THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1989
VOL. 99, NO. 92
Pakistani protest
Book prompts student rallies
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD. Pakistan — Muslim students yesterday marched in several cities against a book that fundamentalists say blasphems Islam.
The rallies occurred the day after police fired on protesters in Islamabad, killing five and wounding 83.
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said the Sunday protest may have been the work of politicians using Muslim objections to Salim Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" as a means for her government and democracy.
Yesterday in India, police fired into a crowding protested the book in Srinagar, summer capital of northern Jammu-Kashmir state, killing one person and wounding more than 60, news reports said.
United News of India said the mob forced shops and businesses in Srinagar to close. India, which is overwhelmingly Hindi, banned the book
Fundamentalsist say the book does not recognize Islam as the one true religion and ridicules the most precious Muslim beliefs. Rushdie declares it to be a work of fiction, in no way blaspheme and not
intended to offend anyone
Nearly 3,000 Muslim fundamentals assembled outside the center Sunday to demand that Rushdie's novel be banned in the United States. It has been published in Britain; the States and other Western nations.
Latin leaders are hopeful for peace
The Associated Press
Costa DEL SOL, El Salvador — Five Central American presidents began a summit yesterday with predictions that their two-day meeting would contribute to peace, democracy and progress in the troubled region.
delays and disputes over the summit's prospects, agenda and date.
The leaders appeared buoyed by merely being under the same roof after six months of postponements,
"I am sure that we, with optimism, will analyze efforts we've made according to Esquilapus II and search for favorable conditions and progress in "Central America" said Savatioran President Joseph Duarte in
See LEADERS, p. 8, col. 4
Fraternity to move 14 and evacuate 12
Kansan staff writer
by Michele Logan
Twelve members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity will move out of the house into apartments or residence halls within the next two weeks, a spokesman for the Alpha Tau Omega Building Corp. said last night.
Kevin Kombrink, the corporation spokesman, said that at an
emergency meeting that a fraternity committee would contact five or six different apartment complexes today and that he hoped that the landlords would work with them for the three months left of school.
The remaining 14 members who have to vacate their rooms will be
See ATOs, p. 6, col. 1
Tunnel vision
Ahmed, Hamad, Baghdad, Iraq, freshman, stops to check out the view from the upper tunnel between Malott and Haworth halls
Parking proposal may cost KU staff
by Merceda Ares
Parking changes in the works?
Source: Parking Services
Kevin Debacker to park his car near Meadowbrook and walk to his job at the University of Kansas Printing Service at 14th and Crestline
Kansan staff writer
Parking changes in the Works:
If the Parking Board proposal passes through SenEx, University Council,
University Administrators and Board of Regents the following changes
would be implemented August 15, 1989.
But then he got tired of walking and decided to buy a yellow parking permit.
Stephen Kline/KANSAN
permit. Now Debacker may be walking again.
Those who want to park in the converted lots would have to pay $1 more annually or $6 more each semester.
The parking board has approved changing all the West Campus lots to red except the northeast half of lot 206, next to Nichols Hall; lot 106, on Irving Hill Road; lots 215, 218, behind printing services, and the facilities operations motor pool, and lot 206, behind printing services.
Merris Faiman, chairman of the parking board, said that before the rezoning proposal could be approved, the Aug. 10 deadline to send EnExe, the University Council, the University
The proposal will go to the University Senate Executive Committee for approval on Thursday
administrators and the Board of Regents.
See PARKING, p. 6, col. 1
Debacker, printshop process supervisor for the printing service, is one of 33 people who signed a petition protesting an increase of yellow zones to red zones in the two printing service parking lots. Now, all parking lots on West Campus are yellow zones.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said that the 47
The proposal is designed to make faculty and staff who qualify for a red zone park in one. Hutton said we are taking more than six hours of are taking less than six hours of
parking spaces behind the printing service would remain yellow and that 18 of the 22 stalls in front would be loaded with handicapped and three loading zones.
Kids buy, sell in pretend city
by Alan Morgan Kansan staff writer
An entire town moved to Lawrence in January and no one seemed to notice.
The artificial grass and plywood trees of the town remain green year-round, and the 12 town businesses are ready for customers. It is the site of an economic storm of buying and selling.
Exchange City, a traveling town, is a program offered through Kansas City's Learning Exchange, a nonprofit teachers' resource center in Kansas City. Mo Fifth and Sixth Grades participate, Topka and Kansas City participate in the program.
By operating their own businesses for a day, children learn firsthand about the economic process that will influence them.
The town, located inside the AllStar Dairy building, across the street from the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive, will be open through March.
Margie Eaton, a substitute teacher for the Lawrence public school district and one of the supervisors of the small town, said the population of Exchange City varied from 45 to 120 residents.
exchange city, which is financed by local businesses,
was built with a grant from Hallmark Cards Inc. in 1980.
The town was last in Lawrence two years ago.
Exchange City includes a city hall, newspaper, radio station, factory, bank and snack shop among the 12 businesses. It also provides law enforcement for the residents, who vote on the laws.
"The only drawback is that the students don't get practice in saving their money." Eaton said. "We have to encourage them to spend every last dime since the spending is what keeps the city running."
All of the town businesses must take out a loan at 10 percent interest to finance the opening of their businesses. The town then operates from buying and selling by the town's residents
Most transactions are done through bank checks, although the snack shop operates on Exchange City currency.
The students spend half their day working in their businesses and the other half spending their money
Though all of the businesses are run by students, they do receive business advice from volunteer parents.
Vandals caught after fruity crime
by Angela Clark
Kansan staff writer
Orange you glad you don't have one flying through the window?
At 10 a. 15 p.m. on Saturday, a frozen orange was lobed into Mark Heinrich's bedroom window, in the 3000 block of University Drive.
"I was in the house and didn't see them set it up," said Heminrich. La Jolla, Calif., graduate student "But I knew we had the orange go through the window."
The frozen orange went through the double panes of glass in his
"It was pretty cold through and through, and it was pretty beat up," he recalled. "We had to bed the bed with glass. We even found glass in the bathroom."
Heinrich immediately left his home and followed the group to an apartment in the 1400 block of Westbrooke Street.
bedroom window. It flew through his bedroom and landed in the bathroom.
"I said 'Hey, you turkeys' or something to that effect," he said.
Hehren then called the police.
The police searched the suspect's
apartment and found surgical tubing and a funnel.
He said the slingshot was operated by three people. The two ends of the surgical tugging were held by a pair of forceps, and the middle was filled with the projectile.
One member of the group was arrested and charged with vandalism
The police confiscated the tubing, funnel and orange.
"They've got the orange as evidence," Heinrich said. "Unless the gue in the evidence room ate it."