niversity Daily Kansan, January 31, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
Senate meeting rescheduled
Last night's Student Senate meeting, which was canceled by snow, has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
The Finance Committee and the Student Executive Committee will meet at 6 p.m. tonight the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. The Finance Committee meeting Tuesday last night will be 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Lawner's condition improves
1 The Finance Committee's hearings for Revenue Code groups will be at 6 p.m. on Feb. 6, 7 and 8 in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
The condition of George Lawner, professor of fine arts, was upgraded from serious to stable yesterday, a spokesman at Lawrence Memorial Hospital said. He died from the hospital's intensive care unit. Lawner suffered a heart attack Jan. 17.
Bov to undergo mental testing
WICHITA — A judge has ordered a 14-year-old boy accused of murdering his principal and wounding three people during a shooting spree at his junior high school to undergo a psychological evaluation.
During a juvenile court hearing yesterday, Sedgwick County District Judge Ron Rogg ordered James Alan Kearley to undergo an evaluation to determine his competency to assist in his defense and to understand future court proceedings.
Kearby will undergo mental competency tests at the Sedgwick County Youth Residence Hall, where he is being supervised by Vardaman, director of the youth facility.
Kearby is accused of entering Goddard Junior High School on Jan. 21 with a high-powered military rifle and a 357-caliber revolver and fatally shooting school principal James McGee and wounding two teachers and a student. The morning shootings occurred in the hallways of the school.
Deputies investigate shooting
TRIBUNE — Greeley County sheriff's deputies yesterday investigated the shooting of a 22-year-old man in a rural section of the county.
The victim, Margarito Rivera, was in stable condition at Humana Hospital in Dodge City, officials said. He had been shot once in the face with an undetermined caliber weapon. Sheriff John Peterson said.
The sheriff said the investigation was being hampered by snow-blowed roads and because Rivera could not speak fluent English. There were no suspects, Peterson said, adding that Rivera's wound did not appear to be self-inflicted.
Rivera initially was stabilized at Greeley County Hospital in Tribune before being transferred to St. Catherine's Hospital in Garden City and later to Humana Hospital.
Quiz Bowl to finish tonight
The final rounds of the College Quiz Bowl will be at 7 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The tournament is double-elimination, and the first championship game should begin about 8:30 p.m., John Sennettz, indoor recreation chairman for Student Union Activities, said yesterday.
Tonight's winner will advance to regional competition in Warrensburg, Mo., from Feb. 15 to 17, Sennent said. Some trip expenses will be paid by SUA.
Sennentz said that 20 teams had entered this year's tournament. The event is open to the public.
Today will be very cold. There will be a 40 percent chance of snow. The high will be 9 to 17. Winds will be from the northeast at 10 to 20 mph.
Weather
Research center planned for industrial park
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
By BETH REITER Staff Reporter
Oread Laboratories will build a bioanalysis research center at the University Corporate and Research Park, the company's chairman of the board said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
Takere Higuchi, the chairman and Regents distinguished professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry, said the center to stop research to sell to industrial companies.
Oread Laboratories, owned by the Kansas University Endowment Association, pres
The 15,000-foot building will be near the corner of 18th Street and Wakarawa Drive. Oread Laboratories has a verbal agreement laboratories, but a contract hasn't been signed yet, Higuchi said.
ently lease offices and laboratory space on West Campus, Higuchi said.
Planning will start this summer and the building probably will be completed in July now.
TODD SEYMOUR, PRESIDENT of the Endowment Association, said, "I think it's probably one of the greatest things that ever happened. It's the only unit of its kind in the
University of Kansas; he sailed.
Because the Equestrian institution is an investor in Oread Laboratories, it will receive money from the center. The money will be used for scholarships, libraries, salaries for employees and other functions of the University. Seymour said.
THE FIRST GOAL of the center will be to analyze small amounts of peptides, which are small amino acids. The center will focus on discovering a process to trace drugs in the human body. Drugs that can't be traced aren't very marketable, Mossberg said.
The center will attract researchers and students to the University of Kansas, he said.
Howard Mossberg, dean of pharmacy and president of Oread Laboratories, said. "The main goal of the corporation is to transfer technology from the center for bioanalysis to the commercial world. The plans are to have a viable corporation and employ 30 to 40 people in four years."
Work will be done to predict drugs that will be on the market in 10 to 15 years and discover tracing processes. But Oread Laboratories is not in the "drug discovering business." Mossberg said.
The center now has two employees: Osborne Wong, a chemist, and Sara Schlappi, an administrative assistant.
Showbiz of Worlds of Fun attracts student auditions
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Singers and dancers kicked and stretched, hummed their songs or just sat and bit their fingernails while they waited last night for the Worlds of Fun auditions to begin.
David King, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, was one of about 25 students who showed up for the auditions in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
King said he tried to audition for anything he could count out a table of judges still could make him
"It doesn't matter what it is. I always get nervous before I audition." King said.
Gary Noble, director of show productions for Worlds of Fun, said he would choose 18 singers and seven dancers for employment this spring, summer and fall.
Novelly acts such as jugglers, comedians or magicians are always welcome, but there are no organized auditions for them, he said.
NOBLE SAID, "IF someone comes in and knocks us out, we'll hire them."
Performers must be at least 16 years old. They are pay $192 a week, plus bonuses for each show. He said they could earn between $4,500 and $4,800 a season.
