Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
Chairman is silent on details of meeting
KU officials had no comment yesterday after the meeting of a committee that may affect the fates of some of the eight football players whose academic eligibilities this season remain in question.
Gordon Wisenman, chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, said it would be improper for him to say whether any of the players had attended an event in an attempt to become eligible.
The players were held out of the first game of the season Aug. 31 because they were not academically eligible. Some of the players are thought to have failed the National Collegiate Athletic Association's new requirement that they earn 24 credit hours a year toward a degree.
Last week, Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the only way players who had not met the progress rule could play again was by petitioning the committee.
The committee has power to decide whether classes taken by athletes can be used to comply with the progress rule.
Arson investigation yields no suspects
Police still have no suspects in an arson that occurred at about 5 a.m. Sunday in the stairwell of an apartment building at 2526 Redbud Lane, a Douglas County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman said yesterday.
The spokeswoman said an investigative squad composed of Lawrence and KU police, fire department and sheriff's department officials, was following leads in the case.
The fire caused $2,000 damage to the carpeted stairwell, but there was no smoke damage to the apartments in the building, Douglas County investigators said.
The fire was started with an undetermined amount of combustible fluid, investigators said. Samples have been sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's lab for analysis. Investigators were not sure when the analyses would be completed.
Co-op sessions begin
Women's Transitional Care Services, a Lawrence cooperative providing assistance to victims of domestic violence and women in transit, will conduct its first training session for volunteer advocates from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The training sessions, which will run through Oct. 12, will cover topics such as crisis intervention, the effect of domestic violence on children, the trauma of being a victim and the cycle of violence.
Volunteers will be asked to work a minimum of four or five hours a week after training is completed
For more information, call Barb Smith. 841-6887.
Today and tonight will be cloudy and cool, with a 50 percent chance for thunderstorms. Today's high will be in the mid 70s with winds out of the east at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight's low will be in the mid 60s. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance for thunderstorms. The high will be in the upper 70s.
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From staff and wire reports.
Police say students pilfer signs
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Street signs disappear from Lawrence and KU streets regularly, and KU students are often the culprits, a Lawrence traffic official said yesterday.
On Saturday, KU police charged a student with possession of stolen property when six street signs valued together at $300 were found in his room at Hashinger Hall.
"We have signs missing about every day, starting just as soon as the students get back into town," said Richard Wustefle, Lawrence traffic supervisor. "We can go all summer long without missing one."
Wustefeld said that the city lost
The signs recovered from the student's room in Hashinger read "Tow Away Area," "Men Working," "Dip," "Keep Right-Keep Left," "Neighborhood Watch" and "Road Closed."
about $15,000 in stolen signs each year and that he suspected KU students of taking most of them.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, spokeswoman for KU police, said the signs were discovered about 12:45 a.m. Saturday when police were called to Hashinger about a fight in progress.
The signs were found in the room of one of the students involved in the fight, she said. At least one of the signs belonged to the University. The rest were the property of the city.
Longaker said that although charges were filed, the student was not arrested. The district attorney's office will decide on the disposition of the charges, she said.
Not many students are charged with possession of stolen street signs, she said, but students occasionally acquire them by various means to use as room decorations.
"They're stuck in windows all over KU." Wustefeld said.
Sports events spur a rash of missing signs, he said.
"We take down all the Missouri and Iowa street signs about a week before those football games," he said. "Especially the Iowa State game. If we didn't, they'd be gone. If we take
them down ourselves, at least we have them to put back up."
Wustefeld said he thought the students used the signs for wall decorations, but he wasn't sure why.
"I wouldn't want one hanging from my wall," he said.
Debbie Sorenson, who works as a sign maker for Wustefeld, said street signs with common names disappeared regularly.
"Stewart Street, Lawrence Avenue and Jana Drive are quick to disappear," she said.
Street signs with names of states are also stolen, she said, probably by people who are from those states.
Sorenson said "High Drive" signs seemed very popular, too.
Film group to honor Parks
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
A Kansas native, distinguished in poetry and journalism, music, photography and film, will come home this month to be honored by the Kansas Film Institute.
Gordon Parks, who was born 72 years ago in Fort Scott, will receive the institute's Life Achievement Award on the final day of the third annual Kansas Film and Video Festival. The festival, which begins Sept. 26 and ends Sept. 29, is presented by the institute.
The awards ceremony is scheduled for 7 p.m., Sept. 29 in Downs Auditorium at Dyche Hall. Parks will speak and the audience will view the 1969 film version of his book "The Learning Tree," based on his life in Kansas. Parks directed the film and became the first black director in Hollywood history.
Mark Syverson, one of the founders of the institute, said "The Learning Tree" was not Parks' autobiography.
"It's based on his experiences growing up in Kansas, and it is a very moving film," he said.
Parks has been recognized for work in several fields, but his contributions to filmmaking are outstanding, Chuck Berg, associate professor of radio, television and film, said vestertay.
"Due to his background as a photographer, a number of his images in films radiate with a photographic kind of splendor." Berg
In 1949, Parks joined the staff of Life magazine as a photographer.
Parks also was a prime mover for black involvement in the film industry. He directed "Shaft," which signaled an enthusiastic but short-lived era of popularity for black films.
