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Wednesday Weekly Edition July 28,1999
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Life in Israel
Vol. 109 No.156
Stephanie Brewer recounts her experiences on a kibbutz during her summer stay in Israel.
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Press box progress visible; first game a question mark
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By Matthew Friedrichs
Korean editor
Kansan editor
A new scoreboard is going up quickly, and the press box at Memorial Stadium could be finished in time for the first home football game Sept. 11 against Cal State Northridge.
Bob Frederick, athletics director, expressed optimism yesterday, when asked about the progress.
"This past Friday, I was really encouraged," Frederick said. "I had gone the previous Friday and was sort of discouraged."
Work on the $13 million press box has sped up since the Athletics Department received permission to offer Walton Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., a $300,000 incentive to
complete the project in time for the first home game.
Frederick said the press box would not have been usable for the first game if the Athletics Department had not been able to agree to a new construction schedule and to the financial incentives with Walton.
While the interior might not be complete on Sept.11, the media will be able to cover the game, and alumni and corporations with suites will able to watch the game from the press box
"I think we're going to make it now," Frederick said. "I think it's going to be occupiable the first game."
During a July 21 walking tour with Pa Warren, assistant athletics director, signs of
slow but steady construction progress were everywhere.
The press box and scoreboard are currently under construction at Memorial Stadium. Athletics Director Bob Frederick said the press box should be usable in time for KU's first home game. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Dust coated the bare concrete interior, and workers filled the four levels of the press box installing dry wall, glazing windows, wiring electrical systems and plumbing future bathrooms.
The layouts of the press area, broadcast booths and 36 scholarship suites were easy to see. But the bathrooms didn't have fixtures. The floors were without carpets. The dry wall needed to be taped, finished and painted. The cabinets had not been installed. There was no furniture. And the entire box was stifling hot because the windows had not been finished, and the air conditioning was not turned on.
Despite the heat in the work area, construction continued through the weekend, Warren said yesterday.
Frederick said that the Athletics Department is aggressively selling the suites.
As of yesterday, 24 of the suites had confirmed buyers, and the Williams Fund, the Athletics Department's fund-raising organization, was negotiating with other potential users.
Frederick said that the construction delays had less of an affect on leasing the suites than a recent Internal Revenue Service ruling enabling donors to deduct some of the suite costs.
Workers also have been building the frame for a new $2.5 million scoreboard in the south end zone.
Warren said the pieces for the 24 foot by 32 foot video board, which will show replays and features about the Kansas football team and the Athletics Department, arrived last week and should be installed sometime this week.
Edited by Kimberly Erb
Beating the heat
Austin Bailey takes advantage of the hot weather and enjoys a dip in the Chi Omega fountain. Lawrence is not supposed to get a break from the heat any time soon. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Senate meetings: coming to a site near you this fall
Kansan editor
By Matthew Friedrichs
Kanson editor
Student senators will be closer to their constituents this fall.
Student Senate meetings, traditionally held in the Kansas Union, will convene at several locations closer to where students live beginning in September.
At a July 21 meeting, the
At a July 21 meeting.
Student Executive
Committee (Studex)
approved the fall meetings
scheduled by Dede Seibel,
student body vice president.
The roving Senate will meet at McColllum Hall, the Delta Gamma sorority, Smith Hall, the KU Visitor's Center, Naismith Hall and the Wagon Center this fall.
Seibel said her goal was to schedule meetings that brought the 80 senators closer to the students who voted for them.
Josh Burdette Association of University Residence Halls president, said that the two meetings scheduled on Daisy Hill
A smaller group of students, the 450 scholarship hall residents, already have a number of students who serve as senators, but the meeting at Smith Hall will be important nonetheless,
"It shows that Student Senate is really trying to reach the largest concentration of students," he said.
were appropriate and encouraging.
Senators are elected each spring. Students vote for senators who represent their academic programs and where they live. All students vote for the student body president and vice president.
will be a chance to voice concerns and share ideas with senators.
Sept. 15 6:30 p.m.
Lewis Hall tour,
"To me, it says that they're interested in what we have to say," Burdette said.
Oct. 17 6:30 p.m.
Delta Gamma sorority
Oct. 27 6:30 p.m. KU
Visitors Center
Nov. 10 6:30 p.m.
Naismith Hall
For the 3,500 students who live in the residence halls, the meetings at McColum and the Visitors Center
7 p.m. McColum Hall
■Sept. 29 6:30 p.m.
