Campus/Area
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
SIDS may be cause of infant boy's death
A three-month-old boy died Tuesday apparently from sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, Alan Sanders, deputy coroner said yesterday.
Logan King, 217 Deerfield Lane,
was pronounced dead on arrival
shortly before noon Tuesday at
Hospital, hospital official said.
The syndrome is the sudden and unexpected death of an infant who was well or almost well before death and whose death was unexplained after the performance of an adequate autopsy, Sanders said.
Sanders said that the autopsy was nearly complete except for a few tests to rule out infection and other complications. His findings to suggest foal play
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence Police Department, said police and an ambulance were called at 11:41 a.m. Tuesday to King's babyfoster's home in the 3500 block of Yale Road.
Planning post filled
He said Logan, who was the son of John and Debbie King, 217 Deerfield Lane, was not breathing when police and ambulance attendents arrived and transported the child to the hospital.
Mark Buhler, vice president of Columbia Savings Association's local office, Lawrence Federal Savings, 901 Vermont St., was appointed to the Lawrence/Douglas County Planning Commission Tuesday night.
Buhler replaced Nan Harper, who resigned last month after serving for three years. Harper teaches a class at KU and owns Harper and Hiebert, 706 Massachusetts St., with Douglas County Commissioner Nancy Hiebert.
Mayor Mike Amyx recommended Buhler as the new planning commissioner and other city commissioners approved his selection. Buhler will join the nine other planning commissioners at the monthly meeting Nov. 20.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with highs in the mid- to upper 50s and winds from the west at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with lows in the mid- to upper 30s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid-60s.
Correction
Because of a photographer's error, a student was misidentified in a cutline in Tuesday's Kansan. The student in the picture was Jim Tucker, Shawnee senior.
Because of a reporter's error, a student was identified incorrectly in a story in yesterday's Kansas. The student quoted in the story should have been identified as Chris Roesner, Salina junior and pledge class social chairman of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Clarification
A story in yesterday's Kansas said the Prairie Room in the Kansas Union was a formal dining room for faculty. The room is open to anyone.
From staff and wire repo ts
Groups create anti-apartheid task force
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Students from three anti-spartial groups and administrators met for an hour and a half yesterday and decided to set up a joint task force.
The actual purpose of the task force, however, was not decided.
Reactions after the meeting from students in the groups and an administrator were mixed, although teachers thought the meeting was productive.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs; Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and service; and Del Shankel, professor of history with members of the KU Committee on South Africa, Black Student Union and Blacks Against Anarchist
Dwayne Fulhage, a member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said yesterday that he and Ambler changed the meeting three weeks ago.
The meeting was not a result of the rally on Monday, and the incident
Protesters of apartheid charged
Five anti-apartheid protesters were charged yesterday with one count each of interference with the conduct of public business in a public place.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
They have received summonses to appear Nov. 12 in Douglas County District Court for arraignment.
The five were arrested Monday in Chancellor Gene A. Budig's suite after refusing to leave. They wanted to speak with Budig about deprivation and apartheid during the University of Kansas Medical Center during the day.
Those arrested were Edward Jackson, Topeka sophomore; Ruth Lichtwardt, Lawrence junior and student body vice presidential candidate for the Chrysalis Coalition; Michael Maher, Roeland Park
junior; Lisa Rasor, Topeka sophormore; and Jane Ungerman, Lawrence senior.
Of the five, everyone except Jackson is a member of the KU Committee on South Africa
About 50 protesters crowded into the suite and five remained after KU police warned that failure to leave would result in an arrest.
Students against apartheid rallied Monday in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall and then took their messages of "Divest now" and "KU out of South Africa" to Strong Hall.
This incident marked the third time protesters were arrested on campus and the second time at Strong. Protests on May 3 and 9 of the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies doing business in South Africa resulted in the arrests of more than 65 students, KU employees and others.
was not discussed at the meeting said Fuhlage. Tonganoxie junior.
More than 150 protesters invaded Strong Hall Monday and five were arrested after refusing to leave Cancellor Gene A. Budig's suite.
Lennie Wesley, program director for Black Student Union, said, "We laid the groundwork. I thought it was productive. We set up a task force to examine how to deal with apartheid."
Ambler called the meeting "productive and helpful."
Wesley, Wichita junior, said another meeting was scheduled for Nov. 21.
Ambler said he honed meetings
such as these would prevent activities such as Monday's protest in Strong from occurring again.
"I believe, probably stronger than most, that dialogue and debate are the civilized ways of resolving differences," he said.
But Heather Cusick, a KU Committee on South Africa member, said she was disappointed with the meeting.
"My impression was that there was a lot of opposition from the administration on having a task force on divestment," said Cusick, Salina senior.
"The task force should encourage
Kansas University Endowment
Association."
