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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.37
(USPS 650-640)
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 toppled buildings yesterday and caused deadly stampedes 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. Gen. Rida Abdel-Aziz, an assistant minister. They were killed as they rushed from swaying
Rescuers struggled into the night to die survivors from debris.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in this city of 14 million people.
The quake was preceded by a roar.
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 Safwat el-Sherif said major monuments survived the 20-second temblor.
"At first I thought it was a bomb in the bank," said Samy Mohammed Ali, a lawyer. "Then I saw people running, and I realized it was an earthquake.
People thronged in Cairo's streets after the ackle. Many seemed dazed. One woman stood on a sidewalk screaming. A knot of people sat in a
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 bulldozers cleared debris under floodlights.
An ambulance worker about 15 people were pulled out alive before nightfall, including mother Samia Rabag Khalil.
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.
Madi resident Fahima Tala Aby
Suleiman she saw she a 14-year-old
girl, wearing a school uniform, faldead 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-Aiz 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 jolt, 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 have sent 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 display were damaged.
The quake was felt as far away as Jerusalem, 250 miles northeast of Cairo.
Whether Cairo's wealth of Islamic and Coptic monuments were undermined by the earthquake was not immediately known.
Egyptian earthquake
Hats close the gender gap; girls have bad hair davs too
By Mark Button
Special to the Kansan
By Mark Button
Brian Merckens wakes up for his class at 8 a.m. and gives himself a half hour to get to class. He washes his face, eats his breakfast, dressed and grabs his books. Then he grabs his Boston Red Sox hat, the final accessory, twists it backwards and heads for class.
Merckens, Dearborn, Mich. senior, is one of many students at KU who treats a hat, or hats, as a piece of his wardrobe rather than something to wear to shade him from the sun.
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"Hats are just as important as shirts. I have different hats for different occasions," Merckens said. Among others, Merckens said he had a work hat, a hat for classes, and a hat to wear out.
One other popular style at KU is the "pin-wheel" hat, designed by the people at the Kansas Sports Club. These hats were
Part of this trend is to have a unique hat that nobody else has. Feeding on this fad is the Kansas Sports Club, 837 Massachusetts St., which specializes in unique hats. Jeff Stalnaker, store manager, said the store sold more than 450 styles of hats. The most popular style of hat is the full-stitched, or fitted, hat that professional baseball players wear. "People love the fitted caps," Stalnaker said, pointing toward the shelf of 120 styles of fitted hats for sale.
spyied after a 1925 Indianapolis team队 played in the Negro league, and feature a different color on each sixth of the hat, creating the pinwheel effect.
Women also play a big part in this new hat trend. Stalker said women made up about 30 percent of the hat buyers at the Kansas Sports Club.
"We even have a hat specially designed for women, Stahnaker said. He said his theory on the wave of women buying and wearing hats in recent months is simple: "Girls have bad hair days, too."
Kim Walker, Leawood senior, said she recognized the number of women at KU that wore baseball hats now.
"I know that hats look cut on girls, but the bottom line is if guys can roll out of bed and throw a hat on to go class, then we can too," she said.
Despite all this trendiness, there still are a few students that only wear hats of their favorite team.
Chris McCune, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said he would not buy a hat just to be trendy.
"I think people today will do anything to be trendy and cool, and buy a hat of a team you know nothing about is just one example."
"I won't buy a Chicago Bulls hat even it fit was the coolest hat I've ever seen," he said.
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T-shirts illustrate views
Bv Heather Lofflin
Special to the Kansan
T-shirts do more than provide comfort and
sell - T-shirts are billboards advertising
people's needs.
There is no one particular thing people place on T-shirts, Lister said. He people ask for specific sayings, cartoon characters, Harley Davidson symbols, school names, nicknames and tie dyes. He said that many people are interested in political T-shirts and that there is a trend toward anti-censorship messages. He said people are also buying "Frank Zappa for President" T-shirts and T-shirts that support the legalization of marijuana. Lister said what people place on T-shirts reflected their personalities.
"It's a way of expressing our opinions without opening our mouths," said Bruce Lister, an employee at Creation Station. "It's probably the easiest way to protest. A person could stand on a street corner and hold up signs, but he can get a point across just as easily with a T-shirt as with a loud voice."
Joe Cunningham, owner of Shirts Illustrated, said there had not been a particularly hot item for T-shirts for about a year and a half. Shirts Illustrated, 804 New Hampshire St., manufactures and sells T-shirts in bulk and creates T-shirts for 13 universities across the country for fraternities and sororities.
