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Thursday, Oct. 17, 1985
News Briefs
Detroit game verdict to be reached today
Final arguments on the University of Detroit's request for a preliminary injunction against the University of Kansas will be heard by Judge Susan D. Borman of the Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit at 11 a.m. today.
KU originally requested that the game be canceled or postponed a proposed game with the University to add a code added to the Jawhawks' schedule.
University of Detroit officials are seeking the injunction to force KU to play a scheduled basketball game in Detroit on Jan. 6.
A Wayne County Circuit Court clerk said she expected the judge's decision on the injunction to be handed down today after the hearing.
Senator loses office
Dennis "Boog" Highberger, liberal arts and sciences senator, was removed from the Student Senate yesterday for missing too many Senate meetings.
Highberger was reinstated to his seat by the Student Senate Executive Committee last semester after he was suspended for misbehaviors. Reinstated senators are allowed two absences of any kind.
Charges not filed
No charges will be filed in connection with the Sept. 9 arson fire in the stairwell of an apartment building in the Pinecrest Apartments complex, Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday.
"It was a very thorough investigation, but there just wasn't enough evidence for charges to be filed." Fliy said.
Flory said the investigation of the fire at Pinecrest Apartments, 2565 Redbud Lane, revealed it had been set intentionally, but no reason could be found. The investigation focused on one suspect, he said.
During the fire, smoke and flames filled the building's stairwell and blocked the only exit for the five people who lived upstairs.
Lawrence firefighters rescued the residents and extinguished the fire within minutes of receiving a call from a resident who had been awakened by his smoke detector.
Directories are in
The 1985-86 University telephone directories are now available at Oread Book Shop in the Kansas City area and Book Storebook, 1420 Crescent Road.
The directories list the telephone numbers of KU faculty, staff, students, recognized campus organizations and organized living groups.
Free directories will be distributed to all campus offices, residence halls and scholarship halls.
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Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. The high will be around 70. Winds will be southerly at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. The low will be in the mid- to upper 50s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and a high in the 60%.
University Daily Kansan
From staff and wire reports.
Minority enrollment goes up
Minority enrollment at the University of Kansas has risen slightly over the past 10 years, despite a national decline.
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The annual status report from the American Council on Education said nationwide minority enrollment percentages in higher education were diminishing.
"Minority enrollment, especially black and hispanic, peaked in the mid '70s and has gradually declined since then." Reginald Wilson, director of the Office of Minority Concerns of the American Council on Education, said Tuesday.
More stringent admission standards and cuts in federal financial aid are hampering many prospective minority students, he said.
The minority population in the United States is constantly increasing while the white population is
"We have a larger population of increasingly undereducated people," Wilson said. If this trend continues, minorities will be a permanent underclass.
About 86 percent of those enrolled in higher education programs are white, according to the study, but only 80 percent of the U.S. population is white.
decreasing, he said, but the percentage of minority enrollment in academic programs is drowning.
Minority students made up 6.2 percent of the KU student body in 1984, up from 5.1 percent in 1972
Black and hispanic students made up 4.5 percent of KU students in 1984 and 3.8 percent of 10 years ago. According to the 1980 census, blacks and hispanics made up 7.8 percent of the total Kansas population.
minority affairs, attributed the increase of KU's percentage of minority enrollment to an aggressive recruiting program for graduate and undergraduate minority students.
Vernell Spearman, director of the office of
Spearman said KU representatives recruited for graduate programs at colleges and universities that had large populations of minority students. The program also financed grants to assist graduate students.
Outreach programs in high schools also attracted minority students, she said.
Almost 12 percent of the U.S. population is black, the study said, but only 9.9 percent of those enrolled in academic programs are black.
Wilson said the gap between black and white high school students' scores on the Scholastic Achievement Test had been narrowing over the last four or five years, but black students' scores still averaged 100 points below white students' in 1985.
Official praises 'Star Wars' program
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
The Strategic Defense Initiative, also called "Star Wars," gives the United States a historic opportunity to lessen the threat of destruction by a nuclear war, Daniel Graham.
chairman of the Coalition for the SD1, said last night.
By using its technological superiority, the United States can develop a space-based missile defense system that would protect Americans better than the present reliance on the deterrence of the
superpowers' nuclear forces, he said.
"SDI is not a weapons program." Graham said. "SDI is not a research program. SDI is a change of strategy away from Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) to Mutual Assured Survival."
Graham spoke to 70 people in
Steve Mingle/KANSAN
the chairman of the Coalition for the Strategic Defense Initiative, Daniel Graham, speaks on President Reagan's 'Star Wars' plan, Graham spoke last night in Alderdon Aventurnum.
Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union on invitation from the KU College Republicans.
Graham said a strategy that left the population open to destruction was truly "mad." SDI would provide the president with more options than launching an all-out counterattack in case of an accident Soviet launch of a few missiles. The missiles could be destroyed and war avoided.
The SDI could give a 95-percent protection at the most, Graham said. But it would give the United States a much stronger deterrent because a Soviet first strike would not work. The United States would be better off if it was hit by 300 Soviet warheads instead of 6,000 warheads. He said that if the United States was lucky, many of them would hit a less-populated area.
"We want a deterrent that says an attack won't work and therefore noobies can harm."
Graham said he thought the nuclear winter theory did not make sense and that it was bad science.
The theory of nuclear winter says that the explosions of nuclear missiles would kick up clouds of dust and start enormous fires. Dust and soot particles from the fires would form clouds that would darken the sky for months, lowering the temperature below freezing.
The SDI will cost $60 billion for about 432 satellites, but the United States can afford it because it will save money by not having to build other weapons, such as the Midgetman missile, Graham said.
