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Thursday, Oct. 10, 1985
News Briefs
Iowa State alumni to run Torchathon
Iowa State University alumni who live in the Lawrence area will begin the fifth annual Torchathon on March 30 at the Campanile.
Twenty five runners will run in shifts from KU to Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. The run is the kickoff of the university's homecoming and is conducted to create a bond between the two and other Big Eight universities.
"The Torchathon is supposed to make our universities closer," Amanda Schrader, chairman of promotions for the Torchathon Run.
Five alumni will each run a five mile leg of the 300 mile course. Students will then take over, alter, and running three legs of five miles.
The KU football team plays Iowa State in Ames on Saturday.
Lectures to be held
Akira Y. Yamamoto, professor of anthropology and linguistics, will speak on "Japanese Places, Ghosts and Demons." The lecture, sponsored by the School of Architecture and Urban Design, is open to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in 412 Lindley Hall.
The school also will sponsor another lecture later this month by Jacques Blumer.
Blumer, a partner in the Atelier 5 architectural group, Berne, Switzerland, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in 412 Lindley.
Suspect arrested
A 52-year-old Baldwin man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of taking indecent liberties with a child, a Douglas County Sheriff's officer said yesterday.
Sherif's Detective Mike Suit, who has been investigating the incident since late September, said the arrest stemmed from an incident in Baldwin which involved a girl the man had been babysitting.
Suitt said the investigation revealed that the Baldwin man was in Topeka, a KBI agent arrested him there on Tuesday.
Weather
A flash flood watch was issued through today with an 80 percent chance of rain. Rain and thunderstorms this morning will taper off this afternoon. Highs will be in the upper 40s to lower 50s and winds will be from the northeast at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Lows will be in the mid to upper 40s. Tomorrow also will be cloudy; with a 30 percent chance of showers and highs in the lower 60s.
From staff and wire reports
Clarification
Because of a reporter's error, an item in yesterday's news, briefs failed to mention that Kenneth Rose, professor emeritus of engineering, was a previous recipient of the Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award. The deadline for this year's nominations is Oct. 25.
Correction
Because of a copy editor's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that today is Taiwan's 74th anniversary. It is the anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China.
KU fans await Royals' return in playoffs
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Playoff tickets. You either have them or you don't Some KU professors, students and employees have them. And they hope they get to use them.
See related stories p. 13.
After the Royals lost 6-5 to the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday, Leslie Bayer, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student said, "Things don't look good.
"But, I went to the game last Tuesday when they lost to the Angels. I wrote them off then. But they surprised me and now I'm back on the bandwagon. I just hope I get to go Sunday's game."
Bayer and her husband have tickets for Game 5 of the playoffs, which will not be necessary if the Blue Jays win Games 3 and 4 in Royals Stadium.
"We will be going Sunday," Bayer
Thomas Beeckner, professor of communications studies, said, "There's always interest in the playoffs on campus. Baseball is talked about in the department. We all want to know what's happening."
said.
Charles A. Reynolds, professor of chemistry, is going to Game 3. He said, "I want to get over to the stadium and watch as much batting practice as possible. It depends on if I can get out of here early on Friday."
He is going to Games 3 and 4 on Friday and Saturday at Royals Stadium. "I've followed the Royals and baseball since 1971," he said.
Reynolds' feathers weren't ruffled after the Blue Jays' victory Tuesday night.
"I figured Stieb would win. Toronto didn't blow them out, though. It depends on who gets the breaks, and the Royals didn't get any last night (Tuesday). They are two evenly matched teams."
James Lewis, a Stauffer-Flint Hall
Lewis is going to Game 5 on Friday with his nephew in Topeka who has tickets. Lewis also has sent in a request for World Series tickets.
custodian, said, "Dick Howser is criticized a lot, but the Royals usually end up winning. I think they've still got a good chance to win."
The KU Marching Band doesn't need tickets to go to the playoffs. The band will play before Game 5 at Royals Stadium. Robert Foster, director of bands, said that band members were excited about the chance to play at a playoff game.
