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Friday, Nov. 15, 1985
News Briefs
Police have suspects in 9 arsons at Oliver
The Student Housing Office reported Wednesday that nine cases of aggravated arson had occurred between October, 20 and Nov. 5 in the south wing of Oliver Hall, KU police said yesterday.
KU police Sgt. John Brothers said four students were suspected of setting the fires.
"There is an official investigation into it, and we don't know yet whether any charges will be filed." Brothers said.
Aggravated arson is arson committed on a building in which a human being is present, he said. It is a class B felony and carries a maximum sentence of five years to life in prison and a fine of up to $15,000.
Pianists to perform
"An Evening of Piano Blues and
Piano Dances" will be performed
7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lawrence
Arts Center.
The program will be performed by Alice Downs, Rita Sloan and Jack Wierink, all area musicians, and is sponsored by Hilltop Child Development Center.
Tickets are $5 and are available at Roberts Jewelry Inc., 833 Massachusetts St.; Stork's, 814 Massachusetts St.; Natural Way Fine Gifts and Exotic Jewelry, 819 Massachusetts St.; Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd.; and at the door.
Spring tutors needed
Supportive Educational Services is taking applications from students interested in tutoring during the 1986 spring semester.
mg the 2400 space.
The positions pay $4 an hour for individual tutoring and $8 an hour for group tutoring.
for group students. Tutors may be hired in several areas, depending on student requests. The subjects are biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering English, foreign languages, math, philosophy and physics.
Applicants must have a 3.00 GPA, 15 hours in the subject area, good communications skills and a schedule that allows 10-20 hours a week for tutoring.
week for students to apply at Supportive Educational Services, formerly called the Military Science Annex, and include a current transcript with the application.
The deadline for applications is Dec. 10.
Second fatality occurs
KANSAS CITY. Kan. — Connie M. Hutton, a 43-year-old Lecompont woman who was injured in a two-car wreck Sunday in Douglas County, died Wednesday at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Center Hutton's death is the second fatality from the accident.
Pronounced dead at the scene was Deann E. Fowler, 18, Perry.
was Death. Authorities said cars driven by Fowler and Hutton collided nearly head-on on a county road.
Weather
Today's forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of rain, with highs in the low to mid 40s. Variable winds will range from 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Lows will be in the mid 30s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s.
Assassin game ends with real gun
From staff and wire reports.
A game of "assassin" being played by McCollium Hall residents ended abruptly early Wednesday morning after one of the players found herself looking down the barrel of a very real shotgun.
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Kim Bayer, Glencview sophomore, said she thought it was a joke by other players when she first saw two KU police officers, one armed with a shotgun, walking toward her down the fover of the residence hall.
"I couldn't see who it was at first," Bayer said, "one kept yelling, 'Drop it! Drop it!' or something like that."
Bayer was holding a toy pellet gun when police arrived. She kept it with her to protect herself from her assassin, the person assigned to "shoot" her in order to win points in the game, she said.
Sgt. John Brothers, spokesman for KU police department, said officers were called to the hall shortly before 1 a.m., by another resident who thought Bayter's gun was real.
who thought they were. Brothers said the caller reported a woman singing the hallowed in an emotional phone call. The caller said the woman was playing with what appeared to be a weapon with an abbreviated stock, and was dry-firing it.
it
Brothers said the term dry-fire meant pulling the trigger of a gun without ammunition. An abbreviated stock refers to a gun with a sawed-off barrel.
"The caller said she didn't think the woman's gun was loaded, but she was concerned." Brothers said. He said the caller didn't say anything more about the nature of what she had referred to as an emotional phone call.
He said two officers were sent to McCollum, and one brought a shotgun.
Brothers said that when officers arrived on the floor, they saw a woman sitting on the floor and talking on the phone. She was holding what appeared to be a sawed-off shotgun, he said.
The officer with the shotgun chambered a round of ammunition, and before pointing the gun at the woman, he gave her two commands to put her weapon down, Brothers said.
to put her in Police don't always carry shotguns on calls, Brothers said, unless they think additional firepower may be necessary. In this case, he said, the officer took the shotgun because he thought the woman was similarly armed.
tought the gun, and that when the woman did not put the gun down, but started to stand up with the weapon in her hand, the officer pointed his shotgun at her.
