VOL.100, NO.137
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1990
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Shankel gets Ramaley's job during search
By Pam Sollner
Kansan staff writer
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology and biochemistry, was named interim executive vice president of Budiq. by Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Shankel, who will take the Job Aug.
1, said it was exciting to be at the post
for a third time.
"I am pleased that the chancellor had enough confidence in me to do the job," he said.
Del Shankel
Shankel served as the first executive vice chancellor for the Lawrence campus from 1974-80. He also served as interim executive vice chancellor for six months in 1987 when the university was searching for a replacement.
That replacement was Judith Ramaley, present executive vice chancellor, who has accepted the position. She will start the job Aug. 1.
Ramaley said she would reserve comments about her new position for when she addressed a news conference at 9 a.m. today.
Shankel said he began working yesterday with Ramaley and the other vice chancellors to assure a smooth transition of leadership.
The biology department will not need to find another faculty member to teach Shankl's classes next semester. He was not assigned to teach this class, so devote full time to his research. Now he will do research nortime.
Budig said Shankel was the obvious choice.
"The appointment of Dr. Shankel assures continued momentum for the Lawrence campus," he said.
Budig said the search process for
Ramaley's replacement would be initiated this Tall.
By that time, Ramaley will be leading the Portland State campus. She will be the first woman president of Oklahoma and the Oregon higher education system.
Budig called Ramaley a gifted academic administrator.
"She is a creative person with boundless energy," he said. "I am confident that she will do well in her role as a teacher to lead her own institution."
Richard Hensley, president of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, said Ramalea wanted to create a strong teamwork environment with the faculty and her new administration style and administrative expertise.
"I felt she was a very experienced and intelligent administrator," he said. "She had a very strong perspective of what the role of Portland State
See RAMALEY, p. 5
Terrors of the Holocaust related
Professor depicts separation and extermination of family
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Sig Lindenbaum made a promise to tell the story of when he saw his parents for the last time when he was nine years old. Last night, people, he quietly placed in
He told the story of how his family was destroyed by the Holocaust.
Lindenbaum, professor of pharmacy, spoke to about 80 people in Smith Hall who gathered to commemorate Yom Ha-Sham, a day before the Holocaust and people including six million Jews, who were killed in the Holocaust.
"The enormity of the Holocaust is hard to grasp and make real." Lindenbaum said, "My purpose was to help children who died but to tell one family."
Lindenbaum told of the German town in which he was born and attended school during the 1830s.
"By the time I started school, Hitler was already successful in convincing the German people that all Jews were responsible for their problems," Lindenbaum said.
He described Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, such as when his father was made to place the word "Jude," German for Jew, in his shop window "telling people that it was unpatriotic to shop there."
Lindenbaum said his entire family, along with the other Jews in the city, were taken to the train station and sent to the German-Polish border in 1938. There they passed at gumpout on Germany.
In the summer of 1939, Lindenbaum said his family, which had relocated in Poland, feared more
SUA offers Jewish films p.9
trouble and decided to move farther from the German border.
"As we stood at the train station," he said, "a man came running up to us, out of breath. He would put their children on the train."
The man was from "Kinder Transport," an English program that brought 10,000 Jewish children to England to protect them from the Nazis, Lindenbaum said. Lindenbaum and his siblings had been exposed to go to England with the transports.
"My older sister was 13, my younger brother was seven and I was nine," he said. "We watched the movie." The parents pulled out of the station."
The children then were separated to be shipped out in different transports. Lindenbaum was the grandfather his family to leave for England.
"My brother arrived in England three days before Poland was invaded," he said. "My sister was to be on the next train."
Lindenbaum said his sister never made the trip. She was killed, along with Lindenbaum's brother, by the Nazis during the war.
Before Lindenbaum spoke, there was a service sponsored by KU Hillel, during which members of the audience were asked to read aloud passages from a book about the Holocaust.
At the end of the evening, Lindenbaum told about the 50th anniversary meeting last year of those who were fostered by the
Sig Lindenbaum
Kinder Transport program
"There were tears and laughter and joy because it was a celebration," he said. "We found those people who needed the same fear and haunting."
"The most important resolution
that came from this reunion has been that we will write and record what happened. Much has been written and recorded already. But we must remind those who already know, teach those who don't and confront those who wish to forget."