"Most of the kids won't have another chance in their lifetime to play at a playoff game," he said. "It's a good opportunity for the band to play in front of a large amount of people in Kansas City. It's also good PR for the University."
Some band members might be worried about their chances of marching on the astroturf of Royals Stadium after the Royals' loss yesterday, but Mark Simler, Denver junior, isn't.
"I think they'll win their next game because Bret Saberhagen is pitching," said Simlerly, a euphonium player.
"We looked at our agenda for the game at band practice yesterday and it looks pretty exciting. We will be on the field with both teams. And we found out that NBC is going to put some of our performance on TV."
It would be the second time that the band has played at a Royals' playoff game, Foster said. The band will perform the U.S. and Canadian nationa anthems and some other songs from their Walt Disney routine that they performed during halftime of the KU-Eastern Illinois game.
Many of the Royals' fans on camp have been to other playoff games and have tried to get 1985 World Series tickets.
Reynolds attended a playoff game in 1800, the year that the Royals avenged their three previous playoff
series losses to the New York Yankees with a three-game sweep
Fans waiting for replies to World Series requests should not hold their breath.
Beiecker sent in for World Series tickets also, but he hasn't received a reply yet. He also went to a 1978 playoff game against the Yankees.
The Kansas City Royals' ticket of
office said yesterday that Series tickets
would not be sent out until after Oct.
13, the date of the last home playoff
game.
Sometime between that day and the beginning of the World Series, the ticket office will decide to process the orders, a ticket office spokesman said.
There are a large amount of ticket requests and the office is not sure that all requests will be met. But the spokesman said there would be no delay in returning money orders that were sent in.
Students leave mark in desk doodles
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
What do the words Magnum,
bored, Kansas and Kappa Sigma
have in common?
The words, which appear on a desk in the basement of Fraser Hall, represent a pastime of many students when boredom overcomes them in classes or the urge to be creative strikes them.
About 45 of the 60 desks in a room in the basement of Fraser Hall have writing on them. Some wooden desks are covered with words and pictures carefully engraved by students.
Desks can be filled with obscenities, political statements or the names of rock groups, fraternities, or sororites.
Several students said they thought the only reason students wrote on desks was that they were bored during lectures.
Bonnie Pace, Russell freshman,
said yesterday that she didn't
write on desks. She said that when
she sat at a desk, she usually saw
or signs of affection
which said someone loved
someone.
Mark Millerille, Fort Monroe,
Va., senior, said he never wrote
on desks and he tried not to sit at
desks covered with writing.
"It distracts me when I'm taking notes," he said, "and a desk with a lot of writing on it is dirty."
Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations, said that when desks were clean, students probably wouldn't write on them.
"If one little bit gets on a desk, someone will add something and it builds from there." Porter said.
Restrooms also provide an additional drawing board for students. Porter said keeping the vulgar language and comments — including racial and sexual comments — off the walls was time consuming. He poems or other remarks remained for a while for patrons to read.
Neal Barnes, Overland Park senior, said he wrote on desks and thought students did it because they needed something to do dur-
"People want to leave their mark." he said.
Barnes said he would sit at a desk with writing if he had a choice of desks, because he could read the desk during class.
Phyllis Deay. Overland Park sophomore, called writing on desks "disgusting."
"Those who write on them don't have any feelings of respect or pride for their school or the property," she said.
Photo Illustration by Suzy Mast/KANSAN
Engraving and scribbling on soft wood tops of some desks is the claxtime hobby of many KU students. Desk doodles reveal obscenities, political statements or names of rock groups, fraternities and sororites. This is one of the 45 defaced desks found in Fraser Hall.
KU to train state mental health workers
Of the Kansan staff
By Jill White
A state contract with the School of Social Welfare to train all state mental health workers in alternative care for the chronically mentally ill will take effect next week, an associate dean of social welfare said yesterday.
Charles Rapp, the associate dean,
said 20 mental health case managers
would participate in the first case
management training session next
week in Garden City. About 150
mental health case managers attended
school this year in a series of three-day sessions and follow-up consultations.
