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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1985
News Briefs
Former Miss Kansas faces alcohol charge
WICHTA — The attorney for former Miss Kansas Nancy Lynn Cobby yesterday waived his client's right to a jury trial on a misdemean charge of transporting an enn container of beer.
Cobb, a former KU student,
pleaded not guilty to the charge,
pointing that she apparently fell
away from her car after leaving a friend's home.
Her attorney, Jack Focht, requested a bench trial before a judge instead. The new trial is scheduled for 9 a.m. Oct. 31 in Sedgwick County District Court.
Cobb was charged with carrying an open container of beer after totaling the car, which was lent to her during her reign. Cobb, the 1984 Miss Kansas, broke her neck and an ankle in the accident near Derby, and for weeks afterward had to wear a 35-pound brace bolted into her skull.
Drugs found in room
An 18-year-old student was arrested Saturday afternoon for suspected possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, KU police said yesterday.
Police said officers were called about 4:40 p.m. Saturday to Oliver Hall to investigate suspected marijuana use.
A search warrant was obtained and marijuana, drug paraphernalia and prescription drugs were found in the student's room, police said.
The student was released from the Douglas County Jail Sunday on $50 bond.
Defense seminar set
A self-defense seminar will be conducted at 7:30 tonight at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
Study group to meet
Two Lawrence police officers will give the demonstration and answer questions on self-defense. For more information, call Janette Haak at 841-0381.
The program, sponsored by the office of study abroad, will include information on application for the program, financial aid and scholarships available for students who want to study abroad.
Study abroad alumni will be available to answer questions.
Falkland lecture set
The British liaison officer for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth will speak at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon about the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands.
Col. J.R. Hart, the liaison officer, will speak in 427 Summerfield Hall to about 130 Navy ROTC students as well as the general public.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with highs in the mid 60s. Winds will shift to the south at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will become partly cloudy with lows around 40. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Football rewards retailers
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Home football games bring not only thousands of fans to Memorial Stadium, but also thousands of dollars to Lawrence businesses.
Saturday's game against Indiana State generated about $500,000 in business for Lawrence merchants, a chamber of commerce official said last week.
Gary Toebben, executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said Lawrence got an economic boost of $500,000 every home game, based on a paid attendance average of 25,000.
The $500,000 boost comes from an estimated $225,000 in football tickets, $110,000 in food and beverages, $60,000 in lodging, $60,000 in auto and transportation expenditures and $45,000 in other purchases, he said.
But Memorial Stadium may hold larger than average crowds for the rest of the season, said Kent Weiser, KU's acting ticket manager.
Weiser said season ticket sales rose by almost 500 tickets over last
This season's seven-game schedule should generate more than $3.5 million for the Lawrence economy — equivalent to a new manufacturing plant with 125 employees coming to Lawrence, he said in the letter.
year's sales, boosting total season ticket sales to more than 20,000. For the first two games, attendance was between 23,000 and 28,000, he said.
"Other games will be bigger," Weiser said. "The non-conference teams aren't bringing crowds with them. Orders for the K-State game are being held in the house and the Oklahoma State game may be the sleeper of the bunch."
in a letter sent this summer to chamber members, Bob Stephens, chamber president, said the members should care about KU football because it generated business for Lawrence.
Mark Ugbark, chairman of the chamber's sports committee, said selling season tickets hadn't been a high priority on chamber members' schedules. Chamber members knew that home games benefited the University community, but the effect
on the business community wasn't so easily recognized in the past. he said.
After seeing the figures, chamber members sold 212 season tickets in $ _{1/2} $ months during the summer.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson and Toebben asked the chamber to get involved in a season ticket drive.
Toebben said he decided to figure Lawrence's football weekend proceeds after he saw a similar study done by the Stillwater, Okla., Chamber of Commerce for Oklahoma State games.
David Strite, weekend supervisor of the bookstore at the Kansas Union, said. "We have all of alumni that come through on game weekends. They want to have the latest KU gifts."
