University Daily Kansan / Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989
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Tunes on the Boulevard
A Topeka radio station, disguised as a boom box, broadcasts and plays music at Jayhawk Boulevard and 14th Street.
Campaign Kansas moving toward goal
By Tracy Wilkinson Kansan staff writer
Campaign Kansas, the University's five-year, $150-million fund-raising drive, raised $14.2 million this summer, bringing total pledges to $124.2 million.
Campaign leaders now are winding down the Lawrence Campaign for the new Lied Center for the performing arts and are gearing up for the kick off of a regional campaign for the individual schools and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The $1.2 million that was received during the summer came from a variety of contributors, according to Kansas University Ende'ment Association records. The largest single contribution was $6.5 million from Nancy and Philip Anschutz, Denver,
as a gift for the library endowment.
The endowment will support library
acquisitions and was made in honor
of the parents, Fred and Marian
Anchust.
The School of Business received a donation of $210,000 in the name of Campaign Kansas from Clifford J. Goering, Walnut Creek, Calif. The donation also included an additional monetary gift of $5,000 a year for life by Goering.
A charitable trust of $150,000 was established as unrestricted funds for the University by Jeannetta Jameson of Topeka. The trust is to be known as the Jeanne Rustemeyer Wood Annuity Trust at the Endowment Association.
William T. Kemper Jr. contributed another $50,000 toward unrestricted
support for the University
Jim Martin, executive campaign director for Campaign Kansas, said the summer brought an even more positive pulse to the campaign.
"Gifts, such as the Anschutz gift for library contributions, have enhanced all academic disciplines at KU," Martin said. "There are also many that are more focused in their support and perhaps not as large, but they are equally valuable to KU."
Martin said the contributions of the summer had helped to boost energy and excitement for Campaign Kansas as a whole.
"The campaign has definitely caused a momentum over the summer. We are now about to launch a new campaign." United States and two more in Kano.
sas and in Kansas City, Mo. "This represents the special gifts phase of the campaign," he said.
John Scarffe, director of public relations for the Endowment Association, said his organization was pleased with the gifts and pledges received to date, but that they were aware of the work still ahead of them.
Scarffie said the Lawrence Campaign, which had its kick off in April, was less than $1.5 million away from its $13-million goal to raise money for the Ernst F. Lied Center for the performing arts.
"Most of the actual fund-raising activities are being completed right now," he said. "We anticipate completion in January."
Largest fraternity eliminates pledging
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS · Tau Kappa Epsilon, the United States' largest college social fraternity, announced Tuesday that it had ended pledging to stop dangerous hazing, making it the second fraternity in a week to do so.
T. J. Schmitz, the fraternity's executive vice president, said, "Hazing has long been a problem in the fraternity system. We have tried numerous programs to eradicate it from the fraternity, but so far none has accomplished the task."
Legislation banning pledging was passed by undergraduate delegates from the fraternity's more than 280 college students and 45th national expiration last week.
Instead of a pledge period, new TKE recruits will be initiated immediately. TKE has more than 177,000 initiated members and more than 16,000 active undergraduate members.
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Last week, Zeta Beta Tau announced eliminating an alliance on the pledge agenda.
Pledging evolved in the late 19th century and was meant to be a rite of passage for new recruits before their initiation as full members. It has come under fire recently after scattered deaths of freshmen pledges in initiation rites that have included heavy drinking and humiliation.
Eileen Stevens, founder of the New York-based Committee to Hait Useless College Killings, spoke to deleterious groups and urged them to bang pleads.
The Associated Press
"More than 50 students have died from hazinic incidents during the last 10 years," said Stevens, whose son died in a hazing incident. "Whenever you have a two-tiered system where there are members and pledges, the opportunity for hazinic exists."
OAKLAND, Calif. — Huey P. Newton, the charismatic cofounder of the Black Panther Party, was adrift without a battle to fight in his final days, a close friend said.
Black Panther founder slain
Newton's bullet-riddled body was found before dawn yesterday in a neighborhood known for drug violence. Police had no suspects and no motive for the slaying, Lt. Mike Sims said.
Newton, 47, was killed in the neighborhood where he began organizing blacks more than 20 years ago, several miles from his present home
Fred Hiestand, a Sacramento lawyer who was Newton's attorny and close friend, said Newton was struggling to find a niche for himself after earning a doctorate, overcoming alcohol and drug abuse problems and facing life with no criminal charges for the first time in 15 years.
Newton was arrested earlier this year for possession of drug paraphernalia, but police said they had no evidence that the slaying was drug-related.
had been drug-free for at least six months.
With Bobby Seale, Newton founded the Black Panther Party. Armed Panther members followed police cars to monitor their activities in the black community.
Hiestand said he believed Newton
Under the slogan "All power to the people," the Panthers also operated a school, a health clinic and programs for ghetto youngsters.
The party drifted into violence and gradually disintegrated, as members were killed and the FBI infiltrated and disrupted the organization.
Yesterday's shooting occurred in a neighborhood of run-down Victorian-style homes and abandoned buildings.
Over the years, however, Newton was accused of two slayings and stood trial five times. His conviction in the 1967 killing of an Oakland police officer was overturned.
Resident Fred DePalm said, "To us, Huey Newton was a hero. The Black Panthers were a thing to identify with along with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr."
KU students spend over $4 million a month on miscellaneous expenses