VOL. 101, NO.73
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1990
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Iraq releases 175 hostages
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany — The first American freed by Saddam Hussein's order releasing all foreigners arrived in Germany early today. Other former hostages prepared to return are being held four months under guard or in biding.
Some of the 175 Americans on the U.S. chartered Iraqi Airways jet that landed in Frankfurt were expected to go to a U.S. Air Force hospital in nearby Wiesbaden. Most planned to return to the United States today.
The flight also carried more than 98 Britons, about 30 Canadians, and former hostages from Ireland, Greece, Austria, Argentina, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, said airport officials in Baghdad.
In all, 324 people were on the airplane, and more than 250 of them had been stranded since the Aug. 1 Iraq invasion of the tiny oil-rich emirate of Kuwait. The rest included family members and others.
U. S. officials said they planned to charter another flight in three or four days to evacuate the rest of the 750 Americans in Iraq and Kuwait.
The Iraqi parliament on Friday approved a decree by Iraqi President Saddam to free all foreigners in Kuwait and Iraq
The first foreigners to leave Baghdad under the decreed issued by Saddam were a group of about 200 hostages, mostly Italians, who were taken on board aboard an Italian chartered jet
Western diplomats complained that Iraqi authorities had put up some last-minute bureaucratic roadblocks to the exodus.
Iraq has refused U.S. requests to waive visa requirements for freed hostages, and the processing of the hostages has been delayed to delay some departures (for days).
For example, foreigners in cities other than Baghdad had told they must obtain exit visas from those cities. Those who had been under work contracts were told that Iraqi law requires them to present a letter releasing them from their obligations
However, diplomats said Iraqi officials were working quickly yesterday, processing an estimated 80 exit visas an hour.
Twenty-one former American hostages landed in Houston early yesterday after flying out of Baghdad a day earlier aboard a jet chartered by former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who was in Iraq on a private hostage-freeding mission.
Their release was arranged prior to Iraq's decree freeing all foreigners.
About 8,000 Westerners had been detained since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, including about 600 who are still sites in an effort to deter an attack.
Meanwhile, a London newspaper reported that Iraq had redrawn its border with Kuwait in what could be due to withdraw as early as next month.
Baker: Meeting deadline Jan. 3
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State James A. Baker III said yesterday that if Saddam Hussein does not agree to hold a meeting with him by Jan. 3, it will show that the Iraqi leader is not serious about averting a war in the Persian Gulf.
The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, Abdul Amir Al-Ambari, would not rule out scheduling the meeting for that date. But he predicted that if war does occur the United States could be involved in a single day as it bore during the entire Vietnam War.
Baker and national security adviser Brent Scowcroft said that once Iraq leaves Kuwait, the United States will seek to create an international system of monitoring Iraq's advanced weapons
programs.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, meanwhile, said he thought the United States would reject a proposed conference linkings on the gulf crisis with the Palestinian issue.
Baker said his anticipated session in Baghdad with Saddam should not occur after Jan. 3 because if it did, it would not give Iraq enough time to withdraw from its oil-rich neighbor before the United Nation's Jan. 15 deadline.
The U.N. has authorized the use of force against Iraq if it has not removed its forces from Kuwait by that date.
President Bush initially had proposed holding the meeting between Dec. 15 and Jan. 15.
Shooting victim is student
Kansan staff report
An 18-year old KU football player who was shot about a 2.m. friday was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for a minor chest wound and held for observation, a hospital spokesperson said.
Kristopher Booth, Detroit freshman, was trying to break up an argument outside Pizzaz, 901 Mississippi St., when he was shot with a 25 caliber gun, said Musk Mvelon, a former Michigan State friend took Booth to the hospital.
Johnny White, 24, a Riley Riley soldier, was put in the Douglas County Jail about 5 a.m. Friday in connection with the shooting, Mulvey said.
Lawrence police obtained White's name after about 10 witnesses were brought to the Lawrence Law Enforcement and Judicial Center for questioning after the shooting, Mulvenon said.