Schuyler Lester, co-owner of Creation Station, 730 Massachusetts St., said the store customized more than 900 T-shirts a week. The store also offers many T-shirts with anti-censorship messages.
Cunningham said the company sold 10,000 copies of the only political T-shirt it produces, which reads: "This man (picture of President George Bush) or this planet (picture of the earth)? The choice is yours . . . VOTE. This planet can't take another 4 years."
Joel Pascu, Topeka sophomore, owns a variety of T-shirts with different messages. He wears T-shirts that promote racial harmony, such as one that reads, "One world, one people," "Free your mind and the rest will follow," and a "Hands Across Campus" T-shirt. He also wears T-shirts that promote peace and T-shirts against world hunger, pro-life T-shirts and environmental T-shirts, including one that reads, "Here today, gone tomorrow."
Instead of buying a T-shirt, Jennifer McCulver, Overland Park junior, made her own. First she bought a rainbow-colored tie-dye T-shirt and then printed a peace symbol on the front with black fabric paint. She said she made her own T-shirt because she could not find a T-shirt at a store that she liked and because she had seen a similar T-shirt on someone else.
Deo Tajuba, Uganda graduate student, said T-shirts provided a way to educate people about his home country and showed his support of African unity.
Tajuba also has a T-shirt that reads, "Afrocentricity," which he said promoted education in Africa centering around African history and culture rather than Western culture.
He said he hoped wearing a T-shirt with the name of his country on it may cause someone who was curious to stop and ask him questions.
"The idea is to express my feelings about a country that is very far away but very close to my heart," he said.
Sexy lingerie is not just for the brave
By Melissa Lacey Special to the Kansan
Bold colors, styles and fabrics offer lively choices in lingerie
While once the bold designs and vivid colors of lingerie were deemed racy and seemingly limited to Madonna, in recent years they have become an element essential to any wardrobe.
Color, pattern and style have taken over the world of fine lingerie.
Much of this popularity can be attributed to Victoria's Secret, a mail-order ingeree catalog that expanded into a chain of retail stores across the country.
"Victoria's Secret definitely opened up a new door for prettier styles of lingerie that are not considered risque," said Linda Eagen, manager of the Maidenform Outlet Store, I Riverfront Plaza. "These new styles are now the standard for today's young woman."
Generational differences also play a part in what is now considered stylish to customers, Eagen said.
"Young women are more comfortable wearing things I wouldn't have been comfortable with when I was growing up, "Eagen said, noting the popularity of colored, printed and lacy lingerie.
The standard white, beige and black brass and panties are still selling strong, but there is much more freedom of choice in the stores today, she said.
Several KU students also expressed interest in unconventional lingerie.
"Lingerie is still designed to be useful in the conventional way, but now there seems more focus on the visual aspect," said Brooke Seddon, Fayetteville, Ark., junior. "Bras are not necessarily meant to be covered up anymore."
Seddon said that often times a mood or occasion would determine her choice in undergarment color.
"If I'm going to a casual atmosphere like class, I'll wear white or beige," she said. "But if it'a special occasion where I want to feel good about myself, I'll wear something fancier that's lazy or colored."
ramme Graves, Wichita junior, agreed that undergarment color can affect moods.
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Wrists are seen plain, boring and conservative," she said. "I feel better dressed when I match the color of a bra with the clothes I'm wearing. Wearing a colored bra can allow you to express your personality even if other people can't see it."
ved farmer and political activist position on board
self-employed farmer, rancher,
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plate the nine-member board.
ey yesterday announced the new member to the Board of ing body of Kansas's six state uni-
n McDowell, former president of unnity College.
he had little experience in the education but that he was familie issues facing the state's univer-
active in Democratic politics on levels and has been a long-time said.
cheeler's degree in economics University in 1956.
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new Regent will have to deal
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Regents at one of the more chal history of the board, said Stan executive director.
tive vice chancellor of the Uni aid the new Regent should have a higher education to contribute dipped program review.
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or challenge for the new Regent ard is preparing themselves for a program review. "Meyen said.
f comes three days before the onthly meeting of the school year id a half months after McDowell
en fired as president of Independ College on March 10 by the colletees. The board accused her of and trying to boost state aid by it figures.
remedied the allegations, is suing six breach of contract and violation
's fifth Regents appointment. His o expire December 31, 1994.
ecreased
sidency decline
ence hall occupancy has declined percent since 1987 while the total of undergraduates has declined 8 percent.
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