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University Daily Kansan
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Friday, Aug. 30, 1985
News Briets
News Briers Police chase driver of stolen pick-up
Lawrence police officers pursued a stolen blue stain 179 Chevrolet pick-up truck through downtown Lawrence early yesterday.
The chase began when the truck passed another vehicle on Massachusetts Street at approximately 12:30 a.m. Mai. Rolin Olin said.
The truck then ran a light stop at Eighth and Massachusetts streets and turned west onto Seventh Street. The chase ended approximately three minutes later when the truck hit a light pole on the northwest corner of Second and Maine streets. The suspect fled on foot and was not located by police, Olin said.
Language session set
The driver was described by police as a black male of slim build, 5 feet 9 inches tall, and was wearing a black hat.
The Student Assistance Center,
121 Strong Hall, is offering a foreign language study skills
workshop. The workshop will be from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Sept. 9.
To register, call the center at 846-1043.
Study workshop set
The Student Assistance Center will present a free study skills workshop Wednesday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The workshop will offer tips on time management, reading, listening and notetaking. Registration is not required for the workshop.
Reading seminar set
The Student Assistance Center will offer classes on reading for comprehension and speed. The three class series will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, September 11 to November 18, $5 per fee will be assisted register and pay the fee, go to the at 121 Strong Hall.
3 scholarships open
The Scholarship Research Institute of Washington, D.C., is offering three $1,000 scholarships for full-time undergraduate students who have GPAs of 2.0 or above.
The awards are for the spring semester and may be used for any expenses related to pursuing an undergraduate "juror" at the under-graduate level.
Applications should be sent to the Institute at P.O. Box 50157, Washington, D.C. 20004, by Dec. 16.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with
bighs around 90 and variable
winds 15 to 15 mph. Tonight will be
fair with lows in the mid 60s.
Saturday will be sunny, highs in
the lower 90s.
Where to call
Readers who have ideas for stories or photographs can call the Kansan newsroom at 864-4810.
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, feature page editors.
For sports, ask for Chris Lazarino, sports editor. For photographs, ask for John Lechiller or Bryan Gravs, photo
For questions or complaints, ask for Rob Karwath, editor, or John Hanna, managing editor.
To reach the Kansan business of fice, which handles advertising, call 864-4358.
From staff and wire reports.
Chris Magert/KANSAN
Playing the piano is one of the hobbies of Ray Tricker, professor of health, physical education and recreation. Tricker who was once paralyzed, also runs about 50 miles a week.
Prof finds goal in accident
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Of the Kansan staff
After being buried in a bomb shelter as a child in England during World War II, Ray Tricker chose to devote his life to helping others.
Tricker, a new professor of health, physical education and recreation, was paralyzed when the shelter collapsed, and it took several years of physical therapy in an English hospital for him to recuperate.
He now does research in physical
witness, hoping to help others
overcome their problems.
"I became interested in health because I was not fully whole as a child," he said yesterday. "Now I want to help others try to achieve what I want, and human beings." That's why I enjoy teaching, because I can help others."
Tricker, who came to the United States in 1976, is teaching his first semester at the University of Kansas. He is teaching an educational conference in health and community health and community health and drug education. He also is researching the effects of music on wellness and is
working on articles for his drug education dissertation.
Tricker completed his doctorate degree this year at the University of Oregon. He said he chose to come to KU because he was impressed with the faculty, the beauty of the campus, the excellence available and the encouraging reception he received from Wayne Osness, chairman of the department.
"The support of my colleagues has been wonderful," he said. "They have given me every support, from training who is spraying the room for bugs."
Tricker's handicap as a child not only caused him to want to help others, but also it also gave him the desire to participate in physical activities that he could not do as a handicapped child.
"When I was paralyzed, I had the desire to do what I saw other children doing," he said.
One activity he saw others doing was running.
Now, Tricker calls himself an enthusiastic distance runner. He has run 22 26-mile marathons during his lifetime and an estimated 100 miles
in the two weeks that he has been in Lawrence.
"Running is a source of self expression, relaxation and a way of getting to know a place." he said.
He said he had run in the World Masters Track and Field Championships in New Zealand, in the Oceanic Games in Fiji and in 120 degree temperatures in Crete.
Besides running, Tricker said, he also likes to ride his bicycle.
"I have cycled 3,000 miles across Europe," he said. "I have also biked in the southern part of England and around New Zealand. One of my goals is to ride across America. It's a jolly good way to see the country and
jolly good way to see the country and to meet the people."
Tricker said he also enjoys music, especially the piano.
"I have always been drawn to the sound of music," he said. "I find it intriguing, and the piano key board is the source of this attraction."
He has studied and performed piano and is incorporating these studies with studies of music visualization and health.
KU seeking insurance company
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Although the University of Kansas still doesn't have a carrier for a liability policy for KU employees, the University's agent is still looking, the executive vice chancellor said yesterday.
other arrangements for liability insurance.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said the Meade Insurance Agency, which finds insurance companies to represent universities, had been looking for an insurance company since spring, when the Midland Insurance Company refused to renew KU's policy for fiscal year 1985 which began July 1.
Such a policy would cover KU employees for things such as libel, fraud, and other crimes.
