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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104.NO.67
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1994
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K-State leader apologizes to KU student president
News release contained erroneous information
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
The student body president of Kansas State University apologized yesterday to Sherman Reeves, student body president at the University of Kansas, for misrepresenting Reeves' view about admission standards at Regents schools in a recent news release.
Jeff Peterson wrote the news release and sent it to Kansas media Nov. 12. It said that all six
student body presidents supported open admissions at Regents universities.
Although four of the presidents Peterson interviewed said that they supported open admissions, Reeves said that he supported qualified admissions. He also said that qualified admissions had been supported by many in the KU community.
Peterson said in a phone interview yesterday that the news release was written after he spoke with the student body presidents about their opinions regarding admissions standards. He said that he was aware of Reeves' position supporting qualified admissions but that he had made an error in writing the release.
"I talked to Sherman today, and I apologized to him about what happened," Peterson said.
Reeves said that the incident would not cause a schism between KU and K-State student governments.
"He is a really nice guy," Reeves said. "He does a good job of following through on things he made promises for in his presidency. He just made a mistake."
Peterson wrote the news release in support of a program called Access to the Future. The program is designed to advocate education that is financially and academically accessible to Kansans.
Peterson said in the press release that qualified admissions would not be in the best interest of the state of Kansas.
"If the proponents of such legislation have their way, they will not only restrict students' access to an education but also their access to a bright future," he said in the news release.
Peterson said the student senators at K-State would vote this week on their formal stance on admissions standards. Peterson said he believed that senators would support open admissions.
Audrey Nogle, student body president at Fort Hays State University, said that student senators at Fort Hays State also would be taking a formal vote tomorrow about their stance on
admissions standards.
"We don't know if our senators support qualified admissions," said Nogle, who is also the president of the Student Advisory Committee, which is made up of the student body presidents of all the Regent universities.
The bill that will be presented to senators at Fort Hays State says that each school could enact minimum standards for admissions without denying any student access to the general education program at the university.
Nogle said that the advisory committee would meet Dec. 10 at Emporia State University to formulate a formal stance on admissions standards policy at Regent institutions.
Lighting up still is common among KU students
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Rolling cigarettes has become more popular with conventional cigarette smokers. The cost of hand rolled cigarettes is considerably cheaper than pre-packaged cigarettes.
Marlboro Lights light up the most lives
Kansan staff writer
By Manny Lopez Kansan staff writer
Despite the increased emphasis on education and anti-smoking campaigns such as the Great American Smoke Out, KU students still are lighting up.
"People will smoke 'em no matter what," said Jade Smith, a second assistant at Kwik Shop, 3440 W. Sixth St. "There is a necessity to smoke for some people."
Helen Harrell, information counter supervisor at the Kansas Union, said she thought one reason for the continued interest in smoking was because students were independent for the first time in their lives.
"Not all students are heeding the medical community's advice," she said.
At the Kansas Union counter, about 30 cartons, which is 300 packs of cigarettes, were sold every day, Harrell said. At $2 a pack, that means KU students, faculty and staff spend $600 a day on campus for cigarettes. That, combined with at sales area convenient stores, translates into a big business in Lawrence.
A random sampling of students and local convenience store clerks found that the most popular brand of cigarettes on campus and in Lawrence was Marlboro Lights. Camel Lights came in second.
"Mariboro Lights far exceeded everyone," Harrell said. "However, when Camel started its Joe Camel promotion, sales started to become more equal."
Oulayvanh Khamchanh, Wichita freshman, said she smoked Camel Lights but that many people she knew smoked Marlboros.
Smith also agreed that Marlboro Lights were the most popular brand among students. But he said that students would smoke any brand if their favorite was out of stock. He said that not all students would admit that they smoked generic brands but that they did buy cheaper brands.
"People will always get something to smoke," he said. "If we are out of Mariboro Lights, they will get Camel Lights or Merits or something."
Some students said they smoked to satisfy their addiction, but others said they smoked to have something to do.
"I was bored this summer, so I started smoking." Khamchanh said.
She said she smoked Camel Lights because she enjoyed the taste more than other brands.
Bobby Parks,
Olathe senior,
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Paul Kotz /
KANSAN
Some smokers choose to roll with their tobacco
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
Robert Parks often sits at the Paradise Cafe bar, 728 Massachusetts St., on Thursday nights, drinking beer, listening to live irae and rolling cigarettes.
Parks, Olathe senior, said he started rolling his own cigarettes to help subsidize his habit of smoking Camel Lights and Lucky Strikes.
