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Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Alleged candy thief charged with assault
A 20-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday after allegedly stealing a bag of candy, pulling a knife and fighting with two employees of Dillons food store, 1312 W. Sixth St., Lawrence police said yesterday.
The man was arrested on two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of battery and one count of petty larceny.
Police said store employees allegedly saw the man put the bag of candy, worth $1.99, into his pocket. Police say the store about 11:30 p.m. Monday.
The two employees confronted the man outside the store and asked him to go back inside and return the candy.
"voice said the man responded,
"I don't have anything," then reached into his pocket and pulled out a knife.
After being asked several times by the employees to put the knife away, the man put the knife back into his pocket, police said.
The man then pushed the employees out of his way and tried to run, but the employees jumped him and held him to the ground, police said.
His concert, part of the Visiting Artist Series sponsored by the department of music, is free to the public.
Guitarist to perform
Portuguese guitarist Pinoero Nagy will perform at p.m. today at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Nagy, an internationally known contemporary guitarist, is a titular professor at the Music Academy of Lisbon, Portugal, where he created the guitar course. He also studied with Emilio Pijol at the Lisbon Conservatory.
Nominations taken
He is a jury member of the International Guitar Competition, Fernando Sor, in Rome; director of the international music course at Estolio Coast in Portugal; and founder of the Estolio Coast Music Festival.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation is accepting scholarship nominations of outstanding sophomores who are preparing for public service careers.
Sophomores with any major may be nominated. If selected, each student will receive as much as $5,000 a year for his junior and senior years and two years of graduate study.
To be eligible, a student must be full-time sophomore working toward a bachelor's degree, have a "E" education, rank academically in the upper fourth of his class and be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national working toward a career in government.
The deadline for nomination is Dec. 1. For more information, write the Truman Scholarship Review Committee, CN 6302, Princeton, N.J., 08541-63021.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and cooler. The high will be in the mid-50s and winds will be out of the northwest at 15 to 25 mph diminishing by afternoon. Tonight will be mostly clear and cooler with a low in the low to mid-30s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid-50s.
From staff and wire reports
Western Hills to begin annexation
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
The Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1 last night to begin procedures to annex the Western Hills subdivision.
The Western Hills subdivision is a 120-acre tract of residentially developed land west of Monterey Way and north of 15th Street. The area is almost an island of unincorporated land that city staff thinks should be annexed.
sound to Mayor Mike Amyx cast the vote against the annexation. The annexation ordinance will be on next week's commission agenda and may be adopted on its second reading.
Before making the initial motion to bring a vote, Commissioner David Longhurst assured Western Hills residents that if the subdivision becomes a part of the city, he will consider their interests.
Longhurst said to about 50 Western Hills residents at the meeting, "I pledge to be sensitive to your concerns and your needs and try to make everything as good for you as it is now and hopefully better."
Before the vote, Commissioner Sandy Praeger said, "We're giving our assurances tonight that there are no plans, under why now, that any kind of special benefit districts are going to be forced upon the residents of Western Hills."
Residents at the meeting said that they were worried about being
assessed for city improvements. Some residents said they worried that charging them for the improvements would force them to leave the subdivision.
Amyx said that when considering annexation of an area already developed, such as Western Hills, financial hardship on the city of Lawrence was a factor.
The expansion of 15th Street already is making utility services to the west possible, Amyx said. The 15th Street expansion keeps Western Hills from blocking any further expansion by the city.
"My particular feeling is that it does not present a financial burden to the city to leave the area as county and thus annexation should not occur." Amyx said after the vote.
Tom Waller, Route 6, a resident of the subdivision, said the annexation was inevitable.
"I think our major concern was to get the commission to be sensitive to the special assessments issue," he said.
"Deep down that may have been our ultimate goal all along. That's just strictly speaking for myself."
Limna Lubensky, Route 6, a Western Hills Neighborhood Association officer, said she did not agree. After the meeting, she said that although she thought the commissioners were speaking "in good faith," they were more concerned with progress than the individual's rights.
Gordon Bower and Linda Lubensky, officers of the Western Hills Neighborhood Association, discuss their plan for persuading the Lawrence City Commission to vote against possible annexation of the Western Hills subdivision. About 50 Western Hills residents attended last night's City Commission meeting.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
T-shirts are in demand
Fame surprises Brown
By Liz Maggard
Of the Kansan staff
Head men's basketball coach Larry Brown is seeing his picture everywhere these days as a result of the pre-season publicity being generated about the Jayhawk basketball team.
However, he's seen his portrait one place he didn't expect it — on the front of T-shirts commemorating last month's early morning KU men's basketball scrimmage.
"I was kind of surprised," Brown said yesterday. "That's something that's hard to handle, having your face on a shirt.
"How would you like your picture on people's fronts?"
The front of each cotton T-shirt sports a picture of the coach, along with the words, "Late Night with Larry Brown." The back of each shirt carries the caption, "Starring
the 1985-86 Kansas Basketball Team All Roads Lead to Dallas."
Dallas will be the site of this season's National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball championship finals.
thanks.
