Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1985
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Lawrence teen faces court appearance
Mark R. Maas, 19, Lawrence,
had his first appearance in
Douglas County District Court at
4 p.m. yesterday on charges of
aggravated kidnapping, agg-
graved burglary, aggravated
assault, and making a terroristic
threat.
On Oct. 8, Maas was alleged to have held a gun on the girl and to have threatened to shoot her and himself.
Mass, who shot himself Oct. 21 when a Lawrence police officer attempted to arrest him, was released from the University of Kansas Medical Center and booked into the Douglas County jail Saturday afternoon.
A preliminary date was set for 3:30 p.m. Nov, 6, and Maas was returned to custody on $140,000 bond.
The charges against Maas stem from incidents involving a 15-year-old rural Baldwin girl.
On Oct. 20, Maas allegedly entered the girl's home, forced her at gunpoint to leave in his car, then raped her.
Student reports rape
A 22-year-old KU student told police yesterday she was kidnapped and raped between 6:30 p.m. Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday by three men who had offered her a ride home from work Friday evening.
The woman told police that after she had gotten into the pickup truck, the men asked her for money. According to police, the woman said she and the three men stopped at a faculty member's house where she obtained $2,000, which the men took from her.
She said the men then tied her to up, blindfolded her and took her to a barn outside town. police said
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Girl reports rape
Police are investigating the incident.
A 15-year-old Lawrence girl told police she was raped early Sunday morning near the Kaw River Second. Street bridge, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The girl told police she was walking across the bridge toward downtown when a man grabbed her from behind and threw her to the rocks below the north end of the bridge.
She said the man jumped over the side of the bridge and raped her, police said.
The man left in a white pickup truck, and the girl was taken to the police station by a passing motorist, police said.
Police are looking for a Native American man in his early 20s.
Weather
Today will be cloudy, with a high in the mid 60s. Winds will be out of the northeast at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. The low will be in the lower 40s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, with a high in the mid 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Kansan, a story in yesterday's paper reported the wrong birthdate for a KU student who died. Brian E. Lucas was born Aug. 15, 1966.
Correction
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Council receives donations
Donations for the Emergency Service Council came flooding in this week to help Lawrence residents and KU students pay their bills.
"The Lawrence community always comes through when we tell them we need help." Lillian Sidlow, treasurer of the council, said yesterday. "We have a wonderful response to the publicity we've had."
The council, which has been unable to assist Lawrence residents and KU students since the beginning of October, received $5,633 in donations and organizations in the last week. Suddqain said.
The largest contribution was $875, with most ranging from $10 to $300, she said.
The volunteer organization, which meets once a week to screen applications and allocate money for emergencies, enables more than 1,000 residents each year to pay for utilities and shelter.
The organization, which went broke at the beginning of October, now will be able to assist residents for several weeks, she said.
"Because of the nature of what we do, we seem to go through money pretty fast." 'Sudlow said.' "If you don't, you're out of luck."
"It would be nice if we had a more steady input. We depend on donations."
Contributions from churches, organizations and individuals finance the council. In addition, the council sponsors fund raises.
A bake sale is planned from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 23 at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St.
The Rev. Jimmy Cobb, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church and head of the council's executive board, said, "I'm pleased to see the response, especially in light of such shock notice.
"We will need more donations to finish out the year, but those will be coming."
it takes $500 to help five or six people. The most anyone can receive at one time is $100. The maximum anyone can receive for the year is $200.
Shortage of funds will be an unending problem, mainly because of government cutbacks. Cobb said. Over the next several years, help for people will have to come from within the community
"We only deal with people who have exhausted all other avenues of assistance," Cobb said. "And we don't give cash to anybody. Instead we deal directly with the utility vendors or landlords."
Spiders' spinning sticks students
Webs numerous during early fall
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
Students would probably expect a spiderweb to get stuck to their faces in the attics of their favorite haunted houses, but not while walking down Jayhawk Boulevard.
