University Daily Kansan, February 25, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Forum to focus on research
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, will speak Wednesday about KU's work as part of the weekly University Forum.
The speech will be at noon at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave.
Video stresses research skills
ical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
A hot lunch, which costs $3, will be served at 11:45 a.m. Call the center at 843-4933 by noon tomorrow to make lunch reservations.
A workshop designed to help students write successful research papers will be presented by videotape from 7 p.m. to t. p. in the Downs Auditorium of Dyke Hall.
The workshop will focus on skills, such as defining topics and organizing notes, using a variety of materials.
No registration is required for the free workshop. The Student Assistance Center and the Watson Library reference department are sponsoring the event.
Indian affairs to be discussed
The director of the KU office of Affirmative Action will speak about the state of Indian affairs in today's society at the Jawhay Room of the Kansas Union.
or the Humanities Office.
Roberta Ferron, the director, will conclude her speech to a meeting of the KU College Young Democrats, who are sponsoring her appearance, by answering questions from the audience.
Agent to offer travel ideas
A travel agent for Maupintour Travel Service will talk about low-cost ideas for Spring Break and summer vacations at 6 AM or 7 PM ("M's Alternative Conversations program."
Beverly Berens, the travel agent, also will take questions from people who call into the program. The host of the show is Tara Hasselbrook, freshman. To ask questions, call 844-747-473.
Alternative Conversations features a different guest from 6 to 6:30 p.m. each Monday.
Warm Hearts raises $26,000
The Lawrence Warm Hearts program raised more than $26,000 this year. State Rep. Jessie Branson, the program's chairman, said yesterday.
Today is the last day of the local fund drive, which helps needy people pay heating bills. The drive started Feb. 1.
Branson, D-Lawrence, said the program had raised $26,140 and that she expected more donations today. With $35,000 left over from last year's drive, the program has more than the estimated $60,000 needed to provide assistance to low-income, elderly and handicapped Douglas County residents.
"I think the community has responded," Branson said. "We saw results from individuals as well as from the business community."
Branson said 80 percent of the assistance went to single-parent families and families with small children.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with the high in the mid to upper 40s. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph. It will be mostly cloudy tonight, with the low around 20. Tuesday will be mostly cloudy with the high in the upper 30s.
Compiled from Kanson staff and United Press International reports.
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Card shop to pitch wares despite mall
By DAVE GILES
JD'S Baseball Card & Sports Nostalgia Shop was almost put on waivers earlier this month.
When five area developers bought the land on the corner of 23rd and Louisiana streets to build a shopping mall, they asked Walt Wagner, owner of the land adjacent to the proposed mall, whether he wanted to sell his land.
Wagner, who has owned the land under JD's for about 50 years, said he didn't want to
And that's just fine with Jeff Dolezal,
owner of JD'S, W33. W28rd St
He said he thought the new mall would only be designed for kids to buy.
"I won't be evicted," Dolezal said. "The
mall sure won't hurt business, either. In fact, it should help it. There will be more business here, and that will attract more people."
JD'S IS NEXT door to the Yello Sub and the Heaven Sent Balloon Co., two businesses that received eviction notices Feb. 1 so that construction on the new mall could begin next month. The two businesses have until Friday to leave the property.
"I didn't draw many customers from Yello
Dolezal draw." So "the new mall should
body him."
"The new mall will provide better parking patterns. Right now, a lot of Yello Sub customers park in my lot, and not many of my customers park in Yello Sub's lot."
Dolezal said he opened his shop on Oct. 1, 1982, six months after he left his job as an insurance agent. The shop occupies most of the building, he said, although he also sells real estate.
THE WALLS OF his shop are crowded with baseball memorabilia: baseball cards and pennants, and autographed baseballs, posters and pictures.
Most of Dolezal's business comes from buying, selling and trading baseball cards. But he also sells souvenirs, such as team jerseys.
Dolezal said that cards picturing Kansas City Royals' third baseman George Brett were the most popular items in his shop.
Rookie cards also are popular, he said. Card collectors take a chance that a first-year player someday may become a superstar, making his card worth a lot of money.
"Some rookie cards are worth $3 or $4 apiece," Dolezal said. "If you get two or three valuable cards a year, they pay for the cost of your whole set."
MANY PEOPLE COME in to buy the year's complete set of cards all at once to avoid spending all summer trying to collect a set, he said.
The 35-cents-a-pack cards, which this year went on sale in early January, are manufactured by three companies. Each company issues a slightly different set.
Although Dolezal meets sports enthusiasts of all ages, most of his card collecting
"Eight to 12-year-old boys collect cards with intensity." Dolezal said.
Nonetheless, JD's attracts regulars of all ages. Dolezal said.
"There is one KU student, I don't know his name, but he comes in here every Friday afternoon at about 3:30, buys four packs of cards, pays for them and leaves. Dolezal
Rov Stewart/KANSAN
Ametta Reaves, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, Laila their pie. The three were among about 300 people who attended Kalimullah, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Jashelle Gogg ed the eighth annual Elsworth Black Caucus Soul Food Disigns, St. Louis freshman, left to right, laugh as they finishner and Dance on Saturday night.
