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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 13, 1990
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Fall Mixer honors educators
Chamber offers taste of Lawrence with food, music
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
Last night several thousand tickets were exchanged on the lawn of Meadowbrook apartments. The tickets were not for theater admissions or carnival rides, but for pasta, chicken, margaritas and cheesecheese.
About 800 businesspeople and educators on the grassy hill at 18th Street and Crestline Drive for which featured "a taste of Lawrence."
The mixer, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, welcomed new educators to Douglas County, said Debi Moore, city director of small business and special programs.
Moore said invitations were sent to chamber members and educators in leadership positions.
"This shows how important we think education is." she said.
Anne Leaf, chairperson of the mixer task force, said the committee received 776 reservations by noon yesterday.
Faculty and administrators from Douglas County universities and public schools were invited to the mixer, she said.
The mixer featured a band, Junk Yard Jazz, and 20 restaurant vendors.
Pat Villeneuve, curator of education at the Spencer Museum of Art, said, "I never expected this kind of thing to be sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and especially for educators."
Villeneuve said she also liked the variety of restaurant booths.
"I recognize restaurants that we've been to, but this gives us an opportunity to try other restaurants we might not go to." she said.
Mary Doveton, managing director of the Lawrence Community Theatre, said she liked the food and the people at the mixer.
"It gives you a chance to see people you don't get to see every day and meet people who are new to Lawrence." she said.
Etienne Jehl, alumni center chef, shows apprentice Christing Dudley how to spread basil on tortellini.
Miyoshi Sumiya, who attended a telecommunications seminar at KU for the past two days, also liked the mixer.
"We were very lucky, because we came for the seminar but this party happened to be on the same day," he said. "We had a lot of parties, so we enjoyed it very much."
Board of Regents considers regulations
Private businesses say that universities take advantage of tax-exempt status
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
A Board of Regents task force is working to establish guidelines that would regulate the items and services that can be sold on the campuses of Kansas universities.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the Regents wanted to avoid laws that prohibited universities from selling items that might compete with private businesses. Such laws could prohibit the selling of items ranging from greeting cards to football tickets.
Ambler is the KU representative on the Regents task force on public versus private business competition. He attended a meeting Tuesday in Atlanta that addressed ways to deal with the conflict.
"KU is concerned because many of the activities on campus are not subsidized by tuition," he said. "Activities such as the housing, the student health center, athletics and the unions must operate in the school district to generate from themselves. If that right were taken away, student fees would increase 100 percent."
Ambler said the Regents had agreed that the best method to deal with problems was to design a strong system of self-regulation for each university.
"We are preparing a draft that will be completed in November on the best way to have an internally owned library."
Myles Schachter, president of Connecting Point, 813 Massachusetts St., a computer store, said the problem occurred when universities overstepped their capacity and began competing with private businesses
"The University is under the guse of a not-for-profit entity, but instead they are really a profit organization that reaps tax-exempt status" Schachter said. "Because KU has three lobbyists working for them, small businesses in Lawrence feel like they're David fighting Goliath."
A 1989 Kansas legislative audit concluded that KK was not violating its not-for-profit status. Anni-
Ambler said that although the University did not
"KU, by its very existence, enhances the economic status of the community and private sector," he said. "We contribute more than we detract."
"We are not allowed to sell anything to the public that competes with private businesses," he said. "I have not found the law to be restrictive because the law understands that the university serves a public function, but the potential for severe restrictive interpretations is there."
Ray Jenson, director of purchasing at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., said Arizona was the first state to pass a private enterprise law in the early 1980s.
He said Arizona State was regulated by people in private business who were appointed by the governor.
Nine states have passed private enterprise laws, Jenson said, and 11 states, including Kansas, are considering similar laws.
KU supercomputer for electronic mail not for undergrads
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Although KU has purchased a VAX 9000, a supercomputer capable of sending information around the world in seconds, it will not be available to undergraduates without departmental permission.
Some Computer Services Facility officials would like to invite students to use the computer for electronic mail, technology that allows the user to communicate with parts of the world, but some research opposes the idea, said Harrius Harris, assistant director of user services.
"What they're nervous about is we've got 25,000 students here." Harris said. "It would overload the system. It really not everybody wants to do it."
He said not all students would ask for an account because not everyone knew someone with access to a computer.
The electronic mail is better than a telephone call because it did not cost anything, and the person sending the message does not have to wait for the other person to wake up or get home. Harrie
"So sending an electronic mail message to Australia makes a lot of sense." be said.
But convenience is not the only benefit
Harris said electronic mail was an important new technology that undergraduates needed to understand.
"It think it's a necessary part of their training and experience for the future," he said.
All faculty and permanent staff are eligible for a VAX account, but students must be involved in coursework or independent research approved by a University department to receive an account. Harris said. Anyone with an academic job will be the computer for electronic mail
Some universities, such as Kansas State University, allow all
undergraduates access to their mainframe computers.
Michael Grobe, documentation supervisor for academic computing services, said the VAX 900 is a crucial tool which is operating at full capacity.
Although the VAX 900 is values at between $1.3 and $1.4 million, the University will pay less than $1 million for it because it is trading in the old machine to help finance the purchase, said Jerry Niebium, director of academic computing services.
The monthly payment on the computer probably will be about the same as it was for the old one. Neibum said.
Grobe said the VAX 9000 probably would be operating at full capacity within three years. The computer will need to be upgraded or replaced sooner if more programs begin using electronic mail.
"That's what makes people nervous," Harris said. "Because people would like to do real work on those machines.
"Our position is that we are put on Earth, or on campus, to facilitate the use of computers and to make it available and easy for people on campus," Harris said. But some researchers said they were concerned the machine might not have the capacity to handle both research and random student use.
Chau-Tau Lan, professor of aerospace engineering, said he thought the computer could be used as students did not use it only
He said he was concerned students would need training to use the VAX.
Adrian Melott, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said it would be better for students to use a different computer
He said there were smaller, less expensive machines capable of sending electronic mail.
Senate considers ASK travel expense request
Kansan staff writer
By Jennifer Schultz
A proposal that would have Student Senate pay for travel expenses for official activities of Associated Students of Kansas members was tabled after much debate last night atuate's first meeting of the semester.
The proposal stated that the nature of lobbying required frequent travel to and from Topeka, and ASK's inability to obtain funds for travel had the potential of reducing students' lobbying efforts.
"Basically what it is saying is that we want to make lobbying an official Senate activity and Senate can spend money for ASK travel expenses," the Executive Committee chairperson Warren sponsored the proposal.
ASK members currently pay for their own travel expenses in most circumstances, Warren said. ASK also has reserve financing that sometimes is available for travel expenses.
Carl Damon, Senate treasurer,
expressed concern about the proposal.
He said that it was too vague
and that it was not clear where the financing would come from and who would receive it.
Warren said KU students should not hold ROTC officers responsible for the Department of Defense policy that excludes homosexuals.
Other issues brought up at the meeting included Senate's stance on ROTC.
Warren urged senators to protect the rights of ROTC students and support the rights of homosexuals
"ROTC cannot change their policy," he said.
He said that Senate, in accordance with the administration's stance, did not dispute the violation of the University's discrimination policy, but was a good program which offered scholarships to deserving students.
Senate also approved the following Senate appointments to the Student Health Advisory Board; Jose Alpers, Hieu Dao, Mike Lambert, Mike Moschini, Belinda Schilder, Cassandra Turner, Beinda Cook, Heidi Ellenberger, Arlan Matthy, Vince Rodriguez and Cindy Snyder.
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