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Thursday, Oct. 24, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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3 arrested in JRP lot during theft attempt
A 21-year-old Lawrence man and two juveniles were arrested early Tuesday morning in the parking lot of Joseph R. Pearson Hall for trying to steal a car stereo and equalizer from a car, KU police said yesterday.
Furniture, small household appliances, clothes and other household items, together valued at $17,695, were stolen sometime between August and Oct. 20 from a storage locker at Fort Knox Storage, 1717 W. 31st St., Lawrence police said yesterday.
Man listed as fair
Police said 11 units at Fort Knox and at A-1 Mini Warehouse, 2904 Iowa ST., were broken into between August and last week.
The man, Kenneth A. Dye, 3323 Iowa St., was charged with attempted theft and possession of burglary tools. He was released on January 1, 2004, but yesterday on $1,500 bond. Bail originally had been set at $3,000.
A 19-year-old Lawrence man who shot old Monday morning while being arrested by a Lawrence police officer was in fair condition early today at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., a hospital spokesman said.
One juvenile was released to an adult, and the other was held on an outstanding arrest warrant.
Mark R. Maas, 2333 Atticson St., was charged Tuesday with rape, aggravated kidnapping and aggrassed burglary in connection with an incident that took place between 11 p.m. Sunday and 6:30 a.m. Monday involving a 15-year-old girl.
Warehouse burgled
Jazz performance set
The University of Kansas Jazz Ensembles I and II will perform a fall concert with the Vocal Jazz Choir at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Rectal Hall in Murphy Hall.
The groups, directed by Ron McCurdy, assistant professor of music, will present a variety of jazz pieces ranging from old standards to contemporary pieces. Some of the songs in the program were arranged by students in the jazz ensembles.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Coding talk planned
The department of computer science will present a colloquium on a new computer algorithm, dynamic Huffman coding, at 4 p.m. today in 300 Strong Hall.
Jeffrey S. Vitter, associate professor of computer science at Brown University, Providence, R.I. will speak about the design of the algorithm and its improvements over conventional methods.
Vitter, who received his doctoral degree in computer science from Stanford University, will be available at 3:30 p.m. in 116 Strong Hall before the meeting.
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid- to upper 70s. Winds will be light and variable. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low of 45 to 50. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high again in the mid- to upper 70s.
Weather
Slattery tours campuses to win support
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
From staff and wire reports.
Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., is one of about 50 young Democratic congressmen who started touring college campuses last weekend to entice students to their party.
Slattery, who represents the 2nd District, which covers the Lawrence and Topea area, said yesterday that the message brought to students was of a changing Democratic Party.
The new Democratic Party should retain its old commitment to fairness, he said, but also should respond to the issues of the day, the most important one being the economy.
"We have done an inadequate job communicating to the public," he said. "We also need new leadership and a new direction."
"The Republicans have been very effective portraying themselves as the party for a strong national defense, for the family and as the
Last weekend, the 50 congressmen visited 13 campuses across the United States for a "Forum for the Future." Slattery went to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, with Reps. Jim Moody, D-Wis., and Richard Durbin, D-II.
patriotic party, and the Democrats as being the opposite.
"This is simply not true."
The forums were Durbin's idea. Rep Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., is organizing them.
Renee Wessels, Slattery's press secretary,
said the forums would continue for several
months, but none had been scheduled yet. She
said it depended on interest shown by the
universities.
Todd Cohen, secretary and treasurer of KU Democrats and state vice president of Kansas Young Democrats, said Slattery had canceled a Nov. 12 visit to the University of Kansas because Congress had extended its session. Slattery said he hoped to visit KU in the near
future, which Cohen said would probably be in January.
Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, said the Democratic Party was in disarray and was looking for a sense of direction.
"They have felt that they are losing this generation," he said. "This activity is a reflection of this.
"Gephardt and Slattery are trying to redefine the Democratic Party as being both fiscally conservative and liberal. They have captured the middle ground between the modern forces of Hart and the old Kennedy liberalism."
Gigler said he saw Gephardt's support of the college forums as a step in his 1988 presidential
Slattery said students were interested in a broad range of issues, from South Africa and the arms race, to student loans and the federal budget deficit. The new Democratic Party advocated fiscal responsibility and paying the bills. Slattery said his vision of the future was of a strong America, militarily and economically.
was more than twice as many as last year. Election years generally bring more interest, he said.
Democrats are making headway at KU, Cohen said. He said he was surprised that 144 students signed up as interested in the organization at an activity fair this fall. That
"Young people are concerned about the deficit," he said. "We have doubled our national debt over five years, and they are wondering who is going to pay, how is it going to affect their opportunities, and will they be paying higher taxes.
"I believe the deficit is a threat to economic growth."
Slattery said young people liked Reagan as a person, but disagreed with him on most issues.
Charges to be filed for fake ticket sales
By a Kansan reporter
A 23-year-old KU student who was arrested Monday for allegedly selling two bogus basketball season tickets was released from jail yesterday on his own recognizance, Lawrence police said yesterday.
No formal charges have been filed against the student, Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said. The appearance is scheduled for Friday.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said police thought that the suspect had sold 15-20 bogus season basketball tickets for $35 or more each since Monday.
The student had placed a classified newspaper advertisement offering to sell two season basketball tickets. A female student answered the ad, which appeared Monday in the University Daily Kansan, and arranged to buy the two tickets for $75.
Later, after noticing something strange about the way the numbers were printed on the tickets, she called the man and asked whether he had seen a person behind the KU police and told them she thought she had purchased bonus tickets.
