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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 130 (USPS 650-640)
Mild Details page 3.
U.S. says bombs linked to Libya
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that he would not sit still amid mounting threats against U.S. citizens and that he suspected that Libyan leader Moammar Khadhay was behind the surging terrorism.
at a nationally broadcast news
conference. Heagan called Khadafy
al-Shakib's support an important
step.
Reagan said his administration was still seeking sufficient evidence to link Khadafy to recent fatal bombings in a West Berlin nightclub and aboard a Trans World Airlines airliner over Greece.
"We're gathering evidence as fast as we can," he said.
"We have considerable evidence over quite a long period of time that Khadiat has been quite outspoken in opposition and sponsoring terror acts."
But asked whether he was ready to announce military action in retaliation, Reagan said, "We are not ready yet to speak on that. Any action we might take would be dependent on what we learn and I can't go any further."
"This is a question that is like talking about battle plans or something. If and when we could specifically identify someone as responsible for these acts, we would respond. So this is what we are trying to do — to find out who's responsible."
Earlier yesterday, Reagan told newspaper editors he was seeking support from U.S. allies for apprehension in view of the greater threats.
The Pentagon said yesterday that the Navy had taken steps to prepare a two-carrier battle group, including an indefinite extension of the carrier Coral Sea's deployment, if Reagan decided to order a military strike against Libya.
In Tripoli, Libya, Khadafy said he and his top commanders had completed military plans to challenge the United States.
Reagan began his news conference by reading two statements — one urging Congress anew to approve his $100 million aid package for Nicaraguan rebels, with no strings attached, and the other prodding lawmakers to get on with passing a federal budget.
Vice President George Bush, talking to sailors aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise in the Gulf of Oman, also called Khadafa a mad dog.
Noting that Congress appeared likely to miss the April 15 deadline for completing action on a budget for fiscal 1987, which starts Oct. 1, the president said tens of millions of U.S. citizens would make their tax-filing deadline
"I urge Congress to forget about raising taxes and concentrate instead on controlling spending," he said.
Large stores sought for downtown mall
Staff writer
Bv Juli Warren
A representative of the developer for a proposed downtown mall told members of the Urban Renewal Agency yesterday that he hoped to have commitments from department stores by early July.
the developer, Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, of Cleveland, is looking for three department stores to animate the 600-seat proposed for the 600 block of downtown.
"They'd rather be in a suburban mall; there's just no question," Jones said.
However, Don Jones, vice president of JVJ, said department stores were reluctant to be in a downtown mail.
The department stores prefer parking lots to parking garages, he said. The mall proposal calls for a garage.
The stores also are skeptical, he said, because of the long history of the proposed downtown mall in Lawrence. The proposal has spanned several city commissions.
In 1979, JVJ wanted to build a suburban mall at 31st and Iowa streets, but city leaders were concerned about the movement of business traffic from downtown to the outskirts of the city.
JVJ then presented proposals for downtown redevelopment, which included plans to level four blocks of downtown, but withdrew the plans after public disapproval was expressed.
JV1 left town after trying unsuccessfully again for rezoning the area for the suburban mall.
Lawrence city officials in 1982 selected Sizeler Realty Co. Inc., of Kenner, La., as developer of record for a downtown mail.
Sizeler proposed an enclosed mall in the 700 and 800 blocks of downtown east of Massachusetts Street.
Town Center Venture Corp., a local firm proposing an enclosed mall in the 600 block of downtown, was signed as developer of record in 1983, and JVJ joined in a partnership with it in 1985
The commission delayed signing an agreement with Sizeler, asking for
Jones said city officials need not fear the departure of JVJ now.
"I can assure you that we're not here for the exercise," he said. "We're here, we are committed, and we going to move as fast as we can."
ine agency, which was formed to oversee development of the mall, also heard a report on its March trip to Wausau, Wisc., to tour the Wausau Center mall, which was built and is managed by VJJ.
"The Wausuai Center mall is an excellent example of a quality downtown shopping center that works," the report said.
Eric Strauss, project manager for a downtown slum and blight study, told the agency that staff members should be bringing tour of the study. area yesterday.
"Now we know we can do it in Lawrence."
Joel Jacobs, agency chairman, said Wausau's situation was similar to the one in Lawrence.
He also said he thought his firm,
Herrick, Feinstein of Overland Park,
could complete the study by the June
1 deadline.
But, Jacobs said, “We’re far and away further along downtown than Walt Disney.”
See MALL, p. 5, col. 2
Marv Burger/KANSAN
William Gibbs, Goddard freshman, offers support to Jenny Pasley, Armes, Iowa, freshman, a first-time blood donor. Pasley was one of many who participated in a blood drive in the Kansas Union Ballroom yesterday. The blood drive, sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association, will continue from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today.
A little reassurance
Ads advocate entry into Regents system
Washburn promotes admission
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
Washburn University has been trying to educate legislators and citizens about its possible entry into the Board of Regents system by placing newspaper advertisements.
The University placed full-page ads last week in the newspapers of the other Regents schools' cities to try to educate people about the importance and advantages of Washburn becoming a Regents school. The Kansas House is expected to vote on the issue this week.
David Monical, vice president of planning at Washburn, said the ads were meant to be informative, not persuasive.
"It is a way to inform people," he said. "I think people lack understanding of what is going on with Washburn."
