VOL.100,NO.146
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPIER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1990
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Xusiel Yu, vice president of the Chinese Student and Scholar silence commemorating those killed one year ago in Beijing's Association (right), leads dignitaries and students in a moment of Tiananmen Square.
Speakers remember Tiananmen
By Bryan Hebert
Kansan staff writer
Students at the University of Kansas and Beijing University commemorated the first anniversary of the Tiananmen Square in different ways.
While Beijing students reacted to police presence with violence and shouts of "Get rid of Li Peng," about 100 people at KU gathered quietly in front of Staffer-Flint Hall for a lecture on the human rights of Chinese Student and Scholar Association, the Chinese Students Association and Student Senate.
A wreath with Chinese characters was placed in front of a podium. Xuejian Yu, vice president of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association said the characters communicated mourning and tribute.
"A year ago today I was shot, you were shot, the whole world was shot," Yu said. "We are here to remind you that the pro-democracy movement in China did not die down."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence, State Rep. John Solbach III,
D-Lawrence, Lawrence Mayor
Shirley Martin-Smith, Daniel Bays,
professor of history, Michael
Schreiner, Student Senate president,
and Yanpel Deng, president of the
Chinese Students and Scholars Association,
each made short presentations.
Winter said it was appropriate that state and local politicians joined KU faculty and students in commemorating the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square爆炸 Lawrence where city founders were dedicated to the idea of a free state.
that is intended to make certain that the blood that was shot on behalf of human rights not be forgotten," he said.
Bays said KU students and faculty saw themselves represented on television when they watched the activity in Tiananmen Square.
his undergraduate degree at Naikan University, Nakian was located 70 miles from Beijing. He saw banners from his alma mater in the Square during television coverage of last year's demonstrations, he said.
"These were our colleagues," he said. "The people most like us."
"It is exciting to be part of an event
Deng, a graduate student, earned
He said the day the People's Liberation Army cracked down was the darkest day in modern Chinese history.
rany, "China, We Love You," was particularly moving for him, he said. The lyrics were "China, we love you, why must the students bear the blame? China, O China, we share the tears on your face. China, we love you, sincerely the human race."
Jiang Zheng, a graduate student who attended the rally, received his undergraduate degree from Zhejiang Medical University in China. He said
A song sung at the close of the
that he was pleased with Monday's rally but was disappointed that the event did not include a march. He participated in marches last year at KU after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
"We want students to remember the day the year before and give the message to all the world that democracy and freedom is the people's right," Zheng said.
Jayhawk Boulevard to remain open road Committee finds no viable options
Fraternity agrees to cancel party
By Ann Sommerlath
Kansan staff writer
A transportation committee formed to consider reducing traffic congestion along Jayhawk Boulevard will not discuss closing the 30-foot-wide Ramalaye, executive vice chancellor said yesterday.
John Mullens, KU police lieutenant and a committee member, said the proposal involved bricking over Jeyhawk Boulevard to make it a pedestrian walkway, staggering class start and end times and relocating bus stops and bookstores.
Ramaley said that the proposal to make the street look like a pedestrian mall could still be considered for approval next year. Also, she asked the ad hoc committee to become a standing committee, which would report to the executive vice chancellor.
By Bryan Reber
She proposed that a student representative of KU on Wheels recommend policy and structure changes to the executive vice
"These proposed changes would reduce some congestion and possibly some contusion," Mullens said. "To absolutely guarantee safety you don't mix pedestrians and vehicles. You keep the two totally separate to ensure security."
Committee member Donna Hultine, assistant director of the Parking Department, said no committee members were adamant about closing Jayhawk Boulevard. The committee felt closing Jayhawk Boulevard would create traffic problems on Memorial Drive and Sunnyside Avenue, which are in poor condition.
Kansan staff writer
Members of the Phi Delta Thora fraternity at KU have agreed to end Southern Mess, an end-of-year party with a 100-year tradition following the wedding of their twins which contained sexual and racial references.
Margaret Miller, assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center, said that after the April 28 party someone anonymously sent copies of the program to several KU student groups and KU administrators.
The program contained comments written by graduating seniors in the fraternity. The statements included sexual innuendoes and racial slurs, Miller said. The anonymous source provided not only the 1990 program but also one from the 1988 party which contained similar comments.
"No one in the University knew that this was happening." Miller said.
Michael Reilly, Phi Delta Theta president, said the fraternity accepted full responsibility for the party and program.
"We realize now that it was a mistake, that some of the notions were unacceptable," he said.
Miller said the fraternity wrote a letter of apology to the student groups and administrators who received the booklets.
A March 30 incident, in which a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity reportedly struck and uttered a racial slur to a woman delivering pizza, was more difficult to deal with. Miller said.
Miller said KU officials were able to take quick disciplinary action against the fraternity because there was clearly group responsibility.
She said fraternity leaders signed an agreement that would eliminate the party and would allow University officials to monitor chapter events. The agreement also required the fraternity to conduct education sessions to teach members about racial and sexual issues.
Because that case involved one member of the SAE fraternity rather than the fraternity at large, disciplinary action was more difficult, she said.
Reilly said that, in addition to the sessions planned for Phi Delta Theta members, the fraternity planned to sponsor sessions for other houses within the KU greek system.
Leader's problems remain
A seven-member review panel was organized to compile a report on the incident at the SAE house. Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said the panel's report included University officials discuss it with SAE members.
MOSCOW — Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned from the United States yesterday triumphantly bearing trade and arms deals but facing ethnic bloodshed in Central Asia, an impasse with the Baltic republics and trouble in the Kremlin.
In Gorbachev's absence, his nemesis Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of Russia, the largest Soviet republic. Yelsin immediately called for the resignation of the Soviet Cabinet and a new constitution that would vastly reduce the powers of the central government.
