Friday, Nov. 8, 1985
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News Briefs
The seating for tonight's exhibition basketball game between the KU men's basketball team and the Czechoslovakian national team will be a combination of something old and something new, including borrowed and something blue.
Bleachers readied for KU-Czech game
Campus/Area
However, not all of the bleachers on the lower level of Allen Field House will be new.
All fans with tickets for tonight's game will have seats, Doug Vance, sports information director, announced yesterday.
One section of the new bleachers won't be in place by game time.
Workers have been working in three shifts almost around the clock in an effort to have all the new seating installed by tonight.
KU basketball fans should allow plenty of time to find a parking space near Allen Field House and find their seats before the 7:30 tipoff of the KU-Czechoslovakia season officer tonight.
Fans increase traffic
Traffic problems are anticipated before and after all home games because all 15,200 seats in Allen Field House have been sold.
Naismith Drive between 18th Street and Sunnyside Avenue will be open only to people with perimeter parking lots beside the field house.
Motorists may park in the new lot that is accessible from 19th Street and Ousdahl Road.
The body of a 26-year-old Lawrence man was found Wednesday in the garage of his home in the 1300 block of East 16th Street, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police said the man apparently committed suicide by going into the garage, starting the car and inhaling the exhaust fumes.
Man found in garage
About 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the man had told his wife to take their child and leave for the night, police said.
The wife returned to the home at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and found her husband dead.
Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 60s. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with lows of 35 to 40. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and highs around 50.
Weather
From staff and wire reports.
Clarification
In a story that appeared in Wednesday's Kansan, it was unclear whether In The Streets, a campus newspaper, had an advisory board.
Craig Krueger, former editor of In The Streets, said yesterday that the paper has had both an advisory board and a board since it began last semester.
The advisory board is composed of three KU professors, a lawyer and two former In The Streets editors, including Krueger. Six students compose the editorial board.
A bill that was generated in the Student Senate University Affairs committee asked In The Streets to form an editorial board.
Interest in College business low
Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are losing their voice. Not because they've been screaming, but because they are not participating in its governing body, an assistant to the dean of the college said yesterday.
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Pam Housen, an assistant to the dean and secretary of the College Assembly, said only 30 applications had been received by yesterday for undergraduate students in the College assembly, the College's governing body.
"If the positions go unfilled." Houston said, "student representation to the assembly will be lower than it should be."
The deadline for applications is today at 5 p.m. The applicants' names will appear on the Student Senate ballot during elections Nov. 20 and 21.
Judy Foley, Omaha senior and a member of the assembly this semester, said few students applied for the undergraduate seats because the assembly didn't do much.
"They don't really do anything," Foley said. "Most meetings last about 15 minutes. Sometimes they change class names, but everyone always votes 'yes.'"
She said important issues such as changing undergraduate degree requirements didn't come up often. But, she said, even when these issues were being discussed, only about 15 meetings regularly attended meetings.
Foley said she thought that many students didn't realize what the College Assembly was.
As the governing body of the college, the assembly approves actions such as the recent changes made in the undergraduate degree requirements. Houston said.
The assembly is composed of all faculty members of the college and of elected and appointed graduate and undergraduate students. It meets the first Tuesday of every month at 4 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The 116 seats for undergraduate students are divided evenly among freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, giving each class 29 representatives.
Although representatives hold their positions for one year, Houston said, seniors can be elected to the assembly and can be representations until they graduate
Once students are elected to the assembly, she said, they can become members of standing committees. These committees are the College Budget Committee and the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, which usually initiates course changes.
Houston said low student representation in the assembly was not unusual, as this year's undergraduate seats were not filled.
"This has been a common problem over the years," she said.
Last year, students were given 100 seats in the assembly, but only 61 people applied for the positions.
Houston said many students who were elected to the assembly were not active representatives.
"Some people drop out," she said. "Of those who don't, few attend the meetings."
She also said graduate student representation was not sufficient to fill all the graduate seats available
The graduate representatives for the assembly were chosen in September and October, she said. Only 13 of the 26 at-large seats were filled.
Owner sues KU student in club case
By Abbie Jones Special to the Kansan
In an unprecedented crackdown on underage drinkers, a Lawrence bar owner was awarded $500 in damages Wednesday in small claims court in a suit against a KU student who entered his private club in April with false identification.
Ace Johnson, owner of The Sanctuary, 1401 W Seventh St., sued Ronald Smith, Overland Park junior, for the amount Johnson was fined by James Alcohol Beverage Control Board for violating the age requirement.
Johnson was charged with the violation after Smith was approached by Lawrence police and arrested in The Sanctuary. He was found guilty in Douglas County District Court in May of possession of liquor by a minor and possession of false identification.
The student's attorney said he had no comment. Smith could not be heard.
"This is the first time we have ever seen it happen, but I guarantee you it will be the last, as a result of this court," she proclaimed Glover, Lawrence city prosecutor.
Johnson said he filed the suit to warn underage people not to enter prison.
"Myself, the district attorney's office, ABC and other bar owners throughout the state are trying to stop the minors using fake L.D.s." Johnson said. "I can legally arrest any minor who comes into my place with a false LD."
Other Lawrence club owners said that they had never sued a minor in small claims court.
