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Friday, September 24,1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Cheney gives speech at Baker
By Brian James Kansan staff writer
An 8,000 mile car trip across the western United States this summer confirmed a few things for former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.
America is still far stronger than what most people believe, he said. And Washington, D.C., is not as important to Americans as politicians think.
But Cheney, 52, said he was concerned that Americans have become more complacent in realizing that world events since the Cold War remained important to the United States.
"I sensed that this has been most pronounced in our turning away from events in other parts of the world in favor of domestic concerns," he said.
Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense, speaks to the students and faculty of Baker University the college's annual fall convocation.
Cheney, who served as Secretary of Defense under George Bush from 1989 to 1992, presented the Dietch Distinguished Lecture at Baker University's annual fall convocation yesterday. About 900 people attended the speech in Baldwin City.
In the speech, Cheney said the end of the Cold War could not have come if it had not been for unwavering U.S. defense policies and higher defense spending in the 1980's.
"There is a notion that the end of the Cold War was preordained — that it would have happened anyway without regard to the policies pursued by the United States in the last 40 years." Cheney said. "That is wrong."
Cheney said many Americans believed that the former Soviet Union's most difficult struggles were behind them. Dramatic developments in Moscow during the past three days dismiss that notion, Cheney said.
"For us to expect that the former Soviet Union can go through something this dramatic without violence, always moving forward, is not realistic," he said. "Sooner or later, conflicts will develop.
"That is a disturbing proposition, given they have 30,000 nuclear weapons."
Cheney said the United States must maintain its responsibility as a world leader.
Further cuts in the defense budget, though, would make this responsibility difficult, he said. Cutting a proposed $127 billion in the defense budget in addition to the $322 billion already cut since the Cold War is a "serious mistake."
Cheney told reporters in a press conference afterward that he would advise President Clinton to not deviate from the original U.S. plan in Somalia.
"We went there to accomplish the mission, now it is time to make the handoff to the United Nations," he said.
"You can't find a time in U.S. history when we have downsized that we haven't overdone it, going down too far, too fast," Cheney said. "It sends a signal of weakness around the world."
Cheney said that he had made no decision for his political future. He said he is currently working at the American Institute in Washington, D.C., and is a director of an investment group in New York City.
Chewing tobacco a health threat
By Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
"It was the cool thing to do," Lowry said. Lowry said that he chewed tobacco two to three times a week and that he used it to relax and to cure his oral fixation.
Danny Lowry, Dallas freshman, began chewing tobacco when he was 14.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that in 1964, the Surgeon General reported that cigarette smoking was linked to lung cancer.
"I'm not addicted to it," Lowry said.
Since then, Yockey said, there has been overwhelming evidence that confirms the Surgeon General's report. Yockey said that although smoking usually was associated with cancer, chewing tobacco was no better.
"The only difference between smokers and chewers is that chewers get their cancer where they can see it," Yockey said.
Throat and mouth cancers are associated
with chewing tobacco.
Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham said chewing tobacco had been banned for the last three years from team members on the field, in the locker room or in their apartments.
Yockey said that in the late 1800s, people who wanted nicotine chewed tobacco. By the early 1900s, the forerunner of the American Lung Association thought tuberculosis was spread when people spit tobacco.
"It's just wise for them not to chew," Bing-
ham said. "It's a hard habit to break, obviously."
Ironically, to stop the spread of tuberculosis, the organization began a campaign that encouraged people to replace chewing tobacco with cigarettes, Yockey said. He said smoking had taken off during World War I when soldiers found it more convenient to smoke in their foxholes and to toss out butts instead of chewing and spitting.
Camden Fisher, Wichita sophomore.
"It's not that attractive, I guess," said Fisher. "It's disgusting."
Although the sale of chewing tobacco is prohibited to people under the age of 18, Fisher began chewing tobacco when he was 16. He had no trouble purchasing the tobacco, possibly because he looked older, he said.
Allen Hilburg, representative of the Smokeless Tobacco Council in Washington, said 5 million people in the United States used smokeless tobacco.
Holly McQueen / KANSAN
Hilburg said that American Indians had introduced Europeans to tobacco and that during the American Revolution, tobacco had been the product most in demand from the United States.
Hilburg said there were two types of chewing tobacco: Moist and dry snuff that is sold in small canisters, and loose leaf tobacco that is sold in pouches.
Ana Lochmann, left, and Melissa Bukovatz, Topeka freshmen, fill their plates with Caribbean delicacies during the "Pirates of the Seas" night at Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall cafeteria. The dinner buffet was provided by Student Housing Dining Services yesterday.
Feeding frenzy
Professors earn book awards
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansanstaffwriter
For KU professors Norman Saul and Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, the Byron Caldwell Smith Award they received earlier this month reinforced their own sense of accomplishment.
The biennial award recognizes books by Kansas authors who demonstrate originality and outstanding scholarship. Zimdars-Swartz and Saul were selected by a committee of KU faculty from 28 nominations.
Zimdars-Swartz's "Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje" was recognized as an inspiration to scholars and students in related fields of study. Saul's "Distant Friends: The United States and Russia, 1763-1867" was commended for research and insightful scholarship.
Zimdars-Swartz, professor of religious studies, said she was first inspired by the phenomenon of Virgin Mary apparitions when she visited a Marian shrine in Lourdes, France.
She said the apparitions most commonly were
reported by women and youngsters of the Catholic faith and with a disadvantaged background. She said she felt good about the objectivity of her writing.
"Most people don't know what religion I am after reading it, and I take that as a good thing," she said.
Saul, professor of history and Russian and East European studies, said his book was the result of 20 years of research.
"It's not just diplomatic history," he said. "It's everything."
The date, 1763, refers to the first year of trade between the United States and Russia. In 1867, the United States bought Alaska from Russia. During this period Americans were recruited to help design and build Russian railroads, and the two countries took an interest in one another's cultures, Saul said.
"Distant Friends" is his best work yet, he said of his third book.
"I feel if confirms that I'm kind of maturing," he said.
JEWISH DAY OF ATONEMENT: YOM KIPPUR Kol Nidre Service: Friday, Sept. 24. 7:30 p.m.
Kansas Union Ballroom
YomKippur
Saturday, Sept. 25
9:30 a.m.: Services
11:30 a.m.: Yiskor Service
5:30 p.m.: Nilah Service
Sundown: Break-the-Fast
LAWRENCE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER 917 Highland Dr.
many styles and color to choose
$14.00 Reg.$24.00
CONGRATULATIONS
Thomas B. Allen
Hallmark Professor of Illustration on the presentation of his drawings for James Howe's adaption of
THE SECRET GARDEN
at the Spencer Museum of Art September 26
from THE MEN OF DELTACHI
The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People Presente
Reserved seat tickets are available for $3 (regardless of age) through the KU box offices (Murphy: 864-3982, Lied: 864-ARTS); VISA and MasterCard are accepted for phone reservations.
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