. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1988 / University Daily Kansan Board will discuss escort policies later By Jeremy Kohn Kansan staff writer Oliver Hall residents should be prepared to wait until the semester's end for decisions concerning new escort and escort policy proposals. But, Smith said, "It will definitely be made this semester." Caryl Smith, dean of student life and chairman of the Residential Programs Advisory Board, said after yesterday's board meeting that a decision concerning the two proposals was made. The next RPBAT meeting on Oct. 20. RPAB is a planning organization for student housing that has the power to change student housing contracts. Household officials, elected student representatives and representatives are RPAB members. Dan Simon, Oliver Hall president, presented the Oliver Hall Government's two escort and visitation policy proposals to the board. The visitation proposal supports open visitation on all of Oliver's floors, including lounges, hallways and rooms with the consent of roommates. The escort proposal would require all members of the opposite sex, resident and non-resident, to be present for the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. David Lascaric, president of the Association of Hawaiian Fishermen, has arrived in his current ciscer and visitation policies were being enforced this fall after three years of negotiations. The current resort policy at Oliver requires members of the opposite sex to be escorted at all times on floors. The current visitation policy allows visiting on the floors from 10 a.m to 1 a.m. Monday through Thursday and then through 1 a.m. Monday. Enforcement of both policies began Sept. 19. A referendum on the issues was conducted Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Oliver. It showed that 84.3 percent supported the visitation proposal and that 74.7 percent supported the escort proposal. More than 85 percent of the hall's 628 residents voted, including those who help enforce the policies. "It's an overwhelming number of students that want to change this," Simon said. The colors probably won't be as brilliant as in years past, but Baldwin City's 131st annual Maple Leaf Festival promises to be a beauty of an event. Baldwin City readies for annual fest By Katv Monk Kansan staff writer festival-goers eager to admire the town's map trees and sample the festival's goodies will flood the college town on Saturday and Sunday. There will be plenty of attractions, most of them free. The festival will start at 8 a.m. Saturday with the Maple Leaf 10K run, sponsored by Baker University. The course will cross the old Santa Fe Trail and will include several other historic The Maple Leaf Parade, the festival's high- light, will begin its procession to tower at 11 am. Almost 200 art and craft booths, folk and square dancing exhibitions, a carnival airplane ride, food booths, a garden tractor pull, free entertainment, a museum, and other attractions will span the week. Festival-goers can visit the Old Castle Museum Complex, view the Quarry Rare Bible Collection and take one of the hourly train rides. The museum is one of the few attractions that train is one of the few attractions that has no fee. Baker University will sponsor a variety of sporting events: a soccer match at 1 p.m. Saturday between Baker and Willem Jolie College, Liberty, Mo.; a football game between the University and the annual Laurie Mauve Leaf Tennis tournament both lasts, beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday. The festival committee will sponsor a horseshoe pitching tournament Sunday. NATURALWAY But the backdrop to the events and revelry is likely to be more green than red, orange and yellow. Baldwin City's maple trees probably have a mix of dark and light colors. "They're not going to be as pretty this year as they have been in the past," she said. "But at least I can see them." Last year, about 20,000 people showed up, she said. Blanch Wise, festival coordinator, said weather was the ciphrp behind the uneasonal It is not known whether the lack of botanical dramatics will cut down on attendance, but Wise said the festival had become almost too much of a good thing in the town of less than 2,000. Wise, who has been involved with the festival since its first year, said the committee had reduced advertising, but the festival continued to grow. Scientists factor primes of 100-digit number The Associated Press CHICAGO — The hunt crossed three continents and required hundreds of computers, a team of researchers captured a prize few thought possible — the primal factors that enabled the metahabitans "must want" jobs. The breakthrough could have important implications for governments and banks, which use large-digit numbers in security systems on computers to provide a code too difficult to break. But the pleasure of the hunt concerned researchers more. The number, which begins 9,412,345.667 . . . and stretches on for 90 more digits, defied all previous efforts to find its prime factors. Finding the prime factors of such large numbers was thought to be so difficult that many security systems "Why did we go after it?" said Arien Lenstra, University of Chicago computer scientist, yesterday "Because people compile lists." assumed such computations were beyond the range of even the most powerful computers. Governments transfer secret messages and banks transfer funds electronically by encoding the information in large-digit numbers which require the receiver to know its identity in order to decipher the information Assertiveness Training Facilitators: Loma Zimmer Director Student Assistance Center This workshop will provide insight into expressing thoughts and feelings in address, directly to others, and enhance intimacy and work settings. Dr. Barbara W. Ballard Associate Dean of Student Life & Director, Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center Thursday, October 20,1988 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Pine Room, Kansas Union This workshop is sponsored by members of the assertiveness training group and staff of the dean of student life, the Student Assistance Center, the Organization & Activities Center, the Office of Emily and the Emily Taylor Resource Center. For further information contact Kshama Gargesh at 864-3552 or stop by 218 Strong Hall. 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