The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, October 11, 1982
Vol. 93, No. 26, USPS 569-649
Vol. 93, No. 36 USPS 650-640
A Chinese folk dance, called "Spring Morning on Mt. Yangming," performed by Paochin Shen, was one of the many performances at the China Day Culture Show Program held yesterday at the Kansas Union.
Americans, foreign students celebrate China Day as one
Staff Reporter
By BONAR MENNINGER
The distant East came a little closer to Kansas last night with the celebration of China Day 1892 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Monday Morning
The event, marking the 71st anniversary of
Nationalist China, was sponsored by the Chinese Students Association. Several hundred people listened to native music, watched displays of martial arts, and observed the traditional dress of heroes from China's history.
Although the KU group is made up of students from non-communist Taiwan, the day was not one of politics, but rather a
chance for Chinese — regardless of political persuasion — to embrace a culture that goes with it.
"This day is for all Chinese students from around the world," said Yuan Hu, president of CSA, "from Taiwan, from mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines." He said, however, that it was the hope of many Taiwanese that their country and the mainland be reunited under a democratic form of government.
YESTERDAY IN TAIWAN, according to United Press International reports, Nationalist China celebrated the anniversary with a call for reupholishment with the mainland under the non-communist principles of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern China.
Visitors to the KU festivities were taken on a sometimes literally whirlring tour of Chinese culture. Emcees Phebe Hsu and Don Hsi led the way.
See CHINA page 5
Glemp decries ban of Solidarity
By United Press International
NIEPOKALANOW, Poland — Roman Catholic Primate Josef Glemp yesterday condemned the outlawing of Solidarity in his sharpest criticism to date of Poland's military rulers and said the union might be gone, but its ideals were indestructible.
Glemp, a stanch Solidarity supporter, delivered his address to 15,000 people at services honoring Poland's newest host, the Rev. Krzysztof Lupiec, who was canonized yesterday at the Vatican.
"For many of our believers the outlawing of Solidarity as the trade union is an acute pain," Glemp said. "But, my brothers and sisters, we know that whatever is just is an ideal that contains in itself an indestructible value and this value will not perish."
The canonization of Kolbe, which was seen as a spiritual and patriotic rallying point for Poles around the world, came only two days after the English mission abolished Lech Walaesa's Solidarity unity.
Speaking in a strong, resonance voice from an altar outside the basilica that Kolbe started to build in 1938. Glemp said parliament's decision Friday to outlaw solidarity had been in vain.
IN ROME yesterday, Pope John II, at the canonization rite for the Polish priest, used the ceremony to make his strongest attack on the martial law regime in his homeland.
"Its structures can perish but its values will not." he said of Solidarity.
The pope's unexpected plea in defense of
the same name at the very end of the sainthood
sensibly forgoes.
About 150,000 people, including about 10,000 Poles and an eight-member official Polish government delegation, were present for the ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
Among the government delegation sitting in front row seats was Jerzy Ozdowski, deputy chairman of the Polish parliament that dissolved Solidarity.
"The happenings in the past few days connected with the deprivation of the legal rights of the Solifitary union are well known," the pope said in Italian.
"SUCH HAPPENINGS have provoked from various areas decisive reservations and protests in international opinion. Let this violation of the fundamental rights of man be known."
"The Apostolicate and the church in Poland have done all that is in their power so that such a victory can be achieved."
"Even now they will defend the legitimate rights of men of work. On the solemn day of the canonization of St. Maximilian Kolbe, I ask all men of good will in the world to pray for the Polish nation," the pope said, raising his voice almost to a scream.
People in the crowd broke into cheers, applause and shouts of "Long live Solidarnose." Tens of thousands waved small Polish flags and several held up a large Solidarnos banner.
GLEMP HAD decided not to attend the canonization so he could remain in Poland in case trouble broke out after the outlawing of the nine million-member union.
He prayed that Kobe, who died in 1941 at the Auschwitz concentration camp in place of a fellow prisoner, would protect the estimated 500 killed by the Nazis who remain interned by martial law authorities.
Koble, a Franciscan priest and a highly revered spiritual figure in Poland, became the 17th Polish saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Although he did not specifically die to defend the faith, the pope further honored Koble by declaring him "a saint and martyr."
He worked in Niepokalanow, a monastery compound some 45 miles outside Warsaw.
Glemp also warned the authorities not to be tempted to treat "healthy internets" to psychiatric hospitals and condemned power abuses by prison guards in the Kidwyn internment camp where some 40 internes were beaten up a few weeks ago.
