University Daily Kansan, March 23, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
News briefs from staff and wire reports
Explosion destroys house injures seven in Wichita
WICHTA - A lit cigarette sparked an explosion at a house yesterday in injured seven people and sent debris flying into the street, officials said.
Four children and three adults were injured, six of them seriously, in the explosion in a northeast Wichita neighborhood home, investigators said.
"Apparently the lady of the house got up, lit a cigarette, and the house just exploded," said Dick Ridder, a battalion fire chief with the Wichita Fire Department
"There was some type of gas in the house apparently. It blew the roof into the street, knocked down all the walls of the house and left one interior wall standing." Ridder said.
Senate executive secretary resigns
Carla Vogel, student body president, said yesterday that Amy Bush,
Student Senate executive secretary, has resigned.
Bush could not be reached for comment.
Bush could not be reelected for comment:
Bush's resignation follows the resignations this week of Mark Bossi, Senate treasurer, and Bonnie DeNoyelles, Senate administrative secretary.
Vogel said that the Senate office would accept applications for the three positions until March 30. The Senate is also accepting applications from all possible candidates.
3 arrested in Hashinger drug raid
Three KU students were arrested Wednesday morning at Hashinger Hall for possession of hashish, cocaine and drug paraphernalia with intent to sell. KU police said
The police also confiscated white pills that the students allegedly sold as speed...
We received information that there were drug sales being made in the residence hall," James Denney, KU police director, said yesterday. "We indeed found the controlled substances with intent to sell, and the arrests were made.
KU police were alerted after the Lawrence Police Department received an anonymous letter detailing information about the presence of the drugs in the hall. Denney said.
Officers arrived with a search warrant at the room where two of the suspects lived, but it was not needed when the suspects consented to a search of their room and confessed to the possession and reselling of bushish
Denney said the confiscated substances appeared to be one hashish ball the size of an egg and about six marble-sized balls wrapped in foil.
Although the pills have not been tested yet, Denney said he thought the results would show that they were diet pills containing only caffeine.
suspects were released Wednesday on $5,500 bond, and the other was released on $1,500 bond. Lawrence police records showed.
Cleanup should be finished today
Cleanup of 50 trees downed across the KU campus after Sunday's late-winter storm should be completed today, the assistant director of landscape management said yesterday.
Jim Mathes, the assistant director, said that disposing the trees that tempted under the weight of a heavy coating of ice would cost $5,000.
Facilities operations crews began the cleanup Sunday night, Mathes said.
The cleanup of 90 trees damaged in the storm might continue through the summer. Mathes said, because workers assigned to the cleanup were on their way home.
Band to play at national conference
The University of Kansas Symphonic Band will perform Saturday at the prestigious Music Educators National Conference in Chicago, the KU director of bands said recently.
Robert Foster, the director, said the 65-piece symphonic band would play songs including Chuck Mangione's "Feel of a Vision," "Torch Dance," by James Barnes, KU associate professor of music, and "All Creatures of Our God and King," by Claude Smith, a KU alumnus.
Foster said the performance would be the symphonic band's second performance at the convention in three years.
Cindy Koester, office manager of KU bands, said only four bands were chosen to perform at the convention each year.
Allen Vizzuti, who plays trumpet with the Woody Herman and Chick Corea bands and often performs with Doc Severson on the "Tonight's Show," will be performing at the Festival.
'Maid in America' auditions tonight
Auditions for "Maid in America," an original one-act play by Billie Dee Anderson, Wilmington, Del., junior, will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight in 341 Murphy Hall.
The play will be staged April 13 through 15 as part of the “Pot-Pouri Productions” in the William Inge Theatre, “Maid in America” will be presented before the nightly performances of “Laundry and Bourbon” by James McClure.
Students may prepare a brief selection or do a reading from material provided at the tryout. All students enrolled in at least six hours may audition.
WHERE TO CALL
Do you have a news tip or photo idea? If so, call us at 864-4810. If your idea or press release deals with campus or area news, ask for Jeff Taylor, campus editor. For entertainment and On Campus items, check with Christy Fisher, entertainment editor. For sports news, speak with Craven, Cravens.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 864-4358.
