Birthday battalion
Forget the traditional cake and candles. In celebration of KU professor Jim Sherman's 46th birthday, an army of his friends got together last week to give him a ride on a
makeshift Sherman tank — actually a high-speed tractor. Sherman's Sherman mobilized near Haworth Hall and met little resistance on the Hill. See story, page 3.
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High, 80. Low, mid-50s Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 7 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, September 4, 1984
BY BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas will install by late 1986 a campus-wide telecommunications network capable of transmitting voice, data and video messages, the chairman of the KU telecommunications committee said Friday.
"It's an integrated system designed to meet future needs of the University," said Edward L. Meyen, chairman of the committee and associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
The system, he said, would revolutionize campus communication, research and data processing by making additional resources available to faculty and students.
The new system, which was outlined in the
committee's prospectus last spring, will replace the current campus telephone system by late 1986 and eventually supply fire and security services, electronic mail. video text, teletext and satellite communications.
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THE SYSTEM, ESTIMATED to cost $7.5 million, will connect all University offices and residence halls, although the services available at each site will vary with the needs of the users. Meyen said
"This represents a real opportunity for the University that can dramatically affect its instruction and research mission." Meyen said in a build capabilities and not be nearsighted.
The University began to explore the possibilities of a new telecommunications system about a year ago when news of American Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s
THE PROSPECTUS SAID, "Using the worst case, our telephone bill will be approximately $2.5 million in three years and $3.25 million in five years. If we amortize the purchase cost of a private system over several years, there is good reason to believe that we will be able to fund the equipment cost and the personnel to operate the system within the amount already budgeted for telephones."
This means that by developing its own system, KU will have a complete telecommunications system for about the same money currently spent on telephones. Meyen
Martin L. Jones, associate director of
business affairs, said, "We're now paying about $1.4 million for the telephone system alone."
MEYEN SAID THAT the Kansas Legislature approved a bill this spring that would allow debt financing of the telecommunications system. The law allows the university to borrow from sources and repay it from the University's budget, without a large cost increase.
Jerry Jennings, an official with the state telecommunications office, said that the price of hardware had decreased since the prospectus was released. The project could cost 20 percent less.
Using the $7.5 million price estimate listed in the prospectus, a 20 percent savings would lower the price of the new system to $6 million.
said the state would be responsible for developing telecommunications systems for all state offices and Board of Regents schools. The state is exploring the possibility of developing a network to link all of these systems.
DREWY ALLAIRE, ASSOCIATE director of facilities operations, said that the first six systems to be included in the network would be KU's Lawrence campus, the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Fort Hays State University and the state offices in Topeka
Meyen said that systems for all state agencies were in the planning stages, but KU's system would be installed first.
KU is working out the final details of the plan. Meyen said.
Contest is mud bath for teams
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Surrounded by sun-scorched grass, they slipped and slid around in the mud. But the setting wasn't a farm, and they weren't hogs
Eight teams participated yesterday in a mud volleyball tournament sponsored by KU Recreational Services. The second annual tournament was played just west of the KU practice fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
Beginning at 1 p.m., the tournament participants competed in two categories: men's and coed. The only requirement was a childlike desire to slosh around in the mud.
The competition wasn't without its pitfalls, however. One muddy player, DaNelle Davis, Anthony senior, said that rocks in the mud poked at her feet and that the brown gue hindered her mobility. But the ultimate challenge was surviving the wrath of her teammates, collectively known as the Mud Diggers.
"IF YOU SCREWED up, you got mud thrown on you," Davis said. "You got booed and mud thrown on you."
After Davis got cleaned up, she decided that playing in the tournament was fun, despite her team's loss.
"Should have done it last year," she said.
A team called Us — comprised of members of the KU Volleyball Club — and a squad named the Mudders — made up of eight members of the Theta Chi fraternity and a lone female — were starting their欲 to determine the cool championship.
While Davis and others were aiming water hoses at each other to wash away the grime, another round of mud madness was beginning.
Earlier, a team named the Nads had clinched the men's title.
Amid screams, laughter, cheers and chants, the two teams fought for each point — striving to make that set, serve or spike.
A muddy Pat Welch, Omaha, Neb., graduate student, prepares to serve the volleyball during yesterday's mud volleyball tournament sponsored by the University of Kansas Recreational Services. The event was on the northwest side of the KU practice fields. 23rd and Iowa streets.
AT FIRST, THE game was punctuated by jovial remarks. But soon, each team's momentum was building. Both sides were determined to plastered with them, became, to win.
"Trojans can't be beat, Trojans can't be beat," was one of many rousing cries from the Mudders.
"They're dead meat now." one of the
Mudders velled.
At that point in the match, any efforts at remaining clean were futile. Every player showed the splattered signs of fierce competition. Shorts, shirts and bodies
Slowly, the Mudders were closing the gap on Us. Each time the mud-caked volleyball was tossed into the air, the Mudders were inching closer to victory.