THE OFFICIAL, Polish news agency, PAP, responding to President Reagan's decision to revoke Poland's "most favored nation" trade agreement, did not to interfere with Poland's internal affairs.
Reagan suspended Poland's trade status Saturday in retaliation for the outlawing of Solidarity, he said the action trampled "the national character of the majority of the Polish people."
The PAP statement said, "In connection with President Ronald Reagan's statement on Polish affairs, Polish news agency PAP finds it necessary to remind him that the Polish people's republic is not a banana republic where the U.S. government has himself authorized to impose American law."
"The same man who crushed with an iron first and the help of police handcuffs the strike by air controllers is now telling Polish workers and the Parliament how to shape relations between trade unions and the state," said a PAP correspondent in a dispatch from New York.
The Soviet Union also denounced the president's decision as another instance of the U.S. interference in the Warsaw government's affairs.
THE SOVIET news agency Tass accused Reagan of "hypocrisy" for contending that his measures were not aimed at harming the Polish people.
In Washington, Agriculture Secretary John Block said President Reagan's move to revoke Poland's most favored nation trade status would have little effect on the American farmer.
Glemp was joined in his protest by France's ruling Socialist party and the French foreign ministry, which said yesterday it "titly disapproves" of the banning of the trade union.
program, interviewed on NBCs "The Meet the Press program, yesterday, said, "There's not a market in this country ... for Polish agricultural products. I don't see a lot of effect on agriculture under the circumstances today Poland is a big factor in our agricultural situation."
New KUMC vice chancellor sought
Staff Reporter
Rv VICKY WILT
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The 12-member committee to select a new executive vice chancellor for the College of Health Sciences met for the first time yesterday.
The committee developed job descriptions and decided on advertisements that would be placed in medical journals across the country. Cathy Taylor, student medical association president,
The ads will not appear until the end of October, said Richard von Ende, executive secretary to the University. The committee has launched applications the first of November, he said.
JESSIE BALL, assistant professor of physical therapy education, said after the meeting that it was an organization meeting and that it was decided that the committee would seek appl-
David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the college, will step down next year after holding the position for five years. Waxman, who turns 65 in February, will continue to work for the college as its vice president and Chancellor Gene A. Budg. of Regents policy states that a person must retire at age 65.
There is a possibility that someone from inside the University of Kansas Medical Center will be selected for the position, von Ende said. The doctor who will select the best person for the job, he said.
Taylor said she could not state specific qualifications then reviewing for.
cants from all sources. She said qualifications
would be better in a cannon, but the first qualification
would be when the fire started.
"There are no particular issues we want changed right now," she said.
Taylor did say she would want someone who would support the medical students and strong educational programs.
"Chancellor Budig indicated that he already had some names to submit to the committee."
The next meeting will be in late November, Tavlor said.
CARL MANSFIELD, chairman of radiation therapy, said that in searching for a replacement for the vice chancellor, he was "looking for someone who is a very experienced individual, who is experienced in administrative and financial situations, who will be able to deal with the public, and who also has a strong academic and research background."
Waxman, who would not speculate about his successor, will serve as a special counsel to Budig after July 1, 1983, the official changeover date. His new position will be as a liaison between the Med Center and the people of Kansas, he said.
Waxman said the new position would give him the opportunity to take the University out into the state. It belongs to the state and Kansas State University, which programs the Med Center offers, he said.
In his new role, he said, he will be working with KU alumni and communities in the state. He said this was an attempt to bring the Med Center to the attention to individuals away from the city.
During Waxman's five years as executive vice chancellor, the Med Center has seen the addition of a new hospital, renovation of the old hospital, the building of a new library and the development of the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita.
WAXMAN SAID he took no credit for the growth.
The Med Center is a leading institution and the job of executive vice chancellor is not as hard as it once was because of the self-motivated faculty, he said.
The administration only has to provide the environment, space and support, he said.
"I haveGotten a group together who can work in an academic health center," he said. "My job was just to bring a group together who could lead the Med Center in support of this."
"This is one of the best health-care centers in this country," he said. "The state has created a team of doctors."
"THE FACULTY is made up of highly expert, highly creative scientists."
Waxman said he was looking forward to working outside the institution with the chancellor in helping to arrange a communication link with state institutions.
WWII tycoon's records saved Watkins' records preserved with grant's aid
By DIRK MILLER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Records kept by a Lawrence business tycoon that were tossed in the trash during World War II are now being preserved and processed at the University of Kansas with the aid of a $20,000 grant.
