University Daily Kansan, January 28, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFES
Four KU students were injured in a one-car accident early Saturday morning.
Students hurt in car accident
Michelle Mulvihill, 18, Des Moines,
Iowa, freshman, was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after the 1:30 a.m. accident. She remained in the hospital yesterday with a broken jaw and facial injuries.
Shyness workshop tonight
Stephen Saijen, 19, Chesterfield, Mo., freshman, and driver of the car, was treated and released Saturday for facial injuries. Two other passengers, Angie Fosnough, 19, Chesterfield, Mo., freshman, and Patricia Cremer, 19, Des Moines, Iowa, freshman, both received minor injuries.
The Student Assistance Center will present a workshop tonight from 6:30 to 9 p.m. to help students improve their skills in meeting people.
At the workshop, students can learn how to strike up conversations and overcome their shyness. Interested students must sign up for the workshop today at the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall.
Reading skills class begins
The Student Assistance Center will present the first session in a three-part class on reading for comprehension and speed tomorrow from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
To participate in the class, students must register and pay a $15 materials fee. Students will be Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong. Both other two sessions will be on Feb. 5 and 12.
Job workshop to be held today
A job search workshop will be conducted today from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Adult Life Resource Center, 13th and Oread streets.
The workshop, for women who must enter the workshop because of divorces, disabilities within their families, or the death of their husbands, is sponsored by the Kansas State Department and is funded by the Kansas State Department of Education and Vocational Education.
For more information call 864-4794.
Opera star to sing solo recital
Metropolitan Opera star Judith Biehn will perform a solo recital as part of the University of Kansas Concert Series at 8 p.m. feb. 8 in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Her performance is part of the 1983 University Arts Festival.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Murphy Hall box office. All seats are reserved, and tickets cost $10 and $8. KU students and kindergarten through 12th grade students will receive a 50 percent discount on tickets. Senior citizens and students from other colleges will receive a $1 discount.
Authors club sponsors contest
To reserve tickets, call 864-3982
The Kansas Authors Club is sponsoring a writing contest for residents of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Douglas, Franklin, Linn, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte counties.
Writers can participate in prose and poetry categories in adult and juvenile divisions. For complete rules, writers can access a self-addressed stamped envelope to context chairman Nancy Mattila, 1503 E. Glenn Drive, Lawrence, 6044.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and the high will be in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Winds of 5 to 10 mph will be from the southeast. Tonight will be partly cloudy and the low will be around 20. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and a little warmer. The high will be in the mid-30s.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansan Friday incorrectly reported the number of students working on an aerospace engineering experiment. Six graduate and 11 undergraduate students are working on the experiment.
Compiled from Kanan staff and United Press International reports.
GLSOK dance shows profit after 3-month lag
Staff Reporter
By SHARON ROSSE
The Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas made about $100 on its dance Saturday night, but the "Fagbusters" T-shirts and the issue of GLSOK financing has reduced attendance at dances, the group's president said yesterday.
Ruth Lichtwardt, the president, said Saturday's dance was the first to make a profit since before the group's Halloween dance.
She said GLOSK had lost about $300 on its Halloween dance and about $200 on its dance in December. In the past, she said, the dances have made as much as $600.
Lichtwardt said she attributed the poor turn-out to the hostile atmosphere created on campus by the "Fagbusters" T-shirts and a petition calling for a campus vote on Student
Senate financing of GLOSK, and to personal harassment of group members.
But Steve Imber, Lawrence senior and author of the petition, said yesterday that GLSOK was a "victim of their own hype."
"I TINK THEIR financial loss is due more to their own attempts to get sympathy," Imber said. "They tried to get so much sympathy for acts of harassment that they could have punished a large number of people. They are just as responsible as I am for creating a negative atmosphere."
"The petition's whole argument was that we are self-supporting," she said. "But because of his actions against us, we're going to take some action." And their argument that we are self.sufficient.
