THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.64
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27.1990
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Guard combat units called to gulf crisis
The Army yesterday ordered 10,367 National Guard combat troops to respond to a drill Friday in Yukon. (Douglas Sheet)
The units called up, which were alerted last week that they would be activated, are the first combat units among the Army's reserve forces to be activated for the Persian Gulf crisis.
more than 45,000 other Army citizen-soldiers put on active duty since August are in combat roles such as
Separately the Marine Corps disclosed that it is sending to the gulf the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, a regular unit of about 15,000 Marines based at Camp Loeieu, N.C.
U.N. considers resolution
The United States consulted with other Security Council members yesterday about a proposal authorizing military force to liberate Kuwait. It would set a Jan. 1 deadline for Iran withdrawal.
The resolution would be the second time in U.N. history that the Security Council has authorized the use of force to counter aggression. The first time was in 1950 in the Korean conflict.
U. S. officials said Sunday that the United States favored a Jan 1 deadline but could be flexible about a
The United States has the nine votes it needs to unify a message by the 15 member body, and the vote is likely to be on Thursday or Friday. Opposition by any one permanent Security Council member – the United Nations in China, France, or the Soviet Union could block the resolution, but a veto is considered unlikely.
Cheney waiting to testify
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney will wait until after U.N. action this week on a resolution authorizing military force in the Persian Gulf before testifying at Senate hearings about the crisis.
The hearings will begin today with members of congress pressing for closer collaboration on gulf policy.
The Bush administration's two top military officials — Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell — were absent from this week's list of witnesses who will testify for the Armed Services Committee.
Gorbachev warns Saddam
Mikhail Gorbachev warned Saddam Hussein yesterday that the aggression against Kuwait would be punished and vowed that the alliance against Iraq would not be broken.
Gorbachev and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw its troops from Kuwait
Answering questions from legislators in Moscow, Gorbachev said the gulf crisis was a test of the new policies.
From The Associated Press
KU grad works in refugee camp
Kansan staff writer
Some KU students have mailed letters to soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia. Others have gathered in Lawrence to protest the buildup of military forces in the area. Some have gone to fight, and some have prayed for soldiers to return safely.
Eldon Wagler, a 1990 KU graduate, found another way to do what he thought was right in regard to the problem. He said, "I had no idea that I was
By Yvonne Guzman
Wagler was one of 10 volunteers from all over the world who helped run Mercy Camp in Jordan, a camp for refugees leaving Iraq. Now, shortly after the closing of the camp, Wagler said he was glad he had the opportunity.
"I was delighted to go." Wagler said in a telephone interview from Cairo, Egypt, where he is studying. "I like to think of it as sort of a different multinational force in the region."
The camp was one of three situated in the desert between Jordan and Iraq. Every night, Wagler and the other volunteers helped thousands of refugees unload as they arrived in buses from Baghdad
The camp had 700 tents. The largest number of refugees that stayed there was 7,500.
Most of the camp's water and food was supplied by the Jordanian government. Wacker said, the biggest hard
Most refugees were self-sufficient, he said. The majority had left the area because they did not have the money to
ships were the heat and the sandstorms
"After the invasion of Kuwait, a lot of the people who had been working in the oil fields were forced to leave," he said. "My impression, from talking to people, is that the conditions weren't that bad. It was a matter of not getting their paychecks."
Most refugees stayed overnight and went to Jordan the next day to take a flight out of the region
Wagler's brother Harley, a KU graduate student, said he was pleased that his brother had the opportunity to help him.
"I encouraged him very strongly to go." he said. "I said, 'There is a need there. It's a very concrete need. It isn't every day you can go do something like this.'"
Eldon's mother, Elizabeth Wagler, said she was somewhat apprehensive at first.
"I was glad I didn't have to make the choice," she said.
"It was difficult. But I wanted to protect him and I did."
you renter to support him, and I told
She said she was surprised and pleased to receive
receipts from her sister in Jordan. He was able
to mail the letters only by sending them with refugees to be mailed from Amman, Jordan.
Harley Wagler, after rereading one of the letters he received from his brother, said it was sad that the
refugees, most of which were Bangladesis, Sri Lankan or Filipino, had to leave their lives in Kuwait to return to
Eldon Wagler was attending a Mennonite Central Committee orientation seminar in Akron, Penn, for his
He took a month off from studying Arabic and teaching English so he could help at the camp during September and October.
He was asked to help at the camp, which was also sponsored by MCC, because he was already going to the region. MCC coordinates social service events for the Memonite Church.
Wagler is in Egypt now, and Mercy Camp is closed. But the tents were left standing in the desert in case they are dead.
The four community groups that sponsored the camp gave control of it to the Hashamite Society, a non-political Jordanian organization. Of the other two camps, only one operating. It is sponsored by the International Red Cross.
Wagier, who graduated from KU last spring with a degree in English, said he missed Lawrence but was pleased to have had the chance to help those who were adversely affected by Iran's Aur.2 invasion of Kuwait.
"I am a pacifist," he said. "And I am very much opposed to American intervention."