"She dropped the weapon," he said. Bayer said that once she realized the two men were police officers, she was too shocked to respond rationally.
'I said, 'It's fake, it's fake,' and he kept say-
ing, 'Drop it, drop it,' she said.
Drop it, drop it, drop it.
"I didn't point the gun at them, thank God."
"I didn't point the gun at them, thank God." Bayer said that after she had dropped the gun and explained to the officers she was only playing a game, the officer who had not been carrying the shotgun told her she had almost been shot.
"The one who had the gun didn't say a thing," she said. "I think he was pretty shocked, too."
"I don't think it was appropriate for them to come at me with a cocked shotgun," she said.
Bayer said the other policeman had told her they thought she was suicidal.
"I was just sitting on the floor, talking on the phone and doing no harm to anyone, including myself.
myself.
"Also, all they would have had to do was to call security and it all could have been avoided."
John B. Bremner, Oscar S. Stauffer distinguished professor of journalism, will receive the Distinguished Teaching in Journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists in Phoenix. Anz., today.
Remembering their names a cinch, say two J. Hawks
by Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Being a Jayhawk is a four-year stint for most KU students, but only two enrollees can say they are J. Hawks for life.
The two students — who aren't related — said they often used their catchy name to help people remember who they were.
HIKWs
Joan Hawk, Gladstone, Mo., senior and John Hawk, Lindsborg senior; KU isn't the only association they have with the mythical bird. Their first initial and last name make it easy for people to remember them.
"I explain to people that my name is J. Hawk, and they easily remember," Jean said yesterday.
"that she who have only met me once usually remember my name even if I don't remember them," he said.
member," Jean said. Jake
John said he used the same trick
"I've had no family at KU before," John said. "I was born in California, so of course my parents didn't think
Both John and Jean said their parents didn't intentionally name them after the mascot.
of it at the time. I also was a transfer here my freshman year."
Classroom is still prof's stage
Jean's mother, Lorene, and father, Marion, both attended KU in the 1950s. Marion, an independent engineering consultant, was the first person to wear the Jayhawk mascot costume when he was attending KU
Jean also said her parents weren't thinking of KU or the mascot when they named her and her sister, Jan — although her family had a history at KU.
"I always planned on coming to KU," Jean said. "But I didn't really notice the connection with my name until second semester my freshman year, when people pointed it out."
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
John B. Bremner, Oscar S. Stauffer distinguished professor of journalism, turns his back on his class and flings the window open. He waves a white handkerchief through the window as if surrendering.
John said he didn't think about the mascot and his name being the same either, until he started classes and people commented on it.
the window as a shurter
"Help! Help!" I’m stuck in here
with a bunch of idiots!” he shouts in desperation.
"I've had it two years, and a lot of people just think I'm a big KU enthusiast."
out
"They have never even heard of the seven parts of speech!"
the seventh grade. The students in Bremner's editing class are just as perplexed as those outside on Jayawk Boulevard.
Then laugher rips the SHEET. For his unique but effective method of teaching, Bremner will receive the Society of Professional Journalists' annual Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award in Phoenix, Ariz., today. He will retire at the end of this semester.
outside on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Then laughter rips the silence.
"When I decided to go to KU, I was corresponding with the school, and I would just write J. Hawk on the return address." John said. "After I realized it then, I put a license plate that says J HAWK on my car.
Marc Coan, a Lawrence senior in Bremner's Editing I class, says Bremner is a performer.
Brehmer is a perplexed man.
"You never have a fear of falling asleep in there," he says. "He's a real comedian.
"He creates an image of harshness of himself. But you can see that he's got a good heart."
Bremner, 64, with silvery white hair and a 6-foot-5, heavyset body, demands discipline and complete attention in the classroom.
"You can't hold their attention for one hour and 50 minutes unless you
inject a certain amount of enjoyment, entertainment and humor," Bremner says.
"I couldn't find any other way to each."
