University Daily Kansan, March 28, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Student sentenced for threats
A student was sentenced Tuesday on charges stemming from terroristic bomb threats he made to the front desk of Oliver Hall on Jan. 23, Jerry Wells, assistant Douglas County district attorney said yesterday.
Steven Carl Smith, Shawne freshman, pleaded guilty to two counts of telephone harassment, both Class A Misdemeanors. He was sentenced to six months in jail for each count, but the sentence was suspended and Smith was placed on a two-year probation. If he drinks any alcoholic beverages during the next two years, he will violate his probation, Wells said.
KC man charged in theft
Witch also must pay court costs and
withdrawal form 50 hours of community service.
Upton also was charged with theft, a Class A misdemeanor, for gasoline from a service station. The third charge was from a police officer, a Class B misdemeanor.
A Kansas City, Kan., man was formally charged by the Douglas County district attorney's office Tuesday with allegedly stealing a student's motorcycle Monday
The first charge is grand theft, a Class E felony, for the motorcycle.
Frank Dieh, assistant district attorney,
charged Bryant Lance Upton, 19, with two counts of theft and one count of attempting to elude a police officer.
His preliminary hearing has been set for March 26.
Police investigate bad checks
KU police said yesterday that they planned to question a student who apparently打了两 checks worth $200 at the Kansas Union in February.
The checks, which were cashed between Feb. 8 and 28, turned up in Wichita recently at the home of a Wichita State University student. The WSU student, who called KU police Tuesday, said two of his cheeks had been forged and returned in the mail with the rest of his canceled checks.
The two forged checks had been cashed at the Union. The KU student suspected of forging them apparently wrote the checks to himself, signed the name of the WSU student, then signed his own name on the back. notice said.
2nd team makes tournament
The WSU student told police that he thought a book of checks had been taken from his home in Wichita, but he didn't know how the checks were stolen.
A second KU debate team recently qualified for the National Debate Tournament, which will take place in Spokane, Wash., from March 28 to April 2.
The team, which is made up of Steve Ellis, Wichita sophomore, and Mike Dudick, Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman, qualified for the national tournament by winning first place in the District Debate Tournament at North Texas State. Eighteen teams from six states competed in the district tournament.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the 60s. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. The low tonight will be around 40. The high tomorrow will be around 50.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
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Daily bridge is the trick for students
By RICK ZAPOROWSKI
Staff Reporter
At least one table in the Wescoe Hall cafeteria is excluded from the daily hustle of students who run in for a quick bite to eat and a glance at the day's newspaper, then dash to class.
Each school day, several students seat themselves at any square table they can find and start dealing the cards. They spend the rest of the day playing bridge.
Kevin Criscione, St. Louis graduate student, and Arthur Wescoe cafeteria as Christine Fresse, Salina sophomore, looks Parker, Lawrence graduate student, right, play bridge in on, Criscione and Parker play bridge there every day.
"We've had up to three tables at one time, with an onlooker or two," said Kevin Criscione, St. Louis graduate student and one of the original group members.
The tradition started in spring 1982, when a group of students — mostly physics majors — gathered in the cafeteria to sit and talk. As the group met on a regular basis, the card game spades worked its way into the daily routine.
Criscione usually works on his thesis in medicinal chemistry before he arrives to play cards. He said the games started as early as 10:30 a.m. and continued late into the afternoon, sometimes until the cafeteria closed at 5 p.m.
IT'S BY NO means a formal bridge club. People stop by between classes, take turns playing if there is an odd number of players and give each other advice on how to bid. One player said the group didn't even keep score sometimes.
After spades, games such as hearts and pitch were commonly played, until some people decided to teach the others to play bridge.
Since then, the group has grown. New people stop by, look over players' shoulders and eventually learn to compete.
"They try to get the rookies to play with someone who knows what's going on," said Duncan. "We have a lot of them."
BONDANK JOINED THE group last semester and learned to play bridge by watching the others play and with coaching from some of the veterans. He said he played when he didn't have class conflicts, although
last semester he often skipped classes to play cards.
The noisy, crowded cafeteria isn't a typical setting to play bridge. The table talk also can
Arthur Parker, Lawrence graduate student at the University of Texas, supposed to be no kibbling around here.
But instead of enforcing the informal rule, the students play their hands as they chatter about topics such as laser printers, Shake
speare and Criscione's thesis, involving the description of reactions among various chemical compounds.
Jerry Manweiler, Hoisington senior, said he spent many days playing cards, even though he took nine credit hours of classes, taught a physics class and worked as a research assistant in physics.
House panel cuts Regents budget
"I don't think I'm addicted," he said. "It's a very fun game. It makes you think."
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The proposed budget for the Board of Regents schools took further cuts Tuesday as a House committee made its preliminary recommendations on Regents statewide issues.
The cuts were part of the first round action in the Kansas House of Representatives on the Regents budget. The Senate on Monday endorsed its own financing package for the
The recommendations of House Ways and Means Committee will guide its subcommittees, which are examining each Regents school's budget.
