University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, December 3, 1981
Vol. 92, No. 70 USPS 650-640
Campus police witness University, city night life
Bv LILLIAN DAVIS
Staff Reporter
Midnight, Nov. 20, and the campus streets were empty. The KU police车 slowly made its way down Jayhawk Boulevard, turned left at crossing and moved toward the vacant footbridge on Alameda Street No.17
Up again on Jayhawk, down towards the Orgma ountain and suddenly the radio cracked.
The night had turned bitterly cold, and everything appeared to be quiet.
The red cherries and the siren wailed on steels residential streets over to England in 1672.
As the car speed past the dorms, the radio cracked again -false alarm.
For LT. Wade Rider of the KU police force, morning starts at midnight and quitting time is 18
It's the graveyard shift, when the bars close down and the night provides the perfect screen for the rest.
RIDER CALLED the dispatcher and told him he was 10-8 again, "in service," and let the
McCollum Hall staff call the students back inside the hall.
The radio voice replied that two officers needed assistance at Irving Hill Road and Cedar Ridge.
Officer Mike Riner and Scott Ferris had stopped a speeder who had no identification and who was carrying three knives and num-chucks, a martial arts weapon.
After reading him his Miranda rights and searching the 18-year-old Lawrence resident, Ferris asked him what he was going to do with the weapons.
He replied that he could not tell them.
Riner and Ferris arrested him and confiscated the weapons
Rider moved on and let Riner and Ferris complete the arrest. The early morning was quiet again and time slipped by as Rider cruised over to GSP-Corbin Hall.
While KU police have their share of burglaries, the thefts, assaults and even rape, they also have to remember that they are often dealing with an entirely different type of people: students.
"Students are different, because so many are away from home for the first time and think no one will know what they do," Sgt. Paula Mitchell said.
MOST OF THE officers agree that they have to use extra patience and common sense when dealing with the pranks and antics of college students.
"They don't understand that they can get a job, but they will follow them to any job they are trying to get."
"They need a good sense of humor, but I must have as he drove through the circle drive of GSPE
A group of women then scampered behind his car, parking and pulling a blinded victim from the street.
Rider hesitated for only half a second but the women seemed to feel compelled to voluntarily yell explanations for their behavior.
"It's her birthday," they laughed.
Rider rolled down his window and shot back, "Okay, but don't throw her in the Chi-O fountain." They slowed their pace and he added, "It's dry."
The girls piggled and started pushing their friend toward an unknown destination.
Not two seconds later as Rider pulled near the GSP exit, two more women in party dresses and carrying wine bottles ran in front of Rider's car. One of them, who also felt the need to explain
herself, stopped, turned the bottles upside down and shouted, "See there's nothing in them."
I don't want to bother. I don't know.
"I really didn't want to know." Rider laughed, driving on.
It was a little past 3 a.m. and the private clubs had closed for the night.
ON THE OTHER side of campus, parked next to Naismith drive between the tennis courts and O-Zone parking lot, Rider and Ferris were cunning radar .
"We run the radar now because people who are only under the influence of alcohol and not riproaring drunk don't realize how dangerously they are driving," Ferris said.
Two cars turned down Naismith, one slowly and the other gaining speed until he spotted the police car. The radar gun showed an instant drop in speed. The driver was lucky.
Ferris rerted the gun in his lap, and then there it came, a one gaining speed with no end in sight
Ferris turned the gun off at 42 mph, and Rider started his heart-singing red lights.
I erris turned the gun on at 42 mph, and Rover started his heart-sink red lights.
The driver kept going, turned onto 19th Street and finally stopped, when River ran the siren.
few drinks and who refused to sign the ticket.
Felt irritated. Briar told he knew well all right.
and finally stopped when Ruiier ran the siren.
She was a student who said she had had only a
Patiently, Riner told her that was all right, but
she would have to come down to the station with them.
After a brief second thought, the woman signed the ticket.
Then she made her mistake.
As Riner handed her the ticket, the woman grabbed it yelled, "Bastard." jumped back into the car.
But, when Rimer, Ferris and Rider reached her car. she had herself locked in.
Rider, who had been checking out another incident nearby, followed the woman with Rimer and ran toward her.
THE CHASE ended in a nearby sorority house, where she was beaten. But, when Riner, Ferris and Risser reached her
Even when she unlocked the door, she refused to pee, and the officers had to bodily remove her from the room.
