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University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 2, 1987
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Local Briefs
Local couple given link-up with daughter
Emily Hill, the Lawrence woman who was marooned by a snowstorm for more than a week with 200 travelers in Tibet, was reunited with her parents through a televised link-up between Nepal and Kansas City.
Hill, 19, a student at Dartmouth College, spoke to her parents Friday from the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu. Her parents, Stephen and Marcia Hill of Lawrence, spoke from the studios of WDAF-TV, an NBC television affiliate, during a Today Show broadcast.
Asked about her condition, Hill replied, "Actually none of us can walk very well. We limp around a lot. I'm not sure if it's frostbie or not but our feet are all really bruised."
After speaking to her daughter, Marcia Hill said, "It was absolutely thrilling to think of talking to someone halfway around the world. We expected her to look out, but she looked wonderful."
Stephen Hill said yesterday that his daughter would visit a doctor in Katmandu today and that he expected her to return to Lawrence early next month.
No right turn on red to be discussed
The Traffic Safety Commission is scheduled to discuss prohibiting right turns at red lights at several intersections at a meeting tonight.
Also on the agenda is extending the operative hours for the 20-mile-an-hour speed limit in school zones.
the meeting is at 7:30 p.m. today at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Library to re-offer orientation tours
Orientation tours of Watson Library will be offered Nov. 2 to 19.
The tours will be from 1:30 p.m.
to 2:15 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays,
the tours will run from 9:30 a.m. to
10:15 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 3:15
p.m.
Saralinda Rhodes, library tour coordinator, said that successful tours at the beginning of the semester had prompted this second set of orientation tours.
Journalism teacher to receive award
Jackie Engel, a lecturer in the School of Journalism, will be awarded the Journalism Education Association's Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization's national convention in Kansas City. Mo., later this month.
Lois Wolfe, director of the group's national headquarters in Blue Springs, Mo., said the group worked with retired high school teachers.
Engl taught at McPherson High School for 21 years before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas.
Nursing homes to be meeting topic
The Douglas County chapter of Kansans for Improvement of Nursing Homes has scheduled its monthly membership meeting at 2 p. m. Wednesday. The meeting will be in the dining room of Babcok Place, 1700 Massachusetts St.
From staff and wire reports
Fans brave deluge to cheer Sooners
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
Staff writer
Dressed in a crimson and cream OU sweatshirt and a rain-soaked baseball hat, Oklahoma football fan Robert Chapman was barely able to peel his eyes from the football field Saturday afternoon.
"I'm probably the epitome of the fan that people who aren't from OU don't like," Chaplin said with a broad grin. "Probably similar to your avid basketball fans."
"He means obovicious," his wife said, leaning over her husband's shoulder and playfully wrinkling her nose.
Chaplin and his wife, Deniece, had come from Norman, Okla., to watch the OU-KU matchup. They haven't missed an Oklahoma football game in 10 years, which is as long as they have had season tickets.
In Norman, the Chaplins live in what avid OU fans might consider the lux of lap, with a "Boomer Sooner" doorbell and a red football-shaped OU telephone that rings the school's fight song.
"I even have a watch that plays Boomer Sooner," Chaplin said. "And she has an OU sweatshirt with lights all over it."
Crimson and cream blanketed the football stadium during the game, and despite the rainy forecast many loyal Oklahoma fans kept their seats.
"It's really great for night games.
It flashes like crazy."
The rain continued into the second quarter, and fans of both teams could be seen wandering inside the stadium over the rain-spattered pavement, looking for the nearest bathroom or just for a dry place to stand.
Some OU fans stayed dry by purchasing white rain ponchos with pictures of Jayhawks printed on them.
One man in a dripping OU sweater with wet hair and water streaming down his face pointed to a diminished stack of ponchos at the souvenir stand, he asked the clerk, "Can I get out? Of those?" It just won't quit raining."
Opening a cabinet under his red and blue souvenir stand, Phillips said. "We still have a pretty big supply down there."
Steve Phillips, Prairie Village junior, said that the stand had sold about 50 ponchos by the second quarter.
The wet weather didn't stop Jack Sheppard and Ken Neuer from
traveling from Oklahoma City to watch the team they've followed for 40 years.
"We've seen 'em lose, we've seen
'Nuffer said. "It's always
better to win."
Sheppard and Neuffer follow the Oklahoma team to all the away games and look forward to the weekends away from home.
"We come in my van one week, his next. We've been doing that for years," Sheppard said.
But they don't limit themselves to games played in the Midwest.
