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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, JAN. 21, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 79 (USPS 650-640)
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Anti-apartheid advocates display a banner to protest South Africa's policy of racial separation as Chancellor Gene A. Budgi speaks to an audience in Smith
Hall. Budig spoke yesterday as part of the activities on campus to commemorate the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Marchers rekindle King's ideals
Bv Abbie Jones
Staff writer
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The words ring in the hearts of blacks. But blacks a sit the day
See related story p. 6.
when the words sink into the hearts of the rest of the nation's people, said KU students who honored the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday.
"We are just looking for a way to keep Dr. King's dream alive," said Diana Horton, Norfolk, Va., senior, who participated in the first observance of the federal holiday.
"Just because he died doesn't mean his dream has to," Horton said. "Now we have to change people's thinking. We just want to be seen as people and that's all we're asking."
Quietly singing "We Shall Overcome," about 400 students, professors and administrators paraded from the Chi Omega fountain down Jayhawk Boulevard behind a banner reading "Living the Dream — Martin Luther King Jr."
Smith Hall for a speech from Chancellor Gene A. Budig and the reading of King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech by the Rev. Leo Barbee, pastor of Victory Baptist Church, 445 Lyons St.
The marchers then gathered in
The activities also were attended by anti-apartheid advocates, who carried signs denouncing the KU administration's position on apartheid.
The parade was one of several events coordinated by the office of minority affairs to honor King. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tenn.
said, "I want the people at KU to feel a little bit of the pride that King felt. This is probably the most wonderful day we'd have in a long time."
Lennie Wesley, Wichita junior and member of Inspirational Gospel Voices, which sang at Smith Hall,
Administrators agreed that King's ideals must endure.
At Smith Hall, Budig said KU must uphold the values that helped curb racism.
"The University must never lose sight of the distance of his travels," Budig said. "We must continue to strive for a just and open University."
Richard Barksdale, Langston Hughes visiting professor of English.
See KING. D. 5. col. 3
Evans Scholars to close KU chapter
Staff writer
By Russell Gray
The Evans Scholars Fraternity, 1942 Stewart Ave., will end its 13-year affiliation with the University of Kansas in May, becoming the first chapter in the fraternity's history to close.
The house is closing because the state cannot produce enough scholarship applicants for the house, according to Joe Saliba, president of the house and of the national organization.
"It's just the worst thing that's happened to me in my four years at school," said Saliba, Highland Park, III. senior.
Saliba said he did not know who
was buying the house or how much it was selling for. A real estate agent is handling the sale, he said.
Mark Charlton, Overland Park freshman, summed up the general feeling in the house.
"It sucks." he said.
There are three requirements for getting the 4-year full-tution-and-housing scholarship to the Evans Scholars fraternity, Saliba said. One of those requirements contribute to the recruiting difficulties.
Besides graduating in the top 25 percent of their high school class and show financial need, applicants must have been a golf caddy for at least two years, Saliba said.
The problem is that Kansas City,
the main source of applicants for the house, only has five country clubs to employ caddies, he said.
More than 20 of the 32 members of the house now are from Chicago, and keeping a Kansas chapter became unprofitable, Saliba said. There are 1,500 to 2,000 applicants in Illinois each year, 250 of which will receive scholarships, he said.
Most of members of the house are Chicago residents, who must pay out-of-station tuition. he said.
Jerry Rogers, Evans' faculty adviser, said, "I feel bad about it, but there just wasn't any choice."
Rogers said no out-of-state scholarship recipients had come here this year and the house only had three
pledges. The fraternity plans to open a chapter at Northern Illinois University to compensate for the closing here. he said.
The KU chapter will merge with the University of Missouri chapter, and members can transfer there or to any other chapter. Rogers said.
If the house is not sold by August, members may choose to live in the house, Saliba said. But if the house is sold, the members must leave when the buver wants to move in, he said.
Although Evans Scholars will no longer exist as a fraternity on campus, Saliba said most members who stay here would live together.
See EVANS, p. 5, col. 6
Senate to debate apartheid issue
By Sandra Crider Staff writer
The state Senate is scheduled to consider a resolution today that, when added to other gestures, eventually could make a difference in the South African government's apartheid policies, state and campus leaders said yesterday.
The resolution asks the South African government to release Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, according to its sponsor, state Sen. Eugene Anderson, D-Wichita.
Several members of the KU Committee on South Africa said they would be in favor of such a move.
Jane Ungerman, Overland Park senior, said she thought that if the resolution was passed it would have a positive effect on the anti-apartheid movement.
"I think that it helps keep the issue in the consciences of people on campus and in the community," she said.
Charles Munson, Leawood junior and a member of the committee, said a governmental body taking such a stance probably would be an encouragement to those suffering under apartheid, if they found out about it.
He said, "This action alone probably doesn't mean very much, but
when added to the totality of action, the U.S. students' actions and the government's actions can make a difference in what goes on there."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, said it was vital that South Africa's problems be publicly recognized in order to put a halt to them.
"If nobody talks about the problems, or if no one highlighted the problems, they would be allowed to flourish." he said.
"One of the reasons I think it's important is that Kansas has a history of opposing situations that are causing injustice," he said.
Winter said he thought the situation in South Africa was easier for Kansans to identify with because of the progress made for racial equality in the United States.
Although the Senate must be careful about becoming involved in foreign policy matters, Winter said, there are a great number of Kansans that find aparthief "disgusting."
"It is a matter of very fundamental human rights, one that is easily identified with on the part of many Kansans, and thus is not inappropriate for the Senate to deal with," he said.
