University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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KU students in middle of ROTC controversy The University of Kansas has turned back an effort to eliminate academic credit for campus ROTC programs, KU announced Tuesday, Sep- tember 26. The proposal was defeated by a vote of 359- 270, so students will continue to receive credit for ROTC courses. These classes will still count toward the school ' s 124-hour graduation require- ment. Supporters of the proposal said it was de- signed to protest the Department of Defense ' s policy that refused acceptance of homosexuals into the military. Chancellor Gene Budig said he was pleased with the vote and said KU would continue working to change the defense policy. First cross-country flight by solar powered aircraft made A solar-powered ultralight plane reached the East Coast on September 9 but the pilot insisted on covering the last eight miles to Kittli Hawk before declaring he ' d made the first cross-country solar flight. The plane had solar cells to produce power for its electric motor. However, the motor is used only for takeoffs and landings. After takeoff, the motor is turned off and the plane rides on ther- mals, rising columns of warm air, like a glider. U.N. imposes air blockade After a blunt warning by the Soviet Union that war is close in the Persian Gulf, the Security Council voted to impose an embargo on air traffic, strengthening the economic block- ade against Iraq. The measure was approved 14-1, with Cuba the lone opponent. The new resolution adds to the Security Council ' s ban on trade and financial dealings with Iraq and Kuwait by cutting off all air links except those it approves for humanitarian reasons. It also authorizes detention of Iraq ' s merchant fleet. Atlanta to get ' 96 Olympics Atlanta, symbol of the South, beat out Athens, symbol of the Olympics, and was awarded the centennial Summer Games in 1996. In what it considered a choice between sentiment for the past or success for the future, the International Olympic Committee chose Georgia over Greece to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the rebirth of the Games, first staged in 776 B.C. Atlanta won over Athens on a 51 -35 vote on the maximum fifth ballot. Sampras serves up hot U.S. Open triumph Pete Sampras aced Andre Agassi 13 times and hit 12 service winners with serves up to 1 24 mph in a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 drubbing on stadium court. Sampras, who won $350,000, became the youngest men ' s U.S. Open tennis champion ini history at 19 years, 28 days. 22

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1 0,000 students rally for reuni- fication of North, South Korea About 10,000 radical students rallied August 14 to demand the immediate unification of the divided Korean peninsula and vowed to march to the heavily fortified border to press for free travel to North Korea. The students demanded the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, and said their presence hindered dialogue with commu- nist North Korea on unification. The two Koreas have been bitter rivals since the division of the peninsula in 1 945. Early in the 1 950 ' s, a three-year war was fought. U.S., Israel dismiss Hussein ' s proposals Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said that he would not withdraw his forces from Kuwait unless all issues of occupation in the Middle East are resolved, starting with an unconditional Israeli with- drawal from occupied territories and a pullout of Syrian armed forces from Lebanon. In Bhagdad, Hussein also proposed that as a first step toward defusing the Persian Gulf crisis, a Pan- Arabic force under the United Nations flag be sent to replace the U.S. and Egyptian troops now de- ployed in Saudia Arabia to help defend it against possible Iraqi aggression. By tying the current crisis to Middle East stiputes that have defied decades of exhaustive negotiation. Hussein ' s self-proclaimed peace initiative ap- peared to offer little prospect of a breakthrough. It was viewed by many Arab and Western ana- lysts as an attempt to involve Isreal in the Persian Gulf crisis and marshal Arab masses against U.S. intervention in the Arabian peninsula. An Israeli spokesman called the proposals cheap propaganda and White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the United States categorically re- jects them. Assets frozen and oil halted to Iraq President Bush joined other world leaders in condemning Iraq ' s invasion of Kuwait as an act of naked aggression August 3 as the United states imposed a near-total economic embargo on Iraq and launched a diplomatic effort to force withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Scientists to keep sunken treasure A federal judge awarded a small group of scientists and investors from Columbus, Ohio, sole ownership of the richest sunken treasure in history more than $1 billion worth of bullion and coins from the gold fields of California. The ruling gives Columbus-America Discov- ery Group title to all gold and other artifacts re- covered from the SS Central America, which sank in a hurricane 160 miles off the coast of the Carolinas in 1857. The ship went down in 1 1 2 miles of water, taking 425 lives and carrying three tons of gold to the bottom. Entertainer Pearl Bailey dies at 72 Pearl Bailey, the actress and singer with the sexy, throaty drawl and droll sense of humor who once was called America ' s ambassador of love, died August 1 7 at age 72. Pearl Bailey was the mother of the world, said Stan Irwin, her manager of 25 years. She was a very spiritual woman, and she never recognized her color. Her ideology was, ' We are humans. '

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KU arranges $1 million fund for minority students The University of Kansas estab- lished a $1 million minority scholarship fund that will help 1 40 students during the next four years, Chancellor Gene Budig said September 18. The fund, financed through dona- tions to KlTs Campaign Kansas fund- raising drive, provided 35 new minority scholarships this fall and will allow for 35 more in each of the next three years. The $500 scholarships are awarded for academic achievement in high school and are renewable if the stu- K.C. chosen as site for Orion movie A major movie began shooting in Kansas City in mid-October. Orion pictures will start work on Article-99, a movie about a dedicated doctor in a Veterans Affairs hospital, next month at the old St. Mary ' s Hospital, 2800 Main St. Kansas acquires 7-fooM center A 7-foot-1 center from Texas decided to play basketball for Kansas. Greg Ostertag, a center from Duncanville, Texas, announced September 24 in Dallas at he will sign a leter of intent November 14, the first day of the early signing period. As a junior, he averaged 16.9 points and 15 rebounds for Duncanville, a suburb of Dallas, reported his coach, Phil McNeely. Ostertag was also ranked among the best high school centers by Bob Gibbons, publisher of All Star Sports Report. dent maintains good grades in college. Crew selected to live inside Earthlike bubble for 2 years Eight environmental pioneers were chosen September 12 to spend two years living with 3,800 arieties of plants and animals inside a glass-and-steel dome designed to duplicate Earth ' s ecosystem. The crew was composed of two Britons, a Belgian, a German, and four Americans. As a laboratory for showing ways to solve environmental problems such as pollution, the : Drivately financed Biosphere project could become a moneymaking venture, scientists have said. It s also a prototype for sustaining life in space. Inside the sealed geodesic frame, all air, water, food, and wastes will be regenerated and ecycled. Only electricity will link its ecological system with the outside with communications provided hrough computers and telephones. The $30 million world-within-the world will be like a space colony tethered to Earth. Film industry drops the ' X ' after an overhaul of ratings The Motion Picture Association of America nnounced September 27 that it was reforming ts system of rating films, abandoning its contro- ersial X rating in favor of a new category to be ailed NC-17. The new category will take effect immedi- ately. Like the X rating, it will forbid admission to anyone under the age of 17. Limousine used by Hussein is seized Saddam Hussein may have had Kuwait, but he didn ' t have his bomb-proof, $300,000, ar- mored Cadillac limousine. The car, fitted with tear gas dispensers and bullet proof tires, was being held at a repair shop in Luvonia, Michigan on order of the U.S. Cus- toms Service, agents announced September 24. 23