Wednesdav. Oct. 30. 1985
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News Briefs
Stolen safe is found outside bus station
A safe belonging to the Union Bus Depot, 1401 W. Sixth St., was found about 2 a.m. Monday near the curb on seventh Street near Michigan Street, Lawrence police said yesterday.
A man who was delivering newspapers called police after he saw the safe sitting near the curb, then noticed a man running from the area.
Police found the back door of the bus station had been forced open, and the safe, a two-wheeled dolly luggage cart had been removed.
The stolen property was found outside the station, and the safe had not been opened, police said.
ASK to have meeting
All students are invited to bring comments, questions and suggestions about Associated Students of Kansas to a platform hearing at 5 p.m. today in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union
University Daily Kansan
Brian Gilpin, KU's ASK director, said the purpose of the meeting was to inform students as well as association members of KU's position in the November 22-23 ASK Legislative Assembly at Emporia State University.
Pumpkin sketch set
Architecture students looking for Halloween entertainment can make use of their sculpting skills today during the Great Pumpkin Charrette, Jacki Hirst, instructor in architecture and urban design, said yesterday.
Hirsty students should bring their own pumpkins and utensils to the Lindley annex at 1:30 p.m. Students will have three hours to complete a sketch problem that she will give to them.
Applications are due
Campus/Area
Hirsty she ran she a similar charteur, which is a French word for a fast sketch problem, last year. She said last year's charteur was a success.
Applications for this year's Hilltop award must be submitted to the Jahywah Yearbook, Kansas Union, by s.R.m. Friday.
The Hilltopter award is presented each year to seven members of the senior class. Students who have been nominated must submit applications to be considered for the award.
Applicants will be judged on their service to the community and University. Academic achievement is considered in the final decision but is not an overriding concern.
The winners, who will be announced in mid-December, are selected by a committee of faculty, students and Jayhawker staff members. Seniors with questions should call the Jayhawker yearbook office at 864-3728.
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the low to mid 60s. Winds will be from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear. The low will be in the upper 30s or lower 40s. Tomorrow will be sunny with a high in the low 70s.
Weather
From staff and wire reports.
Enrollment demands prerequisites
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
About 100 KU students are disenrolled from a course each semester because they have not met the course prerequisites, Gary Thompson, director of student records, said Monday.
Some students who enroll incorrectly think they can beat the system, while others just do not read the timetable, be said.
"Students should be aware of the risk," he said. "They home they won't be caught."
Schools and departments with a high demand for their courses check carefully that students pass their restrictions, Thompson said. Most restrictive are the School of Business, the School of Engineering and the department of computer science.
Because the University is unable to add
Robert Zerwekh, associate dean of engineering, said many of the students who are disenrolled had been dismissed from the engineering school but tried to "sneak in the back door." They enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which requires a lower grade point average, and tried to take engineering courses.
Most departments and schools rely on a student's adviser to screen unauthorized students, which isn't always very effective, he said.
significantly to its faculty, resources are directed to those who need them most, Thompson said.
"In some courses, it's a problem," he said. "The crowded courses attract more of the unauthorized students."
About 80 students found themselves kicked out of some business courses a month ago.
They either had not fulfilled course prerequisites or were enrolled in courses above BUS 475 without having been admitted to the school. The students were notified after the add-drop period.
Corwin Grube, director of the business undergraduate program, said 70 to 80 percent of the disenrolled students now had been readmitted. Some of the students' records were incomplete, although they had met the requirements. The others were readmitted because of difficulties they would have had in graduating on time or keeping financial aid.
Grube said the new order of enrollment for next semester would help ensure that sophomores were not taking up spaces juniors needed. The new order also gives priority to seniors and graduate students.
Thompson said the problem would be
alleviated by programming the computer to screen non-business school students from courses above BUS 475 for the enrollment in April.
Thompson said the computer had a built-in flag for courses requiring a special permission. But he said many prerequisites were judgment calls by the adviser and could not be handled by the computer.
Joe Van Zandt, coordinator of the advising support center, said there was some room for negotiation in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences about whether a student needed to take a prerequisite course or was prepared adequately in high school.
Thompson advised students to check in the timetable for course prerequisites and whether special permission was needed.
Police discover forged stickers
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
KU police discovered recently that two KU students were selling bogus football passes to other students, police said yesterday.
Lt. Jenne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said police were tipped off about the bogus passes while in gameplay. The team forged season basketball tickets.
An anonymous caller phoned in the information about the bogus football passes after hearing of the basketball ticket investigation, but the two cases were not related, she said.
Longaker said officers had interviewed a student who told them he had asked friends about a way to get into football games without paving.
After asking around for a while, the student contacted another student who said he would sell him bogus football stickers.
The stickers were faked versions of those that allow student athletes to get into the games free. The stickers
were placed on the KU identification card. Longaker said.
The first student told police he bought 10 stickers for $50, then liked the idea so much that he made 200 more himself. Longaker said.
KU police are still investigating the student who sold the original bogus stickers, Longaker said.
The student told police he sold at least five stickers, then threw away the stickers.
