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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday September 14, 1987 Vol. 98, No. 16
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Canoe race fun for KU,K-State despite mishaps
By BEN JOHNSTON
Staff writer
Mishaps were a common occurrence Saturday as KU and Kansas State University students tried to paddle their canoes smoothly down a winding stretch of the Kansas River.
The Kaw River Canoe Race was sponsored by the K-State association of residence halls. It was the first canoe race between KU and K-State students since 1983. Last year, K-State students competed against each other.
The race took place on a 32-mile stretch of the river between the Kaw Valley Access in Manhattan and the Maple Road Bridge, a few miles east of St. Marys. About 55 KU students and 550 K-State students participated.
Monday Morning
Students were on teams of between nine and 27 people. Each team had to have three people, including at least one female, in the canoe, and three new team members could enter at each of the eight checkpoints along the race route. Four KU teams and 26 K-State teams participated.
hoss Nigro, Kansas City, Mo.
junior and president of the KU Association of University Residence Halls, said lack of transportation was the main reason more KU students did not compete.
but he didn't want to come out to Manhattan and then go to St. Marvs," he said.
K-State teams took the top three places and won the traveling trophy, which is awarded to the school that has two out of the top three finishers.
KA-All Staff, a five-woman, fourman team, won the race in a time of seven hours and 10 minutes.
seven hours later.
Todd Martin, team captain, said,
"I participated in the race last year,
and we finished about last. This year
we were really enthusiastic and
determined, and we didn't give up.
We also went to aerobics class to
prepare for the race."
Darrin Phelps, another team member, said he was tired after the race but happy with the results.
but happy we will tipped over twice
"Last year we tipped over twice and came in about an hour and a half behind the leaders. This year we
decided not to tip over, and we didn't." Phelps said.
Although no KU team finished in the top three, two teams said they were pleased with how well they did.
KU's Finest, a team consisting of 14 men and six women from Oliver Hall, finished fourth.
David Platt, Roeland Park senior and team captain, said he didn't receive the canoe the team used in the race until 11 p.m. Friday.
"I got the canoe from my uncle in Garnett," Platt said. "We also built the canoe rack yesterday.
"I think having a camouflaged canoe was one of our advantages. They couldn't see us sneaking up on them. It was the only camouflaged canoe in the race."
However, the team had a couple of disadvantages before the race started. Platt said.
"Some of the team got lost in Manhattan and couldn't find us for an hour and a half." Platt said. "Final checkouts we found us at the second checkpoint."
"We also only had two oars for most of the first half of the trip. Somebody went to the Wal-Mart in Manhattan and got us an oar."
Platt said the team was in ninth place when it received the car.
We made up ground with the oar. It was definitely a well-invested $2.96". Platt said as a teammate held up his hand, the tag price still firmly attached.
Platt said the team also had a problem when the canoe tipped over in deep water.
"Our teammates had to come out and save us," he said. "We drifted for awhile. They had to swim out and get us. It took about ten minutes. We came in to that checkpoint sixth and went out ninth."
Other KU teams had less success in the race.
PAF United, a team consisting of six men and three women from McCollum Hall, finished sixteenth.
Catherine Bishcoff, Ascunion,
Paraguay, freshman, said the team
had problems early in the race but
finished strong.
"We came from second-to-the last to 18th," Bischoff said. "We drew the first starting time, and we were the
See CANOE, p. 6, col. 6
Craig Nowatzke, Prairie Village freshman, makes a giant bubble out of Friday afternoon in front of Wescoe Hall dishwashing soap. Nowatzke and his friends were entertaining students
Mr. Bubble
Husband is charged in wife's murder
By JAVAN OWENS
A 40-year-old Lawrence man was charged Friday afternoon in Douglas County District Court with the murder of his wife.
Carl L. Kemp, 101 Michigan St., lot 46, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his 32-year-old wife, Judy.
A warrant for Kemp's arrest is pending his release from Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Kemp entered the hospital Thursday afternoon for observation of low blood pressure.
Lawrence police first went to the trailer home of Carl and Judy Kemp on Sept. 9, after Kemp called the police dispatcher to inquire how to make funeral arrangements for his wife.
After a nine-minute conversation with Kemp, the dispatcher sent a patrol car out to the home, Lawrence assistant police chief Ron Olin said.
Would be used as evidence in course Police suspect that the woman had
Olin said he could not detail the conversation that prompted the dispatcher to send a patrol, because it would be used as evidence in court.
been dead for about a week before they found her in a wooden box in a shed adjacent to the trailer.
Olin said that although the case had been turned over to District Attorney Jim Flory, the entire detective staff and some sheriff's deputies would follow up on the case for the next week.
"We have about 14 people following up on this case," Olin said.
An affadavit requesting a charge of second-degree murder was presented to Judge Jean Shepherd early Friday morning. Second-degree mur
dier is a class B beloy. If convicted,
Kemp would face a minimum of five
to 15 years in prison and a maximum
of 20 years to life.
20 sheepers to hire
Shepherd set bond at $150.000.
Flory said evidence in the final coroner's report had led him to request the second-degree murder charge. He said a forensic pathologist also would be consulted. Police also have questioned Kemp.
"There were some coroner findings of great significance." Flory said, although he would not reveal the cause of death.
