University Daily Kansan, September 28, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFSEm From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Mrs. Carlin says editorials from Gazette unfair to her
EMPORIA — First lady Karen Carlin, the subject of a series of editorials by the Emporia Gazette, has asserted that the articles were both unfair to her and accurate.
In her first public response to the editorials since they began early this summer, Carlin said in a letter to the editor that a number of points brought up in the editorials were "falsehoods." Her letter was published in the newspaper Monday.
Carlin, 35, has come under scrutiny the past four months for her involvement in certain activities, including the making of a promotional film on Kansas for which she received a $12,000 consulting fee.
Meriden man charged with murder
OSKALOOASA — A Meriden man who allegedly shot his wife to death andushered her to a Topeka hospital was charged yesterday with first-degree homicide.
The murder charge against Ronald D. Harmon was filed in Jefferson County District Court, a spokesman for the county attorney's office said.
Karen Harmon, 33, died of a single gunshot wound to the forehead, an autopsy revealed. Authorities believe the murder weapon was a shotgun.
The spokesman said the shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. at the couple's Meriden home. Harmon was pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center about 30 minutes later.
KC-area judge blocks TV news story
District Judge Wayne Phillips ordered KCTV not to broadcast a "Call in story" on &EHEating and Air Conditioning in, of Kansas City, Ky.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Wyandotte County judge yesterday issued a restraining order preventing a local television station from broadcasting an investigative news story about how a local heating and air conditioning firm was conducting its business.
"We were quite shocked the restraining order was issued," said Jim Overbay, news director at KCTV. "That's a highly unusual action."
Dykes Library dedication scheduled
The new Archie R. Dykes Library, named after the former KU chancellor, will be officially dedicated at 10 a.m. Oct. 4 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Gov. John Carlin will be the featured speaker at the dedication. John Montgomery, chairman of the Board of Regents, and Dykes will also be
Public tours of the new library will be held after the dedication, with the Kansas Brass Quintet playing before and after the event.
The ceremony will be held outside the new library located on 39th Avenue, north of the main Med Center campus.
Study abroad meeting is tomorrow
The KU office of study abroad will conduct an informational meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Study abroad advisers will discuss the various facets of studying abroad not covered in finance and the specific programs available.
... such as travel and finances and the specific progam ...
More than 250 KU students study abroad every year in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
New air compressor to aid firemen
A new air compressor will enable the Lawrence Fire Department to refill air tanks at the scene of fires instead of at the fire station. Firefighters demonstrated the new equipment yesterday at Lawrence Fire Station No. 1, 745 Vermont St.
The compressor, mounted on a trailer, can refill two air tanks in six minutes, said Roy Allen, a firefighter driver and public education specialist. The previous compressor could refill only one air tank in 15 minutes, he said. It is also an advantage to be able to bring the
Lt. Harold Mallonee said that all firefighters had been trained to use the compressor
Fire Chief Jim McSain said that a portable compressor was needed because several times firefighters had been unable to fight fires because the oxygen in their tanks had been depleted. The firefighters had also been reified at the station before they could resume fighting the fire.
He said the portable compressor cost about $10,780. The department spent about $6,720 for the equipment, FMC, a company in north Lawrence that manufactures chemicals, provided about $4,060.
Alcohol Awareness Week delayed
Alcohol Awareness Week, a program of activities designed to promote mature attitudes about alcohol use, has been postponed one week, the program's sponsors said yesterday.
Officials with the Associated Students of Kansas, the state student lobby group and the program's sponsor, said the start of the event was rescheduled from Oct. 3 to Oct. 10 to allow participating groups more time to prepare for the event.
Chris Edmonds, who takes over as KU's ASK on-campus director Saturday, said ASK wanted to get more organizations and local businesses involved.
The establishment of BACCHU (Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students) chapters at ASK member universities is one of the priorities of the Alcohol Awareness program according to Chris Graves, ASK's legislative director in Topeka.
