Wizard of blahs
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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April 2,1987
Vol. 97,No.124
(USPS 650-640)
Former senator Gary Hart of Colorado hands out an autograph to a young Ottawa resident after a speech in his hometown. Hart spoke to a receptive crowd last night at the Ottawa University chapel.
Education is top priority, Hart says
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
OTTWA — The federal government should repair the Reagan administration's damage to higher education and go on to make the country's universities the best in the world, former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart said in a speech last night.
Hart, speaking about ethics and priorities in government during a visit to his hometown, said Reagan's cutting Fell Grants, Guaranteed Student Loans and other student financial aid hurt higher education.
The government should increase scholarships in core academic areas such as science, math and language, he said.
"I fought hard against those cuts," said the former Colorado senator, who many people expect will announce his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president April 13 in Denver.
Hart said he would pay for increased education, health and welfare spending through luxury, excise and oil import taxes. But he said he would not raise income taxes, other than a temporary tax hike for top income brackets. He also would cut defense and some domestic spending.
"I learned all my early lessons in this community." he said.
Hart's speech at the Ottawa University chapel drew about 800 people, many of whom were family and old friends. He grew up in Ottawa and attended Ottawa High School. Distant relatives, former classmates and former teachers greeted him as he left the chapel.
Hart criticized the Reagan administration's negotiating to reduce nuclear weapons. He recently returned from the Soviet Union, where he met Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Reagan made a mistake when he
Harry Shaffer, professor of economics and adviser for the KU Democrats, said Hart's chances improved when New York Gov. Mario Cuomo said he would not seek the nomination.
rejected Gorbachev's offer to drastically reduce nuclear arms in exchange for a Strategic Defense Initiative testing ban. Hart said.
"He is genuinely attempting to reform his own society," Hart said of Gorbachev. "He has decided in his government's and nation's best interest that we have to have reductions in nuclear weapons."
Hart's high school English and
journism teacher, Florence Robinson, said after the speech that Hart was a fine student.
Hart, who lost the 1984 Democratic bid, said, "I do have one announcement to make. I intend to run for the United States, April Fools."
"I think that with Cuomo out of the field that he has a very good chance," he said. "He has charisma. His ideas are liberal, but not so liberal as to be unacceptable."
But his campaign is no joke to other Democratic contenders because Hart is considered the front-runner for the nomination.
Evangelist scandals arm religious cynics and hurt church name
By JOSEPH REBELLO
"Most people who are not Christian tend to view these people as representatives of Christianity, and it is what they've always believed."
staff writer
Paul Hahn, Lawrence senior and president of Campus Advance, a campus Christian group, said, "It's too bad. What I see on campus is that it's creating a negative attitude toward organized religion."
The recent actions of television evangelists Jim Bakker, Oral Roberts and Jerry Fallwell have given skeptics of organized religion the ammunition they've been looking for, some campus Christian leaders say.
Roberts "your-money-or-my-life" fund-raising tactics, and the news of Bakker's sexual encounter with a church secretary that resulted in Falwell's takeover of Bakker's Pentecostal PTL Club, have blackened the name of Christian groups, the leaders sav.
"We're embarrassed by what's going on," the Rev. Jimmy Cobb, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church, 1917 Naismith Drive, said Monday. "We do not support those kinds of groups."
Jim Musser, a minister for Campus Christians, said, "I think there's a consensus that we are saddened by the way these events have been handled.
Hahn, who lives in a residence hall, said he frequently heard cafeteria conversation turn to the subject of the Bakker scandal. What followed almost invariably were disparaging remarks about Christianity, he said.
'These college years are years when people make decisions that
affect them the rest of their lives." Hahn said, "Anything like this is going to leave people with a negative impression of religion."
David Pierson, Hays junior and president of Ecumenical Christian Ministries' Student Programs Council, said that television evangelists went to publicity when something went wrong, the effect was enormous.
"People who want to become closer with Christianity say, 'If that's what it about, then I don't want to be affiliated with it,'" he said.
Other campus leaders said that the media had blown the controversy out of shape.
"The media is trying to make a big deal of it," said Larry Havlicek, faculty adviser to the campus chapel of the Maranatha Christian Ministries.
Bob Minor, associate professor of religious studies, said. "Most campus Christian groups do not sympazize with television evangelism and so will not identify with its troubles now."
Despite the magnitude of the controversy, some good might come from it, said Brook Manees, Prairie Village sophomore and member of Campus Crusade for Christ.
"People in our group see themselves working for a good cause, and this might make them work harder," he said.
Med Center tests tumor cure
"People are becoming less vulnerable to being led along by personality types." Cobb said.
Cobb said that the controversy had dealt a blow to people's faith in television evangelism TV ratings for the programs have dropped, he said.
Staff writer
By JENNIFER WYRICK
The University of Kansas Medical Center and the Brain Tumor Institute in Kansas City, Mo., along with Yale University, are taking part in a pilot investigation to test an alternative cure for malignant brain tumors.
The study, which began in late February, involves administering Flusosol, a synthetic, miky substance that can carry oxygen to cancerous cells, said Richard Evans, chairman of the radiation oncology department at the Med Center and the project's principal investigator.
Evans' patients were recommended by doctors at the Brain Tumor Institute because they suffered from grade-four tumors, which are the most severe. The patients were removed and then withdrawn to remove their brain tumors before joining with Evans to take part in the test cure.
