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KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.2
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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TOPEKA KS 6612
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MONDAY AUGUST 26.1991
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KU students join Wichita abortion rallies
KU Democrats, KU Pro-Choice Coalition
ByJustin Khupp
Kansan staff writer
WICHTI — As pro-choice forces in Wichita began to fight back against six weeks of anti-abortion rallies圣Kansas students were there to join them.
Their voices were heard at rallies in street scenes of abortion clinics and加盟监狱.
"We all believe in this enough to go up there and show our support," said Jenifer Dodd, Lawrence junior and president of KU Democrats.
Dodd met with her executive board and decided to designate the trip to New York.
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group.
Dodd said that the group wanted to show the pro-choice side of the issue in a non-violent manner.
Jean Carter, Lawrence junior and president of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, began to contact people last Wednesday to organize local support.
Carter said about 20 people from the KU Pro-Choice Coalition traveled to
Wichita
"The these rallies are very important to the pro-choice viewpoint," Carter said. "I think that it is important for KU to be represented there."
Joseph Reitz, associate dean of business and faculty adviser for KU Students For Life, said he did not know of Wichita's role in the rallies.
Student members of KU Students For Life could not be reached for com
People began to gather in Wichita early Saturday morning. Within a few hours, the green lawn beside the Center was checked with people.
As the parade of national speakers began, members of the KU pro-choice groups listened and loudly cheered pro-choice speakers. Speakers came
from several pro-choice groups, such as Republicans for Choice and
Independence.
When the rally ended, the focus moved onto the streets.
Patricia Harney, Lawrence graduate student, and Justin Palmer, Lawrence freshman, missed part of the demonstration at the Teller clinic.
KU students continued demonstrations in front of the Women's Health Care Services, the clinic operated by Dr. George Tiller. Tiller performs a medical examination which has been the center of anti-abortion activities for the past six weeks.
Palmer and Harney knelt and prayed in front of the clinic for 15 minutes. They were side-by-side with many of the anti-abortion activists.
Later, they stood on the curb and
joined the mass of people waving and talking to passing motorists.
"So many of these people are throwing scriptures around," Harney said. "It's obvious they have strong beliefs and so much the better. However, it seems like they are questioning my Christianity simply because I don't share their beliefs. I don't think that is right."
Both Palmer and Harney said they felt they needed to come to Wichita to show their support for the people who have endured the actions of Operation Rescue.
"The women here have had to put up with a lot of garbage in the past few weeks," Harney said. "We decided to come to let them and the other pro-life supporters know that there are people who appreciate what they have
done."
Earlier in the day, Palmer was involved in a noisy vocal exchange with members of the anti-abortion forces.
"They were just yelling at me and kept it up when I wouldn't back down," he said. "Nothing can be accomplished that way."
While anti-abortion groups held a rally and concert, pro-choice forces held a candle-light vigil in front of Wichita City Hall.
The day ended with two more rallies.
Harney said she was pleased with the day's activities.
"There was a lot of exchange between the two sides," she said. "I don't think anything was resolved, but talking is a step in the right direction."
The Chris Colburn family enjoys the sounds of Dean Lippincott's hammered dulcimer. Lippincott competed in the miscellaneous category.
Fiddling around
Lee Darr of Kansas City, Kan., plays his fiddle Sunday during the 11th Annual Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships. He has been playing for 35 years and travels to folk shows.
Late repairs displace students
Pearson renovations are weeks behind projected schedule
r was displaced by Pearson Hall renovations
Kansan staff write
He enjoys the air conditioning and the meal service, but Nelson Townsend, Wellington junior, would rather be somewhere else.
Instead of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, Townsend would rather his address read Pearson Scholarship Hall, but he don't expect that to happen soon.
"I'm settled here," he said. "All my stuff is in its little nooks and crannies. I am very comfortable."
Townsend and 48 other students who were supposed to live in Pearson this semester now find themselves living on the second floor of JRP because renovations at their scholarship hall are behind schedule.
It could be December or later by the time the students are able to move back to Pearson, said Dou Riat, assistant director of facilities plan.
