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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 54 (USPS 650-640)
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A KU associate professor of English opposed the nomination of Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, as judge for the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a letter mailed yesterday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Phelps said that Hinman filed a sex discrimination suit against the University of Kansas and some faculty members in the late 1970s, before Tacha was appointed vice chancellor in 1891. The lawsuit, which is pending in the U.S. District Court in Topeka, criticizes KU employment policies. The suit includes promotion, recruiting and tenure deficiencies for women and other minorities.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Tacha was nominated for the position Oct. 30 by President Reagan If confirmed by the Senate, she will be the second woman in history to be appointed to the 10th circuit bench.
Two football player arguments at a hearit that the College of Li Sciences interprets satisfactory progress give them any chance ble to play this season show.
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
The court document players' response to the motion for dismissal of on Oct. 8. The Univer for a change of venue asking that the case Douglas County.
The attorney of Myra Hinman,
associate professor of English for 25
years, sent a letter by express mail
to the University of Wisconsin-R.C.S.
,R.C.S., chairman of the committee.
According to docu tailback Lynn W linebacker Dane Griff County District Court the players also say the lege decided how it w terpret the rule, the C wrong criteria to de status.
The players had file the University Sept. were declared ineligible with the satisfaction rule.
The National College Association established
Hinman said Tacha wasn't upholding an agreement signed by the University with the U.S. Department of Labor in 1982 that emphasized equal employment opportunities at KU.
Faced with a Michigan, prohibits the men's playing a game with Louisville unless it also the University of Detroit play neither, an Athletic said yesterday.
"However, it appears playing either Detroit or
Gary Hunter, assista said no final decision ha Athletic Department of ploring their options.
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
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By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The Student Senate Committee last night a same Senate seat dist rejected last week.
Phelps said Tacha hires few minorities and underpays the ones who already work at the University.
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LECOMPTON — The Lane University Museum, which was built to be the Kansas capitol building in 1855, housed the United Brethren Church in Christ and Lane University until 1902. The Lane was restored and dedicated in 1982. All artifacts in the museum have been donated or on loan, except for a marble fireplace mantle.
Small towns offer good times, history
By Abbie Jones Kansan Magazine writer
Seventeen-year-old Kenneth Bardwell, a junior at Tonganoxie High School, smiles as he points outside the window of Chuck's Bar-B-Q at his yellow hot rod. It is the car that provides the escape from his "boring" town, and the car local policemen recognize, he says.
Men, muddy from working on flooded farmland, wipe their mouths and stretch before strolling out the door of Chuck's, the only drive-in restaurant in Tonganoxie.
r two older couples order burritos,
take a booth next to the wood-
panelled wall and chat about the St.
Louis Cardinals.
Teenagers cruise up and down the drag on weekends, families dine in small cafes on homemade chili and fathers toil in the fields, or at the businesses their great-grandfathers started.
It's the good life. The life where smaller is better and main street provides all the necessities of living.
Spotted cattle graze near winding Highway 24-40, the road to Tonganox-
Historical Society, and the author of "Yesteryears," a book about Tonganoxie's history, said this land was later sold to the United States government and eventually given to the Union Pacific Railroad. And in 1872, slowly moved south and west to settle in Oklahoma territory.
But a woman named Magdalena Bury purchased 40 acres of land from the Union Pacific Railroad, which soon became the town's first acreage. Despite requests from settlers to name it Buvilley, she chose the name Tonganoxin in honor of the old DelaWaire chief. The town was officially established on July 21, 1866. Lenahan reported.
But Feverly said Tonganoxie may best be remembered for its "Hiney Winery" spoof which fooled people all over the country.
About three years ago a Tonganoxie man put an advertisement and a map in the local newspaper, the Tonganoxie Mirror, for people to come to the town and taste "hiney wine." Both the winery and its wine were a sham, and the map gave directions to the local police station.
Jo Black/Kansan Magazine
The Kansas City radio station WDAF AM-61 Country started advertising this fictional product, and soon
LECOMPTON — Paul Bahnmaier, lifetime resident and president of Land Museum Historical Society, sees potential growth in Lecompton as a historic tourist town. Since the Lane Museum was restored in 1982, Bahnmaier says, Lecompton residents are finding their Civil War roots that have been "swept under the rug." Bahnmaier is a fourth-generation Lecompton resident and teaches sixth grade at Shawnee Heights.
— John Fevurly Tonganoxie junior
'We don't have the crowds of people in big cities, but they don't have the peacefulness.'
"We don't have the crowds of people in big cities, but they don't have the peacefulness," said John Fevrelly. Tonganex junior.
Fevrely grew up on a farm in Jarbalo, just eight miles north of Tonganoxie, with the freedom to run a factory. He dune buggy in the country, he said.
ie. No more than four restaurants, two grocery stores, five gas stations and fourteen police officers maintain this town whose population of about 7,000 people includes the surrounding area.
But the transition to the University of Kansas, which required taking an organic chemistry class twice the size of his high school, was a challenge. Fevryl said he knew he had to start meeting people.
"Looking all the way down Hoch Auditorium was a shock. I made a goal to know one person everywhere I went on campus," he said.
Favruly's hometown was named after the last Delaware Indian chief who lived nearby. The log cabin Chief Tonganoxie built was burned, but a two-story house was built for him by the government and became a stopping place for whites traveling to and from Lawrence from 1855 to 1857, reported "The History of Kansas," by A.T. Andreas.
John Cass Lennah Sr., president of the Tonganoxie Community
"Small towns have a good time with big town people," he said.
the police station had visitors from all over the area who had come to taste "hiney wine." Fevrelly said.
And people in the city have printed bumper stickers which read "I love my hirey," with an upside down heart as the symbol of the word love.
A tall, baby blue water tower marks the historical town of Eudora, just six miles east of Lawrence off Highway 10. At the other end of town the same sign belongs to "Welcome to Eudora" 9,300 and still growing."
Paul Sommer, 75, who has lived in the town for 69 years, said the town was different today from when he began working for the post office in 1838. Then, he said, stamps only cost 3 cents for an out-of-town letter, two for a rural route and one penny for a letter if it didn't leave the post office.
"Now I have to look around to find an old face. It's changing all the time." he said.
Summer's father was born in Eudora in 1875, and then he and his wife moved to Oklahoma to farm in 1903. But the sandy soil of Oklahoma wasn't appealing to his parents, so they returned to Eudora in 1916.
"Mother never was satisfied. She wanted to come back home," he said.