University Daily Kansan, December 6, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Naismith serving a catering choice
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
Some people like preparing favorite foods, but preparing it for a crowd is another question — one that Steve Welver would like to answer.
Weliver, a food service manager at Naistham Hall, said yesterday that the hall had begun a catering service with an extensive and flexible menu. "A lot of times, people will have Aunt Nell's favorite recipe, or whatever," he said. "We'll ask to test it and we'll make it for them."
A primary reason for the catering venture, he said, is to keep 13 full-time kitchen employees busy while residents are out of the hall during semester breaks and summers at the University of Kansas. The kitchen also has 35 part-time employees.
WELIVER SAID THE last meal this semester would be lunch on Dec. 21, and the first meal next semester would be breakfast on Jan. 16.
During the summer, the hall has only about 70 residents, compared with 488 this fall, he said, leaving opportunity for frequent catering.
But breaks are not the only time the service is available. Welder said the hull had an attractive dining area and a grassy field from campus on the bus during school.
"I'd like to get into club dinners, or maybe one of the departments wants to have a breakfast meeting," he said.
The catering service has one firm commitment for the holidays, he said, but he hopes it will grow and be used for wedding business in the city.
HE SAID HE PLANNED to advertise and already had mailed pamphlets to campus organizations and living groups.
The hall will be able to compete, he said, because it can provide excellent food at a reasonable cost.
for Christmas dinner for the residents, we're having roast duck and a brisket," he said. "It's not your typical residence hall meal."
Bob Richeson, food service manager for the Kansas Union, said he could not guess how Naishtm's service would affect the Union's, if at
"We're located on campus and our services are geared to students, staff and faculty." he said. "We do not address it at business in the city of Lawrence."
The Union operates on a limited basis during Christmas break, he said. It has fewer catering dates and it is more expensive as these dates are almost always in the Union.
Bob Schumm, owner of Schumm Food Co. 179, Massachusetts St., said he welcomed Naisnir Hall to the catering business because people would be more aware that would expand the local market.
"Naismith Hall is going to be catering to a different kind of market than we are," he said. "We do a number of organizations or company pictures."
Schumm said his company usually served groups of 100 to 1,000 people but prepared items that could be picked up for smaller groups, including many repeat customers during the holiday season.
Ace Johnson, owner of The Sanctuary Catering, 1401 W. 7th St., said his business usually dropped off about Dec. 21 for several weeks, a factor that might make Naismith Hall's entry into catering difficult.
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A snowman and Ben the snowdog catch the attention of Jennifer Hull, Wichita sophomore, as she passes the Art and Design Building. The snowman was built outside the studio window of Sally Hackbart, graduate student, Bellevue, Neb., by members of the printmaking department.
4 protesters plead not guilty
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Four anti-nuclear protesters who broke into a Minuteum missile site and damaged equipment pleaded not guilty yesterday to multiple charges, and magistrate scheduled a trial for Jan. 14.
Each was charged with conspiracy to violate federal laws, destruction of government property, destruction of property with the intent to injure, interfere or destruct the national defense, and trespassing.
A federal grand jury Nov. 28 indicted the anti-nuclear protesters, the rev. Carl Kabat, 51, the rev.
Paul Kabat, 52, Helen Woodson, 41, and Larry Cloud Morgan, 46.
A conviction on all four counts carries a maximum sentence of more than 25 years in prison and $33,500 in fines.
admitted damaging Minuteman Missile Silo N5 off Interstate 70 near Higginsville, about 35 miles east of Kansas City. They said they used a compressor-driven 90-pound jack hammer and household and sledgehammers in the Nov. 12 attack.
Whiteman Air Force Base operate the missile site near Higginsville along with 149 other sites in Missouri. Preliminary reports indicated about $25,000 in damage to above-ground equipment at the Higginsville site.
The four Catholic peace activists
Judge to rule on evidence for teen's trial
Pre-trial motion in the case of Donald E. Alexander, a Lawrence teen-age charged with murder, will be heard on Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
Mike Malone, Douglas County associate district judge, is expected to rule on a motion asking that physical evidence obtained on Aug. 22 not be allowed in the trial. The evidence included a club, bedding, clothes, fingerprints, hair samples, eyewitness statements, a window ledge in Alexander's bedroom. Wesley Norwood, Alexander's lawyer, filed the motion.
In an earlier hearing, Malone denied motions by the defense that asked for a change of venue and for the exclusion of oral and written confessions obtained from Alexander on Aug. 22.
Alexander, 19, of 303 W. 21st St., is charged with murder, rape and aggravated robbery in connection with the death of Marguerite L. Vinyard, whose body was found Aug. 5, in her home at 2100 Tennessee St.
The coroner's report showed that Vinyard had been beaten and sexually assaulted and died of injuries to her head and chest.
A jury trial is scheduled for Jan. 14.
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