Wednesdav. March 26. 1986
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Two Lawrence residents were arrested early Monday morning by Lawrence police on drug distribution charges after police searched their home for a gun used in a Thursday night gas station robbery.
Police officers found half an ounce of cocaine, which has a street value of about $1,400, one ounce of marijuana and a gun in the home of a 19-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman, police said.
The two were arrested on charges of cocaine and marjuanja possession with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia.
No official charges have been filed, said Rick Trapp, Douglas County assistant district attorney. They were freed after posting bond.
Lawrence police detectives were searching the residence for a gun used in the armed robbery of the Wood Oil Co. gas station, 920 N. Second St., when they found the drugs and gun, police said.
Pep rally scheduled
A pep rally is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. today on the east lawn of Allen Field House.
The rally is designed to give the KU basketball team a send-off to Dallas where it will play in the finals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball championship. The team will leave from the field house at 5 p.m.
The event was planned by the Rock Chalk Rowdies, a group of Jayhawk fans, and will feature the KU Pep Band and Spirit Squad. Max Falkenstien, color commentator for the Jayhawk Network, will host the event.
House OK's fee bill
TOPEKA — The House gave final approval yesterday to a revised bill that would allow anyone who moved to the state for job purposes to pay in-state tuition fees at Board of Regents schools.
State Rep. Vernon Williams, R-Wichita, said the bill could be used as a tool for business recruiters in New York and had moved to the state for a job.
Dallas party planned
A provision that originally had changed in-state residency requirements from 12 months to six months was reversed.
The University of Kansas Alumni Association has organized a basketball party in Dallas for those fans who can make the trip but don't have tickets.
The association has reserved Monopoly's Park Place, a Dallas nightclub, for fans to gather to watch Saturday afternoon's game against Duke University.
The club, which can accommodate 1,000 people, will open at 1:30 p.m. Saturday with the KU pep band and Spirit Squid present. There will be no cover charge and severe large screen televisions be set so that you can watch both of Satuary's semifinal games.
If the Jayhawks win Saturday, the club will open again at 6 p.m. Monday.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the low to mid-60s and winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be clear with a low in the upper 30s or lower 40s. Tomorrow will be sunny and warmer with a high in the upper 60s or low 70s.
From staff and wire reports.
Writer shares Russian culture
Michelle Brouillette/KANSAN
By Monique O'Donnell
Staff writer.
During his first week at the University of Kansas, Sergel Zalygin found that Americans matched his preconceived image — they're optimistic and handsome.
Sergei Zalygin, a novelist from Siberia, speaks about his Russian literary works. Zalygin is visiting the United States for three weeks and two weeks of his visit will be spent at KU as part of the Soviet Writers in Residence program.
Zalygin, a Russian novelist whose works reflect his years of growing up and living in Siberia, said Friday that he thought Americans were optimistic about life. That attitude produced a strong impression on him.
"Americans are also very handsome, good-looking people," Zalygin said. "The world would lose a lot in terms of what an attractive person was if there weren't any Americans."
Zalygin, the 72-year-old novelist, has been invited to the United States as part of KU's Soviet Writers in Residence program. His wife, Luibov "Sergeeva Bashkirova, is accompanying him."
Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Soviet and East European studies who established the program at KU, said Zalygin was spending three weeks in the United States. The author and his wife will spend two weeks at KU and one week traveling through Wisconsin with Mikkelson.
The Soviet Writers Union, KU and the United States Information Agency Intern Visitor Grant are financing the visit.
"None of the writers in the past have been able to bring their spouse along," Mikkelson said. "Zalygin and his wife had to pay for her travel expenses themselves."
Zalygin and his wife do not speak English. Mikkelson has been translating for them during their stay.
But despite the language barrier, Mikkelsen said, out of 14 Soviet authors who have visited KU since the program was established in 1975, Zalvín is the most independent.
"He gets around on his own quite well," he said. "He enjoys going on walks and never seems to get lost."
Zalyigin, who visited the United States in 1978 but did not go to the Midwest, said he felt very comfortable in Lawrence. People have been very friendly and helpful to him, he said.
