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Friday, Oct. 18, 1985
News Briefs
University Daily Kansan
Detroit tells court reasons to play KU
Arguments on the University of Detroit's request for an injunction against the University of Kansas were heard yesterday in Detroit by Judge Susan D. Borman of Wayne County Court Court.
Charges may be filed
Detroit officials are seeking the injunction to force KU to play a Jan. 6 basketball game in Detroit. Kansas requested cancellation of the game so that it could schedule a proposed game with the University of Louisville.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said yesterday that he would decide next week whether charges would be filed in connection with a fatal accident Oct. 3.
A Wayne County Circuit Court clerk said yesterday that the judge would hand down her decision on the injunction on Tuesday.
Campus/Area
Flory said he expected Lawrence police to turn the report of the investigation over to him today for review.
Donna Wortman, 30, 1519 Cater Ave., was killed when her car collided with a city sanitation truck on North Second St.
"I'm sure there'll be plenty to look over," he said.
Wortman and William Ashburn, the driver of the trash truck, apparently were both attempting to avoid a semi-tractor trailer that had pulled out of the Lawrence Asphalt Co. 725 North Second St., police said.
Wortman, who was northbound on North Sixth Street, had swerped her car around the semi before colliding head-on with Ashburn's truck, which had crossed the center line.
Fiji run begins today
The University of Kansas and Kansas State University chapters of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will raise money for leukemia research today and tomorrow in the twelfth annual "Fiji Run for Leukemia."
The fraternities will run more than 90 miles starting today from the Phi Gamma Delta house in Manhattan. The runners are expected to arrive just before the 1:30 kickoff of the K-State-KU football game tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
Members of both houses have been calling Lawrence and Manhattan residents for donations to the Kansas Chapter of the Leukemia Society.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and thundershowers. Highs will be in the lower 60s. Winds will be from the south at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a 40 percent chance of rain and thundershowers. Lows will be in the mid 50s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 39 percent chance of rain and highs in the lower 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Correction
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Kansan, incorrect filing deadlines for Student Senate presidential, vice president and senatorial candidates were reported in Wednesday's paper. The deadline for candidates for president and vice president is Monday and the deadline for senatorial candidates is Oct. 28.
Busy streets upset students
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
Bottle necks and traffic jams frustrate some KU students who try to traverse campus streets at quitting time.
Mark Wallman, Fairview Heights, Ill., senior, said the University should spend its time, money and energy directing traffic and increasing nighttime security on campus. He said too much effort was spent on giving parking tickets for trivial offenses.
Another student, though discouraged by slow moving traffic, said students knew about the traffic and just had to deal with it.
Scott Patterson, Lincoln, Neb. sophomore, he usually crossed campus at 5:30 p.m. The mile-and-a-
At the beginning of the semester, KU police directed traffic at the busiest intersections on campus at noon and in the early evening, said KU police LL. John Mullens.
"It doesn't really bother me," Patterson said. "I know it will take a while, so I plan for it."
half journey takes between five and 10 minutes, he said.
Mullets listed the prime backup corners as 15th Street and Naismith Drive Sunnyside Avenue and Mullet Avenue and Avenue and Jayhawk Boulevard.
Every year the hectic traffic subsides after students stop changing schedules and quit changing parkings is between classes, Mullens said.
However, having more cars on campus this year has accentuated the problem and traffic hasn't
decreased as much as it usually does, he said.
More parking tickets are given at the beginning of the year and later decrease after students buy parking permits and learn the zoning areas, said Donna Hutline, assistant director of parking services.
She said more cars on campus made parking places scarce, and more tickets were given.
"The number of tickets we're giving this year is not dying down," Hutline said.
Each year more students and faculty bring cars with them when they come to the University, Mullens said.
"When I came to KU in 1967, there were a little over 16,000 students," he said. "Since then none of the roads have changed beyond basic maintenance."
Enrollment at KU surpassed 27,000 students this year.
Added stop signs mark a few changes that have occurred since 1967, Mullens said.
A set of stop lights that aren't pressure sensitive cost between $25,000 and $50,000, he said.
Placing light stands at the strategic corners might help solve the problem, but as yet the problem doesn't justify the expense, Mullens said.
The corner needing a stop light the most is 15th Street and Naismith Drive. Before the lights could be put in, the hillside street would have to be to include turn lanes, Mullens said, setting on stop lights would include widening the narrow hillside to accommodate the new lanes.
Suicide claims life of woman student
By a Kansan reporter
The body of a 21-year-old woman found Wednesday afternoon in Holcom park was identified as a KU student, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police still are investigating the death, but there is little doubt that it was a suicide, Lawrence police Maj. Ron Olin said.
"There is absolutely no contradictory evidence," he said.
The woman's body was found in the southeast corner of the park by an employee of Park 25 apartment complex, 2401 W. 25th St.
When the woman was still there at 4:30 p.m., the man walked out to see what was wrong, then called police, Olin said.
Olin said the man saw a woman sitting in grassy area between the apartment complex and 26th Street at about 2:30 p.m.
Police arrived and found the woman dead with a gunshot wound to the head sitting near a .22 caliber handgun and her backpack. Her bicycle was about 100 yards away, Olin said.
Olin said the student bought the handgun from a local gun dealer at 12 p.m. Wednesday. The time of death, he said, was about 2:30 p.m.
Although in some other states there are three-day waiting periods to buy a gun, Kansas does not have such a requirement, Olin said. Anyone who can show identification proving he is at least 21 years old can walk into a store and buy a gun.
Musician of the year plays a different beat
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Some artists call the music of Philip Glass primitive. Some call it fascinating and exotic. But almost everyone agrees his music is unusual. Philip Glass will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium.