Quiely and as soothing as possible, Riner and Ferris attempted to talk to the woman.
"Leave me alone. It's cold, I just want to go to bed." the whined.
They put her through the motions of a sobriety test; all the while she swore and sometimes refused to comply when she was unable to do one of the tests.
She was impossible, but neither officer lost his
See COPS page 5
Tranquility
Sunlight breaks through openings in Wednesday's overcast sky above Clinton Lake
Staff Reporter
People need more touching, nurse says
By JoLYNNE WAL2 Staff Reporter
Everybody drew their shoulders in, made room for the new passengers and watched the train.
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The door slid open and four most people stepped into the already crowded parking lot.
fool numbers by. Nobody touched anybody else.
Americans don't touch each other often enough for their psychological, physical and spiritual
well-being, Sister Rose There Bahr, associate professor of nursing, w studies touching, said
Anthropologists have observed that Americans, along with the Comanche Indians, touch each other less than people in other cultures, such as the French and Italians, she
"It's our pragmatic heritage, that we set about our business to be productive," Bahr said. "We want people to believe in us."
Bahr said she became interested in studying touching through her studies of nursing care for
eary people. She has a grant from the Division of Nursing Services, and is planning a study of touching as nursing therapy for elderly people in Kansas City.
NOT MUCH research has been done on touching, she said, because it is difficult for scientists to study something that they can't easily comprehend from the results into precise statistics.
Although Bahr's work is primarily with elderly people, she said that all people needed somebody to help with their care.
See TOUCHING page 2
Older students back to change careers
By LISA BOLTON
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig was 24 when he made his first career switch from newspaper reporting to state government service. He was 28 when he took a job as an education and 34 when he became a university president.
"I have several careers right now," he said yesterday. "I'm an academic administrator, I'm a teacher, I'm a researcher and publisher. I am also a colonel in the Kansas Air National Guard. I do many things, and I enjoy them. They make me a better human being."
The average adult will make three to five career changes in his or her lifetime. Many adults are returning to the University of Kansas to prepare for their career changes, GI Dyck, dean of admission and records, said last week.
"We now have an orientation for non-traditional students," he said.
"Non-traditional" means any student not 18 to 24 years old, a group that comprises the bulk of our population.
"These students will prove to be excellent students, highly motivated and anxious to take advantage of an opportunity they may not have thought they would have."
Federal studies predict that, by 1986, part-time enrollments at universities will be 41 percent higher than they were in the 1970s.
"Students in the '80s will be older," he said. "There will be more women represented on our campuses, and the number of minority students will increase."
RUDIG agrees.
"Middle-age" includes ages 30 to 80, he added. The increased number of non-traditional students also includes men intertwining their careers to get master of business administration degrees leading to higher-paying positions and women quitting the role of mothers because their children have grown older and no longer need constant care.
John O. Tollefson, dean of the School of Business, said, "We are dealing with a larger number of middle-age students who are going through a career change."
Robert Zerwekh, associate dean of the School of Engineering, reported a similar increase of
older students. Economic pressure is part of the cause, he said.
"We see a lot of applications from people who have a degree already and who are wanting to get a bachelor's in engineering because they use opportunity in more technical fields," he said.
"They want to stare at what's new in their fields." Zerwes said. "It also helps if they know the technology."
Jon Hope, a Talusa, Okla., graduate student in business, intended to refresh his business skills, then switched his career plans. He got a job as a flight attendant at MBA, shinked in the Air Force, decided to earn an MBA.
After developing an interest in organizational behavior, however, he changed his goal from working for a big corporation to teaching and training young people at school. He is now pursuing a declare in business.
THE LESS-PROFITTE TABLES, Zerwik
sad, include education, psychology, sociology
"I felt my chances of getting into a business would be better with a more recent degree," he
The forecast for tomorrow is for fair skies with the high again in the upper 40s. The extended forecast, Saturday to Monday, is for dry and mild weather, with lowes in the 30s and highs in the 50s and 60s.
Other, older students want to move ahead in engineering jobs they already have.
The weather forecast from the National Weather Service at Topeka is for cloudy skies and a chance of rain today, with a high in the upper 40s. Skies will clear tonight, and the low will be in the low 20s.
