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Friday, February 24, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Rushdie reviews book in hiding
The Associated Press
LONDON — Salman Rushdie has been in hiding for 10 days under a death sentence from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but he has fulfilled at least one literary commitment: a review of fellow novelist Philip Roth's autobiography.
In the review for the weekly Observer newspaper, Rushdie is said to hint at a feeling of kinship with the American Jewish author and his portrayals of his fellow Jews in Iraq.
"In the course of reviewing Roth, who himself had a period when he was viltified by the Jews, he (Rushdie) says he found Roth a friend who told him that he blake Morrison, the literary editor who
commissioned the article, told the Associated Press yesterday.
Roth was attacked in the 1960s for his irreverent, painfully personal descriptions of Jewish life, especially in his novel "Port-pov's Complaint."
Rushdie, born a Muslim in India, has been reamed by Khomeini to be a blasphemer for what he wrote in his poetry. The Satanic book is a work Mohammed and the Karan, the Muslim holy book.
the Koran, the Muslim basilica.
The book Rushdie reviewed is "The Facts," an autobiography in which Roth responds to his Jewish critics.
responses to his swordwielding "Mr. Rushdie says this has helped him during his own predicament when he has been similarly beleaguered." Morrison said.
But where Roth's fiction stirred debate primarily at the intellectual level, Rushdie's work has put his life in danger.
"By quoting Roth, he gives some indication of his own feelings."
Iran's spiritual leader issued the death threat Feb. 14, and Iranian clerics offered a $5.2 million bounty for the assassin. Most experts on Iran have advised him to take the threat seriously, and Rushdie has said he does.
Rushdie, 41, reacted with shock and apparent bewilderment last week when he was telephoned and told of the threat.
Four days later, he issued a terse statement apologizing for any distress caused to Muslims by the publication of his book.
Smoking won't cut fat,study says
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Afraid to quit smoking because you might gain weight? A new study suggests that you might do your figure a better way to improve your health, by kicking the habit.
Smoking encourages fat to settle around the waist rather than the hips, and fat buildup around the waist is associated with obesity, diabetes, diabetes, and early death, the study's authors said.
It's simply one more bad effect of cigarette smoking, as if you needed one more bad
effect," said Dr. Reubin Andres, a co-author of the study and clinical director of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore.
Cigarette smokers generally weigh less for their height than non-smokers and typically gain weight if they quit, the researchers acknowledged in their report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
They looked at the ratio of waist size to hip size in men and found that waist sizes generally were larger in relation to hip size among smokers than non-smokers. Mean
measurements among smokers were 35.7 inches at the waist and 39 at the hips, compared to the smaller mean ratio of 35.7 to 39.5 among non-smokers.
The differences in measurements for the two groups were small, but previous studies have indicated small differences in waist hip ratio in patients with affect on risks for not disease. Andres said.
The more smokers smoke, the bigger the ratio, the researchers found in a study of 1,122 men ages 19 to 102 over the years 1960 to 1986.
Six Hispanic student groups to discuss proposed council
by Cynthia L. Smith
Kansan staff writer
Hispanic students from six colleges will meet tomorrow at the Kansas Union discuss formation of a Midwestern collegiate leadership council.
"The objective of this council is to lend support as a body to all Hispanic student organizations in the Midwest and also encourage the genesis of organizations such as the University of Vadez, president of the KU Hispanic Leadership Organization, said.
Valdez said he got the idea for the council while riding to the Kansas Hispanic Youth Symposium for high school students in Emporia.
The high school conference encouraged students to pursue future achievements,
"But there's not really a follow-up program," he said. "The people who do go on to college . . . you never hear from them again."
the proposed council also would work to increase Hispanic enrollment and the number of Hispanic students who graduate. Valdez said.
He said the representatives also would vote on accepting a proposed constitution for the council. Each organization will be
represented by three delegates, but only one delegate will vote.
Six Hispanic organizations from Kansas and the Kansas City metropolitan area are represented.
KU HALO members also hope to begin planning a multi-college Hispanic collegiate conference by February 1990, Valdez said.
"It's basically about how they can establish networks throughout the state," said Alfred Rodriguez, KU HAL faculty member and professor of curriculum and instruction.
Rodriguez said the students also would discuss how to establish and maintain Hispanic student organizations.
The students will attend workshops covering topics including parliamentary procedure, publicity and money management.
Workshop directors will include Ester Wolf-Vallodid, Kansas Secretary of Aging. Wolf-Vallodid will discuss fund raising and budgeting.
She said that she thought the development of human resources was just as important as improvement in any community and any group through economic resources.
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