VOL.101,NO.49
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY OCTOBER 31, 1991
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Night of fright
Proving that shouling can be grueling, John Halsey (right), Overland Park sophomore, uses the element of surprise to frighten four members of the Lawrence Girls' Club. Halsey was one of the monsters who entertained about 60 area children at a haunted house last night sponsored by Sigma Nu fraternity and Delta Delta sorority at the Sigma Nu house. See Halloween stories on pages 11 and 12.
Mideast peace talks spark world optimism
The Associated Press
The opening session of the Middle East peace conference yesterday sparked optimism in much of the world, both for ending the long conflict and for global cooperation.
But strong voices of outrage were heard as the delegates met in Madrid, Spain. An Iranian hard-liner threatened death to the conference delegates and Islamic radicals called it a sellout of the Palestinian cause.
Millions of people watched the conference on live television in the United States, Japan, Britain, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Egypt. The Cairo newspaper *A! Messa* called it a "dream come true."
"It is a wonder that this conference is taking place at all," said Germany's ZDF television network.
Nilde Iotti, president of the Italian Parliament's lower chamber, wrote in L'Unita that by sitting at the same table, "Israel is de facto recognized as a state, and the Palestinians are de facto recognized as a political entity with the right to have a homeland."
"The clear determination from the international community ... to end the conflict ... makes us less pessimistic than ever before," Fahd said in a statement to the Saudi daily Okaz, which was circulated by the official Saudi News Agency.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia wished the conference success and praised President George Bush, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Arab leaders for their attempt to establish peace and stability in the region.
But Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, the Iranian founder of Shite Muslim terrorist groups in Lebanon, said in Teheran that all conference participants would
be assassinated for treachery. He singled out Bush as a "first-degree criminal."
In Beirut, about 12,000 Shiites marched, beating their chests, to the bombed-out former U.S. Embassy where they were burned U.S. and Israel flags.
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Islamic fundamentalist groups in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip enforced a general strike, and backers of Palestine Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat battled hard-line factions opposed to the talks.
Pravda, the former Soviet Communist Party newspaper, wrote that the conference have been impossible without glasnost and perestroika, which changed the character of U.S.-Soviet relations.
"Theice of confrontation and alienation that used to grip the entire situation in the Middle East is beginning to melt," the paper said.
The conservative Frankurkier Allgemeine newspaper said, "The end of the East-West confrontation and the Gulf War gave the United States the opportunity and the justification finally to exert the kind of pressure on Israel that the Arabs have always demanded."
In Stockholm, the Social Democrat daily Aftonbladet also credited the new roles of the superpowers for getting the Arabs and Israelis to talk to each other.
Aftonbladet said: "The Arabs cannot count on military or political support from the Soviet Union any more. Now there is only one superpower and that is the United States. The Arabs know they must live with this fact."
Secretary of State James Baker said Israel and its Arab neighbors "began to crawl" toward peace yesterday, but he said they had not even been able to agree on where to hold planned bilateral meetings.
Baker said he wanted to relegate to history the old taboo that the Israelis and Arabs could not meet to discuss their differences.
He said he wanted to move toward "dialogue and negotiations, not violence and confrontation."
"The road to peace will be very long, and it will very difficult," Baker told a news conference after the opening session of the peace talks. "And as I have said before, there will undoubtedly be many interruptions along the way.
"We have to crawl before we walk. And today I think we all began to crawl."
Baker said that the United States was taking part in the Middle East peace talks to serve as a catalyst to move the Arabs and Israelis toward peace and wasn't interested in debating U.S. policy in the Middle East.
"The issue here is can Arabs and Israelis get together and begin talking in a way that resolves these very, very difficult differences." Baker said.
New telephone directories should be available next week, officials say
See related story, page 5
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
The new KU telephone directories will come out next week, according to the office of university relations.
"We're maybe a week later than usual," Swords said. "But the directory will be delivered Monday."
Julie Swords, director of publications for the office, said yesterday that there had been a short delay because she was working with the computerized information.
She said the directories always came out in the middle of the fall semester to include the latest addresses and telephone numbers of students.
For the first time, people who have questions about the directory or want to make a request should do so.
attendant service at 804-9199, said Ann Hines, business manager for the company.
She said the auto-attendants service was not permanent.
Callers should press one to request a directory, press two to report errors in the directory or press three to ask about the directory format, Fitness said.
"We're going to get lots of phone calls right away," Hines said. "But I don't think the auto attendant will be set up for more than a month."
Swords said the office of university relations coordinated the information from the University registrar's office and sent it to the department and sent it to the printer.
