Monday February 8,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 91 (USPS 650-640)
Officials respond to Bennett KU's commitment to humanities is still strong, Budig says
By Elaine Woodford
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and several other KU officials disagree with charges made by Secretary of Education William Bennett, who said that higher education had fallen short of its central task of educating students.
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In an address Thursday before several hundred presidents of private universities, Bennett said that faculty rejection of Plato and Shakespeare campuses was causing higher education to lose its integrity and credibility.
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"Most major universities are doing a commendable job without adequate resources. They deserve public praise, not criticism," he said.
- Gene A. Budig
But Budig said Saturday that Ben
applied to labs of larger units. KU,
Secretary Bennett need not worry about KU students being ripped off. Students are receiving a bargain in education. KU has been nationally recognized for its academic excellence.'
"Many fine research universities strengthened, not debased, education."
Bennett said, "Unfortunately, much of what we hear coming out of higher education these days is less responsive, less serious and less responsive."
"Is this what parents are being asked to pay $18,000 a year for?"
Budig said, "Secretary Bennett need not worry about KU students being ripped off. Students are receiving a bargain in education. KU has been nationally recognized for its academic excellence."
Budig said that KU had not denounced the humanities, but had
James Woelfel, director of the western civilization program, agreed that KU had made a firm commitment to quality in education.
renewed its commitment to the humanities with a multi-million dollar endowment. He added that this endowment had been achieved dur-
"The core requirements for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are strengthening education," he said.
Michael Johnson, chairman of the English department, said that KU
had held firm in its sense of what was traditionally important in education, but was open to new ideas in contemporary thought.
"KU has a strong traditional focus and has never abandoned works central to western thought, but there is a good deal of variety available in contemporary works as well," he said.
Bennett said that the intellectual movements on campuses claimed to spring from serious thinkers, such as Karl Marx, but sounded more like they sprang from Groucho Marx, in collaboration with Daffy Duck.
Citing the popularity of Allan Bloom's best seller, "The Closing of the American Mind," Bennett said that a growing number of people believed that students were no longer taught that there was such a thing as literary excellence.
Woelef said that KU had worked for quality in education through the college requirements and its strong academic programs.
No guarantees
Iowa caucus victors often lose later
The Associated Press
Ask George Bush and Walter Mondale.
DES MOINES, Iowa — There will be plenty of victory claims after Iowa's precinct caucuses tonight in the time-honored political tradition of smoke-blowing, but Iowans often are better at singing out longer than nicking winners.
They roared out of Iowa — Bush in 1980 and Mondale in 1984 — as winners and ended up with snow on their faces after a pelting from New Hampshire voters.
This year could offer a similar scenario.
If the polls are to be believed, Bush, a Texan from New England, is running behind in Iowa but well ahead in New Hampshire.
On the Republican side, Midwester on Bob Dole appears to be running well with a hometown appeal that tells lowens. "He's one
More campaign news p. 6.
Among the Democrats there is no clear front-runner but, again, two Midwesters, Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois, are among the candidates who look like the probable winners.
The other contender is Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who is the heavy favorite in New York, who is a very big victory for Dukakis.
Candidates dream, but they have nightmares as well.
Dukakis dreams of an Iowa victory that would establish him as the clear Democratic front-runner, leading as it would to a win in
Police officer's art identifies the dead
See IOWA, p. 6, col. 1
A reconstruction takes bare bone; tries to render an image of life
By Ric Brack Kansan staff writer
The decomposed, nude remains of a woman, her hands and feet bound, were found on Sept. 21 by a road through the county, 70 miles northwest of Wichita.
By November, so few leads had been turned up that authorities called in Edna Armstrong of the Topeka Police Department.
See related photo
She joined the police department in 1971 as a dispatcher, and in 1972 began working with identification kits and composite drawings.
"This was used as a last ditch effort, just like it usually is." Armstrong said. "They didn't have anything else to go on."
For Armstrong, it was her first and only chance to reconstruct a human head. For the police department, it was their last chance to determine the dead woman's identity.
Armstrong, 34, a lifelong resident of Topeka, said she had always been interested in law enforcement and art.
In 1893, she went to a seminar at Texas A & M University to learn more about how to draw sketches from witness descriptions. She said it was there that she got her first taste of reconstruction work.
In late October, Armstrong heard that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation was at a dead end with the Marion county case and was unable to find anyone to do a reconstruction. She volunteered.
After she received the skull from the KBI Armstrong produced a pair of drawings based on skull measurements. The frontal view and profile drawings took about 21 hours of work to complete.
The next step was to begin a three-
dimensional reconstruction of the wavy
line.
Armstrong said that most of the reconstruction was based on average facial tissue thickness, but that features such as the shape of the nose, ears, lips and the color of eyes were made at the time of reconstruction.
She said the first step was to attach precisely measured rubber markers to the skull. The markers were attached at points specified by a chart that showed average tissue thickness.
