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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104,NO.29
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1994
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Four killed, 50 injured in Haiti
Grenade thrown into pro-democracy crowd
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In a bloody attack on the U.S. orchestrated return to elected rule, a grenade exploded yesterday in front of a pro-democracy demonstration, killing at least four Haitians and wounding 50.
Hundreds of people fled in panic, leaving the dead and injured in a circle on the ground. U.S. soldiers and military police who spied in to investigate detained three
men after firing more than 200 rounds into a warehouse.
But after they left, chaos reigned. Hundreds of Haitians looted the building of bags of cement, wooden pallets for fuel, even iron bars pulled from the foundation and graations ripped from windows.
Survivors wailed along the dusty stretch of seaside Harry Truman Boulevard.
"Are we never going to stop dying? Are we never going to stop suffering?" cried a 26-year-old woman, looking at the wounded. She identified herself only as Jesula.
One U.S. soldier cradled a seriously wounded Haitian man, yelling: "Hang on, buddy! Hang on, buddy!"
The U.S. military counted 50 people
injured and taken to Haitian and U.S. military hospitals, said Army representative, Maj. Ken Fugett. There were no reports of American casualties.
Among the injured were four children, including a 9-year-old boy.
A U.S. official said on condition of anonymity that at least four and as many as nine people were killed.
Earlier, The Associated Press and Red Cross officials counted three dead at the scene, including a man who was run over by a U.S. Army Humvee jeep. It was not known whether he was still alive when he was hit.
The violence may complicate efforts to ensure a peaceful transition between army
leaders and elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ousted in a 1991 coup.
"We are not going to wait!" people shouted.
Angry chants of "Cedras has to leave!" arose after the explosion, referring to army chief Raoul Cedras, who has agreed to step down by Oct. 15.
n here was no immediate claim of responsibility, but marchers widely blamed pro-army gunmen who have slain thousands in political violence since soldiers deposed Aristide three years ago yesterday. Many grenades are known to be in private hands, and disarmament has been a priority of U.S. soldiers seeking to aid the transition to democracy.
The Buzz on the Bees
Ryan Kruse, Watertown, S.D., freshman, kills bees in the KU Concessions refreshment trailer in front of Wescos Hall with what he calls, "The Bee Smasher."
Story by Colleen McCain Photos by Paul Kotz
Throngs of bees swarm around campus
You'd better beware. The buzz around campus is that bees have invaded.
They seem to be everywhere — hovering above trash cans and swarming around innocent pinickers.
Ryan Kruse, Watertown, S.D., freshman, works in the KU Concessions booth in front of Wesco Hall. The battle against the bees is a constant one, he said.
"Are bees a problem? They're a total pain," Kruse said, wielding a flat, gray object labeled "The Bee Smasher."
Kruse said he made the Smasher by folding a newspaper and covering it with duct tape.
He also was armed with a spray can of
wasp and hornet killer.
"I'm forced to use the smasher about once every 30 seconds," Krusse said. "The bees swarm around your face until you just have to kill them."
"They're drawn to the pop machine," he said. "I swear they all live in a bush behind here. They don't seem to sting anyone, but they won't go away."
A layer of dead bees — victims of the Smasher — coated the floor of the booth near Kruse's feet.
Orrey Taylor, head of the entomology department, said that bees would sting only if provoked.
"We're seeing honeybees and yellow jackets right now," Taylor said. "They're
not likely to sting you unless you physically hit them."
"They've been here all along," Taylor said. "But yellow jackets feed on soft-bodied insects, and honeybees are attracted to flowers. There aren't many flowers or insects right now, so they're attracted to our food and pop."
Taylor said honeybees and yellow jackets became more bothersome in the fall because they had little to feed on in colder months.
Honeybees and yellow jackets become more of a problem during dry falls. But this fall hasn't been that unusual, Taylor said.
"Yellow jackets tend to be a little bolder than the honeybees," he said. "Theyellow jackets actually will land on your pop can when you're drinking."
Karrie Hayes, Topea sophomore,
found that her can of Pepsi was a yellow
jacket magnet yesterday.
"I've never had this much of a problem before," said Hayes, who was eating lunch behind Wescoe. "I don't know why there are so many this year."
Hayes repeatedly had to flick yellow jackets off the top of her pop can. Finally, a yellow jacket climbed inside the can and down into the Pepsi.
