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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Wednesday October 7,1987 Vol.98,No.33
(USPS 650-640)
Senate Judiciary Committee rejects Bork
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Judge Robert Bork's embattled nomination to the Supreme Court suffered its worst setback yet yesterday as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 to recommend his rejection and a key Southern Democrat and a fifth Republican joined the opposition.
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the committee chairman, said he didn't see "any reasonable prospect that Judge Bork will be confirmed."
President Reagan insisted at the White House that he would not give up the fight. But his spokesman said it's tough to win" to win now. And Tom Korologos, a lobbyist brought in by the House for the Bork fight, said, "I'm notidding anybody; I'm not sure it's over, but we're in trouble."
Some Democrats were openly urging Reagan to find a replacement
The committee outcome had been expected. But the decision by formerly undecided panel member Howell Brennan was supported by its support was coveted by both sides.
"I must vote no," he said, adding that he was following the old adage, "When in doubt, don't."
But Senate Republican Whip Alan Simpson of Wyoming said that he had talked with Bork on the telephone and quoted the nominee as saying, "I do hope they'll vote" in the full Senate on the appointment.
Bork also said, "I am not despairing one bit, I have a good life. Don't anguish about me," according to Simpson.
The Judiciary Committee recommended that the full Senate reject the
nomination when it comes up for a vote, probably within two weeks.
Before the vote, Reagan rejected all talk of giving up. "There's no backing off. I'm going all out," he said.
Even as Reagan made his pledge to fight on, the nomination suffered another setback when Sen. Robert T. Stafford, R-Vt., became the fifth Republican senator to announce his opposition.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said after the committee made its decision: "We're disappointed but we're pushing ahead." He conceded, "It's tough. There's no doubt about it."
The committee vote fell roughly along party lines, with Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania the only candidate to be nominated in recommending rejection of Bork's
nomination. The committee's five other Republicans were on Bork's side.
Heflin's decision was particularly damaging to Bork's chances for confirmation, since White House officials were hoping to use a "yes" vote from the former Alabama Supreme Court justice to attract other conservative Southern Democrats to Bork's side.
Before its final vote, the panel voted 9-5 against sending the nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation that it be approved.
A few hours after the committee vote, Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., said he will vote against Bork's confirmation. "No single issue is really the problem," Ford said in a statement issued through his office and later read from the Senate floor.
Bork issue not finished, KU students, faculty say
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
The Senate Judiciary Committee's recommendation to reject Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court didn't come as a shock to some, but nobody is exactly sure what will happen now.
"What usually happens in a situation like this is that the nomination is withdrawn," said Alan L. McGregor, an assistant science. "But there's no been
indication that that's what is going to occur."
Cigler said that Reagan should withdraw the nomination to keep from alienating Republican senators. "An awful lot of Republicans would just as soon not have to vote on this and look bad when he's probably not going to win anyway. Lots of Republicans are encouraging him to withdraw the nomination."
The days after: students plot effects of nuclear war
See BORK. p. 6. col. 1
By MICHAEL CAROLAN Special to the Kansan
In a room in the basement of Snow Hall, students are being taught how to kill millions of people.
"I got 21 million" fatalities last night; most likely 50 to 100 million would die in the next two weeks."ermatics and ecology, told his class.
O'Brien's class, "Ecology of a Nuclear War," is planning a nuclear attack on the major cities of the United States.
"We're simply playing a game on paper with 2 percent of the Soviet power and wiping out 10 percent of the U.S. population: that's not even including missiles under development," said Eric Ratzlaff, Denver junior, who is taking the class.
Using a population and density list of the 100 most populated cities and a list of Soviet and U.S. weapons specifications, students calculate the greatest number of people they can kill using different configurations of weapons. Much of the information for the class comes from scientific journals such as Scientific American, O'Brien said.
"You can do a much better job next week with 100 missiles instead of just 100 megatons," O'Brien said recently to about 45 students in his class.
O Brien, who has taught the seminar for six years in the biology department, said that he got a good cross section of KU undergraduate. Enrollment has jumped from three students in 1981 to 42 this fall.
The course begins by explaining the nuts and bolts of nuclear technology and capabilities. The class discusses nuclear winter, fallout, how radiation affects food supply and the medical aspects of radiation, O'Brien said.
He said that he wanted the class to
say in what he calls grotesque
terms.
"I really want to drive home what people mean when they say 'overkill,' " O'Brien said. Overkill denotes the use of weapons whose destructive capacity far exceeds what is needed to kill all the people in a given area.
O'Brien asks his students to plan two major nuclear attacks on the United States, getting as many civilian casualties as possible with a small percentage of the available Soviet arsenal. Projects later in the semester include bombing the Soviet Union's ground-based nuclear arsenal and organizing an arms reduction treaty.
"These exercises will make you aware what can be done with a few tools."
As O'Brien lectured, a student asked how soon satellites could detect a submarine-launched nuclear missile, when it left the sub, broke the ocean's surface, or emerged through the clouds.
Another student asked how authorization for a nuclear war is obtained
In a recent class, O'Brien explained how to kill millions of people effectively, how submarine-
launched ballistic missiles work in relation to satellites, and how the chain of command for nuclear attacks operates.
"There is a strange sense of humor in the class, a kind of demented, sarcastic humor that makes the class interesting," said Benjamin Frey. "It's 'it's the kind of class people drop in on to see what's happening.'"
"I hear a lot of gaps," Frey said.
"He (O'Brien) will pull out some shocking figures, some shocking factions. People gasp. People pay attention."
Frey said that the seminar was not a typical class.
