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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 14, 1993
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College to consider probation, dismissal policy
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is considering two new policies that aim to help students struggling academically.
The college will discuss a revised academic probation and dismissal policy at its College Assembly at 4 tuesday, April 21, 8th Eight room in the Kansas Union.
The proposed revision to the academic probation and dismissal policy would place students on probation as soon as their GPA fell below 2.0, regardless of the number of class hours attempted.
Students can remain on probation just as long as they stay near the 2.0 average.
The current policy sets the probationary GPA level according to
Environmentalist to speak at University Forum
the number of hours students attempt. At the lowest level, a student who has attempted fewer than 14 hours can have a 1.0 GPA and not be placed on probation.
Don Bushell, head of the committee on undergraduate studies and advising, said the proposal would keep students from getting too far below a2.0.
The required GPA rises as the number of attempted credit hours rises. By the time a student has attempted 60 hours, the student must have a 2.0 GPA for every semester thereafter or be put on probation. Students can be dismissed after two consecutive semesters on probation.
One of the nation's leading environmentalists will give a speech at room today entitled "On Becoming Our Place" at the University Forum.
11:30 a.m. at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute in Salina, will speak about the importance of developing sustainable agriculture, a method of farming that does not require yearly planting.
Thad Holcombe, campus minister for ECM, said that Jackson and the Land Institute researched methods that taught people how to live with the earth. Holcombe said Jackson, a native of Kansas, had studied ways to prevent soil erosion. Jackson's goal, Holcombe said, was to find ways to replenish the soil and not take it away.
The University Forum begins at
Administrator to participate in leadership conference
A KU administrator is one of 35 Kansas selected to participate in Leadership Kansas' class of 1993.
ing program has graduated state officials, legislators, industry leaders and community activists.
Janet Riley, assistant vice chancellor at the Office for Academic Affairs, was selected to participate in the class, which was established in 1979 to identify potential leaders from all areas of Kansas. The leadership development trainpaign posters on campus. Posters can only be posted on public bulletin boards.
This year's program will last from May to October and will consist of six sessions at various sites in the state. The sessions will examine the state's economy and geography.
Two KU employees were honored yesterday as the classified and unclassified employees of the year during the KU Employee Recognition ceremony at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Patchen works with committees to hire new staff and assists Ed
University recognizes employees of the year
She has worked for the University since 1964.
Meyen, executive vice chancellor,
by keeping his calendar, screening
telephone calls and preparing
materials for meetings.
Sandra Patchen, executive secretary in the executive vice chancellor's office, and Larry Welch, director of the Law Enforcement Training Center, were selected from 10 finalists by the Employee Recognition Committee.
Welch directs all police training in Kansas, including the supervision and training of all municipal, county and state officers.
Patchen, Welch and the other eight finalists were chosen from nominations submitted by University employees and University-affiliated offices and agencies.
Election commission has received 109 complaints
Despite having received 109 verified complaints concerning candidates' campaign practices, Diane King, Student Senate election commissioner, said that no major complaints had been filed.
King said that she did not think the number of complaints was high, considering the number of candidates.
King said that a popular complaint was the location of campaign posters on campus. Posters can only be posted on public bulletin boards.
She also said that violations of the election code's rules involving maximum poster size, which is set at 22-by-14 inches, and the overlapping of posters were the topics of many complaints.
Many complaints were directed toward poster placement in classrooms.
Briefs compiled by Terrilyn McCormick, Mark Klefer, Will Lewis, Brady Prauser and Brigg Rigs.
Festival to celebrate cultures
Multicultural event to feature food, craft, dance
Lawrence, Kansas Arts Commission, southwestern Belt, Ettel and Raymond F. Rice Foundation and Landplan Engineering, will feature individuals and groups from all over the world.
By Jess DeHaven
Performances, crafts and foods from several cultures will help to celebrate cultural diversity at a festival this weekend.
Kansan staff writer
The celebration of Cultures Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds. The eighth annual event, sponsored by the City of
Lisa Blair, coordinator for the festival, said the purpose of the event was to celebrate various cultures.
"It is really a multipurpose festival," she said. "We want to expose people to all types of culture through art, food and education."
About 30 groups, including musical and theater performances and food and craft booths, have registered for the fair.
Blair said performances would be a big part of the festival.
Performances include the Lawrence Community Youth Choir, the University of Kansas Medical Center Children's Choir, merengue and salsa dances by a South American group, and a Tae Kwon Do demonstration.
KU's Malaysian Student Association will be one of the groups participating in the festival. Phang Kok Woei, member of Malaysian Student Association, said his group planned to serve foods such as fried noodles, egg roles and curry chicken at its booth.
