Friday, Sept. 27, 1985
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Dropping, refunding to stop after today
Today is the last day to cancel enrollment in a regular 16-week course. Refunding of fees for 16-week classes also ends today.
Canceling a class means that it will be erased from the student's schedule and that nothing will appear on the transcript.
The Kansas Film Institute will present the film "Shaft" at 7, 9 and 11 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night at Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall as part of the 1985 Kansas Film and Video Festival. Admission is $1.75.
The last day to drop a 16-week class and receive a "W" is Dec.9.
Students who drop classes after today will receive a "W," representing withdrawal, on their transcripts.
Festival gets "Shaft"
To cancel or drop classes, take drop cards and any necessary special permission cards to the Enrollment Center in 111 Strong Hall.
"Shaft" was produced by Kansas native Gordon Parks, who will accept the institute's Life Achievement OZZI award at 7 p.m. Sunday at Downs Auditorium; Parks' film, "The Learning Tree," will be shown after the award ceremony.
The presentation and judging of this year's film and video entries for the festival will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday in Downs Auditorium. It will continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission on both days will be $1.
Thesis workshop set
The Student Assistance Center will present a workshop on research paper writing from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall.
Skills such as defining a topic, using the library, taking notes and organizing the paper will be discussed.
The center also will present a workshop on preparing for exams from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in 300 Strong Hall.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with highs around 70. Winds will be from the south at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the mid to upper 40s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and cooler, with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs will be in the 60s.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, a sorority in a photo cutline in yesterday's University Daily Kansan was incorrectly identified. The sorority is Chi Omega.
A story in yesterday's Kansan reported that the KU Committee on South Africa refused money from the Kansas University Endowment Association to finance a trip. Jane Ungerman, a committee member, said yesterday that she decided independently to refuse the money. She also said the decision did not prevent the committee from requesting Endowment Association money in the future.
Clarification
From staff and wire reports.
Man critically injured in gas explosion
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A 34-year-old Lawrence man was listed in critical condition yesterday afternoon at the University of Kansas Medical Center after an explosion that occurred Wednesday in the building of the Service Co. official said yesterday.
Mike Hamm, a maintenance journeyman at the center, which is north of Lawrence on Lakeview Road, was working at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in a room next door to the coal mill area, where coal is dried, ground into powder and blown into the boiler to produce electricity. Hamm heard a small explosion and went to investigate, said Hal Hudson, director of corporate communications for KPL Gas Service.
When Hamm opened the door to the coal mill area a second and larger explosion occurred. Hudson said.
"He was hit by a ball of fire," he said. "He was doing his job by investigating, but if he had just been a few steps slower, he wouldn't have been hurt."
A Med Center spokesman said yesterday that Hamm was listed in critical condition in the burn unit and that he had second- and third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body, budging his face, arms, chest and legs.
Hudson said the explosion blew a hole in the side of some sheet metal duct work and caused minimal
"They usually just blow right into the boiler where there is a fire going anyway," he said. "The coal is brought into the area by a conveyor belt, so unless there is maintenance going on, no one works in there."
damage to the plant. He said that small explosions such as the first heard by Hamm were fairly common in the coal area and seldom caused damage.
He said that this explosion was larger than usual and that it blew both toward the boiler and toward the area where the coal entered the mill — the area where Hamm was standing.
"It was just a freak accident," Hudson said. "The right mixture of heat, air and fuel just happened to be
available. I would speculate that a stray spark from metal striking metal ignited the mixture.
"We have a safety director who is investigating, but we'll probably never know what caused it to ignite."
Hudson said the temperature inside the coal mill area was higher than normal because the coal was and hot air was being blown in to dry it.
A safety meeting, led by Kelly Green, assistant vice president in charge of maintenance, was conducted yesterday morning for employees of the plant who were concerned about the accident, he said.
"He quelled their fears by explaining this was a freak accident,
and we will do what we can to assure it doesn't happen again," he said. "But we can don't know now if there is anything we can do. Working in any industrial plant is always a little dangerous, but it's especially so if you work with combustibles. Coal is, after all, a fuel."
Janice Barrier, acting area director for the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration office in Wichita, said yesterday that OSHA had not decided yet whether an investigation of the accident would be conducted.
She said OSHA usually did not investigate an accident unless it involved a fatality or injured at least five people.
Great Peace March to go coast-to-coast
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
On March 1, 1986, about 5,000 people from across the United States will leave their homes to embark on a nine-month march across the country to promote peace through worldwide nuclear disarmament.
The traveling community will live on the road, sleeping in tents, showering in solar-heated showers and eating in a tent cafeteria.
Representatives of Pro-Peace, a national organization recruiting for The Great Peace March from March 1, 1986, to Nov. 15, 1986, said yesterday that marching 15 miles a day, six days a week, would take them 3,235 miles — from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.
The representatives made students aware of the march yesterday in front of the Kansas Union.
Diane Randall Mustonen, ProPeace state coordinator for Nebraska, said yesterday that the march would touch 65 million lives.
"We'll be directly reaching out to 65 million people in 15 states and telling them that they can do something for nuclear disarmament."
Lori Graff, Pro-Pace regional coordinator for Colorado, said, "Getting involved with the cause will make people feel better about themselves. Working for peace is a very positive experience.
