THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.109
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAR. 8, 1990
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Libva
Weapons factory poses threat
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House said yesterday that Libya had renewed production of chemical weapons, posing a major threat and requiring vigorous action to shut down the plant.
White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater refused to exclude the possibility of a military strike to knock out the poison-gas plant.
"The international community should step up its efforts to deny Libya the ability to continue operating the plant." he said.
Chemical weapons are considered the poor nations' atom bomb because they are relatively cheap to produce and hard to detect. Libya is one of about two dozen countries considered capable of or actually producing poison gas, which was used by Iran and Iraq in the Persian Gulf war.
Fitzwater said the United States was consulting with other governments to express serious concern about the plant.
The plant at Rabta, 60 miles south of Tripiol, is producing limited quantities of mustard gas and nerve agents, U.S. officials said.
Janice Turner, Fort Madison, Iowa, junior, distributes filers during a rally against Coca-Cola Co.
"Rabta is dangerous and becoming more so," Fitzwater said. "This points to the necessity for heightened international vigilance of Libyan procurement activities and for vigorous efforts to stop the operation of Rabta."
He would not comment about the type or quantity of weapons being produced.
Coca-cola questions
In 1988, the United States raised concerns about Rabta and persuaded West German companies and other foreign suppliers to stop providing technical assistance. U.S. officials said then that Libya had stopped work on Rabta before it reached full production but that it maintained an assembly line.
Ghadhafi, who has steadfastly denied that Libya was producing chemical weapons, said the plant must to produce pharmaceutical drugs.
Fitzwater said production resumed recently, and West German politicians have said that Libya has produced enough gas for 1,000 artillery shells.
JANA, the Libyan news agency,
said in a dispatch that an unnamed official source at the Libyan foreign office said had received reports of Libya had produced quantities of chemical weapons in the Rabta medicine factory.
Coke defends role in S. Africa
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
A rally to call attention to the economic position of the Coca-Cola Co. in South Africa became a national event for the company employees showed up.
Before the Black Men of Today rally at Wescoe Hall, the Coke employees approached Mark McCormick, Black Men of Today member. They told him that when they were 18, he helped 1986, the company created a foundation to improve Blacks' management skills and education.
MecCormick said that although he approved of Coke's efforts, he had information that the company was making money in South Africa.
Ken Gordon, Coke sales manager, said that although Coke products were sold in South Africa, the company did not make money there.
"Just because Coca-Cola is available, that's not the Coca-Cola company," he said. "That's a franchise, like a restaurant. The Coca-Cola that's produced there,
we have no financial ties in that whatsoever."
Mark Pitts, Coke area account executive, proposed that McCormick meet with Coke officials in Kansas City. But McCormick suggested that the Coke employees instead speak to the crowd.
"I'm not going to speak to these people because I'm not knowledgeable on the information," Pitts said.
McCormick said, "Well, I don't want to fight in your arena. Let's just debate where everyone can head of going behind closed doors."
Pitts said he was not sure company officials would debate. He later said in an interview that he had received a sceptic tone from a suppleant that he intended.
Surendra Bhana, associate professor of history who addressed the crowd, said he was pleased by the discussion.
"The very fact that you have some kind of debate going with the topic, your pany and yourselves indicates there is already a sign of success."
Bhana said.
Bhana said that boycotts and sanctions brought companies to understand the needs of Blacks in South Africa.
Albert Anderson, a Coke consultant, said during the discussion, "The only point I want to make to you is that the people that Coca-Cola are working for are the leadership of Black South Africa."
According to a flier provided to Black Men of Today by the Coke Boycott Campaign, a national organization, "Licensing, franchising and trademark rights bring in royalties" to Coca-Cola.
Brant Davis, manager of corporate issues and communications for Coke, flatly denied that statement.
"When we enter into a licensing agreement, we give the bottler the right to use the company trademark." Davis said in a telephone call. "That's the end of our money. There's no royalties after that."
Davis said that in 1986, Coke sold its share of a South African bottling company to private interests.
Senate OKs KUAC bill
Previous vote is reconsidered
By Matt Taylor Kansan staff writer
With a backdrop of more than 75 student athletes in the meeting room, Student Senate last night reversed a decision and voted to increase the women's and non-revenue sports fees for next year by $5 a semester.
"We're ecstatic that they reconsidered it and that it passed the second time," said KU Athletic Director Bob Berick, who attended the meeting.
In a 32-15 roll-call vote, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation received its request for a fee increase that would supplement the KUAC operating budget. Students now pay $9 a semester for the fee.
Just before the vote was cast, Aaron Rittmatter, Rights Committee chairman, said he discovered in the Senate rulebook that a two-thirds vote, not a three-fourths vote, was the minimum needed for approval.
Michael Diggs, who presided at the meeting, said the two-thirds applied because the request was not from a revenue group.
Senate killed the KUAC bill last month 23-20. Rittmaster made the motion last night to bring the bill to the Senate floor for reconsideration.
Diggs said the athletes' presence had an influence on the vote.
"Tonight, we saw the more emotional side to this issue." Diggs said.
"We saw how this money affects the students."
