October 11, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Today is deadline to vote in freshman class election
Today is the last day to vote in the freshman class elections. Freshmen can vote from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Fraser and Wescoe hall and the Kansas Union.
Concert to benefit piano fund
Candidates for president are Craig Abraham, Wichita, Look Coalition; Paul Eberhard, Baldwin, independent; Neil Erickson, Prarie Village, Action Coalition; Jim Johnson, Warmgo, independent; Cliff Cohen, Warmgo, independent; Steve Wanamaker, Leewood, Imagine Coalition; and Tedra Wilensky, Overland Park, independent.
A violin and piano concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
The concert is the first in a series of instrumental concerts to benefit the museum's pumo fund. The fund will pay for restoration of the museum's Bechstein
Kwak began violin studies in Lawrence and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music last year. Shaun is on the faculties of the Juilliard School of Music College and the Arts music Festival.
Sarah Kwak, violinist, and Rita Slona, pianist, will play selections from Ignor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Cesan Frank and Pablo de Sarasate.
No admission will be charged, but donations to the fund will be accepted.
Advisor for "Patton" to speak
The technical adviser to the movie "Patton" will speak about "Relevance of History to Modern War" at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in 427 Summer Hall Mall.
Martin Blumenson, author and military historian, wrote "The Patton Papers."
Octubafest blows into town
The second annual Octubafest, which is sponsored by the University of Kansas department of music, will be Oct. 20-24 in Murphy Hall.
Denis Winter, a professor of low brass at the University of Central Arkansas and former member of the U.S. Coast Guard Band, will have a clinic for low brass at 3 p.m. Oct. 20. That evening he will perform a piece in Swarthout Recital Hall in Arlington Hwy.
Law student gets scholarship
The ensemble and consort will perform at 3 t. m., Oct. 21 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
rutricia R. Hackey, Treasure Island, Fla., second-year law student, was selected the Lynn Leban scholar for the second consecutive year.
The scholarship is given in memory of Lynn腰, a KU student killed in a traffic accident in Lawrence in 1975. Leban's friends and family established the scholarship in 1976 to honor students "who have manifested outstanding honesty, truthfulness, independence of mind and a concern for justice, and who seek through their education to serve others and not only themselves."
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and the high will be in the mid- to upper 70s. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The low tonight will be around 60 and the high tomorrow will be around 80.
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Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Lesley Jansen, Naples, Fla., senior, (left) and Margaret Holmes, Lawrence, senior scholar, read regional
newspapers news over the Kansas Audio-Reader Network radio station.
Network continues public service
By DAVID LASSITER
Staff Reporter
The best kept secret of the University of Kansas is about to become a teen-ager.
The Audio-Reader Network, which has its headquarters at the University of Kansas, will celebrate its 13th birthday on Monday with a special broadcast and an open house.
Jack Brier, Kansas secretary of state, will be a special guest on the 12:30 to 1 p.m. birthday broadcast. Cake will be served on the Sudder House lawn during the noon to 1 p.m. party and open house at broadcast facilities in Sudder House, said Rosie Hurwitz, director of Kansas Audio-Reader Network.
THE NETWORK BROADCASTS readings of printed material over a closed circuit station to people who cannot read because of blindness, physical disability or the effects of ailing. Hurwitz said.
The Audio-Reader Program was a pioneer in the field of broadcasting printed materials and it was the first to be started in the nation, and it was the first to develop a statewide broadcasting system.
Special receivers are distributed to those who wish to use the service. The receivers are tree to Kansas residents but cost Missouri residents $75.
Ten years ago the network had 500 radios. Now the program contains 5,000 working receivers.
The network broadcasts seven days a week, averaging 132 hours per week, twice the number of hours it broadcast 10 years ago. Hurwitz said. A lack of space and money keeps the network from broadcasting 24 hours a day.
The Delta Gamma sorority makes donations to the program every year, she said. This year the sorority raised $2100 from its annual pauliatry, "Anchor Splash," for animal treatment.
THE PROGRAM RECEIVES most of its funds through the University, she said, but it also receives contributions from private sources.
the program.
The Audio-Reader Network spends 6 to hours every day broadcasting the contents of newspapers. The rest of the time is spent on a variety of material including novels, magazines and sale notices.
A committee made up of 50 listeners from different locations and of different ages determines what material will be broadcast.
The network is the only source of daily information for approximately 10,000 listen
"We ARE COMMUNICATING more than just information," Hurwitz said. "There is a
certain warmth, which comes across when reading aloud. A lot of readers live alone and are in some way isolated from the rest of their community. The reader comes into those people's home every day as a friend.
"Sometimes we receive envelopes with single dollar bills in them. For most of our readers who are on a fixed income, this is a great sacrifice."
When she started in 1974, the staff consisted of two paid positions and five volunteers. Now eight people make up the regular staff and 153 people volunteer their time to provide the service.
Hurwitz said that the program had grown tremendously in the 10 years that she had been with the service.
A NUMBER OF KU students are included in the group of volunteers. Some of the students receive credit for recording the material. Others simply volunteer their time for the satisfaction they receive from helping those who need their help. Hurwitz said.
"Listeners don't like voices switching on them in midstream," Hurwitz said.
The program doesn't accept all volunteer applicants, she said. Each applicant must have a good skills vocabulary. Pronunciation skills are tested with an audition consisting of 100 words before anyone is allowed to join the program.
Students support utility rate increase
By CHRISSY CLEARY
Staff Reporter
A 12 percent utility rate increase for scholarship hall contracts now has the support of residents, the president of the All-Hall Scholarship Council said yesterday.
