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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 22, 1998
KJHK gets green light to boost power
New equipment will send signal in 40-mile radius
by Chris Horton
Kansan staff writer
chorton@kansan.com
- With the final bureaucratic obstacle out of the way, KJKH is ready for a bigger broadcast area and a larger listenership.
After waiting four months for FCC approval, KJHK will increase the power of its broadcast signal from 100 to 3500 watts by mid-March, said Gary Hawke, KJHK general manager. The range of the broadcast signal will increase from a 10- to
a 40-mile radius. Hawke said.
KJHK's signal primarily serves Lawrence, but with the power increase it will reach Topeka, Leavenworth and the western portion of the Kansas City Metropolitan area, Hawke said.
"You should be able to hear it at least out to the state line," he said.
Hawke recently received verbal notification from the FCC that the station could proceed with the installation of the new antenna, coaxial cable and transmitter needed for the power increase, he said.
The antenna and cable could cost a total of $15,000, and the transmitter could cost up to $40,000, with the total cost being paid during a four- to five-year period, he said.
The money used to pay for the new equipment will come from the University's Student Media Assessment Fee fund. The fund is supplied by student campus fees, he said.
Hawke said the antenna, cable and transmitter could not be ordered until the contractors returned their bids Feb. 3.
The contractor will have 45 days to complete the installation. he said.
The station had hoped to upgrade its wattage early last semester, but technical and bureaucratic obstacles pushed the expected time of completion back several times. Hawke said.
"The biggest holdup was with the FCC," he said. "We couldn't order the equipment until they said it was okay."
Kelly Corcoran, KJHK music
director and Topeka senior, said the station's potential listenership will increase significantly.
"Our potential audience will go from 80,000 people to a million and a half, which should mean more of an audience response." Corcoran said.
"People who have grown weary of commercial radio will find that KJ is more personable and progressive — it's about music, not ratings," he said.
Corcoran said that with a larger audience, he anticipates changes in KJHK's listener demographics, particularly in younger listeners looking for an alternative to format-oriented commercial radio.
Corcoran said KJHK was in a category of its own because of the diverse programming it
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offered, such as hip-hop, polka, heavy metal and ska in addition to college rock and jazz.
"We've created a niche for the station by going places commercial radio won't go," he said, "We try to provide the community with music that isn't available anywhere else."
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Vanilla Ice to play second show in town
Two is the magic number for Vanilla ice.
The Vanilla Ice show scheduled for Feb. 21 sold out so quickly that a second show was scheduled for Feb. 22, said Jeff Fortier, president of Avalanche Productions.
"This is the first act to ever sell out the Granada on the first day," Fortier said.
Tickets for the first show sold out in less than eight hours.
Tickets for the second show went on sale yesterday for $10. Tickets can be purchased at the Granada box office or through Ticketmaster.
"I think the second show will sell out, too." Fortier said.
The show will be held at the Granada. Doors will open at 8 p.m. Fortier told Two Skinny J's would open for Vanilla Ice.
Suspects enter not-guilty pleas in liquor-store robbery charges
The five Lawrence men charged with aggravated robbery in connection with two liquor store holdups entered not guilty pleas in Douglas County Court yesterday. Their trials will begin Monday.
Matthew Wayne Headley, 21, Anthony Travon Vann, 20, Andre Deshawn Newman, 19, Chaz Marquis Green, 18, and Willie D. Paul, 18, also pleaded not guilty to counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.
A Douglas County Court judge set bond for Newman at $40,000, and set Vann's, Green's and Headley's bonds at $50,000 each. Paul's bond was not set.
Newman and Green were charged in connection with both the Monday night holdup of Spirit
Retail Liquor, 600 Lawrence Ave. and the Jan.15 holdup of Koleber Retail Liquor, 1805 W. Second St.
Vann and Headley were charged in connection with the Spirit Retail Liquor robbery, and Paul in connection with the Koleber Retail Liquor robbery.
Sgt. Susan Hadi said that in both incidents, the men used handguns to hold up store clerks while stealing money from the stores' registers. The men also stole liquor and other property, she said.
Vann and Newman were arrested while driving away from the Spirit Retail Liquor store. Green, owner of the getaway vehicle, was interviewed and arrested Tuesday. Police arrested Headley and Paul less than four hours later.