Fluosol, an emulsion that trans
Theoretically, if malignant cancerous brain tissue is removed, they less resistant to regulation.
ports oxygen efficiently, was developed in the 1970s. It was used primarily as a blood substitute for people such as Jehovah's Witnesses, whose faith does not allow them to receive blood transfusions, Evans said.
Evans said that cells were three times more sensitive to radiation therapy when subjected to high oxygen levels.
Normally, brain tumor patients do not survive a year after surgery. But reports from the United States and other countries indicate Flussoal may extend patients' lives.
tumors contain less oxygen than healthy cells," he wrote. "By using Fluosol, we may be able to reach into these cells and feed them with oxygen so they become less resistant and the radiation therapy has more chance of destroying the cancer.
"Flusos hold out tremendous hope for those people suffering from severe brain tumors." Thomas Delaney, a researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., wrote in a report
"The problem can be compared to an onion in that the outside layers of an onion receive a great amount of oxygen, but the inside layers of the onion are more and more poorly oxygenated. The same is true of brain tumors, which makes them quite resistant to radiation."
Evans said he suspected low oxygen intake caused some brain tumors to reappear in places from which they had been removed surgically.
"Cancerous cells in severe brain
See CANCER, p. 6, co. 3
“That’s precisely why we’re hoping that the Flossoil will carry as much oxygen as it can. Evans said. “I don’t think it would be a 40th the size of normal red blood cells.”
Baseball blues
The Kansas baseball team continued to struggle. The Jayhawks lost the first game of a double header to Missouri Western 7-1 and the second game ended in a 9-9 tie. The second game was called because of darkness. See story page 11.
"On the Line," a color photojournalism exhibit featuring the work of 12 notable photojournalists will be on display at Spencer Museum of Art for the next six weeks. See story page 8.
Fine photos
Bypass gets new vote; should pass Senate
The southern Lawrence trafficway almost hit a roadblock yesterday when the U.S. Senate tentatively voted to sustain President Reagan's veto of an $88 billion highway bill that included money for the project.
Byrd changes mind, forces second vote
But it now appears that the trafficway project will get the $7.2 million allocated to help finance its construction when the Senate votes again today.
An override appeared certain after Sen. Terry Sanford, D-S.C., announced that he had changed his position to would vote today to override the veto.
The Senate fell two votes short, 65-35, of the two-thirds needed to override a veto. But moments later, Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd changed his vote to uphold the Senate rules to demand a second veto.
Lawrence and Douglas County officials have been counting on the federal money to help finance the $38 million trafficway that would follow a southern route around Lawrence to
The House voted Tuesday to override the veto, 350-73. The Kansas delegation voted 4-1 to override with Roberts, R-Kan., voting against
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said yesterday that if no federal money was allocated this year, the trafficway would not die, and county might choose to slow the process until financing was ensured.
Lawrence Mayor Sandra Praeger said she hoped the veto would be overridden. But she said that even if the veto is upheld, she was confident that money for the trafficway could be added to a new highway bill Reagan introduced this week.
The city and county planned to contribute $4 million each to the project. The Kansas Turnpike Authority would invest $2 million.
ink Kansas Highway 10 and Interstate 70.
Trafficway opponents thanked Reagan on Tuesday for vetoing the bill. Environmentalists have charged that the trafficway would harm the Baker Wetlands, a wildlife refuge south of Lawrence that is home to the endangered Northern Crawfish frog.
Reagan vetoed Congress' bill Friday, calling it "budget-busting." Reagan deleted in his bill, among other items, the money for the trafficway.
From staff and wire reports.
Movie's premiere canceled
By PAUL BELDEN
Doug Curtis, immaculate in a black tuxedo, could only wait, wipe sweat and watch as the veteran mechanic in a rumpled work shirt with Band-Aids on his fingers worked frantically to give Curtis' movie life.
Staff writer
When the mechanic, George Wells, told one of his young assistants to do something, they did it running. About 500 important and influential people in Lawrence waited in the packed Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St.
It was hopeless.
Those who attended put on their best faces, but their disappointment showed.
The drive motor for the sequencer wouldn't shut off, Wells said, and he couldn't bypass it after trying for an hour. The world premiere of "Nice Girls Don't Explode" was canceled.
"Bad karma in Kansas," Barbara Harris, who plays "Mom" in the show, said afterward.
She said she had never been to a world premiere before, despite her screen credits, which included "Penguin Sue Got Married."
Frank Wright, vice president in charge of publicity for New World Pictures, was in charge of the premiere. Waiting for the mechanic to show up, he stood outside the theater and kicked a garbage can.
"This is the reason why, I guess." she said.
Almost any regular movie-goer has, though. It was a typical breakdown. The movie began without sound, shadows of theater employees' hands soon appeared on the screen as they struggled to fix the projector, the show stopped, and the crowd waited.
"I've been in charge of at least a 100, maybe a 150, movie premiers, and I've never seen anything like this." he said.
All appeared well when Curtis, a KU graduate and co-producer of the film, stepped in front of the crowd and said, "April Fools."
But as the seconds ticked off, the joke lost its humor.
Everyone laughed with relief, and a few people applauded.
Wright said the movie would be
Chuck Martinez, left, director of the movie "Nice Girls Don't Explode," and Paul Harris, writer for the movie, stand in front of the Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St. The projector malfunctioned last night at what was to be the movie's world premiere. The premiere has been rescheduled for 8 p.m. tonight at the Granada.
Jeff Wells, co-producer of the movie, said he didn't hold a grudge
shown at 8 p.m. today at the Granada.
against the city of Lawrence, but,
"I just hope the projector works
tomorrow night."
See EXPLODE, p. 6, col. 1