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University Daily Kansan
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Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1985
News Briefs
Shevchenko to speak
Arkady Shevchenko, the highest ranking Soviet diplomat to defect to the United States, will speak at 7 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The Kansas University Endowment Association's J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series will sponsor Shevchenko's speech, "A View from the Kremlin."
Shevchenko is a former Soviet ambassador and undersecretary general of the United Nations. He spen 22 years with the Soviet government, 2½ years as an adviser to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
Men offer kids a ride
Two Lawrence elementary school children reported that two men in a Volkswagen tried to entice them into the car about 4 p.m. Friday. Lawrence police said yesterday.
The children, an 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, were walking home from school in the 200 block of West 22nd Street when a Volkswagen pulled up beside them, police said.
The children told police that one of the men asked them whether they wanted a ride. The girl told them no and the children ran to the girl's home.
Man arrested at hall
A 22-year-old Lawrence man was arrested early yesterday on suspicion of disorderly conduct and of carrying a concealed weapon. KU police said yesterday.
Police said the man had entered McCollum Hall at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday and demanded to see a resident. Staff members asked the man to leave several times, then called police.
Officers arrived, told the man to leave three times, then placed him under arrest for criminal trespass.
The man's car was parked in a fire lane, and while officers were preparing the car to be towed, they found a pair of nunchaku, or nunchuks, under the driver's seat. Possession of a concealed weapon was added to the charges.
The man was being held yesterday in the Douglas County jail in lieu of $2,000 bond.
ASK to meet today
State officials of the Associated Students of Kansas will meet today with members of the campus chapter of ASK to answer questions and introduce new members to the organization.
Brian Gilpim, KU's ASK director, said all students were welcome to attend the meeting at 6 pm today in the Wheat Room of the Kansas Union.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and highs in the upper 70s. Winds will be from the south at 20 to 30 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows will be around 45. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and cooler with bighs in the mid to upper 60s.
From staff and wire reports
48% of hall members agree to change
Sex separation for Oliver Hall may end
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Julie Green, a resident of Oliver Hall, wouldn't mind if Oliver residents of opposite sexes were allowed to live together on the same floors at the hall.
"Look at Naismith, they have a blast,
Green, Shawnee freshman, said Sunday.
A proposal that would allow men and women to live on opposite wings of the same floors at Oliver awards the approval of the Residential Programs Advisory Board. The board will consider the proposal. Even if the board approves the change, the earliest that it would take effect is next year.
Green and 434 other Oliver residents said in a recent survey that they supported such a change. But their approval might not be
enough to guarantee passage, a board member said yesterday.
"I'm not saying the proposal won't pass, but it makes a stronger case if you say you represent a group when you have the numbers standing behind you," Mark Denke, assistant director of residential programs and board member, said yesterday.
Denke said that in the past, such proposals were most successful when 75 percent of a hall's occupants voted on them, with two-thirds of this number favoring the proposal.
The survey was conducted Sept. 22 and 23 at Oliver. Of the hall's 647 residents, 67 percent, or 435, of them voted. Of those who voted, 338 of them, or 77 percent, favored the change.
Rob Howard, chairman of the housing contracts committee of the Association of University Residence Halls, was in charge of the survey.
Howard said he needed to get 75 percent of the hall's 647 residents to respond to the survey. Sixty-seven percent signed the petitions, but some students seemed unconcerned about the proposal, he said.
"I was just lucky to get 67 percent," he said. Oliver is the only one of four male-female halls in the University system where students of the same sex live on the same floors. Men live on the second through fifth floors and women occupy the sixth through the 10th.
In Ellsworth, Hashinger and McCollum halls,
men and women live on opposite wings on the
Andrew Blossom, president of AURH, presented the proposal to the board Oct. 1. Blossom said the change could reduce vandalism at Oliver Hall because women calmed the male residents.
"Sometimes when you get 75 males on a floor, things can happen," he said. "Most of the vandalism at Oliver has been on the male floors."
Howard agreed.
Brian Cooper, Oliver resident and Wichita freshman, said residents of both sexes were to blame for vandalism at the hall.
suzi Geiman, Oliver resident and Prairie Village freshman, wondered whether men and women would be sharing hall bathrooms.
"If guys are up here, they'll be using the ones on our wint." she said.
In the other male-female floors, bathrooms are designated for the use of the sex occupying that wing.
Jill Weiland, Arlington, Texas, sophomore, said she wasn't worried about the risk.
"It doesn't make any difference." Weiland said, "but I think it would be fun to have guys on the same floor."
Facilities operations workers Terry Unfred and Ron Cook inspect the damage done to a water line that ruptured yesterday in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. Water was shut off in Stauffer-Flint and Bailey halls and Bailey Annex for nearly two hours yesterday.
