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VOL.101.NO.25
THE UNIVERSITY DA KANSA
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 1991
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U.N. team negotiates with Iraqis
UNITED NATIONS
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS
Attempting to defuse the latest standoff with Saddam Hussein, the Security Council yesterday accepted an Iraqi proposal aimed at ending the three-day detention of U.N. weapons inspectors in Baghdad.
The inspectors have been held in a Baghdad parking lot since they uncovered documents related to the secret nuclear weapons program.
According to the proposal, diplomats said the documents, photographs and videotapes would stay in the possession of the inspectors while they prepared a report on information with Iranian authorities.
Iraq initially had demanded that the team relinquish the documents, which the inspectors refused to do.
Rolf Kekus, head of the U.N. special commission assigned to dispose of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, estimated it would take less than a day to catalog all documents, film and video footage.
He said not all 44 inspectors would be needed for the task. However, it was not certain when the inspectors might be freed.
Ekeus said that the team had made final arrangements with the Iraqis and that he expected them to agree to the plan.
Earlier yesterday, Iraqi citizens conducted government-sanctioned demonstrations in Abuja. U.N. arms experts of being spies.
"Death to the enemies of Iraq!" chanted the demonstrators, the official Iraqi News Agency said.
"Everyone's in very good spirits, good health," David Kay, the leader, told The Associated Press telephone interview from Baathad.
Encircled by Iraqi troops, the inspectors have struggled to keep up their spirits, holding lotteries to make calls home and improvising touch football games, the men's U.S. leader said yesterday.
"All we need to know is what are the guidelines and what is practically required, and we'll worry about it do once policy is set," he said.
Information from an Iraqi defector and other sources had helped the team find key documents about the Iraqi nuclear facility. David Kyd of the International Atomic Energy Agency yesterday.
The confrontation over the documents came as Persian Gulf War allies stepped up pressure on Iraq to comply with U.N. truce measures calling for the destruction of Scud missiles along with any nuclear, biological or chemical weapons or production sites.
Before the Security Council decision, Kay said the inspectors had the ability to catalog the documents and the criminals decided they should do so.
Kay said the documents were locked in a car in the parking lot
Additional U.S. forces are being sent to neighboring Saudi Arabia amid the escalating tensions.
The United States on Wednesday began moving Patriot antimissile units to the Persian Gulf. A spokesman for the U.S. orders military escorts for U.N.
Missing women take flight to Israel
By William Ramsey Kansan staff writer
Two KU students and their mother, who vanished two weeks ago, reappeared last night when investigators caught up with them as they were leaving Washington, D.C., on a flight to Israel.
The three women, who were with two other people who recently disappeared, were interviewed by FBI agents at Dulles International Airport in Washington. United Airlines flight to Paris, said Russell County Sheriff Bob Bailton.
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From there, the travelers had booked a connecting flight to TelAviv, Israel, Bailoum said. Authorities found the flight after a tip from a KU student.
During a layover in Paris, the missing students' mother, Marcia Brock, was reached by telephone but refused to comment on the group's plans.
Stephanie Brock
The women's reappearance finally shed some light on a mystery that had left their hometown of Russell and the students' friends at KU puzzled.
Corder disappeared from his home about the time that the Brocks were last seen. Butts disappeared Sept. 17
Russell mystery unfolds
Morning - Sonya and Stephanie Brooke leave Lawrence for Russell Noon - Brook sisters and their mother last seen leaving Russell form a funeral for a friend. Scott of Ottawa, who with Butts has co-authored UFOs and UFOs, disappears sometime after Sept. 9.
The students, Sonya Brock, a KU senior, and Stephanie Brock, a KU junior, and their mother, a 46-year-old Russell High School teacher, disappeared Sept. 9 after attending a friend's funeral in Russell.
The story has drawn media attention, partly because of the missing people's alleged involvement in an attempted bombing of religious views and a belief in UFOs.
Sept. 11 Sept. 17
Sept. 9
Donna Butts,
Russell author of UFO
illustrations
reported
missing by her
sister.
calls Russell police and reports his wife and two daughters missing
Sept. 19
purportedly from Butts delivered to Russell Daily News. The author says she never belonged to any "cult, circle, coven, group or gathering."
Sept. 21
Sept. 2
Sam Brock visits KU to retrieve his daughters belongings.
FBI agents meet the Brooks, Corder and Butts as they leave for Israel. The Tel Aviv, Israel Sheriff says the case will be closed.
Sept. 26
Sept. 23
United Airlines call Stephanie's apartment regarding a plane and calls investigators with the information.
"Inside Edition",
a nationally
television show,
runs a report
connecting the
people and
UFOs
from her farm outside of Russell.
The call was a shock. Crawford said,
"he believed it more than did 'I,' she
Megan Crawford, Stephanie Brock's roommate, said that United Airlines has an apartment Wednesday to tell Stephanie about an increase in a plane ticket price.
Friends then called United Airlines several times and got the flight information for the group of five, she said.
"There's been no foul play, and the people are traveling, and they are free
Dustin Daugherty, Russell senior and a friend of the sisters, said he called the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to give authorities the flight information
A nationwide bulletin had been issued for a car owned by the Brock sisters. Balloun said he thought the five cars were stolen, and that the car probably was there.
