University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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JAYHAWKER NEWS! June 1989 CHI ACRACKS DO N Troops fire into crowds of unarmed protesters Many Chinese had been protesting since April, when student demonstrations had begun in earnest. Crowds numbering hundreds of thousands occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing, demanding a demo- cratic government. Many students fasted, and some built The Goddess of Democracy, avariation on the Statue of Liberty. On June 3, about 10,000 troops moved from base to the outskirts of the capital, where they were halted by huge crowds and makeshift barricades. That night and for several days after, Chinese troops fired on demonstrators, both protesting and fleeing. Esti- mates of people killed were between 2,000 and 5,000, although the Chinese government continued to insist that only a handful of 'rumor-mongers' and ruffians had been 'punished for their crimes. The 38th Army, sympathetic to the demonstrators' cause, quickly moved as if to engage the 27th Army, which was responsible for the shootings. However, no civil war developed, and in-fighting was brief. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping appeared on state- run television June 9, his first public appearance since mid-May. Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who had favored adoption of some reforms championed by the demonstrators, was dismissed and replaced by Jiang Zemin, a hard-liner. Most of the politburo standing committee was fired and replaced by older, hard-line cohorts of Deng. A , ' Z O A protester defies the military might of the Chinese government. put ' The Associated olldarlt Wins every seat but 1 in elections Members of the Polish Solidarity Citizens' Committee won all but one seat in elections June 4 and June 18. Solidarity won 99 of 100 seats in the newly created Senate and all 161 ofthe 460-seat Sejm available. The rest of the seats had been reserved for members of other parties under the terms of a deal between the Communist Party and Solidarity. In the elections, many Communist officials, although running unopposed, did not receive the mandatory 50M of the vote because voters crossed out their names. Party oficials ousted in this manner included the prime minister and the interior minister. Khomeini dies On June 3, the Iranian government announced that the Ayatollah Khomeini had died of a heart attack. He had entered ahospital May 23 and had successfully undergone surgery for intestinal cancer. During the funeral procession, so many followers wanted to touch the body of the dead leader that the body fell off the coffin and was partly trampled. Iranian President Ali Khamenei was elected ayatollah, and Speaker Hashemi Flafsanjani was elected president. Fiafsanjani visited the Soviet Union June 20-23, and he and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a'declaration on the principles of relations,' in which the Soviet Union agreed to strengthen lran's defenses. , The Associated Press 20 Court rules on flag-burning and affirmative action suits The Supreme Coun ruled in June that flag-burning was expression protected bj the First Amendment and that white males should have more availability to file suit in reverse discrimination suits. ln the first case, two conservative justices voted in the 5-4 majority and one liberal justice dissented. New Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion. ln the second case, the Court sought to further chip away at the affirmative action precedents set by the Warren and Burger Courts. Foley elected Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas Foley, D-Wash., was elected in June as Speaker of the House, replacing Jim Wright, D-Texas, who resigned after pressure from members of both parties and from many people across the nation regarding his being charged with 69 counts of violating of the House's ethics rules by a 12-member bipartisan ethics committee. Some of the charges centered on Wright's accept ance of gifts during 10 years from a businessman in Texas who had more than a passing interest in legislation. Also resigning was Tony Coelho, majority whip. Coelho had been questioned about 56,800 he had made on junk bonds bought for him by a friend. Foley had been majority leader and was elected without much ado. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., was elected majority leader, and William Gray, D-Pa.,was elected majority whip. Chang, Sanchez win French Open Michael Chang of the United States and Arantxa Sanchez of Spain, both 17. became the youngest ever champions at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris. Chang, who had beaten defending champ and top seed Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia, defeated Stefan Edberg of Sweden in the final, 6-1, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Chang became the first American man to win in Paris since Tony Trabert in 1955. Sanchez, who had several upsets to her credit, added another with a victory over defending champ and top seed Steffi Graf of West Germany, 7-6, 3- 6, 7-5. Sanchez's victory stopped Graf's Grand Slam streak at 6. 9 3 ,Ill t l -,,. 'U ,tit . ty' na' 1. if 1,-Q tl.. Chin Claten ered a i energy, ing bacle A pulyr held luge Bulleri nlneoimi gi tt ol The law eXP3llSlDn, Road. lomfi lhegwne lltllnrma lllepam Olthesm lfllhgnm llellveryj billlndjh beilllldjh lllllcaa ltnlleq lf Sewndn

