Campus/Area
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
5 protesters' hearing scheduled for today
Five anti-aparthide protesters who refused to pay their criminal trespassing fines will appear at a contempt-of-court hearing at 7:45 a.m. today in Lawrence Municipal Court.
At the same hearing, Jack Klinnett and Barry Shalinsky, Lawrence lawyers representing the protesters, will request that the city validate appeals filed last week by seven protestors for their convictions this summer of criminal trespass.
The protesters were arrested May 3 and 9 at Youngberg Hall, home of the Kansas University Endowment Association, while protesting the Endowment Association's investments in companies doing business in South Africa.
Mexican aid sought
Representatives of the American Red Cross, the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center and the Latin American Student Association will be collecting donations for the Mexican Earthquake Relief Fund from 8 a.m to 5 p.m. today in front of Wescoe Hall.
Painter will lecture
Robert Bechle, an internationally known realist painter, will be at the University today through Friday and lecture on his work at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Bechle, a realist painter in the early 1960s before the style became fashionable a decade later, has exhibited his paintings in galleries in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, the Soviet Union and through out Western Europe.
State Dept. jobs open
Representatives from the U.S. State Department will be at KU Oct. 7 to interview students interested in foreign service employment, Jim Henry, assistant director of the University Placement Center, said.
Interviews will be conducted in the Placement Center, 223 Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The State Department prefers that applicants be economics majors, Henry said, but students with other majors are also sought. Position available include foreign service officers and foreign service officers.
All applicants for State Department employment must take the 1985 Foreign Service Written Examination, Henry said. The test will be given on Dec. 7 at KU. The deadline for registering for the examination is Oct. 25.
Information booklets and examination applications are available in the Placement Center. For more information, call 964-3624.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy, with a 30 percent chance of rain early. The sky will clear later, and the high temperature will be near 65. Winds will be from the southwest at 5 to 10 mph. Tonight's low should be near 45. Winds will switch to the west, at 5 to 10 mph.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly attributed American College Test scores to 1984 high school graduates. The scores were compiled from ACT tests of high school students who graduated in 1983.
Economic study offered to state
From staff and wire reports
If approved by the state, $180,000 slated for an economic study program at the University would allow Kansas to become more economically competitive with other states, Chancellor Gene A. Budig told the Senate Executive Committee yesterday.
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said the money would be used to further the "econometric modelling capability program" of
the Institute of Economic and Business Research. It would enable the institute to monitor the Kansas economy and predict possible directions the state could take in the future.
"It is impossible for the state of Kansas to be competitive in the long run without such a capability," Budig said.
Budig and Horowitz told Senex which University research programs had been approved by the Board of Regents to receive money for fiscal year 1987.
Horowitz said most states already
had economic models that were used to forecast future economic situations. Kansas, however, does not have equivalent capabilities.
"This not only has research potential for the University," she said, "but it also has great potential for the state of Kansas."
A report issued by the department of research, graduate studies and public service said state and national economics have shown "a stagnation and cyclical volatility during the 1700s and into the 1980s."
Budig and Horowitz also announced that the Regents will ask the Legislature for fiscal 1987 funds for other programs:
According to the report, this extended lack of economic strength
suggests that the economic vitality of the 1950s has not been recaptured. Economic research into the development of 'growth strategies, analysis of problem areas, and forecasting future conditions' has been an important part of most states' plans for growth.
$235,819 for the Anthropology and Natural History museums for the hiring of additional staff to organize collections and conduct research.
Condoms no big hit here with women
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
The October issue of Working Woman magazine says that more women than ever before are buying condoms for their men.
But if the volume of business at local pharmacies is any indication, the trend has yet to take off in the Lawrence area.
Only one local pharmacist said he noticed that women were making inroads into the condom market.
"We do stock them, and we've got a whole line of them," said a pharmacist at Wal-Mart Pharmacy, 2727 Iowa St., who preferred not to be identified.
"I'd say overall, there are more women buying them in the last few years," he said.
He said the most popular brand the store carried was Trojan, and the more expensive lambskin types were just as popular as the latex Trojan condoms.
Trojans also are popular at the Jayhawk Pharmacy, Sixth and Michigan streets.
Karen Guenther, a pharmacist's clerk at Jayhawk, said women were infrequent condom customers at the store.
"Maybe once every few months," Guenter said.
Working Woman reported that women constitute 40 percent of the condom market today, compared to 15 percent in the mid-1970s.
Those figures came as no surprise to Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare.
"Women are probably getting just a little sick of having to do all the contraception, like using the diaphragm or taking the pill," Dailey said, "and they are buying condoms, giving them to their partners and saying, 'Here, you do something.'"
Dalley teaches a class, Social Welfare 279, Human Sexuality in Everyday Life, in the fall and spring semesters.
The magazine said the condom's effectiveness in preventing venereal disease was one reason women were buying them.