The bookstore stays open until 5:30 p.m. l. $1/2 hours later than usual, and increases its staff on home-game weekends, he said.
Nancy Longhurst, director of sales for the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, said rooms for football game weekends usually sold out six to nine months in advance.
Buddv Mangine/KANSAN
Identical triplets Phil, Paul and Perry Johnson, Omaha, Neb., seniors, left to right, belong to the same fraternity, are enrolled in the same department and plan to attend medical school. However, each considers himself an individual. The fraternity, Kappa Sigma, also has identical twins as members.
Double trouble can get worse Triplets, twins are individuals first, not matched sets
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
A scrap of American folk wisdom reminds us that good things always come in groups of three.
Perhaps people should keep that in mind when they meet the Johnson triplets, Paul, Perry and Phil, of Kappa Sigma fraternity, 1045 Emery Road.
Happy New Year.
The Johnson, Omaha, Neb., seniors, make it clear that although it's hard to tell them apart, each is very much his own man.
"We don't really consider ourselves as triplets so much. I don't look at him as someone who looks like me," Phil said Sunday, pointing at one of his brothers as he spoke.
"I look at him as $500/hour." The three 21-year-olds are studying chemistry at the university and want to go to medical school. However they don't intend to practice together as physicians.
"I look at him as someone totally different."
Holaday can speak on this subject with some authority. He and his twin brother, Brad, are also members of Kappa Sigma.
"We're very much alike and we do everything together." Brad said.
"That's what you'll find about the Johnsons," said Bruce Holaday, Seneca junior. "They do everything together, but they don't like it."
The Holidays have cheerfully shared their pos
sessions and life experiences throughout their 20 years, but said that they, too, were individuals.
When the Holidays were wledge brothers at Kappa Sigma last year, Brad and Bruce shared a room with Phil and Perry. Their fraternity brothers might have found the situation perplexing, but the four of them had no problems.
"The only thing I don't like about being twins is when people try to compare us, or separate us," Brad said.
Phil is president of Kappa Sigma this year. Perry filled that post last year, and Paul was vice president.
Brad recalled a time when a woman, whom Bruce had taken to a party, approached him from behind and wrapped her arms around his neck. She was annoyed when Brad didn't recognize her.
Although it would be simple enough for any of them to fool someone intentionally, Bruce said they respected people too much to play games.
respected people too much to pay. But that doesn't mean such incidents never occur.
"That's right!" she said, agasth. "Are you Bruce?" "No, I'm Brad." he said.
Sputtering apologies, the embarrassed woman hurried away.
The Holidays share their social lives, too, but the Johnsons prefer to go out separately.
"I've got a twin brother," he told her.
we always have to go out together because we we've only got one car," Brad said, "but I'd rather go out with him. He's my best friend."
Divestment illegal bv KUEA standards
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Although a public Kansas organization decided last week to divest from companies doing business in South Africa, the president of the Kansas University Endowment Association said yesterday that such divestments were illegal.
The public organization, the board of trustees of the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System, will begin divesting from companies in South Africa that have not signed a statement of principles, known as the Sullivan Principles, which denounce apartheid.
Todd Seymour, the president of the Endowment Association, said, "I would think their action would be illegal."
The Endowment Association has said in the past that dividing was be illegal because of the Prudent Man's Rule, a Kansas law that says a prudent man should consider safety and returns on his investments. If that is the case, the law also would apply to KAPERS if they were trust-holding organizations, in the state. But the interpretation of the law could be decided only if a case was taken to court. Seymour said.
Signing the Sullivan Principles is not mandatory for companies, Seymour said. However, most companies do sign the statement.
Of the six, he said, three did not pay income to the University. One has assets of $14,000 in South Africa, one has employees but no assets in South Africa and one does not operate in South Africa but owns part of a company that does, he said.
Seymour said, "We have investments in six companies that have not signed the principles."
"We're pretty much in compliance with the Sullivan Principles," he said.
Seymour said the principles comprised six statements opposing anarheid;
Companies must have equal and fair employment practices for all employees.
