The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Wednesday, October 6, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 33 USPS 650-640
KU prof's letter engages faculty in nuclear issue
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Moral obligation to express public opinion about the nuclear arms race has prompted more than 130 KU professors to sign a letter calling for freezing, the release of the letter said yesterday.
"The policy of escalation has failed," he said.
"We need to decide there will be no more bombs, no more missiles, and then sit down and talk seriously. Otherwise, the situation is too scary."
William Tuttle, KU professor of history, said he wrote the letter because he felt the present strategy of nuclear buildup to ensure peace was not valid.
The letter was sent to all KU faculty members. The purpose of the letter was to get more faculty members involved in the nuclear freeze issue by providing a forum for their opinion poll vote in Lawrence on the subject.
HAVING PROFESSORS involved in the protest against nuclear proliferation is important because they can educate the public about the issue, he said, and swinging public opinion against nuclear buildup means a lot in the United States.
"Maybe this is idealistic, but we all believe in democracy, and we all believe the majority should rule," he said. "This is not a protest. We're not advocating出去 into the streets. We're not advocating you, you have in democracy is public opinion. It's the only alternative we've got."
John Clark, KU history professor and a signer of the letter, said the protest, as well as similar protests, was unlikely to have any effect on armament policies because governments had too much money and effort invested in nuclear arms to seriously consider a nuclear freeze.
"I THINK there ought to be an immediate freeze on nuclear weapons, but the amount of influence one person can wield is minimal," he said. "You feel that you have to say something."
though, and this is an easy, no risk, way of doing that."
Arranging for a nuclear freeze resolution to be on the ballot in November was the work of the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, and Thomas Moore, the coalition's liaison with the City Commission, said it would start canvassing the area soon to gain support for a freeze.
"As of Oct. 3rd, we only had 25 volunteers to go door to door and promote the issue," he said. "We would like to have enough people to be able to take a flyer to every house in Lawrence and make sure that people are aware of the issue. If we don't get enough people to do that we'll have to just leave the飞wers and run."
MOORE SAID visiting with people was important because the idea of a nuclear freeze brought up images of Soviet dominance in world politics.
"A nuclear freeze doesn't allow at all that," he said. "It only calls for a freeze on things that are verifiable. We wouldn't just be trusting the Russians, we would be using satellites and other means of surveillance to determine what number of nuclear weapons they had."
Freezing the number of weapons each country could maintain would not solve the nuclear problem, he said, but it would keep the situation from getting worse.
"WITH SALT I and II they took seven years to debate, and while they were debating both nations were building up their nuclear weapon stockpiles," he said. "Let us have a nuclear freeze. Then if we have to fight for seven more wars we won't be in more danger than we are now."
EVEN IF GOVERNMENTS decide against a nuclear weapons freeze, voting against nuclear weapons is no worse.
Lawrence Mayer Marci Francisco said she would be sending a letter to Washington, D.C., calling for a freeze if the issue was passed in the election. The city gave the original approval for the governor and the commissioners felt sufficient interest in the topic existed in the community.
Figures show KU tuition less than most Big Eight schools
Staff Reporter
By STEVE CUSICK
Students at the University of Kansas got a pretty good buy on tuition this semester, compared with their colleagues at five Big Eight Conference universities, according to tuition records.
For 15 hours of classwork, students at the University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, Iowa State University, Kansas State University and the University of Colorado paid more tuition than KU students. Students taking the same classes at Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma State University paid less.
Kansas residents paid $425 tuition at KU this semester, a drop of $7 from last spring's rate, KU officials said. Non-resident students paid $110
KiU's tuition went down this semester because
of the retirement on bonds for Wescote Hall and Watkins Memorial Hospital, KU officials said.
BUT MARTIN JONES, associate director of business affairs at KU, said those figures would go up next fall because of a 20 percent tuition increase and the addition of Regents approved during the last school year.
Of the Big Eight universities, the University of Colorado is the most expensive. Colorado charges resident undergraduates $40.50 tuition and fees, which are the same as figures from the tuition and fee office there.
And like other Big Eight schools, the fees for out-of-state students are much higher. Non-resident undergraduates must pay $2,924 tuition per semester and $130.25 fees.
