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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Wednesday September 16, 1987 Vol. 98, No.18
(USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Teacher petitions for books
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
Foreign language students who are trying to learn without a book have bookstores to blame, language department professors say. But campus bookstores say out-of-stock books are the result of enrollment fluctuation and uncertainty of sales.
Sylvie Grignard, French 230 teaching assistant, started a petition Sept. 8 calling for the Jayhawk Book Store, 1420 Crescent Road, and the Kansas Union Bookstore to order sufficient numbers of textbooks for students. She said she started the petition because about one-fourth of the students in each of her two sections didn't have their textbooks.
The Union bookstore has 230 books in stock now, but Grignard will continue to circulate the petition.
"If we don't do something, maybe next semester it will be worse," she said.
David Dinneen, a coordinator of French programs, said the problem plagues many students.
"It's an old story and it's very frustrating." Dinneen said. "It's a very serious problem because a number of teachers were having their students Xerox pages of the books because they didn't have the books."
Grignard said, "It was frustrating because we were already falling into a cycle of failure."
Girnard circulated the petition in Russian, German, Spanish, French and English classes and department offices.
She has 500 signatures from faculty and students now and hopes to double that by Friday, when she will give the petition to the Jayhawk and Union bookstores and the language departments.
Mary Pechous, Kenosha, Wis,
freshman, said she bought her
French 110 books the fourth day of
classes.
He blamed the book scarcity on a University-wide enrollment increase and underestimation by the French department on the number of books
"I kept checking the bookstore each day and I saw it on the shelf and I grabbed it as fast as I could," Pechus said.
Steve Jewett, textbook coordinator for the Kansas University Bookstore, said that he was surprised by how many books were in stock.
But Debbie Douglass, office assistant for the French and Italian department, said French enrollment reflected an approximate 100 student drop from estimates used in book orders because some students drop or switch sections after classes begin.
The Union bookstore has French 110 books on order from the publisher, which doesn't have them in stock. Those are expected in late September.
Jewett said, "Apparently it's very difficult for anyone to figure out how many people are enrolled in these things."
"We can't get them because they're not available." Jewett said. Unfortunately that situation happeased her semester in some course somewhere.
Jewett said the bookstore sometimes orders fewer books than the departments request, but sometimes it orders more.
Bork says his philosophy is neutral
"What we order is what we think will sell," he said. "The problem is none of us can not only predict the enrollments, but we can't predict the sales. Students have other sources for books besides here."
Bork said he disagreed with the court's reasoning in that case that created a "free-floating" right of access to government offices under state's right to ban contraceptives.
"That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social processes of democracy," he said.
Bill Muggy, manager of Jayhawk
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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, denying that his judicial philosophy is either liberal or conservative, said yesterday that judges must be dedicated to restraint and respect for democratic processes.
The federal appeals court judge, in an opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee considering his nomination, said:
"My philosophy of judging is neither liberal nor conservative. It is simply a philosophy of judging which
"What I objected to was the way in which the right of privacy was created," Bork said. "Legislatures can constitutionally regulate some aspects of sexuality and family life. (The question is) has the legislature a reasonable basis for what it has done."
tives even by married couples.
In response to questions from Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del, Bork defended statements he had made criticizing an important Supreme Court ruling in 1965 that struck down a Connecticut law barring the use of contracep-
gives the Constitution a full and fair interpretation, but where the Constitution is silent leaves the policy struggles to Congress, the president, legislatures and executives of the 50 states and to the American people."
Meeting head-on some of the attacks of liberal critics, Bork said he valued judicial precedent and singled out for special praise the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation.
school segregation
That ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education, represented perhaps the greatest moral achievement of our
constitutional law, Bork said.
He also said that as a Supreme Court justice he would look differently upon past court rulings than he had before, a scholar earlier in his career.
their own values rather than interpreted the Constitution deprived the American people of liberty.