Hadi said she was proud of the police department's work.
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Professors unearth $12,400 donation for anthropology
By Emily C. Forsyth
Kansan staff writer
Nancy Dahl never took an anthropology course in college, but her lifelong interest and enthusiasm for the subject has inspired her to make a contribution that may enable others to pursue a career in the field.
Dahl, professor of physiology and cell biology, her husband, Dennis Dahl, a retired Watkins Memorial Health Center physician, and their family have donated $12,400 to establish a fund for undergraduate studies in anthropology.
Sally Frost-Mason, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, announced the gift earlier this month.
Nancy Dahl said she and her husband were fascinated by anthropology at an early age. They have explored other cultures through reading and traveling to locations including Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, England, Germany and the Czech Republic.
"Learning new things has always enriched our lives," she said. "It's our hope that this gift will help many students grow in their field and develop a similar passion for learning."
Although Nancy and Dennis Dahl each have degrees in physiology and biochemistry, Nancy said they wanted to apply the money to a field that lacked a wide range of financing.
John Scarfe, director of communications for the Kansas University Endowment Association, said the fund was one of two at the University that have been designated specifically for anthropology studies.
Nancy Dahl said the money would be more useful if applied to undergraduate studies in the field, rather than graduate studies.
"We don't have enough money in the fund to send somebody to Kenya, or something like that, but there is money for encouraging students." Dahl said. "We'd like to just augment the undergraduate experience."
Scarffe said the principle $12, 400 had been invested to provide a continuous gift. The fund may be dispersed as awards for books, library or field research or financial aid for students who are the first in their family to attend college.
this gift will be greatly appreciated by students of anthropology." Frost-Mason said. "That Nancy and Dennis would choose to find ways to support student activities also comes as no surprise, given the long-term career commitments that each of them has made to KU students for many years."
The Dahls made the donation in memory of Nancy's mother, Bernice DeSelms Fort.
Roe vs. Wade supporters and opponents want to educate today
By Sara Anderson
Kansan staff writer
Two opposing groups have a common goal for the 25th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade — education.
"Education of the KU campus is the main goal of our group," said Andrea VanDyke, Atchison sophomore and cochair for KU Students for Life.
"We decided we wanted to educate, and if we could get people together to talk, we could get the message across," she said.
Sarah Page, Prairie Village senior and co-coordinator of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, said she also thought that education was one of the most important aspects of the day.
The KU Pro-Choice Coalition and KU Students for Life are focusing on educating the public about abortion and the controversies that surround the issue.
The Pro-Choice Coalition sponsored a free film and discussion last night at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. The group showed When Abortion Was Illegal and discussed topics such as current legislation, the history of Roe vs. Wade and how people could get involved locally.
"We're hoping that people will want to focus on what Roe vs. Wade means and how it has affected women," said Sarah Deer, Wichita law student and co-coordinator of the coalition. "Most students were born after Roe vs. Wade so they take it for granted. We want to show you can't take it for granted."
Deer said some members would be traveling to Topeka today to participate in the activities sponsored by the Kansas Choice Alliance.
Activities in Topeka include an informal gathering to discuss reproductive health-care issues, a conference and a briefing highlighting the book Wrath of Angels by Judith Thomas and James Risen, an interfaith service, a box lunch with legislators and a showing of the film If These Walls Could Talk.
Deer said the coalition would like to be represented on campus today but nothing was definate.
KU Students for Life will have a booth today at the Information Fair in lobby of the Kansas Union. They will distribute information about abortion and show a video called After the Choice.
VanDyke said that women's safety was one of the group's main concerns.
"We're really concerned about the effects on women," she said. "Abortion hurts the baby but is also damaging to women emotionally and physically."
VanDyke said the group originally had planned a display of 44 tombstones, each symbolizing 100 babies killed by abortion. The tombstones would represent the 4,400 fetuses that VanDyke said were aborted each day in the United States.
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The display, which would have appeared on the lawn outside Stauffer-Flint Hall, had been approved by the University Events Committee, but KU Students for Life decided against it.
"The display was going to be part of the Cemetery of Innocence that is done all around the country," she said. "But we decided against it because it doesn't educate enough, it's just an awareness type thing. The info fair will give us a chance to educate the campus better."
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