"This is a very interesting town." Zalygin said. "It's a shame that the whole country can't live in this sort of town."
During his visit, Zalygin will conduct several talks on Siberia to students of Slavic 502, "Introduction to Russian Culture and Society: Siberia." The talks are open to the
public.
Mikkelson said Zalygin's visit had been set up in conjunction with the newly introduced course on Siberian geography, people, resources, history and culture.
Zalyigw was born in the Ural Mountains and spent all of his childhood and most of his life living in Siberia. Although he has lived in Moscow for the last 17 years, he still considers Siberia his homeland.
Many of Zalygin's most important novels and short stories are set in his native Siberia and chronicle the changes that have taken place since the Russian Revolution and Civil War of 1917-1921.
Mikkelson said the author was one of the most respected writers in Russia. He also is an outspoken leader in the Soviet Union's environmental protection movement.
Zalygin received a comprehensive technical education and worked for several years as a hydrologist, soil scientist, land reclamation expert and agricultural college professor who devoted himself entirely to writing.
makes elaborate gestures when speaking in Russian about his country and his work, Zalygin finds it difficult to speak about his own writen't.
"I can't talk about my own writing and what the concrete basis of this writing is." Zalvgin said.
"It is popular to say now that the goal of literature is to teach what stops war from breaking out," he said. "It's too easy for words. It can be hard to write it down. Do every writer has to, in some way, install a value of life in his work."
A small. gray-haired man who
Zalygin said he was stubborn when it came to people editing his books. When something is taken out of one book, he said, he simply writes it into another work.
All of his works have been published and in over 20 years of writing, he said, no more than 20 pages have been censored from his books.
Mikkelson said the Soviet Writer in Residence program and the Siberian course were beneficial to graduate students wanting to write dissertations on Siberian literature. The programs also were enlightening in respect to common misconceptions.
two kinds of writers in the Soviet Union. Either they are dissidents or they go along with what the Party advocates.
"Writers in the Soviet Union are far more influential in their country than writers are over here," Mikkelson said. "And Soviet writers often speak with critical, strong voices."
"People often think that there are
"We don't deny that this exists. But then we try to go beyond that," Mikkelson said. "The course on Siberia and the author's visits can help eliminate some of these misconceptions."
Other misconceptions, he said, are that Siberia is cold and is the place for all of the Soviet Union's prison camps.
Zalygin said that during his visit he had not encountered people asking inappropriate questions that would demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge.
"The questions are what I would expect," Zalygin said. "They are the usual type of questions. Our people would ask the same kind of questions of an American who would visit the country."
JDI begins drive for fallout shelter
Staff writer
"Some people are saying, 'I really like it, I really appreciate what you guys are doing,'" Kirstin Myers, JDI president, said yesterday.
By Tim Hrenchir
But Myers said others didn't take the group seriously.
"I've walked by guys who were going 'Duck and Cover' and trying to
The Jayhawk Defense Initiative will kick off a petition drive today to push for a nuclear fallout shelter to be built on campus. But members of the campus group said they met all kinds of reaction to the project.
make fun of it," Myers said. "Some people think we're lunatics or survivalists."
JDI members say the petition drive is intended to educate students on the dangers of nuclear war and bring students out of a nuclear malaise.
JDI needs 10 percent of all students' signatures on a petition to put the issue on a student ballot for an initiative. An initiative is a vote in which the student body considers proposing legislative action.
If the proposal passes, JDI members plan to ask the Kansas Legislature during the next session to
appropriate money for the shelter.
About 10-20 JDI members will circulate petitions today in support of the construction of a fallout shelter, Myers said.
Members will have a table set up on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union and will be in residence hall cafeterias trying to get signatures.
"We're not going to be ignored." Mvers said. "We'll be everywhere."
JDI members planned to post new handbills today to advertise their initiative drive.
Karen Matheis, JDI secretary and Overland Pork sophomore, said the meeting would include an open forum on the arms race.
tonight in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union. Myers said JDI members would plan long-term strategy and would delegate specific responsibilities to group members at the meeting.
The group will meet at 7 p.m.