The American Association of University Professors and the Kansas chapter of the National Education Association provide liability insurance for their members.
Cobb has he sent a letter to faculty and staff in the spring informing them of his new position.
On Aug. 28, he sent another letter reminding faculty and staff of their options.
"I know there have been a fair number of professors who have joined and taken liability insurance," she said. "Others who have been talking about it.
Sid Shapiro, professor of law and president of the local AAUP last year, said membership had increased this year.
Shapiro said most litigation occurred when faculty served on an advisory committee, in University governance or in any position of service.
Shapiro said that in late May the AAUP started working with Cobb on a proposal that the University buy liability insurance for its employees.
"Those types of positions can lead to controversy," he said. "Faculty members are going to be reluctant to engage in them if they have to pay for protection out of their own pocket."
The AAUP has asked the University to consider paying for employees liability insurance, Shapiro said.
Cobb said a decision couldn't be made until the University found a carrier.
"It makes more sense for the University to buy it."
"If we can find a carrier, the question could continue to be discussed," he said.
Cobb said KU employees already were covered by the Kansas Tort Claims Act.
Dean continues to elude School
By Nicolette Kondratieff Of the Kansan staff
The School of Engineering has not had a dean for a year, and there are no prospects to fill the position at this time, the chairman of a search committee said yesterday.
The chairman, Don Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said the committee was extending its search, which began last November, into this year and hoped to have a recommendation sometime this semester.
"We would like to find a person who has some national stature, someone with some background at an academic institution," he said.
Green said there had been more than 50 applicants from all over the country.
"Most of the applicants have been from universities, but there have been some from the industry and the government," he said.
Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and member of the search committee, said applications had come from KU as well as other areas, and the committee was meeting weekly to find a new dean.
Green said the committee made an offer last year to a candidate, but the offer was turned down.
William Smith, acting dean of engineering, said he had agreed to serve as dean until Jan. 17, but didn't know what would happen after that date.
"We interviewed some candidates last spring but none of the negotiations have worked out," Burchill said. "The committee is being very selective."
Burchill said the company would like to find a dean as soon as possible.
David Kraft, the former dean of the school said his resignation became effective in August 1984.
"Mainly my desire was to get out or the everyday activity of being the dean of the engineering school," Kraft said.
Engineering student, Brian Falconer, St. Louis junior, said he was not worried that the engineering school had been without a dean for a year because he knew the school needed to find a good person to fill the position.
However, Falconer said, "They should be finding someone soon. I would be worried if it was two years."
Falconer said not having a dean had been strange, but things at the school were about the same.
National Geographic includes KU in story
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Lawrence and the University were featured in the September issue of National Geographic magazine as part of an article, "Home to Kansas."
The article, written by a native Kansan, Cliff Tarpy, attempts to dispel the image of Kansas as being entirely flat and carpeted border-to-border with waving wheat.
Athletics at KU also caught Tarov's eve.
Tarpy's story included several paragraphs about KU, which he described as having a reputation for one of the most attractive campuses in the nation.
He quoted Dan Reeder, former editor of the KU alumni magazine, who said that KU was outstanding in architecture, chemistry, pharmacy, clinical psychology, child-development research, engineering, philosophy, fine arts and journalism.
"Track-and-field. athletes from throughout the nation gather in Lawrence each year for the Kansas Relays," he wrote. "But what really gets this college town's blood pumping is basketball — for good reason. It's an 87-year-old tradition."
Robin Eversole, director of university relations, said yesterday that she was pleased with Tarpy's coverage of higher education in Kansas. In addition to KU, Tarpy mentioned Kansas State University and his alma mater, Wichita State University.
Eversole said although she was pleased with the article as a whole, she was disappointed that none of the pictures taken at KU by Cotton Coulson, the article's photographer, were used.
She said Coulson was based in Lawrence last fall and took many photographs of the campus and activities such as homecoming.
Only one photo of Lawrence was included in the story. It was of a man raking leaves in the front yard of a house at 637 Ohio St.
"The State of Kansas cultivates many things, not the least of them thick hides, patience, and a sense of humor." Tarpy wrote in the article. "If you were born and raised there, as I was, you need these qualities. When you come from Kansas, you get used to a polite, uncertain stare, an Easterner's story about that endless drive to Colorado — and, of course, a little joke about Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz.
Peers honor hall alumnus
By a Kansan reporter
Pearson Hall residents are setting up a scholarship in honor of a hall alumnus who died this week.
Rodney Sibbitt, a May graduate of the School of Engineering, died Monday in Harrisonville, Mo.
Mr. Sibbitt, 22, was born in Kansas City, Mt., but lived in St. Louis. After graduating from high school 'n' three years, Mr. Sibbitt entered the University.
Mr. Sibbitt graduated with honors from the School of Engineering with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering. He was also a member of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering society.
After graduation he began work with McDonnell-Douglas Corp. in St. Louis.
Mr. Sibbitt's mother said that the University was her son's first choice and that it was special to him.
"He felt that the KU Engineering School was an excellent one," she said. "He also loved the beauty of the campus."
John Langa, resident director of Pearson Hall, said Mr. Sibbitt was a respected leader in the hall.
"He was a real good, solid guy," Langa said.
Langa said it was the hall's idea to set up the scholarship.
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