VOL.101.NO.39
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY,OCTOBER17,1991
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KU sisters return from Israel
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Sonya and Stephanie Brock are back in their hometown of Russell
Two KU students and their mother who had been connected to an unorthodox religious group and flew to Israel three weeks ago have returned to their hometown of Russell.
From staff and wire reports
Russell County Sheriff Bob Ib loun said he spoke to Marcia B br the students' mother, yester after noticing her car in the dr way of her home.
Brock, a 46-year-old English teacher, and her daughters, Sonya, a KU senior, and Stephanie, a KU junior, left Washington, D.C., for Israel on Sept. 27 with two other
ple connected to a group in Russell that reportedly believes in UFOs and holds apocalyptic world views.
"I talked to Marcia for a couple minutes," Ballou said. "I didn't really get into any details about anything. She said her daughters were at home."
One of the Brock's traveling companions, Donna Butts, also has returned to Russell, Ballou said Butts has written two religious-oriented UFO books.
June Chandler, Butts' mother-in-law, said the gr oup planned to issue a statement today.
Scott Corder of Ottawa, who co-authored the books with Butts, also made the trip to Israel. It was not known yesterday whether he had returned.
The Brocks disappeared Sept. 9 after
The disappearances puzzled the small western Kansas town and the students' friends at KU.
attending the funeral of a Russell friend, who also was connected with the religious group.
Sonya lived at Miller Scholarship
Hall, and Stephanie lived in office campus apartment.
Miller residents have met on one occasion with an expert on orthodox religions to
Stephanie Brock
religions to help cope with the departure of the women.
On Sept. 21, the students' father, Sam Brock, visited KU to retrieve his daughters' belongings.
A friend of the sisters informed law enforcement officials Sept. 26 of
the group's plans to travel to Israel.
An airline employee had called Stephanie's apartment that day, one day before the group was to leave the United States. Stephanie's roommate notified officials.
FBI officials interviewed the group at Dulles International Airport. Since they did not break any law, they were free to go.
Before the whereabouts of the women was discovered, investigators followed numerous leads. Investigators even searched limestone caves in the Russell area after a tip that the women may have secluded themselves there to await UFOs.
Gunman kills 22,self in Texas restaurant
The Associated Press
KILLEEN, Texas — A man smashed a pickup truck through a restaurant yesterday and sprayed semiautomatic gunfire at alucline, killing 22 people before committing suicide, authorities said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
The gunman shouted, "This is what Bell County has done to me!" before opening fire on the cusinet. And then Luby's restaurant, a witness said.
At least 20 were wounded, hospitals reported.
Authorities said the gunman was 35, but did not immediately release his name. Sam Wink, a Killeen resident who was in the restaurant, described the man as about 160 pounds and 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Killen Police Chief F.I. Gliaocozzi said he had no idea why the man went on the rampage. There was no immediate explanation of how it became the guuman had against Bell County, where Killen is situated.
The gunman "entered the business at 12:41 and began firing rounds from a semiautomatic weapon," said police Capt. Roy Stover "Shots were fired for apprehended officers who were notified the gunman was dead at the restaurant. He apparently shot himself in the head."
In just minutes, the gunman turned a corner of this sleepy central Texas town into a bloody, war-like scene, where police and emergency crews rushed about with them. As shocked survivors sat shaking and comforting each other on the pavement outside.
Gincomozzi said the gunman was wounded in the gunfire but was not sure how many times he was hit.
The Bell County peace justice, Robert Stubblefield, said 23 people were killed. None of the dead were
Sheldon Smith, a porter at Luby's, said that after the gunman shouted out his anger at Bell Counsellor, he was shot when he was shot as he tried to get up.
"Then he pointed toward the line where the service was and he started shooting down the line," Smith said.
children. police said.
The gunman had a Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol, said Mike Cox, a department of public safety representative. The Austrianian was shot dead by a round magazine and is commonly used by police departments.
"I was at the counter. I was pretty close to the man," Vickie Large, a witness, said. "I saw his face, and I watched everything around." He was mad.
*Iwasscared. Hedidn'tsaynothing when he was shooting.
"He was killing people everywhere. He didn't care who."
The gunman reloaded his weapon and kept shooting, witnesses said. Giacomozzi said the gunman shot him but he didn't know the caliber.
The death toll surpassed the July 18, 1984, slayings in San Syidro Calif., when James Oliver Huberty opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant, killing 21 before he was fatally shot.
"He looked right at me and pointed the pistol," he said. "I thought I bought the farm, but a lady close to me got up to run. He turned and smiled, and suddenly scrambled to my feet and got to the back of the building."
Once the shooting started, the gunman "was firing at anything he could shoot." Wink said, adding that the man had 'tons' of ammunition.
Wink told CNN that he was at lunch with his boss for Boss's Day.
The police chief said he did not know how much ammunition he had, but that he "wasn't out of bullets when the officers got there."
Cringing in anticipation, Cris Mercurio, St. Louis freshman, waits for the balloon to pop as her friend Anne Leffingham, Merriam freshman, attempts to shave it. The residence assistants of Hashinger Hall sponsored the activity along with a green-eggs-and-ham throw and gelatin sucking contest to give the residents a study break and a chance to be silly.
Close shave
KU hockey fundraiser put on ice
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
But yesterday afternoon, the company packed up and left because it did not have University approval to sell all its merchandise on campus.