Debate over nomination of Bork goes to Senate
Black greek leaders hold weekend retreat
See BORK, p. 6, col. 5
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — To his supporters, the confirmation of Robert H. Bork as Supreme Court Justice would give the court a lasting conservative legacy. To his liberal foes, the Bork appointment could end three decades of progress for women, blacks and civil libertarians.
After waging an ideological struggle via news conferences, studies and letter writing, the rival camps will move their battleground tomorrow to the place where it counts: the Senate Judiciary Committee.
More than 100 potential witnesses have asked to testify in support of, or in opposition to, the 60-year-old Bork, whose future on the court will be decided by a large group of undecided senators now sitting on a political hotseat.
Much is at stake in these televised proceedings, both sides say, because the court has reached a turning point following the retirement of Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. It can move toward moderation or strict conservatism.
By ELAINE SUNG
Special to the Kansan
Members of the eight black Greek organizations at the University of Kansas attended a greek leadership retreat this weekend, an event separate from the activities of Greek Week.
None of the black organizations participated in Greek Week, during which 24 fraternities and 14 sororites formed 12 teams to compete for points through various activities.
bobby Jann, Interfraternity Council vice president for campus affairs, said that all houses on campus were invited to participate in Greek Week but that the black organizations chose not to.
"We'd asked someone a long time ago, but they said that they had their own things to do." Jann said.
president for campus affairs, said that black greek leaders were invited last spring in person and by letter but that they did not attend because of differences in the ideas of the Greek system.
"They have a real different view. They work more in the community, and they're not into national things." Campbell said.
Kim Campbell, Panhellenic vice
Campbell said.
Melinda Grace, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, said she did not remember being invited to participate in Greek Week, although it was possible a written invitation was lost in a pile of correspondence during summer.
Jolynn Baucm, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, said no black Greek leaders mentioned attending Greek Week at a recent meeting of black fraternities and sororites. She said she did not know whether the black
organizations had been invited.
would have loved to participate." Baucam said. She said she assumed Greek Week was only for houses with live-in members.
houses with it. KU has four black fraternities and four black sororites, only one of which has live-in members. That fraternity is under renovation this year.
Leaders of the predominantly white greek houses met in the spring to plan Greek Week, Jann said.
London Bonds, assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center, said information from that meeting might not have been passed on to black leaders. But she said she didn't think the predominantly white organizations chose not to invite the black Greek houses.
"I think there was just miscommunication in what was taking place.
Bonds and Vernell Spearman, director of minority affairs, planned this weekend's retreat for the black houses. Bonds said the retreat was organized to educate blacks and show support for those in black Greek organizations.
"It is a good way to share information that would be valuable to them," she said. "It provides cooperation and cohesiveness among the group."
Members of the predominantly white greek organizations at KU did not attend, although officers of Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic were notified of the retreat and told they could attend, Bonds said.
The retreat included guest speakers and sessions on academic and constructive pledging programs, male and female relationships, hazing, and media relations.
Former Harvard professor Timothy Leary speaks to a sold-out River City Reunion crowd. Leary spoke Saturday at Liberty Hall.
Performers merge generations
Reunion audience hears voice from the psychedelic past
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
Timothy Leary, a former Harvard University professor who favored legalized drugs in the 1960s, spoke in favor of psychedelic drug use and against government interference.
The old and the new anti-establishments merged Saturday at Liberty Hall.
Jello Biafra, lead singer for the punk band The Dead Kennedys, spoke against government censorship.
Biafra had come from an observances trial in Los Angeles last week, where he was tried for distribution of harmful matter to minors.
The charges stemmed from a poster by H.R. Giger, who was the Oscar-winning set designer for the movie "Alien." Giger's poster was included in The Dead Kennedy's last album.
Saint.
Biafra's trial resulted in a hung jury. The judge declared a mistrial, so Biafra was acquitted.
so Biafra was acquitted.
Biafra gave satirical dialogues with names such as "Vietnam Never
Happened," "Why I'm Glad the Space Shuttle Blew Up" and "The U.S. is Under Martial Law."
But Leary was the main attraction for the sold-out house.
When his performance was over, he took up a collection for the No More Censorship Defense Fund, which he founded to pay for his trial.
which he rounded up for me.
"Here's my鞋," he said. "We'll take a collection to help Oral Roberts die."
figure in the book.
"I'd like to see for myself what he's all about," she said. "He's supposed to be a pretty wild dude."
"I thought he was pretty weird back then. I have no idea what he has
Marianne Ault-Rich, Topeka resident, heard Leary speak in 1964 in Greenwich Village while she was attending New York University.
Carl Ringler, who was with Crittenden, said. "Yeah, I want to see what somebody who's done that much acid is like."
Connie Crittenden, Lawrence resident, said she came to see Leary because he was such an influential figure in the '60s.
Nik Huffman, Kansas City, Mo. senior, said Leary belonged in Lawrence last week.
to say now," she said.
"He was such a big part of what's been going on here this week with the River City Reunion," Huffman said.
Some people at the River City Reunion were a big part of Leary's life. Leary said Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs had helped transform him from a straight-laced Harvard professor.
"The people here in this room taught me," he said.
Leary said Ginsberg would be remembered as a great American poet and a "cosmic social worker." Leary said.
He said Burroughs knew everything about drugs' effects on the human body. Burroughs was envious of the free, legal drug supply Leary had while at Harvard, but critical of the naivete of the experimenting professors. Leary said.
Leary said the "Summer of Love"
See RIVER, p. 6, col. 4