University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, September 8, 1982
Vol. 93, No. 13 USPS 650-640
Film shows nuclear war's grim realities
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Bodies caked in dirt and covered with oozing sores lined the floor of Allen Field House yesterday.
Peggy Shannon, a member of the ABC crew, dusts the hair of Rodger Bergmann, Osaka City freshman, before filming. Many of the extras had to come to Allen Field House as early as 6 a.m., to be made up for their roles.
Approximately 1,200 students roamed the building all day, wearing torn, grim clothing and never smiling. Posing as victims of a machine attack, nothing was seen on animated dunes and ashes.
The students were extras for "The Day After," a made-for-television movie to be shown on ABC-TV in March.
"They don't behave like amateurs. They behave more professionally than professionals," said Nicholas Meyer, director of the movie.
MOST OF the participants arrived at 6 a.m. wearing their oldest clothes. Makeup artists applied a pigment used in paint to the bodies and greased every volunteer's hair. Few people even cried as special effects workers soured fake blood over their heads.
Don Shields, St. Louis senior, hard wrapped his right leg in tomato paste-drenched towels. His face, covered in latex scar material, cracked when he spoke. Shields ran out and filled them with red ink to resemble a man with a face shredded by shattered glass.
"We're trying to show people what they haven't seen, the face of nuclear war," Meyer said. "You talk about things like nuclear warheads, megaton bombs, and nobody knows what the hell you are talking about. On the theory that a war is worth 1,000 tons, we are making this movie."
"Were all dead if they have one. That's what it says. It's important to say that," said veteran actor Jason Robards, who has a lead role in the movie "The Virgin is not good for you and can ruin your day."
MORE THAN half the film has been shot on location in Lawrence, and 90 percent of the roles went to residents of Lawrence and the city. The film also focuses on the aftermath of nuclear attack.
MEVER SAID the facts he found while researching the film disturbed him. He said he expected a nuclear war to occur in the 1980s.
"I've felt depressed since I started," Meyer said. "I used to go home every night sick."
said. "Tues to go home"
Jef East, an actor in the movie, said the film disturbed him, but he did not share Meyer's fear of a nuclear war.
"I think if we have any type of war, it will be an everyday, common war," he said. "More money is to be made in that type of war."
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ABC, KU say filming going smoothly
Today is the final day of major filming on the KU campus for the ABC movie, "The Day After," and by all accounts, the shooting of the picture has been made for both the University film company.
"They have required nothing unusual, they haven't bothered anything, and although its been a little disruptive as far as the University goes, they have just been fantastic," Anderson said. "I've made a few friends with the staff of ABC, and I kind of hate to see them go."
"The ABC crew have been the most gracious people we've ever worked on on campus, said Tom Anderson, director of operations of a hospital scene in Allen Field House yesterday morning
The bulk of the filming on campus will end today. Anderson said, although a shot will be taken of Memorial Stadium at Saturday's Wichita State football game.
Dan Doran, publicist for the movie, said that from ABC's standpoint, filming on campus had gone well.
"Everyone has just been so cooperative and helpful," Doran said. "When you're 1,600 miles away from your homebase, operating on strange turf, you never know how people are going to be, and everyone has just been superb."
City commission to vote on raising quorum to 4
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission instructed the city planning staff by a vote of 4-1 last night to prepare an ordinance that would allow the commission to raise its quorum from three to four.
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephen had said that Thursday that the measure could be in
cannot.
If the commission passes the proposed ordinance, two commissioners could discuss commission business in private. With the commission of three, two commissioners cannot discuss official business in private, because the Kansas Open Meetings Act states that the majority of a quorum of a public body cannot meet in private to discuss its business.
In a letter to the commission, Lawrence attorney Milton Allen said a quorum could be interpreted to any number greater than half, because the act defined a quorum as a majority of a governing body. A majority is defined by a majority of the board; a number greater than half a total, Allen said.
half a outurnum is defined by an number greater than half of a governing body, then the commission legally could raise its quorum, Allen reasoned.
reasoned.
The proposed ordinance Allen attached to his letter, on which the commission asked the planning staff to base its ordinance, states that the commission funds "majority" to mean any number greater than half.
THE PURPOSE OF raising the quam was to allow two commission members to talk to each other in private, and it would make the act reflect reality because members of government bodies discuss business in private despite the act, Commissioner Barkley Clark said last month.
But Commissioner Don Bimbs said, "The purpose of this is obviously, as has been stated publicly by commissioners in the past, is really to evade that section (the one referring to the majority of a quorum) of the Open Meetings Law."
Mayor Marci Francisco argued that the law
hindered her from calling the other commissioners to schedule a work session because she could be accused of discussing business in privates.
private.
There is no reason that all city business cannot be discussed at regular meetings or work sessions. Binns said.
FRANCISCO SAID that if the intention of the law were to insure that government business was only conducted at meetings and work sessions, then it would read that legislators could never talk to each other.
never cut too. The commission is a special case because it has the five members and can never discuss business in private, Commissioner Nancy Shontz said. Other bodies with larger memberships, and hence larger quorum, can legally discuss business in private, she said.
Bimn asked Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, if he knew of any other cities that had raised their quorums. Wilden said he didn't know of any.
know of his mexico then said, "But in what other commissions do you have members turn in other members without seeing evidence?" referring to 1811 when Binsa asked the attorney general's office to investigate private meeting missions Mission Gleason, Francisco and Shortz.
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The commissioners also discussed the possibility of being taken to court if they passed the ordinance.
"I'M NOT AFRAID of a court case," Francisco said. "In fact, I think it would be welcome."
webbon.
