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Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Man tries rape in car near fraternity house
A 29-year-old KU student told police that a man she met at a fraternity party tried to rape her Saturday night in his car outside the fraternity house, 1602 W. 15th St., Lawrence Police said yesterday.
Police said the woman walked outside the house with a man she had been dancing with at the party. The couple sat in the man's car talking.
The woman told police the man tried to undress her against her wishes and wouldn't let her out of the car.
She eventually talked him into letting her out of the car, went back inside the fraternity house and called a friend to get a ride home.
The woman reported the incident to police, who interviewed witnesses from the party and obtained a composite description of the man.
Police described the suspect as an 18 or 19-year-old white male, 5-foot-6 inches to 5-foot-8 inches, pounds, blue eyes and blond hair.
Witnesses said the man might have been an uninvited guest at the party.
Blood drive begins
The Red Cross campus blood drive begins at 9 a.m. today and will continue until 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The drive, which continues through Thursday, is sponsored by the Panhellenic Association and the Infrafraternity Council.
Lecture series set up
The Kansas University Endowment Association has established an annual fund for the J. Hambleton Abrahams lecture series in physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Security Benefit Group of Companies, which has its headquarters in Topeka, will give $7,500 annually to honor Abrahams' 50 years with Security Benefit, a financial services company.
Each year the fund will allow the Med Center to bring in a speaker in one of the areas of physiology, including cardiovascular physiology, biophysics and neurophysiology.
Police's lawsuit null
The Lawrence Police Officers Association's lawsuit that seeks a $ percent salary increase for 1986 is invalid because the group is unincorporated, a Lawrence city attorney said yesterday.
Milton P. Allen Sr., the attorney, said the association is unincorporated and therefore cannot sue
The association filed a lawsuit against the city on Sept. 18 seeking the increase and punitive damages in excess of $10,000. The association wants the 5 percent increase as a result of a memorandum of agreement made with the city in 1984.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny, with a chance of morning fog. Highs will be around 70, and winds will be light and variable. Tonight will be mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s.
From staff and wire reports.
Author won't appeal ruling GLSOK petition dies again
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Students will not vote this fall on whether to remove Student Senate financing from Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
A petition to allow students to vote on whether to finance GLSOK was once again declared invalid Oct. 7 by the Senate Elections Committee.
Last year's elections committee invalidated the petition on Oct. 4,1984,saying it was discriminatory and improperly worded.The committee also said the Student Senate,not the student body,allocated money to student organizations.
Steve Imber, former student and author of the petition, appealed the decision to the University Judicial Board last January. The Board upheld his appeal and sent the petition to the current elections committee. The committee agreed with the previous committee's reasons for declaring the petition invalid.
Imber said yesterday that he would not appeal the decision again.
"I'm not going to pursue it because it's not in anybody's
David Day, chairman of this year's elections committee, said yesterday that the petition was no longer relevant because Umber was no longer a student and had not followed up on this issue.
best interest," he said. "It would not be good for the school, not good for GLSOK and not good for me."
Day said the first committee spent weeks on the petition and had more information than his committee. He said the first committee's procedure was wrong because it didn't consult University legal counsel, but the reasons for invalidating the petition were correct.
Imber, who graduated in August, said he thought the committee had waited for him to graduate before reviewing the petition.
"This committee took ten months to make a decision, then they used the same decision as the first committee." Imber said. "The judicial board said the original committee didn't handle the petition properly. If they wanted to kill it, why did they think of different reasons?"
Day said the committee couldn't review the petition until this semester because the elections委员会 didn't have the necessary quorum of nine members to do business in any meeting last semester.
Cindy Howe/Special to the Kansan
Surveying the scene
Two cars collided at about 5 p.m. at the intersection of Crescent Road and Naimshim Drive. According to Lawrence police reports, a car driven by Kristine Bohon, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, collided with another driver by Michael Alman, 1311 Praire Ave. Police said Bohon, who was driving north on Naimshim, pulled into the intersection. Alman was eastbound on Crescent at the time. Neither driver had any passengers. Bohon discussed the accident with, left to right. Cindy Deem, Lenexa senior, Kay Mariani, Eureka sophomore, and Sharon Pinter, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore.
Area's pollen count always high in fall
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
Those sneezes and sniffles are not just symptoms of the common cold.
Excessive mold and pollen this time of year cause these problems in areas with one of the highest pollen levels in the world, a local allergist said yesterday.
Thomas Luzier, the allergist, said people have serious problems with allergies now mainly because of molds, which grow profusely because of the heavy amounts of rain.
"This is perfect weather for molds," he said.
Molds need something dead to live on, Luzier said, such as dead leaves. They thrive in moisture and lack of sunlight.
"Most people suffer allergies from molds found in basements, and I haven't seen many dry basements," he said. "Basements I've seen are mostly the flow-through kind — in one side and out the other."
Allergies also are caused in the fall when furnaces are turned on. The furnaces are full of dust, but molds in the ducts are what affect people the most, he said.
Another cause of allergies, such as hayfever, is airborne pollens. Raisin is the most common pollinator in Kansas along with all grasses.
Hayfever can also lead to sinus and ear infections, he said. In some cases, if a person has been exposed to allergies can lead to pneumonia.
Pollen also can cause asthma in some people.
"Most people don't even realize that they have asthma during hay fever season," Luzier said. "They think they are out of shape or they don't even notice it."
Kathy Rolfe, Lawrence junior, said her allergies were severe in the beginning of the school year when the weather was hot. When the weather becomes cooler allergies don't bother her as much.
"I hate summer. I just don't enjoy it," she said.
