Monday, October 17, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE TENANTS ASSOCIATION
MEETING: October 17, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas Union- International Room 5th Floor
Informational and educational meeting to discuss 88-89 agenda, new membership, and to answer questions.
If interested please attend or call 749-3697
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Are you an outstanding senior?
The 1989 Jayhawker Yearbook is currently accepting nominations for the
1989 Hilltopper Awards.
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to nominate seniors that they believe are outstanding in their academic and extracurricular activities.
Criteria for selection include:
$ \star\star $ Involvement and leadership in campus and community activities.
★ ★ Respect of the nominee's peers as well as his or her professors.
$ \star\star $ References that can address the quality of the nominee's service.
Nominations are due at 5:00 p.m., Friday, Oct.21, at the SUA Office in the Kansas Union or the Organizations and Activities Center, 105 Burge Union. Seniors may nominate themselves.
★★ A.G.P.A. of about 3.0.
Applications are due at 5:00 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14, at the SUA Office in the Kansas Union or the Organizations and Activities Center, 105 Burge Union. Seniors may nominate themselves.
Rioting students arrested during homecoming clash
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Hundreds of riot students burned furniture and clashed with police in a second night of homecoming weekend violence. Fifty arrests by officers clad in riot gear, police said yesterday.
The Associated Press
At least six people, including a police officer and a person found in a trash carrier, were treated at a hospital for minor injuries suffered Saturday night and early morning; said hospital nursing supervisor Patricia Anderson.
As many as 1,500 St. Cloud State University students were involved in the roiting in a four-block area Friday and Saturday nights, Assistant Police Chief Jim Moline said.
Students set off firecrackers and some played the Beatles' song "Rvolution" on a stereo as police swept through the crowd, estimated at about 700 people Saturday night. Other people tore down street signs and
About 60 officers, including some from the State Patrol and neighboring counties, shot tear gas to disperse the crowd. They made 46 arrests, most on misdemeanor charges or conduct or criminal damage to property, Moline said.
After a lull of a few hours, 150 officers were sent in early yesterday to break up crowds of 150 to 200 people, some of whom had set fire to furniture and a trash carrier that had been dragged into the street. Moline said.
Game popular with students
"It's like a battle between the police and the students," said Karen Jacobs, the manager editor of the student newspaper, the University Chronicle, who watched the disturbance from her dormitory room.
The riots broke out amid homecoming celebrations by the school's 16,400 students. Witnesses said the problems began when officers tried to break up loud parties and fights.
Dungeons and Dragons Club combines fantasy with intellect
Kansan staff writer
By M. Meredith Relph
The group had gathered around a map of an unfamiliar land, prepared to continue the journey but unure of the path that would lead them out of the darkness. The fates of the six men decided by a mere roll of the dice.
David Lautenschlager, Belleville,
Ill., junior, is a new member of the
group, but he has played the game
for several years.
It is only a game, but to the more than 120 KU students who meet weekly to play Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, the role-playing situations also provide an exciting and engaging way for students to benefit in the banality of classes and schoolwork.
"It's like getting together and writing a fantasy novel," he said.
The players' intensity varies, as each group pursues different goals. Whooops of excitement or cries of fright rise from the groups as people find sought-after treasures or are surprised by ill-tempered dragons.
Lee Irons, Chicago, Ill., graduate
student and president of the KU Dungeons and Dragon Club, and the student who was a graduate of University of Kansas for about five years but had died into a large cave.
Irons said that this semester the club averaged about three new players each week.
"They usually come at first to see what it's like," Irons said. "There are a lot of misconceptions about T & B, but there are lots of facts, and they find out that it is fun."
Irons said Dungeons and Dragons also was helpful in developing intellectually.
"It's a mind game," he said. "You have to imagine the things in your mind, expand your mind in a lot of ways, like developing a better imagination."
There are 11 groups with seven to 12 members each. The coordinator of a group is the Dungeon Master, who leads players live or die, locate their quest
Irons said role-playing games originated in the early 1970s with a combat game called "Chain Mail" The Dungeons and Dragon games were designed by Gary Gygax and was designed for role-playing rather than battles.
or wander astray in the unfamiliar parts of the fantasy world.
"The game takes place in a whole other planet than earth." Irons said, "You have to put the planet just in different parts of it. It sometimes they interact. In concept it's just two worlds."
His drive to succeed has left its mark at KU's engineering school.
Controversy about the game arose in the early 1980s when parents of Dungeons and Dragons their children had become too engrossed in the game. Irons said playing Dungeons and Dragons was that it but not harmful in any way.
"It's just acting. It's like being in a play or a novel or movie," he said.
"Not too many of these (fellowships) are given out," said Donald Gyorog, chairman of the mechanical engineering department. "I think the impressive thing about him is the fact of his great desire to achieve and knowledge. He is in my mind one of our outstanding graduate students."
"Everyone likes the idea of knights and chivalry," he said. "Everyone wants to be a hero."
Karan Surana, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of mechani-
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engineering and in mechanical engineering, were awarded with distinction. He earned a masters in engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, grants, grants and a summer job.
cal engineering, with whom Nguen studies finite element analysis, has similar praise for him, calling him an expert in the work of his highest quality.
Nguyen was a freshman studying marine biology when he left Vietnam. The subject was not a particular love of his.
Nguyen's family has always stressed the importance of educa-
tion in his life. He all his older siblings had been through college in Vietnam. Except one sister, his family is in the United States in Seattle or Washington, D.C.
"That was the only college entrance exam I passed," he said. "You have to go to some school; otherwise you will be drafted. I loved that job, and I'm patriotic, but I don't believe in dying. I don't believe in killing people."
Nguyen believes in God, and although he was raised a Buddhist, he converted to Christianity three times. He said that he has accepted the conversion, he said.
"Every time when I need some help, I pray and something happens," he said. "I pray and I try, I try to help myself."
What the future holds for him, he is unwilling to say. But he says he is happy in the United States; he is proud that he was born in the way he had known all his life.
"I feel I am independent here," he said. "I'm trying to see where my limits are.
"I do miss my high school classmates. I miss some of my old instructors. I miss the road I used to walk to and see to see some of those friends again."
"But I'm happy here with my new life."
Arrangements for Elie Wiesel made by the Bina Brith International Lecture Bureau.
Partial funding provided by Student Senate
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