University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 23, 1987
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Man arrested in incident at local tavern
Lawrence police arrested a 31-year-old Topica man late Wednesday night at Perry's Place, 623 Vermont St., on charges of aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon.
Police reported that the man had been at the tavern earlier in the evening and got into an altercation with another bar patron over a domineer match. He returned to the bar at about 11 p.m. with a shotgun in his trench coat. He pulled the gun out but another customer grabbed him, wrestled him to the floor and disarmed him.
The suspect is being held in the Douglas County Jail in lieu of a $7,500 bond.
State editors name honoree tomorrow
Newspaper editors from across the state will meet at the University of Kansas tomorrow for the 1987 Kansas Editors' Day.
The annual event, sponsored by KU's William Allen White School of Journalism, will feature talks by Chancellor Gene A. Budig; Donald C. Slawson, chairman of the Board of Regents; and members of the journalism faculty.
Calder M. Pickett, Clyde M.
Reed distinguished professor of
journalism, will announce the 1987
Newspaper Editors Hall of Fame
Editors also will attend the KU-Iowa State University homecoming football game.
NOW leader slated to speak at K-State
National Organization for Women president Molly Yard will speak at the Kansas NOW conference tomorrow at the Kansas State University student union in Manhattan. The theme of the conference is "Prairie Feminism: On The Rise."
Yard will have a news conference at 10 a.m. in the Big Eight Room of the union.
Yard will deliver the keynote address to the conference at 11:30 a.m. in the Big Eight room.
Registration for the conference will begin at 8 a.m. on the second floor of the union. A $15 registrar fee is required. Non-members may attend.
Business fraternity to discuss plans
The national organization recently placed KU's chapter on probation for failure to pay dues. Kenneth Husley, centrist leader of Alpha Kappa Psi in St. Louis, will be in Lawrence for the meeting.
Language program gets federal grant
The university of Kansas Center for International Programs recently received $104,254 from the U.S. Department of Education for a project designed to develop teaching skills in French, German and Spanish.
The project is co-sponsored by the KU foreign language departments, Port Hays State University and the Kansas Board of Education.
From staff and wire reports.
Kissinger questions Kuwaiti ship reflagging
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
OVERLAND PARK — Henry Kissinger, a foreign policy standout for decades, discussed East-West relations, U.S. attitudes on foreign policy and the situation in the Persian Gulf in a speech last night.
Staff writer
Kissinger, who was secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, spoke to a crowd of more than 700 at the Marriott Hotel for two hours with his prickly humor and thick German accent. He was speaking as a guest of Jones Store Co. at its first "Men's Forum."
He questioned President Reagan's decision to reflag and provide a U.S. Navy escort to Kuwaiti ships. That, he said, amounted to siding with Iraq in its war against Iran.
"But now that it's done, we can't stop," he continued. "We should keep the convos going. And when an American ship is attacked, we should retaliate. But I do not think we should get ourselves involved in any operation beyond that."
"How far are we prepared to go?" he asked.
He said that would tempt the Soviets to become involved and encourage Soviet expansionism.
East-West relations are plagued by misunderstandings because U.S. citizens are too preoccupied with personalities, Kissinger said, and they unrealistically expect good relations between the two superpowers.
"The idea that personal relations can ease international tensions is touching and a peacel
iarly American perception — and peculiarly unsuitable for dealing with the Soviets," Kissinger said.
He said Soviets historically had never felt secure without troops on both sides of the borders, and it was unrealistic to expect Soviet control in the face of change that history, even if he wanted to.
A 1973 Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his work in foreign policy, Kissinger said that instead of paying attention to the cut of Gorbachev's suits, U.S. foreign policy should concentrate on the problems causing tension between Russia and China, such as the millions of dollars spent each year by the Soviet Union to support radical movements all over the world.
It's not too much to ask that the Soviets stay within their own borders, he said. Considering the size of the Soviet Union, they won't suffer from claustrophobia, he said.
Kissinger, who recently was chairman of the Bipartisan Commission on Central America, said there was no reason to end aid to the contras.
"my should we stop supporting the side thats with us at the beginning of the negotiations," he said, calling the anti-contra opinion a typically U.S. sentiment.
Meanwhile, several protesters stationed themselves at an entrance to the hotel, where they held up banners that said "Contra targets — farms, schools, hospitals." and "Stop aid to the contraas."
Chris Duval/KANSAN
Working undercover
Ami Locher, Shaween senior, adjusts her view camera. Locher was working on a project for her photography class Wednesday near Potter Lake.
Pritchard to sponsor bill
Athlete wants Senate absence policy revision
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
Pritchard said he was sponsoring the bill because student athletes often had practice, meeting and game schedules that conflicted with Student Senate meetings.
