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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1996
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.23
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KU student is a two-time victim of flasher's show
A KU student was flashed by the same man twice in six days near Stauffer Place Apartments.
KU police said the woman was walking near building 16 about 7:15 a.m., Sept. 11, when she noticed a man standing naked in the doorway of an apartment.
When the man saw the student, he stepped outside of his door.
he stepped outside of his cou-
se. On Sept. 17, the woman was
walking past the same apartment
at 7:50 a.m. and saw the man
wearing a robe on the apartment's
balcony.
When the man saw the student walking by, he opened the robe, police said.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said there had been no arrests in the case and no notice to appear in court had been issued. Investigators do have obvious clues about the suspect's identity.
the suspect. "He might not live in the apartment," Keary said. "But it's a pretty sure lead."
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Clinton to sign test ban at United Nations today
WASHINGTON President Clinton may encounter some awkward moments amid the pump of a historic treaty-signing at the United Nations.
Bill Clinton
Deadbeat. Diplomatic loner. Coalition buster. Those are the kinds of complaints raised recently about Clinton and his handling of international affairs. Don't look for
anyone to raise those matters directly with Clinton today, of course. Start to finish, Clinton will be at the General Assembly barely two hours — just long enough to sign a treaty banning nuclear tests and give a speech.
It's election season and the campaign trail beckons. The cheers of rallies are more attractive than diplomatic grousing at the U.N.
But there are problems.
For starters, the United States is the biggest debtor at the U.N., with a years-old tab now heading toward the $1.7 billion range. Mounting debts have left the U.N. facing bankruptcy. Some countries charge that Washington is getting heavy handed with its pocketbook in demanding U.N. management reforms.
To all the complaints, the United States counters that it's the biggest U.N. contributor, too.
British police seize tons of explosives after raids
LONDON—Thwarting what they called an imminent attack, police seized 10 tons of explosives in a series of dawn raids on suspected IRA hideouts yesterday. The discovery cast doubt on speculation that the Irish Republican Army was moving toward a new cease-fire.
Prime Minister John Major said the raid also undercut claims by the IRA-allied Sinn Fein Party that it was committed to peace. Police seized large quantities of weapons and arrested five men. One man was shot and killed.
The Associated Press
"It remains impossible to reconcile Sinn Fein's rhetoric for peace with the IRA's preparations for murder," Major said after the raids in London and a neighboring county.
The arms seizures frustrated an imminent IRA terror attack on the British mainland involving a bomb like the one in June in Manchester, a police statement said. A senior police official said the attack could have been planned for as early as yesterday or today.
Beatnik excites Lawrence
Reclusive author draws student fans
By Bradley Brooks Kansan staff writer
He has been featured in a *Nike* commercial, and has had cameo appearances in movies, namely the *Drugstore Cowboy*, in which he played a notorious ex-priest heroin junkle. Despite this exposure, he rarely is seen around Lawrence, a town where Burroughs sightings are as popular as Elvis appearances in the South.
William S. Burroughs is a shadowy, elusive figure in a snap-brim hat who was the intellectual patriarch of the Beat Generation's founders and the literary movement they spurred. Since 1981, Lawrence has been his home.
Although his physical presence is nearly non-existent, his voice in the literary world is widely heard.
Philip Barnard, associate professor of English, said that Buroughs, 83, had been a durable and
exploratory artist whose influence had spread all around the world.
"Burroughs is clearly one of the most important American writers of the 20th century," Barnard said. "He is a writer who has been instrumental in shifting and redefining the field of literature."
Barnard, who specializes in American literary and cultural history, said that Burroughs had characteristics that differentiated him from other writers.
"He has always worked in the limits and margins of literature," he said. "A lot of writers don't challenge the limits of the field, they only work within a genre."
Burroughs and other Beat Generation writers, like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, are popular among college students. The free-form writing about the authors' experiences connects with the mentality and the lifestyle of American youth, said John Stanisfer, Lawrence junior. He also said ideals the Beat Generation created were attractive to students.
the road. "Kerouac's book On The Road has been the college student's bible for years," Stansifer said: "What the Beat's work represents is bigger than itself. It represents
Month-long fest will celebrate Burroughs'art
See BURROUGHS, Page 2A
By Liz Musser Kansan staff writer
Beatnik faithful at the University of Kansas are having a good semester.
