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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
KANSAN
Vol. 89. No.119
Wednesday, March 28.1979
New security policy urged for country See story page six
Lawrence, Kansas
Merits of return of draft disputed
By DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Writer
A local organization is planning a petition drive to stop a proposed return of the draft, but some KU students say the draft is inevitable and necessary.
"We could handle it for a few months, but that's all."
Some legislators and military leaders have called for a return of the draft because of a concern that the volunteer armed forces might not be effective.
"I think we need the draft, because in case of war we would be unprepared," Gary Cabe, Athens, Tenn., senior and a member of Veterans Officer's Training Corps, said yesterday.
No one has been drafted into the U.S.
 army since December 1972 and the nation
has not taken an active role in war.
An Associated Press-NBC News poll indicated that 49 percent of the people questioned supported reinstatement of the former judge if it and the remainder were undecided.
But there has been a growing concern in recent years over declining recruitment in the U.S. Armed Services, and the rising cost of maintaining an all-volunteer army overseas.
Percy Cody, Council Bluffs, Iowa, senior and a member of ROTC, said he thought the quality of the armed forces had deteriorated since the draft ended.
Those questioned in the poll aged 18 to 26,
however, opposed the draft 62 to 33 percent.
"Boot camps are actually holding remedial reading classes," he said.
Recent polls show a balanced response to the reinstatement of the draft.
"Under strictly volunteers, you're getting people who have just finished high school and they aren't capable of doing highly technical skills." Cody said. "A college graduate does the unskilled jobs better than a high school dropout.
Rick Powell, Denver, senior and member of ROTC, also said he though there was a chance that he would be with illiterates," he said, describing his experience working in the engine room of a factory.
"There are many untrained people trying to fit into highly skilled jobs who are coming straight from the hills of Tennessee or are high school dropouts from the cities."
John Porsyn, Clay Center senior and member of ROYC is part of the problem that he and his team pay in the service for skilled jobs when compared with wages for the same skill in
If more people thought they could make comparable wages in the service, he said.
"I think it ought to be a mandatory two years for everyone," Persan said. "It gives you a little responsibility—it makes a man out of you."
But men are not the only ones who might be inducted into the armed services if a terrorist group is present.
At a time when women are seeking increased participation in the political and economic affairs of the United States, many militarily unlikely to be exempt from military service.
Tracy Spellman, Lawrence graduate student and KU-KY coordinator, said she was not alone in the room. But but said women should have the right to decide whether they wanted to fight in a war.
"I’m basically opposed to war," she said. "If we get to the point where we have to draft people for World War III, we might as well just blow everyone off the face of the earth."
An U.S. Army station commander in Lauderdale said he thought women should be drilled.
"We've got women mechanics, women truck drivers and women drill sergeants,"
He said that army recruitment in the area was doing well, but that there was a waiting list for women because of a lack of basic camps that could accommodate women.
Out of 400 jobs in the Army, women are eligible for positions in all but the four that include infantry.
The commander said he did not know if setting woman fight in combat situations were safe.
"Personally, I can't see a woman carrying a machine run across a rice paddle."
Photo by JEFF HETLER
However, since the volunteer army was established the number of women in the army has remained steady.
According to the Department of Defense, women in the armed services will increase from 5.5 percent today to about 11 percent by 1983.
Time magazine reported in Oct. 1978 that U.S. women assume more military responsibility than do women in other countries.
“If anyone has to die in such a gruesome way, I’d just as soon have them be males. I’m just so dead set against it that I’m hoping they won’t reinstate it.”
One KU student said he thought women should remain out of combat.
John Young, Otis sophomore, said, "If they did reintake the drift, I wouldn't mind if women were drafted, but I think they are in administrative roles and not in combat.
Palestinian protest
Some members of the Moslem Student Association wavel signs during a march yesterday to protest the signing of the Egyptian-Irakiyah peace treaty. The members
marched between Strong Hall and the Kansas Union during the hour-long demonstration. The organization is planning another protest march to begin at noon today.
Students protest peace pact
By LAURIE WOLKEY
Staff Reporter
About 100 members of the Moslem Student Association at the University of Kansas marched down Jayhawk Boulevard yesterday carrying state flags of red, white and green and signs saying, "Stop the Massacre of Palestinian People."