The source of the spiderwebs seen floating across fields near Lawrence or getting caught on car antennas, tree limbs and across students faces on campus are newborn spiders. These spiderlings use the webs to travel from place to place, Robert Beer, professor of entomology, said yesterday.
Entomologists call the spiders' peculiar means of travel "ballooning."
Spiders balloon from their birth place because the tree or area they live in does not provide enough
'On a windy day, the spiders can easily travel from state to state, especially if they get caught in an updraft. But on a day like today, with no wind, they'll be traveling from tree to tree.'
prey and cannot support the 200 to 300 spiderlings that are usually hatched at one time.
The spiderlings climb to the top of a grass stalk or end of a tree branch and then release their silk into the wind. Eventually a gust of wind catchs the thread tugging the蜘蛛ing into the air, Beer said.
- Robert Beer
Scientists have observed spiders floating not only across the grasslands of Kansas, but also at
professor of entomology
altitudes of more than 25,000 feet and over the North and South poles, he said.
"On a windy day, the spiders can easily travel from state to state, especially if they get caught in an updraft," he said. "But on a day like today, with no wind, they'll be traveling from tree to tree."
Beer said students have been bombarding him with questions concerning the webs and spiders in general because they are
numerous in the early fall. Spiders use the wind to move throughout the spring and summer, but the long webs are more noticeable in the fall because spiderlings have begun to hatch.
The spiders will spend the winter in the spiderling stage wherever they land. Next spring they will start to grow again and mate at their end, producing the next generation of balloonists. Beer said.
The kind of silk a spider uses for ballooning is lighter, drier and stronger than spiders use for forming webs, which is sticky to catch prey, he said.
Tax board continues alum case
The hearing is set for 10 a.m. in the State Office Building in Topeka, said Linda Terrill, the counsel.
The State Board of Tax Appeals will hear new evidence and arguments Thursday on the tax status of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, the general counsel for the board said yesterday.
By a Kansan reporter
Brad Smoot, a Lawrence attorney who represents the Alumni Association, filed a motion Oct. 18 that requested a rehearing before the board to change the association is exempt from personal property and real estate taxes.
Smoot said recently that a rehearing would give the board another opportunity to look at the law and the facts.
In a 3-2 decision in September, the board denied the Alumni Association of Douglas County property tax exemption, saying the association wasn't a true alumni association because its membership was not restricted to alumni, and therefore didn't meet statutory requirements
Med Center ophthalmologist eyes use of lasers
If the Alumni Association is denied tax exempt status in Douglas County, it would be required to pay nearly $65,000 in taxes for 1984 in addition to taxes for 1985 and the following years.
The first half of the $65,000 was paid under protest in December 1984.
According to state law, buildings that aren't on state property do not receive tax exempt status unless they are used for religious or educational purposes.
The Alumni Association, which has been operating for more than 100 years, moved into the Adams Alumni Center, 1268 Oread Ave. in June 1983.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Lasers have revolutionized eye care, and the University of Kansas Medical Center is keeping abreast of the advances, an ophthalmologist at the Med Center says.
Argon, krypton and organic dye lasers are used in retinal treatment, Mainster said. The krypton laser produces red light, the argon laser produces blue-green light and the dye laser can produce a wide range of
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Martin Mainster, professor of ophthalmology, said yesterday that there were three general applications for lasers in ophthalmology. One use involves treatment of the retina, the film on the back of the eye that receives light rays.
colors.
"It it a very flexible system which allows you to select whichever wavelength is going to be most appropriate for the patient's retinal problem."
About a month ago, the Med Center received the first production model of the system manufactured in the United States, Mainster said. He said 10-15 models were delivered elsewhere.
One problem in diabetes is the formation of fragile new blood vessels in the retina, Mainter said.
"With our dye laser system here, we can get blue plus green, green only, yellow, orange or red with a single unit," he said.
The dye, argon and krypton lasers treat diabetic retinopathy but are not used.