Lichtwardt said that Imber's petition called GLSOK self-supporting. But she said his actions against GLSOK had caused them to lose money.
TIMOTHY HENDERSON, Pratt senior and chairman of the Student Senate Finance Committee.
effect on his committee's recommendations to finance student groups. Budget hearings for GLSOK and all other groups that receive money from the Senate begin March 18.
Henderson said, "I anticipate nothing more from the GLSOK hearing than from any other group. Every group will receive fair and equal hearings from my committee."
Lichtwärth said Saturday night's profits
indicate people' reluctance to attend
conferences.
"The immediacy of the T-shirts and the harassments has passed," she said. "It's a new semester and people seem to be optimistic. People are sick of hearing about GLSOK, and the harassments have pretty much stopped."
A TONANOXIE graduate student who attended Saturday night's dance and asked not to be identified, said, "Tonight's a lot different. The atmosphere is better, more relaxed. Last time there were some Bible-thumpers stopping almost everyone who
came through. That tends to put a damper on things."
Lichtward said the controversy reached a
during its next weekend before last
semester with long delayed data.
"Rumors spread around the gay community that people would be outside the Union harassing people as they went to the dance," she said.
GLOSK hired security and arranged for increased patrol from KU police at the Halloween dance, Lightwardt said.
"There were no incidents, but people didn't come because they were seared," she said.
A Lawrence resident who attended Saturday night's dance and asked not to be identified said, "The whole issue last semester changed the climate on campus. People were scared that they would get beat up outside the Union. I wasn't going to go the Halloween dance, but I decided to go to show my support, God help what would happen."
Researchers take studies to Antarctic
By DeNEEN BROWN
Staff Reporter
A freezing sun hangs still in the Antarctic water and ice crystals that cast a huge glow.
The sun never sets in the freezing Antarctic summer, the snow never melts and the temperature never climbs above zero.
Nothing is able to live in those freezing temperatures — nothing except a few scientists. They make up the continent's population of 2,000 researchers.
"It is so cold at South Pole Station that the snow that fell in the year 1,000 is still there." Edward Zeller, professor of geology, physics and astronomy, said yesterday. Zeller returned this month from Antarctica, where he has been studying sun spots for two months.
Zeller is part of a four-member KU research team that studies the history of the sun's activity in the Antarctic snow. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation.
THE TEAM CONSISTS of Zeller, Gisela Dreschholt, professor of physics; Thomas Armstrong, professor of physics; and Claude Laird, a graduate student in physics.
Recently, the team spent almost two months working in Antarctica and two weeks in
The record of the sun's activity is frozen in the layers of snow, Zeller said. Because the snow never melts at the South Pole, researchers are able to measure the content of ice on the planet as far back as 1600, before Italian astronomer Galileo Gallio invented his telescope.
The individual snow layers are preserved in a way similar to the rings in a tree, Zeller said. As researchers chip the ice layers, they reveal the layers to reveal what year that snow fell.
THE RESEARCHERS measure the nitrate
Claude Laird, left, *Lawerence* graduate student, Gisela Dreschhoff, assistant professor of physics, Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, and Edward Zeller, professor of geology, physics and astronomy, recently returned
from Antarctica, where it's now summer and the temperature gets as high as 20 below zero on a warm day. The four member KU research team studied the history of solar activity by analyzing snow at the South Pole.
content in each snow level, which is proportional to the sun spot activity that year, he said.
"We know there have been drastic changes in the climate," Zeller said. "If we know more about solar activity in the past, we may be able to predict climate changes in the future."
Zeller and other team members said they hoped to determine the history of climate change.
The trip was Zeller's 12th to the South Pole and Dreschhoff's ninth. It was the first visit for Armstrong and Laird.
"I've been there on two occasions for four months," he said. "So I'm used to it."
ZELLER HAS GONE to Antarctica every year since 1976. He makes the trip every November, when it is summer in Antarctica and temperatures are bearable.
