CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, January 23, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Program transfer up for vote
The meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Blake Hall
The University Council meeting follows a recommendation last week that the program be transferred from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to another college. A faculty committee on Academic Procedures and Policies released the recommendation Jan. 16.
James Carothers, associate professor of English and presiding officer for the council, said that if the council didn't vote on the recommendation tomorrow, it would have to make a decision within 30 days.
That decision then will be sent to Deanell Tama, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The council also will vote on an amendment to the University Senate regulations that would bring them up to national and state regulations on discrimination.
Slatterv named panel member
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., was named to the House Budget Committee yesterday, making him the Democrats' only Midwestern representative on the panel.
The second-term congressman from Topeka had lobbied to be named to the governor's council.
"We view the deficit as the most critical issue facing us," said Slattery aide Ken Peterson. "He made an effort to get on the Budget Committee after his re-election. He will be the only Democrat from west of the Mississippi and east of the Rockies."
Slattery, a real estate agent elected in 1982 to represent the 2nd Congressional District, will remain on the Energy and Commerce Committee. But Peterson said Slattery might have to give up his position on the Veterans' Affairs panel.
Student semifinalist for award
Tony Arnold, Wichita sophomore, is a regional semifinalist for the Truman Scholarship, awarded to sophomores planning careers in government or poli-
Arnold will interview for the scholarship March 11-12 in Kansas City, Mo., for the region of Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa.
Scholarship winners can receive up to $5,000 to pay for up to four years of undergraduate and graduate studies. The winner must attend the winners can receive is $20,000.
The national scholarship, sponsored by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, was established by Congress as a memorial to Truman.
Professor will speak on India
Howard Baumgartel, professor of psychology, business and communication studies, will give a talk on his impressions of India at 11:45 a.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Baugartel has taught and done research in India five times, most recently with the MIT program.
The speech is part of the University Forum series.
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Hall's food brings officials, residents to table
By TAD CLARKE Staff Reporter
About 25 residents of Hashinger Hall met with three housing and food officials last night to discuss last month's food poisoning and other problems with the dining services.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, Lenoir Ekdahl, director of food services for the housing department, and Diane Taylor, director of housing for the residents in the Hashinger cafeteria.
Cindy Surber, Montezua graduate student, questioned Wilson about the food incident. In December, about 100 residents were sick with salmonella, blamed the illnesses on either food poisoning
or a virus passed by a cafeteria worker during the Dec. 16 dinner at the hall.
Samples of the food were taken to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
"WED LIKE TO get a straight answer once and for all," Surber said. "Twice you said the food was to be taken to Teopek and tested and then they didn't do anything.
"It seems to me you'd want to know if it was food poisoning to get us off your backs. We waited for six weeks to know the answer when it came and it wasn't anything. Why?"
Wilson said, "That wasn't our decision not to have the food tested. I was of the opinion that they made some preliminary checks. At what time they decided not to continue, I don't know."
A spokesman for the health department said last week that not enough evidence was present to warrant testing of the food.
Wilson said the residents were wrong to be suspicious.
"We're not trying to hide a thing." Wilson
it. It was their judgment (not to test the
word).
HE SAID HE would contact the health department to "see if we can get a little more of a reason from them."
Surber also asked Wilson why there was such a difference in the number of residents who were reported sick and those taken to Watkins Hospital.
Wilson said he could not explain the difference and said he would try to clarify the difference.
Wilson estimated last week that about 50 residents had been sick. A poll taken by several Hashinger residents found 97 residents had been ill during final weeks.
The residents also questioned the three officials about cockroaches and bugs seen in the building.
Two other residents also complained to the officials about seeing bugs in their food.
"Westerday a roach crawled out of my salad," Carrie Stutzman, Topeka graduate student, said. "Last December I was eating broccoli that had bugs.
JUST DON'T understand how things like that can pass through and get out to where people are eating them."
Ekdahl said dining facilities had been heavily fogged during the semester break, to
help preserve the quality of food.
Byron Davis, a student from Northeast Missouri State University, auditions in Murphy Hall before a conductor from the Disney Orchestra. Davis was one of about 30 students from around the Midwest who auditioned yesterday for summer internships as musicians at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Disney summer music audition animates 30 Midwest students
By ANN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
About 30 students from the University of Kansas and other Midwestern universities auditioned yesterday at Murphy Hall for a role at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
The 11-week internships will allow 85 band and orchestra students a chance to become professional musicians. During the summer, the students perform and attend clinics conducted by guest stars, said Bob Radack, director of The Disney Entertainment Work Experience Program
"It's a chance to meet Marvin Hamlisch
him how he hew the 'Chorus Line,'"
Radecki
The 14-year-old Disney tour to recruit young talent came to Lawrence for the first time this year. Lawrence is the third child from the 85's 10-city tour, which will end Feb. 11.
"IT WAS MCCURDY'S and Foster's reputation that persuaded us to come here," he said, referring to Robert Foster, director of bands, and Ron McCurdy, who we have always found talent in KU students, but this is our first to Lawrence. "but this is our first
The Disney program requires that band interns perform six shows at the one of the entertainment parks each day. The shows include jazz ensembles and dance routines, usually perform three times a night, often play classic pop music, Radeck said.
Orchestra musicians go only to Disney World, in Orlando, Fla., Rudack said, but band students may be sent there or to Disneyland, in Anaheim, Calif. He said he auditioned about 10 times as many students as there were jobs each year.
