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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
KO STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
C. A. V. B.
VOL.104,NO.108
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1995
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Professor will advise Haitian government
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Expert will provide insight to problems
By Virginia Margheim Kansan staff writer
A KU professor will be leaving for Haiti this week to advise United States military intelligence on the Haitian crisis.
Bryant Freeman, director of the Institute of Haitian Studies, left yesterday for Fort Leavenworth and will leave for Haiti later this week.
Although he had been conferring with the U.S. Army for several months, the official offer to go to Haiti did not come until last Thursday, Freeman said. Freeman, who is considered to be one of the foremost experts on Haiti, said he expected to spend
several weeks in Haiti working for the United Nations. He will advise officials on the political and cultural climate.
Freeman is on leave from the University this semester to complete research.
Chancellor Del Shankel said that being asked to help with an international problem was an honor for Freeman. Having the government and the United Nations call on a KU professor is an indication of the services faculty at the University can provide.
Although Freeman hopes to help Haiti solve its problems, he said that the situation in Haiti was not promising.
"Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and it's rife with problems," Freeman said.
The country's weak democracy is still struggling to establish itself after a 1991 coup overthrew democratic President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Last fall, the United States narrowly
avoided an invasion of Haiti. At the last minute, an agreement was reached to return Aristide to power.
Opponents of the democracy are a formidable force because they still have guns hidden throughout the country, Freeman said.
Unlike Somalia and Bosnia, the American presence in Haiti is justifiable because Haiti is so close to the United States, Freeman said.
"It's an American problem whether we like it or not." he said.
Sara Lechtenberg, second-year law student, made her fifth trip to Haiti during winter break. On this trip there were noticeable differences in Haiti, Lechtenberg said. Since Aristide's return, Haitians
have been given hone.
Lechtenberg said that bringing experts such as Freeman to Haiti was important because it provided the country with insight.
Freeman first visited the country in 1958 and quickly became entranced.
"It's just a very exciting country, and I fell in love with it." Freeman said.
"A lot of times the people who are making the decisions in the world don't have a firm grasp on what's going on," she said.
Now, Freeman has visited Haiti nearly three dozen times and has been a regular speaker on Haitian radio stations. In 1993 he visited Haiti as an employee of the United Nations.
Freeman said he wanted to visit Haiti again in July, when a democratic election will be conducted. He said he hoped he can work with the Organization of American States to help monitor the elections.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Bryant Freeman, director of the Institute of Haitian Studies, will leave for Haiti this week.
Worker pickets Budig Hall site
Union employee tries to solicit sympathy from local ironworkers
Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
David Turner, an ironworker from Topeka, began picketing Thursday against nonunion labor used by J.D. Steel, a subcontractor for the Budig Hall construction. Turner, the sole picketer at the site, pickets from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. "If I wasn't doing it, somebody else would," he said. "It's a part of our pride of being in the union."
By Brian Vandervliet Kansan staff writer
Rubbing his hands to keep warm in front of the Budig Hall construction site, David Turner is now paid $100 a day by his union to picket against non-union labor. But he would like a different job — an ironworker's job.
"I'm freezing my ass off," he said while pacing the sidewalk along Jayhawk Boulevard. His picket sign, resting against a fence reads, "J.D. Steel has no contract."
Turner began picketing Thursday — not against DiCarlo Construction Company, the prime contractor for Budig Hall — but against a subcontractor, J.D. Steel, based in Phoenix that uses only nonunion labor. Turner, an unemployed ironworker from Topela, represents the Iron Workers Local No. 10 — an AFL-CIO labor union based in Kansas City, Mo.
"I don't feel it's right that someone comes in from a different state and takes union jobs," Turner said. "It's putting local people out of work and taking away tax revenue."
TURNER said he was protesting against J.D. Steel for not having a labor contract with union workers. Union workers at the site should not have crossed the picket line to work on Budig Hall, he said. Turner, the sole picketer at the site, spends 10 hours a day in front of Budig Hall and hopes that other union workers will be sympathetic to the ironworker's union and refuse to work.
But Turner's picketing will not affect labor, said Dennis Odgers, on-site project manager. DiCario Construction Co. has begun using two entry gates: one for union labor, at 15th and Naismith, and one for nonunion labor along Jiahawk
Boulevard, where Turner is allowed to picket.
"That's the whole purpose of the dual gate," Odgers said. "Our union guys are not crossing the picket lines."
But, Turner said, union workers should not have crossed the picket line no matter where it was placed.
"They know there's a banner up," Turner said. "They should honor the situation."
About four J.D. Steel nonunion workers began working about a week ago, said Craig Kilmer, vice-president of construction and administration at DiCarlo Construction Co. The number will increase to as many as 20 as J.D. Steel completes its work within the next few months.
Kilmer said more than 90 percent of labor used at the site was union labor. The picketing, he said, was not unusual for construction sites that often employ a mix of union and nonunion labor. He said no workers had said they had reservations about work.
"It's a fairly typical situation," Kilmer said. "We don't expect it to affect overall construction in the area at all."
Jeff Alley, vice-president of J.D. Steel, said there was no real advantage to using nonunion labor. He said most of their nonunion workers were paid about $18 an hour. Turner said union workers were paid $16.01 an hour.