The march organized to protest the signing of the Egyptian-Iranian peace treaty, which ended a long war between Wescoe Hall and received instructions from the president of the association, Majid Jalil.
Before the march, Ali said, "this will be a peaceful demonstration to show our displeasure of the treaty that will hurt the Palestinian people."
The peace treaty calls for Israel withdrawal from the Sinai penal walls within three years and formal Egyptian occupation as a member of the "community of nations."
comment, referring all questions about the demonstration to All.
Other protesters at the march handed out leaflets to bystanders, but refused to
Ali said members of the association had decided on the march last week when the signing of the peace treaty seemed probable. He said the group announced the march to the University Events Committee last weekend.
THE DEMONSTRATION, which lasted about an hour, consisted of three slow and solemn marches between Strong Hall and the Kansas Union. Members of the association, some with their heads wrapped over full sheets, marched in groups of three.
In front of Strong Hall and again in front of the Union, the protesters stopped to listen as Ali read along the association's protest statement.
The statement says, "The Moslem Student Association of the University of Kansas strongly condemns the Egyptian Israeli peace treaty. We believe that this treaty will only lead to further tragedy in the Middle East."
The words, "In the Name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful" are at the top of the statement, which continues, "The treaty pointedly ignores the plight of four million Palestinians, who are the crux of the problem in the Middle East."
DURING THE MARCH, one protester carried a black banner painted with white
All said the signs translated into English,
"There is nothing worth worshipping except God." He said the words were "the motivation for our protest."
Most bystanders watching the march did not harass the protestors. However, when one student who was watching the march displayed a sign saying, "Support Peace," several of the protesters began arguing with them. James Todd, Lawrence sophomore.
Todd said, "it distracts me that there isn't any counter present. I want it known that at least one is."
RICK HELLMAN, Overland Park junior,
who was watching the march, said.
"Everybody has to compromise to get alone. I'm sorry that we have taken this
But Pat Goodwin, Overland Park sophomore, said, "They are entitled to what I want."
Although the demonstration was peaceful,
the KU Police department kept a watchful
eye.
Michael Hill, KU police chief, said, "We did not have any problems and didn't expect any. We just didn't want any traffic or pedestrian problems."
At least one unmarked police car followed the march. The three men in the car, all wearing suits and ties, said they were administrators from the KU Police Department.
After the March, Ali said the protest had been successful.
"WE WERE ABLE to let people know that we are against the treaty but that we are still alive."
All also urged members of the Moslem
See PROTEST back page
Staff photo by CHRIS TODD
Nitzake Shange, author of the award-winning play "For colored women who have considered suicide/when the rain is emu," will perform tonight and tomorrow at 8 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets. She also will lead a workshop on women and language as part of the Intercollegiate Association for Women Students national convention. The workshop will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union
Performing plauwright
House OKs medical use of pot
BvGENELINN
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- The Kansas House yesterday passed a bill that would allow some cancer chemotherapy and glaucoma patients to be treated with mariana.
One of the bills' opponents, State Rep. Nina Strahm, R-Sabetha, said it was a step toward legalization of marijuana and could lead to drug abuse. The legislation now faces an uncertain future in the Kansas state Senate. Mike Glover, D-D Lawrence, the bill's sponsor.
The bill would create a marijuana therapeutic research program that would be limited to patients not responding to conventional therapies or patients suffering intolerable side effects from conventional therapies.
Glover said marijuana could stop the deterioration of the eyes caused by glaucoma, a disease that results in a gradual loss of vision. It could also relieve the nausea often caused by chemotherapy, he said.
RONALD STEPHIES, director of the ophthalmology department at the University of Kansas Medical Center, had testified in favor of the bill. Glover said.
Ophthalmology is the study of the anatomy, functions, diseases and treatment of ocular disorders.
However, Strahm said the bill would open a Pandora's box.
"We've had research into the therapeutic
She said she was worried that the would be a step toward legalization of marijuana.
effects of marijuana in Kansas since 1982," she said, but "Glover came up with this bill anyway because he feels he needs it to legalize pot."
