A wrap-up on the KU football team's season paints an encouraging look ahead, and the KU volleyball team ends one of its most successful years ever.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 73 (USPS 650-640)
Monday
Published since 1869 by the students of the University of Kansas
December 8,1986
Proposed cuts ieopardize classes
By ALISON YOUNG
Kansas' bleak economic situation has hit home for KU students, hundreds of whom were turned away from full classes for next semester.
The University's budget, which already was strained by a record fall enrollment, faces more tightening because of Governor-elect Mike Hayden's proposed 3.8 percent budget cuts for all state agencies, KU officials said recently.
sale agreement. Administrators said last week that about 100 sections, in which students pre-enrolled, could be canceled because of proposed budget cuts.
Class offerings are so limited that the University may send advisory letters to students who have been admitted for the spring semester and plan to
enroll next month, officials said.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said he didn't want students to pack up and move to Kansas if the courses they were expecting weren't available.
According to statistics generated by the enrollment center Nov. 26, after main enrollment was completed, several basic classes turned away hundreds of students.
The statistics show the number of students who tried to enroll in a course but couldn't because it was full. These figures may be inflated because a single student could have been turned away from several choices in the same department.
According to Statistics.
Western Civilization 104 enrolled 678 students.
According to statistics:
Communications 150 enrolled 753 students, but turned away 877. COMS 130 enrolled 183 students, but turned away 256.
Economics 104 enrolled 363 students, but turned away 183.
but turned away 399.
■ Math 115 enrolled 830 students, but turned away 90; MATH 121 enrolled 188, but denied 23; MATH 122 enrolled 382, but denied 51.
■ Five of the seven liberal arts required 200-level English courses were closed, turning away a total of 758 students, including 26 juniors and one senior.
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments sav
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TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras — Honduran warplanes and troops carried by U.S. helicopters yesterday attacked about 1,000 Nicaraguan government forces who had violated Honduran territory, the United States and Honduras said.
In Managua, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto said U.S. warplanes had bombed two
troops along the two countries' border in response to an incursion Thursday by 290 Nicaraguan troops who allegedly attacked a border outpost, wounding three Honduran soldiers and capturing two others.
In Tegucigalpa, U.S. and Honduran officials refused to reveal how many U.S. aircraft were used or how many Honduran troops were ferried to Jamastran, about 48 miles east of the capital.
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But his work for veterans also sprang from his belief that soldiers who were killed were remembered only by the soldiers who survived.
"The real heroes are the guys who didn't come back," he said. "We owe it to them to honor their sacrifice and courage. Whether or not they wanted to be there, they were."
And although he has never seen the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Berger said he had a homecoming from the war this past summer, when he participated in a Vietnam Veterans parade in Chicago.
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"Chicagoans on streets or in restaurants hugged you and kissed you," he said. "There was this intense feeling of thanks, of gratitude, this feeling of being appreciated."
Much different from the welcome in Chicago is the memory of a welcome he got in a St. Louis, Mo., bar on his way home from active duty in fall 1968.
"I was in my uniform," he said. Someone asked him if he had been to Vietnam.
"I thought, 'They're going to buy me a drink,' " he said. Instead, they asked him how many babies he'd killed.
Remembering it now, he shakes his head.
"I was confused," he said. "I didn't know what to think."
Berger said he had been an average college student, who worked to pay for school and played in a band. He hadn't really thought about the war, before he received his draft notice in late 1965.
And because both of his parents had served in World War II and a favorite uncle and a few high school friends already were serving in the war, he never considered running off to Canada, he said.
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In Vietnam, he was a Navy combat medic serving with a Marine infantry unit. The Marines suffered such heavy casualties. Berger said, that he and other corpsmen also carried weapons.
In November 1966, after Berger suffered a broken shoulder during a mortar attack, he was sent to Japan for a few months to recuperate. Then he was
sent to Khe Sanh, a base near the Laotian border, with the 26th Marine Regiment.
Regiment. There, 4,000 Marines were trapped during a 70-day siege that began Jan. 20, 1968.
Surviving under constant ambush occurred through luck and adapting to conditions, Berger said.
"You cover up, dig deeper," he said.
"You learn to listen for the sound of incoming or outcoming weapons.
"I didn't sleep a lot when I was over there," he said. "It's hard to describe the rush one gets from a combat situation. If you go through something like that, you'll never forget it."
Looking back, Berger said that although he was aware the war was different from what he had expected, he was so intent on survival that he thought of little else, including whether the war was wrong or right.
"I saw a lot of young men wounded, maimed and killed," he said. "I think I'm not the only one who wondered why that was happening."
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Now, conscious of his role as a spokesman for the KU memorial and for veterans, Berger usually avoids questions about his own political beliefs, because he doesn't want them confused with his work for the memorial.
After he was wounded for the second time, this time in an ambush in the hills around Khe Sahn, Berger was sent home.
And he wants to use his training for activities such as research into Agent Orange, feeling he can help veterans more in that way than through political activism.
"Policies should be debated," he said. "But that's not what the memorial represents."
"I can't tell if it affects me sometimes," he said. "It's still with me, it will always be with me, but I don't know whether it causes me to do certain things."
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