The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, March 31, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 123 USPS 650-640
Hawkstock '82 off; two bands cancel
By JAN BOUTTE Staff Reporter
Hawkstock '82 was canceled after two of the six major bands backed out of the concert, Randy Chilton, Hawkstock chairman for the Interfraternity Council, said yesterday.
Hawkstock, the annual concert sponsored by IFC to fund projects for the handicapped at KU, was scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, April 25 at Memorial Stadium.
On March 24, two hours before IFC expected to announce the concert lineup on radio station KY102, Chris Fritz, of New West and Contemporary Productions, notified Chilton that two of the headline bands, Cheap Trick and Three Dow Night, could not appear.
Chilson told that Cheap Trick had accepted a better offer for that date and that members of Three Dog Night said they would be cutting an album.
"Promoters cancel shows all the time," Chilton said. "It's just when you can cancel an annual event, it puts a lot of people in an awkward predicament."
IF decided to cancel the show at the end of last week when Fritz told them he thought it was time to leave.
decided it was too late to put together another, smaller concert. Clinton said.
He said that IFC had lost more $50 in the cancellation. Fritz and New West had guaranteed IFC a base income plus a percentage of any profits. New West took all liability for losses that could have resulted from low attendance or a raine- out.
"IF THERE WAS money to be lost, it was his money, so it was basically his decision," Chilton said.
Chilton said that the expanded outdoor concert was an experiment for IFC and Fritz.
"I think Lawrence is prime for what we were planning," he said. "I believe in the show, and I really believe that KU would support a show like this."
Chalton said a stumbling block to booking the well-known bands touring the Midwest in April.
"We were trying to build a show around a date, which was probably the biggest problem," he
IFC decided to expand Hawkstock to include national groups last November, Chilton said, and in December, the IFC and Fritz agreed to produce the concert.
'The Interfraternity Council does not have the
See HAWK7 KOAGE page 9
See HAWKSTOCK page 5
House to vote today on tougher DWI bill
JON HARDESTY/Kansan Staff
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA=People caught driving while intoxicated would be slapped with stringent penalties under a bill tentatively approved yesterday by the Kansas House.
Staff Reporter
"There's a public demand for stricter laws. That's why there's so much work on these bills," said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence.
Spurred by public outcry against drunken drivers, legislators this year have drawn up several bills that would impose heavier penalties on DWI offenders.
The House scheduled a final vote on the bill for today.
After struggling all session with proposals to toughen the state's drunken driving laws, the House approved 91-21 an amended, Senate-backed bill that would, among other changes, raise DWI fines and establish mandatory jail sentences for offenders.
CHARLTON SAT on a committee that
drives the floor, and another dranken
driving bill to the House floor.
But under the bill approved in the full House yesterday:
BOB GREENSPANKansan Staff
- Courts could suspend a driver's license for at least 180 days for a person who refuses to submit to breath or blood tests to determine the alcohol content of a vehicle.
- Determine whether such a refusal is reasonable.
Now, this evidence must be supported by additional proof that the driver was drunk.
Under present law, courts can assess a fine or a tail sentence or both.
- First-time offenders would receive a fine of at least $100 and not more than $500, would be jailed for 48 hours or assigned to 60 hours of public service, and would have their licenses revoked for at least 90 days but not more than a year.
- Evidence of at least 10 percent blood-alcohol content in a person would be evidence that the driver was under the influence of alcohol to a person that rendered him incapable of driving safely.
- Second-time offenders in a five-year period would be fined between $250 and $1,000, would be jailed for not less than seven days but not more
See DWI page 5
Carlos Aguilar, El Salvador sophomore, takes advantage of the recent windy weather and concentrates on flying a kite west of Oliver Hall this week.
Ooilokers try to keep Alan Richie, Carthage, Mo., sophomore, warm until Douglas County Ambulance Service personnel arrive. Ritchie suffered from exposure after a sailboat accident at Clinton Lake yesterday.
Sailboat capsizes
two students survive lake accident
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
Two KU students escaped serious injury when their small sailboat capsized at Clinton Lake yesterday afternoon.
Ani Ritchie, Carthage, Mo., sophomore, was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Michael O'Shea, Derby freshman, was not inured.
O'Shea said last night that he and Ritchie were about 150 yards from the shore and had been on the water about five minutes when the accident occurred.
He said Ritchie had the sheet, the line attached to the sail, in his hand when the wind caught the sail and turned the boat sharply. O'Shea was thrown into the water.
The boat started going in circles and then capsized, O'Shea said. He was able to get to the boat, but the waves carried Ritchie away from it.
The waves were too rough for him to get the best of Ritchie. O'Shea said, "We'd go out after Ritchie. But, he said, the first time Ritchie was too far out and the water was cold, so he
On his second attempt, about 25 yards from the basket, he could reach able to hit Ritchie and pull him to the shore.
