Monday, April 7, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Maas found guilty of rape, kidnapping
Mark Maas, 19, of Lawrence, was found guilty Friday of kidnapping and raping a Baldwin girl. The decision came after five days of testimony in Douglas County District Court.
The jury found Maas guilty of aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and criminal trespass. The kidnapping charge carries a mandatory life sentence. He was acquitted of an aggravated sodomy charge.
The charges stemmed from two incidents which occurred in October.
The agravated assault and the terroristic threats occurred during an Oct. 8 incident at a Lawrence High School parking lot. The kidnapping and rape occurred Oct. 20 when the girl was taken from her Baldwin home and raped.
Associate District Judge Michael D. Malone set a sentencing date for May 2.
Rapist is sentenced
An Indiana man was sentenced Friday to 10-20 years in prison for the December rape and attempted kidnapping of a KU woman.
Jerry Numn, 27, was sentenced by District Judge James W. Paddock 10 to 20 years on the rape charge and 3 to 10 years for attempted kidnapping. The sentences will run concurrently.
"It was a horror story for the victim." Flory said.
Victim, 70, pleaded. Nunn was convicted of forcing the student's car off Haskell Avenue, chasing her into a nearby field and raping her. The incident happened Dec. 8.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory had requested Paddock to sentence Nunn to a minimum of 15 years because of the violence of the crime.
Bill requests money
martin Jones, associate University director of business affairs, said the project's success hinged on the borrowing of revenue bonds.
The Senate Committee on Ways and Means approved Friday a bill that would issue revenue bonds for the renovation of the Kansas Union. The bill now will go before the full Senate for debate.
The first phase of the renovation will cost $6.5 million. Money is scheduled to come from the bonds, a $5 increase in student fees and a left-over fund from the construction of the Burge Union.
Kansan to hire staff
Applications are due by 5 p.m.
Friday. They are available in the
Kansan business office, 119
Stauffer-Flint Hall; the journalism
dean's office, 200 Stauffer-Flint;
and the Student Senate Office,
B-105 Kansas Union.
The Kansan is accepting applications for summer and fall editor and business manager.
Applicants will meet April 16 with the Kanans board, the governing body of the newspaper. The managers will be chosen afterward.
Applications for other news and business staff positions are due by 5 p.m. April 16 in 200 Stauffer Flint.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-70s and northeast winds from 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the mid-40s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid. to upper-60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Mark Mobler and Wilfredo Lee/KANSAN
multiple flash photograph to commemorate his 83rd birthday yesterday. Edgerton was on campus this weekend to speak.
Harold Edgerton, who perfected the stroboscopic flash while he was a multiple flash photograph to commemorate his 83rd graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, posed for this Edgerton was on campus this weekend to speak.
Photographer lights up exhibit
By Grant W. Butler Staff writer
The history of photography begins with the first book of the Bible, photographer Harold Edgerton said yesterday.
"It says. Let there be light," Edgerton said. "I have one complaint for the publisher, however. He didn't save what kind of light it was."
About 200 people attended Edgeron's speech about the history of stroboscopic flash photography in Spencer Museum of Art.
The speech augmented an exhibition of Edgerton's photographs, called "Beyond Sight," which can be seen at the museum until May 18.
The stroboscopic flash, which Edgerton perfected while he was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has come a long way from the early units, which were limited by their cumbersome, high-voltage nature.
Now the flash can be used to reveal the behavior of objects that move faster than the human eye can observe, he said. The action can be as simple as running water or as bizarre as a bullet going through an apple.
As examples, Edgerton showed slides of tennis balls being hit — and squashed — with a raquet, bent baseball bats, birds in flight and air
being pushed through an electric fan. Edgerton said he had devoted a lot of time to studying the effect on a golf ball when it was hit with a club.
The ball begins moving on one side before the other, he said, triggering wires which set off the flash. The oval form of the golf ball is then captured
There are more practical applications of the stroboscopic flash, he said. The movements of athletes can be captured on film for analysis of technique.
Even the government made use of his flash technique.
Force had us construct strobes for reconnaissance flights because the enemy's always doing something at night that you want to know about," Edgerton said.
"These strobes can be made very large, so during the war the Air
Using water taken from a drinking fountain in the museum, Edgerton took a photograph using the flash, which showed many organisms and fibers in the water.
The photograph was then compared to a similar one taken of water in Boston. The Boston photograph showed many more objects in the water.
"You see how much further ahead of you we are," he said.
Carlin tells democrats to prepare
By Mark Siebert Staff writer
Staff writer
Gov. John Carlin told Kansas Young Democrats on Saturday to get ready for the November elections, because 1986 would be a key year for the party and for Kansas.
Carlin and other state democratic leaders converged on Lawrence this weekend to attend the 53rd annual Kansas Young Democrats' State Convention and prepare for upcoming elections.
Carlin opened the event at a luncheon in the All Seasons Motel, 2309 Iowa St. He told the crowd of about 50 people that they were going to have to campaign hard because the republicans would be better financed.
