University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 5, 1990
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'50s were Ike's years
Goals for content nation achieved historian claims
Stephen Ambrose kicked off the Eisenhower Centennial celebration.
By Carol Krekeler Kansan staff writer
On a rainy night off the British coast in 1944, Gn. Dwight Eisenbower had a tough decision to make
With his chin tucked close to his chest, he paced the floor, trying to decide if he should send his troops out to combat stormy weather to fight the Germans.
"Okay, let's go out," he said. And with that, a cheer went up in that room like you've never heard middle-aged men cheer before." historian Stephen Ambrose said last night.
Ambrose presented this account of the Normandy Invasion, along with many others of the former U.S. president's life, to about 100 people at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas City area and the Kansas Eisenbower Center.
Ambrose, author of a two-volume Eisenhower biography, said that despite the fact Eisenhower was a native of Texas, the Abilline native was a peacemaker.
“He always assumed the best until shown otherwise,” said Ambrose, a visiting professor of history this semester at the University of Kansas. “As for Dwight Eisenhower, he ever bated was Adolf Hitler.
Ambrose said the 1950s were a reflection of Eisenhower's goal for a content nation
"Life was not even perfect in the 1950s," he said. "But, if you were a White, male, conservative Republican, it damn near was."
Ambrose said that he viewed himself as a Southern abolitionist and did not agree with all of Eisenhower's views about desegregation during the war.
"Ike thought it was a mistake to start in the schools." Ambrose said.
He said that Eisenhower thought
desegregation should start at a different level in society, such as the military, so children's education is not disrupted by racial conflicts.
"Of course, he did this by smoking four packs of Camel unfiltered a day and drinking about 12 cups of coffee a day." Ambrose said.
Ambrose said that Eisenhower was an intensely alive man who kept a 20-hour-a-day work schedule
ASK hopes to register 10,000
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The Associated Students of Kansas will set up voter registration tables next week to increase student participation in Nov. 6 elections and let legislators get their votes about third-year financing of the Martin of Excellence.
Registration tables will be open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 8-12 in front of the Karnas and Banass entrance.
ASK is hoping to register 10,000 students, said Greg Huttenbs. ASK director.
He said ASK members would be deputized to register students by the Douglas County clerk's office. Students only have to fill out a card to be eligible to vote
Deputies can inform students who want to vote in their home districts of registration procedures they may need.
He said student registration also was important because it would force legislators to recognize student
Carl Ring, voter registration chairperson for ASK,
said financing for the third year of the Margin of
Excellence would be in jeopardy if students were not a
strong political presence.
"The Legislature is to have to cut money from somewhere," he said. "If they don't feel like students are being educated, it could be a problem."
At the registration tables students can sign letters urging congressmen to support third-year financing of the budget.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Hughes said ASK was lobbying for the $77 million requested by the Board of Regents for the third year of work.
He said he thought the Margin probably would not be inanuced unless the Legislature provided additional
"Unless the state provides tax revenue, there is not going to be a Margin of Excellence," he said. "But if there is additional revenue, there is no reason why it can't be funded."
For the past four years, students have seen tuition increases and will face increases this year even though the third year of the Margin was not financed. Hughes said.
Baker hearing delayed until Nov.1
3y Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
The preliminary hearing for a Topeka man convicted of murder in Shawnee County and accused of kidnapping and murdering an elderly woman in Douglas County was set for Nov. 1 in Douglas County District Court yesterday.
tape around her head while he was burgling her home. He is serving a life sentence in prison.
Tyronne Baker, 20, was convicted of murder in June in Shawnee County. He pleaded not guilty to the Topoak resident Ida Mae Dougherty, 72, on Dec. 4. He had wrapped duct
The preliminary hearing was originally scheduled for yesterday, but Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, requested the hearing be conducted on a day when the court had more time.
Baker is charged in Douglas County with two counts of first-degree murder for the Dec. 4 deaths of Lester Haley, 87, and his wife,
Nancy, 69, who were Dougherty's neighbors.
He also faces two counts of kidnapping and two counts of aggravated kidnapping in relation to the Haley murder charges and one count of assault against Verne Horne, another of Dougerty's neighbors.
Baker was brought to Douglas County on Sept. 27 from the Kansas Department of Corrections in Topeka.
Entrepreneurs use KU connections to sell clothing
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
A store owned by a KU student and a former KU student offers clothing to college students.
Greg Lausier, Overland Park junior, and Jeff Jackson, former KU student, have opened the Campus Outlet, which sells college paraphernaia including T-shirts and sweatshirts.
"Our main purpose is just to be the lowest-price college clothing store in town for students," Lausier said. "We want to have a wide variety of what's in, and be very experimental. We have unique things, our own designs, and of course, the other schools."
Campus Outlet, 2246 Barker Ave. promises quality merchandise at close-out prices. The building itself is small, overflowing with name-brand T-shirts, shorts, windbreakers and sweatshirts printed with university logos.
"We constantly get new stuff in," he said. "Our store changes weekly. We try to get some unique things, but we always keep the basics."
Julie Palmer, Littleton, Colo,
freshman, said she had visited the
store four or five times this week
"It's a really great store," she said. "It's a lot cheaper, and it has a lot of variety."
Vannessa Selsor, Overland Park freshman, agreed.
"It has really good quality, and it's a lot more personal. They greet you and help you," she said.
hill helpers, and the store.
Palmer said that although the store
was a little out of the way, the trip
was worth it.
Lausier said that he and Jackson always had talked about opening
their own business but that they did not decide to do it until the end of the last school year.
Jackson had experience opening and running a store in the Kansas City area and Lausier had been designing party favors for three years.
"We sat down and wrote out a business plan together." Lausier said. "It covered everything from financing to marketing, advertising and the possibility of franchising We got a loan and then we spent all our money up in investing we really invested all our time this summer in the opening."
The two owners drove from Overland Park to Lawrence every day during the summer to work on the store. Lausner said he and Jackson had no help from their parents. The store opened at the end of August.
"We held it back from our parents, actually," he said. "I thought mine would be mad at me because they're so into school. But they finally caught on in the summer because we were leaving every day to come up here."
Balancing business and school has been a new experience for Lausier. Jackson is taking a semester off to concentrate on work, but Lausier said he was taking 15 hours this semester.
"It's a lot of discipline. It's a big difference," he said. "I've learned a lot, and I'm dealing with a lot of people. It's a great experience."
In a tour of the store, Lausier pointed to several racks of sold-out or nearly sold-out merchandise and exclusive designs.
"I just like to see people come in happy at our prices," he said. "I think it's going to work."
Jane Rudolph/KANSAN
Chris Ball, Springfield, Mo., junior, left, and Mike Wingate, Eureka junior, buy sweatshirts from Greg Lausier, co-owner of Campus Outlet.
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