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The University Daily
'Hawks look ahead
KANSAN
Brown puts losses behind him and looks toward rest of season See story on page 11.
Sunny, warm High, 45. Low, 25. Details on page 3.
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 97 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, February 18, 1985
Loraine Pai/KANSAN
Tom Swearingen, director of museum exhibits for the Forbes, 9, 312 Lawrence Ave.; John Dwyer, 11, Route 3; and Museum of Natural History, points out animal tracks to Colin David Galvin, 11, 135 Michigan St. left to right
Story of tracks told in workshop
By HEATHER R. BIGGINS Staff Reporter
David Galvin, 11, 135 Michigan St.; Luke Allen, 11, 1901 New Hampshire St.; and Michael Grandstaff, 12, 408 Lyon St., left to right, roast marshmallows during a break after their animal-tracking field trip.
He examined the hole he had left.
A few feet from a gravel road, 11-year-old David Galvin bent down and thrust his index finger through the snow to the ground.
"Animals leave tracks as easy as that," David said, punctuating each word with a ierk of his finzer.
Twelve other children huddled around David on the bank of Mid Creek and nodded in agreement.
The children took part in a workshop on
MONDAY MORNING
Saturday called Animal Tracks and Signs, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History and led by Tom Swearingen, director of museum exhibits.
The school bus waited in front of the museum at 9 a.m. while children got in and selected seats. Swearingen gave the driver instructions and then turned his attention to the children.
"TACKING IS one of animals' oldest habits." Swearing said. "Animals track by sight and scent and do so to eat, to find their way and to survive."
Two miles north of Lawrence, the bus stopped on a gravel road. The children jumped off and ran down the steep hill to the bank of Mud Creek. Abandoned machinery rested on the cornstalk-stubbled ground that once was timberland.
Swearing looked at the ice creek and pointed to two pairs of week-old tracks. A
man's footprints headed in the direction of a beaver dam. Beaver tracks were nearby.
“Tracks tell stories,” Swaringen said. “This man was probably trapped for beaver because his tracks head toward the dam. And this is a very old old age because there is a laver of front in them.”
SWEARINGEN ALSO noticed coyote tracks going across the creek. Because
coyotes place their paws in a straight line, their tracks can be distinguished from dog tracks.
A few minutes later, the children reluctantly boarded the bus and headed toward Lecompont. Swearingen described the different animal tracks that the children might
See TRACKS. p. 5. col. 1
Rock Chalk Revue is $28,000 hit
Staff Reporter
Rv PEGGY HELSEL.
Another Rock Chalk Revue has come and gone, leaving behind the memory of long nights of practice, an exciting moment in the spotlight — and $29,000.
The show, sponsored by the Board of Class Officers, ran Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. It made about $28,000 from ticket sales with a total audience of 6,600. Dave Smith, executive director of Rock Chalk, said yesterday.
He said that after expenses and revenues, the total profit should be about $20,000. Half of the money will go to the Lawrence United Fund.
"EVERYTHING WENT really well," Smith said. "We were really pleased with the production. Smith said the two-hour and one-hour performance last year's, which tended to be a little short."
Forty percent of the remaining $10,000 will go to the participating groups to help defray
Last year's show, called Encore, made $11,000 ~ $5,900 of which was to the United States.
the expense of putting on the skirts. Ten students get a kickback to Rock Chalk to help keep girls in school.
Seven awards were given after Saturday's show. The winners were: Alpha KappaLambda and Alpha Omicron F1 for best play, Alpha Tau Beta for second place. November when the scripts were entered.
Delta Upsilion and Gamma Phi Beta won for best original song, "Cattnapp," written by Barry Morgan, the skit's director and male lead. The DUs and Gamma Phis also
THE AWARD FOR best performer was a tie between Morgan and Scott Swenson, the male lead in the Sigma Nu-Kappa Alpha Theta show, "Dischord and Datchor." Swenson portrayed Chris Shende and Morgan played Professor Purkins in the Du-Gamma Phi skit, "A Tale of Two Kitties."
