THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.109
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1992
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Haskell may lease JRP for students next year
By Svala Jonsdottir
Kansas staff writer
The University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Junior College are awaiting final approval of a lease contract that would allow about 400 Haskell students to live in a KU residence hall next fall.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said negotiations that would allow Haskell to lease the all-male Joseph R. Pearson Hall for at least one academic year were expected to be completed within a month.
"Haskell is planning to renovate two of its residential halls, and they wanted to continue to provide housing for their students." Stoner said. "We discussed spreading the students to several residential halls, but it became clear that it would be more convenient for transportation and other reasons if the students were all located in one building."
JRP resident staff was notified of the plans at a meeting Tuesday, and residents that had reapplied to live there next school year received letters announcing the change yesterday morning. Stoner said.
"We have reserved spaces in three other residential halls if the students want to continue to live together," he said. "We are open to our office and picked out new rooms."
together on the same floor in Oliver."
Student housing also has reserved space in Templin and McCollum halls.
JRP's food-service and custodial staff will be reissued to other residential halls, and the student employ-ment staff will get positions at all other halls. Stone said.
Residence halls have not been filled to capacity in recent semesters.
The University should be able to accommodate all the students who wish to live on campus next year without using JRP, Stoner said. The hall could house almost 100 more students than are currently living there.
Stoner said that while the overall enrollment was steady, the number of freshmen and sophomores had increased by 1,400 over the past four years.
"Residence halls are more attractive to those students than older students, who often choose to live off campus," Stoner said.
Templin and Lewis halls also were considered for leasing. JRW was chosen because the other two halls will share a cafeteria next fall and Haskell wanted a separate cafeteria for its students, Stoner said.
Negotiations between state and federal officials will determine the lease terms.
Marvin Buzzard, Haskell director of student life, said the renovations of
Oscela-Keekuk and Winona halls on the Haskell campus should be completed within one academic year, although the college had requested the option of extending the contract with another academic year if necessary.
Buzzard said everything would be done to make the move as easy on Haskell students as possible.
"We are working on trying to arrange bus transportation to our campus," he said. "We will also leave some parking spaces for students."
Both male and female Haskell students will live in JRP, Buzzard said. The decision to place the students in one KU residence hall was based on transportation and administrative reasons.
David Platt, JRP hall director, said several students contacted him yesterday and voiced their concerns about the change.
"We will be having our own staff there," he said. "The student code of conduct we have is to conduct ourselves in the two schools, and this will allow us to apply our rules in the hall."
"They are disappointed that they will not be able to continue to live here," he said.
Platt said that the full-time staff had not been told where they would be transferred, but that they had been assured of getting other positions.
Residents circulate petition to keep hall for KU students
Proximity to campus, architecture school are irreplaceable
By Svala Jonsdottir Kansan staff writer
Residents of Joseph R. Pearson Hall started a petition yesterday against a plan to lease the hall to Haskell Indian Junior College next fall
JRP residents plan to distribute
Ken Martin, Eden Prairie, Minn., freshman, said he had collected about 109 signatures by last night on a petition to the University administrators urging them to keep JRP open in its current capacity.
"We are not opposed to Haskell students using KU dormitories," he said. "There is a lot of tradition here at JRP, and we are very concerned with keeping this hall open for KU students."
the petition on campus today, Martin said. The residents may set up a table in front of Wescoe Hall on Friday.
Martin said the announcement of the lease contract had surprised the residents.
Rich Heap, Belleville, Ill, freshman, said he liked living in JRP because of its proximity to Marvin Hall, which houses the architecture school. He also many architecture students also were living in the hall.
"For architecture students, it is important to live close to Marvin because we spend a lot of time there," he said. "Sometimes we are
coming or going late at night or very early in the morning, and the buses do not run between midnight and 7 in the morning."
Heap said he was disappointed JRP had been chosen to house the Haskell students.
Todd Musselman, Hemet, Calif, sophomore, said he had signed the petition because he believed that JRP had many advantages over other KU residence halls.
"We feel that Templin would have been a better hall to close than JRP," he said. "We have the best location on campus and we are a pretty close-knit family."
"It would be better if the students were integrated in several halls," he said.
Members of the Lawrence Moslem community conduct a prayer service at the Lawrence Islamic Center, 1300 Ohio St.
Islamic and Christian religious holidays start
By Chris Jenson
Kansan staff writer
While Olathe senior Susan Lynn was beginning her day-long fast yesterday, Pat Mullen, St. Louis sophomore, was having a cross of ashes drawn on his forehead. The students were participating in the beginning of the religious holidays Ramadan and Lent, respectively.
Ramadan is the most important month for people of the Islamic religion. It lasts one lunar month. Lent is the religious period preceding Easter that Christians observe. It lasts 40 days from Ash Wednesday until Easter, not including the six Sundays between.
Moslems participate in Ramadan by fasting from sunrise until sunset each day for the entire month. They cannot eat or drink during this time.
"The main purpose of fasting is to purify the Muslim, both mind and soul," said Hamed Ghazali, president of the Muslim Student Association. "It also reminds the Muslim to remain God-conscious at all times."
Rashid Malik, a member of the Muslim Student Association, said that by experiencing the pain of hunger they could better relate to others who experienced the problem in everyday life.
"Now because I know what the pain of hunger
likes like, I will be more likely to help someone
who is sick."
Malik said that Ramadan presented an opportunity for Moslems to build their willpower.
*Ramadan is a month of conscious submission to the will of Allah," he said.
A special prayer for Ramadan is added to the five daily prayers that Moslems participate in all year. The special prayer, Al-Tara-Weeh, is performed in a group each night at a mosque.
