Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 16, 1985
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News Briefs
City ponders appeal
City officials are considering an appeal of a Lawrence Municipal Court judge's ruling Thursday that said part of the city's sign ordinance was unconstitutional.
City Manager Buford Watson said yesterday that city attorneys were reviewing the case and that he probably would meet with them Tuesday to make a decision on whether the city would appeal the ruling or move away from the date of the decision to file an appeal in district court.
Municipal court Judge Jeff Heeb, who decided the case between the city and big Bob's Used Carpets, 738 New Hampshire St. , said the sign definition within broadance was too vague and indreadance
City commissioners ruled that Big Bob's red, white and blue striped building constituted an illegal sign and must be repainted. Owner David Elyachar refused to repaint the building and took his case to court.
After the municipal court ruling, Mayor Mike Amyx said commissioners should conduct a study session to review the city's sign ordinance.
Woman is attacked
A 22-year-old former KU student was assaulted about 11 p.m. Thursday in a parking lot by two men wearing nylon stockings on their heads, police said Friday.
The woman, an employee of TV 30, a low-power UHF station, was leaving the station at 3211 Clinton Parkway Court and was about to get into her car when she was grabshed from behind by one of the two men, police said.
She attempted to use Mace against one of the attackers, but the man turned the canister toward her and sprayed Mace on her. She also was struck in the face by one of the men, police said.
The woman screamed and kicked at her assailants until they fled on foot. She reported that she then saw a white Ford van leaving the area, but police are not sure what vehicle belonged to the clashers.
The woman did not require hospital treatment.
The woman said both men were 20 to 25 years old, white, about 6 feet tall and weighed between 170 and 190 pounds.
John Katich, TV 30 manager, said several steps would be taken to increase security at the station.
Pickens set to speak
"Corporate giant T. Boone Pickens, president and chairman of the board of Mesa Petroleum Co. in Amarillo, Texas, will speak at the University of Kansas on Oct. 2." "Pickens' attempted takeover of the Phillips Petroleum Co. in Bartlesville, Okla., last spring drew national attention."
Pickens' speech will be at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union, and will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The event is free and open to all. Student Union Activities will sponsor the event as part of their entrepreneurship mini-series.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. The highs will be around 80, and winds will be out of the south at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be partly cloudy, with lows in the low to mid-60%. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to upper 80s.
Five protesters to face contempt charges
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
From staff and wire reports
Five protesters of apartheid, who were found guilty of criminal trespassing this summer, are scheduled to appear at a contempt-of-court hearing Sept. 25 for refusing to pay fines.
Dwayne Fuhhage, Tonganoxie senior, Dennis "Boog" Higberger, Pleasant Grove graduate student, Ruth Lichtwardt, Lawrence junior, Jane Ungerman, Lawrence senior, and Stuart Shafer, a May graduate, are scheduled to appear at 7:45 a.m. on 25 in Lawrence Municipal Court.
The five were found guilty during trials this summer in municipal court
after being arrested May 3 and 9 at Youngberg Hall, home of the Kansas University Endowment Association, which invests in companies that do business in South Africa.
Lichtwardt said last week that she refused to pay her $30 fine because she didn't think she was guilty.
She said she would have been willing to do community service work but that wasn't an option.
"I would rather go to jail than pay for exercising my right to protest." Lightwardt said. "I wouldn't feel really good about myself if I paid the fine."
Despite the hassles of being arrested and going to court over the Endowment Association's investments in South Africa, Lichtwirdt said the protests were worthwhile.
South Africa practices a policy of racial segregation called apartheid
"The protests got the message
across that people feel very strong,
and they are not afraid."
Because of the protests many people became aware that the Endowment Association had investments in South Africa, she said.
Fulhage agreed the protests were worthwhile.
"I think they served their purpose," Fuhhage said yesterday. "It took getting arrested to make the Endowment Association actually
acknowledge that we're a group worth listening to."
He said he wouldn't pay the $30 fine because he thought he was innocent and he couldn't afford the fine.
Highberger was arrested at both protests and found guilty on both counts of criminal trespassing. His fines totaled $75.
"Also, I didn't think the court was being fair in not offering us community service as an option," he said. "I would be willing to help in the community."
He said he decided not to appeal because he already had spent too much energy on court cases.
"I'm through playing games in the court." he said.
said, he is ready to accept the punishment.
court, he said
Although he won't nay the fines, he
"I didn't feel like I did anything wrong," Highberger said, "and $75 is a lot of money for me to pay.
"I think I'm ready to do a little time for what I believe. It'll be something I've never done before I expect it to be a learning experience."
Ungerman, who was convicted on one count of criminal trespassing in a trial in July, said she missed the deadline to appeal that decision and wouldn't pay the $30 fine.
She was convicted Sept. 11 on a second count of criminal trespassing and fined $45. She said she planned to appeal that decision.
Bronx Graves/KANSAN
Michael Franco and Barbara Wallace discuss their blind date in a scene from a show presented by The Second City, a comedy troupe from Chicago. The group performed last night before about 500 people at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Degree is a family tradition
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Medicine runs in the Johnson family, and the family of six from Medicine Lodge is big on tradition. Four of them have chosen the KU School of Pharmacy for their degrees.
"I came to KU adamantly saying I was not going into pharmacy because everybody else did," LeeAnn Johnson said Saturday. "But here I am, a senior in pharmacy. I guess I have accepted my fate reluctantly.
