University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
State loses Fourhorn appeal
The Kansas Supreme Court on Saturday dismissed the state's appeal of a second-degree murder and aggravated burglary conviction of James C. Fourhorn in the July 1983 death of an elderly Lawrence man.
In October 1983, a jury in Douglas County District Court convicted Fourhorn of first-degree murder in the death of 94-year-old Harry Puckett. But a new trial called after a judge determined that the boy acted improperly in reaching its verdict.
In March 1948, before the start of the second trial, Fourbearn plained no contest to charges of second-degree murder and aggravated burglary.
The state argued to the Supreme Court that the second trial was not necessary.
Activist plans talk on Reagan
Michael Harrington, a social activist whose causes have included poverty, tax, civil rights and labor reforms, is scheduled to speak on "Ronald Reagan and the American Left" at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The lecture is part of the University Lecture Series.
Harrington, who has been active in politics for more than 30 years, is working with Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martha K. Johnson, to promote full employment opportunities.
Harrisoning was involved in the Fund for the Republic study that helped eliminate the use of blacklists in the entertainment campaign against the Vietnam War.
Minority scholarships offered
two minority students will receive scholarships sponsored by the University of Kansas Alumni Association's Black Alumni Committee this semester.
Minority students or incoming minority freshmen must submit essays, references, transcripts and applications for the $500 scholarships by March 25.
Ine Bruce-Smith scholarships, which were awarded first in 1982, were named in honor of Blanche Keteen Bruce, the first minority student to graduate from KU and Lizzie Ann Smith, the first minority student admitted to KU.
Police look into arson attempt
Scholarship applications are available at the Adams Alumni Center and the financial aid and minority affairs offices.
Lawrence police and fire officials are investigating a case of attempted arson involving a large smoke bomb that was ignited Saturday night in front of an apartment building, police said yesterday.
At about 7 p.m., firemen and police arrived at an apartment building in the 500 block of Frontier Road to investigate a report that someone smelled smoke in the room.
Police and firemen searched the building and found a 13-inch-long smoke bomb on a sidewalk by the front entrance.
Poll questioned occupants of the building, but no one knew about the bomb.
Weather
Today will be cloudy, windy and colder, with a 50 percent chance of snow. Winds will be from the northwest at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. The high will be in the mid to upper 30s. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 20. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid 40s.
Compiled from Kanson staff and United Press International reports.
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Fear of failure spurs, stalls students
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By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
Fear of failure. It drives some and conquers others.
It kicks some students out of bed in the morning and makes others pull the covers up.
Dawn Glassey, St. Louis junior, said yesterday that the fear of failure was her only motivation for dragging herself out of bed and trudging to 8:30 a.m. classes.
"I'ts the only thing that motivates me to get up," she said. "I'm afraid that if I don't go, I'll miss something important that I'll learn." She test. Basically I'm just afraid I flunk".
Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center, said that the fear of
"It is the proportion of fear and confidence that determines motivation," she said. "If a student's track record is success and failure, it might be pretty motivated to whip that, too."
failure could spur or stall students in their academic pursuits.
ALTHOUGH ZIMMER agreed that fear motivated students, she said that the feeling of obtaining a goal was the main source of inspiration for students and others.
But she said hurdles that popped up in the path of obtaining a goal sometimes could
Problems with family, a car, or a boyfriend or girlfriend could combine to shrink耐心
Zimmer said that when those problems arose, one of the best ways to handle them was to set aside time specifically for homework and for personal problems.
One of best ways to motivate yourself is to have regular habits," she said. "With regular habits, you know when to get up and when to go to bed."
Zimmer said time management was one of the most important stress management skill.
"It's not a decision that you're getting up.
"It's a habit that you're getting up."
"IT HELPS YOU free your mind of all those other competing demands," she said. "When you get a lot of things done, you feel good about yourself. But when you get behind and have too many things to do, you may feel worse because you may feel wiped out and end up not doing any of these things, and that puts you in a worst situation."
Zimmer said some remedies for a burned-out feeling were getting a massage, but she wasn't sure.
being well-organized, developing good habits, managing time, keeping fit and getting enough sleep, she said.
Other remedies could be setting goals,
Dan Batson, professor of psychology, said students were motivated by the same factors as people outside of school.
"People are motivated about a variety of different things." Batson said. "We are afraid if we didn't do it, it will get us in trouble."
Mike Connolly, Chicago freshman, said that when his alarm clock went off at 6 a.m., he debated whether he could drag himself out of bed and into the shower — and maybe have some chance of earning a passing grade in his 7:30 a.m. class.
He said the thought of sweet sleep also sounded good, but was conquered by the fear that if he missed the class, he easily could become lost for the rest of the semester.
Hall pirates of intercoms hard to stop
By DAVID SILVERMAN Staff Reporter
Preventing students from breaking into the disconnected intercom systems at residence halls is difficult, housing officials say, and down students who do it is impossible.
Someone took over the intercom system at McCollum Hall for almost an hour Feb. 25. Music and sexually explicit conversations were broadcast to most of the residents.
Pam Kulecyk, McColum resident hall director, said last week that other incidents had occurred but that efforts to find the people responsible had been futile.
"Last Halloween we had a problem similar to this." Kuclzyk said. "The electricians came in and tried to trace where the light was, and certainly there is no way to trace it to the source."