See CHANGE page 12
He said he thought it was more socially acceptable now to make career changes than it was.
Though college students are expected to change majors one or more times, they have traditionally been expected to settle on a choice and hold down steady, responsible jobs once they are grown. Hope said he thought increased social acceptance of changes during adulthood was good.
"We have a lot more freedom to rethink decisions," he said. "The belief that you're not tied to a job or a career you hate is a good deal for most people."
VIVIAN McCOY, assistant to the dean of
Coleman, Abbott agree past work successful
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
Early on the morning of Friday, Nov. 20, Bert Coleman and Brett Abell became ordinary paddockers.
On that day, David Adkins and David Welch took over the offices of student body president and vice president—offices which Coleman and his team held in November of 1890, more than a year ago.
It was a year that saw a 22 percent tuition increase; a $3 non-revenue sport fee for students; an attempt to allow beer sales in the campus cafeteria; and an increase in the student activity fee.
Within the Student Senate itself, it was a year
Analysis
Both Coleman and Abbott say that for them, it was a year of good achievements overall, with high teacher achievement.
"I think it was a successful year," Coleman, a whita tuition in engineering, said this week. "I liked the work."
of turnover at times as the Senate attempted to reorganize itself once again, while a group of graduate student senators did organize itself and move to the forefront of Senate activities.
ABBOTT, a Topena senior majoring in journalism, also was pleased with Senate's overall bill.
"I really think we accomplished every goal we set out to," he said.
But those goals were not accomplished easily, as bitter battles took place on the Senate floor.
The passage of the Budget Subcommittee bill to fall highlight some of the different factors that will impact it.
The budget bill was a mainstay of the Coleman and Abbott platform when they ran for office, but the graduate student sonaters and several others saw the bill as not only a streamlining of the budget process, but also a consolidation of power.
The bill passed, but not before several senators, including the bloo of graduate students, attempted to block passage with a bill that failed, walked out of the meeting altogether.
The bill set up a single committee to allocate money during the Senate's spring budget hearings, instead of distributing the load among the five standing committees as was the prac-
AFTER THE BILL had passed, Rod Breemany Association of University Residence Halla senator, resigned on the floor of the Senate, who no longer represent his constituents properly.
But Coleman and Abbott are glad the bill passed and still support the idea.
"That was good," Coleman said of the bill's passage. "I'm going to be interested to see how it works."
Even as the smoke from the budget bill was beginning to clear, however, Student Senate faced another issue that threatened to split it in two.
This time, it was two bills written by the graduate senators, Loren Busby, Finance and Auditing Committee chairman, and David Zimmerman, off-campus student student.
The bills were written to fill what the senators saw as a gap in the Senate Rules and Regulations; there was no reference as to where
See RETROSPECT page 1.
Pretend parents find tracking tots is an eggsasperating responsibility
Staff Reporter
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Reporter
Students strolled into the room muttering, an egg brook told a what, a drag, 'or', "This is so silly."
Is this a cooking class, or what?
No, it's Introduction to Marriage and Family Relationships, and the students are carrying eggs they have nurtured for the past week. How do you get them an idea of what having a small child is like.
"I'm always surprised there aren't more people that think it's silly," Bruce Buchman, Lawrence graduate student, said yesterday. Buchman is the parent consultant for the parent program of the KU bureau of child research, which ran the experiment.
The class uses eggs, raw eggs, to demonstrate the problems, responsibilities and "the logistics of just living a day and all the things you have to do for yourself." Buchman said.
"There are obvious problems to handing out children."
Most of the students said the most important thing they had learned from the exercise was that they did not want children—at least not right away.
"I always thought I wanted children right out of school," Pam Davis, Salina junior, said. "I was a class passer." "Now the thing I realize is that I want to do it so much time to take care of the child."
went or get babyysitters if they could not watch the eggs themselves.
THE STUDENTS were given a raw, marked egg in its shell Monday and were told to keep a log of where they were, where their husbands and what they were doing every four hours.
The exercise had other rules: Students had to constantly keep their eggs in sight, meaning they would not accidentally drop them.
Students could not refrigerate their eggs or keep them in boxes for the whole time. The eggs had to stay in the same rooms with the students when they slept, and if their eggs broke, the students had to bring the remains and the marked shells to class and carry the broken "children" around in containers just as if they were handicapped children.
Only three of the 50 or so students in the
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