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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 94, No. 151 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students at the University of Kansas
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Wednesday morning, June 20, 1984
Newcomers, parents get 'oriented' at KU
By JOHN SIMONSON Staff Reporter
Kristi Kelly took one last puff of her cigarette. She sat on a bench in front of Wescoe Hall, trying to stretch out the last few minutes before meeting with her academic adviser.
"It's all right," she said. "Kind of boring."
For her, freshman orientation was something less than exciting.
Nevertheless, Kelly was getting a jump on her first college semester, with about 250 other incoming freshmen who took part yesterday in KU's orientation and early fall enrollment program.
THE DAY-LONG program was one in a series of 22 on-campus summer sessions being run by several schools and departments between June 9 and July 14. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences sponsored yesterday's session and will also be in charge of a program tomorrow.
During the sessions, students and parents learn about campus activities and services, plan course schedules with academic advisers, complete enrollment procedures and receive class sched-
Kelly, a recent Shawnee Mission South graduate from Lenexa, said she knew what to expect from her class.
"My sister just graduated from KU," she said
"She said it was a lot easier this way."
Sheilah Murphy, assistant coordinator for summer orientation, said she expected about 90 percent of the incoming freshman class to attend summer orientation programs.
LAST YEAR, she said, about 6,000 students and parents attended the early enrollments and orientations.
About 270 parents also attended yesterday's session. Murphy said. She said the summer dates made it easier for parents to attend orientation and learn about the University.
Cathy Swieca accompanied her daughter, Aileen, to Lawrence from St. Louis to attend the session.
"THE MAIN THING is that this is a friendlier setting than in the fall, when there are . . . how many students go here?" she asked.
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Told there were more than 20,000, she said,
"That right there might make me want to turn
She said that the program was not at all confusing, however.
"The reason it's not confusing is that we've五 five other kids go through college." she said.
Oner summer orientation and enrollment programs will be sponsored by the School of Fine Arts; the department of health, physical education and recreation; the School of Architecture and Urban Design; the program in architectural engineering and the School of Engineering.
Greg Windholz, Hays, has his picture taken by Linda Knewtson, Lawrence senior, as Dawn Clark, Lawrence junior, put the finishing touches on several new KUID's yesterday in the Kansas Union.
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Terry Schmidt, right, an incoming freshman from Hays, discusses fall courses Parents and incoming freshmen were on campus all day yesterday for KU's sum- with Joseph Kuo, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures. orientation.
General public BYOB parties against the law
Although 3.2 beer a different story, says Kansas statute
By CAROLYN COLEMAN Staff Reporter
Kansas law prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages at any public location, even if guests bring their own bottles. Robert T. Stephan, Kansas attorney general.
For example, parties such as those staged at the Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St., by New West Productions, which books bands, charges admission and allows people to bring their own liquor, are prohibited by an opinion issued by Stephan.
But, Skip Moon, president of Opera House Investments, Inc., said yesterday that he thought bring your own fraternity and so did the public because the general public wasn't admitted.
However, afficiados of 3.2 beer blasts will be happy to know that, according to Kansas statute, "cereal malt beverage is served in a wine cellar" and liquor, and can be consumed in public legally.
Stephan issued Attorney General Opinion Number 84-51 on June 8 in response to a request for clarification of Kansas liquor law Harper, Douglas County district attorney.
Harper said that Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, and several dance hall owners had asked if it was legal to rent a hall and allow people to bring their own liquor.
In his letter to Stephan, Harper described several hypothetical situations and asked when guests could bring their own liquor to a party. He wrote that, as soon as showing up at the door with $1 is admitted "
"The answer is basically that they can't ever." Harper said.
"It all goes back to the Kansas Constitution," Jeff Southard, deputy attorney general, said. "The open saloon shall be and is hereby forever prohibited."
Southern said that when anyone was admitted, even for a price, the location became public, whether it was licensed to sell liquor or not.
Richard Hodson, assistant attorney general assigned to the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control agency said that he was sure that people had been having bring-alleggio drugs. "I don't know anyone who could pay," but not with either the knowledge or the blessing of the ABC."
Although an attorney general opinion doesn't have the force of law, it has authority to make certain decisions.
"It's more authoritative than the opinion of a private lawyer but less authoritative than the opinion of a court," he said.
"When we've issued opinions and found that they're still not being observed, we've filed lawsuits," he said.
"If I were contemplating any of the situations described in the letter, I'd think again," Harper said.
Hodson said that the opinion wouldn't change anything at ABC regarding their own situation.
"We do prefer to answer questions like this before a particular event instead of waiting until after the fact to pounce on someone," he said.
