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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 16, 1990
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Peggy Gaither, right, coaches Angela Bausch, left, Leawood freshman, and Michelle Heffner, a Lawrence senior, in a dance to be performed next semester.
Dancers learn movement
Professor from Hawaii visits on exchange program
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
dance instructor Peggy Gatheir methodically snapped her fingers to keep a tempo and then nodded to the piano player
A simplified version of a Beethoven sonata floated through the studio in Robinson Center as she walked between a row of dancers.
Gathier, an associate professor of dance from the University of Hawai'i, is teaching dance classes at the University of Kansas this week. Her visit is part of an exhibition titled *Dance in Hamburg*, KU associate professor of music and dance, to Hawaii for a week.
Gaiter also is teaching a piece she choreographed in 1986 to three KU students who will perform in a dance concert in April at KU.
Muriel Cohan, KU assistant professor of music and dance, said, "I watched part of her class and she has a special and unique way of moving. Also, it is expanding for the students to work with a new teacher."
Jo Ann Janus, Madison, Wis., freshman, who enrolled in an advanced modern dance class that Gather is teaching this week, said, “She has an interesting way of showing how to live out of free, flowing movements.”
In addition to teaching the classes, Gaither conducts rehearsals for the spring dance concert that features a modern dance piece, titled "Matrix," which is seven years long and set to a synthesizer.
"It is a difficult to set a piece in the short time that I am here because the dancers have to learn movement material and also
Gaither will not return for the spring concert, but the students will rehearse the piece twice a week until then on their own.
develop an understanding of what the piece is about," she said.
Gaither she chose the piece because of its difficulty. She also liked the piece because it was short and caught in the week that she was here.
Hamburg chose the three dancers who will perform in the spring show. They were chosen for the role of the flexibility of schedules, Gaither said.
Michelle Heffner, one of the three dancers, said that she preferred to learn a piece quickly and on its subtle movements later.
"Learning a piece quickly challenges you to retain the material," she said.
Bomb threat curtails blood drive campaign
By Tracey Chalpin Kansan staff writer
A bomb threat that caused a one-hour evacuation of the Kansas Union about 11 a.m. yesterday probably caused the KU blood drive to fall short of its goal, blood drive organizers and donors said.
"It really affected the drive," said Ed Campbell, co-chairman of the drive. "We lost a lot of people. About 60 people didn't come back after being turned away because of the bomb threat."
During the week-long drive, which also included a blood drive Monday at KU residence halls, 721 pints of alcohol were short of the drive. The goal was 637 pints.
The Union blood drive, conducted Tuesday through yesterday, was sponsored by the Interfraternity anthelmic and the scholarship halls.
Last fall's blood drive fell 66 pints short of the same 875-pint goal.
Campbell said police started telling people to leave the Kansas Union Ballroom, where the drive was conceived. "0 a.m. because of the bomb threat."
Even though blood drive participants were allowed to re-enter the building at 12:15 p.m., the drive was suspended again swung until 1:15 p.m. he said.
Some students did return to the Union drive,however.
Katie Dillon, the freshman, said she had waited 45 minutes before the threat but didn't give up. She was fighting blood would be worth the wait.
Jenny Greengoss, a Highland Park, Ill., sophomore working at the drive, said bomb threats on campus were getting tiresome.
"It's stupid," she said. "I can't
believe people are doing bomb threats because they want to get out of taking a test."
"I said, 'I can donate blood in five minutes,' but they sailed they couldn't let me," he said.
Kirry Cerny, Topela senior, said he was the next person in line to donate blood when he was told to leave because of the threat.
Cerny said the bomb threat ruined the the KU blood drive's chances of making its goal.
The residence hall drive also fell short of its goal.
"It was detrimental because all the chairs were full, and there was a line forming the door," he said. "People were turned away."
Board requests parking changes
Christian Nelson, coordinator of the residence hall blood drive, said he was disappointed with the lack of student participation there.
SenEx will consider proposals for new permits and meter rates
Bv Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
The KU parking board voted yesterday to recommend parking changes in the Parking Facility, on West Campus and campuswide
The board voted to recommend that a new Parking Facility permit be created. The new permits would cost $10 more than the usual color permits. Blue-zone yearly permits cost $80; red, $5; and yellow, $50.
Don Kearns, director of parking,
said that under the current system,
those who wished to park in the
facility on a regular basis bought
the usual permit and applied for a free
garage card.
But some people were teaming up to cheat the system, he said. A pair of people can split the cost of the permit, acquire a garage card and
park two cars on campus for the price of one
The board proposed that a special permit be created for those who parked often in the facility.
