CAMPUS / AREA
3
Daron Bennett/KANSAN
Fountain fun
Making way for today's paint job on the Chi Omega fountain, Mike Murray, Ed Greene and Diana Greene scrape off old, cracked paint. Facilities operations paint shop employees spent most of yesterday preparing the fountain for use. Greene, center, said that the fountain would be painted today and filled April 13.
Charges reduced in CMSU theft
A KU student was charged yesterday with seven counts of felony theft and five counts of misdemeanor theft in connection with last year's burglary of the Central Missouri State University basketball team's belongings.
Kansan staff report
Nicole Emrick, Trumansburg, N.Y., sophomore, originally was charged with 12 counts of felony theft.
Defense attorney Jerry Harper said that five of the felony counts were lowered to misdemeanor counts because there was not sufficient evidence that those counts involved more than $500 worth of stolen items.
Harper said that he would withdraw a motion to suppress Emrick's previous statements and that she would waive her right to continue her preliminary hearing, which began Thursday.
Emrick was charged in January in connection with the theft of $14,300 worth of items from members of the CMSU basketball team during the second half of their game against Kansas on Nov. 30.
Emrick will be arraigned and a trial date will be set April 10 in Douglas County District Court. Emrick was released on bond posted when she was arrested in January.
David Duke fliers appear at KU
Kansan staff report
Fliers linking the KU College Republicans and presidential candidate David Duke have been posted around campus in the past few days, but no one has claimed responsibility for the fliers.
The fliers have a photograph of the Campanile, a reference to Duke, a Republican, and the heading: "You don't have to join Campus Republicans." Some have a photograph of Duke with campaign supporters, and others the caption: "Enter David Duke. His punch is better than ever."
David Paul, treasurer of the College Republicans, said the organization had not put up the fliers.
"We are not affiliated with David Duke in any way," he said. "I do not know anybody in our group who supports David Duke."
Paul said the fliers seemed to be an attempt to discredit the College Republicans.
"They did not even get our name
and would be the college
Democrats doing that."
"I do not know of any groups on campus that support Duke," he said. "I think it is really stupid of the Republicans to say that we had anything to do with the posters. We didn't do it."
Paul Gage, executive board mem-
ber of the University of Arizona,
said he had not seen the first.
KU term 'flagship' irks Regents schools
By Jenny Martin Kansan staff writer
Word fits University, Shankel says
As the six Board of Regents institutions continue to iron out the details of their system mission statements and program reviews, the smaller, seemingly less important details are entering the spotlight.
Since the Regents request in their last meeting that some of the specific terms and language used in the draft system mission statements be clarified and qualified by the Regents universities, the wording of KU's mission statement is being scrutinized by not only the Regents, but also by the Regents institutions.
The section of KU's draft mission statement that has received attention is, "As the flagship university of the state, the University of Kansas fulfills its mission through preeminent faculty, academic and research programs of international distinction, and outstanding libraries and teaching museums."
In a letter to Regent Charles Hostetler, Kenneth Klabunde, president of the Kansas State Faculty Senate, detailed his opposition to the term "flagship," as used in KU's mission statement.
Klabunde stated in the letter that both he and the Kansas State Faculty Senate Executive Committee thought that the use of the term was inappropriate because it implied several things about KU that he said were not true.
He said yesterday that a flagship by naval definition was a ship that carried the commander and led the other ships.
He said that the term was being misused and could lead people to false conclusions.
The term "flagship" could suggest to students that the degree programs at KU were superior to those at the other Regents institutions. While this could be true in some areas, it is not true in others, he said.
Klabunde also said that the term implied that KU had leadership status among the Regents universities, even though the Board of Regents, and not any one university, led the institutions as a group.
Regent Hostetler had expressed similar misgivings about the term during the March 19 Regents meeting.
"As the flagship university of the state, the University of Kansas fulfills its mission..."
KU's mission statement draft
Klabunde's letter was in response to his comments.
