September 5,1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Student Senate officers to set up table outdoors
Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Boop" Highberger, student body vice president, will temporarily move from Friday to a table in front of Wesmond Hailo
At the table, Vogel and Highberger will hand out information about Student Senate and take applications for Senate committees. They said they would set up the table at 12:30 p.m. and spend at least an hour in front of Wescoe.
"Many people don't know that Student Senate exists," Highberger said. "Many that do know don't know where we are."
Highberger and Vogel moved their offices outside for an hour in July. Highberger said that he and Vogel may up an outside office later in the semester.
Student Senate positions open
Applications for positions on the Student Senate's five permanent committees and one permanent subcommittee are available on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
All KU students are eligible for the positions.
The deadline for returning the applications to the Senate office is 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The permanent committees are: University Affairs, Student Rights, Finance, Minority Affairs and Cultural Affairs. The permanent subcommittee is the Elections Committee, a subcommittee of the Student Rights Committee.
KU. Haskell officials to speak
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Gerald Gipp, president of Haskell Indian Junior College, will speak tonight at the 18th annual Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
The event, dedicated to Haskell in honor of its 100th anniversary, will start at 5:30 p.m. at 15th Street and Crestline Drive under a tent on the grounds of Meadowbrook Anpments.
Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. and a program featuring Budg, Gipp and other activities for children.
Librarian hurts arm in fall
Emerson Hazlett, chairman of KU affairs for the chamber, will be master of ceremonies for the program.
Ethel Stewart, librarian at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital yesterday with a broken arm she suffered in a fall near Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Stewart, 1300 Haskell Ave., was listed in good condition yesterday afternoon at the hospital.
State nurses' meeting planned
The Kansas State Nurses' Association, District 17, will hold its September meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in conference room 2 B at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the lower 80s and easterly winds of 5 to 10 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly clear. The low tonight will be in the mid-50s, with tomorrow's high in the mid-to upper 80s.
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The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 3644358.
Bruce Willett, Kansas City, Kan., junior and U.S. Air Force Neilson, Moundridge freshman. The cadets were par ROTC cadet first lieutenant, adjusts the salute of cadet Rick ticipating in a leadership laboratory yesterday.
Business deals may be discussed
Chinese officials to visit KU
By CHRISSY CLEARY
Staff Reporter
The governor of Henan province in China and other Henan officials will visit Lawrence and the University of Kansas tomorrow afternoon, James Scally, assistant to the chancellor, said yesterday.
The Henan science and technology delegation's visit will begin at 12:30 p.m. with a luncheon at the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center, Scally said. The group is one of three delegations from the Chinese province visiting Kansas this week.
AFTER THE LUNCHONE Hjehukang,
of team of team meet privately with
Chaosian Cheng.
The three delegations are visiting Kansas as part of an invitation from Gov. John Carlin, who visited Henan in June to promote trade between the two states in a program with a university in Henan, and Henan and Kansas officials may discuss business deals during
he visit, said Joseph Kuo, associate professor of East Asian Studies.
After visiting Lawrence, the delegation will travel to Topeka for a state dinner with Carlin. Kuo said.
Carlin's visit to Henan was arranged with the help of a 5,000-character Chinese-language typewriter owned by KU's East Asian studies department. Kuo said that the department used the typewriter to translate letters to and from Henan's governor.
KLOI SAD HE DID not know whether Carlin's office would need translators for the delegation's visit. One of the delegation members speaks English, he said.
During the week, the three Henan delegations will visit surrounding areas in Kansas, including Pittsburgh State University and the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson Henan businessmen are traveling with the delegations to further trade affairs, Kai said.
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Robert McColl, professor of geography
said that Henan had many geographic similarities to Kansas.
The province has sandy areas that are prone to flooding, much like southern and western Kansas, McColl said Temperatures are parallel to Kansas - hot summers and cold winters.
"IF PEOPLE HERE knew they share similar geographical threats as people in Henan, then they'd be less likely to look at Chinese people as strange or completely different from us," McColl said.
Both McColl and Kuo think that healthy relations with China are important to the United States.
From a business angle, Kuo thought the potential market for U.S. products in China was tremendous. China has an abundance of undeveloped natural resources, he said.
"The United States is the best place to turn for technological help." Kuo said. "Having a friend in China can help stabilize world and bring us closer to world peace."
Prof traces science theories in literature
By DAN HOWELL
Staff Reporter
Science and literature borrow ideas from one another to the benefit of both, a KU professor said last night in opening the 1984-85 Humanities Lecture Series.