See related story
During the evening, seven Senate members spoke against the bill and 10 supported it. The opposing speakers said that the bill was heard fairly
the first time and that students would be overwhelmed by more fee increases
"Students have had enough," said Bill Moseley, who spoke against the bill. "It's time for a breather."
Christine Stanek, who also spoke against the bill, asked, "There is a deficit. How fiscally responsible is a deficit?"
KUAC is operating at a $390,000 deficit, according to KUAC documents.
The athletes applauded all 10 of the speeches supporting the increase. Carl Damon, Senate treasurer, said it was hard to expect the revenue generated by like football and basketball, to make up for the losses of the other sports.
The athletes were pleased by the vote.
"This is important because it directly reflects how the University is set forth on and off the campus," Mike McKinney, a swimmer who attended the meeting.
**KU coaches at the meeting last night were Gary Kempf, swimming coach, Martin Washington, women's coach, Jake Williams, Williams, men's basketball coach.**
The fee increase will go next to Chancellor Gene A. Budig and, if he approves, to the Board of Regents.
Unification plans receive criticism
E. Germany wants to calm Polish fears
The Associated Press
EAST BERLIN — Premier Hans Midrow said yesterday that East Germans were ready to sign a border treaty with Poland, and he criticized West Germany for trying to impose a hasty unity plan on his people.
Modrow's con about unification echoed those of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who Tuesday urged a slow, careful approach and said NATO membership for a united Germany was out of the question.
In Bonn, opposition Social Democrats, who also charge that West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is pushing too hard for a speedy unification, insisted on a Germanywide referendum about the issue.
At the last parliamentary session before East Germans go to the polls March 18, Modrow sought to assure Poland that his nation laid no claim to German lands forfeited after the
Modrow said he and Kohl had received a letter signed by 32 U.S. senators calling on both German states to negotiate a single accord with Poland.
Nazi defeat in 1945.
"East Germany is prepared to do this immediately." Midwed said.
West German government spokesman Hans Klein repeated that negotiations on such an accord would begin only after the East German elections.
Concerning the issue of a unified Germany's role in NATO, the Social Democrats said that NATO and the Warsaw Pact should at some point be replaced by a European security system that would include the Soviet Union, the United States and Canada.
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said yesterday that a united Germany should remain in NATO.
Gay and lesbian group's speakers promote awareness, dispel stereotypes
By Carol B. Shiney
Kansan staff writer
Two men and two women enter the small classroom in the base of Fraser Hall. With 30 pairs of eyes trained on them, they begin to mimic the acts as being gay men or lesbian women and open the class for discussion.
Imagine standing in front of a class of 30 students and being asked questions about your sexual orientation for 50 minutes.
Jules Warrick-Ritchie, left, Kim Windholz and Henry Schwaller talk to a social psychology class.
Often the questions include:
"How long have you known you were gay?"
"What makes you gay?" Do your parents know?"
About 30 geen and lesbian women, mostly students, make up a speaker's bureau for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kangas. Panels of speakers are invited to classes or organized living groups
The purpose of the speaker's bureau is to dispel stereotypes and let people understand what gay people are like, Brown said.
At the beginning of the class or meeting, the speakers give a brief
Jarrod Brown, a coordinator for the speaker's bureau, said GLSOK conducted about 50 to 60 panels each academic year. Three of the most recent panels were at a fraternity and two residence halls. However, Brown said speakers most often were asked to go to psychology, sociology and sex education classes.
About 30 students attended each class.
About 30 gray
'To me it means accepting who you are, whether it's heterosexual or homosexual, and being comfortable with that and going on with your life.'
— Kim Windholz
Boulder, Colo., freshman
inform the public about issues important to gay and lesbian people.
pottent to gay and lesbian people Members of GLOSK spoke to Paul Crosby's two social psychology classes yesterday.
introduction and ask for questions.
"Nothing is stupid, we've heard it"
Schwaller, Hays graduate student,
at a panel in Croshy's 'class yester-
introduction and ask for questions.
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During the class, one student asked what it meant for a gay person to "come out."
"To me it means accepting who you are, whether it's heterosexual or homosexual, and being comfortable with that and going on with your life," said Kim Windholz, Boulder Colo., freshman.
Serving as a panel speaker can help gay men and lesbian women improve their responses to questions they often are asked, said
Brown, who has participated in panels before.
The speakers also were asked
"The questions you get at a speaker's bureau are questions you will be getting the rest of your life," he said.
when they first realized they were gay or lesbian.
Schwaller said that in general, gay people began to realize that they were different about the age of four or five. When they go through puberty, they realize what is different.
"When I came to KU, that's when I decided to accept those feelings and confront them," he said.
Russell Montague of Lawrence told the class, "It's very different to be a gay adolescent because you can't do a lot of what your peers do because you have to do a lot of hiding."
One student, Renee Von Bevern,
Olathe senior, said she was not
afraid to ask questions.
"I thought it was great," Von Beversa said after the class. "I have your friends who are gay. I have friends who aren't. We were the same as my friends."
Crosby, graduate teaching assistant in psychology, said he asked the speakers to come to his classes because his students had been studying attraction, sexuality and prejudice.
"It was a really wonderful way to integrate a lot of the stuff we talked about in this unit." Crosby said.