CAMPUS/AREA
Uniiversity Daily Kansan / Wednesday. April 22, 1992
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CBS tents open after snow delay
Students get chance to make television debut during network's college tour
By Michelle Betts Kansan staff writer
The CBS College Tour finally had a chance to open its tents yesterday after snow caused the cancellation of Monday's events.
Students crowded around four white tents in front of Watson Library and won prizes such as T-shirts, water bottles and Frisbees, and were able to keep tapes of themselves acting out soap opera scenes and forecasting the weather.
The tour was sponsored by the KU Association of University Residence Halls and WIBW-TV in Topeka.
Dasha Jaros, a member of next year's executive board of the association, sat in front of "Studio CBS," where students could dress in costumes and read scripts of soap operas
in front of a camera.
Some scripts are really funny," Jaros said. "And we've had a lot of people come in today."
Dennis Stonequist, Evanston, Ill., sophomore, carried a plastic bag full of prizes from the games at different tents.
Jarrett Steele, Prairie Village junior, and Kasha Kelley, Arkansas City senior, sat in the mock dressing room and rehearsed before acting out a romantic scene between Ridge and Caroline from "The Bold and the Beautiful."
"We're just taking time from class, and we are in radio and TV, so we thought we'd trit it." Steele said.
"You just can't beat this," he said, holding up his bag of prizes. "They are giving away good stuff."
Stonequist moved on to the simulated weather forecast bootch, where he gave a mock forecast. He put magnetic temperature stickers over Kansas that said "80s" and "40s."
"In Kansas, you can have both," he said. "Just remember to bring your winter coat and your summer coat."
Stonequist got to take home a videotape of his forecast.
"There are more students out when the weather is nice, so they can hang out." Newbold said.
Will Newbold, a promoter for AT&T worked at the simulated sportscaster's booth.
However, Newbold said he was happy with the number of KU students who visited the tents.
At the sportscasting booth, students made tapes of themselves broadcasting a play-by-play sporting event.
The booth used a tape of last year's
national championship basketball game between Kansas and Duke.
"People have been changing their sportscasts to a Kansas angle," Newbold said.
"Your mind goes blank up there," Hydeman said, "but I had a great time. I hope you come back next year."
Matt Hydeman, Prairie Village sophomore, played and won an IBM computer game in "Family Feud."
Jamie Cutburth, president of the association, said he was pleased with the turnout of students for the tour.
"It went really well," Cutburd said.
"With the cold weather and everything, there were a lot of people out here."
The crews from CBS and volunteers from the association closed the tents and packed up equipment at about 3 p.m. yesterday.
Anthony Parisi, Brooklyn, N.Y., sophomore, forecasts the weather. Parisi participated yesterday in the CBCS College Tour.
STUDENT
ELECTION
SENATE
Senate panel fines groups a total of $15
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
After more than four hours of hearings and deliberation last night, the hearing board of the Student Senate Elections Commission ruled that the sionation and Unless coalitions must pay cohesion costs for violations during Senate elections.
Vision was fined $5 for having a campaign poster on display in front of Jesse Hall and its for hanging door-fitting panels without receiving the proper authority
Unless received a $5 fine for using masking tape to tape posters to a wall in the same building.
The hearing board, which rules on all official election complaints, is a subcommittee of the elections commission.
Unless members maintained last night that Vision campaigned in areas specifically restricted by the Senate Elections Code by escorting voters to the voting booths and influencing them to vote for Vision.
Members of the board and the coalitions questioned what constituted actual violations. Most of the debate centered on allegations about whether Vision members campaigned too near the voting booth in front of Wessex Hall
In one case, Victor Young, Unless Senate candidate, said he saw Marisol Romero, Vision Senate candidate, walking with a student to the voting booth with campaign materials in her hand and campaigning along the way.
Romero said she walked with a friend to the polls but did not have any campaign materials in her hands nor did she campaigh.
Board members voted to reject the complaint.
Other Vision members were accused of similar violations, but those charges alone did not prevent them.
John Shoemaker, Vision Senate candidate, said Vision members removed all campaign materials when entering the restricted campaigning areas and did not discuss the election while walking to the polls.
Members of the board said the commission needed to determine whether escorting voters to the polls was illegal.