"We've been to the Orange Bowl so many years we're thinking about going somewhere else this year," Gaird said. "Maybe the Rose Bowl."
Neuffer kept his head dry Saturday afternoon with a crimson hat he had decorated with pins of mascots from schools OU has played, including two Javhawk pins.
Adjusting his hat to shield his face from the rain. Neuffer remembered the day.
"we froze our butts last year," he said. "I guarantee it was cold."
Neuffer said he had only missed attending one Oklahoma game in 40 years.
"I had to miss the Texas game because I was in the hospital getting operated on," he said. "I watched it on television, though."
Sheppard said when he first bong-
session season in the late 1940s, there were RKK players.
"The waiting list now looks like a telephone directory," he said.
"We razz each other all year."
Turner said "This is the fun part."
On the other side of the stadium, Al Turner, a Prairie Village resident, sat in end zone seats with six buddies, all of whom were loyal Sooner fans. Turned she did he meant to have season football games, but wished he did
An OU graduate, Turner has carried loyalty to his school's football team with him to Prairie Village.
"Whoaaa, here comes a touchdown." A friend behind him hollered.
"Excuse me - I don't want to miss this touchdown," Turner said. He turned to the field.
In the fourth quarter, with the score 50-10, a few Oklahoma fans started making their way to their cars. One fan took off his radio headset long enough to shout, "Oh come on now. Don't leave, it might be a close one."
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
In memorv
Barbara Benton Wescoe releases decorative balloons into the sky to mark the dedication of the "Tai Chi Figure." The sculpture is a gift to the University of Kansas from former Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and his
wife, Barbara. The eight-foot, bronze sculpture was created by Ju Ming, a Taiwan-born sculptor, and was dedicated Saturday morning in front of Green Hall in memory of KU alumnus Judge Willard M. Benton.
County voters to decide sales tax issue
Staff writer
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Douglas County is gearing up for a special election tomorrow on a 1-cent sales tax that city and county officials say is needed to replace ever-disappearing financial funds for human services and improvement programs.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
tomorrow.
Officials said the tax could generate $4.2 million to be divided among the county, Lawrence, Baldwin City, Eudora and Lecompton.
Lawrence and Douglas County both already have a 4-cent state sales tax. Lawrence Eudora and another county share the same tax.
Often in special elections, a mail-in ballot rather than the conventional poll election is used. But County Commissioner David Hopper said there are no counties where a ballot ready for an election by the first of the year.
Dorothy Baldwin, deputy county clerk, said that the ballots must be mailed between 10 and 20 days before the election. That time lag helped convince officials that a conventional poll election was the way to go.
Cost also was a consideration. County Clerk Patty Jaimes estimated that a mail-in ballot election would cost the county $32,000 because of
the cost of postage. A conventional election, she said, would cost $26,000 to $28,000.
"And it takes a lot of labor to handle mail-in ballots." Jaimes said.
For a conventional election, five poll workers must be hired for each of the 48 Douglas County precincts, Jaimes said. They work from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for one day only.
But for a mail-in election, 15 additional workers must be hired. And it takes pol-workers four months to hire them.
Jaimes said that although mail-in ballot elections resulted in 69 to 73 percent voter response, that estimate would be high for Douglas County because of its several thousand registered voters who are students. Jaimes said that students didn't usually vote in special elections.
But even for the April City Commission and School Board election, James said only 69 of 928 candidates were vested.
Allen Field House, the most heavily student-
populated field, currently has 917 registered
players.
Students may not know it, but they are one reason why many Douglas County residents support the sales tax.
there was a large number of students who lived in Lawrence but didn't own property. That permits them to use the city's services without having to pay taxes, she said.
Janis Bunker, treasurer of the Penny Power Committee, a group that favors the sales tax, said
“It’s a more fair tax because there’s a wider base of the population paying it.” Bunker said.
Bunker described a sales tax as the lesser of three evils, the other two evils being cutting services and raising personal property taxes.
However, Paul Howard, spokesman for the Public Funds Protection Committee, which opposes the tax, said the tax was unfair to middle- and lower-income people and KU students because their main purchases were food, utilities and clothing, which would all be taxable items.
Howard said it was unfair of the proponents of the tax to target students, who must live on limited
Bunker said she was concerned about the effect the tax might have on people with low incomes. But she said that revenue from the tax would go to the department, which would benefit those people.
"Everyone in Douglas County could benefit from a sales tax." Bunker said.
