CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, June 12, 1985
Page 3
News Digest
From staff and wire reports
Acting education dean announced
FiPaul Haikh, a KI music education faculty member for 19 years and an associate dean of education for 14 years, was named dean of
Haack's appointment will begin July 18, and he will fill the vacancy left by Dale Scannell, who will become dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. College Park.
he had to carry on the programs that we've started. ... He said he wanted to continue to improve the school's five year degree program.
program to work a bachelor's degree in music, a master's degree in music education and a doctoral degree in music education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Hauck was asked to serve until a new dean was appointed. A nationwide search will begin on Tuesday.
Battenfeld Hall remodeling has started
Work has started on a five-floor annex to Battenfeld Hall and on the remodeling of the inside of the building.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said last week that the remodeling should be finished by the fall semester but that the annex probably would be completed in October.
The amex is expected to cost $20,000 plus $20,000 to build a retaining wall into the bill behind it, he said.
Wilson said the work inside Batterfield, budgeted at $28,000 would modernize the kitchen and laundry room and remodel the direct driveway.
He said that the amex would add four rooms and a bath to the scholarship hall, enough space for 12 students, but that the number of students living in the hall would remain at 32. Instead of adding residents, the number of students in each room will be reduced from four to three.
Bus company to addly for grant for buses
The Lawrence Bus Co is in the process of applying for a federal grant that would supply KI on wheels with tour new bases this fall (the company has not yet announced).
Dave Peterson, the planner, said that the application would be submitted by July 1 to the Urban Mass Transit Administration and that he would know within 60 days after that whether the company would receive the grant
The bus company is asking for $590,940 to pay for the four buses, Peter son said.
The company just completed the Transit Development Program, which described its needs for the new buses and made it eligible to apply for a grant.
Regents give Budig highest salary raise
Chancellor Gene A. Burdigh will receive the highest pay increase of the board of Regents schools, chief administrators for the 1986 fiscal year.
Wendell Lady, Regents chairman, said Friday that Budha was given a 7 percent salary increase. The increase raised his salary from $900 to $300.
"I think the board feels Gene Budig is doing an excellent job and was rewarded accordingly," he said.
University relations official to be editor
The associate director of the office of university relations was named recently as editor of the Quill, the monthly magazine of the Society of Pro-
Mike Moore, the associate director, said Sunday that he wanted the magazine to be more useful to working journalists.
"I would hope to put more stories in of a 'how we did it nature'," he said.
Moore, who begins his new position July 8, was selected after a nation wide search that screened 47 applicants.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with the highs in the low 70s. The wind will be from the north at a speed 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear. The low will be in the lower 50s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with the highs in the upper 70s to near 80. The extended forecast for Friday through Sunday calls for a chance or showers and thunderstorms with the lows in the mid-50s to mid-60s. Highs mostly in the 80s.
Where to call
Do you have an idea for a story or a photograph?
If so, call the Kansan at 864-3100. If you are in news release deals with
iCampus or area news ask for John Eiqn, campus editor. For sports
news ask for Dan Gosling.
Photo suggestions should go to John Lechliter, photographer.
packaging editor, package manager
For other questions comments or complaints, ask for help Craven's
editor, or Michael Totty, managing editor
KU film dramatizes driving dangers
Student actors get crash course in video project
By J.P. Conroy
Staff Reporter
Gerald Harkness, associate director of the School of Education's Instructional Technology Center, edits scenes from a film on traffic safety.
Kyle and Randy, two high school senior friends who are about to graduate, are joking and laughing with each other as they travel down a road.
Unknown to him, a blue sedan has crossed the yellow line while trying to pass another vehicle. At the last moment, Kyle sees the car and jerks at him as he drives down the Datsun he is driving down a oak tree and crashing into an oak tree.
Kyle unfastens his seat belt and pulls Randy, who has been thrown part way through the windshield, as he faces a wall of concrete head toward him and sees that the right side of his face is nothing but blood and bone.
Randy is dead.
This fictitious scene is part of a new driver education film made by KU's division of continuing education. Now in the editing stage, the film was shot on videotape May 17-24 as cast and crew of mainly KU students.
For Jerry Jones, director, who is beginning work on his doctoral degree in instructional technology at the University of Kansas, this was his second educational film in two years. He has a career Department of Transportation
Although the film has yet to be titled, Jones said Thursday that its working title was "The Kansas Weed Eater Massacre." He said the title was a parody on a murder story and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
He said the film's title probably would be "Just in Passing" because the plot revolved around a car being run off the road by an oncoming car trying to pass another vehicle. But he said they wouldn't mention it until after it was edited down to 20 to 25 minutes. The film now has about 40 minutes of
Jones researched 1962 and 1963
Kansas traffic accident statistics before he began the film Unlike some driver education films, Jones' film steers away from alcohol as a contributor to accidents. Instead, it focuses on such things as failure to yield, speeding and inattentive driving
The film opens at a local funeral home while showing flashbacks of the accident. After a cemetery scene, the cast gathers at one of the character's home, which actually is a KU fraternity house.
