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Special Jayhawk Basketball Issue: Picking up the pieces
Vol. 99, No. 58 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday November 16,1988
Karen Heusted, Topeka resident, picks her way through the debris after a twister ripped through her father-in-law's home in Topeka.
November tornadoes surprise Kansans
High winds and a tornado swept through southwest Topeka yesterday damaging homes, businesses and a high school but causing only minor injuries. While tornadoes and severe thunderstorms battered northeast Kansas, snow and blizzard-like conditions dominated western portions of the state.
The perfect conditions
Around noon yesterday, weather conditions were ideal for the development of tornadoes. Warm moist air from the southeast was colliding with cold, dry air moving east. While spring-like storms sprung up in northeast Kansas, winter storms dumped snow and ice on the west.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Tornadoes hit at least four counties in eastern Kansas and several areas of western Missouri yesterday afternoon.
A tornado first touched down in Topeka at 29th Street and Wanamaker街 at 2:05 p.m. Police declared the area worst hit, a section bounded by 29th Street, Westport Drive, Arrowhead Road and 25th Street, as a disaster area. The tornado traveled about seven miles, skipping up and down in some places.
Officials said that six students at Topeka West High School sustained minor injuries and that there also was extensive damage to businesses and homes on the southwest side of Topeka.
Rainfall in Topeka was light, at 1/5 inch, because the storm moved so fast.
Late yesterday afternoon, Red Cross officials who sent volunteers through the area in Topeka hardest hit by the storm they found in New Hampshire among others with major damage and about 20 with minor damage.
Dave Eames. Bill Skeet/KANSAN
Source: KU Weather Service, National Weather Service
Officials at Stormont-Vail Hospital said 18 people were treated there for minor injuries.
Sue Stebbins, evening supervisor at St. Francis Hospital, said that four people with minor injuries been treated there and released.
"So far, the injuries have been really minor, just minor lacerations," said Larry Temple, a shift supervisor for the Medevac ambulance service.
Rick Toland, Topeka district manager for Kansas Power and
Please see TORNADO, p.10, col. 1
Israel rejects Palestinian independence
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel rejected the Palestinian declaration of independence yesterday as an exercise in "ambiguity and double talk" that neither renounces terrorism nor clearly recognizes the Jewish state.
Israel was put on the defensive by the move toward moderation, however, and officials concede they face an uphill battle against the PLO attempt to win recognition for a Palestinian state.
About 1.5 million Palestinians and 70,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Egypt in war.
The Foreign Ministry, which issued the Israeli government's official reaction, said of the PLO declaration that it was being again employed to excuse its
The Palestine National Council, acting as the PLO legislature, proclaimed the Palestinian state and issued a political declaration accepting U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which implicitly recognizes Israel's right to exist. The declaration also limits PLO guerrilla action to military targets in the occupied territories.
Only leftist groups in Israel praised the PLO for moderating its anti-Israeli language. Extreme right-wing groups urged the government to respond by annexing part or all of the Gaza Strip and establishing new Jewish settlements.
advocacy of violence, resorting to terrorism and adherence to extreme positions."
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who is expected to lead a new right-wing government, contended that moderating the PLO language was merely a tactic, part of an overall strategy to destroy Israel.
Ministry spokesman Alon Lelio said: "They mentioned rejection of terrorism outside Israel, but they did not denounce terrorism inside Israel. So we still see the PLO as a terror organization, and the government decision not to negotiate with the PLO stands."
He said the declaration was "another step in the war of Arab terror organizations against Israel's enemies," and we shall respond accordingly."
U. S. Rep. James Schueer, D-N.Y. met with Shamir and described him as "very concerned that world public works were needed," syrups words in a great, vast box."
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, leader of the center-left Labor Party and Shamir's rival, said there could be no Palestinian state without negotiations involving Israel and the PLO declaration was "yet another attempt to avoid making unequivocal decisions."