Singers had to choose two styles of music, usually one up-beat song and one ballad, for their audition. Dancers had to perform a jazz routine and any acrobatics they could do, Noble said.
Ann Pinkerton, Leawood sophomore, said she danced at Worlds of Fun two years ago and wanted to audition again for the experience.
"I missed the performing there," Pinkerton said. "And I think it's a good experience. You learn how to keep a show fresh when you have to do the same show four to six times a day. You really have to love it."
NOBLE SAID THE singers and dancers chosen for this season would start rehearsals in March.
"Rehearsals are far and away the toughest part of the job," he said. "They rehearse evenings and for about nine hours a day on the weekends. When performances start, they'll work five to seven hours a day doing about five 30-minute shows."
But the University of Kansas usually supplies plenty of students willing to put in the time and effort, he said. Last night's visit to a notable place, he had expected more people.
"Usually 30 to 40 will show up," he said. "Over the years, KU has given us more performers than any other school. For any single school to have so many is outstand-
NOBLE SAID HE thought so many of the amusement park's performers came from KU because the school's fine arts department attracted better and more talented students.
In the past, about 20 percent of the Worlds of Fun performers have been from KU, he said.
He said, "The students are quality to start with. And if the fine arts department big the biggest art programs."
Worlds of Fun also holds auditions in Kansas City, Mo., the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
It often takes more than an interest in theater or dance or even technical ability to be hired for a Worlds of Fun show, Noble said.
"We look for technical ability of course," he said. "But we also look for enthusiasm and magic that comes from people who like to be on stage.
"The really great performers have an indefinable magic that makes an audience want to watch them. This is the key for us, even more than technical excellence."
Roy Stewart/KANSAN
Ann Pinkerton, Leawood sophomore, waits in the Kansas Union for the Worlds of Fun summer singers and dancers auditions to begin. Pinkerton said yesterday that her work at the park two summers ago kept her from feeling nervous at the audition.
Use of petition by candidates now permitted
Amendment says club proof not needed
Faculty members have a new way to try to get elected to Faculty Council — and it's not the usual "bumper sticker" campaign.
Candidates nominated to the council, the governing body of Faculty Senate, now are permitted to provide a 100-word statement of their views for distribution with the mail. Sandra Wick, 1965-86 council elections, Sandra Wick, assistant to governance, said yesterday.
But Donald Marquis, associate professor of philosophy and a member of Faculty Council, was one of the supporters of the proposal.
MOST COUNCIL MEMBERS are elected because they have many faculty members in their departments who will vote for them, or because they are well known, Marquis said.
The proposal is still in a trial stage, Wick said. It has not yet been written into University Rules and Regulations.
Marquis said he thought the idea was a good one because it might make faculty think about for whom they were voting, or not. He said the election a "name recognition" game.
By NANCY HANEY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Anyone over 21 with a valid driver's license could enter a private club without proving membership in the club. The vote may be delayed by the Kansas House of Representatives.
The amendment, which was added to a drinking-age bill on a 62-55 vote, was an effort by legislators to avoid a vote on a bill that would drink-age amendment to the state constitution.
Some legislators have said that the proposed amendment to the constitution, which would allow counties to vote to allow voting in elections, might fail if brought to a vote in the House.
The House will vote on the main bill today. The bill proposes raising the legal drinking age to 21 for all liquor in Kansas over a period of three years. It would allow those who turned 18 before July 1 to continue to drink 3.2 percent beer.
THE LEGAL AGE to drink beer would be 18 for those born before July 1, 1967, and 21 for those born after July 1, 1967.
State Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood, one of the sponsors of the amendment that passed yesterday, said the state already allowed travelers aged 21 to enter private clubs
without a membership if they could show an airplane ticket, hotel key or a reciprocal card.
Earlier yesterday, Patrick had proposed an amendment similar to the one that passed, but it failed 56-58. This amendment would have allowed persons over 21 to enter a private club if they showed a valid driver's license from any state or foreign country.
Patrick then re-introduced the amendment to exclude the foreign license provision.
Under the amendment, those who do not have driver's licenses still must prove club membership.
THE AMENDMENT THAT passed met opposition from some House members who said it would discriminate against those who did not have a driver's license.
State Rep. Robin Leach, D-Linwood, said,
"What are you going to do with a blind person?"
Representatives also debated the merits of raising the drinking age. State Rep Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, spoke against the law, which would provide for drunker driving on the wrong age group.
Charlton said she had heard from high school administrators that the problem of drunken students at school would be solved if the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21. But a drinking age bill, she said, was not a solution to the problem.
CHARLTON SAID IT was already against the law for students under 18 to drink, but they managed to get the liquor. Enforcement of the law is what is needed, she said.
"The way I see this, it is a discipline problem, not a legislative problem," Charlton said.
Kansas is required by federal law to raise its drinking age to 21 by 0.1, 1986, or lose 5 percent of federal highway funds, which could be as much as $6 million in 1986.
The state would lose 10 percent of those funds if it does not comply by Sept. 30, 1987. According to the federal law, the withholding tax rate would increase the state after it raises the drinking age to 21.
Kansas would not be in compliance with the federal law until July 1, 1988, under the law.
State Rep. Edwin Bideau, R-Chanute, said he was against passage of the bill in any form.
"if federal dollars weren't in question, we probably wouldn't even consider this bill," he
The proposed bill also would allow persons 18 and older to work in establishments that sell liquor if they do not mix or pour the drinks.
Some information for this story was provided by United Press International.
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