Football: Coaches blame offense for 30-17 loss to Texas Tech. Page 1B
Defense: Model Mugging demonstrates self-defense skills in front of Strong Hall. Page 3A
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.37
MONDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1996
(USPS 650-640)
Farmers criticize new plan to fight pollution
WASHINGTON — The government soon will be dolling out federal dollars to farmers and ranchers to help fight pollution from manure and other sources. Even before it starts, the program is under attack as a potential cash cow for corporate farms.
Several lawmakers, including Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, are joining advocates for small farmers in criticizing rules proposed Friday by the Agriculture Department for distributing the $200 million newly available each year.
By failing to set clear limits on who can collect, the critics contend, the rules leave the way open for taxpayer dollars to help corporate farms build pollution controls that the Clean Water Act already obliges them to install.
The department denies the allegation. The rules failed to spell out who should qualify, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman admitted, but he promised that wealthy operations will get nothing.
"I have no intention of awarding large-scale operations any of this assistance. Period," he said in an interview.
The voluntary Environmental Quality Incentives Program, created by the 1996 farm bill, pays up to 100 percent of the cost of building manure containment lagoons or to switch to farming practices that lower pesticide use.
Payments are limited to $10,000 per person per year, with a cap of $50,000.
Kurdish forces recapture Iraqi city from rival faction
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Kurdish rebels recaptured a key city yesterday from a rival faction that seized control of northern Iraq last month with the help of President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq urged the two groups to settle their differences through talks and sternly warned the advancing faction against dealing with foreign powers, a reference to the group's ties to Iran.
There was no indication that Iraqi troops were involved in the latest fighting.
Clashes between the two Kurdish factions in August led Hussein to send forces into the northern safe haven protected by forces led by the United States, which responded by bombing southern Iraqi military sites.
A statement by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said its forces entered Sulaymaniyah, population 1 million, at dawn yesterday after a spontaneous uprising that ejected the forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
IV series to give viewers inside look at schools
WASHINGTON — The nation's largest teachers' union is launching a television series to counter public school-bashing and give viewers a front row seat in classrooms that work.
"We're finding that there is literally a hunger out there for information about what is going on the classroom," said Barby Halstead-Worrell, who is in charge of the new television series for the 2.2-million member National Education Association.
Halstead-Worrell said politicians and others bashed schools, and that the purpose of the new series was to present strategies educators around the country are developing to help students perform their best.
The association's partners for the weekly School Stories series, which began this month, are Discovery Communications Inc. and The Learning Channel. The first half-hour show featured Mary Blegen of Worthington, Minn., the 1996 Teacher of the Year.
The Associated Press
Hazing at Delta Tau Delta
Fraternity on probation
By Ashlee Roll
Kansan staff writer
A student who was pledging the fraternity reported to University officials that he had been deprived of sleep. That student has since left Delta Tau Delta.
The Delta Tau Delta fraternity has been placed on disciplinary probation for two years because of a hazing incident that occurred at the beginning of the semester.
"Hazing, regardless of its severity, will not be tolerated at the University of Kansas," said James Kitchen, dean of student life.
The fraternity must carry out a 12-point plan of corrective measures before its good standing with the University can be reinstalled. No
restrictions have been placed on the fraternity as a registered student organization, which means they can still participate in campus activities.
"It was an unfortunate occurrence," said Chris Garrelts, Shawnee senior and chapter president of the Delta Tau Delta. "We are taking every step appropriate to correct the situation internally."
The fraternity must:
Coordinate all activities with two
University probation supervisors.
■ Meet regularly with the probation supervisors.
Provide a revised new-member education program to the University.
- Require all members and new members to sign a statement affirming that they will abide by the risk-management policies of Delta Tau Delta and the University's and Interfraternity Council's anti-hazing statements.
Inform parents of current members of probation status.
Designate a chapter member to participate in a greek community committee designed to bring about change in the new-member educational programs.
Participate in new-member education programs sponsored by other grek organizations.
Sponsor a philanthropic project
See HAZING. Page 2A
Band Day parading
Pam Dishman / KANSAN
The KU Marching Jayhawks lead the Band Parade down Massachusetts Street. About 100 bands played for the Lawrence crowd on Saturday. These bands then played at the Kansas vs. Texas Tech football game. See story page 3A.
200 people protest violence
Take Back the Night observes ninth rally
Kansan staff report
More than 200 people united to rally, speak out and march at the ninth Womyn Take Back the Night Saturday at the South Park Gazebo. The purpose of the event is to decry the menace of violence against women.
Elizabeth Baptiste, children's program director of Women's Transitional Care Services of Lawrence, called for the crowd to respond to women's experiences of abuse with support and validation.
"Women should not be questioned but believed," she said.
The event was necessary because a woman is beaten every nine seconds, and one in three women will be raped in their lifetime. Baptiste said.
Womyn Take Back The Night was sponsored by the Women's Empowerment Action Coalition to observe domestic violence awareness month. The Center for Community Outreach, the Douglas County AIDS Project, Women's Transitional Care Services, Jewish Feminists of KU and Queers and Allies had information tables at the event.
Organizers also were registering people to vote. With less than a month before the presidential elections, local and national politics were a recurring theme at the rally.
See WOMEN, Page 2A
Resident ghost spooks three KU students
Female spirit entertains occupants with antics
By Erin Rooney Kansan staff writer
Each Halloween people pay $5 to $10 to walk through a commercially designed haunted house. But Ryan Denk, Fairway second-year law student, pays $300 a month to live in a real one.
Denk and his two roommates moved into the house in the 1500 block of Kentucky Street in August. Denk noticed the house was haunted the second night he stayed there. A presence that he felt but couldn't see woke him up. Since then the entity has been more entertaining, he said.
The ghost made her name known to Denk and his roommates through the Dexys Midnight Runners' song *Come on Eileen*.
"During a gathering at our house, we kept trying to play Come on Eileen," he said. "Every time the name Elleen would be said,
the whole stereo would cut out."
The power would turn completely off, but the television and videocassette recorder, which were plugged into the same electrical outlet, remained on.
Alan Tikwart, Mission Hills second-year law student and Denk's roommate, said that the stereo shut off five different times throughout the night.
"We kept hearing it shut off, and then someone would start it up again," Denk said. "She just didn't think the clothes were clean enough."
According to the National Register of Historic Places, the house is 133 years old. It was refurbished in 1992 by Dan Rockhill, professor of architecture and urban design. Rockhill built onto the original structure of the residence and transformed the house
Sharing the house with a ghost is not all bad. Denk said. Eileen likes to do laundry.
One night, Tikwart loaded the washing machine and went to bed. But the machine didn't stop after one cycle.
The Priestly House, located on the 1500 block of Kentucky, is believed to be haunted by a ghost the residents have named Eileen.
CONTRIBUTED ART
See HAUNTED, Page 2A
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INDEX
Television . 2A
Opinion . 4A
Features . 6A
Scoreboard . 2B
Classifieds . 5B
Horoscopes . 6B
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