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Monday, March 15, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Parking Department to hold public hearing
The Parking Department will conduct a public hearing at 3 p.m. today in the Parking Facility for a bill that would change some parking lot restrictions on campus.
People will be allowed to share their opinions about the new restrictions, which were passed by University Council last week.
Permit-only times for some lots would be reduced, while the classifications for other lots would be changed. The price of yellow parking stickers would increase from $50 to $53. Residence hall permits
would increase from $33 to $35.
KU organizations sponsor Safe Break Week
"This is the chance to make sure everyone has had a chance to have their say in what we have done," said Jason McIntosh, council member. "It's part of the procedure that we have to follow."
Before the changes can be enacted, the new measures must have two readings by the Board of Regents. The Regents already have read the bill once and are expected to conduct the second reading at their next meeting Wednesday and Thursday.
Free condoms, sunscreen and nonalcoholic drinks will be handed out this week in front of Wescoe Hall as part of the Safe Break Week.
The week is sponsored by Watkins Memorial Health Center, the Department of Student Housing, Promote Alcohol Responsibility Through You, Greeks Advocating Mature Management of Alcohol and Forming Awareness of Cancer Through Students.
Shonna Terry, member of PARTY, said the week was started nationally by the group Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students to persuade students to be careful during spring break. Universities around the atonic sponsor similar activities the week before spring break, she said.
"Last year the week was really successful because of the mock accident done on campus." Terry said.
Last spring a fake accident was staged on campus that showed students the dangers involved in
rockless driving.
reckless driving The activities begin today
The activities begin.
Free candy bars, sunscreen and
sunscreen. Be handed out from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and tomor-
ward in front of Wescow Hall.
An a capella group, 8 Men Out,
will perform from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. today in front of Wescue Hall
The Kansas Highway Patrol will demonstrate mock car crashes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; today in front of Wesco Hall.
PARTY and GAMMA will provide Safe Break pledge cards for students to sign from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and tomorrow in front of Wescoe Hall.
A Fort Hays State University theater group will perform a program showing responsible spring break behavior 7.30 tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
GAMMA will hold a nonalcoholic party for fraternity and sorority members at 8 p.m. tomorrow house at Sigma Delta Tau sorority house, 1625 Edgehill Rd.
would not have a complete report until today.
three students were arrested early Friday in connection with property damage done the same day in Templin Hall.
The three students are residents of Templin.
A Salina freshman, Leavenworth sophomore and Springfield, Mo., freshman were arrested about 6 a.m. Friday.
KU students arrested for damage at Templin
bond for each of them was $1,000. Each student posted the money and was released from the Douglas County jail later Friday.
KU police Lt. John Mullens said that a television and some furniture were damaged, but that police
No charges have been filed against the students.
KJHK began broadcasting "Talk Radio" March 1 to replace its canceled talk show, "Talk Soup." The show was canceled Feb. 22.
Talk radio fans, listen up. There's a new show in town.
New KJHK talk show hits the airwaves
The station's graduate teaching adviser, Chris Beurman, said "Talk Soup" was canceled because the show did not adhere to the station's constitution, which states that KJHK is a laboratory radio station with programming meant to serve the student body.
Russ Johnson, Lawrence junior, is the host of "Talk Radio."
would be a blend of light humor and some serious issues, but that the show was not yet completely defined.
Johnson said that his show
"On our first official show we interviewed a New York police chief from the port authority about the bombing in the Trade Center, and we talked with an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent whose partner was killed in the shootout in Waco, Texas," he said.
Margo Werber, station manager,
said the show was very popular
and had generated a lot of calls.
"We're extremely pleased with the show," Werber said.
Briefs compiled by Kansan staff writer Todd Selfert, Vicki Bode, Mark Klefer and Eral Wolfe.
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OREAD computer system clogged
"The answer is it has to be a reallocation within the existing budget," Niebaum said, adding that Academic Computing Services' budget did not allow for such flexibility.
After more than a year in existence, OREAD, a computer system for KU students, is experiencing growing pains.
pains.
"When we originally set this up, we thought it could handle 300 at most," said Richard Kershenbaum, manager of technical support services in Academic Computing Services. "We can't meet the needs with the current system."
Niemau said he hesitated to request money for programs such as OREAD while some faculty members were without microcomputers.
He said he was concerned that student systems like OREAD were not a high priority at KU.
were in an attempt to alleviate the burden on OREAD, some applicants are encouraged to sign up on VAX 9000, a similar system used primarily by research faculty, Niebium said.
A new system, which would catch the spill-over of OREAD users, is being considered, he said.
Kershenbaum said, "It's so popular because people have a natural human urge to communicate."