Members of the KU ice hockey club thought they had a good idea when they invited a sporting goods company to hand them a merchandise on campus for its fundraiser.
The decision was unfair, said Jake Anderson, ice-hockey club president
"I feel that if this was the basketball or the football team, they would have had a shot," Anderson said. "If feel that the sports clubs don't get the benefit of the doubt."
The University Events Committee had given approval last week to Anderson for the company to sell ski and bicycle equipment on campus.
But yesterday afternoon, Ann Eversole, head of the events committee, asked the company, Sponsor.com, to buy and the committee had approved the sale of clothing.
"We talked at length about location." Eversole said. "At no time was there any conversation about clothes."
When Sport Pak unloaded its merchandise Tuesday, they brought ski jackets, pants, hats, goggles, gloves, headbands, poles, skis, bicycles and rollerblades.
Merchandise hung from racks and seven tables in front of Staufa-Pfizer.
He said he thought he had made the proper accommodations to bring the company to campus and would like to bring them back.
"I don't want to give up on it," Anderson said. "I want to push it."
He said that he was disappointed because the club would not have enough money to pay expenses. He paid for lodging, advertising and referee fees.
The club has a budget of $12,000.
After yesterday afternoon's events, the committee created a subcommittee to formulate guidelines about how merchandise could be sold on campus.
Dean Newton, Student Union Activities president, volunteered for the subcommittee.
He said it seemed like there had been miscommunication among the company, club, and events committee.
"I personally feel that there is a conflict of interest in having a whole store full of merchandise on campus," he said.
But Newton said he was optimistic that something could be worked out so that the club could still have a fundraiser.
Donna Hulitine, assistant director of parking and a member of the sub-committee. agreed
"We'd be more than willing to try it again if we go be by the guidelines"
In addition to the confusion about the clothing sales, members of the committee said they did not know that the vans and two vans and a purple bus on campus.
Hutline said she told the company that it could unload and load merchandise from the bus for 1/2 hours in the morning. "It was cool, but it could not remain on campus."
However, Jim Mathes, head of landscaping, said he told the company that the bus could remain on the lawn because it would have caused more damage to drive it on and off.
Regents struggle to define criteria for proposed cuts
ByAlexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents have proposed a review of 20 percent of all academic programs to eliminate duplicated programs at Regents schools.
The heads of the six Regents schools and their chief academic officers met in Pittsburgh last night to discuss program review procedures.
He sent a letter to his colleagues last week at the other Regents schools, urging discussion of those terms in preparation for today's Regents meeting.
The Council of Presidents and the Council of Chief Academic Officers met to discuss how to define an academic program, duplication and what they mean by saving state money, Jim Coffman, provisor at Kansas State University, said before last night's meeting.
The terms have been thrown around in discussions of the Regents proposal.
"We need a clearer idea of what we mean when we throw these terms around," Coffman said.
Some programs at Regents schools do not attract enough students and others are unnecessarily duplicated within the Regents system, she said.
Eliminating those programs would save the state money, Hammond-Paludan said.
The proposal has not been accepted yet, said Martine Hammond-Paludan, Regents director of academic affairs.
In response to the proposal, the Council of Presidents asked the deans of similar departments at the six Regents institutions to identify areas
where unnecessarily duplication might exist, said Djel Shankel, interim execu-
ter.
"It's not a formal meeting," Shankel said. "The deans are meeting, but theses are just informal meetings and we are not working with clear standards.
"It is not very clear to us what the Regents intend and how they intend to treat it."
Tom Beisecker, chair of the University Senate Executive Committee, said that the lack of guidelines had caused confusion.
"There is no coordination," Beisecker said. "There is not a cohesive, coherent plan of action. We have a whole bunch of groups going out and doing different things."
agreed. He said the council meetings yesterday might be a starting point for improvement.
However, Shulenburger said he was opposed to the proposed program
*My reaction is that if the objective is to make it possible for institutions to better serve their students, then the wrong way to go about it is to hunt for
"Eliminating those programs doesn't free up resources," he said.
Stanley Kopik, Regents executive director, said Tuesday at a meeting of the Legislature's Special Committee on Ways and Means that the Regents had saved about $1 million since 1983 by limiting programs.
Since 1883, Regents schools have reviewed the quality of their academic programs in a five-year cycle.
However, the proposal to review 20 percent of the programs has a different focus, he said.
As a result of those reviews, the University of Kansas eliminated its personnel administration program in 1987.
Shulenburger said the interdisciplinary program had not been able to draw faculty from other programs to continue the program.
The regular reviews are aimed at improving the quality of weak programs. They are discontinued only if it is impossible to find resources for improvement, Shuilenburger said
"This whole initiative now seems to be one to find programs which we can eliminate, as opposed to looking at quality and finding resources," Shu-lenburger said.
Students flooded other programs such as communication studies instead of taking personnel administration, he said.
"Cutting out personnel administration didn't save a dime," he said.
James Drury, former director of the personnel administration program, said most personnel administration problems after the program was cut.
"I has been kind of tough," said Chai Hoon Lee, a senior from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, one of about 20 degree in公务员 administration.
"It takes a longer time to graduate because they canceled classes," Lee said. "We had to take substitute classes in communication, and the classes often were full."