THE UNIVERSITY DAII KANSAN
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VOL.101, NO.153
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSA
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1991
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Bush concerned for Iraqi citizens
U.N. sanctions committee may allow Iraq to sell oil to buy relief supplies
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush said yesterday he was considering a letup in the economic stranglehold on Iraq, declaring that the United States did not want innocent women and children to suffer.
The White House said that the United States would not agree to termination of the U.N. sanctions against Baghdad but that it might allow Iraq to sell oil to buy relief supplies for its people.
"We have not resolved yet exactly what we're going to do at the United Nations," Bush said at a Cabinet meeting.
His press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, said that short of lifting the sanctions altogether, there was some consideration about whether to allow Iraq to sell oil to get money to buy food and medicine.
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, in charge of U.N. humanitarian efforts in the Persian Gulf, has warned that the situation in Iraq could degenerate into a catastrophe unless something is quickly done about it.
He briefed the U.N. sanctions committee Monday and called Bush yesterday to discuss the crisis
Baghdad is seeking permission to sell $1.5 billion worth of oil in foreign markets. The U.N. sanctions committee may act today on the request.
Afterward, Bush said. "We'll see what we can do. . . The United States is not going to suffer of innocent women and children there."
Iraq also is facing a deadline of tomorrow to give the United Nations a full account of its secret nuclear unpeacedious but unspecified consequences.
The United States and the four
permanent county Council
men elected to the House.
In London, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said it was unhappy Saddam Hussein would use weapons to relieve his people's suffering.
Hurd, on BBC radio, said Saddam should not be allowed to tap the revenues to line the pockets of his army or Baath Party loyalists.
In the United States, the Pentagon also voiced reservations.
'It's very clear that Saddam Hussein has not complied with the U.N. resolution. We'll see what we can do. We're not trying to hurt any individuals there. Our argument is not with the women or children of Iraq. It's with the dictator.'
- George Bush President
"It's very hard to control the flow of cash once they start to sell oil," said Pentagon representative Pete Williams.
Bush himself spoke out strenuously against easing the economic embargo last week, saying, "I will not have our people voting to lift sanctions as long as (Saddam) is in power. He is hurting people's."
"We're sending food over there, and the food gets diverted by this brutal man to support his army or to help us." He said July 14 in Rambouillet, France.
After his conversation with Prince Sadruddin, Bush said, "There's all kinds of mechanisms available for (Saddam) to take care of it — his own resources inside the country, the possible release of resources outside the country, and it's a matter that's being discussed at the United Nations."
State Department representative Richard Boucher said, "Before an exceptional step is taken such as the sale of oil, we need to look very at the food and other resources that Iraq already has available."
The sanctions committee has allowed food shipments into Iraq since March 22, three weeks after the war ended.
Bush said, "It's very clear that Saddam Hussein has not complied with the U.N. resolution. We'll see what we can do. We're not trying to hurt any individuals there. Our argument is not with the women or children of Iraq. It's with the dictator."
Storyteller works at his craft
By Cathy Garrard
W. Prop tells it this way:
Kansan staff writer
The IBM guy that serviced the machines at the pen in Lansing met me in the parking lot one afternoon as I was leaving work. He said, "I may be reading you wrong, man. You can't. You wanna smoke a number."
In those days IBM hadn't quite perfected its system of eliminating weird people.
I said, "Actually, I'm not much of a pot smoker, but in this case I will. You don't get many opportunities to smoke." In gay, in the penitentiary, v parking.
Maybe it happened that way, maybe not. Wayne Prost never lets the facts interfere with a good story.
"You have to work on it," Proptip said. "It irritates me when people say, 'You're really lucky that you can tell stories very well.' Would you say that to your surgeon? 'You're really lucky to do good heart operations.' I work on it, it's not luck."
Prosp, a Lawrence resident and the character W. Prop in the book, "Cows Are Freaky When They Look At You," is known around town for his story-telling skills. His talents were revealed in the local best seller, which recounts life in Lawrence in the late '60s.