The T-shirts were the brainchild of Larry Sinks, owner of Midwest Graphics, 308 E. 23rd St., who began producing them the week before the Oct. 15 scrimmage.
"I got the idea after talking to several of my friends about the scrimmage," Sinks said. "Also, I watch David Letterman a lot, and it just seemed to tie in."
He said he had sold almost 1,000 of the T-shirts so far.
"We've received orders for the shirts from Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and all over Kansas," Sinks said. "We've probably mail-ordered more than 100 of them."
"I've had a lot of phone calls. People wanted to know how the scrim
mage went, plus they wanted a shirt."
Along with their orders, he said, many fans sent letters praising the basketball team and Brown.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said the T-shirts would become collector's items because the midnight scrummage had been a one-time event.
Brown said he would have preferred not to have been singled out for such an honor, because the whole team really deserved to be recognized.
"I really wanted the team's picture on the shirts, but that's against NCAA rules," he said.
Group studies domestic violence
By Bob Tinsley
Of the Kansan staff
Relationships between people sometimes have moments of disagreement and discord.
But sometimes, what might have begun as a simple lovers' quarrel can become violent.
In recognition of this, the assistant director of residential programs has organized a task force to study violence in student relationships and how it may be prevented.
"Domestic violence has been given a lot of attention in the media," Ruth Lee, the assistant director, said yesterday. "Only recently it has been given attention on college campuses."
Sometimes the violence manifests itself as verbal abuse or a little pushing and shoving.
"At the far end of the spectrum, every year we have some students who are in battering relationships where there are broken limbs," Lee said.
"We work with a lot of students who have been raped, especially rate raped," she said.
especially when the task force is to find out what is being done now about violent relationships, and coordinating and publicizing those efforts, she said. The task force also
wants to develop programs for students that involve both prevention of violence and counseling.
"We recognize that there is a need to work with University students in this because I happen to believe that students at a University are young enough and intelligent enough to change," she said.
Lee's first concern is to develop these programs for residents of scholarship and residence halls, but anyone who is concerned is welcome to be involved, she said.
"It's OK to be angry, but it's what you do with that anger that makes the difference," she said.
One point of the programs is to teach participants how to manage their anger.
Other topics include the rights and responsibilities of a relationship and how to build self-esteem.
Lee said she hoped the programs could begin next semester
The task force is growing and now has 36 members, she said. Twenty-three of them are residence hall staff members. Because staff members have close contact with students, they are often among the first to know when a student is involved in a violent relationship.
Several campus and community organizations are represented on the task force, too. They include Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services, Womens' Transitional Care Services and the KU police department.
Winter brings out animal behaviors
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
As winter approaches, people are more like animals than they think they are, a psychology professor said yesterday.
Douglas Denney, the professor; said that as winter approached and darkness dominated most of each day, some people became depressed.
The culprit of winter depression can be found in the changes of the light-dark cycle. The light-dark cycle also causes other forms of seasonal behavior in mammals, such as hibernation, he said.
"We tend to think humans are immune to such processes, but they are evolutionary remnants that stick with us." Denney said.
The biological cause of depression can be traced to the pineal gland, which is inside the brain. The gland secretes an alkaloid called phenylalanine, especially during the night or under low levels of illumination, he said.
Denney said although melatonin did not have an apparent function in man, it helped regulate seasonal behavior in animals.
The key to depression does not seem to be the increased levels of melatonin, however. Instead it is found in the third step of a five-step process toward making it, he said.
During the third step, an enzyme called serotonin is produced. Because the production of this enzyme is inhibited by activity along the optical track, the less light that is perceived by the eye, the more serotonin is changed into melatonin.
"The change in the amount of melatonin is not that great, but the change in serotonin is, and that seems to be what causes depression," he said.
Depression is more than feeling sad, Denney said. Most victims of depression feel as if they have
been stripped of feelings. One common symptom is insomnia, or the inability to fall asleep. Depressed people also lose interest in sex and eating.
They also suffer cognitive distortions, during which they feel worthless as human beings or as if the depression will never end, he said.
"For most people who have episodic periods of depression, the periods are always time-limited," Denney said.
But remembering that depression is only temporary is not always easy during times of depression, he said.
Psychologists used to think that winter depression was related to a belief that winter was the equivalent to death in nature, and comparing the perfect childhood Christmas with current ones and thinking about the extra burdens of the Christmas season, he said.
"I think there is a conspiracy between the psychological and biological explanations, and they are both probably to blame for winter depression," Denney said. Most winter depression sufferers find that spring provides a cure for the depression, he said.
No one really knows how common winter depression is, Denney said, but it is debilitating in some cases.
"Some people almost hibernate by staying in bed all of the time while other people may suffer such a minor depression that they don't even realize it," Denney said.
Until about five years ago there was not even a name for the annual depression when Thomas Wehr and Norman Rosenthal, both of the National Institutes for Mental Health, began noticing that the effects of some depressions were seasonally related.
SAD, which stands for Seasonal Affective Disorders, was the acronym they chose for the disorder.
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