University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
KU Fine Arts may receive $1 million from alumnus
The University of Kansas may receive as much as $1 million from a KU alumnus, said the associate dean of the School of Fine Arts yesterday.
Don Scheid, the dean, said that the alumnus bequested $1 million to the School of Fine Arts.
The exact amount of the gift will not be determined until after a probate court hearing.
Taxes, attorney fees and any of the donor's debts must be paid before the money is awarded to the University, said Dale Seufferling, director of constituent fund raising for the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Scheid and other University officials would not release the name of the private donor or say how the donation would be used.
DA to investigate jail assault claim
A complaint made by an inmate at the Douglas County jail that other inmates sexually assaulted him, is being investigated by the district attorney's office, Dallas Murphy, Douglas County undersheriff, said yesterday.
The complainant, a 20-year-old Lawrence man awaiting trial for possession of stolen property, reported the incident to the sheriff's department.
Murphy said the victim told the department that two inmates had sexually assaulted him in their seven-man holding cell several days earlier.
Jury is sought for KC murder retrial
OLATHE — Jury selection entered its second day yesterday in the retrial of a Kansas City man charged with the shooting death of a teen-ager during the bungled robbery of a restaurant at which the youth worked part-time.
The process of finding a second panel to hear the trial of Derrick Davis was expected to take another full day.
The 26-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man is charged with the shooting death of Brian Christian, a Fairway high school sophomore. The youth and a restaurant manager were shot Feb. 26, 1983, when two masked attempted to rob Waid's Restaurant in Fairway. No money was taken.
A jury last October found Davis guilty of first-degree murder, but the judge ordered a new trial after former defendant Preston Jones signed an affidavit saying Davis was not at the restaurant at the time of the attack. The court ruled that Davis and was sentenced to life in prison, will be the main defense witness.
Prentice Bronson, the prosecution's main witness, pleaded guilty to aiding in a felony and testified that he drove the getaway car. He is serving a 2- to 5-year prison term.
Phi Delts raise $14,000 for charity
The Phi Delta Theta basketball tournament Feb. 3-5 raised $14,400 for Lou Gehrig's disease, or amytrophic lateral sclerosis. Phi Delta Theta alumii contributions should raise the total to $20,000, Mark Kenyon, chairman of the tournament, said.
The KU Phi Delta Theta beat the Oklahoma State University Delta Upsilon队 Sunday to win the tournament. KU teams from 13 fraternity chapters and seven teams from fraternity chapters at other institutions began play in the double-elimination tournament on Friday.
The other teams came from Wichita State University, Washburn University, the University of Nebraska, Oklahoma State University and the University of Missouri.
The annual event raises money for an ALS care unit and research at the KU Medical Center. This year, the ninth tournament was named the Keith Worthington Memorial Tournament in memory of the Phi Delta Tau chapter of the research at the Med Center. Worthington, an ALS victim, died Jan. 20.
ON THE RECORD
A KU STUDENT told police Monday that mechanical drawing supplies worth $187 were stolen Friday from a locker in a studio at Marvin Hall, KU police said. No suspects have been named.
COMPUTER EQUIPMENT worth $150 was stolen Saturday or Sunday from a computer room in Summerfield Hall, KU police said. No suspects were involved.
A KU STUDENT reported that his moped, worth $200, was stolen Monday from a parking space on the north side of Murphy Hall, KU police said. No suspects have been named.
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Report calls for casting policy
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Minorities must be represented in University Theatre productions, a member of a subcommittee that investigated possible discrimination in the theatre's casting procedures said yesterday.
Roy Goldberg, a member of a subcommittee of the University Human Relations Committee, said that as a result of a three-month investigation the subcommittee decided that the theatre should create a written policy that would assure representation of minorities in the theatre's productions.
GOLDBERG, a Prairie Village senior, said that the theatre now had no casting policy and that each production would solely on the director's concept.
In its report, the subcommittee said the theatre department should "balance their desire to offer an artistic concept" with the responsibility of the University to offer an equal education to all students of KU."
"We're not exactly happy about the way things are now, where the director is."
Ron Wills, chairman of University Theatre, said the director's concept governed the casting of a production for discouraged minority participation.
"Concept is not a term that should be
Roy Goldberg University Human Relations Committee
'This is not Broadway. It's a school. It's a University.'
seen as an opposition to the involvement of racial minorities," Willis said.