A Festival: William S. Burroughs and the Arts will bring Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Patti Smith, and others who will celebrate Burroughs' contributions to art during the last 40 years.
sentences.
William S. Burroughs, the Beat Generation writer who has called Lawrence home since 1881, will be the focus of a retrospective exhibit next month. The exhibit will bring well-known people from the worlds of art, literature and music to Lawrence.
the focus of the festival is an exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art entitled Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts. The exhibit, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will include collaborative
works by Burroughs and artists like David Bradshaw and Keith Haring. The exhibit also will feature portraits of Burroughs by Ginsberg, Annie Leibovitz and
William Burroughs
Robert Mapplethorpe.
Robert Shakespeare
Stephen Goddard, professor of art history and curator at Spencer Museum of Art, said Burroughs was known as one of the most influential authors of the century.
James Grauerholz, a friend of Burroughs, will give a tour of the exhibit at 12:15 p.m. on Nov. 7
"The fact that he has participated in visual art is less well-known," he said.
A symposium will be held in conjunction with the exhibit on Nov. 2 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Confirmed panelists include Ginsberg, experimental writer Kathy Acker and Richard Hell, founder of the punk band Television.
the symposium is not the only part of the festival that has
attracted famous names.
On Nov. 26, the Lied Center and the Hall Center for the Humanities will present The Nova Convention Revisited: William Burroughs and the Arts at the Lied Center.
Scheduled performers include: poet and visual artist Laurie Anderson, singer and AIDS activist John Giorno, poet and singer Patti Smith, composer Philip Glass, former members of the group Blondie Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, and poet and author Ed Sanders.
The first Nova Convention took place in New York City in 1978. Many performers featured in this convention also performed then.
Jackie Davis, executive director of the Lied Center, said the big names had agreed to perform out of respect for Burroughs.
"These performers are all personal friends of Burroughs and relate to him in that they and their works have been influenced by him at some point," Davis said.
SUA will participate in the festival with a film series that runs Oct. 28 to Nov. 2 and includes Naked Lunch, Burrowings, Short Beats: A Compilation of Five Shorts by or About a Beatnik, Drugstore Cowboy, and Trainspotting.
Vatican meeting an inspiration to Father Vince
Message focuses on foreign students
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
The director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center was so fired up for a meeting at the Vatican last week, which would have included an audience with Pope John Paul II, that he didn't experience any jetlag.
Instead, the Pope's message was delivered at a meeting of 50 campus ministry representatives and Papal advisers by Cardinal Poupard, Prefect for the Congregation on Culture. The message said that involving the increasing numbers of international students in campus ministry was an important initiative. The Pope expected practical results to emerge from the meeting, Father Vince said.
Father Vincent Krische said the meeting on international students and campus ministry exceeded his expectations — but he didn't get to meet the Pope. The Pope had to leave Rome for a visit to France a day earlier than planned to preserve his health, Father Vince said.
The Pope's message said that higher education provided a tremendous opportunity for developing nations to improve their social conditions. But it also mentioned the Pope's concern that students from developing
"For the Pope to take that kind of direct, personal interest in it is really significant," Father Vince said.
countries often did not return to their native lands and did not receive the cultural and spiritual education necessary to meet the great needs of those countries.
Father Vince was selected as the U.S. representative by the Catholic Campus Ministry Association. His paper, A Foreign Student as Agent of Development in his Own Country, was one of 20 presented at the meeting. Father Vince also sat on
Vince Krische
the committee which drafted the official document of the conference that will be issued to all Catholic bishops. It will be the bishop's responsibility to implement
Jennifer Bagby, Outreach Minister at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Rd., said a committee for international students had been established to build on the work done at the Vatican meeting. The committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 to discuss how the center can better involve and serve international students, she said.
The document dealt with foreign students' economic difficulties, culture shock, the temptation of to give up their religion to seek acceptance in the host culture, and the spiritual trauma of adjusting to the issues and traditions of a more developed Church, Father Vince said.
the recommendations of the document, Father Vince said.
Light reading
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Lou Barber, New Mexico junior, found a bright place to read in the William J. Moore reading room. Irmal Smith Hall boasts the stained glass windows Barber sat near yesterday.
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