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l n. I A J' e lax I Steve Traynor Chinese students marched down Jayhawk Boulevard protesting the Chinese crackdown. professor di Clarence Buller, professor of microbiology, discov- 'ered a polymer that could be useful in producing energy. His discovery came while he was research- ..-ing bacteria. A polymer is a grouping of light, simple molecules O 1j'IllIiiheid together by a chemical bond. Buller's polymer is a polysaccharide, a group of scovers polymer as starch or cellulose. This polymer is 95 percent sugar, most polymers are 50 percent sugar. His polymer is also not soluble in water. Buller hopes that his polymer is used for pesticide control. lt is a natural organism, so it will eventually break down in soil, he said. Oddly enough, this poly- mer is the pure form of the active ingredient in oat JAYHAWKEH NEWS! June 1989 ew pollc 's set forth for KJH At a June 13 meeting, faculty members of the School of Journalism presented a 14-point music per- formance policy to the board of directors of KJHK, the student-run radio station. Some faculty members had been concerned that some disc jockeys had had no previous on-air expe- rience and yet were on the air their first semester working at the station. Under the new policy, station staff members not enrolled in journalism courses would have to sign a 12-point participation contract affirming their support of the station's laboratory function. Also, some were concerned that the station was not upholding its commitment to creating a learning atmosphere. EiQT3Ei:'lT?1l 91. At the same time, many were concerned that this latest action was yet another control on the station by the School ol Journalism. Since a change in format a few years ago, the board of directors and the school had vacillated on their official policy for KJHK. Flec- ords were withdrawn from the record library, and an attempt was made to bring more professionalism to the station and its operations. The new policy recommends approval of disc jock- eys' written playlists from station management be- fore playing. Also, the student station manager would no longer be paid, and students sewing in this posi- tion would be limited to one semester and one sum- mer term. I Sunshine or more monosaocharides joined by bonds such fiber. Commission U Qiiiiii gives its OK Wi to expansion of bookstore rack team Golf team 'wmnidmttf The Lawrence City Commission approved 4-1 the rxpansion of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent nadbeerifhioad' . . . . wood Because the bookstore is in a residential area, the V Ch oo following conditions must be met: mu 0.Fa' the owner of the bookstore must sign a site plan o Gray, .h Uptli 1 performance agreement, one parking space must be removed from in front of the store and one space must be designated for handicapped customersg Ezojsprifrii. delivery trucks no longer than 55 feet may park lenntlovlfiif, behind the store, and no trucks may be parked oodwafiio behind the store overnightg looartflrifv public access to the second floor expansion is isinwiiil' limited to seven weeks of peak season book- ddedaroliif. buying time and during non-peak times, the eslG9 4 QI grail' second floor must be used for storage only. place 1 th The KU track teams scored 19 points and placed 13th in the NCAA Outdoor Track 8- Field Champ- onships at Provo, Utah. Pat Manson, Aurora, Colo., junior, got second in the pole vault, and Cam Miller, Raytown, Mo., senior, placed third. Oklahoma's 'lim McMichael won the event. All three vaulters cleared 18-6 1!2, but McMichael cleared the bar on his first try. Craig Watcke, South Bend, Ind., senior, placed fourth in the 10,000 km run with a time of 30:32. Seventy-three schools participated. Lousiana State won. places 19th The KU men' golf team qualified for the NCAA championships for the first time ever. The team placed 22nd in a 30-team held at Edmond, Okla., June 7-10. KU had sent individual qualifiers to the tournament before: John Sinovic, Prairie Village senior, finished 19th in 1988. However this was the first year that the entire team qualified. The team tie for sixth place with Arkansas and Texas at the Central Regional Qualifying round May 25-7 at McKinney, Texas, 21