The case management program is based on an advocacy system in which the state case managers, like student case managers, work with the chronically mentally ill to define needs, and then work with community resources to achieve the fulfillment of those needs. Rapp said.
The school signed a contract with the Division of Mental Health and Mental Retardation of the Kansas Department of Social Rehabilitation Services in July to train mental
health employees to work with the chronically mentally ill throughout the state. Most of the trainees currently work in state mental health centers.
They bounce between community living and hospital stays, he said. Symptoms may be alleviated in the hospital, but when they move back into the community, support may be inadequate, and they usually return to the hospital within a year.
Rapp described the chronically mentally ill as people who had been hospitalized and who had sustained difficulty functioning in family, employment, self-care and social environments because of a psychiatric disorder.
Eunice Ruttinger, representative of the Division of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, said the philosophy of case management and commitment of the University of Kansas had a significant impact on community mental health centers in Kansas.
"Four years ago, there were only half as many partial programs as there are now," Ruttinger said. "It took a lot of fortitude and courage to add case management to our
program."
The school has been developing the case management program for the past four years, involving seven mental health agencies, 155 clients and 30 KU students. This year, 14 students will be involved in the program.
Rapp said a need for an alternative care program stemmed from decreasing amounts of hospital care. Hospital stays during the past two decades decreased from an average of three years to an average of three weeks to two months.
"This deinstitutionalization movement has placed a huge burden on community mental health centers and left them terribly underfunded and inadequately staffed," he said.
"In Kansas, 30 percent of people discharged from state hospitals will return to that same state hospital within one year. Obviously, they (community mental health centers) have not been able to provide the kind of care they have been mandated to provide." he said.
Rapp said the case management program with the chronically mentally ill resulted in a 69 percent
reduction in need for state psychiatric hospitalization during the four-year effort.
Social welfare students who were working on their field practicums in the case management program helped ease staff loads in seven agencies: Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Lawrence; Warren Winn Medical Health centers in Kansas City, Kan.; Johnson County Mental Health Clinic, in Mission Hills and Olatte; Rainbow Mental Health Facility, Kansas City, Kan.; and two Shawnee County Mental health clinics in Topeka.
Students went to their assigned agency twice a week in the first semester and three days a week in the second semester.
"The students brought a life and rejuvenation to the program." Leslie Young, director of community support programs at the Johnson County Community Mental Health Center, said. "They have the time and energy to work intensively with a fragile client and help prevent or shorten a hospital stay."
Six profs candidates for HOPE
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
The list of candidates for the 26th annual HOPE Award has been narrowed to six, the senior class secretary said yesterday.
The finalists are:
*Timothy Bengtson, associate professor of journalism.
- Don W. Green, Conger-Gabel distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
George W. Swift, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
■ Gary Mason, associate professor of journalism.
*Nita W. Sundby, professor of curriculum and instruction.*
Lee F. Young, William Allen White distinguished professor of journalism.
Alice Oxley, the secretary, said the finalists were chosen after interviews on Monday and Tuesday by the Senior Committee.
Final ballotting for the award will be Oct. 16 and 17 in the deans' offices of the schools that have a faculty member who is a finalist.
this year's HOPE Award, Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator, will be presented during the KU-Oklahoma State University football game Oct. 26 in Memorial Stadium.
The winner will receive a trophy and a $200 cash prize.
Last year's award went to Mike Kautsch, associate professor of journalism.
While all the teachers said they were pleased to be finalists, each had their own reasons about why they were chosen.
Bengtson, a finalist for the fourth time, said he was pleased to be chosen. He said winning the award involved luck as well as hard work.
"I work hard before I go to my classroom," he said. "I work equally hard in my classroom to make the discussions interesting."
Sundbye is a first-time finalist and the only woman finalist.
She said she was delitged to be chosen. She said this was the first year in some time that the entire class had been on campus to vote.
"In the School of Education, especially until this year, we haven't had all our seniors on campus," Sundey said.
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