Kevin Pritchard, Nunemaker student senator and KU basketball player, said yesterday that he planned to co-sponsor a Student Senate bill that could make it easier for athletes to serve on the Senate.
According to Senate regulations, a senator who has acquired two unexcused absences or four absences of any kind during the session is automatically suspended. A suspended senator has a week to appeal a suspension to avoid dismissal. A senator who successfully appeals a suspension will be automatically dismissed if he receives two more suspensions of any kind.
This session, the Senate is scheduled to meet about 20 times.
"There are many student athletes on campus, and I think they should be represented," Pritchard said.
Under Pritchard's bill, the Student Senate Executive Committee could reinstitute a senator if it determined that excessive absences occurred because of extinguish circumstances.
The existing absentee policy then would not apply to the senator, provided that he served on either the University Council, a University Senate board or committee, a Student Senate board or committee, the SenEx Committee or a Student Senate special project.
Pritchard has received two excused absences for not attending the Senate retreat in Topea at the beginning of the semester. He then endured the retreat because of an athletic conflict.
Four senators have been dismissed this year because of excessive absences, including Kelly Donahoe, a quarterback on the KU football team.
Roger Templin, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said of the bill, "It's an interesting idea. I'd like to see it developed."
Jason Krakow, student body president, said he thought senators could demonstrate their dedication to the Senate by being on a Senate committee, helping with the Associated Students of Kansas' H.E.R.O. campaign or volunteering to work in the Senate office.
"But certainly, showing up at Senate meetings is the ultimate responsibility," Krakow said.
Senator approvals tabled
Staff writer
By BRAD ADDINGTON
The Student Senate currently has seven vacant seats. Four are vacant because of senator dismissals and three are vacant because of senator resignations.
Steve Dixon, Senate Elections Committee chairman, hoped to have those seats filled at Wednesday night's Senate meeting, but the Senate tabled approval of the replacement senators recommended by the Elections Committee.
Senators expressed concern that the Elections Committee had not properly interviewed all applicants for the vacant seats.
arppublic. Dixon told the Senate that individual Elections Committee members had interviewed some applicants in person, some by telephone and some not at all. Senate regulations require the Elections Committee to schedule interviews if more than one applicant applies for a vacant seat.
Dixon said Tuesday that 27 people had
applied for the three available Nunemaker seats, eight people had applied for an off-campus seat and two people had applied for one seat each in architecture, engineering and education.
Applications to fill the vacant seats were due at 5 p.m. Monday. As a result, the Elections Committee had roughly 48 hours before Wednesday's Senate meeting to interview 38 ap-licants.
Dixon said the original application deadline of Oct. 6 had been moved back because of changes that had to be made in the replacement senator application.
Michael Foubert, graduate senator, spoke in favor of considering the Elections Committee's recommendations.
mix-up causes timetables to be late
"They made an effort to contact the applicants. That's all that is necessary," he said.
I oppose it will be interviewed by the entire Elections Committee or by an Elections Committee subcommittee before the next Senate meeting on Nov. 4, Dixon said.
Staff writer
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staif writer
Timetables listing class offerings for next semester were delivered yesterday to faculty and administrators, but students will have to wait until Monday before they can obtain a copy for themselves.
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Sometimes we can help catch things up,but this year there was no way.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said yesterday that delivery of timetables this fall was later than usual, but added the late delivery should have little effect on the University's advising and enroll-
John Sayler
director of printing services
Only the School of Journalism has changed its advising schedule because of the late timetables.
Starting Monday, students can pick up a copy of the timetable at 111 Strong Hall.
ing process, which is set to begin next week
Mary Wallace, assistant to the dean of journalism, said advising for journalism majors would begin on Tuesday instead of Monday. Advising for pre-journalism students scheduled from Nov. 2 to Nov. 6 will not change.
"We just felt we could not help people unless there were sufficient timetables." Wallace said.
Many schools said they expected to be busy toward the end of the week with an influx of students who did not
pick up their timetables until the middle of next week, but they were expecting no major problems because of the delay.
Thompson said his office had ordered 30,500 timetables to be printed by University Printing Services earlier this fall. The printer got behind schedule because of printing obligations with the University Daily Kansan and the graduate catalog, which is printed once every two years, he said.
John Sayler, director of printing service, said his office had received the timetable layout a week late and could not print it fast enough to have
it out before this week.
He said that he had to do three weeks worth of work in two.
"Sometimes we can help catch things up, but this year there was no way," he said.
Thompson said when students picked up their timetable next week they would receive only one. He said the limit allowed the University to keep timetables on hand so students who needed copies during registration in January would e able to obtain one.
Kansan reporter Jennifer Rowland contributed information to this story.
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