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University Daily Kansan, March 10. 1983
Fraternity donates money to Med Center
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
If he hadn't fallen prey to the disease. Lou Gehrig probably would have been proud and grateful yesterday.
For the past four years the KU chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity has given money to study the dressed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease, sometimes called Loeb Gernig's disease. He died of ALS in the prime of his life.
And yesterday the fraternity gave $11,500 to the University of Kansas Medical Center for more research.
The fraternity and several sororities collected the money by selling tickets and collecting donations from local
businesses for their annual inter-
nteractive basketball tournament.
THE TOURNAMENT included 19 men's teams from five area universities. A sorority lay-up contest was also a part of the tournament, which was held at South Junior High School last month.
The tournament started eight years ago, and for the first four years the Phi Delta fells the money to Easter Seals. But when two fraternity member's relatives died of ALS and another member's father contracted the disease, the money started going to the ALS Society of America.
Jeff Renkel, Highland senior and hand-raising chairman for the tour.
select ALS as a charity was that Gehrig was a Phi Delta Theta member.
In 1980 and 1981, the money went to the ALS Society of America, but when the Med Center established the ALS Regional Research Center in 1982, the fraternity decided to keep the money close to home.
DEWEY ZIEGLER, chairman of the neurology department at the Med Center and coordinator of the ALS program, reported that he appreciated the attitude of the youths.
"I think it's great that these kids want to work and give their money to this cause," he said. "You see people out there grappling for power, and then there are these kids who want to help. I think it's terrific."
Ziegler said that few groups contributed to the research center, and that most of the money received was from the ALS Society of America through private donations.
THERE IS NO CURE for the disease,
and 50 percent of the people who have
been treated with it die.
Despite the effects on the body, ALS does not affect the mind.
ALS is a disease that kills nerve cells in the brain, wasting muscles in the hands, legs, neck, and muscles that can be injured. Usually strikes between the ages of 40 and 70, and men are (twice as likely as women to be affected by the disease).
Treatments concentrate on the effects of the disease, such as excess salivation, leg cramps and lack of sleep.
Senate calls for more outdoor lighting at Stouffer
By WARREN BRIDGES
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Regardless of varying interests, officials from scholarship halls, residence halls, Student Senate, Panhelenic Association and the KU Police Department agree that the Stouffon needs need additional outdoor lighting.
A petition, passed by the Student Senate last night, requested that the University department of housing install safety lighting either between the buildings or on light poles at Stouffer Place.
Charles Lawher, Kansas City, Kan. senior and chairman of the Student Senate Services Committee, submitted the proposal Feb. 23.
"The problem is a campus safety issue," he said. "And something needs to change."
JIM CRAMER, STUDENT body vice
president, said the petition demonstrated student involvement with
Brian Liebel, Clovis, Calif., senior and the vice president of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association, said Tuesday that his group was not the only organization concerned about lighting at Stouffer Place.
"The problem here concerns the entire University, because of the amount of students who reside elsewhere on the area day and night." Leland gelb.
He said that despite the support of other organizations, the neighborhood association and the University housing department could not reach an agreement.
Liebel said his main concern was that the cost of installing additional lighting not be financed solely by the residents of Stouffer Place. It should be paid for by the housing department or by other organizations, he said.
J. J. WILSON, director of housing, called the requests by the association for additional lighting "scattered attacks."
Wilson said he had not been approached by the association
"We have an interesting dialogue with the association." Wilson said. "The last several years, it has objected to any rent increase, although with the rent increases, we also increase their services.
Wilson said he thought the money would eventually have to come from the association, although other financing methods were possible.
Liebel conducted a tour of the area around the apartments at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday to illustrate the need for additional lighting.
LAWHORN SAID he had invited both Wilson and Steve Keel, the assistant director of housing, to join them on the tour.
Wilson, who did not go on the tour,
said that he had not been invited.
Brenda Stockman, president of the All Scholarship Hall Council, was on the tour and said that the lighting problem was different in each organization working together.
Stockman said that an incident last January in which a woman was raped behind Douthart Scholarship Hall requested council to request additional lighting.
THE DAY OF the request, the housing department put in the requested light, and later put in another light, she said.
KU Police Lt. Jeanne Longaker, who also went on the tour, said there was a problem with the lighting at Stouffer Place.
"I certainly know of better-lit places," she said. "I was a little disappointed. The lighting was not as good as I remember."
New residency rule proposed
It was introduced by Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia.
The bill would also increase residency requirements for state community colleges from six to nine months.
TOPEKA — Residency requirements at Board of Regents universities will be reduced from one year to nine months, if a bill recommended yesterday by the Senate Ways and Means Committee is passed by the Legislature.
