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Local Briefs
Tickets on sale for Rock Chalk performances
The Rock Chalk Revue, a variety show put on by KU sororities and fraternities, will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Hoch Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for Thursday's show and $6 for Friday's show. Saturday's show is sold out.
Tickets are on sale at the Student Union Activities office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union and at Mister Guy, 920 Massachusetts St. Steads cannot be reserved for Thursday's and Friday's shows.
" John Musgrave, a Vietnam veteran and co-author of the book "The Vietnam Years," will speak to the Naval ROTC unit and the battle at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
Vietnam veteran to speak tomorrow
Musgrave enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1966. He served as a rifleman with the third Marine division from 1967 to 1968, when he was injured in action. He retired as a corporal in 1969.
Mustrugue, who is from Baldwin City, has been heavily involved in Vietnam memorial efforts, said Major Richard Macak, Marine officer and instructor at the Naval ROTC unit.
Baylor wins debate sponsored by KU
Baylor University of Waco, Texas, won the 31st annual Heart of America invitational debate tournament, which took place Saturday through Monday at the University of Kansas.
Forty schools from 1B states participated in the tournament, including three KU teams.
The KU team composed of Ann Culver, Prairie Village senior, and George Lopez, Wichita junior, was in first place after preliminary rounds, said Donn Parson, director of debate. Because host teams may compete only in preliminary rounds, KU was not able to participate in further rounds.
Dartmouth University of Hanover, N.H., finished second in the NCAA golf competition. University of Nebraska and Dartmouth's second team tied for third.
Campus and Area University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 25, 1987
'Brazen' burgiary suspect arrested
A man was arrested yesterday in connection with an aggravated burglary of a KU student's residence hall room. Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said.
"It was a very brazen crime — attempting entry into an occupied residence hall room in the daylight," he said. Brothers said KU police received a call about 3 p.m. from a McCollum Hall resident who reported that a resident had been asleep in his room when he awoke to find three people attempting to take items. Brothers said police did not know whether the original caller was the victim. The victim told police that he and some friends chased the three people and got a description of their car, Brothers said. KU police stopped a car matching that description at 3:44 p.m. at 19th and Naismith streets and detained three people.
One of the people later was arrested on charges of aggravated burglary
Liability issues debated in crew funding
Bv LISA A. MALONEY
Giving $24,800 to the KU Crew team would not necessarily increase the Student Senate's liability if a crew member were injured in an accident.
Staff writer
"In my judgment, simply providing funding for the activity would not be, in itself, a sufficient basis for finding liability of the Senate," said Stan Davis, KU associate professor of law.
But Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said the Senate's degree of support for the crew could be an important factor in a lawsuit.
Liability is concerned with control, she said. The main issues in a lawsuit are the failure to pay debt.
From Kansan wires.
Senate had tended to exercise over crew in the past, how the Senate's allocation was spent and what amount of control the Senate should reasonably have over a student group.
"At some point in that continuum between insignificant funding and substantial to total funding, there are people where you can't cut it off," Thomas said.
Whether the University of Kansas or the Senate, crew's main financial supporter, would be liable was one of seven reasons student body president Brady Stanton gave Friday for vetoting the bill that would have given $24,800 to crew to purchase new shells.
Scott Long, Longwood, Texas, junior and crew captain, said the crew team had been lobbying to persuade senators to overturn Stanton's veto at today's full Senate meeting.
"We are willing to talk to the University Council. We are willing to take any steps to ensure that the University is not liable." he said. He also stated his responsibility to ensure that we are prepared for necessary precautions, and we are.
said the question of liability was more a question of involvement
"We've got this group, and we're going to give it money, but we're not keeping an eye on it," he said. "That may be a little bit niligent."
The crew's co-advisers, Linda Beville, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Mike Miller, aquatic directors, work for University. But, Krakow said, the crew's coach, Ciff Elliott, does not
Long said that granting crew the $24,800 would not jeopardize other organizations' chances of receiving Senate money.
He said both the team and individual team members were insured by the U.S. Rowing Association through a $15 membership fee.
"We don't feel we're going to deprive any other groups of funding," he said. "We don't want to deprive any other groups of funding."
Jason Krakow, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman,
Tom Woods, Senate treasurer, said that after Stanton's veto, the Senate's unallocated account had $150,000, of which $110,000 may be allocated.
In addition, the unallocated account will gain $80,000 to $100,000 when all Senate accounts close at the end of the semester, he said. Senate-financed student organizations' unsent money automatically goes to the Senate's unallocated account at year's end.
But Woods said that revenue code groups had already requested more money than the Senate had to give.
U.S. hurt Mideast ties, says official
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Special to the Kansan
U. S. ties to Middle East nations that depend on U. S. military aid were damaged by the recent Iran-arms scandal, a State Department official said last night at the University of Kansas.
Norman Hastings, a deputy military and political adviser, said U.S. policy in the Mideast relied on arms sales to friendly nations.
About 35 people, including several of his former KU teachers, listened to Hastings' lecture, "The Role of Arms Sales in U.S. Middle Eastern Policy."
Selling arms is only part of a U.S. policy that has denied Soviet access to the region, protected oil supplies helped suppress radicalism, he said.
"For 30 years, Arab states friendly to the United States have turned largely to us as a source of arms and technology, and to the near exclusion of the Soviet Union," said Hastings, who did his graduate work at KU in East Asian history.
But congressional actions, such as blocking proposed military assistance to Jordan last year, have hurt U.S. credibility.
"Our opponents in the region have exploited this issue to feed the assertion that the U.S. is an unreliable security partner. Of course, the Iran scandal has fed this to an even greater degree," Hastings said.