Jackie Davis, director of the Concert and Chamber Music series, said Glass's music was "primitive and exciting. He takes the purity of phrases in repetition and builds it to a climax."
Rita Sloan, a 1971 Juliillard School of Music graduate and resident of Lawson, said Glass's music was exasinating and colorful. It's tonal, not dissolvent."
Tickets are available in the Murphy Hall Box Office. Public tickets are $12.50 and $10.50. KU and Kindergarten through 12th grade students can buy tickets for $6.25 and $5.25. Senior citizens and other student rates are $11.50 and $9.50.
Special funding for the concert was provided by the Kansas Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts. The concert is also financed by Activity Fee, Swarthout Society and Kansas University Endowment Association.
Jodi Behrends, box office manager, said 1,000 seats remained for the concert. People will not have trouble getting tickets, she said.
Davis said, "He's musician of the year and I think the people of Lawrence ought to hear his music and decide for themselves what they think of it. It should be educational as
well as, I hope, a pleasant experience."
Siano said Glass was a very unusual composer. His music is a bop jazz, jazz, rock and the classics. It also is one of international music styles, she said.
But Glass said it was distinguishable from all three stiles.
Glass said much of his music was influenced by the rhythmic impulses of far Eastern and Native American music. Another characteristic of his music is the amplification
"It's not improvised music, so it's not jazz, and it doesn't sound much like rock." Glass said, "because there's no lead guitar or steel guitar.
"It's a style I grew into. I was u-
ting to figure out a music language
that would be expressive, that would
be my voice, and that would be
distinguished from the music of other
generations."
"The college student who goes to lots of rock concerts would be right at home," Sloan said "But people who aren't used to that level of amplification won't be uncomfortable."
SUA is showing the film in Woodruff Auditorium on three days preceding the concert: 2 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Monday and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Admission is $2.
Edward Mattila, professor of music theory, said Glass's music was a based on the repetition of simple diatonic patterns.
Glass, who was named the 1985 Musician of the Year by Musical America, New York, is probably best known for his musical score for the film "Koyaanisqatsi."
"it's kind of an 'in' thing right
ow." Mattila said.
Suzy Mast/KANSAN
Michael MacAdam, Overland Park senior, tries to level the concrete forms on the top of his masonry project. MacAdam said he decided to make a spiral brick tower instead of "a boring brick wall." He worked on his project for the building technology practicum yesterday in the builders yard behind Marvin Hall.
Leveling Out
Residents slide past booze rule
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
"Nobody drinks 3.2 beer, just harder stuff," Abbe Schrager, Chicago freshman and Ellsworth Hall resident, said yesterday. "They have to hide it anyway so they figure they might as well have the harder stuff."
Despite the policy prohibiting alcohol in University housing, many residents say drinking still goes on beneath residence hall roofs.
The policy, which became effective this semester, prohibits 3.2 beer in campus housing. In the past, 3.2 beer was the only alcohol allowed in campus housing. The new policy was created to deal with Kansas' new legal drinking age of 19 for such beverages.
Lisa Kasberger, Olathe sophomore and Ellsworth Hall resident, said, "There's a lot more little parties with a lot more alcohol."
Ken Stoner, director of housing, said that although residents might still be drinking, they were not making things difficult for residence hall staffs.
Stoner said, "What the staff tells me is that we have not suffered vandalism because of the policy, and that it's been very maturely received by the students."
Barbara Nesbitt, Salina freshman and McCollum Hall resident, said students sometimes left campus and risked an arrest for driving under the influence.
Nesbitt said, "They have someone buy the beer and they go park somewhere and drink it."
Drunken driving arrest statistics from a two-month period this year and the same period last year are nearly identical, according to Lawrence police.
From Aug. 15 to Oct. 15, 1984, there were 54 drunken drivearms in Lawrence. During the same period this year, there were 53.
However, Bealle said, the average in Lawrence is one in 200.
Bruce Beale, director of Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcohol, said that nationally, only one of every 2,000 drunken drivers is stopped by police.
However, such statistics may not indicate that more residents now drink at home to avoid an encounter with the law.
the Lawrence arrest rate has also increased the highest for cities in the state," he said.
AIDS risk small to medical staffs
By Stefani Day
Of the Kansan staff
About 1,750 health care workers participated in the study, which was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Chien Liu, a physician in the department of infectious diseases, told Med Center employees at a lunch-time conference that 1.5 percent of health care workers in one study had positive tests for the AIDS virus.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The risk to health care professionals who work with AIDS patients is minuscule, a physician at the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday.
Of those, 26 showed a positive test for the HTLV-III virus, the virus thought to cause the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
However, Liu said, at least 23 of those workers were in one of the high risk groups.
One of the remaining three workers submitted to an anonymous blood test, so it was not known whether the worker was at high risk.
Homosexual or bisexual men and intravenous drug abusers make up almost 90 percent of the known AIDS cases.
The two or three workers who were not in the high-risk groups could have been infected with the virus by sticking themselves with contaminated needles or cutting themselves while working with contaminated blood, Liu said.
Neither of the two known workers has developed AIDS since receiving a positive test for the virus, the CDC reports.
Liu said it was not known how
In a study by the San Francisco City Clinic, about 33 percent of homosexual men who tested positive for virus developed AIDS in five years.
Health care workers should take basic precautions when caring for a patient who may have AIDS, Liu said. The precautions are the same as those used in dealing with other diseases that are transmitted similarly, such as hepatitis B.
Liu said workers should dispose of needles without trying to recap them, therefore avoiding one of the main causes of needle sticks.
Areas contaminated by the patient's blood or body fluids should be disinfected with Clorox.
many people who received a positive result for the HTLV-III virus actually developed AIDS.