THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PURI ISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1989
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Suspected measles cases climb
Kansan staff writer
VOL. 99, NO.122
The Lawrence Douglas County Health Department has the final number on reported rash illnesses — 18 in the past six weeks.
by Jennifer Corser
In addition, a suspected case from Baker University in Baldwin City tested positive for measles Friday, a county health department official said yesterday.
A rash illness is a skin outbreak, often accompanies a fever. It is treated as a suspected mean
On March 14, 175. Baker students were re-
immunized because the suspected case, recently
confirmed, evidenced clinical symptoms. It was treated as an actual measles case, said Kay Kent, administrator/health officer of the Doaglas County Health Department.
In Lawrence, seven cases of rash illnesses have been reported to the health department in the past week. Kent Saul Re-immunization began at Lafayette Hospital when a student was suspected of having measles.
It takes about three to four weeks to get blood tests back for suspected measles cases.
Baker also has eight suspected cases and three probable cases of meciselas still pending diagnosis,
A suspected measles case involves a rash and a fever; a probable case evidences the clinical symptoms of measles, which are a rash, watery discharge from the eyes and nose, a fever and a cough.
She does not expect many more suspected cases to occur at Hakter. Halidwain also has two reports of the suspects.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said a reported probable measles case involving a student still was in the county. A university administrator had two confirmed measles cases this semester.
Michigan wins
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — This was not an interim national championship.
See related story p. 9, col. 1
Michigan more than earned its first NCAA basketball title by beating Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime last night and capping the improbable reign of Wolverines' interim coach Steve Fisher.
The NCAA Final Four
Rumeal Robinson made two free throws with 3 seconds left in overtime for the victory, but he was matched in the Michigan hero parade by Glen Rice, whose 31 points made him the highest scorer ever in an NCAA tournament with 184 hands during six games. Fisher, who took over two days before the tournament began when Bill Friedel left for Arizona State, was also a tournament hero.
Castro welcomes Gorbachev visit; talks underway
The Associated Press
HAVANA — Mikhail G. Sorbache and Fidel Castro began daylong talks yesterday after laying a wreath at a Cuban independence hero
The government media spoke in glowing terms of the first visit by the Soviet Communist Party leader to a Latin American nation.
"Enthusiastic and Massive Reception for Gorbachev," headlined Cuba's Communist Party daily, Gramma, alluding to the hundreds of thousands who lined the streets for a glimpse of the Soviet visitor.
After laying a wreath at a monument to Cuban independence hero Jose Marti, Soviet president Gorbachev and Cuban leader Castro set aside six hours for talks in Cuba, Gorbachev's first full day in Cuba.
As an enduring ally but orthodox Communist, Castro has criticized Gorbachev's domestic reform program as drawing too much from capitalism.
Castry's unwillingness to institute such changes at home displeases the Soviets, who have suggested they help the soldiers in air and send them annually to Cuba.
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans mustered by local neighborhood committees Sunday packed Jose Marti International Airport and lined up five and six-deep along the 18-mile route to the downtown area to watch the two leaders pass by in a convertible Soviet limousine.
Official media in both countries have papered over ideological differences to stress the closeness of Cuban-Soviet relations. One of the main events on Gorchets's schedule this month today to the National Assembly.
Estimates of Moscow's annual contribution to the Cuban economy range between $4 billion and $7 billion.
Namibian fighting violates U.N. plan
The Associated Press
OSHAKATI, Namibia — Black nation guardiers and South African-led security forces battled fiercely yesterday in Namibia in a third day of fighting that threatened to determine a United Nations peace plan
U. N. officials yesterday afternoon gave permission for 1,500 South African and Namibian troops to leave
their bases to help policemen fighting the 1,200 guerrillas, South African Col. Janie Drever said.
In New York, U.N. Secretary General Perez de Cuellar said the eruption did not mean that the peace plan was complete, blamed the megacities for the fugitive.
At least 147 people have been killed
See U.N., p. 6, col. 1
Pat Hughes, Evanston, Ill., junior, has become close friends with Jay Turnbull through their relationship at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Fraternity befriends retarded resident
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
Jay Turnbull always wanted a brother, and he got more than he bargained for when he met Pat Hughes.
Hughes, Evanston, III., sophomore, and Turnbull, a 21-year-old Lawrence resident who is mentally handicapped, met last year when Turnbull was waiting for a job at the mall clothes so they could lift weights.
Gordon Lightfoot was playing on the stereo and Turnbull started singing. Hughes began singing along and they became friends.
Hughes had always wanted to work with the mentally hand-capped and saw his new friend, Turbull as a chance to do so.
So Hughes brought Turnbull to the Sigma Alpha Epifan fraternity house and they watched television, listened to music and shot some hoops with the other guys. And in September, Turnbull was adoped as an honorary brother of the Hughes. He then decided to try to create an adoption program at other greek houses.
Now Turnbull walks around with the fraternity's Greek letters adorning his sweatshirts and collar since he paraphernalia as his brothers.
"I've never had a place to hang out before; now I have the SAE phone said. I eat dinner over there on Tuesday and Thursday."
