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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 15, 1991
Cheney slated to attend major NATO meeting
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is attending NATO's first major meeting held since President Bush announced his plan to rid Europe of an entire class of nuclear weapons.
The session, to be held in Sicily, Italy, on Thursday and Friday, will focus on the remainder of NATO's nuclear forces "can be shaped, molded and adapted to the environment," requirement" in Europe following the demise of the Warsaw Pact, a senior defense official said.
The official, speaking about the meeting on condition of anonymity, said alliance defense ministers would "consider reductions to the budget over and above those the president has stated we will already take."
Dick Cheney
Alliance sources, speaking in Brussels, told The Associated Press last week that NATO was ready tomake deep cuts in weapons in graft on nuclear heavier bombs.
perhaps even slicing it in half. Analysts have estimated that the alliance has about 1,400 such weapons, which can be delivered from aircraft that can carry nuclear or conventional arms.
Cheney and other U.S. officials have said that while the alliance was committed to seeking its lowest possible cost, it will maintain an air-launched "nuclear
element" as a deterrence and would keep that force "up-to-date" where necessary.
The session comes in the wake of Bush's announcement Sept. 27th that he planned to withdraw from Europe an entire class of nuclear weapons including land-based tactical nuclear weapons, such as nuclei-armed shells and nuclear warheads for the Lance short-range missiles.
Besides discussing Bush's proposal, officials will assess Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's move to match the president's initiative, and the upheaval in the Soviets following a compulsory coup by Moscow hardliners.
Cheney left yesterday for a stop in Gaeta, Italy, for talks with the commander of naval forces in the Mediterranean boat based on Sicily to the NATO session.
NYU students get credit for being cops
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Twenty years ago, New York University students smoked grass and fought cops in Washington Square Park. Today, they're working with the police to drive pot dealers from the park—and earning academic credit in the process.
Two dozen have enrolled in the Watch Team, an NYU course that dovetails with Police Commissioner and enthusiasm for "community policing"
Armed with two-way radios and flashlights and wearing white windbreakers with the words WATCH THE PARK patrol the park three nights a week.
Although they're looking for wrongdoing in general, "We basically harass drug dealers," says junior Evan McNeeley.
"They've definitely helped make the park saver," says Charles Campisi, Sixth Precinct commander. "Students are walking to the library at night."
Washington Square Park, a haunt for bohemian们 from John Sloan to Bob Dylan, covers about eight square miles of Greenwich Village. By day, it is a
vibrant melange of tourists, students, families, and marijuana dealers; at night, the latter set the tone.
"A lot of the time you feel unsafe, especially if the police are around," says Becky Goold, a Watch Team member who is studying psychology
After some trial patrols last spring, NVU offered a one-credit course this semester. The requirements: 30 hours of patrol (one two-hour patrol a week); weekly classes and field trips to sites such as the morgue and central booking; and a paper or project at semester's end.
It is the first course of its kind in the
world. It gives you what they say, we know
of no other like it anywher.
On patrol night — Wednesday through Friday — students report to the NVU security office, where they pick up their equipment, don their jackets and link up with a police officer.
The students break into small groups; although they are always in radio contact with the security office, the students are accompanied by the officer at all times.
While their friends are studying, patrol members get a different kind of education.
McNeeley, who studies real estate, has come to appreciate the choreography of the drug deal, and to identify the walkers, dealers and customers.
dealer who hangs out near the fountain is named "Slim" and police suspect the one called "Knowledge" of having killed a man.
They've learned that "beat" is street slang for "fake." The lanky drug
He's also learned where dealers like to stash their wares; last week he found a bag of pot stuffed in a coffee container in a trash can.
The team has been responsible for several arrests. One night, members saw a man hop into a car outside a deli and race away. Seconds later, the owner ran out, screaming. They radioed a description of the car to police, who stopped it 20 blocks away and arrested the driver.
Area residents have greeted the student patrollers, whom they call "the marshmallows" because of their jackets. Some pass along tips or complaints; everyone seems more involved, says a man begging, a team member.
For their own safety, students are not supposed to patrol unless an officer is somewhere in the park and are told to approach male facteurs themselves.
Student- artwork exhibit opens
Show is largest ever sponsored by SUA; runs through Oct. 19
By Kris Belden Special to the Kansan
Davis, SUA-gallery coordinator,
displayed two pieces of his own art
work along with about 50 other student
works.
Eric Davis was like a kid in a candy store as he pointed out his favorite works at the opening of a student-art exhibit last night at the gallery in the Kansas Union.
The show, which runs through Oct. 19, features a variety of student works, from classical to modern, from sculpture to painting.
The art exhibit is the largest student show SUA has sponsored, he said.
"Even the ceiling space is being used," Davis said. "If we had more space, we could have more things, like more life drawings, photography, more paintings and some videos of performing arts."
The chance to exhibit artwork in the SUA show was open to all undergraduate students, regardless of major.
"It is essential for me to have other people see it," she said. "You get in this vacuum in the studio and need to be able to step outside."
Lisa Purdon, Tecumseh senior, exhibiting two of her works in the
Jon Humiston, Hutchinson senior,
said the show gave him a chance to get
some valuable exposure. He also has
been a teacher which makes sculpted
audio speakers.
*If people have seen my name, hopefully they'll have confidence in what I do.*
Humiston is exhibiting two pieces of sculpture.
The show will be the last SUA-sponsored open student-art show at the Kansas Union gallery until next semester. Renovation of the gallery is beginning during winter break, and a date for completion has not yet been set.
Until the renovation is complete, SUA plans to continue conducting the shows at alternate locations. The locations being considered, Davis said.
The gallery is on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union and is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gallery is open to 4 p.m. Saturday. The exhibit is free.
John Hoopes, assistant professor of anthropology, regards a sculpture.
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