MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102, NO.55
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SPORTS
Jayhawks catch Tigers by tail
No.10 Kansas wins 42-23 against Missouri. Page1B
CAMPUS
OUI rate fluctuates
The number of arrests by KU police for drunk driving has been oscillating dramatically in the past five years. Page 6A
NATION
Hate crime trail begins
Three white men tried to start a race war by shooting three Black men, the prosecution savs.
Page 8A
Storm's strength underestimated
Fillipinos were surprised at the ferociousness of Typhoon Angela, which killed at least 500 people Page 8A
WEATHER
AUTUMNY
High 69° Low 45°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion . . . . . 4A
World. . . . . . 7A
Nation. . . . . . 8A
Sports. . . . . . 1B
Scoreboard. . . . . 2B
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The aftermath of an assassination
Services will be held today for Rabin
Knight-Ridder Tribune
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — An endless procession of Israelis, many weeping, many bearing flowers, silently fled past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday. World leaders were convinced for a final salute to the assassinated soldier, statesman and man of peace.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners came from all over the shocked and saddened country to a courtyard in front of the Israeli parliament. The vigil was expected to continue all night until the start of a state funeral today that will be attended by dozens of world leaders, including President Clinton.
Even as Israelis mourned, they tried to grasp the enormity of the upheaval thrust upon their country when a Jewish opponent of Rabin's peacemaking gunned him down.
Under a bright, warm Jerusalem sun, many placed bouquets of flowers on stone tiles near the flag-draped coffin in which the 73-year-old slain leader lay. "I feel that half the country has died," high school student Pini Cohen said as he and a group of friends huddled and lighted candles in the parliament's courtyard on a hill overlooking Jerusalem.
Yakov Geneck, a Jewish settler from New York, quietly sat in a corner, with a sign announcing he was on hunger strike to protest growing violence.
Geneck said he opposed Rabin's peace policies, but could not conduce the behavior of Rabin's opponents.
"I am here to say that the hatred of so many people led to this. I have encountered this hatred, and I did not speak out," said Geneck, who moved to Israel two years ago.
Rabin's assassination at a prophecy rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday
night stunned a nation that, despite increasingly bitter divisions over peacemaking with the Arabs, had somehow denied that such violence could happen to it.
The suspect, Yigal Amir, a 27-year-old law student with links to the Jewish extremist fringe, told interrogators he wanted to stop Rabin's peace policies. He reportedly said his actions were based on rabbinical rulings that permitted Jews to kill people who gave away parts of the biblical Land of Israel.
Israel radio reported that Yigal Amir's brother, Hagai, was one of an unspecified number of extremists rounded up for questioning.
See RABIN, Page 7A.
KU Jewish community hopes peace process will continue in Israel
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Lawrence and KU Jewish community members hope that when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is buried today that the Middle East peace process won't be buried with him.
Rabin, who was assassinated Saturday, signed an agreement in September with the Palestine Liberation Organization to remove Israeli troops from much of the West Bank.
Local residents hope Rabin's efforts were not in vain, though many are not certain.
"I would love to see the peace process move forward, but I definitely have my doubts," said Laura Seigle, Houston senior. "There is going to be a lot of backlash of violence and bombings."
Seigle said that she cried when the impact of the assassination sank in but that it was mostly out of frustration.
"The assassination will further divide people who are for and against the peace process," she predicted.
Nimrod Posner, Savyon, Israel, graduate student, said although Rabin was a great leader, the peace process would continue because many other individuals were involved, including Foreign
Yitzhak Rabin
Minister Shimon Peres, who is now acting prime minister.
Posner also said the world leaders coming to Jerusalem for the funeral
showed the support for Israel and the peace process.
Members of the Lawrence Jewish Community Center gathered yesterday for the
SERVICES
center's annual brunch and bake sale fundraiser.
Selma Cohen, a founder of the Center, said members discussed whether to cancel the fundraiser.
"It's hard to have business as usual when such a traumatic thing has happened," she said.
Members decided to hold the event, but they wore black ribbons as a sign of mourning.
Human biology is under microscope
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
Human biology students will spend the rest of the semester with the fate of their program up in the air.
Last week Robert Weaver, acting associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, assembled an eight-member committee to evaluate the program. Weaver said he hoped the task force would be able to make recommendations by the end of the semester.