Mulvenon said White called Lawrence police from a 24-hour restaurant on 23rd Street and said, "I understand you're looking for me."
Mulvenon said White later called Port Riley and was told that Lawrence police were looking for him.
White would not make a statement after police officers brought him to the law enforcement center. White would have one count of unprovoked battery.
Booth declined to comment about the incident.
Migrating eagles stop in Lawrence
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Once again, eagle season has arrived in Lawrence. Every winter migrating bald eagles stop in the area to rest and feed on their way south Lawrence residents recently have spotted the majestic birds along the Kansas River and at Clinton Lake.
Fred DeVector, Lawrence director of parks and recreation, said eagles had been seen in the Lawrence area for several weeks.
A bald eagle sits in a tree near the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza. Eagles nest along the Kansas River.
The eagles often fish at the Kansas River Dam, he said. They鱼 there during the winter because the movement of the water near the dam prevents it from freezing.
DeVictor said that good vantage points for eagle-watching included city hall, Riverfront Plaza and Riverfront Park, a long stretch of public land along the Kansas River.
People should not try to get too close to the eagles, he said.
Dave Rhoades, park manager at Clinton, said bald eagles at Clinton this year had first been seen about two weeks ago.
DeVictor said that eagles usually began appearing in the summer number or December and stayed in the area for a few months.
"The eagles are very solitary birds," he said. "If you get too close to them, they get nervous and leave. People should view them from a distance, or no one is going to be able to enjoy them."
"This is the time of year they come through the area." he said.
Rhoades said that as many as 24 eagles had been seen at Clinton in a day. The number of eagles at Clinton was during December and January.
They migrate south, the birds stop in Lawrence to feed. he said. They generally stay until area conditions are good over, usually in mid-January.
But one pair of bald eagles has nested at Clinton Lake for the past two summers, he said.
Two summers ago, when the nest was the only eagle nest in Kansas, two eagles hatched. Last summer, when the nest was one of only two in Kansas, three eaglets hathed. Rhoades said there was a good chance the eagles would nest at Clinton next summer.
"We'd like to see them back," he said. "They do tend to come back to the same place again and again."
The eagles who nest at Clinton arrive in March and April and usually leave the area by August, he said. The park rangers have set up buoys to keep boaters from coming too close to the nest.
Rhoades said there were several federal laws that protected eagles. Harassing an eagle can be difficult, but the fine of $10,000 or more, he said.
Joyce Wolf, co-president of the Jayhawk audubon Society, said the society was planning an eagle field trip for Jan. 19. Wolf said a good place to look for eagles was sea ice just downstream of the dam.
KU faces tight financial situation, but will survive
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Burdett Loomis wishes that he could take care of all the political science majors at KU.
Loomis, chairperson of the department, said the number of political science majors had increased from 850 to about 850 in the past five years. He expects there will be at least 1,000 by Spring 1991
In the same time, the department has lost two faculty members and had had to rely more on graduate students. In addition, classes have at least 50 students, and
popular courses, such as Political Parties, close on the first day of enrollment.
"It itlly closes up the first day," Loomis said. "Here you've got a great teacher, Ai Cigler, and it's very impossible to get into his class."
Political science, like many other departments and schools at the University of Kansas, needs more money.
Gov. elect Joan Finney wishes she had it.
"I'm aware of the problem," Finney said. "I know the universities
But despite the state's tight financial situation, KU remains a top public institution, according to many college guides. Part of its success is a trend that helps replace warning signs; support; more private endowments.
The percentage of University expenditures that were financed by the state fell from 47.1 percent in fiscal 2000 to estimated 40.7 percent in fiscal 1991.
were underfunded. The total budget is tight."
Within its peer institution group, KU was one of three that did not
increase the amount of state money — after adjusting for regional inflation — that each student received during the past 10 years.
Departments such as political science have felt the financial crunch. So has the School of Engineering, which will provide a $15-a-credit card every month to the Regents in an attempt to equip equipment necessary for its programs.
