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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.26
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1997
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Program to aid hearing-impaired students
Federal grant will be used to train more interpreters
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
A new University training program for deaf-education interpreters could help keep some hearing-impaired students closer to home, said Sally Roberts, assistant professor of special education.
Currently, many hearing-impaired students, particularly those from rural areas, are forced to travel long distances to attend special schools. Interpreters in regular schools could help alleviate that problem.
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A four-year federal grant of $424,000 awarded Sept. 1 to KU's department of special education would allow 15 students a year for four years to become trained education interpreters, said Roberts, who heads the program.
Most of the grant will be used to pay for trainees' tuition, books and fees, said Barbara Luekte-Stahlman, director of the Deaf Education Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Luekte-Stahlman was the primary writer of the grant and will assist Roberts with the program.
"The training money is set aside by the federal government to attract students to problem areas," she said.
Roberts said she currently was searching for a program coordinator and hoped to begin recruiting students for the spring semester.
Graduates of the non-degree, two year program would be trained to interpret for students through the secondary level, using a variety of signing systems.
" their duties will be stricly within an educational setting," Roberts said. She emphasized that graduates of the program would not be tutors,
only interpreters.
"If you have a student who can lip read, then the interpreter can simply repeat what the instructor is saying," she said.
"Some may feel more comfortable in an elementary setting," Roberts said. "For the secondary level, they have to learn scientific and math signs."
While all the graduates will work with students, their actual duties will vary.
In addition to interpreting teachers' instructions and classroom discussion, an interpreter may also work with a hearing-inpaired student in extracurricular activities such as sports, she said.
The interpreters would be hired by individual school districts, and their actual duties would vary from district to district. In some cases, an interpreter could work with a single student, in others, with larger groups.
Roberts said that deaf children in
Kansas had three educational options:
Attend a self-contained classroom in which all the students are hearing impaired
Stay in the school they would normally attend, such as a regular public school, usually with the support of an interpreter or other assistance.
"Essentially, you're taking a 5-year-old and putting him into a dormitory," Roberts said.
"In a rural area, the classroom may be in another town, and it may be a bus ride of an hour or longer," Roberts said.
Attend a residential educational facility, such as the state School for the Deaf in Olathe, and live there for nine months of the year.
She said that one of her goals for the program would be to allow more hearing-impaired students from rural areas to remain close to home.
"I don't have any specific data on this, but in Kansas, students from
urban areas generally stay at home while rural students are sent to the school for the Deaf," she said.
As of Dec. 1, 1991, the most recent available statistics, 693 hearing-impaired students were at the secondary level in Kansas, according to the Office of Special Education at the Kansas Board of Education.
Of those 693 students, 451 were attending public schools and 242 were attending special agencies such as the Kansas State School for the Deaf, said Becky Stottlemire, data manager at the Office of Special Education.
Those students were being served by approximately 100 interpreters, said Brenda Eddy, the executive director of the Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
KU's program would be the only one in the state specifically training educational interpreters, Eddy said.
"There is a need, a very high need, for trained interpreters," she said.
Activity in Perot camp stirs speculation
Candidate may re-enter race tonight on CNN
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Texas billionaire Ross Perot may reenter the presidential race today, 72 days after he said he would not run.
Rumors buzzing in Perot supporters' Overland Park headquarters say Perot, who is on the ballot in all 50 states, will announce his re-entry into the presidential race tonight when he appears on "Larry King Live," a Cable News Network talk show, at 8 p.m.
Time / CNN poll
Natelovich Clancy Shulman interviewed 848 "likely voters," with an error rate of plus or minus three percent.
43% 32% 17%
Clinton Bush Perot
Undecided: 8%
Perot would be far behind in a three-way race; Clinton holds slim lead in Kansas
Newsweek poll
Two national polls asked potential voters their choices in a three-way race including undeclared Texas billionaire Ross Perot as a candidate. Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton continues to lead President George Bush by double-digit percentages, and Perot is far behind.