"The class makes me feel strongly about how insane the world is," he said. "I can't believe that people are actually sitting down and figuring out on paper how many millions of people they can kill."
Kevin L. Crawford, Overland Park senior, said the class has made him more aware of the threat of nuclear weapons.
"It's the best thing for people who don't know that much about nuclear buildup; it educates them more about current issues," Crawford said. "It's scaring you while you are it's interesting and I'm amazed at the theoretical and statistical knowledge that the professor has."
Although O'Brien is constantly saying something interesting during the
See CLASS, p. 6, col. 4
Hi ho, hi ho
Sean Jacobson, left, Shawnee freshman; Vince Labosky, Vincentown, N.J., sophomore; David Channel, Rossville freshman; and James Copher, Derby freshman, skip down the field at Memorial Stadium as part of a warm-up exercise. The four were conditioning for the upcoming track season, which begins in early December.
Garage is chosen as parking answer
PARKING CRUNCH
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
The only way to build is up.
YBP only way to sound is up. With increasing enrollment and a landscape of land, the only way to add a campus is to look at the skies, says Ray Moore, chairman of the KU parking board.
See related story, p. 7.
Parking garages are just some of the changes KU and other Big Eight schools see on the parking horizon. To deal with current and future parking demand, many schools are considering rezoning existing lots, building remote lots with shuttle buses to take students to campus and increasing parking fees to pay for improvements.
"At this point, the only new parking that KU is considering is the parking garage," Moore said. Last year, however, the parking board considered and rejected options suggested by a consultant.
That's why a building committee will develop plans for a three- to four-story parking garage, said the director of facilities planning.
However, the garage probably would not provide any student-zoned parking, officials say.
Wiechert said he and Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, would appoint a building commissioner to designate the committee by next week. The committee
would add at minimum 600 spaces on main campus. Weichert said.
KU has hired an architect, Kiene and Bradley Design Group from Topeka, to design a parking garage. KU has budgeted $5.3 million for the garage, which will be financed through revenue bonds.
But Donna Hultine, assistant director of KU Parking Services, said there was currently no suitable spot on West Campus for her job. "I didn't know when the vehicle would be moved to West Campus.
Building a garage was one of four recommendations from a consulting firm KU hired last year. The firm, Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc., of Evanston, Ill., also recommended that KU move all state-owned vehicles to West Campus.
KU has already followed the consultant's final two recommendations, by installing sidewalks and lights to encourage parking in outer lots, and by redesigning existing lots to add about 400 yellow zone spaces.
The consulting firm said that when the move was completed, it would free about 100 spaces on main campus for permit parkers.
More yellow unlikely
Students with permits may park in yellow zones. Faculty and staff
See GARAGE, p. 7, col.1
Donna Hultine Assistant director of Parking Services
Rav Moore
Hay Moore Parking board chairman
Don Kearns
Director of Parking Services
Danger zone
Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on parking at the University of Kansas' Lawrence campus. Today's stories focus on the future of parking.
Officials offer precautions against long walks, dark lots
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
Staff writer
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police officer in charge of community services, suggested several safety measures for parking on campus at night;
With more student drivers and
no increase of yellow-zone parking
in sight, students may find them-
selfs, parking an uncomfortable
and possibly unsafe distance from campus.
- Park in well-lighted areas.
- Lock your doors when you leave the car.
- Look into the car before you enter.
- ■ When you walk back to the car, don't take short cuts.
- Stay on the sidewalk.
- Try not to travel alone.
"If you are traveling alone, keep your car doors locked." Longaker said. "Two or three years ago, a woman was driving alone around Ninth and Iowa streets with her car doors unlocked, and some guy jumped into the car with her."
Another precaution students can take is to always let someone know where they are going and what time they plan to be home. Lonnerer said.
She also said to avoid areas along Memorial Drive and around Potter Lake because those areas
Jeanne Longaker KU police officer
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Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said the only complaints she heard about poor lighting in campus parking lots were last year from students who parked in Lot 106. Lot 106 is an overflow lot west of Iowa Street for Daisy Villain residence halls.
Common sense tells me that there are less people in a parking lot, but there are also more places to hide in a parking lot. You have to stay alert regardless of whether you're in a parking lot or walking between destinations.'
had poor lighting
Parking services recently installed four new lights in that lot, she said. Besides keeping the lots well-lighted, she said, parking services could not do much more to make parking lots safer.
Hultine said that she thought the parking lots themselves did not present a personal safety problem, but that sometimes walking to and from parking lots could be scary because of poor lighting.
However, Longaker said that according to police reports, the lots weren't safer than places
between parking lots.
Longaker said students who were wary of walking alone on campus at night could use any one of the 12 blue phones scattered around campus. By picking up the blue phones, students are automatically connected with a KU police dispatcher.
"Common sense tells me that there are less people in a parking lot, but there are also more places to hide in a parking lot," Longaker said. "You have to stay alert regardless of whether you're in a parking lot or walking between destinations."
Pearson Scholarship Hall provides escorts to women who live near the scholarship hall, Johns Topea, Mytpea senior and Pearson
She said that some fraternities and residence halls used to provide escort services to women who were on campus up on campus alone in the dark.
Women who don't want to walk alone on campus will call Pearson, and hall residents will escort them to their destination. Most walks last only 10 or 15 minutes, and last year the hall received an average of two or three escorc requests a night. Mwzer said.
Eric Pate, Little Rock, Ark. freshman, lives in Pearson and was an escort for someone walking alone on campus about three weeks ago.
"It's just something about walking in the dark," Pate said. "It gives you a secure feeling to know you don't have to walk alone."