CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 12. 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Orzulak remains satisfactory
Francis M. Orzulak, programming director for the department of continuing education, remains in satisfactory condition, with no further action required. A heart attack at the Kansas University Friday.
Orzuak was upgraded from critical to satisfactory condition Sunday and was moved to a regular room, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Group funds to be discussed
He had been unloading boxes from a van near the Prairie Room about 2:30 p.m.
Orzukul was transferred to St. Francis from Lawrence Memorial Hospital Friday morning.
Representatives of student groups will have a chance to discuss a proposed change in financing for non-revenue code programs for the private committee meeting tomorrow night.
The Student Rights Committee will hear testimony starting at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
The proposal would change the way money is allocated to non-revenue code groups, organizations that generally reheat $1.000 of Senate funds every year.
Foundation chooses trustees
The William Allen White Foundation elected four journalists as new trustees at the university.
The Foundation sponsors awards and competitions that recognize outstanding achievement.
David Furnas, executive director of the Kansas Press Association; Paul Stevens, Associated Press bureau chief; Kelly Smith Tunney, AP assistant general manager; and Dave Forsythe, United States magazine television executive, were elected to five-year terms.
Center seeks gallerv exhibits
The Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont, is seeking artists or organizations to submit their work for gallery exhibits for next year.
Each artist or group must submit to the center on or before March 30: 10 slides or photographs of their work, one actual work that serves as current resume and an publication form.
Work and applications will be reviewed by an advisory panel composed of teachers, gallery owners and the center's staff.
Warm Hearts tops $11.000
For more information and an application, call the center at 943-9444.
The Lawrence Warm Hearts fundraising effort passed the $11,000 mark Saturday, a member of the drive said yesterday.
Carolyn Shelton, the member, said 229 contributors had given $11,048 to the fund. The drive began Feb. 1 and will continue through Thursday.
Shelton said Warm Hearts hoped to raise $25,000 to provide financial assistance to people who cannot receive other kinds of help to pay heating bills.
Weather
Today will be sunny and warmer. The high will be in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Winds will be from west to southwest at 5 to 10 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The low tonight will be around 10. The high tomorrow will be in the low to mid 30s.
If you have a news tip or a photo idea,
call the Karsan at 864-4810.
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If your idea deals with campus news, ask for Rob Karwath, campus editor. If it deals with sports, ask for Lauretta Schultz, sports editor. For On campus items or information on arts and leisure, speak with John Egan. Et cetera editor.
If you have a complaint or a problem, ask for Mindtown editor, or Diane Riese, president.
To place an ad, call the Kansan business office at 864-4358
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Blacks are urged to fight apathy
Maynard Jackson, former Atlanta mayor, told students Saturday at the Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government that they must shun "compacency, apathy and do-nothingness," if they are to gain equality.
The weekend conference also included the Mr. and Miss Big Eight Pageant and a speech by Gilbert Parks, a Topena psychiatrist. About 500 conference deleterious cases were reported to speeches, workshops, seminars and a gospel extravaganza during the weekend.
In his speech in the Kansas Union Ballroom, Jackson told the delegates that his theme for the evening was, "Our time has come if . . ."
"Our time has come if we are prepared to work," he said. "Our time has come if we are prepared to sacrifice. And our time has come if we pursue excellence."
HE SAID BLACK students should be more active and aware of issues facing blocks. More organizations and functions are available to remote involvement and awareness, he said.
Jackson said a three-pronged strategy to liberate blacks consisted of "the ballot, the buck and the book," representing the vote, economic power and education.
Regina Harper, Wichita junior, leads the Inspirational Gospel Voices of the University of Kansas in a song titled "I'm Saved." The choir was one of six that sang Friday night at a gospel extravaganza in the Kansas University Ballroom. The choir was part of the weekend's Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government.
Of the three, Jackson said, the ballot is most important.
"The vote is not a right," he said. "It is the right. If we are wealthy and well-educated, but don't have the vote, we are still prisoners."
Jackson said he had formed a group called the "Bucket Brigade" in the five "blackest states" in the United States to drive black and minority votes for local elections.
"WE WANT EVERYONE to help."
Jackson said. "We need everyone to help whites too. But logic suggests that other people don't help if we don't ever help ourselves."
He also encouraged students to patronize and invest in businesses owned by blacks and to support organizations like the Black Arts Coalition, the Advancement of Colored People.
"Education is not just for self-maintenance," he said. "It's for a life, a vision, a new day. We need people who are involved in our own identify, analyze and articulate them."
He urged the students in the crowd to return to their schools and organize groups of them.
Jackson said education was part of blacks' struggle for liberation and more than just a means to provide for one's self and family.
"You may turn the tide," he said. "Our
husband has come if we don't forget our
legacy."
"We need every head clear, every eye on the target and every hand on the plow in our target."
THE HIG EIGHT Conference began in 1978 at the University of Missouri to
promote communication among the scholars and ensure the success of black education.
Kevin Harrison, Wichita junior and an acting coordinator of the conference, said that since its beginning, the conference has been a support black organizations on the campus.
Keith Borders, conference chairman from the University of Oklahoma, said, "The conference is an opportunity for me to share my skills and talents of Rie Eight students.
Borders said the workshop showed the ability of students to solve problems, the gospel extravaganza showed the spiritual power of students and the pageant showed the talent.