In the distant reaches of Soviet Central Asia, two Turkic groups clashed yesterday for the second day in a conflict between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The Associated Press
Along the Baltic coast, Prime Minister Kazimira Prunkele of the secessionist republic of Lithuania reassured her compatriots that American sympathizers would try to block Congress from endorsing a U.S.-Soviet trade deal signed at the summit.
It was not clear whether the postponement was instigated by Gorbachev, who warned Sunday that he might curb emigration of Soviet Jews if they continue to settle on land in Israel during the 1987 Mideast War.
And within the ancient red brick walls of the Kremlin, the Supreme Soviet legislature unexpectedly postponed consideration of the emigration law that President Bush set as a precondition for implementing the trade pact.
Bush had said previously he would not sign the agreement until Gorbachev lifted the economic sanctions he imposed against Lithuania after it declared independence March 11. American lawmakers chided Bush for stretching too far to help Gorbachev, who has led the effort to negotiate with Lithuanians until they suspend their declaration.
The trade deal, which drew immediate criticism from members of the U.S. Congress, was an unexpected triumph for the Soviet president.
The Soviet leader also has decreed that the other two Baltic republics, Estonia and Latvia, violated the Soviet Constitution by taking less than a month to dispose of him; he has not been able to bring them back into the fold.
State-run Soviet television and centrally published newspapers gave blanket coverage to Gorbachev's trip, hailing the agreements he signed to eliminate superpower chemical weapons and complete a treaty to slash long-range nuclear arsenals.
Reagan blamed for problems
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former President Ronald Reagan is partially responsible for ethnic attacks on as many as 1 million college students each year, a group that examines such trends said Thursday.
The attacks, ranging from verbal slurs to physical assaults, are directed at one in five minority students, officials of the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence attacks. Attacks on gay students appear to be even more frequent, the organization said.
"If we had an incidence of disease at 20 percent, the surgeon general would have declared a public health crisis." Howard J. Ehrhill, research director for the U.S. during a news conference called to release a report on campus racism.
Release a report on examplc He said most college students came of political age during the Reagan presidency when "civil rights were being devalued in this society."
"For most students, there are times when the classroom atmosphere can be stressful. For the teacher to feel comfortable comfort may be an everyday occurrence." the 72-page report said.
The report, "Campus EthnicViolence and the Policy Options," said minority students at predominantly white campuses suffered almost constant pressures because of their ethnic backgrounds.
Ehrlich said figures showed that between 800,000 and 1 million students were victimized each year by ethnic violence. A quarter of those he said, had been harassed on more than one occasion.
"There was absolutely no leadership during the Reagan administration to show this nation how it could be better." Bayh said at a news conference, "the president is supposed to stand up and say, 'We don't tolerate this in the United States of America.'"
Former Democratic. Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, chairman of the institute's board of directors, said Reagan had done nothing during his eight years in the White House to set a precedent for racial tolerance in the country.
Bayah said what Reagan did on civil rights was negative, such as the former president's push to dismantle the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and his opposition to the extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1964.
Bayh said President Bush already had taken some "very positive steps" to deal with the problem, such as inviting various groups to the signing ceremony for the Hate Crimes Reporting Act. But Bush's term is still too new to assess his record on civil rights. Bayh added
he did say, however, that while Bush had spoken against racial record on crime trends.
insensitivity, "We'd like to see more than words."
Reagan spokesman Mark Weinberg, reached by telephone in Los Angeles, had no immediate response to Bayh's remarks.
The institute's report was released a day after the American Association of State Colleges and Universities unveiled a new book designed to help college administrators combat campus racism.
That publication, "The Lurking Earl. Racial and Ethnic Conflict on the College Campus," contains 16 articles — most of them written by college administrators — that describe problems with campus racism and offer suggestions for dealing with them.
Ehrlich said while the percentage of bigots on college campuses doesn't appear to have increased, "numerically we have more people committing more acts."
He said colleges must show a sense of urgency in dealing with the issue.
"If you do things in a routine manner, people are not going to sense a priority," Ehrlich said.
"I don't think most people are bigoted." Bayh said. "But we have to create the idea in the mind of the average non-bigoted citizen that they have a responsibility to do something about it."
U.S. and U.S.S.R discuss establishing international park
Kansan staff writer
Bv Ann Sommerlath
A KU environmental law professor is representing the United States at a conference in Fairbanks, Alaska, to discuss estates in international park between the United States and the Soviet Union.
George Coggins, Frank E. Tyler distinguished professor of law, said the concept of a joint park had been discussed informally at past conferences but the first time it would be a part of the official agenda.
the timing of the conference is appropriate," Coggins says. "Just last Friday, the president and President Gorbachev agreed to a proposal to create a joint international park on the Bering Strait. Another effort will be made by the Bering Land Bridge Natural Preserve. I like to see an enlarging of horizons to encompass wildlife preserves as well."
Coggins said the conference, "Shared Living Resources of the Bering Sea," is his sixth meeting with Soviet environmentalists. He
... the president and President Gorbachev agreed to a proposal to create a joint international park on the Bering Strait.
George Coggins KU prof of Law
has been a member of the U.S. delegation of environmental lawyers and scientists since 1973.
The conference is sponsored by federal agencies and by the state of Alaska. Coggins will discuss how the American National Wildlife Refuge system could fit into an international park scheme.
Robert Jerry, dean of law, said, "George is known both nationally and internationally for his work in natural resource law so it's hardly surprising that he would be interested to participate in this sort of conference."
The meetings are the result of a 1972 treaty that provides for an exchange of environmental professionals between the two nations, Coggins said.