THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.142
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1990
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U.S. hostage held in Iran may go free
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A group calling itself the Organization of Islamic Dawn yesterday announced it would free U.S. hostage Frank Reed within 48 hours and said he was message for the U.S. government.
The announcement from the previously unknown Islamic Dawn group was delivered to the independent Beirut newspaper An-Nahar, which quoted an Iranian official as saying Reed's release was expected tomorrow night after extensive talks between the kidnappers and Iran. Three hours earlier, an unsigned communique said the U.S. educator, who has been held for more than $3\frac{1}{2}$ years, would be freed by tomorrow.
To prove its authenticity, the later statement was accompanied by a
black-and-white picture of a bearded smiling Reed and claimed responsibility for the earlier statement.
until for the Reed, 57, of Malden, Mass., is married to a Syrian Muslim woman.
The statements, which did not say what the message to Washington would contain, left President Bush and Reed's relatives hopeful but cautious.
"I just won't say anything," Bush said while golfing at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. "If that proves to be true, that's wonderful."
Bob Langston, Reed's son-in-law,
said from his Malden home. "We're
feeling cautious. It would be wonderful
if this really happened. But there
have been so many false alarms with
the other hostages."
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union unexpectedly eased part of its economic blockade against Lithuania, nearly doubling the natural gas flowing into the Baltic republic, Lithuania's official radio reported yesterday.
Word of the sudden easing of the gas restriction came after both Lithuania and a spokesman for President Mikhail S. Gorbachev praised a proposed compromise to their dispute offered by France and West Germany. The two Western countries proposed that Lithuania delay implementing its independence without rescinding the declaration itself.
But a Lithuanian government spokesman said yesterday evening that the increased supply had not actually begun to arrive at the factory that was to receive it.
The Soviet Union has cut off all oil supplies and shipments of all many manufactured goods, raw materials and food items in an effort to make Lithuania back away from the declaration of independence.
Vilnius Radio said that the industrial plant at Jonova was being resupplied. The plant supplies the fertilizers with resins, fertilizers and methanol.
If the amount promised the plant were delivered, it would nearly double the republic's natural gas flow.
But Paul Pauparas, manager of the Supreme Council legislature's information department, said in a telephone interview that no extra supplies of gas had been received as of yesterday evening.
About 3,000 people gathered on Campanile Hill yesterday to listen to The Witch Doctors, The Fluid and Toad—The Wet Sprocket.
David Dale, left, and Johnny Stanko perform on the hill.
Music festival and sun bring 3,000 to Hill
By Buck Taylor Kansan staff writer
Amid frisky dogs, friebrees and buckets of fried chicken, a large crowd gathered Saturday on Campanile Hill to watch 10 bands perform during Student Union Activities' annual Day on the Hill.
About 3,000 people attended the event, which ran from noon to 10 p.m., said Melanie Tuusellqua, SIA special events coordinator.
She said that student workers did a good job controlling crowds and that no problems were reported.
crowd is really diverse and having fun. People are being mellow and not misbehaving."
reported. "We have perfect weather, a beautiful day," she said. "The
The Witch Doctors, a folk-rock band from Lawrence, kicked off the event. Scheduled bands were allotted an hour to play, and other musicians filled in while equipped, Tusquet has said.
John Robinson, lead singer for the Denver-based rock band The Fluid, said his band was looking forward to playing in Lawrence again. The band began its first tour in Lawrence several years ago.
See HILL, p. 5
Mystery surrounds unidentified body
Officers carry the body found in a wooded area of the 800 block of East Eighth St. to an ambulance
Mystery Police refuse to speculate until autopsy
By Bryce J. Tache and Steve Bailey Kansan staff lawyers
An autopsy will be performed tomorrow on a body found by two brothers digging for fishing worms early Friday afternoon in a wooded area in East Lawrence.
