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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Wednesday, August 28, 1996
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Iraqis surrender and end hijacking without blood
LONDON — Seven Iraqis seeking political aidism freed their 184 captives aboard a Sudanese airliner yesterday at a London airport. The release ended a 16-hour armed hiljacking without bloodshed.
Police did not release the identities of the Iraqis arrested after the drama on Sudan Airways Flight 150. Police also detained six female relatives of the men and are caring for two children.
Members of Iraqi exile groups said the hijackers may have been Iraqi government military advisers too frightened by Saddam Hussein's purges to return home.
The hijacking of the Airbus 310, which had 171 passengers and 13 crew members aboard, ended around noon when the hijackers, some armed with guns, surrendered after seven hours of negotiations at Stansted Airport in London. The Sudanese pilot conducted most of the negotiations.
Memo says first lady delayed Foster note
WASHINGTON — A recently released memo suggests Hillary Rodham Clinton was responsible for the 30-hour delay in notifying authorities about an anguished note handwritten by Vincent Foster.
The memo, which is contrary to the picture drawn in the past year by White House aides, quotes then-White House chief of staff Mack McLarty as saying that the first lady insisted the president should not be told about Foster's note until White House aides decided whether to give it to police investigating Foster's death.
Nussbaum issued a statement taking sole responsibility for the delay in releasing the note to authorities and saying the first lady had no involvement.
McLarty's lawyer, William Taylor, denied yesterday that his client made the statements attributed to him in the memo and said that McLarty spoke primarily to then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum about Foster's note—and never to Mrs. Clinton.
U.S. official to ensure dissolution of offices
WASHINGTON — The chief U.S. mediator for the Balkans will go to the region today to meet with the acting president of the Bosnian Serb republic and to check on guarantees that Bosnian Croats are dissolving their separate government offices.
Assistant Secretary of State John C. Klomb said the trip was planned to coincide with Saturday's scheduled dissolution of a separate Bosnian Croat government—and before Bosnia's municipal elections were called off.
He alleged that Bosnian Serbs were making widespread attempts to pack districts where they did not live but said there also were some violations of the letter or spirit of election registration rules by Croats.
National and other elections will go on as scheduled in mid-September in Bosnia - both in the area controlled by a Muslim-Croat federation and a region run by Bosnian Serbs.
The Associated Press
Smoking ads regulated
FDA aims to curb teenage smoking
By Stephanie Fite Kansan staff writer
The slender sophistication of the Virginia Slim models will no longer grace the pages of People, Rolling Stone, Vogue or Sports Illustrated.
The Food and Drug Administration announced its rule on Friday to regulate tobacco for the first time. The regulations include prohibiting tobacco advertising in media targeted toward teens.
While negotiations are in the works to eliminate some of the FDA's regulations, both the White House and FDA have announced that they intend to keep the tobacco industry from aiming its advertising at children and young adults.
Nearly a dozen advertising agencies that develop campaigns for tobacco companies will feel the effect of the new regulations.
"This is a crunch that advertisers who supported cigarette advertisements will feel," said Sharon Bass, professor of journalism. "This is a moral and economic issue that magazine advertisers have had to deal with for over the past 10 years. People who have worked for a replacement for cigarette advertisements are at an advantage to those who did not."
The new rule will prohibit ads featuring color pictures or drawings in magazines with a large teen readership. It also limits tobacco vending machines to bars, nightclubs and other age-restricted areas.
Some KU students and faculty at the School of Journalism question the legislation's effectiveness.
Stacy Marston, Topeka sophomore, has smoked since she was nine. Like many other children, she decided to start smoking because she thought it
was the adult thing to do.
She said that advertising affected her decision to start smoking because it gave her an impression that smoking was cool.
Former smoker Alisa Lasater, Albuquerque, N.M., junior, said that children were susceptible to advertising.
"Ideally, I would like to think that advertisement does not have an effect on kids, but I think it does," she said.
Cigarette advertisements are not the only factor in teen smoking, said Len Alfano, an assistant professor of journalism who teaches advertising.
There is no study to support a direct link from advertising to teen behavior, he said.
He also said the restriction on advertising worried him because it could lead to greater restrictions in the future.
"Smoking tends to be an adult habit that teens try to emulate." Alfano said.
