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University Daily Kansan
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Friday, Sept. 20, 1985
News Briefs
Murder charges filed in newborn's death
Tammy James, former KU student, was charged formally with second degree murder at 3 p.m. yesterday in Johnson County District Court, Dennis Moore, Johnson County District Attorney said yesterday.
James, 22, Olathe, was arrested on July 20 in connection with the strangulation death of her newborn son. She was declared competent to stand trial on Aug 19.
An arraignment date was set for 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 25, Moore said that James' attorney, Bill Hamblin of Kansas City, Kan., will enter a plea for James at that time.
Threats prove false
McCollium Hall received two bomb threats Wednesday night, KU police said yesterday. Both callers said a bomb was hidden in
The first call was received by a desk assistant shortly after 11 p.m. The desk assistant told police the caller's voice sounded like a man's.
Police arrived at 11:11 p.m. and began searching the building. Students were given the option of remaining in the building, police
While the officers were in the building, another call was received at the front desk. A woman's voice said there was a bomb in the building.
Woman barely aided
A motorist wearing nothing but a white hat stopped to offer assistance to a woman whose car had stalled at a stop sign Wednesday afternoon, police said yesterday
The woman gave police the following account:
The woman said that when her car stalled on Harvard Road at the Hilltop Road stop sign, a man drive a red, late model compact car drove by and yelled "need help?" out his window.
The man drove on, then turned around, pulled up next to her car, and asked her if she needed a ride.
She said she noticed that the man was wearing a white hat.
The woman looked into the car and saw that the man was naked except for the hat.
The man drove on and the woman wrote down his license plate number.
Police said they are searching for the owner of the car. Buses rescheduled
Transportation coordinator Tim Boller said yesterday that two KU on wheels bus routes will be rescheduled to accommodate riders' requests. The Trailridge route will receive half-hour service instead of hourly service after 7:55 a.m.
The West Campus route, which was established last year, will switch from half-hour to hourly service.
The changes were made because of the large number of riders on the Trailrille buses.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 15 mph during the morning but will shift to east to northeast by afternoon. Rain and thunderstorms are likely tonight with lows around 60. Tomorrow will be cloudy and cool with a 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms and a high in the low to mid 70s.
Liquor law changes campus habits
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
When residents of University housing were told this fall, to cap, not tap, their kegs, many, whether of legal drinking age or not, had to modify their social lives.
"People who are stuck here are doing one of three things — homework, nothing, or they're closing their doors and having closed-door parties," Jolene Korr, Highland Park, Ill., sophomore and Ellsworth Hall resident, said yesterday.
But this doesn't mean residents
sulk and cry into empty beer bottles.
"On my floor, it's bringing us together," Korr said. "We talk more and watch TV."
From staff and wire reports.
Some residents are engaging in riskier pastimes, however.
Taker pallidated. "They're going out instead of drinking here," said John Iboux, Overland Park junior and Ellsworth resident. "They go out, get smashed, then try to drive home."
Iboux said people who were under-
age still drank at private parties.
"They don't go to bars much, but they still drink," Boix said.
John Corvin, proctor of Battenthe Scholarship Hall, said he enforced the liquor policy at Battenthe, but the police were not more problems with drunkenness.
"I think it's easier to be responsible about drinking in your own home." Proctor, Fairway junior, said.
Fred McEhlenie, director of residential programs, said many students were becoming sadly aware of Kansas' new and stricter drunken driving laws. However, many students were designating drivers who would stay sober during a night on the town, he said.
Some residents who cannot live with the alcohol ban are leaving the KU housing system.
"I'm surprised at the number that do," he said. "It's a hopeful, helpful sign."
Steve Kennedy, Kansas City, Mo., junior, is one of them. He began his second year at Ellsworth this fall, but said he now planned to leave the hall at semester's end.
camaraderie on the floor," he said. "Last year, we had parties in my room at least once a week.
"Now this floor is probably the quietest I've seen it in two years."
Kennedy said he knew of at least 10 other students on his floor who planned to leave the hall.
MeElhenie said he did not anticipate an exodus of students from the KU housing system.
"When the task force decided there would be no more alcohol in campus housing, prophets of doom flocked to my door, and said occupancy would be so low, we would have to close the halls," McElhienie said.
"It's cut down on the amount of
But he said that this fall the eight KU residence halls were full to overflowing.
"Times change, conditions change, and we have to change along with them," McElheney said. "And I think students will change."
Dan McLellan, Oliver Hall social chairman, said Oliver residents were planning barn parties that they would finance themselves without using hall funds.
"We can have beer as long as it's 3.2 and we check IDs," McLellan said.
Alcohol and socializing are not the only reasons students choose to live in campus housing, he said.
"You meet more people," he said.
"You could live in an apartment, but you wind up hanging out with the one or two people you live with."
KU giving pay papers low marks
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
Students often panic in the face of fast-approaching term paper deadlines. Many deal with the anxiety by sending away for papers written by others.
"I feel complete worthlessness when I fall behind," Mike Rivas, Overland Park sophomore, said yesterday. "I hate cheating. I'm a non-cheater."
