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MONDAY, FEB. 17, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 98 (USPS 650-640)
Wilfredo Lee/KANSAN
Mel Garrett Jr. tucks in the blankets around Tim Bowles, Fost Moorgan, Colo., senior, left Shelly Holst, Olathe junior, and Robin and Tom Harmon, 227 N. 4th and went to the Chi Omega fountain and back.
Riders revive old-fashioned romance
By Sandra Crider
Staff writer
Stepping into Mel Garrett Jr.'s old-fashioned carriage on a starry Valentine's Day evening was like stepping
Monday Morning
into a fairy tale, especially for two KU students.
Sheeren Khani, Lake Forest, IL
sohomore, said she thought she was
dreaming when Paul Barter,
Shawnee junior, handed her a velvet-covered box containing a diamond solitaire engagement ring while riding in the carriage down Jayhawk Boulevard.
"It was so romantic, it was like a dream come true," Khani said yesterday. "I'd always dreamed something like that would happen, and it did."
The Kansas Union sponsored Gar
rett's carriage as a part of its "Romance on the Hill" Valentine's Day festivities.
Barter said he had planned to propose to Khani on Valentine's Day. When he heard about the carriage rides, he knew that was the best place.
The horse-drawn carriage, a replica of an early 1800s model, seats four passengers.
He arranged with Gene Wee, Student Union Activities' program adviser, to have the carriage to themselves for their eventful ride.
The couple said they waited for an hour to ride in the carriage. Khani said, "I asked him, 'Do you really want to go on this ride? It really doesn't matter to me.'"
Barter said he replied, "No. we're going to go on this ride even if we
See CARRIAGE, p. 5, col. 1
Co-workers, Red Cross lend hand
Alumni Center worker faces crises
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
Staff writer
Two weeks ago, Rosemary Beers was told she had cancer of the colon. Then, a fire Thursday left Beers and her family homeless.
But Beers once again has a positive outlook on life, thanks to her coworkers at Adams Alumni Center and the efforts of the American Red Cross.
Fire destroyed the house at 1217 Kentucky St., the first floor of which was rented to Beers, her husband
Atan and their children Chad, 16, and Kevin, 13. Beers said Friday that she thought only a small part of their possessions were insured.
"It's all kind of sickening," she said. "You never realize what you have until you don't have it anwher."
The Douglas County chapter of the American Red Cross spent about $1,500 to move the family to another house, Jo Byers, chapter director, said.
Bvers said the Red Cross paid for a
And Beers' co-workers at the Alumni Center collected money and donated clothes, furniture, utensils and other necessities to the family. Beers works as a custodian attendant at the Alumni Center.
Student employees of the Learned Club in the Alumni Center donated their tips to raise money for a fund for the family.
Debbie Drummet, receptionist at the Alumni Center, estimated that
$650 had been raised for the Beers family.
Beers has another obstacle to overcome. On Wednesday she will undergo surgery, but she says she's confident she'll beat the cancer.
"I'll be okay," she said. "The cancer part of it doesn't really bother me, but I am apprehensive about the surgery."
Donations may be made to the Rosemary Beers fund at Lawrence National Bank and sent in care of Lori Amble.
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Radio says orders for flight dropped
PARIS — Police were ordered to put deposed Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier on a plane to the United States yesterday but the plan was canceled at the last minute, government-owned Radio France International said.
Officials at Charles de Gaule Airport in Paris confirmed that Duvalier, his wife and two children were booked on Air France flight 077, which left France at midday yesterday and arrived in New York yesterday afternoon.
A report on French government-owned television said Duvalier — who had received a clear message from U.S. officials that he was unwanted as "an undesirable alien" — did not leave his temporary residence at a posh lakeside hotel in the village of Talliores in the French Alps.
The reports said Duvalier was unaware of the plan.
Radio France International, quoting police sources in Talloires, said police were instructed to wake Duvalier early yesterday and put him on a plane to Paris, but the orders were canceled at the last minute.
They said Duvalier, whose family had ruled Haiti for three decades,
was to take a government plane to Paris to catch the New York flight
The foreign ministry and the U.S. Embassy denied knowledge of the plan and said they were not aware Duvalier was booked on the flight.
Airport officials said the booking was canceled shortly before the plane took off on schedule for New York.
An Air France spokesman in New York also acknowledged that a reservation had been made in Duvalier's name.
France agreed to accept Duvalier for eight days when he filed Haiti Feb. 7 amid widespread anti-government protests. Efforts to find a home for him have centered on French-speaking countries. Gabon, Cameroon, Morocco and Portuguese-speaking Brazil have said they would not accept him.
English-speaking Liberia in West Africa said it would consider taking Duvalier if requested.
Prime Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday that Duvalier was unwelcome in France and that Foreign Minister Roland Dumas told U.S. officials that France would accept him only temporarily and if no solution were found, he would return to the United States.
See HAITI, p. 5, col. 2
ASK takes no stand on Washburn issue
Staff writer
By Piper Scholfield
The Associated Students of Kansas decided last night not to take a stand on Washburn University's request for admittance into the Board of Regents system.
