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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday November 10,1987 Vol.98,No.57
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Bob Dole launches campaign
Senator vows to cut deficit
By AMBER STENGER Staff writer
RUSSELL — With a sign that read "Russell, Kansas — Home of Bob Dole" posted on a grain elevator, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole officially launched his 1988 presidential campaign here yesterday morning.
More than 7,000 people braved below-freezing temperatures and huddled together to hear Dole announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination.
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The president is put in the position of the car buyer forced to accept an automobile loaded with options he doesn't want and doesn't need. A line-item veto would allow the president to reach within massive spending bills and strike out wasteful and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.'
Bob Dole Senate Minority Leader
Most of the audience consisted of diehard Dole supporters. However, two small groups opposed Dole's views. Some members of the American Agriculture Movement wore "Dump Dole" baseball caps, and other people waved signs protesting aid to the Nicaraguan contras.
Dole's campaign platform surprised few people. He said curbing the federal deficit without raising tax rates would be one of his first priorities as president. He outlined two
See DOLE, p. 8, col.1
RUSSELL — Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole waves to the crowd in his hometown where he announced his candidacy for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
Russell residents rally behind Dole
By AMBER STENGER Staff writer
Staff writer
RUSSELL — Most Russell citizens were like proud parents yesterday when Bob Dole came home to announce he would run for president.
Excitement began to grow on Main Street at 5 a.m., as people began to arrive. A banner that said, "Russell's gift to America - Bob Dole for President," extended above the heads of farmers, businessmen, politicians and press members from across the nation.
More than 2,000 school children began filling bleachers at 7:30 a.m. and listened to the several high hands that played before the ceremony.
Dole posters, Dole hats, Dole buttons, Dole stickers, Dole hand fans. The town of about 5,400 was broadcasting to the nation that this was Dole country.
Many local residents were eager to brag about Dole to the hundreds of press corps members. Others quietly boast that their native son among themselves.
"He has never changed from being a dedicated, caring person," said Helene Galyard, Russell resident and former neighbor of Dole's family for
several years. "And he doesn't forget his friends."
Merchants placed posters in their windows reminiscing about Dole's affiliation with them. Ol' Dawson drug store advertised "Bob Dole Sold Soda Here."
But Dole also was eager to claim Russell as his own
In his announcement speech, he said, "I enjoy showing Russell off, although it doesn't take a whole lot of now than it did when I was a boy."
Dole was somewhat nostalgic about the early years of his political career and a bit more candid at a party for the press and townpeople Sunday night at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall.
He thanked his wife, Elizabeth Dole, and his daughter, Robin Dole, for their campaign work. And he encouraged his family reunion was this year.
"There were 270 people there today, ready to admit they were related to me in some way," he said. "I was given eight resumes, too."
The pressures of the campaign trail dictated the length of Dole's leaving Russell, Dole campaigned every day in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Sandra Watts/Special to the KANSAN
Kansas residents express their opinions on the farm crisis. They were in Russell yesterday as Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole announced his presidential candidacy.
Glass to perform soundtrack
'Koyaanisqatsi' offers live music
By KJERSTI MOEN Arts/Entertainment editor
Philip Glass returns to the University of Kansas tonight to make live film music in a unique, multimedia event.
Glass, one of the United States' most important composers and performers of contemporary music, has been at KU twice in the past two years — first in 1985, to perform his music in a concert, then last semester, to talk about music in a panel debate. This time, he will perform the soundtrack to Godfrey Reygio's award-winning film, "Koyaianisqati," which unfolds at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium as part of the University's New Directions Series.
The film has no actors or lines but relies on images contrasting untouched American landscapes with busy urban scenes, assembly lines and war, captured by Ron Fricke's cinematography. The contrasts bring out man's effect on the natural world, which is reflected in the film's title, a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance."
Philip Glass
There is balance, though,
between the importance of images
and sounds in "Koyaanisquati
Live." Reggio and Glass worked
together on the soundtrack for
three years before the film premiered at the 1983 New York Film Festival at Radio City Music Hall.
The collaboration resulted in a unified whole in which the work of the composer and producer balance each other, Glass said in a telephone interview from his home in New York City.
"All the pictures and the music kind of shaped themselves into something that has a very direct, emotional structure to it, and that's what we wanted to accomplish." he said.
"It became a very intense dialogue between the two of us," he said.
The soundtrack won the 1982 Los Angeles Film Critics' Award for best original film score, and the film has won awards throughout
In tonight's production, which is sponsored by the Mid-America Arts Alliance Program, the soundtrack will be performed live by the Philip Glass Ensemble, which includes synthesizer; flute; piccolo; soprano, tenor, alto and baritone saxophones; keyboards; and Dora Ohrenstein's soprano voice.
the world. The show had two sold- out performances in 1985 in New York City's Avery Ferry Hall.
Glass' style has been classified as "neo-classial" or "New Age" and combines classical and modern instrumentation, often in characteristic repeated themes.
