University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 23, 1985
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Campus/Area
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One dead, 4 injured in 2-vehicle collision
A 21-year-old Topeka man was killed and four persons were injured in a two-vehicle collision on a county road about 9 p.m. Friday 10 miles west of Lawrence, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department said yesterday.
Todd Pettit, 20, Topeka, a passenger in the car, was listed in serious but stable condition yesterday afternoon, a spokesman at Stormt-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka said.
Duane Michals, one of the first photographers to experiment with photography as an art form, will present a slide show of his recent work at 6 p.m. today in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
Another passenger in the car and two passengers in the pickup were treated for their injuries and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Friday night, a spokesman at the hospital said.
Montgomery Neukirch, 21, was killed when the car he was driving crossed the roadway's center line and collided with an oncoming pickup truck, the sheriff's department said.
Photographer to talk
Known for his narrative type of photography, Michals breaks the longstanding tradition of photographing objectively. Rather, he integrates imagination and emotion to create conceptually aesthetic and sometimes obscure or surreal images of thought.
Council to relocate
The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications will move its headquarters to the University of Kansas from the University of Missouri-Columbia in January.
Susanne Shaw, KU associate professor of journalism and general manager and news adviser for the University Daily Kansan, will become executive director of the council at that time.
Readers who have ideas for stories or photographs can call the Kansan newsroom at 844-4810.
Where to call
The council accredits professional journalism programs at U.S. universities and represents four national educational associations and 20 societies for professionals in advertising, marketing, newspapers, magazines, photography, broadcast journalism and public relations.
For ideas about campus and area coverage, ask for Lauretta McMillen, campus editor. For features page and magazine ideas or On Campus items, ask for Nancy Haney or Peggy Helsel, features page editors.
For sports, ask for Chris Lazarino, sports editor. For photographs, ask for John Lechliter or Bryan Graves, photo editors.
For questions or complaints, ask for Rob Karwath, editor, or John Hanna.
To reach the Kansas business of fice, which handles advertising call 864-4358.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and cool, with a high of about 60. Winds will be out of the north at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear and cool, with a low in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Tomorrow also will be partly cloudy, with a high in the low to mid-60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Regents oppose price increase
By Gary Duda
Of the Kansan staff
TOPEKA The Kansas Board of Regents voted Friday to ask the Kansas Department of Administration to take action to oppose a proposed increase in rates for private line telephone service.
The Kansas Corporation Commission was asked by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co to approve a rate increase for private line service, which includes the state's KANS-A-N phone system. A hearing on the request is scheduled for Oct. 7.
The increase, which would go into effect Jian, 1 would mean that KANS-A-N rates would go up by 12-15 percent.
The Regents agreed the increase was inevitable but decided that by opposing the increase they might be able to delay or even lessen the increase.
KANS-A-N, a statewide phone network, is used by the University for official business calls. KU now spends about $88,000 a month on the system.
Each department on campus that uses KANS-A-N receives a monthly bill that provides the number called, the number the call was made from and the date and time of each call.
In other business;
A Regents committee heard arguments from two KU officials on ways to solve problems associated with malpractice insurance coverage
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Richard von Ende, University executive secretary, went before the Policy and Procedures Committee to ask that the committee take up the issue of malpractice insurance with the Kansas Legislature.
of residents at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Von Ende said that because of the escalating cost of malpractice insurance for Med Center residents, the Regents needed to look at how they could cover the rising cost of malpractice insurance.
The Med Center now pays a $660,000 surcharge to the state's Health Care Stabilization Fund. This money provides malpractice coverage for the residents.
The Regents said one way of cutting cost for insurance for residents would be to limit moonlighting. Under current laws, the Med Center is liable for malpractice suits brought against residents regardless of whether they work for the Med Center.
Funds are not available now to handle malpractice suits brought against residents.
- The Regents approved an energy conservation project for five KU buildings.
Fraser Hall, Malott Hall, Watson Library, McCullum Hall and McCollin Laboratory have been slated for repairs that include special maintenance, remodeling and energy conservation projects.
The Regents said the estimated cost of the project was $99,535. The money will come from a federal energy grant, housing funds and a remodeling and energy conservation fund.
The Regents passed an amendment to policy for the University Press of Kansas that allows payment to unclassified authors.
The amendment would allow royalty payments and reimbursment for manuscript reading to unclassified authors or personnel. It also would permit the payment for the additional activities of design, artwork and photography accomplished through procedures approved by the Division of Accounts and Reports.
Students showed up, but 'Amadeus' didn't
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was deaf. But to many would be viewers of the Student Union Activities' Friday movie "Amadeus," he also was invisible.
The movie, scheduled to be shown Friday and Saturday, did not arrive in the mail until Saturday. Katherine Giele, assistant director of programs at the Kansas Union, said yesterday.
"I suppose it's because the shippers didn't ship it to us in time," she
The movie, which chronicles the life of the 18th century Austrian composer, was shown as scheduled Saturday afternoon and evening in Woodruff Auditorium, she said. The evening showing was sold out.
Yet some students said they were disappointed that they could not see the movie Friday afternoon or evening.
"It spoiled our evening," Carla Lindgren, Independence, Mo., senior "The horn section from the
band had planned to go as a group. We had the whole evening planned so we would get a chance to meet the new kids in the band.
