Campus/Area
Monday, Oct. 14, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
KU dean of libraries treated after wreck
James Ranz, dean of libraries was treated for a mild concussion and slight amnesia Friday afternoon after a semitrailer collided with his car at a Lawrence intersection, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Seven freshmen escaped serious injury yesterday morning in a car collision at the unmarked intersection of Vermont and 16th streets, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Ranz was taken by the Douglas County Ambulance Service to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after the accident, which occurred at the hospital spokesman said Ranz was released Friday after brief treatment.
The four men in Bunten's car were: BUNten, Greg Lunceford, Prairie Village freshman, Jack Sullivan, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and George Fox, Leawood freshman.
Witnesses told police that Ranz was turning left onto Sixth Street from Iowa Street when the semi, which was headed east on Sixth Street, ran a red light and hit Ranz's car.
Stephen Bunten, Dallas freshman, was arrested at 12:25 a.m. yesterday on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to yield the right of way. He was released yesterday and served a notice to appear in Lawrence Municipal Court.
The driver of the semi, John McCall, New Castle, Pa., said he had the green light and started to cross the road when Ranz drove in front of him.
No citations were issued at the accident, but police said McCall would be cited for disobeying the signal.
Sophomore arrested
7 safe after car crash
Three women were also passengers in the car: Mary Vander Venet, Wilmette, Ill., freshman, Mary Steubey, St. Louis freshman, and Candy Panhorst, St. Louis freshman.
A KU sophomore was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol early yesterday morning after she hit a police car which was carrying 1200 block of Tennesse Street, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Gil Bavel, 2559 Missouri St. was in the car Burten collided with. He put his brakes on, but was unable to avoid the collision.
Police said the officers were investigating a noise disturbance at 1340 Tennessee St.
SUA to sponsor race
The Third Annual KU Runaround, a 5-kilometer race, will be Sunday. The race, sponsored by SUA Outdoor Recreation, will start at 9 a.m. at Nichols Hall on West Campus.
Registration is $5 from 8 a.m. to
p.m. daily until Friday at the Student
Union Activities office, on the
fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Late registration is $6 from 7:30 to
8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Entry categories are male and female student, faculty and staff, and living group teams of three to live people.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. The high will be in the mid- to upper 50s, with winds out of the northeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light rain. The low will be in the lower to mid-40s.
From staff and wire reports.
KU student is shot after brawl outside bar
A KU student was shot early yesterday morning during a fight outside The Mad Hatter, a private club at 704 New Hampshire St., Lawrence police said yesterday.
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Jerry L. Hancock, Sioux City, Iowa, freshman, apparently was involved in a fight about 2:30 a.m. yesterday between patrons of the club and two bicycle riders, police said.
Witnesses told police that one of the bicycle riders pulled a small-caliber handgun during the fight and shot Hancock in the right thigh.
Police were called after the shooting, but the crowd scattered when they arrived and only two students remained. Police also found two bicycles in the street.
The two students told police that Hancock, 22, did not realize he had been shot at first. Other students took Hancock to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was treated and released
The witnesses identified the man with the gun as a white man, 20-25 years old and balding with brown hair. They said he was dressed in dark clothing.
Police found another bicyclist walking toward the scene.
That bicyclist told police that he and the suspect were riding west on New Hampshire Street when they saw five men surrounding a small red car.
He told police he thought the men were assaulting the occupants of the car and yelled, "What's going on?"
One of the men stuck out his arm and knocked the bicyclist off his bike. Three other men knocked him to the ground, he told police.
The bicyclist told police his assailants were a "bunch of frat boys."
Police said the bicyclist refused to identify
his friend, the suspect, because he was afraid he also would be charged with the crime.
One of the witnesses arrived at the scene and told police that Hancock had just parked his car and walked toward the fight when the suspect shot him in the thigh.
Wendell Arnold, an employee of The Mad Hatter, said the fight had not started inside the club.
Paul Goodman/KANSAN
"If there is one thing this place will not tolerate, it's fighting," he said. "We don't have much of a problem here. Eighty to 85 percent of our customers are from sororities and fraternities, and they're a pretty mellow crowd."
Protestors at the anti-apartheid rally in front of Strong Hall chant, "Divest now." From left, Pearl Rovaris, Topeka senior; Brian Tolefree, Kansas City, Kan.; senior; and Marla Younge, St. Louis junior, showed their support of the anti-apartheid movement during Friday's campus protest.
Students protest apartheid
"They're not afraid to take part in the issue," she said.
"They can help make change."
Of the Kansan staff
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Students united Friday for a national day of protest against South African apartheid, which shows a growth in the number of students concerned about the issue, a member of the KU Committee on South Africa said yesterday.
"The issue is becoming exciting," said Carla Vogel, committee member. "People are feeling that they can become a part of it. It is moving in a positive direction."
A week of activities by several campus groups, including the committee and KU Democrats, culminated in the two-hour rally featuring speakers and songs on the steps of Strong Hall.
For a national day of protest April 24, the Committee on South Africa sponsored a sit-in at Strong Hall for eight days.