"What you do with that is make a series of laser burns in the periphery of the retina," he said. "That causes the new vessels to regress and prevents bleeding."
Lasers also are used to treat opacified capsules, more commonly known as secondary cataracts.
In primary cataract surgery, the front part of the cloudy lens in the eye is removed, along with cloudy protein material. This leaves the back intact to serve as a scaffold for an implanted plastic lens.
Mainster, who has a doctorate in theoretical physics as well as a medical degree, was involved with developing clinical laser equipment at the Retina Foundation at Harvard Medical School. Boston. He brought his work to the Med Center six months ago.
Occasionally, the membrane remaining from the original lens becomes opaque, creating a "secondary" cataract.
In the past, an ophthalmologist had to cut that membrane with a needle knife in the operating room.
Now, however, a YAG laser can be used to make an incision in the membrane. Mainster said it takes about 15 minutes in the ophthalmologist's office.
"The nice thing about that," he said, "is that this is a noninvasive procedure, so there's no danger of infection."
The YAG laser also is used to treat angle closure glaucoma.
Angle closure glaucoma occurs when the angle between the cornea (the transparent tissue covering the front of the eye) and the iris (the colored part of the eye) is so narrow that fluid produced in the eye cannot drain properly.
The build-up of fluid causes the pressure inside the eye to increase. If it isn't treated, the pressure can cause damage to the optic nerve — the nerve that lets the brain know what the eye is seeing.
Laser treatment of the condition is called an iridotomy.
"What you do is shine a laser beam through the eye and make a hole in the iris," Mainster said.
Fluid then can pass freely from behind the iris.
Although the Food and Drug Administration has not approved YAG lasers for iridotomies yet, Mainster predicted that they would be widely used soon.
Macabre melodies Orchestra to present eerie night of Halloween hits
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Watch out for witches, ghosts and skeletons when the University Symphony Orchestra performs its Halloween Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Zuohuang Chen, conductor of the orchestra, said recently that he and the 80 orchestra members would dress in costumes and perform special music for Halloween.
"The music is lighthearted and should be fun and entertaining," Chen said. "I hope it becomes a tradition."
The concert is free and open to the public. Chen, associate professor of orchestral ac
"They're kind of going whole-hog to make an occasion of it rather than a normal stuffy occasion with tuxedos," said Keith Branson, Higginsville, Md., doctor student in organ, who composed "Things That Go Bump in the Night" for the concert opening.
tivities, will conduct Berloz's "The Procession to the Scaffold," and each of his doctoral conducting students will direct one musical selection. One piece, composed by a KU student especially for the opening, will be directed by an "invisible conductor."
"Chen told me that he needed a piece to open the concert that was relatively short and in the mood of the concert," Branson said. "So I composed a short piece of music. It's sort of
spooky and has some bizarre things going on with unusual sounds, but it's a little playful, too."
Greg Clemons, Lawrence doctoral student in music education, said the concert would become a tradition. Clemons, a former band director and assistant director for the University Wind Ensemble, will conduct the "Sabre Dance" from Kathakhurstian's "Gavey Ballet."
"Iimagine an Armenian soldier carrying a saber who involves himself in a dance that continually grows faster and faster and more frantic and more agitated toward the end." Clemons said. "It is standard orchestral repertoire but lighter and more entertaining."
The other music will include Saint-Saens
"Dance Macabre," conducted by Colin Holman, Basingstoke, England, graduate student; two movements from Grieg's "Peer Gyn Suite, No. 1." conducted by Joe Brashier, Clinton graduate student; and Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain," conducted by Jay Jackson, Lawrence graduate student.
Chen promised treats for people who arrived at the Ballroom by 7:30 p.m.
"The concert is kind of in the style of a Boston Pops concert." Clemons said. "It should help attract a larger audience and people can see that an evening with the University Symphony Orchestra is not as straight-laced and boring as they might think it would be."
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