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KANSAN
VOL.115 ISSUE 80
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25. 2005
Noisy party crackdown
Joshua Bickel/Special to the Kansan
A police officer breaks up a party at 12th and Louisiana streets on Saturday evening. A new ordinance made it simpler for officers to enforce noise disturbances.
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Police issuing more citations for noise
BY JOUSHUA BICKEL
jbickel@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Partygoers at a house on the 1200 block of Louisiana Street saw the Lawrence Police Department's new noise ordinance in action Saturday night.
A police officer came to the house around midnight and told everyone to go home after a neighbor called to complain about the noise. The residents of the house quickly ushered out as many people as they could to avoid a noise citation.
"It's gotta stop," said David Holroyd, a Lawrence resident for 32 years and the neighbor who called the police. "They need to realize that there's other people around here."
This weekend, the Lawrence Police Department began enforcing a new way of reporting noise disturbances. Now officers don't have to contact the complaining party to issue a noise citation.
This makes it easier for police to enforce the noise ordinance and issue
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Admissions takes show on road
Multicultural Road Show focuses recruitment on minority students
BY DANI LITT
dllt@kansan.com
dltt@kansan.com STAFF WINTER
University of Kansas admissions representatives will travel to Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City, Kan., this week as part of the Multicultural Road Show. The road show emphasizes recruitment of minority students at the University.
Kerri Lesh, Multicultural Road Show coordinator, said the road show was the spring spin-off of the Rock Chalk Road Show, which targeted recruitment in Western and Central
Kansas in the fall.
"The difference is that the Multicultural Road Show is more focused," said Lesh, who is also an admissions counselor. "It is tweaked as to who we are looking for and invite."
Five admissions representatives will visit community centers, churches, boys and girls clubs, other nonprofit organizations, middle schools and high schools. The representatives will leave information about the University and meet with students to discuss the University as a possibility for them.
ered any official statistics, but the program has received a good response said Claudia Mercado, assistant director of admissions and scholarships.
According to University Relations, in 2004 the number of minority firsttime freshmen rose 10 percent, and the overall minority enrollment rose 4 percent.
The reception includes representatives from the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. Among topics discussed are KU traditions, athletics, academics and financial aid. The evening concludes with door prizes, refreshments and pictures with Baby Jay.
"We don't expect to see immediate results," Mercado said. "If it was a program of direct results, it would be promoted to seniors rather than being marketed to those as young as 5th grade.
High school students in 9th to 12th grades are invited to a reception in the
"It is a different approach to recruitment," Lesh said. "The Multicultural Road Show focuses on nontraditional areas where the people targeted might not receive the information otherwise."
evening, usually at a school or banquet hall.
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The enrollment office has not gath-
New name and focus for CLAS department
BY NATE KARLIN
nkarin@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
After 40 years of existence at the University of Kansas, the department of Human Development and Family Life has changed its name and its focus.
The department, which is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is now called Applied Behavioral Science. The change was made at the start of this semester.
In addition to the new title, the department will also place more emphasis on developmental disabilities and applied behavior, as well as other studies in human behavior.
The name change was initiated about four years ago with the hiring
"H ow do the
students tell their parents what Human Development and Family Life is? It's kind of hard."
Ed Morris ABS chairman
of two faculty members who specialize in developmental disabilities, said Ed Morris, professor and ABS chairman.
The former department was a combination of behavioral, developmental and cognitive psychology, but the department had to change its focus after several professors resigned.
The focus of the HDFL department, which began in 1964, never adequately described the department's greatest strength of applied behavior, Morris said.
"How do the students tell their parents what Human Development and Family Life is? It's kind of hard," he said. "Applied Behavioral Science makes a lot better sense."
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Luminary walk honors civil rights activist
ESTUARDO GARCIA
egarcia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The crowd gathered under the light from a street lamp in front of Wescoe Hall last night as Santos Nuñez, director of the Multicultural Resource Center welcomed them to the "Walking the Dream" luminary march.
The event comes a week after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. Robert Page, director of the office of multicultural affairs, said this was the first time that the University had held a campuswide event honoring King's legacy.
At each milestone students lit a candle and spoke about King's life.
The participants silently marched down Jayhawk Boulevard holding luminaries in remembrance of King. The walk centered on five key milestones in King's life: his birth, graduation from Morehouse College in Atlanta, writing "Letter from Birmingham Jail" after his arrest, his famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech and his assassination on April 4, 1968.
"The luminary walk is depicting just how much the struggle was for equality and for racial justice," Page said.
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., in which King was once a member, worked in conjunction with the MRC on the "Walking the Dream" presentation.
The walk was used as a reminder of past marches that King organized.
Inspirational Gospel Voices, a University-affiliated gospel group, performed before and after Dupree's speech. Marlesa Roney, vice provost of student success, closed the ceremony with a final speech.
"I'm hoping people will experience a life that was truly amazing. Hopefully people will be touched by the strife that he had to go to," said Anthony Brown, Grandview senior and president of the Upsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha.
Tim Dupree, the first black prosecutor in Emporia, was the keynote speaker. Among topics he discussed were the challenges King faced and his accomplishments.
Candles were left under the Jayhawk statue in front of the entrance of the Kansas Union. The lights flickered as students continued into the building for the remainder of the program.
About 35 people participated in the march
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A group of University students and faculty participated in "Walking the Dream," a luminary walk honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., last night. The procession started at Wescoe Hall and finished at the Kansas Union.
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Energy tapped
A hefty grant from the U.S. Department of Energy allows researchers to tap into Kansas' abandoned oil reservoirs. Abundant supplies of the fuel may soon be flowing. PAGE 5A
Tennis Conference Preview
Kansan sportswriter Rahul Sharma previews Big 12 Conference tennis opponents Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma in the first installment of a four-part series. PAGE 7A
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