"The perception that the U.S. was withdrawing support from King Hussein at a delicate moment in his effort to move forward in the peace process was especially troubled." said Hastings, who joined the Foreign Service in 1977.
The nations benefiting most from U.S. arms shipments are Egypt and Israel, each of which will receive about $1.8 billion in military assistance, plus $1.2 billion in economic funds this year.
When the United States wouldn't sell anti-aircraft weapons to Jordan, the nation turned to the Soviet Union, he said.
Hastings was critical of congressmen who insist that military aid be tied to progress in peace negotiations.
"To expect by not selling arms we are going to reform them or make them behave differently is unrealistic." he said.
By losing the chance to sell arms, the United States also lost the chance to make valuable contacts with the military elite and to develop important relationships with leaders, he said.
Meteorologists get unusual queries
By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
When lawyers representing a rape victim called the KU weather service for the exact time of a long-past sunrise, student forecasters at the KU station were not alarmed.
LA TRAVEL KABANBAR Scott Stevens, Idaho Falls, Idaho, junior, lies in the middle of weather maps at the KU Weather Service in Malott Hall. The service has been at the University of Kansas for 10 years.
L. A. Rauch/KANSAN
The 10-year-old KU station in Malott Hall receives many inquiries that go beyond the rain, sun and cloud cover in its daily forecast.
Scott Stevens, Idaho Falls, Idaho, junior, said no one from the service was asked to testify, but Stevens said they were entered into the testimony.
However, most calls come from students asking about the daily forecast. The service has three answering machines that play recorded daily forecasts. Meteorologists make the forecasts and record them for radio stations JKHK FM 91 and KLWN AM-1320.
Stevens estimated that the 45 second recordings play nearly 1,000 times every day. Stevens, who is a paid observer for the National Monument monitored weather patterns and kept daily and monthly records.
KU has a long history of weather study, he said. In 1866, F.H. Snow, who later became chancellor, recorded weather data for the Lawrence area. One hundred years ago today, Snow's handwritten notes showed a low of 9 degrees and high of 30 degrees in Lawrence.
Stevens remembers travelers often calling for weather information. An elderly couple once called
to ask about the weather in Cairo Egypt
And Steve Mauch, Hays graduate student who forecasted for the station about a year and a half ago, remembered a woman who was planning to travel to London in six months.
"Even if it's New York or Boise, Idaho, we can come up with something." Mauch said, "but not the other. London six months from now."
Both Mauch and Stevens said the KU service was as accurate, if not more accurate, than the National Weather Service, which they said tended to give more conservative
predictions.
But Mauch said he was at a loss when a woman called the station to ask for a weather prediction for her Oct. 27 wedding. She asked what the weather had been the previous year. Mauch said he gave her a 39-degree temperature range and later wondered, "Whatever happened to June weddings?"
Students taking the forecasting class pursue various areas within atmospheric science. Mauch wants to work in consulting, such as helping construction companies decide how to build, when to build and possibly what to build in relationship to the weather.
Teresa Fitzpatrick. Madison junior, wants to be a weather officer for the U.S. Air Force In that position, she would hold wing and squadron briefings for officers, telling them about weather conditions before they flew, she said.
Stevens wants to be a television meteorologist. He opened the only weather station in Jefferson County, Idaho, at 12 for a Boy Scout project. By 13, he was reporting the weather to three Idaho Falls television stations.
He said charts, instruments and rooftop sensors helped weather forecasters.
Bill would protect minors from pornography
Staff writer
By CHRISTOPHER HINFS
TOPEKA - Acts of sexual violence in children's comic books brought some people to a state House committee meeting yesterday to support a bill that would protect children from pornographic materials.
The House Committee on Federal and State Affairs heard testimony on a bill that would prohibit commercial retailers from displaying, distributing or selling pornographic materials to minors. Currently, only city ordinances govern display and sale of pornographic materials to minors.
Supporters of the bill said that the state should protect children from the unregulated distribution of pornography. Supporters of the bill was a threat to the free flow of
ideas
"I think it needs to be limited," said State Rep. Marvin E. Smith, RTOpeka, who wrote the bill. "It's far worse than I thought. I called it trashy to begin with, but it approaches garbage."
Smith said he became concerned about the issue after receiving several children's comic books, some of which included drawings of heterosexual and homosexual acts, from angered constituents.
Rich Hays, a lobbyist for one of the largest magazine distributors in Kansas, Palmer News Inc. of Topeka, said that the definition of obscenity in the bill as it applied to minors was unclear. Broad interpretations of the bill could threaten First Amendment rights.
Charles White, a pre-school teacher in Topeka, said that sexual comic books often were placed next to Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse comic books, confusing children as well as their parents.
"How is each store owner to decide what is offensive to children and what is not?" she said. "Could magma be considered obscene to children?"
"I know of a little girl that came out of the bathroom at playschool and asked, 'Can two ladies get married?' " said White, who presented a number of the comic books to the committee.
White said that a child's curiosity is easily stimulated and that a flashy comic book cover could draw a child inside to discover acts of sexual
violence not represented on an innocent cover.
Some members of the committee were concerned about the constitutional legality of the bill.
The committee's chairman, State Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said. "This is one of the most important questions concerning the bill. We need to take our attorneys and really look into the constitutional legality of this bill before using taxpayers' money to implement it."
But the U.S. Supreme Court could take the issue out of the committee's hands. The court agreed Monday to decide the constitutionality of a Virginia law that bars bookstores from displaying best-sellers, health and exercise books and other materials that might be considered harmful.
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