Several weeks go by and the film takes the viewers to Kyle's graduation, some of which was shot at KU's commencement. The film closes at a
graduation picnic, parts of which were filmed at the Topeka Zoo.
"The real twist of the film is one of their friends actually caused the accident." Jones said.
The film was made on about a $20,000 grant from KDOT. Jones said the film's cost tell much below the industry average of $4,100 per film minute. He credited local businesses who helped to destroy costs with the help of volunteers. After afternoon use of a funeral home and donation of flowers for the funeral.
Jones, who made another driver education film last year, said his films also differed from other driver education films because he films had no narration because his films had no narration.
and presented their message in a dramatic form.
He said they were trying the new format because he thought the old approach hadn't worked to educate young drivers about their responsibilities. About 99 percent of driver education films include narration.
His words are backed up by a 1980 U.S. Surgeon General's report, which indicated that people between the ages of 15 and 24 had an 11 percent decrease in life expectancy, yet all other age groups increased. Their life expectancy has been declining since 1960. Also, that age group had the highest death rate in motor-vehicle accidents of any
Mobile home residents ponder loss of water
Staff Reporter
By Shawn Aday
A notice posted on their mobile home that morning had been their first warning that water service to the park might be shut off in 10 days.
"I don't know what we're going to do," Shirley Findley said as she slumped into a chair on Friday after noon. One child stood beside her another on the steps of the side porch and called for help. Mobile Home Park, 1908 E. 19th St.
"The only thing I know is we've paid our rent." Findley said. "They (the park owners) are supposed to pay the water bill out of that. We pay the gas and electricity. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens."
June 17 if payment had not been received
The Findley family and about 150 others in the park are waiting to see it the owner International Portfolios Nevada company, pays the water bill.
The city of Lawrence is waiting also, for now But Erian Smith, city finance director said Monday that the city will be ready to provide sanitation services to the park.
IPI owes "considerably more" than $16,000 on its water bill. Smith said that figure is just one installment that IPI had agreed to pay by June to
Debbie Van Saun, collection supervisor of the city water office, said the owners had not made a payment in "quite some time" and in April had paid for another water service. The services of most accounts are shut off after 40 days, she said.
"We don't rush out to turn them off," Van Saun said. "We've been trying to work with them on a payment plan."
Van Saim residents of the park would not be able to receive individual service if the water was shut off to the owners. All mobile homes in the park are on one meter and they cannot receive individual services by the park owners request in individual meters and tap费 tails.
parks and that only one park in Lawrence had individual meters.
She said that individual metering was not common in mobile home
Edward McKelvey, a resident of the park, kneaded his forehead and said, "I'm really concerned about what they are going to do, but I can't blame the city for shitting it off if the car doesn't pay. that's just their job."
Tony Kochanowski, another resident, was concerned enough to consider moving
"We can't move our trailer," he said Monday. "All the trailer parks are full. There were tour laps open and there was morning and they were all filled up."
Smith said he thought 10 days was enough notice for residents of the park.
"We did not have to give them any notice," he said. "The account is in the name of the owner and we only gave notice as a matter of courtesy."
However, he said that he was reasonably sure the matter would be resolved and that the water would not be shut off
Glenn Ross, manager of the mobile home park, agreed.
"I'm sure it'll be worked out," he said. "I'm sure they (the owners) are not going to just let this close up."
If the water is shut off,
Kochanowski said he could carry on
a little while, probably with bottled
water. But he said, "It's a health
hazard You can't live for long
without water."
Richard Hack, director of environmental health, said he could give no opinion about a hypothetical situation: "If they don't pay, we just have to see what develops after the water is shut off."
He said he did not expect the water to be off for long and thought the residents could make other arrangements.
"It'll be just one or two people out of a hundred that will want to make a problem out of it." he said.
Van Soun said that in her six years in the water office, water never had been shut off to as many residents as she did, so their water in Ridgeview Estates.
--a play with music which chronicles the heartwarming stories of Western pioneer women through legend, song, and dance
Quilters is adapted in part from the book *The Quilts: Women and Children* by Norma Cooper and Norma Bradley. Alen
--a play with music which chronicles the heartwarming stories of Western pioneer women through legend, song, and dance
Quilters is adapted in part from the book *The Quilts: Women and Children* by Norma Cooper and Norma Bradley. Alen
Presented by The University of Kansas Theatre
8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 22, 1985
Craffton-Priere TheatreMurphy Hall
Tickets on sale June 10 in the Murphy Hall Box Office
All seats reservedFor reservations, call 913/644-3982
Public $10/$48$ special discounts for students and senior citizens
Minsky's is Best! Order a 5,6,7,or 8 topping Specialty Pizza . . . pay for a single topping pizza.
Save up to $3.60.
Bring this coupon into any participating Minsky's and order any of our Specialty Pizzas; 8 tapping Jumbo Combo; 7 tapping Nature's Choice; 6 topping Combo; or 5 tapping Papa Minsky's.
And you pay for only a single topping pizza of comparable size.
Available on eat-in, carryout or delivery orders. Not valid with other offers or specials.