INSIDE
Fun in the sun
Windsurfing has become a popular pastime in Lawrence, even though beginners usually come up wet.
Just for laughs
Focus, page 6
Comedian Bill Engvall kept the Comedy Shop crowd at Gammons rolling with the punchlines that might take him to Los Angeles.
Story, page 7
The forecast
OUTSIDE
Today. .Sunny and hot, very dry, high 93
Tonight. .Continued clear and warm, low 69
Tomorrow. .Heat wave continues, high 95
Friday. .Hot, chance of rain, high 91, low 66
Weekend. .Slight chance of showers, highs 80s, lows 60s
The University Daily
WEDNESDAY
July 10, 1985
Vol. 95, No. 152 (USPS 650-640)
Details, page 3
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Decisions for phone service due soon
by Jim Ovens
By Jill Ovens Staff Reporter
In a few weeks, Ma Bell and her cousins will be ringing in a new era of telephone service in Lawrence. Yet despite the wealth of information available to customers, some confusion about the new setup still reigns.
After July 27, all Lawrence telephone customers, even if they do not have Touch-tone telephones, will be able to make long-distance calls through the company of their choice by simply dialing 1 plus the number.
The new service, called Easy Access Dialing, is one of the outcomes of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. breakup in 1984 and is also an important industry that companies the opportunity to compete on an equal footing with AT&T
The service applies only to calls
outside the 913 area code. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co still will handle 1-plus calls within its service area, said Dave Nichols, community relations manager for Southwestern Bell in Lawrence.
Until the new service becomes operational, all other 1-plus calls will continue to be handled by AT&T. To use a competing company's long-distance service, customers have access to those codes before dialing the number.
After July 27, customers will be able to choose among AT&T long-distance Service, MCI Telecommunications Corp. or GTE Sprint Direct Dial Service; the three companies have been represented by Lawrence area. Representatives from these companies have been calling customers during the last few
weeks and offering literature to aid in the decision.
Brochure bonanza
For many, however, the promotional material has confused the issue. As a result, two students said they were opting for ATKT without seriously considering the other alternatives.
Clint Bryan, Fayetteville, Ark.
graduate student, said he read about half the literature he received from the various long-distance companies but he decided to stay with AT&T anyway.
"They're established," he said. "I trust them and it's convenient to stay with them."
Sharon Patel, a December KU graduate who works at the Emily
Taylor Women's Resource Center, said she also would stay with AT&T.
"I got some information last week," she said. "I just kind of looked at it, but I didn't really read it."
By simply opting for AT&T without considering the alternatives, customers may be denying themselves a chance to save up to 35 percent on the long-distance portion of their telephone bills.
For example, using rates provided by officials with AT&T, MCI and GTE Sprint, a three-minute call from Lawrence to St. Louis placed from 5 to 11 p.m., when most residential customers place their calls, would cost 75 cents with AT&T, 64 cents with MCI and 49 cents with GTE Sprint — savings of 14 percent and 35 percent over the AT&T cost.
The figures do not take into account any volume discounts, which allow for savings based on the number of calls placed. Jim Parker, director of the Southwest division of Nestlé, said that with MCI would be greater if the customer was eligible for volume discount.
For their customers whose long-distance bills are between $20 and $99 a month, MCI offers a volume discount of 2 percent. If bills are between $100 and $199, the discount is 5 percent. For优惠 $200, the discount is 10 percent.
"For the consumer, there are a variety of ways savings can be made," he said. "Volume discounts vary with the percentage of day,
These figures illustrate minimum savings. Parker said.
See PHONES, p. 5, col. 1
'Annie' taps local talent for musical Leavenworth girl, 12 plays red-haired waif for Summer Theatre
By Carol Stephenson
Staff Reporter
At age 7, Betsy Rate was introduced to the musical "Annie" when her grandparents gave her a discount coupon for the soundtrack. She bought the album and listened to it over and over again. Now she gets to bring the wide-eyed Annie to life.
