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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.10
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3,1992
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Tidal wave thrashes Nicaragua, 40 dead
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MASACHAPA, Nicaragua — Splintered huts and buildings littered a 200-mile swath of Nicaragua's coast yesterday following a tidal wave that killed at least 40 people and left thousands homeless.
A significant earthquake at sea caused a wall of water up to 30 feet high to sweep over most of the coast. It submerged islands and rolled more than a half mile inland in some spots, destroying beach front homes and hotels and scattering wrecked boats and cars.
Dozens were missing, and rescue workers expected the death toll to
The surge of water sucked people and small buildings out to sea as it
retreated.
"The sea took us by surprise," said Socorro Lopez, who lost two grandchildren in Masachapa, a beach resort of about 2,000 people south of the capital, Managua. "All of sudden, I was swimming inside my own home and all my furniture was floating around me."
Nicaragua's government appealed urgently for international aid.
"This huge wave swallowed us, house and all. Now I'll never be able to bring my grandchildren back," she said, sobbing, as the bodies of the 4-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl were laid out nearby.
Eight of the nine confirmed dead in Masachaune were children.
Civil Defense Lt. Norma Zepeda Valdez said 40 people were known dead, 49 missing and 2,825 were
forced to flee.
The earthquake, which registered 7 on the Richter scale, struck at 5:16 p.m. Tuesday and was centered 75 miles southwest of Managua, according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.
U. N. officials said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported at least 64 dead. They said the United Nations would release $30,000 to buy urgent supplies.
The missing includes at least 12 fishermen lost at sea near Masachapa, Red Cross officials said.
Aftershocks followed, and the center said they likely would continue for days but probably would not cause damage.
Authorities evacuated thousands of people from coastal areas ambu
The earthquake was among the most damaging to hit Nicaragua since a 1972 quake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale devastated the capital, killing 5,000 people.
lances sped through towns picking up the injured and dying.
"I ask for unity and faith in God," she said.
Guatemala and El Salvador said they would send help when it could be determined what was most needed.
The tidal wave smashed into dozers of communities from Corinto, 50 miles northwest of Managua, to San
Juan del Sur on the Costa Rican border.
Danilo Brenes, a resident of Masachapa, said he was walking along the beach when he saw the wall of water coming. "I yelled to my wife and we took off running," he said. "We jumped over a sea-break wall and barely made it."
One survivor near Corinto said two small islands off the coast, Maderas Negras and Monte Rolo, were swept by a 6-foot wave that washed away at least 20 lead-and-tchats houses and left an undetermined number of people missing.
In Puerto Sandino, about 40 miles from the capital, a 5-foot surge surges around shipping containers and vehicles and damaged a dock.
Managua felt the earthquake, but no significant damage was reported in
the capital.
Haskell feels growing pains
Residence halls packed, overflowing
A quake of 7 is considered a "major" earthquake capable of causing widespread and heavy damage. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs.
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff write
James Lee and 11 other Haskell Indian Junior College students lived in one room in Keokul Hall for the first two weeks of school.
The students' 20-by-30 yard room had no locks on the doors, no private place to put their belongings and no privacy.
It used to be Keokuk's study room. Lee and his roommates called it their homeless shelter.
About 30 students live in "overflow rooms" in three of Haskell's seven residence halls, an indication that Haskell is not able to satisfy the student demand for housing.
Last April, alpan that may have alleviated Haskell's housing shortage never materialized. The Department of the Interior, which approves financial requests for American-Indian institutions, denied Haskell the money to lease the University of Kansas' Joseph R. Pearson Hall, which is not being used this year by the University.
Plans for a new residence hall at Haskell are in the design stage, and a bill providing more than $3 million for the hall is awaiting approval in Congress.
Campus residence halls now can hold 685 of Haskell's 900 students. The new hall could house 300 more students and be completed in Fall 1994, said Bob Martin, Haskell president.
But that does not help the students who are waiting for regular rooms to become available.
Lee said privacy was rare when living in a room that was not designed to house students.
*The offices that are there have hive ninjas
    at the front, so they can keep a sharp eye on
    everyone.
at you at any time," Lee, a freshman,
said. "And anybody can go in there at
any time.
"You will try to sleep and other people come in, turn on the light and study. And I'll say, 'Hey, I'm trying to sleep here.'"
Dave Lamb, freshman, lives in Osceola Hall, another hall that houses more students than its capacity.
"The showers there are packed, and the few phones we have are impossible to get on." Lamb said.
This year, more freshmen have enrolled than in previous years and more have shown up, in part because of improved recruiting efforts, he said.
housing program at Haskell, said the college normally expected 20 percent of all those who applied for housing never to show up.
Jim Tucker, director of the men's
"Only having so many spaces for so many students you don't know where to put them," Tucker said. "You try to put them in temporary housing until something opens up."