Students paying out-of-state tuition would be eligible for in-state tuition after living in Kansas more than nine months. Students must also prove they are financially independent during those nine months.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said the discrepancy between residency
requirements for Regents schools and community colleges had hovered over
SENATE COMMITTEE members agreed that changing the requirements to nine months for Regents universities and community colleges was an arbitrary compromise that would make the state schools' requirements uniform.
David Amber, KU vice chancellor for student affairs, said reducing residency requirements would not provide lower tuition fees during the fall and spring semesters for students who moved to Lawrence in August.
However, those students could become eligible for in-state tuition after attending the University for two semesters, he said.
Remains may be of airman
By United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand — U.S. embassy officials yesterday accepted what former Green Beret James Boitz said were bone fragments of an American airman in Laos during the war in Indochina.
"We don't know if the fragments are the remains of a missing American. We don't know if they are an embassy spokesman said.
cated radio equipment allegedly used in Hollywood-financed secret forays into Laos to locate Americans who were held by communist authorities.
GRITZ, 44, faces criminal charges in the Thai border town of Nakhon Phanom for possession of sophisti-
The former special forces lieutenant colonel sent his brother-in-law, Butch Jones, to deliver the package to the U.S. embassy.
GRITZ SAID THE fragments were found where a U.S. plane was shot down during the Vietnam war has refused to disclose the crash site.
The spokesman said the fragments would be sent to the U.S. Army central identification laboratory in Honolulu next week.
About 1,200 Kansas and Missouri high school students and teachers will participate in Foreign Language Day at the at the University of Kansas.
Robert Spires, chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese department, said that this was the third year the university had sponsored the language班.
1,200 to attend Language Day
"It is very important that high school students get a chance to visit the University." Spires said. "Once we get them here, the campus sells itself."
Relations, said that Chancellor Gene A. Budig would welcome the students and teachers at 9:30 a.m. at Hoch Auditorium.
CAROL LEFFLER, secretary to the director in the office of University
Other events this morning include slide shows of the KU campus, study abroad opportunities and the language laboratory. Thirty-minute demonstrations of various foreign language classes also will be given. Leffler said.
Students and faculty in foreign language departments will perform Spanish and German skirts and Japanese and French folklorances at t.p.m. in Hoch, she said. Russian music also will be sung.
House votes to kill bill for presidential primary
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — In a move favored by Speaker Mike Hayden, the Kansas House yesterday killed from its voting calendar a bill that would have provided for a 1984 state presidential primary election.
Hayden, R-Atwood, said the 1980 presidential primary had weakened affiliations in the state's Democratic and Republican parties because small groups of voters that might otherwise have gone to the two main party candidates.
"The presidential primary, especially as constructed four years ago, erodes away the power base of both the major parties." he said.
BY ABANDONING the state caucus form of electing voting delegates for the presidential election, Hayden said, and the president is now toward a multiple-party system.
Hayden said Democratic and Republican state caucuses helped both parties win.
Besides luring voters from the two large parties, Hayden said, the primary was too expensive and did not support any candidates to the state to campaign.
Kansas Secretary of State Jack Brier said the issue was not whether presidential candidates came to campaign in the state. He said the primary election offered voters a chance to vote and easily express their choice for president.
BRIER SAID HE was disappointed that the House did not have a chance to vote.
He said his office had contacted 90 representatives and 52 or 53 of those representatives had said they would vote in favor of a primary.
Brier dismissed claims that voters in the 1860 had abandoned the Democratic Party.
He said voter participation had increased during the 1980 primary and the Democratic and Republican parties had increased their membership.
Under the proposal, the state would have contributed $500,000 to the cost of the primary. Counties would have paid the difference.
Brier said the $500,000 the state would have contributed represented. $1 for every person who was expected to vote in the state.
IN THE 1980 April primary, nearly 480,000 voters turned out at the polls, Brier said. The state paid the entire cost of the primary, $1.1 million, he said.
The state paid for the election, he said, because the newly passed law in 1980 did not clearly express that voters were to help subsidize the election.
In presidential primaries, the state does not have to help defray the expense, he said, although it probably would contribute some money.
State Rep. Harold Guldner, R-Syracuse, said some voters were reluctant to support a presidential aggrandement of the expense involved in navigating for it.
Gulder, House Elections Committee vice chairman, said he was surprised the bill did not survive a vote in the House.
HE ALSO SAID the state would not be able to organize a 1968 primary, even if the voters had approved the motion.
However, State Rep. Richaro Harper, R-Fort Scott and chairman of the Elections Committee, said he expected the proposal might be attached to another bill and introduced again this session.
Only the House Ways and Means or the Federal and State Affairs committees can now introduce bills. Other bills not acted on by the House died yesterday or were referred back to committee until next year's session.
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