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Campus and Area
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. April 21, 1987
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Local Briefs
KU, Lawrence experience phone outage
A telephone outage on campus yesterday was caused when Southwestern Bell was installing new cabling. The telephone company official said.
KU Police phones were out for about 45 minutes, a spokesman said. But Dave Nichols, Southwest Bell cell manager, said that the problems began around 4:30 p.m., that most were cleared up by 5 p.m.
Southwestern Bell had received about 150 calls about the outage by 6 p.m. yesterday. But Nichols said he couldn't determine the number of phones affected or the area affected.
The Society of Professional Journalists recently awarded the Kansas a first-place award as the best student newspaper in this region. It also recently won the most prestigious national award given to a college newspaper's business and advertising staff.
KU journalists win 9 regional awards
The Kansan was named the 1987 Trendsetter in the college newspaper industry for its business and advertising staffs, and Grant Shafer was named the sales representative of the year by the College Newspapers Business and Advertising Managers.
KU journalism students won the most awards, with nine, of any school recently in the regional Mark of Excellence Contest sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.
KU first-place winners were Dawn Tongish and Bo Kealing, first place, television documentary; Kealing, first, television spot news; Patti Noland, first, best radio spot news; Matt Ehrlich, first, best radio non-deadline news
These winners advance to national competition.
KU commission honors 11 women
Eleven women were honored Thursday night at the Women's Recognition Program sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women.
The following women were honored: outstanding woman student in athletics, Rosie Wadman, Osceola Niles, Ill., senior; outstanding woman student in community services, Delmetri Bynum, Topeka junior; outstanding nontraditional woman students, Diane Mlodoenzie, Lawrence senior and Joan Wellman, Lawrence sophomore; outstanding woman student in leadership, Martie Aaron, Wichita senior; outstanding woman student in student services, Margaret Ruth Palmer, Independence senior; outstanding international woman student, Yuko Takahashi, Kawasaki, Japan, graduate student; outstanding pioneer woman, Susanna Madora Salter; outstanding woman teacher, Sandra Albrecht, associate professor of sociology; outstanding woman staff members, Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director, and Ola Faucher, assistant director of employment services.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, the date for the Red Zone concert was incorrectly stated in yesterday's Kansas. The Red Zone will play at the Jazhauz, $929. 92\%$ Massachusetts St., at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.
L. A. Rauch/KANSAN
From staff and wire reports
Mark Potter, ABC News correspondent, talks about drug trafficking from Central and South America to the United States. Potter spoke last night to about 75 people in Aldershot Audiorium in the Kansas Union.
War on drugs is being lost ABC newsman Potter says
Empty rhetoric and Band-Aid solutions won't do, he says
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
The United States' war on drugs is full of empty rhetoric and is being lost, an ABC news correspondent said yesterday.
"There are still many people who are trying to minimize the U.S. drug problem or to wish it away with Band-Aid solutions or rhetoric." Mark Potter, the correspondent, told about 75 people last night in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. His lecture was sponsored by the Student Senate Lecture Series and the School of Journalism radio-television sequence.
"The supply of drugs in this country today is staggering, and it pours in like water." Potter said. Potter has covered the story of the ABC's "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" since 1983. He has traveled in Central and South America, reporting on the drug trade.
Max Utsler, chairman of radio and television, who taught Potter at the University of Missouri in 1974, said he was proud of Potter's
journalistic accomplishments.
"TV reporters sometimes are accused of being just so much flash and trash, but he really gets it wrong, that he affects all of us." Utsler said.
Potter said U.S. citizens were the No. 1 users of illegal drugs in the world.
Seventeen percent of U.S. high school seniors have tried cocaine, and 54 percent have used marijuana, he said. And the price of cocaine has fallen to a point where just about anybody can afford it.
"Unfortunately, drug abuse is not just a Miami vice," he said. "It's not just a New York vice. Those towns are only the conduits for drugs that eventually end up here."
The best way to end drug trafficking would be to end drug demand, Potter said. But the Reagan administration, which last year announced a war on drug by the federal government, the federal drug education budget.
"Covering the illegal drug trade for any period of time, you see so much hypocrisy and false promises that while it is always an intriguing endeavor, it can also be frustrating and quite depressing," he said.
Both fighting the drug dealers and educating the public about the consequences of drug abuse need to increase, Potter said. The drug trade probably never will be eliminated because there's too much money to be made in it, he said.
Drug dealers in nations such as Bolivia and Colombia are so powerful and ruthless that there is little chance to crack down on them, Potter said. In Bolivia, 11 Supreme Court justices who opposed drug trafficking were assassinated in one shootout.
Potter said drug-related violence in Miami peaked during the drug wars of the late '70s and early '80s, when drug dealers committed machine-gun mass murders in broad daylight.
"The purported war against drugs is costing us billions of dollars and has cost the untold lives of dedicated police officers, journalists, judges and governmental allers over the world." he said.
March scheduled as a protest to aid given to contras
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
A Latin America Solidarity protest march against contra aid has been scheduled today to coincide with a vote in the Senate on Reagan's policy in Central America.
Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs and discusso (Central America) What Are the Keys to Success p.m. in the Kansas Union ballroom.
