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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.30
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL. 103, NO. 30
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1993
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"We're more informed than previous generations. We're really perched to address some
of these issues."
Douglas Kennedy,
co-founder of Third Millennium
...
William Alix / KANSAI
Douglas Kennedy urged a Kansas Union Ballroom audience to help solve problems such as the national debt.
Forum finds 20-somethings seeking action Political group establishes first college chapter at KU
Deadly quake devastates India
Last night at the Kansas Union Ballroom, KU students wanted less talk and more action for making their generation work together toward a better nation.
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
In front of an audience of about 400 so-named twentysomethings, a politician, authors and KU students debated the concerns of today's youth in the forum and panel discussion "Third Millennium: Voices of Generation X."
In the sixties, the rock band The Who was talking about its generation.
Kansan staff write
The forum corresponded with yesterday's formation of KU Third Millennium, the nation's first college chapter of Third Millennium; said Jonathan Karl, co-founder of the national organization, a nonpartisan political group. Karl said it was designed to give younger voters an outlet to discuss long-term issues and generate possible solutions.
"We're in danger of becoming a generation of indentured servants," Karl said.
The current generation of 20-to-30-year olds will need to take control of their own future. Karl said.
"Real reform is going to take sacrifice," Karl said. "What it will take to achieve our goals is an increasing number of us working together to build a better life and community."
Douglas Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy and Third Millennium co-founder, said that the group would first work on reducing the national debt.
Guest speaker Neil Howe, author of "13th GEN," a book analyzing the generation born between 1961 to 1981, said the current generation of college students needed to use its own increased perceptiveness and values to improve the nation.
"It's a difficult issue to get a hold of," Kennedy said. "But it's something we have to respond to. Spending money we don't have is immoral."
Some students in the audience said they did not consider themselves part of any single group and resented that members of the panel were trying to categorize them
"We're saying the same thing as every generation," Shoemaker said. "We're just hoping we do something about it this time."
"You attempt to homogenize us are dead wrong," said Brian Drake, Kansas City, Kan., junior.
John Shoemaker, student body president, read from Robert Kennedy's speech given at the University in 1968. Shoemaker pointed out that many of the problems Kennedy addressed, such as the economy, race relations and the environment, still remained.
Kennedy responded to the criticism, "We're not representing you or people your age. We're just addressing issues that aren't being addressed anywhere else."
16,000 dead thousands more injured
the epicenter was near Maharastra's southeastern border, which meets the Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh states.
The Associated Press
UMARGA, India — A major earthquake shattered the dawn yesterday, collapsing mud and mortar homes onto sleeping families in villages across southern India. More than 16,000 died and many more cried for help from the wreckage.
Manyvillages were leveled so quickly as the earth shook violently and opened crevices that people were crushed inside their homes while sleeping, news agencies reported.
Authorities feared the death toll would rise substantially in India's worst quake in a half century.
lages and made our houses into tombs." a survivor said.
State-run Dooorarshan TV raised the toll to more than 10,000 and said that more than 12,000 people could still be trapped. The United News of India news agency later put the death toll at 16,000.
Some people survived when frantic rescuers heard them shouting for help beneath toppled walls and roofs or saw a hand reaching out from the wreckage.
"The rising sun created darkness for us this morning, swallowed our vili
About 10,000 people were injured, said Raghunatha. Telephone, electricity and water lines were cut in many areas.
Friends, neighbors and police strained to lift stone, brick and wood by hand to free victims.
Only after dawn broke hours later did survivors realize the magnitude of the quake and the number of people it had killed or maimed and left stranded in the rubble.
Soldiers and policemen rushed to the remote area of southwestern India, bringing stretchers, tents, medical supplies, earth movers, bulldozers and mobile hospitals. But relief workers had trouble reaching some villages that had recently lost their roads and bridges to heavy monsoon rains.
The quake, which measured at least 6 on the Richter scale, ripped through southwest India at 5:56 a.m. CST. It was felt at least 400 miles from the epicenter and caused a wide swath of damage.
The death tolls given by state officials and news reports varied from 6,200 to 16,000, and all appeared to be
based on confirmed statistics and estimates.
By nightfall the death toll was more than 6,200, said N. Raghunathan, chief secretary of Maharashtra, the hardest-hit state. He said that more than 2,000 bodies had been recovered.
Earthquake in India
Source: National Geographic, AP; research by Pat Carr
William Alix / KANRAM
Judo throw
Glenn Stottlemire, Topeka junior, is thrown by Judo instructor Hikaru Murata of Japan. The KU Judo Club was practicing for a tournament the club is holding Oct. 9 at Robinson Center. More than 100 participants are expected to attend the event.
It's a family affair at KU this weekend
Loyal Jayhawk family to be honored at game
By Kathleen Stolle Kansas staff writer
For many freshmen, this weekend's KU Parents Day-Family Weekend will be an opportunity to show off their new home away from home.
