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Kansas starting defensive end Harold Harris is striving to achieve on and off the field. Page 1B.
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104,NO.46
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1994
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Israel, Jordan sign peace agreement
President Clinton plans to attend the signing of treaty
The Associated Press
WADI ARABA, Israel-Jordan Border — Under a huge banner proclaiming peace in three languages, Israel and Jordan will sign a treaty today that would end 46 years of war and promote a vision of hope in a Middle East
convulsed by Islamic fundamentalism.
The signing, to be witnessed by President Clinton and 5,000 guests, will take place on a hastily asphalted former minefield — an apt metaphor for an uncertain future.
Despite the spectacular ceremony planned at this uninhabited patch of desert just north of the Red Sea, the Israeli mood was sober yesterday in the aftershock of a string of terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists opposed to the treaty.
Most legislators of the opposition Likud said that they would stay away from the ceremony, believing it extravagant and insensitive to
families who lost relatives in recent attacks.
raiseman leader Yasser Arafat was not invited to the signing, and Palestinians were skeptical about the treaty, worrying that their quest for statehood would be lost in the Arab rush to reconcile with Israel.
Arafat is angry that the treaty gives Jordan's King Hussein custody of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem, a city the Palestinians claim as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Arafat reasserted the Palestinian claim to Jerusalem yesterday. "Those who don't like it can drink from the sea of Gaza," he told 2,000 cheering students at al-Azhar University in
the PLO-ruled Gaza Strip.
Israel's parliament approved the treaty overwhelmingly — 105 to 3 — after a day-long debate yesterday.
In presenting the pact to parliament, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin responded to Israelis' anxieties by painting a vivid portrait of peace and open borders.
The 72-year-old former general spoke of truckloads of cargo moving between Israel and Jordan, of businessmen flying to Amman in the morning, closing a deal and being back in Jerusalem by nightfall, and of families taking a day trip to Petra, the ancient city in the
Jordanian desert.
Recalling his first public visit to the Jordanian an capital on Oct. 16, Rabin said:
"Last week we stood at night on the balcony of the king's palace in Amman, and opposite us shone the lights of Jerusalem, so near just a few dozen kilometers — after 46 years of hostility that separated Amman from Jerusalem."
CLINTON: President Clinton will launch his three-day tour of the Mideast in Cairo. Page 8A.
Julianne Peter / KANSAN
Unclaimed items fill lost and found department
Registering bicycles marking merchandise make returns easier
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Pipe dreamin'
A ceramic deer, watches, books and other various items all have one thing in common at KU.
Mark Hotham, a plumber with McEIroy's Inc., lays the plumbing for the renovation of Dyche Hall.
"One of the weirdest things we have had is a KU Jayawk yard statue whose legs twirl in the wind," said Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek of the KU police. "Otherwise, we get tons of keys, gloves and hats."
They have all spent time in the lost and found department of the KU police.
Rozmiarck said officers often would stumble upon lost watches, clothing or coolers, or someone else would find something and give it to an officer. She said KU police would hold found items at their office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall for six months or until they did not have enough storage area for additional items.
"We keep most of the bigger items in an office in the old post office building downtown,"she said.
trose items included found bicycles that were not registered with the police. After the storage time expires, the bicycles, clothing and other items are donated to the Salvation Army, she said.
"Most of the things get turned in at the
end of the year," she said.
Rozimarek said people who have lost things might first want to check in the building where the item was lost. Each campus building has its own lost and found department. She said the individual campus building lost and found departments turn over their found items at various times of the year or if an item is too large or too expensive to keep.
"Lots of people call the day they lose something," Rozmiarek said. "We usually give them the phone number to housekeeping because often times housekeeping staff members will hold onto items until their shift is over."
Expensive or valuable items should be properly marked, Rozmairek said. By copying serial numbers or etching a social security number on a bicycle, portable computer or portable radio, the police have a better chance of returning things to their owners, she said.
About 20 to 30 bicycles are found each year that can not be returned to their owners, she said.
The KU police have begun to keep a computerized list of all students who have bought their bicycle licenses on campus this year.
But treasure seekers beware. Rozmiarek said that in order to claim an unmarked item, students must be able to describe in detail the watch, book bag or bicycle.
CLAS dean says a more general education could help KU
Official wants professional classes opened to all students
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
James Muyskens, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, believes KU administrators and faculty members are settling for a system of educating students that is second best.
"The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is in the business of general education, but no one else is," Musksens said. "If everyone, including the professional schools, was committed to general education, that would improve the University significantly."
Muyksens said students' education would be improved if more courses offered by professional schools were open to students in the college.
Presently, most courses offered by professional schools are open to only students enrolled in the professional schools. Most courses offered by the college are open to students in professional schools, as well as students in the college.
"I'm not arguing that there should be no restrictions whatsoever," Muyskens said. "The college offers many courses that students in professional schools must take, and it's clear that it's our responsibility to provide those courses. But if professional schools have particular courses that could make a contribution to general education, those
courses should be open to all students."
If necessary, Muyskens said, money could be taken from the college and reallocated to professional schools. Then professional schools would have the resources necessary to make more courses open to all students.
"This is a question of what kind of university we want to be," Musskens said. "We should all be in this together. We can settle for what we have now, but I think it's second best."
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said no policy specifically addressed this issue.
"I would be happy to consider a policy if one were proposed," Shulenburger said. "But we've never had a major problem because the deans have a history of collegiality and working together."
Shulenburger said fiscal realities precluded courses from being available to all students.
"The college is budgeted to be the service unit for the University," he said. "The professional schools are budgeted to handle their majors first. If a professional school served other students before its majors, then it wouldn't be doing its job."
Dennis Domer, associate dean of architecture and urban design, said he understood the fiscal realities professional schools faced. But money is not the only issue.
"Money will open up all sorts of doors," Domer said. "But I do think there is an attitude problem in some schools. They don't want to open their courses."
Domer said that architecture and urban design had opened many of its courses to all students. This fall, 19 architecture and urban design courses were open to all students.
"Professional schools only have so much space, but I think we should open our classes as much as possible," he said. "In general, I don't think think this issue has been addressed very well, but I'm not sure what the answer is."
Domer said restricting classes that could benefit all students resulted in academic turf wars.
"Turf wars benefit no one," Domer said. "These wars suggest that knowledge should not be available to everyone."
While people in the United States are celebrating Halloween, the people of Mexico are celebrating the dead.
Page 5B.
Candidate wants to reduce role of government
Term limits, welfare reform top Brownback's agenda
Editor's note: This is the first of two stories profiling the candidates for the 2nd District of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Kansan will be profiling all the candidates and issues on the Nov. 8 ballot.
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
Sam Brownback said experience taught him that government was too big and that the political arena needed to be changed.
And the Republican candidate for the 2nd District of the U.S. House of Representatives said the understanding he had gained from work and public service would be useful in making those changes in Kansans.
"I've always been interested in public service."
Brownback said. "I simply like to help others."
Brownback, 38, most recently served in public
office from 1986 to 1993 as the secretary of agriculture for Kansas. Brownback said he would like to find new uses for farm commodities as one method of economic development for Kansas.
He said some of the products he had seen that could be made included bio-diesel fuel made out of soybean oil and plastics made out of wheat. He said the items would be beneficial economically and ecologically for Kansas.
Brownback also said he would like to see the size and scope of the U.S. government reduced. Kansas needs to get the federal government off its back and out of its pockets, he said.
"I think we're on the wrong track," he said.
Julianne Peter / KANBAN
See BROWNBACK. Page 6A.
Sam Brownback is running for the 2nd District of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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