The whole computerized system cannot be tested beforehand, Graham said, but tests of shooting down single missiles are being done. The technology for SDI is already available.
Store owners call light liquor slow-selling
By Susie Bisnop Of the Kansan staff
Light hard liquor has fewer calories, less alcohol, a lower price and little support among some KU students.
"If I want something light, I'll drink ice water and save more money," Mary Burger, Mission Hills senior, said yesterday.
Light liquor, which has been on Lawrence shelves for less than a year, has 25 percent fewer calories than regular liquor.
"If it's marketed right, you can sell people all sorts of things they don't need, like brand-name lettuce," he said.
The popularity of a new spirit with fewer calories and a lower price should appeal to the weight-conscious and the price-conscious student. But many students aren't even aware that such a product exists, said Richard Brummer, Osborne senior.
Even if advertising was stepped
up. Brummer said he still wouldn't have any use for or any interest in purchasing light hard liquor.
"It sounds ridiculous," he said.
"Liquor is a luxury item. This stuff defeats all the points of buying liquor."
Currently, Free Spirit, produced by Heaven Hills Distillery, Bardstown, Ky., is the only brand name that markets a light hard liquor, said Shilr Bruce employee of Sunflower Salt. She firm that sells liquor to area wholesalers.
Light liquor has 70 to 80 calories a 50 milliliter serving, about the amount of one shot, compared with 90
The term light hard liquor is deceptive, Bruce said. All marketed spirits
Light hard liquor adds more water to cut the proof from 80 to 60 proof, he said. Because the alcohol content is lower, the calorie count and the price are lower too.
gin, vodka, rum, scotch and bourbon have distilled water added to them.
to 100 calories in the same amount of regular liqueur.
The light spirit has three selling points, Bruce said. It has the lower alcohol content, fewer calories and, of course, the lower price, he said.
If a person doesn't tool himself by pouring a bigger drink, the lower proof of liquor is great for raising alcohol consumption, Bruce said.
Also, he said, someone interested in consuming fewer calories could lessen the amount of alcohol in his drink for the same effect as using lower-calorie liquor.
The price is the main selling point of the special, low-proof spirit, Bruce said. Because the light liquor has a lower proof, the price went up less after the federal tax increase, he said.
The tax hike on liquor, which took effect Oct. 1, is determined by the size and the proof of a bottle of liquor. Barrand Retail Liquor, 2004 W. 23rd St., sells the Free Spirit brand of liquor.
Those who buy the low-calorie, low-alcohol and low-priced liquor seem to be buying it for the price, she said.
"We've had it in our store for six or seven months," Nora Anderson, an employee, said. "It really is a very slow-moving item."
A 750-milliliter bottle of Free Spirit scotch costs $4.69, compared to the same size bottle of a "mid-range" scotch, such as Jim Beam, which costs $12.98, said Mark McFarland, employee of Barrand Retail Liquor.
As for taste, Anderson said, the light scotch was less "bitey," but that could be expected because of the lower alcohol content. The taste of any of the liquors that are used with a mixer, like gin or vodka, isn't much different, she said.
Some retail stores decided not to carry the new product because public reaction is uncertain. Bruce said.
Despite the slow start, other companies, such as Seagrams and McCormick distilleries, will soon be producing their own line of light liquor, Bruce said.
Rezoning is denied by the city
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Through Kansas City Royals game updates and the end of the hot coffee, the Lawrence City Commission worked long into the night as its weekly meeting lasted until about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The issue that kept the commissioners occupied until closing time was the proposed rezoning from single-family to multi-family residential of about 12 acres of McHollond Drive and 22nd Street.
Although the commission voted 3-2 in favor of the request, the rezoning was denied because the vote was not sufficient to meet the three-quarter vote required because residents of the city were protesting petition against the rezoning.
If there is a valid petition on file with the city protesting a request before the commission, regulations require the commission to have at least a three-quarters vote in favor of the request to pass it.
Mayor Mike Amyx and Commissioner Ernest Angino voted against the rezoning.
Throughout the meeting, people in the City Commission room passed notes relaying the score of Game 6 of the American League Championship Series which the Royals won 5-4 over the Toronto Blue Jays.
Although those in attendance seemed to relax a little when they learned of the Royals' victory, tension returned to the room when parts of the area that the proposed reorganization set began to tell their side of the issue.
Robbie Ferron, a resident of the affected area, said yesterday, "I'm pleased that they've denied the rezoning. I'm obviously concerned that any movement of ground caused by development in the area could put more water in Yankee Tank Creek."
Tuesday night, Ferron showed pictures to the commission of areas that flood when Yankee Tank Creek fills up.
City manager Buford Watson said yesterday that the area could continue to be used for agriculture or that it could be used for single-family development.
"There was some indication that the residents didn't object to the area being single-family, they just didn't want it to be multi-family," he said.
The rezoning was requested by Bob Stephens of Stephens Real Estate, 2701 W. Sixth St., and Johnny B. Ezzel of owner of J.B. Ezzell Construction Co., 2721 W. Sixth St. The two want to develop townhouses on the property.
Richard Zinn, an attorney representing the developers, said the commissioners should consider the rezoning on how reasonable the request was.
Zinn asked that the floodplain zoning be eliminated because "it once had vitality, now it no longer does" and it prohibits development.
But Stan Hazlett, an attorney representing the neighbors, and many neighbors disagreed with the rezoning and told the commission about accounts of flooding in the area.
Ferron said she was concerned that the area still had problems because of clogged drainage culverts.
"I'm satisfied that the commission heard us. I think they all came out and saw the area. I think they'll be committed to helping solve the problem," she said.
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