Ken Houston, Kansas City, Kan., senior,
and Rita Roland, Kansas City, Kan.
sophomore, competed against 11 other
Workshops on Friday and Saturday included discussions on leadership, diplomacy, stress management, careers and organizational effectiveness.
representatives from Big Eight univ-
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Eight
On Friday night, the KU Inspirational Gospel Voices choir performed in a gospel extravaganza. Chors from the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Iowa State University and the University of Kansas and a Kansas City, Kan., group also sang.
Gelaine Bailey, Kansas City, Kan., senior and mistress of ceremonies for the event, said KU's chair had a gospel extravaganza every year. But because the school is a public institution incorporated it into the conference and invited the other schools to perform.
Stamp price won't make an imprint
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Long distance phone calls may offer the next best thing to being there, but letters always have been cheaper. Now, even the cost of letter writing is increasing.
In December, the U.S. Postal Service board of governors announced that first-class postage would rise from 20 cents to 22 cents starting Sunday.
Don Elliott, carrier foreman at the Lawrence post office, 1519 W. 23rd St., said a special stamp bearing a "D" instead of a specific value would be used until the 22-cent stamps also can be used. Twenty-cent stamps also can be used with two-cent stamps during the transition.
Elliott said most people he had talked to had not been angry about the increase. However, many people have been mailing letters before the increase takes effect, he said.
THE FIRST 60 to 90 days after past increases, Elliott said, the number of people mailing letters or packages seemed to decrease. "People don't seem to worry about it," he said.
"Two cents is not that much." Elliott said.
Compared to European postage rates, 22 cent
cents are more expensive than 19 cents.
Many students said the increase would not affect their letter writing.
Mudassar Husain, Lusaka, Zambia, junior,
said that although the increase made mailing
overseas more expensive, "Nothing is going to stop me from writing letters."
An increase in the postal rate is the same as an increase in any commodity, Husain said. When prices go up, people will complain.
MELISA MOREHART. Elkhart sophomore, said the increase would not stop her from sending letters or packages, whether or not it was a holiday.
"There is nothing we can do about it," she
said. "It goes into effect whether we like it or
not."
Suellen St. John, Golden, Colo., freshman, said she didn't appreciate the rate increase.
Joy Muyen, saleswoman at the Tower Crier, 711 W. 23rd St., said she didn't think the increase would affect the number of cards people sent.
"Maybe letter writing will go down," she said. "But sending cards has always been a part of it."
Mudassar Husain said the increase would complicate the exchange of shifts at the Oliver Hall front desk, where he works as an assistant.
Elliott said, "We'll put the penny back into usage."
Consumer director joins investigation of culture firm
Staff Reporter
By SHARON ROSSE
A Lawrence company under investigation by the Kansas attorney general was toured Friday by the director of the Lawrence Office for Civil Association as part of his own investigation.
Clyde Chapman, the director, toured Culture Farms Inc., 2220 Delaware St. Attorney General Robert T. Stephan opened an investigation last month into the company and its claims that consumers could double investments by growing milk cultures in their homes and selling them to Culture Farms.
Under the arrangement, consumers grow cultures by mixing milk and cheese with an activator bought from Activator Supply Co. of Las Vegas, Nev. Culture Farms buys the cultures for commercial consumers and resells them to Cleopatra's Secret, a Kroo, Nev. cosmetic company.
Chapman said that although the operation
appeared legitimate, some questions remained. He said some of his doubts probably were too much to prove.
CHAPMAN SAID he questioned why consumers were needed to grow the cultures that produce them.
"Why can't Culture Farms grow the cultures themselves and then sell them to Cleopatra's Secret?" Chapman said. "There are other factors that activator Supply if they could grow their own."
"I don't think Activator Supply is a necessary step and it wasn't explained to me. I see it as getting rich on this deal, and it is why they can't grow it commercially."
Christopher Mankuso, vice president of marketing for Culture Farms, said the cultures could not be grown on a large scale because the organism, which is extracted for use in the cosmetics, would grow only in nine- to 12-fluide ounce containers.
HE SAID IT was less expensive to have consumers grow the cultures in their homes than to build a factory and hire the personnel necessary to grow it commercially.
He also said the consumers who grew cultures would provide a market for the
"It enables the end product to have an already built-in consumer base." Mankuso said. "When their culture is in the final product, they will at least want a sample of
James Akagi, chairman of the KU microbiology department and one of the professors doing quality tests for Culture Farms, said it was true that some organisms didn't grow well in large containers.
"I don't know what they extract from the cultures, but there are types of organisms that don't grow in large containers," he said. "Also, the larger the surface, like a big vat, the more chance there is for other bacteria to grow and contaminate the culture."
CHAPMAN ALSO said he was investigating a possible link between Culture Farms, Cleopatra's Secret and a man who visited Lawrence in November and now faces 16 counts of fraud in South Africa. The charges aren't linked to Culture Farms.
Chapman said he had received a copy of a Better Business Bureau questionnaire filed by the president of Cleopatra's Secret. On the questionnaire, Kristine Gunn, the president, listed Frans Theron of Allwin Products International as her previous employer.
On Nov. 1, the Los Angeles Times reported that Theron was involved in a multimillion-dollar South African investment plan that the government ordered stopped in October.
Chapman said he wanted to find out whether the person was connected with CleoLog or Secura.
John Myers, director of economic development for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Thereon had visited the cultural farms in November with an official from Culture Farms.
Mankuso declined to comment on Theron. Chapman said, "All I have right now are pieces of a puzzle that is hard to put together. No matter how hard it looks to you, Culture Farms is not doing what they say they are. I'm not sure what I think, but I'm still a skeptic."