University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 16. 1987
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Students to try to win Truman scholarships
Three KU students will compete in January for Truman Scholarships, which are given to sophomores planning careers in politics and government.
Brenda Eisele, Fredonia; Brett Leepold, Hoxie; and Brian Kramer, Northbrook Ill., were selected by the KU Truman Selection Committee to compete for scholarships.
Final winners can receive up to $7,000 for each of their last two years of undergraduate study and two years of graduate study.
Nominees are chosen on the basis of interest in public service, potential for government leadership, interviews and a 600-word essay on a public policy issue.
KU recruiting film to premiere today
The University of Kansas will unveil its new recruitment film, "Great Faces, Great Places: KU," at 5 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The 10-minute film, which was shot at KU in September 1986 and May 1987, will be used primarily by the admissions office to introduce high school seniors to KU
The film highlights both KU students and faculty talking about
different aspects of university life. The screening is free and open to the public.
Student to receive award for research
Bill Dvorak, South Bend, Ind., graduate student, will receive a $1,000 award from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association Thursday for research in hazardous material routing in the Kansas City area.
Dovorak's study was prepared in 1986 when he was an intern for the Mid-America Regional Council in Kansas City, Mo. He found that in the Kansas City area, Interstates 435 and 470 were the best hazardous material routes.
Applications due for 1988 news staff
The study also indicated that parts of I-635, I-35 and I-29 are the highest risk areas for accidents. The study concluded that most accidents happen on narrow roads and where traffic is heavier.
Applications for the spring 1988 Kansan news staff are due at 5 p.m. today in 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Application forms are available in 119 and 200 Stauffer-Flint. Applicants should sign up in the Kansan newsroom, 111 StauFFER-Flint, for an interview.
Blood donations sought for holiday
The American Red Cross Blood Center, 329 Missouri St., needs people to donate blood to meet its donation goal of 20 units of blood each day and to prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, an American Red Cross employee said yesterday.
Blood donations can be made Mondays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Anne Marie Gould, Overland Park senior and an intern at the blood center, said that more blood was needed around holidays because automobile accidents were more frequent then.
Divestment is not the answer, speaker says
By JAVAN OWENS Staff writer
From staff and wire reports.
Staff writer
Americans should give up the idea of divestment from South Africa and instead give up their jewelry, a visiting economist told about 20 people Friday at the Kansas Union.
Charles M. Becker, deputy director of the Economics Institute at the University of Colorado, said that divestment would not have enough of an impact to persuade the white investment in South Africa to end apartheid.
"Divestment in South Africa would have little, if no effect," Becker said.
But, Becker said, other economic
sanctions could work effectively if Americans were willing to sacrifice. He said that sanctions in the past had shown the United States' noncommittal attitude toward the issue.
For instance, eliminating imports of coal, uranium, steel and textiles from South Africa did not put any pressure on that country but relieved the U.S. Congress and the president from jobbists' pressures.
"The economic sanctions of the past have been trivial," Becker said. "They are convenient. They make us lose our allies. They are good for domestic politics."
The United States could show its commitment by driving the price of
Becker said that South Africa, as one of the major exporters of gold, depended heavily on its mining industry. He said a sudden dive in the market for gold would devastate the white South African economy.
Because two-thirds of the gold that is imported to the United States is for non-industrial use, Becker said, a guidebook of jewelry would have a great effect.
"If you want to hurt them, you're going to have to give up jewelry," Becker said. "If the price of gold tumbles, South Africa tumbles."
He said blacks in South Africa
would not be hurt as much by the move because less than 15 percent of them receive any income from the mining industry.
To limit the damage to neighboring economies, Becker said he would recommend that the United States invest in neighboring countries, such as Botswana, Lesotho, Zaire and Zimbabwe. South Africa would have to reconsider aparthid if it were in an economic disaster and if its neighbors' economies were improving with the help of other countries, he said.
After the speech, Ed Dutton, cofounder of the KU Committee on South Africa and associate professor
of social welfare, said Becker's suggestions were not feasible.
"He gave a clear analysis from an economist's point of view," Dutton said. "But it doesn't quite float in a social context.
"The suggestions he gave are real-
ly not viable for our government to
do."
Dutton said that one reason people had called for divestment was to morally remove themselves and connect them with them from apartheid.
"What we do here may not matter over there," Dutton said. "But it is the moral action that I have to take."
Slattery gives views of Central America
U.S. should use diplomatic ways before military
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
Sandra J. Watta/Special to the KANSAN
U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan,
defended his position on how to
attain peace in Central America
before about 150 people at the First
United Methodist Church on Friday
Slattery spoke briefly and then for more than an hour responded to sometimes heated questions and comments from the audience.
