Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Two students hurt in minor collision
Two KU students suffered minor injuries in a two-car collision about 3:30 p.m. Sunday at 15th Street and Chelsea Place.
Julie Abels, 20, Wichita junior, and Nicoletta Mattiola, 20, Prairie Village sophomore, were both treated and released in good condition from the hospital Sunday, a Lawrence Memorial Hospital spokesman said.
Abels was issued a citation for failing to yield the right of way, police said.
Lawrence police said Abels was traveling south on Chelsea Place and stopped at the stop sign. She saw no cross traffic and pulled out when Mattiola, traveling west on 15th Street, struck Abels' car. Mattiola's car stopped on the grass on the south side of 15th Street.
Fall bazaar to open
A drawing will be conducted for two round-trip Braniff Airline tickets to Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Ariz., Washington, D.C. and New York
The bazaar will be from noon to 5 p.m. tomorrow and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in the lobby of Bell Memorial Hospital, 39th and Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, Kan.
A fund-raising lunch will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday.
Proceeds from the bazaar will benefit the Jay-Care Day Care and Learning Center.
La Compagnie Beauclair will perform "La Peur des Coups" and "La Paix chez Soi," both by Georges Courtine, and "Lain de Menage," by Jules Renard.
A Parisian theater company will present three modern French plays at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall of Murphy Hall.
Plays to be presented
The three plays, which are performed in French, are being staged for the first time in the United States. The company performed Moliere's "Tartuffe" at the University of Kansas last year.
Tickets, which are available at the Murphy Hall box office, cost $4 for KU students and $5 for the general public.
All seats are general admission, and ticket reservations may be made by calling 804-3892.
DCCA seeks students
The Douglas County Council on Aging is seeking students who want to spend time with older people.
The council's Adult Day Program needs volunteers to work from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The volunteers will participate in group activities to lend encouragement and support to older people.
Weather
Steve Mingle/KANSAN
Today will be windy and mild,
with skies becoming mostly
cloudy. Winds will be from the
south at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will
be mostly cloudy with lows in the
upper 30% to lower 40%. Tomorrow
will be partly cloudy, with highs
near 60.
From staff and wire reports
Narrow escape
Jim Pitcharch, quarterback for the Sigma Phi Epsilon football team, the Men,
avoids a tackle by a player for the Evans Scholarship Hall team, the
Sheeperders, in the Rec-A intramural football championship. The Sheeperders won the contest 10-0 yesterday.
Cable TV extended
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Some Douglas County residents on the outskirts of Lawrence won't have to say "I want my MTV" much longer.
"This means we give a few more customers to serve, like Western Hills, the Riverside area and a few houses across from K-Mart that border our service area," Clark said."
The company will begin designing and ordering materials to extend the service to the potential subscribers immediately, Clark said. But it may be spring before the work is complete because much of the cable installation wire must be buried underground.
He said that the agreement would allow the company to add 50-100 new subscribers. In the last several years, some of the potential subscribers have requested the cable company to extend service to their homes.
Sunflower Cablevision, 644 New Hampshire St., plans to extend its services into some unincorporated areas around Lawrence, Dave Clark, general manager of the company, said yesterday.
The franchise agreement is required because of the passage of the Cable Communications Act of 1984 that sets ground rules for cities and counties to add cable services, Clark said.
County counselor Chris McKenzie said the franchise agreement required Sunflower Cablevision to carry insurance protecting itself, the county and townships that they worked in from damages or accidents that could happen while the company had employees on the job.
The Douglas County Commission yesterday approved a non-exclusive franchise agreement between the cable company and the county.
The agreement expires in 10 years, McKenzie said. It is renewable and has a clause that allows the county and the company to discuss adjustments that might be made in the agreement.
Policy opens Stouffer doors
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Orlando Villalobos and his family arrived at the University of Kansas in September 1984 and moved into a one-bedroom apartment at Stouffer Place.
Villalobos, Valencia, Venezuela, graduate student, said Sunday that his family had hoped to move into a two-bedroom apartment. So they joined other families on a list at the housing office and waited for a vacancy.
Villalobos tried three times last year to get a larger apartment but was unsuccessful. All that changed a month ago when the family got the apartment they had been waiting for because of a new housing office policy.
Until recently, the housing office kept two lists of families who wanted two-bedroom apartments. One list was for current Stouffer residents, and the other was for off-campus applicants. Preference was shown to the off-campus applicants in December and January, and May through August — the times when most of such apartments become available.
The two lists now have been combined into one and apartments will be assigned to the earliest applicants. Housing officials hope the change will create a better opportunity for all. The Residential Programs Advisory Board approved the new policy last week.
Ken stoner, director of student housing, said, "We'd really trapped a number of families with children into one-bedroom apartments, and I hope the change in the list will reduce that."
The change was a welcome and timely one for the Villalobos' family. Villalobos and his wife, Lisabeth, are expecting another child. They now have a 6-year-old son, Daniel.
