University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 4. 1990
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KU reactions to German reunification vary
By Tatsuva Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
Germans from different generations have different feelings about yesterday's unification of East and West after 45 years of separation
KU students and professors talked about the German unification in a panel discussion sponsored by the German Club yesterday afternoon at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
Helmut Huelsberger, professor of German, said he was excited about unification. He immigrated to the United States in 1958.
United States in 1908. "This is a happy day in the development of the history," he said.
Hueisbergen said that people his age and older had similar feelings about the separation of Germany.
After the separtion, he still had ties to East Germany, where he had relatives and where his school was.
He stayed in East Germany until December and crossed the border illegally into the British occupied zone. Huebsberger said.
"What separated us was an imported political system," he said.
'I was born in West Germany, and that's my country. I really have no connection with East Germany.'
Martin Schuchert, an exchange student from Dortmund, Germany, said that he was not excited about the unification.
"I was born in West Germany, and that's my country," he said. "I really
— Martin Schuchert
Dortmund, German exchange
student
have no connection with East Germany."
Margarete Kiefer, another exchange student from Dortmund, agreed with Schuchert.
She said she worried about problems such as unemployment.
She said that she was pleased when the Berlin Wall was opened in November but that she was not excited about unification.
She also said that Germans who look at only the unification should look at Germany as a member of the entire European community.
Lisa Hock, who studied in East Berlin last academic year, said that
unification was very exciting for East Germans because it opened new opportunities for them, such as traveling wherever they wanted.
"It is exciting to see that things they are doing are what they have never dreamed of," she said.
never dreamed of, she said. She said that West Germans had to
bear the burdens of unification, such as tax increases, but that East Germans would have to readjust their way of thinking.
She said one example of the differences between East and West Germany was that many East German women felt abortion was a right but that most West German people had a different opinion.
One out of every five East German women between the ages of 15 and 20 has had an abortion, she said.
Abbie Vincent, who attended the forum and was in West Germany a year ago, said that people she talked to in Germany never thought that the two countries would be unified in the near future.
From left, Hank Perkins, David Rundquist and Pete Jordan helped construct Hell's Cellar.
Basement transforms into Hell's Cellar
Thomas Stargardter/KANSAN
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
The basement of M & M Office Supply, 623 Massachusetts St., has undergone a transformation of a ghoulish sort. A cieff against a black wall and 6-foot cobwebs hang where a garage door once was.
a bulb of garlic hangs from a window frame.
The transformation of M & M's cellar into Hell's Cellar, Lawrence's first professional haunted house, required the placement of all the Halloween props, except for one.
"It's spooky, but the garlic was there when we first looked at the building," said Rita Connoy, cocreator of the cellar. "It was just somebody else who like it. Maybe somebody else were afraid of vamps biting them."
The idea for a professional haunted house came to Conroy and Ken Kirklin, Lawrence senior, when they were thinking about Halloween and all of the haunted houses in the Kansas City area.
"I've wanted to do this for two years, but I must be crazy because I'm taking 19 hours and I'm busy already," Kirklin said.
Gouny said she received the coffin from a friend who bought it at Everything But Ice, 936 Massachusetts St.
The idea began to take shape when some friends, who are carpenters, volunteered their services to help build the interior.
"After seeing the garlic, I checked to make sure the coffin was a new one. instead of a used one," she said. "I can keep it. It doesn't it, so I'm pretty sure it's new."
Hank Perkins, a local carpenter was excited with the idea and
persuaded two of his friends, Pete Jordan and David Rundquist, to help him out.
The three painted all of the walls black and built a variety of mazes to route unsuspecting visitors into various ghouls and monsters.
Wes Elison, an electronics technician at the KU Center for Research Inc., built laser lights to a mat scientist's laboratory
"I've built a Jacob's ladder and a tesla coil" he said. "The ladder looks like the old 'Parkinsonstein' and the new 'Hyperion'. It gives off a lightning bolt effect. A
laser that will be drawing patterns to music will be with the swamp monster, and in another room there will be a laser spider web."
Conroy said that the cellar had been inspected by the Fire Department and that it had passed safety inspection.
"The Fire Department has been keeping us busy because Kansas has a tight fire code," Conroy said. Hell's Cellar will be open for hauntings from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. every Friday and Saturday in October beginning this Friday. It also will be open Oct. 29-31.
Admission is $5, but more than 2,000 coupons for 50 cents off have been distributed by United Way volunteers. Hell's Cellar will donate 50 cents to United Way for each coupon used.
Lanaea Heine, volunteer coordinator, said some cups still were available at the United Way office, 211 E. 8th St.
