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No action will be taken until next semester on whether certain magazines sold at the candy counter in the Kansas Union are objectionable, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said last week.
In late June, Playboy, Playgirl,
Oui and Penthouse magazines were moved from their prominent eye-level perch behind the candy counter to a lower shelf behind the bank booth.
According to the Maranatha Christian Ministries, this change was in response to the 500-name petition estimated by Ambler by the organization.
HOWEVER, AMBLER said the change was made at the request of Union personnel and that it had nothing to do with Maranatha.
Marantha sent the petition to Amber's office June 2. It has been referred to the Merchandise, Policy and Finance Division of the Union board, Amber said.
The members of the committee have not been appointed by the board vet, he said.
He said that because of this, the committee probably would not get to the petition before the tall semester.
The action that has been taken by the Union so far is not enough for the religious organization.
"We are going to see them off the shelves eventually," said Gary Bickler, associate pastor for the church.
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Maranatha Ministries has said that its petition moved certain magazines from a more prominent position to behind the bank teller's window, but officials at the Kansas Union said that personnel pressure caused the move.
AURH summer interns help new students adjust
Many prospective students are getting their first look at residence hall living at the University of Kansas through guided tours this summer.
The tours are conducted by interns from the Association of University Residence Halls.
The interns are there to help the students feel at ease, said Milton Scott, East St. Louis, Ill., junior, one of the three summer interns.
"You try to help them feel, 'Hey, I'm impressed with the environment," he said.
He said that he tried to help the students feel less nervous.
"HOPEFULLY, WHEN they come in this fall, they're read to interact and learn."
The other interns are Steve Tinsley, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Yoshiko Utsaki, Sapooro, Japan, graduate student. They are employed from June 7 to July 31.
Scott and his two co-workers have their activities coordinated by Bob Dowdy, Coffeyville junior and president of AURH.
Dowdy said his interns were enthusiastic hard workers.
"As far as enthusiasm, they make me look like I'm bored stiff," Dowdy said.
The intern's duties include giving anti-vandalism programs, orienting foreign students, starting a residence hall newspaper, making students aware of fire safety and setting up events for the fall.
MUCH EMPHASIS is placed on the anti-vandal programs.
Placement of posters in the residence halls that point to the causes, costs and results of vandalism might discourage vandals. Dowdy said.
One of the causes of vandalism, he said, is frustration. Another might be boredom or the lack of personal space.
While the staff at the residence halls have systems designed to cut vandalism, Dowdy said, their program focuses on the causes.
"Stopping this is part of maintaining a good environment for learning." Dowdy said, "and everyone here above the student level is trying to make this a good learning environment, including quite a few of the residents."
"The person will be more likely to vandalize something that he doesn't have a stake in," he said.
BUT FOR SCOTT, the environment that surrounds him as an intern is one of enthusiasm.
"Sometimes, you get bogged down with hall government, and by taking on this job I was surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd. When I give me to give 100 percent," Scott said.
Caryle Smith, dean of student life,
said the intern's role in orienting new
students was very important.
"I just like to work. I like to stay busy."
"It's very important for the future students to have them."
Author watches sport with observant eye
Book about baseball gives surprising statistics
By ANDREW deVALPINE Staff Reporter
"There are lies, damned lies and statistics," someone once said.
James takes statistics and makes them both interesting and surprising.
James graduated from the University of Kansas in the mid-70s with a degree in English and economics. He earned a Master's degree, about 25 miles north of Lawrence.
James begins usually by taking a statement somebody has made and then weaves a statistic around it.
For instance, he said, someone said that Venezuela was doing well because the government is stable.
"So now I keep statistics to see whether there are patterns, if a pitcher is more effective on three days of rest or four."
Another pattern James has been studying is the aging patterns of players. By observing statistics, James has deduced that the broader the spectrum of a player's abilities, the later in his life, he peaks and the longer his peak will last.
longer staying power and will hit their prime fairly late, he said.
Power people, such as Willie Aikens of the Royals, peak younger, James
James' favorite creation, however, is what he calls the Value of Approximation Method, or VAM. In it, James takes all of a player's numbers, such as RBs, stolen bases, on-base percentage and a multitude of others, and reduces them to one number that can be compared to another can compare the relative worth of one player with another, he said.
In the summer of that year, Sports Illustrated did a feature article on him and his statistics, which awakened the publishing houses from their slumber.
"I'm not big on rejection," he said. But after seeing the Sports Illustrated article, Ballentine picked up the book, changed the name to "Bill James" 1982 Baseball Abstract" and printed 75,000 copies, James said.
Each year the sales of the yearly editions grew. The 1981 Abstract sold about 2,200 copies.
James said that he never sent copies of his book to publishers in the hope that they would promote it.
“But they keep multiplying,” he said. Most satisfying of all, however, is his ability to tell stories.
Fast people. on the other hand, have a
The primary impetus behind James' data-gathering mania is enjoyment. He said he wasn't interested in status or awards. His purpose is to find answers.
ball Abstract," and he sold about 75 copies.
he will begin to write the next edition, he said. Then the hours multiply.
James produced the first edition of his book in 1977, when he still lived in Lawrence, his home until last May. He called the book simply "The 1977 Base-
"I spend 75 hours a week writing, typing and checking the information," he said.
The manuscript is due in September and the book will be in the stores by April, he said.
As James' creative work with statistics became more widely known, he came into contact with other people who kept off-bat data.
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"A lot of people are completely obsessed with baseball." he said.
"Most of them do things that don't interest me, like the man who figures out what players had the fewest RB's while hitting the most home runs."
Other people do things that interest James, but they can't write well enough to get it across to an interested third party, he said.
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shies away from in predictions, al though they are in demand.
One aspect of the game that James
True, he does write an annual article for Esquire magazine offering predictions, but in general he disdains prediction, characterizes, and predictors as charatarians.
"Predictions are a type of phony expertise," he said. "They are something people do to try and prove how much they know about something."
"But there is no way of knowing how the ball will bounce," he said. "If George Brett hurt himself—and it's likely, since he hasn't done so all season—then it will affect the Royals play." he said.
For now, James is just enjoying the season. one he thinks has revived the sport since last season's strike.
But, of course, he is enjoying it with a much more observant eye.
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