VOL. 101, No. 113
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1991
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Spring arrives and delights students
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Members of the KU Sailing Club, (from left) Steve Sides, Brady Smith and David Cooley, try to sign up new members. The club provides members with an opportunity to sail every weekend.
By Patricia Rojas Kansan staff writer
Steve Sides fought the wind as he tried to arrange the sail in his boat in front of Strong Hall yesterday
"The weather couldn't be better for us to do this," said Sides, Cape Girardeau, Mo., freshman. "It's perfect."
Sides and a friend were recruiting people for the KU Sailing Club. They had planned three weeks ago to be outside yesterday, and a high of 64 degrees made their chosen day ideal for their purpose.
'I was afraid I'd come back and it would be snowing out here. But all of a sudden it got warm again. It's beautiful.'
Spring officially starts at 9:02 tonight
Emily Schmidt Wichita sophomore
The weather this week is expected to remain mild with highs near 76 degrees, said Eric Baoy, Lee's Summit, Mo., Junior. Boyd works at the KU Weather Service She said that this kind of weather was not unusual in Kansas but that it was unseasonable.
The normal Kansas weather in March has highs in the 50s, she said.
The sunny weather yesterday seemed to have come at an ideal time for Sides not so for janel Wortsteinburg S C. gradate student
"I wish it were spring break." Merrel said as she sat under a tree in front of Watson Library
Merrel said she liked studying outside whenever the weather allowed it.
"It's almost like having a reward for studying," she said. "Sometimes it is harder because it is distracting. Sometimes I come here and sit, and I don't necessarily study."
Among those who were outside yesterday not necessarily studying was Mark Sudermann, Wichita junior.
"Girl-watching on campus is always good," said Sudermann, who was playing Frisbee with two words in front of Waston yesterday.
"It's about time spring arrived," he said. "We were itching to get outside."
For Emily Schmidt, Wichita sophomore, the sun took away some of her fears.
Schmidt, a member of the Kansas crew team, was in Austin, Texas, during spring break for a rowing competition.
She said one of her teammates had telephoned her parents in Kansas City last week and had heard the weather was getting cold here.
"I was afraid I'd come back and it would be snowing out here," she said. "But all of a sudden it got warm again. It's beautiful."
Schmidt was outside yesterday studying for a biology test.
"It's hard to get something done when the birds are singing and the sun is shining, but I'm trying," she said.
Schmidt added, "It's hard to make school your first priority when it is so nice outside. But school doesn't matter what the weather is."
Adam Ellenbogen (left). Aaron King and Montana Baldwin enjoy the weather and study.
Senate votes to ban arms sales to allies
Unpaid war debts spur action
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted yesterday to ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Germany and other U.S. allies until they deliver all the money promised to help the United States pay for the Islamic Gulf War.
The prohibition, opposed by the Bush administration, was included in a measure to provide $42.6 billion toward the war effort. The bill was approved 98-1, with no separate vote on the arms-sale ban.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told Congress that protecting U.S. allies in the Middle East took prece- nance, but his effort to embargo on arms sales to the region.
"I think certainly caution is in order here, but I think our first concern out to be work with our security team is that House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Several members of the panel expressed concerns about possible US sales of weapons to Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia as well as Syria. Other other nations such as Syria would pursue the Soviet Union for arms.
"The new world order isn't very new at all," said Rep. Sam Geidenson, D-Conn. "We have ended this war and we're leading this charge with a new arms race in the Middle East."
Cheney warned against leaving Egypt, Israel and other nations unprotected and said arms assistance for the allies would allow a
minimal U.S. ground presence in the region.
After the vote, the Senate debated a measure to provide $5.2 billion for war assistance to Israel and Turkey, stepped-up security by the Secret Service and scores of other programs.
The house passed its own versions of both bills March 7; the two chambers will have to work out compro-
siding the measures to President Bush.
The House approved a weaker, unspecified threat that Congress may consider appropriate action if itaid falls short of promised levels
Congressional frustration with the U.S. allies is high because of the huge amounts of money that are at stake. For $64.5 million in promised assistance to a billion has arrived, according to the Senate Appropriations Committee
Not one of the six countries that pledged substantial amounts of help. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Japan and South Korea, has delivered its pledge in full. All six countries plan to buy U.S. weapons this year and would be affected by the ban.
In a letter distributed to congressional leaders, the White House Office of Management and Budget said the proposed prohibition would place unnecessary and inappropriate constraints on the sales.
Hostages may be released in Mideast
Lebanon newspaper predicts freedom
The Associated Press
BEIRUT — A newspaper said today that Western hostages in Lebanon will be freed this week, including all six U.S. citizens thought held by pre-iranian factions. It said the U.S. prisoners would be in Syria on Saturday.
The Page 1 report in the conservative Ad-Diyar newspaper comes amid intensified cooperation by U.S. forces at securing the hostages' release.
The longest-held hostage, Associated Press chief middle East correspondent Terry Anderson, 43, was seized March 16, 1985.
