Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1985
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Official listed as fair after heart problems
Douglas County Commissioner, David Hopper was listed in fair condition, but remained in intensive care yesterday afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, after suffering symptoms of a heart attack Sunday, a hospital official said.
Hopper was admitted to the hospital at 7:50 p.m. Sunday.
County Counselor Chris McKenna said Commissioner Warren Rhodes would handle county business until Commission Chairman Nancy Hiebert returned from vacation.
2 students arrested
Two 18-year-old KU students were arrested early yesterday morning after an officer stopped a dar at the 1900 block of West 15th Street for a traffic violation, KU police said.
' The driver was arrested for operating under the influence, and, while the arrest was being made, the passenger pushed the officer. He was then placed under arrest for obstructing the legal processes, resisting arrest, and possession of alcoholic beverages by a minor.
U. Mass, prof to talk
Louis Fischer, professor of law and education at the University of Massachusetts, will give a lecture, "When Courts Play School Board; Judicial Activism in Education," at 8 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The lecture, sponsored by the Kansas Association of School Boards and the University's educational policy and administration department, will be the first of an annual series of Marion McGhechey Memorial Lectures in Education Law.
Society meets today
For information call Mickey Imber at 864-4432.
A meeting of the Kansas chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing will be at 7 p.m. today in the Apollo Room of the Space Technology Center at Nichols Hall. Remote sensing is the science of obtaining information through photography of the earth from the air and from outer space.
For more information, call James Merchant of the Space Technology Center, 864-4775.
Workshop scheduled
A workshop on improving communication within intimate relationships will be conducted from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas union.
The workshop, "Male-Female Communications Styles," is offered by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and is free and open to the public. Topics will include effective listening, conflict resolution and creating fair fight rules. For more information, call Kim Stryker at 864-3552.
Weather
Today will be clear and cool, with a high in the mid- to upper 40s. Winds will be out of the south at 5 to 10 mph. Tornight also will be clear and cool. The low will be in the mid- to upper-30s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, with a high in the low 70s.
Halls to get new payment plan
By Bob Tinsley
Of the Kansan staff
All five of the housing fee schedules that Ken Stoner, director of student housing, submitted to the Residential Programs Advisory Board two weeks ago were approved by the board yesterday.
Students who will live in residence halls next year will now choose between two payment plans instead of six and will make their payments in nine installments instead of 11.
Payment plan A covers all KU residence halls except Hashinger Hall. Under plan A, residents will pay $2,135 to live in a residence hall for the academic year.
This means residents of Joseph H. Pearson and Templin halls will pay $14 more. Residents of Oliver Hall will pay $16 less, and rates for other four halls will fall between these two parameters.
Residents of Hashinger Hall use plan B, and will pay $2,225 for the academic year.
Students who plan to return to the residence halls next year must pay $200 in April. Then they will pay $215 a month from June to December and make final payments of $215 in February and March.
academic year.
Hashinger students pay more to maintain the hall's Center for the Creative Arts, Stoner said.
For five years Jayhawker Towers residents will choose from three payment plans next year instead of four, and leases will be shortened from 10 months to 9 months.
Rents for Towers residents will vary from $432 to $724 a month. They will still be able to choose to lease their apartments jointly or as individuals. A resident who pays as an individual is responsible only for his portion of the rent. Under a joint
Residents of Stouffer Place, Sunflower Apartments and the eight scholarship halls will see no change in the rates they pay.
The presidents of the Association of University Residence Halls, the All Scholarship Hall Council and the Stouffor Neighborhood Association submitted several proposals. The board will vote on them at its next meeting Oct. 15.
The AURH proposal included a measure to make Oliver Hall coeducational by wing. Currently the hall houses five floors of women and four of men.
lease, a resident is responsible for the total amount.