Tucker said that during the first weeks of school, some students left the residence hall for reasons such as homesickness.
He said he thought all the students in overflow rooms would be moved into permanent rooms by next week, three weeks after school started Aug. 19. More students are on the waiting list for open spaces.
Although a new residence hall may help to alleviate the problem, it may not be a solution to it. Thucker said
call for increasing enrollment to almost 2,000, a housing shortage could become a problem again, he said.
Because Haskell's long-range plans
"If you think about how many more students will be coming here, then they will probably have to find more space somewhere." Tucker said.
Meanwhile, Lee looks on the bright side of living in the study room, which is the only air-conditioned room in the hall.
"You get to know the people you live with really well," he said.
Trial date set for murder of Jeffrey Holly
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt and Kristy Dorsey
Kangan staff writers
Two former KU football players are scheduled to go on trial Nov. 30 for the death of another former KU student.
In a preliminary hearing yesterday, defendants Ronnie Caldwell and Rodney Harris, both 26 years old, pled not guilty to first degree murder charges in the July 29 shooting death of 24-year-old Jeffrey Holly. Holly died early that morning after being found by Lawrence police near 23rd and Harper streets.
Carol Moddrell, Douglas County coroner, testified that Holly was shot five times from behind: one shot to the head, one to the left shoulder and three to the buttocks.
According to testimony, Holly owed Caldwell money from a previous drug deal. On July 28, Caldwell and Harris saw Holly at a mutual friend's home and lured Holly out of the house by offering him Crack. Holly left with the defendants in Crack' vehicle, and Holly suggested that they stop to smoke their Crack. Caldwell, who was driving, stopped the car near 23rd and Harper streets. All three people got out of the car, and then Holly was shot.
Dan Ward, Lawrence police detective, testified that Caldwell gave the detectives a statement Aug. 2 indicating that he shot Holly. Ward said that Caldwell also told police he was intoxicated when he pulled the trigger.
Johnny Holloway, Harris' former roommate, testified under immunity that the defendants told him about the incident on the afternoon after the shooting. Holloway said that the defendants took his 357-caliber Magnum, the alleged murder weapon, without his permission the night before. They returned it to him the next day and later told him that they had to get rid of the weapon. The three drove to Clinton Lake and buried the gun.
Holloway said Caldwell admitted to murdering Holly while returning from prison.
Caldwell and Harris played for the KU football team during the mid- 1980s.
The defendants are being held in the Douglas County Jail.
Kansas' first Rattlesnake Roundup will be this weekend in Sharon Springs. The event has been staged to rid the community of unwanted snakes but also to raise money and attract tourism.
Rattlesnake roundup
Residents say they are doing nothing wrong and breaking no laws. However, the conservationists say the event is a return to the Dark Ages in terms of handling wildlife in Kansas.
Speech codes ineffective, ACLU president says
The event, commonplace in some states, has sparked debate between wildlife conservationists and
See story, Page 5.
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Speech codes of conduct are ineffective and counter productive and energy and time would be better spent on education, said the American Civil Liberties Union president during a speech in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
Kansan staff writer
Nadine Strossen said that too much attention was paid to the crudest expressions of hatred instead of finding the causes of such attitudes.
"Major surgery is needed," she said. "Hate speech codes are only a Band-Aid."
Strossen, the first woman president in the ACU's 71-year history, spoke to about 475 people on hate speech in society and codes of conduct that try to regulate it.
Hate speech codes would make it possible to punish people who used language that creates a hostile or unpleasant environment, and the code would be trying to address the kind of harm caused by an offensive idea.
"That is a kind of hurt that we in a free society are expected to bear," she said. "We cannot selectively censor merely because we find the ideas repugnant."
Silencing a speaker who voiced unpopular ideas would turn the speaker into a martyr and force the ideas to go underground and fester, she said.
"Given that there are attitudes of hatred, silencing them is like putting a silencer on a gun," she said.
Strossen said counter speech is the best weapon against hate speech. If a racist idea is expressed, the idea is not to suppress it but to counter it immediately, she said.
Strossen had the resolution that the Senate Executive Committee's human relations committee recently redrafted on free speech on campus was not a violation of
First Amendment rights.
"It's a statement, it's not a code," she said.
"It is affirming equality and free speech."
Strossen listed freedom for the arts, free speech in the workplace and decisions handed down by the Supreme Court as areas that deserved more attention than speech codes on campus.
Strossen said that two observations must be made when addressing the issue of the ACLU's stance on free speech on campuses. One was that free speech was not the only concern of the ACLU, and the other was that free speech on campuses was not the most important free-speech question facing society today.
During the question and answer session following the speech, Strozen answered questions involving the topics of politically correct speech, music censorship and the unpopularity of the ACLU.
ACLU President Nadine Strossen speaks about hate speech, college codes of conduct and free speech. Her speech was sponsored by Student Union Activities.
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