Crossen said that during the day OREAD took up to an hour and a half to connect to networks.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
By Kathleen Stolle Kansan staff writer
According to Jerry Niebaum, director of Academic Computing Services, a new, more efficient computer would cost about $15,000.
tent.
At KU, 810 students are registered to use the system, which is free to users. OREAD users can communicate
Girardeau, Mo. junior. "I work different hours, and at 2 or 3 in the morning I can log on and it runs five to 10 times faster."
The overcrowding problem is magnified by the fact that the seven-year-old OREAD hardware, salvaged from the department of physics, is a fossil by computer standards and lacks power, Kershenbaum said.
The growing demand, coupled with the outdated hardware, has rendered OREAD sluggish in connecting its users to coveted networks of information and may prevent future students from getting OREAD accounts.
internationally through such services as electronic mail or Usenet News, a bulletin board forum.
"OREAD's main problem is that it's
slow," said Richard Crossen, Cape
Pupils learn about physics
Faculty, students show the science of KU basketball
KU women's basketball guard Shannon Kite stepped to the threepoint line yesterday in the Lawrence High School gymnasium and eared the rim.
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
She was about to demonstrate projectile motion.
nine was among students and faculty from KU who participated in a program, "The Physics of Sports and Dance," designed to show elementary students that science existed everywhere, not just in the classroom.
As Lawrence elementary school students watched, the senior drained four three-pointers in a row.
"We tried to connect science with the things they see every day and show them that they're not separate worlds," said Drew Dummer, Lawrence graduate student in physics.
Jerel Hilding, assistant professor of music and dance, and Maureen DuBois, Overland Park junior, leaped and spun, gracefully demonstrating how the human body adjusts to changes in its center of gravity.
gratey
"All of her body's weight has to be centered above that point of contact on her toe," said Barbara Twaro, professor of astronomy, who narrated much of the program.
Eric Southard, a nine-year-old Lawrence student, attempts to stay on a balcony beam, as Jeremy Manweller, Lawrence resident, explains the laws of physics at work. Southard volunteered during a physics demonstration put on yesterday by KU faculty and students in Lawrence High School.
Twarog said she wanted to break stereotypes that students had about science being "geeky and too hard."
Graduate students in physics demonstrated basic principles of motion by throwing a frisbee, firing an orange ball with a giant sling-shot, and hurling a Nerf boomerang.
booktalking
Program organizers said about 75 students attended the program, the
"At some point later they'll think back and say, 'Oh yeah, I remember something about that, and I understood for a minute how a curve ball curves or why a boomerang comes back," she said.
Praeger warns KU about cuts
second annual physics program sponsored by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department and KU's department of physical education.
Another nine-year-old, Eric Southard, volunteered to walk on a balance beam during the program. When someone handed him a bucket with a basketball in it, he teetered and fell from the beam. A narrator explained that Eric had trouble maintaining his center of gravity. But that wasn't all the nine-year-old learned. Eric said.
Nine-year-old Jeff Cravens attended the physics program with his mother but said he was not thrilled with the subject.
"I don't really like science," he said.
By Ben Grove
But he liked learning about it at the program better than at school.
Kansan staff writer
telling you," he said. "Here, they're showing you."
"Physics can be fun," he said
"In the classroom, they're just
With just a month to go in the state legislative session, State Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, told KU administrators Saturday that Lawrence legislators were facing a struggle over the Board of Regents budget.
"I think from now on out, we're going to be trying to hold on," Praeger said at a meeting between Lawrence legislators and KU administrators.
registers Senate passed the $1,046 billion Regents budget last week, which included a 2.5 percent increase for faculty and student employees at the state universities.
The Regents had requested a 5.5 percent raise for faculty and a 5 percent raise for student employees.
The Senate passed the Regents budget Tuesday, Praeger said legislators had not yet exceeded the governor's proposed overall budget. If spending does exceed Joan Finney's proposal by the end of the session, the Legislature would consider across-the-board cuts.
Because the Regents budget is a large part of the overall budget — about 15 percent — across-the-board cuts would be bad news for the six Regent universities, she said.
"When we do across-the-board cuts, it hits higher education disproportionately harder than it hits many of the other agencies," she said.
the other agent the other agent She said that state legislators were nervous about the effect on state revenue of layoff announcements at Boeing and Sears in Wichita. She said legislators were hesitant to finance budget increases and new programs for any of the state's agencies.
By controlling its own tuition increases, KU would receive the money those increases would generate. As it is, the same tuition increase made at all the Regents universities merely increases the budget of the whole system, not of the individual schools.
Praeger said there was talk of finding new ways to finance the universities. One proposal would create a base budget that would remain the same each year. The universities would be guaranteed a 1 percent annual increase and would be allowed to set tuition increases.
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