Prospt said his interest in storytelling came from his desire to hear a good story. But often the stories he hears become his own.
A small, wiry ex-hippie in his mid-40s. Propst tells stories with his whole body, not just with words.
"I have stolen a lot of stories." Proptad admitted. "It's true I did, in the sense that they told a pretty
good story, and I improved upon it a little bit, changed a few names around and said it happened to me. So what?"
Roger Martin, editor of Explore magazine and co-author of the book, said he had known Propst since they both were janters at the KU Museum of Natural History about 20 years ago.
"He's a great liar," Martin said. "He takes stuff that others may think are boring expeditions, and, through the magic of his powers as a raconteur, he converts them into listenable narratives.
"People listen for a long time whenever he talks. He is an extraordinary storyteller."
He claims he does not remember much about his past attitudes, but when his life's details are part of some tale, his memory sharpens.
Eye for detail
He recalled being drafted for the Vietnam War.
"I funked the physical, intentionally of course," he said. "They thought I was crazy And, of course, they were very nervous, so it was a beautiful relationship."
"They thought I was crazy, and they were the ones who had 70 men standing there in their underpants. It looked to me like they were a lot of odd jolls. I was crazy, but I would never ask anybody to do that."
Martin said one of the most interesting things about "Cows Are Freaky" was that Propst seemed to be a part of every story.
Martin said that Propt described the scenes and his presence showed up throughout the book but that no one ever told a story about him.
"That's just like Wayne." he said.
"that's just like Wayne," he said. Jay Sayre, Propst's friend since high school, said that he had heard most of Propst's stories before but that he never grew tired of them. After knowing Propst for such a long time, he had a few stories to tell himself.
Sayre recalled a night when they were house-sitting in college. When they came back to the house after a night on the town, it was gone.
"The owner moved all of the lady's things into storage, and bulldozed the house," Sayre said. "We kept walking around the block, thinking we were on the wrong street. We were pretty shocked."
Prosp said, "We just went to someone else's house and stayed there."
KU, then and now
Prostp, who now owns his own construction company, entered the University of Kansas in 1964.
He said that when he first entered college, the atmosphere was similar to life on campus today.
"It wasn't until about two or three years later that the whole system went to hell," he said. "What had once been no longer."
Proselt went to KU sporadically for seven years. He earned bachelor's degrees in 1971 in history, English and human relations. He kept putting off enrolling in his final French class to avoid graduating.
"It had a lot to do with the Vietnam War." Propst said. "You had to stay in school, or I felt I had to study in college; my males to stay in school for years."
Propt said students today had different priorities than students in the 90s did.
'Most of what they talk about is
Wayne Propst, well-known Lawrence storyteller, reads a book in his library to get new ideas for his stories.
what kind of job they are going to get someplace, and I remember when nobody was even interested in getting a job," Propst said. "It's the extent of their curiosity, to see how can get the largest starting salary."
Propt said he did not think he was the only person who noticed the change in attitude on campus.
"One of the things that drives my professional friends crazy is that we always do work as well. Dr Dingleodlorf, it is going to be on the exam? If as any
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Center to stop collecting paper
Kansan staff report
The Computer Center no longer will accept computer paper for recycling after Aug. 1.
The amount paid for the paper depends on the paper's quality. Green bar paper is lower quality than white computer paper.
The center had been able to so "green bar" computer paper to Batliner, a Kansas City, Mo., recycling company, for $60 a ton. But in May it dropped to $3 a ton. Badliner pays about $20 a ton for white computer paper.
It takes 17 mature trees to make a ton of paper, said Patricia Marvin, Lawrence recycling coordinator.
The center has been collecting paper for recycling for more than 10 years.
"It is no longer cost effective for us to continue to recycle," said Larry Lovell, assistant director of production services at the center.
"It's not that we don't want to recycle, but it costs money." Lovell said. "We hire students, and we have full-time people. Someone has to separate the paper. Labor and equipment costs all add up."
mental ombudsman, said the center collected about 8,000 pounds of paper a month.
Although recycling companies in Lawrence accept computer paper, Ask said she was working with the center to come up with a solution near Aug. 1.