But not for John Robinson III. As a fifth-generation Jayhawk, the Mission Hills freshman said that his family had seen it all many times before. Even Robinson's living quarters at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity are not uncharted territory.
"I'm the fourth generation in my house so everyone has seen the house a lot." he said.
Robinson and his family will be honored during ceremonies preceding the 1 p.m. kickoff of the Kansas-Colorado State football game tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
Donna Neuner, director of membership services for the University of Kansas Alumni Association, said although other families had four-and-five-generation spans at KU, the Robinsons were unique because of the large number of family members who had ties to the University. More than 30 of Robinson's relatives have attended KU.
"I think it speaks very well for the University's prestige and ability to educate." Neuner said.
Since the University's earliest days, the crimson-and-blue-blooded Robinsons have thrived as Jayhawks. Robinson's great, great grandfather, David Robinson, was one of the first professors at KU and also was the first dean of what would later become the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Robinson's mother, Kyle Simmons Robinson, attended KU, and his father, John Robinson Jr., earned two engineering degrees from KU. Uncles, great uncles and grandfather also earned degrees from KU.
What's going on
Parent Update: session on new KU programs and policies affecting students, from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and from 10 to 10:30 a.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Campus Tours: walking tour, 10 a.m.
meet at information table in the Kansas
Union; bus tours, 9:45 a.m. and 10:30
a.m.; meet in front of Union.
Open House: from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. tour facilities and meet faculty and staff from various departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Wescoe Hall and the professional schools.
**Military Science Departments:** from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Military Science building, Members of the ROTC and the KU Rifle Team will be on hand.
Tours of campus faciliities: computer
center, 11 a.m.; Robinson Gymnasium,
10 a.m. and 11 a.m.; Watson and
Anschutz Libraries; 10:30 a.m., 11
a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Source: Office of New Student Orientation
KANSAN
Robinson, a civil engineering major,
said that he chose KU not because of
any familial pressure but because of
friendships he already had at KU.
"If I didn't have anything in common with anybody, I wouldn't be here," he said.
Unlike the Robinsons, David Duano's family will be getting their first good look at KU this weekend. The Wichita freshman said his mother, father and little sister were coming up for the football game and dinner.
"During the weekend I'll probably take them on a little tour of KU," he said.
Football and dinner are also on the agenda for sophomore Nancy Edwards and her brother John, a junior, who are entertaining their parents and grandmother. The journey up from Wichita had become a tradition, Nancy Edwards said.
"It's just known that they come up for the weekend," she said.
Rededication
A ceremony today to rededicate the renovated Kansas Union will honor KU students killed in World War I. The event comes 67 years after the Union was originally dedicated to the 130 students.
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Female drum major is a leader for others to follow
By Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
Mention the words "drum major" to the seemingly shy Heather Myers and a smile and dancing hazel eyes appear behind a curtain of light red hair.
It took three auditions until Myers, Topeka senior, found herself goose stepping and strutting all over Memorial Stadium as the KU marching band's second modern female drum major.
"I wanted it so bad," Myers said. "It's just something I've wanted to do ever since I knew what a drum major was."
Bob Foster, director of bands, said that although there were women involved in every aspect of the band during World War II, Myers is only the second female considered a modern drum major. Women were not allowed to march on a regular basis until 1972.
"Drum majors represent the band to the entire viewing public." Foster said. "They are conductors, performers and leaders.
They are a very visible public representation of the University."
Myers said that some university band drum majors only direct and teach.
At KU it's more than that, 'Myers said. "They put on their own show. KU has a really fine tradition when it comes to drum majors.
"If the KU marching band wasn't as good as they are and the KU drum majors as good as they are, I don't think I would have wanted to do it."
She said she was grateful to Erica Neidlinger, KU's first modern female drum major, for paving the way.
"She's proven that a woman can be fierce competition for physical strength and leadership," Myers said. "She proved that a woman can do the role just as well as a man."
Myers' interest in music and bands was sparked in the sixth grade when she saw her sister Amy, who is three years older, in a band.
"Without her always giving me self worth,
I wouldn't have had the guts to try out for drum major," Myers said.
Myers began playing the flute in the fifth grade. She was in high school band for four years and
played the piccolo and tenor saxophone for three years in many KU bands before becoming a drum major.
Although Myers enjoys music, she recently switched her major from music education to theater design and expects to graduate in May of 1996.
Myers has had many band experiences, but it may have been performing as a drum major in front of thousands of KU fans at the first home football game this year, clad in stylish soldier-like attire and cleats, that she remembers most.
"I remember just lying in bed and just thinking about it and feeling so proud of myself because it was such a big accomplishment for me," Myers said. "I made it through, I felt really good about myself."
Richard Devinki / KANSAN
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Heather Myers, Topeka senior, is the second female drum major in modern history to lead the Marching Jayhawks.