University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 24, 1986
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News Briefs Man pleads guilty to lesser drug charge
A Lawrence man who was indicted on cocaine-related charges in Lawrence in July pleaded guilty Friday in Douglas County District Court to one count of delivering cocaine.
Rusty L. Howard, 24, 1020 Holiday Drive, originally had been charged with two counts of selling cocaine but was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of delivering cocaine.
Mike Malone, Douglas County district judge, accepted Howard's plea and set Dec. 19 as his sentencing date.
ing date.
Malone allowed Howard to re-
main free on a $20,000
recognizance bond.
Larry Brown to talk
Basketball head coach Larry Brown is scheduled to speak to students at a forum at 12:30 p.m. today in 104 Green Hall
Brown will talk about the men's basketball program and the coming season. He also will answer questions from the audience.
The speech is sponsored by the Student Bar Association and is free and open to the public.
A special performance of "Gloria," written by Laurel Everett Anderson, professor emeritus of organ and music theory, will highlight the 1986 Vespers. "Gloria" was first performed for the 1935 Vespers.
The 62nd annual Vespers, a Christmas music performance, is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in Hoch Auditorium.
The choirs also will sing "Joseph Lieber, Joseph Mein" and "Go Tell it on the Mountain." The audience will sing "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World" with the choirs and orchestra, as is traditional at Vespers.
Vespers is free and open to the public. A collection will be taken at each performance to support the Vespers Scholarship Fund. Eight music students received Vespers scholarships this year.
Essay contest begins
The Undergraduate Philosophy Club is sponsoring an essay contest on the question, "What criteria, if any, should be used in determining whether an employer has the right to test employees for the use of drugs?"
Entries will be accepted until Feb. 16, and the winner will be announced April 1. The winning essay will be published in "Premise," the undergraduate philosophy journal. The winner also will receive $100.
Entries may be placed in the Undergraduate Philosophy Club box at the philosophy department office in 3652 Wescoe. The contest is open to all undergraduates.
Essays should be seven pages or less and philosophical in nature. Any notes or bibliography must be included.
Weather
Skies today will be sunny, and the high temperature will be in the lower 50s. Winds will be variable and will be less than 10 mph. Tonight's skies will be fair, and the low temperature will be in the upper 20s. Tomorrow, skies will become cloudy. The high temperature will be in the low to mid-50s.
From staff and wire reports.
Cheryl Younablood/KANSAN
Katie Stolz, Lawrence sophomore and president of Expressions, a KU demonstrate the fxtort to Naval ROTC officers, their wives and students dance club, and Christy Bauer, Mainz, West Germany, graduate student. Expressions has been teaching ballroom dances Friday nights.
Officers learn dance-floor maneuvers
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Naval ROTC officers and students overcame their sea legs Friday and tried new maneuvers on the dance floor.
About 11 couples, mostly ROTC officers and their wives, were taking ballroom dance lessons given by te Expressions, a KU dance club, in the Military Science Building.
The ROTC officers asked the dance club to teach ROTC couples different dballet dances, and they worked with Ms. Breen to teach
"the best thing about ballroom dancing is it
fairly easy," Stolz said. "You can learn three or
The lessons, which last one hour, will continue for two more weeks. In the last three lessons, the officers have learned the swing and the foxtrot. The ROTC officers also had a disco lesson, and in the next two weeks they will learn the waltz and have a review session. Couples pay $10 a lesson.
"It's relaxing," he said. "I prefer the music to the lover, more modern kind.
"The nice thing about ballroom dancing is it gives you a chance to meet other people. You can talk to your partners and get to know them."
that because the Navy held many social functions, he thought the dance lessons were a good idea.
"It was something on our list to do since Ive been here," he said. His wife, D.J., was one of the white ones.
Wyly said he had taken dance lessons when he was in junior high school but had forgotten most of the steps.
"Most of the men here were volunteered by their wives or girlfriends," White said, but added that everyone seemed to be having fun.
four steps and then develop your own system."
