VOL.101.NO.26
THE UNIVERSITY DA KANSA
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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MONDAY,SEPTEMBER 30,1991
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Iraq frees U.N. inspection team
Records show large nuclear buildup
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain - U.N. nuclear inspectors who spent five days in a Baghdad parking lot in a standoff with Iraqi officials prepared yesterday to leave the country.
Meanswhile, another group of weapons inspectors,
whose job is to track down Iraqi missiles and launchers,
was due to leave Bahrain for Baghdad tomorrow.
That group could become the first U.N. inspection team to make independent helicopter flights to conduct its work, which has been another source of conflict between the Iraqis and Western powers.
The inventory, demanded by Iraqi authorities, provided a compromise to end the parking lot siege, which was one of the most dramatic confrontations between Saddam and the U.S. West since the gulf war ended about seven months ago.
Still another U.N. team arrived yesterday in Kuwait to carry out a land survey of the desert border between Iraq and Kuwait, a U.N. official said. The border dispute was called the Iraqi pretests for last August's invasion of Kuwait.
This weekend, the nuclear inspection team finished cataloging key documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear arms program. The inspectors will keep the documents, but the catalogs will be given to the Iraqis.
Armed Iraqi soldiers surrounded the 44 inspectors from midday Tuesday to early Saturday. The U.N. team refused to give up the documents and huddled in its bus and six cars, frequently using a satellite telephone to update its superiors and the news media on develop
ments
The U.N. Security Council demanded Iraq's complete cooperation with the disarmament process, as agreed to in the April 3 cease-fire resolution, and issued hints of possible military action if the impasse continued.
U. N. officials said the documents contained records of an extensive clandestine project to build nuclear weapons, contradicting Iraq's repeated denials it had such a program.
David Kay, the American head of the U.N. team, said the inspectors retained all the documents.
The U.N. Special Commission charged with overseeing elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has its area headquarters in Bahrain. The inspectors use special equipment as an assembly point to prepare their trips into Iraq.
The ballistics missile team, consisting of 20 members and headed by American Douglas England, plans to search for more than 24 Scud missile launchers close to the Syrian border.
Iraq agreed last week to allow U.N. helicopters to make surveillance flights. Rolf Ekeus, head of the special commission in New York, said the United Nations agreed to allow an Iraq to go along on each helicopter but retained the right to make unannounced flights to suspected weapons sites.
Previous teams have found and destroyed 61 Scuds so far, but Moscow has informed the Special Commission that it exported more than 800 Scuds to Baghdad during the 1980s.
Signs aimed at cyclists
See related stories, p. 7
Center asks that ramps for disabled be left open
By Stephanie Patrick
Kansan staff writer
The student assistance center today plans to put up signs across campus reminding bicyclists that they are prohibited and ramp rallies are not bikerskates.
The signs, ask bicyclists to be more sensitive and aware of the purpose of the ramps, are an effort to educate bicyclists about the needs of the disabled, said Bob Turvey, director of the student assistant center.
He said members of his office decided last week to post the signs with the expectation that the University of Kansas soon would have an official policy to deal with the problem.
"If people know what problems they are creating by chaining their bikes there, maybe that will stop it."
Turvey said.
Turvey said those places had had the most complaints.
The center plans to post the signs at ramps near Watson Library, Murphy Hall and Blake Hall.
The signs request bicyclists to stop chaining bicycles to the railings. The University has no formal policy for chaining bicycles to the railings, maintaining their bicycles to the railings.
A proposal for a disabled ramppolicy is expected to be discussed at an executive vice chancellor's meeting with the university president as important to the executive vice chancellor.
Jeb Wiacma, a Lenexa graduate student who uses a wheelchair, said he hoped the signs would be an effect on their daily lives. Byckers their social responsibility
"Maybe when other people see the bicyclists parking there they will
give them a hard look and socially the stigma of doing it would make them move." he said.
Jim Holt, Wichita senior, who rides his bike to campus every day, said that there were enough bike racks on campus and that he never needed to chain his bike to handicapped railings.
"If someone thinks they need to inconvenience the handicapped by parking their bike there because it is something wrong with them," he said.
But he said he did not think it would solve the problem of bicycles being chained to railings.
Holt said the signs might help students understand there was a problem.
If bicyclists know there is no law, they also know they will not get caught, he said.
The great pumpkin
After finding the perfect pumpkin at Schaake's Pumpkin Patch on East 15th Street, Dan Searing of Liberty, Mo., carries it to the road with his children Kate, 2, and Chris, 4. The Searings have made the 90-minute drive for the past four years because the pumpkins are cheaper than those in Liberty and they like to pick their own.
