Campus/Area
Thursday, Sept. 26, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
KU alumna pleads not guilty to murder
Tammy James, a former KU student, pleaded not guilty to a charge of second degree murder Johnson Country District Court.
The plea was entered by James' attorney, Bill Hamblin of Kansas City, Kan.
James, 22, was arrested July 20 after her father found her newborn baby, who had been strangled, wrapped in towels in James' bedroom at the family's home in Olathe.
Johnson County District Attorney Dennis Moore said yesterday a trial date would be set Oct. 2.
Unemployment falls
The unemployment rate in Lawrence dropped to 3.5 percent in August from July's 4.4 percent, the state reported yesterday.
The Lawrence unemployment rate for August last year was 4 percent.
The 4.8 percent state unemployment rate in August dropped from 4.7 percent in July.
Last month's unemployment decrease probably is due to the large number of young people who dropped out of the job market to go back to school, said Kathy Ketchum, public communications director of the department of human resources.
She said manufacturing jobs decreased slightly, but there was an increase in trade-related jobs.
The biggest gain was in state and local government, she said, which includes state and local schools as well as city and county government.
Movie rescheduled
"Amaduce" will be shown at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Persons holding tickets for the Sept. 20 showing that was canceled can trade in their tickets for the Monday showing or for a refund.
Old tickets will not be accepted at the Monday showing.
Film to be presented
A videotape documentary on the history of Indian boarding schools and their effect on Indian people and culture will be shown at 6 p.m. Friday in the auditorium at Haskell Indian Junior College.
Don Stull, KU associate professor of anthropology, produced the 60-minute program, "Another Wind is Moving," about the schools. The off-reservation boarding schools, such as Haskell, were established in the 19th century to assimilate Indian children into the mainstream of American Society.
The documentary also will be shown continuously Friday and in the morning on Saturday in the Gold Room of the Haskell Student Union.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 60s. Winds will be light and variable. Tonight will be mostly clear with lows in the mid-40s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with highs in the mid- to upper 70s.
From staff and wire reports.
Balloting for HOPE to start
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Armed with water balloons, Eugenie Dillard, Wichita sophomore, Sarah Rasmussen, Leawood sophomore, and Coki Reardon, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, hunt for potential victims to assassinate. Members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Delta Upsilon fraternity played "The Assassination Game" yesterday outside the Alpha Chi Omega house.
Assassination plot
Nominations for the 26th annual HOPE Award will be accepted in the dean's office of each school until 3 p.m. today, and 12 semi-finalists will be announced tomorrow morning.
The HOPE Award, Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educator, will be presented at the KU-Oklahoma State football game on Oct. 28.
Semi-finalists will be determined by the number of nominations each pro-grammer receives.
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
Mike Slaney, senior class president, said yesterday that six finalists would be selected after an interview conducted by the Senior Committee on Oct. 7 and 8. He said the interviews were to keep the award from
Final ballotting will be Oct. 16 and 17 in the dean's office in each school. Slaney said the balloting was moved to the dean's offices for students' convenience last year.
Last year's award, given to Mike Kautsch, assistant professor of journalism, was presented during the Alabama game against Oklahoma University.
becoming a popularity contest.
This year's award will not be presented at the Homecoming game.
"At homecoming, the HOPE Award can too easily get passed to someone who is so important to students and faculty, we want it to get the attention that
The Hope Award winner will receive a trophy and a cash prize. Slaney said. He estimated the value of the trophy to be $2,000. A cash award of around $200 will be presented, but the exact amount had not been determined. Slaney said.
The trophy, cash award and advertising are financed by a trust fund set up by the Class of 1859. The first HOPE Award was presented in 1960.
In the past, the HOPE Award recipient was given a cash award, and all six finalists received plaques.
Slaney said the Endowment Association released $550 each year for expenses incurred in the search for the HOPE Award winner. Any expenses over $550 were paid for from Board of Class Officers financing, he said.
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Divestment and day of protest supported by Student Senate
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
A resolution asking the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest from companies that do business in South Africa was passed last night by the Student Senate.
The day of protest, which will be marked at KU by a rally at Strong Hall, will be part of a week of rallies and marches designed to increase student awareness of the South African situation.
In the same bill, the Senate approved the KU's participation in an international movement declaring Oct. 11 International Day of Protest Against Apartheid.
Dennis "Boog" Highberger, liberal arts and sciences senator and member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said last night that Oct. 12 was chosen as a day when he was chosen around the world as a day of coordinated activity that would
turn attention to South African political prisoners.
Also at last night's meeting, the Senate approved the appointment of Tony Arnold, Nunemaker senator, as chair and Jonathan Dent Senator Executive Committees.
Arnold will replace Reza Zoughi, who resigned his StudEx position and his Senate seat, 11 because of personal politics within the Senate.
"I like all the members on StudEx, and we get along on a personal level," he said.
Arnold said controversial situations would arise, but that was a part of it.
In other action the Senate:
Elections Committee members who plan to run in future Student Senate elections will have to resign
Passed a bill that requires Elections Committee members who plan to run in this year's Senate elections to resign from the Committee by Wednesday.
nine weeks before the first day of the election.
"Tentatively reinstated Kristine Matt, journalism senator, to her Senate seat until a bill could be passed that permanently amended Senate rules to allow her to keep her seat. She was suspended last week for many Senate meetings but said she was not notified of one of the meetings.