Avraham Sela, an international relations expert at Hebrew University, said: "It will be by Israelis
Please see ISRAEL, p. 6, col. 1
Award finalists narrowed to five Seniors to cast final ballots to pick 1988 HOPE winner
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
The HOPE Award finalists were announced Thursday, and now the rest is up to students.
Today and tomorrow, seniors can vote for the winner, who will be announced at 12:45 p.m. Saturday before the football game.
■Please see page 16 for HOPE candidate profiles
The Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award involves a series of elections to narrow the pool of candidates. The honor is the only student-selected award at the University of Kansas. The first was given in 1959. Only seniors may vote.
A committee made up of senior members of the Board of Class Officers and presidents of various houses met on Thursday to detect the five finalists on Thursday.
The group was picked from 10 final-finalists whom seniors chose last week. Timothy Bentghen, associ
The finalists are Lonn Beaufort, associate professor of design; Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare; Colin Howat, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; James LaPoint, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation; and Valentino J. Stella, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry.
ate professor of journalism, voluntarily withdrew because he won the award in 1896.
The committee interviewed each semi-finalist for about 30 minutes, asking about each professor's teaching philosophy. Mike Blumenthal, chairman of the committee, said selection wasn't easy.
"It was a very difficult decision," said Blumenthal, Kansas City, Kan., senator. "I honestly believe that each of us are outstanding in their own right."
Each finalist will receive a plaque, and the winner will receive his name on a plaque in the Kansas Union. The winner also will receive about $500, said Bobby Jann, Northbrook, Ill., senior and president of BOCO.
Communications waiting list has 600 Department to help seniors who need classes for graduation
Department to help seniors who need classes for graduation
By Jennifer Corser Special to the Kansan
About 600 students are on a waiting list for closed communications courses, an obstacle that could cause problems in schools needing the course to graduate.
For the past two years, the department has had more students wanting to take courses than could be accommodated, he said. The department intends to open five additional upper-level classes by reassigning instructors who usually teach lower-level classes. Seniors who need com-
courses
All communications classes except three upper-level classes are closed for next semester, said Wil Linkugel, chairman of the communications studies department.
Leslie Godfrey, Merriam senior and communications major, needs 21 upper-level communications credits to graduate in May. She was on waiting lists for three classes, but the communications department has called her to let her take one of the classes she needs.
munications classes to graduate will be given first priority.
On Friday, the department plans to post outside the communications department office a list of students who may need to enroll in the additional classes.
"I think I'll get into at least one more communications class," she said.
department also was considering enlarging other classes to make room for other graduating seniors and communications majors.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the
Linkugel said a lack of faculty was causing a shortage of communications classes. Five communications professors who left the University of Kansas during the past decade were not replaced. The department has hired two faculty members for next semester.
"We have in the past been able to get graduating seniors in classes, and we hope to this spring as well," he said.
"We have this waiting list despite the new faculty," he said.
Also contributing to the problem are students who wanted to be personnel administration majors. When the college stopped admitting students into that degree program, students changed to communications.
Linkugel said those students needed advice about their options. Now they are flooding the communications departments.
Two courses that traditionally have more students wanting to enroll than space available are COMS 542, or Problem-Solving Group Discussion, and COMS 548, or Theories of the Interview.
Linkugel said that he was not sure how the department would accommodate graduating students if the department didn't teach that something would be done.
Kansan staff writer
By Daniel Niemi
Endowment Association reports increased assets
The assets of the Kansas University Endowment Association increased almost $15 million last year, according to its annual report released yesterday.
At the same time, expenditures for University support increased more than $3 million.
"It means good growth, and it will allow KU to become a better place," said Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association.
The association manages gifts and contributions to KU, including scholarship funds and professorships, and offers low-interest loans
to students.
The increase in asset value came from income from investments, such as stocks and bonds and income from fund raising.
According to the report, asset value increased $14,927,936. The total value of the endowment fund amounted to more than million, up from about $193 million.
However, the growth was not as good as the previous year, when the association reported more than an $18 million increase.
Seymour attributed the smaller increase to less income from the sale of securities, such as stocks.
Please see ENDOW, p. 12, col. 4