The Gallup Organization surveyed 752 registered voters by telephone, with an average of plus or minus three percent.
This weekend, Perot summoned his campaign coordinators from the 50 states to Dallas to discuss possible campaign strategy and to meet today with directors of the Democratic and Republican campaigns.
46% 37% 9%
Clinton Bush Perot
Undecided: 8%
Undecided: 8%
Paul Pippert, media relations coordinator for Overland Park's "United We Stand America," formerly Perot's Kansas campaign headquarters, said he could not speculate what Perot would do.
Capital-Journal poll
Central Research Corporation of Topeka called 125 registered voters in each of the four congressional districts and gave an error rate of plus or minus 4.4 percent.
"He will not make a decision until he listens to the Republicans, and the Democrats say what issues they will and will not address," Pippert said. "Those meetings will have a considerable impact as to whether he re-enters the race."
38% 37% 13%
Clinton Bush Perot
Undecided: 12%
Ken Collier, a KU assistant professor of political science who specializes in campaigns and the presidency, said that even if Perot re-entered the race, he did not expect him to be in the race on Election Day.
"I think Ross Perot considers himself kind of a mechanic. If something goes wrong, you call Ross, and he
"As soon as Perot dropped out, he got a lot less attention than he needed to advance his issues," he said. "I think he's going to get back in to reinvigorate things, but I'm not convinced that he plans to stay.
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shows up and fixes education in Texas or drugs in Texas or POWs. Now it's the deficit."
Collier said that one way to appease Perot supporters would be to appoint their candidate head of the treasury or give him a Cabinet position as an adviser on the deficit.
When Perot first decided to enter the race, his intention was to force the other candidates to address economic issues, specifically, the budget deficit, Collier said.
"That could be really attractive to him," he said. "He could actually solve these problems he's talking about."
"I think he felt like politics as usual wasn't going to solve anything and that the parties and candidates had thoroughly lost touch with what the people wanted," he said. "The only way he saw to correct it was for him to jump in.
"But I think he kind of lost his way. He didn't know how to get anything done in that environment, and he really couldn't see how to solve problems any more so he had to step out."
Collier said that if Perot re-entered the race he would be an asset to the issues, but he may distract from the two real choices. Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican George Bush.
"I think Ross Perot really dislikes George Bush, and he doesn't want to help him, but he doesn't want to help Clinton either," he said.
Perot's name on the ballot would divide the anti-Bush votes, most of which would have gone to Clinton, Collier said.
Collier said Perot could force debate on certain issues.
"When Perot takes a stand on a plan, that'll give it some credibility," he said.
cuts in social programs, would not have gone over well with the public anyway, Collier said.
Perot's own economic plan, which includes caps on Social Security and
"I don't think anyone really knows what to make of any of this," he said. "No other third party in history has come in this strong this early. We just don't know what to expect."
See related story, Page 6.
Opposition leaders say oust Saddam
The Associated Press
SHAQLAWA, Iraq — Opposition leaders laid aside their differences and issued a unified appeal yesterday to Iraq's army, ruling Baath Party and citizens to rise up against Saddam Hussein.
Two Kurdish guerrilla leaders, flanked by Shite clerics in black robes and turbans and a retired Iraqi general in khaki, declared support for a democratic, pluralistic and unified Iraq with Islam as its national faith.
Despite the remarkable show of unity and resolve, the chances of Saddam's overthrow — particularly without Western help — seemed slight in the light of the Iraqi president's overwhelming military might.
The call followed five days of intense debate among representatives of 33 Iraqi opposition groups, from Muslim fundamentalists to Communists, about how to broaden the opposition front and plot Saddam's ouster.
The Kurds played to the meeting. They control three northern Iraq provinces bordering Turkey and Iran, and have been involved in U.S.-led western military protection.
