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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103,NO.130
KANSAS STATE
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1994
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Headliner picked for Day on the Hill
Urge Overkill to play at annual KU event
Kansan staff writer
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Urge Overkill will be one of five bands for Day on the Hill, desay Desey Tortziort, Student Union Activities live music coordinator.
The Chicago band will headline the event, and Manhattan-based Vitrouse Humor also will play in the concert, which will be held on April 30 at Campanile hill.
"Urge Overkill is one of the better bands in the Midwest," Tziortzis said. "They played Liberty Hall in mid-November and sold out."
years ago at the Kansas Ballroom in the Kansas Union, she said.
While Urge Overkill has a national following, Vitreous Humor is a lesser known band.
"Vitreous Humor has a pretty good following in Manhattan," said Eric Mater, Great Bend senior who works at Hastings Books, Music and Video at 23rd and Iowa streets. "They have a hard, grungy sound. It's a lot of guitar, but it's not as hard as PAW."
PAW is a Lawrence grunge rock group. Tziortzis said two other bands should be confirmed today.
The bands are chosen by the SUA live music committee. Interested bands send in tapes, which are reviewed by members of the committee. The committee members are not told which band they are listening to when they are reviewing the tapes. The elimination process continues
The fifth band will be chosen at KJHK's Farmer's Bull contest.
Jordan Jacobson, KJHK music director,
said that a committee already had chosen the eight finalists for the contest.
The bands will compete on April 25 and 26 at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. The final competition will be April 29.
Day on the Hill is held the day after the competition.
The event will cost more than $5,000, said Sue Morrell, SUA adviser. The figure does not include meals, production costs or security, she said.
Battle of the bands
KJHK's Farmer's Ball contest will decide the fifth band for Day on the Hill. Eight finalists will compete April 25, 26 and 29 at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.:
■ Feel Spider
■ The Bubble Boys
■ Atrox
■ Ultimate Fake Book
■ Black Calvin
■ Wide Body
■ Flux
■ Nudie Voodoo
Source: Jordan Jacobson, KJHK music directo
Wheelchairs educate on design
Disability for a day teaches students barrier awareness
By Susan White Kansan staff writer
James Wilcox/KANSAN
Frank Lancia, St. Louis sophomore, waits on an elevator in Watson Library, while Tommy Handy, Jakarta, Indonesia, sophomore, attempts to back his wheelchair into the elevator. Lancia, Handy and other second-year architecture students participated in Wheelchair Day on Friday.
Frank Lancia realized how lucky he was to have full use of his legs — after he spent an hour in a wheelchair.
"That's the thing," said Lancia, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore. "We can have fun doing this for one day. But everyone else has to do it for life."
Lancia and other second-year architecture students participated in Wheelchair Day on Friday for the School of Architecture.
Rick Catron, St. Louis, Mo., senior and one of the coordinators of the day, said that the architecture fraternity, Alpha Rho Chi, had sponsored the program every year since 1987.
"It's for second-year students to make them more aware of the design barriers in buildings that people in wheelchairs face every day," he said.
Bob Mekesic of Independence Inc., a service that helps people with disabilities, and Jim Skinner, a Lawrence senior who uses a wheelchair, helped with the day. They explained the guidelines that buildings had to meet under the American Disabilities Act. They also gave the students hints on how to best maneuver their wheelchairs.
Mekesic said that for buildings to be made accessible for people with disabilities they had to have special features, such as enough space to roll a wheelchair underneath a drinking fountain and big enough doors to roll a wheelchair through.
Chris Lonigro, St. Louis, Mo., junior and a co-coordinator of the day, said the students had to maneuver the wheelchairs by themselves to gain first-hand experience.
"They have to try opening doors, getting up and down ramps, getting on elevators, getting through the Watson stacks, using the drinking fountains and using the bathrooms," he said. "They cannot count on anyone to help them. In the future, we hope they will remember how hard it was to get around, and it will
make them more sensitive to the design of a building. Just doing it last year helped me a lot."
Lisa Merrill, Waterville sophomore, said just making the wheelchair move was harder than she thought.
Students who took part in the day had various reactions to the experience.
"My arms are already tired, and we just started," she said. "Imagine doing
Chris Schutte, Overland Park sophomore, said he did not find performing basic activities from his wheelchair difficult.
this all the time. Also, the slightest slope in the sidewalk makes the chair turn that way."
"I have really long arms, so I did not have any real problems reaching doors or things high up," he said. "I could
After the hour was up, Merrill said that she had learned a lot from the experience but that she was exhausted.
reach the top shelf of the stacks. But it was a good experience. It helped me to see what is accessible and what is not."