O'Shea said that Ritchie was in the water about 15 or 20 minutes and that he lost con-
"The ambulance people said he would have died if he hadn't had a life jacket on," O'Shea
O'Shea said the ambulance personnel also told
him that if Ritchie had been in the water five more minutes he might have died.
A witness, Scott Williams, 1312 E. 186th St. went to the ranger's office for help. Williams said he had been at Clinton Lake checking out a boat on the top of the dam when he saw the sailboat capsize.
"I didn't learn the severity of the situation until I talked to the guy on shore." Williams said. "It was a shocking experience."
Jamnes Addins, Clinton Park ranger, said two
wounded by the rescue, which occurred
near the north of the dam.
Red warning flags for small craft were flying all day yesterday, Adkins said. The flags warned of dangerous conditions, he said, and the rangers did not prevent people from going on the water.
He said he thought the temperature of the water was about 48 degrees and the winds were windy.
Senate refuses to fund social events
Staff Reporter
By ANN LOWRY
Staff Reporter
After extensive deliberations, the Student Senate budget subcommittee decided last night not to fund any student groups for room rental for social events.
Under Senate rules and regulations, no funds can be used for social events, including parties, dances, dinners, refreshments, awards banquets or other such functions.
However, some committee members said they thought the cultural and educational aspects involved in social events for some groups, such foreign students' associations, merited funding.
"You're going to have a hard time saying it's not a service," Maria McDougal, committee member, told the committee. "You may be basing your cultural biases on your culture."
THE MOTION stated that the decision could affect not only groups yet to go before the committee, but also several of the 50 groups that already have appeared before the committee.
Before those deliberations, the committee also listened to requests from 10 student groups during the fifth of six budget hearings. The requests totaled more than $22,000.
Debate began when the committee considered allocating funds for room rental for cultural information. The Taiwanese Student Association requested funding last week for such an event.
As a result, the committee cut its request for that group from $131 to $26.
"WHEN WE GO before Student Senate, we'd better be able to justify it on rational grounds, not emotional," Tom Berger, finance and auditing chairman said.
In other deliberations, the committee also cut Amnesty International's request for $490 to $499 from a $150 million fund.
The groups that made presentations to the committee last night before the deliberations were:
- The University Film Series, requesting $4.050.
- KU Men's Soccer Club, requesting $1,903.
- KU Men's & Soccer Club, requesting $1,390 *
* Blacks in Communications, requesting $95 *
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- Women's Transitional Care Services, requesting $4,820.
- Requesting $380.
* Iota Upsilon, requesting $380.
- Hilltop Child Development Center, requesting $2,814.
- MECHA, a Hispanic student organization,
requesting $1,451.
- KU Women's Soccer, requesting $1,114
- Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service, requesting $825.
- Thai Students' Association, requesting $927.
The committee members will have to judge requests carefully because the Senate has only $53,000 to allocate. Groups already have presented budgets totaling more than $106,000.
The entire Senate will meet April 7 in the Room Forum of the Kansas Union, April 8 in Parliars A and B, and April 13 in the Big Eight to discuss the committee's decisions before the Senate.
Sunworshippers to pay price of golden tans in later years
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
By LISA GUTI Staff Reporter
They crave the sun
Siathering their exposed skin with the aromatic oils of coconut, cocoa and aloe, they on Texas beaches, sorority house porches and campus lawns-KU students turned sun woo-
The sun fries them to delicate, golden browns and deep, bronze coppers.
But those fans, obtained at the risk of sunburns and peeling nosees, could lead to more harmful damage.
"Don't go lying around the swimming pool for four hours on the weekend try to get a tan," Lee R. Bittenbender, Lawrence dermatologist said.
"Ultra-violet radiation, which is what sunlight is, is similar to other radiation, like X-rays."
Bittendenberg, a 1972 graduate of the KU College of Health Sciences, said that many of his colleagues are still using the
Thus, he said, many people don't seriously consider the consequences of excessive sunning.
"What a person is doing here at the age of 18-22 is going to affect them later," he said.
"But they think, 'What the beck, I'm immortal, nothing's going to happen to me.'"
The long-term effects are many and irreversible.
"From a cosmetic standpoint," Bittenbender said, "chronic sun exposure can cause pigmentary changes of the skin or so-called age spots."
Too much sun can also lead to wrinkles and a leather's texture of the skin in later years, Bitte reinvent!
There are more serious effects of soaking up an excess of sunshine.
These pre-cancerous changes usually show up as red, scaly spots on skin-expanded skins, usually with yellowish patches.
Sun exposure is definitely associated with the development of skin cancer and pre-cancerous lesions.
"This depends on the degree of sun exposure," he said.
"There has also been experimental work done
Weather
The weather will be mostly sunny today with a high in the upper 60s. It will become partly cloudy late today and tomorrow, with a low Wednesday night around 40. It will continue to be cloudy tomorrow, with a high between 70 and 75. Winds will be from the west to southwest at 10 to 20 mph.