The high costs apparently don't deter students from going to the University of Colorado, Jones
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Tonight will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a low in the mid- to upper 40s.
Today will be partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service. The high is around 85 to 85 with northwest winds at 10 44 to 29 mph.
Weather
Tommorow will be partly cloudy and cooler with a high in the low to mid-70s.
Workers for the Vincent Roofing Co., Topeka, appear pitch black as they began to cover the roof of Murphy Hall with tar yesterday.
Californian poisoned Strychnine found in Tylenol bottles
By United Press International
CHICAGO-Tylenol capsules tainted with strychnine poisoned a man in California, officials said yesterday, and the list of potential suspensions of people in Chicago marrow to eight or nine.
Investigators discounted the theory that a "copycat" was imitating a saboturer whose cyanide-laced capsules killed seven people last week.
Law enforcement officials in Chicago said they had narrowed their list of two dozen potential bombs in the city.
OFFICIALS IN CALIFORNIA said the man, Greg Blagg, 27, a butcher from Oroville, Calif., went into convulsions last Thursday after swallowing capsules of Extra-Tremely PYlenoid Hemoglobin — the same day he broke about the Chicago deaths. He subsequently recovered.
The Food and Drug Administration and McNeil Consumer Products Co., manufacturer of Tylonel, issued an immediate warning against consumption of any type of Tylonel capsule —
In New York, trading of stock in Johnson & Johnson Co., McNeil's parent firm, plunged more than two points and was halted for more than an hour after news of the California fire.
Johnson & Johnson said it had hired a private detective agency to aid in the probe but denied a lack of confidence in the massive investigation under way in Chicago.
"We're just trying to do everything we can think of," a company spokesman said. "We think the law enforcement people have done an excellent job."
THE HEAD of the Illinois task force investigating the cyanide deaths said the fact Blagg was stricken before word of the Chicago
possonnis had spread indicated the two incidents probably were not related.
All the Chicago cases involved Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. The capsule involved in the Oroville case was adulterated with rt poison containing strychnine. It marked the first case of strychnine poisoning to be linked to the pain reliever.
"We believe our problems are peculiar to Chicago," Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Woolsey wrote in a letter.
He said the FBI was in touch with agents in California and had not completely ruled out a connection but added that none of the eight or nine chief suspects had been in California
Fahner said all the suspects lived in or near northwest Chicago, but he declined to give
"We're watching a lot more than our eight or nine principals," he said. "They're not hard
Hardage stresses education in funding plans
Staff Reporter
BY JULIE HEABERLIN
During his daylong campaign at the University of Kansas yesterday, Republican Sam Hardy stressed education as the basis of his economic program while accusing incumbent Gov. John Carlin of lacking real commitment to Kansas Board of Regents institutions.
"I've said again and again that I think the Regenesis bone an unfat burden of the cuts," she added.
"I can't believe there are teachers out there supporting Carlin after what he has done to their salaries. They are swallowing Carlin's theory that the severance tax is the only way out."
CARLIN ASKED all state agencies, including the seven Regents schools, to reduce their budgets 4 percent this summer after a $47 million shortfall in state revenue.
Hardage, who also addressed the KU Student Senate and attended a three-hour College Republican rally, refused to guarantee that the budget was sufficient. His budget decreases under his administration.
not include the Regents institutions, whose budets should remain "untouched."
If elected, Hardidge said, he would try to eliminate waste from other state agencies to increase faculty salaries and funding for education.
But he said his recommendation to Carlin to null another 4 percent from state agencies did
Scott Swenson, KU campaign coordinator for Kansas for Carlin who attended Hardage's forum, said the severance tax was Carlin's obvious commitment to funding education,
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while Hardage was promising "impossible" revenue.
"Some state agencies are hurting because of the first cut budget," Swenson said. "It is obvious that the budget cuts will affect our work."
"Sam Hardidge is not proposing any other tax besides the gasoline tax, and that is for funding health care."
He said Carlin's proposed severance tax would provide an estimated $120 million annually for public education and highways, freeing more money in the general fund for higher education.