"We're participating because we want to share our culture with other communities."
Wooi said Malaysian Student Association had participated in several of
the past festivals.
Octavio Hinojosa, president of Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said that HALO had planned to be part of the festival, but he said that lack of manpower would keep the group from participating.
Because part of the festival will be held indoors and the outdoor activities will be covered by canopies, rain on Saturday will not cancel the festival, Blair said.
Blair said she expected about 6,000 people from all over northeastern Kansas to attend the festival. Admission to the event is free, but $1 will be charged for priority parking, and visitors will also have to pay for foods and crafts.
Raindrops gather on the buds of trees on Campanile Hill. Forecasters predict rain through tomorrow with high temperatures in the 50 s.
Home cholesterol test could mislead
By Vicki Bode
Rainydays
Kansan staff writer
Cholesterol levels now can be measured at home, but the results may be misleading, said Carlos Dujane, director of the Lipid and Arteriosclerosis Prevention Clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Food and Drug Administration in March approved the marketing of
Dujave said that the test was accurate for monitoring total cholesterol levels but that people could not rely solely on the home test.
The home test only measures the total cholesterol level. Dujavean said an accurate test broke the total level into good cholesterol — high density lipoprotein, or HDL — and bad cholesterol — low density lipoprotein, or LDL.
He warned that the home test could not be used as a substitute for an initial screening by a physician.
The home test is a method that can be used by people who already have been confirmed with a high level by a physician, because it prevents them from having to visit their doctor continually for a cholesterol test, Duivine said.
A high number of HDL is healthy, but the home test does not measure it accurately.
"A person may measure a high total cholesterol, because they have a high number of HDL, which is fine," Dujane said. "But they may be misled and seek unnecessary medical treatment."
Consequently, people might be measured with a low total level and mistakenly believe they are fine, he said. Some people have a low total number, because their HDL is low, while their LDL level may be relatively high.
"They are the people who are at risk for heart attacks," he said.
Not all medical clinics test HDL and LDL cholesterol levels. Some only test total levels like the home test.
The Med Center provides free cholesterol tests, which report the HDL and LDL levels. People interested in being tested may contact the lind clinic at the Med Center.
Watkins Memorial Health Center cholesterol tests cost students, and the initial test only provides the total cholesterol level. An additional fee is charged for HDL and LDL screening.
Kansan staff writer
Bar patrons describe murder scene
By Mark Kiefer
Stephen Perdue, 22, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jerry Thompson, 42, and Jim Buswell, 32, both of Topeka. The shootings occurred around 5:30 p.m. in a parking lot outside of Henry T's Bar and Grill. 3520 W. Sixth St.
A Lawrence man charged with the Nov. 27 murders of two Topeka men entered the bar near the site of the shootings in an "intensely angered" mood, according to testimony yesterday in the man's trial.
seemed to be upset when they first walked into the bar.
David Anderson, who met with Thompson and Buswell in the bar on the afternoon of Nov. 27, said Perdue and Donald Hall, a friend of Perdue's.
three men arguing.
Anderson said Perdue and Hall walked up to a pool table and began to play. He said Buswell, Thompson and a third man, Bruce Brumbaugh, had been playing at the table and that a small argument ensued.
Anderson said that Perdue became volatile after a second argument broke out over the pool table, and Buswell tried to ease the situation. He said that Perdue shoved Buswell, knocking him off balance, and then punched Buswell in the face, knocking him back to a table. Anderson said bar employees quickly broke up the fight and told the five men to leave.
Leslie French testified that he was in the parking lot at the evening and saw
"The older gentleman had grabbed his friend by the arm, saying, 'Let's leave. I don't want anymore trouble.' French said. "His friend told him, No. I'm going to whip his ass."
He said that the third man hollered back, "No, I don't think so."
French said he thought it was just a shouting match and decided to head for his truck. He said he heard a gun go off as he walked away.
"When I heard the shot, I turned, and the gun was still in the air, and a guy was falling," French said.
A patron in the bar, Cheryl Leatherwood, said a crying and hysterical Hall ran inside the bar, asking for help.
"Somebody get an ambulance,"
Leatherwood said she recalled Hall saying. "My friend has a gun. He's shot somebody, I think he's dead."
Leatherwood said that she and a friend went to Hall, trying to calm him down. She said Hall told her two or three times, "My friend has a bad temper."
She said that Hall also had said, "My best friend just ruined his life. I wish I could've stopped it."
Todd Hiatt, who was tending bar, said he went to the parking lot after Hall's entrance.
"I went out and saw Perdue in the lot grabbing his hair and screaming, "I shot him. I warned him. It was an accident," Hiatt said.
The trial will continue at 9 a.m. today.
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