The chart is broken down into specification different nationalali-
ties would be
An oil-based plasticine clay was then applied to conform to the depths indicated by the markers. During that process, Armstrong said, the facial features of the skull began coming to life.
"When you are sitting there looking at this person, and she's looking back at you, you get the feeling she's going to kill her," Armstrong said, and who killed her. "Armstrong said,
In December, the KBI released a photograph of the dead woman's reconstructed head, but no one has been able to identify it, arms.
Armstrong said she named the woman Marion, because that was the name of the county where she was found.
During the 55 hours she spent on the reconstruction, she said she often found it difficult to tear herself away from the work.
"I got to a point where this was either covered or faced the corner," she said of the head.
As she explained the reconstruction process, she combed the hair on the head, and compulsively continued to work on parts of the face.
Armstrong said much of the technical information she used in the reconstruction was gleaned from books she found in the local library or received from Betty Pat Gatliff, a reconstruction expert in Norman, Okla.
"She's one of the only people who really know how to do this," Armrust
FBI says critics at KU were not investigated
Armstrong said the KBI photographer who photographed "Marion" for the bulletin released by the bureau had also done photography work for Gatliff.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not investigate University of Kansas critics of U.S. foreign policy in Central America, a spokesman said last week.
"FBI agents did not conduct any surveillance or interviews of individuals or groups at the University of Kansas in Lawrence." Robert B. Davenport, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Kansas City, Mo., said in a statement Friday.
From staff and wire reports
An FBI document obtained by the Center for Constitutional Rights contained a reference to an investigation of two unidentified men affiliated with KU by agents in Kansas City, Mo.
A spokesman for the FBI said Friday that Lawrence is in the jurisdiction of the Kansas City office, but that evidence could not be found of any such investigation.
agents did not conduct any surveillances or interviews of individuals or groups at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.'
The Center for Constitutional
'FRI
Rights, a New York-based group, obtained FBI documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The group accused the FBI of undertaking a surveillance campaign against hundreds of U.S. citizens opposed to the U.S. Central American policy.
Kobert, B. Enterprise special agent, FBI office in Kansas
- Robert B. Davenport
According to the documents, the FBI investigated many major universities throughout the country, including KU and Wichita State University.
Brad Pitts, KU Army ROTC cadet and a Ranger Challenge Team member, waits for assault movement during ROTC training.
ROTC stages air assault mission
Cadets, guardsmen get vital education in helicopter raid
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
The low hum grew in intensity and began to vibrate the 20-acre field on the western edge of Clinton Lake.
Three dots in the cloudless sky, flashing their lights to signal their arrival, appeared over the tree line on the field's northern border. Soon, the dots turned into three UH-1B army helicopters, propellers spinning, breaking the calm of the Saturday afternoon.
Spinning snow and dirt, the blades whipped the wind into a 130-mp frenzy as the choppers set down. Six pairs of cadet rangers from the University of Kansas Army ROTC hopped out, and in a crouched run formed a circle on the ground.
Lt. Jerry Young, a helicopter pilot, said the mission benefited both the National Guard and the ROTC. Cadets received some experience in the air and Young's national guard squared practiced dropping troops into a simulated combat zone.
The cadets took part in a simulated air assault mission, which was conducted by both the KU Army ROTC and the 108th Combat Aviation Battalion of the Kansas National Guard.
"It's basically to familiarize the cadets with the aircraft because they'll need it when they get to their units," Young said on the runway of Lawrence Municipal
Airport, where the mission began.
"It also helps us because one of our wartime missions is to insert troops into a landing zone."
The cadets, wearing camouflage fatigues and paint, seemed oblivious to the 10-degree weather. They clutched field packs and rubber machine guns. As soon as the choppers fell into the sewer, they landed and dropped their cargo. After that, three more did the same.
The nine helicopters left behind about 35 KU ROTC cadets.
After his first ride in a helicopter, one cadet said he enjoyed the 30-minute ride because it was much different from being in an airplane.
"Flying in a plane you can't see anything, but flying low like they do, you can see everything," said Doug Baskett. Topeka sophomore. "It was something else."
Young said that the helicopters flew about 500 feet above the ground.
Nineteen members of the KU ranger challenge group moved their circle off to the left and planned a three-hour simulated combat patrol white aisle that supported the rest of the cadds back to camp.
Rising from the frozen grass, the group moved across the road and disappeared onto a steep, wooded hill. The group's objective was to destroy a simulated communications site.
A KU Army ROTC cadet prepares to assault after being dropped off by the UH-1H Army helicopter in the background. Saturday's simulated assault, involving 45 cadets and nine helicopters, was part of cadet training west of Clinton Lake.
After hiking two miles with the group, Capt. Charles Shelton, assistant professor of military science, said that simulated operations such as this were beneficial to all participants, but especially for future rangers.
"If some of them decide to go to
ranger school, today was just an introduction to what a combat raid patrol does," Shelton said. "It was a good experience for all of us."
Despite the low temperatures, Houston said the group was equipped to handle the cold and described the raid as a success.