"The Phi Delta Theta house has been distributing most of the coupons," she said. "If all of the coupons are used, we could stand to make a substantial amount of donations."
Process of selection begins for director
Minority Affairs gets 140 applications
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
About 140 people from around the country have submitted applications to the University of Kansas for the Office of Minority Affairs.
Caryl Smith, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, said the large number of applicants was gratifying.
"It really shows that our attempts at advertising the position paid off," Smith said.
The committee in charge of selecting a permanent director advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as Kansas publications such as the Kansas City Star, the Wichita Gazette and the Kansas Daily. They also distributed fliers to urge qualified people to apply or nominate a colleague.
The office was left without a permanent door when rosa Dorsey resigned in June 1989. Marshall Jackson is interim director.
Smith said that at least four of the applicants would be invited to visit the University campus sometime in November.
the group stopped accepting applications Sept. 14. They plan to announce the selected candidate by Jan. 1.
Angela Cervantes, president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization at KU, said that she was interested about finding apermanent director.
"I am excited about finding a director who is going to be here for some time," she said. "A strong director is the first step in building a
strong foundation for the students who use the office."
Darren Fulcher, executive board member of Black Men of Today, said that considerably more people applied than he thought would.
"That is really important because it brings in a bigger pool of people," he said.
Fulcher said he thought that the reason the number of applicants was so large was that people had heard about student protests and diversity problems at KU, and they wanted to be part of the solution.
Cervantes said that she wanted a director who came from a diverse background.
"I want someone who can represent diverse cultures," she said. "I also want someone who has worked with students in college student programs, not just high school."
but the Pulcher said it was important to find a director who would communicate well with students.
"The Office of Minority Affairs is important in working for the retention of Black and minority students," he said.
The director will develop programs to encourage minority groups' values and cultures, according to the position announcement. The director also improve the campus climate and to create an appreciation for diversity.
Cervantes said she was pleased that students had been invited to serve on the selection committee.
"I think it is important that students be actively involved in the selection," she said.
Court ruling decreased liquor-law arrests, police chief says
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
In a Kansas Bureau of Investigation Annual Crime Report released three weeks ago, 1989 statistics showed that Lawrence, with a population of 52,738, had 70 arrests for liquor violations, while Manhattan, with a population of 32,644 reported 607 arrests.
This reluctance stems from the cases of Abby J. Berry, B. Bernstein, a Wineteca, Ill., junior in March 1989, who was arrested and charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol.
Lawrence police chief rein Olin said that among the reasons for Lawrence's lower arrest number was a reluctance on the part of local police to arrest minors in liquor law
A district court ruling in the Bernstein case stating that officers could not ask people to produce identification based on a youthful appearance ordered April 6 by the Court of Appeals
Olin said that because of the Bernstein case, police did not go into bars for almost
"The answer that is really newsworthy is that after the Bernstein case, we stayed out until we had legal reason to go in," he said. "We don't have time to go into bars and ferret out those 18-19 and 20-year-olds who will run society by getting a beer."
Olin said that the job of the police was to assist with enforcement arrests but that the Alcohol Beverage Control Division primarily
was responsible for alcohol violations.
"We spot check, but it's up to the police to really enforce the regulations," he said. "We have one agent that works in Lawrence while Lawrence has their entire office depart."
However, Tom Hanna, director of the ABC, said it was the responsibility of local police to ensure that public safety is maintained.
Jim Conant, chief administrative officer for ABC, said that according to Kansas law, ABC has the authority to call upon city police to enforce lour-law violations.
Olain said there were other reasons for the discrepancy, the most numbers between Man-
agers are very low.
that because bars in Manhattan
he said that because bars in Manhattan
were clustered in one area, called Aggieville, police could enforce liquor laws more effectively.
"It is much easier to police that area than it is to drive around Lawrence." Olin said.
"The big picture is that we are understaffed."
the Lawrence police department has 75 officers but will hire 27 more by Jan. 1, he said.
Larry Woodyard, assistant director of the Riley County Police Department, said it had 47 officers on its force.
The Riley department, which patrols Manhattan, said alcohol violations were important to local police because of the high numbers of 18- to 21-year-olds from Kansas State University and Fort Riley that congregated in the Aggieville area.
"We also have a nightly patrol that goes out in the Aggieville area," he said. "We don't go out looking to arrest people, but we don't ignore violations either."
Olin said, "it's not shameful that we hadower arrest violations. It may be indicative that we didn't have enough money."
"We don't have the resources to do bar checks and foot patrols in downtown. We go after the more violent crimes of rape, robbery and murder," said Sara Reeves, a reactive not a pro-active department."
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