The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 98 USPS 650-640
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The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin Forbes (left) and Shahrzad Hediari took advantage of the sunny skies and
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
warm temperatures to play on the jungle gym in South Park. Forbes and Helfair are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hilltop Day Care Center
Kansas legislators debate speed limit bills
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
the limit to 65, both dependent on Congress taking action first.
Hamm said he proposed his version of the bill in anticipation that President Reagan was going
Col. David Hornbaker, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, said that about 62 percent of Kansas drivers were complying with the 55-mph limit, a drastic increase over 1980.
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Better Living Through Microchips
Someday soon those long nights at the typewriter may give way to short stints at the computer. The new generation of home computers can actually help you write term papers, but they can be arranged and rearranged on a video screen, while a touch of the keys can bring forth frequently used words. Push a button and the computer prints your paper, including titles and bibliography. That'll leave plenty of time for research, right? Right.
Insider's Guide to Punctuation
Poor punctuation can clog up the most profound prose. Some key points to remember.
Semicolons allow you to join two, three, or even more related sentences to form a single complex thought. If you can replace your semicolon with a period, construction is okay, but if construction is not, use a comma instead.
**Commas separate sentence elements that might otherwise be confused or misunderstood. They are also used without slight gaps, but it should be emphasized that commas are most effective when they are used sparingly in sentences to provide clarity. improperly used commas create clutter.**
Parentheses let you inject a piece of incidental information that you don't want to emphasize strongly. Use parentheses sparingly because they quickly become an eavesdrop and can cause him to be what's whispered to. Also, keep your insertions brief.
Quotation marks are to be used very sparsely. Use them to set off words or phrases when quoting directly from a source or when quoting a sensual sense—for example, in a humorous or technical way. When you simply want to place additional emphasis on something or when a number of words are being underline the words instead
Games To Learn Words By
1. Scrabble. Start with seven letter tiles. After each play, pick up enough letters to have seven again. The limited selection of consonants and vowels will force you to make friends with the dictionary.
2. Ghost. Ghost is a form of verbal Scrabble, no equipment is needed. The first player says a better, the second says worse; it and so on. The purpose is to figure out a word in advance with four letters or more, trying not to complete spelling the word as quickly as possible a complete word is 'dead'. Caught dead. three times in a row and you're out of the game.
with one other person. Think up a word and place on paper as many dashes as you can. In the opponent guesses aletter. If the hidden word contains that letter, place it in the middle of the page to construct the gallows. He gets 15 guesses.
**Spleling Bee.** This grade school favorite is a good way to pick up new words and implant them in your brain. Two teams line up on opposite sides. An umpire calls out the word, and it first player says "I'll down if someone on the opposite team challenges the spelling and is incorrect, he sits down. Last one standing wins.
Iowa's Workshop: Nurturing New Talent
3. Hangman. Play this.
The University of Iowa s 'Writer's Workshop exposes promising new novelists and poets to the key authors and luthers, many of whom have been Workshop students themselves. Big-name writers who have taught semester classes or intensive three-day 'visiting' sessions include Brian Algren Pratt, Michael Browner, John Eelum, alumni of the program include such favorites as Flannery O'Connor and John Irving. Instructors insist that writing can'really be taught—but talent is not developed in uniform with the Writer's Workshop write the Graduate Program in Creative Writing, 438 EPB, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa a52242
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How To Complain By Mail
If that tipping faucet is driving you to drink and the landlord hasn't surfaced later, don't dispatain Committee with your rage to get it to get to results. According to Lasser Blumenthal, author of the Art d Letter Writing (Gros set & Dumplay, 1976) and show how the lapping landlord that solving your problem would be to his advantage
The Cover Letter Pitch: Fast and Inside
Most employers read dozens—sometimes hundreds—of resumes each year. So even if your resume is splendid, you still need a well-crafted coworker to attach to your skills and make an employer want to read more.
On January 3, last Thursday, your maintenance man came to my apartement if it is leaking water or if you later it is leaking again. I have tried to reach the main entrance, but with no success. The most drastic dripping is running up your water (picture). Further, I am sure the sink may overfill and extensive damage to your floor. May we come in to you the floor. May we come in to you the apartment as soon as possible.