The idea for a march across the country came from David Mixner, founder and executive director of Place, which is based in Los Angeles.
Mixner decided to take peaceful action for nuclear disarmament after a talk with his 7-year-old niece, Mustonen said.
Mixner asked his niece what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she replied that she wasn't going to die in the war as he was going to die in a nuclear war.
The purpose of the march is to
inform people in the United States that they can play a role in nuclear disarmament.
"We want to create the idea that people can work together to create change." Mustonen said.
One of those who wants to create change, Charles Munson, Leawood junior, said he planned to support Pro-Peace.
Munson (said he was interested in sponsoring events at the University on nuclear disarmament with student groups and organizing a group of students to meet the marchers when they reached Nebraska.
"It's a very pressing issue," he said. "It's the most important of them all."
Graff said organizers across the country were recruiting for the march, seeking representatives from every state.
Those interested in qualifying for the march must apply and interview with the organizers and try to raise $3,000.
Graff said those who apply should be healthy, interested in the nuclear arms race and committed to nonviolence.
"People must be willing to incorporate their lives into the community."
Graff, a recent graduate of the University of Colorado in Boulder, said that more than 200 student body presidents across the country had endorsed the march.
"We feel a third to a half of our marchers will be students," she said.
"Students have the most to gain and the most to lose. We have our whole lives ahead of us, I.'s time for students to take an interest and responsibility in their future."
Although the marchers will be on the road most of the time, they will not be isolated from the people along their path, she said. Representatives are seeking support in communities through which the marchers will pass.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Tony Hernandez, an employee at window No. 1 in Strong Hall and Lawrence sophomore, takes transcript requests from Adam Hammoud, Beirut, Lebanon, graduate student, left, and Tim Bassom, Riley graduate student.
Unpaid bills haunt debtors
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Karen Fenza, Overland Park senior, was getting frustrated trying to pay her fees for school. When trying to pick up her fee payment card at the window, she discovered that she could not get the card because she had not paid a parking ticket.
"Oh, I hate this school," she said to herself after facing window No. 2 in Strong Hall.
Similar grumblings from students attempting to get transcripts, fee payment cards and certifications of enrollment from window Nos. 1 and 2 in Strong Hall could be avoided if students remembered three things when asking for official information, a KU official said yesterday.
Gary Thompson, director of stud
den records and registration, said,
"What it boils down to is this: If you start getting bills, pay them — if you don't feel you owe anything, then do something about it. Don't wait until the last minute to make your request. And recognize that some times are busier than others."
Thompson said the biggest problem his office faced was when students did not pay fines issued by other offices or departments of the University. These include fines from the libraries, KU Parking Services, residence halls and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
"We really play the role of a collection agency," he said. "That's the one thing I like the least — making students pay old bills. They have to pay them, though. The bills just don't go away."
Thompson's office also encounters
problems with students who request transcripts or certifications of enrollment and expect immediate results.
The student records and registration office provides about 5,000 transcripts during a light month. Thompson said, and has processed up to 8,900 during a busy月度. Because of the volume of transcripts requested, he said, it is important to request them during slow periods of the year.
"Most requests are received in a small period of time," he said, "so it is not possible to give instant service. March, April, May and June are busy times for transcript requests since this is when students apply for graduate school and go on job interviews.
Campus game planned
Students join search for Cap'n Crunch
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
The Crunch Chronicle reported recently that Smedley and the Chrunchberry Beast, aboard the Good Ship Guppy, have been frantically searching for Cap'n Horatio Crunch since his disappearance Sept. 1.
Look out world, the Cap'n is missing.
The prime suspect, pirate Jean LaFoote, says he has no knowledge of Cap'n Crunch's whereabouts.
Cap'n Crunch, after leaving the Good Ship Guppy, mysteriously disappeared from cereal boxes and advertisements, leaving only a question mark in his place.
Likewise with Scott Costa, Mount Prospect, III, sophomore.
"I didn't take the Cap'n. I swear I don't have him," Costa said Wednesday.
On college campuses nationwide, students are joining the search to find the Cap'n, said Jerry Ferkins, brand manager of Cap'n Crunch
cereal and leader of the search teams desperately seeking the Cap'n.
Gene Dalporto, Prairie Village sophomore, and Jeff Sweinengen, Quincy, Ill., sophomore, joined forces a month ago to solve the saffling mystery of the missing Crunch.
The two, headed by Dalport, say they will conquer the haunting question of "Where's The Cap'n?" within two weeks.
"My girlfriend bought some Cap'n Crunch and I read about the contest
on the back of the box," Dalparto
said. "That's how we got started."
A plastic decoder, which comes with the cereal, and clues on the back of the box were the only evidence the team had concerning the location of Cap'n J. known mariner and inventor of Cap'n J cruncher, Dalporto said.
Nancy Manning, Lenexa sophomore, said. "My roommate and I are kind of playing around with it. We sit and decode the little messages on the box."
Manning said the clues on the back
of the boxes weren't extremely difficult.
Quaker Oats also is offering $10,000 to be divided among 100 contestants who can solve an acrostic puzzle by Thomas Middleton, a veteran puzzle creator, Perkins said. The puzzle, containing 22 clues, will be distributed in college dining halls across the country, Perkins said.
He said the acrostic puzzle contest had started recently and probably had not reached the KU campus yet.