Business ledgers of J.B. Watkins, the owner of Lawrence's newspaper, bank and cannery around the turn of the twentieth century, have been stored at the Spencer Research Library since 1988, the curator of the Kansas Collection said Friday.
Sheryl Williams, the curator and grant coordinator, said that a grant request approved by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in September would provide funding for the restoration and processing of the Watkins documents.
"We are trying to preserve these papers in a logical, rational order for researchers," said Tom Brown, an archivist hired for the project.
Williams said it would take a year to process the documents.
WATKINS' PAPERS were recovered in 1942 by James Malin, then a professor of history at KU, after being thrown out of the old Lawrence and allying a world War H. paper drive, Bryan said.
Malka found out about the traashing and spent about a day retrieving the papers. They were then stored in the basement of Walter's Group where they moved into the Spencer Research Library.
The collection was ranked as one of the nation's best collections of agricultural business affairs in the book "Money at Interest," written in 1955 by Allan Bogue.
BEFORE BEING sent, all of Watkins' outgoing mail was letter pressed and bound into volumes by clerks at Watkins' office. Brown said. These volumes will be an invaluable tool in the processing of papers and other materials saved by Malin, he said.
Letter pressing was an early form of reproduction in which a wet sheet of onion skin was applied over a freshly typed letter, and then until the sheet made a faint copy of the letter.
Brown said that KU had about 400 volumes of *Wadkins* business dealings, ledgers and person-
The materials from the boxes are scattered about Brown's office in the research library. The volumes lie the shelves of another room in which of Walkins' businesses they are from.
The papers were stored in acid-free cardboard boxes, which helps keep them from yellowing and becoming brittle, he said. Records show that the boxes were "ibternarly splendid" with DDT, a banned insecticide, which Brown said was probably to stop insect damage.
"As if we don't really know what all we have." Brown said. The first step of the processing will be to identify the documents and try to put them in chronological order.
Some microfilming of documents is scheduled, Brown said, but the amount of the grant money is not large enough to handle all the documents.
ACCOUNTING TO Steve Jansen, director of the Watkins Community Library, 1047 Massachusetts St., Watkins' businesses included the Lawrence National Bank, where the old city hall is located; a newspaper, The Lawrence Record; the Lawrence Canning Company; and the J.B. Lawrence College Magazine Company, which holdings in Louisiana, New York, England Texas and Colorado.
Watkins and his wife, Elizabeth, made several donations to the University. The chancellor's residence is the old Watkins home. Miller and Watkins scholarship halls, the old KU nurse's home, the old Watkins hospital building, and 24,000 acres of land given to the Kansas University Endowment Association were all donated by either Watkins or his wife.
The land, donated in 1939, brings in a yearly average of $21 million to the Endowment
"This was one of the most enduring endowments the University and the association have ever received," he said.
The land holdings were the secret of Watkins' wealth, and Jansen. He made his money leasing the property to him.
Brown said Wattkins owned 1.5 million acres of land near Lake Charles, La. He owned a timber mill and a bank in Lake Charles, and had set up an office of his mortgage company there.
"He's credited with developing the town of Lake Charles," Brown said.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high around 60, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the west at 10 to 15 mph.
It will be clear tonight with a low between 35 and 40.
It will be partly cloudy tomorrow with a high in the mid-60s.
Unemployment below national rate
Bv STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
Local unemployment figures for September should prove that Lawrence and Douglas County are far from catching the nation's newest allion — double digit unemployment, the manager of the Lawrence Job Service Center said yesterday.
The government reported Friday that the national unemployment rate reached 10.1 percent in September. The figure represents the highest jobless rate since 1940.
Mills said the county statistics did not include students in the labor force unless they actually
The unemployment figures, however, do not reflect the number of students who are looking for work.
Although Douglas County figures will not be available until later this month, Ed Milms, manager of the center, said September's rate probably would be 4.6 percent, the same as for
hold jobs. He said the college student traffic in his office was 15 percent higher than last year.
MORE STUDENTS are taking their search to work to the job service office because they want to work there.
Pam Houston, coordinator of the student employment office, said students were having a harder time finding on-campus work, although they could noticeably busier this semester than last year.
There are fewer student hourly jobs this semester because of budget cuts enacted this year.
There are a third fewer such positions than last year, though the number of work-study jobs is growing.
Local businesses may be hiring some of the students look for jobs, she said.
"IT APPEARS that maybe the community is filling the need," she said. "I think the community realizes the importance of hiring KU students."
in order to provide students with more jobs.
See JOBLESS page 5