Richard Konzem, Williams Fund director, said the sticker system was started at the beginning of last year after the National Collegiate Athletic Association passed a rule that allowed universities to give athletes in varsity sports complimentary passes to the games.
"We didn't want a bunch of complimentary passes floating around, so we went to the sticker system. This was the second year, and we changed them this year. We thought we had a good system.
"It's a great rule," he said. "It allows kids from one sport to support
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Siberia to be covered in new course
Peggy Ryan, Prairie Village junior, played fetch yesterday with her dog, Jynx, in front of Watson Library.
Of the Kansan staff
By John Williams
Gerald Mikkelson, the professor, who is in charge of the course, said the new interdisciplinary course would examine the geography, people, resources, culture, and development of Siberia from its beginnings to the present.
A new course to be offered spring semester will provide to students a chance to study almost every angle of Siberia, a professor of Soviet and East European studies said yesterday.
"We are going to approach the class from many different angles," he said. "We will start by defining what Siberia is and end up with the relationship between Siberia, China and Japan."
Although Russia has used Siberia for centuries as a place of exile and imprisonment, Mikkelson said he hoped students would see more than that in Siberia.
"We want to try to prove to the students there is a lot more to Siberia than cold and political convicts," he said.
The class will be offered as SLAV 140 and 141. Introduction to Russian Culture; Siberia; SLAV 502, Introduction to Russian Culture and Society; Siberia; SLAV 679, Topics in Siberia; HIST 510, Topics in Siberia; and GEOG 498, Special Topics in Siberia.
The course will be instructed by 11 professors, who will direct from one to six $2 \frac{1}{4}$-hour discussion/lecture sessions. They are: Joseph Conrad, professor of Slavic languages and literature; Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology; Leslie Dienes, professor of geography; William Fletcher, professor of Soviet and East European studies; Jacob Kipp, professor of history at Kansas State University; Robert Hoffman, professor of systematics and ecology; William Kuhlke, professor of Soviet and East European studies; Roy Laird, professor of Soviet and East European studies; Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Soviet and East European studies; Norman Saul, professor of history; and Seret Zalygin, a Siberian novelist who will join the class in late March.
The class, to be recommended to fulfill the non-
western culture requirement for freshman entering in the fall of 1987, will rely heavily on the natural sciences to attract students from science fields. Mikkelson said
He said he hoped the new course, to be offered every third or fourth semester, would build interest in starting the first center for Siberian studies in the United States at the University.
The only other Siberian studies center is in Akademgorodok, a suburb of Novosibirsk, in southern Siberia, and is the site of a university and about 25 scientific research centers dedicated to research of Siberia, he said.
Mikkelson said Siberia, named for a Mongolian tribe that occupied the area in the 13th century, was an important area of study because of its vast size.
Siberia contains about 10 percent of the total land area of the world extending from the Ural Mountains, in central Soviet Union, east to the Pacific Ocean, and borders on Mongolia and a small part of northeastern China. The climate ranges from a climate similar to Canada's to arctic conditions.
Allen Field House to get new bleachers
By Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
There was something missing at the men's basketball Crimson and Blue Scrimimage Saturday afternoon. The bleachers in the lower level of Allen Field House weren't there.
"We were told that they would be ready on Oct. 15," Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said yesterday. "So it's evident that they're way past that deadline."
A $228,000 renovation project began after the 1984-85 basketball season, and will increase the field house seating capacity of 15,200 by 200-300 seats.
Temple said he was nervous because on Nov. 8, when KU hosts the Czechoslovakian National Men's Team, some reserved ticket-holders for the lower level of the field house might not have a place to sit.
"You look out there right now," he said. "You'd say there's no way to make it. It would be a very bad public
relations fiasco if they weren't ready."
But Hoover Brothers, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., the contractor of the project, currently has two shifts working on the bleacher installation. Temple said.
The project has been delayed, Temple said, because frameworks on which the bleachers will be installed have not yet arrived. Temple said he expected the materials to have arrived by today.
coming, and we're going to impress upon them that these seats have been sold and we want them ready for people in on the ith of November." he said.
While the renovation will increase seating, the most important reason for the project, Temple said, is to change the field house's appearance.
"An engineer from the factory is
"I think it's going to change the looks of the arena." Temple said.
"It's going to be completely closed in except for the four entrances at each corner.
Senate votes to be tallied by machine
By a Kansan reporter
Students voting in this fall's Student Senate election will not be bothered with paper ballots, and candidates will not have to wait days to learn whether they won or lost.
Voting machines will be used during the Nov. 20-21 Student Senate elections.
David Day, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said yesterday that he would bring in 24 voting machines from the Johnson County Elections Office in Olathe.
The state will lend the machines free, but Student Senate will have to pay for transportation and for the computer paper used in the machines. Day said. The paper costs $20 a month on your payroll on the transportation costs, but the machines probably will be cheaper than paper ballots. Day said.
Day said the representative of students who live off-campus would help with the registration.
He said most students would vote for their school representative, student body president and vice president at machines in the building most used by their schools. Smaller machines are available on machines in a central polling place such as the Kansas Union or Strong Hall, he said.
"It might be a little bit more of a hassle." Day said.