Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Enrollment folders available this week
Undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences can pick up their spring semester enrollment cards and folders from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
A photo I.D. card will be required to get a card and folder.
Two 18-year-old KU students were cited for disorderly conduct Friday when a police officer saw them urinating on a police car. Lawrence police said yesterday
Advising in the college will from Oct. 28 to Nov. 8, and students can obtain dean's stamps from 8:30 to 10:30 during those days in 4017 Wesley Hall
Men caught in act
The police car was parked in the service drive in front of Joseph R. Pearson Hall at 10:55 p.m. Friday when the officer walked up and saw the two men urinating on it, police said.
Police said the two men were issued notices to appear in Lawrence Municipal Court on charges of disorderly conduct.
Hospital to cut bills
KU employees will get relief from hospital bills under a newly applied policy at Bell Memorial Hospital at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
For full-time KU employees, the hospital will absorb the cost of hospitalization that is not covered by insurance, Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration, said yesterday.
As of Oct. 1, hospitalized University employee will be responsible only for the deductible amount of their insurance. Bell Memorial will absorb the cost that is not paid by the insurance.
The state-sponsored Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance plan pays 80 percent of hospital costs, after the deductible. Bell Memorial now will not charge for the 20 percent that is not covered.
KPL wants increase
TOPEKA — KPL Gas Service Co. yesterday filed a $21.2 million natural gas rate increase request with the Kansas Corporation Commission.
The 5.2 percent increase would affect 550,000 Kansas customers on the KPL Gas Service system, which includes Lawrence.
Weather
This morning will be cloudy, but skies will become partly sunny by afternoon. Highs will be 70 to 75. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows will be in the mid to upper 50s. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s.
From staff and wire reports
Correction
Because of a reporter's error,
the amount raised in last spring's
KJHK-FM auction was incorrectly
reported in Friday's University
Daily Kansan. The amount was
$2,500-$3,500.
Replacement senators hard to find
The Student Senate Elections Committee can't find enough people to be student senators.
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Since last semester, about 20 senators have resigned or have been removed from their Senate seat. Usually, the next highest vote-getters from last fall's election would be given those seats, but only nine have been accepted so far.
David Day, chairman of the committee, said yesterday that he had gone through the entire list of candidates for some schools' seats and no one would take the positions.
No school is completely without representation in the Senate, Day said. He said he had to go back to write-in candidates to fill the seats from some schools.
He said there was a chance that someone with one write-in vote could be offered a seat.
"We've run out of everybody else." Day said. "Mickey Mouse could be a student senator if his name were down on the ballot."
Alison Young, Senate executive secretary and Nunemaker senator, said, "I don't know if it's really anathy."
Young said many students who declined replacement seats thought that they weren't prepared to take office this late in the Senate term, which ends in November.
Others, she said, had committed the time
Only two Senate meetings remain this semester. Yet some students who accepted the seats were excited to have two meetings' worth of Senate experience, Young said.
"We've got several seats that are next to impossible to fill," Young said. She said some schools, such as allied health, had only one candidate run.
they would have spent in Senate to other activities.
Day said he hadn't run out of former candidates to fill Nunemaker or liberal arts and sciences seats. However, he had to go down to the 32nd vote-getter to find replacements for the some of the 17 Nunemaker seats.
"A lot of people assume, 'If I run and don't make it, that it's — I've wasted all my money,' but that's not true." Day said.
People who run and aren't elected still have a good chance of becoming senators, he said.
Day said Senate seats were divided among 13 schools plus off-campus and special students. He ran out of people to replace senators in six of those schools: allied health, business, education, law, social welfare and graduate.
Because going back to write-in candidates took time, Day said, he probably will leave seats empty in schools that have other representatives in the Senate.
Man being chased puts gun to mouth
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A 19-year-old Lawrence man shot himself at 3 p.m. yesterday in front of an apartment at Wood Creek Townhomes, 255 N. Michigan St., as a police officer tried to arrest him on charges of aggravated assault and terrorist threats, Lawrence police said.
Mark R. Maas, 2333 Atchison St., was listed in serious but stable condition last night at the University of Kansas in Kansas City. Maas is a Med Center spokeswoman.
Maj. Ron Olin, Lawrence Police Department, said yesterday that a Lawrence police officer had been dispatched with a Douglas County arrest warrant for Maas. But when the officer approached him, Maas drew a .25-caliber pistol and shot himself in the mouth.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said last night that police located Maas when four people who knew him and were aware that police were looking for him, contacted the police.
The four were detaining Maas in front of the apartment when Lawrence police officer Larry Kasson arrived with the warrant.
Maas drew the gun after the officer asked him for identification, Flory said.
He said the warrant was issued early yesterday in connection with an
The girl's parents had reported to Lawrence police that on Oct. 8. Maas threatened to kill the girl and detained her with a gun. Flory said.
incident that happened Oct. 8 and involved a 16-year-old girl.
Flory said the Douglas County Sheriff's Department also was trying to find Maas in connection with an incident that occurred Sunday night. They declined to give any further information. The department reported at 8:30 a.m. yesterday to the sheriff's department, was still under investigation.
At that time, her parents had requested that charges not be filed, he said.
He said Maas was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and terrorist threats and was being held under guard at the Med Center.
James Aldridge, a friend who was with Maas when the shooting occurred, said he did not know Maas was carrying a gun.
"I had my back turned when he shot," Aldridge said. "The cop tried to grab him, and he just pulled out a gun and shot."
Aldridge said he and Maa were driving in Riverfront Park when Maas saw four men riding in a yellow car and the car to the apartment complex.
He said he did not know why Maas had chased the car, but that one of the men in the car had been dating Maas' former girlfriend.