Window Dressing
Amie Wilmf, Topeka sophomore, places an angel atop a Christmas tree in the in the clothing department of the bookstore, said she volunteered to put up **UK Bookstore display window at the Kansas Union. Wolff, who usually works** the display because it was more fun than folding sweatshirts.
Blindness gave way to action
Positive attitude drives founder of Black Men of Today
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
To Durren Fulcher, a cafeteria at William Jewell College in Liberty, Ms. seemed like perfectly safe,
The cafeteria was a common eating and gathering place for students at the college of about 1,400 students. It was lunchtime, the line fairly long, the crowd fairly large.
"He said. 'If they wouldn't let the niggers in here, we wouldn't have this problem,'" said Fulcher, who was then a student at William Jewell. Another man and a woman agreed.
A male student in line behind Fulcher gave his reason for the line.
At the time, Fulcher, now a KU senior and a founder of the student group Black Men of Today, said his eyes, ears and mind were closed to the problems of racism around him.
"I wasn't conscious of society and its problems," he said. "I never saw any restrictions. I never saw any discrimination. I never saw any of that, even though it was there."
"I was blind. I was blinded by my education, by how I had actually been indoctrinated into believing in a system where everyone was equal. I honestly thought that."
Combatting racism
Fulcher has become involved in a multitude of activities at the University of Kansas. As one of the three founders of Black Men of Today still attending KU, Fulcher this semester helped organize student protests, rallies, racism forums and urged all students to recognize racism and its symptoms.
Fulcher said he wasn't blind anymore.
"KU has the potential to be a great university," Fulcher said. "Just by its location of being in the Midwest, just by its facilities that can attract, just by its location, just by its facilities that can become a really great place for all students to come."
One of the ways Fulcher chose to combat racism at KU was to help organize Black Men of Today in Fall 1989.
Darren Fulcher
"When I first came to KU, I was sitting on the (Wescow) Beach, and nobody came by to say anything to me. No White guys, no Black guys. No one came by. And I saw how the athletes stayed in this section, how the Greeks stayed in this section, and everyone stayed off in their own little space.
Fulcher talked with Cory Anderson, Omaha senior, who suggested he talk with John Lewis, Kansas City, Kan., senior. Together, with the help of Mark McCor
"I thought, If the Black guys would come together, we could have something here."
See FULCHER. n. 5
ABC charges five clubs
Bar owners face possible fines and loss of licenses
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, which in the past three months has cited the Lawrence nightclub Pizazz for eight alcohol violations, has charged five additional clubs with violations.
Tom Hanna, director of the ABC, said yesterday that the following clubs had been cited for the following violations:
- The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., cited for non-member access.
Los Amigos Saloon, 508 Locust St., cited for non-member access. The Mad Hatter, 700 New Hamshire St., cited for consumption by a
shire St., cited for consumption by a
minor and non-member access
Ricky Dean's, 117 E. Eigth St. cited for consumption by a minor and non-member access.
Shenago Lounge, 2907 W. Sixth St., cited for non-member access.
The clubs are licensed as class B clubs, which allows only members and their guests in the club.
Hanna said undercover agents for the ABC entered the clubs and consumed alcohol without being asked for a membership card.
Club owners will have to appear before the ABC commission in January to answer to the charges, except for the owner of Los Amigos, who has been ordered to appear in December, he said. The licenses of the clubs could be revoked or a fine could be levied against them at that time.
Clepe Stroda, owner of Shenago Lounge, said she was surprised her club was cited for the non-member access violation.
"I've been here 10 years and this is
my first violation," she said. "I don't understand why my support served someone she didn't know, but I have no complaints against the ABC because they've been more than fair to me."
The owner of Los Amigos Saloon was not available for comment. The other owners declined to comment on the violations.
Pizazz, 901 Mississippi St., was in finden in September for four alcohol violations and again in November for the consumption of alcohol consumption by minors.
The owners of Pizazz, Don and Jon Schmidt, have said that their club was being singled out for alcohol violations from the ABC.
Hanna denied that Pizazz was the only club being investigated.
The Schmids, who are appealing the alcohol violation charges from ABC, were scheduled to have a hearing until December. Harna said
Chronic fatigue remains a mystery
By Courtney Eblen
Yvonne Caldera never has fully recovered from an unusually strong case of influenza she caught four years ago.
Kansan staff writer
When she first tried to describe to physicians how she felt, the word "tired" never even came close.
"I got the flu and it just wouldn't go away," said Caldera, a 1990 KU graduate.
The fever and nasal symptoms
cleared up, but Caldera remained so weak that she could barely lift her hands. Her illness was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a disease she never had heard of before.
Chronic fatigue syndrome, which afflicts an estimated 2 million to 5 million U.S. citizens, first was thought to be an offspring of the influenza virus (e.g., Epstein-Barr virus). But CFS recently was ruled to be unrelated to mono.
An estimated 20 students and faculty members at the University of Kansas have been afflicted with CPS, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Symptoms of CFS include:
- Extreme fatigue that does n
- Extreme fatigue that does not resolve with sleep.
Flu-like symptoms, such as a fever and chills, a sore throat and headache often are the first indica-
See FATIGUE, p. 8