University Daily Kansan, April 25, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
Culture Farms' hearing starts
TOPEKA - A hearing examiner for the Kansas securities commissioner yesterday opened a hearing in a complaint against Culture Farms Inc. of Lawrence, which has been accused of running a pyramid sales scheme involving at least 200 Kansans and thousands of out-of-state investors.
That hearing, opened today at the State Office Building by hearing examiner Chuck Briscoe, was expected to last several days.
A cease and desist order that Commissioner John Wurth issued against the firm last month was overturned by a Shawnee County district judge who said the commissioner's office should have conducted an evidentiary hearing first.
Much of the opening session was spent sorting out the lawyers who appeared to represent a lengthy list of individuals and national and international firms involved in the legal process on a technical motion to dismiss the case as well as several procedural motions.
Culture Farmis produces Cleopatra's Secret cosmetics, using a culture, which is made with milk. It is grown by private activators 'activator kits' to grow the cultures.
Activator Supply Co. in Las Vegas sells activator kits to growers.
State officials content that money paid by new growers to obtain activator kits is used to pay earlier growers for their products to be used in the cosmetics line.
KU junior wins scholarship
Terence Hagen, Aitchison junior, was among 12 U.S. students this year to receive a Samuel Fletcher Tapman scholarship from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Hagen, the fourth KU student to win a Tapman scholarship, was selected from student chapter nominations based on educational and career plans and acad
The ASCE gives scholarships to no more than three civil engineering undergraduates in each of the four ASCE zones in the United States.
Residence halls filling for fall
The scholarship fund was established in 1861 from a bequest by Tapman, a former
Ellsworth, Gertrude Sellars Pearson and Corbin, Lewis and Oliver halls are filled for occupancy for the coming school of residential programs official sand yesterday.
Hashinger, Joseph R. Pearson, Templin and McEllenie, still accepting McEllenie said
In another item on the agenda, Andrew Blossom, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said AURH would not buy beer for its annual Hug-A-Hawk party in the fall but would use the money to hire a band for the party.
Blossom said AURH was concerned about the drinking age issue and wanted to sponsor more parties that excluded AURH funds for beer.
In other items on the agenda, the All Scholarships Hall Council proposed recieved
ASHC recommended installing air conditioning in the public rooms of Battenfeld. Pearson and Stephenson halls, Steve Chrzanowski ASHC president, said.
The other five scholarship halls have air conditioning in their public rooms.
Chrzanowski also presented a recommendation to equip the scholarship halls with better lighting.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high around 70 degrees. The wind will be from the east at 5 to 15 mph Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain or thunderstorms. The low will be around 55 degrees. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy. The high will be in the low to mid 70s.
Compiled from Kanan staff and United Press International reports.
House will vote today on Sunday beer sales
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — After a legislative session of drinking bills, a chaser that would permit carry-out tests of 3.2 percent beer on Sunday received tentative approval from the Kansas
On a 59-57 vote, the House passed the bill, which contained a number of provisions related to alcohol originally attached to a bill to raise the legal drinking age to 21.
The House is scheduled to take final action on the bill today, a vote both supporters and opponents will attend.
The bill also would allow the Board of Regents to designate a building where alcoholic beverages could be served but not sold at each state university. The building could not be one that was used primarily for classes.
If approved by the House, the bill is unlikely to face any opposition from the Senate, which has already endorsed the provisions of the bill.
BUT ITS FINAL approval in the House today is not assured. Yesterday's vote fell four votes short of the number necessary to elect a governor, which拔掉 63 votes from the 12% member body to pass.
Neal Whitaker, jobbist for the Kansas Beer Wholesalers Association and a leading supporter of Sunday beer sales, hesitated to predict success for the bill.
"People who are confident are not successful." Whitaker said.
