University Daily Kansan, April 24. 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
Indecent exposure reported
Two indecent exposure cases have occurred in the past 10 days at the Alpha Chi Omega coronary house, 1500 Sigma Nu Place. Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police said the first incident occurred at 8:30 p.m. April 14, and involved a man who opened the front door of the sorority. Police described the man as having seven years old, about 6 feet tall and 165 pounds, with black hair and possibly a beard.
Police are still investigating the two incidents.
The other indecent exposure case occurred about to p.m. Monday and involved a man who was seen behind the door of a hotel where he incidentally recorded the incident and described it to police.
Museums plan treasure hunt
A treasure hunt is one of the activities planned to introduce visitors to the hidden treasures of KU museums on International Day of the Museums is scheduled from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
In addition to the treasure hunt, the day will include exhibits and demonstrations.
The Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History, Spencer Museum of Art, the KU Herbarium, Snow Entrimental Museum and Astronomy Associates of Lawrence will contribute to the activities.
All events are free to the public.
Auditions to begin for 'Annie'
The University of Kansas Summer Theatre will conduct auditions for the musical "Annie" from 1 o'5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in 209 Murphy Hall.
The auditions for the roles of Annie and the orphans are scheduled for 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Auditions for the rest of the cast are scheduled for 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Girls eight to 13 who wish to audition for the child roles should have a song prepared to perform and may use material from "Annie," said Jack B. Wright, professor of theatre and artistic director of the University Theatre.
The Theatre Du Petit Miror Company will perform with Chinese glove puppets at 3:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Swarthout Rectal Hall.
The KU International Theatre Studies Center organized the performance, which will be the first by the company in the United States.
Jean-Luc Penso and Catherine Larue,
the two members of the company, will per-
form.
Tickets are available to the public for $3.50 and to children up through the sixth grade for $2 at the Murphy Hall Box Office. Because the puppets are small, the audience must sit close to the stage. Thus seating will be limited to 140.
Taiwanese buv wheat, corn
TOPEKA - Taiwanese officials yesterday signed wheat and corn purchase contracts totaling $22.3 million in a ceremony in the office of Gov. John Carlin.
The delegation from the Republic of China purchased 49,000 metric tons of wheat and 144,900 metric tons of corn from four U.S. corporations after bids for grain were opened in the Kansas Senate chamber of the Capitol.
A beaming Carlin greeted the Taiwanese dignitaries. With their arms around each other's shoulders, Carlin and Vincent Siew, director general of the Republic of China's Board of Foreign Trade, led the way into Carlin's office.
Siew said he valued his nation's relationship with Kansas. He credited Carlin's trade mission to Taiwan in early 1984 for making the trade deal possible.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the low 70s. Winds will be variable at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 50 to 53. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid 70s and a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Officials ponder decisions on divesting
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
James Carothers, associate professor of English and president of the University Council, said recently that divestment could mean not only that the Endowment Association would stop investing in companies that do business in South Africa, but also that the Endowment Association would not accept or research grants from these companies.
The burning issue of divestment from South African businesses could burn a hole in the pocket of the Kansas University Endowment Association, cutting some student scholarships, fellowships and loans, accorded by KU and Endowment Association officials.
"That would raise a whole new dimension to the story," Carothers said. "In my opinion, the sense of the (University) council was that it was basing its opinion on a moral issue rather than on whether the University would lose money."
EARLIER THIS MONTH, the University Council passed a resolution calling for the Endowment Association to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The council was objecting to the South African security agency of apartheid, a form of racial segregation.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig last week gave the resolution to the Endowment Association.
The resolution, which became the official statement of the University governance, has no binding power on the Endowment Association, which is a private corporation separate from the University and thus not required to abide by the resolution.
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said he would not comment on how much KU could lose if the Endowment Association' decided not to accept gifts from corporations doing business in South Africa.
LAST YEAR, THE Endowment Association granted about $4.2 million in scholarships, fellowships and prizes to about 3,500 students. It provided $6.6 million to supplement University salaries and services acquired 6,500 student loans worth $2.5 million.
The Endowment Association does not distinguish which scholarships, fellowships and prizes are created by income from investments in companies with ties in South Africa.
Jim Martin, senior vice president of the Endowment Association and director of private support programs, said a report prepared by the Council of Financial Aid to Education, reported that KU received $3 million in corporate corporations during the 1982-83 school year.
Several companies that gave these gifts own subsidiaries in South Africa.
THE DOW CHEMICAL Co. contributed
$10,000 to KU in 1982 $10,000 in 1983 and
$10,500
in 1984, said Earl Eergls, program manager of Dow Chemical Foundation. Engles said most of the money went to the chemistry and the chemical engineering departments.
According to the 1984 Moody's Industrial Manual, the company owned Dow Chemical Africa Ltd., a subsidiary in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Phillips Petroleum Co. is another company that has contributed to the University and owns a subsidiary in South Africa. In the past five years, Phillips has given the University more than $1 million in scholarships, fellowships and research funds.
The company owns Phillips Carbon Black Co., a company that manufactures carbon black in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, according to Moody's.
COMPANIES LISTED ON the Endowment Association's 1982-83 Roll of Honor, which lists names of contributors to the University, The Graduate School of Business and International Business Machines Corp.
According to Moody's, General Motors owns a plant in Port Elizabeth, IBM owns MB South Africa Production Distribution Ltd. in Johannesburg and Coca-Cola owns manufacturing plants in Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria, cities in South Africa.
Spokesmen for the three companies would not say how much money the companies had contributed to KU.