Sue Ask, KU associate environ
She would not say what types of solutions were being considered.
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Shakespeare at KU
Oberon (right), played by Will Carpenter, Tulsa, Okla., senior, advises Egeus, played by Rick Mundy, Wichita graduate student, on the marriage of his daughter in William Shakespeare's "A Midsum
mer Night's Dream." The play will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall as part of the Kansas Summer Theatre '91 program.
Wichita protesters defy judge's order
WICHTA -- Police arrested at least 213 abortion demonstrators yesterday after they defied a federal order to access their Wichita abortion clinics.
The Associated Press
"We fear God more than any federal judge," said Randall Terry, founder of Operation which has been conducting outside the three clinics for more than a week.
When a copy of the preliminary
The injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Patrick Kelly carries a penalty of $25,000 a day for a first violation and $50,000 a day for each subsequent violation for those found in contempt of the order.
"What injunction?" Terry said when asked about it. "Our injunction comes from God."
injunction was given to Terry early yesterday afternoon, he threw it into the street without reading it.
"Man, Iave $60,000 in outstanding fines already," said Terry of Binghamton, N.Y. "You can't get blood from a turnip."
After the preliminary injunction arrived and arrests began, a smaller group of pro-choice demonstrators staged an attack, eight, you can't make my procreate.
The judge ordered protest leaders to inform their followers of the court order.
so. After the injunction was brought to the Women's Health Care Services building where protesters concentrated efforts yesterday, leaders directed some of their people to head for the other clinics.
Shortly before 5:30 p.m., with the arrests continued, police said 121 people had been arrested for loitering outside the Women's Health Care Services, 91 at the Wichita Women's Center.
School of Engineering adds new requirements
By Sally Roberts
Special to the Kansan
Enrollees need higher class ranking, ACT scores in response to new Board of Regents restrictions
Starting this fall, students may have a tougher time getting into the school.
In an effort to comply with the Board of Regents mandate to reduce the number of out-of-state students in engineering, the school has developed new admission policies for incoming freshmen.
In the past, in-state freshmen have been admitted to the school if they had received a Kansas high school diploma. Now, however, students must have graduated in the top 50 percent of their class, have a minimum math ACT score of 22 and have completed at least two years of algebra.
In-state students who do not meet admittance requirements for the school automatically are admitted into the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, according to the office of admissions.
Tom Mulnazini, professor of civil engineering, said there was an enormous drop-out rate from in-state students.
He said that before the policy change, many students admitted in the school to a math ACT score lower than 22 were unable to handle the extensive math requirements.
Now, in-state students will have a better chance of graduating from the school.
Mulnazina said the ACT score for
non-residents was raised to 28
Out-of-state freshmen will have to meet even stricter requirements to be admitted into the engineering program.
They must have graduated in the top 25 percent of their class, have a minimum math ACT score of 28, three years of high school math, an GPA of at least 3.0 and grades of A or B in their math and science classes.
- Tom Mulinazzi profesor of civil engineering
'Some (foreign students) will apply after one semester, some after two. We're expecting to get lots of applications in January and May.'
- Tom Mulinazzi
Tom Mulinazzi professor of civil engineering
because that was the minimum score required to enroll in Math 121, or Calculus I, without first completing previous college math classes.
Another new admission policy concerns incoming foreign students. They will not be admitted into the school until they successfully have completed at least one semester in a relevant Arts or Sciences, Mulhatta said.
"We can't evaluate their high school transcripts," he said.
Previously, foreign students could be admitted into the school upon entry.
The new policy will allow the school to evaluate the students after completion of basic math, science and English courses in the college.
After one semester, foreign students who have an overall GPA of at least 3.0 in the college and a grade of A or B in their math, science and courses will be admitted into the school's next semester, Maluzia said.
"Some will apply after one semester, some after two," he said. "We're expecting to get lots of applications in January and May."
The new policy also will require foreign students to take English classes through the college instead of taking English Center, Mullnazai said.
He said he did not think the new policy would affect the school's enrollment.