The group doesn't mind opposition to the shelter's construction.
"Some people have told us, 'Wait a minute — this isn't going to work,'" Matheis said. "But that's one reason this is such a good idea."
Crusader pushes bill on hazing
By Mark Slebert
Staff writer
Eileen Stevens, founder of Committee Halting Useless College Killings, or CHUCK, told the House Judiciary Committee that a hazing law would be a significant deterent to needless hazing practices.
TOPEKA - The founder of a national anti-hazing organization testified before a Kansas House committee yesterday to try to convince lawmakers to adopt a bill that prohibits dangerous initiation practices by student organizations.
Mandelbaum said he favored the bill now that it no longer made national officers and board members liable in hazing cases.
"Laws have proven strong deterents and strengthen the hand of college officials and national organizations in dealing with insidious acts of hazing and its consequences," Stevens said.
Stevens also brought her crusade to the University of Kansas earlier in the day when she spoke to about 30 students in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Ron Mandelbaum, Kansas City,
Mo., junior and the president of
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, 1116 Indiana
St., attended both the campus
meeting and the committee meeting.
"I'm in support of the bill as it is now," Mandelbaum said. "I think this satisfies the need of the students."
The bill would make it illegal to participate in any act of initiation that caused the risk of mental or physical harm to a person. Such an act would be punishable by a fine of up to $2,500 and a maximum of one year in jail.
A Senate committee eliminated a provision of the bill on March 5 that would have allowed directors, officers or officials to be held liable in a hazing suit.
Also chopped from the bill was a provision that said negligence or consent by a person could not be used as a defense in a suit.
State Sen. Paul Burke, R-Leawood; the bill's sponsor,耐 any tightening that he would favor any tightening of the bill the committee needed in order to pass it.
"The bill is an attempt to draw it (the law) so narrowly that only the persons directly involved in the hazing could be drawn into the action."
The Senate unanimously passed the measure March 10.
Presently, 19 states have anti- hazing laws on the books while another seven states have laws pending.
"The bill certainly has been softened and watered down." Stevens said.
Stevens said she was glad a hazing bill was being considered, but that it could be tougher.
"I hated to see the consent clause eliminated," she said. "And I'm not crazy about the fact they're taking the responsibility off some of the officials."
Stevens founded her organization after her son, Chuck, was killed in a 1978 hazing accident at a New York college.
men charged in local man's death
Staff writer
By Brian Whepley Staff writer
Two men were charged yesterday afternoon in the death of 34-year-old Frank L. Barnes, whose body was found in the Kansas River Wednesday.
Gary L. Thomas, 47, of 1318 Rhode Island St., was accused of first degree murder. Lewis O. Brockmann, 20, of 2029 Rhode Island St., was charged with attempt to commit first degree
17. Barnes was last seen alive by his parents on that date.
District Attorney Jim Flory said at the hearing that the murder occurred on or about Feb.
Brockmann was arrested at his home Monday night and Thomas was arrested yesterday morning at the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center after questioning by police, Lawrence Police Chief Stanwick said.
Barnes' body was spotted near the west span of the Kansas River bridge, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, by several KU faculty members who were jogging shortly after noon March 19.
Flory said the state's case would state that
Barnes received head injuries from an object during an incident at Burcham Park, which is less than one-half mile upstream from the bridge. Barnes body was then thrown into the river, he said. He would not elaborate on the events at the park.
An autopsy determined that Barnes died of drowning and that his body contained cuts and bruises which were not fatal.
Flory said the investigation of Barnes' death had uncovered a possible motive. But he would not disclose the motive because it is part of the state's case against the men. He said that he
did not expect any more arrests in the case but that the investigation would continue.
Thomas made an 11 a.m. appearance before being charged yesterday afternoon. At the hearing, Associate District Judge Jean Shepherd set bond of $200,000.
At a 4 p.m. hearing, Thomas' attorney, Wesley Norwood, asked Associate District Judge Michael Malone to reduce Thomas' bond because Thomas had a job in Lawrence and was not likely to leave town. Malone refused, saying that because of the severity of the crime he had to agree with the amount Shepherd set.
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