U. S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., discusses plans to bring peace in Central America. Slattery spoke at the United Methodist Church on Friday night.
Slattery said he supported exhausting all diplomatic channels before resorting to military involvement in that region, something the United States has often failed to do. He said U.S. military involvement in Central America could never be justified unless U.S. security were actually threatened
Slattery said he was encouraged by a peace accord written by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez and signed by the leaders of five Central American nations, and by the recent announcement of the Sandistas and the contras that the two groups would negotiate.
He also cited Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega's easing of restrictions on the Nicaraguan situation could be impring.
However, the United States should not end its concern about the Marxist-Leninist beliefs of the Nicaraguan government, Slattery
"I don't want to see another Cuba developed on the isthmus of Central America. I'm opposed to that." Slattery said. "We need to be very concerned with the direction the Sandinista government would take Nicaragua."
William Griffith, professor emeritus of Latin American history, told Slatter that he thought Congress didn't look closely enough at the history of Nicaragua when formulating policy. He said a peace plan in Central America would only be a temporary success
until the underlying social and economic problems were solved.
Griffith also said the Sandinistas didn't come into power because of Soviet interference, but because of the extreme social and economic conditions.
Slattery agreed. He said that poverty, government corruption, and the inability of the government of former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza to deliver the basic needs of the people were at fault.
Slattery said that continued poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in the region helped justify U.S. involvement. He said helping alleviate those problems would not only provide a humanitarian good,
but also would create political stability in the region. Political stability could only help U.S. national security.
"If we spent 1 percent of the amount spent on the Pentagon every year on assistance to our neighbors south of the Rio Grde, it would be a solid investment in our security," Slattery said.
Task force to educate students about AIDS
As part of its AIDS Awareness Week, the Student Senate Task Force on AIDS will try to open a dialogue today with KU students about the disease.
By a Kansan reporter
The task force will have tables set up from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today through Thursday at Wescoe Hall, Kansas Union and the Burge Insurance
volunteers will provide students with informational materials on AIDS. Students also may take short quizzes to find out how much they know about the disease.
The task force's activities will coincide with next Wednesday's lecture by Richard Keeling, chairman of the AIDS Task Force of the American College Health Association and director of student health services at the University of Virginia.
Task force members and other
The lecture, which is at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the ballroom of the Kansas Union, is being co-sponsored by the Academy of Students of Pharmacy and the department of health education at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Michael Foubert, task force chairman, said he hoped the task force's activities would help dispel some student misconceptions about AIDS.
that AIDS is a problem, but that it's out there. And that's not true," Foubert said.
"We need to educate ourselves before the problem becomes prevalent here instead of after, if it does come here."
Two weeks ago, Student Senate allocated $500 to the task force for this week's activities.
"There seems to be the attitude
'Strange contest for alternative magazine
By JULIE McMAHON
Staff writer
Staff writer
Disorientation, an alternative student magazine, is sponsoring a photography contest called "Strange Faces, Strange Places" for an issue due out in January.
A contest this fall immortalized some great places and faces of the University of Kansas, but soon the not-so-great faces and places will get their chance.
Mike Mader, Great Bend graduate student and an editor of Disorientation, said, "There was a contest called 'Great Faces, Great Places.' We thought we'd do a takeoff on it. We want people to submit photos of faces or places that are strange."
That issue will be the fourth since Disorientation was first distributed during the 1985 summer orientation. It is financed by the student activity fee.
He said the magazine had received some photos, but its editors want more before the deadline on Nov. 29. He added that "the articles are sometimes published in the January issue.
Dennis "Boog" Highberger, Lawrence resident, helped found Disorientation when he was a graduate student and is its current editor. He said the magazine's purpose was to collect information that new students couldn't find in other places.
Mader said. "It gives a sense of things going on, even though that can be very immediately.
Mader said the January issue would contain a lot of women's police stories.
He said that some examples of that kind of information was in articles about how to avoid punishment for not registering for the draft and the price of marijuana.
Mader said the magazine was a forum for students to write and submit artwork. The magazine so far has accepted 15 articles for publication in its January issue. But editors will continue to accept articles until Dec. 1, Mader said. All the artwork will be done by students or Lawrence residents.
Mader said the magazine was originally to be distributed this semester, but it had been pushed back to January because of a lack of organization. Also, the editors decided it would be better to wait and distribute at the beginning of the semester, he said.
Highberger said he hoped to have most of Disorientation done by the time he leaves Lawrence in the middle of December. He said Alison Dishinger, Lawrence freshman, and Mader will finish work on the magazine.
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