2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10.2005
this week in KU HISTORY
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BY SHANKI UPSDELL
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KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Oct. 12, 1983 - "The Day After"
A special screening of the controversial made-for-TV movie "The Day After," which was filmed in Lawrence, was displayed in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The movie, which took place in the Lawrence and Kansas City areas, explored the scenario of a nuclear holocaust, from the time of impact to the shattered lives and futures of the survivors.
More than 2,000 people, comprised mostly of local residents and students, attended the screening, according to the KU History Project's Web site.
Susan Emmanuel from the Museum for Broadcast Communications wrote on the museum's Web site that the movie took its place as "one of the biggest media events of the 1980s." Chuck Twardy, columnist for The Lawrence Journal-World, commented, "The town William Quantrill burned down has become the city ARC blew up."
Quentin Burns taught us how the city rose up. Time Magazine wrote, the film increased its realism by actually filming in Lawrence, rather than "upon some back lot of Warner Brothers." Students and residents worked as extras, while scenes from the movie were set in Allen Fieldhouse, Memorial Stadium and the Spencer Museum of Art, according to the History Project's Web site.
Some critics denounced the movie's anti-war stance, saying it indirectly supported nuclear disarmament. Others said it sensitualized nuclear devastation or else failed to portray its full impact. Still more commentators praised the movie for its pacifist message, and the newspaper reported it was shown in 40 countries.
Controversy erupted when the movie debuted on ABC Nov. 20, 1983. The Lawrence Journal-World estimated nearly 100 million people watched the movie.
The film, winner of two Emmy awards, remains the largest film production Lawrence has experienced, the newspaper reported in 2003. The "Kansas Alumni Magazine" in October 1983 called movie "the largest portrayal of human suffering in Allen Fieldhouse since last season's K-State game."
Al Oerter, 1958 KU alumnus,
won his fourth gold medal in
discus throwing at the Olympic
Games in Mexico City.
Oct. 15, 1968 - Olympic Stardom
Named among ESPN's top 100 athletes of the century, Oerter tossed his way into world history by winning four gold medals in the same event at consecutive Olympic Games. The Kansas City Star reported in 1976 that he entered the games every time as an outsider who people often overlooked
He obtained the first of his medals in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia. The University Daily Kansan reported in 1999 that he threw the discus 184 feet and 10-and-a-half inches on his first
throw, setting a world record. The resulting exhilaration inspired him to try to win four more, Oerter told the Kansan.
Photo Courtesy of Spencer Research Library
While he was the first person to win four consecutive gold medals, Oerter never won a fifth. He practiced to compete in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, but President Jimmy Carter announced the United States would boycott the games that year after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Undeterred, Oerter continued to train for the 1984 Olympics, but an injured tendon prevented him from competing, according to the History Project's Web site.
The Kansan named him the fifth best athlete in the University of Kansas' history. One of 20 charter members in the Olympic Hall of Fame, he now lives with his wife, Cathy, in Ft. Myers. Fla.
- Information compiled from www.kuhistory.com and the Spencer Research Library
Candice Rukes/KANSAN
Commission may drive off parking
City officials are considering establishing a no-parking zone on the west side of Lawrence Avenue from 150 feet north of Bob Billings Parkway to Applegate Court. Local residents are concerned because many of the townhomes on the street have no driveway and use the street for parking.
LAWRENCE
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Residents of the Applegate at the Orchards neighborhood will find out Tuesday whether they will be able to continue to park on part of Lawrence Avenue in west Lawrence.
The City Commission, in a 5-0 vote, directed city staff to draft an ordinance outlawing parking on the west side of Lawrence Avenue beginning 150 feet north of Bob Billings Parkway and continuing to Applegate Court. The commission will vote on the ordinance at Tuesday's meeting. Parking is already forbidden on the east side of the street.
Mary-Elizabeth Debicki, a neighborhood resident who spoke to the commission, said the problem was where Lawrence Avenue curved.