For nearly four months, Zeller said, the sun never sets and the summer's hottest days
are 20-25 degrees below zero
"You can't tell the difference between noon and midnight." he said. "The sun just circles and stays at the same level above the horizon."
But in the polar winter, the sun never rises, and temperatures hover at 100 degrees below zero, Zeller said. No one can go outside and the freezing chill hails all research.
"South Pole Station is like a space station, except you can breath the air." Zeller said.
Ice cream businesses feel no freeze in winter
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Every weekend students slap cash on the counters of their favorite Lawrence establishments and demand a double - two scoops of ice cream.
Even in winter the cold stuff is a favorite among KU students, area ice cream store owners, and sports teams.
"Statistics show that people have been buying more ice cream since central heating was introduced in the *40s*, " said Ruby Shade, who, with her husband, Doug, owns Lawrence's two Baskin-Robins 31 Flavors ice cream stores, 1524 W. 23rd St. and 925 W. 15th St.
Last year, customers consumed 15,000
kids-in-Robins on 2nd Street. Doug Shake said.
During most spring semesters, he said,
sales at both Baskin-Robbins jump 50 to 60
weeks.
And ice cream store employees scoop frantically to satisfy customer demands.
"WHEN I FIRST started working here I had bruises on my arm from digging into the gallon containers," said Kathy Kennedy, a Zarda Biershards Dairy Store employee.
Zarda Brothers Dairy Store, 1802 W. 23rd St., serves 50 to 75 customers from 10 p.m. to midnight every Sunday. Kennedv said.
"Sunday nights are busiest," she said, "because students get back to studying, need a break, and most places aren't open as late as we are."
The traditional favorites — chocolate,
vanilla and strawberry — have taken a back seat in the freezer to more exotic flavors, such as Rocky Road, Pumpkin Pie, German Chocolate Cake and Jamoca Almond Fudge, store owners said.
And chocolate ice cream has come a long way since grandmother made it by hand on the front porch.
One-third of Baskin-Robbins' ice cream contains chocolate in chip, chunk, ripple, swirl or mousse form. Doug Shade said.
Chris Trandal, a Baskin-Robbins em-
polymer said, "Anything with chocolate in it
Chocolate Unlimited Inc., 1601 W. 23rd St., also sells a variety of gourmet chocolate ice cream
BUT ONE OF the best-selling ice creams in town is a combination of vanilla ice cream, caramel, nuts and praline candy. Zarda calls its supreme ice cream Praline Pecan, and Baskin-Robbins bills it up to seller as Pralines and Cream. Sundaes, banana splits, shakes and maltés are also favorites among KU students.
"Half of our sales are from Royal Treats,
which are banana splits, and from Peanut
Buster Parfaits and Fudge Brownie Delights," said Jerry Potter, who owns Lawrence's two Dairy Queen Brazier stores, 254 Iowa St. and 183 Massachusetts St.
The Dairy Queen on Massachusetts Street, which opened in 1945, is the oldest ice cream franchise in the state, he said.
Potter said Dairy Queen had enjoyed many years of success, because of its special appeal.
"Our ice cream is rich and creamy, not grainy," he said.
Kennedy said Zarda was popular because of its generous scoops.
"We're supposed to give 3³ ounces scoop, but we usually give 4½ ounces," she said.
but we usually give 4½ ounces. 'she said'
Variety keeps Baskin Robbins' customers
full of ice cream.
variety keeps backspin-10000s customers
coming back, Ruby Shade said.
"Everyone's favorite flavor is in here at some time." she said.
Each Baskin-Robbis store has about 15 standard flavors, Ruby Shade said.
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FRESHMEN & SOPHOMORES interested in requirements and application procedures for MEDICAL SCHOOL
There will be an informative meeting JANUARY 28th,7 p.m., in the ALDERSON ROOM of the Union
Representatives from KU Med Center will be in attendance.
12th & Moro Aggieville (across from Kites) VISIT US BEFORE OR AFTER THE GAME!