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CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1984
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Viewers react Nov. 20 as they watch "The Day After" at All Souls Unitarian Church in Kansas City, Mo.
Poll says 'Day After' affects brief
By HOLLIE MARKLAND Staff Reporter
The film "The Day After" apparently did not have any lasting effect on the young people who watched it, according to a study conducted by a KU associate professor.
"It didn't have the impact I thought it would have or that the publicity led us to believe it would have," Ms. Giles said, associating professor of psychology
Schadler will present the results of her study to the American Psychological Association Monday in Toronto.
She polled about 450 students in Lawrence schools to determine their reactions to the 1983 made-for-television movie that showed the nuclear destruction of the Kansas City area and its effects on Law
ninth-graders and 12th-graders — apparently did not change their attitudes about nuclear war after the movie. Schadler said yesterday.
THE STUDENTS — fifth-graders
"I wouldn't say that the film did not impress anyone, but there is no evidence of any dramatic change in the way young people feel about nuclear war," she said.
She said the publicity the movie received before it was broadcast Nov. 20 made many people in U.S. think that the film would create a dramatic and lasting impact on society.
"They were looking forward to a tremendous effect," Schadler said. "That did not happen."
In the first two parts of her three-part survey. Schadler questioned students in Lawrence schools one week before and one day after the film aired
Schadler asked the students to answer 29 written questions about the
IN THE THIRD part of her survey,
schudder polled the students two
times.
threat of nuclear war, whether they thought a nuclear war could start by accident and the relationship between the film and a real war.
Schadler looked for changes in the students' attitudes about the danger of nuclear war, their reactions to nuclear war and their ideas about preventing it.
The students had been concerned about the threat of nuclear war before they watched the movie, she said. But her study showed no evidence of a threat to the students to voice their concerns or to learn more about nuclear war.
"We look too much to television or entertainment for it to move us to it."
"The Day After" may have affected some people, she said, but most people realized that it was not real.
Gas, elections, murder top summer news in Lawrence
By LAU RETTA SCHULTZ
and MICHAEL HALLERAN
Staff Reporters
The University of Kansas' new natural gas supplier is expected to be announced late this week
Thirty-two percent of the registered voters turned out for the Douglas County Primary, Aug. 7.
An 80-year-old Lawrence woman was raped and murdered in her home Aug. 5.
These are some of the events that occurred during the summer while many KU students were away from Lawrence.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, Rodger Oroke, director of support services facilities, and Gerald Merryman, assistant director of state purchasing, are considering bids from three natural gas suppliers: Petro-D, Tulsa, Okla; Bogina Petroleum, Lenexa; and Specified Engineering, Bonner Springs.
KU officials announced last spring that the University would take bids from suppliers in an effort to natural gas bills. Kansas Public Service Corp. is KU's current natural gas supplier.
The Aug. 5 murder of Marguerite L. Vinyard, 2100 Tennessee SL., has left Lawrence police without any significant leads. Mrs. Vinyard's sister found the victim's body in the bedroom of the house. She went to the house after repeated phone calls went unanswered.
Slattery was unopposed for the Democratic nod, and Van Slyke captured 48 percent of the vote in the Republican primary to defeat Bob Laflin, Osburg, and Stan Eckert, who Eckert is a KU graduate student.
In the Aug 7 primary, Lawrence City Prosecutor Mike Glover won all 46 precincts and crushed incumbent Jerry Harper in the Democratic primary for Douglas County district attorney.
Glover will face Republican Jim Flory in the Nov. 6 general election. Flory was unopposed.
The corrector's report indicated that Vyard was totally beaten with the bullet.
In the Second District congressional election, Republican Jim Van Slyke, Topeka, will face Democratic incumbent Jim Slattery, Topeka.
The Douglas County Reward Fund has established a $1,500 reward for
The following events also occurred this summer:
information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect.
*Barbara Jones was appointed chairman of the department of pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Jones is the former chairman of pediatrics at West Virginia University.
*James P. Cooney Jr. was appointed dean of the School of Allied Health at the Med Center. Both appointments followed the June 30 resignation of Marvin I. Dunn, who was Dean of the Med Center. Dunn will continue as head of the division of cardiovascular diseases.
