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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday April 21, 1988
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No.139 (USPS 650-640)
Hillel's display saluting Israel is vandalized
By a Kansan reporter
Vandals yesterday defaced a display about Israel that KU's Hillel had set up in honor of the state's 40th anniversary.
About 2.30 p.m., Hillel members discovered that their display in the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard had been spray-painted with the words "hugs, assassins, racists, Palestinians are Israel's Indians,"
At approximately the same time, David Katzman, professor of history who is on leave, discovered that someone had written "Go to Hell Jew Boy" on the nameplate of his office door.
Both incidents were reported to the KU police, who are continuing to investigate. The spray paint was on both sooalf display soon after the incident.
Katzman, who said that he had
received death threats several years ago, said. "In my view this is a free speech issue. This kind of thing is meant to intimidate, and when people are intimidated, there is no free speech."
He said he thought that he had been threatened because he was publicly proIsrael and a Jew.
He said that he thought incidents like this were much more dangerous than graffiti.
Daveen Litwin, director of Hillel,
said, "The fear that this kind of
incident reinforces for them (Jewish
students) makes me feel very angry.
"This is a form of terrorism," he said.
"We want the campus and community to be aware of the kinds of fear and intimidation we feel. If there are people that have a personal agenda in this situation, this is not a constructive way to do it and it will not resolve anything."
David Katzman professor of history on leave, documents anti-Semitic graffiti on the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Jewish organization remembers victims of Holocaust
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Members of Hilfel, KU's Jewish student organization, burned six memorial candles yesterday in the Kansas Union in remembrance of the million Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust.
A national Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed April 14 with ceremonies in Washington, D.C., that were arranged by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. The Council was set up by Congress in 1980 to build a memorial to Holocaust victims in Washington.
Hille's observance was scheduled this week to coincide with activities they have
Andrea Katzman, Lawrence freshman, said she thought that observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day was important not only because it is a holiday, but also to show respect for those who survived.
scheduled all week to honor the 40th anniversary of Israel. The State of Israel celebrates its Independence Day today.
"This is about what human beings can do to human beings," Katzman said. "By keeping this in mind we can be more aware of the world and not let it happen again."
Dana Crow, Topeka senior and Hililel president, said she had traveled to Poland two years ago and visited the sites of two Nazi death camps, Auschwitz and Treblinka. She also visited the site of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw.
Holocaust and being aware of what human beings are capable of, people will become more sensitive to others.
"It was very difficult to go, but I wanted to see it. It doesn't seem, real when you read about it," Crow said.
"It was important to put it into my memory so that I won't forget and I won't forget to tell my children," she said. "If you forget, it could happen again."
She said she felt very strange, especially visiting the site of the Warsaw ghetto.
Katzman said that by learning about the
"I was almost afraid to let anyone know I was Jewish," she said. She said that there were only about 1,000 Jews left in Poland.
In spite of her discomfort and fear, Crow said she thought it was important to go.
Arab residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were barred from entering Israel yesterday as Israels prepared to
"When you stand there in the death camps, you realize the importance of Israel and why
celebrate their Independence Day
When the guard told the man to halt, Matsumauga quoted him as replying. "It's all right. I'm just going to pick up the softball.
travel restrictions also were imposed Tuesday when Israeli observed Memorial Day for the 16,000 who have been killed in battle since 1948.
A memorial service for the Holocaust victims was held last night at Hillel. Today, Hillel will have an Israel Program Fair in the Gallery Room of the Kansas Union. The fair will last all day. The group are informational in nature and are interested in working, studying or traveling to Israel
Matsunaga, the 'bill's enter spider,
sRecalled the story of an elderly internee who was playing softball when she was held a ball stuart close to a fence.
He moved forward and was killed by a burst of fire from the guard's machine gun, Matsunaga, a Japanese American, told the Senate.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Internment survivors may be paid
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday voted tentatively to give $20,000 tax-free payments to thousands of Japanese Americans who were forced from their homes and forced to camp during World War II.
The votes came as the Senate worked toward passage of a reparations bill designed to make amends for the losses suffered by about 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were put in the camps after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.
The bill would require the United States to apologize for the mass roundups and would make each of the victims whose survivors eligible for $20,000 payments.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, a Japanese-American who lost his right arm in combat with the Army in Italy, said: "These payments are crucial to our constitution and deprivation of liberty, and the stigma of being deemed unloyal."
The emotional debate brought Sen. Spark Matsumaga, D-Hawaii, to tears as he told of an elderly Japanese-American internee being killed by machine-gun fire when he strapped himself on a softball, as he retrieved a softball.
Even if it was dishonorable, Wallop argued, it would be "repugnant to think a clear conscious is to be had for a mere $20,000 figure . . . honor doesn't come with a dollar sign on it and you don't buy it back."
But Sen, Malcolm Walpole, R Wyo,
argued that the intermittent "was not
a dishonailor act, it was the option
of a nation in the first days of a war."
"If I were interred, I would consider $20,000 too little." Inouye said.
New hall of fame trustees announced
By Elaine Sung
Kansan sportswriter
The wooden panels depicted the history of some famous Kansas sports figures, including Kansas fans KU'F C. "Phog" Allen and KU'F C. "Phog" Allen.
See related story p. 8.
It was an appropriate backdrop
as Gov. Mike Hayden yesterday
announced the new board of trustees
for the Kansas All-Sports Hall
of Watkins Community, the basement
of Watkins Community, Museum,
1047 Massachusetts St.
The seven new trustees, who will serve terms of varying length to ensure continuity on the board, are
Max Falkenstein, of Lawrence,
one of the broadcasters on the
Jayhawk Sports Network
Charles Lower, of Topeka, a businessman.
