University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1985
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1,500 welcome return of Traditions Night
Buddy Mangine/KANSAN
University of Kansas mascots Bill Sheehy, Fort Leavenworth sophomore, and Paula Grizzle, Shawnee junior, await their introduction during the first Traditions Night festivities in 34 years. Traditions Night used to be a yearly event for incoming freshmen, but was discontinued after 1951.
By Mike Snider Staff Reporter
Incoming freshmen did not have to wear beanies or participate in a tug of war across Potter Lake against upperclassmen as past freshman have, but they were treated to an evening of traditions last night by campus faculty and staff members.
About 1,500 new and returning students were welcomed to campus at Memorial Stadium as Traditions Night was revived after 33 years off the university calendar.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig advised students that to succeed at college, they not only should be deeply committed and hard-working, but also should have a sense of humor and a sturdy umbrella.
William Easley, student body president, and Arno Knapper, presiding officer of the University Council and Faculty Senate, also spoke at the ceremony, which kicked off Fall Week '85.
Larry Brown, men's head basketball coach, told students about the University of Kansas' sports history and KU professors instructed students in KU traditions, such as
waving the wheat, the alma mater and the Rock Chalk chant.
"Our teams may not always win but our athletes are always out here giving their best," Brown said.
Also at the ceremony, a torch was passed from the junior and senior presidents and the sophomore vice president to Lisa Michelle Karr, St. Louis freshman, the freshman with the oldest alumni ties.
Lovey Ulmer, co-chairman of Fall Week, said that KU students and alumni had asked for the activity to be reinstated because it informed incoming students about the university.
"Many students said they wished they had had the chance to attend something like this," she said.
Andrea Lawson, Kearney, Neb., freshman, said, "I thought it was interesting and entertaining. I hope to know the faculty better and am very impressed with them. I feel welcome here at KU, and I hope to get involved on campus."
Fall Week continues tonight with
"Meet a Prof Night." More than 130 faculty members will have dinner at residence halls and fraternities at 5 p.m. off-campus students can meet faculty members at 6:30 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Fall Week festivities end Thursday night at "The Beach and the Boulevard, a series of entertaining and international programs throughout campus.
The activities are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. with the KU Marching Band performing in front of Wescoe Hall and end with a performance by the KU Jazz Combo at 8:45 p.m. on the lawn of Robinson Center.
Activities highlight computers, libraries, arts and recreation, Ulmer said. Twenty-minute information sessions will be held throughout the evening at the Academic Computer Center, Murphy Hall, Spencer Museum of Museum, Spooner Anthropology Museum, Watson Library and Robinson Center to acquaint students with these buildings and available services.
SAE suspension leads summer's events
By John Williams Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Sigma Alpha Epsilon was suspended on June 19 by the University after a reported incident involving the hazing of a student who had pledged the fraternity.
David Amble, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the two-year suspension meant SAE could not function as a group affiliated with the University.
"The fraternity can't use the University name, facilities or participate in University sponsored activities, including rush activities," Ambler said.
Although administration officials had urged the national fraternity organization to revoke the SAE's charter, the organization instead placed control of the chapter under the local SAE alumni commission.
The fraternity's suspension was one of a number of campus events that attracted attention this summer.
- Trials for 56 people arrested during anti-apartheid demonstrations on May 3 and 9 began June 6 in Lawrence municipal and district courts. One trial was rescheduled for Aug. 29, and three others for Sept. 11.
Youngberg Hall, which houses the offices of the Kansas University Endowment Association. The protestors were urging the Endowment Association to divest its stock in companies doing business in South Africa because of the country's policy of racial segregation, known as apartheid.
The demonstrations were conducted on the steps of Strong Hall and
Most of the demonstrators received fines ranging from $25 to $50. Some were allowed to do community service instead of paying their fines.
One person was declared not guilty because the arresting officer did not identify himself as a police officer before the arrest.
- Two KU professors were selected on June 5 as part of a nationwide joint research effort for President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly referred to as "star wars."
Ronald Bass, associate professor of astronomy and physics, and Thomas P. Armstrong, professor of astronomy and physics, will conduct research to determine how charged particles in the ionosphere, layers of the earth's atmosphere, will interact with spacecraft.
Bass and Armstrong received about $60,000 of the $12 million allocated by the federal government for the defense research.
KU tuition a bargain among Big 8 schools
By Bonnie Snyder
Staff Reporter
It still costs more to be a Cyclone, Tiger, Wildcat, Cornhusker or Buffalo than it costs to be a Jawhawk.
Desite fee increases this semester, KU students still pay less for tuition and fees than most universities. Eight Conference counterparts.
The $615 that Kansans at KU must pay this semester compares with $796 that Coloradors must attend the University of Colorado.
University of Missouri pay $2,107,
which is $590 more than KU non-
resident students pay.
Iowans at Iowa State University pay $35 more than Kansas at the University of Kansas. ISU students living outside Iowa pay $398 more than KU students from Kansas.
Out-of-state students at the
Although the cost of attending KU increased $41 for residents and $103 for non-residents this semester, only attending the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University is cheaper.
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