Bremner says he thinks class participation is important. Responses from the class carry the discussion along as Bremner questions the students on grammar, usage, etymology and general knowledge.
"You all have heard of the famous novel 'The Grapes of Wrath' by F. Scott Hemingway?" Bremner bellows.
If some students can't understand the humor — too bad, he says.
Brenner paces around, crying and disciples. He says he thinks the accumulation of knowledge should be continuous. Learning doesn't stop after the test.
Coan says, "He wants to make us intellectually curious."
Another of Bremner's students, Lori Polson, Clay Center junior, asks during class how she can be expected to know everything.
"I didn't know much when I was your age," Bremner says. "I thought I did, but didn't. It all comes from experience, experience and experience. There's no short cut."
An editor is the guardian of the language. Bremner says. He has to know everything — or at least know where to look it up.
Language is more than communication, he says. Grunts and nods communicate, but language requires
clarity and precision to convey complex ideas.
"Many words have a beauty of their own," he says. "Sonic beauty, romantic beauty, historical beauty, etymological beauty and visual beauty."
Bremner should know about language. He has studied Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Hebrew and American.
Bremner says he won't miss teaching.
He received a bachelor's degree in theology from Propaganda Fide University, Rome, in 1941, a master's in journalism from Columbia University in 1952 and a doctorate in mass communications from the University of Iowa in 1965.
Bremner says he has had three different careers. He was born in Brisbane, Australia, and was an ordained Roman Catholic priest from 1943 to 1968. From 1945 to 1957, he worked as a professional journalist on magazines, radio and newspapers.
teaching,
"I've enjoyed teaching," he says.
"I'm awfully tired and I want to rest
for a while.
His American teaching career started in 1987 at the University of San Diego and continued at the University of Iowa before he came to the University of Kansas in January 1969.
tor a wine:
"I'm not saying that I'll never teach again, but at the moment I don't foresee it."
Senate goal not to pad resumes
Bv Bonnie Snyder
This is the third in series dealing with Student Senate and the Senate elections scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
Of the Kansan staff
Being able to write "student body president" on a resume is helpful, says David Amble, vice chancellor for student affairs, but it is more important that the student body representatives meet influential people who can give them references.
One week from today, a newly elected student body preside will move into the Student Senate office. For them, they will deal daily with University officials, regents and state legislators. But after that year, does the job and the connections that came with it mean anything?
who can give help that using him or Chancellor Gene Ambiglio as a reference, which student leaders often did, carried a risk — that weaknesses as well as strengths could be exposed.
He said the title "student body president" did not guarantee that the person did a good job.
guarantee that the person they are "They're under more careful scrutiny than other student leaders," Ambler said. "The halo might be there, but the warts are there, too."
The jobs, however, are not there to be used only as resume fillers, William Easley, student body president, said. There are other reasons for taking the office.
office.
it does look great, " Easley said recently. "Nobody would say that it doesn't. But for some reason when
"If you were doing it for the prestige, then you would look and say, 'I can get this amount of money and this amount of attention, but I have to go through this,'" he said. "I have to be called all names. I have to take heat in the paper. I have to be accused of not being a true representative of the student body. I have to be lambasted by my peers in other schools who see what goes on here and just laugh at us."
Tedde Tasheff, KU's student body president from February 1976 to February 1977, said that anyone who walked into the job expecting an easy reference was in for a surprise.
Tashseh is an attorney at the Morrison, Hecker, Curtis, Kuder and Parish law firm in Kansas City, Mo.
tis, Kuder and Parsifah have told us, "It's such a hard job that even if someone thought it was going to be a resume pad, they paid for it," she said.
"Your normal individual is not going to be thinking,
God, this is going to look good on my resume."
There's an easier way to fill a resume pad, Easley said.
you're putting all the money into it and making the house visitations and you're debating your opponents, and then you're battling for what you believe in, for some reason, that doesn't carry any weight.
sad?
Amber said most former student body presidents
were president went into law. He wasn't sure why.
Tasheff said, "We're just a litigious group. We're predictable as hell, and we're not that interesting."
precurcursus
don't student body president and vice president don't receive credit hours for their work, the president receives $275 a month and the vice president $250 a month.
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