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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
February 16, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 96
(USPS 650-640)
Hays applauds Seib when he returns home
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
HAYS — On the same basketball court he had played on as a schoolboy more than 13 years ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Gerald Seib heard his hometown mayor proclaim Saturday as "Gerald Seib Day."
Red and white balloons, Valentine's Day hearts, a large U.S. flag, and poster saying, "Jerry, We're Glad You're Home" and "God Bless You" adorned the gym at Hays 'Thomas More Prep-Marian school, where about 400 city leaders, former classmates, teachers and friends gathered to welcome Seib home from six days in an Iranian youth
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the courage with which Seib endured his ordeal in Iran made him a world hero.
"But you were a hero to us before all this happened," he said
Before the public reception, Seib said that for one fleeting moment during his detention in Iran, his family was held days as Kansan editor in fall 1977.
At that time, Iranian students demonstrated several times on campus against U.S. policies and the Shuh of Iran.
Seib said that those events were not covered enough by the Kanan then, and said that the newspaper should have paid closer attention to what the Iranian students were saving.
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"Something you're not going to see is reality in this. The anything goes, anything's possi- attitude.
"It's speculative fiction," Jacobson said.
Others take a narrower approach to science fiction.
"It basically says technology is supreme," Richard Harp, visiting professor of English, said. "Science fiction and fantasy are two responses to industrialism."
"Science fiction is interested in technology and the shape of the future," he said.
Gum said technology wasn't a necessary element, but it was often present.
Harp is teaching a class on supernatural novels this semester.
"Science fiction deals with possibilities," Gunn said as he sat in his Wescow Hall office with science fiction books.
However, the future of science fiction could be affected by a changing readership.
A 1986 Gallup Poll found that while women buy more books overall, 56 to 44 percent, men buy more science fiction, 65 to 35 percent.
Gunn said science fiction readership used to be male dominated, 90 percent male to 10 percent female. The entrance of women into the workplace increased women's interest in science fiction, he said.
"The stereotyping of sex roles and education discouraged women from going into technical occupations," Gunn said. With more women working and using high technology, increased interest naturally followed.
According to the Gallup poll, science fiction readers also tend to be highly educated. College graduates make up 64 percent of all readers, compared to 3 percent for those without a high school diploma.
And recent science fiction movies, such as "2010" and "Star Trek IV," have had enormous success at the box office. However, those movies don't fit every fan's definition of science.
"They no longer feel it's feminine to read science fiction." Gunn said.
However, according to the poll, the young and elderly read considerably fewer science fiction books than people between 30 and 50.
See SCIENCE, p. 19
The narrow readership, though, is loyal. Science fiction composes 10 percent of the total science fiction published to Publisher's Weekly magazine.
Science fiction is an intellectual read, Harp said. "It appeals to reason."
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