Opposition to the bill has come from the Rev. Richard Taylor, anti-liquor lobbyist for Kansans for Life At Its Best!, and representatives of liquor store owners and whole-
The liquor wholesalers oppose the part of
State Rep. Robin Leach, D-Linwood, led attempts on the House floor to take Sunday beer sales from the bill.
the bill that would allow beer distributors to be able to distribute wine and strong beer in
"The problem is that it basically goes against people's grain." Leach said.
WHITAKER'S GROUP HAS called for Sunday beer sales to make up for the loss of sales expected to result from raising the drinking age. The drinking age for 3.2 beer will go up to 19 on July 1 and to 21 by July 1, 1987.
A provision to allow the sale of beer on Sunday was included in a drinking age bill first proposed by the wholesalers in January. Negotiators from the House and Senate who were working on a package of drinking bills proposed a bill to allow only out-sales of 3.2 beer.
The provision then was placed in a separate bill that was intended to follow the more important parts of the drinking authorization and the bill to raise the drinking age.
The other parts of the bill debated yesterday would permit the sale of beer on Sundays at concerts and conventions and allow the delivery of alcohol on election days.
Opponents focused on the Sunday beer sales provision and for a time succeeded in removing it from the bill. Supporters were able to rescue it in a modified form.
The original version permitted Sunday beer sales between 1 p.m. and midnight. The amended version permits sales until 8 p.m.
Opponents of the bill did not try to remove any of the other provisions before it was passed.
State Sen. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said, "There was a strategy to leave them all in there and make it as obnoxious as possible."
Kate Woolverdin KAWANSKI
Grace Foster, 5, daughter of Ray Foster and Joni Maxwell, l12l Vermont St., attempts to ride a bicycle for the first time. Her father assisted her yesterday afternoon in South Park.
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Profs believe Soviet center will survive
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Soviet Union has done more for Kansas' education than it will ever know.
As one of 11 National Resource centers designated by the federal government, KU's Center for Soviet and East European Studies has been thrust into the forefront of importance and the Soviet Union has a strong significance on the United States' foreign policy agenda.
For almost 20 years, the center has held this prestigious position. But next year, that will change because the U.S. Department of Education denied the renewal of the center's grant — the same grant for almost 20 years — for at least each of the next three years
Faculty members conceded that the loss of the grant is a definite blow to the center. But the department will work with the faculty.
"I'm 100 percent certain that the administration will help out," Fletcher said.
The department of Slavic languages and literatures' writer-in-residence program — the only one of its kind in the country — and the center's study abroad programs have been key factors in maintaining the reputation of the center. These and other significant programs that the grant helped the center offer might also be lost, faculty members fear, if money to replace the federal grant is not found.
Last month the department brought Soviet author Valentin Raspin to KU through the writer-in-residence program. Raspin, whose visit was canceled and rescheduled several times because of the changing U.S.Soviet relations, was the eighth Soviet writer to visit KU through the program since it was established in 1973.
Center will experience changes
Faculty members are confident, however, that with a little reorganization and hard work, they will get the grant back when applications are taken again in three years. In the meantime, the center has asked University administration to help out with some of the costs. And the center's director,
At this point, faculty members can only speculate as to why the grant was lost. Some offer specific incidents, such as not replacing faculty who left the center staff, that could have reflected poorly on the center and others simply say the competition was greater this time.
Fletcher said the center would know more about the Department of Education's decision after it received the department's report.
But whatever the reason for the loss of the grant, the center apparently will go through another transitional period similar to the one during its initial stages of development in the
The center first received financial support from the federal government in 1965, the year it was established, Fletcher said. Initially set up as a National Defense Language and Area center, Soviet and East European studies grew tremendously during the next five or so years to prominence. In 2004 the center took its center. And because of the growth — and crucial planning — the center received the federal grant every year thereafter, except from 1973-74.
the federal government was very eager to begin comprehensively studying the Soviet Union, "Fletcher said." The opportunity and challenge of a good program, and KU took advantage of it.
William Fletcher, is optimistic that at least part of the lost grant will be made up.
