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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 7,1996
PAGE 1 VOL. 103, NO. 32
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Burned mattress sets off Naismith Hall fire alarm
A smoldering mattress set off fire alarms in Naismith Hall early Saturday morning.
Capt. Stan Ray of the Lawrence Fire Department said firefighters arrived just before 5 a.m. and found light smoke on the third floor of the hall. The source of the smoke was a mattress that already had been pulled into the hallway outside Room 326.
"We talked to the people who live in the room, but none of them said they smoked." Ray said.
Although the alarms rang through out the hall, they failed to waken Brian Hagen, Lawrence freshman, who was sleepin' in the bed.
Neighbors roused by the alarm woke Hagen and got him out of the room.
Ray said a burn the size of a dinner plate was the only visible damage to the mattress.
"Mattresses can burn just a little, and they'll put out quite a bit of smoke." Ray said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Two women find man injured in apartment
Two women found an injured man in his apartment at 12:40 a.m. Saturday after he had apparently been beaten.
Lawrence police said they found a 19-year-old man in the basement apartment at 1542 Tennessee St. with multiple injuries that appeared to be the result of a beating.
Kristen Whitlock, Lawrence resident, said she was visiting a friend Friday night who also lived at that address. She said they didn't hear any kind of disturbance in the house, but were awakened by police car sirens.
"Nobody in the whole house heard anything." Whitlook said
—Kansan staff reports
whitlock said the man was alone in the apartment while his girlfriend and another woman were bar hopping. Whitlock said that when the man's friends returned to the apartment, they found the man lying on the couch severely beaten.
The Douglas County Ambulance Service transported the man to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was later transferred to the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition yesterday.
Pope to enter hospital for appendix removal
VATICAN CITY — In his last Vatican appearance before surgery, Pope John Paul II brought 16 people a step closer to sainthood yesterday and asked for prayers from the faithful during his hospital stay
After a 21/2-hour ceremony that put his stamina to the test, the 76-year-old pontiff was to enter the hospital for the removal of an inflamed appendix. The operation will
be tomorrow morning, said Giuseppe Pallanch, a representative for the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome.
"I ask you to accompany me with your prayers," the pontiff told the crowd that filled sun-bathed St. Peter's Square. "I send warm greetings to those in the hospital or in nursing homes, knowing that I can count on their spiritual solidarity."
—The Associated Press
When the pope finished, a man near the altar cried out: "Long life to the pope."
Wearing emerald green vestments, John Paul appeared tired, and at times his voice wavered.
Clinton, Dole debate
four years ago," Clinton said in making his case for a second term.
The Democratic incumbent and his Republican challenger stood just a few feet apart on a red-carpeted stage, challenging each other again and again in a showdown that ushered in the final month of the White House campaign.
Clinton took credit for an economy that had created more than 10 million jobs, for cutting the deficit by 60 percent and for vetoing Dole-backed Republican budgets that he ascertained would have cut $270 billion from Medicare and another $30 billion from education.
Looking ahead, Clinton said his $100 billion in tax credits targeted to making college more affordable were far more responsible than Dole's $550 billion tax scheme.
"We have the right approach for the future," Clinton said.
Dole forcefully disagreed, and accused Clinton of running a campaign designed to scare elderly Americans.
"Tam trying to save your Medicare, just as
I rescued Social Security," Dole said.
The former Kansas senator told the viewing audience, "If I could not cut taxes and balance the budget at the same time I would not look you in the eye tonight."
Entering the debate, Clinton was ahead by a dozen points or more in most national polls and in surveys from the major Electoral College battleground states. The two candidates will meet again in 10 days, in another one-on-one encounter because of the controversial decision to exclude Ross Perot.
Dole was the aggressor throughout the night, asserting several times that Clinton's conservative election-year rhetoric about curfews, school uniforms and welfare reform was at odds with a liberal record of giant tax increases and a giant government takeover of health care.
"I wouldn't want to be a liberal either, Mr. President, but you are stuck with it," Dole said.
Debate fails to sway students
Clinton shook his head at the label and called it the golden oldie of Republican
See DEBATE, Page 2
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
For the undecided, no shining stars emerged from round one of the presidential candidate debates last night.