"Have you ever run really hard and then had your legs feel funny?" she said.
"That's what my arms feel like. I can feel the blood pump through them."
KU crime found in reports, fliers and timetables
By Frank McCleary Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Every year, KU and every other public university in the United States publicize their campus crime statistics. The above law
In 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act. The law requires public universities to annually disclose their campus crime statistics.
The University of Kansas complies with the law in several ways. The posting of filers in some campus buildings, an annual report and a listing in the appendix of each semester's timetable all provide campus crime statistics.
Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life, said KU published statistics in many ways because not every student or faculty member would see one specific article.
"We don't have one publication that falls into everybody's hands," he said.
In the reports, KU must include certain crimes reported on University property. Kaiser said.
This includes the Regents Center in Overland Park, University organizations with buildings off campus — such as fraternities and sororites — and even a boat house that the KU Sailing Club leases in Topeka.
Kaiser said the University had almost no guidelines about how to publicize the statistics, but he felt that KU complied with the law.
"We think we know what we're doing in publicizing the statistics," he said. "We're reasonably confident about that."
Kaiser said his office had published similar flies twice before: last semester when former KU football player Kenny Drayton escaped from prison in Arizona, and one in August 1992 that warned about a possible rapist on campus.
"Fliers are the quickest means of publication," he said.
"We can target fliers. We can get them out to where women."
The fliers about Shanks were distributed to on-campus living organizations and sororities.
"With that kind of combination we feel like we're getting the statistics out." he said.
KU also publicizes the statistics in each semester's timetable because both students and faculty use it.
Kaiser said that if a university did not comply with the law, the government could withhold funding. Almost of federal funding could mean no government financial aid for students and no federal grants for faculty, he said.
The KU Police Department already was releasing the statistics when the law went into effect in September 1992, he said.
But one thing KU wasn't doing before the law was printing the "Awareness" report, which is available at offices around campus, Kaiser said.
The report, produced last fall by the department of student life and University Relations, provided all the statistics the law requires.
April Retherdford, associate director of admissions, said inquires into campus crime were common from prospective students.
"People request that information before they leave campus." she said. "The interest is relatively high."
But it is more of an issue for the parents than the students, Retherford said.
"It seems to be a criteria that parents use to screen colleges," she said.
Powwow
More than 500 people turn out for a Native-American spiritual celebration Saturday night at the Kansas Union.
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A.S. W.E. GO! seeks Senate responsibility
By Heather Moore Kansan staff writer
Editor's Note: This article is the first of four articles profiling each coalition presidential and vice presidential candidate.
Daron Sinkler, candidate for student body president for A.S. W.E.GO! — which stands for Arts and Sausages With Eggs — said he wanted to confront Senate's financial irresponsibility.
"I was not pleased by the leadership or fiscal irresponsibility of Senate," Sinker, Shawnee senior said. "Students are suffering because of stagnant government. Leaders need to benefit the entire student body."
A. S. W.E.GO! candidates want to bring new blood to Student Senate next year by stressing fiscal responsibility and cooperation with students.
Senate should have representatives to the Lawrence City Commission, Sinkler said.
"We want a better relationship between the city and Student Senate," he said. "We don't have any representatives. We should have two. We're a huge part of the community."
Senate should continue its state lobbying efforts, Sinkler said.
"We would also like to start a committee dealing with the
Legislature at the state level," he said. "We need to utilize those paid positions. Student Senate needs to take an active leadership role in higher education."
Sinkler said Graduate Senate and Senate needed to be united.
"Unless you've done something, it doesn't mean anything," he said. "It should be students' responsibility to select someone who would have their best interest."
"Going to the Board of Regents is much more effective if we do it as a united group," he said. "Their concerns are ours. There is a lack of relationship with the student body. The people in the system are part of the problem."
Jon Gerner, candidate for vice president, said he was a qualified candidate because he understood KU.
Leadership experience is valuable for a senator, Sinkler said.
"I have enough interest in what's going on at KU," Gerner, Shawnee senior, said. "I've never been on Senate or on a committee. I don't believe that's pertinent or necessary."
Senate should work closer with the student organizations that it funds, Gerner said.
"We want to work with student organizations personally to find out what they need to meet their goals," he said.
"The people in the leadership now have worked their
Daron Sinker, left, candidate for student body president and Jon Gerner, candidate for student body vice president for the party A.S. W.E. GoI which stands for Art and Sausages With Eggs.
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way up, but I'm not part of that," he said. "I'm approaching this from an outsider's point of view. I'm coming from left field with limited experience."
Senate should be more aware of how it is spending student fees. Gerner said.
"My outlook is that I work 40 hours, and every penny I give to Student Senate matters," he said.