"Whenever you restrain one aspect of advertising, you always have to look for what it will later affect," he said. "To curtail the advertisement of cigarettes is like cutting off the tail of the dog rather than putting a muzzle on it."
Linda Keeler, M.D., and psychology counselor at Counseling and Psychology Services, also said that advertisements were not the sole cause of teen smoking.
"While children are affected by the media, they are also affected by their environment and their surroundings," she said.
Many of the FDA's regulations for the tobacco industry may not last for long, however, as was indicated yesterday by an announcement from the White House that it was exploring a deal with tobacco companies. A top official told CBS that the Clinton administration would be willing to back off many of the FDA's rules.
However, one stipulation was the industry would still have to curb advertising aimed at teenagers.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Rock'n'climb
Krieger/KANSAN Chris Kemler, Basehor junior, reaches for a hold on the rock climbing wall in Robinson Center. Chris is a member of a rock climbing organization that meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.
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Institute prepares freshmen for college
A summer month of class and counsel increases success
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
way around campus.
Nichole Salters didn't need to ask for directions to Strong Hall on her first day of classes. Instead, the Frankenmuth, Mich., freshman said she was able to help others find their
Salters and 90 other freshmen spent a month at the University of Kansas attending a Freshman Summer Institute. The institute allows incoming freshmen to take two courses for credit, receive career counseling and experience college life in the residence halls.
"After the Freshmen Summer Institute, we all called ourselves freshmen-and-a-half because we had had the experience," Salters said.
The two-year-old institute was created after two years of research of the experiences and needs of college
freshmen and sophomores, said Beverly Davenport Sypher, associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"It is designed to get students here early so they can be competent when they come for the fall," she said. "They can experience college in a less threatening, less overwhelming wav."
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawett, associate provost for academic services, said the Freshmen/Sophomore Experience Committee, which is comprised of faculty and staff, examined and polled student focus groups
to determine how the University could improve undergraduate education.
The committee's report states that freshmen need more career counseling and advising.
During the summer of 1995, 18 incoming minority freshmen were selected to attend the first summer institute.
Sypher said the first institute was open only to minority students in order to diversify the class.
"Of the 18 students, all but one returned this year. That retention rate is higher than the campus population as a whole," Sypher said.
Institute students were less likely to drop out because they had the opportunity to get connected with the University, Sypher said.
Laura Gonzalez, Lawrence sophomore, said her experience with the institute helped her.
"I felt like I knew how to cope with experiences as a freshman," Gonzalez said. "I knew how to budget my time to feel like I was on top of things. I think I am now more serious about school."
The institute is now open to all incoming freshmen, Sypher said.
1996 elections sites online:
Election '96 Information:
http://www.gte.net/election96/noframes/other.html
Project Votesmart http://www.vote-smart.org
Campaign '86 Online.
http://campaign.96.com/
Campaign Central: http://www.clark.net/central/
The Republican Party: http://www.mc.org
The Reform Party:
Political campaigns, parties going online
The Democratic Party: http://www.democrats.org.
Politics Now: http://politicsnow.com
http://www.reformparty.org/
Less than half of Kansas candidates have web sites
http://www.rockthevote.org
By Neal Shulenburger
Kansan staff writer
Now political campaigns have something in common with MTV, 311 and Playboy. They all have home pages on the World Wide Web.
Susan Smith, chairwoman of the Lawrence Republican Party, said lack of accessibility for the general public was one reason.
The three political parties and their presidential candidates are on the Internet. Several candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are beginning to
follow, but less than half of the Kansas candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have home pages.
"Right now we're not doing anything on the Internet because it won't reach many new voters," Smith said. "It is my understanding that less than one-third of the electorate has a personal computer and about one-fifth is online. The people who do have computers and use them online are already likely to vote."
Ken Collier, professor of political science,
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science, said he thought that political home pages would not attract new voters but that they might have other uses.
said the lack of use of the web by campaigns could be attributed to two factors: the newness of the technology and the lack of resources needed to use it.
The effect of candidates' home pages remains unclear.
"what I don't see is how the Internet can be used as a tool to recruit new voters," Loomis said. "Most of the people who will use these
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Swimming coach
Despite his many achievements and awards, Gary Kempf wants to remain in the background and let his swimmers take all the credit and glory.