Festivities provide a taste of soul
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Rainbow-colored balloons and streamers decorated the main lounge of Ellsworth Hall on Saturday night to symbolize the theme of the eighth annual Soul Food Dinner and
Sponsored by the Ellsworth Black Caucus, the theme for this year's festivities was "The Rainbow — A Symbol of Unity." The dinner and dance was part of the celebration of Black History Month, Clarissa Birch, Ellsworth assistant resident director, said.
The event also included a guest speaker, who spoke on contemporary problems facing blacks, and a musical and dramatics
program featuring performances by students and student groups,
The evening started with the soul food dinner cooked by the cateriaer staff, said Karen L. McMurray, Ellsworth Black Caucus president. She said a committee composed of two black caucus members advised the staff on seasoning, which is considered important in the preparation of soul food.
ABOUT 300 PEOPLE sat down in the cafeteria to cloth-covered tables, brightly colored napkins and elegant place settings
Dinner items included ham, fried chicken,
collard and turnip greens, fried cabbage,
black-eyed peas, corn-on-the-cob, cornbread and sweet potato pie.
Although most of the food was common to
most American dinner tables, some had particular significance for black Americans. Eric Mitchell, Wichita sophomore, said the men would have made him appreciate his mother's cooking.
"The pie didn't taste like anything you can
buy," Mitchell said. "I had the hippie-style
pizza."
After the dinner, the program moved to the Ellswood main lobby. The Rev. Keith Brown, a member of the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance, gave a speech on the rainbow as a symbol of unity for black Americans.
During his speech, Brown focused on some of the problems which plague blacks, such as, religious disarmony, apathy, drugs and unemployment.
Student's book smack takes life of bat
Staff Reporter
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
A big brown bat got the book thrown at it by a student Thursday night in Malott Hall science library. It didn't survive the experience.
John Thurston, Topeka sophomore, said he dealt the deadly blow to the bat at about 9:30 p.m. in self-defense.
stuck to the wall in front of him, Thurston said. He jumped up and stepped back, and the bat flew toward him and stuck to the wall again.
"I thought it was going to bite me, so I killed it with a book," Thurston said.
The bat was put in a box to see if it would live, but the creature was dead within a few minutes, Kathleen Neeley, assistant science librarian, said.
The bat swooped past Thurston's ear and
After he hit the bat, Thurston said, he felt a guilty, and he carried the bat in his book to the store.
A sympathetic observer offered to take the corpse to the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall.
NEELEY SAID she had seen the bat before Thurston brought it to the desk, and called facilities operations workers for help. They arrived 15 minutes later.
Richard Hoffmann, museum curator of mammals and professor of systematics and ecology, said he received the specimen, commonly know as a big brown bat. The scientific name for the mammal is Epitescus fuscus. Hoffmann said.
"In winter, they tend to hibernate in the cooler parts of buildings like Mahlott," Hoffmann said. "It's likely to happen again, but you can't predict which building."
City primary to cut field of hopefuls
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
tomorrow is primary election day for Lawrence City Commission candidates, when votes will reduce the field from 11 to six for the April 2 general election.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. There will be 30 voting places around the city.
The closest polling places for students who live on or near campus are at Allen Field House: South Park Recreation Center. 1141 Hickory Hills Hillcrest Elementary School, 1045 Hillsport HI.
There are 27,454 people registered to vote in Lawrence in this year's primary. Patty Jaimes, county clerk, said Friday. She said she was asked to tell how many of these were KU students.
THE 11 CANDIDATES in tomorrow's primary are: Mike Amyk, 1520 W. 27th St.; Steve Cohn, Route 3; James Hertsch, 90 N. Third St.; Howard Hill, 3117 Tomahawk Drive; Mona McCoy, 516 W. Sixth St.; Sandra Praeger, 3108 Trail Road; Bob Pilou, 3727 Trail Road; George Schmitendorf, 1211 Kentucky St.; Nancy Shontz, 2324 Saddlehorn Drive; Terry Summers, 539 Tennessee St.; and Tim Williams, 901 Avon Lane.
Rim, Rum and Shontz are incumbents. The top six finishers in the primary will advance to the April 2 general election. Turnouts for the general election tend to be higher than ones for the primaries, Jaimes said.
Jaimes estimated that 20 percent of those registered would vote in the primary. In the last City Commission primary, in 1983, there were 8,751 votes cast out of a total number of 30,805 people registered.
In the 1983 general election, 10.182 people voted.
IF PEOPLE DON'T vote in two consecutive state elections, Jaimes said, state law requires they be purged from the voting rolls. In this case, that would be someone who didn't vote in the November 1982 and November 1984 elections.
A person who is going to be taken from the roll is sent a notice, Jaimes said. At the same time, however, the person is given a chance to re-register.
Jaimes said she carried out an additional purge in 1984 by sending out letters to residences in Lawrence. If the post office sends the letters back, she said, she knows the people aren't living there anymore and they are stricken from the voting rolls.
Jaimes said that many KU students were caught in this net. This is primarily because students have access to the internet.
She said she didn't think students were as active in local elections as they were in state and national elections. Returns from pre-election surveys did not support this conclusion, Jaimes said.
In the 1983 primary, only 352 people voted at the Allen Field House precinct, which includes the Daisy Hill residence halls. Also in 1983, casters visit 223 ballots at the South Park Center, which covers much of the Oread neighborhood.
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