Richard L. Schowen, Solon E. Summerfield disinguished professor of chemistry, told an audience of about 100 people in Woodruff Auditorium that scientific theories and literary metaphors were both ways of "manning" the world.
mapping the world
His address, titled "Elective Affinities:
Science. Certainty and Freedom in Goethe,
Henry Adams and Thomas Pynchon," traced the use of scientific ideas in one writing by each author
GOETHEIS' 1809 NOVEL. "Elective Affinities," took its name from a treatise by a Swedish chemist, Torbern Bergman, Schowen said. Goethe applied the outdated
His speech was the first in a four part series sponsored by the KU Center for Humanistic Studies.
noun or chemical affinity to human relationships by creating four characters who changed partners.
For Goethe, the medium of human affinity is the imagination, Schoened. But as in science, a hidden variable must emerge to forestall any lasting bonding.
"The certainty of uncertainty will leave us as impotent as Bergman's chemistry," Schowen said.
He said that in 1909 Henry Adams considered similar questions in an effort to apply thermodynamic laws to stages of history.
history,
"He wanted to find a physical law that would restore some predictability," Schowen said.
ADAMS DREW AN ANALOGY from the three states of matter to theological, metaphysical and scientific phases of human thought, Schowen said. As a result, Adams predicted pure mathematical thought by 1921.
changes exist, he said. One is the tendency for both kinds of changes, once begun, to hasten further change.
Schowen said that Pynchon's 1973 novel, "Gravity's Rainbow," read like an obscene tail tale.
321 But parallels between chemical and social
Through the image and the laws of rocket flight, Pycnon sought to test the reality of "a point where all rules are off, and freedom is perfect." Schoen said.
He said that Pynchon insisted on the need to doubt one's premises
"One must not only be paranoid but, as Pynchon says, paranoid enough," Schowen said.
Schowen concluded by saying that mathematics should be seen as only one of the many routes to knowledge.
The next lecture in the series will be at 8 p.m. on 25. at Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, Edward Maser, University of Chicago professor of art, will speak on "The Humanist in Old Age: The Late Works of Franz Antoin Maubertscht"
Week to call attention to book bans
Action taken to increase awareness
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission accepted a proclamation last night declaring the week of Sept. 8-15 as "Banned Books Week in Lawrence."
around the country. Caldwell said that the purpose of the week was to bring public attention to what she called a threat to basic freedoms.
Liz Caldwell, manager of Act One Ltd., 1025 Massachusetts St. said that she and other Lawrence-area book merchants would provide displays in their stores during the week. The displays will feature books that have been banned from schools or libraries around the country.
Caldwell said that "The Diary of Anne Frank" was often found on lists of banned books.
"NO PERSON HAS THE RIGHT to tell me what I can't read," she said, "and I am responsible for what my children read."
She also said that Doris Day's autobiography, "My Own Story," had been banned in some parts of the country.
"She was very frank about some of her relationships in the book," Caldwell said of Day.
Caldwell said that this was the third year that Lawrence had set aside a "Banned Books Week." To her knowledge, she said, almost all public response to the week had been favorable.
in other action, the City Commission unanimously approved the final plat of the first subdivision of the new University Corporate and Research Park.
THE SUBMISSION, DIVIDED into four lots, is a 21-acre plot on the northeast corner of the intersection of W. 15th Street and Lawrence Avenue.
Commissioner Nancy Shontt asked that the developer conserve existing greenery, which other commissioners included in their approval.
The commission also approved a site plan for a small shopping center to be built near the junction of North Second and North Third streets. The development will probably include a restaurant, liquor store and office space, according to information provided to city officials by the developer, Riverfront Square Investors.
During its discussion, the commission also directed that George Osborne, superintendent of parks, and Rob Phillips, who is with the developer, reach an agreement on the type of landscaping for the area.
OSBORNE HAD SUGGESTED that more landscaping be required than the developer proposed.
Camps complained that the extra trees, which were plum trees that Phillips said would eventually be 20 to 30 feet tall, would put the stores in the new development at a competitive disadvantage by blocking the view from the street.
The commission said that the trees were part of a continuing plan for developing north Lawrence.
In other action, the commission:
- **denied a sign variance for Pinecrest**
Apartments, 2365 Reedub Lane.
- deferred action on the final plat of Naismith West Subdivision, south of 24th street between Ousdahl Road and Naismith Drive, until the commission's Sept. 18 meeting.
- deferred a petition to pave a portion of Ridge Court until next week's meeting.
$\cdot$ accepted several changes in the Community Development Block Grant program, which were a part of an overall move to simplify the program, said Lynn Goodell, director of community development.
INTERESTED PRE-MED STUDENTS
Representatives from the University of Kansas School of Medicine will be coming to K.U. to visit with students on an individual basis on the following dates:
Friday, September 7th Friday, September 14th Friday, September 28th Friday, October 5th
Appointments, which are for 20 minutes, are to be made through the Pre-Med Secretary. 106C Strong, during office hours posted.