Rivas said he didn't buy term papers through the mail, but understood the pressure felt by students who did.
who said.
“Sometimes people have so much pressure on them, they need to cheat to pass the class, or so much parental pressure they cheat to keep going to school,” he said.
Research Assistance Inc., Los Angeles, has specialized in writing and selling term papers for 15 years. Art Stekel, manager, said his company was the first company in the United States to sell papers to students.
A student can send $2 to the company to receive a 340-page catalog describing the 15,279 research papers it offers.
Research Assistance sold more than 3,000 papers last year at the average price of $50 each, Stekel said.
Stekel said 80 percent of the company's business came from foreign students.
Students may want to weigh the ease of obtaining a paper against the displeasure of a professor and the possible punishment if caught.
The catalogs describe the topic, the length, the number of footnotes and sources in the bibliography.
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said that about two years ago he caught a student who had turned in a purchased paper. Ketzel said he flunked the student.
I knew because I had written away and received all the catalogs from such places," Ketzel said.
"A person who uses these papers tends to be less than a good student," Ketel said.
Ketzel said he didn't think purchased term papers were a large problem at the University.
some students face a different problem when professors don't believe they have written their own term papers.
Stekel said there were very few, if any, orders for term papers from Kansas. Most of the orders are from California, he said.
The state of California filed suit against Research Assistance nine years ago, Stekel said. The suit was never heard because the court said it infringed on the company's First Amendment rights, he said.
Buddy Mangine/KANSAM
All's fair
ing the business career fair. The fair was at Allen Field House yesterday; its purpose was to bring together business people and students.
Senators quit over conflicts, schedules
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Some of the 14 student senators who have given up their seats over the past four months said yesterday that conflict within the Senate and lack of time prompted them to resign.
The Student Senate Executive Committee announced Wednesday that 15 senators had resigned since May. StatEx said five others were suspended for missing more meetings than Senate rules allow.
Yesterday, Kristine Matt, one of the 15 senators named as having resigned said she still held her seat. Jeff Polack, student body vice president, said he would have to check records to determine whether Matt, journalism senator, was still in Senate.
Polack said the senators who had resigned were: Carrie Frizell, Nunemaker senator; Scott Lawrence, liberal arts and sciences senator; Nunemaker senator; Lori Pitler; education senator; Erin Quirk, Nunemaker senator; Denice Farrell,
liberal arts and sciences senator; Jan Fink, law senator; Brent Toalson, Education senator; Amy Varney, Nunemaker senator; Don Wallace, business senator; and Edward Wiermien, graduate senator.
Infighting and personal politics in the Senate prompted Reza Zoughi, former StudEx chairman and graduate senator, to resign from StudEx on Sept. 11, he said.
He said yesterday that he gave up his Senate seat "in the heat of the moment."
"Part of it was any Senate seat and
the StudEx chair go hand in hand." he said. "I'm staying out of the whole system."
Matt McPheron, Prairie Village junior and former Nunemaker senator, said he resigned at the end of last year for many reasons, including conflicts within Senate.
According to Senate rules, no senator can have more than two unexecuted and four total absences.
Senators who were suspended Wednesday have until Oct. 2 to appeal in writing to StudEx.
Eighty students expected for MCAT
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
About 80 medical school candidates will sit down in Wescoe Hall tomorrow for nearly eight hours of biology, chemistry and physics testing.
The Medical College Admission Test is administered at the University every fall and spring to premedical students, and the scores are considered by university officals when students apply to medical school.
The MCAT is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and includes questions about biology, physics and chemistry. The questions are in the form of science problems, graph interpretations, reading comprehension, and one
essay question. Several 10-minute breaks and a lunch break divide the testing period.
To prepare for the grueling examination, some students have taken Stanley H. Kaplan courses to help them pass the exam. Carla Sullens, administrator for the course in the Kansas City and Columbia, Mo., area, said yesterday that Kaplan courses were provided to prepare people for about 40 different admission tests. Some of these tests are the American College Test, the Law School Admission Test and the MCAT.
The courses were founded in 1938 by Kaplan, an educator who studied medicine. Today, there are about 120
permanent Kaplan centers across the country. Sullens said.
The course costs $400 and requires a $50 refundable deposit for home study materials. Not everyone who pays the tuition thinks the course is necessary.
"You can do well on the MCAT without the Kaplan course," Marie Eck, Wichita senior, who took the course and the MCAT last spring, said yesterday. "If I did it over, I probably wouldn't take it."
The course consists of eight four-hour class sessions that begin about eight weeks before the examination date. Sullens said the course provided home study materials, practice tests and tapes and was taught by medical students who have taken the
course themselves. A national research staff compiles information and puts it in the form of sample tests for the course.
"The course covers all areas of the MCAT." Sullens said. "Students can get 325 hours of work out of the course if they do everything. The main goal of the course is to review concepts and teach test-taking techniques."
Sullens said that of the 75 people who took the Kaplan course, 40 percent were KU students. Not all of the people who take the course end up taking the MCAT, though.
"I would say about 98 percent of the students take the MCAT." Sullens said.
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