HARDAGE ALSO discussed his proposed 4 percent increase in the gasoline tax, which he said would save Kansas drivers $60 million annually.
Because of the tax Kansans would decrease
consumption, he said, while automobiles would last longer because of the $55 million added revenue to improve highways.
SWENSON COUNTERED Hardware from the crowd with the theory that decreased consumption would also decrease the projected revenue for funding highways.
Outlining a four-point prison package, Hardage said he would enforce a determinate sentencing system, sign a capital punishment bill, abolish the Kansas Adult Authority and change the insanity plea to guilty but mentally ill
He blamed the "disgraceful" Kansas prison system on Carlin and Secretary of Corrections Pat McManus, a state official Hardage said he would personally remove from office.
During the rally, where Hardage mingled with about 75 students, he said his industry-based economic plan would produce new job opportunities for KU graduates.
In a short speech, Hardage told the crowd that Carlin's severance tax was a simple solution that ignored the basic problem of restoring economic prosperity to Kansas.
"He doesn't tell you the severance tax will raise your utility rates and raise property taxes in the majority of Kansas counties," Hardage said.
KU student to lead trumpets at Disney opening
Eric Arbogast, Topeka senior, displays the instrument he will use to lead the 108-member trumpet section of the Disney Band in opening ceremonies of Apcot Center near Orlando, Fla., Oct. 17, 24.
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
The trumpet player flashed an impish grin at the newswoman photographer.
"This reminds me of Disneyland, because we had to smile all the time," Eric Arbogast, Topea senior, said as he fingered his silver trumpet yesterday.
Arbogast played his trumpet in the All-American Marching Band at Disneyland last summer. His work impressed the head of the entertainment department so much that he has been selected to lead 108 trumpet players from all parts of the United States during the opening ceremonies later this month for Walt Disney's Focton Center.
THE EPCOT CENTER, one mile south of Disney World, was built as a futuristic city. Epcot is an acronym for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. It was created to test the future of Disney Parks as they are created. The center cost Walt Disney Productions more than $800 million.
The opening ceremonies are from Oct. 17 to Oct. 24, and the festivities will include performers.
"I don't think I'll be playing in the band."
Arbogast said, "I'll be running trumpet sectionals, keeping the players off of each others' backs and conducting different things. I've got the team ready to be playing unless they really need somebody."
The band will play a variety of music, but none of the pieces are difficult. Arbgossal said.
"There will be a lot of dignitaries there, so our music's mostly fanfare, original stuff that Disney music arrangers have written and contemporary pop tunes," Arbogast said.
THREE KU STUDENTS were recommended by Robert Foster, KU band director, to play in the Walt Disney Band. They are Darrell Mccormick, Salina minor, on trumpone, James Maxwell, Cameron, Mo, senior, on banton, and Averstrom, Commack, N.Y., senior, on trumpet.
"About a year ago, I accepted God into my life
Band members will receive free plane fare to Florida, food and motel accommodations.
Arbogast attributed his success to contacts he made last summer and God's will.
"The Walt Disney people really went by what the band directors said, but the directors had nothing to do with the section leader positions." Arbogast告称. "Dr. Foster doesn't even know I1
and my playing got better," Arbogast said. "Getting compliments and a big head wasn't where it was at for me. Now I'm playing for Him, not the one I talented to拿.I guess I consider it a blessing."
HIS YOUTHFUL, innocent looks may have helped him get the job, too. Arobard had to shave his beard and moustache before he could wear it. He went to a barber to get a haircut before he left for Florida.
"You've got to have that Dinney look," he said. "They want people who are always smiling, but not trying."
"Disneyland just makes you smile."
Arbogast spent a lot of his time making contacts in Disneyland, he said, and it has paid off for him. He said he had to be tenacious to meet professional trumpet players.
OTHER TRUMPETERS would go into clubs and introduce themselves, but Arbogast said he phoned professionals whom be wanted to meet and asked them to give him private lessons.
"It was an absolutely incredible time. I got to meet thousands of good players and get a few of my best players in the group once in a lifetime thing, so we all put ourselves into it to make it the best possible time for us."
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