Monday, Sept. 9, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Divestment risky, says city attornev
WICHTIA — City Attorney John Dekker is advising the City Commission against divesting itself from companies that do business with racially segregated South Africa.
In a memo to acting City Manager Robert Finch, Dekker said a divestment move by the commission could pose serious legal ramifications. He said city officials and officers of retirement investment boards might be sued successfully if divestment resulted in the loss of money for retirement funds.
Rainbow Coalition, a Wichita political group, says it thinks the city's retirement funds are invested in a handful of companies that do business in South Africa, which has not been called a liberal segregation called apartheid.
Edwin Martin, professor of psychology, will speak about the changing standards of intellectual honesty and science on Wednesday at the weekly University Forum sponsored by Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The commission is scheduled to decide on the divestment question tomorrow.
A foreign language study skills workshop will be conducted from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Standards forum set
Readers who have ideas for stories or photographs can call the Kansan newsroom at 864-4810.
Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. and the cost is $3. Call 843-4983 by noon tomorrow for reservations.
The workshop, presented by the Student Assistance Center, is free and does not require registration.
Where to call
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, managing editor.
To reach the Kansan business of fice, which handles all advertising, call 864-4358.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and not as hot or humid. The highs will be in the mid to upper 80s, with northeast winds of 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be fair, with lows in the lower to mid-60s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with highs between 85 and 90.
From staff and wire reports
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, the name of Kevin Gokmen, Liberal junior, was spelled incorrectly in a story in Friday's Kansan.
Because of an editor's error, the address for Lawrence Schwinn Cycleway was incorrect in a photo outline. The correct address is 1601 W. 23rd St. in the Southern Hills Mall.
Dry parties planned for fraternity rush
By Jill Waldman Of the Kansan staff
Rush party fun may seem to be over because of new Kansas drinking laws, but KU fraternities are discovering alternatives.
When rush parties begin at most fraternities in early November, they will be "dry" because most of the high school seniors who attend them will be under age 19. Wes Brock, rush chairman for Alpha Tau Omega and Prairie Village sophomore, said last week.
"They (high school seniors) understand the laws — they won't be missing out on anything," Brock said. "If it's illegal, it's illegal. We're not going to put the house on the line."
He said ATO, 1537 Tennessee St.,
was considering rush activities such as sports weekends that did not involve alcohol.
"It it has its good points — it will give us more of a chance to meet the guys and not just get drunk," Brock said.
Dennis Kane, also a rush chairman for ATO and Shawnee junior, said that a group called Bacchus, a national student organization that promotes alcohol education, gave a presentation in August about dry rush to the ATO national organization.
Bacchus distributed pamphlets with dry rush party ideas including casino nights, outdoor mini-concerts, treasure hunt parties and guest speakers.
Matt McPheron, rush chairman for Sigma Chi fraternity and Prairie Village junior, said his fraternity had
talked about dry rush this summer at its national workshop at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
"We found out that a lot of the Sigma Chi fraternities across the nation didn't have the same problem," he said. "They had a strict form of rush like the girls do."
Rush parties at KU sororities are strictly non-alcoholic.
McPherron said that Sigma Chi, 1439 Tennessee St., also would be organizing all-sports parties as an alternative to activities involving alcohol.
He said that dry rush would give rush participants the opportunity to get to know fraternity members when they were sober.
"It's going to be different," McPherron said. "For a lot of fraternities alcohol has been a big part of rush — it'd be a lie to say that some houses won'. continue to serve alcohol — it will have to be a phase-in type of thing."
He said he thought student values would change if less alcohol was served over the years.
"Students won't think they have to have alcohol to have a good time," McPherron said.
Scott Diel, out-going rush chairman for Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Hutchinson junior, said rush parties at Delta Tau Delta, 1111 W. 11th St., were usually on football game days and alcohol usually did not contribute to the parties.
He said he did not think the issue of alcohol would have an effect a high school senior's choice of a house.
"If a house just gets them drunk, they aren't going to get the impression of the house they need to see, because people are sober most of the time." Diel said.
Ann Eversole, director of the organizations and activities center, said if a fraternity was caught serving alcohol to a minor, the University of Kansas probably would take action, but she wasn't sure exactly what would be done.
Students try to adapt to high temperatures
Grant Tennison, president of the Interfraternity Council and Leawood senior, said it would be up to individual fraternities to enforce the new laws.
"The fraternities are all informed of the law — what they do with the law is pretty much their responsibility." he said.
The heat is on, and KU students are trying to cope with the sizzling temperatures.
Sunday's temperature of 96 degrees was the highest reading of the weekend, the KU Weather Service reported, and because many students have found that they can't beat the heat, they have decided to adjust to it.
"I go to class 30 minutes early just so I can have time to cool off before it starts," Paul McDonell, Arlington, Texas, graduate student said yesterday.
"The heat drains you," he said. "It
"It makes me want to stay inside," she said, while sitting at a secluded table in air-conditioned Watson room. "It's a matter of avoidance."
