CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, January 14, 1993
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Former KU basketball player, wife commit $1.2 million to University
William M. and Carolle Houghland of Wichita have committed more than $1.2 million to benefit the University of Kansas Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, School of Business, Alumni Association and Spencer Museum of Art, Chancellor Gene Budig announced yesterday.
"We are deeply in their debt for both the magnitude and the range of their gift," Budig said. "It will have a significant impact on KU and our alumni association."
The Houglands committed a charitable remainder trust that will become the William M. and Carolie Miller Hougland Fund after their deaths. A charitable remainder trust enables donors to make gifts to the KU Endowment Association and at the same time ensure a life income for themselves.
Bill Houghland, a Leiboit native, retired in 1991 as president of Koch Oil Co. Inc. in Wichita. He was graduated from KU with a bachelor's degree in business in 1952. At KU, he lettered in basketball as a guard and forward and was co-captain of the KU basketball team when it won the 1952 NCAA championship. He was also captain of the U.S. basketball team that won the 1956 Olympic gold medal. He participated in Air Force ROTC and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
"The University, its people, its culture and tradition all have contributed to what success we have been able to achieve," Bill Hough said. "Dr. F.C. Phog Allen, my coach when at KU, always reminded his players what a special place the university was and that we would realize this more in later years."
"He was right. KU is a very special place."
Computing Services offers classes on software at a discounted rate
Computing Services is offering classes on computer software at a discount for KU students.
Students can enroll in the short-term classes for $20, half the usual $40 rate, said Jerree Catlin, coordinator for micro-computer workshops.
An introductory three-hour class will provide students with a basic understanding of a certain software program. Intermediate classes also are offered for students who are interested in more than the basic works of the programs.
Courses are offered for WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, SPSS and FileMaker Pro.
The computer service is willing to accommodate classes in other software that students are interested in learning if a professor already knows the software.
Students can enroll at the computer center. Pre-registration is required.
Compiled by Terrilyn McCormick and Stephanie Kimball
Doug Hesse / KANSAN
Dary Pearson, Perry sophomore; Marc Milburn, Lawrence senior; and Marty Tuley, KU graduate, are muscling their way into the bodybuilding business as co-owners of HardWear Gym, which opened Tuesday.
Trio pumps iron into business
Young gym owners balance fitness center with hectic schedules
By Jess DeHaven
Kansan staff writer
Tuley said that he and his partners had wanted to open a gym for about six months.
Building a body takes hard work and determination, but then so does building a business. Marc Milburn, Daryl Pearson and Marty Turtle had the endurance to do both.
Milburn, Lawrence senior; Pearson,
Perry sophomore; and 1992 KU graduate
Tuley, of Lawrence, just opened HardWear
Gym and Fitness Center, 2329 Iowa St.,
Tuesday.
but that plans for the business had only recently been completed.
"Things fell into place in December," Tuley said. "It's really come up pretty quickly."
Pearson said. "This was what I always wanted to do. I just didn't expect it this quick."
He said that a gap in the market prompted the opening of the gym.
"We saw an opportunity Lawrence needed a nice gym that anyone could go to, not just the bodybuilders," Pearson said.
Money from their own pockets — and family members pockets — helped launch
The response so far has been good. Pearson said, about 50 people had applied for memberships on the first day. Several more have expressed an interest in joining
the gym.
Milburn and Pearson admitted that balancing school and a new business was a little difficult.
"I have to do my homework in the gym," Pearson said.
Milburn. a pre-med major, agreed.
"Things are pretty hectic because I just applied to med school," he said. "You have to cut things out and make sacrifices. It's a matter of getting your priorities straight."
"I was surprised by the response of some of the older people. They really treat us well," he said. "People were surprised that we could pull this off because we were so young, but we knew we could do it."
It was bodybuilding that brought the
three men together. Milburn and Tuley had been friends for several years, and they met Pearson about two years ago.
Milburn, 1992 Mr. Kansas in the lightweight class, said the three got into weight lifting when they played football in high school.
"After football we had to transfer our energy to something else," Milburn said. "Weight lifting was a part of the football program, so it was a natural choice."
Pearson, an exercise science major, is the only member of the group who plans to make the gym his career. Tulley would like to pursue a career in law enforcement.
Milburn said the new business was exciting but also a bit scary.
"So far it's going over rather well," he said. "We're trying to offer a service, but we also want to make a profit."
NOW returns to KU campus
Students bring back chapter begun in 1986
By Angela Sciara Kansan staff reporter
Kin Child / KANSAN
After several years of inactivity, a group of students has given life to the organization originally started at the University in Fall 1986.
The KU chapter of National Organization for Women has been resurrected.
Julie Cline, left, and Margaret Hu are vice president and president of KU's chapter of the National Organization for Women. NOW is reorganizing or relocating to a new location.