A survey was conducted at the hall Sept. 22-23 to see how many residents wanted the change. Of the 647 residents, 435 voted - 338 in favor of the measure and 97 opposed.
the All Scholarship Hall Council, asked the board to allow hall residents to vote on the use of their capital outlay funds in the fall semester. In the past, this has been done in the spring.
Proposals submitted by the Stouffer Neighborhood Association included a request that two waiting lists for two-bedroom apartments at Stouffer be consolidated into one.
Steve Chrzanowski, president of
"We want to eliminate the second list to give each person the same opportunity," said Fabricio Balcazar, president of the association.
Current residents of Stouffer who want a two-bedroom apartment are placed on one waiting list. Applicants who are not current residents are placed on the second list and usually are given preference when two-bedroom apartments become available.
Panel gives goods on new liquor law
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
The executive director of the Alcohol Beverage Commission said last night that it was imperative that students understood and obeyed Kansas' new liquor laws.
"I try to lay the cards on the table by saying, 'This may seem brutal, but this is the way it is,'" said John Lamb, the executive director, who was a member of a panel that answered students' questions in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
About 50 students, many from organized living groups, asked questions of the four-member panel.
Several presidents of organized living groups were concerned that they would be held responsible for minors who drank at their parties or others that drank too much at the functions.
In addition to Lamb, panel members were Mary Prewitt, University assistant general counsel; Caryl Smith, associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of student life; and James Denney, director of the KU Police Department.
Lamb said he thought the panel discussion cleared up myths surrounding the drinking laws and their enforcement.
Lamb said that although Kansas did not have a draam-shop law, which holds a person who provides liquor liable for those who drink it, people
still were responsible for the situations they set up.
"The bulk of the problem lies on the individual, but it does not always stop there," he said.
Students also questioned whether police without search warrants or reasonable cause could enter private parties.
Lamb said the best advice was "not to hang your hat on the search warrant or lack of one, especially on a liquor violation."
"If they see minors consuming liquor then they can do whatever is necessary," he said.
It is not illegal for minors to be in a place where liquor is consumed, Lamb said, but in most cases the minors will be drinking.
If the state did not raise the drinking age by 1987, federal highway funds would have been cut 5 percent the first year the state did not comply with the mandatory federal law and 10 percent the second year.
"What it boils down to is, and this is my personal opinion, is that the state' raised the drinking age to preserve federal highway funds."
Mike Horton/KANSAN
Political chicken
Scott Rutledge, Blue Valley, Mo., freshman, campaigns for his coalition, which is running for the Board of Class Officers. Freshmen voted yesterday and can vote today at Wescoe Hall and the Kansas Union.
"I came to call attention to the lower-income, frail, elderly and handicapped individuals in Lawrence who have problems paying their winter utility bills," Turner said at the meeting. Turner is a past chairman of the board of the Lawrence Council on Aging.
Ralph Turner, 308-S Windsor Place, said he did not come to the Lawrence City Commission meeting last night to call attention to increasing natural gas rates.
"If there is a severe winter, these people will need help paying their bills," he said. "I think I need to bring it up because of the plight of these human beings."
The Commission last night considered a report from the city staff and Kansas Public Service which contained the results of a negotiated gas rate increase. The average customer's gas bill would increase 36 cents a month, the reported said.
In a letter to the Commission, City Manager Buford Watson said that KPS had not raised rates in almost two years and that the 1.655 percent increase was justified.
Watson met with gas company officials last week to negotiate the increase. The rate increase is usually done through an appointed arbiter. By bypassing arbitration, the city saved taxpayers $17,000, Watson said.
Commissioners accepted the report with a 5-0 vote. The ordinance will appear on the agenda later for a second reading.
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Turner, Watson and the commissioners said Lawrence Warm Hearts, a program that helps individuals who cannot pay their heating bills, does a good job of helping many of the less fortunate people in Lawrence.
In other action, the Commission unanimously approved the site plan for Super 8 Motel to be located on McDonald Drive between La Casa Inn, 2222 W. 6th St., and the Lawrence Family Practice Center, 500 Rockledge Road.
