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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday October 30,1987 Vol. 98, No.50
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
The six faces of Jack
Hallowed faces stand guard at 414 14th St. Pumpkin personalities — pumpkin carving contest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Kansas Union lobby. Dread Halloween activities. Pumpkins and knives will be provided, but eccentric, haunting, creative or funny — will be judged today in the free The contest, sponsored by Student Union Activities, is part of the Mount contestants are encouraged to bring other materials, such as paint.
Reagan announces nominee
Confirmation battle expected over conservative pick for high court
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, making good on his promise to pick another hardline conservative, nominated federal appeals court Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg to the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday, raising the prospect of a second confirmation battle in the Senate.
Reagan praised Ginsburg as an advocate of judicial restraint and a believer in law and order. He said Ginsburg will take a tough, cleareyed view of the Constitution "while demanding that all of our citizens and to the problems facing law enforcement professionals."
Ginsburg sits on the same bench as Judge Robert H. Bork, whose nomination to the nation's highest court was rejected by the Senate last fall in Ginsburg and Bork are generally viewed as being ideologically similar.
If confirmed, Ginsburg, at age 41, would be one of the youngest jurists ever to sit on the court. Ginsburg, a former Harvard Law School professor and head of the Justice Department antitrust division, would be the first Jew to sit on the high court since the resignation of Abe Bertz in 1969.
Reagan sought to head off the kind of lengthy debate that led to Bork's
"If these hearings take more than three weeks to get going, the American people will know what's up." Reagan said.
On Monday, Baker sought the opinions of five key Republican senators over 13 or 14 potential nominees. According to Republican sources, half of those named drew at least some opposition. Ginsburg was among those who drew objections.
Ginsburg was reported to be the choice of Attorney General Edwin Meese III, while White House Chief of Staff Howard H. Baker Jr. was urging the appointment of federal appointee Judge Arnold Kennedy of Sacramento Calif., who would have been a less controversial choice.
Sources familiar with the struggle said that the chances for Kennedy's nomination collapsed when Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., threatened to knock Kennedy nomination on the grounds that he was not conservative enough.
At a 9:30 a.m. meeting yesterday, Reagan was briefed by Baker, Meese
Ginsburg and Kennedy, along with federal appeals court Judge William W. Wilkins Jr., were summoned to the Justice Department Wednesday night for interviews with Baker; Meese; William Bradford Reynolds, an assistant attorney general; White House counsel A.B. Culvahouse, and deputy chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein.
and Duberstein. Reagan made his decision at the end of the 20-minute discussion.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, D-Dell, who played a pivotal role in Bork's rejection in the Senate by a 58-42 vote last week, reportedly told administration officials that some of Ginsburg's views were highly controversial.
Senate Democrat Whip Alan Cranston called Ginsburg a surprise win.
People for the American Way, a liberal lobbying group that campaigned against Bork, said Ginsburg's chief qualification "appears to be his adherence to a narrow ideological agenda."
"There were certainly a number of more qualified and more experienced conservatives on the list being considered." Cranston said.
Local woman hikes to safety in Nepal
By MARK TILFORD
Staff writer
A Lawrence woman is safe in Kathmandu, Nepal, after a 125-mile hike from a snowbound bus on a Himalayan plateau in Tibet, the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu told her parents yesterday. Emily Hill, 19, was scheduled to talk to her parents at 5 a.m. today in a taped satellite video call by NRC.
The interview was scheduled to be broadcast at 7:44 a.m. today.
"The group was described as being in good health and in buoyant spirits," the girl's father, Stephen Hill, said yesterday evening.
Hill and his wife, Marcia, received a phone call from the U.S. Embassy at midnight yesterday, informing them that their daughter was safe.
The U.S. State Dept. reported Tuesday that about 150
tourists were stranded in five buses on a 17,384-foot pass, which runs by Mount Everest.
Hill said his daughter and her party apparently left the bus Sunday and arrived in Kathmandu on Wednesday.
Telexes came throughout the day yesterday from the State Department and the Chinese News Agency, Hill said. He said that NBC had contacted his daughter in Kathmandu and notified the family yesterday of appearance on the show. The film was directed by daughter from the studio of WDAFTV, an NBC affiliate, in Kansas City, Mo., Hill said.
Emily Hill, 1985 Lawrence High School graduate, was traveling with her cousin, Chris Hill, of Boulder,
See TIBET, p. 6, col. 4
Ice cream taster has flavorful weekend
staff writer
3y KIRK ADAMS staff writer
This summer, when it's again 110 degrees in the shade, and while many people gasp the humid air and wipe away sweat dripping from their brows, one KU student may be going through gallons and gallons of free ice cream.
Jay Tedder, Lawrence senior, was one of 27 assistant ice cream tasters who selected next year's new flavors for Edy's Grand Ice Cream Company for his efforts as taster. Tedder earned a year's worth of ice cream.
Tedder was chosen from more than 6,000 entries nationwide and was flown to Oakland last month for a two-night stay, including seven hours of ice cream tasting. The students were judged on creativity.
Gareth Waltrip/Special to the KANSAN
Jay Tedder, Lawrence senior, shares part of his one-year supply of Edy's ice cream with Ashley Larson. In a contest, Tedder won the ice cream and a one-weekend job as a taste-tester.
Tedder said. "They made it a real big deal — I was pretty impressed."
