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University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1982
Clergy unshaken by White House letter
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops will listen to — but not be intimidated by — Reagan administration criticism of a proposed statement condemning nuclear war. Joseph Bernardin said yesterday.
Bernardin, chairman of the committee that drafted the 105-page statement on nuclear war and peace
issues, said the bishops were "not unfamiliar with the points" made by the administration.
And, he told reporters, "We are not easily intimidated."
The criticism came in a seven-page, singled-sided letter by William Clark. President Reagan's national security adviser, to Bernardin and the White House, described morning as they continued debate on the proposed pastoral statement.
Clark, a Catholic, accused the
bishops of "fundamental misreadings of American policies."
CLARK'S LETTER said the bishops failed to offer "any information whatsoever" about Reagan's efforts to "preserve the peace while protecting the fundamental values of early civilization which you share."
Bishop Joseph Gossman of Raleigh, N.C., said the letter was unlikely to influence any bishops.
The draft statement, to be used by the nation's 50 million Catholics in forming their individual conscience on nuclear issues, condemns any first use of nuclear weapons, any use of such weapons against civilians, endorses a mutual freeze on development and deployment of nuclear weapons and questions the morality of the U.S. strategy of deterrence
Most bishops saw Clark's letter as an indication the administration is taking their concern seriously.
Ad Astra society reaches for outerspace
By MATT BARTEL Staff Reporter
William Adams' hobbies are reading, fishing and the further advancement of mankind into outer space, not necessarily in that order.
Adams, a Lawrence graduate student, is president of the Ad Astra L-5 Society, a group dedicated to space exploration and the promotion of human space habitation
The name comes from two sources, he said. Ad Astra, which means "to the stars," is found in the Kansas state motto, and L-5 is the name of the national society, based in Tucson, Ariz. of which they are a part.
According to Randall Clamons, the national society's administrator in Tucson, L-5 is the abbreviation for Lagrange libration point number five, which is the fifth of a series of points in outer space where the gravitational pull of the earth and the moon are equal.
THEOSE POINTS are significant, Adams said, because an object put into orbit around any of those points would have to travel at the speed them ideal locations for space colonies.
L-5 was chosen because that point could be reached from the moon with a smaller expenditure of fuel than any other rocket, best of the points for a colony, he said.
However, Adams said the prospect of those or any other space colonies being established in the near future was not likely.
"Probably we're looking at 100 years or more before anything like that happens," Adams said, "or maybe never."
He said the cost of such colonies was one reason for the delay.
"YOURE TALKING about a massive expenditure of time and money," Adams said. "I don't think you will ever build an government building anything like that."
He added that the prospects for private enterprise establishing such a
colony were much better, because of the potential for improving certain processes in the weightlessness and vacuum of outer space.
"For instance, the purification of pharmaceuticals works better in that
One pharmaceutical company already has sent experiments up in previous space shuttle flights, with good results, Adams said.
Another advantage of building in space is that very large structures can be built with fewer materials, and require less maintenance than buildings on earth, which become weathered and must be repaired, he said.
PERHAPS THE MOST pressing reason that man must explore space, he said, is the need for cheap and abundant supplies of energy and minerals, both of which can be found in space.
"In space there is a good supply of solar energy 100 percent of the time, which is not the case on earth," he said. Clamons said that L-5 had contributed to the Spacewatch camera fund, which is a project at the University of Arizona designed to locate asteroids near earth.
The next step would be to send a probe to the asteroids to take mineral samples, which would be analyzed for their usefulness to man, he said.
MIKE ALLEN, a Crescent, Iowa, graduate student and member of the society, said minerals such as silicates, which are related to silicon, an important inorganic mineral, were known to exist on the moon.
Adams said the national society also had a lobbyist in Washington.
That lobbying effort helped to defeat the United Nations Moon Treaty, which would have divided the moon in a manner similar to the way Antarctica is divided between the nations of the world, Allen said.
The Ad Astra chapter here was established in September 1981 by Adama, the group's first president, and now leads a graduate student, from Topeka.
Halls stop showing rented video movies
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Students in four KU residence halls will temporarily be unable to watch movies rented from local video stores on hall video cassette viewers.
Fred McElhenie, director of the office of residential programs, decided this week to stop the showings in residence halls after he received word from the institute public viewing, which might be prohibited by federal copyright laws.
McCollim, Oliver, Eilworth and Joseph R. Pearson residence halls had been renting films such as "Animal Raging Bull" - from local video stores.
