Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1986
University Daily Kansan
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Services to be held for KU student today
A memorial service for Mr. J. David Markham, a special student who died Monday morning at the University of Kansas Medical Center, will be at 2 p.m. today in the Danforth Chapel.
Mr. Markham, 24, suffered a cerebral aneurysm while walking near Potter Lake Friday, and was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He later was transferred to the Med Center.
Survivors include his parents.
Col. Sanford and Ruth Markham,
New Market, England; a sister,
Elizabeth Ann Markham,
Washington, D.C.; and a brother,
Charles Markham, New Market,
England.
A memorial service also is planned in Mr. Markham's hometown of Southampton, N.Y.
Shop fire kills man
A Big Springs man died early yesterday morning in a fire at his workshop, the Douglas County sheriff said yesterday.
Ron Dahl, 46, died when a fire engulfed the workshop of his tree service at about 2 a.m., Sherif Rex Johnson said. Dahl was identified by dental records at 11 a.m. yesterday.
Johnson said he did not know why Dahl was in his workshop at 2 a.m. instead of at his house.
A friend of Dahl's told officers at the scene that there had been a chimney fire in the house sometime before 10 p.m. Johnson speculated that Dahl might have decided to stay in his workshop because of the chimney fire.
Johnson said the Lecompton Fire Department was called at about 2 a.m. after receiving a call from someone who received a CB message about the fire. When firefighters arrived, the building was engulfed. Johnson said.
Investigators think that there was a fire and an explosion in the building but do not know yet which came first, Johnson said. Chemicals that Dahl used in his tree service might have exploded.
Investigators from the Lawrence police, KU police, Douglas County Sheriff's Department, Lawrence Fire Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation were called to the scene, Johnson said. State fire marshals also were called in by the Lecompton Fire Department, which is routine in fire fatalities, Johnson said.
New street approved
The City Commission last night approved a final plat that could increase traffic west of Kasold Drive and between Yale and Harvard roads.
The commission accepted the dedication of rights of way and easements for the street, which will be named College Boulevard. It will connect Yale and Harvard roads west of Kasold Drive.
Price Banks, city planning director, said that because the plat met subdivision regulations, the planning commission and the city commission had little choice but to approve it.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high of 20 to 25. The wind will be south to southwest at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be most clear with a low near 10. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, windy and warmer with a high around 30.
Official says K-State leak broke code
By Leslie Hirschbach
Stan Warner
An unknown source at Kansas State University violated an unwritten code of confidence by revealing the names of nine finalists to replace K-State president Duane Acker, said the chairman of the search committee.
Staff writer
From staff and wire reports.
Chairman Jerome Frieman said that Saturday the Wichita Eagle-Beacon published a list of nine university administrators, including a former KU professor, as the finalists. It cited an unknown source close to the committee.
Frieman said the committee didn't have a final list of candidates and was still considering other qualified applicants.
The list would only cause problems for the people on it, he said, because finalists' coworkers might begin to ask them why they weren't happy with their current jobs and why they wanted to leave.
Charles Sidman, KU professor of history for 13 years and department-chairman for five years, was on the list. Sidman, who left the
University in 1978, is the dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
"It isn't really embarrassing, but I would just as soon have people not talk about me," he said.
Sidman said yesterday that he didn't want the publicity.
Sidman said the search committee contacted him shortly after the list was published and told him he was on a list of finalists. The committee didn't tell him that the list was inaccurate.
"I'm the kind of person that doesn't inquire into these matters," he said.
He assumed he was on a final list, but wasn't told anything specific. he said.
Sidman said the odds were good that he would remain at Florida because many qualified candidates were still being considered.
He said, however, that he had given his nomination much thought and was interested in
Robert Rufford, president of the University of Texas at Dallas and also listed as a finalist, said he wasn't happy about his name appearing on the published list
a job in Kansas, where he had spent the majority of his academic career.
He said that when the Eagle-Beacon contacted him last week about being a finalist, he had heard nothing from the committee at K-State.