"We have to keep up the pressure to divest from masses of students and keep students involved," Cusick said.
Charles Watson, Arkansas City junior, said everyone agreed that aparteidh in South Africa was evil and morally repugnant but didn't agree on the best ways to eliminate it.
He said the group "agreed to disagree."
Members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, 1612 W, 15th St. and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, 1602 W, 15th St., work on their homecoming float entry
No stamp, no enrollment
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
Dean's stamp deadline is tomorrow
Students who have not received a dean's stamp by tomorrow afternoon will not be able to enroll until January, administrators and school representatives said yesterday.
Most of the schools will stop giving deans' stamps to undergraduates tomorrow afternoon, said Gary Seward, who runs records and educational services.
"The reason Nov. 8 is the date is to encourage students to see their advisers immediately." Thompson said. "Most advisers don't want the advising period to drag out for three to four weeks."
Students without a dean's stamp will not be allowed to enroll during pre-enrollment, which began Monday and lasts until Nov. 22. Thompson said.
There will be no exceptions, he said.
"In order to get into the enrollment center, you have to have a dean's stammt." Thompson said.
meaning varies from school to school, provides an indication to the enrollment center that the student is ready to enroll and has met the requirements of his school or college. Thompson said.
"The stamps are so many different things," he said. "It is the school's prerogative to do whatever amount of checking on the student."
Some schools glance over a student's records. Other schools study the records thoroughly before giving the required approval to continue in the pre-enrollment process. Thompson said.
The dean's stamp, though the
Most schools will tell students that they are out of luck if they haven't received their dean's stamp by Friday afternoon, Thompson said.
"We honor each school's wishes, so no student can enroll without a doctor's approval."
"If they want to be in that school, they have to follow the rules of that school."
made a provision for students who miss the deadline.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which has the largest number of undergraduates, has
Joe Vanzand, coordinator of the advising support center, said students who already had their adviser's signature and students who didn't require an adviser's signature would be granted a dean's stamp regardless of the late date.
Freshman and sophomores who didn't see their adviser will receive a special stamp which permits them to attend the final day of enrolment, Nov. 22.
Vanzandt said freshman and sophomores who fell into this category would forfeit their assigned pre-enrollment time.
"Our intention is not to place any unnecessary road blocks in the way of students who have unintentionally missed the date, but to have some penalties for those students who are negligent." he said.
If a freshman or sophomore can cajole his adviser into signing the enrollment card after the advising period ends, the college will issue a dean's stamp. Vanzandt said. However, he said, bothering advisers
after the advising period isn't recommended.
"The departments are no longer obligated to provide advising past the designated period," he said.
The College provides a last resort for its tardy students, but most of the other schools take the hard-line approach.
Marla Schinstock, an office worker in charge of issuing School of Business dean's stamps, said the school would follow University policy and not issue dean's stamps after Friday's deadline.
Schinstock's message was clear.
"They don't get one." she said.
Excuses won't wash with her, she said. Any exceptions have to be heard and approved by Corwin Grube, the school's director of undergraduate studies, before earning a dean's stamp.
"If a student can prove he was sick, that might be an exception," Schinstock said.
Most schools follow the example set by the School of Business, Thompson said.
Bleachers prepared for opener
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Basketball fans with reserved tickets for lower level bleacher seats in Allen Field House won't have to sit on the floor or bring their own folding chairs to tomorrow's exhibition game between the KU men's basketball team and the national team from Czechoslovakia.
If all goes well, that is.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director in charge of facilities, said yesterday that the contractor installing new bleacher seating had assured him the seats would be in place for the game tomorrow night.
Tipoff for the KU-Czechoslovakia game is set for 7:30 p.m.
"The seats won't be completely finished, but they will be ready for public use," he said. "To look at them now, you wouldn't think there is any way the job will be done, but we have been told that it definitely will be."
"I hope they're right, because the game is sold out. It's part of our season ticket package."
Charlie Burt, sales manager for the contractor, Hoover Brothers Inc. Kansas City, Mo., said the seating would be "structurally complete" by January 2013, as detailed in details such as colored end caps on the bleachers would be missing.
The company is working almost around the clock to complete the installation in time. Burt said.
"We're working almost 24 hours a day and have three walks going," he said. "We're doing everything possible to get the project completed."
Burt said the $228,000 renovation project, which was supposed to be completed by Oct. 15, was behind schedule because the necessary materials had not arrived from the manufacturer until last week.
"Installation usually takes two to three weeks," he said. "But obviously when you don't have the materials, you can't get the job done."
Installation of the new seating will increase the present field house seating capacity of 15,200 by 200-300 seats.
Burt said the new seating also would improve the appearance of the basketball arena. He said the end bleacher sections would be red with blue end caps, and the side sections would be blue with red end caps.
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