The month of Ramadan is not all sacrifice. On the 27th day of Ramadan a festival is conducted for the Koran, which was revealed to the prophet Mohammed on that day.
Although the month of Ramadan and the Lenten period have little in common, both offer their followers the opportunity to become closer to their Allah or God.
"The important thing in Lent is to upgrade your spiritual life," said Michael Scull, a priest at St. John the Evangelist church, 1229 Vermont St. "It is an opportunity to grow in your spiritual life."
Many Christian students participated in Ash Wednesday services yesterday at area churches. Scully said that placing ashes on the forehead was a common practice in Christian churches.
"The ashes are a reminder that you are dust and to dust you will return," he said.
During Lent, Christians are advised to read the Bible and pray more. Scully said. They are also advised to abstain from eating meat on certain days.
"We need to constantly remind ourselves that eating meat and other luxuries are not as important as God in our lives," he said.
Mullen said that he had participated in Lenten services all his life and that it was a meaningful experience for him.
Michelangelo virus could hit University computers
By Erik Bauer
Kansan staff writer
Tomorrow marks the 417th anniversary of Michelangelo's birthday.
But computer center faculty and staff have been warning KU students that this year, the day also marks the trigger date for a computer virus named after the 16th-century Italian Renaissance artist.
Researchers said that the virus could affect from a few thousand to millions of personal computers nationwide.
He said KU students with personal computers that could be affected were in danger because many did not store their passwords and could be hoppy or other kinds of disks for backup.
Herb Harris, assistant director of academic computing services, said that the computer center had provided students with the option to copy an anti-virus program, FPROT, free of charge that would prevent and combat the virus.
If not prevented, Harris said that the virus could destroy all hard drive and software data on IBM PC, IBM PC compatible and MS DOS systems.
He said that the virus also could be combated by burning off personal computers.
Harris said that the virus, which was discovered more than a year ago in the Netherlands, entered random characters in computer disks and would operate the full length of March 6 until it
killed itself The virus spread by exchanging disks and copying programs off other computers.
"It will wipe out the hard disk drive," he said. "It'll it ruin it."
Harris said that infected hard drives would have to be completely reformatted.
The University had experienced some problems with other viruses in the past.
"This one is particularly nasty," he said.
"You're reborn at that point," he said.
Harris said that viruses had cost the computer industry billions of dollars annually because of loss in productivity.
Jerry Niebaum, director of academic computing services, said that the computer center had appointed a full-time staff member to deal with viruses since the problem had become serious in the past few years.
"There's a lot of staff time that goes into combating them," he said.
He said that the Michelangelo virus would not affect the University main frame computer, which operated several terminals at Strong Hall and around campus, because it was not IBM PC or IBM PC compatible.
Wes Hubert, manager of applications development, said that the computer center staff would monitor the systems closely from 10 last night until midnight tonight.
He said that many viruses, including the Michelangelo, were present even on software purchased with new computer systems.
How Michelangelo gets in
A virus is a piece of software written and hidden on a disk so it can be secretly distributed.
1 This virus program was created by a malicious computer programmer, who designed it to copy itself undetected to other computers and disks...
--ing the Michelangelo, were present even on software purchased with new computer systems.
...from these computers and disks, the virus will copy itself to every uninfected system it contacts.
Each copy of the virus will continue to spawn new copies until March 6, the Renaissance painter's birthday.
SOURCE: Boston Globe
On that date, the virus will activate, damaging the hard drives of the computer systems it has infected. Damage from this virus could reach into the millions of dollars.
"There have been disks distributed from commercial vendors that include the virus," he said.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News, Michael Gie
Mike Kidwell, Lansing sophomore, said that he was concerned about the virus because he owned a large amount of software.
You can get the virus anywhere and get it anytime, he said.
The Associated Press
Kerrey will abandon presidential campaign
WASHINGTON — Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey told Democratic colleagues yesterday he was abandoning his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, a Senate aide said.
"He's going to announce tomorrow that he's pulling out," said the aide to a senator who attended a meeting Kerry had with Democratic senators and supporters yesterday in the Capitol. The aide requested aponymity.
Kerrey scheduled a news conference for this morning in Washington and a welcome-home rally later in Omaha.
Kerrier canceled his appearances yesterday in Florida and on CNN's "Larry King Live" after doing poorly on Sundaynight's primarys and primaries.
A close aide to Kerrey, insisting on anonymity, said Kerrey would quit the race, barring a last-minute influx of financial and political support.
Arriving at Washington National Airport, Kerney confirmed that his campaign funds were running short
Leo Perrotta, his Rhode Island campaign manager, said, "Kersey is dropping out of the race." Perrotta was moving for the March 10 primary there.
"They've shut down all their outlying offices," said another Democrat who insisted on anonymity "Apparently they've got a $1 million debt."
but said he had made no final decision yet about his candidacy.
Some of Kerrey's fund-raisers apparently were told to suspend their work.
Kerrey was the only Democratic candidate who did not chalk up a victory Tuesday night. And he was at or near the bottom in every contest — 5 percent in Georgia and Maryland, 8 percent in Idaho, 11 percent in Utah and 12 percent in Colorado.
Asked Tuesday night where he expected to win in next week's multiple Super Tuesday causes and primaries Kerres said, "Nowhere."
Kerrey, a former governor, had long been considered a rising Democratic star. He earned a Medal of Honor in Vietnam, where he lost part of a leg. He dated actress Debra Winger. He had charisma.
But Kerney's first national campaign, begun half-way through his first Senate term, was plagued by misses and miscalculations.
He seemed to recover after open microphones picked up a joke he was telling another candidate about lesbians, and again after the Labor Department cited his restraint for numerous child labor violations.
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