October 15, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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The University Daily KANSAN
Police investigate leads in rape of Haskell student
A 20-year-old Haskell Indian Junior College student reported that she was raped early Saturday morning at a local high school in Green Street, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Campus directory on the way
Police said they had several suspects and were investigating the leads. They released no additional information about the case.
1984-85 campus telephone books are scheduled to be delivered today to campus offices, residence halls and scholarship halls.
Hall residents or offices that do not receive a book should call the Department of Facilities Operations, 864 4191, or the chief KU telephone operator, 864 4039.
Errors in the student section of the books should be reported to the office of student records, either by calling 864-4242 or Window 1 on the first floor of Strong Hall
Errors in the faculty and staff section should be reported to Personnel Services by calling 864-1946 or 864-1942.
Byron White, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, will speak at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union as part of his two-day visit to the University of Kansas.
Justice to launch law series
White's speech will represent the inaugural lecture in the School of Law's Stephenson Lectures in Law and Government series. The subject of the speech has not been announced.
White was appointed to the court in 1962. He is a native of Colorado and a graduate of the University of Colorado and Yale School. He also was a Rhodes Scholar.
Prof to discuss solar design
A Miami University professor will speak on Greek and Roman solar architecture at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday in room 211 of the Help Preserve Spencer Museum of Art.
Gallery to display political art
Robert M. Wilhelm, a professor at the Oxford, Ohio university and a lecturer for the Lawrence-Kansas City chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, will speak on "Greek and Roman Solar Architecture: An Historical Perspective on our Ecological Consciousness."
An exhibition of political art will begin today in the art gallery on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The exhibition, titled "Angry Art; Political Expression in the Visual Art," is sponsored by the Student Union Gallery Committee.
The exhibition runs through Nov. 4.
Kassebaum to speak at KU
See Nancy Landon Kassbaum will speak about the legal drinking age and federal and state legislation concerning it at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union
Her speech, a Student Union Activities
Forum, will be free and open to the public.
Russellbach Hall at 7:30 p.m. in the big Eight Room of the Union.
Weather
today will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. The high will be in the mid-60s, and winds will be from the northwest at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be cloudy and cool with a 40 percent chance of showers. The low tonight will be in the low to mid-40s, and the high tomorrow will be in the mid-to upper 50s.
Correction
Because of a copy editor's error, a headline in Thursday's Kansas incorrectly said that an American astronaut would become the first woman to walk in space. The woman Kathryn Sullivan, last week became the first American to second woman to do so. A Soviet cosmonaut earlier this year was the first woman to walk in space.
Eannuled from Kansan staff reports.
House manager regrets room searches
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
The house manager of Joseph R. Pearson Hall on Friday apologized in a letter to JRP residents for conducting room searches earlier in the day that some residents had been there. We were alleged.
Worden, a JRP resident, said Constance had opened closed doors and looked behind her.
Dennis Constance, the house manager,
searched rooms in the hall looking for
furniture that was missing from a lounge
area, said Curt Worden, Association of
University Residence Halls Housing and
Contracts Committee chairman.
WORDEN SAID THAT between 15 and 20 students had complained to him that
Article 21 of the code says staff members may enter residents' rooms only "to determine compliance with provisions... for improvement or repairs." The code says residents must be given 24-hour notice before rooms are entered. In emergencies, students' rooms may be entered without notice, the code says.
search had violated their rights to privacy as defined in the JRP contract and the Student Senate Rights, Responsibility and Conduct Code.
JRP contracts say that residents and staff members will follow the code.
he said that he did not remember which days Constance had conducted the search, but that on Thursday, Constance searched some rooms a second time after the furniture was not found in the first search.
ON FRIDAY, CONSTANCE said, "To the
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But Worden said yesterday that an apology was not sufficient. He said that he and two other residents had contacted KU police on Friday afternoon because they thought Constance had broken trespassing laws by searching the rooms.
worden said that he and Mike Miller, Deerfield, Ill., freshman, and Steve Raskin, St. Louis sophomore, were considering seeking police action against Constand.
best of my knowledge, there was no illegality committed."
Worden said that they would ask for further police investigation if the housing office did not reprimand Constance appropriately.
He said that on Friday, Constance posted a notice on the chalkboard in the JRP job lobby saying that another search for missing furniture would be conducted today.
Worden said that he and the others were concerned that the Housing Office was not handling the situation correctly because Constance had planned another search.
BUT J.J. WILSON, director of housing,
saned yesterday that the search had been
concluded.
Constance's letter said that some of the invasion of privacy charges were true, and he apologized to those he had offended.
Wilson said that Worden had the right to ask for police investigation, but that he would not let Worden's threats blackmail the housing office.