"We went to dinner, but after we found out the movie had been canceled, everyone split up because everyone wanted to do something different. This had been the one thing everyone had agreed on."
Jamie Green, San Diego, Calif. sophomore, had been with the group of horn players.
"We had planned all week to do this," Green said. "Then it's like, Surprise, you can't do it now. It was raining too, so we couldn't do much."
Andy Dubowski, Leawood senior, also had plans to see the movie Friday.
"I was told that the movie was canceled when I was eating at a barbecue place downtown," Dubowski said. "I had seen the movie before but I wanted to see it again because it's a good movie and I'm a music major."
Fall's official arrival heralded by thunder
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
Summer went out with a bang last night.
Fall officially arrived at 8:08 last night, and its arrival was heralded by the last summer thunderstorm.
A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for northeastern Kansas, including Douglas County, at about 7 last night, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said yesterday.
Weather service officials also announced a flash-flood warning for northeastern Kansas, which received heavy rains Saturday.
The rains should end sometime today and temperatures should reach
the low-60s. Temperatures are expected to drop into the low-40s tonight, and tomorrow should be warmer, sunnier and drier with high temperatures in the upper-60s.
Except for the drenching rains Saturday and yesterday, the weekend weather was typically fall-like.
Mid-afternoon temperatures for yesterday ranged from 80 degrees in Medicine Lodge and Wichita in south-central Kansas, to 54 degrees in Goodland in northwestern Kansas. The high is: Topeka yesterday was 78 degrees.
United Press International supplied some information for this story.
4 injured in car accidents
By a Kansan reporter
Two separate but related accidents occurred at about 8 p. m. Saturday on the Kansas Turnpike near Lawrence when a car went off a bridge, the Kansas Highway Patrol said yesterday.
Two of the car's occupants, Keith Moore, 19, and Edward Johnson, 19, both from Kansas City, Mo., were treated and released Saturday night from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokesman said.
Smith said the car, traveling west on the turnpike, went through the barrels in a construction area. Traffic is diverted by the barrels to one lane near the bridge.
About $1\frac{1}{2}$ hours after the first accident occurred, another car driven by Wanda Grant, 52, Lawrence, ran into the rear end of the highway patrol car
The other occupant of the car,
Kenneth Milbry, 19, Kansas City,
Mo., was treated and released
The car, which went over the bridge onto North Third Street, was totaled, Trooper Jerry Smith of the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
yesterday after spending the night in the hospital for observation, the spokesman said.
Jerry Rogers, right, a member of the Jayhawks" "chain gang," measured yardage during Saturday's football game against Indiana State at Memorial Stadium. Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, has been a member of the gang for 34 years.
Jacki Kelly/KANSAN
Rogers linked to sidelines
Of the Kansan staff
By Liz Maggard
Jerry Rogers stood on the sidelines during Saturday's football game against Indiana State, doing what must come naturally to him after 34 years.
But Rogers isn't a player or coach. He belongs to KU's "chain gang."
Since 1951, Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, has been a volunteer on the yardage chain crew, which keeps track of the yards gained and the downs played during home football games.
His wife, Jane, says that after 33 years of marriage, she is used to going to games in Memorial Stadium by herself.
"Jerry's always loved sports," she said last week. "He's carried that chain forever, and he's only missed one game in all those years. Last year was the first time, and it was to parent Parents' Day at our son's college.
"I don't know how many years he's worked the Kansas Relays, and he tries not to miss a KU home basketball game, either."
He said working on the chain gang could be dangerous. He has been knocked down many times, but the most serious injury has been to his watch, which broke a few years back when a KU player ran into Rogers.
Actually, Rogers said, he has worked as an official at the Kansas Relays for 35 years, one year longer than he has been on the chain gang.
As a safety measure, he said,
this year the upright markers at
the end of the chains have been
heavily nudged with foam rubber.
"But that is for the players' protection, not ours," he said. "We're supposed to throw the markers down and run out of the way when we see the players coming. The padding is to cushion the players if they fall on the markers."
Rogers said he began working on the chain gang shortly after becoming a teacher at Lawrence High School.
He graduated from Washburn University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in spring 1950 and started teaching at Lawrence High that fall. Rogers taught geometry and algebra at Lawrence High and was the head track coach for 16 years.
He earned a master's degree in counseling and guidance from the University in 1859 and was a member of Lawrence High's counseling staff for several years before leaving to work at KU.
associate director of KU's financial aid office in 1967. He became its director three years later.
He came to the University as
Momentos of his career and his interest in sports vie with computer printouts and financial aid applications for space in Rogers' office in Strong Hall.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director in charge of facilities, said Rogers was one of many people honored last spring at an appreciation banquet given by the Athletic Department.
Rogers said he also had received recognition for his contribution to the Kansas Relays.
"I got a watch after working the Relays 30 years," he said. "Last year, after 3, I got a T-shirt and a medal. I think they're running out of ideas."
Max Rife, assistant principal in charge of curriculum and instruction at Lawrence High and a longtime member of the KU chain gang, said, "If I could think of one person who didn't have an enemy, it would be Jerry."
Rife, who also served as one of Rogers' assistants during track season, said he remembered how much Rogers would worry about the weather.
"He had all kinds of weather signs he would look for," Rife said. "He was a regular worrywart."