The Residential Programs Advisory Board yesterday discussed the increase after hearing comments from Debbie Stark, the president.
She said that a letter from J.J. Wilson, director of housing, outlining the figures and reasons for the rate increase had helped the residents understand and approve the increase.
"Because we received utility bill break downs of each hall and a letter saying how Mr. Wilson reached the utility rate increase, we accepted the proposal." Stark said.
A CONSTANT THORN in the proposed 12 percent utility rate increase had been the accuracy of utility meters. Inaccurate steam meters were estimated to show too little use in past years, Wilson said last week. The meters now are being read more accurately, and so the rates will increase.
Hall residents met last week with Dean Milroy, assistant director of housing, to discuss how utilities were metered. Milroy and the residents checked each meter
lents, less _apprehensive about the rate increase, Stark said.
He also answered questions about how each ball was metered, which made resi-
The council also said the halls wanted to table the food rebate proposal. The halls had proposed that any food money left over from the year be returned to individual residents.
All food rebates now are placed in a maintenance fund for each scholarship hall. The council said it wanted to more closely examine the food rebate proposal.
"WE DO NOT WANT to do this whimically," said Caryl Smith, dean of student life and chairman of the residential advisory board.
In other business, the advisory board discussed security policies at the eight residence halls. Wilson proposed a three-tier plan outlining how much each hall would spend on security during the next school year.
Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Corbin and Oliver hall residents would spend $30 per resident per year for security. Hashinger, Ellsworth, McCollum and Lewis hall residents would pay $20 a year for security, and Pierre and Templeton hall wages would pay $1 a year.
The advisory board meets weekly to discuss housing contracts for the 1985-86 school year. During next week's meeting, the advisory board makes final decisions on the budget.
WILSON SAID 28,302 security hours when overnight access to the hall was
restricted - were planned for the 1985-86 school year. All of the residence halls, except JRP and Templin halls, have a staff of security monitors that make security rounds in the halls and check-in residents and their guests.
Security hours at the halls vary, but usually they are monitored nightly between midnight and 6 a.m. with extra hours on the weekends.
JRP's president said that his hall's residents were opposed to the security monitors at their hall. Now JRP and Templin halls are monitored by resident assistants and desk assistants. Those halls have no security monitors.
"The vandalism rate at JRP is dramatically less than, say, Other," Alan Oakes, the president, said. "All we're asking for is a little more time to study whether security monitors are a good idea."
JAMES JEFFLEY, president of the Association for University Residence Halls, agreed with Oakes.
"After talking to residents in JRP and Templin, it's difficult to address the needs of security in each hall," Jeffley said "You just can't say 'You have to have security monitors' just because everyone else does."
Fred McElhenie, director of residential programs, said that security was one of the responsibilities of the residential contract.
Prof predicts four election possibilities Scenarios describe candidates' victories campaign promises
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Walter Mondale probably would fulfil his campaign promises if he were elected president, a KU political scientist said yesterday.
Three of the scenarios dealt with a possible Reagan victory and one dealt with a Mondale victory
Earl Nehring, professor of political science, yesterday outlined four possible results of the presidential election on Nov. 6 in a speech titled "What's the Winner Going to Do?" Nehring spoke at the University Forum of the Christian Ministries, 1248 Orcad Ave.
"WITH MONDALE, IT'S basically 'what you see is what you get,' he said. "There won't be too many surprises, I think he would do what he says he'll do."
probably do what he wanted. Nehring said that when he was asked to speak about what the presidential winner would do during his term, he hadn't seriously considered a Monday victory. Sunday's presidential debate changed his mind.
"I thought there was no point in dwelling on a Monday die win," he said. "I have since decided to back off. After Sunday, I think he has at least a chance of pulling off a surprise
"If Mondale wins, the support he has in Congress will probably look very similar to the way it is now. The Democrats will most likely continue to control the House, and the Republicans will most likely retain control of the Senate."
NEHRING SAID REAGAN could face the same makeup of Congress, added Republican strength or even the first Republican takeover of Congress in 32 years.
"The experts are guessing he'll be faced with a similar looking Congress," he said "I think the system is going to change."
Regardless of the congressional makeup, Reagan's effectiveness would begin to dwindle after the first year of his second term. Nehring said.
"There's the possibility the 'Teflon coat' he 'enjoyed for so long might wear off somewhere along the line," he said. "He's need to do as much as possible in the first year. After 1986, he'll have difficulty achieving any policy goals."
Nebring said some things were almost certain with a Mondale victory.
"HE WILL TRY TO get a tax increase package through almost right away," he said. "That's what he's said he wants to do, and I see no reason to doubt that he'll try."
Nehring said he thought Mondale would try to keep social welfare programs at their core.
"I think he'll do everything he can to support the programs that exist now. he said." He'll try to carry on the legacies of the New Deal, not try to start a lot of new ones."
Reagan, however, will do as much as possible to reduce social welfare programs.
"He'll make big cuts," he said. "but he'll try to maintain minimum support patterns."
Concerning moral issues, such as abortion. Nehring said he thought Mondale would try to keep government involvement to a minimum.
"HELL TRY TO defuse movements involved with these issues," he said. "Mondeale would try to minimize the ability of lawmakers to enphish things like constitutional amendments."
"I in effect, he'll do as little about the issue is he can get away with."
Nehring said Reagan probably would not do much about abortion either.
"Reagan will probably let the issue tind its natural political level, he said. He'll get that done," Mr. Bush said.
"To be honest, I don't think he cares a whole lot about it."