But officials say that the financing problem is not due to a lack of commitment as much as a lack of credit issuers indicate that they may be correct.
During the past 10 years, KU has received, for academic purposes, between 3 and 5 percent of the state's general fund revenue, a higher average percentage than all but two of its peers.
That percentage decreased for the first time in three years during fiscal 1981, the first year without Margin of Evidence financing since fiscal 1981.
The Margin was the Board of Regents three-year plan to increase the total financing of its seven institutes and faculty salaries to 100 percent of faculty salaries to 100 percent of
their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third
Robert Creighton, chairperson of the Regents, said that the loss of the Margin was apparent in many statistics.
But Creighton said he was optimistic about financing for the Regents institutions, despite recent state tax increases such as the property tax reappraisal.
"I think most people in Kansas are
Library needs money
Student association works to establish Native American studies
Bv Debbie Mvers
Kansan staff writer
Cavley Smith said he felt discriminated against only once during his first semester at
One day in his math class, in which Smith said he was the only non-white student, two male students sitting in the back of the room were reading in the University Daily Kansan about an anti-Columbus Day protest and what people would be protesting about next.
"One of them said, 'Oh yeah, like there was, like, intelligent civilizations here before Columbus came,'" said Smith, a 1989 Haskell Indian Junior College graduate and full-blooded Navajo. "And I was just really surprised about how ignorant they were. I was wondering if it ever occurred to them that the Aztec people that lived here before Columbus came had vast knowledge of geometry.
"I realized that I should have said something. I didn't want to cause anything, I just wanted people to be aware that sometimes they don't realize their own ignorance. I was really surprised that they just said it while I was sitting there."
But at KU, American Indian students say they face a lack of representation among faculty and staff. They often feel lonely and intimidated, their tribal differences are ignored, their history and customs are not taught and they are stereotyped.
Bob Martin, president at Haskell, said that sometimes Haskell graduates were not staterеer than 10 percent.
Smith is one of 158 American Indian students at KU this semester, most of them Haskell graduates, who came to the University to further their educations.
"I've heard faculty say at KU that they've heard, Well, here comes another Haskell student."
types and generalizations that are being made about them. They're going to have to be used together.
"Of course, I think a lot of that is self-fulfilling. If they stereotype our students that way, perhaps they're going to treat them differently, except less of them, and that's what they're going to get," he said. "That's called prejudice and discrimination."
American Indian students also must struggle to maintain their culture in a country that virtually has forgotten about its first settlers.
Smith said it was sad that it was impractical for him to carry on the tradition of his grandfathers, both of whom are medicine men, in today's society.
His grandfathers, both in their late 90s, still perform healing rituals and are happy to live without running water, electricity or anything else that would increase their material
status.
"Not one of their grandchildren has bothered to follow in their footsteps, all because they were brought up to believe that if you want something in this world, you're going to have to work for it in the American society, getting an education, getting a trade, getting paid cash for it," he said. "We don't have a desire to follow in the footsteps of our grandfathers, and that is sad. That is so sad."
"I told my mom one day that I just realized that after they leave this world, there goes all our culture, everything we could ever learn about ourselves," Smith said.
Although it is darespectful in his culture to talk about death, S Smith cannot help thinking about the past.
Martin said the contemporary image of American Indians was overshadowed by the traditional image of the American Indian as a noble savage.
"When we get requests for our students in the classroom, they want to see them in their traditional dress, they want to see the dances and all that, but at the same time, there has to be that other dimension, seeing us in the primary context of this society," Martin said.
"Sometimes it's hard to accept. Either they want it totally blended, totally assimilated, or they want the traditional. And of course moving into the 21st century, there has been a lot of change," he said. "However, you have to be willing to assimilate totally assimilated. They don't want that."
"And they're not going away, and they're retaining their culture, at least parts of it, and trying to adapt to the world as we live in today. But American Indians are actually increasing in numbers, they're retaining their culture."
See NATIVE AMERICANS, p. 10