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Thursday, Dec. 5, 1985
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Police nab suspects in armed robbery
A 20-year-old Lawrence man and three juveniles were arrested Tuesday in connection with the armed robbery of a pizza delivery man the night before. Lawrence police said yesterday.
The three boys also were in the car, he said.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police spokesman, said a car being driven by the man was pulled over after a theft was reported at K-Mart, 3106 Iowa St.
A sound system thought to have been stolen from the store and several other items thought to have been purchased with a stolen credit card were found in the car.
"While those two crimes were being investigated, evidence was developed about the armed robbery." Dalouge said.
He said the gun used in the robbery Monday night was not found.
The man was charged with armed robbery and unlawful use of credit cards. He is being held in the Douglas County jail in lieu of $26,500 bond.
Trial rescheduled
The sexual assault trial of Dane Griffin, Lawrence junior, has been rescheduled for 9 a.m. March 5.
Griffin, a linebacker on the KU football team this season, was to have been tried yesterday for the June 20 sexual assault of a KU student.
On Sept. 6, he pleaded not guilty to the sexual assault charge.
Black leaders meet
KU black professors and administrators will meet today with more than 100 Kansas black leaders at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, to discuss the position of blacks in Kansas and the United States.
Registration for the Black Leadership Kansas Symposium, sponsored by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities and KU's Black Faculty and Staff Council, begins at 8:30 a.m. The program should end about 3 p.m.
The symposium will serve a "multi-faceted purpose" by bringing together black leaders from the public and private sector, said Jacob Gordon, president of KU's Black Faculty and Staff Council and associate professor of African studies.
Among scheduled speakers are Barbara Sabol, Kansas secretary of health and environment, and Joanne Collins, Kansas City, Mo., councilwoman.
Students get space
Beginning Monday, additional space will be provided for studiers at the Kansas Union during the two-week finals period.
The Regionalist Room will be available for non-smoking students and the Oread Room will be available for smokers.
Both rooms are on the fifth floor of the Union.
The study rooms will be open 7-10 p.m. during the first week of finals and 7-9 p.m. Dec. 14 through Dec. 19.
Weather
Today will be sunny with a high in the mid-to upper 40s. Winds will be from the northwest at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low between 30 and 35. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high around 50.
OU prof to be new dean of engineering
The University of Kansas yesterday selected the director of the chemical engineering department at the University of Oklahoma as the new dean of engineering.
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
From staff and wire reports.
After a 16-month search, Chancellor Gene A. Budig appointed Carl E. Locke, professor and director of the School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, as the new dean.
Locke said yesterday that he was overwhelmed by the treatment he received when he visited KU and that he was impressed by the faculty, students, buildings and equipment.
"I was asked to apply for the deanship," Locke said. "I had to make a basic decision whether to continue to do the things faculty do — that is research and teaching — or whether I wanted to go into administrative work."
Locke said he would stay at the University of Oklahoma until next summer to help a few
graduate students finish their degrees. But he will assume responsibilities at KU on a parttime basis next semester.
William Smith, acting dean, will now retire and Robert Zerwekh, associate dean of engineering, will share responsibilities with Locke in the spring, according to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
Don Green, chairman of the search committee and professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said the committee was impressed with Locke's good record as an administrator. Locke has been a successful recruiter, which strengthens his department, he said.
"He is an intellectually sharp and pleasant person," Green said. "We also think he'll be a good contact person with alumni and the industry.
"We chose him for his management style and his energetic and dynamic personality. He has
worked well with the administration and the faculty at Oklahoma."
Locke said he had mixed emotions about leaving Norman. Okla
Green said Locke was partly responsible for the 470-percent increase of research grants in his department since 1880.
"I've been very happy here," he said. "But I see many similarities between Norman and Lawrence. Both are university towns close to bigger metropolitan areas."
The research program already is well developed at the KU School of Engineering, Green said, and he did not expect any broad, sweeping changes. The new dean faces problems with the increased need for computers, the development of the new computer engineering program and the proposed expansion of the aerospace program, he said.
"It has weighed heavily on the faculty to be without a permanent demean for so long," Greer said. "We're very pleased with Smith, but he
didn't know how long he was going to be acting dean. He couldn't do much planning. You don't want to impose anything on your successor."
Locke said he hoped to help the KU faculty do their best and to make the school known in Kansas.
Locke, who will turn 50 on Jan. 11, received his bachelor's degree in 1988, his master's degree in 1960 and his doctoral degree in 1972, all from the University of Texas at Austin.
He worked for three companies in research and management positions from 1959 to 1971. At the last company, Tracor Inc. in Austin, Texas, he was responsible for the research, development, manufacture, installation and service of instruments, such as navigation aids and audiometers.
Locke started teaching while pursuing his doctorate at the University of Texas. He left for the University of Oklahoma in 1973 and was promoted to associate professor in 1976.
Craig Sands/Special to the KANSAN
Although the weather outdoors was too cold, Phil Babler, Palatine, Ill., sophomore, and Mike Swofford, Prairie Village junior, still managed to get in batting practice — indoors. The two played recently in their apartment at 1216 Ohio St., which they dubbed "Gread Stadium."
Racquet ball
French finals rescheduled
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Finals for French classes will be on the first Saturday of the final exam period this semester, and most foreign language finals will be given on a Saturday next semester, a French department administrator said yesterday.