Andrea Reese, Overland Park junior, found a peaceful place to study near Potter Lake yesterday afternoon during a break from classes.
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Lake break
Research in secrecy advocated
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Frances Horowitz, the vice chancellor, said longer classification of research would attract more research projects to the University.
The number of research projects at the University of Kansas is limited by KU's policy of classifying certain projects for only one year, the vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said yesterday.
Classified research permits the University to keep results on certain research secret.
She said many companies that use universities to conduct research requested that the research be kept secret because of patents. Therefore, because of KU's short classification period, many went to other schools.
Horowitz suggested the policy be changed to allow research to be classified for one, two or three years, depending on company requests. These time periods would be sufficient for most companies, she said.
Last year the University Council defeated a proposal to lengthen the period of classification. Horowitz said she was unhappy about the council's decision, but would like to see the faculty vote on the proposal this year, although a faculty vote is not required.
norowitz said there were some obstacles to a longer classification period. Teachers would not be able to use their classified work for peer evaluation for merit. However, it would be advantageous to graduate research assistants.
Classification of research would allow students to work on the most current projects. She said it would allow them to work on the "cutting edge" of their fields.
Horowitz said those who opposed classification saw it as a limit on the free flow of knowledge.
Group wants to save students' souls
"It represents the heart of two of the University's most cherished principles," she said.
Rheem and White took the test and answered the questions without hesitation. When they finished
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Are you going to heaven?
Are you going to have?
Several KU students from the Maranatha Campus Ministry tried to tackle this question yesterday in front of Wescoe Hall.
JRule Rheen, Wichita senior, and Dianne White,
Hutchinson senior, stopped because they were
curious and they liked the slogan, "Are you going
to heaven?"
As students walked by the blue booth, which had the words "Are you going to heaven? 2 question test reveals answer," printed on a sign above it, many walked on their way to other tests. A few giggled, but some stopped for a tip on whether they were set for heaven.
the exam both were confident they had done their best.
"We're trying to give them the best explanation of what does and what doesn't get someone into
After the test White said she thought the booth was a bad idea because she didn't think she could be told she was going to heaven on the basis of two questions.
The questions asked were, "Do you believe you are going to heaven when you die, and why?"
John McDernott, Tennessee senior and member of Maranatha, 927 Ohio St., said the church was not trying to tell the students whether they were going to heaven. He said it was just trying to let them know where they stood.
heaven," he said. "We're not gonna tell some one. You're not getting into heaven."
McDermott said the idea of a booth was not the group's own. The idea came from a group in Florida. Maranatha obtained a permit from the University, which allowed them to put the booth up. McDermott said.
McDermott said reaction to the booth was mixed. He said some people really wanted to get into a religious discussion but most were just curious.
Tom Orome, Hutchinson junior, and John Hoskins, Hutchinson senior, said they were curious but they thought the booth was intended as a joke.
"I was just curious to see what it was," he said.
"I thought it was a joke, but they take it pretty serious."
Star Trek followers treated to show's foul-ups
By John Williams
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
About 100 people got a rare glimpse of Mr. SpoOk smiling last night when they attended the Star Trek Bloopers Show at Dyche Auditorium.
Because Spock rarely smiled in the 1960s series, the bloopers are about the only place the Vulcan's grin can be seen, the creator of the traveling film show, said last night.
John Woodall, owner of Woodal
Films, Los Angeles, said the bloopers
usually were made for cast parties, but they somehow made it to film collectors all over.
Rod Odom, Stafford junior who attended the show, said, "I am a big 'Star Trek' fan, and it was a great study break from studying astronomy."
Three "Star Trek Bloopers" versions were shown last night in the Dyche Auditorium. Each version lasted about 5 or 10 minutes.
The program was sponsored by the Sigma Nu pledge class as a money-
making project. Two more shows will be at 7 and 9 p.m. today.
The first two bloopers reels were made to be shown at cast parties, Woodall said. But the third was made for the Venice Film Festival, held about two years after the show was cancelled in 1969.
Also shown with the bloopers were three original Monty Python trailers — clips of film used to tell what the next film or episode was about; about 25 Star Trek trailers; the short film "Bambi Meets Godzilla," and the
"Star Wars" satire, "Hardware Wars."
Marty Novak, Paola junior, said he attended because his mind was too full of engineering and he needed a break.
"It's also great to see Spokie smile in the film," he said.
Woodall said he toured the entire country in the fall giving the show. The last time he was at KU was in 1983. He is now touring Big Eight schools and already has been to the
University of Missouri and Kansas State University.
sake the campuses he usually visited only college campuses but sometimes he gave the presentation at conventions
Woolall's clips come from a personal file he has collected from film collectors' conventions and sometimes by making special arrangements with the original owners of the shows, he said.
He said most of the bloopers were laughable.