"The heat drains you," he said. "It makes you not want to do anything." Lois Bauer, Garden City graduate student, agreed.
Luckily, for the heat-haters in Lawrence, the National Weather Service in Topeka said yesterday that the next few days should bring some relief from the sweltering temperatures. However, temperatures should rise again toward the end of the week.
The ridge of high pressure that has been stationary over the Lawrence area for the past week will move because of a slight alteration in the upper air flow, the KU Weather Service said.
This will allow a cool front in
Nebraska to be pushed from the northwest to the southeast, causing lower humidity and cooler temperatures.
The National Weather Service in Topeka predicts temperatures today to be 10 degrees cooler than they were over the weekend with the high in the mid- to upper-80s. Tuesday will be partly cloudy with the high about 85 or 90 degrees.
Apparently, many students did stay inside over the weekend, said Mark Retonde, manager of Clinton Marina, but not necessarily because of the heat.
"There were about the same number of people out here this weekend as a year ago or two years ago at this time." Retonde said. "No matter how nice or how good the weather is, a lot of people figure that after Labor Day they don't go to the lake anymore. The overall traffic begins to slow down and they do other things."
Although many students who live on campus have air-conditioned rooms, not everyone is blessed with the modern comfort of air-conditioning.
Lisa Love, Boulder, Colo., junior,
said the chapter room and the house
mother's apartment were the only
air-conditioned rooms in the Delta
Deltadelta sorority house, 1630
Oxford Road, where she lives.
"It's been really warm," she said.
"If you just sit sit still, you're fine, but as soon as you run around or try to do anything — like dry your hair — you work up a sweat."
Residence directors decide to minimize beer party ads
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Advertisements for beer parties directly conflict with the new nonalcoholic policy for University housing and should be minimized, the associate director of residential programs said yesterday.
Questions about advertising for beer parties arose Thursday during a regular residence hall directors meeting.
"There was a general feeling that since halls could not have parties with alcohol, we would be inviting trouble if we advertised parties that did have it," said Ruth Mikkelson Lee, the associate director.
The new alcohol policy bans possession and consumption of any alcoholic beverage in residence halls, scholarship halls, Slouffer Place and Jayhawker Towers.
Included in the policy is the prohibition of alcohol consumption at hall activities and the use of social-
"The consensus was that they (residence hall directors) would keep those advertisements for parties to a minimum, restrict ads to certain areas and try to down-play the ads because of their two-faced nature." Lee said.
fund money to buy alcoholic beverages for off-campus events that are sponsored by the halls.
Pat Simmons, Joseph R. Pearson Hall resident director, said he would not allow many of the party posters.
Tammy Jones, Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall resident director, said her staff was still deciding how to posters advertising beer parties.
Lisa Greenfield, Hashinger Hall resident director, said the hall government decided to post advertisements only if the parties did not conflict with hall activities.
"I will only OK posters that promote responsible drinking," he said. "But, I don't know of too many posters that do that."
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Members of the Intertribal Club of Haskell Indian Junior College demonstrated traditional Indian dancing at yesterday's Fall Arts and Crafts Festival in South Park.
About 5,000 go to arts fair
Of the Kansan staff
By Liz Maggard
Rival Cabbage Patch dolls patiently sit near each other at the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department's sixth annual Fall Arts and Crafts Festival yesterday in South Park.
But the two dolls, dressed in KU and Kansas State University running togs, didn't carry out the rivalry by running a sweaty race. They just sat there, swelling in 96-degree heat.
Other items displayed by 160 exhibitors at the festival were tables.
Janet Herring, Topeka, said the Lawrence festival was the first at which she and her partner, Ginny Soppe, Meriden, had exhibited the clothes they made for Cabbage Patch dolls. The KU outfits sold well, Herring said.
"We brought eight of the KU outfits with us," she said. "Those were about the first things that went."
teddy bears, rod puppets, handwoven rugs.
About 5,000 people ventured out in the heat and humidity to browse through the festival, said Kathy Fode, program manager for the
David Powell, a 1983 KU graduate from Lecompont, displayed hand-made wooden furniture at the festival. He said the plant stands and tables he made were popular with KU students.
Fode said each exhibitor was charged a $10 entry fee in return for eight feet of display area. The exhibitors were given either a table or eight feet of snow fence, she said, although many brought their own display stands.
Julie Unruh. 1623 Kentucky St.. sold rod puppets — also called stick dolls — at the festival.
parks and recreation department.
FRESHMEN CLASS OFFICER ELECTIONS
The Board of Class Officers is accepting applications for freshmen interested in seeking the positions of Class President, Vice President, Secretary or Treasurer.
IMPORTANT DATES...
Sept. 9-19 Applications available at BOCO office (110 Union)
Sept. 19 Applications due (3:00 p.m.)
Sept.24 Mandatory meeting for candidates (Regionalist Room
Sept. 24 Mandatory mee Kansas Union)
Kansas Union)
Campaign begin
Sept. 25 Campaign begins
Oct. 1-2 General Elections
For more information call 864-4556