THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.72
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 69612
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FRIDAY.DECEMBER 6,1991
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Fulcher has 30 class days to appeal ouster
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
If former student body president Darren Fulcher appeals the KU Judicial Board ruling in favor of his ouster, he may be temporarily dismissed, said Eric Strauss, chairperson for the board.
"I would have to see what the appeals and why he says that a stay is necessary because the substantive issue has already been decided," Strauss said.
Fulcher said yesterday that he had not decided whether he was going to appeal the ruling, which was made public Wednesday evening.
You can appeal the decision only on procedural grounds.
Judicial Board rules say that Fulcher has 30 months to an appeal, which gives him until Feb. 12 to file.
If Fulcher files an appeal with the Judicial Board, Student Senate has 10 class days to respond.
After Senate's response, the Judicial Board has another 10 class days to render a ruling on the appeal.
During those 10 days, Fulcher or Senate would have the option to present oral arguments.
"We're talking about the end of March if the appeal gets dragged out that long," Strauss
If Fulcher were to win an appeal hearing, another hearing similar to the Nov. 25 hearing would be conducted.
David Ambier, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that Fulcher was going to settle some personal issues before thinking about appealing.
Conditions in Fulcher's presidential contract may have been violated by the board, LaSalle said.
However, Rose Marino, University associate general counsel, said that she did not think Fulcher had a basis for such a civil suit.
She said that Fulcher's contract dealt with his presidency. Because he no longer is president, the contract does not apply, she said.
Ambler said that Fulcher would be moving out of the Senate office during finals week.
P.S. I still think life is magical'
Going back to school after AIDS diagnosis, Scott Wayne balances plans to graduate with surviving each day
Scott Wayne climbs out of bed,
fixes a bowl of Grape Nuts and
soy milk and has to ask him soil.
'Can I race KU today?'
So far, the answer has been yes
Wayne, 35, was diagnosed in January with Kaposi's sarcoma, or KS, an AIDS-related skin cancer.
Purple spots appeared on his arms and legs last fall. During the months they've spread to his back, arms, neck and face.
For four years, the Topeka sophomore has lived with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV.
Clothes can hide most of the blemishes on his body, but the spot on his nose and the ones in his ears cannot really be concealed.
He has good days when he is just glad to be part of college life. But he also has bad days when he wakes up, because he is not very well makeup to cover the spots on his face.
"Sometimes it is so hard to go out on campus because I just feel like a jeer. 'Wayne said.'
Still, he goes to class almost every day.
"In a split second, people's shock and disgust can register in their eyes," he said. "If only people's support would register like that, too."
Wayne does not have a major. Instead, he says he will try to learn about anything he wants, and he will never — not be consumed by his disease.
"You are supposed to be dying in a hospital bed," Wayne said. "You are not supposed to be up and around and going to school. It doesn't fit the definition that you are fed in every news article."
The fear of disclosure
About 60 students at the University of Kansas may be HIV positive, said Janine Demo, health educator at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Those figures are an estimate based on how many college students nationwide have HIV.
Wayne said he has found support at the University but does not want his real name to be disclosed. Scott
Wayne is a pseudonym he has used before.
During the past three weeks he wavered between wanting to use his real name in this article and fearing the disclosure of his identity.
Wayne said his landlords might try to throw him out, and his family expressed concern about his gay background becoming public.
He wants to tell his story, and he wants people to know that they can survive with the disease.
Trying to elude the virus
Wayne already has learned a great deal — not from the books, but from experience. In his 20%, he skipped from one bar to the next across the United States, smoked marijuana and drank too much.
He said he found pleasure with many men, slept with a Miami Dollar with others, and was revived in the almost magical kingdom of being young, beautiful and gay.
Then the funerals began.
He clicked his heels, returned to Kansas and thought he was on his way to leaving the past behind.
But the virus found him and now Wayne has turned to KU to learn from the books — for as long as he can.
Wayne dated girls in junior high and high school, but he increasingly became aware that he would rather be with men.
His gay identity floured in the mid-1970s when he enrolled at Emporia State University.
"I was kind of thrown into it," he said. "I was always very experimental."
The wild years began. Drugs were part of the lifestyle—pot, acid, hallucinogenic mushrooms, peyote and alcohol.
As his university future dimmed because of low grades, Wayne looked beyond Emporia. He lived in Texas, Arizona, Arizona, Colorado and Florida.
Underground lifestyle
In Colorado he stumbled into the house.
"Once you discovered the bar life
you were keyed into this whole secret world, a whole underground world," Wavey said.
"You could gointo Any City, U.S.A., and be in control. It was a great set-up," he said. "It was a great system, because it was all based on pleasure — getting high, getting drunk and appearance."
Wayne had men he saw regularly and men he met casually on those nights he spent barbeting.
He had sex with about three different people a week. Wayne does not know which lover gave him AIDS.