Corporate gifts are only one part of the financial loss facing the Endowment Association should it agree to divest.
In 1884, the Endowment Association earned about $14.6 million from investment income — almost as much as the income earned from fund raising — according to its annual report. Seymour said he could not estimate what percentage of the Endowment Association's investments were made in companies doing business in South Africa.
SEYMOUR SAID THERE was no way to calculate how much the Endowment Association would lose if it divested. But the lost money could have a direct impact on students, faculty and staff members.
"We would undoubtedly lose money depending on the timing," he said. "If a federal law said you would have to do this by a certain amount of time, the stock in those companies would go down and we would ultimately lose a substantial amount."
Hearing on Culture Farms opens; professor to testify
But many faculty say the divestment issue shouldn't center on how much the the University would lose, but rather on whether it is morally wrong to accept benefits generated in a country that lives under apartheid.
Arno Knapper, professor of business and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said, "The council is willing to accept those losses. That's one of the prices you pay for being moral. The council is not going to say, 'Well how big is the price and if the price is too big, we'll support apartheid.'"
By SHARON ROSSE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
James Akagi, chairman of the microbiology department, was among 15 witnesses who are expected to testify today and tomorrow before a hearing of the Kansas Securities Commission about companies involved in a milk culture-growing operation.
The hearing will determine whether the sale of kits used to grow the cultures constitutes the sale of unregistered securities, Larry Christ, general counsel for the commission, said yesterday. It also will determine whether the operation's activities are fraudulent.
Today's hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the State Office Building in Topeka. Christ said the hearing could last several days or weeks.
The companies involved in the hearing are Culture Farms Inc. and Diversified Labs. 2220 Delaware St., and Activator Supply Co. of Nevada.
AKAGI AND DEL Shankel, professor of microbiology, received a grant in January from Culture Farms to do quality control work and research on the home-grown cultures bought by the company from consumers.
Akagi said he would testify tomorrow about the grant and the research he and Shankel had done on the cultures.
"I'm sure they won't ask anything about the business end of the operation." Akagi said. "They just want to verify our part in it — the robe."
If the hearing determines that the culture-growing operation violates state securities regulations and its activities are fraudulent, a cease and desist order issued on
Also subpoenaed to testify at the hearing are officials from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce; two officials from Diversified Labs; Roland Nocera, president of Activator Supply Co. and five officials from Culture Mounting Terry Taylor, president of the company.
AFTER THE HEARING ends and Wurth approves the decision, either the securities commission or the companies may appeal the Court of Appeals. County District Court of Appeals, Christ said.
The hearing is the result of the cease and desist order issued by Wurth against the Culture Farms and Activator Supply. The order charged that the companies sold unregistered securities in the form of activator kits, operated as a pyramid-Ponzi scheme and misrepresented themselves to consumers.
After Wurth made his order, the companies requested and were granted a restraining order from Shawne County District Judge James Buchele.
March 6 by John Wurth, securities commissioner, would take effect.
CONSUMERS GROW THE bacteria cultures by mixing milk and cheese with kits bought from Activator Supply Co. After the bacteria has matured, Culture Farms buys the cultures and resells them to Cleopatra's company, for use in a new line of cosmetics.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has begun its own inquiries into the possible health hazards of the bacteria cultures used by the companies.
Bob Moody, a spokesman for the department, said it decided to test the cultures after an Arizona State University professor reported that he had tested a culture and found bacteria that could cause health problems.
The newly formed KU pompon squad plans to add spirit to next year's football and basketball games. Unlike the spirit squad, the pompon squad will not perform tumbling or gymnastics. The group will dance during half times and lead chants in front of the alumni sections during the games. The squad and the cheerleaders may perform at some half-time shows together. Clockwise from top left are: Lisa Bridge, Bartlesville, Oka, sophomore, Rita Roland, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Dana Smith, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, Jodie Fritzemeyer, Wichita freshman; Jeannette Le, Overland park freshman; Sarah Johnson, Overland park junior; Lisa Farley, Parsons freshman, Shawna Hennes, Lenexa sophomore and Penny Krugman, St. Louis sophomore.
College proposals head for mail-in balloting
Staff Reporter
Bv KEVIN LEATHERS
Final deliberative action was taken yesterday by the Liberal Arts and Sciences College Assembly on 12 proposals made earlier this semester by the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising.
The package of 12 proposals, which set new guidelines for the bachelor of arts and bachelor of general studies degrees, now will be presented in ballot by all members of the assembly.
effect in fall 1986. The changes wouldn't affect students who had entered the College before then.
The proposals, if approved, would take
The CUSA proposed:
-On entry into the College, students seeking degrees would be required to enroll in a basic English course. They would be required to take a second basic English course the next semester.
*Students would be required to pass competency exams in both English and algebra in order to pass English 101 and 102 and Math 101 and 102.
- Students still would be required to take a third course in English, but they would have
- The fifth proposal would eliminate the foreign language option that allows students to take 10 hours of two languages.
- Students would be required to complete an approved second-level course in mathematics or a related subject.
- only three options to choose from. Intro-
duction is an introduction to Fiction and
Introduction to Drama.
- Under the oral communication-logic proposal, students would be required to establish proficiency in either oral communications or logic by completing one of two courses in the department of communications or one of two courses in the department of philosophy.
- The Western Civilization requirement would be retained under CUSA's proposal.
- *CUSA proposed that the current distribution requirement be changed so that the nine courses students now are required to take be labeled as designated courses under three headings: Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Sciences and Humanities. The courses to be termed "designated" would be chosen by CUSA.
*A course in non-Western culture, such as those in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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