Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 4, 1990
Lawrence lures Japanese sister city
Fumio Kuribayashi, Hadano, Japan, graduate student, will guide a committee on its visit to Hiratsuki
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff write
Lawrence soon will have not one, but two sister cities.
On Sept. 21, a delegation from Lawrence will travel to Hiratsuka, Japan, to sign a sister city agreement with that city.
Fumio Kuribayashi, a KU graduate student from Hadano, Japan, will serve as guide and interpreter for the Lawrence delegation.
Lawrence has another sister city in Eutin, Germany, and the Sister City Advisory Board is looking at acquiring a third sister city in Besançon, France. The sister city agreement with Eutin was formalized in June.
"I was very excited when I found out that Lawrence might be Hiratsuka's sister city," he said. "Many friends called me.
"Students from KU would really love Hiratsuka. It's a wonderful city because it is right on the sea. They have two universities, Tokai and Kawaishi universities. Tokai is one of KU. They have 25,000 students."
Kuribayashi said students from Japan and Kansas liked many of the same things.
"Hiratsula has many Burger Kings, McDonalds, Kentucky Fucken Chickens, and students there like rock music," he said.
Kuribashi, who is a pianist, said he decided to attend KU because of its music therapy program.
"KU was one of the best programs in the world for music therapy," he said.
Carol Shankel, president of the Sister City Advisory Board, said KU students, as well as the Lawrence University benefit from an exchange program
"We picked Hiratsu because the city isn't too huge — 245,000, and the city is very accessible from Tokyo— about one hour by train," she said.
"Kanagawa University, whose letters are KU by the way, wants to implement student exchanges with Lawrence's KU."
She said Hiratsuka had its choice of two other cities in the United States besides Lawrence.
"It's difficult for the Midwest to attract sister city relationships from Japan because most of them go to the West Coast," Shankel said "the representatives from Hiratsuka said they picked Lawrence because they loved him." The university, the University, and they felt like it was a safe place to send their kids."
Ted Kuwana, chairperson of the
Friends of Hiratsuka, said an exchange program would be important to KU students.
"Kanagawa University is an emerging institution that is emphasizing international business and technology." he said. "Understanding different cultures in this fast changing world is very important."
Bob Schumm, Lawrence City Commissioner, said the cultural, educational, economical and industrial aspects of a place would benefit Lawrence.
Although the City Commission voted Aug. 28 to pay for two officials from Lawrence to travel to Japan,
only the mayor's trip will be financed. Mike Wilden, city manager, will not be able to go because of illness, said Mayor Sheryl Martin-Smith.
The city will pay up to $1,500 of the mayor's travel expenses, which includes $1,100 in airfare.
Commissioner and Vice Mayor Bob Walters also will go, but he is financing the trip himself.
The mayor said she would approve city financing of Walters' travel expenses if the other commissioners issue at the next commission meeting.
Paperwork delays Secure Cab service
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Although Student Senate voted to reinstate Secure Cab, service has not begun yet this fall because Senate's staff did not approve it nor was not approved by state officials.
Mary Ellen Henderson, KU on Wheels coordinator, said that the cab service should begin operating within two weeks.
Henderson said that last year Secure Cab received an average of 150 to 290 calls each weekend night.
She said secure cabs operated between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. every night. On weekends as many as four cabs will be available.
"All a student has to do is call A City Cab and tell them they want to secure a cab ride," she said. "The student will need to show the cab."
'All a student has to do is call A-1 City Cab and tell them they want to secure a cab ride.'
Mary Ellen Henderson KLL on Wheels coordinator
KU on Wheels coordinator
Henderson said any contract used by the University must be approved by the state before it becomes effective.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said Secure Cab would late this year because no one at KU realized the bid had to be resubmitted if Senate was only renewing the program.
Senate voted to refinance Secure Cab this summer and renewed its contract with A-1 City Cab, despite a slight increase in operating fees.
"We are required by the state, in whatever we do, to turn in a state bid contract," he said. "These contracts usually take 30 days to process."
Henderson said Senate reserved cabs through A1 City Cab, 735 E. 22nd St., for any University of Kansas students who felt they had had too much to drink or were frightened to walk home alone at night.
This year the cost of each cab went up from $18 an hour to $22 an hour. Senate allocated $22,000 to Secure fees for two semesters of service
driver a current KUID. The cabs will only take them home as long as it is within Lawrence city limits. They not take students to another bar*.
Although questions of misuse of Secure Cab were raised last year when a sorority used the service to shuttle people from their party to their sorority house, Henderson said she had not heard of other incidents of large groups of students abusing the service.
