Staff photo by BARR KINNEY
Slow day
The koa-lool business wasn't exactly booming yesterday for Staci Hohman, left, and Kathy Dickey as they waited for thirsty
customers to walk by. Stack is the daughter of Browning and
Brad and Linda Dale of 1746, 2908, 2909.
*This book was printed in the United States and Canada.*
Club adviser denounces proposed investigation
By JOHN LOGAN Staff Reporter
A proposed investigation into the possibility of foreign agents at the University of Kansas would be "Mckee-Carthay witch hunt," according to a report.
The adviser, Norman Forer, said that the proposed investigation would be illegal. The University Senate Committee on Foreign Students was assigned the charge, or responsibility, of the investigation.
Swaritz said the charge to the foreign students committee to investigate the possibility of foreign agents had been the result of an investigation that took place in 2016.
FORER SAID that the investigation proposed in the charge would violate the first amendment rights of foreign students
But the chairman of SenEx, Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum instruction, said that the charge probably would be withdrawn at tomorrow's SenEx meeting.
"In order to determine if you have foreign agents you have to find out if the students behave like foreign agents." Foreser said. "You must be a foreign agent."
Forer, associate professor of social welfare, asked that the Senate executive committee withdraw the charge. He said that the International Club might go to court if the charge were not dropped.
Swartz said the charge had been drafted nine ago, after Iranian students alleged that the Iranian secret police, SAVAK, was on campus. Swartz said that one of the goals of the investigation was to determine if the allegations were accurate.
"For the state to do something like this would violate the right of assembly. It would be a state-authorized inquiry."
Forer outlined his objections to the proposed investigation in a letter to Swartz two weeks ago.
The letter said that KU's foreign students have a number of different political ideologies. Forer wrote that it was not unusual for an ideological disagreement to result in accusations of students being foreign agents.
FORER WAS supported by the chairman of the Foreign Students Committee, who said that his committee opposed the charge.
Forer also opposed part of the charge that stipulated that state and federal officials would be consulted in the investigation. To solicit government intervention would violate traditional University autonomy, he wrote.
In a letter to Swartz last week, the chairman, Joseph Conrad, professor of slavic languages, wrote that the Foreign Students Committee was not the place for the investigation. He urged that SenEx reconsider the charge.
Fear warned that leaders of the International Club would suit to stop the investigation unless SenEx withdrew the charge.
Swartz said that the intention of the proposed investigation had been to protect student rights, not to violate them.
"It was a very well-intentioned written by some faculty and students to protect the student body," Swarts said.
But Swartz said the charge should be withdrawn if the investigation would violate student rights.
Trials to begin for nuclear foes
"If it isn't serving a constructive purpose, then I don't see any reason for it," she said.
BvLYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Reporter
Trials begin tomorrow for five of 16 persons charged with misdemeanor offenses after being arrested in January for the Creek nuclear power plant near Burlington.
But the charges the defendants will face in Coffey County District Court will not be the same charges originally filed against them. The judge has instructed that the original charges and the new charges.
Last week, the original charge of criminal trespass, a class A misdemeanor, which carries a maximum fine of $500 and 30 days in jail, was dropped.
Three other charges, including a more serious offense of temporary deprivation of property and two lesser traffic violations, are charged in connection with incidents in place of the criminal trespass charges.
Temporary deprivation of property, a class A misdemeanor, is punishable by one year in prison.
DENNIS HAWVER, an attorney for the defendants, said the charges were changed because "the criminal trespass charge would not stick in court.
"We fired a brief that brought out the fact that my clients had a right to be on a county road," Hawer said. The protesters were calling for the authorities to reactor vessel to the Wolf Creek plant.
Coffee County prosecutor Phillip Fromme agreed that he be amended the charges rather
than argue about the defendants' right to be on the road where it intersected the railroad
"I think I have a better case. I have to try them so I thought I'd try them the best way I could."
Bill Beems, a Lawrence senior who is one of the defendants in the case, said the new charges "only show that they had to prosecute us."
FROMME AGREED that was the intent of the new charges.
"I'm not out to get these people. I just wanted to show them that they had done some wrong and point out the law to them," he said.
According to Hawver, the defendants declined an offer by the prosecutor's office to plead guilty to one of the lesser charges and avoid a trial.
Although the Kansas Natural Guard members are determined to go to court, they said they would not be able to "put them on trial," as they had originally intended.
Beeams said. "We won't be able to use it as our main defense. But it will still be uncommon."
Jury selection will begin at 9:30 a.m.
tomorrow, followed by the beginning of the
nation's elections.
The legal expenses of the defendants are being paid by the Wolf Creek Support Fund, which raised $2,000 through benefit dances, dinners and shows since the Jan. 12 arrests.
Students classify social-life interests
By ELLEN IWAMOTO Staff Reporter
Even when surrounded by about 23,000 students, finding a date or trying to get to know someone can be frustrating. but a few students have obtained results by advertising for friends or lovers in the newspaper.
The phrase "Everything you wanted to know about sex" was used in an advertisement that ran in the Kansas for about three days. Jeff Berkley, Tescott senior, said yesterday that he had met a woman who calls from persons who had seen the ad.
Berkley said that the number of calls from men and women were split evenly. Although a few of the callers were obliterated, said most of the people were just curious.
Berkley said that he did not buy the ad himself, but he said he thought some of his friends placed the ad as a practical joke.
Another student said a friend had played a similar joke on him, but he recalled the incident as the ad appeared in the Kansan only one day, but he received about 15 phone calls.
"IM ALMOST SURE it was some friends of mine, but I still don't know who," he said.