Currently, 95 families are on the waiting list, and 30 of them currently live in one-bedroom apartments at Stouffer. The housing office estimates that about 30 two-bedroom units will be available between now and August. Stoner said.
"Many people in Stouffer Place have been lucky because the policy has been changed." Vilhallob said.
The backlog of families dates back to August 1984. Other families applied as recently as Thursday. Ruth Swain, Stouffer place manager, said it was unusual for a family to wait more than a year.
"Usually, people who wait in Stouffer for that long are waiting for something in particular," Swain said.
'Joke' at KBI not taken lightly
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Kay Houser, a friend of Kansas Attorney General Robert T. Stephan, said yesterday that she had jokingly suggested to the director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that he shoot Margie Phelps, attorney for a woman who accused Stephan of sexual harassment.
Houser said she was "flabbergasted" that her statements found their way back to Phelps or that anyone would take them seriously.
In a terse news release, Stephan called the notion that anyone might be a terrorist.
Phelps revealed the threat in a letter she sent Stephan and reported to reporters. In the letter, Phelps said she had a sworn affidavit from a state employee who claimed to have heard Tom Kelly, KBI director, discuss whether to have the attorney shot.
In addition, Phelps did not identify the state employee other than as someone she had known a long time. She said she felt the need to hide the state employee's identification to
Besides witnessing the houser-Kelly conversation, the state employee also claimed to have overheard a conversation among Stephan's staff in his Judicial Center offices last week regarding whether the map of Phelps' telephones might produce valuable evidence against her.
protect him from retribution. She offered copies of the affidavit only under the agreement that the name of the employee not be divulged.
She explained that the employee did not witness the conversation in Stephan's office and did not know whether Stephan was present. She said the employee heard the conversation in another room and had presumed members of Stephan's staff were discussing the case and strategy.
nor's Committee on Crime Prevention would somehow conspire to commit a murder is ludicrous beyond belief," Stephan said. "While this office has a responsibility to take appropriate action on any such charge, as we have, this situation has become absurd."
Romy was not available for comment. Stephan simply said such accusations were beyond belief but said his office would look into the case.
Pheips said the employee described it as a heated discussion over the sexual harassment lawsuit and a deposition from the alleged victim.
In her letter, Phelps asked the Republican attorney general to conduct a full investigation and issue a complete report on the matter.
"I want to make this a matter of public record because that's the only safe way to deal with Bob Stephan," Phelps said.
"The notion that the director of the KBI and the chairman of the Gover-
Phelps said the unidentified employee claims that Houser told Kelly she had dealt with Phelps and told her to arrange for him. He would be to arrange to have her shot.
"Kelly then responded O.K. But remember, it was your idea and you said it, I didn't, the letter alleged. "Neither Houser nor Kelly spoke in a joking manner. Further, we have evidence from a very reliable and responsible party in affidavit form that plans are being formulated to unlawfully wiretap the Phelps telephones and to do physical harm or murder to Marge Phelps."
KU Senate could meet every week Rights committee approves 7 bills
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Student senators will meet every week instead of every two weeks if the last four bills calling for a restructuring of Student Senate meetings pass the full Senate on Wednesday.
The committee also passed a bill that would establish an advisory board for the KU chapter of Associated Students of Kansas, ASK is a student interest group that represents Kansas Board of Regents schools and Washburn University in the Kansas Legislature.
The bills were among seven bills passed by the Student Senate Rights Committee last night in the last Rights Committee meeting this year.
If the bill passes the full Seneca, the campus director's salary would be paid by the Senate, the director would be chosen by the advisory board, and KU's ASK board member would be a non-senator chosen by the Student Senate Executive Committee.
Tim Boller, chairman of the Rights Committee and one of the authors of the bill, said ASK had been used as a "political football" for the last five years.
"We really want to keep ASK politically neutral," Boller said.
The purpose of the bill is to make campus ASK directors responsible to the campus rather than the state ASK organization, Boller said.
The weekly-meeting bill was part D of a nine-page bill that was divided into seven sections by the Rights Committee last month. Committee members decided that the original bill was too large and complicated to debate as a whole.
Section G requires that the student body president issue his goals to the standing committees by February and encourages the president and vice president to attend standing committee meetings.
Sections A and B passed the full Senate last month. Section A defines the attendance policy for StudEx members. Section B clarifies the structure of standing committees.
Section C, which would have combined the University Affairs and Cultural Affairs committees into a committee, failed in the Senate.
The ASK bill is similar to bills that are coming before student governments in all the Regents schools and Washburn University. Boller said.
The proposed advisory board would hire and fire the campus director, select delegates for ASK's Legislative Assembly, approve a budget and send it through the Student Senate Finance Committee and advise the campus director and Student Senate of important issues.
The Regents schools are the University of Kansas, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburgh State University, Wichita State University and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
After Wednesday's Senate meeting, Senate standing committees will not meet again until January, when new committee members will be appointed by the Committee Board.