Gathered in various places around campus, many students sat down last night hoping to become more informed election day. For those who had already made up their minds, the debate reinforced their views. But among the undecided, none said the debate sealed which candidate they would choose.
Jennifer Jacob, Charles City, Iowa, freshman, watched the debate from the basement of Dundell Scholarship Hall. Jacob said that she had worked for the Republican Party since the age of 8, but had not decided which candidate she would vote for in the upcoming election. After the debate, she was still undecided.
"I was not impressed with Dole's slams on Clinton's character," she said. "Clinton was more positive and was good at widening the scope of the debate and keeping it clean and positive."
"It's fairly obvious that Clinton is more articulate, but that can be misleading," he said. "I hope people realize that and pay attention to what the candidates are saying rather than how they are saying it."
Brad Van Winkle, Springfield, Mo., freshman, also said that the debate left him undecided.
Jacob said that the large amount of the statistics used by both candidates was ineffective because there was no way of telling if they had been taken out of context.
Alicia Vause, Lenexa senior and member of Young Democrats, said that she thought both candidates had done well, but that Clinton had
done better.
I went into the debate supporting the president, and the debate only reinforced that," she said. "But I also have not been a huge Bob Dole fan in the past, and I was impressed with some of the things he said tonight."
Vause said that the debate had confirmed the candidate preferences for most of the 15 people who had watched the debate with her.
Brad Burke, Topeka senior and programs chair for College Republicans, said he thought Bob Dole was clearly the winner of the debate.
"Clinton looked awful tired. The bags under his eyes just kept growing during the debate," he said. "Dole on the other hand looked very fresh."
Burke also said he thought the debate should have made the choice easier for undecided voters.
"This is not really a debate," Cigler said. "It's more like a giant press conference."
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, watched the debate with students at the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. He said that because the candidates were both fairly well-known, the debates had little significance in forming voters' decisions.
"The differences were spelled out pretty well," he said.
"Maybe they just need more time to think about it, or maybe they need the media to tell them how to feel about it."
Event celebrates cultures
International arts featured at festival through crafts, cuisine, music and dance
By Nicholas C. Charalambous Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence artists, residents and students set up more than 40 booths Saturday and yesterday to sell art, jewelry, crafts and food from around the world as part of the Celebration of Cultures and Harvest of Arts festival. Entertainment was provided by about 20 local dance groups and musicians.
The smell of Malaysian barbecue chicken and the sound of Celtic music filled the air this weekend as people gathered in Watson Park to celebrate international arts and cultures.
Judah Williams, Lawrence resident, had laid out an array of multicolored rugs from Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey. The festival represented the world as one nation, he said.
"We're all one people under the sun," Williams said.
"I see everybody as one family on the planet. We are all
interrelated with one another in so far as culture."
The International Student Association represented nine countries at a table decked out with maps, flags and brochures for people to browse. The Malaysian Student Association sold strips of marinated barbecue chicken in a spicy peanut sauce, fried rice, noodles and egg rolls. They sold $300 worth of food in about four hours.
"People really liked the food," said Sugin Tiong, president of the Malaysian student Association and Sibu, Malaysia, senior. "We had some regular customers who are always looking for our stall. You probably won't find this food anywhere in the Midwest."
Marlene Thornton, coordinator of the festival, said the University attracted students from all over the world, many of whom decided to make Lawrence home.
Haskell Indian Nations University also has students from 130 Indian nations. It makes sense to appreciate the diversity of cultures on our doorstep, she said.
Sponsors included Kansas Arts Commission, the city of Lawrence, the Lawrence Arts Commission and local businesses.
"It opens up a little bit of a glimpse of different cultures and hopefully creates some curiosity," Thornton said.
Students and community members had the chance to participate in the Community Painting Project, during the Celebration of Cultures at the Buford M. Watson, Jr Park, 7th and Kentucky, on Saturday. Egilée Ortega, Emporia resident from San Cristobal, Venezuela, helps paint the canvas which will first tour through Lawrence schools and then will be presented to Lawrence's Sister Cities Commission to tour Eutin, Germany, and Hiratsuka, Japan.
Edmée Rodriguez / KANSAN
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