One student advertised in the paper because he was unable to get the nerve to ask a woman he saw at a football game for a date.
"I didn't think it would be proper to blatantly ask if I knew her from somewhere," Rick Younger, Kansas
City, Kan., junior who placed the ad, said.
YOUNGER SAID about 10 persons had answered the ad. About of them were serious, he said, but there were a few silly calls from women.
Mike Patterson, Wellington senior,
said he was not sure of the results he
got from his ad, which appeared this month
in the Kansas, because he was not at
a job when the ad appeared in the paper.
But he still said he had with one of
the women who had called him.
Younger said he never saw the woman again, but he was still very serious about finding her.
Younger's ad included the location of the woman's seat and a description of her in his ad, but he said he never found her.
Patterson said he first thought of the idea of running the ad from a class assignment, for which he was supposed to write a classified ad.
Patterson's ad began with, "Hi, want to be my friend for life?"
"I didn't have anything to sell, so I wrote this personal ad," he said. "Later on, I thought why not run it and see what happens."
PATTERSON SAID he had seen the same type of ad in other places and he had a lot of encouragement from his friends.
"They've even been asking me to write an ad for them," he said.
"It is kind of a joke," he said, "but secretly you're interested in what will happen."
Patterson said he was pleased with his results and said he saw no reason why he would do it again.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.89,No.113
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 20. 1979
Group wants meeting on S. Africa
By LAURIE WOLKEY
Staff Renarter
Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, said yesterday that if board members wanted to be interviewed, they were charged with the KU Committee on South Africa.
Seymour received a letter from the committee yesterday requesting a meeting with the Endowment Association's 60-member board of trustees, which is responsible for determining the association's policies.
"I am going to send a copy of the letter to
each trustee and see what they direct me to do," he said.
For the last year, the committee has urged the Endowment Association to divert from companies which trade with South Africa and from the country's racially segregated system.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS met with Seymour on March 7, but according to a committee news release, Seymour answered most of the group's questions."
Laird Oick, spokeswoman for the committee,
said, "It is imperative that we meet are-
nals and get them involved."
Association cannot just keep sweeping its moral responsibilities under the rug, out of sight.
"The trustees may want to reconsider their investments once they know more about the oppressive apartheid system in South Africa and once they appreciate the key role American businesses play in building and strengthening that system."
Of the Endowment Association's 60 trustees, more than 40 live in Kansas.
The committee's news release said, "A nationwide campaign has been mounted to raise awareness of the threat."
to disinvest from companies and banks operating in South Africa.
Oke said, "Seymour's position betrays ignorance about the realities of South Africa."
"Several dozen universities have already changed their investment policies so as to bring pressure on U.S. corporations to pull out of South Africa."
The committee's release also said that the committee would "be considering further peaceful means to persuade the Endowment Association to sell its shares in companies and banks that give support to South Africa's apartheid regime."
Gallery security system needed, artists say
Staff Reporter
Art and design faculty and students still say that they need a security alarm system in their classrooms. Arts Building, even though a Kansas House committee earlier this month denied funds
By RHONDA HOLMAN
"It's a real problem to some people who show small objects, particularly jewelry." Lois Greene, assistant professor of design, said yesterday.
“Your materials are ternrily expensive and if a piece is lost or stolen, it’s gone. It’s not easy to get them.”
So far, no pieces of art exhibited in the gallery have been stolen.
Greene said that there was a security guard in the gallery from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but that an alarm system was needed to detect the exhibits when the gallery was closed.
IN DECEMBER, four graduate students
in jewelry and silversmiths exhibited their work in a locked safe in the gallery and hung photocopies of their art work on the wall above the safe. A letter above the safe said: "We, the undersigned, do hereby proudly display our art. It is a pity that you, the viewer, cannot see our painstaking efforts. Due to lack of security, insurance proper display facilities, the pieces below have been secured in this safe."
Ron Hinton, Lawrence graduate student,
one of the four who arranged the
exhibit.
"All of the graduates have to have master's thesis exhibitions," Hinton said. "Naturally the school would like us to use the new gallery and we would, too, but there is no security system. We can go elsewhere with insurance and security but we don't want to."
"We just want to draw attention to the fact that it's a nice gallery, but that to the people around us is much more important."
Hinton also said that jewelry and oliversmithing work should be exhibited in
The Art and Design Gallery has only one glass case, he said.
PETER THOMPSON, associate dean of fine arts, said no bids for the security project had been taken but that one firm had obtained them. The would cost $4,000 without installation.
No estimates of installation cost were available.
"It's really essential to have a good security system," Thompson said. "We couldn't borrow work for a show of any value in value there without any insurance."
The Kansas Union and the Heilen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art usually insure shows exhibited in their galleries, but this year the Art and Design Gallery has been insured.
"We only insured the opening show that
included several thousand dollars worth of artwork. For that show, we had a 24-hour stock room. We were also Association paid for the insurance. If people are satisfied with the security system, inquire about it.
Thompson said money to fund the system was included in a request that the University be authorized to spend more than $200,000 in excess fee collections caused by the fall enrollment. The request was turned down by the House Ways and Means Committee.
The failure to approve the request this year would postpone the alarm system until at least the 1980-81 school year. Thompson said that other areas needed more attention.
"Right now there are several other things we have to work on like areas where children can learn about teaching programs," Thompson said. "Things like an alarm system are fairly clear."
Just joggin'
Sunshine and spring fever have combined lately, bringing many people outside for rest or exercise. This jogger enjoyed yesterday's warm afternoon with a jog around Potter Lake.
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