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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.103.NO.36
FRIDAY OCTOBER 11,1996
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Changes in speed limits produce unclear results
WASHINGTON — Since the federal government let states raise highway speed limits last winter, at least eight states have seen increases in highway deaths, an Associated Press survey found.
But four other states that raised limits saw fatal accidents drop slightly.
Many troopers on the roads echo Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Robert Flowers, who says he's seeing more damage in crashes. "it opens vehicles up. Doors come off, windows come in."
South Africa murder case takes turn for defendant
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA — A judge tore apart the murder case against the former aparthied government's defense minister, acquitting six of his co-defendants Friday and making it likely he would go free in the biggest political trial of the post-parthied era.
Magnus Malan, the military leader who guided the total onslaught campaign against anti-apartheid groups, is the highest-ranking official to face criminal charges linked to the killings of government opponents.
He and 15 other defendants — who include some of apartheid's most powerful police and military intelligence officers — faced charges in connection with a 1987 political attack that killed 13 people in the KwaMakutha Black township south of Durban.
3 men accuse co-workers of same-sex harassment
BOSTON — The boys will-be-bes theory of play may have reached its outer limit at a Massachusetts lumber vard.
There, according to a sexual harassment case that is before the state's highest court, three men say that two male supervisors subjected them to raunchy comments and gestures.
The men they accused, Richard Raab and Eliasel Roque, were fired after the allegations were raised.
In 1989 and 1990, Leonid Melychenko, James Quill and Stephen LaRochelle worked at a West Springfield, Mass., branch of the national chain 84 Lumber Co. All three eventually quit.
Time Warner and Turner shareholders OK merger
NEW YORK — Bringing many of the biggest properties — and egos — in media together under one roof yesterday, Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System completed their $7.57 billion merger.
Time Warner Inc., regaining the title of the world's largest media and entertainment company, now adds such familiar names as Fred Flintstone, Ted Turner, CNN and the Atlanta Braves to an already formidable stable that includes Bugs Bunny, HBO and Time magazine.
— The Associated Press
In separate meetings in New York, shareholders of the two companies vote overwhelmingly to approve the merger. Tumer Broadcasting shareholders voted 99.75 percent in favor; Time Warner stockholders voted 98.23 percent in favor.
GTAs march to negotiation
Coalition shows support by holding "grade in" and escorting delegates
By Stephanie Fite
Kansan staff writer
The word "negotiation" was on the lips of more than 35 graduate teaching assistants who marched from the steps of Wescoe Beach to the front door of Carruth-O'Leary Hall yesterday afternoon. The group chanted "2-4-6-8, now it's time to negotiate."
The participants, all part of the graduate
teaching assistant coalition, served as escorts for three GTA representatives, who were to negotiate in 105 Carruthr'O'Leary Hall with Provost David Shulenbur.
"KU saves a lot of money using us," said Tom Argiro, Hot Springs, S.D., graduate student and one of the graduate negotiators. "We are looking to achieve solidarity with this demonstration."
Laura Senio, Seattle graduate student, said the negotiations were a response to lack of health care, tuition waivers and pay increases.
Last semester, the GTAs marched to push the University into negotiation. Yesterday's march was to show support for the GTA coalition, Senio said.
"We want to establish rights and responsibilities," Argiro said. "This demonstration shows we are serious."
Senio said she organized the march to show support for the 2,000 GTAs on campus and protest unequal work conditions.
"We hope to gain a voice through this. We won't go away," she said.
About 20 of the marchers remained in front of the building to grade papers after the negotiators had begun their task. The "grade in," organized by Senio, was established to show continued support.
"This is symbolic of what we do. We are all teachers, and part of our job is to grade papers," she said. "We want to grade while the negotiation is going on because it mir-
Todd Ormsbee, Klameth Falls, Ore., GTA, said he was glad to be a part of the demonstration.
"The students deserve to have good teachers, and we deserve to be compensated for that," he said. "If we're happy, the students benefit directly from that."
Shulenburger said he could not reveal the results of yesterday's negotiations because the meeting was closed to the public. However, he did say that today's meeting would lay the ground rules for future GTA negotiations.
Argiro refused to comment after the negotiations.
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A fire-eater performs at the 20th annual Kansas City Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs. This is the final weekend for the 1996
festival, which 180,000 people already have attended this year.
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Drugs, Diaries, punk rock and poetry
Icon Jim Carroll to perform Tuesday at the Lied Center
By Jeff Ruby
Kansan staff writer
Jim Carroll has seen and done it all, going from the New York street drug scene to the big screen to the lecture circuit.