"He was one of the people really in the vanguard of film from the '60s, dealing with the black experience in an honest and sympathetic way," Berg said.
Parks was the fifteenth and youngest child of a poor farm family. He quit high school and held a variety of jobs including cowboy, pianist and semi-professional basketball player.
He has composed five sonatas, two symphonies and has written 12 books.
"He is an extremely perceptive and articulate individual." Berg said, "whose insights into the human experience are beautifully — indeed, exquisitely — expressed through his films, photography and writing."
Syverson said the Kansas Film Institute was established to recognize Kansas' rich film heritage and to encourage film production in the state.
Gordon Parks
Wescoe traffic guard directs students
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
Wesco Hall's cafeteria often has been a site of mass confusion, but a new traffic director may get students on the right track.
Many students found that if they tried to go the wrong direction through the concessions line in Wescoe cafeteria yesterday, they were met by a man in a red shirt who pointed them in the right direction forward
A new sign next to the entrance says, "This is a one-way line. You
can't exit this way. You have to go to the cashiers."
Mike Lewis, a cafeteria worker and the man in the red shirt, said that he was there so people would not come out of the line and bump into others.
Delores Miller, supervisor for the cafeteria, said she put up the sign yesterday to stop the human congestion.
"Our main concern is to stop the number of spills and traffic that goes through there," she said. "With all of the backpacks and all, it just takes a little courtesy."
Lois Castillo, Overland Park park,
said she didn't notice the sign.
"But I have gotten upset with people when they decide not to go through the line and then try to get back out, bumping into everybody," she said.
Tim Patterson, Kansas City senior, said he tried to stay away from the lines.
"I get really tired of waiting in line so I usually just come in when there aren't as many people around," he said. "It's a lot less hassle for me."
Miller said a turntable at the entrance once controlled people
trying to back out of the line, but it was removed to allow handicapped students to use the line.
A problem already existed, she said, in the east side of the cafeteria where the deli line ends. People trying to get out of the deli line immediately meet people entering the other line. The worst times are between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and between classes.
"It seems like people are going 90 different directions right there," she said.
Workers get ready for game
Most of the ticket takers at Saturday's football game will have more in common than their blue blazers. They will share an em-
About 60 employees of Mampower Temporary Services, 206 W. Eighth St., are scheduled to work during the game against Vanderbilt University as ticket takers and security personel. Mampower employees also are scheduled to work at other KU sporting events this school year.
Bob Hellman, Aurora, Colo., senior, a second-year ticket taker, said yesterday that he liked the job more than other temporary jobs he had taken.
"It it fit in my schedule really well because it was mostly on Saturdays and left the rest of the week free," he said. "I also liked the interaction with people instead of machines."
Mark Rau, service representative for Manpower, said this was the ninth season that the company would provide ticket takers and security personnel for football games, basketball games and the Kansas Relays.
This year, he said. Manpower also will provide security for a couple of indoor track meets at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Rau also said Manpower employees were assisted at sports events by Army and Air Force ROTC students.
Steve Mingle/KANSAN
Alex Cole joked with a member of the audience at Gammons last night during the nightclub's weekly Comedy Club.
Shirley Martin Smith, manager of the company's Lawrence office, said Manpower supplied workers to many colleges and universities, mostly on the East and West coasts. She said that employees from all over only Big Eight Conference school that used Manpower employees in that capacity.
At the beginning of each season, the Manpower employees go through training to acquaint them with their jobs. Smith said. The sessions cover basic security measures and point of contact information and aid stations. Employees also are told about special events, such as Band Day at the Sept. 21 football game.
Rau said that about 35 people returned to Manpower each year to work at the sports events. Some of them are "moonlighters" who have other full-time jobs, some are retired persons and some are students, such as Hellman, he said.
Gammons plays host to traveling comedian
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
When Alex Cole was five years old, he heard his first Bill Cobsey record. From that day on, he knew he had to be a comedian.
And a comedian he is, traveling the college circuit from town to town across the country. Cole performed for 45 minutes last night at Gammons Private Club, 1601 W. 23rd St., to a crowd of about 250.
"I'm thankful that I always knew what I wanted to be," Cole, 29, said. "I never had to decide."
The Minneapolis, Minn. native is a regular performer at many comedy clubs in the United States. He has opened shows for Manhattan Transfer, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Tales and the Talking Heads. In 1984, he won second place in the television competition, Star Search.
"I love college crowds," Cole said.
"Even though it's expensive, we have committed ourselves to providing Lawrence quality professionals," Kirsch said. "We'll keep providing seasoned professionals at any cost. I feel committed as an operator to offer an alternative atmosphere to college students."
Last night, Cole joked about his childhood, drinking, bad dreams and public restrooms. He gave a physical performance, playing the guitar, singing and running through the audience.
"I like to get down here in the trenches with my people." Cole yelled as he ran to the back of the crowd. "I do this for another reason — for the people who got here early and thought they got the good seats."
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ALL COLLEGE of LIBERAL ARTS and SCIENCES GRADUATE STUDENTS BE SURE TO VOTE FOR YOUR REPRESENTATIVES to the COLLEGE ASSEMBLY September 11 and 12 at the College Graduate Division, 210-1 Strong Hall.