"I presumed I was still being considered a candidate," he said.
The committee from K-State reached him shortly after the list was released and explained that he was on the list.
Rufford said the story had appeared Sunday morning in Dallas, and colleagues had already questioned him about leaving.
None of them had harassed him, he said, but it could be a problem later for him and the other candidates on the list.
Rufford said he was still looking at K-State, although he was happy at Texas. A career
move to Kansas was something he thought he should look into.
Frieman wouldn't confirm anyone on the list as a finalist.
"If I say one person is being considered, then everyone knows who isn't," he said.
Stanley Koopik, executive director of the Kansas Board of Regents and member of the 12-member search committee, said the people on the list were disappointed that confidentiality had been broken when they were told it had been published.
"These candidates enter these contests thinking there will be a degree of confidentiality," he said.
The committee is committed to secrecy, he said, but apparently hadn't worked hard enough to keep the information a secret.
He said, "We're hoping we don't lose anybody."
Writer tells of terrors in Cambodian prison
By Russell Gray
Staff writer
Dith Pran did what it took to survive — eating snakes, rats, lizards and grasshoppers, wading through swamps filled with skeletons and decaying bodies.
Pran did survive. He escaped from his communist Khmer Rugee and Vietnamese captors after $4 \frac{1}{2}$ years of imprisonment and hard labor' in Cambodia.
Pran, a Cambodian journalist, spoke to about 200 people yesterday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City about life in his native country.
The movie, "The Killing Fields," follows Pran's and American journalist Sydney Schanberg's escape from Cambodia. Schanberg escaped in 1975 and Pran in 1979. Pran saved Schanberg and other journalists by talking their captors out of killing them.
The Khmer Rouge, which killed nearly half the Cambodian population, gained control of Cambodia in 1975. Pran said. Vietnam took over in 1979.
"We believed that they would kill a few hundred people — the corrupt officials, the corrupt generals — but not the innocent people." he said.
Fighting spilled into Cambodia during the Vietnam War, he said. The leader of the country, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, sided with the Communists, helping them rise to power.
"For me, I survived because I told
them I was a taxi driver." Pran said.
After the Khmer Rouge imprisoned him, Pran said, he ate anything he could find, especially if he saw animals or birds eating it.
After a few hours in power, the Khmer Ruge began forcing people out of the cities and imprisoning and executing them, he said.
Craig Sands/KANSAN
Pran said that while working in the fields, he spent half his time working and the other half searching for food. If he wasn't working in the fields, it was harder for him to find additional food.
Everything in the movie was accurate, except that it was less violent and brutal than reality, according to Pran.
"I was lucky because I was alone," he said. "I didn't see my children starve."
"The Killing Fields' doesn't really end at two hours and 15 minutes," he said. "It is going on every minute around the clock around the world."
Under the Khmer Rouge, he said, children were taken from their schools and the elderly from retirement and put to work in the fields.
In Cambodia, it is taught that children and the elderly are to be respected, Pran said. Seeing them endure hard labor made him feel terrible.
"In order to survive, you keep it in your heart all the time," he said. "You just ignore it."
Pran said 98 percent of Cambodians were Buddhist. The Khmer Rouge tried to destroy all the temples, where school was taught. It wanted the children to learn only to plant rice.
Since Vietnam invaded in 1979, Pran said, the Khmer Rouge has taken to the jungle, which it makes hit-and-run raids against the Vietnamese every day. It receives arms from China.
The Vietnamese are a little better than the Khmer Rouge, Pran said. They arrest, torture and kill, but have no mass executions as do the Khmer Rouge.
Dith Pran speaks to about 200 people at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Pran, whose life as a journalist and prisoner was portrayed in the movie "The Killing Fields," described yesterday the atrocities that occurred in Vietnam and Cambodia after the fall of Saigon.
"I really don't understand why the holocaust still happens again and again," he said.
There are now 250,000 people in Thailand who have fled Cambodia, he said. The only way to get them home and end the current rule in Cambodia is through outside help.