Smith Hall
Conference room
Scheduled places vary
for senate committees
FALL STUDENT SENATE MEETINGS
said Saran Crumrine, All Scholarship Hall Council president. "I hope we have a lot of our residents go to the meeting and see what it's about." Crumrine said. Seibel said the meeting wouldn't fit in any of the scholarship halls so Smith Hall was chosen as a compromise. All students, not only the students living near Senate meetings, are invited to every Senate meeting and may speak to the assembled senators during the open forum portion of the meeting, said Marlon Marshall, Studex chairman.
Dec. 1 6:30 p.m.
Wagnon Center
All students may also apply to serve on one of the standing committees through September 3. Marshall said.
'Harmless prank' proves no laughing matter
Studex meetings will continue to be in the Kansas Union.
The five Senate standing committees — university affairs, graduate affairs, rights, multi-cultural affairs and finance — also will continue to meet in the Kansas Union.
Orientation for committees will be Sent 8.
- Edited by Anjum Aziz
By Katie Burford
Kansan staff writer
Aaron Hale Culwell's explanation did not sit well with Judge Paula Martin.
In a written statement, Culwell claimed that the swastika he burned in the carpet of the third-floor hallway at Oliver Hall on March 18 was just a "harmless prank." Martin told Culwell that his crime was neither harmless nor a prank.
"You set a fire in a building occupied by many people; you destroyed University property," the Douglas County District judge said at his sentencing hearing Friday. "You chose a swastika, a symbol of the Nazi party. How did you think this would be perceived?"
Culwell, St. Francis freshman,
was convicted of arson, a level 7 non-person felony, for arranging tissue paper in the form of a wasstika and setting it on fire.
According to Kansas sentencing guidelines, arson carries the presumption of probation if the convicted person has no prior criminal history. Culwell did not have a record.
He will be on probation for two years. If he fails to meet any of the conditions of his probation, he will go to prison for one year.Martin also sentenced Culwell to 30 days in jail beginning at 4 p.m. that day and ordered him to pay $1,081 in restitution to the University.
The conditions of his probation require him to be a full-time student or find full-time employment. Martin had ordered Culwell to begin his jail time
immediately after the hearing, but his attorney, James Rumsey, said that Culwell had an appointment with the University's admissions office at 1:30 p.m.
A disciplinary meeting, attended by University officials, Culwell and his attorney, was held on July 1. The University's code of conduct prohibits those present from publicly releasing the results of the meeting, said James R. Kitchen, dean of students and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
In a statement, Kitchen said,
"This was a rare and shameful incident that certainly is not representative of our many fine students. The University will never tolerate such behavior and will take appropriate action."
Martin told Culwell that he had done nothing but minimize his
After learning that he would spend 30 days in jail, Culwell said, "I didn't intend to try to give any justification for what I did."
actions and that he continued to display a complete lack of understanding.
"The court can not sentence you to gain understanding, knowledge or sensitivity," she said.
He said that in his written statement he had only attempted to explain what was going on in his head at the time of the crime. "I never attempted to make an excuse," he said.
Culwell will also be required to pay court costs. During his probationary period, he must abstain from using drugs or alcohol, report regularly to his probation officer and submit to random drug testing.
Edited by Derek Prater
SEX made you look stion whether sex in advertising works
Experts question whether sex in advertising works
By Katie Burford
Kansan campus editor
Whether you are tuned into the tube SEX, driving down the road SEX, listening to the radio SEX, or surfing the Internet SEX, everyone wants to sell you something.
So is the old axiom that sex sells still true?
"It can get attention — cut through the clutter — but it can't sell," said Bob Basow, associate professor of journalism who teaches marketing and the mass media. "Actually, it's quite the opposite," he said.
And they are using SEX,
SEX, SEX to get you to
SPEND.SPEND.SPEND.
Sexy images may attract our attention, he said, but
"Look at the beer business," he said. "What's your favorite beer ad?"
they are useless unless they make us remember the right brand.
The one with the frogs, of course.
"Do you remember what brand of beer that was for?" he asked.
Couldn't remember it.
"What about the ad with the Swedish bikini team? What brand was that for?" he asked, referring to a 1991 beer ad campaign that featured scantily clad women.
Sure. Bud-weis-er.
Gordon Pullener is:
"Exactly," Basow said. (It was Stroh's.)
Joyce Claterbos, a lecturer
See DO YOU on page 3A
Companies use red hat sexual appeal in their ads to help catch the attention of readers. However, sex doesn't always sell and using it for advertising can actually alienate customers. Photo illustration by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
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