Friday, Sept. 6, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Gov. Carlin honors professor's artwork
An associate professor of design became a Governor's Artist in a ceremony yesterday at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka.
Vernon Brejcha, the professor and a glassblower, was selected by a panel of artists and educators from 25 nominees in the state. Each of the three Governor's Artists received a certificate and a lapel pin yesterday from Gov. John Carlin.
The governor's office and the Kansas Arts Commission's Advisory Council bestow the honors annually.
Brejcha's glass sculptures have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally at such places as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and Carlin's office in Topeka.
Bresnahan, 39, replaces John Mulder as University veterinarian for the Lawrence campus.
Mulder was named director of KU's University Animal Resources in March. He oversees animal care programs at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan, the Parsons Research Center, the School of Medicine in Wichita and the Lawrence campus.
Vet heads services
James Bresnahan, formerly the director of veterinary services and an assistant professor in pathology at Duke University Medical Center, has become the director of KU's Animal Care Unit.
Workshop to be held
Howard Wilkens Jr., board chairman of Maverick Development Corp., a Wichita restaurant firm, will open the fall semester's School of Business Executive Lecture Series at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the southeast conference room of the Burge Union.
Bresnahan worked at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., from May 1981 through August 1985. He came to KU this month.
Business series starts
Students needing help with mathematics or science courses are invited to attend a workshop, "Overcoming Math and Science Anxiety," from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Regionalist Boom of the Kansas Union.
For more information, call the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at 864-3552.
Oread sets dinner
The Oread Neighborhood Association will be the host of a pot luck dinner at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Davis Park, 13th and Lousiana streets.
"The dinner concludes the association's 1985-86 "Welcome to Oread Campaign."
Candidates for the 1985-86 board of directors will be nominated at the dinner.
In case of rain, the dinner will be at the South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts St. For more information, call the association at 842-5440.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and hot, with highs in the mid 90s. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight and tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy. The low tonight should be around 70 and the high tomorrow in the mid 90s.
Firm helps students get plastic money
From staff and wire reports
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Give college students a little credit
Give college students a little credit. That's the idea behind a Philadelphia company's new program to make popular credit cards available to college juniors, seniors and graduate students. Cosigners and credit ratings — normally necessary for getting plastic money — aren't needed to get certain cards through the company.
Before the College Credit Card Corp designed this program for companies offering credit cards — such as Visa, MasterCard, Sears, Zales and Amoco — a person had to prove he had a good credit rating by having a $15,000-a-year job, two
credit cards and a loan. Only then would the student be issued a credit card, Michael Fromm, account executive for the company, said yesterday.
"It's a Catch-22," he said. "Students can't get a credit card because they have to have one to get one."
Terri Pipper, full service banking officer at First National Bank of Lawrence, 900 Massachusetts St. said that a student to get a good credit rating he must maintain a loan at the bank and have credit cards.
"If you write a lot of bad checks, that goes against your credit rating at the bank," Pippert said. "To get a credit card you need a cosigner who has established credit and you must
Because of the "Catch-22.",
Fromm said, the College Credit Card Corp.
has developed a program
allowing a student to call the toll-free
College Credit Card Hotline, and
in two days, the student will receive
applications for Sears, Zales, Amoco
and Citibank's MasterCard and Visa
credit cards. The hotline number is
1-800-824-4000, ext. 421.
have verification of your own employment or income."
The corporation sends the applications to the appropriate companies, which ultimately decide whether the student receives any cards.
The student sometimes also may receive credit card applications for local retail stores. Fromm said.
The potential credit card customer then must fill out the applications and mail them back to the corporation, which checks to make sure the forms are filled out correctly.
"The acceptance rate is incredibly high," Fromm said. "It has been determined that college students present no greater risk than ordinary accounts."
Fromm said the student market initially became a target for Citibank because it realized students had money to spend and were reliable customers.