"I can't come with a symphony orchestra, so I travel with my amplifier," Glass said, explaining his classically inspired arrange-
Glass said performing the "Koya-anisatsi" soundtrack live allowed him to bring out its theatrical aspects.
"That's one of the most difficult things for a composer to talk about. . because he doesn't really know." he said.
of repeating musical themes
"A theatrical performance has a much broader audience," he said. "In a concert, I can't go out with a change of costume."
Jackie Davis, director of the New Directions Series, said that Glass had received a tremendous reaction at KU in 1985. The performance was nearly sold out and many people asked whether he would return.
He makes it difficult, however, to talk about the reasons for his style
"He's right in the mainstream of what is very exciting in contem-porary music," she said. "He's really very hot."
South Korean official explains nation's success, challenges
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
Staff writer
Although the Republic of Korea has experienced miraculous economic growth the last two decades, the nation now faces serious protectionist challenges from the United States, the republic of Korea's ambassador to the United States said last night at the Kansas Union.
Ambassador Kyung-Won Kim spoke to about 100 people about "Perspectives on Korea" as part of a symposium, "Korea 1988: A Nation at the Crossroads." The symposium is sponsored by the KU Center for East Asian Studies and continues today.
The gross national product of the Republic of Korea, or South Korea, grew 15 percent this year and grew 12 percent last year.
"I don't subscribe to the idea that the growth came about as a miracle."
Foreign debt was reduced to $37 billion last year, and the nation had a
$7.5 billion dollar surplus with the United States, Kim said.
"That surplus will definitely not make up American friends happy," he added.
To appease the United States, South Korea partially opened its markets to imports, made attempts to buy U.S. goods rather than Japanese goods and increased the value of its currency, the Won, by 10 percent last year. South Korea is the United States' seventh largest trade partner.
Kim attributed the nation's success to hard work, clever government, luck and specific economic strategies.
And, he said, "Export is the single most important factor of our economic
The South Korean economy traditionally has benefited from cheap labor. But South Korean labor is starting to demand a piece of the ever-increasing economic pie. This summer after a national labor dispute, some workers gained a 20 percent salary increase. Kim said.
South Korea's economic development started in the beginning of the '60s. The Republic had no natural resources, little capital, no technology and the second-densest population in the world, he said.
South Korea had to borrow huge amounts of money, mainly from the United States, to import the natural resources that the countries sources the country lacked, he said.
Kim said South Korea had a foreign debt of 50 percent of its GNP in the early '60s. That meant that each citizen owed $1,000 to international banks at a time when the country's per capita annual income was $80, he said.
By concentrating on making competitive products and exporting them, the economy flourished, and South Korea managed to pay its debts to secure a steady annual GNP growth of 8 percent, Kim said.
Parents sue over 1985 fatal fall
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff write
Staff writer
The parents of a KU student who died two years ago after falling from the third story of her sorority house filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that the sorority and its officials were responsible for the death.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., names the Gamma Delta chapter of the Alpha Phi sorority as a co-defendant in the death of Jeanne M. Carkoski.
Carkeski, who was a 19-year-old sophomore from Omaha, Neb., died Nov. 9, 1985, the day after she fell 20 feet from a third-story ledge while cleaning windows at the Alpha Phi house. 1602 High Drive.
Also named as defendants in the suit were Alpha Phi International Fraternity Inc.; the Alpha Phi Corporation Board; Nellita Pillers, the house mother at the time of the accident; and Elizabeth Morr, the chapter president at the time.
The suit alleges that the defendants were responsible for Carkski's
The sorority's current house mother and current chapter president, Kathleen C.
death by ordering her to clean the sorority's outside windows as part of fall cleaning.
Carkoski received head injuries when she fell onto a concrete patio. She died at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Her parents, Eugene and Mary Carkoski of Omaha, Neb., are seeking $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. Also, her father, as special administrator of his daughter's estate, is seeking $2 million more in damages. Carkoski's parents refused to comment on the case.
But Jean Lamferts, president of the Alpha Phi Corporation Board, said, "We deny the allegations in the complaint. The sorority did not assign her to go out on the ledge. And in fact, you could clean the windows very easily from the inside."
board considered the accident unfortunate.
Lamfers also said the corporation
Carkski entered KU in the fall of 1984 with a scholarship from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps. While at KU, she served on the NROTC drill team and was editor and a copywriter of the NROTC yearbook, the Seahawk.
After Carkoski's death, the Navy reading lounge in the Military Science Building was renamed the Jeanne Carkoski Memorial Lounge.
Carkoski attended Westside High School in Omaha, Neb., and served on the school's yearbook staff her junior and senior years.
John Hudnall, publications adviser at Westside, said the school's journalism scholarship had been renamed the Jeanna Carkoski Memorial Scholarship in the spring of 1986. Hudnall said the scholarship was usually about $300.