KU student body leaders have actively opposed Washburn's entry into the Regents system. They cite economic reasons and fear the losing the law school when the Board of Regents reviews state programs and eliminates duplications.
The Associated Students of Kansas, a statewide student lobbying group representing the state university, warned, did not take a stand on the issue.
The full-page ads explain why Washburn wants to become a Regents school and the benefits for the other Regents schools.
An ad ran in the Topeka Capital Journal on the day that the House Ways and Means Committee discussed the issue and approved the bill.
Chris Graves, executive director of ASK, said she was somewhat familiar with the ads and thought Washburn's campaign was very assertive.
"I think it is a very aggressive campaign," she said. "I haven't heard of any other institution go to lengths to take a stand on an issue."
Mike Brooks, Washburn University student body president, said that although he was not involved in plac
See WASHBURN, p. 5, col. 1
Financial aid runs dry in 5th year
Scholarship to help teachers-to-be
By Tom Farmer
Staff writer
A proposed teacher education scholarship program would help offset extra expenses incurred by students in the University of Kansas' five-year education program, members of the faculty said yesterday.
A bill for the proposed program, sent by the State House Ways and Means Committee to the full House on Monday, could provide incentive for students to choose education as a career by offering them $750 a semester for up to five semesters.
The bill would require recipients to repay the scholarship if they did not have a teaching job within 18 months after graduation.
Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education and director of teacher education, said the scholarship
After earning a bachelor's degree in four years, education students are not eligible to receive grants from the federal government for their last year in education. That is the year the scholarship money would be an incentive, he said, since it could be used when financial aid sources are hard to come by.
Bailey said the scholarship program also would be an incentive to attract better teachers.
"I hope the measure passes," he said. "It can be incentive money to get a higher number of brighter students in teacher education."
money was important because the University offers a five-year pro-
re said it had been predicted that there will be about 1 million teacher vacancies in elementary, secondary and post-secondary education between now and the 1990s.
Suzanne Collins, teacher certification officer, said she supported the program because it would provide money for students in financial need. But she could not see how offering scholarships would attract brighter students.
"I don't think it's going to have much to do with brighter students," she said. "I'm not sure how much incentive $750 would be."
"The probability for the need of teachers is great," he said. "The need for good teachers is particularly critical."
Collins teachers needed to be talented in two ways, both of which should not depend on monetary incentives.
First, teachers should be knowledgeable in the subject they teach. Also, they should have per-
But Collins concurred with Bailey's assessment of the need for money during the fifth year in education and the rising costs of a college education in general.
Linda Morris, Abilene junior majoring in education, said that the scholarship would be attractive to her but that there were more important reasons for going into teaching, such as dedication.
"If you go into it for the money, I don't think that's a good enough reason to become a teacher.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction, said it was important to support teachers in any possible way.
sonal motivation and desire to be good teachers, she said.
"I think the program would provide a commitment to education by supporting teachers," she said.
arrives at Med Center
New 'stork'
By Lynn Maree Ross
Staff writer
Some parents tell their children the stork delivered them. Last week, Stratus Specialty Vehicles Inc., did the honors when it delivered Jaystork II to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Jaystork II, the Med Center's new mobile neonatal van, replaces the original Jaystork, which served the hospital for 11 years.
The van is designed to stabilize and transport babies who need emergency medical attention at the hospital.
The hospital replaced the original vehicle because it was old and required too many repairs, Dave Cobb, director of physiological monitoring and instrumentation, said yesterday.
He said emergency crews shouldn't have to worry about the vehicle breaking down when transporting a sick baby.
"It was starting to get cost-in-effective," he said. William Topper, chief of neonatology, said the hospital looked for a smaller, safer and more efficient means of transport when selecting the new Jaystork. The hospital replaced the old Jaystork, a
GMC motor home, with a custom-built Ford van built by Stratus Specialty Vehicles Inc., of Kansas City, Mo.
The company's specialty is custom-built ambulances, vans for the handicapped and adaptive equipment for cars, said Kene Knisley Sr., company owner.
"We had several predesign conferences." Knisley said. "It was hand built . . . designed around their needs."
Delivery of the Jaystork II on Friday, he said, marked the completion of an idea conceived nine months ago when Stratus and the Med Center began cooperating on the project.
Although the company designed the van to the hospital's specifications, the group didn't start
The result of the collaboration is a van half the size and half the cost of the old vehicle. The new van cost $30,000, Knisley said, about $15,000 less than a medical van with standard equipment.
The Med Center's doctors and nurses worked with Stratus' engineers to fine-tune the design of the van. Knisley said he thought it was good that doctors and nurses who would use the van got the chance to help design it.
from scratch.
"It's also a copy of one that was custom made in Buffalo, New York." Tramer said.
Now, life-support equipment is smaller, he said, and the hospital has changed its approach to emergency care for infants. That means the hospital no longer needs the larger vehicle.
Instead, the hospital will use the new van primarily for stabilizing and transporting sick infants within a 60-mile radius. The Life Flight helicopter will transport infants who are farther away.
Decreasing the area of service, however, will not significantly decrease the number of babies transported. Topper said. The old vehicle transported 65 babies last year — most of whom came from within a 60-mile radius.
Although the new van is smaller than the old vehicle, it is safer than its predecessor.
Cobb said the old vehicle lacked rollbars and other safety factors because the space was needed for equipment. The smaller equipment takes up less space in the new van, leaving room for rollbars, highbacked seats and safety belts.