*Lawrence police arrested a transient July 17 in connection with three area raps. Terry Wailing, 26, is being held in the Douglas County jail. He was tapped by tape and one count of kidnapping Wailing's trial date is set for Oct. 15.
J· Jaybay Boulevard was resurfaced in late July from West Campus Road to Mississippi Street Bob Porter, assistant director of plant maintenance, said the project cost $54,775.
- The Lawrence City Commission accepted a $16 million bid by N.R. Hamm Contractor of Perry to extend 15th Street west to Wakaraus Road. The extension will provide access to the University Corporate Research Park.
William Schwekhard, associate professor of aeronautical engineering, is the president of flight testing at Kohlman Systems Research Inc., one of the first companies to commit to buying space at the research park.
to bring space in the research park. George Williams, director of Public Works, said the contractor hoped to have two lanes of the road completed before winter weather set in.
- The commission also approved a resolution of intent to issue $1.75 million in industrial revenue bonds for the renovation of the Lawrence Opera House.
Bowersock Ltd., Wichita, was given 120 days from the Aug. 14 Commission meeting to come up with more specific details. Following that period, the commission will consider approving the issuance of the bonds.
Tom Tracy a partner in the project from Wichita, said yesterday that the initial work had begun on rounding workers and potential lesions for the project.
"We're trying to tie down expected lesses for the use of the building."
Tracy said. "We'll be working in the future to get more positive types of commitments out of them."
*Frank B. Hempen Jr., an administrator in the Kansas City, Mo. public works department, was named as the new Douglass County public works director following the May 31 firing of Mike Dooley. Hempen will assume the position Sept. 3.
- The Engel-Crescent Neighborhood Association has filed suit against the ruling of the Lawrence City Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals allowing the St. Lawrence Catholic Center to expand. The suit will appear before District Judge James Paddock Sept. 4.
- Officials of the Lawrence Stokely-VanCamp plant announced June 12 the plant would close Sept. 30. The plant, located east of Delaware Street on 10th Street, employs 124 people.
- KU football player Roderick Timmons, Los Angeles senior, was denied a motion to reduce his one-year jail sentence handed down Aug. 16 by District Judge Ralph King.
Dennis Prater, Timmons' attorney, said he would make another motion Saturday to reduce the sentence to 30 days.
Timmons pleaded guilty to a sexual battery charge in connection with a March 2 incident on the KU campus.
- Nancy Lynn Cobb, Wichita, won, is crowned Miss Kansas July 14 She received a $3,000 scholarship, a trip to Atlantic City for Miss America Pupilant in September, and the use of a car for a year.
- Steve Hawley, a 1973 KU graduate, is a member of the Discovery space shuttle crew. The shuttle will be launched next week
*William Edward Bryce.*
19-year-old KU student, drowned
June 24 in a swimming accident in
Oklahoma City. near his home in
Tulsa.
Mr. Bryce had completed his freshman year. He was vice chairman of the Legislative Assembly and served on the Associated Students of Kansas
*Elizabeth A Cullinan, 19, died in an automobile accident on July 1 in Overland Park. Miss Cullinan was in KU freshman last year and lived in GCP-Sorbon Hill. She graduated from Shawnee Mission South High School in 1983.
THE HOT SPOT IS BACK. AND FOR THE NEXT THREE NIGHTS, IT'S GONNA SIZZLE!
THURSDAY NIGHT:
Our first annual All-Pace Contest. LupiSync any current video the best or most out rageous way you know how, and we'll give the winner $100 Cash!
(2nd Prize, $50; 3rd Prize, $25)
Also, dollar draws and quarter draws 'til 11, Happy
FRIDAY NIGHT:
The return of our beloved 2 for
1 drinks and half price food
from 5'til, 8 and late night
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Our splendid forous late night
Happy Hour, and we don't
charge you a dime in cover
charges until 10:00!
A WORD OF CAUTION:
These next three nights are not for the meek, mild or otherwise faint of heart. But remember — no quits, no glory, and no Gammons.
So throw caution to the wind, get up, get down, and Gammonize it!
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