Mike Osterburt, Templin resident hall director, said that twice in the past two years, Templin's intercom system had been used by residents to broadcast music late at night.
HOWEVER, RESIDENTS who resented the late night interruptions reported the students responsible to the resident director, and those responsible to the students were placed on hall probation.
Osterbür had residents who entered the system using their stereos risked having
"If the system is turned on while they're broadcasting, they risk having their recorder damaged."
Although hall officials have not resorted to ruining the stereo of intercom pirates, law enforcement officials are still looking.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said the systems would not be removed because they could be of some use in a new $7.5 million communications system to be installed next year.
"WE'RE NOT GOING to take the speakers out of the rooms," he said. "There is a possibility that some of the wiring in the system will be of some use."
The intercoms originally were used when the residence halls had only 12 phone lines, Wilson said. A switchboard operator at the building would notify students who received phone calls.
Use of the intercoms was restricted to emergencies after individual room phones were installed in 1970.
The main control units were disconnected a short time later because the system had deteriorated and the poor sound quality made broadcasting emergency information impossible. Wilson said improper use of the controllers also had prompted the disconnection.
"How somebody has figured out how to make it work for them, and we can't get it to work for a bona fide emergency, that nettles me a bit," he said.
Wilson said he was disturbed that the system could be broken into even though it could not.
Since that time, however, most residence
halls have had problems similar to the ones
at the University of Texas.
Methodius Segie, Serewak, Malaysia, junior, performs an Iban warrior dance.Segie danced at the 33rd Annual International Festival Saturday night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The dance comes from the Iban tribe in Eastern Malaysia, where it was a ritual for war victories but now is performed at other celebrations. Students from countries around the world participated in the festival.
Illness forces Soviet author to delay visit
A Soviet author's visit to campus scheduled for later this week has been postponed until March 20-22, the chairman of the department responsible for the languages and literatures said yesterday.
Gerald Mikkelson, chairman of the department, said Valentin Rasputin, the author, was ill and unable to visit this week, possibly because of recurring headaches from having been severely beaten by mudgers several years ago. Rasputin had been scheduled to appear on campus Wednesday through Friday.
Mikkelson said the telegram he received notifying him of Rasputin's postponement of his trial.
Ras扑斯尼 is scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m. March 20, 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. March 21 and 10:30 a.m. March 22, in the Council Hall, March 29. All of his speeches will be in Russian.
He also will speak informally in Russian with faculty and students at 11:30 a.m. March 20 in the Meadowlark Room of the Union.
But his speech, "My Siberia, Yesterday and Today," at 7:30 p.m. March 20 in the Big Eight Room of the Union, will be translated into English.
Raspinet was born in 1937 in a small Siberian village to a peasant family. He has generally written about the life and culture of Siberia in his works.
Mikkelson said Rasputin, who will be the department of Soviet and East European studies' eight writer in residence, was among the authors most authors still living in the Soviet Union.
Staff Reporter
Low air fares are a real spring break
By TAD CLARKE
Students planning long drives to return to school after spring break might have a cheaper alternative - if their travel plans take them through Kansas City, Mo., Chicago or St. Louis, that is.
Three airlines are offering $17 plane tickets for one-way travel between Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago from March 17 to April 21, and they offer prices for students could be as much as $50.
once rate last week to acquaint air travelers with the airline's new services in St. Louis and Chicago. Trans World Airlines and Ozark offered Friday that they would match the offer.
Students wanting to fly to Kansas City from Chicago or St. Louis at the end of spring break still may be able to get March 17 reservations. Spokesmen for Southwest, the nation's largest airline, said that seats were available on some of the special-rate flights for that day.
Southwest Airlines announced the low-
Becky Campbell, reservation agent for Ozark in St. Louis, yesterday said the $17 rate had kept Ozark's telephone ringing.
"We've been busy constantly," Campbell said. "Some people have been working overtime because of it."
Sue Ellen Best, reservation agent for Southwest in St. Louis, said yesterday that seats were still available on two flights from St. Louis to Kansas City on March 17. All Southwest flights from Chicago to Kansas City on March 17 are full.
The regular ticket price to fly between Kansas City and St. Louis on Southwest for students 21 and under is the best said. All other students typically pay $50 to fly between Kansas City and Chicago.
Officials to ponder Farrakhan security
KU officials and the student body president plan to meet this afternoon to discuss possible security problems surrounding a planned visit to campus later this month by Louis Farrakhan, Black Separatist minister and leader of the Nation of Islam movement.
Last week, the Student Senate Finance Committee voted to allocate $360 to help pay for Farrakhan's proposed visit on March 28 as part of the Black Student Union Lecture
Alpha Week, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and scheduled for March 25-30.
The lecture series is in conjunction with
Some Jewish students last week expressed concern about Farrakhan's proposed visit.
In July, Farrakhan was quoted in Time magazine as calling Judhaa a "dirty religion" and accusing Israel of "injustice, thievery, living and deceit."
William Easley, student body president, said he would meet today with Jim Denney, director of KU police, and Caryl Smith, dean of student life, to discuss possible ways of
banding security problems and the costs involved.
Denney said it was too early to discuss specific security measures.
Funds for the appearance of Farrakhan and two other speakers in the lecture series first must be approved by the Senate's University Affairs Committee and then by the full Senate on Wednesday. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Emmanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City, Mo., city councilman, are scheduled to speak March 18.
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