Program uniting volunteers, those with mental illness aims to build friendships
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
After they were introduced to each other last May, Becky Edwards and Laura developed an instant friendship.
However, Edwards and Laura, who asked that name not be used, did not meet by charge or by petition.
They met through the Compete program in Lawrence, which matches people who have a diagnosis of a persistent mental illness with volunteers from Lawrence and KU.
Like most friends, they talk on the telephone, shop and eat out.
Competer, a national organization, was founded 18 years ago. The Lawrence group was formed in 1989 by Kelly Merrick-Mouriz, coordinator of the program.
Whatever they do, it is their friendship that brings them together.
"Sometimes it's difficult for a person who has a mental illness to reach out and make friends," said Merrick-Mouriz, who is working toward a master's degree at KU.
Becky Edwards, Overland Park junior,
became interested in Compere last spring
when Merrick-Mouriz spoke in one of her psychology classes.
"I've always been interested in working with people," Edwards said. "This is a neat program for both the volunteer and the match." The students are benefits for both people," Edwards said.
Laura, 20, has participated in the Compere program for two years. She was matched with Edwards last spring after her first Compere volunteer friend left the program.
Laura said, "It is a good program."
Laura said she did not want to talk about her mental illness because it was not the focus of the Compere program. She said her friendship with Edwards was what was important.
Every other week she participates in activities with the Community Support Program, 714 Vermont St., which is part of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
Laura spends three days a week studying for her high school General Equivalency Degree and attends a therapy group once a week.
"One reason they find it so hard is the stigma society attaches to mental illness," Merrick-Mouriz said. "I think the term mental illness is offensive and stereotypical."
Merrick-Moriz said it was common for Merrick with mental illnesses to shy away from
Laura said she usually stayed home and watched television when she was not busy.
"Volunteering for Compete breaks a lot of the stereotypes," Edwards said. "Laura is a good friend, just like any of my other friends."
She said that she preferred that her condition be considered a disability.
Merrick-Mouriz said there were 40 Compe-
rate matches and 66 people waiting to be
involved.
"Going out with Laura helps me, too. It helps me get away from school and just relax," she said.
She said the program especially needed male volunteers.
Laura agreed with Merrick-Mouriz.
Volunteers are interviewed, fill out questionnaires of likes and dislikes and participate in an event.
Donny. 10. plays at the Compeer picnic.
Merrick Murzir said volunteers were asked
to make a one-year commitment to the program.
Edwards and Laura said they were pleased with their match.
On Friday, they spent their time together celebrating Chinese food to celebrate Laura's birthday.
Minimum wage hike cuts in budget hamper KU library operations
Kansan staff writer
By Alexander Bloemhof
Korean staff writer
Problems in the University library system are building a perfect system for retrieving information from function property.
"We're not yet in a catastrophic situation," said William Crowe, dean of libraries. "But we're getting there."
The problems are mostly financial. The state did not increase the libraries' operating budget for the 1992 fiscal year. Also, the libraries had to return $27,000 to the state after the University suffered an overall 1-percent budget cut in late August.
But student wages, set by the federal government, have increased from $3.80 an hour to $4.90 an hour.
As a result, the libraries have only about 60 percent of the money they need to cover basic operating expenses. Crowe said.
He said that changes in adjusting to increasing financial problems might not be immediately visible but that students would be affected in the long run.
"One tends to see dramatic things not very often in the library system," he said.
"Changes are very insidious and subtle, and suddely it looks bad."
In order to maintain the student staff, the libraries have had to freeze vacant staff positions, said Sandra Gilliand, assistant to the dean for personnel.
Gilliland said students were vital to the libraries because they provided customer
service at night and during weekends.
"Internally, we're suffering because we've lost permanent positions. The staff is working harder, there's more pressure and more stress."
"Presently, we have 12 permanent positions vacant because we use the money for other purposes, primarily for student assistant wages." Gillian said.
Fred Fergus, Leptonium junior, agreed. Fergus has worked as a student assistant at Watson Library for three years and has seen a decrease in the number of hours he works.
"The biggest problem is that you don't have time to get the work done," Fergus said. "You should do it yourself."
Kathine Neeley, head of science libraries, said she had received complaints from students because periodicals were not reshelved quickly enough.
"Especially in a science library, where journals are so important, you have to get them back on the shelves as quickly as possible," Lleya said. "But we can just barely keep up."
Also, the Anschutz Science Library and the Spahr Engineering Library will cancel 281 lab visits.
Across the University there will be more than 700 subscription cancellations, Crowder said.
"Although we're cannibalizing our staff to finance our students and purchasing power, we're still short $250,000 for purchasing materials," he said.