University relations gets faculty and staff information from the
telecommunications department and student information from the registrar's office. Swords said.
John Rademacher, assistant University registrar, said the registrar's office had waited until Sept. 9 before it provided student information to university relations.
"That gives students an opportunity at the beginning of the semester and during fee payment to update their information," Rademacher said.
The directories are distributed by two operations to various locations on the server.
Marion Muckey, assistant director of maintenance for facilities operations, said he had not yet received list of documents that would get free directories.
He said the directories usually were
distributed on campus this time of the year.
Last year, 15,820 directories were distributed to various places on campus, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Regents Center in Overland Park, Muckey said.
Some directories go to the KU Book-stores for sale, he said.
Bill Getz, assistant manager for books at the KU Bookstores, said the bookstore would buy the surplus directories from university relations after free issues had been delivered to offices, departments and residence halls.
"Every semester the date is different," Getz said. "This is one of the later dates."
Brrrr!
Andrew Cohen (left), Overland拓 sophomore, and Anna Dietz,
Lawrence sophomore, brave yesterday's cold temperatures.
Fire breaks out at local apartments
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
An early-morning firetoday at Meadowbrook apartments left a newwed KU couple homeless.
At least six Lawrence fire trucks responded to the blaze about 1:30 a.m. in building T at the apartments at 15th Street and Crest-
Lawrence F battle Tatliff Chiery Karr said at 2:30 a.m. that the cause of the fire had not been determined.
Firefighters were still on the building's roof extinguishing the last of the flames at 3a.m.
On the sidewalk of an adjoining apartment building, Gretchen Muir, Overland Park senior, and her husband of three months, Chris Muir, Lenexa junior, watched their apartment burn.
Muir said she was in bed when the fire alarm in the apartment went off. She walked into the living room and saw an orange glow in the window.
my purse, she said.
The couple's new china, crystal and stereo remained inside the apartment, Gretchen Muir said. Muir also said she had stayed up into finishing a paper that most likely was destroyed in the fire.
"My first instinct was to grab for the marriage certificate and my nurse," she said.
Muir said that she tried to call the fire department but that the phone was dead.
The two did not have their car keys and were not certain where they would spend the night.
Henderson said she grabbed her purse and photo album after her roommate's boyfriend woke her. Although her apartment may not have suffered fire damage, the smoke damage was substantial, she said.
"We probably won't get much sleep night," Chris Muir said. They said they did not have insurance. Neither did their neighbors.
Henderson said she and her roommates had just bought new furniture before classes started this fall.
Smoke rises through the roof of Chris and Gretchen Muir's Meadowbrook apartment as Lawrence firefighters work inside. The cause of the fire, which broke out about 1:30 a.m., is unknown.
Student Senate kills resolution asking for change in yearbook
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
A Student Senate committee last night killed a resolution that would have asked the Joyhawk team to change its plans for a new format.
David Suroff, engineering senator and one of the authors of the resolution, said that many KU students were upset with the planned changes to this year's yearbook.
Rather than grouping student pictures by school or college as he had in the past, the yearbook students this year bring to live groups.
"You want to be able to look in the yearbook and see your picture next to the people you graduated with." Suroff said.
But Suroff said that where a student lived while in college was not as important as the degree the student earned.
However, the majority of the University Affairs Committee disagreed.
Scott Rutherford, liberal arts and sciences senator, said he thought that it was petty to worry about the organization of student pictures.
"I think this is a waste of time," Rutherford said.
The new format is based on Kansas State University's yearbook, which is regularly ranked as the top 20. Rutherford said.
The yearbook staff changed the format to compete nationally with other college yearbooks, Butherford said.
Rutherford said that the yearbook staff had a valid reason to change the format and should be written without Senate interference.
Haas said he thought the new format was necessary.
"We changed the yearbook so we could give you a better product." he said.
Jeremy Haas, business manager for the yearbook, said that it was too late to change the book and that a new interaction with the new format.
"This is the kind of thing where you can't please everybody." Rutherford said. "I say leave it up to the Jyowhawer staff."
Haas said the new format could eliminate duplication of student appearances in the yearbook.
Other improvements include adding freshman, sophomore and junior pictures to the yearbook and adding biographical information next to the photos, he said.
However, the improvements will not raise the $25 price of the book. Haas said.
He said off-campus section would be included for students who did not live in a campus living group.
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John Schwartz, Nunemaker senator, said it was unfair that he would be placed in a huge off-campus section.
"I want to be pictured as a history major," he said.
However, a two-thirds vote of the senators present at the meeting will be required for the resolution to be reconsidered.
"I'm really shocked at the outcome." Suroff said.