Sidney and Robert Gonce,
Lawrence residents, found the partially decomposed body in a patch of overgrown brush across the street from Penny's Concrete Inc., 800 E. Eighth St. as of last night, investigators had not yet identified the body.
Lt. Mark Brothers of the Lawrence Police Department said police responded to a call at 12:37 p.m. Friday. Officers at the scene would not speculate on the body's sex race or age.
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The body was taken from the scene to the Douglas County Coroner's office.
The investigation was halted late Friday afternoon because of inclement weather. Lawrence police said that detectives resumed the investigation Saturday but that no further information would be available until at least this morning.
"We are taking this extremely slow," Lawrence Police Chief Ron Oln said yesterday. "The body has been there for a period of months. There is no sense of urgency."
urgency. Olin said several police detectives were attempting to discover
The Gonez brothers said they had been looking for fishing worms for about five minutes when they came across the body, which was lying on the ground. They said they did not know how the person had died and could not see any wounds on the body.
the identity of the body yesterday.
"It is definitely being investiga-
tioned," he said.
gared as a missionary,
Olin said Li. Mike Hall, head of
the detective division, was in
charge of the investigation.
Robert Gonce, 19, said the nude body appeared to be a teenage female lying on her side.
"She looked like she was 15 or 16," he said. "She wasn't very tall."
"We saw it lying there and we thought, 'Oh my God!' he said. He can and got help at the courthouse plant, where we called the police."
Sidney Gonce, 25, said he thought the body looked as if it had been dead for at least a year.
Sidney Gonce also said they saw a pair of pink and white tennis shoes on the ground in the area of the body.
Lawrence police said they would not confirm any information from the Gonce brothers.
Many college climates reported as worsening
By Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
The idyllic vision portrayed in college promotional material often covers up disturbing realities of student life, according to a report released yesterday. But some KU students think the report overstates or misjudges its case.
The report, on surveys of 382 college president and 353 chief student affairs officers, suggests that alcohol, drug abuse, and bullying down the social and intellectual fabric of many college campuses.
The report was commissioned in 1989 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in Princeton, N.J., and the American Council of Education, a Washington-based higher education lobbying group.
Among the survey's findings:
Among the survey's findings:
- Fifty-two percent of the college presidents said the quality of college education is greater concern than a few years ago.
Two-thirds of the presidents consider alcohol abuse a moderate to major problem.
Forty-three percent of the presidents said campus crime had increased during the past five years. Twenty-five percent of the presidents racial tensions were problems on their campuses.
Sixty-two percent of the presidents at research-oriented universities said sexual harassment was a moderator to major problem, and 48 percent said the same of racial harassment.
Ernert L. Bayer, president of Carnegie, said the report pointed out the lack of faculty- or peer-based authority.
"Since the 60s, the notion of universities having parental authority
Presidents surveyed said they did not yearn for the days when colleges had strict behavior rules. But many are confused about how to cope with social Ils. For example, they wonder why colleges have allegory without becoming censors.
has greatly diminished," Boyer said. "But we haven't found new ways to think about the social and civic dimensions of campus life. Universities don't know how to exercise authority even when they see incivility."
Too many have sought to sidestep rather than confront the issues, the report concluded.
The report stated that Blacks, Hispanics and other groups increasingly had banded together into exclusive clubs or unions but that such groups might heighten campus tensions.
Angela Cervantes, president of the KU Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said the report misjudged ethnic groups on campus.
"I do believe there is a paranoia among non-ethnic students that when Black or Hispanic students band together within our own groups to enjoy things that interest our people, they call it a separatist movement," she said. "They don't understand everything else on campus is totally geared to non-ethnic, Anglo students."
Cervantes said groups like HALO did not contribute to campus tensions but helped to destroy racism by destroying the ignorance that existed on campus.
The central recommendation of the report is that colleges adopt a compact campus that reaffirms the college as a caring community. Students must be encouraged to look
See REPORT, p. 5