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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday May 1, 1987 Vol. 97, No. 145 (USPS 650-640)
Fraternity members assess losses
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
Karlton Uhm said that it took him a day to really understand, and then he went into shock.
"I realized that all the stuff I'd been collecting for twenty years was gone, everything I owned," he said.
Uhm, a Wimette III, senior, lived in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, 1645 Tennessee ST., before it was sold. He had no renter's insurance, he said.
This is what Uhm salvaged from the charred wreck that was his room: two pair of shoes, cutoff sweatpants, his wallet, his watch, his camera. Everything else is ashes, he said.
When his parents moved to Korea two years ago, they kept insurance only on the house they owned in Chicago. Uhm said.
Steve Mueller, Overland Park junior, also lost everything he had in his room, including a video-cassette recorder, a stereo, a turntable, a compact disc player, a television and a brand new camera, he said.
But Mueller is far from dismayed. He had complete replacement insurance.
company hasn't challenged any of his claims.
"I'm doing great. I can't believe the cooperation I'm getting. If I've got to look at the good side, it's like a mountain that I'm not going to that I'm glad it happened," he said.
Mueller also isn't worried about his final examinations, he said.
"At first it started out bad, but they didn't understand the situation. I had the dean of student affairs lean on a teacher for me," he said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, could not be reached to confirm that. Linda Beville, associate dean of student affairs, referred questions to the student assistance center.
Bob Turvey, associate director of the student assistance center, said that his office had sent letters to all the fraternity members' professors to verify which students actually had lived in the fraternity house.
The letters also urged professors to meet with the students to determine what books or notes had been lost, he said, and to make arrangements for final exams.
About three students complained Wednesday and yesterday to a member of Turvey's staff that they thought their professors were being unfair to them. Turvey said.
"I still don't think they are satisfied at this point." he said.
Jeff Syslo, Omaha junior and a member of the fraternity, said that freshmen in the fraternity would have an especially hard time with their finals, because they weren't experienced with final exams.
Fraternity members said that most professors did what they could to help members. In fact, they said, one student already had gone home because his professors excused him from all his finals.
Phil Huntsinger, professor of health education, said that he had seven or eight Sigma Phi Epsilon members in the health and human sexuality course he taught.
Greg Wiley, Lincoln, Neb., freshman, said, "I'm going to get five hours of C. My GPA is history."
He said that he had decided to make his lecture notes available to all class members, not just those fraternity members.
But most were not so lucky.
"I don't like doing even that, truthfully," he said. "It should be a
student's responsibility to take notes.
"It's a tough situation. I've had other kids in the class this semester who have had serious tragedies. I can't do more for the fraternity kids than I did for them. I've got to be fair."
But Syslo asked, "How do you study with someone else's notes?"
Arno Knapper, professor of business, said that he would make special provisions for the three fraternity members in his class on organizational behavior.
"During the final, they can feel free to come up and ask me questions," he said.
Although any of his students can ask questions during the final, he said he would be more inclined to answer the fraternity members' questions. Also, it will be an open-book examination, and Knapper said that he borrowed books for the fraternity members to use.
Uhm said that at least his final examinations wouldn't trouble him.
"I have to take two out of four," he said. "I'm not worried about my grades as much as how to get my life back to being organized."
Papers tie contras, drug bust
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The telephone number of a secret U.S. intelligence operation in Honduras was discovered in papers confiscated by federal drug agents from a plane they seized in Florida last month, The Associated Press has learned.
A U.S. government source indicated this week that the intelligence operation was aiding the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras. The papers, apparently belonging to the plane's pilot, also contain the names and telephone numbers of top contra leaders.
House and Senate investigators are examining the papers as part of a wider inquiry into allegations that crews who ferried supplies to the Nicaraguan rebels brought planeloads of drugs into the United States while U.S. intelligence officials looked the other way.
In one document, a calendar, the names of two contra officials are handwritten on a page dated March 7, 1987, just weeks before the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized the plane March 24 in Charlotte County, Fla., because it was wanted in connection with an illegal drug operation.
Authorities say they found no drugs on the plane.