Many students said they had started smoking rolled cigarettes because they tasted better and saved them money on cigarettes.
Parks said that during a typical week he bought three, 40-gram packages of Drum cigarette tobacco. Each package makes approximately 50 cigarettes that are about 2 1/2 inches long. The package of cigarette tobacco costs between $2 and $3, Parks said.
"It tastes good, and it's cheap," he said. He said that friends and students at the bar often jokingly asked him if the cigarette was full of marijuana.
Rolled cigarettes took off in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s — the same time prepackaged cigarettes became popular, said George Austin, an employee at the Town Crier Bookstore, 930 Massachusetts St.
Austin said that now students that bought cigarette tobacco often were looking for a
"It wasn't fashionable to smoke cigarettes before the prepackaged cigarettes," Austin said. With the new fashion, it was more common for people to role their own cigarettes.
different taste than prepackaged cigarettes offered. He said the most common brand that people bought at the store was the rich-flavored Drum tobacco. But he also said that many smokers came in to buy specialty tobaccos, such as American Spirit, a natural tobacco; Aged Virginia, a rich tobacco blend; and Captain black, a dark tobacco.
Jose Ballesteros, Quito, Ecuador, graduate student, said he started smoking rolled cigarettes because he was tired of smoking the prepackaged cigarettes, which he had been smoking since he was 16.
He said he smoked a tobacco called Myn Heer, a rich, sweet tobacco from Holland. Ballesteros said he also enjoyed the idea that the tobacco he was smoking was more natural and had less chemicals than traditional cigarettes.
"The taste is absolutely different than prepackaged cigarettes," he said. "It's like the difference for beer drinkers between Pabst Blue Ribbon and Heineken. There is no comparison."
Ballesteros said that he sometimes smoked the nonfiltered, rolled cigarettes.
The adverse effects of tobacco are increased with rolled cigarettes because they do not contain filters, said Barbara Ludwig, interchair chair of respiratory care and education at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Without filters, which come on prepackaged cigarettes, more harmful chemicals reach the lungs.
"A filter takes out some of the impurities," she said.
Members of the Kansas women's basketball team, including junior guard Charisse Sampson, right, talk about last week's Hawaii tournament in which they won two of three games.
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Kansas ballplayer 'wanted' for practical joke
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Joey DeMarco wants everyone to know that he is not involved with the Mafia.
But DeMarco, Tamarac, Fla., sophomore and second baseman for the Kansas baseball team, may have to take some ribbing from friends about those and other descriptions of him on a prank "wanted" flier posted on doors and bulletin boards on campus Monday. night. Most of the fliers still were posted yesterday morning.
Nor is his alias "Joey Buttafuco."
The flier features a picture of DeMarco from the 1994 KU baseball yearbook and the words, "Wanted: Joey DeMarco, For
DeMarco suspects fellow baseball players of pulling the prank. Descriptions on the flier such as "has bad shoulder from slipping on ice patch" could have come only from people who know the details of his life, he said.
A description below his picture reads: "Can frequently be heard boasting about his social prowess with women. WARNING: DeMarco is not armed and should not be considered dangerous."
Mafia Relations."
"There are things there only ball plavers would know." he said.
Of course, the pranksters took a few liberties with the truth in their description of DeMarco.
According to the baseball yearbook, he's 5-foot-8, not 5-foot-6, and he weighs 155 pounds, not
"At first, I didn't believe it," he said. "Then I drove through campus real quick. I went by Bailey, and they were all over."
DeMarco found out about the prank Monday night when he got a phone call from a friend who told him a flier had been posted on the door of her sorority house.
145 pounds.
"We got two phone calls last night and one this morning," said Ted Meadows, Ypsilanti, Mich., junior and one of DeMarco's roommates.
Meadows, a catcher for the KU baseball team, said one of the
To make matters worse, the pranksters included DeMarco's telephone number on the flier and urged people to call with information about his whereabouts.
Meadows said the prank didn't sit well with DeMarco at first.
"He was pretty upset about it," he said.
phone calls came from a concerned security monitor at Jayhawk Towers who had seen one of the fliers. The other callers thought the flier was serious, he said.
"It's a good joke," he said. "It's a good one."
But later, after calming down enough to put the prank into perspective, DeMarco had to hand it to the pranksters.
"There have been some good ones," he said. "Pretty much anybody is fair game."
Baseball pranks such as this one aren't unusual, said Wilson Kilmer, pitching coach for the KU baseball team.
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Kilner predicted that the flier prank probably wouldn't be the last one from the players.
"I wouldn't put it past them," he said.
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