Garrett Peterson, Osawatomi senior, lives on Lawrence Avenue. He said he parked on the west side of the street instead of in his driveway because he must move his car every time his roommates wanted to leave.
She said cars heading south sometimes swerved to avoid hitting parked cars. She said she has often seen glass on the road and has witnessed two accidents.
"We all have different class schedules," Peterson said. "It would be inconvenient if all of us had to park in the driveway, or up the road. This side of the street isn't even that full."
Neighborhood residents initially presented their case to the Traffic Safety Commission on June 6, but were denied an ordinance because of concerns about student parking and speeding.
"We are scared about cars coming from both directions at the same time," Debicki said. "The fact that the road is curved really makes drivers blind to what is coming."
Carol Jean Brune, the commission's chairwoman at the time, said with three or four college students sharing one house, their cars cannot be accommodated without street parking.
Brune said the parked cars were useful because they slowed speeders. She said with less roadway, drivers slowed down when a car was passing from the other direction and because of concerns for pedestrians.
"You never know when someone is going to be walking out from behind a parked car," she said. "You do not want to hit pedestrians, or most of all a child."
Debicki said she thought the Traffic Safety Commission was not familiar with the street's terrain. She said she didn't think cars would increase their speeds
if parking were banned because there was a sign in place advising drivers take the curve at 25 mph.
After the Traffic Safety Commission denied the association an ordinance, residents wanted the case forwarded to the City Commission during the school year, when parking would be more of a problem.
Debicki said the bylaws of the neighborhood association said cars are meant to be parked in a garage and after a garage in a driveway. She said students had enough room to keep their cars off the street.
Schauner said he thought the neighbors made a good case that banning parking would make the street safer. He said parked cars pushed drivers into the middle of the street or the other lane.
At last week's City Commission meeting, only Mayor Dennis "Boog" Highberger was not in favor of passing the ordinance. He said he shared the Traffic Safety Commission's concern about increased speeding on the street.
City Commissioner David
"What took me over the edge was the curb." Schauner said. "I have driven down that street a number of times, and drivers can't see oncoming traffic well."
The case is now on the commission's consent agenda for the Tuesday meeting. All items on the agenda are considered and enacted in one motion.
No discussion will take place unless it a commissioner or member of the public requests it. If so, the item will be removed from the agenda and considered separately.
Edited by Jonathan Kealing
ENTERTAINMENT
'Wallace & Gromit' debut at No.1 with $16.1 million
BY DAVID GERMAIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The airplane thriller "Flightplan," which had held the top box-office slot the previous two weekends, slipped to second place with $10.8 million, lifting its total to $60.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
LOS ANGELES — Clay paid off at the box office for "Wallace & Gromit; The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." The clay-animated family film debuted as the top weekend movie with $16.1 million.
Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine's tale of squabbling sisters, "In Her Shoes," which opened at No. 3 with $10 million.
A rush of new wide releases filled out the top five, led by
Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey's sports-gambling flick "Two for the Money" debuted in fourth place with $8.4 million.
"The Gospel" — starring Boris Kodjose as an R&B singer making peace with his faith and his estranged father, a church bishop — had a surprisingly strong opening of $8 million, placing fifth for the weekend. The movie played in just 969 theaters, barely one-fourth of
the cinema count for "Wallace and Gromit."
The restaurant comedy "Waiting," with Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Luis Guzman, premiered at No. 7 with $5.7 million.
Overall revenues slipped, with the top 12 movies taking in $87.8 million, down 10 percent from the same weekend last year.
"The Squid and the Whale," starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney in a comic drama of a family's bitter divorce, grossed $124,000 in four theaters.
Two acclaimed movies opened strongly in limited release. Actor-director George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck," featuring David Strathairn as legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, took in $420,000 in 11 theaters.
"Audiences are evidently paying attention to critical raves and really showing up in big numbers for these independent movies that have been very well-reviewed," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
— Edited by Nate Karlin
"Wallace & Gromit" was based on three short films made for British television about the adventures of a cheese-loving inventor and his canine pal.
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