Elizabeth Fore, Arlington Heights, Ill., senior, said the Secure Cab program was good for architecture students.
"The option to use it at night makes me feel better " she said
Michael Gould, Denver sophomore, said that although he had never used the service, he suggested people after they had too much to drink.
John Rasmussen, Colorado Springs, Colo., sophomore, said that he thought Secure Cab was a good option to move from the head of anyone missing the service.
Appeals judge takes Supreme Court seat, fills vacant position
Kansan staff writer
By David Roach
Spectatres crowded into a Topeka courtroom Friday to witness the swearing in of Judge Bob the to Kansas Supreme Court.
Abbott, former chief judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals, was appointed to the court by Gov. Mike Hayden to fill a vacancy created by Chief Justice Robert Miller's retirement.
Judge Richard Holmes became chief justice Friday after Miller's retirement, and Abbott, 67, was appointed position on the seven-member court.
Abbott was the second judge appointed to the Supreme Court from the Court of Appeals since the court re-established in 1977.
Bob Jerry, University of Kansas dean, law said Abbott would make a smooth transition from the court of Appeals to the Supreme Court.
"He has served with distinction on the Court of Appeals for a number of years, and he will fit in well," he said.
Jerry said that if the U.S. Supreme Court continued to move in a different direction, the Kansas Supreme Court would have with more controversial issues in
'He has served with distinction on the Court of Appeals for a number of years, and he will probably fit in right away.'
Bob Jerry Dean of law
the next decade than it had in the past.
A narrower federal view of the right to privacy will cause many litigants to turn to state constitution for fundamental rights, Jerry said.
"I think in the next decade we'll want to watch for state constitutional law to fill in some of the gaps left by the narrower interpretation of federal constitutional rights," he said.
Judge Abbot was born in 1932. He served in the Air Force from 1953 to 1958 and earned a bacheclair degree in Engineering in University of 1966. He graduated from the Washburn University School of Law in 1960 and earned a master's degree in law from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1986.
Abbott was one of the original judges on the Court of Appeals when it was re-established.
New dean of libraries tackles mob of books
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
In his new office on the fifth floor or Watson Library, Bill Crowe has yet to transfer a tabletop towering full of shelves of the empty shelf across from his desk.
Crowe has as many volumes as a doctor or historian, and his collection reflects a lifelong love of books that is fitting for the University of Kansas'
But there is more to running a library than collecting books, Crowe said.
"A lot of books is no more a library than a army is an army." Crowe said. "There's an intelligence behind libraries that isn't always apparent."
Crowe, who was selected by a committee of faculty and students to replace former dean of libraries Jim Ranz, began work at KU about three and a half weeks ago. A librarian for the university pleased be doing what he loves best working in a library with faculty and students from a variety of fields.
Crowe left Boston, his hometown, to study library science at Rutger's University in New Jersey but returned one year later to continue working at the public library. Even Crowe decided he wanted a change
Crowe decided to become a librarian after working at Boston Public Library while studying European and French at Boston State College.
"Boston Public is a wonderful library, but I was interested in being around faculty, students," Crowe said.
So Crowe went to Bloomington, Ind., where he worked in Indiana University's cataloging and acquisitions department and began doctoral coursework in library and information service.
Except for one year as an intern at the University of Michigan, Crowe remained in Bloomington until 1979 when he and his wife, Nancy Sanders, went to Ohio State University. At Ohio State, he was assistant to the director of libraries and later assistant director of libraries.
After completing his doctorate in 1986, Crowe said he felt it was time for a change. The fact that his wife is a fifth-generation Lawrence resident and a KU graduate made KU attractive.
But he said the main reason he came to KU was because of the quality of the library and the University's commitment to it.
"This library was built by a lot of librarians over a long period of time, working with some extraordinary authors and administrators," Crowne said.
Crowe said KU's on-line library catalog, developed by people at KU, was the sort of innovation that made a good library.
"In 10 years' time or less we can do more than that," he said. "There's a lot of problems that need to be solved, and fiscally, but We can do that."
In order to maintain the quality of KU's library collections, facilities and faculty salaries, it is important to ensure that the university financing be restored. Crowe said.
"Without good libraries, you can't
Jennifer Warner/KANSAN
Bill Crowe began his job as dean of libraries three and a half weeks ago.
get and keep good faculty, and you can't get and keep good students," Crowe said.
In the meantime, Crowe said he
might spend time trying to recruit students to library science, a field that is facing a shortage of people, he said.