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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1996
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Kuwait bans stationing of 5000 more U.S. troops
WASHINGTON — Shaky U.S. efforts to maintain a united front against Saddam Hussein hit another snag yesterday, Kuwait, the nation saved in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, temporarily withheld permission for 5,000 additional U.S. troops to be stationed there.
Administration officials stressed that they fully expected Kuwait to approve the deployment soon, but critics jumped on the delay as another example of the administration failing to hold together the Gulf War coalition.
"What kind of a lack of consultation with our allies is this that we would end up in this kind of a muddle?" said House Speaker Newt Gingrich on NBC's Meet the Press.
"This situation is in terrible disarray. The credibility of the United States is at stake," said Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, in INC's This Week With David Brinkley.
During a visit to Kuwait yesterday, Defense Secretary William Perry said he had sought permission for the troops from the emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah.
he said he was told the matter would be taken up by the emirate's defense committee.
Congress loosens rules for Laotian immigrants
NAKHON PHANOM, Thailand — The edifice the United States built in Southeast Asia during the war in Indochina crumbled in 1975 as communists took over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
More than 1 million people fled their homes. World attention briefly focused on Vietnam's boat people and Cambodians fleeing the Khmer Rouge horrors.
But little notice was ever paid to the refugees from Laos. Some 360,000 Laotians made their way to refugee camps in Thailand. Almost 90 percent have resettled abroad, mostly in the United States.
By this year, about 25,000 had returned to Laos and 10,000 had joined Thailand's population, leaving about 6,000 Laotians — mostly Hmong hill people — at the Ban Napho refuge camp in northeast-ern Thailand.
United Nations assistance is due to end this year, and the Thai government no longer wants the camps.
In a gesture of gratitude to the Hmong, the U.S. Congress adopted loosened immigration rules that resulted in 2,500 being approved for entry into the United States.
More Hmong are being interviewed by U.S. immigration authorities. The authorities are trying to weed out Laotians who are not really refugees and those suspected of criminal involvement with drugs.
The resettlement program is expected to end in March.
Cameras, sketch artists barred from Simpson trial
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A year after the not guilty verdict echoed in one courtroom, O.J. Simpson's wrongful death case convenes this week in a new venue with a slightly diminished press corps forced to tell the story the old-fashioned way — without cameras.
Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, determined not to have his style confused with that of Judge Lance Ito, banned all television and still cameras from his courtroom
"it's excessive," said New York civil attorney Henry Miller. "But there's nothing like excess to breed excess. We always react to what's gone before. The generals are all fighting the last war."
he also banned sketch artists from drawing in the courtroom and clamped an extraordinarily restrictive gag order on the attorneys.
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Chief of staff leaves Watkins
Yockey accepts new position
Dr. Charles Yockey saw at a lot of red eyes on Friday. But they were not symptoms of a breaking campus infection. Instead, they were symptoms of sadness.
Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center and 1996 KU Employee of the Year, resigned last Friday to accept a private practice position in internal medicine with a Humana Healthcare clinic in Kansas City, Mo.
"It took me a long time to make this decision. You don't just leave a great job. I have 18 years here. That's a lot of involvement," he said.
Yockey graduated from the University of Kansas in 1968 and KU Medical Center in 1972. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Air
Force and has been on active duty in the Air Force Reserves for the last 13 years. Before coming to Watkins in 1986, Yockey was in private practice and taught at the KU Medical Center in Wichita.
Yockey said that he came to Watkins because he needed to spend more time with his family.
Charles Yockey
"I took a cut in hours and a cut in pay, but it was the best decision I ever made," he said.
Yockey said the decision to leave was influenced by his son's high school graduation last year and also the opportunity to use his specialties in internal medicine and pulmonary disease.
He said that he was at a time in his life in which he had to decide if he wanted to return to internal medicine or stay in student healthcare.
"in order to stay proficient in anything, you
have to keep doing it. I have been doing that through the Air Force reserves during the summers. But each year it gets harder. I just decided I wanted to do internal medicine full-time," he said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said that he was sad to learn Yockey was leaving the University, but that he was pleased with Yockey's contributions to the health center over the last 10 years.
"Charles has been one of the chief architects in the health center's remodeling plan and the change from traditional basic care to a modern clinic that meets the contemporary needs of the students," he said.
Yockey instituted the mandatory measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in 1989. He also helped earn Watkins its first national accreditation in 1988 when only 50 other colleges in the United States had been certified.
However, he is most proud of the quality of the physicians and staff that Watkins has recruited, he said.
"The entire physician staff is board certified and very well-trained. When I first came here, I spent one fourth of my time answering parent and student complaints. Our patient satisfaction has grown tremendously and goes up every year," Yockey said.
Members of Watkins staff said that they were sad to see Yockey leave.