"It's a progressive idea," he said. "Citibank tested the water and decided it wanted to water for a swim. Now others have jumped in — but not everyone is willing to accept the risk
or to see college students as reliable. They are not willing to take the leap of faith that the other companies did.
"The program has worked out for Citibank and others, but it's not for everybody. Some banks need authorization on paper."
Fromm said the program also was developed because of a demand for credit cards by college students. In fact, the company now is offering credit cards to a selected group of freshmen and sophmores on an experimental basis.
"Students are into becoming part of the commercial society," he said. "Part of that is having a credit card. Students have said, 'Why can't we get credit?'
New book to 'color' Jayhawk
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
What does a Jayhawk look like wearing a football helmet or a cheerleading outfit?
Kathleen Blank, a secretary for women's athletics, answered that question by creating the "Jayhawk Coloring Book."
Beginning Tuesday, the first 3,000 books will be sold at the Oread Book Shop in the Kansas Union and maybe At The Town Crier, 930 Massachusetts St. and 711 W. 23rd St., Blank said yesterday. The coloring books cost $3 each.
"The idea really started out as something to pass the time away," she said. "Instead of looking at the Jayhawks all over the office, I wanted to see if I could draw them. But later, I wanted to see the Jayhawk do diffent things so I experimented."
Blank drew the Jayhawk participating in a variety of athletic events, including baseball, karate, dancing and weightlifting.
"I drew the athletic Jayhawks because that was the only thing around me, and at first that's all I thought about drawing," she said.
Blank, an amateur artist, drew the baseball Jayhawk first. Actually, the original was a softball Jayhawk, she said. But the publisher, Meresaul Printing Inc., 31st and Louisiana streets, thought the baseball Jayhawk would be more popular.
"The karate Jayhawk was just a joke for some friends that stuck," she said.
Fellow employees she carpools with gave her the idea to start the coloring book and she decided to go ahead with it.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
She began sketching in February, completing all but two before June. In August, KLWN-AM wanted to do promotional at football games with the coloring book and asked her to draw two more Jayhawks.
Kathleen Blank, a secretary for women's athletics, recently completed the "Jayhawk Coloring Book," which will go on sale Tuesday in Lawrence.
"Drawing the Jayhawks before the summer became easy, but it was really hard to get back into it and draw the other two," Blank said.
Next, she had to obtain approval of the drawings from KU officials. The
Jayhawk is a registered trademark of the University of Kansas and she had to pay a $50 fee to publish the Jayhawk.
"The coloring books are for any age group," she said.
Atlantic City next stop
KU hopeful to try for pageant honor
By Bob Tinsley
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Don't be surprised if you recognize one of the stunning young women gliding down the runway next week at this year's Miss America Pageant.
Elizabeth Hunter, Austin, Minn., senior, will represent her home state next week at the pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
"It will enable me to show my talents to other people," Hunter said yesterday, "and to promote the scholarship program, because that's what it's all about.
*The Miss America Pagenit is not a beauty pageant, it’s a scholarship program.*
Hunter, who is Miss Austin, was chosen Miss Minnesota in June. As Miss Minnesota, Hunter received a $3,000 scholarship, a $1,000 fashion award, the Atlantic City trip and transportation during her reign as the state's ambassador.
The Miss America pageant will begin Tuesday with an evening parade on the boardwalk and will continue with swimsuit and evening gown competitions. The talent competition will be Sept. 13, and Hunter will sing a selection titled "Love Is Where You Find It" from the Broadway musical "The Kissing Bandit."
Miss America 1986 will be crowned Sept. 14.
Her mother, Carol Hunter, said "She's been preparing and attending pageants and opening malls all the time in preparation herself for Miss America."
Hunter will leave Minneapolis for the boardwalks of the Jersey shore early tomorrow morning, but she won't be traveling alone. Forty-eight people, including six relatives, will accompany her.