For other questions or complaints, ask for Doug Cunningham, editor, or Don Koux, managing editor.
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Hart supporters prepare for local caucus
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
A large, red heart-shaped balloon floated in the lobby of Smith Hall last night, buoyed by the talk of "new ideas" and the whereabouts of "the
About 70 Gary Hart supporters gathered in Smith Hall last night to discuss Saturday's Douglas County Caucus and to find out where copies of Hart's book, "A New Democracy," — his answer to Walter Mondale's "Where's the beef?" — could be found in Lawrence.
They can't. When the book was published in 1983, Hart was "a little-known senator from Colorado," and only 12,500 softcover copies of the book
were printed, said Tom Tayon, a field coordinator for the Hart campaign.
Tayon said the attendance at the meeting was encouraging.
"It's great to get this many people on so short a letter — better than we
TAYON, WHO worked on Hart's senate staff in Colorado, said he had
been in Kansas for two weeks organizing the groups supporting Hart.
'I actually started out working for the Mondale camp, but when I saw Hart had a good chance I switched.'
He is a volunteer spending vacation time campaigning for Hart.
Dee Tolar, Lawrence resident
"My boss wants I'm crazy for doing this, but she said 'Go have a good time in Kansas,' "Tayon said. "I don't work like this at work. I only work eight hours a day at work. Today I only got 2 1/2 hours of sleep."
would have done six months ago," he said.
Hart's first-cousin, Phil Pritchard,
said he came to the meeting because,
"I live in Douglas County, I'm going to
the caucus, and mainly because I'm
going to vote for him for president this
fall."
PRITCHARD LIVES in Baldwin and said he had called or sent letters to
every registered Democrat in Baldwin. He said his wife was also campaigning for Hart.
"She's saved every clipping she could ever find in any paper," Pritchard said.
DEBBIE MAYBERRY, a Leavenworth junior, said she was a Monday supporter who came to the meeting to learn more about Hart.
Dee Tolar, a Lawrence resident who describes herself as a social activist, said, "I actually started out working in the library." The police officer Hart had a good chance I switched."
Black councilman learns to manage the media
"I was discouraged. It was just about the caucus, trying to get people to support Hart without giving reasons why we should," she said. "But I was impressed with the enthusiasm, and I thank the present organization Mondale doesn't."
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
As a black councilman, managing the press means having to create an image that you are white, a 5th District city from Kansas City, Mo., said yesterday.
In a speech last night in Templin Hall, Mark Bryant, the councilman, and Tim Richardson, a reporter from WDAF television in Kansas City. Mo., will an audience of about 50 people on the effects the media have on black leaders.
The speakers were sponsored by the psilon chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha (the Psilon chapter) and the University.
"IN KANSAS CITY, we operate
where there is only one newspaper, so the way you handle media coverage is of the utmost importance," Bryant said.
"You should never have your picture in the papers," he said. "Let people vote for you and your issues, not your face."
Bryant said that because handling the media was important, certain ground rules had to be followed as a member of the City Council.
"It's against the rules, as a black councilman to have your picture in the paper, because it is the kiss of death in our community," percent of the voters are white." he said.
Bryant said that he would never make a member of the media a close friend. "I think you're wrong."
Richardson, a KU graduate, said that although Bryant painted a bleak picture of today's media, most of what he said was true.
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'SINCE 1966, the blacks have risen in society, left off and are now disillusioned.
"They don't remember what you've said anyways," he said. "If you come across articulately, proficiently and calmly, you'll be all right."
he said.
"The Kansas City Star and other publications did an awful job of reporting the events. Nothing was published. It was underscored conditions of the black citizens."
The public was only a part of the black population to be hurt by the media, Richardson said. The worst hit the media were the black leaders, he said.
Richardson said that in the late 1960s, blacks were beginning to make great strides by elected black officials, who helped in the action and the Civil Rights programs.
"Jesse Jackson has a tremendous presence and enjoys the luxury of a relationship with the press," he said. "But any politician, especially the blacks are under public scrutiny all of the time.
"1968, was a large black mark on Kansas City history, during the riots."
"It's not necessarily a racist attack, but sensationalism has a hypnotic effect."
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