University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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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

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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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Separate states no more - Germany reunified Forty-five years after it was carved up in defeat and disgrace, Germany was reunited Wednesday, October 3, to the sound of bells, national hymns, and the jubilant blare of good old German oom-pah-pah. At midnight Tuesday, a copy of the American Liberty Bell, a gift from the United States at the height of the Cold War, tolled from Town Hall. At the same time, the black, red and gold banner of the Federal Republic of Germany rose slowly before the Reichstag, the scarred seat of past German parliaments. With that, a throng estimated atl milion broke into the German national anthem beginning a nightlong nationwide celebration of music and fireworks. Sc Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize President Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union was named the 1990 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday, October 15, in recognition of his initiatives in promotionof international peace, including championing political change in Eastern Europe and helping to end the Cold War. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the 50-year-old Soviet leader, the first commu- nist head of state to receive the Peace Prize, was being recognized because of his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community. It was the first Peace Prize awarded to an American or Soviet chief executive since U.S. President Woodrow Wilson won it in 1919. The award consists of a diploma and gold medal and a cash prize of 4 million Swedish crowns, worth about $710,000. 24 Or: - Leonard Bernstein, flamboyant maestro, dies at the age of 7a Leonard Bernstein, the Renaissance man of music who excelled as pianist, composer, conductor and teacher and was, as well, the flamboyant ringmaster of his own non-stop circus, died Sunday in New York. He was 72. Bernstein, known and beloved by the world as Lenny, died in the presence of his physician, Kevin M. Cahill, who said that the cause of death was sudden cardiac arrest caused by progressive lung failure. The con- ductor had announced Tuesday that he would retire, on the advice of Cahill. In recent months, Bern- stein canceled performances with increasing frequency. His last conducting appearance was at Tanglewood, Mass., on Au- gust 19 -