Chancellor Gene Budig responded in the meeting that the term "flagship" referred to the fact that KU is the only Kansas university that is a member of the American Association of Universities.
The AAU is a private organization which consists of two top Canadian and 56 top U.S. universities.
Hosteler said yesterday that he agreed with Klabunde's letter because he thought the term was too broad and vague in its meaning.
"Let'stry to find another word that is more descriptive and palatable to the other institutions and to me." he said.
Several of the Faculty Senate presidents at other Regents universities agreed that the wording of the system mission statements was a sensitive issue.
Don Kerle, Faculty Senate president at Pittsburgh State University, said that the Council of Faculty Senate Presidents had been working together to not get sidetracked in competition that pits one school against another.
"I think we have all learned this past year that we're all in it together," Kerles said.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said that the term "flagship" was a term frequently used in other states to describe universities like KU.
"It is justifiably a term used to describe major comprehensive research-based universities like KU, who are members of the AAU," he said.
Shankel said that the University would be persuasive in its efforts to justify its position in its mission and designation.
KU joins eight schools designing Dallas super collider project
Kansan staff writer
By Janet Rorholm
KU, along with eight other universities, is working on a high-energy physics project called the super conductor super collider.
Begun in 1988, what would be the world's largest and highest-energy super conductor material?
But the project's future is unknown. U.S.
Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kansas, wants to kill
the bill that would finance more than half of the
funding it would take to pay for the
enormous project.
KU, along with Colorado State University, the university of Colorado, the Colorado School of Mines, Kansas State University, the
University of Nebraska, the University of Arizona,
the University of Wyoming and the University of Oregon, has received $1.2 million in donations to begin the project.
A collider smashes protons together at the speed of light so that physicists can study the results of the collision for particles that have not been detected yet.
The collider, which would be built underground outside of Dallas, would be the largest in the world with a circumference of 54 miles and would be the world's highest energy producer at 40 trillion electron volts, said Ray Ammar, head of the physics and astronomy department.
It is scheduled to be completed at the end of
this century. The largest collider now is owned by Ferri Lab and is outside of Chicago.
"This would ensure United States eminence in this type of research," he said.
Ammar said the research from the collider could open a new frontier in science.
The basic quest of high-energy physics is to find out what matter is made of, Ammar said. The collider's high energy is necessary to store particles beyond what is already known.
First there were atoms, electrons and protons and neutrons. Within the last 20 years, scientists have detected the quarks that protons and neutrons are made of.
Physicists want to go beyond quarks and a
collier this size should allow them to, Ammar said.
The collider slams particles together head-on at high speeds to create new particles from the explosion. A detector, yet to be built, would catch these new particles for physicists.
"As energies get higher, the closer we come to simulating the condition of the universe we are going through."
Seven KU faculty members and four KU students are working on the project now, he said. They also have worked on colliders in cooperation with other countries.
Phil Baringer, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said that scientists had an idea about what they should find, but that they needed to prove it. The collider also should show how the forces of nature are unified.
Slattery said in a statement that he thought the project should be killed.
Working together with other countries on the project would allow foreign nations to apply the research into technology while the United States pays all the bills, he said.
Slattery also said that the money could be more wisely spent on other science programs that would benefit more universities.
"When we have reduced our $330 billion budget deficit, we can consider projects like the collider," he said in his statement. "Until that time, we must not fund it at the expense of our national science program."
Clip and Save with Daily Kansan Coupons!!!
No Tuesday Show
Tickets ... $3.00-midnight, all other times-$2.50
Wednesday & Thursday ... 7:00 pm
Friday ... 7:00, 9:00 pm, midnight
Saturday ... 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 pm, midnight
Sunday ... 2:00 pm
DON'T MISS OUT!
ONE DAY ONLY!
$2 ADMISSION - Great Fun for Anyone Who Likes Music -
TWO FOR ONE ADMISSION WITH THE FLYER
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BUYING, SELLING OR TRADING CALL (818) 631-9056 - 11-8 pm
ONE DAY ONLY!