All graduate teaching and research assistants who deferred their fall fees should go to Room 20 of Carruth-0'Leary Hall to pay their fees by personal check and receive their payroll checks, the manager of general accounting for the University said last week.
Grad assistants' deferred fees due
The manager, John Pittsenbarger, said that graduate teaching assistants and research assistants should stop by Carruth-O'Leary sometime between 3 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Oct. 4. Because of state regulations, the payroll checks cannot be distributed until after 3 p.m. Friday.
BURGLARS STOLE photo supplies and paint brushes sometime between 9 a.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. Monday from a storage locker in the Art and Design Building, KU police said. Burglaries probably had a kev, police said. The supplies were worth about $125.
BURGLARS STOLE a cable box belonging to Sunflower Cable Vision sometime between midnight and 6 a.m. Friday from Beta Theta Pti fraternity, 1425 Tennessee St. Police said someone pushed open a window to enter the building. The cable box was worth $100.
ON THE RECORD
BURGLARS STOLE $30 from a backroom and $25 in coins from a cigarette vending machine sometime between 9 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday from Jayhawk oil, 1306 W. 6th St. Police said someone had forced open a window and pried open a door.
GOT A NEWS TIP?
Do you have a news trip, tips or photo idea? Call the Kansan news desk at (913) 864-4810.
The number for the Kansan Advertising Office is (913) 864-4358.
IFC seeks expanded KU fraternity system
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
An Interfraternity Council committee is seeking to expand KU's fraternity system, IPC's vice president for membership said yesterday.
If expansion is approved, it would be the first since 1979.
Dennis Strickland, the vice president and a member of the committee, said that most schools added new fraternities to their systems about every two years. He said that because the University of Kansas had not expanded since 1979, "fresh blood" was needed in the system.
"There is a need for new ideas. We're looking for one more fraternity, possibly two," said Strickland, Bucyrus junior.
Art Farmer, assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center and IFC's adviser, said that the committee studying expansion probably would recommend expansion to the IFC general assembly.
KU NOW HAS 26 fraternities that are members of IFC.
"Nothing has been discussed in data he said, "but there is good point."
The committee was appointed by the
IFC General Assembly last week. The last time IFC appointed such a council, in 1979, it recommended that chapters of two national fraternities, Theta Chi Kappa Phi, be invited to join the KU fraternity and two fraternities that came to KU in 1980.
'Housing is important, but the main objective is getting in new ideas and new blood.' —Dennis Strickland IFC Vice President
IFC PLACED ITS next three choices,
Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Kappa Tau
and Phi Sigma Kappa, on its waiting list. IFC told the fraternities that the next time expansion was considered,
they would move to the top of the list.
"That waiting list has put in IFC in a bind," Strickland said. "It has given us a rank order, those three fraternities we all belong to. We have to give them top preference."
"We're only going to contact, initially, the 13 fraternities that showed interest in coming to KC in 1979, after we had visited them and contacted fraternites all over the nation."
Strickland said that IFC was waiting for a response from the national and regional offices of the 13 fraternities which IFC planned to consider. He said that IFC would not list preferences this time.
He said, however, that if none of the 13 fraternities were still interested in coming to KU, the committee probably would look elsewhere.
FARMER SAID THAT one of the committee's main considerations probably would be housing.
"Housing is something that you have to consider, even though not all fraternities are the traditional house-type fraternities," he said.
There's not very much room for
building," Farmer said, "and on this campus, most of the fraternities are residential fraternities."
Strikland said, however, that housing space would not have an overriding responsibility.
"Housing is important, but the main objective is getting in new ideas and new blood. There hasn't been that in a long time." he said
Farmer said that he did not know how long it would take for the committee to reach a decision about which fraternities to invite.
"It would depend somewhat upon how long it would take them to get on campus and, actually, whether they'd even want to be on campus," he said. "With the committee, which should be small, should facilitate quick movement."
Farmer also said that the committee would have to consider Zeta Beta Tau, a non-residential fraternity that applied for membership in 1980, after the list was set. Zeta Beta Tau instead of registering with the IFC, last year registered with the office of student activities.
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