Another entry for March 7 says, "Called Tom Wire ," A separate page of what appeared to be the same address lists a telephone number for Wire.
Reached at the Honduras telephone number by The AP, a man with a U.S. accent who answered to the name of Wire said he was "connected with the military. We are the local military group."
The man said he had no military rank and referred all calls to the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa. He then gave a reporter the correct embassy telephone number. Wire said he was told that Frank and Frank Moss, the pilot of the plane,
The embassy had no comment.
TOPEKA — About 750 people rally to protest the possibility that low-level radioactive waste from four other states could be stored in Kansas. The ralw was vesterdav morning on the steps of the state house. See story page 10.
KU administrators close difficult year with an upbeat note
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
KU administrators are pleased with the outcome of the school year, but they're also happy it's over.
"The year is ending better than I expected it would at midyear." Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday. "Since this is my first year in office, I hadn't expected some of the difficulties."
"The spring semester has been gradually improving since the governor put a high priority on education," Brinkman said. "It sent a message to the Legislature that even in tough times, education is important."
He said some of the problems administrators had to overcome this year included a record enrollment increase and a state-ordered budget
He said that as a result of Gov Mike Hayden's support, the Legislature had approved corridor financing, the Board of Regents budget proposal and the University's enrollment financing plan.
"For me it's been a learning experience under fire," Brinkman said. "I hope we don't have to repeat this year again."
Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said it had been a busy year for everyone in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences because of the vast increase of students and the budget cut.
"We're ending the year on an upbeat note. We're patting ourselves on the back, but we were helped by the Legislature," he said. The Kansas House and Senate on Wednesday approved the University of Kansas' 1987 fee release, fiscal 1988 operating budget, fiscally assisted and faculty salary increases.
"The short-term money will help
with expenses we've had through increased enrollment." Lineberry said. "but we need the long-term money to improve."
He said that the college had a tremendous year in terms of bringing in fine teachers and scholars.
"We need to remind ourselves this is still a quality University that faculty are happy to come to," he said.
"That's the culmination of the year for us," he said.
He said his office should be mailing financial aid awards to 6,000 students within a week.
Rogers said changes in the definition of independent studies and federal-government certification for Guaranteed Student Loans had slowed his office's processing of financial awards.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said it would take another week to see whether the year had gone as well for the office of student financial aid as he thought.
"If we can get the checks out fast, it will have been a good year for us," Rogers said.
"We think everything is okay in the system, then something pops in and causes an anomaly."
The office has been working with the computer center to speed the delivery of student aid checks for the next school year.
Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor, said the only problems the University had this year were financial.
"But the Legislature just approved the fee release," he said.
He also said it had been an interesting year for the University in sports.
The basketball team did a great job.
And the football team will get better.
Staff writer
By JENNIFER FORKER
Graduates recall KU, await final ceremony
Today is the last day of the semester's classes at the University of Kansas, and the last classes that graduating students will be attending. It's over. They're done. But how do they feel?
Some are concerned about finding jobs, others are thrilled to be finished. Still others dread leaving their friends and life at the University.
But whatever their situations, on May 17 they'll walk down the hill for the University's 115th Commencement ceremony.
"I'm more worried about getting a job right now rather than graduating," she said.
Anne Fritzlen, Kansas City, Mo. senior, said she was excited to graduate, but also apprehensive.
Mark Peden, Kansas City, Kan,
senior, said he wasn't thinking about
graduating, but about the future.
He said he wouldn't miss the University.
“There’s a lot of pressure about what to do next. I’m one of those that doesn’t know what I’m doing.” Fritzten said.
She said most of the people she knew were occupied with graduation and having fun, and not worried about the future.
"They'll think about the rest of it later," she said.
"I'm really excited, but I'm also really scared because I don't have anything set for the future." Freeman said.
Anita Freeman, Smithville, Mo.
senior, said she was sad to leave her
friends and the campus. She also was
wary about the future.
Brian Riordan, Wichita senior, is spending the summer in Hawaii and spending September in Tokyo. He's going to Hawaii on a scholarship program and the Japanese Ministry of Education is financing his trip to Tokyo. He said he was excited, but also sorry, to leave the University.