The Regents institutions are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Sasafras.
Lawmakers agreed yesterday that the final form of the Regents budget would be shaped in a House-Senate conference committee at the end of the session.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN BILL Burten, R-Topeka, said that although the committee's recommendations were less than the committee's expectations, he would be reached in the conference committee.
"We've acted very responsibly in the
House." Bunten said. "We'll sit down with the Senate and discuss this. We ordinarily meet bixtiw and between."
State Rep. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, said the House usually offered budget proposals less than the Senate's to have something to negotiate. Duncan is chairman of the subcommittee that will examine the budget for the University of Kansas.
"Some of this was done to intentionally disagree with the Senate so that we would have something to discuss in the conference committee." he said.
BUT STATE SEN. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said the budget approved by the Senate was barely sufficient to meet the needs of higher education.
"What the Senate did is right on the line for moving higher education forward," Winter said. "Anything lower than that doesn't meet that test."
The committee proposed a 5 percent increase in unclassified and student salaries, and a 4.3 percent increase in the Regents schools' other operating expenses. The budget approved by the Senate provided for a 4.8 percent increase in salaries and other operating expenses.
The committee proposed a $ _{1/2} $ -percent increase in the state's contribution to the retirement fund for unclassified employees,
which include faculty. The Senate's budget proposal did not include any increase for the retirement fund.
BUT THE SENATE approved a change in the state law governing the retirement fund to permit a 1 percent increase in the state's contribution. A separate appropriations measure for the increase will be approved later. Winter said.
State law now provides for a 5 percent contribution to the retirement fund by the state. It is Senate policy for the Senate to contribute up to 6 percent before it appropriates money
The committee agreed with the Senate and did not offer an increase in salaries for graduate teaching assistants more than 25 percent. The increase in salaries for unclassified employees
But the House committee reduced the graduate assistants' fee waiver from 75 percent of their tuition, as approved in the Senate, to 65 percent.
In addition, the House committee eliminated $1.5 million for library acquisitions, computers and maintenance increases from the budget recommended by the Senate.
BUNTEN SAID THE committee had removed these items because they should have been included with other operating expenses.
Campus forum on divestment offered today
Students, faculty and others can voice their views on the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies doing business in South Africa at a forum scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today in the Big Fight Room of the Kansas Union.
The University Council, the executive body of the University Senate, voted last month to sponsor the forum.
The forum was recommended by the University Human Relations Committee in a report released last month. In November 1883, the council asked the committee to study the effects of divestment by the Endowment Association.
Elizabeth Banks, secretary of the University Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday that the report would be presented to the public statements allowed at the forum.
The forum will allow the council decide whether to ask the Endowment Association to grant funding.
The Endowment Association would not be required to follow the council's recommendations
Student Senate gives $10,000 for portrait
By HEATHER R. BIGGINS
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate became a patron of the art's last night when it donated $10,000 to the Spencer Museum of Art toward the purchase of a $50,000 painting.
William Easley, student body president,
recommended spending the $10,000 from the
Senate unallocated fund to buy a 1930s John
Steurt Curry self-portrait.
Before the Senate meeting, Easley said he thought the senators would recognize the importance of Curry's contribution to Lawrence and Kansas.
Student Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday night and was approved by the full Senate last night.
The unallocated account is used primarily to finance groups special projects and so on.
The allocation was approved by the
"So many times we're concerned with the controversial issues that we often forget things like culture," Easley said. "I wish we have more, but our purse strings are restricted."
THE PORTRAIT HAS been on loan to the University since 1971 and was offered for sale to the museum last summer by Curry's wife, Kathleen, who now lives in Connecticut.
The regionalist movement, which began in the 1920s and formed around three principal Midwestern artists, rejected the Europeans' modernist and surrealist approaches to painting that were influential on American artists at the time.
Curry, one of the foremost painters in the regionalist movement, was born in 1897 on a farm near Dunavant, just north of Lawrence. He died in 1946.
The movement's most famous artists were Thomas Bent Hinton from Missouri, Grant Wood from Iowa, and Curry. They fought to preserve the images sought traditional images in their work.
Although Curry painted city scenes, much
of his work was based on his recollections of the family farm and rural life in Kansas.
"BENTON AND WOOD have received more attention from museums and have been tested in the market," said Jay Gates, director of the museum. "As a result, they have achieved higher monetary value."
Gates said most of the money to buy the portrait would come from an internal museum fund and from private sources.
Curry once said he thought his 'grandest effort' was the mural for the Kansas City Royals, which encountered opposition from some who felt that he had failed to capture 'cure Kansas.'
For parties of face (5) or more please call for reservations. 841-7226
KOREAN NIGHT
March 30th 7 p.m. to 10 p.m McCollum Hall Main Lobby Festivities include:
- A film about Korean customs
- A traditional dance exhibition
- Traditional food March 29th 8 p.m.
- Tae Kwon Do demonstration Everyone is Welcome!
For more information call Lee at 842-7781
Korean Student Assoc. of KU.