THURSDAY, AUGUST 24,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102,NO.5
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SPORTS
Senior spiker
Senior Jenny Larson leads the volleyball team. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Room to grow
Expansion of Dyche Hall means more room for specimens and research. Page 3A
NATION
Judge asked to decline case
The judge in the Oklahoma City bombing case may step down from the case. Page 5A
WORLD
Drug czar fights extradition
The leader of a Mexican drug cartel is negotiating a surrender to avoid extradition. Page 10A
WEATHER
WARM AND SUNNY
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High 93° Low 70°
INDEX
USPS 650-640
Scoreboard...2B
Horoscopes ...6B
National News ...4A
World News...4B
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"The students have to come first."
Even with his busy schedule, Chancellor Robert Hemenway makes time to teach an American Literature II class at 7:30 a.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Wescoe Hall. Hemenway has been teaching for almost 30 years.
Hemenway wows students
Chancellor shows English class he's a teacher,not just an administrator
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
Wednesday morning, 7:30, and Robert Hemenway was ready to go.
The University of Kansas chancellor and English instructor had taken off his jacket and had begun to write the questions for the day's quiz on the chalkboard even before the students' watches had chimed the half hour. Nobody spoke.
Hemenway, who teaches American Literature II to a group of 45 students in Wescoe Hall, didn't waste a second.
Edine Rodriguez / KANGAN
Chancellor Robert Hemenway leaps his class of 45 students in a discussion. "They might have to come in at six in the morning, but they can reach me," Hemenway said of his students.
When the last quiz was finished, the teacher in Hemenway stepped back, and the chancellor took over. He went through a stack of names, hometowns and majors that the students had provided and took a second to muse on each one. Every hometown, it seemed, he had either been to or knew something about.
"Hays?" he said to one student, "I was there last week."
The class took its quiz. Hemenway stood, leader of both the room and the University.
"Dodge City?" he said to another. "Yeah, I like Dodge City."
Hemenway will teach the class three times a week—no small feat, considering his other job regularly requires more than 60 hours of work per week.
"I am an educator," Hemenway said of his decision to teach. "I see no line between administrator and educator. In fact, I don't know any administrators who aren't educators. It's what we do."
The class, coherent despite the early hour, discussed Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron," a 19th-century story about a young girl who forfeits $10 offered by a young man who wants to capture a heron that lives near the girl's home. The conversation carried the random bits of oddities and theories common to English classes.
"She's rejecting capitalism," someone said. "She's the first eco-feminist," another said. This caused Hemenway to ask, "Is that a Bush Umbaugh term?"
Someone else asked, "How do you bond with a bird?"
Hemenway seemed a natural teacher and
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Professor to return to Haiti, help U.N.
Freeman will advise mission commander
By Novelda Sommers Kansan staff writer
Haiti needs Bryant Freeman more than the University of Kansas does.
That's how Freeman, professor of African and African-American studies, justifies spending most of this semester and the next in Haiti. Freeman, who is the director of KU's Institute for Haitian Studies, lived in Haiti from February to May 1995, returning to the United States when his mother died. He will leave again for Haiti in mid-September, on his 36th rint to Haiti since 1955.
But what's good news for Haiti is bad news for students who were enrolled in Freeman's classes this fall. Students enrolled in Haitian 110, Haitian 200, Humanities and Comparative Literature 620 and African Studies 301 will have to drop the classes and find replacements.
Freeman will not receive a salary from KU while he is absent. He will be back at KU next fall to teach
In Haiti, Freeman will resume his job as the civilian adviser to the commander of the United Nations mission in Haiti.
"I advise him for an hour or two a week." Freeman said.
Bryant Freeman
"I tell him what he doesn't want to hear."
Freeman was chosen for his U.N. job because he is one of few experts on Haitian language and culture in the United States.
Freeman's choice of housing in Haiti gives him an edge on keeping up with the country's political atmosphere. Instead of living in plush accommodations provided by the United Nations, Freeman stays at a Catholic orphanage.
Freeman also is responsible for broadcasting U.N. information in Creole for Haitian citizens.
"We call it information," he said. "You might call it proaganda."
A broadcast might include instructions for people not to participate in mob violence, or to call the police if they see someone being robbed.
The trouble is, there are no police, Freeman said.
"People take justice into their own hands," he said.
Freeman said he was worried that more political upheaval would result when U.N. troops leave the country in March.
Sarah Lechtenberg, Lawrence third-year law student, has visited Haiti five times in the past three years. She said Freeman's job was important in ensuring that neither the United Nations nor the United States would try to implement programs that would not work in Haiti.
"it's good to have someone on the ground who can say if a plan is going to work," she said.
Football player benched for good
By Scott Worthington
Kansan staff writer
Judge George Van Bebber of U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., denied Pahulu's request for an injunction that would allow him to compete for the Jayhawks this year, his last year of eligibility.
Alani Pahulu's bid to play football at Kansas was denied yesterday.
Pahulu, a 6-foot-5, 310-pound defensive lineman from Euless, Texas, was medically disqualified by KU in 1994 after team doctors diagnosed him as having cervical stenosis — a narrow neck. Pahulu sat out the 1994 season and then filed a petition in July for an injunction
The decision came two days after Monday's trial.
that would override the disqualification. Pahulu's attorney argued during Monday's trial that Pahulu was protected by the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which bars discrimination against people who are substantially limited from participating in major life activities
Van Beber ruled yesterday that football was a major life activity but that Pahulu was not substantially limited from that activity because there were ways to get involved with the sport other than playing.
Van Bebber said that while KU doctors' opinions were conservative, he didn't want to substitute his judgment for theirs.
Two KU doctors disqualified Pahulu in 1994 after he was unable to move for a short time after a hit in the spring game. The doctors said Pahulu's narrow neck
gave him a greater chance of becoming paralyzed when playing football.
Three other doctors from around the country subsequently said Pahulu was not at greater risk of suffering paralysis.
Pahulu's attorneys argued that since Pahulu had conflicting opinions from qualified doctors, he should be able to decide if he plays.
Mike Maddox, Pahulu's attorney, said Pahulu would explore other options, such as appealing the decision, seeking a waiver for another year of eligibility or transferring.
Pahulu said that although he was upset, he had no hard feelings.
"Of course I was disappointed with the decision," he said. "I'm not angry. I'm just glad it's over with."
KU student reported missing since weekend
A University of Kansas student was still missing yesterday after leaving Lawrence Saturday to visit her mother in a Columbia, Mo., hospital, a friend of the student said.
Julie B. Tolbert, Columbia, Mo., senor, was reported missing Tuesday to KU police by Brian Grondahl, Topelka junior.
According to KU police, Tolbert had not been heard from since she drove a 1991 black Ford Escort from Lawrence on Saturday. Grondahl became worried Tuesday and then called Tolbert's parents, who said she had not arrived in Columbia.
"I haven't heard one thing so far," Grondahl said late westerday afternoon. "We're still looking."
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Let's look at the text again. It's "William".
The border is thin.
So it's:
William
Tolbert is described as a 21-year-old white female by KU police.
Tolbert's parents could not be reached
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