The more powerful countries need to disarm the factions in Cambodia
and create the conditions for life as it was before the Khmer Rouge, he said.
Pran said he wanted to let the world, especially college students, know about the killing.
Listing of services to be published
Publication to help homosexuals
By Piper Scholfield
Homosexuals now have a guide to help them discover which businesses welcome their patronage.
KCINFO, Inc., a Kansas City corporation formed in October, also prints Personally, a gay community newsletter containing personal ads.
welcome their patronage, she said.
Barbara, Marketing Director for KCINFO and a KU student, said the publication of the Triangle Times resulted from a survey of Personally subscribers. The survey indicated that the gay community had no way of knowing which businesses would
KCINPo, Inc. is publishing the Triangle Times, which lists Kansas City area businesses and organizations of particular interest to gays
The guide includes listings of clubs, restaurants, attorneys and many other organizations and services that welcome gay customers. Barbara said any businesses could advertise in the Triangle Times — not just those owned or operated by gays.
Barbara and other sources in this story asked to be identified by only their first names.
The guide is updated bi-monthly and most new listings are obtained by word of mouth, she said.
Spinsters Books and Webbery, $101.2% Mainstays St., is listed in the Triangle Times as both a women's bookstore and a lesbian
"Anyone who offers services to gays may be found in the Triangle Times," said K.H., a member of the collective. "It's so gays can have a place to go and not be hassled."
tearroom. The business is run by a lesbian collective.
K. H. said Spinsters Books and Webbery received mail asking the business to advertise in the Triangle Times. A simple listing in the guide is free, but a more elaborate advertisement varies in cost, she said.
Richard, a gay KU student, said he had not experienced many problems with being harrassed in Lawrence. Homosexuals are the invisible minority and may go unnoticed in public, he said.
The bookstore carries books of interest to both homosexual and heterosexual women, K.H. said. The tearroom is a library, equipped with a teapot, where lesbians can congregate and socialize.
"There are just certain places, like J. Watson's, where I feel very uncomfortable because they cater to a very certain crowd," he said.
Although the guide seeks to make homosexuals aware of where they will be welcome, anyone who thinks they might have been the victim of homosexually discriminating acts may call 1-800-221-7044 for advice on what action may be taken. The crisis line is sponsored by the National Gay Task Force.
Warning on alcohol requested
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
TOPEKA — State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, pulled from her desk a white cardboard bulletin that she hopes will hang in liquor stores across Kansas.
Warning: drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause birth defects, the bulletin reads.
Branson has introduced a resolution encouraging the secretary of health and environment to develop programs to educate the public about fetal alcohol syndrome with pamphlets and bulletins. The resolution is before the Senate Public Health and Welfare committee.
The resolution requests, but would not require, that materials be posted in all establishments that sell liquor. It also encourages physicians and staff of all health units to provide information on the syndrome and asks hospitals and maternity centers to keep data on specific cases.
"Making people aware, we've got to start with that," Branson said. "More visibility makes the public more aware that drinking during pregnancy causes problems. The whole thrust of this is healthy babies."
Babies who suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome may have facial and organ abnormalities, growth deficiency or mental retardation resulting from excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
The resolution says there has never been an infant born with fetal alcohol syndrome whose mother did not consume alcohol during pregnancy.
State Sen. Jack Walker, R-Kansas City, said the damage from the alcohol affected the structuring of the embryo two months into pregnancy.
The resolution also requests that the health department encourage educational programs and asks that teachers of childbirth and prenatal classes provide information on the effects of alcohol on unborn children.
The committee will vote on the resolution tomorrow. If passed, the issue will then go to the full Senate for approval.
"It will be able to prevent emotional and financial costs to the families and to the state, to say nothing of the damage it does to the individual," she said.
Walker, a physician at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said babies who suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome were typically premature and often had heart defects.
"It's pretty obvious that alcohol is a problem," he said.
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