City mulls increasing gas rates
Snoopy celebrates 35 years
The Commission approved the site plan with provisions that the developer resurface the access road from the trompike to La Casa Inn.
The Commission also approved the site plan for The Halcyon House, 1000 Ohio St., a bed and breakfast hotel that is already open. The site requires a zoning variance because it has only two parking places and zoning for the area requires four.
By Bob Tinsley
Of the Kansan staff
Snoopy, that floppy-eared cartoon canine creation of Charles Schulz, made his debut 38 years ago today, along with his master, that perennial lovable loser, Charlie Brown, and the whole "Peanuts" gang.
If dogs truly age seven human years for every year of their lives, then one well-known beagle celebrates his 245th birthday today.
Through the years, the "Peanuts" cartoon strip has been translated into a myriad of languages and continues to reach millions around the world.
Julie Riggle, Overland Park junior, is one of them.
"I like Snoopy the best," Riggle said yesterday. "He seems to be the only one who's got it all together. He
Although some people desert their cartoon hearts, leaving them to gather cobwebs in a dark corner of their childhood, the "Peanuts" gang still evokes a smile from many KU students.
"It doesn't seem possible that Joe Cool has reached 35," said Brian Glipin, Topeka sophomore."He's the ageless wonder, you know?"
just sits in his doghouse, always content.
"He usually kind of makes you smile."
Gilpin likes Snoopy but says he restricts his encounters with the beagle to the comic strips of the Sunday paper.
Others students found it hard to believe that Snoopy could be old enough to be a Yuppie.
Lynette Joe Beck, Houston sophomore, also found a 35-year-old Snowo hard to believe. She reads the "Peanuts" comic strip and enjoys sending "Peanuts" greeting cards to friends, she said.
Beck said she found that Snoopy also had applications in her professional life. She has used a stuffed Snoopy, complete with his own
"It's not like he dominates my life, I don't pray to the Snoopy god," Glinin said.
"It was really good to teach the kids how to button and zip and Snoopy was someone they could relate to," Beck said.
zippered outfit, to teach children with disabilities.
"They don't, they just don't. I think the market has been saturated," said Rochelle McKowan, a book buyer at The Town Crier, 930 Massachusetts St
Snoopy may not be popular at start, but "Peanuts" paraphernalia doesn't seem to sell as well as it used to, according to one local dealer.
Sales declined so much at another local dealer — Adventure, A Bookstore, 1010 Massachusetts St. — that the store removed the items from its shelves, said Mary Williams, assistant department manager.
However, Williams said she enjoyed the tomboyish Peppermint Patty.
"She really hits home," she said. "She tries hard, but everything doesn't seem to go right."
To make an appointment, call 864-3728.
She said the number of seniors who already have had their pictures taken was comparable to the number who did at this time last year.
"Next week is going to be unbelievably crowded," she said. "Everyone will wait until the last minute."
A lot of students made appointments early to get their
KU students are taking fewer hours this semester, according to full-time equivalent enrollment figures released yesterday by the office of student records.
The deadline for senior pictures is Oct. 11., said Brenda Asher, Overland Park park and editor of the Javhawker Yearbook.
Full-time equivalent enrollment, which is used by the Kansas Legis- lature to determine the University's budget, is calculated by dividing the total number of credit courses by average full-time credit course load.
Students ease up on hours
Senior photo deadline nears
Each senior class has about 4,400 undergraduate students. Asher said, and usually about 1,100 students will get their pictures taken.
The deadline for senior yearbook pictures is fast approaching but seniors can avoid the rush now, the yearbook editor said yesterday.
The 1985 FTE enrollment is 22,182.
By a Kansan reporter
picture taken, Asher said, but many students have called to reschedule appointments.
By a Kansan reporter
but actual enrollment is 24,774 students, the office said.