"It is one thing as a legal theorist to criticize the reasoning of a prior decision, even to criticize it severely, as I have done," he said. "It is another and more serious thing altogether for a judge to ignore or overturn a prior decision. That requires much careful thought."
Bork said judges who imposed
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The studying edge
'Quacks' thriving, prof says
Derrick Gomez, Topeka sophomore, chooses a highly quiet place to study. Gomez found his space on the east side of Wescoe Hall yesterday afternoon.
A professor from the University of Kansas College of Health Sciences told about 200 people last night at Woodruff Auditionium that "quack" doctors in medical science were thriving as never before.
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Robert P. Hudson, chairman of the department of history and philosophy of medicine, spoke on "Science and Humanities" at KU's Humanities Lecture Series.
Staff writer
Hudson said that although most U.S. citizens were well educated, many of them accepted unverified ideas as true.
He said that according to a 1984 Gallup poll of people who had high school diplomas, 69 percent believed in angels, 59 percent believed in extrasensory perception or ESP, 55 percent believed in astrology, 28 percent believed in clairvoyance and
Hudson said that Forbes magazine recently published an article that warned readers that Uri Geller, who is famous for performing alleged feats of telekinesis, might have the power to predict changes in the stock market.
In addition, Hudson said that scientists at Stanford University had studied some of Geller's feats and certi- ties, having valid occurrences of telekenesis.
24 percent believed in Bigfoot. He said that educated people were just as likely to believe in unverified phenomena as uneducated people.
Hudson said, "This is not as surprising as it might seem. Among many magicians, scientists are the easiest subjects to deceive.
He said that this was because scientists spend entire lifetimes learning to trust their senses, and
magicians spend their time learning to deceive peoples' senses.
Hudson said that because people were stubborn in their beliefs, and because scientists could be so easily fooled, science education probably couldn't make the public or the media more skeptical.
Hudson discussed the case of John R. Brinkley, a doctor who performed surgery in the 1920s to transplant goat glands in the sexual organs of men and women. Brinkley claimed that the operation would make elderly men virile again and make sex more pleasurable for women. Hudson said that Brinkley, who performed hundreds of these operations and became a millionaire from the practice, was a perfect example of how quacks can exploit science for their own profit.
"Who knows what's in the heart of physicians who treat you," he said.
U.S. must help contras North's ex-courier says
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
OVERLAND PARK — The United States must continue to support the contras in Nicaragua in spite of past human rights violations, the former courier to Lt. Col. Oliver North said yesterday.
Robert Owen, the former courier, spoke to about 75 people at Johnson County Community College as part of the Campus Activities Board lecture series.
Owen testified under a grant of immunity in the Iran-contra congressional hearings last May. He now works for an informational project that focuses on Nicaragua, he said. The project is part of the National Forum Foundation, based in Washington D.C.
Owen said Nicaragua's proximity to the United States made the political situation there important.
cal situation and it's important.
"A war down there would be the first war you could drive your pick-up to" Owen said.
Owen said that the contras had made human rights violations in the past because many contra members were uneducated and untrained. "When you give them a gun, mistakes are made. Civilians will be
killed," he said. But human rights violations have decreased, Owen said, because the contras are now better trained.
Owen said he first went to Central America when he worked as an aide to Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Indiana. He has since been to Central America 25 times. After working for Quayle, Owen joined a public relations firm.
He met contra officials when they came to the public relations firm seeking help. Then in 1984, he left the firm and began working to help the company. In 2003, the express had stopped aid to them. He met North at this time, Owen said.
"I thought it was inappropriate and immoral that the U.S. Congress would start out funding the resistance and then, when they're deep in the field, walk away from the commitment," he said.
Owen started an organization called the Institute on Democracy, Education and Assistance.
"For a year and a half, we tried to keep the resistance alive," Owen said. "We succeeded in allowing the resistance to maintain itself and even grow."