See FRATERNITY, p. 6, col. 1
Graduates to have shorter procession
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
For KU graduates, the architecture of the May 21 commencement ceremony will change, but the tradition of the ceremony will remain the same.
Stephen Grabow, chairman of the University's Commencement Committee and professor of architecture and urban design, said the structure of the ceremony had been a source of pride for him. "We were a main reason for the change."
One of the most significant changes in the assembly will be the location of graduates before the ceremony, he said.
"On Memorial Drive, the graduates will be able to participate more visually and see when its their turn to participate in the process," he said. "It will cut 10 minutes off the time of the ceremony."
Graduates will assemble on Memorial Drive at 6:30 p.m. before the traditional procession down Mount Oread to Memorial Stadium, Jayhawk Boulevard was the customary location for the gathering, Grabow said. The location changed because of chaos on the street in the past.
However, the seating arrangements in the stadium for graduates, their families and faculty will be different he said.
The traditional walk down the hill has not been changed, Grabow said. It will begin at 7 p.m.
The main platform will face the south instead of the north this year. Grabow said, and graduates will be
- Stephen Grabow chairman of the University's Commencement Committee
On Memorial Drive, the graduates will be able to participate more visually and see when it's their turn to participate in the procession. It will cut 10 minutes off the time of the ceremony.'
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The location of the platform also will enable the band at the ceremony to play directly facing the platform.
seated in the first to rows on both sides of the stadium rather than in the end zone, which will be empty.
"In years past, a lot of the audience just saw the backs of the speakers on the platform." Grabow said. "While the arrangement worked well for the itinerary, it was bad for their families. It tells the students closer to families.
"This is something we've always wanted," Grabaw said. "The band will be like a pit orchestra. They will be able to see everything that's
"In the past, faculty had to sit behind the students," Grabaw said. "Some older members of the faculty did not hard to participate because of that."
Faculty will be seated in sections closer to the field and not behind the graduates. Grabow said
Source: University Commencement Committee Dave Eames/KANSAN
happening on stage."
The traditional gauntlet of faculty members greeting the graduates will be located in the center of the stage than on the running track he said.
The rest of the events surrounding the ceremony will remain true to tradition, said James Scally, assistant secretary for the commencement committee of the commencement committee.
As in the past, diplomas may be picked up on the first floor of Strong Hall between 8:45 and 10 p.m. after the ceremony.
On the day of the ceremony, graduates, their families or spouses can
attend an honorary breakfast from 8 to 9:30 a.m in the Kansas Union Ballroom, he said.
If rain forces the graduation ceremony inside, Allen Field House will be its location, Scally said.
Scially a reception for graduates would be after the breakfast from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Chancellor A. Budgi's home, 1325 Lilac Lane
The change in location would be announced through the KU information center, over area radio, television and cable television stations, he said.
by Steven Wolcott
Kansan staff writer
Possible oil scarcity causes higher prices
The increase in Lawrence gasoline prices this weekend was not necessarily due to the crude oil spill off the spill, said David Collins, a Kansas economy analyst.
A telephone survey taken yesterday of 31 Lawrence businesses that self-sell service, unleashed gasoline, showed the average price to be 96.4 cents a gallon. The average price this weekend was 67 cents a gallon.
Collins, manager of technical information services for the Kansas State Geological Survey, said the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had agreed at the end of 1988 to cut oil production to raise prices.
"Since the beginning of the year, there has been a steady increase in oil prices," Collins said. "The spill in Alaska could have an additional effect, but I don't expect that to happen at the pumps for several weeks."
Many area station managers and
Collins said refineries had a huge stockpile of oil to work on, bought at lower prices.
Valdez is at the southern end of the 800-mile Alaskan pipeline.
On March 24, the Exxon Valdez tanker struck an underwater reef 25 miles from the Port of Valdez, spilling more than 10 million gallons of oil. The vessel ran a 1,000 square mile slick only 3 per cent of the spilled oil has been recovered
The higher oil prices should not affect their costs of production for at least several weeks, he said.
"Our distributor raised the prices to us, so we had to raise the prices to the consumer." said Bob Gibbons, manager of Quality 66 Service. 1540
owners said they had raised, or would be raising, their prices because their gasoline costs had increased.
Area oil distributors said they were also passing through cost increases
Steve Bogusky, sales manager for FCA Fuels, Inc., 1000 E. 23rd St, said the refiners were increasing prices in anticipation of supply problems due to the closing of the Port of Valdez.
The Alaskan oil fields supply 25 percent of U.S. oil needs. Shimpems from the pipeline have been cut from 1,900 barrels to 280,000 barrels a day since the spill.
"Gas prices are based mostly on emotion." Bogusky said. "I expect an adjustment in the next few weeks back down again."
He said gas prices did not act so much on supply and demand, but on what people thought prices would be in the future.
"if they think a shortage will occur, they'll increase prices, whether or not it materializes later," Bogusky said.
"The longer the port stays closed, the more likely it is to affect the consumer," Collins said. "I expect any effects to be temporary. One way or another they'll get the oil out of the port."