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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Monday
April 6,1998
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Vol. 108 : No. 130
Rainy and cool tomorrow. A good day to stay in bed.
Vol. 108·No.130
Online today
http://www.shadowsong.com/notravolta
Visit the Web site devoted to opposing the possible selection of John Travolta to play the Phantom in a film version of The Phantom of the Opera.
Sports today
After declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft, Paul Pierce has decided not to return to Lawrence to finish the semester.
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Dole Center conference targets trade with China
By Brandon Copple
bcopple@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University of Kansas' Robert J. Dole Center will conduct its first policy conference Wednesday when a group of experts discusses United States trade policy with China.
An afternoon program will feature a panel discussion at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. An evening debate at the Kansas Union Ballroom will focus on whether the United States should continue trade with China by extending Most Favored Nation status or terminate MFN status and cut off trade.
Burdett Loomis, the Dole Center's interim director, said he hoped the event would establish a Dole Center tradition of presenting important issues and the viewpoints surrounding them.
"One of the themes that we'd like to see resonate with the Dole Center is a discussion of the issues," Loomis said. "We're looking for serious subjects, with nuance, that clearly have two sides. In that regard, this is a good opening subject."
The China conference was suggested by third district Rep. Vince Snowbarger. He said that when Congress debated MFN status last year, many Kansans were unaware of the issue despite its effect on the state's economy.
Religious groups were opposed to the extension of MFN status because of what Snowbarger called the Chinese government's abysmal record of religious persecution.
"Let's face it, most of the public don't get concerned about foreign affairs until war enters the picture," he said. "Last year we got a lot of pressure from the business community and a lot of pressure from the religious community. But the great number of people are not aware of what MFN status is, much less how it affects business in the third district."
Snowbarger said he voted to extend MFN status last year because he believed that the best way to improve China's human rights record was to increase western influence on China through trade.
That view is similar to that of Terry Weidner, professor of Chinese politics, who will participate in the afternoon discussion Wednesday.
Wednard, an expert on Chinese policy who worked as a policy and media analyst in China from 1985 to 1991, also helped organize the conference. He said the goal was to include participants who had interesting ideas about U.S.-China relations and whose experience with China was more than academic.
The afternoon panel will include Clifford Edmunds, senior China analyst with the Foreign Broadcast Information Service; Robert Sutter of Congressional Research Service; Richard Bernstein of the New York Times and Christopher Symanski of the Artley Group.
"These guys know what it's like on the ground level." he said.
The evening debate will feature Bernstein and Symanski with opening remarks by Snowbarger.
The Dole Center program has spawned a separate program with information on careers involving Chinese expertise. That event is scheduled for Wednesday morning at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Pat Weiss, outreach director for the Center for East Asian Studies, organized the morning program.
"You may be getting your degree in east-Asian studies, but you're not sure what to do for a career," she said. "There are jobs available for doing business with China, and I saw this as an opportunity to present information about those jobs."
Room to bloom
Left: The construction work outside of Anschutz Science Library is for the new Malott Plaza and Mariott Gardens. Work could be completed as soon as this summer. Photo by Corie Waters/KANSAN
(USPS 650-640)
Below: An artist's rendering of the Malott Plaza and Memorial Gardens illustrates how the site will look when the project is completed. Anschutz Science Library is on the right. Contributed art
THE MALOTT PLAZA AND MEMORIAL GARDEN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANBAS
Malott to get place in the sun
Bv Aaron Knopf
by Adon Khojp
aknopf@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The courtyard between Budig, Malott and Wescoe halls looks like a disaster area.
Orange fencing surrounds the site. The stairway between Budig and Malott now is little more than a pile of rubble with metal protruding in all directions. Bobcat bullozers sit on a swath of exposed earth.
But it will not look this way for long. By Fall 1998, students and faculty will find the area redeveloped as the Malott Plaza and Memorial Garden.
The project is a memorial to Eleanor Malott, the wife of former University of Kansas Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
The plaza will run between Wescoe Hall and Anschutz Science Library and will be constructed of colored concrete, brick and limestone. A terrace on the south end of the plaza will overlook the Memorial Garden.
"It's going to be an exceptional addition to the campus," said Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the chancellor. "It will be a
wonderful place for quiet contemplation."
Eleanor Malott was involved with many of the campus landscaping projects that took place while her husband was chancellor from 1939 to 195, said Greg Wade, Design and Construction Management landscape architect.
According to "Our Amazing Chancellors," a collection of essays on University history, Malott personally watered the trees to make sure they grew.
Malott encouraged the class of 1945 to use its class gift for purchasing and planting the 1,200 trees.
"She was a big part of the initial planting of the crabapple trees that we have on campus, which are spectacular in the spring," Wade said.