The University of Kansas was host to the ASK legislative assembly and was represented by a full delegation of 24 students.
ASK is a lobbying group that represents the students of the Regents schools and Washburn University.
Kris Kurtenbach, KU's ASK director, said it was the first time in many years KU had had that many representatives at a legislative assembly.
wasburn representatives Mark Groves and Dennis Rodenbaugh submitted a request to the ASK legislative assembly asking for Washburn's admittance into the Regents system.
Tim Henderson, ASK representative and Student Senate treasurer, opposed the admittance and compared Washburn to an abandoned baby.
He said the city of Topeka founded the university and was now asking the state to finance it.
"What we're being asked tonight is to accept a screw-up," Henderson said.
Kurtenbach said that because 70 percent of Washburn's students were from Shawnee county, the county, not the Regents system, should support the school.
Kurtenbach said the KU delegation thought that by not opposing the admittance of Washburn, the ASK assembly approved the proposal.
David Epstein, student body president, said the possibility of Washburn's entering the Regents system was dangerous to KU because financing was already inadequate for Regents schools.
The schools in the Regents system are KU, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburgh State University, Wichita State University and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Blockades help cabs turn profit
Bv Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
The Lawrence Police Department did the City Cab Company a big favor Saturday night by setting up roadblocks to deter drunk drivers and to catch people with suspended driver's licenses.
Mark Warren, police department officer, said the roadblocks were set up mainly to check for expired, suspended, or revoked driver's licenses. Police were also looking for drunk drivers or automobiles with defects.
Many college students who had been at bars near the roadblocks decided to take the safe route home - in a cab, Buck Shadden, dispatcher for the cab company, said.
Roadblocks were set up at 23rd and Massachusetts streets, the 900 block of New Hampshire Street and on the Kansas River bridge.
Kohlman sudden said the roadblock moved periodically from location to location, and the cab company kept track of it.
City Cab, 538 W. 2 St., usually received little business from KU students, he said. Saturday night was an exception.
"Business increased about 40 percent." he said.
Most KU customers were going to or from Ichabod's tavern, N. Third St., is near the roadblock on
See TAXI, p. 5, col. 3
Georgia senator speaks his mind
By Brian Kaberline
Through the years, Julian Bond has had plenty of practice at speaking his mind.
By Bhan Kaberinti
That experience showed Saturday night when Bond told an audience at the University of Kansas that the civil rights movement was in trouble and called President Reagan an "amiable incompetent."
Bond, a civil rights and political leader, spoke to about 200 people in Hoch Auditorium as a part of Minorities in Law Day.
"Although black Americans have won some considerable accomplishments in the years since Dr. King died," Bond said, referring to the Rev. Martin Luther King, "the movement he led on yesterday now appears to be in some disarray, and the gains he can claim some credit for having helped achieve, now seem in imminent danger of being destroyed."
Bond, a Georgia senator, recalled the accomplishments of the early civil rights movement. He said the movement seemed to be in trouble recently.
The speech was sponsored by the Black American Law Students Association, the Student Senate and the University Lecture Series.
Bond said the United States had changed since the early days of the civil rights movement. Some changes have slowed or reversed
the progress of the movement.
Bond said the Reagan administration had hurt the movement by cutting funds to civil rights agencies and attempting to ease rules about affirmative action hiring.
He said the 1984 election "reinstalled the evil empire and re-elected an amiable incompetent."
"We've come from a president born in Texas who had the courage to stand up for civil rights," he said, "to a president born in the land of Lincoln who has opposed every piece of civil rights legislation put forward in the last half of the 20th century."
The administration seems to want to take the U.S. government out of the business of enforcing equal opportunity, he said.
People must begin to work together again to get the country back on the road to equality, he said. People must remember that they move forward fastest when they move together, he said.
The top priority for the next few years should be to rebuild the support for civil rights that existed in the past. Bond said.
Bond compared the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in South Africa to buying Hitler bonds.
"Suppose I stood up here and
See BOND, p. 5, col. 3
Wilfredo Lee/KANSAN
Julian Bond, Georgia state senator, gestured during his speech to about 200 people Saturday night in Hoch Auditorium.
Car slides down hill into hall
Staff writer
Rv Tim Hrenchir
An automobile slid backward down a hill and smashed into the southwest corner of Sellars Scholarship Hall early Saturday.
The driver fled the scene of the 19-45 a.m. accident.
Tire marks indicated that the car had been driven along a sidewalk in front of Sellars. The car was then turned uphill off the sidewalk, but slid backward over some bushes and crashed into the hall.
The car got onto the sidewalk from a small parking lot between Sellards and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. Power Place.
Brenda Gordon, Carbondale sophomore, said she asked the driver if he was OK.
She said he answered, "No. I'm stuck."
"Then he just got up and staggered away," said Carolyn Lee, Plano, Texas, junior.
Residents told the driver they were going to call KU police.
The car was later towed away.
Rhonda Keylon, Tonganoxie freshman, said she was talking to Gordon and Lee when one of them looked out the window and said,
"Hey, look, there's a guy driving around in the grass."
Keylon said, "He put it in reverse
See ACCIDENT, p. 5, col. 5