A friend of the woman, also a student, later arranged to buy two more tickets from the man. The man and woman met on campus and made the exchange in the presence of a plainclothes KU police officer.
Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director, said that season basketball tickets must be in demand if someone allegedly forged them.
He said the 7,000 season basketball tickets available to students were sold out.
"And before the season begins, we're looking at a sellout in the public section," he said. "The alleged forgeries will definitely not affect our ticket sales."
Workshop tells women to improve self-image
Of the Kansan staff
By Susie Bishop
"Success isn't luck," said Barbara ballard, the coordinator. "We make that happen."
A good self-image and confidence can be the key to the door of success, the coordinator of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center said last night at a workshop on women and success.
Lori Irving, Thousand Oaks, Calif., graduate student, was one of the 20 women who attended the workshop, "Women and Success," in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union. She said she enjoyed the workshop and thought it was beneficial to herself and all women.
"These issues are really important because women are taking a more active role in the work force." Irving said. "Success goes beyond family."
The workshop dealt with women and their roles in life, and what preparation these women had for their roles.
The women gathered to talk about their definitions of success and how to achieve it. They also spoke of the barriers keeping them from reaching their goals. Many spoke of procrastination, self-doubt and perfectionism. The women knew the way to a good self-image and, eventually, success.
Kim Stryker, a graduate assistant at the women's center, said, "Barriers exist in all situations and it's important when you can't overcome them.
Ballard said the first step in conquering personal barriers was to admit weakness. Attacking the problem in small, low-risk situations would lead to success eventually, she said.
"Success is important, but it has to be your definition of success, not someone else's or the media's," she said. "Sometimes the price of success is high. You have to pay for it."
Ballard said the payment for success could be giving up free time, lack of privacy, being in constant demand and hard work.
Each person must define success for herself, Ballard said. If a woman decides success is being a housewife and raising kids, that is just as valid as being a corporate executive earning $80,000 to $100,000 a year, she said.
"If you don't have a positive image of yourself, there are things you can do to improve your self-image." Ballard said. "Having a positive self-image makes things happen for yourself."
Goals, like the definition of success, can be set only for one's self, and not by another person, Ballard said.
Ballard said women with good self-images strove for success.
"If you don't have a personality, people certainly notice it," she said. "Personality becomes a descriptor, a way for someone to label you."
Personality reflects self-image in the way a woman projects herself,
"The bottom line is I want people to feel good about themselves, and not always take the easy road," she said
While keeping an eye on the progress of the World Series on a miniature television, Jeff Polack, student body vice president, and Alison Young, Student Senate executive secretary, listened to debate during last night's Senate meeting in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Student Senate adds six seats
Of the Kansan staff
By Bonnie Snyder
Off-campus, residence hall and non-traditional students will get more representation in Student Senate beginning next fall.
The number of off-campus seats will increase from one to five, the number of residence hall seats will increase from one and a Senate seat for nontraditional students, and that Student Senate passed at its meeting last night.
The number of senators will increase from 66 to 72. The Senate also passed a resolution saying that no policy concerning University students, faculty or staff who are AIDS victims should be adopted without consulting all University governing bodies and Student Health Services.
A resolution is the opinion of the Student Senate and is not binding on University administration.
Another resolution, titled "A Resolution Supporting a Great American Tradition," which would have "applauded" the 1985 Kansas City Royals, their organization and their manager, Dick Dewser, was killed by the Senate, even after about 10 senators sang a chorus of "God Bless America."
Although some baseball fans, including William Easley, student body president, and Jeff Polack, student body vice president, brought televisions to the meeting and periodically provided updates on World Series action, the Kansas City Royals lost not only in St. Louis but also in the Student Senate.
Gordon Woods, liberal arts and sciences senator, and Henry Schwaller, Nunemaker senator, said the Senate was wasting its time on baseball and left the meeting.
In other action, the Senate:
■ Passed section B of the same bill. Section B clarifies the structure of standing Senate committees.
- Passed section A of a bill that would restructure Senate meetings. Section A defines the attendance policy of the Student Senate Executive Committee and the responsibilities of the Student Senate Committee Board.
■ Passed section B or the same bill. Section B clarifies the structure of standing Senate committees.
■ Did not pass section C of the bill. Section C would have combined the Student Senate Cultural Affairs Committee with the Student Senate University Affairs Committee into one body called University Life.
Allocated $4,230 to KU Bands for the 1986 Ninth Annual Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival.
Wolf Creek arguments scheduled
United Press International
TOPEKA — Nov. 8 is the day owners of the Wolf Creek nuclear plant will get their first chance to convince the Kansas Corporation Commission to change its mind on their rates to finance the $3.05 billion plant.
The KCC has scheduled oral arguments that day on requests for a rehearing of the Wolf Creek rate
case, which resulted in drastic cuts in utility rate requests to finance the plant.
The commission's order listed issues to be considered, including such topics as depreciation reserves, nuclear fuel leasing, calculation of capital costs, whether the federal budget is adequate, preempts the KCC on capacity questions, whether the KCC has authority to adopt risk-sharing principles and
whether the KCC's actions were constitutional
Included in the order is a rehearing motion by a group of Johnson County interveners in the Wolf Creek case.
The owners of Wolf Creek — Kansas Gas & Electric Co., Kansas City Power & Light Co., and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc. — have accused the commission of being arbitrary and capricious in drastically cutting their rate increase requests.