Woodwind player Rick Barth. Belleville junior, said, "It's a great experience to work with the best college musicians in the country."
students who auditioned for the internships. The students practiced in the band room of Murphy Hall before playing a piece of their own choice and sight-reading.
Dyann Myers, Centralia, Mo., junior and oboe player, and Barth said that if they were chosen, they expected the job to be tough but worth the hard work.
"Being a professional musician for a summer would be great." Barth said.
BARTH WAS ONE of about 15 KU
About 15 other students from the Midwest also came to KU to audition, including six students from Central Missouri State University.
Jim Lavin, Wichita State University junior, played a kettledrum in the Disney orchestra last year. He said he had to be in the short time he was at Disney World.
"THE JOB WAS intense, but it was a fun kind of intense." Lavin said. "There was a lot of lottie-reading and a standard list of repertory to play each night."
The best part about the job was being able to work with movie score composers and professional performers such as Toni Tennille and Richard Carpenter, Lavin
McCurdy said Disney was looking for skilled musicians who could perform before large crowds and interpret jazz styles.
Students work an average 40-hour week and can earn college credit. They also receive $2,200 salary and free housing at a complex near Disneyland or Disney World.
"We got two days off a week and usually went to downtown Orlando or the beach." Lavin said. "We also got free admission to the park."
Last year, two KU students joined the Disney marching band and college orchestra, a good percentage considering Olinne Jones hundreds of students, Raddock said.
The full-time job lasts from June 3 to Aug. 17 and is a valuable experience for students who want to become professional musicians after college. Rodack said.
Black student conference to take place next month
By PATRICIA SKALLA
Staff Reporter
A keynote address by former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson on Feb. 9 will highlight the 1885 Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government.
About 300 students from all Big Eight schools are scheduled to attend the conference on campus Bef. 8-10, said Michele Van, director of the office of minor affairs.
Students from Wichita State University and Mankato State University in Mankato, Minn., also have been invited because of their interest in the conference. Van said.
KAREN WILSON, treasurer of the KU Black Student Union, said the conference was open to anyone who wanted to come. She said the BSU would like a lot of KU students at UTEP.
Van said, "It's something a cross section of people can attend."
Dale Brooks, BSU vice president, said any student at the University could be a member of BSU. About 800 black students currently attend KU, he said.
KU students who want to attend the conference should send a $30 registration fee to Robert Nelson at the Continuing Education Center. A fee of $40 is required in attending the conference must pay $40.
Jackson, who was Atlanta mayor from 1974 to 1861, was the city's first black mayor. While in office, Jackson's achievements included the Atlanta Midfield Expansion Airport Project and integration of the school system.
Other activities at the conference will include workshops led by university professors and administrators, a speech Feb. 8 to Teopka psycheist Gilbert Parks, a council chair of the school and other activities sponsored by minority groups in Lawrence. Brooks said.
Van said topics would include stress management, parliamentary procedure, organizational effectiveness and job opportunities in the foreign service.
The conference began in 1978 at the University of Missouri for black students who wanted to become more involved in a predominantly white school, Van said.
"The students wanted to work over some common concerns about racial issues," she
Faculty to get patent help in new development effort
Staff Reporter
Bv KATHY FLANDERS
Faculty probably will find it easier to get patents for their inventions now that a representative from a patent development company is on campus.
The arrival Monday of Carl A. Cline, the representative, begins a new policy approved in November by the Board of Regents. The policy lets Regents' schools hire patent development companies to help with increased faculty requests for patents.
KU faculty used to have to go through a committee of University officials before contracting with a patent development company. Inventors now can contract directly with Research Corp., a Tuscon, Ariz., patent development company that signed a contract with the University in December.
Cline has been a patent attorney since 1966. He is a former chemist and has several patents.
"MY JOI IS to encourage researchers to report patent ideas as easily as possible." Cline said Monday "Research Corp then decided that patent ideas are patentable and marketable."
Inventors at the University still will have the option of pursuing patents on their own, CHI.
Cline said Research Corp. was a non-profit foundation, making its income by licensing (investing) its intellectual property.
"When royalties come in, we have an agreement with KU to share the royalties." Cline said. "KU in turn has its own rights, so the inventors for their share of the royalties."
Marilyn Yarbrough, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public services, said the new policy would make obtaining patents easier by shortening the process.
Stella said he was working on a patent for an anti-convulsant for Merck, a pharmaceutical company. The projected marketing for the drug is late 1987.
"The way the agreement is set up, 1 percent of net sales in royalties goes to the University. The projected sales are from $10 to $20 million per year," Stella said.
UNDER THE OLD policy, he said, the University committee determined where the 1 percent went, with 25 percent of that 1 percent going to the Endowment Association and another 25 percent going to the pharmaceutical chemistry department.
"The other 50 percent of the 1 percent would go to me with a potential yearly income of $24 million."
"There's nothing at the University under the old procedure to highly encourage people to file patients. Under the old procedure it was very difficult to get any help.
"The University has been generous in assignment of romances, and that encourages people to read."
"No one was responsible to get people enthused and confident enough to file for patents. The new policy in principle should help."
Valentino Stella, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry who holds five patents, said he was familiar with the old and new patent processes at KU.
"MY PATENTS WERE done through companies that did the legal aspects for the patents," Stella said. "We have a grant from the National Cancer Institute and, as a result, some of the work we are doing could be patented."