See MUD, p. 5, col. 1
31-year-old Timothy Cox marketing professor, dies
By HOLLIE MARKLAND
Staff Reporter
Timothy Cox, 31, an acting assistant professor of marketing in the KU School of Business, died of cancer Sunday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Cox came to the University of Kansas in the spring of 1983 when ill since February
He was at KU as a faculty member, teaching and conducting research while finishing the requirements for his doctorate degree at Indiana University.
MR. COX HAD completed two-thirds of his research at KU when he died, said Ron Michaela, assistant professor of business.
While at KU. Mr. Cox studied the decision-making process of the consumer when making an important purchase.
"He had the study set up, and he was ready to collect data, which would have been a simple task," Michaela said, "then writing the results and the conclusions."
John Lastovicka, associate professor of business, said "The students were very enthusiastic about him. Replacing a person like Tim will be extra difficult. He had different perspectives on business than the ordinary person with a social psychology or marketing background. He had a purely economic point of view."
MICHAELS. A PERSONAL friend of Mr. Cox, said Mr. Cox loved his family and had a sharp mind that he liked to engage in friendly arguments.
"He would take either side of a topic and discuss it with you," Michaelas said. "He would always sit down and talk to you about anything. I liked and trusted him very well."
Morse, O. Cox was a religious man, said Lorraine Morse of Bella Vista, Ark., his mother-in-
See COX, p. 5, col. 1
Campaign trail leads Reagan and Mondale to California
By United Press International
California's rich lode of 47 electoral votes lured both President Reagan and Democratic nominee Walter Mondale Monday on the traditional Labor Day opening of the presidential campaign.
Neither they nor their running rep, Vice President George Bush and rep. Geraldine Ferraro, wasted time in initiating political attacks at the start of the nine-week campaign season.
But there was a sharp contrast in campaign styles.
Reagan's entourage rolled through the communities of conservative Orange County to well-organized rallies complete with big crowds — an estimated 50,000 in Fountain City and behind the balloons, placards, bunting, sighs and chants of "Four More Years."
UNDERDOGS MONDALE AND Ferraro, after marching in a poorly attended Labor Day parade in Manhattan, flew to an enthusiastic crowd in tiny Merrill, Wis. They rode in a 1958 Ford Fairlane during a light rain to a campaign rally there before completing their journey in Long Beach, Calif.
Only Bush was off on his own in Lermont, III . where he attacked Mondale's "low-road campaign" that would, he said, return the States to "the nightmare of Jimmy Carter."
Reagan told thousands of loyalists in Cupertino, Calif. that "today, we set out to achieve a victory for the future over the past, for opportunity over retreat, for hope over despair, and to move up to all that is possible and not down to that which we fear."
"You ain't seen nothing yet," he declared
See POLITICS, p. 5, col. 1
Studv savs freshman weight gain most dramatic
By CHRISTY FISHER
Staff Reporter
A Pennsylvania State University study, which was released in August, supported what many college students knew all along — that students put on the pounds as freshmen
When students go off to college, they gain more than just knowledge. Unfortunately, many also gain weight.
"There is no question in my mind that the majority of people who see me for weight direction live in the dorsitories," said Ann Kohl, the dietician. Last year, Kohl saw more than 1,000 students with eating-related concerns.
pain in the joints as resident
A dietician at Watkins Hospital thinks that residence-hall living and food are two reasons for students gaining weight.
concerns
**KOPH THINKS THAT** "what is out of sight in mind of mind" Many students would not eat chocolate iced brownies and chocolate chip cookies if such foods were not put in front of them on a regular basis at residence halls, she said recently.
The Penn State study did not find that residence-hall living was a significant factor in weight gain, said Jean Harvey, a 1984 graduate from the University for her greater thesis in nutrition education.
About two-thirds of the students — 67 percent of the men and 62 percent of the women — said they gained weight as freshmen.
But the added inches were not just a first-year initiation rate. About half the students also reported that they gained weight during their remaining college years. The average of 7.3 pounds as sophomores, 7.8 pounds as juniors and 8.8 pounds as seniors.
The study found that weight gain was most dramatic during students' freshmen years. Freshman women gained an average of 9 pounds and men gained 9.1 pounds.
HOWEVER, THIS DOES not mean that students gain an education and about 30 pounds by the time they graduate. Harvey said he took about half of the extra weight during summer months.
Kohl said that students living in residence
halls generally received more information about nutritional services than student's living off-campus. But she said it was likely that students ate more when food was placed in the cafeteria.
Also, students living in residence halls often do not eat food that is best for them. KEYS
Lenoir Ekdahl, director of the food service program for KU residence halls, said that plenty of food was available to students living in residence halls. But she said that was not necessarily a reason for students gaining weight.
"If you have food out before you, you don't have to eat everything," she said. "We have other options. Students can have skim milk and other low-calorie items such as fresh fruit, open-faced sandwiches. If they choose wisely, and exercise to burn up calories, there is no reason for a student to gain weight."
EKDAILH, SAID THAT in addition to the main course, students had a choice of bread,
See WEIGHT, p. 5, col. 3