- Added a statement of purpose to its rules and regulations.
- Allocated $3,463.50 to the Tau Sigma Dance Club to pay for the Bill Evans Residency program, which runs until Friday. The program is a series of dance classes and concerts by Evans, a professional dancer.
- Allocated $775 to KU Intertribal Alliance for a pow-wow on Intertribal Night.
Judge waives protesters' fines
Allocated $270 to the KU Women's Soccer Club for a goalie uniform and field expenses.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The three appeared at a contempt-of-court hearing yesterday in Municipal Court for refusing to pay their debts.
Lawrence Municipal Court Judge George Catt has allowed three anti-apartheid protesters to perform community service instead of paying fines for criminal trespassing.
Catt continued the hearing until Nov. 4 and gave the protesters until Nov. 1 to complete 10 hours of community service and pay a $5 court cost for each conviction.
Dwayne Fuhlage, Tonganoxie senior, and Ruth Lichtwardt, Lawrence junior, were convicted this summer on one count of criminal trespassing and fined $30 each.
Dennis "Boog" Highberger, Pleasant Grove graduate student, was convicted this summer on two counts and fined a total of $75.
The protesters said at the hearing that they would prefer community service.
Two other protesters, Jane Ungerman, Lawrence senior, and Stuart Shafer, a 1985 KU graduate, who received notice to appear at the hearing, paid their fines earlier.
Jack Klinknett and Barry Shalinsky, Lawrence attorneys, have been representing most of the protesters arrested May 3 and 9 at Youngbeg Hall while protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies that do business in South Africa.
Klinkett said the protesters were not trying to be contemptuous but wanted an alternative to the fines
Fultihue said the protesters who pleaded guilty or not agreed to pay only five hours of community service if they wanted it.
"We went through the trial process and have to do 10 hours," he said. "It discourages people from going through the trial process."
Columnist to open women's forum
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist with the Boston Globe, will be the keynote speaker at the first University of Kansas Forum for Women at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Goodman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for distinguished commentary. Her semiweekly column appears in The New York Times, and the Washington Post Writer's Group.
three-day forum called "Choices and Changes."
"She is one of the most significant editorial writers, male or female." Rousseau said yesterday "She wrote that they are important to all of us."
Rose Rousseau, conference coordinator and program manager at the division of continuing education, said Goodman was expected to discuss some of the topics included in the
Goodman has described herself as a scorekeeper, following "the conflicts and ambivalences" of modern lives.
"We have seen women strike down the 1950s Supermom myth only to find themselves stuck with the 1980s Superwoman myth," she has said.
"We have watched people press for the right, instead, equal responsibilities.
writing style could "raise a hump in the throat. Her columns touch readers in a very personal way, like a reassuring squeeze of the hand."
Goodman was born in 1941 in Boston and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1963.
Eunice Stallworth will perform her one-woman show "Images" at a noon luncheon tomorrow at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Also tomorrow, pianist Rita Sloan will perform at 8 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Attendance to Sloan's concert is $10 for the general public. Goodman's speech today is free of charge.
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By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Festival to promote Kansas film activity
Ninety-eight years ago, Horace H. Wilcox of Topeka wanted to establish a community free from sin, filled with citizens of strong moral character.
So he journeyed to California, founded a town and named it — Hollywood.
The rest is history.
It is also where Kansas' connection to the film industry began, Roger Holden, president of the Kansas Film Institute, said Tuesday.
Members of the institute want Kansans to be aware of that connection, which endures to this day.
"We're trying to promote cinematic activity in Kansas, and promote the rich film heritage of Kansas." Holden said.
To help fulfil this mission, the institute presents the 1985 Kansas Film & Video Festival this week.
The portions of the festival open to the public will begin Saturday. The presentation and judging of this year's film and video entries
made by Kansans -- will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Downs Auditorium at Dyce Hall.
The presentations will continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday.
The admission fee on both days is $1.
There are 40 to 50 entries in this year's competition, Holden said.
The culmination of the festival is the presentation of the institute's Life Achievement OZZI award to Gordon Parks at 7 p.m. Sunday at Downs Auditorium.
After the ceremony, the audience will view the 1969 film version of Parks' book, "The Learning Tree." The film, which Parks directed, is based on his Kansas bovhood.
Parks, a native of Fort Scott, was the first black producer in Hollywood history and produced several other films, including "Shaft."
The OZI takes its name from the film "The Wizard of Oz." Institute members thought the OZI would epitomize a media arts award for Kansas, Holden said.
"The Life Achievement OZIZI speaks for itself," he said. "It goes to a person whom the institute feels has contributed a lot to the rich film heritage of Kansas through his efforts."
Two KU alumni also will be honored this week.
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TO THE STUDENTS AT KU
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I came to the United States to acquire an education that will enable me to grow so I could go back and dedicate my life to help those who have never known the things that make your living the way that it is. I believe in both countries, and most of all, I recognize the value and emotion of being human.
For the past ten years, innocent people from my country have been suffering, victims of serious problems, which due to the present circumstances and to the complexity of their nature, I find difficulty on explaining them to you on time.
I am ready to give up my life the day someone proves to me those beliefs are not true or cannot be real.
I do not know if my family or friends survived, but my job now is to make an attempt to help my people. If you want to give me a hand on that, add a quarter to the line I will be making in front of Strong Hall today. What I collect will buy medical supplies.
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