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Royals' pitcher Bret Saberhagen wins MVP award in World Series. See page 9.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCT. 28, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 46 (USPS 650-640)
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Train game results in death of student
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A 19.year-old KU sophomore was killed about 1:15 a.m. yesterday when he jumped in front of a Union Pacific Railroad locomotive as it crossed the railroad bridge over Mud Creek in Leavenworth County, a trooper from the Kansas Highway Patrol said yesterday.
Brian E. Lucas, Lawrence sophomore, was playing a game known in Lawrence as "training," said Trooper Ray Bailiff of the Kansas Highway Patrol,
"There were about a dozen 18- to 22-year-old kids out there," Baillif said. "They were trying to see who could get closest to the train without getting hit.
Bailiff said the train, which was traveling west at 50 mph, was able to come to a stop
about one half mile down the tracks from where it had struck Lucas.
Lucas was thrown 100 feet through the air and landed about 20 feet from the west end of bridge, Bailiff said.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Warren-Meilwin Mortuary, 120 W. 13th St. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at the mortuary, and the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 o.
Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence.
Tom LaHoop, a Union Pacific spokesman in Omaha, Neb., said the railroad was aware of training and had been trying to stop it by putting special railroad agents at the popular train station in the city. On bridge, three miles outside of Lawrence, and the TeePee Junction over the Kaw River
"We do the best we can to keep them off
the bridges," LaHoo said. "I guess it just wasn't good enough."
LaHoop said the training game appeared to have originated with KU students and with few exceptions was played only around Lawrence.
"It's unconscionable that these people would even think they could confront a train and come out ahead," LaHoo said.
"Our hope is that this will be a lesson to those who lived. They must, must, must stop this dangerous practice."
Pete Owens, Omaha sophomore said he had played the training game last year. He said he had heard through friends last night about Lucas' death.
Owens said several versions of the training game existed, ranging from sitting behind a metal bridge support next to the tracks to lying beneath the tracks as the train traveled by.
Steve Mueller, Overland Park sophomore, said that he also had trained last year, but he stopped when he realized how dangerous the game was.
"My roommate was really good friends with Brian. There was just no reason for him to have died over something that stupid."
He is survived by his parents, Donald and Rita Lucas, 3009 Tomahawk Drive; three brothers, Warren, 174 Pinecone Drive; and Kurt and Scott, of the home; a paternal grandfather, Herbert Lucas, Galesburg, III.; and a maternal grandmother, Lula Thomson, Galesburg, III.
The family has established the Brian Lucas Memorial Fund, and money from the fund will go toward the purchase of adaptive equipment to help children with disabilities. Donations should be sent to the mortuary.
Ad prof is winner of HOPE Fourth time is the charm for Bengtson
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
"And the winner of the 1985 HOPE Award is . . . " the public address announcer said Saturday morning at Memorial Stadium.
The six finalists stood on the 50-yard line with Chancellor Gene A. Budig and the HOPE Award committee.
"... Timothy Bengtson."
Bengtion raised his eyebrows and a modest smile broke on his face.
"I'm surprised," he said later. "I had written this thing off. I thought I had no chance at all."
Bengtson, associate professor of journalism and director of the advertising sequence, was first congratulated by his competitor and colleague, Lee P Young, William Allen Benttson, distinguished professor of journalism
"I don't think I can fully appreciate this until tomorrow." Reptonius said.
About 260 seniors cast HOPE bibits, said Dan Farley, a member of the U.S. Congress.
class with ten rows. *Bergsman Sarro.*
The Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award was established by the class of 1959. The senior class awards it annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated teaching excellence and concern for the students. It is the only teaching award selected and presented exclusively by students.
Budig completed the pre-game ceremony by congratulating Bengtson and giving him a $200 check. Bengtson will receive a plaque from Janet Rockey, member of the HOPE Award committee, said yesterday.
"There are so many excellent teachers here." Bengtson said. "It's great to have them."
Bengtson praised his competitors,
Don W. Green, Conger-Gabel
distinguished professor of chemical
and petroleum engineering; Gary
Mason, associate professor of journal-
ism; Nita W. Sundybe, professor
of curriculum and instruction;
E. Eckert, professor of chemistry;
E. Ackers distinguished professor of
chemical and petroleum engineering,
and Young.
Bengtson said this was the only university of the five he had taught at that awarded good teaching. He has won two EAward finalists three times before.
"It's great for the individual who wins," Bengtson said, "but it also shows the emphasis given to teaching by the University."
"I was delighted just to be out there on the field with these people," he said. "The competition was enormous."
Del Brinkman, dean of journalism,
said he was doubly pleased. He was
pleased that three of the six finalists
were from the William Allen White
School of Journalism and Mass Com-
munication, and he was happy for Benttong.
"It was well-deserved." he said.
"He has been in the running for many years. But any one of the finalists were deserving."
Bengtson said he thought he had a better chance in past years. He thought three professors from the
See HOPE. p. 5. col. 4
Suzy Mast/KANSAN
Keith Hetrick flies over two 10-foot pole holding the lead ropes for a Dinosaur Saturday to pick the banner up, after the first banner broke loose and re-lands Days' banner. Hetrick used a grappling hook suspended from the plane the ground.
Plane's banner takes dive during KU football game
By Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
The "GO KU Air Force" banner snapped and fell from the sky Saturday like a balloon that had lost its air.
Lloyd's 26-year-old brother, Keith, was flying the plane that had been towing the banner. The two brothers operate Air Services Inc. at Lawrence Municipal Airport.
On an average game day, one of the Hetrick brothers flies the plane, while the other brother and some helpers, such as Dwight Cowan,
The brothers pull banners for many occasions, including birthdays and wedding proposals, Keith said, but KU football games bring the most business.