After Congress resumed aid to the contras in 1985, the U.S. State
Department and United Nicaragua Opposition contracted Owen's organization to help distribute $27 million in congressional humanitarian aid
Owen said that much of the investigations surrounding the Iran-contra affair could have been avoided if there had been better communication between the White House and North.
President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese decided to go public with what they knew on Nov. 25, 1986. Owen said, "They should have waited a day and called in Ohio." He told me that he did. "He told him, you work for me, if we're going to tell the facts let's tell them all."
Nikki Hayday, Overland Park resident and a student at the college, said she agreed with Owen's views about the contrasts.
"The shock that hit home was when he talked about the geographic relevance of this project."
Tristram Hunt, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, who is also a student at the college, didn't agree with Owen.
"There was too much idealism and not enough pragmatism." Hunt said.
Docking guided by his past
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Loss to Havden doesn't faze third-generation politician
By MARK TILFORD Staff writer
"My upbringing has taught me the importance of public service at a state level," said Docking, who will attend at the University of Kansas today.
The past may be the best map to discover the future political travels of Tom Docking, the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
He will speak at 2:30 p.m. in 252 Robinson Center. The lecture, "PUBLIC and Private Management," is sponsored by the business school and is open to the public.
Docking narrowly lost the governor's race in November to Republican Mike Hayden.
He was elected lieutenant governor in 1983 and served for one term with former Gov. John Carlin. Docking's father, Robert, and grandfather, George, were both Kansas governors.
Docking said yesterday that it was too soon after the election to seriously consider future political activities but that his long-term ambitions were in the state government, especially the executive branch.
"The executive branch provides a style of management that I admire most," he said. "The responsibility is to support the shoulders of the chief executive."
Docking, 33, lives in Wichita and is a partner in the law firm of Regan and McGannon.
Endowment Association's $100 million, five-year fund-raising effort.
Locking also is serving on the steering committee for Campaign Kansas, the Kansas University
Docking said the financing of education would get worse.
"I think it is tough," he said, "and it's going to get worse before it gets better. I'm afraid to say."
Though he still is disappointed about the election. Docking said he was pleased about his campaign's management.
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Former Democratic
gubernatorial candidate
I'm pleased we ran a race like we ran. It was a good race and didn't dip into personal animosity like so many campaigns today do,'
Hayden put up a tough fight, he said.
"I'm pleased we ran a race like me," he said, "it was a good race and didn't dip into personal animosity like so many campaigns today
"We were doing battle with a well-
organized campaign He had several incumbent legislators campaigning for him in the grassroots."
"The issue is flat not going to go away. It will still be a controversial issue."
Docking said he was frustrated that nothing came out of the special legislative session Hayden called to try to pass a highway improvement bill.
a naze to arm-chair quarterback the guy," Docking said, "but I was surprised by the lack of communication he had with the Senate and the House.
Docking said his stand on one major issue, the death penalty, might have cost him votes.
Despite polls near time of the election indicating that most Kansans favored reinstating the death penalty, Docking campaigned against it.
Hayden campaigned on a promise that he would pass the death penalty, but the state Senate defeated a bill in April.
But he called Hayden's initial $1.7 billion plan excessive.
"It would have meant the largest tax increase in our state's history." Docking said. "There is never a right time for a package of that cost to be passed. I was hoping that a much less expensive package would be passed. Highways are critical to the future of the state."
He said that through fund-raising efforts, his campaign debts had been trimmed from about $50,000 to about $20,000.
The rest, he said, should be paid after Michael Dukakis, Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor, pays a visit to a Sept. 27 fund-raising campaign in Wichita.
Docking praised Dukakis for turning around Massachusetts' problems of high unemployment and declining population.
"He made some tough decisions in a tough state to do it in," Docking said.
Docking declined, though, to say who he would endorse as the Democrat.
His wife, Jill, is actively serving on the Dukakis campaign.
Docking is a Lawrence native and received his bachelor's degree from KU. He also earned his master's degree in business administration here in 1980.