In "The University of Kansas: A History," Clifford S. Griffin wrote that Malott and her allies were responsible for making the campus truly lovely. Griffin also wrote that Malott was
responsible for getting Lawrence citizens to donate plantings to the University.
Malott died in January 1994. A combination of gifts from private donors, including the Malotts' son, Robert, as well as money from the University went to the construction of the plaza and garden, said John Scarffe, KU Endowment Association director of communications.
In 1984, the KU Alumni Association awarded Malott the Ellsworth Medallion for her contributions to the University.
The Eleanor S. Malott Memorial Garden fund was established by friends and family of Deane W. Malott after his death in 1996, Scarffe said. The fund will pay for ongoing maintenance costs of the garden, he said.
Because there are several paths around the construction area, the redevelopment project should not inconvenience anyone significantly, he said.
The walkways around the south side of Budig Hall and Anschutz Science Library were designed for eventual integration with the plaza, Wade said.
Liberal Arts fills department holes
Emily C. Forsyth
etorsyth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
About $2 million will be spent hiring the new faculty members, Frost Mason said. She said that $1 million came from renewable funds allotted for new hire each year and that the other $1 million was a one-time expenditure to cover start-up costs such as new equipment.
"The best thing we get to do is bring new colleagues to the University of Kansas," Frost Mason said. "It's an exciting opportunity for them and for us."
Sally Frost Mason, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that at least 20 new faculty had signed contracts and that several others were pending.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has just finished its faculty recruiting season and hopes to fill 25 to 30 new positions for fall.
Departments that have hired new faculty include African studies, English, economics, geography, political science, history, math, physics and theatre & film.
The college spends about $2,000 purchasing a new computer for each faculty member hired, Frost Mason said.
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If these walls could talk...
Second-year architecture design studio students display a walk-through interpretation of dynamic walls. Kevin Williamson, Overland Park, senior admires the creative work. Photo by Holly Groshong/KANSAN
Deadly accident shrouded in doubts
By Rannie Wachter
rwachter@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Lisa Rosel's funeral was Friday, but some of the questions surrounding her death will not be laid to rest until later this week.
Sgt. George Wheeler said that police had completed the investigation of damage to
Those questions include what position Rosel, Overland Park freshman, was in when she was struck by a car driven by Matthew Vestal, Englewood, Colo., freshman, and whether the students were drinking before the accident.
Rosel: questions remain surrounding tragic death
Wheeler said investigators also had ruled out the possibility that Rosel was lying flat on the ground, or that she had passed out.
"We're certain that she was alert," he said.
Vestal's 1997 Mitsubishi Montero in the accident.
"The damage to the vehicle is not consistent with her being upright in the roadway." Wheeler said. "That doesn't mean that she was sprawled out in the roadway any more than it means she was on her feet."
Danger zone
Wheeler said that it was not uncommon to have conflicting witness reports.
Angie Boley, Eun-
Prairie, Minn.,
freshman, and Billy
Hogan, Minnetonka,
Minn. freshman,
were with Rosel at
the time of the accident.
Both said that Rosel was upright when she was hit.
Another eyewitness,
Kansan columnist
John Colbert, said
that Rosel had fallen
in the street.
Tuesday night's
accident was not
the first in the
vicinity of 14th and
Tennessee Streets,
but it was the first
to result in serious
injuries.
1998: 3 1997: 12
1996: 8 1995: 7
*Flight Illust.*
"You can have five
He said that all witnesses were being interviewed separately.
people look at the same thing, and when you ask them to tell you about it, you'll get five different stories." Wheeler said.
"If we tried to interview some of them together, their stories would start to blend together." Wheeler said.
Wheeler said that Vestal and the three other students in Vestal's car had been at The Crossing, 618 West 12th St., before the accident. Rosel and the two students with her had been in Bull Winkles, 1344 Tennessee St. Wheeler said. He could not say whether anyone involved in the accident had been drinking, because the reports had not been completed.
Wheeler had said Friday that those reports would not be released until later this week.
Police had no new information regarding the speed of the Montero when it hit Rosel.
"That's not going to be released until we give it to the district attorney, and we won't give that to the district attorney without the results of the alcohol tests," he said.
Wheeler said that police would concentrate on finding any traffic violations that Vestal may have committed, the blood-alcohol levels of those involved, and Rosel's body position at the time of the impact.
Christine Tonkovich, Douglas County District Attorney, said releasing such information would impede the investigation.
"It's not our position to give it out," Tonkovic said Thursday.
Although everyone involved in the accident was under 21, police were not planning to investigate either of the bars. she said.
"We're investigating the accident in the street, not any peripheral issues," Wheeler said.
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