"A lot of people from my past are
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Sitting on the stairs of a fire escape leading down from his apartment, Scott Wayne likes to watch the stars. The stars "make life so trivial," he says. " they're so old, and we're so temporary."
Several purple spots, like this one on his arm, cover his body. They are caused by an AIDS coma, an AIDS-related skin cancer.
Bush names replacement for Sununu
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday named Transportation Secretary Skinner the replace John Sumuja as White House chief of staff. He will be joined by a re-election campaign that looks tougher than it did a few months ago.
"When the economy goes down, the president takes a hit," Bush conceded at a White House news conference as he promised for an 11-month reelection drive.
"Can I get re-elected?" Bush asked. "The answer is yes, because I am a good president." He said he would support an election announcement in January.
Acknowledging that the economy is "sluggish at best," Bush announced that he was speeding up $9.7 billion in various government payments and benefits to help get the country back on its feet.
Bush said the Democratic-controlled Congress had ignored his economic proposals for three straight years and that he would make new recommendations in 1992. He vowed to take them directly to the voters.
Bush's political team, along with Skinner and Sununu, was crowded into the White House briefing room as he made his announcement.
In Skinner, Bush picked a long-time political supporter and a former federal prosecutor to replace the abrasive Tuesday after months of controversy.
This is not the first time Skinner has been tapped to help Bush in troubled times.
He took charge of the administration's response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the San Francisco earthquake. Most recently he helped win a compromise with Congress on a $151 billion transportation bill.
For his re-election campaign, Bush named Secretary Robert Mobserbach as general head of the campaign, pollster Robert Teeter as the campaign manager charged with the operation of the campaign. Fred Malek as the campaign manager responsible for the nuts-and-bolts operation of the re-election drive.
Bush said Skinner, as chief of staff, would coordinate activities between the White House and the re-election campaign.
"Sam Skinner takes over as a firm right hand at a time when the nation's economy represents a difficult challenge," he said.
Story by William Ramsey • Photos by Julie Jacobson
Bush did not name Cabinet replacements for Skinner or Mosbacher.
Also tapped for key campaign roles were Mary Matalin, chief of staff of the Republican National Committee, who will join the campaign full-time as an official. GOP consultant Charles Black was tapped as a senior adviser.
Memories of Japanese attack linger 50 years later
Lawrence resident David Hayes was stationed at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack.
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
Lawrence WWII veterans return to Pearl Harbor to commemorate day that thrust U.S. into war
Although it has been half a century, Jim Cuningham has vivid memories of Dec. 7, 1941.
"I woke up about 7:30 that morning and was dozing off in my barracks," said Cunningham, who was 19 then and a U.S. navy machinist stationed on an island in the middle of Pearl*J*
Tomorrow, military veterans will gather on a memorial above the sunken U.S. S. Arizona in the harbor, recalling the memories of that Sunday morning 50 years ago that changed the world.
"I then heard a huge explosion about 8 a.m. It was the Arizona."
The Japanese bombing of the harbor thrust the United States into World War II. The United States and Japan engaged in a war that lasted more than 70 years.
many and Italy Dec. 11.
Cunningham, a 1950 KU graduate, remembers big chunks of concrete raining down the barricade.
"I knew when the big stuff hit the barracks we were in for it," he said. "Then I saw the Arizona exploded, a main magazine had exploded and the Oklahoma was on fire."
The ships were tied up to docks within 100 yards of his barracks, he said.
He said that when he and 30 others ran from their barracks to their battle stations, they saw planes overhead with large orange balls painted on the underside of the wings.
Cunningham, who spent his Sundays on guard duty, said he began shooting at the planes with a .30-caliber machine gun.
"It was like throwing rocks at airplanes," he said.
About 2,000 Navy personnel were killed, and the United States suffered 3,581 casualties. If people were not killed in the initial explosions on the airplanes, there would be the burning oil on the water, Cunningham said.
When Sanders finally did hear from her brother he was recuperating from malaria in New Zealand. He had gone from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, she said.
Broeker, also of Lawrence, traveled to Hawaii
Margaret Sanders said she was at work at a car dealership in Lawrence when she heard about the attack. She immediately thought of her mother, Caroline, a Marine who was stationed at Peacht Harbor.
"He had written to us that he was to be guard duty on the beach Dec 7, which was also our father's birthday," she said. "We did not hear them before. We did not know if he was alive or dead."
Sanders said her brother had called her from Hawaii to say he had tried to find his old Marine barracks. A school had taken its place. A teacher in and talk to her class, and he did. Sanders
this week to attend a memorial service at Pearl Harbor.
David Hayes of Lawrence said he was in Emptya on the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. He said that all his friends and family were dead.
People there became nervous every time they heard a plane, he said.
Hayes, a motor machine with the Navy, went to Guam, Jima, Jima and Saipa after Pearl Harbor.
and the things they remembered about Iwo Jima were the black volcanic sand, the Japanese volcanic sand.
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Hayes said he carried no hard feelings for the Japanese.
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They had a job to do," he said. "It was either them or us."