Weaver, professor of biochemistry and biological sciences, said rumors that the program was slated to be cut were just that --- rumors.
"We absolutely do not intend to discontinue the program," he said.
Human biology students and faculty became concerned that the program could be discontinued when Dean Stetler, associate professor of biochemistry and director of undergraduate biology, proposed to Weaver last August that the program be absorbed by the division of biology and the curriculum modified.
The program is governed by an advisory committee made up of faculty from biology, anthropology, psychology and speech-language-hearing.
Setter, who is on the task force, said some students and faculty were concerned that the program was not demanding enough.
"You can graduate without taking biology courses above the 300 level." he said.
Because the title of the program includes the word "biology," students often mistakenly believe they are biology majors and are disappointed when they are not included in biology recognition ceremonies and award competitions.
Weaver's concerns that prompted the review of the program, as outlined in his charge to the committee, were:
Some students have gotten through the program with few upper-level courses, tarnishing the program's reputation.
After two years in the program, students who want to switch to another science degree find themselves behind because they have taken too many courses that
do not count toward other science degrees
Students who had concerns about the program were afraid to say anything for
fear of not getting good letters of recommendation from their advisers
Other members of the task force are human biology advisory-committee members and students in the program.
Larry Draper, member of both the advisory committee and the task force, defended the program's structure. Draper said that if Stetler's recommendations were implemented, the program would lose some of its diversity.
"There are those of us who feel it should retain its interdisciplinary character," he said. "It is a study of human beings. Not just bioloogy."
Draper said that advisers in the program never advised students to complete the degree without taking challenging upper-level biology courses.
Weaver said he would ask the task force to make a questionnaire for all students in the program.
Task force members
Members of the human biology program task force:
Doug Denney, professor of psychology,
human biology advisory committee.
Larry Draper, professor of microbiology and human biology, human biology advisory committee.
Michelle Freshwater, Englewood,
Colo., senior in human biology
Jeff Gilger, assistant professor of speech-language-hearing, human biology advisory committee.
Sandra Gray, assistant professor of anthropology, human biology advisory committee.
Jason Hatfield, Salina senior in human biology
Dean Stetler, associate professor of biochemistry and biological sciences, director of biological sciences.
Robert Weaver, acting associate dean of liberal arts and sciences and professor of biochemistry.
Snooze button is essential for many sleepy students
Irregular schedules drive need for slower wake-up
By Craig Lang Kansan staff writer
It's nine minutes of heaven.
For many KU students, waking up in the morning is one of the most challenging tasks of the day. When the dreams of sleeping students are interrupted by buzzing alarms, students' only relief from having to face the day is the snooze button, which gives them a few more minutes of rest.
Jake Stras, Overland Park junior, knows that every morning he is not going to be able to wake up as soon as the alarm sounds. So every night, he sets the time on his alarm for a time before he has to be up just so he can hit the snooze button four or five times.
He said that he liked to do this because it allowed him to wake up slowly.
Michael Garrison, supervisor of the sleep lab at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that students were usually in the rapid eye movement, or dreaming stage, of their sleep when their alarms sounded.
When they used the smoose button, they could fall back asleep and easily re-enter that deep stage of sleep.
Greg Portsche, Lenexa freshman, said that his habit of using the snooze button was so bad that he has woken up some mornings only to realize that he had already hit the snooze button in his sleep.
"Sometimes I don't even wake up to the hear alarm," he said.
Garrison said that hitting the snooze button many times had no negative physiological effects.
"It's not harmful," he said.
"Other than the fact that they
get into the habit of doing that."
Jason Hohman, Lawrence sophomore, said that he used the snooze button excessively and even had missed class because of it.
Garrison said that when students know they can repeatedly hit the button and go back to sleep, they might lose track of time and sleep too long.
"If you have something important you need to wake up for,
However, he had never missed anything important, such as a test, because his mind and body were aware that it was crucial he wake up. He believed that this was true for most students.
your body is like, 'I got to get up," he said.
Garrison said that most students used their snooze buttons because they weren't getting enough sleep. He said that could be prevented if students went to bed and woke up at the same times every day.
Bradley Mendenhall, Wichita freshman, agreed with Garrison but said that most students could not sleep on a regular schedule.
He said that work, study and class schedules prevented students from going to bed and waking up at the same time every day.
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