Several student groups, including Blacks Against Apartheid, which was formed two weeks ago, drew the support of blacks and whites against racial segregation in South Africa.
Vogel, Lawrence special student, said she was pleased black students had organized and were becoming involved.
Jane Ungerman. Lawrence senior and a member of the committee, said that during the sit-in anywhere from three to 70 people participated, but black students were not involved.
"The anti-apartheid movement may change because of other groups joining in," she said. "I see that as very positive.
"I think people's awareness has been raised. People realize this is wrong and are starting to do something about it."
Darrell Craig, Topeka sophomore, said Blacks Against Apartheid had drawn black students into this issue.
Apartheid is a great crime against humanity," Craig I
too often, we've been apathetic to this issue for
rights.
Curtis Keyes, an organizer of Blacks Against Apartheid, urged everyone at the rally, especially black students, to become active in ending the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies that do business in South Africa.
"Just because blacks can go to classes or sit anywhere on a bus doesn't everything is all right." Keyes, 1998.
Another speaker, Craig Miller, president of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said, "Our freedom means nothing, no one's freedom means anything, if people are denied the same freedoms we have fought for.
Father's heart keeps student on the move
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Darren Weninger says his life hasn't changed much even though his father just got a new heart.
Weninger, Colwich sophomore,
still studies, still plays football in
front of Fraser Hall and still shouts
when he watches the Javahys loos.
But, unlike most KU students, he makes frequent trips home to help out on the family farm and even more frequent treks to visit his father at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
On Oct 4, heart surgeon Jon Moran removed the diseased heart from Darren's father's chest and replaced it with a healthy one from an inhikable donor. The center treated Center's 10th heart transplant. The last one before that was in April.
Vincent Weninger has improved steadily since the five-hour operation, which probably saved his life. Not only has he been moved out of isolation, but he also eats solid food and walks around.
Vincent said yesterday that he may get out of the hospital on Thursday.
"If everything goes as well as the past couple days, I ought to get out," he said. "All the jazz I want to go to falling in line like clockwork."
After he leaves the Med Center, he will have to stay in the Kansas City area for about a month.
In the meantime, Weninger's seven children are taking care of the 1,000-acre farm and breathing a tentative sigh of relief.
"It's pretty hectic right now at home," Darren said. "They have to try to keep on with the wheat plan. Neighbors are helping out a lot."
Darren's sister Dana, a junior at Wichita State University, has moved back home to take over the household chores while her mother, Bernice, is in Kansas City.
"I think that's changed me a lot. I don't know whether it's good or bad," she said jokingly.
The transplant itself hasn't led to as many changes as the whole aspect of heart disease, Darren said. About 11 years ago, Vincent Weninger had his first heart attack. Although he worked hard — even when he was
supposed to be taking it easy — his children have grown up with a lot of responsibility and an acute awareness of mortality.
Dana said she thought about the possibility of her father's death at the age of 18.
"I tried not to, but it's always back there in the back of your mind," she said. "It's hard to think of something like that. I'm just glad it didn't happen. That's the main thing."
She said she dealt with the anxiety by talking to her sister and thinking a lot.
Darren said living at Battenfeld Hall — having so many friends around — was helpful.
"I can go down in another room and talk to people," he said. "It really helps doing that, instead of keeping him quiet." He was in the critical period there.
The family kept their feelings hidden for the most part, Dana said. But because she and Darren said their father's illness brought the family closer.
"We're all pulling for him and hoping," Darren said. "With him being in the hospital it made us realize how much missed him and needed him at home."
Darren said his father was admitted in July to St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita for congestive heart failure.
"He was doing real good coming out of there," Darren said. "But he got to working too much again. He was supposed to take it easy, but you can't tell him to do that. He's going to work no matter what."
Three weeks ago he re-entered St Francis after having another heart attack and was transferred to the Med Center.
Darren said he went home to Colwyn to help out and the family was busy the day of the transplant.
"Mom had called us Friday morning to tell us she was going to come home, because Dad said. 'There's no use you staying up here.' So we weren't expecting anything," Darren told me as my aunt came out. Mom had gotten there and they said they found a heart and they were going to put him under."
Darren said the biggest effect of the transplant was the hope it gave.
In July, the doctors weren't even sure how long he'd be around." he said.
10 windows shot out
By a Kansan reporter
Vandals went on a window-breaking spree late Thursday night or early Friday morning, damaging seven student's cars, a KU employee's car and the plate glass windows of two Lawrence businesses, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police said they had no suspects in the vandalism incidents.
"They started about 14th and Ohio streets, hit some fraternities
on Tennessee Street and ended up on over High Drive," a Lawrence police spokesman said. "They always hit the rear windows and used something like a pellet gun."
The vandalized cars were parked on the 600 block of West 14th Street, at 1649 Edgehill Road, 1600 Cambridge Road, 17th and Tennessee streets, 700 Tennessee St., 700 Tennessee St., and two at 1400 Tennessee St.
All the windows were broken after 8 p.m.
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