Water gush leaves halls dry
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Facilities operations workers struck water about 10 a.m. yesterday in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall as they dug around a leaking underground pipe.
"The break occurred when we started digging, apparently because of the vibrations of the machine." Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, said yesterday.
Stauffer-Flint and Bailey halls and Bailey Annex were without water for about two hours because of the water pipe break and its repair.
The four-inch pipe had a $1\frac{3}{2}$-inch by three-inch hole, Porter said. The hole probably was caused by an acidic cinder that had worked itself into the pipe and was eating it away. To repair the pipe, workers used a coupling that was wrapped around and bolted onto the pipe.
Porter said that facilities operations had known about the leaking pipe for about a week but did not work on it last week because of the Inside-Out Arts Festival in front of the building.
"It like putting a Band-Aid on a puncture wound," Porter said.
"Perhaps it won't be that bad this year because there has been a lot of rain." he said. "We haven't had to water much on campus this fall. Other than watering new sod or some shrubs, we haven't done near the watering that we usually do."
Terry Unfried, a facilities operations worker, dug the hole around the pipe and helped clean up the site afterward. He said that the mound of dirt that surrounded the hole would be leveled next week, giving the earth time to settle around the pipe.
Porter said. "We don't have an awful lot of water line breaks. It's really not that big of a problem."
Extremities in the weather cause most water breaks, he said. Hot weather dries the ground and cold weather freezes it. This causes the ground to shift and pipes may break.
More breaks occur around the fringe of the campus because facilities operations does not water those areas as much. Porter said.
Parts of bill survive committee meeting
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Three "sub-bills" of a bill that would restructure Student Senate meetings passed the Student Senate Rights Committee last night.
Bills A, B and Care sections of Bill 041, a nine-page document that was divided into seven smaller bills by a subcommittee last week. The three bills will be debated in the full Senate tomorrow.
Bill A of the restructuring bill defines the duties of the Student Senate Committee Board and makes the board responsible for appointing replacement committee members, a responsibility that now belongs to the Student Senate Executive Committee.
Bill B defines the roles of the Senate standing committees and allows them to create their own subcommittees.
Bill C would combine two small committees, Cultural Affairs and University Affairs, into the University Life Committee.
At the start of the meeting, Tim
Baker, Rights Committee chairman,
said.
quorum of 17 members that is the required number to do business if a member calls for a quorum count.
No one called for a count so the committee voted to reduce the quorum number to 14 members, the number present, so business could continue. Boller said the Rights Committee had about 60 members.
Martie Aaron, social welfare senator and co-author of the bill, said interest had been waning in the small committees because few bills were
She said the combined committee would be stronger and more consolidated than either of the two committees was now.
The other sections, Bills D, E, F and G, are scheduled to be discussed in the next Rights Committee meeting Oct. 21.
A bill that limits the number and size of Senate campaign posters also passed the Rights Committee last night.
The bill limits each coalition to one 11-by-17-inch poster for each classroom, bulletin board or 20-foot length of wall space in campus buildings.
Fraternity pays taxes
By a Kansan reporter
One of three KU fraternities owing delinquent Douglas County property taxes has paid its bill in full, according to records from the Douglas County treasurer's office.
The Acacia house, 1100 Indiana St., has paid more than $14,000 in taxes and penalties dating back to 1981, according to county treasurer's records. Jeff Galvan, president of the house, said yesterday that money to pay off the taxes had come from various sources.
"We got money from the house since most of the debt was from guys living in the house now — that and we asked alumni on Parents Day to pitch in." Galvan said.
The Acacia house had been nearing the four-year limit for delinquent taxes. If that deadline had been reached, the house could have been put up for public auction.
The other two fraternities — Phi Kappa Theta, 1941 Stewart Ave. , and Alpha Phi Alpha, 1014 Mississippi St. — have not paid their delinquent taxes, according to current treasurer's records.
Phi Kappa Theta owes more than $14,000 in delinquent property taxes and Alpha Phi Alpha owes about $600.
Besides owing the original property taxes, the houses will have to pay an 18 percent annual penalty that is compounded daily.
32 Kansans have AIDS
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — While the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta list only 11 AIDS victims in Kansas, there actually are 32 victims of the disease known to be living in this state and seven others who state officials suspect may have it.
Those latest figures on AIDS in Kansas were given yesterday in two Kansas Department of Health and Environment informational sessions.
The 11 cases listed by the centers are individuals who were diagnosed
in Kansas and still are living in the state.
Another 21 victims had the disease diagnosed somewhere else and either returned to Kansas or came to this state for treatment and are living here now, health and environment officials said.
In addition, there are seven suspected cases of AIDS in Kansas that have not been accepted for national statistics because their tests or symptoms do not meet all the federal criteria to be positively diagnosed.
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