Most often a poet, Carroll has put in time as a rock star, an actor and a novelist. Now he is appearing at a Student Union Activities-sponsored spoken word performance Tuesday at the Lied Center.
The post-punk cultural icon is best known for his 1978 book, The Basketball Diaries. The novel, which became a major 1995 motion picture starring Leonardo Dicaprio, was based on the journals Carroll kept as a heroin-addicted high school basketball player and street youth.
"Iliked the film because I liked the performances," he said. "At first, I was against Marky (Wahlberg) being in it. The guy auditioned like seven times. Leonardo didn't want him in it either. Then I realized Marky was a lot like the kids I grew up with, and eventually I had to talk Leonardo into accepting it."
But Carroll said he was disappointed with the look of the film, comparing it to a music video with recycled, cliche camera shots.
"I was watching the movie with these guys from Pearl Jam," he said. "And they saw this one overhead shot and started laughing and said, 'Hey, didn't we do that in the Jeremy video?"
"I sold three of the diaries to a book collector in California," he said. "Man, if I could've waited a few years — that guy who
As for the famous journals that inspired his book, Carroll said he parted with them long ago.
bought them, I'm sure he's doing quite well now."
Carroll also said he was more proud of the movie roles he'd rejected than the ones he's agreed to do.
"I was in atrocious movies," Carroll said. "But I turned down roles in *Drugstore Cowboy* and Sid and Nancy. In *Drugstore Cowboy*, Matt Dillon was playing a junkie, and he wanted to hang out with me, like he was doing research. What am I, a technical adviser?
"A movie I did appear in was called 'Tuff Turf'" he said. "I played myself, basically. I guess it was '84 or '85. Robert Downey played my drummer. It got the Golden Turkey award on Sneak Previews."
Carroll, who recorded the 1980 punk anthem, People Who Died, has recorded music intermittently since. Such recordings include a guest appearance on the San Francisco punk band Rancid's 1995 song, Junkman,
Jim Carroll
part of which Carroll wrote
"At one point I was thinking of doing another rock 'n' roll album," he said. "I keep turning these people down. If you do rock 'n' roll, you have to put yourself into it completely. I don't know if I have the inclination. But I still feel these shards of the youth electric energy of
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Coming Out Day a chance to celebrate
By Nicholas Charalambous Kansan staff writer
Coming out doesn't happen in just one day.
To celebrate National Coming Out Day, members of the gay, lesbian and bisexual community will read coming out stories between noon and 2 p.m. today at Wesco Beach. In tune with the day's theme, "Coming Out Voting," members of Queers and Allies also will be registering people to vote.
For some people it can take years to confide their sexual orientation to friends, family or co-workers. Others may never come out to some people.
"Coming out is a constant process that you do throughout your life," said Rob MacRae-MKle, president of KU Queers and Allies. "Telling other people can become a matter of pride, something you tell your boss, your professor or your co-workers as a matter of fact."
Matt Hydeman, Leaward graduate student, will be one of many students reading his story. He hopes to encourage others to take that first step or think about doing so.
Hydeman first came out to his best friend, Sheila, on May 15, 1990 — the night of high school graduation. If he had come out at high school, he said, the climate would have been so negative that he would have had to transfer to another school.
But it felt unfair to be Sheila's best friend and be hiding something from her, he said.
"Either she was going to be OK with it, or she was going to end up screaming," he said.
going to end up screaming.
He told her. There was silence. Then she looked at him and smiled. She said she thought she had always known.
"There was such a feeling of tremendous relief," Hydeman said. "That to me was the most powerful feeling I've ever had. This was someone who didn't mind the fact that I was gay."
Hydeman said that their relationship became even deeper and stronger as a result. They now are roommates.
"She is my best friend and my heart and soul. She knows me as well as I know myself." he said.
Chris Hampton, Hot Springs, Ark., graduate student, came out to her co-workers as a bisexual on National Coming Out Day in 1994. But she still has not come out to her mother, who views same-sex relationships as absolutely immoral and wrong, she said.
"She would feel very confused and hurt," Hampton said. "I want to be honest with her, but I wouldn't want her to go through that."
MacRae said that people who came out today would help the struggle for equal rights, better health care and guaranteed safety.
"Each friend who chooses not to come out contributes to our society's wrongful notion that being queer is something to be ashamed of," he said.
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