"It's good advertising because they know there will be a lot of people at the game," he said.
"Good God! That's the first time for that." said Lloyd Hetrick, 29, the manager of Air Services.
Monday Morning
But they didn't plan on the first banner, which Lloyd said he liked to have flying over the stadium at kickoff, snapping and making a dive for earth.
Topeka, Gary Lacore, 3427 Harvard Road, and Roger Albers, Dodge City senior, set up the next banners to be flown.
Keith had the KU Air Force banner, which R & B Sales Co., 1001 N. Third St. had paid $160 for, up in the air at about 11:30 a.m. He banked left to fly by Lloyd and the ground crew one time so they could check the banner for tangles. He had circumnauted out of the turn when the banner snapped.
Keith landed the single engine Cessna Cullas 172 RG a few minutes later, and said to them, "It will be great."
"I think that's the first time we ever lost a banner," Keith said later.
On a normal day, the brothers take the ban.
Dwight Cowan, Topeka, helps Lloyd Hetrick untangle the "GO KU Air Force" banner. The banner crashed to the ground when it snapped loose Saturday after the plane had picked it up.
ners, which have been made earlier in the week, from the hangar, put them in the truck and drive out to the airfield just northeast of the terminal and next to the rupway.
Each letter in the banners is 5 feet by $21_{2}$. They are made of red nylon sewn onto thin straps stretched between two fiberglass poles. The letters are buckled together to form the words in the banner. The KU Air Force banner was about 80 feet long.
See BANNER, p. 5, col. 2
Royals capture victory Royal fans rejoicing in win . . .
By Chris Barber Associate campus editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - "Ladies and gentlemen, the Kansas City Royals are the 1985 World Champions."
These words by announcer Jack Layton tell what happened on the field last night at Royals Stadium but don't come close to describing the feeling in the stands.
Try pandemonium.
Or hvsteria.
Forty-one thousand Royals fans released the frustration of five postseasons of falling short. If there had been a roof on Royals Stadium, it would have come loose. Instead, the packed stands shook with the ecstasy of victory.
Royals game story p. 9.
In the lower deck, the level closest to the field, every fan celebrated in his own way, or in several ways at once. They jumped, screamed, danced and pounded each other on the dances. Most already were hoarse.
"Words can't explain the way I feel," Peter Sowden, Mission Hills, said.
Most had expected a close game instead of the drubbing the Royals gave the Cardinals.
His friend Mark Curtis, Mission
Guard, said, "I feel like I'm on top of
the world."
The victory celebration began tentatively in the third inning, when the royals led 5-0. The celebration cut off as the team battled when the Royals took an 11-10 lead.
See ROYALS o. 5 col. 4
.again Card fans are losers
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Being a St. Louis Cardinals fan was no fun last night. Especially for students in Lawrence who live with Kansas City Royals enthusiasts.
"I am more than a little outnumbered," Paul Lutz, St. Louis senior, said yesterday. "With four roommates — two very strong Royals fans — it gets very intense around here."
Other roommate rivals felt the pressure before the game last night.
"Cardinals fans tend to lose hold of reality," said Mike Slattery, Topeka junior, a Royals fan. "The writing on the wall is pretty clear. My roommate is a St. Louis fan, and we give and take a lot of verbal harassment." Others said the rivalry was all in fun.
"My roommates and I always joke around," said Susan Moellenberg, St. Louis senior. "One of my roommates is from St. Louis, and the other two are from Kansas City. The first few games we watched together, but now
See FANS p 5 col 1
Choosey thieves snatch 9 paintings in Paris
United Press International
PARIS — Gunmen described as "connoisseurs" burst into the Marmottan Museum moments after it opened yesterday and stole nine paints, worth millions, including a Monet print. It also Impressionist movement its name.
Witnesses the five thieves fled so quickly that they stuffed the canvases into the trunk of a gray car double-parked in front of the museum and sped off with the vehicle's trunk still open.
Marmottin curator Yves Brayer said the paintings were invaluable
but would sell for "millions of dollars, at the least." He said the stolen works were "very fragile works painted directly on the canvas which should be handled as little as possible."
French news reports said the haul was worth $4 million but art experts in Paris estimated the works would sell for much more.
burst in and took security guards and about 30 visitors hostage.
The daring daytime robbery began shortly after the museum opened its doors at 10 a.m. Two of the thieves purchased tickets, entered the building and were joined by three others, one of them masked, who
"I saw two men come in. They threatened the guards at gunpoint and made them lie face down," said a female attendant who refused to be named. "First they made the guards on the main floor lie down, then the ones on the bottom floor. Nobody was hurt. They just waved the guns."
Museum officials said the alarm system was turned off during the daytime, because of the possibility of false alarms set off by visitors.
methodical operation that took only 10 minutes.
"These were connoisseurs. They knew what they were looking for," said museum manager Josette Tavera.
The thieves, armed with "large caliber" weapons, went from room to room taking the paintings in a
The most valuable of the stolen paintings was "Impression — Sunrise," painted in 1872 by Claude Monet and first shown in 1874 in an exhibition of painters banned from Paris' official exhibition halls.
The work lent its name to the French school of painting known as the Impressionist Movement, in which Monet and fellow painters sought to capture in oil the
changeable effects of light and weather.
Brayer the thieves escaped with five Monets, two paintings by Auguste Renoir, one by Berthe Moré and another by Edouard Manet, and one by Nayman.
He listed the missing oils as "Camille Monet and his Cousin on the Beach at Trouville," "Portrait of Jean Monet," "Portrait of Poly, fisher at Belle-Isole," and "Field of Tulips in Holland," by Monet, "Bathers" and "Portrait of Monet" by Renoir, "Young Woman at the Ball," by Morisot, and "Portrait of Monet," by Naruse.