Three men arrested after midnight raid by local authorities
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansas staff
Three men were arrested Sunday morning during a raid at an alleged gambling operation, but none were arrested on gambling charges, Maj. Ron Olin of the Lawrence Police Department said yesterday.
One man was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana, the second was arrested on charges of possession of a concealed weapon and the third was arrested on warrants for parking violations and driving with a suspended license, Olin said.
Seven Lawrence police officers and one Douglas County sheriff's officer raided the alleged gambling operation at St. St. at midnight Saturday, Olu said.
He said that only the basement of the building was raided and that Pen & Inc Art Supplies, which is upstairs, was in no way connected with the suspected illegal activities.
He said both Pen & Inc Art Supplies and the raided establishment were
rented from Ron Holt, 322 Lawrence Ave., the owner of the building, but that Holt was not the proprietor of the alleged gambling operation.
"They didn't have a license to sell either, and they appeared to have more than they could use themselves." Olin said.
More than 20 cases of beer and 24 cartons of cigarettes were confiscated during the raid, he said.
Olin said the proprietor of the alleged operation was not arrested, but the police were preparing a case to turn over to the Douglas County district attorney.
"It looked like it was used for dice games," he said. "We also seized dice, but no one was playing with them when we came in."
Twenty-four people were in the establishment at the time of the raid, he said.
"We don't expect this individual to leave," he said. "We have time."
He said a converted pool table also was confiscated.
Suzy Mant/KANSAN
It's that time again
Debbie Becker, Mission graduate student, looks through her timetable outside Strong Hall. Timetables are available outside the Enrollment Center, Room 103, in Strong. Early enrollment for spring semester classes is Nov. 4-22.
2 groups seek student offices
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Voters will see only two coaltion names on the ballot for student body president and vice president this fall
Chrysalis Coalition and Common Sense Coalition were the only coalitions that filed by 5 p.m. yesterday, the deadline for presidential candidates.
Liberty Coalition had announced last week that it would be running but did not file in the Student Senate office. Liberty presidential and vice presidential candidates could not be reached for comment yesterday.
David Epstein, Prairie Village junior, and Amy Brown,
Paola senior, on Sunday announced their candidacies for
student body president and vice president under the Common
Sense ticket.
Milton Scott, East St. Louis, Ill., senior, and Ruth Lichtwardt, Lawrence junior, are the Chrysalis Coalition's candidates for president and vice president. Chrysalis had filed last week but had not formally announced its candidacy.
Lichtwardt said that according to the dictionary, the word "hervasial" meant a state of being or growth
"It's kind of an esoteric symbol," she said. "We're forming ideals."
Scott said he and Lightwardt wanted to bring back services to the students instead of giving more power to committees and themselves.
"We want to bring back what the Senate was created for in the first place, and that is serving students," Scott said yesterday.
Scott said that if they were elected, they would compile and publish a list of all financial aid that was available to students, a list of individual faculty members' evaluations and a list of current student senators and where they could be reached. They would then distribute the lists to the student body.
"We've been in Senate long enough to know what will work." Scott said.
Scott has been a liberal arts and sciences senator for two years, has been vice chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee for one year and has been on several Senate committees.
Lichtward has been an off-campus senator for one year, chairman of the Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee for one year and a member of other Senate committees.
Charles Lawhorn, Kansas City, Kan., senior and liberal arts and sciences senator, said he would probably run a write-in candidacy.
The deadline for write-in candidates to file in the Senate office is Nov. 18. The Senate elections will be Nov. 20-21.
Lawrence may be Main city
Of the Kansan staff
By Mike Snider
Today could be a big day for Lawrence. This could be the day that Lawrence is selected as a Main Street city.
The announcement will be made this afternoon in Salina, State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said yesterday.
"Most people view Lawrence as a strong candidate," he said. "A lot of people helped put our proposal together. And city officials and business owners have shown a commitment to keeping our downtown strong."
Five Kansas cities will be selected to participate in the Main Street program. If selected, Lawrence will receive technical assistance on
revitalizing its downtown from the National Main Street Center in Washington, D.C., Twelve Kansas cities are in the running.
The center will provide no funds to Lawrence, but at the Lawrence City Commission meeting on Sept. 24, Commissioner Ernest Angino said that the assistance was as good as money.
Winter said that Lawrence had historically emphasized its downtown as a center of commerce and activity.
Other Kansas cities questioned Lawrence's eligibility for the program, Winter said, because its population wasn't between 5,000 and 50,000, the project's population range. Lawrence's population is 52,738, according to the Census Bureau.
"I think they wanted to do it because there are only five slots available in the program," Winter said.
So Winter talked to the National Main Street Center in Washington, D.C., about the eligibility questions that had been raised. He said he wouldn't have wasted the center's time or his own time fighting the eligibility questions if there wasn't a chance that Lawrence would be selected as a Main Street city.
"I received good vibes and feedback from folks in Topeka that it wouldn't be a waste of time to fight that," Winter said.
That's why he thinks Lawrence will be selected.
"I'm prejudiced," he said. "I like Lawrence."
SUA Special Events has an opportunity for energetic hardworking students interested in concert production.
Applications are now being accepted for the Spring 1986 positions of Publicity, Communications, Security, and Usher Directors.
Applications are available at the SUA Office in the Union and will be accepted through Friday the 25th 'til 5:00 P.M.
--this workshop will provide opportunities to discuss issues related to personality, self-image and success.
WOMEN AND SUCCESS The Role of Personality
The Role of Personality and Self-Image
What is success?
- Does personality determine success?
- How important is self-image?
How important is self-image
There are many definitions of success. This
Wednesday, Oct.23 7-9 p.m.
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For more info, call the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at 864-3552.
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