Jim Hershberger, of Wichita,
for whom the track at Memorial
Stadium is named.
Dev Nelson, of Manhattan, a headcoach
Willie Nicklin, of Topeka, the
varsity basketball coach at Topeka High School.
Fred White, of Leawood, a broadcaster for the Kansas City Royals.
State Rep. Bill Wisdom, of Kansas City, Kan., a member of the Legislature since 1974.
The new board will have the help of Steve Jansen, who is the director of Watkins Museum and who is the executive secretary to the old board.
"We've finally got the money issue solved, and now we have a new board," he said. "We can finally be a living, breathing organization and not just some floating around in the water."
But with help from Wisdom and the Legislature, a bill was pushed through two years ago to help out the hall.
Financially, the hall has not been on secure ground. Because of the lack of resources, the hall has failed to be able to induce anyone since 1961.
Gov. Mike Hayden
sales at all Regents schools. The figure is approximately $212,000, but money is still coming in.
At that time, the money will be placed in a trust fund to collect interest. The fund will remain intact; only the interest generated each year will be used to finance the hall and its operations.
Nine induction nominations for the hall from the old board were already reviewed before financial strains stopped the process.
The plan was to allocate to the hall of fame a percentage of the revenue from athletic event ticket
"You could argue that it's been so long since we've inducted someone, we should have more than just one or two new ones," he said. "We have to develop something demonstrable. Before, we were always in a Catch-22. With no board, no money, what could we promote?"
Canceling Klan visit violated academic freedom, prof says
Academic freedom was violated during the Ku Klux Klan controversy, an associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
By Rebecca L Cisek
During a meeting of the University Senate Executive Committee, Don Marquis, the professor, said that he was distressed when a visit of the Klan to a journalism class was canceled.
Kansan staff writer
Harry Jones, an instructor in journalism, had originally invited members of the Klan group, the Missouri Knights, to his class to teach students how to report on extremist issues. On Feb. 17, members of the KU and Lawrence communities formally protested the Klan's visit to campus.
"The class had been canceled because of brutte pressure from a group that wished, in essence, to censor the class."
Jones announced his decision to cancel the Klan's camp visit Feb. 19, but the class subsequently met with the
Klan at the Lawrence Municipal Airport on March 2.
Marquis said that he didn't think the Klan's right to freedom of speech gave them the right to speak on campus, but said that faculty should have freedom in the subject matter they used in their classes.
It's perfectly appropriate to invite the Klan to campus, he said, in the same way that reading Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's book of doctrine, for the Western Civilization program is appropriate.
grant is appropriate.
The associate professor of business, said that a faculty member should not have provide balance
for the grant.
An outside arbitrator should not decide when that balance will be provided, he said.
"Within the classroom, I think that faculty should have free time," he said.
Mel Dubnack, presiding officer of University Council and University Senate, disagreed with Marquis and
"I do believe there is a responsibility in the classroom as well as freedom," he said.
Watkins readies for AIDS study
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
Watkins Hospital officials will begin preparations to enter a national study of AIDS on college campuses, even though the organization conducting the study has yet to participate either KU will be allowed to participate.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, met Tuesday with James Strobel, director of the hospital. He recommended to enter the study.
But an official from the American College Health Association, the organization coordinating the study, said Tuesday that it was still undetermined whether KU would be allowed to participate.
"That's something we still have to make a decision on yet," said Miguel Garcia-Tunon, the ACHA's national coordinator of the study.
Garcia-Tunon said he did not know when a decision would be made and would not reveal what the decision would be based on.
The study calls for about 20 participating universities in five regions of the country to send 1,000 blood samples each to an independent lab for analysis. Blood samples would be chosen randomly from students who entered health centers for non-Hispanic or non-ethnic anonymity. If KU enters the study the hospital would start sending blood samples in fall 1988.
Ambler said KU would proceed to participate in the study pending the ACHA's decision. He also said that KU was waiting on some new inform-
mation from the ACHA about the study's procedures, which he did not think had drastically changed
"We don't have any reason to believe that they're different than before; we just want an upward of the study's procedures." Ambler said. "If they didn't do it, it'd a go, then we will participate, and if they don't need us, we won't."
Ambler also said that the method of the AIDS study would be examined by the University Committee on Human Experimentation, which would inform Ambler of any reservations it had.
Strobl had been in contact with Stephen Blom, executive director of the ACHA, and as soon as KU approved the study, Strobl thought it would be approved by the ACHA. It would be reached for comment this week.
"The way I understand it is that we would be allowed to participate." Strobi said. "They asked us to participate. They did not open it up to all schools."
Last week, in a referendum during Student Senate elections, 70 percent of the voting student body said that KU should enter the AIDS study.
Ambler said that he was pleased with the results of the referendum and that he had no reservations about entering the study.
"I have not all along," he said.
"We just wanted to make sure there weren't any perceived problems in the student body. To say 70 percent of the student body voted for the study, that's a significant vote. I think it is an indication that it will be appropriately handled by the health center."
Justice Department candidate withdraws from consideration
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Edwin Meese III's choice for the 2 no. 2 post at the Justice Department withdrew from consideration yester day as Meese struggled to fill top level posts.
John Shepherd, the 62-year-old former American Bar Association president whom Moses hurried recom- ment in his case, was not for the position of deputy attorney
general, pulled out in the face of mounting publicity about an alleged affair with his bookkeeper.
It also was disclosed that longtime Meese friend E. Robert Wallach, now under indictment in the Wedded scandal, had recommended Shepherd to Meese for a Justice Department case. Shepherd belongs to an all-white country club and an all-male social club.