She said a court case would clarify the meaning of the act.
meaning of the act.
"Frankly I don't believe the ordinance would withstand a court challenge," Allen advised the commission in his letter.
In other business, the commission passed by a 4:1 vote a resolution stating that opinion polls in Lawrence will require a 4:1 vote before they are authorized by the commission. The resolution also states that the polls must be of local interest and they must not interfere with local elections.
Binnis dissented on the vote, saying he would have voted for the ordinance if it had required a "no" vote.
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Increased computer use strains system capacity
Staff Reporter
By BRET WALLACE
Increased use of the KU academic computer is straining the computer's capacity. David Nordlund, assistant director for technical services at the Academic Computing Center, said.
More people are using the computer for a wider variety of classes, and this is putting a strain on the computer's capacity, especially during busy times of the year. Northland said
people haven't even tried because of the limited capability," he said.
COMPUTER use in the 1980-81 academic year went up 60 percent, and although the increase has allowed to 10 to 20 percent since then, it still is causing problems, Nordlund said.
problems. There is the problem of students getting on the computer to do work for their classes, there are some applications of the computer that
capacity, and said that some departments, like the department of English and the department of computer science, have installed microcomputers to handle some things that could have been done on the Honeywell DPS3-E computer if it had had the capacity.
THE INCREASED *use also has brought the computer near the capacity of its disk memory. There will be problems with the disk memory within a year if it becomes larger or more not added, he said.
disk system.
"We added four drives to the computer in 1980 because it was not working right." Nordlund said. If the disk memory gets too full, then the computer is not able to run.
One solution to the capacity problem would be the addition of a smaller computer. Nordlund said the University has a standing offer for a Honeywell CP6 computer, but it first must come
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Congress should support bill's veto, Baker says
Bv JULIE HEABERLIN
Staff Reporter
President Reagan's yeto this weekend of a $142 billion supplemental appropriations bill probably will be funded by Congress, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said in a press conference at the University of Kansas yesterday.
Pell, Grant program, which provides student grants.
The bill contained millions of dollars for the
grams.
"It is of high symbolic value for Congress to support the president on this budget," said Baker, R-Tenn, an advocate of the veto.
Akenn, all the way. Baker, who visited KU to give the inaugural course in the Lecture Series, said Reagan veted the bill 'because it was out of balance in providing enough money for defense and because the package contained bills he had previously veted.
If Congress does not override the veto, Internal Revenue Service officials have said that as many as 100 IRS employees in Kansas could lose their jobs by the end of the week.
BAKER SAID the House of Representatives probably would support the president, in which case the veto would hold and the bill would never return to the Senate.
In response to questions after his speech, Baker said that the repayment record this year for Guaranteed Student Loans was atrocious.
Howard Baker
Student Senate leaders hope to help finance lecture series
Student Senate leaders are considering a proposal to give $30,000 to the Pearson Lecture Sites to help defy the cost of bringing national figures to the University of Kansas to speak, David Adkins, student body president, said yesterday.
Adkins said Senate leaders had met last week with James Pearson, who finances the lectures, to discuss the possibility of donating the money to the lecture series. Adkins said the money, which would be used by a private resource amount, could be used to attract more national leaders to the KU lecture circuit.
Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn., delivered the inaugural Pearson Lecture yesterday.
"The turnout for Baker's lecture proves that people are interested in hearing nationally known speakers," Adkins said. "I think the
Senate could contribute some of its money to funding, or at least publicizing, the series.
"There's no doubt that I like to see a general contribution that would be significant. I would be very pleased with a figure around $30,000."
Adkins said the proposal to partially underwrite the Pearson Lectures was not in direct response to Kansas State University's announcement that President Reagan would deliver a lecture for the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series tomorrow.
"There is no doubt that the Landon Lecture has been successful," he said. "The fact is, we really don't have a lecture series like the Landon Series. Reagan's address just proves that."
Adkins said Pearson, who retired from the
Senate in 1978 after 16 years, was a
favorite at Westchester County fair,
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"There will be a lot more room for Pell Grant and GLS's we can recapture and control the budget," he said. "Right now we're dealing with only 30 percent of the budget."
Bentley programs, such as security payments and military allowances, swallow 70 percent of the budget before the president or Congress can touch it, he said.
BAKER ALSO TOLD reporters that he expected Republicans to gain from one to four seats in the Senate this election year despite the economy and a tendency to vote against the party in power.
party in power.
"Politics is on the president's side," Baker said. "We are being living beyond our means for too long, and I think the public recognizes that."
On foreign policy, Baker commended President Reagan for his strong position on the Palestinian crisis. He said Reagan's position was appropriately in line with the Camp David accords initiated by former President Jimmy Carter.
said,
"To tell you the truth, I don't think we'll be able to stop them from building the pipeline," he said. "They have the resources and initiative to do it."
"Israel is a great country, a truly great country, and we simply must not cut her adrift," he said. *
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Carter.
Israel's angry response and request for a peace treaty with Lebanon should be handled with patience, he said, although it may appear to Americans that the Israeli Cabinet is going too far in prolonging negotiations.
DISCUSSING other foreign policy matters, Baker said Western Europe was obviously determined to go ahead with construction of a natural gas pipeline with the Soviet Union in suite of the United State's disapproval.
Weather
CLOUDY
Patchy low clouds and fog dissipating by noon are expected today. Otherwise, partly cloudy skies are forecast
The high today will be in the mid-80s with south, southeast winds at 5 to 15 mph. The low tonight will be in the low to mid-80s with north, northeast, and a high of 85 to 90 is expected.