'WE WERE NOT aware of any legal action prohibiting using video cassettes
in dorms when we started showing them, but it has come to our attention that evidence has been produced that she is a student who can be used." McElheneis asked xestera.
A summary statement about the use of video cassettes, prepared by the Film Security Office of the Motion Pictures Association of America, cites the U.S. Copyright Act as prohibiting public showings.
"Even performances in semipublic places such as clubs, lodges, factories, summer camps and schools are 'public' copyright control," the statement said.
IT SAID THAT any willful infringement of copyright laws was subject to civil penalty, "even by innocent or inadvertent infringers."
Swank Motion Pictures Distributor of St. Louis, Mo., owns the rights for
public showings of several films in the Lawrence area and gave the summary to the University to encourage it to stop showing the cassettes.
The summary states that video cassettes are available for "home use only" and that owners of video cassettes must get a separate license from the manufacturer to show the film outside of the "scope of the family or social acquaintances."
ARCHIE TUCKER, national marketing director for Swank, said, "The fine line is that we have the public performance rights to anything shown outside the home for the films we control."
He said video stores had only home viewing rights, and that if a residence was in the building or a hobby or any high-traffic area, it would have to rent the cassette from his firm.
But Allen Robertson, owner of Servi-tronics, 23rd and Louisiana streets, who rents the cassettes to KU residence hills, said it was not illegal. He said the current state of copyright law was insecure.
"We buy the films directly from the companies, and the only restriction we have is that we can't rent them to people who will charge admission," he said.
But Tucker said he disagreed.
"The issue has nothing to do with charging admission," he said. "The law enters a gray area regarding show it in a dorm room with only a circle of friends watching, but outside of that it is illegal."
McElhene said that KU residence halls would discontinue showing the movies, at least until he received a legal ruling from KU's general counsel.
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Group's love for snakes surpasses strong stigma
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Barker said the groups provided valuable demographic information by collecting, photographing and cataloging of herpes before releasing the animals.
"The time is coming when all sorts of animals will be faced with extinction. We need the kind of information they can provide when we start looking at where we're going to put dams and where we're going to have forests."
"Ten years ago herps wouldn't breed in captivity," he said. "Now we have the techniques available to make it happen.
RUNDQUIST SAID KHIS and other groups that study reptiles had determined valuable techniques for saving endangered species of herps.
John Tollefson, outgoing KHS president, said the auction raised $275
TODAY
"Groups like this one have a very good land ethic, a very good conservation ethic," he said. "People tend to overlook the value of amphibians and
Rundquist made the comments while he watched a beer social and auction that were part of the KHS' ninth annual meeting in Lawrence this week.
By MATT BARTEL
"WE ALL HAVE our phobias," Ruquist said. "I don't like spiders, but I give them leeway — I don't bother them and they don't bother me."
Staff Reporter
"When other species start to be endangered, we will have the tech niques to save them."
through the sale of donated books,
cages, T-shirts and other herp-related
Joseph Collins, the new president of KHS, said the group currently supported conservation and research on reptiles, reptiles, scientifically known as herms.
GAY AND LESBIAN SERVICES of Kansas will sponsor a lecture, "Gays and the Law," at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
GERMAN CLUB will have lunch at
the Cottown Room of the
King's Room.
KU SWORD AND SHIELD will meet
at p.m. in the Oread Room of the
Union
Many people do not like snakes that they cannot be trained, they are not fun to pet and their bite can be downright nasty. But to members of the Kansas Herpetological Society, snakes are beautiful.
Eric Rundquist, a Lawrence resident who helped start the group while he was a student in 1974, said, "Ever since I was five, I was fascinated by reptiles. It is a definite stigma regarding snails, but still we must get the word out."
That reason, among others, is why KHS was created, he said.
DAVID BARKER, a professional herpetologist for the Dallas Zoo, said he learned a lot about herpetology from groups like KHS while he was growing up.
KU CONSERVATIVE FORUM will meet and officers at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
On campus
CHRISTIAN CARE GROUP will meet at 8 p.m. at the Ecumenical Center.
WILKES C. ROBINSON, president of the Gulf Coast and Great Plains Legal Foundation, will speak at 12:30 p.m. in 104 Green Hall.
KU MOUNTAINEERING ASSOCIATION will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
FOOLS FACE
OPENED FOR
ELVIS COSTELLO
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Panforthe Chapel,
KU AMATEUR RADIO CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 2029 Learned Hall.
ASTRONOMY CLUB will meet at 308 p.m. in 500 Lindley Hall if it is chosen.
BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m.
in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
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