University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Council may vote on transfer
The University Council probably will vote today on a recommendation to transfer the radiation biophysics process according to the Council's presiding officer.
The meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Blake Hall.
James Carothers, associate professor of English and presiding officer for the council, said that if the council didn't vote on a resolution would have to be made within 30 days.
The council's decision will then go to Demnell Tacha, vice caucille for academics.
The University Council meeting follows a recommendation last week that the program be transferred from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to another division of the University. The Committee released its recommendations on Saturday released the recommendation Jan. 16.
College Bowl entries due
Each team must have four members and one alternate member. The filing fees
Eight teams so far have entered the competition, which is sponsored by SUA and Lambda Sigma, the sophomore honor society.
College Bowl competition will begin in the Kansas Union on Monday. The winner will advance to the regional tournament in Warrensburg, Mo.
Hatfield to speak at Washburn
Sen. Mark Haffield, R-Oregon, will deliver the sixth Menninger Lecture at 8 p.m. Friday in White Concert Hall at Washburn University in Topeka.
Hatfield, 62, is expected to speak on the main issues now facing Congress. He has
The lecture series honors Karl Menninger, co-founder of the Menninger Foundation. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Group to sing for Kansas Day
The 36 members of the Collegiate Singers will perform tomorrow at Kansas Day festivities in Topeka, the group's director said yesterday.
The group, comprising KU students, will sing for the opening ceremony of the celebration, which marks the 124th anniversary of Kansas' statehood, said Rob Fisher, the director. The performance will include "America the Beautiful," a tongue-in-cheek version of "Ah, Kansas" and "Home on the Range," the state song. This summer the choir will be touring Europe, giving a series of benefit concerts to raise money for charities in various European cities, Fisher said.
Weather
Today will be sunny and warmer. Highs will be in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northwest winds will be 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear. Lows will be 10 to 15. Tomorrow will be partly sunny. Highs will be in the low to mid 30s.
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Tales and teddy bears comfort the homesick
By TAD CLARKE
Staff Represent
Staff Reporter
Two young entrepreneurs have a novel idea for a business. They read bedtime stories to homesick students.
Steve Wolcott, Lawrence senior, and Troy
Hernandez, the student last week
dreamed up in the Sleeping Giant.
For $10, sleeppless female customers can call Wolcott and Tedder, who arrive with a favorite tale and a teddy bear to comfort the melancholy student. When the story is finished, the reader tucks in the customer and gives her a goodnight kiss.
"I saw something like this on one of the news shows a couple of years ago," Tedder said. "I just thought about it again last week."
Tedder, 21, and Wolcott, 22, said they had decided to accept only female customers
"IF WE GET enough guys to respond, we must have to expand our staff to include a nurse."
Wolcott said he and Tedder talked about
the idea briefly before placing an advertisement in the Kansan classified section.
Wolcott and Tedder, who also operate a parking lot striping business, called Sleep-Around. A 40-year-old employee
"We got a response that day," Wolcott said. "So we decided to go ahead with it."
"For the investment of an ad in the Kansan, I can see big dividends," Wolcott said.
Although Tedder and Wolcott have had only four readings, they said they expected to become more popular once they were better known.
"RESPONSE WE'VE HAD from our female friends has been great." Wolcott said. "Everyone we've talked to says, 'yeah, that's a really neat idea.'"
Tedder said he expected most of their business to come from students wanting to give friends unique birthday presents.
"So far no girl has called in wanting to have a story read to herself," Tedder said. "They've all been surprises for peoples' birthdays or something."
Dawn Holbrook, Latrobe, Penn, junior,
fellow at Columbia for her birthday.
friend in McCollum Hall for her birthday
"It was very good, well worth the money," Holbrook said. "He got really into the voices of the characters and was serious about the whole thing. It's a great idea."
Wolcott said he was not sure what story would turn out to be the most popular. Stories they have read so far include "Goldiocks and the Three Bears," "The Little Pokey Puppy" and "Winnie the Pooh, and Tigger, Too."
"WHEN A CUSTOMER calls, we ask for one of those. We discuss and try to get one of those. Woolsey said it is the best."
Wolcott said he was embarrassed during his first reading.
"I was reading 'Goldilocks' to a girl in McColum." Wolcott said. "There were about 14 girls in the doorway listening and I was talking in the Papa Bear voice and the Baby Bear voice."
Missing parade doesn't cool enthusiasm of band members toward inauguration
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The excitement of touring the nation's capital offset the cancellation of outdoor festivals at the 50th Inauguration in Washington, DC on Monday, played by who played in the ceremonies said yesterday.
Two of the band's four scheduled performances had to be cancelled because of the cold
Cindy Mitchell, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and a member of the band, said temperatures dropped into the teens and the wind chill was 20 below.
The band was supposed to play at the National Pageant of the Young Americans at the Jefferson Memorial on Sunday and then were to go on a drive down Pennsylvania Avenue on Monday.
THE KU BAND members were taken to Kansas City International Airport Jan. 15 in a small airplane from Lawrence Municipal Airport. The band members returned to Lawrence on Tuesday. The Committee for transportation paid for all the travel expenses.
James Baker, Harper sophomore; Andy Dubowski, Leawood senior; Greg Hayes, Plano, Texas, sophomore; and David Reynolds, Joplin, Mo., senior, were nominated by Robert Foster, KU director of bands, and chosen by the All-American College Marching Band to represent Kansas.
Thomas Lipscomb, Baytown, Texas, graduate student, participated in the band as a member.
Mitchell said a performance in the Capital Center took the place of the inaugural Pitch.
THE BAND HAD 450 members from universities in all 50 states. Mitchell said about 200 band members were from the Washington, D.C. area.
Mitchell said the most exciting part of the trip probably was the number of times the band played at the festival.