"It's always been a dream," Rate, a 12-year and seventh grader from Leavenworth, said.
Annie, played by 12-year-old Betsy Rate, Leavenworth, is delivered junior. The Broadway musical "Annie," being produced by the back to the evil Miss Hannigan, played by Lyn Carbon Gorell, 3305 Kansas Summer Theatre, opens at 8 p.m. Friday at the Cratton-W. 24th Terr., by Lt. Ward, played by Michael Williams, Wichita Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Rate was selected to play the part of Annie in a Kansas Summer Theatre production from a group of 117 girls who auditioned in April.
The red-haired girl said she enjoyed playing the lead role in the lively Broadway musical.
"I think it's like it has a happy ending," she said of the play. "And all the parts and everything click together. Also, I liked it because kids are in it."
"Amnie," which is based on the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray, is being staged by the Kansas Summer Theatre and will open at 8 p.m. Friday in the Crafton-Prairie Theatre in Murphy Hall. Other performances will be on p. July 13, 19 and 20 at 2:30 p.m. July 14.
Tickets for the production are on sale at the Murphy Hall box office. All seats are reserved. Tickets are $8, $6 and $4 KU students receive a 50 percent discount.
Glen Pierce, director of the musical and assistant professor of theatre and media arts, said that at the first audition the girls were instructed to determine whether they could carry a tune.
Thirty girls were called back for a second audition.
Pierce said Rate was chosen because her per-
sonality was similar to the character of Amie
"She has a real winning personality, makes her appealing," he said. "Annie is supposed to have that kind of natural glow that stands out from the other orphans and wins hearts.
Besides Rate, 50 other cast members were recruited from the Lawrence area.
Among the participants are a group of local
"It has been a tradition that one of the shows allow people outside the University to participate." Pierce said.
attorneys who portray members of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet.
John Lungsturm, a local attorney, decided to try out for a part in the musical after his daughter, who had auditioned for the role of an orchestra member, told back L lungsturm was cast as Roosevelt.
"I really enjoy playing Franklin Rosevelt because back in my college days, history was my major." Langstrom said.
After he was cast in the role, Pierce came to Lungstrom and told him that as President Roosevelt, he would allow him to select his own cabinet from among his fellow attorneys in Lawrence. He chose Paula Burns, Carl Gallagher, Todd Thompson and State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence. The remaining position was filled by Vince Cabrera, Leavenworth graduate student.
KU names admissions director
By Sherry Gering
Bruce Lindvall, 36, will replace Linda Thompson, who resigned as director of admissions in November.
Staff Reporter
A Purdue University administrator will become KU's new director of admissions in early August, KU of officials announced yesterday.
As director of admissions, Lindvall will be responsible for managing the admissions office and personnel.
"I think the position at KU offers more opportunity than the position at Purdue," he said.
Lindwald said that his goal for the new position would be to work closely with the admissions office staff, other KU offices, high school counselors in Kansas, schools in Iowa, and prospective students and their families.
Lindvall is a Purdue University admissions specialist and for the past six years has been assistant to the deans of the Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine in Lafayette, Ind.
Lindvall has been in charge of the school's recruitment, admissions and registration programs and has been involved in scheduling administrator
Lindwall also developed a Minority Summer Research Apprentice Program to attract more minority students to veterinary medicine careers through a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
He spent seven years as the university's assistant director of admissions before he joined the staff of the school of Veterinary Medicine in 1979
Gil Dyke, dean of educational services, said in a prepared statement. "We are happy to have Bruce Lindvall as our director of admissions and to thank you for helping to present the excellent staff currently responsible for admissions at KU."
Dyck said that Lindvall was selected from a large number of qualified applicants. He would not answer any questions about applicants or how many were interviewed.
Lindvall received a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree in guidance and counseling and a doctoral degree in higher education administration from Purdue.