Ambler, Senate officers to discuss payroll clash
By MICKI SAMPSON Staff Reporter
In a conflict of wills, Carla Vogel and Dennis "Boog" Higberger, student body president and vice president, are butting heads in an effort to end controversy over the Student Senate payroll.
The administration, on the other hand, is trying to maintain the Senate's control over student money, while also providing checks to keep the Senate's money safe from misuse.
The controversy arose when the office of student affairs asked that the Senate payroll be signed by the director of student organizations and activities.
Highberger said recently that the administration's stance "makes a mockery of the idea of student government, to have someone of our kind approve or disapprove what the Senate does."
DAVID AMBLER, vice chancellor for student affairs, cited the embellishment of $20.425 from KU on Wheels by former transportation coordinator Steven McMurry last year as a reason why the administration must have more control.
Ambler will meet with Highberger and
Vogel today to discuss a resolution to the problem.
At the meeting, Ambler bid StudEx members that Ann Eversole, director of student organizations and activities, would oversee and sign all future payroll forms.
Both forces came together at an emergency Student Senate Executive Committee meeting.
Eversoole would not take away any of the Senate's power over their money, Ambler said, and the Senate could still decide on their own salaries and distribute student money.
AMBLER ALSO SAID that the Senate or StuDocX must approve Senate staff salaries and notify him, or he would withhold payment from the Senate staff starting July 1.
On May 15, Ambler and Highberger reached a compromise. They agreed that StudEx would approve salaries for Senate candidates and meet during the summer, Ambler said.
Until now, Lynn Anthony, Senate treasurer, said, the Senate treasurer alone had slammed a bill.
At the StudEx meeting Saturday, members voted unanimously to approve the salary.
Ambler and Highberger also decided that
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Lawrence welcomes Soviet youth group
A 15-member delegation of the Soviet Committee of Youth Organizations, made up of young leaders in journalism, education and government, took time out from a trip to Kansas City, Mo., to visit Lawrence at the last minute.
The city of Lawrence received some surprise Soviet visitors yesterday, and a Lawrence city commissioner and a local mayor are in touch. The commissioner will find its way back to the Soviet Union.
The Youth Organization is comprised of 60 million members of youth groups in the Soviet Union. Their visit to Kansas City is part of a four-city tour, which also includes Washington, D.C., New York City and Indianapolis.
City Commissioner David Longhurst, and Athletes United for Peace president Bob Swan, who are members of the Meeting for Peace Committee, met with the group and met with a meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Premier Konstantin Cherpenko.
The Meeting for Peace Committee for several months has been urging Reagan and Chernenko to meet in Lawrence for a peace summit.
By MARY ALICE LEARY Staff Reporter
"REAGAN SHOULD go to the Soviet Union or Cherenko should come to the United
Swan said that the group decided to visit Lawrence because many exchanges had taken place between students at the University and Lenigrad University for several years.
For example, a Soviet track team came to Lawrence in April, 1983, to take part in the Kiteboarding World Championship.
"The Soviets told us that they have a special place in their hearts for Lawrence," he said.
"THE YOUNG PEOPLE came to Lawrence because they know Lawrence," he
States," Swan said. "If Sadat could go to Israel, anybody could go anywhere."
The trip to Lawrence was not on the Soviet's schedule, but the group wanted to visit the city because the movie, "The Day of Peace" in which he played of peace in the Soviet Union, Longhurst said.
Young leaders from the Soviet Union and the United States recognize a common danger to humanity because of the arms race, Swan said. The young leaders of both countries have a capacity and a deter- mentary relations between the two countries, he said.
Longhurst said that during the visit yesterday he felt that there was a person-to-person feeling that relations between the United States and the Soviet Union ought to be better and that there should be an ongoing dialogue between the two countries.
Swan said that a proposal had been drafted, which had urged the young people of the United States and the Soviet Union to rethink their nuclear understanding between the two countries.
HE HOPED THAT THE Soviets would accept the resolution and submit to all the youth organizations in the Soviet Union, Swan said.
"We're hoping to have a resolution before they leave Kansas City tomorrow," he said. "There could be some type of political element to prevent that. They were interested in some type of resolution on their own."
Longhurst said that when he was mayor of Lawrence, he sent letters to Reagan and the last Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov on three separate occasions last year, inviting the leaders to come to Lawrence for a peace summit.
Swan said that letters were sent to Reagan and Cherenko last April, suggesting a change in the contract.
"We have been told that the invitations are being seriously considered by both parties."
LONGHURST SAID that if the two leaders agreed to meet in the United States, he hoped that the summit would be held in Lawrence before "after" had on efforts to prevent nuclear war.
"We have had letters from all over the world," he said.