President Reagan and First Lady Nancy
Rogers were present at both of the perfec-
tions.
"We never got to meet him, but he was aling me the band at most of the performances."
During the day the band was busy rehearsing for the performances that night.
One day, however, the board banded buses to tour the city, Mitchell said. They also were allowed to tour the Smithsonian Institute's Space Center and Art Museum. That was all the sightseeing the band members were allowed to do, Mitchell said.
REYNOLDS SAID HE enjoyed the cancellation of some of the events because it gave the band members more time to tour the city.
Reynolds said the band members also saw many celebrities in Washington. He said he
saw Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin while boarding a bus one day.
"The performing was good, but meeting the people from around the country and seeing the celebrities was better," Reynolds said.
Mitchell said the band played "God bless the U.S.A." with singer Mac Davis, at the Presidential Inaugural Gala at the Washington Convention Center on Saturday night. The band marched into the convention center from four directions while playing the song.
THE INAUGURAL BALL for Young Americans at the Washington Armory on Monday night was a formal affair that honored the many dresses or tuxedos, Mitchell said. President Haagian and Vice President George Rush made an appearance at the ball.
"There were lots of bands performing"
"Melody it was like a big auditorium and"
"very formal."
Most of the band members learned about the opportunity to go to Washington D.C. when they were in college.
Mitchell, however, said she learned about the selection on Jan. 10, a week before she returned to Lawrence, but did not know she had been nominated for the band before that.
The band stayed at Fort Belvoir, Va. during the week. Mitchell said the rooms were Army barracks, and her room contained four cots and lockers.
Clove cigarette fad could be dangerous
Clove cigarettes, which have existed for years but became suddenly popular last year on the West Coast, began selling well in Lawrence last year, area merchants say.
Staff Reporter
Last month, the American Lung Association warned against the possible dangers of clove cigarettes and urged "the public to quit" because they could harm them may be a serious risk to lung health.
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
In a tavern or nightclub in Lawrence, the sweet, spicy smell that fills the air may be coming from the smoke of a clove cigarette and that could pose a possible health threat.
The association's warning was prompted by the death last March of a 17-year-old California student that may have been linked to his smoking of a clove cigarette while recovering from the flu. Time magazine reported in April that Disease Control in Atlanta planned to study the link between clove cigarettes and other lung illnesses.
THE CIGARETTES, which contain about 60 percent tobacco and about 40 percent ground cloves, clove oil and other ingredients, are commonly used by the Surgeon General as other cigarettes do.
"The thing I remember the most about them is I cannot feel my tongue or my mouth," said Susan Leininger, Bonner Press. "We nurse, who no longer smokes clove cigarettes."
Clove cigarettes, also called kretek, are imported from Indonesia. One of the ingredients in the cigarettes is eugenol, a natural anesthetic found in cloves that doctors say may explain an occasional facial numbness that affects some coke smokers.
PAUL REITH. A physician at Watkins Memorial Hospital, said little information had been found on the effects of clove cigarettes to the brain of the cigarettes needed to be studied further.
Several Lawrence physicians said they hadn't treated any smokers suffering from the disease.
Randy DeSha, clerk at the Town Crier Book & Pipe Shop, 930 Massachusetts St., said the store made about $200 each week from the cigarettes. He said about 90 percent of his customers who smoked clove cigarettes were KU students.
noticed an increased interest in them about a year ago.
George Wilson, owner of George's Pipe Shop, 727 Massachusetts St. t, had been heard in a local news report that he was
DeSha, who has smoked the cigarettes, said he didn't like them because the taste reminded him of "the smell of baking holiday ham."
DESHA SAID THE cigarettes sold for about $1.50 for a pack of 10. Regular cigarettes cost about $1 for a pack of 20, DeSha said.
Yesterday, two students smoking regular cigarettes in the lobby of the Kansas Union said they and their friends used to smoke the strong-smelling cigarettes.
"They smell great," Greg Morgan, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said. "It's not like being in the same room with someone that smokes. It is like incense."
Leininger said she had seen many people smoking the cigarettes at nightclubs, parties and bars.
Staff Reporter
Add-drop war fought in lines at Strong Hall
By Michelle Worrall Staff Reporter
A line of more than 200 students armed with multi-colored spanned the length of Strong Hall yesterday, as prearranged dropping and added gave way to the start of first-come, first-served drop and add.
Some students had avoided the 12% hour wait by following the assigned appointment schedule earlier in the week. Each student was assigned two time slots from the first day of school based upon the last two digits of his or her student identification number.
Feb. 12 is the last date to submit requests to add regular 16-week classes. The last date to drop a regular 16-week class is Feb. 19.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said the present prearranged dropping and adding system that ended with a successful need needed better than past procedures.
"WE'RE DOING PRETTY well in meeting our objectives," he said, "but sometimes in order to meet our objectives we have a line."
Prearranged dropping and adding by the appointment schedule reduces the number of students who skip classes to 20%. Thompson assigned two time slots. Thompson said.
The system discourages students who go through the line again and again, hoping that someone ahead will drop a class that they need.
"We'll挤 a distinctive sweater walk out the door and see that same sweater back in line a half hour later," Thompson said.
But the chance of a person ahead dropping a course that the person behind needs are rare, he said.
THE REVISED CLASS schedules provided after dropping and adding act as receipts, Thompson said, giving students proof of enrollment in a class.
"A lot of people come here and say they dropped a class but received an F on their report card," she said.
Since Thursday, the 10 computer terminals in the enrollment center in Strong Hall have operated from 7:40 a.m. until 9 p.m. Operators were allowed lunch and dinner breaks and three 10-minute rest periods.
"If you would go down there and look at them you would see weary faces," Thompson said. "We worked hard to meet the demand of all (scheduled) drops and adds within five days."
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