She said she had to receive allergy shots about every three weeks now, which was down from once a week during the summer.
William Bloom, associate professor of botany, said Kansas had high pollen counts because of the large number of weeds that accompanied crops.
Most of the "weedy" varieties of plants have wind-blown pollen, he said.
"Much of the state is fairly heavily dominated with grasslands, therefore, we have a lot of pollen," he said.
Orley R. Taylor Jr., professor of entomology, said pollen was spread three ways: water pollination, which is rare because it exists in aquatic environments only; wind pollination and entomophilous pollination, which is pollination by insects.
In eastern Kansas, honeybees pollinate about 150 species of plants, while about 200 other plant species are pollinated by other insects such as beetles and flies, he said.
Although there are more species of insect-pollinated plants in eastern Kansas, Taylor said, there are more individual wind-pollinated plants such as ragreed and grasses in this area.
"Not all pollination comes from this area either," he said. "Pollen can be carried hundreds of miles, and most of the pollen comes from the south and southwest."
Eight different methods can be used to collect and count pollen, Luzier said. The most popular way is to use a rotorod, which collects pollen with a small glass rod attached to a spinning arm.
Another counter, the Durham counter, collects pollen on a vaseline-coated slide, while still another counter collects pollen and divides it by weight with molds being the lightest and ragweed one of the heaviest.
Growth highlights KJHK's 10-year progression
By Brian Kaberline Special to the Kansan
Ten years ago today a new and different radio station went on the air.
But its equipment was not new. In fact, it came secondhand from a makeshift station that was never licensed.
It was not housed in a new building either. The bulk of the broadcasting originated from a building that was originally a garage and guest house while the news department was located more than a half mile away.
Even today this station shows up as a mere speck in the Arbitron ratings and changes staff more often than some other radio stations change their play lists.
Despite this inauspicious beginning,
KJJK 90.7 FM is considered a
This is because KJHK's success is
not measured in dollars and cents, but in the young journalists that it has trained and the alternative sound that is its trademark, according to faculty advisers and students who have worked at the station.
Sam Elliott, the station's current faculty adviser, said, "I have kind of a dream that the station will be recognized as a leader in training for the broadcasting industry and be recognized as a music leader, too."
Since 1979, an emphasis on progressive rock not only has brought KJHK a larger audience, it has brought national attention from several record company executives and promoters of new groups.
Students who work for KJKH are not paid and are given a minimum number of credits for the many hours they spend at the station, but the experience can pay off later for those
who work hard
While the station continues to improve through organizational as well as physical changes in the operation, students and faculty realize it's come a long way in 10 years.
KJHK began as a nine-watt station with about a 10-mile listening radius, using equipment from an old unlicensed station, KUOK
KUOK was "more like an intercom system," according to Elliott. He said the station's signal was sent by wire to mini-transmitters located in the residence halls
In converting KUOK to KJHR, University officials and students modified the old AM equipment for FM use, built a transmitter and filed an application for a broadcast license with the Federal Communications Commission.
"One of the neat things about it was that the students did most of the leg
work," said Steve Granzow, the station's first news director.
Granzow said the students filed the FCC applications and developed the station's call letters and format.
"I think it was a valuable experience to have been actively associated with KJHK," Granzow said.
Granzow went took over as news director at radio station KIUL in Garden City after graduation and later became senior reporter in charge of public affairs and political coverage for television station KRCG in Jefferson City, Missouri. Granzow has since left journalism and is employed by HMO Kansas, a division of Blue Cross & Blue Shield.
Granzow said KJHK's news department was originally located in Flint Hall, now Stauffer-Flint Hall. The news department was connected to the station by a phone line.
Eventually the news department moved into the station's main location.
On Oct. 15, only one hour after receiving FCC authorization, the station went on the air with the words, "JKHK-FM now begins broadcast activities."
One person who has been responsible for much of the growth of KJHK is Dale Gadd, faculty adviser for the station for about six years before leaving the post in May 1984. According to Gadd, the biggest improvement in the station was the change to 100 watts of power in 1978.
"We were no longer a playpen. The students knew they had a real audience," he said.
This change in attitude led to the change in format from blocks of different types of music at different times during the day to KJHK's current format.
Planning Commissioner Harper resigns from post
By Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissioner Nan Harper said yesterday she had resigned from her post.
Harper said she mailed a letter of resignation to Mayor Mike Amyx on Thursday, which he received Friday.
"I didn't want to resign, but I felt it was really necessary that I resign because of time constraints," Harper said. "I have a new business
which is taking a lot of my time."
Harper opened a new marketing business in March called Harper and Hiebert, 706 Massachusetts St. with Douglas County Commissioner Nancy Hiebert.
Harper, who was appointed to the commission in May 1982, said, "I simply have to stop and say what comes first. I'm very sad to resign because it's an important appointment. I think that my point of view was an important one that needed to be stated."
Mayor Mike Amyx said he received Harper's
resignation by mail and also talked to her on Friday.
"Nan did a tremendous job and I hate to see her go," he said. "But I do understand her responsibilities away from City Hall, I wish her well."
Amyx said Harper's replacement could be named from a list considered during recent appointments to the commission or from new recommendations.
"The City Commission will come up with an individual that will replace Nam," Amyx said.
Max Lucas, a planning commissioner, said Harper told him a week ago she was going to resign.
"I was shocked to learn that she was leaving the commission," he said. "She and I didn't always agree, but I never doubted how she came about her decision. I think the commission will be the worse for her stepping down."
"I think she has been a superlative member of the commission. She had been very conscientious. There's a lot of reading and research that takes a lot of time."
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