The Ad-Diyar report said the U.S. citizens would be freed Friday at an unnamed hotel in Beirut in the presence of Interior Minister Salah al-Syriya of Oryxia's military intelligence in Lebanon, Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan.
The newspaper, which did not name its sources, said the U.S. citizens would then be taken to Damascus and handed over to the U.S. ambassador to Syria, whose army controls three-quarters of Lebanon.
The report came just a few hours after the pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim group holding two U.S. hostages reiterated its preconditions for their release and Israel cited new efforts to secure the hostages' release.
The group, The Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, demanded that Israel release a Shite cleric it kidnapped in southern Lebanon in 1989 – Sheik Abdul Kabib as well as other Muslim prisoners.
Ad-Diyar, which is based in Christian East Beirut, does not have a record of accurate reporting on the 13 Westerners missing in Lebanon, who include four Britons, two Germans and an Italian.
The newspaper said its sources were close to people interested in the release of the Western hostages.
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Although the new fall KU timetables have a new look on the front, there are still advertisements on the back of the train. Some were some controversy in the past.
Earlier this semester, the University Senate Executive Committee voted against future use of advertisements in timetables, and last semester some people thought an advertisement for bar soap, which showed a woman in shorts and a halter top, was sexist.
Roger Cook, a customer service employee at American Passages Inc., of Seattle, which prints the timetables, said complaints about the advertisement had occurred at other schools.
The SenEx recommendation was presented to Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, and the Board of Trustees who have not acted on the proposal vet.
"The ad caught more than one feminist's eye," he said. "But the University had approved that."
Ads are placed in an individual school's publication only after they are reviewed and approved by that school. Cook said.
Cook said the company followed set guidelines before choosing advertisements, barring liquor and cigarette ads, for instance.
"Some people have trouble with Sports Illustrated if there is a Black man on the cover," Cook said.
He said the company had received comments on other advertisements, such as a magazine subscription ad it placed in some publications.
Rich Morrell, University registrar,
said the advertisements that appeared in the timetable were approved by a KU committee.
But predicting what people will find offensive is not always easy.
"Some schools have a problem with the ad for Playboy or Penthouse," he said.
This semester, Morrell said, no ads featuring pictures of people were offered to the committee by the publisher.
Joint action may curtail ROTC woes
By Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
At their first meeting since KU officials lobbied in Washington, the Senate Executive Committee yesterday discussed future steps to combat ROTC discrimination against homosexuals and bisexuals.
Debate included what action should be taken April 10, when national action has been requested by the University of Wisconsin-Madison to protest the discrimination. SenEx discussed what the University of Kansas' role should be in a national movement.
Frances Ingemann, SenEx chairperson, made the Washington trip during spring break with Del Grosso to interim executive vice chancellor.
She said that if KU acted as a national leader in a movement to change the policy, the KU ROTC program could be in jeopardy.
Group effort
With the military reducing programs nationwide, KU could be cut
if it was seen as a solo menace. Ingemann said a group of universities fighting together would be more prudent and effective.
"It became obvious to me when we were talking to people that there was a need for a joint effort," she said.
Ingemann said she already had written the other Board of Regents schools and inquired about their situations.
She also planned to contact the Kansas congressional representatives in a couple of weeks.
"I think you have to keep bringing the issues to people's minds," she said. "It's very easy for something to be forgotten in the shuffle."
National protest
Shankel said the trip reaffirmed his position that the ROTC situation should continue to be handled at a higher level of university associations and legislators.
Ingemann received the information about the nationally coordinated effort protesting the Department of Defense policy from Michael Olneck, a professor at Wisconsin-Madison.
Ceremonial observance
If the University decides to take action April 10, it could turn out to be a busy day at KU. Also scheduled for the 10th are the Student Senate elections and a symposium of honors to honor KU's 12th anniversary.
Jacob Gordon, presiding officer of the University Council, said he hoped the Board would have the ROTC issue should coincide with the national effort.
Ingemann said a KU observance of the national protest possibly should take place on another date so as not to conflict with the anniversary symposium. But she said she is in favor of an annual effort against the policy.
One possible solution discussed was to make KU's observance of the day ceremonial. Ingenmann said that he would present his plans to proceed with their own plans.
Pat Watrey, Student Executive Committee chairperson, said, "We could resuelve our action and sup- pensionary International Coordinated Day of Action."
SenEx was unsure of the extent of activities that could take place April 10 but agreed to let the debate continue at tomorrow's Council meeting where decisions could be made. Ingemann said.
But SenEx members also discussed the fact that if the two events coincide, it can be appropriate to use a pistonium focuses on the future of KU.
Jamie Howard, co-director of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said that the group was making plans for April 10 but that nothing
She said one possibility was an informative gathering outside Wescoe Hall without a protest.
Howard said it was unfortunate that April 10 was a busy day at KU.
"Even if it is a busy day, it is very important to the gay and lesbian community," she said.
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