Campus/Area
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Chamber to sponsor Entrepreneurs Week
The second annual Entrepreneurs Week, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, will offer lectures and discussions from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The free seminars are to encourage the creation and success of new business ventures by local entrepreneurs.
Seminars will be conducted Tuesday at Nichols Hall; Wednesday at La Casa Inn, 2222 W. 6th St. or Thursday at the Adama Alumni Center
Lt. Gov. Thomas R. Docking will讲坛 Thursday at the alumni center. Also at the alumni center a panel of four local businessmen will describe the beginning and the operation of their successful entrepreneurial ventures.
Free party scheduled
Weiners and marshmallows will make a meal for about 1,000 people expected to attend a roast behind Don's Steak House, 2176 E. 23rd St. tonight.
Beer, pop and cider will be provided. The roast, which will be from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., is a benefit to raise money for Youth Sports Inc., a group of Lawrence citizens who help children with athletics.
It will feature the country band Blue Stem and volleyball and other games will be set up.
Food drive planned
The Emergency Service Council is sponsoring a canned food drive from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at all Rusty's Food Store locations. The drive will help support the five Lawrence food bank agencies.
The stores are located at 23rd and Louisiana streets; 901 Iowa St. and 6th St. and Kasold Drive.
Volunteers from Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St.; ECKAN Community Action Agency, 331 Maine St.; Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St.; Lawrence Indian Center, 1910 Haskell Road and the Salvation Army, 494 New Hampshire St. will be at each store to accept food donations and answer questions.
KU gets dinosaurs
A. a stupery, 9-foot-long ground
lizard that used to eat Kansas
shrubs is coming to the KU
Museum of Natural History.
Three-dimensional, computerized versions of five prehistoric beasts will inhabit the cave during "Dinosaur Days," May 7. 5:29
The museum will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday during Dinosaur Days
Admission will be $3 for adults and $2 for children. Group rates will be available by reservation. Dinosaur Days also will include films and lectures.
Weather
Today's skies will be partly sunny by afternoon. The day will be windy and warm with the high in the lower 80s. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph. Skies will clear early tonight, but clouds will return by morning. Tonight's low will be 65 to 70.
From staff and wire reports
Investors in scheme could get little back
United Press International
TOPEKA — Kansas bacteria culture growers left high and dry by the shutdown of Culture Farms Inc. could recover as little as 30 cents to 50 cents on the dollar of their investments in "activator kits" for the growing of milk-based bacteria.
In addition, growers who solicited other people to become growers are likely to receive nothing because they could be in technical violation of state securities laws, which would void their claims to a fund established by court order to protect Kansas grower interests.
Those were the conclusions of Donald Paxson, a Topeka accountant who was appointed, receiver of the $928,000 placed on deposit by Culture Farms, 2220 Delaware St., Lawrence, and Activator Supply Co., Pahrump, Nev.
In a hearing before District Judge James Buchele, Paxson said yesterday that there was a tot. of 1,529 claims, totaling more than $3.8 million against the $282,000 fund.
Of the total claims filed, Paxson recommended that more than $3.5
million in claims filed by 1,033 independent management consultants, or IMCs, be rejected bending further investigation
Paxson said the IMCs were agents of Activator Supply who might have solicited sales of activator kits in order to help their claims to any part of the fund.
The consultants are being given until Oct. 15 to submit evidence that they did not solicit sales. A hearing to discuss the issue is set for 9 a.m. Oct.
Paxson said it appeared that a sizeable number of growers could have been designated IMCs merely because they invested large amounts of money — at least $3,950 — for activator kits, and that they might not have solicited other growers.
The receiver said that a large number of growers had bought kits just before Culture Farms shut down on the basis of "hearsay" that they could not lose money because the ordered fund had been established.
Meanwhile, a bankruptcy court trustee appointed for Culture Farms is seeking at least part of the fund.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Spider alarm
Lawrence firefighters have been kept busy recently by faults in the Bailey Hall fire alarm system, which may be caused by spider nests in the alarms, firefighters say. Yesterday, Captain Mike Penner and消防员 Joe Schauburg emerged from the hall after responding to a false alarm.
Suzy Mast/KANSAN
Posters of whales decorate the office of Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English. Schultz will present "Moby Dick and Eve," as part of the Humanities Lecture Series at 8 tonight in woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Novel has hold on KU prof Interest in 'Moby Dick' hasn't waned
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
The days when rugged sailors pursued the mighty whale for pleasure and profit now are part of our national past.
our national past.
But a KU professor of English, brandishing a pen instead of a harpoon, still pursues a well-known whale through the pages of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick."
the professor, Elizabeth Schultz, said the novel was Melville's warning to people everywhere to seek freedom and justice for all citizens, or watch their societies fall into tyranny or anarchy.