The opening line should explain who you are and suggest that you know something about the organization's needs. Follow this up by explaining how these needs, then high light relevant experience and skills that appear on your
Each cover letter should be brief, individually typed, and addressed to a particular person in the organization who might power you. (This is only a department head. If you don't know the name, call and discreetly ask one
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the employer know what kind of job you're after, too.
An amateur in business management at Indiana State University, I was asked if you knew from my work level which frequently use your level-application systems to maintain an information system that have established an information system have at Indiana State and manage your company-based student reference point with very interest in working with very interested faculty
For a consumer problem, your letter should be brief and to the point, but it should also supply as much relevant information as possible.
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The key is to give full information but to be polite. Don't treat the company or landlord if you want a response. It's also best be cautious of the personal call to get the name of a specific person to whom you can write.
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Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU administration board ticket committee are approved today.
The KUAC board will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Satellite Union to consider the recommendations. It also will consider proposals to move a KU-MU football game to Arrowhead Stadium and to sell beer in Memorial Stadium whether KU women's teams will join the NCAA.
Steve Leben, KUAC student board member,
said that ticket pricing in past years had been settled at board meetings to keep student ticket prices as low as possible.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the ticket committee would allow the board to set policy regarding pricing and let the athletic department work out specific costs.
The committee also has proposed a policy for the board to adopt requiring students to pay half the public price for both football and basketball tickets.
Leben said the proposed pricing policy was unjustified and drastic. Based on this year's public prices, $19 student tickets would cost $31 for a seven-game football season and $15 student tickets would cost $38.50 for a 14-game basketball season.
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He said that he had met with athletic officials and student board members and that a compromise could be worked out before the board met this afternoon.
The ticket policy committee, headed by David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, will meet at 2:30 p.m. today, before the board meeting, to finalize its recommendations.
BASED ON NEXT year's prices, which have not been set officially, student tickets could cost $36 for football and $42 for basketball, Leben said.
Leben said that he met with Bob Marcum, athletic director, yesterday, and that the two had
agreed to recommend to the committee at the 2:30 meeting that student football tickets be based on one-third the public cost rather than one-half.
"That would mean tickets would cost about $20." Leben said, "I think that's out of line because the prices were $22 each."
AMBLER SAID the recommendations would be thoroughly discussed at both meetings today before any decision was made.
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect gradually over the next few years, Leben said.
He also said he believed some of the information used to back up the committee's recommendation was "unintentionally" misleading.
"But phasing it in doesn't change the problem," he said. "It only lengthens the pain. Let's not accept something we don't think is fair." He was not going to take effect for two or three years.
"When you talk about increases, students have to bear their fair share of the load," he said. "But a major reason that student income has declined is that we've paid off our debt that we agreed to finance (the east stadium addition of a 7,000-seat student section). Lo and behold, revenues did decrease, but they were supposed to."
Leben said the information did not include student contributions to women's athletics and distorted declining percentages of student contributions to the total athletic department budget.
He also said private contributions had increased to more than $1 million a year.
KU STUDENT FUNDING for athletics is comparable to other schools in the Big Eight
Significant increases in funding of women's athletics have to be made, he said. Also, KU's football and basketball recruiting budgets are second to lowest in the Big Eight, and the capital improvements budget is the lowest in the Big Eight.
Staff Reporter
"The athletic department is in a difficult position, but it is not a desperate situation, but it is serious."
Bv KAREN SCHLUETER
The University Daily Kansan's $1 student activity fee increase request provoked a two-hour Student Senate debate before it was approved last night.
Kansan spurs Senate debate
The Senate approved the Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendations for seven of 13 districts.
It also deferred a decision on the recommendation to remove the School of Architecture and Urban Design Student Council from the code until tomorrow's meeting. Six remaining recommendations will be considered Thursday. A vote is taken on the entire recommendations bill.
If the Senate approves the bill, it will ask
the Governor to send Shankel to increase the
$1.1 million fee to $14.9 million.
Terri Fry, Kansan business manager, defended the fee increase before the Senate.
Three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan receives $73,260 and requested that its total allocation be increased to $109,809. The Kansan now receives $2 from the activity fee.
"We've done things in an effort to keep even with rising costs," Fry said, "but if we raise our rates to our advertisers any more, we'll no longer be competitive."
Fry also answered questions from Steve McMurry, Transportation Board chairman, concerning the Kansan's cash carry-forward account.
"The Kanas is a half-a-million-dollar business," Fry said. "Our costs vary from month to month. Cash carry-forward is to maintain our costs."
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