"I can't drink this anymore," Hayes said. "These bees are out of control."
julianne Peter / KANSAN
Scot Hill, Andover senior, explains his reasons for starting the group Kansens for Term Limits.
KU student fights for term limits
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Between sleeping and studying, Scot Hill fires faxes across the state and takes calls on his 1-800 telephone line in his Phi Kappa Theta fraternity house room.
And people who meet the Kansans for Term Limits executive director when he travels around the state usually are surprised to find out he is a 22-year-old KU student.
"People say, I didn't think you were so young," said Hill. Andover senior. "They don't connect young people to politics anymore."
But Hill is a highly politicized student. A former editor of the defunct conservative campus newspaper The Oread Review, Hill is now the sole leader of Kansans for Term Limits. He also works with political operatives across the state, has helped place referendums on city ballots and has $7,000 of support money from a national term limits organization.
Hill, who wasn't interested in politics until he came to KU in Fall 1990, said he became interested in term limitations last spring after talking with a friend. He now helps residents in Kansas towns get term limitations on city ballots as referendums, he said. He also pays people in many Kansas towns to circulate petitions calling for local referendums on election ballots.
So far, Hill said, his organization has helped put term limits on the Nov. 8 ballot in eight Kansas cities and will have referendums on the ballot in 30 cities in time for the April election. All the referendums target city officials.
Hill said his efforts had been successful in several towns. More than 16,000 Topeka residents signed a referendum petition that the local government currently is considering, he said.
Term limits have a mass appeal, Hill said. He said voters liked them because they removed politicians who were too tied up with their positions.
"The young people like it because it gets out people who don't meet our needs," he said. "They've been in so long that they're out-of-touch."
Despite success in other cities, Hill's efforts in Lawrence have run into a legal brick wall. Earlier this month, the Lawrence City Commission declined to place a referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot imposing a two-term limit on city commissioners. Gerald Cooley, city attorney, had told commissioners the proposed ordinance on the referendum would not stand up to state law.
A week later, Bob Stephan, state attorney general, agreed with Cooley.
But Hill said the city was simply looking for an excuse to keep the referendum off the ballot, and he would try again for the April ballot.
for the Aphrodite ballet.
John Nalbandian, city commissioner, said he disagreed with Hill. Nalbandian said Lawrence commissioners rarely served longer than eight years.
"He can't even name a commissioner who has had more than two terms," Nalbandian said. "It's a solution looking for a problem, but the problem does exist."
Running for distance
Parking lot by KANU to be closed off in October
The Kansas men's and women's cross country teams, ranked 18th and 22nd respectively, will travel to Arkansas for a tournament this weekend. Page 18.
By Ashley Miller Kansan staff writer
In a few weeks, Sue Hale will be parking her car and walking to work instead of pulling up outside the front door.
Hale, a secretary at KANU radio station, usually parks in the lot between the KANU studio and the Art and Design building, but the lot will be closed off to faculty and students sometime in October.
"I wasn't happy, but I don't think anything can be done about it," Hale said.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said the department was closing the lot because construction was beginning on Hoch Auditorium. The construction company will need the parking
lot for its own vehicles.
Hultine said the construction, which will be done by Di Carlo Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., would take about two years to complete.
Right now, the parking lot next to KANU has 16 spaces reserved for faculty with blue permits. Art and design students often are dropped off there to turn in projects or to work late at the studios.
The disabled parking spaces in the lot near KANU will have to be relocated, Hultine said. The parking department also plans to meet with the radio station and Art and Design to look at alternative parking for faculty and staff members.
The lot near Lindley Hall still will be available for faculty parking.
Hultine said a parking booth was
Huline said she didn't think faculty or students were upset about losing the parking lot or having a booth monitor the traffic.
"They know Hoch has to be reconstructed." Hutten said.
being built across from Murphy Hall at the corner of 15th Street and Nailsmith Drive to keep out unnecessary traffic as the company took more than 10,000 loads of dirt away from the site. The booth will be in operation weekdays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"A lot of people just get dropped off and picked up there," Storms said.
However, Sarah Storms, St. Louis sophomore, said she thought cutting off the parkinglot and building another booth was a bad idea. Bad weather forces art and design students to use the parking lot to get close to the building.
Do not enter
The parking lot between KANU and Art and Design will be closed in October to begin construction on Hoch Auditorium. A booth at the corner of 15th Street and Naismith Drive will monitor traffic to the lot.
Micah Locker/KANBAN
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