Ambler said the University would begin to search for a replacement for Yockey in late fall.
"I'm devastated," said Susan Allen, registered nurse. "We're all in denial. It's a shame to see him go. I'm happy for him, I'm just sad he is going."
Patty Dunn, registered nurse, said that Yockey would be missed by all.
"They don't come much finer," she said. "He's a team leader, which allows for team players. He really wants us to grow in our professions."
Yockey said he thought that the transition would be smooth.
"The health center is very healthy and rapidly improving. It should be a neat opportunity for someone," he said.
Dates prefer quality instead of expense
Money doesn't translate to fun
By Megan Jordan Kansan staff writer
Let's talk money: Most college students don't have much.
So where does that leave you when you want to treat the date of your dreams to a night on the town? KU students have discovered that it is possible to have fun without breaking their bank accounts.
Josh Allen, Coffeyville sophomore, said originality was the key. Stay away from the typical dinner and a movie. Besides being expensive, that can simply be boring. When you take the time to plan something original, he said, it shows your date that he or she is important to you.
College students understand that money is tight and do not expect their dates to wine and dine them, Allen said. Spending a lot of money will not convince a women that you care.
Photo Illustration by Eric B. Howell / KANSAS
"I think girls can see right through that," Allen said.
He suggested walking down Massachusetts Street and ending up in a park . Or, if you play an instrument such as the guitar or piano, play music for your date. Go to a cheap concert. Eat at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant.
Anything that allows people to really talk and get to know their dates makes for a fun evening, Allen said.
Many college students go on inexpensive dates because of shortage of money.
While gourmet dinners and expensive evenings can be exciting once in a while, students said they could also be tense and upight.
Jae Lee, Bonner Springs, Mo. senior agreed.
Lee said he and his girlfriend also enjoyed riding their bikes on the Kansas River levee and surrounding trails and camping at Clinton Lake.
"I think cooking is fun because you're both doing it and you are not just sitting around," he said.
"I think it is just as fun, if not more, to eat at a real dive and go for a walk than eat an expensive dinner and go to the opera or something." Allen said.
Other inexpensive activities that students said they enjoyed included rollerblading, attending University events such as plays or football games, playing Frisco,
Alison Cain, Topeka sophomore, said cheap dates were more relaxing than their pricey counterparts.
"Spending time together is more important than all those material things," she said.
Many students gave thumbs down to spending an evening drinking at bars, especially early in a relationship.
If you don't know a guy very well, Cain said, getting drunk together can lead to a bad situation.
Josh Allen said drinking made it difficult to get to know a person well.
renting movies and people-watching.
"If you barely know your date and you get sloppy drunk, what fun is that?" Allen asked. "Besides, it is not a good first impression."
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Vincent Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Rd., will represent the United States in a meeting with the Pope at the Vatican
Catholic center's director to meet Pope John Paul II
Priests to discuss campus ministries
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
The director of St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will represent the United States at the Vatican's first meeting on international students and campus ministry, which begins tomorrow.
An "audience with the Holy Father" is slated for Thursday afternoon.
Pope John Paul II
The Rev. Vincent Krische said that could mean one of three things: an address in St. Peter's Square.
or an audience hall seating about 8,000 people; a gathering of about 70 people, where the pope would shake each person's hand and exchange a few words; or a round-table discussion of up to 25 people, where the pope would state his position and objectives.
"I'm hoping it's going to be a small group meeting with him, listening to what he might say and possibly informing him about what is happening in our own countries," Krische said.
Krische and representatives from 10 countries, mostly from Western Europe, will present papers on the role international students can play
Krische, who has directed the center since 1977, said he had been to the Vatican on church business five times before — an unusually high number for the director of a campus ministry — but has only met the pope as part of a group of 70 people.
At the three-day meeting, he will present his paper A Foreign Student as Agent of Development in his Own Country.
in the church's mission of education, relief and development in othernations.
Many international students come from developing nations with newly-formed churches, Krische said. Because university-educated people usually become the decision-makers in their home countries, they must learn how to connect the church's moral and ethical teachings to the development of their nation's social, political and economic structure.
Krische was selected as the U.S. representative by the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, for which he is director of development. The association acknowledged that the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center had done the greatest amount of work for international students, he said.
The center serves students from 52 different countries. It has operated a special program for Hispanic students for 14 years, organized occasional programs to increase cross-cultural understanding of the church and facilitated worship with bilingual prayer books.
Krische hopes that the meeting will allow him to establish relationships with the other countries' representatives, possibly leading to the development of a scholarship exchange program.
Robert LeGresley, director of operations for the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Rd., said he was thrilled that Krische would be representing the entire United States.
"He's definitely a leader," LeGreesy said. "These kind of meetings and opportunities are what keep people energized."