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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1996
SECTION. A VOL.103.NO.49
(USPS 650-640)
Chinese dissident given 11-year prison sentence
BEIJING — The trial lasted four hours, and the sentence was 11 years in prison for Wang Dan, one of the last active leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement.
Wang already has served 3 1/2 years in prison. Police arrested him again in May 1995 for criticizing the Communist party in essays published abroad, meeting with activists and petitioning for democracy.
For many, Wang symbolized the democracy movement. As a Beijing University student, he led marches and called for a student union free of government control.
WASHINGTON — Records of U.S. military units deployed in the Persian Gulf War contain abundant evidence of exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons, a former CIA analyst said yesterday. He accused the Pentagon and CIA of deception and denial.
Analyst says records show exposure to chemicals
"There's no way you can even begin to get a complete picture of what happened over there unless, and until, they declassify every single unit log," said Patrick Eddington, who resigned from the CIA earlier this year.
During the 1991 Gulf War, Eddington and his wife, Robin, also a resigned CIA analyst, began collecting information about the possible use of chemical weapons.
"The idea that the Defense Department has engaged in any sort of conspiracy to cover up any information regarding Gulf War illness is simply not true," Pentagon representative Bryan Whitman said.
FBI official pleads guilty in white separatist case
WASHINGTON — A senior FBI official pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice yesterday for destroying a report that criticized the FBI's role in a deadly 1992 shootout at the Idaho cabin of white separatist Randall Weaver.
Prosecutors said Kahoe destroyed the documents to keep them from attorneys representing Weaver, whose wife and son were killed during a nine-day standoff with agents at Weaver's rural Idaho cabin in 1992.
E. Michael Kahoe, who entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating whether other FBI officials were involved in the report's suppression.
Weaver and a friend, Kevin L. Harris, were acquitted of charges that they killed a federal marshal during a shootout that led to the FBI siege.
The Associated Press
Man seen masturbating outside of GSP-Corbin
An off-duty security officer tried unsuccessfully to catch a man who was seen masturbating outside of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall on Tuesday night.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said several residents inside saw a man on the lawn west of the GSP building about 10:45 p.m.
The women called security personnel to report the incident, Keary said.
Caleob King, GSP-Corbin security guard, said that although he was off duty, he chased the man down 10th Street after the man ran through a break in the fence.
"I went out and yelled 'stop,' but he was already on his way," King said. "I stopped chasing him because I figured I might not have authority off GSP property."
King described the suspect as a Caucasian male with dark hair, about 5-foot 8, and 210 to 215 pounds.
Legislators end payroll probe
--- Kansan staff report
University expects paycheck problems to be resolved soon
By Eric Weslander
Kansan staff writer
Provost David Shulenburger's testimony Oct. 15 in Topeka was enough to answer the questions of Tope state legislators on the committee.
The Joint Committee on Computers and Telecommunications is no longer investigating the University's payroll problems.
"He left us with the impression that everything was well on its way to being taken care of," said Sen. Paul Peleciano. "If they have it under control, great. We've got enough
work as it is."
Feleciano said the investigation was spurred by letters and calls the committee received from University employees who had not been paid correctly since January, when a new statewide payroll system was implemented.
In addition, he said his curiosity was aroused by the fact that other universities such as Pittsburg State and Wichita State were not having payroll problems.
Felectano said it was both ironic and hypocritical that the University was the only Kansas university to have payroll problems after it fought to have its own system.
He said that when the state's payroll systems were computerized in 1983, the original plan was for all payroll work to be done in Topeka. However, he said the University fought for the right to do its own payroll before sending it to Topeka.
Ola Faucher, associate director of human
resources, remembered a different story. She said the University tried to use the state's system in 1883, but it was so difficult that the University developed and used its own system until January 1996.
She said the recent payroll problems paled in comparison to the problems in 1983, when, during one pay period, more than 10 percent of University employees did not receive pay.
Faucher said she understood the committee's concern about the money involved with the system, but she did not see the state investigation as an ominous, threatening ordeal.
"This implementation was painful," Faucher said. "In 1983 it was disastrous."
In addition, specifics of the payroll system are discussed every Friday by a committee made up William Crowe, vice chancellor of information services; Lindy Eakin, associate provost; David Gardner, director of computing services, Kathe Shinham, comptroller; and Faucher.
