University Daily Kansan, April 21, 1981
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Unique KU scholarship honors humanitarianism
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
Many students jump at the chance to obtain a scholarship because of the ever-rising cost of education. However, one KU scholarship has been awarded only three out of the last five years, because no one applied for it.
The Lynn Leban Memorial Scholarship, which varies in amount each year, is not awarded on the basis of financial need or high academic standing. It is given to KU students who exhibit the same humanitarian qualities that Lynn Leban had. Her father, Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian Studies, said that the people who were qualified for the scholarship probably didn't realize that they were special.
"When we started this in memory of Lynn we didn't realize how difficult it was going to be to find applicants," Leban said. "So we decided to have people nominate students that they thought were worthy of the scholarship. Students can still nominate themselves, of course."
Leban said that the type of person they wanted to award the scholarship to was someone who went out of there way to help others.
"Most of us would probably open the door for someone in a wheelchair, but how many of us would go 10 minutes early every day to make sure we were
where when the door needed to be opened?"
When his daughter was killed in an automobile accident, in 1975, Leban decided to turn her death into something positive. He and his wife used Lynn's life insurance money to set up the scholarship fund. The amount of the scholarship varies from year to year, Leban said, because the money is managed by the Endowment Association.
"The Endowment Association envests the money and we receive a percentage of it every year to use for the scholarship. One year we had enough to pay the winners full tuition to law school."
Leban said that each nomenclature was required to summit three letters of reference with his official application. Applications will be accepted until the end of this school year. Thirteen students have applied so far this year, which is more than last year, Leban said.
In an attempt to increase the number of nominees this year, Leban bought four aids in the Lawrence Journal World and enabled the availability of the scholarship.
"I really hated to do that; we could have given that money to a student to help with his school. Instead the paper got it." Leban said.
All KU students are eligible to apply for the scholarship, and should request the application forms at the Financial Aid Office in 28 Strong Hall.
Chinese profs observe KU department
Six Chinese professors, all child psychologists and researchers, are visiting KU's Human Development and Family Life department this week to learn more about KU's current child research.
The three men and three women are listening to lectures on different aspects of child research, Elizabeth Goetz, associate professor of human development and psychology. The development are visiting KU as part of KU's agreement with Chinese universities to exchange professors and students.
Yesterday, the professors heard
about laboratory research,
television's effects on children and
stimulus research. Frances
Horowitz, vice chancellor,
and graduate studies,
talked to the group about infant
research.
Because of Easter vacation, the professors will get their first chance to observe KU researchers working with children today. Goetz said.
the professors arrived in Lawrence Sunday. Later today they will leave for San Francisco. They will return to China at the end of the month.
Bill outlaws 'blind bidding' for movies
By MARK GAUERT Staff Reporter
The quality of movies shown in Lawrence could go up while the prices patrons pay to see them go down because of a bill signed into law by John C. Nash several Lawrence theater owners and managers say.
The bill makes Kansas the 22nd state to outlaw "blind bidding," which requires theater owners to agree to show a new movie before they have seen it, and sometimes put up front money to a film producer to hold the movie for the theater before work on the film has actually begun.
The bill, which becomes law in July, requires all movies to be screened by buyers before they can be shown in Kansas. But it does not set penalties for violations of the law.
"The end of blind bidding will make our job of buying films a lot
HARWOOD SAID blind bidding competition among the state's 196 theaters for certain films had helped drive ticket prices up in cities such as Lawrence, Wichita and Manhattan. Theater owners will no longer have to add the cost of bidding onto ticket prices, he said.
easier and, in the long run, it could reduce prices," Harold Wood, district manager of Commonwealth Theaters, said.
Lawrence movie-goers may also have a better selection of movies as a result of the bill, said Ed Johman, manager of Hillcrest Theater.
"The public won't have to pay for as many trashy movies," Johman said. "We will be able to see what happens knowing before it reaches consumers."
"It used to be that when you got a trashy movie through blind bidding, you'd have to keep showing it to help the director figure out what Johlman said. "That takes screen
time away from other movies the public would want to see."
Johlman, who used to manage a theater in Connecticut, said that theater owners were often stuck with a "monumental picture as a result of blind bidding."
"The people I used to work for in Connecticut got stung on Al Pacino's movie 'Cruising,' Johman said. They big booze. We all tucked our bellys before we showed it, and it turned out to be a turkey when it finally ran."
WHILE THEATER OWNERS say the end of blind bidding is good for them, movie producers might suffer because the practice helps them finance the production of a film, Johman said.
An indication of the bill's importance to the movie industry producers was indicated when Carlin was visited by Jack Valenti, the president of the Picture Association of America, before Carlin signed the bill.
Valenti opposed the law, saying
movie producers must obtain contracts to show the film even before they are completed in order to generate money for the product.
But Rance Blann, manager of Commonwealth Theatres in Lawrence, said that film producers might be more careful of what they tried to sell theater owners in the future as a result of the law.
"It has hurt theater exhibitors to show inferior films," Blann said. "We had to put up front money not retrievable if the film bombed."
Harwood said he didn't think producers would have too many problems financing a film as a result of the bill, but that some of their tax shelters from blind bidding might be leopardized.
"Certainly we'd like producers to stop trying to sell us a pig-in-the-poke now and then," Harwood said. "But we don't mind paying through the nose for a motion picture if it will sell."
KU's Jayhawker MD yearbook canceled
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-There will be no yearbook for students at the KU College of Health Sciences this year, Mark Coughenour, yearbook editor, said yesterday.
"The main problem I had was difficulty getting a staff." Coughenour, second-year medical student, said. "I think the medical students want a teacher who doesn't have the time any more, because there is a stronger push for grades."
Coughenour said that when the College switched from a three-point grading system to a five-point system the students were more concerned about grades. They
spent more time studying and weren't willing to devote as much time to activities like the yearbook, he said.
"When I went to volunteer, as a photographer for the yearbook in 1979, I walked out of the office as editor," Coughenhur said.
Terry Wall, MSA president, said the MSA would take over yearbook operations with the 1982 book.
THE YEARBOOK could succeed with proper organization. Cougheau said. The Medical Students Assembly has agreed to provide that organization.
"The MSA taking it over was the only alternative to collapse," Wall said.
Whether the MSA will be able to save the yearbook depends on its ability to erase a $2,000 debt from the 1978-79 yearbook.
Coughenour said the MSA told him it
did not want to assume the debt. He covered the debt by borrowing funds from the 1979-80 yearbook, which let that edition short of money.
SINCE HE RESIGNED the contract with the yearbook company, Coughnour said he was still responsible for the deficit. If the MSA doesn't cover the debt, Coughnour he might ask the student union corporation to assume it.
"We charged $12.50 for the last yearbook, which could possibly have covered the cost," Coughenour said. We have to get rid of the dbst first.
Elaine Dunagin, third-year medical student, said she was disappointed that there would be a yearbook this year.
"I bought a yearbook every year as an undergraduate and would liked to have done the same thing in medical school," Dunagin said.
Dunagin said it bothered her that
there would not be a yearbook, but she did not know that much about the situation.
STEVE OWENS, a third-year medical student, said he did not know there was not going to be a bookweek.
"I got a yearbook the first year I was here, but I nevergot last years," Owens said. "There was a delay in production, I think."
Coughenour said delays had plagued the yearbook for several years.
"The books kept coming out progressively later." he said.
The yearbook has been published in the past independently of any formal University support. It is not clear whether this book can do so under MSA, Moucoun said.
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