University Daily Kansan, March 23, 1982
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Baldridge will speak at business caucus
By VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldridge will speak on U.S. trade policy as part of the KU-sponsored conference on "U.S. Business and Economic Relations with Eastern Countries" will be Thursday and Friday.
The conference will feature speakers and panelists from academia, business and government. The KU School of Business, the department of Soviet and East European studies and the Division of Continuing Education will sponsor the program.
"This is the first conference of this quality and magnitude on the subject in the country," Robert Fluker, KU visiting lecturer in international business and a conference organizer, said recently.
Fluker said about 300 businessmen, professors, government officials and students from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma would attend the conference.
BALDRIDGE WILL speak Thursday evening in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Paul Marer of the department of international business at Indiana University will speak at a lunchroom Thursday on economic trends in Eastern Europe, and Craig R. Walker of the New York Times, will speak Friday about U.S.-Eastern European relations.
Fluker said U.S.-Eastern European trade was selected as a topic because the trade had increased in recent years.
New forms of finance, technology transfer and management have
began to replace traditional Eastern European business practices, Fluker said, but such problems as international debts, the scarcity of hard currency and politics have taken a toll in U.S.-Eastern European trade.
SESSION TOPICS will be economic development in Eastern Europe and political risks; agriculture and grain trade; finance and debt restructuring in Eastern Europe; experience in Eastern Europe; energy in Eastern Europe; and Western European views of business with Eastern Europe.
The Eastern European countries to be discussed will be East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Albania and Poland, Fluker said.
KU FACULTY who will speak or serve on panels will be Roy Laird, Leslie Dienes and Jarek Piekawicka, professors of Soviet Eastern European studies; and John Garland, assistant professor of business.
Speakers and panelists from academia and government will include Ed A. Hewett, senior fellow with the Brookings institution in Washington, D.C., an international economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Susanne Lotarski and Jay Burgess of the East European Affairs Division of the U.S. Department of Commerce; Jochet Bethkhenlegen of the German Institute for Economic Research in West Berlin; and Tamas Bauer and Rezy Nyers of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The conference sessions and speeches will be free. A fee will be charged for meals preceding the speeches.
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This scene, with many variations,
occurs often in Greek houses at the
University of Kansas, according to Rita
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coordinator.
Greek picture thefts more than pranks
Gordon Toedman, Sigma Nu president, said recently that the house members had just about given up hope
By JAN BOUTTE Staff Reporter
THE SIGMA NU fraternity has yet to recover its framed composite of all the members of the house, which disappeared during K-state week, Feb. 6.
But recent occurrences have not ended so well for the Greek houses.
Three new sorority pledges sneak into the front hall of a fraternity house, creep past the pledge on phone dufy, grab the house composite photograph, and make a run for the front door and safety.
Three days later, members of the victimized fraternity serenade the sorority for the return of the pictures of their house members.
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of recovering the composite, which had a replacement value of between $500 and $1.000.
Toedman said he had called all the sororities, contacted Panhellenic, and even had the Sigma Nu chapter at K-12, where he worked in composite, but had no luck in finding it.
Moley said that the ransom usually involved a serenade or a dinner exchange, but not money.
"As long as they follow the rules, we tolerate it," Moley said. "But at some point it stops being a game and becomes theft."
But the Sigma Nu incident is not typical of the traditional Greek prank, Panhelenic and Interfraternity Council officers said.
THE MAJORITY of the incidents are settled long before the police are involved, Moley said, but Panhellenne was concerned that the traditional prank could be getting a bit out of control.
Reeves said three to five thefts were reported a year, but that he could not recall one reaching the point of prosecution.
IFC AND Panhellenic have adopted official rules for the game of composite stealing. They consider it standard operating procedure for those in possession of the composite to call the team's defenders and let them know how to set it back.
"It happens often enough that they're visiting other houses more than they're at home," Moley said of the composites.
"It's all done in fun," Mark McKee, IFC vice president for internal affairs, said.
"It's not a problem unless you can't get it back."
She said that a composite of a Baker University sorority had ended up on the KU campus.
"In strictly legal terms, it's not a prank, it's a real crime, a felony. We've got to play it the same way we play any other crime," he said.
Nine times out of 10, it is some other Greek organization that has the composite, Reeves said, and the houses are not willing to prosecute.
"It's getting to the point of, 'let's see how many we can rack up,' " she said.
Police Department said that although it may start out as a prank, once the theft is reported, the incident is treated as a crime and composites are worth more than $500.
Sgt. Mike Reeves of the Lawrence
Other Greek members agreed that it was becoming an informal competition between pledge classes to capture the most composites.
"In a way, there's an underlying consent among the houses," Moley said to explain the tolerance of the prank.
A few of the houses, though, have tired of the game, taking extra measures to protect their property.
AT THE ALPHA Tau Omega house, the composite is bolted to the wall, preventing a quick rip-off.
"If you can get our composite, you can get anybody's," he said.
But Dave Kelsey, secretary of the house, said the challenge of getting away with the belted-down composite board of made the ATO composite a target.
Moley said that most occurrences of composite stealing happened around times that new pledge classes joined the fraternities and sororites, and that some of the confusion in finding the framed pictures stemmed from the fact that they were living in the houses. The houses' presidents do not report that they have the composites because they are at the dorm rooms of the pledges, he said.
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