Students were placed in JRP because the hall had vacancies and because it was centrally located, Riat said.
renovations to Pearson were expected to be finished Aug. 10, but the contractor is taking over, rather than the job. Rust said the renovations began May 17.
*(The contractor) didn't man the job sufficiently.* he said.
biosurfaces. The contractor, Mark McFarland of
Kyle Thompson, iola junior, was ... Metro Construction Associates in Olathe, has been warned that if the contract is not ratified, he will lose the contract. Raiat said.
At that time, the housing department notified students that they would be placed in the residence hall until renovations were completed.
Riat said it became obvious in July that renovations were not going to be finished in time for students during the fall semester.
McFarland could not be reached for comment.
"Nothing is finished at this point," Riat said. "Nothing is 100 percent complete."
Renovations are still needed throughout the building, including as complete renovation of the first floor, a new entry way and a small addition
A month later, the status of Pearson has not changed.
of an elevator for disabled access, Riatsaid.
"It is the responsibility of our bonding company to find someone to finish the job to our specifications," Riat said. "I don't think there is that much work left to be done that it couldn't be done in two months."
He said that if a new contractor was needed, it probably would take a month to hire one. Construction would be finished two months after, that Riad said.
Riat would not estimate the cost of the renovations.
Randy Griffey, Pearson Scholarship Hall director and Norton graduate student, said that people were disappointed that they cannot move into Pearson but that every effort had been made to include them in both the scholarship hall and residence hall activities.
Gorbachev's power fades as sixth republic secedes
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Mikail Gorbachev struggled yesterday to stem the disintegration of his authority, but a sixth Soviet republic, Belyorisland, byelorussian leader Boris Yeltsin continued to assert control.
Gorbachev met with top advisers and prepared a speech for the national legislature today. But Yeltsin and other reformers said they wanted to bypass the largely conservative legislature and convene the more reformist Congress of People's Denuties.
Yellins, speaking yesterday on Russian television, said the national legislature should formally dissolve Gorbachev's Cabinet of Ministers, many of whose members were involved in last week's failed coup, including Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov.
Meanwhile, France, Argentina, Norway and Denmark said they were recognizing the independence declarations of the three Baltic republics — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he expected the United States to take the same step shortly.
Byelorussian lawmakers passed an independence declaration, becoming the sixth republic to do so. The Ukraine, the second-largest
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republic, declared its independence a day earlier.
Deputy Zenon Poznyak, head of Byelorussian's pro-independence People's Front faction, said, "This means we are leaving the Soviet
The Moldavian legislature planned to discuss independence on Tuesday, the news agency Interfax reported.
Radical legislators will fight Gorbachev's agenda, said Alexei Yablokov, areformist lawmaker.
Gorbachev, held under house arrest during the 83-hour coup attempt, met yesterday with former adviser Alexander Yakovlev and aide Yevgeny Primakov to prepare measures he will propose to the legislature for coping with the crisis. He was also sent as a memorial speaker Anatoliy Lukyanov, described by Yeltsin as the ideologue of the conspiracy.
Leningrad's reformist mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, planned to ask the legislature to debate a resolution to recognize the independence of six republics that are refusing to sign the proposed Union Treaty.
Yeltsin capitalized on the disintegration of the central government
and Communist Party over the week end and issued decrees asserting his government's control over state enterprises in the Federation.
Yeltsin will demand a revision of the Union Treaty to "eliminate all the parts which were previously dedicated to the so-called central power," Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Fodorov told CNN.
In Moscow, the new Soviet defense minister, Yevgeny Shapenkovijn, declared his support for Gorbachev's order banning party cells in the military. KB and other security men-
He also said in a television interview that he will seek to replace 80 percent of the top officer corps with younger, more loyal officers. He ascended to the post after refusing as commander of the Air Force to obey instructions from the coup plotters.
Shaposhnikov, speaking to the Izvestia newspaper, denied reports that any of the plotters, including some who may still be at large, had the ability to launch a nuclear strike.
In continued fallout from the coup attempt, Gorbachev's top military adviser, Marshal Sergei Akhromevey, 68, committed suicide on Saturday, presidential side Karen Karagezian said yesterday.