"That's the largest crowd so far for a contest from Minnesota," she said. "I'll have a lot of supporters up there."
jor, didn't enrol at the University of Kansas this fall so she could prepare for the pageant and fulfill her duties as Miss Minnesota. She came to campus twice this summer to practice musical selections for the pageant with her instructor, John Stephens, associate professor of voice.
"She's one of my favorite students and I've worked with her for a long time." Stephens said. "I'm very proud of her."
Hunter, a vocal performance ma-
Many contenders for the Miss America crown are talented singers, but Hunter was the only one who sang a classical piece for her audition, Stephens said.
"She auditioned with an aria by Mozart and made it on her own terms." Stephens said.
Hunter said she would like to complete a master's degree in voice, with a concentration in classical vocal literature and opera. Eventually, she hopes to perform professionally.
"Certainly she has the talent — definitely," Stephens said. "And she has the drive.
Hunter, 21, is former president of KU's chapter of Nu Phi Epsilon, the music fraternity.
"She's just like any student who goes into music with talent and drive. They work hard, waiting for the breaks."
In addition to her reputation for hard work, Hunter is known and admired by her sorority sisters at Gamma Phi Beta, 1339 W. Campus Road.
Miss America's crown has lost a little of its sparkle in recent years but that doesn't bother Hunter.
"Her sincerity is incredible," said Vicky Karkar, Lenena sexware. "A lot of girls are kind of sugary and fakey, but she is for real."
"I don't think it's been tarnished as badly as people think," she said.
"It's awful what happened to Vanessa Williams, but you have to carry on."
Adversaries work together at State Fair booth
By Jill Waldman Of the Kansan staff
The University of Kansas and Kansas State University are joining forces again this year at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, which begins today and runs through Sept. 15.
This marks the third year that representatives from the two universities have jointly operated a booth at the ACM conference scientific and technological projects.
building in the southwest corner of the fairgrounds.
The booth is in the industrial
On Saturday and Sunday, KU's department of aerospace engineering will display a model of the U.S. government's X-29 aircraft, featuring a new design in forward-swept wings.
The department began preliminary studies of the aircraft two years ago for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. Air Force, and the Defense Advanced Research Project's Agency, said Jerome Hanson, the
department's representative at the fair and director of the laboratories.
The department of aerospace engineering also will be displaying a wind tunnel model of an aerodynamically advanced cattle truck on which they did research for NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A computer graphics device that draws, outlines of the space shuttle and the SR-71 will also be displayed by the department, Hanson said. The SR-71, a high-alpine research
reconnaissance plane, is the world's fastest aircraft, he said.
Kansas State University's department of industrial engineering will display an astronaut glove that was designed for NASA by students and faculty in the department.
Other K-State exhibits include tightrope-walking rats, a roving robot and a simulated stock market computer game.
Another KU exhibit is a live snake display presented by the Animal Care Unit of the Museum of Natural History.
KU will also present an exhibit of dead insects from the Museum of Entomology on Sept. 14 and 15.
George Byers, director of the museum, said that the live snake and dead insect displays in the past had the most interest at the fair, so they had been asked to return each year.
"We try to put out front the large, grotesque, colorful insects that attract attention," said Byers, chairman of the department of entomology.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
wants
Interested LA&S graduate students should complete nomination forms available at the College Graduate Division 210-1 Strong Hall. Self-nominations are required.
GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVES for the COLLEGE ASSEMBLY the governing body of the college
Filing deadline is 4:30pm Monday, Sept.9.
Election will be held Sept. 11 and 12, 210-1 Strong Hall
All LA&S graduate students are encouraged to become involved in LA&S governance.
CORRECTION
Due to a Kansan copy error, the Dillons ad which appeared Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1985 contained incorrect information about Triple Coupons.
The copy should have read:
DILLON'S TRIPLE YOUR SAVINGS ON ALL MANUFACTURER'S "CENTS OFF" COUPONS UP TO AND INCLUDING 33° IN VALUE.
We regret any inconvenience caused by this error.