"I'm excited about the prospect of the future but I'm disappointed to leave the good life I've had here," Brianod said.
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He said he was looking forward to the commencement ceremony.
KU officials hope graduating students don't partake in too much of the spirits on graduation day before the 8 p.m. ceremony.
"I'm looking forward to it but I'm sorry more friends are not graduating on time to share the spirit of the event with me," he said.
The will to win
Athletes must be strong in the areas of commitment, attitude and communication in order to make it to the top. See story page 11.
r, in an effort to encourage See CEREMONY. p. b, col. 3
Henry's Greenhouse, a greenhouse and farm just west of Stull on Douglas County Road 1023, is the perfect spot for some KU art students to practice their craft. See story page 7.
Here a moo
This is the final edition of the 1967 spring Kansas. Publication will begin again on June 10, and the paper will come out each Wednesday during the summer school session.
Stop the presses
Victim suffers symptoms of AIDS, vows to live
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Doug looked down at his radio and said, "I know how you can lose weight for tree, in fact so much stronger than almost all die. Just get AIDS like I did."
Staff writer
"Lose weight fast," the voice on the radio said. "Join our weight-loss program for only $150 and decrease a whole dress size in just one month."
He laughed out loud but admitted that joking about his fatal disease made all the difference in the world.
As Doug drove along a Topeka street in his Toyota, he listened to a radio station play music from the '60s and '70s. The music was interrupted by a commercial for a weight loss program.
He is being treated at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Topeka and lives in a mid-sized city west of Topeka. He also is involved in the Topeka AIDS Project, or TAP, a program that uses volunteers to help AIDS and ARC victims deal with their death-sentence diseases. A TAP team leader contacted him for the interview.
Doug, a 23-year-old homosexual, has AIDS related complex, or ARC. His disease was diagnosed two years ago. Doug asked that his real name not be used.
ARC has all the general symptoms of AIDS without the opportunistic infections that go along with the disease, said Chuck Fallis, spokesman for the national Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
The general symptoms of ARC include rapid and unexplained weight loss, diarrhea, persistent fever, night sweats and thrush, an infection of the oral tissues, Fallis said. In addition, people with ARC suffer from lymphopathy, a disease of the lymph glands that produces swelling in the neck, armpits and
groin.
"I've suffered from all of these symptoms." Doug said.
If the thrush that is now in Doug's mouth and throat moves into his lungs, the infection may take the form of a parasitic pneumonia, and Doug officially will have AIDS, Fallis said.
Another lifestyle
Doug knew he was different from the day he was born, he said. He tried to go on dates with girls in his first two years of high school, but he said those evenings were very uncomfortable.
It wasn't until he was 15 years old that Doug connected the definition of homosexuality with his sexual attraction toward men. Soon after that, when he was 16, Doug had his first sexual experience with a man.
"I can remember the day during high school when I was supposed to
Doug said he thought his dad accepted her alternative lifestyle but didn't give up.
In his senior year of high school, Doug said he knew of one or two other boys who were homosexuals. He
take a test in my next class, but I stopped first to phone my mom to tell her I was gay. "Doug said."
But his father's reaction was different, he said. "He really didn't have anything to say about the matter at all."
His mother told him not to panic but instead to remain calm and go to class to take his test. When he arrived home after school, Doug said his mother talked to him about their earlier phone conversation.
"She wasn't real happy about my being gay, but I think she accepted it," he said. "She realized that it wasn't just a phase I was going through. She didn't try to get counseling for me or anything."
Doug's father was in the military so his family frequently moved.
didn't associate with them, though,
or with many other students. He knew he had made a decision that
had thrown him into the adult world.
Doug said he was involved with forensics for a time while in high school. He also described himself as inquisitive and a good listener. He said he paid attention in school and was something of a "brain."
But Doug became increasingly more involved in activities outside of high school. He started going to gay bars when he was 17.
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Doug said he was promiscuous, very promiscuous. Growing up at the tail end of the sexual revolution, it was cool to have a number of sexual experiences and never get involved, he said.
Doug said he never realized the risk of contracting AIDS.
See AIDS, p. 8, col.1