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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 16, 1991
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Jason Pestine, Chicago freshman, David Strusiner, Chicago junior, and Corey Feit, St. Louis sophomore, work on the frame of a papier-mache Jayhawk for the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity's Homecoming Day parade float. Pestine said yesterday that the float was not yet complete but that he expected it would be completed in time for Friday's parade.
Final preparations
DAMASCUS, Syria — As Palestinians in Jordan plotted their next moves, Secretary of State James Baker III flew here yesterday to confirm Syria's participation in a Middle East peace conference.
Palestinians may join in Mideast peace talks
The Associated Press
The Palestinians, among them top Palestine Liberation Organization officials, are deciding whether to negotiate with Israel.
Baker may get their answer later this week in Jerusalem.
Baker is steering clear of the PLO. But the organization's role in setting up an October peace conference with the United States and the PLO officials flew to Amman, Jordan.
Baker flew to Syria to talk to President Hafez Assad about Syria's reluctance to attend a phase of the negotiations about the weapons build-up in the region and scarce water resources.
The Palestinians sent three executive committee members to participate in the bargaining. They met with the Minister Kamel Abu Jaber for two days.
Assad has given his tentative approval for peace talks with Israel. But last month he told Baker he was prepared to back down, that deals with some regional issues.
Since then, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Hussein of Jordan have reaffirmed their nations' attendance. Baker is hoping that will help him persuade Assad to go along.
"Is the secretary going to re-engage on the subject?" a U.S. official asked rhetorically on the flight from Amman. "Absolutely."
Baker seemed optimistic that invitations to the conference would be sent by Oct. 21, a self-imposed deadline to
conduct a peace conference by Oct. 31. The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to co-sponsor the negotiations.
A wide range of possible times and places for the negotiations remain as the deadline approaches, including the Switzerland, sources close to Baker said.
Baker met with Assad for more four hours yesterday. At the Syrian leader's suggestion, they took a two-hour training to resume again in the evening.
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq Haara said Monday that he was confident the conference would be convened within a couple of weeks.
"We will know in a reasonably short time if we will have an active peace process for the region, or not," Baker said Monday night after a three-hour meeting with Hussein.
The king, who has flirted with negotiations with Israel for decades, was similarly upbeat. "I believe everything will come clear in a short space of time." he said.
The surfacing of the PLO committee members brought into sharper focus the role Yasser Arafat's organization plays in planning a peace conference.
The PLO's involvement has been kept quiet to avoid offending Israel, the target of years of PLO attacks. Baker was not eager to discuss its role in a joint news conference with Hussein.
Responding to a series of questions, Baker said the PLO officials' presence in Ahmad was not a surprising phenomenon.
He said that the United States was not negotiating with the PLO and that it was not a U.S. objective to bring Israel into a dialogue with the PLO.
State test scores above average
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Kansas students continue to score above the national average on three scholastic aptitude tests, the Board of Education was told yesterday.
The three tests are the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, the American College Test, or ACT, and the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test-National Merit Student Qualifying Test, or PSAT-NMSQT.
Board members were cautioned not to draw any conclusions from the SAT tests.
*Only 10 percent of the 1990-91 Kansas senators took the SAT, as compared to approximately 42 percent of the estimated college-bound seniors nationwide who took the test," said Harold Hodges, education program specialist for the Department of Education in a report
"Kansas averages are much higher than the national averages," he said. "However, this would be expected because of the difference in populations taking the test."
Board member Wanda Morrison of Hutchinson said during the meeting that when compared to other states where the same percentage of students had taken the SAT, Kansas ranked fourth in the nation in math and fifth in the verbal portion.
Milwaukee mayoral commission report charges police with insensitivity, discrimination against minorities
More than half of the graduating Kansas seniors, a total of 17,689 students, took the ACT earlier this year, scoring an average of 21.1. That compares with the national average of 20.6.
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Police have dis criminated against minorities and homosexuals and need sensitivity training, a mayoral commission that studied officers' handling of the Jeffrey L. Dahmer murder case reported yesterday.
The commission said it found instances in which officers displayed racist and homophobic attitudes, selectively enforced laws and dismissed minority residents' complaints or testimony.
"Many witnesses perceive that they or their groups are singled out routinely for mistreatment and selective enforcement," said the Rev. Albert DiUlio, Marquette University president and commission chairman. "That these perceptions bear considerable truth in reality seems beyond
question."
The commission's report said the "unacceptable behavior" was committed by patrol officers and their supervising sergeants.
"Whites living in the inner city have been told, 'Don't call us, call a moving van,' when they report crimes. Victims of 'gay-bashing' have been told the bias and violence directed toward them is their own fault," the report said.
Dahmer, 31, admitted killing 17 young men, most of them in Wisconsin, during the past 13 years.
The killings came to light when the dismembered remains of 11 victims were found in his apartment in July.
The Milwaukee police department was bitterly criticized after it was disclosed that officers had ignored black neighbors' complaints about Dahmer, who is white.
The police also failed to arrest him after he was found with a naked, incoherent Laotian boy in May.
Police had thought the two were homosexual partners and ignored indications the boy had been beaten.
The boy, Konekar Sinthasomphone, 14, was left with Dahmer and killed moments after the officers left, court records said.
The commission gave police Chief Philip Arroea 90 days to submit a plan to begin revamping the department's relationship to the community, particularly minority groups.
I recommend:
- improving officer training to heighten cultural awareness and sensitivity to minorities.
- developing a department policy for specifically disciplining officers and their supervisors who are insensitive or racist.
improving the department's handling of complaints, making it easier for residents to report police insensitivity and obtain legal assistance.
■ giving the five-member civilian police and fire commission expanded oversight of department practices.
Arreola, who has acknowledged his department needed to improve community relations and officer sensitivity, had no immediate comment on the report.
Dahmer has been charged with 15 murders in Milwaukee and one in Ohio. Prosecutors said charges are unlikely in one killing due to a lack of evidence.
He has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
a trial is scheduled Jan. 27 in Milwaukee.
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How do you decide on a career? Is your decision based on how you feel about a particular career or on how much money you will make? Or is your decision based on a careful and systematic assessment of your values, philosophies, and skills? This workshop will focus on identifying strategies useful in making a career decision.
Tuesday, October 22, 1991
7:00p.m.-9:00p.m.
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Sponsored by The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, 115 Strong Hall. For more information, contact Sherri Robinson at 843-3552.
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Acomedy by Wendy Wasserstein
Thursday, Oct. 17
Saturday,Oct.19
8:00pm Lawrence Arts Center
200 w. 91st Street
Tickets available at SUA Box Office
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HELDOVEROCT.18&19!
Attention Students
Yearbook portrait dates for all undergraduates
October 15-18 and 21-25: All off-campus residents
If you missed your scheduled portrait day, you may come at any time on one of these days.
Location: Strong Hall Rotunda
Times: Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri : 9:00-noon; 1:00-5:00
Tuesday: 1:00-5:00; 6:00-9:00
Sitting fee: $2 for freshmen, sophomores, and Juniors (4 poses);
$4 for seniors (10 poses). Your sitting fee will be waived if you purchase or have purchased your copy of the 1992 book. Subscription fee: $25
RESERVE YOUR SPOT IN THE 1992 JAYHAWKER