SHE ALSO SAID the program could lead to drug abuse.
"The problem is, what are we going to do with people who start taking marijuana during their treatment and eventually leave the program?" she asked.
These people could become dependent on the drug, she said.
"We're told that marjana is not addictive, but we know that even cigarettes can be harmful."
Strahm said she wasn't against research into medical uses of marjunia and that she wasn't enough information about the drug to allow it to be used on a large scale.
Any doctor in the state could refer patients to the program, she said.
GLOVER AGREED that most glaucoma and cancer chemotherapy patients would be included in the program, but " said Strahim's doctor. " The typical 'Reeder Madness' mentality."
"Reefer Madness" was a 1930 movie that warned of grave dangers to those who smoked.
"Under the bill, no one would be treated with marijuana who was not part of a research project," Glover said, "so you can't say it's a step toward legalization."
He said the research would be coordinated by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts.
Glover also said there had been enough research on the effects of marijuana.
Full allocation advised for KJHK
The Student Senate Communications Committee voted last night to recommend that JKHK radio station receive its full line of funding for next year's pending approval by the full Senate April 8.
Questions had been raised in Monday's meeting concerning money allocated to the radio station last year. Therefore, the committee also will submit a resolution to approve the funding for KJHK to spend $10,000 of last year's allocation for station improvements.
Last spring, the Senate increased JIKH's line buildup to $1,800 with the understanding that the increase would be used in JIKH from 10 watts to 1,000 watts of power.
Line allocations, included in the Senate revenue code, provide for the funding of the student's activities. University Daily Kansan by specific amounts from each student's activity fee. KJHK's normal allocation of 25 cents a week as increased by 50 cents for last year only.
BECAUSE THE station plans to convert to 100 watts instead of 1,000. only $6,000 to
$8,000 will be needed for the "transmitter"
for the "transmitter" provided in i16 year's
legislation for the
Steve Pegg, station manager for KJHK,
said he had made a mistake in Monday's
meeting when he said conversion to 100
percent of power would cost approximately
$12,000.
According to the Senate rules and regulations, all money in Senate funded accounts must be spent by 17 or it will be canceled. All allocated fund for use in fall budget hearings.
Dale Gadde, faculty adviser to KJHK, said the station would let bids for the $10,000 in improvements and withdraw the bid letting within a 30 day time limit if the Senate did not allow. The station is without that withdrawal, KJHK will be legally obligated to accept one of the bids.
Although KJHK already has the $10,000 in
"If we can't justify use of the $10,000, we talk it back. "Gee'd aid." Don't talk about it."
A CUT TO this year's allocation was expected to be the committee because the organization will pay the overhead.
In other budget hearings:
its account and could legally spend it without the Senate's approval, Gadd said none of the money would be spent without Senate approval.
The Student Services Committee heard requests from eight student organizations and made preliminary budget cut recommendations for three of those groups. Budget cuts for other groups will be considered tonight.
OTHER GROUPS' requests were:
Students Concerned with Disabilities,
$363.28; Women's Coalition, $956; Consumer Affairs Association, $11,333; Black Student Union, $7,976; and KU Students for a Radioactive-Free Kansas, $68.90.
The committee's recommended allocations and the groups' original requests were: Non-Traditional Student Organization, $1,810 from $2,290; KU-Y, $1,710.30 from $2,160.85; and Annexity International, $235 from $1,352.
Committee chairmen Melanie Anderson and Kent Meckennickhan said that about 50 percent of the council members
and the committee will be to cut this figure by about one-half to meet its requirements.
The Culture Committee heard five budget requests last night and will make recom-
mendations.
Two of the organization's requests were line allocations in the Senate revenue code, and each asked for an increase in the allocations.
Any revenue code change would have to go through the Finance and Auditing Committee and the full Senate before it was approved.
The University Theatre asked for $38,320,
which was $9,016 more than the line
allocation recommended in the revenue
code.
The KU Bands asked for almost twice the amount recommended in the revenue code, $20,085.30. The revenue code recommendation is $10,089.
The KU Chinese Martial Arts and the KU Kung Fu Club each asked for $300; the International Club asked for $4,190; and the International Club asked for a total of $1,801.44.