"I'm sure the union workers are qualified, but we wanted to keep our workers working," Alley said. "We're not against the unions, but it was a decision we made. As far as the picket, we are bound by our contract to show up to work everyday. We won't change our mind on this job."
Alley said the nonunion workers would come from Arizona, Texas and Kansas.
Prosecutors may seek death penalty
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
A Kansas City, Kan., man could be the first Kansas sentenced to death under the state's less-than-a-year-old death penalty law. There has not been a legal execution in Kansas in 30 years.
Joseph H. Brady IV is charged with the Jan. 7 slayings of Julia Wilcox and William Flyn. The death penalty went into effect July 1, 1994.
Mike Grosko, the Wyandotte
County assistant district attorney who is prosecuting the case, said his office had not yet requested the death penalty but will do so after the preliminary hearing. The date of the hearing has not been set
When the Kansas Legisla-
the new death penalty
"Politicians play on what fear we have and increase it to win elections." Arnold said.
William Arnold, associate professor of sociology, said Kansas' switch back to the death penalty was motivated more by politics and racial fears than by a desire to end crime.
The last time the issue came up in the state legislature, he said, legislators from Johnson County brought in the clothes of a girl who was mur-
William Arnold associate professor of sociology
In response to the approval of the death penalty, legal professionals have had to catch up on capital punishment law. The last death sentence in Kansas was in 1965. George R. York and James D. Latham were hanged for killing seven people.
ture passed the capital-punishment bill last year, it defined six categories of first degree murder that would qualify a defendant for the death sentence. One of those categories was killing two or more people in a single incident.
Prosecutors would then have to prove that the murder or murders were aggravated. An example of an aggravated murder would be killing a person for money.
Prosecuters must match one of the six categories of murder to an aggravating circumstance. Prosecutors have not determined which circumstance to list on Brady's charge.
But some people are skeptical of
dered in Pittsburg.
Arnold said the return to capital punishment may even be racially motivated.
"For a long time, the numbers were disproportional to minority races, especially African Americans, on death row." he said.
"If you're really afraid of African Americans, you can say you're afraid of crime instead, which is socially acceptable."
But the death penalty does not deter crime. Arnold said.
"The way they are doing it now, it is definitely not a deterrent," he said. "In Oklahoma, the number of murders went up. There was a brutalization effect."
But other say the death penalty is justified.
Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, said it was more of a rightful punishment than a deterrent.
"For me, the heinous nature of a crime indicates that a person forfeits their right to be a part of society," he said.
Sloan said that prison guards and inmates needed to be protected from criminals who had nothing to lose by committing crimes while serving a life sentence.
Hard work pays off
The Kansas men's basketball team has spent more than 80 hours in practice this season. The result is a No. 3 AP ranking and 21-4 record. Page 1B
South Africans remember apartheid struggles
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
The graffiti on a white wall in South Africa in 1986 read: For Freedom, dial AK-47.
But Fetisl Ngope, Johannesburg, South Africa, graduate student, didn't choose the violent route. He did, however, spend time in jail as a teenager for his efforts to secure rights for nonwhite South Africans.
Ngoepe and two other South African students shared these experiences yesterday at Smith Hall as part of South Africa week.
The scene, from "Children of Apartheid," a film depicting the struggle of Black and white children in a divided South Africa, reflected the violence of the day.
The three students discussed their memories and the future of South Africa after a showing of "Children of
But Ngoepe survived. Eight years later, he managed to vote in South Africa's first all-races election last April. He traveled from Lawrence to the South African embassy in Chicago to cast his ballot.
Apartheid."
Ngopee can identify with the suffering of the children in the movie, some of whom went to jail and were tortured for not having information about political crimes.
The results of that election brought Nelson Mandela to power and Ngoene's dream of freedom to life.
Gloria Dikegou, Cape Town, South Africa, graduate student, said she was apolitical at first, but teaching changed her perspective.
"Teaching children from these townships showed me those problems I didn't see at home." she said.
Ngopea said he was hopeful about South Africa's future.
Debbie Leroux, Cape Town, South Africa, graduate student, said she was skeptical after the election but was able to see the changes in the system.
"Many things have changed in South Africa," she said. "But many things still have to be changed. One of the most important things to change is people's attitudes among races."
"Many people thought that the day after Mandela took power, everything was going to be a chaos, but it wasn't like that," he said. "I've been following the situation in South Africa, and I think that everything is going in the right direction."
"In 1986, I couldn't go to a school close home because I was a colored child," she said. "However, the same school today is mixed. Things are different now."
Dikeogu said South Africa's future, after last year's election, looked posi-
Today: "South Africa: Post Election '94," a talk at 12:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. Lydsushm Black Mambazo, a South African singing group, will perform at 8 p.m. in the Lied Center.
Thursday: Two movies, "Man, God and Africa" and "We Jive Like This" will be shown at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union at 4 and 5 p.m.
Friday: "South Africa in Pictures," a slide show, will be shown at 12:30 p.m. at Alcove in the Kansas Union. A movie, "Dry White Season," will be shown at 6 p.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
South Africa Week Events South Africa Week Events
All events are free except for Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Tickets for that show are sold out.
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