Attempt to attach arm fails
Part of student's arm removed
By JAVAN OWENS Staff writer
John Hinshaw, Hutchinson junior,
said he felt relieved since he underwent a third surgery last weekend that removed his forearm.
Surgeons at the University of Kansas Medical Center spent 12 hours on Oct. 17 re-attaching Hinshaw's forearm after it was severed in a motorcycle crash. But doctors amputated the forearm Oct. 25 after infection set in.
According to the initial police reports, Hinshaw was injured about 2:30 p.m. at 15th and Westbrooke streets after his motorcycle ran into a car driven by Deborah D. Bruhns, 1334 Westbrooke St.
They (the doctors) told me that I would be up and out of the bed in a week to 10 days.'
John Hinshaw Hutchinson junior
Police reported that Hinshaw's motorcycle traveled over the car and landed 283 feet from the crash site. Hinshaw was thrown from the cycle, rolled over a small tree and landed 271 feet away.
Hinshaw said Saturday in a telephone interview from his room at the Med Center that he flew through the air, coming down on a speed limit sign, severing his forearm from his body. Hinshaw then shattered his thigh bone from the hip to the knee joint when he fell on the ground.
Hinshaw said he knew there would be a chance that doctors would have to remove the arm after they re-attached it. Hinshaw had undergone an operation soon after the accident to remove dead skin from the re-attached arm.
Although he knew the doctor's decision to remove the forearm would change the course of his life, Hinsaw said he remained optimis-
"In a way, I was kind of relieved," Hinshaw said. "I would have had six or seven surgeries to re-attach a card and I would have had little use out of."
Hinshaw said his doctors did not make his leg a priority until they thought his forearm would heal. Hinshaw said his doctors suggested that he undergo another surgery tomorrow to take bone from his hip to strengthen the shattered thigh bone.
Hinshaw said that during the surgery doctors would attach a metal external fixator that would straighten his leg.
"They (the doctors) told me that I would be up and out of the bed in a week to 10 days," Hinshaw said. "I'm really excited."
Hinshaw said he would remain in the hospital for at least three more weeks and then would take treatment from the hospital as an out-patient.
He said that after his arm healed, he would have a hook prosthesis. He said that later the prothesis would be upgraded to an electrical hand that responds to the signals that come from the shoulder.
Hinshaw, a personnel administration major, said the University had been helpful in trying to accommodate him while he was in the hospital. He was told he could complete his class work from the hospital. But he said that he had opted to drop his courses this semester and start again next spring.
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Jesus is regarded by Muslims as a great prophet of God. Like many others of God's messengers, he was singled out for some miraculous events and deeds. For one thing, He was immaculately conceived, an event so ununique it never happened to anyone that preceded or followed him. Jesus also became a child in the same manner, declaring his mother's chastity and his own prophethood. Furthermore, the Quran boldly states that Christ was endowed by some extraordinary traits of the least which was his ability to breathe into clay figures of birds thus giving them life by God's leave. Healing leaps and raising the dead were some of His greatest gifts.
How is Jesus Christ viewed in Islam? To what extent do Muslims agree or disagree with the Christian christian with regard to the Mission? Naturally, if both groups agreed on everything, there would be no reason for either of them to remain separate from the other. They might as well accept the mission without differing. If they do not agree, differences do exist and they are better brought out into the light than showed under the carpet.
To capitalize on the virgin birth and argue that he must be unacceptable to the Muslim mind Firstly, it violates the concept of the oneness of God because it seems to attribute Islam to the Oneness of God. Secondly, it fails Christianity and Judaism. The Lord is omnipresent. Consequently, he cannot possibly need another day as an aide. Thirdly, men need to guide them to the true path of God. Hence,
Secondly, the miracle of the immaculate conception does not in any manner compare with that of the creation of Adam. At least Jesus had one parent; Adam had none. I would seem logical then, to declare Adam as a much wortier deity than Christ. Yet, this line of thinking is rejected by both Muslims and Christians.
Moreover, Muslims and Christians disagree on the crucifixion of Jesus. Islamic thinking cannot follow the argument that the Lord would sacrifice "his only begotten son" on the cross to almighty for men's sons. There seems to be no need for such a scene as long as God's messenger has convived God's message to us which Jesus most certainly did. The most pleasant and most useful is this to happen when Abraham was about to sacrifice his son. Why did He change his mind with regard to Jesus? If God is consistent, His consistency should be exhibited in His commands.
Like their Christian brethren, Muslims believe that Jesus ascended to Heaven though unlike all other religions. They say that the Bible contains a promise to come initiate a period of peace and love and to establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
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