Finals for several sections of French will be given at 9 a.m. -12 p.m. Dec. 14, contrary to the fall 1985 timetable, which has French finals scheduled for 7-10 p.m. Dec. 18 — along with sections of most other foreign languages.
David Dinneen, professor of French and Italian and coordinator of lower-level French courses, said this was the third semester French finals had been rescheduled earlier than the original date.
"The department requested this change last spring." Dinneen said. "Last fall, the first time we rescheduled the finals, all the students had to sign a form requesting the change."
One reason for rescheduling is that the final falls so late in the examination period.
"We got a lot of flak from students who didn't like the late date because of things like family plans," he said.
"In foreign languages especially, there is no reason to stick the exams late in the semester.
"You can't cram for foreign languages. The way to get proficient in the language is to do the day-to-day work. It's better for the students to take the final as soon after the class period as possible."
Dinneen said other foreign language administrators had wanted the change for several years.
"One-and-a-half years ago, all of the foreign language departments requested that we give finals on the first Saturday of exam period," he said. "The request has been repeated for almost the first time all the languages hold finals on Saturday."
He said he thought the reason that only the French exams had moved forward in the past was that he persevered.
"The French department was the only one with someone like me to keep pushing for the change," he said.
"People were just surprised," he said. The only ones who were upset were those who wanted to go out drinking Friday night."
Jordan Stump, Lawrence first-year graduate student and graduate teaching assistant of Elementary French I, FREN 110, said he had heard few complaints from his students about a final on Saturday.
Dinneen said that for many years finals were given on Saturday.
"When I first came here in 1953, there were finals on Saturday," he said. "It was like that for 10 to 20 years."
Police pursuing about 40 leads
By a Kansan reporter
Police are continuing their investigation into the death of a KU interior design professor whose body was found Monday evening in the closet of his west Lawrence condominium.
George VanStein Hixson, who was on medical leave from the University of Kansas, was strangled. police said.
Maj. Ron Olin, assistant Lawrence police chief, said yesterday that police were following 40 leads in the case.
"We believe Mr. Hixson has had what some would describe as an alternative lifestyle," Olin said. "We are following leads to confirm or deny that, or whether that lifestyle had anything to to with this particular crime. At this point, I can't say whether it did or did not."
He did not elaborate on Hisxson's "alternative lifestyle." He said no motive has been established, and police have no suspects.
Olin said Hixson, 57, died on or about Nov. 22.
He said the investigation of the crime scene was expected to be finished sometime last night.
Evidence from the crime scene, he said, was being sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation crime lab in Tooeka.
Olin said officers investigating the murder would not comment about the condition of Hixson's condominium, 1405 Westbrooke St., but one of Hisxon's neighbors, Ann Raney, 1404 Westbrooke St., said Tuesday that she had overheard investigating officers say the condominium had been burglarized.
Olin also declined to give any further information about the autopsy.
He said police do not yet know the last time Hixson was seen alive.
Five testify in trial of Atwood rape suspect
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Four KU students and one former KU student testified yesterday in the trial of a 21-year-old Atwood man charged with raping a woman April 28 in Hashinger Hall.
Mark R. Buhler is being tried in Douglas County District Court on felony charges of rape, aggravated sodomy and aggravated burglary.
The trial, which started Monday, will continue at 9 a.m. today, when Buhler's attorney, Tom Boone, will begin calling witnesses for the defense.
attorney, also brought a woman from Fort Hays State University to the stand to testify about an incident in which she was assaulted and Buhler was charged. Buhler was later found not guilty because the woman could not positively identify her attacker
Jim Flory, Douglas County district
Scott Focke, Ludell sophomore, Paul Hayden, Atwood freshman, and John Creighton, Atwood junior, testified that Buhler had been at a party in Ellsworth Hall late April 27 and early April 28.
Focke said Buhler had arrived at the party shortly before midnight and left about 3:30 a.m. April 28.
He said Buhler sometimes was called by the nicknames "Bed" and
"Bedford," and occasionally referred to himself by those names.
On Tuesday, the victim of the alleged rape had told the court her attacker had said his name was "Bradford, or something like that."
She said she had gone out for breakfast early April 28, and upon returning to the residence hall at about 6:30 a.m., had parked her car in the lot near Hashinger.
Debora Early, Olathe junior, said she was employed at Ellsworth Hall last year as a desk assistant.
As she walked away from her car, a man ran out of the south door of Hashinger. she said.
"He bumped into me. He kept looking over his shoulder like he was looking for someone to come after him."
Early said the man was wearing a white shirt with blue trim, had brownish/blond hair and was about 18 years old. She did not see his face, she said.
Donald Deluca, Cape Girardeau,
Mo., said he had worked as a desk
assistant in Templin Hall last year
and was working a midnight-8 a.m.
double shift April 28.
Deluca said that at about 4 or 4:30 a.m., he had seen a man wearing a white shirt with blue trim come into the residence hall.
The man, he said, walked directly
The man returned between 6 and 6:30 a.m., went back up in the elevator and left about 20 minutes later. Deluca said.
Deluca said that Buhler was the man he had seen that morning, and that he had identified Buhler earlier in a police photo.
to the elevator and went upstairs. He said he came downstairs and walked out at about 5:30 a.m.
A student at Fort Hays State University testified that she was sodomized the morning of May 2 in her residence hall room on the Fort Hays campus. Buhler was tried for that incident but was found not guilty.
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