The Alpha Tau Omegas and Alpha Gamma Deltas outshone the rest with their star apparel in the skit "A Night in Shining Amour" and took the award for best costumes.
received an award for best production number with the same song.
The ATO's and AGD's raked in the most money in ticket sales and the award for the most charitable group. The two houses sold $5,600 in tickets.
Committee weighs Western Civ options
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
Eliminating Western Civilization 104 and 105 and encouraging more full-time faculty members to teach courses in the department are two proposed revisions being discussed by the Western Civilization Advisory Committee.
The committee is considering revisions in the program at the suggestion of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, Lynn Nelson, acting co-director of the Western Civilization Department, said last week.
The revisions could take place as early as the fall of 1986.
The recommendation from CUSA suggested that the Western Civilization requirement was not meeting the needs of many students. For this reason, CUSA assumed that the advisory committee "conduct a broad-based review of the program."
Paul Shumaker, chairman of the political science department and chairman of the advisory committee, said that some changes were necessary in the program, but that the CUSA recommendation didn't confront all of them.
"ITS IMPORTANT for the students to have the Western Civilization program," Shumaker said. "I agree with the CUSA that we are many revisions that need to be made."
Advisory committee members have discussed the possibility of eliminating the discussion sections of the program, Western Civilization 104 and 105.
Ginger Foor, Norman, Okla., senior, said she gained little from her two semesters of Ginger Foor's work.
"I took the 104/105 sections of Western Civ and I found them to be somewhat of a waste of time."
"I think it's generally true for a lot of students, including myself if times, they do the same thing."
independent basis such as this. It's possible, had I had more exposure to it in high school. I might have had more of a desire to study it in college."
"We'VE BEEN thinking about getting rid of the 104/105 sections for some time." Shumaker said. "Many students aren't benefiting from them, and we'd like to use this time in some other, more efficient, way."
Shumaker said complaints about the two discussion sections were valid.
Western Civilization courses also are offered as lecture courses, Western Civilization 134 and 135, and as honors courses, Western Civilization 114 and 115.
Another problem with the program, the CUSA study said, was that regular faculty members often did not actively participate in the teaching of the program.
Only eight to 10 regular faculty members usually teach Western Civilization classes each semester, Nelson said.
"BUT IT'S VERY a question of time and to a lesser extent, money. Faculty members that do teach are volunteering their time in addition to an already full load. Faculty members that do not possibly offering more money, might be a way to get more faculty members to teach."
"Although the graduate students who teach a majority of the classes are very qualified, we do need to get more faculty members involved," he said.
The CUSA recommendation also said students too often did not have an adequate background to profit from the Western Civilization readings.
Nelson, who also is a member of the advisory committee, suggested that the students' problems stemmed from an inadequate high school curriculum, and not from inadequacies in the University's core curriculum.
"I remember when world history used to be such a common requirement in high
See PROGRAM, p. 5, col. 1
Thieves hit JRP hall, take $470 of groceries
By KATHY FLANDERS
Staff Reporter
Although most students aren't crazy about residence hall food, some people want it badly enough to steal it.
Thieves broke into the food storage area of Joseph R. Pearson Hall early yesterday morning and stole about $470 worth of fruits, cookies and hot drinks and hot drink cups, KU police said yesterday.
The food was stored in a large area in the ba's sub-basement, that Pat Dunau, JRP ha'i food.
THE STORAGE AREA in the subbasement of JRP has an open concrete area outside the windows. The area, which resembles a large window well, is about 15 feet below the ground and has metal rails around the ton for safety.
Pat Simmons, JRP hall director, said a man walking near the hall at about 3:30 a.m. saw three people on the east side of the building. The man told a hall assistant that he saw the people passing out the door in large window well, but said he didn't see a car.
The three thieves tied a rope to the rail and climbed down into the window well, Simmons
"The window wasn't secure," Simmons said. "From what we can tell, one was bringing the food to the window and another was getting it up to a person in the lot. There were marks in the snow from where they set the cases of food before they took off."
Dunavan said a box of hot drink cups, 30 pounds of sugar and 32 cases of food had been
"All our things are categorized," Dunavan said. "Most things were down two main aisles. It looks like they went down the aisles and then into two cases of each item as they went by."