- Companies operating in South Africa cannot have segregation in the areas of eating, comfort and work.
- Companies must have equal pay for all employees doing equal or comparable work for the same period of time.
- Companies must develop and invite blacks and non-white to programs that will prepare them for supervisory and administrative jobs.
Companies must increase the number of blacks and non-whites in manager and supervisor positions.
Photographer blends emotion with thought
Of the Kansan staf
By Jill White
Photographers need to seek feeling, meaning and touching because everything else they sense remains in their minds and passes away largely unnoticed, photographer Duane Michals said last night.
Michals, known for his narrative type of photography and his integra-
positive and uplifting," Southall said. "He communicates with an openness and creativeness that encourages students to be in touch with themselves."
This fierce desire to communicate surfaced in 1974 when Michals came to the conclusion that even photographing in constructed sequences was insufficient to indicate the
'I don't separate my photography from myself. I use my imagination as subject matter.'
tion of imagination and emotion to form images of thought, spoke to more than 300 students in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
Duane Michals photographer
The lecture and slide show was the second in the Hallmark Symposium Series, sponsored by the department of design and financed by a grant from Hallmark Cards Corp.
The central thesis of Micha's photography stems from an attempt to reproduce emotion and thought. The prints, sometimes doubly exposed or intentionally blurred, often indicate conceptually aesthetic thought images.
"I don't separate my photography from myself," Michals said. "I use my imagination as subject matter."
Michals' career includes commercial works for glossy magazines such as Esquire, Mademoiselle and Vogue and private works that he has exhibited in galleries in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Germany, Belgium, France and many other countries.
"He is a speaker that really interests students because he is so
from Southall, associate professor of art history, called Michals the most original and creative photographer of recent decades.
"I really like the irreverence as fag as any proven accepted ways of approaching art," said Thomas Allen, professor of design. "He's not afraid to explore. He can be really fun, frivolous, and philosophical more like an artist than a photo-journalist."
world a thousand more. Some works such as 105, "A Failed Attempt to Photograph Reality," abandon all images produced by a camera. Michals merely writes on photographic paper that an attempt to photograph reality is an attempt to photograph nothing.
"I view my own reality for the basis of my works," he said. "I use my dreams, my anxieties and my fear of death as subject matter. I always successfully communicate when I work out of my own ideas."
Critic Marco Livingstone hails Michals' implicit declaration of intent to establish the preeminence in his work of idea over form and technique.
When photographs did not tell the whole story, his solution was to begin writing on the borders surrounding the photograph, denying the commonly held view that "a picture is worth a thousand words."
fundamental ideas that he wished to share with his audience.
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Chamber Music Series Opens its 39th Season with the
GUARNERI STRING QUARTET WITH
8:00 p.m. Thursday, October 3, 1985 Cratton-Preyer Theatre
Arnold Steinhardt, violin John Dailley, violin Michael Tree, viola David Soyer, cello
Program:
Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3
Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10, for voice and strings
Mendelsohn
Schenhero
BENITA VALENTE, SOPRANO
Quartet in C Major, Op. 61
Tickets on sale at the Murphy Hall Box Office
All seats reserved/For reservations call 913/864-3982
Prices: Public: $11 & $9
KU Students with ID & K-12 Students: $5.50 & $4.50
Senior Citizens & Other Students: $10 & $8
The Arts
Partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee, Swarthout Society and the KU Endowment Association
(Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educator)
Attention: SENIORS the H.O.P.E. Award
Primary election ballots are now available to all seniors in any dean's office.
Primary election: Sept. 16-26 Final election: Oct. 16 & 17 Presentation: Oct. 26, at the OSU Football game
★ '86 Senior Committee ★
The senior class officers encourage all interested seniors to become members of the group that will assist in the many traditional and social activities in our senior year.
Applications are now in any dean's office, and are due by Sept. 26 at 3 pm.
The first meeting will be Oct. 2 at 6:30 in the Walnut room of the K. Union.