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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103.NO.9
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1993
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Emily threatens East Coast
The Associated Press
HATTERAS, N.C. — Storm warnings were extended up the East Coast today as Hurricane Emily drew strength from the warm Gulf Stream and advanced toward shore with wind blowing steadily up to 105 mph.
south, Pacific to north.
With Emily turning northward, forecasters yesterday morning added the coasts of Virginia, Maryland and southern Delaware to the hurricane warning that already covered the northern half of North Carolina.
But there also were signs that it would turn back out to sea, sparing everywhere except North Carolina from the worst of the storm's fury, a top meteorologist said.
1 mousands of people — mostly vacationers — left the low-lying Outer Banks island chain to get out of Emily's way. Others stayed, waiting to see exactly where the zig zagging storm would blow ashore.
Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder declared a state of emergency, placing the National Guard on alert.
At 11 a.m. yesterday, Emily's center was about 90 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, near latitude 34.1 degrees north and longitude 74.8 degrees west. Emily was moving northwest at nearly 9 mph and was expected to turn northward, the National Hurricane Center said. Wind gusts around the center reached up to 125 mph.
Fears mounted that Emily would grow stronger as it continued to move over the warm Gulf Stream. Bob Sheets, director of the hurricane center in Coral Gables, Fla., said wind could reach 115 mph or more.
But Sheets also said yesterday at midmorning that it was appearing more likely that a cold front pushing toward the area could affect Emily, so that after the storm hits the coast along the Outer Banks and the area just to the north it could then turn rapidly out to the northeast.
A hurricane warning was posted from Bogue Inlet, 20 miles southwest of Morehead City near the Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune, to Cape Henlopen, Del. A warning the storm may hit in 24 hours.
Wind began to pick up over the Outer Banks late Monday as the outer reaches of the storm system arrived. By 8 a.m. yesterday, wind was up to 26 mph. Wind was expected to reach tropical storm force, 39 mph, by late yesterday morning and hurricane force, 74 mph, last night when the eye was expected to make landfall.
It tturns northward before or shortly after hitting the Outer Banks, Emily would head back out to sea and would be expected to stay offshore, said forecaster Tony Zalekski. That could cause large swells and 40-50 mph wind along the coastline from Virginia to New York's Long Island.
It e.m.y moves inland before veering north, it might weaken to tropical storm status but could bring heavy rain and high wind up the East Coast, Zaleski said.
Three file lawsuit against KU police
Men say April incident violated their civil rights
By Scott J. Anderson
Kansan staff writer
Three KU graduates have filed a lawsuit against the University, the KU police department and KU police officers who they say violated their rights.
The lawsuit claims that four KU police officers violated the three men's rights when they were stopped and handcuffed on April 27 near Robinson Center after playing basketball there.
Attorney Donald Strole filed the seven-count lawsuit in Topeka yesterday on behalf of Jonathan Jasmine, Ted Newman and Chad Clark. The suit seeks more than $350,000 in damages against the defendants.
Jasmin, Newman and Clark were "trash talking" — exchanging insults and obscenities — with their opponents as they left the center, the lawsuit said. One of their opponents, an unidentified Nigerian, was unfamiliar with trash talking and was afraid a fight would ensue. He glanced into a gold Chevrolet Beretta that belonged to one of the plaintiffs and saw what he thought was a gun in a gym bag.
He called Lawrence police, who transferred the call to KU police dispatch. The message that four African-American men were by a brown Beretta in the parking lot behind the center with
one of the men "brandishing a gun" was relayed to officers.
According to the suit, Jasmine, Newman and Clark were stopped on Naimsinh drive in Jasmine's maroon Honda Accord as they were leaving the center. The officers ordered the men out of the car, and they were frisked and hand-cuffed. The suit said the officers pointed shotguns and pistols at the three men.
They were released after a search of the car failed to produce a gun. No charges were filed.
"There was no basis to make that stop," Strole said. "If this is a normal pattern of practice, to stop anyone who meets a description given by an anonymous caller without an investigation, that puts people in a very dangerous situation."
The lawsuit said Jasmine was so distraught over the incident that he dropped plans to attend summer school and left the country for a while.
Jim Denney, director of the KU police department, said an investigation into the incident showed that the officers had acted properly. All the officers named in the lawsuit are still on the force, he said.
Denny said yesterday he could not comment specifically on the lawsuit.
A representative from the University's General Counsel's office could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Strole said the defendants would be notified of the lawsuit and would have 20 to 30 days to respond.