Facility permit holders still would be given garage cards, but when they parked on campus, parking officers could record their permit number. The number then could be checked to make sure that no vehicles using the matching garage card were parked in the facility, he said.
Kearns said the new permits, marked "PF parking," would be in place of the current color-zoned permits but would be marked so that students, faculty and staff members would be allowed to park only in the zones for which they qualified.
The board also voted to establish a mix of yellow, red and blue permit
zones on West Campus, which now has only yellow permit zones.
Don Robertson, chairperson of the parking board, said this would make the parking situation on West Camden equivalent to main campus parking.
The board also recommended that the parking-meter rate on campus be increased from 25 cents an hour to 35 cents an hour.
The meter rate would be increased to raise revenue for the parking department. The board is not recom- mend the increase for parking permits next year.
The board's recommendations will be presented Dec. 6 to the University Senate Executive Committee. The recommendations are subject to review by the U.S., the University Council, the chancellor and the Board of Regents.
Nebraska president search hits snag
The Associated Press
KU Cancellor Gene A. Budig was a finalist for the position until he withdrew from consideration earlier this week.
Withdrawing yesterday were Robert Hemenway, University of Kentucky-Lington弯喻校; Martin
OMAHA, Neb. — All but one candidate have dropped from the race, and the University of Nebraska Board of Regents will decide next week to continue the search for a president, Regents chairperson Don Blank said.
Jische, University of Missouri-Rolla chancellor, and Robert Dickeson, president of the University of Northern Colorado. All four candidates said that they liked where they worked and preferred to stay there.
The board could hire interim President Martin Massengle, the remaining candidate. But NU regents were divided on what should happen next.
"We still have a candidate we did interview," Blank said in a telephone interview from McCook, Neb. He referred to Massengue.
"I don't think we're going to open
or shut the door on any action. We could reopen the search, start over, or we could hire Dr. Massengale," Blank said.
"I have received no indication that anyone favors reopening the search," said J.B. Milliken,NU corporation secretary, from the university's central administration offices in Lincoln.
The regents are scheduled to meet Tuesday in Lincoln. The agenda states that the purpose of the meeting will be to show new university president, Blank said.
Regents OK guidelines for student vote on engineering fee
Kansen staff writer
Bv Yvonne Guzman
TOPEKA - After nearly an hour of discussion, the Board of Regents yesterday voted 5-3 to endorse guidelines by which engineering students will vote on a proposed engineering fee.
The guidelines were proposed by the Student Advisory Council after the Regents requested a referendum of engineering students at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
The $15-a credit-hour fee was proposed by the deans of engineering at those universities in response to concerns that the quality of the
The council, which is composed of the student body presidents of Regents institutions, proposed that voting be regulated by each university's election committee, that the wounding on the ballots be the same at both college and university places outside class and that graduating seniors be allowed to vote.
schools would decline without additional financing. The Regents will decide whether to approve the fee, which would be used to buy equipment and software, at its December meeting.
The Regents did not endorse a fifth requirement prohibiting professors from using class time to express
opinions about how students should vote. Such a provision would be a violation of academic freedom, Regent Richard Senecal said.
The student senates of the three universities and the council have opposed the fee, saying it might make them less competitive for basis on cost instead of interest.
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said that without help, the engineering schools could not carry out incubations within the next five years.
The Regents discussed several possible ways to implement the fee, if approved, including beginning the fee this spring, starting it next fall
and implementing a system-wide fee next fall.
But Kopik said yesterday at a meeting of Regis institution presidents that the best option might be to implement a temporary fee next fall and replace it the next year with a fee in all majors to students in all majors.
One reason to wait until Fall 1991 is that, if put into effect without the Legislature's approval, the fee could be cut. Koniks said
And some Regents were unsure about the fee, saying a better approach would to raise tuition. Tuition increased last year by about 3
percent, Nationwide, inflation was 6 percent for the year ending Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Regent Rick Harman said, "If we start raising tuition to the level of our peer institutions, perhaps we might also to avoid this band-aid solution."
Others were critical because students' votes might end up deciding the issue.
Regent Norman Jeter said, "If we're going to let students vote it in, are we going to let them vote it out?" But Harman said that if students
But Harman said that if students voted to have the fee and the schools
supported it, the Regents should approve it.
"I have a hard time understanding why people who are willing to pay for it and vote for it can't have it," he said.
The Regents will survey similar fees at other universities before their December meeting, when they plan to decide about the fee.
In other business, the Regents approved an estimated $500,000 in renovations for the University of Kansas Medical Center and also approved the renovation of Bell Hospital which is part of the Med Center complex.