The coalition will focus its energy toward women's political issues on the state and national levels, said Margaret Hu, Manhattan senior president of NOW at the University.
"After working on subcommittees of the Women's Student Union, we decided that there was warrant for a visit." And he said, "So we restorated the coalition."
Jean Rosenthal, former sponsor of NOW, said she supported the efforts of the new organization.
"Organizations such as the prochoice coalition and Women's Stu
dent Union, are both very positive," she said. "But NOW will address issues that college-age women need to look at that deal with the workplace and the rest of their lives."
The coalition will be involved in lobbying and testifying in Topeka for legislation on women's issues, such as child care, pay equity and violence against women, said Julie Cline, Park Ridge, Ill., senior and vice president of NOW.
"We also will serve as an icebreaker for women who are interested in politics but might be intimidated by its male domination," she said.
But the coalition will not be so concerned with raising awareness about women's issues as it will be with acting on behalf of women, Cline said.
"It's very important to have consciousness raised but more important to have laws passed that protect against domestic violence and inequalities in the workplace," she said.
"This is not just a woman's problem," she said. "It's society's problem."
The coalition is planning its first benefit concert for January 27 at the Jazzhaus, 926-12-8 Massachusetts St. NOW's first meeting is at 5 p.m. today in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
Membership is open to men as well as women, Cline said.
Timetable errors bring office changes
Registrar to utilize more time, different personnel in future
By Brady Prauser Kansan staff writer
The University registrar hopes errors in the timetable will be a thing of the past.
Rich Morrell, whose office compiles the timetable, said that he was frustrated with mistakes in recent timetables and that those errors were unacceptable to him and students. That is why he will be dedicating more staff time and different personnel to the completion of future timetables.
"I'm the first to admit we weren't
In the past, one student employee and one full-time staff member worked part-time on the publication, in addition to their other duties in the registrar's office. Because of mistakes in recent timetables, Morrell said, he hired a full-time employee whose primary responsibility would be completing the timetable.
staffed properly to get the thing out the way it should have been." Morrell said. "I've changed staffing in the office to make it a better publication. I've given people some quality time to get this done correctly."
Incorrect information in the timetable created confusion and anger among those who showed up at the Big Right Room at 0 a.m. Monday
This year's spring timetable drew particular criticism.
"When you try to check thousands of facts in a short time, mistakes can happen."
Rich Morrell
University Registrar
for registration cards and KUID stickers. They soon discovered they had to go to Fraser and wait until noon.
Tom Hermann, Lake Ozark, Mo. freshman, was one of those students.
"I had gotten up early to be done with all my errands by noon that day, but I found out it couldn't," he said. "It threw off the rest of the morning."
"It's fairly inconsiderate of them. They expect us to follow their schedule, and then they don't notify us of any changes."
The Spring 1901 timetable made another mistake.
It imprinted the dates on the final examination schedule and omitted the University's policy on student academic misconduct, which always appears in the appendix.
Morrell said it was difficult to catch every mistake, but by making the timetable a top priority, it would become more accurate.
Recycling saves 280 large trees
Lawrence drive collects 33,000 telephone books
By Vicki Bode
Kansan staff writer
Because of Lawrence residents' recycling efforts in December, 280 large trees will be saved, according to data collected by Southwestern Bell Telephone.
Mike Scott, area manager for the telephone company, said Project ReDirectory, a month-long recycling drive for old telephone books, collected 33,000 books in nine bins and donated Four of the bins were on campus.
He estimated that 88,000 phone books were in circulation before the project began.
"It really helped having bins located at KU," Scott said. "This year it was really well-organized."
The collection coincided with the delivery of the 1992-93 Southwestern Bell Telephone directories in Lawrence, Eudora and Lecompton. Project ReDirectory began in Lawrence in December 1991.
The first collection brought in 72, 000 books. That year, resident turned in old phone books that they had kept for several years, which made last year's count much higher than this year's, Scott said.
Recvcling numbers
Telephone books from every city were accepted, but he said the majority of telephone books were from the Lawrence area.
The bins were marked exclusively for telephone books; however, other paper products were mistakenly mixed in. Ask said.
Sue Ask, associate environmental ambudsman at KU, said that 3,000 of the recycled books were collected in the campus bins. "Probably close to half of those were KU campus directories," Ask said.
"It wasn't too big of a problem, but a few catalogs and newspapers were found," Ask said. "In the future I'd like
Southwestern
Bell collected and
recycled
phone books
a Lawrence last
month. This
saves the
equivalent of
trees and
2,250
gallons of oil.
Source: Mike Scott, Area Manager, Southern Western Bell
Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN
to see less contamination."
Southwestern Bell plans to repeat Project ReDirectory in December 1983. The project is done by the telephone company in five states around the Midwest.
Shelley Wells, environmental educational coordinator at KU, said the books were delivered to Central Fiber in Wellesville after they were collected. There, they were turned into grass feed.