He taught mathematics for three years at high schools in Twin Lakes and Monticello, Ind.
Funds needed, he says
He also has been active in state and national college counselors and admissions organizations. He is a member of Phi Kappa Pii national honor society, a society for senior and graduate students.
Carlin sees school threats
By Gina Kellogg
Higher education in Kansas has had a relatively good year, but unless the Legislature changes its current philosophy, the future will be a lot tougher. Gov. John Carlin told a conference on Monday at Club Members Monday night.
Carlin said, "My No.1 priority has been education for practically the entire administration. This year it had an average year but not a sensational one."
Staff Reporter
"We took some steps forward, but we still didn't fund elementary and secondary education that well and we stayed with higher education."
Carlin spoke about a variety of subjects to about 30 members of the press club at a dinner at the Adams Alumni Center.
"We're going to go through a valley this next year," he said, referring to education. "We're going to have to get a significant increase in general knowledge as we move into its current thinking, higher education is going to have a very tough year."
Carlin said he thought that people
were beginning to realize how much more important education was today compared with the past.
"Now whether you're 6 or 96, quality education will have a big influence on the quality of life you experience," he said.
Besides his comments on education, Carlin gave his opinion of the media's coverage of his life and political events in general.
"I think I've been treated fairly by the press . . . There's an atmosphere in Kansas, and I think you go after me when you should," he said. "There have been negative stories and I think there should."
However, Carlin suggested that the media in Kansas needed to cover state government more thoroughly.
He said he thought there was a need for the public to know public officials.
"So you can't argue that their lives should be totally private," he said.
Concerning the coverage of his divorce, Carlin said he thought he had gotten the privacy he needed.
Carlin obtained an emergency divorce from his second wife, Karen, June 24 in Johnson County.
"I was not harassed in any way," he said. "Even during very stressful weeks, I was given some amount of privacy."
Carlin seemed more concerned with government than with his own personal matters, however. For instance, he said there was a need to develop some kind of long range agriculture policy in the country.
He said no checks and balances existed in agriculture policy
"Nobody in the Carter administration understood the grave impact of when they put the embargo on," he said, and the previous administrations.
But Carlin said that part of the blame did lie with farmers.
"The farmer has been very independent and stupid when it comes to politics," he said. "Somebody has helped us and decide what's best for agriculture, we haven't done this. And until we do, we have very serious problems."
Gov. John Carlin spoke to about 30 members of the Lawrence Press Club Monday night at the Adams Alumni Center.
Staff Reporter
By Sherry Gering
New computer ready to boost performance
A new computer system that will upgrade administrative services at the University of Kansas was installed this week, the director of computing services said Monday.
The National Advanced Systems
8043 computer was activated Sunday.
It replaces the International
Business Machines Corp. 3031 AP processor, said Jerry Niebaum, the director.
Two advantages of the new unit are better response time at the ter-
"This process has twice as much memory and twice as much processing speed as the old system." he wrote.
the new computer will be used primarily for administrative purposes, Niebaum said. The IBM computer will be kept for research and instruction and for program development for some systems, he said.
Niebaum said the cost of the NAS computer, including a second console, a disk controller and a disk storage unit, was $730,170.
Richard Mann, University director of institutional research and personal nel services, said IBM and NAS were only two holders for the new system.
minals and faster processing of data Niebaum said.
"NAS could perform at least as well as IBM and a little cheaper," he said.
State law requires that if two bids are made and have equal specifications, the cheapest bid must be purchased.
Mann said the NAS computer had twice the speed and power of the IBM 3031. It has more capacity, which means that if a person sits down at a computer terminal and presses the entry button, the information will appear on the screen faster with the new system, Mann said.
Niebaum said the computing services officials also had ordered a Digital Equipment Corp. VAX 8600. The computer is expected to arrive in December and be ready for use in January.
See COMPUTER, p. 5, col. 1