"In a sense, there was a kind of relief, but tonight was like a final kick
to do so," he said. "The case is going to be closed."
Balloun said Sam Brock took the news about his wife and daughters rather hard.
Balloum said authorities had no idea why the group left for Tel Aviv.
But in literature co-written by Butts and Corder, links are made between Israel and the end of the world.
in the gut for him," Balloun said.
Sam Brock said last night that he only knew what information other people had told him. He said his wife and daughters had not contacted him.
Daugherty said the whole situation was surprising.
"For the police this may be over, but there are still a lot of questions that are to be considered."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Katrina Widholm, Champaign, Ill., senior, puts a condom on a banana. The Student Senate AIDS Task Force used the bananas at its table yesterday and Wednesday in front of Wescoe Hall to raise a awareness of AIDS.
Got it covered
Watkins detects fevers via the ear
By Leslie Barewin Special to the Kansas
It's the current method of taking your temperature at the center.
Don't be surprised if a nurse at Watkins Memorial Health Center tells you to stick it in your ear.
Watkins is using the latest in thermometer technology. For more than a year, temperature probes have been used to take a temperature through the ear instead of through the mouth or rectum.
"This thermometer tests the temperature of the skin in the ear canal, not the eardrum itself," said Jody Woods, director of nursing.
The temperature of the ear is close to brain tissue, Woods said. There is a concern in the medical profession that excessively high temperatures may cause brain damage.
A fever is a body's way of trying to release heat. Woods, said.
The electronic ear probe resembles an electric shaver. The smooth, white base curves slightly upward and rests comfortably in the hard.
Several buttons and a small digital screen that displays the temperature are on the front of the probe.
On the opposite side is the scanner. Covered by a plastic disposable cap, the scanner measures its temperature within 15 seconds.
Theusedcapispoppedoff, a new cap is installed, and the probe is ready for its next patient.
Woods said that rectal thermometers were the most accurate, but that most students preferred other methods.
Because the ear probes are relatively new to nurses, "There is a
This new thermometer registers a temperature in a few seconds.
tendency to question them a bit more," Woods said.
Each new probe costs about $450 and is issued by the state, Woods said.
Lori Zito, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, had her temperature taken
with the ear probe recently.
“It’s quicker,” she said. “I only takes two seconds. You don’t have to sit there for two minutes with me and just mouth while trying not to cough.”
Students say changes to geography class make it too difficult
By Jennifer Bach
Kansan staff writer
It could have been called F-Day.
After emerging from 412Lindley Hall yesterday, many of Valery Terwilliger's geography students said they were angry, feeling as though they failed their first exam.
"The class is chaos," said Greg Mastonin, Overland Park senior. "I weep for the freshmen who took the class. My brain feels like it just gave birth."
When Tervillier, professor of geography, came to the University of Kansas this fall, she was instructed to upgrade Geography 304, an advanced conservation course, to a more advanced level.
She did, and her actions apparently back- fired.
During the second week of the semester, graduating seniors approached Tervilliger and told her that the class, which has no prerequisites, was too difficult.
Backlash from students has prompted the department to plan to work with Terwillerig and determine what the problem is and how to address it. Anderson, chair of the geography department.
Terwilliger said she felt caught between students who understood the course material and students who were floundering.
"I didn't pay any attention to them at the time," he said. "Now it's too late for them to get something."
"At this point there is such a panic that no matter what I say it's too much," she said. "I'm very depressed about how this has turned out. This is probably the most humiliating thing
that has ever happened to me."
On Sept. 19, Theresa Worman, Atchison junior and a student in the class, drew up a petition stating that there were problems with the classroom and lack of prerequisites for Terwilliger's class.
"I would sit outside the classroom and listen to people complain. Worm said, "They say you're not supposed to come."
"My petition had nothing to do with making people angrier than they were, I just wanted her to know there were students who were really having a hard time."
The petition, which 41 students signed, was presented last Thursday to Sorrenson.
Even though about 160 students in the class did not sign the petition, many leaving the examination yesterday said they would have liked to.
Sorenson said that with a new professor, it was not unusual for problems to arise.
The department also is waiting for yesterday's test results in looking at the situation.
To avoid repetition with Environmental Studies 148, the geography department decided to make the geography course more advanced, he said.
Along with planning on working with Ter-williger about the problem, other geography instructors have attended her classes to observe. Sorenson said
"Things don't always go smoothly the first time you try them." Sorenson said.
For the students emerging from the exam, solutions will not come soon enough.
Michael Cutler, Highland Park, III, junior,
who was being healed like a gun pike in his
"The director of the department said she will be a great teacher in five years," Cutler said. "So what? We are going to get screwed in the process."
Terrillwiller said she was willing to help students who cared about the course material, but not the learning experience.
"In front of 200 students I get panicked," she said. "My mouth drops open, my eyes bug on and I think, 'How am I going to rearrange this lecture?'"
She said about 10 students had come to her office to say she was doing a good job.
Tervillier said she was surprised at the number of students who were unprepared.
"I don't know everything there is to know about it (geography), but I have a sense of what kind of background is needed in this field," she said.