John Gamble / KANSAN
Picture perfect
Linda Brennaman, Lansing junior, works on a landscape sketch on Jayhawk Boulevard. Brennaman was working on the project yesterday for a class.
Memo encourages teachers to warn about cheating
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
Plagiarizers, note cribbers and test peekers, consider yourself forewarned.
In the memo, Shulenburger said that all University instructors should educate their students about cheating, reduce the opportunity for cheating and report all incidents to the Office of Academic Affairs.
A survey showing that almost one out of five KU students who were polled had engaged in some form of cheating has prompted David Shulenburg, vice chancellor for academic affairs, to send a memorandum to all instructors asking them to take stronger steps against academic misconduct.
Shulenburger also indicated in the memo that his office would keep track of repeat offenders of cheating. He said those students could receive more severe penalties.
"Make clear to students the standards to which they are expected to adhere." Shulenburger wrote in the memo. "Become more alert to the various forms of academic misconduct."
The Student Affairs Research Committee conducted the survey cited in Shulenburger's memo in Spring 1989, said Carly Smith, dean of student life. The survey asked 1,250 KU students about their experiences with cheating and other forms of academic misconduct.
had deserved greater attention by his office for a long time and was making cheating a little more conspicuous than it had been.
In writing the memo, Shulenburger said he was addressing a topic that
Faculty has differed in its responses to the effect of the memo.
Getting her staff of 80 instructors to spell out exactly the consequences of
cheating has been the biggest change for Marilyn Carlson, who, as supervisor of the Kansas Algebra Program, is in charge of intermediate and college algebra classes.
"Dr. Shulenburger's memo caused me to keep my staff well-informed about the problems of cheating." Carlson said. "We will benefit and the students will benefit by this increased attention."
"I always have admonished my students about the consequences of
Although he has seen his share of cheating during 30 years at KU, Marlin Harmony, professor of chemistry, said he had not seen a noticeable increase or decrease in the amount of cheating during his tenure.
cheating," said E. O. Wiley, professor of biology. "But I've never had a student prosecuted for cheating."
He said that he was not too concerned with the survey's result that one out of two KU students thought it was easy to cheat.
"I'm not always impressed by people saying what they could do if they haven't done it," Harmony said.
Cheaters at KU
Although the results of the 1989 survey on cheating have never been published, Shulenburger's memo to instructors cites several findings:
50 percent of the students surveyed agreed with the statement, "It is relatively easy to get a way with academic disburses at KU."
23 percent said they had given answers to other students during an exam.
22 percent said they had copied
22 percent said they had copied answers from another student's exam.
22 percent said they had plagiarized.
Source: Student Affairs Research Committee
James Ralston, director of KU's choral department who will retire this year, has spent 27 years coaxing the right notes out of students.
A director's finale
Last night's full moon was feeling blue
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By Shan Schwartz
Kansan staff writer
If you know of something that happens only once in a blue moon, it may have happened last night.
The moon's appearance did not seem any different last night, but it was indeed a blue moon.
Barbara Twarog, associate professor of physics and astronomy, said that because of the 29%-day cycle of the moon, a blue moon happened about once every three years. The next blue moon will be in July 1996. Twarog said.
A "blue moon" occurs when a full moon annears twice in one calendar month.
There was a dispute, Twarog said, about whether the blue moon occurred in August or September. The peak of full moon was officially recorded at 2:30 this morning Greenwich Mean Time, although it occurred in Lawrence at 6:30 last night.
Greenwich Mean Time is considered the
standard for world time.
Since the full moon was seen in much of the world after.
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life of its own."
Where did this leg come from? The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins explains the phrase "once in a blue moon."
To say that the moon is blue or to believe an absurdity, the encyclopedia states, comes from an old proverb first recorded around 1528:
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believe, We must believe that it is true."
The encyclopedia states that at that time it was ridiculous to think of the moon as blue.
The phrase "till a blue moon" started in the mid-19th century, meaning "never." The book states that a change in meaning to "hardly ever" may have been influenced by rare observations of a blue tinge on the moon.
Twarog said the moon very seldom appears blue. The only recorded sightings of a blue-colored moon, she said, came after unusually large volcanic activity.
Although color is subjective to the viewer, she said, a blue moon would be an unusual sight.
"If there's dust in the air or you're viewing the moon on a low horizon, it usually appears red," she said. "The particles in the air filter out the blue to make it that way. It would be really odd that the moon would appear blue."