Lack of air conditioning causes problems
By Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
Mary Davidson wiped the sweat from her brow at 9:30 a.m. yesterday as she lectured to her Introduction to Drama class.
Davidson, a lecturer in the English department, teaches in Fraser Hall, which is of yesterday did not have its air conditioning turned on.
"I do think they should make the atmosphere conducive to teaching." Davidson said. "It's hard to concentrate when it's h.k."
She said the temperature at the English department in Wescoe Hall
was about 80 degrees.
"We have a lot of units to turn on and very few people," Samuelsaid. "It is an unwritten rule that it is usually turned on between April 16 and May 16. But it depends on the weather."
Randy Samuels, assistant director of electrical and air conditioning facilities operations, said that maintenance had started turning on the air conditioning Friday in University buildings and that they were continuing to take about four days to a week to turn on all of the units.
All of the buildings on campus have some type of air conditioning, he said.
Brandeese Stillwell, Wichita freshman, lives in Haskinger Hall, where the air conditioning is scheduled to be turned on about May 1.
"It's hot and muggy," Stillwil said, "the only time you can get air is when you open the door, and then you come back to nothing of the shelves and the walls."
Fred McEhenbie, associate director of student housing, said the air conditioning would be turned on in the Jahayhower Towers, the scholarship halls and the residence halls about May 1.
"Last year we had a frost on May 7," McElhenie said. "The residents wanted the heat back on. It's an all-or-nothing proposition. Once you turn the heat off, you can't turn it back on."
Based on the recent warm weather, McElnibie said he would discuss turning on the air conditioner earlier than planned with Ken Stoner, director of housing. Stoner was out of town yesterday.
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Is it me?
Matthew DeWein, St. Louis senior, left, tries on a graduation cap as Jennifer Hudgins, Overland Park senior, looks on.
Hostage enjoys return to family and freedom; Bush insists 'no deals'
The Associated Press
WIESBADEN, West Germany — Freed U. S. hostage Robert Polhill checked into a hospital suite and spent his first day of freedom yesterday savoring scrambled eggs and bacon and enjoying an afternoon nap.
U.S. officials, who plan to quest
Pohill about his nearly three year
in captivity, gave the 55-year-
old man the court and unders
routine medical tests.
Initial medical tests showed he was malnourished, but U.S. officials said he had received treatment for his diabetes while in captivity.
Bush administration reacts p. 6
Officials said Polhill, who was held by a pro-Iranian man, was likely a captive in the same building as two U.S. colleagues, but they doubted he would know much about any of the 15 western hostages in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, reports from Teheran and Lebanon said a second hostage release may be in the offing. But news reports in Teheran and Beirut and a pro-Iranian Shlite cleric said the United States would have to
reciprocate.
U. S. officials said they had no information that a second release was going to happen.
President Bush thanked Iran and Syria for their help in securing Polih's release. Syrian forces in Lebanon picked up Pohil in West Beirut and drove him to the Syrian capital, Damascus. Both Iran and Syria apparently acted in an effort to improve relations with the West:
But the president said he would make no deals with the pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem militants in Lebanon still holding the Western hostages, seven of whom are from the United States.
Clear details of Polhill's captivity have not yet emerged, but U.S. officials said he likely was held in the same building as two other hostages kidnapped with him Alman Shen, 51, of Boston and died in October after being kidnapped at the Brutus University Campus.
In Lebanon, Hussein Musawi, a leading pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem cleric, said Monday that freeing Western hostage was "in the cards."
Campuses attack Pentagon policy barring homosexuals
The Associated Press
The groundswell of student interest has come as a surprise to.
WASHINGTON — College campuses across the country will be the scene of a spring offensive in the battle between gay activists and LGBTQ men over its policy barring homosexuals from military service.
Activists led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison group are organizing simultaneous news conferences to take place May 4. The main point of the conferences will be joint attacks on Reserve Officer Training Corpa programs that exclude homosexuals from receiving financial aid or being commissioned as officers.
some national gay leaders. Until ROTC policy emerged as an issue last year on college campuses, gay activists had been focusing primarily on the courts and Congress to effort to change Pentagon policie.
KU not involved in protest p.5
"I don't understand this — why the schools in the Midwest are getting so revved up about this, but they are," said Sue Heydrich, director and Lesbian Military Freedom Project, based in Washington.
The effort has begun to show some results. Several universities
See ROTC, p. 5
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