Constance said of the searches he conducted. "I was in fact acting on the sincere belief that none of the check procedure was improper or excessive, as notice had been clearly posted on the chalk board in the main entry to the Hall."
Video games now helping teach the three R's
By CHRISSY CLEARY
Staff Reporter
Jerry Niebaum, director of academic computing services, holds three of the computer games that he and three other current and former faculty members helped design. The
A spaceship flashes onto the monitor. Three meteors appear to be moving toward the ship.
By the time the game Meteor Multiplication is over, a grade school child usually has mastered some of the multiplication tables.
The answer to "4 times 3" is the key to saving the ship, one that an elementary school child must find in this educational computer game.
Meteor Multiplication is one of several educational learning games created by one former and three current faculty members.
THE GAMES WERE designed by Jerry Chaffin, professor of special education; Barbara Thompson, professor of special education; Jerry Niebum, director of academic computing services; and Bill Maxwell, who used to work at the Computer
The games are the software used for microcomputers. Software tells computers which steps to take to complete certain tasks.
Chaffin, Maxweli and Thompson have formed a computer software company, Educational Information Systems Chaffin said the software was distributed intermetically by Developmental Learning Materials, an educational materials publisher in Texas.
Chaffin said he thought the installation of microcomputers in administrators' offices would promote more enthusiasm.
CHAFFIN FIRST BECAME interested in computer games in 1981 while teaching special education administrators. Chaffin was not using computers to full advantage.
"Bill and I bought a microcomputer and I got really turned on," Chaffin said. "I would finish doing my regular work on it and I do little games until 2:30 in the morning.
"Then my kids told me about the video games. I hadn't really interacted very much with video games until then. Nothing compared to it. I was sucked into the motivational intensity with which kids play them."
Then Chaffan, along with Maxwell, Thompson and Niebaum, combined the features of
arcade video games and academic computer games, calling their creations "arcademics."
SOME OF THE Lawrence public schools are using Chaffin's games, and Sandee Crowther, microcomputer coordinator for the school system.
Crowner said Lawrence public schools had used microcomputers for the past four years. The school system soon will have more than 290 Apple and Commodore computers.
Crowther said the microcomputers generally were received well.
"Although the support isn't unanimous, the
parents are pretty supportive," Crowther said.
The children are very excited about the computers. You would assume that after four years, they would lose some enthusiasm. Even with the ones who have computers at home there is still the desire to use them at school."
NIEBAUM AND CHAFFIN also said microcomputers were effective in motivating students. Computers teach children through learning skills, including learning of learning and retaining information.
"Computers affect children in a positive way." Niebaum said. "It's like an untiring tutor. It never gets bored."
Chaffin said, "A computer is such a non-judgmental machine. It never gets impatient. When a child gets a wrong answer on the computer game, it's not as bad as red marks from a teacher."
In May, Chaffin delivered a paper describing his findings at a Harvard University conference on video games and human development.
IN THE STUDY that led to the paper, Chaffin conducted field tests with more than 400 children from first through nine grades. The tests showed that the students were intrigued by the games and consistently requested to play them.
Cool weather comes with autumn's colored arrival
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND
Staff Reporter
"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves," the poet Humbert, Wolfe wrote in 1926.
Nearly 60 years later, summer continues to color and cool to autumn.
Winds from the northwest will blow a red and orange-leaved October evening into Lawrence with expected lows tonight in the mid-50s, a KU weather observer and forecaster said yesterday.
TEMPERATURES TODAY should be in the low to mid-60s with winds from the northwest at 5 to 15 mph, said Bob Harrigan, the observer.
Skies should remain cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thundershowers, he said.
Yesterday afternoon, 10 of an inch of rain fell, and the high temperature was 70 degrees. The normal high temperature for October is 71 degrees, he said.
The warm weather has hooked some local fishermen.
autumn leaves and fall fishermen.
An employee at the Clinton Marina said the warm weather had hittered Clinton Lake with
"There are a lot of people fishing," said Emily Kitson, a cacher at Clinton Marina. "After the weather warmed up last week, not a lot a people showed up immediately. Since it has stayed warm, more people have come out."
A LAWRENCE BAIT and tackle shop reported that fishermen were having varied success.
"Some customers are reporting that they are not catching anything," said Dan Wizardie, an employee at Floyd's Bait and Tackle Shop, 330 Iowa St. But others, he
said, were filling their stringers with crappie, as well as catfish and bass.
Wizirade said the luck of the catch depended on the fisherman and the location in which he chose to fish, but he said the recent pleasant weather had contributed to some of his customers' big catches.
"Since the weather was cold and a little breezy," he said, "there has been a real decline in customers. People tried to fish during the cold snap, and they didn't catch anything. Now lots of people are missing a good opportunity to fish."
Wizaride said he did not expect an upswing in business because of the warm weather