Mind games
It doesn't make a mess on the carpet or wake up the neighbors, but kids like it. It's educational software — computer games that try to make learning more fun than a
trip to the dentist. KU's Jerry Niebaum helps design such games for a Lawrence company. Educational Information Systems See story, page 3.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No.36 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, October 15, 1984
Cara Vogel, student body president, shows a picture from "the Living Tree," a book by Shel Silverstein, a a gathering to save the American elm tree between afternoon dread about 25 people. See story, page 6. the Military Science Building and Hoch Auditorium The gathering yesterday book by Shel Silverstein, a a gathering to save the American elm tree between afternoon dread about 25 people. See story, page 6.
Officials hope to raise minority hiring
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has a long way to go in the recruitment and hiring of minority faculty members, administrators said last
See related story p. 5
week, but its commitment and efforts are genuine.
Blacks, Hispanics and other minorities comprised 76 of the 1,198 faculty members and librarians during the 1983 fall semester, KU statistics show.
This semester, the number has increased to 81 with the hiring of five minority faculty members.
THE UNIVERSITY HAS a sound, firm, strong commitment to hiring minority faculty and staff," said Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor. "But in a steady state circumstance, it is hard to exemplify in a dramatic way. Our gains are cumulative rather than spectacular."
KU is replacing teachers, not creating new positions. Cobb said.
"We are adding no faculty and replacing those who leave," he said. "The days when we could offer 40 to 50 new positions a year, in addition to replacements, are gone and probably won't return until the 1990s, if ever
"Last year, we offered no new positions and had about 25 replacements. Of those, four minority faculty members were hired in tenure-track positions."
MARILYN YARBROUGH, associate vice
chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said, "Financially, KU cannot compete for a lot of them. All universities are competing for entry-level professors in minorities. KU just does not have the move the entry level. KU can almost forget it."
Yarbrough, who is black, said she thought the small number of minority faculty members also made a difference in recruiting.
"A lot of time, when prospective black faculty members come to look at the University, they don't see other black faculty," she said. "It has improved in the nine years I've been here. I have repeatedly asked that we have them introduced to other black faculty members who are here because they like it here, so that they can get some
sense of the good things about Lawrence and KU
THE COMMITMENT is at least, among the top administrators. But if you ask whether there are enough minority faculty members, the answer is, obviously not."
Cobb said, "Yes, we are underrepresented in minority faculty, but I think our student population is a reflection of the state of Kansas, which is fairly homogeneous, culturally and ethnically. KU is not greatly different from institutions of higher education across the country."
Barbara Ballard, president of the KU Black Faculty and Staff Council, said that KU "is pretty representative of universities that are predominantly white."
See MINORITY, p. 5, col.1
Post-game mob rocks Aggieville
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Police searched for explanations last night after thousands of students and dozens of police officers clashed in the streets of Manhattan's Aggieville early yesterday morning when traditional post-game carousing turned to bottle throwing and fighting.
"There wasn't any one thing that triggered it." Riley County Police Sgt. Gary Grubbs said last night. "It was a combination of too much beer and too much beer in too large of an area."
"The night turned from a festive celebration to an outright attack on the officers."
About 20 students and six policeman were treated and released yesterday morning for cuts and bruises, a nursing supervisor at St. Mary's Hospital said.
Kansas State University beat the University of Kansas, 247, in the annual football showdown that sets emotions on edge as the team falls to tear down the goal posts after the victory.
"The students traditionally attack property, but this time they attacked police officers," Riley County Police Sgt. Darrell Yarnall said of the evening's events. "Many in the crowd were intoxicated."
POLICE SPOKESMEN yesterday said several incidents might have contributed to the behavior of the crowd in Aguijavevie, a village located south of the city and restaurants south of the K-State campus.
Vandalism and scattered fights often follow the yearly contest, but police say that some in the crowd attacked the officers.
Police gave the following account of the events that started Saturday evening and ended about 2 a.m. yesterday, when about 50 officers marched shoulder-to-shoulder to the scene.
Students milled in the street all day, waiting in line to enter the taverns. When the game ended thousands more people packed the area.
About 10:45 p.m. what police described as either a smoke bomb or a tear gas capsule was dropped outside Kite's, an Aggieville tavern.
Jose Kuhn, the owner of Kite's, said. "Some gas like substance started drifting into the place, so we cleared the bar as a precautionary measure. But within a few minutes, the people started coming back in and everything was all right."
POLICE AND witnesses say that hundreds of people continued to wait outside the
See MELEE, p. 6, col. 1
Campaign chiefs disagree on importance of debates
By United Press International
Democratic and Republican campaign chiefs yesterday said the same thing about the age issue — it isn't one — but they split over the importance of the TV debates in influencing the choice between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale.
With just 22 days to go before Americans pick a president, Reagan's pollster predicted a landslide victory. Democratic officials,
ELECTION '84
with their candidate gaining ground, argued that the "volatile electorate" at last is responding to Mondale.
THEIR RUNNING MATES. Vice President George Bush and Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, yesterday played on different stages. The dust continued to bellow from their debate last Thursday and Bush's off the cuff remark that he "kicked a little ass" in the confrontation, which polls show he won.
The presidential candidates, with the final televised debate — a foreign policy confrontation in Kansas City Mo., one week away, stuck to Sunday tradition. Reagan relaxed at Camp David before returning to the White House. Mondale gave a paired speech. Mondie planned a CoastSea starting event with President Brads for the South and Midwest tomorrow.