Warm temperatures bring on spring fever
Staff writer
By Lori Poison
The temperatures are up, but the fever — cabin fever — is down. The springlike weather, however, may turn into the normal winter chill by the end of the week.
Tom Krieshok, counselor for the University, Counseling Center, said yesterday that people tended to be in better moods when the weather was warm and they could participate in outdoor activities.
"There is some evidence of a cabin fever phenomenon," he said. "But it usually affects people more on a long-term basis than day-to-day."
The National Weather Service in Topeka is predicting lower temperatures and cloudy skies for today. The high should be in the 40s or 50s and the lows in the mid-30s.
The weather is expected to turn cooler, and temperatures will become more seasonable on Wednesday. There should be a slight chance of rain for much of Kansas, but Lawrence is expected to remain dry, a spokesman for the weather service said.
Snow is not in the outlook for the rest of the week.
Krieshok said it was too early to tell whether the Counseling Center had seen fewer students than last
January since it still was technically the first week of classes.
"When people realize they have a whole semester ahead of them, they get depressed more easily," he said. "Being able to get outside makes everybody feel a little better."
Peggy Packard, Wellington graduate student, said she was taking every opportunity to enjoy the sunshine while it lasted.
"It a summer person," she said.
"I could stay like this until March and then get warm and I wouldn't mind. It's great."
Doug Holland, the late seni, said the dry, warm weather gave him a chance to do things he normally wouldn't do in January.
The average high for January is 36 and the average low is 16. As of Jan. 17, the average high has been 47.7 and the average low 22.8.
"I usually wouldn't work on my car at this time of the year," he said. "I've also plaved tennis."
Average precipitation for the month is 88 inches, but a weather service spokesman said that so far this year there had only been a trace.
Although the outlookstill is bright for the middle of January, grayer days lie ahead.
Student vies for space job
Holland said he did not miss seeing snow. even if it was Januarv.
By Frank Ybarra
By Frank
Staff writer
A KU graduate student is among the many journalists around the country and in Kansas who are hoping for a trip on the space shuttle.
Ken Murphy, a political reporter for WIBW-TV in Topeka, sent in his application for the job last week.
Murphy, who is working on his master's degree in public administration, said he applied for the job because it was a unique opportunity for a journalist to tell other people what it was like to be in space.
A national panel in early April will recommend five journalists to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for final approval.
"What is it like to slip into a space suit and experience weightlessness?" he said. "Is it like holding your breath and diving into a ten-foot well?
"I'd really like to take an opportunity to communicate the humanness of space."
The University of Kansas is helping NASA select the journalist who will go up in the shuttle next fall.
Del Brinkman, dean of journalism, will lead a regional review committee which will select eight of 40 final candidates.
Marilyn Yarbrough, professor of law and associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, will serve on the national panel which will recommend five of the 40 finalists for the program.
About 1,300 applications have been received nationally, according to Eric Johnson, who is coordinator of the program based at the University of South Carolina. The deadline for applications was Jan. 15, but Johnson said he was just now receiving those postmarked Jan. 13 and 14. The applications will be sent to 170 schools around the country that will evaluate them.
Four cooperating schools, Oklahoma State University, the University of Texas, Texas Tech University and the University of Nebraska, will send about five recommendation each to KU, Musser said. The KU panel will then interview and videotape the candidates.
Anyone with at least five years of professional experience in print or electronic media is eligible for the project.
Rick Musser, an associate professor of journalism who is assisting Brinkman, said KU was one of five regional schools that would pick semifinalists for the trip.
He said the panel, which will be selected from educators and journalists, would look for someone who was an excellent communicator.
Yarbough will be one of 14 journalists and educators and one former astronaut who will meet March 31 through April 4 to decide who the finalists will be. NASA makes the final decision on who will be on the shuttle.
Yarbrough also said the ability to communicate would be important in
"I look at it like the Publisher's Clearing House competition," Murphy said. "You've got to compete to wip."
deciding who was most qualified to make the trip.
He said that he wanted to apply because he might have regretted it later.
Murphy said his background in newspapers, magazines and television would help him in the application process.
He said a reporter could add an amount of objectivity that wasn't as present at NASA now.
But Murphy is only one of a few journalists in the area who have applied for the shuttle flight.
Bob Getz, a columnist for the Wichita Eagle Beacon, said he applied for the job because it would allow him to write about people and places that weren't very familiar to most people.
Getz said he might write a book about his experiences in space if he had the opportunity to go.
"Undoubtedly it is a chance in a lifetime." Getz said.
Mark Morris, assistant city editor at the Kansas City Times, said he applied because he couldn't pass up the opportunity of possibly being the first journalist in space.
He said a reporter could communicate the feelings and sensations of space and could describe what it was like to travel above the Earth better than anyone who traveled in space before.
KNEA plans to organize KU faculty
Staff writer
Bv Jull Warren
The Kansas National Education Association plans to organize the faculty at the University of Kansas, an organizer said yesterday.
Tom Madden, who was named KNEA higher education organizer in December, said he hoped to set up an office in February as close to campus as possible.
KNEA represents educators and has about 20,000 members. It has been involved in contract negotiations for primary and secondary teachers.
Madden recommended last week that the site for his office be in Lawrence. The association also was considering opening an office at Kansas State University.
Madden's office is now at the KNEA office in Topeka.
Sidney Shapiro, president of Senate Executive Committee and a member of the American Association of University Professors, said that to have a bargaining unit such as KNEA would be "quite a change from the existing way of doing things."
The University now is organized in a legislative and a democratic system, Shapiro said.
See KNEA, p. 5, col.1