Mike Kirsch, owner of Gammons,
160 W. 3rd St., said that in the past,
his bar had confiscated L.D.s, but he
never taken an individual to court.
Doug Compton, owner of the Mad Hatter, 700 New Hampshire St., said he had never sued a minor, but he liked the idea.
"I think it's a good deal because we get a severe penalty," Cmion said.
"You are going to see bar owners going after the kids," Johnson said. "Somebody has to set the example, and I'm the one."
University Daily Kansan
Johnson said that this was the first time he had ever sued a minor. The manager of the Sanctuary was arraigned in 1981 and ordered the bar with false identification.
He said he waited to sue Smith until the University began classes to draw attention to the problem.
"He's the scapegoat," Johnson said. "He's the example. He may go down in history."
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Bud Littleton, left, and a co-worker from Window Systems Construction Co., Lee's Summit, replaced windows yesterday in back of the Kansas Union. Littleton said the windows were being replaced to make the Union more energy efficient.
Paneful perch
Laboratory illuminates architects
The Bob Foley Illumination Laboratory was dedicated in a ceremony attended by about 70 people yesterday afternoon.
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Ronald Helms, director of architectural engineering, said the laboratory at Pennsylvania State University, one of the best in the country, was not even close to KU's quality.
A new laboratory has been constructed at 232 Art and Design Building, from company donations of more than $70,000.
"It will let the students experience firsthand state-of-the-art lighting systems," he said. "It will add a dimension to their education."
Helms said the laboratory demonstrated basic principles of lighting, such as visibility and color of objects. Students can also set up different systems for research.
The Robert J. Besal Memorial Educational Fund awards grants for scholarships to architectural engineering students and for faculty development.
"KU is the only institution in the country with two full-fledged faculty members in lighting." Helms said.
Cindy Ong, Overland Park senior, said the laboratory would be useful for students to see installed lighting.
KU architectural engineering students now can study lighting in the best illumination laboratory in the country.
"It's so different actually seeing it and reading about it in a book," she said. "We've had a basement room in our town now. That's nothing at all compared to being the lights in the ceiling and being able to move them around."
Bob Foley, chairman of Bob Foley Co., Inc., a Kansas City lighting company, was surprised that the illumination laboratory was named after him.
"I think I get more emotional as I grow older," he said, blinking tears from his eyes.
By Susie Bishop
Helms said Foley helped solicit 29 companies to donate equipment.
"He's Mr. Electrical in the Kansas-Missouri area." Helms said.
"I didn't know anything about this," he said. "I thought it was going to be named after my personal friend Jesse, who died a few years ago."
Robert Besal, whose educational fund helps support the University, was vice president of Lithonia Lighting Co.
Floats are pomped up for parade
Of the Kansan staff
The parade, which used to wind across campus after Friday afternoon classes, was changed to Saturday morning and the downtown route this year. The changes should enable more students,
"We'll have the homecoming parade rain or shine," junior class president John Fevryly, who is in charge of the parade, said yesterday. "You can't postpone a parade."
Rain or shine, thousands of dollars of colored pomp will drift, drive and float along Massachusetts Street early tomorrow morning.
Students in many fraternities, sororites and residence halls are pumping their fingers to the bone in preparation for the homecoming parade at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
Pumping is stuffing 4-inch-square pieces of colorful tissue paper into glue-covered chicken wire. Boxes of pomp await able fingers to twist, stuff and spray them in place on the 14 floats signed up to participate in this year's homecoming competition.
faculty and Lawrence residents to participate in the parade, Fevurly said.
Many exhausted students will present their best effort to judges on Saturday morning.
"We won't be working all night, maybe until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m." Elizabeth Polka, Lenexa sophomore and float chairman for Alpha Chi Omega sorority. "We'll get a little sleep before the parade."
Five judges will evaluate the floats as they pass by the reviewing stand at Ninth and Massachusetts streets. This year's judges are Timothy Bengtson, this year's HOPE award winner; an area business man; a representative from the Athletic Department; an alumnus and a representative from the office of minority affairs.
The announcement of the first and second place winners in moving and non-moving categories will be made at Memorial Stadium before the KU-University of Colorado football game, he said.
The pump comes from companies in Topeka and Kansas City. If the float builds run low on sup-
The floats will be judged in eight categories, including originality and best use of the "Go Ahead" slogan.
pies, on the road they go. Each package of tissue covers 2 square feet and a 25-package carton costs $22.50.
"We may end up making a road trip to Kansas City to get more." Polka said.
Alpha Chi Omega teamed up with Alpha Tau Omega fraternity for the float competition. Their float re-enacts the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but with a twist - Jayhawk-shaped airplanes, dropping football bombs, circle the unsuspecting Buffaloes on the USS Colorado.
Other variations on the Hawaiian theme that will grace the Lawrence streets include Buffaloes being buried in the sand by Jayhawks dressed in beach attire, slave Buffaloes fanning the King Jayhawk, and Jayhawks stuffing sacrificial Buffaloes into a smoking volcano.
Delta Delta Delta sorority and Kappa Sigma fraternity's moving Jayhawk should begin systematically sacrificing the evil Buffalo to a smoking volcano early Friday evening, said Allison Taylon. St. Louis junior and float chairman.
She said only two clouds floated on their noses and the dry ice dumped volcano and the threat of rain.