"Sometimes race seems to be a relevant factor in casting, sometimes an irrelevant factor."
BUT GOLDBERG the theatre had been giving too much weight to the concept of the shows and not enough to educational purpose of the University.
"This is not Broadway. It's a school. It's a University. We want to see some represented, we want everyone to come. We want some more explicit guidelines.
"We would like them to balance their artistic needs with the educational one," said T. H. Meyer.
"We're trying to get them to state a policy that there's an educational process involved and that everyone should get a chance."
Willis said that he was receptive to the idea of creating a casting opioi
"I would not anticipate any opposition from theatre faculty, but it is important that the theatre maintain its
VERNELL SPEARMAN, the other subcommittee member and acting director of minority affairs, said that an established policy was needed to the casting procedures used now didn't consider the attitude of a leader.
"I think there's a possibility that the director's concept, especially in the case of a student director, might be able to be broadened." Spearman said.
Spearman also said she would like to see more integration of roles, and that the theatre did not depict this change in society.
artistic and educational integrity;" Willis said.
"I don't know that I've ever seen a play at the University where the father was white and the mother was black," Spearman said.
Spearman said discussions between subcommittee members and theatre faculty members to create a casting policy would start this semester.
Goldberg said the subcommittee would ask theatre faculty to write a policy, which the committee would then review.
"We can't write one for them. It's only fair that they should write their own policy." Goldberg said. "That's what whole thing's about—fairness."
The investigation stemmed from charges of alleged discrimination made by two students last semester in the casting of the musical, "Hair."
Stronger child-passenger law urged
By LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
The existing law, which was passed by the Legislature in 1981, requires parents or legal guardians transporting a child under 2 years old in the front seat of a car to restrain the child with an approved safety restraining device.
Supporters of the bill, which would create a $10 fine for violation of the law, told the House Public Health and Welfare Committee that the existing law could not be enforced and no teeth because it required only an oral
TOPEKA — Strengthening the Child Passenger Safety Act would save lives and put some "teeth" in the existing law, supporters of a child passenger restraining bill said yesterday.
warning for violators
THE BILL WOULD also amend the law by raising the age children were required to be buckled up from 2 to 4 years old.
Witnesses also told the committee that statistics indicated a slight increase in child restraint usage since the 1981 act, but that it wasn't enough.
More than 20 witnesses supported the bill, saying that it would save lives and decrease the number of serious child injuries in auto accidents.
"We have seen the benefits of the original act and also the short comings, said Ted McFarlane, director of the Louisville Douglas County Ambulance Service.
"There is no doubt that the child sees a life save" he said. McKenna had been a child with autism.
on the windshield, door post or dash of a car and win.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence and sponsor of the bill, said that 1982 accident records in Kansas showed that of 5,822 children under 5 years old involved in accidents, 14 were injured and 45 were serious injuries. But in accidents where the system was used, there were no fatalities and only 5 serious injuries.
Forty-two states have child passenger safety laws, Branson said, but only three states have no penalty for violation of the law.
Sergeant William A. Jacobs, Kansas highway patrolman, testified that oral warnings by police officers did little to compromise and that the fine was needed
Office notes loan requests up from '82 Interest rate is benefiting small business
The increasing number of small-business loan applications in the Lawrence and Kansas City region signals progress for small business. The Small Business Administration office in Kansas City, Mo., said yesterday.
Ken Bonar, assistant district director for management assistance, said that the office had processed more than 63 loans since Jan. 3 in the Topeka, Kansas City and Lawrence areas, and that more than 60 were waiting to be processed.
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
THE SMALL BUSINESS Administration offers a loan program that guarantees payment to the lending institution of up to 90 percent of the loan if the borrower should default. However, the business' loan request must have first been turned down by a private lending institution or bank
Bona said that the increase in the number of applications did not indicate that businesses were failing. Of the applications filed, 78 were for existing businesses that sought to expand their operations.
Businesses cannot afford to price products high enough to develop a surplus and must borrow in order to grow. he said
LOAN ACTIVITY IS higher because interest rates have leveled off at 11 percent, down from 17.20 percent rates in 1982, be said.
During the past two years, the requests for small business loans dropped because businesses could not afford to expand and develop new programs, said Phil Eaton, senior vice-president of Lawrence National Bank, 647 Massachusetts St.
But now that the interest rate has decreased and stabilized, the loans are more popular, Eaton said.
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