Schultz will present "Moby Dick and Eye," part of the Humanities Lecture Series, at 8 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The series is a 38-year-old institution at the University of Kansas.
The lecture coincides with the opening of an exhibit, "Nautucket Sleigh Ride," at Kenneth Spencer Research Library. The exhibit on whales and whaling openings at 3:30 p.m. today will be featured for the rest of the year.
Schultz won the HOPE award in
1971. The award is given each year by the graduating class to the teacher who receives the most votes from class members.
Schulz读 "Moby Dick" for the first time during her junior year at the University of Michigan and fell in love with the 19th century classic, which she called America's cultural gift to the world.
Her passion for the novel reflects her moral commitment to the preservation and understanding of the whale and of all life on planet earth, she said.
"The whale is quite awesome enough as a representative of life on this planet, and I firmly believe that as the whale goes, so goes the planet," she said.
Melville wrote "Moby Dick" at a troubled time in our nation's history, and Schultz said his message still was fresh for the citizens of today's strife-torn world.
"Melville wrote the novel in 1851, when America was on the brink of the Civil War," she said.
"I don't have to tell you what kind of apocalyptic disasters we are on the brink of at the end of the 20th century."
Schultz said she was a member of several groups that were fighting to preserve the whale and other life on earth.
She came to the University in 1967, when she completed her doctorate at Michigan. But she didn't stay long. She soon went to Japan, where she taught, researched and extended her interest in whales, she said.
This fall she teaches a graduate seminar and an honors class for English majors. Both give her ample opportunity to talk about "Moby Dick."
"I inevitably, I have to talk about whales and what whales meant to Melville," she said. "In class, I hope to serve as a conduit through which my students may understand Melville's novels."
Schultz is preparing for her third decade of pursuing Moby Dick. She has read the novel numerous times and expects to读 it again. She said the novel is as deep as the seas, which shelter the mighty mammals she loves.
"Obviously, I feel the novel hasn't worn thin," she said. "I haven't gotten to the bottom of it vet."
United Fund drive to try mail
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
The United Fund campaign is changing with the times. For the first time since the drives began almost 30 years ago, no volunteers will knock on doors in Lawrence.
Instead, the U.S. Postal Service will be used when the campaign starts Oct. 1.
"We hope the switching will be more efficient use of our volunteers." Jo Bryant, executive director of the United Fund in Lawrence, said yesterday. "We were not sure the previous years' efforts were the best use of our resources."
The door-to-door collections have not been as profitable in recent years because volunteers are harder to find and people are harder to reach at home, Bryant said. Last year, the
solicitations brought in $12,000 —
$17,000 short of the goal.
The replacement, the direct mailing campaign, is only one division of 10 in the United Fund's campaign. The United Fund hopes to raise $20,500 in Lawrence through the mailings. The business-industry division is expected to collect most of the $500,000 total goal.
The American Red Cross in Lawrence is one of 21 social service agencies that receive the funds. Jo Byers, executive director of the Red Cross, said she understood the support supported the switch as an experiment.
Byers said recipients of the donations normally were not consulted in fund-raising strategy and had not been consulted this time either.
"It may not work, and then they have to go back to the old way," she said.
The United Fund will mail 2,200 pleas to targeted people on Oct. 3. Bryant said. The targets have been selected from previous donors and likely new ones.
"The direct mail campaign will try to reach people we don't reach otherwise in our campaign," she said. "We don't want to overlap."
Bryant said some graduate students would receive pleas, but most traditional students would not. Student donations make a sizable contribution through the KU division, she said.
Michael Davis, dean of law and chairman of the KU division of the fund, said yesterday that the division's goal was $70,000. The Rock Chalk Revue already has collected several thousand dollars for the KU division.
Media arts given lift
A new University of Kansas department has been formed for students who have always wanted to be a part of theatre, television and film.
Bobby Patton, chairman of the division of communication and theatre, said yesterday that the department of theatre and media arts became an official part of KU in July.
Bv John Williams
The department is a combination of the theatre department and a radio-television-film program in the area of Liberal Arts and Sciences, be said.
The department came about as a way of preparing the theatre students for television and film instead of only preparing them for the stage as was previously done in the theatre department, he said.
"We realized that our alumni were
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
Another plus for the program, he said, is that it provides a larger faculty base for students from both departments.
The new department has been in the planning stages for two years, and the Board of Regents approved it last January.
Ron Willis, chairman of theatre and media arts, said that when the School of Journalism and Mass Communications dropped part of its RTVF program, it was difficult for some students to fulfill their interests in the media arts.
The RTVF program was split last fall between the School of Journalism and the college.
"We serve the students better by preparing them in all areas of performance," he said.
getting jobs in the media, and they really needed media training that they weren't receiving." Patton said.