"Counting Dad's uncle and his son, there are six from KU's pharmacy school in the family. I think we're setting a record."
LeeAn and her sister Lenise, also a senior, will graduate in May. Their
father, John Johnson, started working in his uncle's drug store in Medicine Lodge when he was 15 years old. Now, 32 years later, all three of his daughters have followed in his footsteps.
The youngest family member, J.C., a KU sophomore, said the attraction to pharmacy was probably in their genes. But he is defying the rule by choosing to major in electrical engineering.
"Maybe it only goes to the female side." he said.
But LeeAnn said she remembered how she started out in communications and then was attracted to pharmacy.
"I couldn't help changing majors," she said. "My interests and background directed me to pharmacy."
Judge acquits photographer
By a Kansan reporter
Phillip Heying, a KU graduate, used a camera with a flash to photograph police as they made their third visit to a party that had evoked noise complaints from neighbors.
A photographer who was arrested at a party on Aug. 23 on charges of interfering with the duties of a police officer was acquitted Friday in Douglas County District Court.
After a trial that lasted more than five hours, Associate Judge Jean Shepherd found Heying not guilty of the misdemeanor charge.
Police said they were blinded temporarily by the flash and arrested Heving.
The party, at 1117 Kentucky St., was attended by about 250 people.
"I think the whole trial was to cover up for some serious misbehavior by the police," Heying said.
"We were never pushed to go into pharmacy," she said. "We kids got a lot of exposure at home, and we were recruited to help out in the store. I guess that should have deterred us since we saw the bad side of it."
Their older sister, Lettitia Bernard, led the way. She graduated in 1982. Lenise said she came to the University of Kansas with an open mind.
Her father said, "The bad side to it is that you have to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week." He now owns the drug store he started working in 32 years ago.
"The night calls and interrupted dinners are always there," he said. "On January 1, 1984, I got called out 21 times."
"The good side is that I am a part of the people in the town. I know them really well. They come to me with problems. Some people I gave baby vitamins years ago I am now giving vitamins for their own babies."
Troupe draws laughs with social material
LeeAnn and Lenise said that growing up with a father who was always on call might have made them choose other kinds of work in pharmacy.
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
The troupe's tools are simple: a bare stage, six chairs, a black curtain and talent.
The result: laughter from about 500 people last night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union in a show sponsored by Student Union Activities.
"It's a really professional field." Lenise said. "There are a variety of things to do: research, work for drug companies, hospitals or in a drug store."
During the two hours the troupe performed, the simple stage was transformed into a roadside diner, a construction site, a corporate computer room, a high school graduation ceremony, an Italian restaurant and other sites.
All through the magic of improvisation
To those in the audience it might have seemed as if the troupe pulled skits out of thin air. That's not the way they do, troupe members said.
Musical director Laura Wasserman said, "improvisation is not just being up there talking. There are guidelines and rules within improvitation that make sense and provide a sense of structure."
Troupe member Michael Franco described some of the troupe's skits as "ribald." They may be dirty, troupe members agreed, but member Barbara Wallace said the group performed skits about sex because that's what people thought about.
Member Michael Franco said most of the material that the company performed was socially relevant because the performers had something to say to the audiences.
"I try to read a paper everyday because the audience does and we have to keep up with them." Franco said.
Wasserman said it was challenging to perform socially relevant material to a crowd.
Alan Kloster, Olathe senior, said.
"They hit right home on the issues they dealt with. It made me think."
The comedy group is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. From a humble beginning in a makeshift theatre above a Chinese laundry in Old Town, a Chicago residential area, The Second City has expanded into an international comedy force.
The Second City is divided into seven companies. Two companies perform in Chicago, two companies travel the United States and three companies perform in Ontario, Toronto and London.
The Second City has been a training camp for famous comedians, including Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy, Gilda Radner and Joan Rivers.
"No. I want to be a member of The Second City for the rest of my life," troupe member Evan Gore said, adding that he thought all the performers in the troupe sought stardom.
by Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Basketball fans' attendance ranked No.1 in Big Eight
The University of Kansas had an average per-game attendance of 13.544 at 1984-85 home basketball games — up almost 17 percent from the previous season — ranking it 12th among leading Division I schools, according to a recent report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The report, by James Van Valkenburg, director of statistics for the NCAA, appears in the Aug. 14 NCAA News, and lists KU's total attendance for 17 home games as 230,252, which makes its home basketball attendance No. 1 among Big Eight schools.
Van Valkenburg said yesterday that the 17 games included the Jan. 5 game against Wichita State University at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
He said some officials might say the game was played on a neutral court, and he didn't know whether the Big Eight conference would count it as an official home game. However, he included it in his statistics because he thought the Kansas City
audience gave KU a definite home-court advantage.
However, he said, including the game in the statistics probably improved KU's ranking.
"I think it helped KU up a couple of notices," he said.
The 1984-85 average was up 1,966 from the previous year, and Anthony Redwood, chairman of the Kansas University Athletic Corp., said he expected KU's per-game average to be even higher this season.
He said he based his opinion partly on increased student demand for courses.
"It's highly likely that faculty-staff demand, alumni-contributor demand and public demand will also be up this year," he said.
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Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., was the national attendance champion in 1984-85. It had a 25,870 per-game average.
The University of Kentucky in Lexington, after eight straight seasons at the top of the list, was second. He had a per-game average of 22,923.
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