"THE RESIDENTS here don't feel they need security because we probably have the best record on campus. But this could easily have been someone's room."
"I really don't know if this has happened before or not," he said. "It could have been happening all year. There's no security in this hall. I'm not trying to pin it on that, but the chances of this happening with security would have been much less.
Simmons said JRP and Templin were the only halles that didn't have security monitors. At other halls, he said, monitors patrol every area, checking all areas of the building.
"But they could have been here all night. And if that person hadn't seen them, we wouldn't have known they were since we don't have any security monitors."
"If we had that, our chances would have improved of this no happening." Simmons said.
Simmons said he was concerned about the security of the building.
SIMMONS SAID, "They could have been planning to take more, but they saw the person who reported them. It's possible they left before they wanted to.
Templin and JRP plan to begin a security monitor program this fall. J.J. Wilson, director of housing, tried to hire security monitors for JRP and Templin halls this semester, ahead of the scheduled starting date for the program.
Dunavan said, "No one would have been on a Sunday morning until 8:30 a.m. We're down in the storage area three to four times a week, but not at 3:30 in the morning."
But Wilson changed his decision after Caryl Smith, dean of student life and chairman of the Residential Programs Advisory Board, and James Jeffrey, AURH president, protested that RPAB should have been consulted in the decision.
Third artificial heart recipient awake and alert
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Murray P. Haydon, a retired auto worker previously given only weeks to live, yesterday received the world's third permanent artificial heart in a trouble-free operation completed in record time.
By United Press International
Haydon's vital signs were stable, and doctors had increased the rate of his artificial heart from 50 to 60 beats a minute, a hospital spokesman said last night.
(haydon) is awake and aware and able to move all his limbs and extremities." the spokesman said. "There have been no
complications, and the team is obviously elated about his progress."
THE SURGICAL team, headed by William C. DeVries, spent three hours and 28 minutes removing the failing heart of Haydon, 58. They replaced it with a duplicate of the Jarvik-7 heart that has kept Bill Schroeder alive since Nov. 25.
"His skin is warm and dry, and his color is excellent." Allan M. Lansing, medical director of Humana Heart Institute, said the first medical briefing after the implant
Haydon awoke from anesthesia between a 300 p.m. and @ 6 p.m., and squeezed the hand with his finger. He was taken to the hospital.
not speak because of a respirator tube running down his throat.
Robert Jarvik, developer of the patented device that bears his name, said he no longer uses it.
"In this patient, this is a treatment — this is not a medical experiment," he said.
HAYDON, WHO WAS considered too old for a heart transplant, left the Humana Hospital Audubon operating room at 11:30 AM and was transferred to an intensive care unit.
DeVries also implanted the first two
Haydon had not undergone any previous heart surgery, so DeVries and colleagues were able to make better progress with the third implant patient.
During the operation, Haydon's wife
"He had no significant bleeding," either during the operation or immediately after." Lansing said. Schroeder had to be wheeled out to the hospital, where of his surgery to correct excessive bleeding.
mechanical hearts. He took 7 $ \frac{1}{2} $ hours with Barney Clark in a 1982 Salt Lake City operation slowed by a problem with the biotic heart and 6 $ \frac{1}{2} $ hours with Schroeder. Scar tissue from previous surgery slowed the operation. Clark lived 112 days with the heart.
LANSING SAID Haydon had shown some further deterioration of his heart output Saturday night, possibly related to anxiety leading up the implant.
secluded her two daughters and one son in a hospital room four floors above the surgery. She celebrated the conclusion of the implant with Schroeder's wife, Margaret.
The Rev. Robert O. Williams, a friend of Haydon's, visited his bedside yesterday. He noted that Haydon is a Baptist. Schroeder is a Catholic and that Clark was a Mormon and said, "I guess they're keeping the artificial heart ecumenical."
Williams said he had been impressed with the determination of Haydon family mem-
1 ("found a sense of strength and faith in the family, and they have been very positive," he
See HEART, p. 5, col. 5