Sen Paul Laxalt, Reagan Bush campaign chairman, speculated that when Bush made the remark, "ingering somewhere in his psyche" was a recollection of President
Carter's similar private comment about Sam. Edward Kennedy during the 1980 Democrat
Bush went to Detroit to watch the fifth game of the World Series in the opening of a season.
Ferraro appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press." She said she still opposed last year's Grenada invasion on principle, but tried to put aside her difference with Mondale over whether the military action was justified by a threat to U.S. students on the Caribbean
Asked about recent derogatory comments from the Bush campaign, including one by Bush's press secretary that she is "too young" to comment, they are beginning to give a little worried.
Bristling a bit, Ferraro said firmly that she "can do whatever is necessary to protect this country," including pushing the nuclear button if she became president.
"THE INVASION'S OVER," Ferraro said.
"I's a fait accompli."
In his radio address broadcast from Minneapolis, Mondale gave a preview of the second debate, characterizing Reagan's policy as, "If there's an arms agreement, oppose it. If there's a dangerous weapon, buy it. If there's a crucial fact, don't learn it."
REITERATING HIS CALL for a freeze on the testing and deployment of anti-satellite weapons, Mondale said the president's "Star Wars" ballistic missile defense plan was a haxx and warned. "We stand on the verge of a very dangerous new escalation of the arms race. A massive effort to put weapons in outer space."
See POLITICS, p. 5, col. 1
Octoginta offers scenery, competition
Yesterday's Octogintta 84 culminated a week of activities sponsored by the MT
By JOHN EGAN
Bob and Joyce Sulanke, a graduate student, and a Latin instructor, respectively, launched Oetiginta on a Sunday
MONDAY MORNING
For some, the ride provided a scenic glimpse of Kansas' fall foliage in its colorful splendor. For others, it offered 88 miles of sweaty competition.
Staff Reporter
"They were doing their own thing," said Gene Wee. Student Union Activities adviser and one of the event's coordinators, "and it kind of caught on."
morning 'in October 1969, years before bicycling became a national pastime.
This year, about 450 bicyclists — most wearing bicycle helmets or racing hats and skin-tight racing shorts — took the 88-mile tour, which started and ended yesterday in South Park, 1141 Massachusetts, Street.
THAT YEAR, 35 bicyclists rode in Octoonta
"It's not a competitive event." Wee said.
"Some people want to make a race out of
it."
AC 15 a.m. under an ominous overcast sky, the bicyclists took off on their adventure down a deserted Massachusetts Street. They traveled through much of Lawrence escorted by a police car, passed Clinton Lake and traveled into Shawnee County.
Colette Eastwood, a Kansas City, Mo., woman who has ridden in Octogitation since 1979, said the ride was wonderful — especially when she traveled around Lone Star.
"I was in a state of euphoria," she said minutes after completing the tour. "I rode by myself. I wanted to. I wanted to enjoy the quietness."
At the tour's midpoint, the bicyclists stopped for lunch in a shelter at Pomona Lake. 44 miles from South Park
ON THE SECOND LEG of the trip, the bicyclists rode by Washington Creek Church, used in scenes of last year's television movie "The Day After," and by Lone Star Lake.
Her trip was more enjoyable because she took shortcuts.
"That's why it was wonderful," she said. Eastwood traveled her shortened route in 5 hours, 21 minutes, she said, adding that she "not speed — on her mind when riding."
In contrast, Bob Wolfram, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said that for some bievelists, the tour became a race against the clock
Wolfram rode in his first Octoginta in 1908. Yesterday was his second Octoginta
"THESE PEOPLE GO through here like bats out of hell," she said about some fellow bicyclists. "I can't go any faster."
"I'm not a racer. I'm just a tourist. I ride to school, to work."
"There's a lot of spirit in it," he said, shortly after completing the route. Beads of sweat dotted his façade and the crowd was buzzing as he tour, but there a lot of competition, too. It is a great time.
The Kramers and other bicyclists had their choice of several events during the weekend. Bicyclists took a 13-mile moon ride on Friday night. They also could choose from two events on Saturday morning: a 37-mile "Roundabout Tour to Eudora," or the Sibleyceil 12-Mile Time Trial, a race sanctioned by the U.S. Cycling Federation. The 88-mile tour climaxed the weekend.
"THERE ARE LOTS of people we see that we don't get to see otherwise," said Margaret Kramer yesterday morning before the tour. Other bicyclists were stretching their legs and tending to their bicycles.
Don and Margaret Kramer, from Wichita, spent the weekend in Lawrence. Coming to Lawrence once a year allows them to see bicycling friends, do some shopping and take a leisurely tour of the surrounding countryside, they said.
"BICYLING ALLOWED ME to work my legs really hard," said Wolfram, who returned to South Park about 1:30 p.m. "I just in love with it."
He took up bicycling to heal a knee injury, he said.
"This is a fun town to come to," her husband said after the tour.
The couple entered their first Octoginta
about six years ago. They've been hooked
At first, Don Kramer said, the event was a good way to view beautiful scenery.
"But as you become involved, it becomes an 88-mile race instead of a leisurely ride," he said after the race. "Don't ask me why. I think we're a bunch of damn fools."