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Monday, February 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Local Briefs
RAPE REPORTED: A University of Kansas student was reportedly raped in her apartment in southwest Lawrence between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m. Saturday, Lawrence police reported.
The 21-year-old victim said she was attacked while she was asleep in her bed. Lawrence police released few details about the incident Sunday night.
CHINESE VISIT KU: Five members of an education delegation from the Henan Province in the People's Republic of China visited Kansas last week to exchange educational and business information. One of their stops included the University of Kansa-
The delegation met with Gov. Mike Hayden and legislators and visited state universities.
State Sen. Joseph Harder, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said the delegation was interested in improving its province's educational system.
Police Reports
A car stereo, casette tapes and other items valued together at $235 were stolen Saturday from a parked car on the 1900 block of Stewart Avenue, Lawrence police reported.
■ A car stereo and amplifier valued together at $625 were stolen between Friday and Saturday from a car on the 2500 block of W. Sixth Street, Lawrence police reported.
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Students bask in spring weather
Bv Stacy Foster
sophomore, took the day off to teach Chuck Zoog, Leawood senior, to play tennis behind Robinson Gymnasium.
It looked as if a severe case of spring fever swept the campus during the weekend. On Saturday, the temperature reached 61; yesterday it peaked at 68.
Kansan staff writer
Shorts and white legs were everywhere as people soaked up the warm sunshine rays. For many, Frisbees and footballs replaced school books.
Brown and Zoog said that they weren't going to worry about doing homework while the weather was nice.
Mimi Brown, Overland Park
"I'll probably do my homework later, maybe tomorrow before class. It's just too nice to stay inside today." Brown said.
taken his winter clothes home to get his spring wardrobe.
Zoog said that he had already
Ron Crandel, meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Topkea, said that more unseasonably warm temperatures were expected for the first part of the week.
Today's high is expected to be from 50 to 55 with mostly sunny skies. Tuesday, skies will be cloudy with the high ranging from 45 to 50.
The average temperature for February is 33. The record high for yesterday was 80 in 1972. The record low was minus 5 in 1890.
Students were trying to get as much out of the warm weather as they could.
One group tried to get an ultimate Frisbee game going but had trouble because it was so windy. The group was content to just to lie on the grass and enjoy the warm weather.
Flaws of international press examined
3v Iude Pate
By Jude Pate and Peter Williams
Special to the Kansan
MANHATTAN — The United States depends on the international press to serve as its eyes on the rest of the world, but what it often gets is a distorted picture, a panel of experts said at a symposium here Friday and Saturday.
The panelists, who included reporters, editors and government officials, spoke on "International News: Fact or Fiction." The symposium was sponsored by the department of journalism and mass communications at Kansas State University.
Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for The Nation and the symposium's keynote speaker, said the press was
highly selective in its coverage of international news.
He said the press treated governments differently depending on whether the U.S. administration opposed or supported them.
He used the example of the extensive coverage given to the Nicaraguan government's closing and subsequent opening of the opposition paper, La Prensa. The United States opposes the Nicaraguan government.
And in 1890 in El Salvador, there was virtually no press coverage of the closing of the two opposition papers, El Independiente and La Cronica, by the government of El Salvador, which is supported by the United States.
Monroe Dodd, managing editor of
the Kansas City Times, and Roger Verdon, managing editor of the Hutchinson News, said their papers relied almost exclusively on wire services for international news.
Both papers reported the closing and opening of La Prensa, but neither reported the closing of El Independiente or La Cronica.
Both editors said they worked to give a local angle to international
But James Nelson Goodsell, Latin America bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor, said the local angle for readers in the United States should not be the primary concern
Goodsell once wrote a story on the condition of poor Jamaican mine workers who had decided to go on
strike for a 50-cent-a-week pay raise
strike for a 50-cm angle. His editors gave the story the U.S. angle. It centered on the idea that pots and pans would be more expensive in the United States because of wage increases given to the miners.
Manuel Cordero, deputy chief of mission in the Nicaraguan embassy in the United States, said he believed that many misunderstandings were created when reporters seized on intentional leaks of false or misleading information.
When such information is reported to the press, it creates an inaccurate image of Nicaragua, he said. This image is difficult to counteract with clarifications or corrections which might appear another day, if at all, Cordero said.
Grade-schoolers think world flat
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Never mind Columbus. Never mind the globes in classrooms everywhere. Never mind those pictures from space of Earth as a big blue marble.
When you ask children in the early elementary grades what they really think, most believe what their eyes tell them. The Earth is flat.
That, at least, is what Alan Lightman, a Harvard physicist, and astronomy teacher Philip Sadler said.
of the science teachers' journal.
The two, who wrote in "Science and Children" magazine, suggested that educators were living in a dream world if they assumed young children understood that the Earth is round.
"Nearly 500 years ago, Columbus proved that the Earth was round. Today's students still don't believe it," they wrote in the February issue
"One of the first scientific facts we announce to our children is that the Earth is round. That flat, flat ground we walk on, ride on and play on, stretching endless miles in perfect and reliable flatness, actually wraps around on itself to form a giant ball," they said. But "if we expect young children to believe this story, we're wrong."
Lightman, a research physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and lecturer at Harvard, and Sadler, director of Project STAR, a high school astronomy curriculum, recently asked 65 elementary teachers to predict how pupils would draw the earth.
95 percent of the second graders and everyone in third grade.
The teachers thought 65 percent of kindergarteners knew the Earth was round, 85 percent of the first-graders,
Actually, according to past studies, only 5 percent of second graders know the Earth is round, 40 percent of third graders, 55 percent of fourth graders and 75 percent of fifth graders.
They recommended that teachers buy a big latex weather balloon at an Army-Navy or surplus store and inflate it to 10 feet.
While a child holds her cheek against the balloon and looks at its horizon, "slowly move a toy ship across the surface of the balloon toward the child." As the ship comes over the horizon, it is revealed in parts, the top mast first, just as it would be in the ocean.
FDA meeting will discuss aspirin claims
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has invited the nation's aspirin makers to a meeting this week to discuss to what degree the manufacturers can claim their products help prevent heart attacks, an FDA official said Sunday.
The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at the agency's headquarters in Rockville, Md. It comes a month after The New England Journal of Medicine published preliminary results of a study showing that aspirin taken every other day could reduce the risk of heart attacks.
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