University Dally Kansan
Wednesday, November 1. 1978
New grad senator waits for trial
Bv DANIEL BORN
Staff Reporter
Gregory Walstrom, a KU graduate student who in recent months gained publicity for his connection with his own "Society of Art," has been elected to the Student Senate as one of 24 graduate senators.
He also is currently awaiting trial on two counts of felony and three misdemeanors in connection with the death of a woman.
Walstrom was charged with writing five bad checks, totaling $831.96, in various Lawrence stores earlier this year. He was jailed in Lawrence July 3 and was released July 12 after signing a bond of personal liability. He would return to court when summoned.
His jury trial originally was scheduled for today. However, the trial will be rescheduled, Dennis Prater, Walstorm's court-appointed attorney, said yesterday.
WALSTOM SAID Monday he thought the charges were "politically motivated."
Walstrom had no further comment on the charges.
Walstrom was elected Oct. 19 to the Student Senate on the strength of four write-
in ballots, Bonnie de Noyelles, Student secretary and a senator, said Friday. She said graduate seats in the Senate usually were uncontested.
Walstrom said he had been elected to a Student Senate seat in 1971-72. He said he planned to be a "100 percent active member" in the Senate and pledged opposition to the division of KU's art library between the University Cancer Museum of Art and Walstrom Library.
LAST SPRING, he requested $600 from the Student Senate on behalf of what he called the "Society of Art." Funds were not returned and it did not appear at the Senate's budget hearing.
Walstrom was a part-time teaching associate in the KU design department during 1972-73, according to the KU personnel transactions office, and currently is employed as a graduate student from Topeka, KU the office of admissions and records.
The Society of Art reapplied this semester for registration as a student organization, but no request for Senate funds was made. The president, Dr. Michael August from Margaret Lomax, according to
the KU office of student organizations and activities.
Lorax gave no phone number and is not lated with the KU office of admissions and counseling.
So far, the Society of Art's single public showing seems to be the posting of small photocopied posts around campus—posters usually advertising no particular
Two events sponsored by the Society of Art were canceled.
A summer arts and crafts festival was canceled when Walstrom failed to post the necessary security bond with county officials, in use of the Douglas County fairgrounds.
Similarly, a Sept. 26 free film festival, widely advertised on campus by Society of Art posters earlier this semester, never occurred. Society of Art representatives failed to make necessary physical arrangements or use of 6 Woodruff ranchs with either Kensington Union reservations office or University Events committee.
Walstrom, who divulges neither a phone number nor an address, can be reached only by calling 516-834-2050.
Prof backs S. Africa investments
By SAM VAN LEEUWEN
Staff Reporter
A University of Kansas professor says he disagrees with a campus group's goal of persuading the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest itself of financial investments in companies in South Africa.
Jim Brewer, an associate professor of math who took a leave of absence in 1976 to teach in South Africa, says he thinks U.S. education is not a deterrent, to the future of that country.
"I believe our companies are setting good examples in South Africa by paying the same wages to blacks that are paid to whites." Brewer said.
The KU Committee on South Africa has sent a letter to the Endowment Association seeking divestiture of its investments in companies that have ties in South Africa.
BREWER, WHO spent about 18 months teaching math at the University of Stellenbosch, near Cape Town, South Africa, said the committee needed to be informed of the conditions there before making the Endowment Association to divest.
"Rather than prejudging the situation, I would rather the KU committee try to appraise the situation more closely and then take action," he said.
According to a report obtained by the committee, the Endowment Association has more than $8.5 million invested in 27 corporations that have interests there.
Members of the committee argue that the presence of U.S. corporations in South Africa helps to maintain the apartheid system.
The report, dated Feb. 28, 1978, also showed the Endowment Association had other investments totaling $12 million in 42 other companies.
TODD SEYMOUR, president of the Endowment Association, said a current list of the Endowment Association's investments and related assets. The board of the association's finance committee. That committee will not meet until later this
Deadline today for proposals on sabbaticals
All sabbatical leave proposals for the year will be determined by the suite day to day for Academy of Acupuncture, 127 Strong Hall, Ronald Caligaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said.
The proposals will be reviewed in November by the University Committee on Sabatical Leaves, Calaigra, the chairman of the UCSL, said about 47 proposals would be approved. University regulations require faculty to receive faculty accuse sabatical leaves each year.
Calgaard said he expected about 70 to 80 proposals from the faculty.
After approval the proposals will go to the Chancellor Archie R. Dykes for approval and finally to the Kansas Board of Regents for final approval.
Brewer has met with the KU Committee on South Africa to explain the 'wies' views on the South African apartheid system, which is a policy of racial segregation.
"The whites always have been outnumbered and if the blacks get the right to vote, the whites know they'll be forced out of South Africa." Reeder said.
THERE ARE about 18 million blacks in South Africa.
"Americans can't appreciate how the South African whites feel," he said. "They have been in that country since 1852 and are still doing it, but we have homeland because they have no place to go."
Gene K. Browning, a spokesman for the KU Committee on South Africa, said the group had not changed its stand on divergence, but said it was taking Brewer's stance.
A panel is being formed to discuss both sides of the divestiture issue at an open forum and a meeting with the Endowment Association also is being planned, he said.
Staff photo by RANDY OLSOh
John Lee Hooker, legendary bluesman, and his Coast-to-Count Bands play last night at the Lawrence Opera House. Hooker is in the middle of a two-and-a-half-week
Singin' the blues
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE POLICE yesterday reported that three men held a Lawrence man at gunpoint. Monday morning while they robbed a store with $1,300 in stereo equipment and a pistol.
Police said the details of the crime were similar to details of two other armed robberies that occurred during the weekend in Lawrence.
Police Beat
P police said three men with a sawed-off shotgun forced their way into the apartment and fired.
Vann told police the men took two stereo receivers, two cassette tape players and a pistol, the value of which was estimated at $195.
Marybeth Bentham, KU comptermator data entry operator, 2008 'Hardware Drive', Deloitte.
$30,000 damage reported in fire at Med Center
KANSAS CITY, Kan—An early morning fire yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center caused no injuries but three rooms in a MedCenter building.
The fire was reported to the Fire Department at 6:30 a.m. The cause was undetermined. According to a Med Center man, the fire was under control in minutes.
A total of 119 patients on five floors of B and D buildings were moved from their rooms because of smoke. The fire was brought to rooms on the first floor of D building.
The patients were taken behind fire exits to waiting areas, hallways and empty patient rooms. By 8 a.m., the spokesman said, the patients were back in their rooms.
Smoke from the blaze destroyed an X-ray developer stored in the room where the fire was believed to have started. There was minor smoke damage to some other machinery, by the spokesman said the equipment should be back in operation today.
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The value of the calculator was estimated at $625. It had been secured to a log chain in
room $28, police said. The value of the typewriter was estimated at $20.45. Police said the typewriter was in a locked room, 408, which was in a locked hallway.
Also reported to KU police was a broken window at Jolifite Hall. Police said the value of the window was estimated at $23. It was on the ground floor of the building.
The damage was discovered at 3:35 a.m.
Sunday, police said.
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