"You folks will play a very important role in this 1986 election," Carlin said. "Your involvement is as critical next week and every week between now and November as you participate in an effort to help the party or individual candidates."
Carlin, who received this year's annual lifetime membership award from the Kansas Young Democrats, said he thought democrats had the talent to make a good showing in November.
"We have talent. We recognize it and we can approach 1986 with a great deal of confidence that we have the men and women who can carry forward the banner and be successful." he said.
U. S. Congressman Danlickman, gubernatorial candidate Tom Docking and State Treasurer Joan Finney also spoke at the convention.
Congressman Jim Slattery was scheduled to attend but was called away at the last minute to meet with Contadora leaders in Panama about the Central American crisis.
The convention, organized by the KU Democrats, was a chance for the Young Democrats to get acquainted with party leaders and to learn how to run a campaign, said Todd Cohen, vice president of KU Democrats.
"We wanted to strengthen the orvarian." said Cohen. "
Cohen, Alta Vista sophomore, said much of the discussion in the afternoon campaign workshops focused on the strategic use of money to overcome the lack of funds.
Protesters march as police patrol
By Tim Hrenchir Staff writer
KU Police patrolled the area around Youngberg Hall, home of the Kansas University Endowment Association, in the minutes before divestment protesters marched into the area Friday afternoon, but no arrests were made.
About 35 protesters who marched to Youngberg Hall stayed outside the boundaries of Endowment Association property. They stood outside the flags marking the property line, chanted "KKK, UEA" and talked about furthering the divestment movement at KU.
Todd Seymour, Endowment Association president, was not in his office during the protest and was unavailable for comment.
In two divestment rallies in May at Youngberg, KU Police arrested about 65 protesters for criminal trespassing.
The rally began in front of Strong Hall at 11:30 a.m. Divestment proponents stood in an area near the Jayhawk statue and listened as speakers criticized apartheid — South Africa's system of racial segregation — the KU administration, the Endowment Association,
proberation of nuclear weapons,
Reagan administration policies in Nicaragua and racism in the United States.
Dan Parkinson, Scott City graduate student, said divestment would bring about change in South Africa.
Without U.S. money, he said, the South African government would cease to exist.
"You can't even run a lemonade stand without money," he said.
As spectators watched from Wescoe Beach, several speakers urged them to cross Jayhawk Boulevard and join the move-in movement.
"You're all scared to get off your butts and come over here with us," said Aaron Lucas, Lawrence senior. "You all just sit there and you just don't care. You ought to care."
At noon, protesters observed a moment of silence in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and those who had died fighting for the abolition of aparthied in South Africa.
Protesters chanted, "Off the beach and on the line," but met with little success.
"Come over and be an eyesore with us." he urted.
Campers continue protest despite recent harassment
By Russell Gray Staff writer
Despite a week of harassment,
Chris Bunker says he is determined
not to break camp.
Bunker is the organizer of the camp-in at Youngberg Hall in protest of the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in South Africa. Bunker, the president of the KU Committee on South Africa, began the camp-in March 17.
At about 4 a.m. Saturday, Bunker said, a man wearing camouflage fatigues, a black backet and boots and with his face blackened tried to kick down the shanty built by the protesters.
The man kicked the wooden structure about five times, Bunker said. The protesters, who now have 11 tents at the site, awoke and scared him off. The minimal damage has been repaired.
As the man ran away, he shouted "Long live South Africa. Die negroes." Bunker said.
Saturday, at about 1 p.m., a group of people threw water balloons at the camp, he said. When the people ran away through
Earlier last week, a group of people drove by the camp and shouted, "Apartheid forever. The niggers deserve it," he said. A couple of nights later, Bunker receivethe same message upon the door.
"I think that some of them are real racists." Bunker said. "It's disappointing to think that in this day and age they are."
The people harassing the campers are cowards because they run away, Bunker said, and they don't scare the campers.
"I'm not worried about it," Bunker said. "We're not scared of a bunch of people running off into the woods."
The KU police department has been helpful, he said. After the balloon-throwing, an officer stayed at the camp site the rest of
The department received
Brothers said he didn't know whether officers patrolled the area more often because of the presence of the protesters, although he had been by a few extra times.
Before the incidents, Brothers said he had told Bunker to call him if there was any trouble.
"They've probably done their penance for throwing water balloons," Bunker said. "Unfortunately, we were the prankees rather than the prankers."
There have not been any problems with the people working at the Endowment Association, Bunker said.
"They realize they can't do anything, so they are not," Bunker said.
reports about both incidents this week, Sgt. John Brothers said. No one has been caught, and there are no suspects.
The protesters have not violated any University rules, said Steve Mennaugh, public relations director for the Endowment Association, until he resigned on Friday to take a new job.
"No one has even thought about the fact that someone could hurt those people," Menaugh said. "I can't imagine anyone so upset that they would hurt them."
the woods near the camp, it appeared they fell into the mud.
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