Abrams has been an active supporter of the contrasts, who seek to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, and is at the center of a reagan administration to win congressional approval for contra aid.
"We'll try to get some of our people inside," said Rhonda Neugebauer, programming assistant at the University of Kansas libraries and sponsor of the rally. "We want people to think critically about what Elliott Abrams is saving."
The protest march will begin at noon at Wescoe beach and will move to the Kansas Union where Abrams is speaking.
Neugebauer, who visited Nicaragua in 1986 on a research seminar sponsored by the department of Latin American studies, said the rally's goal was to educate students about the contra issue.
"Abrams directs and coordinates state department operations in Honduras," Neugebauer said. "He says
communism is the problem in Nicaragua, but it isn't. Poverty and exploitation are the problems."
Charles Stansifer, director of Latin American studies, said Abrams' visit to the University of Kansas was important because he was the highest level spokesman in the government on U.S. policy in Latin America.
"In lie of hearing the President himself speak on the U.S. policy in Central America, you'll hear his principal spokesman," Stansifer
Stansifer said only Reagan and George Shultz, secretary of state, were above Abrams in the formation of Central American policy.
"And neither the President nor Shultz comes to Kansas too often." Stansifer said.
He said Abrams' comments on Central America would be particularly interesting to KU students and would be his focus on Latin American studies.
"This is a hot issue," Stansifer said.
An article in the March 2 Newsweek said Abrams had lost credibility in the Iran-contra affair. And although he maintained that he knew nothing about the Teheran connection, he had been mentioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee in connection with the administration's legally questionable efforts to facilitate private aid for the contras.
Student ends strike by eating Easter egg
By a Kansan reporter
Michael Maher, Roeland Park senior, peeled and ate an Easter egg in Strong Hall yesterday, a day after he ended a 20-day hunger strike for divestment.
Maher began the strike March 30, saying he would not eat until 50 KU alumni had written letters urging the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest from companies that do business in South Africa.
The 50th letter arrived Saturday, Maher said yesterday, and he broke his fast the next day by having an Easter dinner with his family in Roeland Park. Maher lost 20 to 25 pounds during the hunger strike.
Maber found his 53rd letter yesterday on the platform in the Strong Hall rotunda, where he spent several afternoons during the strike.
Mahar said most of the letters were from 1970s KU graduates who lived in
Kansas and Missouri, although he received one each from Indiana Arizona and Colorado.
"So, it's been a real feat of net-
working," Maher said.
"Very few alumni were actually going on here, and we still oot at least."
Mahar said he was urging alumni to attend the Endowment Association.
"I think this will continue to blossom out. I think we'll get some real impact here." he said.
Maher said the letters would be presented to Todd Seymour. Endowment Association president, after a march from Strong Hall to the Endowment Association offices in Youngberg Hall on West Campus.
Maher was not contacted by either the Endowment Association or the University administration during the strike. Seymour would not comment during the strike.
Atomic bomb product of politics, not progress, author says
Staff writer
Bv IOSEPH REBELLO
The building of the atomic bomb was not a product of scientific progress but of a kind of politics that now confounds efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons, the author of a book on the atomic bomb said last night.
Richard Rhodes, author of the critically acclaimed "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," said some of the world's most terrible diseases had been eradicated because nations were ready to put politics aside and cooperate on finding a cure.
But no such cooperation on ending the arms race seems possible because the issue is so dominated by politics and mutual distrust between superpowers, he said.
St. The lecture was sponsored by the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Rhodes spoke to about 175 people in the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont
"The arms race wasn't historically necessary," he said. "The arms race was the result of political decisions made at the end of the war."
Until the early 1930s, three of the world's foremost nuclear scientists, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, had little knowledge of their scientists to harness atomic energy. Rhodes said,
But with the discovery of nuclear fission in the early 1940s, that lack of faith was gone. In its place had come the recognition of the importance of nuclear energy put to destructive use. Rhodes said.
Some scientists, such as Bohr, tried to warn Allied leaders of those consequences, but their advice was spurned.
"I cannot see what you're talking about."
Churchill told Bohr. "It's only a bigger bomb."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill responded at the time to Bohr's warnings with exasperation, Rhodes said.
Yet, even in reconciling himself to the leaders' indifference, Bohr also saw reason for hope in the deployment of nuclear weapons, and much of what he predicted already has taken place. Rhodes said.
For example, Bohr predicted that once two opposing nations had nuclear weapons, neither would attempt to fight a war on the assumption that it would win.
That, Bohr calculated, would lead nations to sacrifice some of their sovereignty to negotiate peace. They would have to allow adversaries to verify their compliance with peace treaties.
That prediction became a reality in 1960 after
A u-2 spat plane flown by U.S. pilot Gary Powers was shot down while on a mission over the Soviet Union. The plane was attempting to hit the Soviet Union's missile capability, Rhodes said.
"Since that day, leaders have understood what it's all about, and now overlying by spy satellites is not only tolerated but encouraged not only because which was exactly Bolz's "notion," he said.
"It's worth considering that change is coming despite the best efforts of those who would stockpile arms," Rhodes said.
That change was the result of more scientific progress about the consequences of nuclear
"The more we all can learn and make public what we learn, the sooner we will get over this terrible point we are at now." Rhodes said
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