The federal government's demand for information on the Soviet Union gave the University the opportunity to attract some noted faculty and to do research and establish programs that most other universities have been unable to do.
During the mid- to late '60s the University hired a number of well-known and prominent Soviet authorities — most of whom are still teaching at the University. Before that, in the '40s and '50s, Russian was the only Eastern language offered. And it was taught through what was then the department of Russian and German.
Center faculty say that the primary reason for the increased - almost sudden - interest
In Soviet studies was the launching of Sputnik in 1957 and the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, coupled with the fear that communism might soon spread everywhere.
Professors have helped Center
Gerald Mikkelson, chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literatures and a member of the faculty since the late '60s, credited the current success of the center to the period of development during the '60s.
Roy Laird, professor of political science, came to KU as a Soviet specialist in 1957, before the program began its real development.
"There were really only two other people teaching any sort of Soviet studies when I got here." Laird said. "The whole program was almost simply a dream in Oswald Backus' mind. But that's why I came here. He was very determined, and he convinced me that the program would be a successful one."
In addition to Backus, who first had the idea of establishing the center at KU, Fletcher also pointed to other faculty members such as Heinrich Stampler, professor Soviet and East European studies, as people who have been instrumental in either establishing or carrying on the reputation of the center.
Stammer, who has taught at KU since 1960, said one of the main reasons he came to Stammer is his love of history.
Another option available to make up the lost money is a law passed last year by the U.S. Congress, the Soviet and East European Research and Training Act that established a fund of several million dollars administered through the Department of State to be used primarily by universities for the purpose of study and research programs.
the philosophy or study who researched programs? Mikkelsen said that because of this law and because the administration's initial goal was that it would help out the center, he was optimistic that the center's activity would stay almost the same as it would have with the grant.
Center attracts British group
The center's notoriety and reputation also have been recognized internationally. The British production company, VisionGroup, has tentatively made arrangements with the University to use center faculty as consultants and resources for a four-hour documentary on the Soviet Union that the
company is planning to film for London television.
Fletcher said that VisionGroup initially came upon the center by coincidence but ended up being convinced of its expertise. Jerome Kuehl, the documentary's director, has a nephew who is doing graduate work at one of the institutions he pointed to KU as a possible resource for the film, and KU and VisionGroup have subsequently made plans to do the film.
But even though the center has attracted national notoriety and a great deal of respect, Mikkelson said, many students seemed to be unaware of the accomplishments of the center and the programs it had to offer.
"A lot of it goes back to when the students were in high school." Mikhelson said. "Russia and Soviet studies are just not emphasized at the high school level. So when a student gets to college, this area of study is really not a valid option."
Mikkelsen added, however, that in the last year or so, more students had been involved in Soviet studies programs. He credited the program's success and attention the Soviet Union had been getting.
This year the center is conducting a landmark pilot study in an effort to meet the growing national need for an understanding of Soviet international policies.
The center also offers one of the country's largest study abroad programs in the Eastern bloc countries. Programs now are available for students to study in Poland and Yugoslavia, and the University also is conducting long-range negotiations with the University of Novosibirsk in the Soviet Union to establish a program there.
The doctoral and master's programs in Slavic languages and literatures also have received attention. Mikkelson said his department, which offered both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Slavic languages and literatures, continually received requests from the Department of State for prospective candidates for jobs.
"I can say without hesitation that KU has the highest rate of placement for graduates in this field of any school in the country." Mikelson said. "Our graduates are highly sought after in the foreign service, government work and in the academic community."
You're invited to a Community Social!
When: Sun., April 28 6-9 p.m.
Where: Gammons at 23rd & Ousdahl
- Free admission
- $ 50^{\mathrm{c}} $ tacos provided by Mel Amigos
- Music and dancing
- Open to the St. Lawrence community and all ages
- Discount on soft drinks
Sponsored by...
ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CAMPUS CENTER
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