran dead after a collapsing wall hit her. A wall collapse in a downtown Cairo shop killed a worker. Boys died in a stampede from a collapsing school in Shubra, a poorer Cairo district.
Abdel-Aziz said most schoolchildren were casual of panic.
The security force's operations room in Cairo reported last night that 116 buildings were reported destroyed or badly damaged throughout Egypt.
Eight hours after the jok, the Interior Ministry reported that the quake killed 370 and injured 3,369 in nine of Egypt's 26 provinces.
Hardest hit were Cairo, with 127 dead and 2,139 injured, and Giza to
the south, with 128 dead and 700 hurt,
it said.
The quake spared Aswan High Dam, which holds back 310-mile-long Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake. A breach would send water gushing straight down the Nile Valley to Cairo.
Egyptian Museum director Mohammed Saleh said only two large statues among more than 100,000 pieces on face were damaged.
Whether Cairo's wealth of Islamic and Coptic monuments were undermined by the earthquake was not immediately known.
Egyptian earthquake
Preparing for Hillary Clinton's visit
Gree Fvans. Leebo freshman. works on a sign at the Douglas County Democratic Headquarters. Evans will welcome Hillary Clinton to KU when she visits today.
After speech, candidate's wife to cast vote at candy store
Bv KC Trauer
Kansanstaffwriter
Jenifer Dodd proudly heralded Hillary Clinton's appearance to the noon-through walking past Wescoe Hall yesterday.
"Hillary Clinton is coming to the Hill — a date with the next first lady," Yildir Dodd, president of KU Young Democrats, as she presented 20,000 faculty publishing today's speech.
Student organizers such as Dodd and University personnel have been preparing for Clinton's visit since the Clinton campaign this weekend announced the event, which also will include an appearance by Clinton at a Lawrence candy store.
By noon yesterday, students had put up 300 posers around campus and had handed out about 14,000 liers, said Jason McIntosh, president of KU Students for Clinton and co-organizer of today's rally along with KU Young Democrats.
Yesterday's information blitz included a two-hour stint on KJHK's "John Boss Show" and two and a half hours calling studios and banksts at a Lawrence attorney's office.
Dodd said, "We are trying to reach as many people as possible. Our members have blanketed the campus with fliers."
Lt. John Mullens said KU police had been working with the Secret Service assigned to the Clinton campaign. But he stayed quiet on the details to preserve security.
Facilities operations workers yesterday constructed the speaking platform, and the KU police department organized security.
After Clinton speaks at the rally about the importance of voting, she is scheduled to place a vote in a poll conducted by a Riverfront Plaza candyd show.
Students were not the only ones involved in setting the stage for Clinton.
Barbara Wood, owner of Ye Ode Sugarsity Shoppe Inc., 1 Riverfront Plaza.
Beam poll
Hillary Clinton will visit a candy store at the Riverfront Plaza today. The candy store has been conducting an scientific poll by asking customers to vote for their candidate by dropping a jelly bean into one of three holes on the floor. Perot, and another independent, Harold Stassen. The results so far:
said she wrote letters to President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton about her seven-week-old poll in which customers drop a jellybean into their favoraded carrier's jar.
"I'm very excited because I wrote a letter and somebody responded," she said. "That
does not happen too often in this world."
A requirement for voting is a store purchase — Clinton probably will pick one of the store's homemade chocolates, Wood said. Then Wood will give Clinton her jellybean for her vote.
Self-employed farmer and Democratic political activist to fill final position on board
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff write
He replaces JoAnn McDowell, former president of Independence Community College.
Sidney Warner, a self-employed farmer, rancher, feed-yard operator and real estate broker from Cimarron, will complete the nine-member board.
Gov. Joan Finney yesterday announced the appointment of a new member to the Board of Regents, the governing body of Kansas' six state universities.
Warner said that he had little experience in the business of higher education but that he was familiar with some of the issues facing the state's universities.
"I know we're faced with a shortage of funds and we're trying to find the best way to stretch our resources and to scare up some money to pay for such things as faculty salaries," he said.
Warner has been active in Democratic politics on the local and state levels and has been a long-time friend of Mr. Clinton.
He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Kansas State University in 1956.
Warner joins the Regents at one of the more challenging times in the history of the board, said Stanley Koplik, Regents executive director.
"The issues are more complex with a lot of intensity." Koplik said. "The new Regent will have to deal with issues such as the right level of tuition the students have to pay."
Ed Meyen, executive vice charcoalor of the University of Kansas, said the new Regent should have a long-term vision for higher education to contribute to the Regents-mandated program review.
The program review is a statewide restructuring effort to eliminate duplication among universities' academic programs.
"I think the major challenge for the new Regent coming into the board is preparing themselves for a leadership role in program review," Meyen said.
The appointment comes three days before the Regents' second monthly meeting of the school year and about three and a half months after McDowell resigned.
McDowell had been fired as president of Independence Community College on March 10 by the college's Board of Trustees. The board accused her of mismanagement and trying to boost state air by
McDowell, who denied the allegations, is suing six college trustees for breach of contract and violation of her civil rights.
Warner is Finney's fifth Regents appointment. His term is scheduled to expire December 31, 1984.
Haskell Indian Junior College joined communities around the world in recognizing Columbus Day. Some celebrated with parades and festivities, while others held educational forums and protests.
Columbus Day
See story, Page 3.
V.P. candidates to debate
Occupancy of KU residence halls has decreased
Bush's, Clinton's and Perot's running mates will square off tonight in the only vice presidential debate of the presidential campaign.
See story, Page 10.
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
The occupancy of KU residence halls has decreased by enough people in the past five years, to fill McCollum Hall and five scholarships halls.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, attributed this total decrease of 1,196 students to a decline in the number of graduating high school seniors. But changes in what students want in college housing is affecting occupancy rates as well.
Fewer high school seniors means fewer residents at the halls, because freshmen are the residence halls' main customers, Stoners said.
While there are fewer high school seniors, KU's enrollment has remained steady because more upperclassmen, mainly seniors and graduate students, are
attending the University.
Stoner said a demographic cycle accounted for the lower numbers of high school seniors. Occupancy this semester, a total of 3,552 students, was down by 1,196 students compared to five years ago, though freshmen enrollment was down by 84%, which is compared to five years ago, according to figures compiled at the end of September.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the number of graduating high school seniors was 63 percent between now and the year 2000.
But other factors could be contributing to the decline.
Stoner said he recognized the differences in what residents wanted today compared to what the buildings were designed for in the 1950s.
Although residence halls provide food, are close to campus and have been shown to benefit students' performance in school, many struggle with other academic problems offered by other forms of housing.
"It's a different clientele we're serving." Stoner said.
"I'm thinking about living here next year."
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Today's students would rather have private bathrooms than share one large bathroom with 30 people who live on a floor in a residence hall, he said.
J. R. Sierse, Great Bend freshman, said he was considering moving next year from Oliver Hall to Naismith Hall, 1800 Naismith Dr., because he wanted more room, different food and amenities offered at Naismith such as a pool, weight room and cleaning
Residency decline
Residence hall occupancy has declined 26.3 percent since 1987 while the total number of undergraduates has declined only 0.8 percent.
1987 1988 1988 1990 1992 1992
Source: ken lynch, dir. of stuart bourke, bourke
Source: Ken Strain, dir. of student housing.
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