Christine McFartland / KANSAN
An afternoon with Seuss
In "A Celebration of Seuss," SalManzi, Wichita author, reads The Big Brag in front of Wescoce Hall. The Seuss-A-Thon yesterday, presented by the KU Dr. Seuss Club and sponsored by Hastings Books, Music and Video, featured selections such as Cat in the Hat and Oh the Places You'll Go.
Commission honors outstanding women students, faculty and staff
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
The Commission on the Status of Women has recognized the achievements of KU women for about 22 years. Although the organization is not as well-known as it was in the past, the commission continued its tradition last night by recognizing female students, faculty and staff.
About 100 people attended the 1982 Women's Recognition Program at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. A six-member committee selected five women for the Women's Hall of Fame and individual students and faculty members for special awards. All the women were nominated for the awards by students and colleagues.
Jackie Gordon, president of the commission, said the group was much larger in the 1970s.
"In the past few years, we've been trying to bring more materiality to our work — we've always recognized requiring
The program is the commission's main activity, Gordon said.
"We received about five nominations for every category," she said.
Emily Taylor, former dean of women at the University of Kansas, said that some type of recognition program for women had existed for more than 50 years.
Stephanie Odie, vice president of the commission, said, "Women accomplish things every day and receive little recognition. We have to make
timetodoit."
Connie Hubbell, president-elect of the Kansas State Board of Education, was the main speaker for the program.
Some of the women honored were:
Barb Pranger, member of the KU swim team,
for outstanding woman student in athletics.
- Julia Pitner, Lawrence Pitner, for outstanding woman student in community services
Tracy Karner, Richmond, Calif., graduate student, for outstanding woman student.
Sarah Gard, Prairie Village junior, and Kristin Lange, Overland Park senior, for outstanding women students in leadership.
Jill Fritzmeyer, Lawrence senior, and Traci Moore, University City, Mo., senior, for outstanding women students in student services.
Daniela Bravo, Puebla, Mexico, senior, for outstanding international woman student.
Joane Nagel, associate professor of sociology, for outstanding woman teacher.
Pamela Houston, director of undergraduate administration, and Daphne Johnston, assistant director of international student services, for outstanding women staff members.
- The following were selected to the Hall of Fame: Deborah Gerner, associate professor of political science and government; Gunda Georg, associate professor of medicinal chemistry; Janet Hamburg, associate professor of music and dance; Susan Kemper, professor of psychology; and Ann Weck, dean of social welfare.
Kansan staff writer
By Michelle Betts Kansan staff writer
Police arrest Ellsworth freshman
A male University of Kansas student was charged yesterday with the aggravated sexual battery of a female student in Ellsworth Hall.
The 19-year-old freshman was arrested and put in jail Monday at 10:15 p.m. He was charged with aggravated burglary and aggravated sexual battery.
The charge of aggravated burglary was dropped from the formal charges. Aggravated sexual battery is a Class D felony.
According to KU police reports, the man, who also is an Ellsworth resident, entered a woman's room on a different floor than his own at 4:30 a.m. Saturday while she was sleeping. The 20-year-old person in the room and realized that someone was taking off her clothes, according to the report.
She resisted and told the man to leave. When she saw the man, she recognized him, according to the
KU police representative Burdel Welsh said there was no sign of forced entry into the woman's room.
The student who was charged said yesterday that there was nothing he could say on his behalf right now.
"This is pretty upsetting to me," he said. "I've never been arrested for anything."
He would not comment on the charges or what
happened Saturday morning.
The student was kept in the Douglas County jail from the time of his arrest until his arraignment yesterday at 4 p.m., when his bond was set at $250 per night ball and was released on his own responsibility.
Assistant District Attorney Mark Knight said the student must return for his preliminary hearing April 30 or he would have to post bond.
Douglas County District Court Judge Michael Malone said he was concerned about releasing the student from jail because of the proximity of his residence hall room to the woman's room.
He lives on the 10th floor, and she lives on the sixth floor.
Malone said the student could unknowingly violate the law if he had any contact, directly or indirectly, with the woman.
If the student entered the same room as the woman, he would have to leave. Malone said.
"You cannot have friends contact her, and you cannot write her a letter or call her," Malone told him in court yesterday.
Deb Miller, residence hall director at Eilworth Hall said there was an escort policy that required hall residents of one sex to escort people of the opposite sex while on their floors.
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"We have problems with it, but that is the policy," Miller said.