He was chosen by KLWN radio station in Lawrence from entries taken at the Douglas County Fair in August. Tedder was required to record words or less, why he thought he would make a good ice cream taster.
Tedder said, "I told them I had just had gastrointestinal surgery and the only thing I could eat was bread. I didn't have it, that's just what I wrote.
Besides receiving free air fare and lodging, Tedder rode from the airport to the hotel in a limousine.
The tasters selected their favorites from 25 new flavors. Tedder recalled that Edy's official taster said that judging an ice cream was a lot like judging a wine — it was a fine art.
"That's what they called it — it was a beige station wagon," Tedder said.
"He takes a spoonful and turns it upside down so that the warmest
For his part in the tasting, Tedder was also given a long white lab coat with his name on it, a plaque designating him an official ice cream taster and a golden spoon.
part will be on his tongue,' Tedder said.
Ashley Larison, 2, daughter of Tedder's roommate, Lisa Parson, said, "I eat all that ice cream."
The best new flavors Tedder had tasted in Oakland were Heath candy bar, raspberry cobbler (very) and orange sorbet with vanilla.
"I just ran up a killer room service bill, left my key and took off," he said.
Tedder said Edy's also paid for all the expenses he charged to his hotel room.
Diane McIntyre, public relations manager for Edy's in Oakland, said yesterday that a variety of people from around the country were chosen to be tasters. Included were a woman who baked a cream dish better than sex, an11-year-old his grandfather and a priest.
The worst flavors, he said, were
By the end of the tasting, Tedder said, the tasters had eaten about two gallons of ice cream apiee.
root beer, Gummi Bear, and innamon.
Another taster from Kansas was Jan Scoggins of Derby.
Before this year the company used its own tasting panel to choose new flavors. McIntyre said that this year, however, using people who weren't employees was so successful that Edy's had made plans to do the same thing next year.
Judge who tackled civil rights brings personal touch to class
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Motley, senior judge of the U.S. District Court in southern New York and the first black woman to serve as a U.S. District chief judge, argued some of the cases the class has studied. She was a lawyer with the NAACP's legal defense fund in the 1950s.
U. S. District Judge Constance Baker Motley yesterday brought personal experience to a KU political sci- the study of the civil rights movement.
Motley lectured on discrimination problems in the criminal justice system to about 70 students in a Judicial Process class taught by Pete Rowland, associate professor of political science.
Rowland said a grant from the Langston Hughes Fund paid for Motley's visit to the University of Kansas. The fund is being used to pay for several guest lecturers on civil rights for the class this semester.
Motley's legal connections with the civil rights movement go back to 1945, when she joined the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People's Legal Defense and Educational fund as a law clerk. When she graduated from Columbia University law school in 1946, she stayed on with the legal defense fund as a lawyer.
Motley said she was fortunate have joined the NAACP as a lawyer when the organization was preparing to handle discrimination in bold new ways.
Motley was in the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court the day Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka was argued. The court ruled in that case that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
Motley said that she and other NAACP lawyers celebrated when that case was decided. But they didn't prepared for what happened next.
"We were quite aware that we had participated and had brought about a new day for black Americans," she said. "One of the things we did not understand was the black community itself would rise under the bloom off all these badges of servitude."
After the Brown ruling, Motley said, blacks became more willing to
bring discrimination problems to court. Motley argued dozens of those
Motley said she argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court. She won nine, and the one she lost was later overturned.
Motley was appointed to the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
Motley said blacks were discriminated against under the current justice system. But when a student asked about the defeat of the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Senate, he said there was reason to be optimistic.
"It itens to me we've moved into the 21st century," she said. "He would not have been defeated if he had not used a black counter on black votes to get elected!"
"It's a changed country," she said. "One of the things we're not going to have in the next century is disputes whether blacks are equal to whites. The criminal justice system is the last frontier, and that's where I think civil rights lawyers will be focusing their attention."
Robertson says he attracts patriotic college students
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Rev. Pat Robertson said yesterday during a press conference that he was confident he could appeal to college students.
Robertson, a former television evangelist who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, flew into Kansas City, Mo., yesterday to fund-raiser with about 600 supporters at the Westin Crown Center Hotel.
"Thinking college students who are patriotic and conservative will support it."
Robertson said that students wanted a presidential candidate who offered long-term solutions to today's problems. But he did not specify any
Robertson is one of several pres-
He said students were worried about the nation's growing debt. They are worried that they will have to pay off the debt from a failing Social Security program. In addition, they can't understand how U.S. banks can give large loans to communist nations while the government spends $300 billion on defense, he said.
solutions at the 14-minute press conference at Downtown Airport.
Robertson said his candidacy appealed to students because he was concerned with long-term fiscal and demographic trends. He also said that many campuses were having religious revivals and that students were attracted to his religious and conservative values.
identical candidates with an organized KU student support group.
Robertson said that going into the primaries next spring, he, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and Vice President Mike Huckabee would be the top Republican contenders.
Dole plans to officially announce his candidacy Nov. 9 in Russell
He said that Wednesday's debate in Houston with the five other Republican candidates helped his image.
"Polls that came out of it indicate that I was a big gainer in terms of perception," he said.
SRI Research Center Inc., of, Lincoln, Neb. conducted a poll of 400 Republican voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and 11 Southern states
See ROBERTSON, p. 6, col. 1