"You, all the Iraq people, displaced and deprived of basic rights, (must) join the unified opposition to achieve this historic task," said the opposition's final commune, issued at the city guerrilla headquarters in Shaadlaw.
"Our dear sons in the Iraqi armed forces have been defended by Saddam," the statement said. "All the Iraqi people are looking to you for carrying out your historical duty to help them remove this regime and end this trapped."
It also urged supporters of the ruling Bauk Party to come back to the wel- lcoming conference.
The leaders agreed to double their number to 174 the membership of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition assembly elected at an earlier meeting in Vienna last June. A committee will choose the new representatives.
The delegates also settled on a pres idential council of at least three members to be elected by the expanded assembly at a meeting in Kurdish northern Iraq on Oct. 23.
They called on the United Nations to declare Iraqi territory south of the 32nd parallel a security zone for the Shiiies. The United States, Britain and France are patrolling the area from the sky with U.N. backing to protect Shiite rebels from Iraqi attacks.
The delegates took care to appear moderate to ensure the backing of the United States and its Western allies in the Senate, so that an Iranian-style Islamic republic.
Shites, sharing a common interpretation of Islam with Iran, constitute 55 percent of Iraq's 17 million people. One of the major Shiite opposition groups, the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, is based in Iran.
Shiite and Kurdish politician, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed confidence that the establishment of a joint defense committee by opposition forces would help large-scale defections.
Hasan al-Naqib, a 64 year old retired Iraqi major general and a deputy chief of the general staff living in exile since 1978, said he was ready to direct the military struggle.
See story, Page 3.
KU students participated in Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, last night in the Kansas Union.
Rosh Hashanah
Nigerian military plane crashes in swamp
From Iranian rice to German potatoes, Lawrence residents devoured foods prepared with an international flair this weekend at the Taste of Cultures, part of a week-long Celebration of Cultures.
Taste of cultures
See story, Page 10.
LAGOS, Nigeria — A military transport plane crashed into a swamp shortly after takeoff from Lagos, and all 163 army officers, relatives and crew members on board were killed, the government said in a statement yesterday.
The Associated Press
The U.S.-made C-130 Hercules crashed Saturday night but was not discovered until late yesterday morning, when bodies were found at a crash site about 12 miles outside Lagoons, sources said.
The cause was not immediately known. Defense Minister Sami Abaca ordered an investigation.
The aircraft disappeared from the radar of Lagos' Murtaila Muhammed Airport three minutes after takeoff at 5 p.m. Saturday, the government statement said.
Most of the passengers aboard the plane
were high-ranking officers of a military college in Jaji Town near Kaduna. They had gone to Lagos for a navy celebration, the sources said.
Hundreds of friends and family members of the passengers gathered at the crash site yesterday. Reporters said 15 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage.
Four women screamed in grief, and one rolled in the water, refusing to be consoled by relatives and army officers who said her husband had died.
The entire nose and one wing of the aircraft were buried in the swamp.
like engine failure.
Clothes, shoes and toiletries floated on the water, covering an area of about 2,000 square yards.
An airline pilot at the scene said the weather had been clear and visibility good at the time of the crash. He was overheard telling a brudier general that he thought it looked
The government statement said the president, Gen. Badrullah Bangabuqi, was cancelled.
The four-engine turboprop C-130, made by Lockheed, can carry 92 combat soldiers, 64 fully-equipped paratroopers, or about 42,000 pounds of cargo. Since its introduction in 1955, it has been a mainstay of military transport worldwide.
On July 25, a Sudanese army C-130 crashed near the southern city of Juba in bad weather killing an unknown number of people.
U. S. Air Force officials stalled engines caused a Hercules to crash into Blowett Falls Lake in North Carolina on Apr. 28, killing nine.
A Kentucky National C-130 crashed into a motel near Evansville, Ind., on Feb. 6, killing five crew members and 11 people on the ground. Pilot error was blamed.
Dan Schauer / KANSAN