"I think that accountability to the state's taxpayers is always important, and the state did invest a lot of finances in a new payroll system," Faucher said. "However, it is not a crisis. We do have problems, and we will continue to look at the problems."
"How long does it take to adjust?" Feleciano asked. "I personally can't believe that it's that complicated.
Feleciano said he was satisfied with the progress evident in Shulenburger's testimony but would keep an ear open for future problems.
To solve the payroll problems, the University has reassigned several computer programmers to PeopleSoft, the payroll software, and is looking into hiring more programmers.
"If it is, and they can't deal with it, we'll take care of it. But I think that they have it under control."
Hunting season
In their quest to find items on a scavenger hunt list, Lindsey Gordon, Minneapolis junior; Becky Adelberg, Chicago freshman; Stuart Lazanus, Denver junior; and Craig Levin, Houston sophomore try to declaim a clue. Yesterday's hunt was an exercise in new vocabulary dealing with location for teaching assistant Dudu Cohavi's Hebrew 21.0 class.
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By Ashleigh Roberts Kansan staff writer
The tricks of Halloween desecrate the treats of religion for some
For some people, Halloween is a sickening Hallmark holiday in which ghosts sing 50-percent discounts, Frankenstein sells liquor and people worship the devil.
Branam said the teachings of Halloween went directly against the Scriptures and furthered the devil's original lie.
Branam, minister at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1802 E. 19th St., said Halloween was nothing more than a commercialized gimmick that commemorated the dead.
Melvin Branam is one of those people.
"We adhere to the Bible, and the Bible doesn't back it up at all," he said.
"The Scriptures teach us that we die because we inherited sin from Adam and Eve," he said. "Satan told Eve
"They're teaching the same old lies, that people don't die," he said. "If we teach our children to lie, we're going to be held accountable. We teach our children the Bible and then let them make up their own minds."
that she positively would not die if she ate the fruit, but she did." Branam said that death was a part of life, and Halloween taught people that goblins, spooks and ghosts did not die.
"Ihave a conflict in glorifying evil or making light of it through Halloween, but the Scripture definitely says there is more to life than we see," Ketrow said. "There is a spiritual realm with angels. The Scripture does not teach us that we die and become angels. That is false. They are created separately, but they do exist."
Branam said children in the church didn't had no problems not celebrating Halloween.
Scott Ketrow, campus director of Christian Crusaders for Christ, said that most people were sold on the fact that Halloween stemmed from pagan roots. But it was possible to participate on a face-value level without dabbling in any kind of cult experience, he said.
"When you know the truth, it sets you free," he said. "We count ourselves blessed."
Dean Richards, Leawood sophomore, said it wasn't a bad thing if Halloween contradicted Christianity.
Lauren Richerson, Lenexa senior,
said the holiday didn't hold spiritual
value, but instead had a mystical
quality.
"I think it's great," he said. "The story of the Celts and Samhain is important history. It's a good thing that it survived so long."
"I think it's evolved into a secular holiday," she said. "It's just another excuse to have a good time and get a little crazy."
Taking a lighter load
The percentage change in undergraduate credit hours between fall 1995 and fall 1996 shows that on average, students are taking fewer classes.
Noah Musser/KANSAN
Report shows enrollment drop by credit hour
A report released by the Board of Regents states the number of KU students enrolled in 16 to 18 hours dropped 3.5 percent from 1995 to 1996, while the number of students taking 12 to 14 hours increased by 4.8 percent.
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
If it costs too much, don't do it—a statement that could be applied to students' desire to take additional hours each semester.
Provost David Shulenburger said the administration had expected only a slight decrease in the number of hours taken after the implementation of linear tuition.
"There are lots of anomalies across the system," Shumenburg said. "I'm not sure what all caused the drop. I assume a small part is because of paying per credit hour."
Shulenburger said he would not make a generalization that blamed linear tuition for the entire decrease in credit hours. Kansas State University and Wichita State University switched to linear tuition last year as well, and both are experiencing a similar drop in credit-hour enrollment.
Credit-hour enrollment numbers decreased at Pitsburg State University, which did not adopt linear tuition.
"Because some schools dropped that did not switch to linear tuition, I can't say what in the world caused the credit hours to drop." Shulenburger said.
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost for academic affairs, said she could not predict whether the numbers would continue to drop.
"There has been no analysis on student's behavior." McCluskey-Fawcett said. "We didn't ask the students why they changed. There could be a correlation with linear
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