"We hope to make it an ongoing thing. The Navy has gone through a change. It is going back toward the more traditional way of things," said this is just one more word."
Michael Wylj, professor of naval science and commanding officer of the naval ROTC, said some of the officers' wives had approached him about dance lessons.
"We realized that they didn't dance because they didn't know how." Wlyt said. "So I agreed to make the building available and support the idea any way I could."
The ROTC sponsors several dances each year, but the officers' wives noticed that not everyone was dancing, he said.
Dennis White, midshipman commander, said
D. J. White said she had talked to other wives before mentioning the lessons to Wyly.
"It seemed like a popular idea," she said. "I enjoy it."
D. J. White said her husband didn't like to dance but was enjoying the lessons.
"I think the one we liked the most was une disco," she said.
Goodpasture starts new student paper
Staff writer
Rv BILL RAYNOLDS
Victor Goodpasture recently left his post as a columnist for the Kansas to begin a conservative monthly newspaper called the Kansas University Stalwart.
"I didn't think I had full freedom of thought as a columnist on the Kansan," he said. "I had a lot more to say, but I did not have enough space to say it in the Kansan. I saw the need for another campus newspaper."
Goodpasture, Topeka senior, said he had started Stalwart to provide a forum for conservative viewpoints but also to provide students non-political features and information of general interest.
"If we were conservative from page 1 to 12, we'd be boring to
san boxes.
Goodpasture said the paper's private financing reflected a conservative view.
December's 12-page issue of the Stalwart contains articles on the hazards of chewing tobacco, the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, the KU men's basketball team, a feature on wolves, a movie review of "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and a Clint Eastwood "Quote of the Month."
"The students shouldn't have to pay for another newspaper," he said. "If we got $2,000 from the Senate, we wouldn't be as likely to account for it. It would be a waste."
"We have to publish more features since we're a monthly publication." Goodpasture said, adding that the Stalwart was not competing with the
"When you raise your own money for a project, it's more likely you'll be accountable for the money, and it's less likely it'll be wasted."
everyone, including the conservatives," he said. "There's something in there for everybody."
He said he had a mutual agreement with the donors not to disclose their identities. Goodpasture said he had
Goodpasture said he had 5,000 issues printed for about $500. The December issue will be available today in residence halls and on campus in the wooden boxes next to the Kan-
Goodpasture lamented the fact that another campus newspaper, In the Streets, receives Senate money.
contributed about $200 himself to publish the first issue.
The Stalwart is free and is financed through donations from individuals and private groups, Goodpasture said, and it receives no money from Student Senate.
"It hacks me off that they get Student Senate funds," he said. "They do a haphazard job of putting it out. If they were serious, they'd use their own money and put it on a regular basis."
George Frazier, Overland Park junior and In the Streets staff member, said, "That sounds like a typical Victor Goodpasture comment to get attention.
"We're an alternative student voice and we use student money because of it."
VCRs, tapes often taken stores say
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
Managers of local video rental stores say that although they take precautions to ensure that tapes and players are returned, their efforts are not always successful.
These measures, however, often aren't enough.
Julie Cook, assistant manager of the video department at Dillon's Grocery Store, 1740 Massachusetts St., said a customer had to provide his driver's license number and expiration date, address, telephone number and another piece of identification to rent any video equipment.
Three of the tapes were rented Sept. 30 and the others were rented Oct. 25. The tape player was rented Aug. 10.
This weekend, for instance,
Dillon's managers reported to
Lawrence police that seven
players were rented and not returned
Videocassette players, Cook said,
are valued at $200 and videocassettes
are valued at $150.
Tapes and tape players usually are rented for one day, she said. Customers receive certified letters reminding them to return the equipment two weeks and four weeks after the equipment is overdue. Cook said.
After four weeks, she said, legal action will be taken against the customer.
Cook said her store had filed about 12 reports with police in the last three months.
Dillon's does not require a security deposit on video equipment, Cook said, and does not keep a record of customers.
On the other hand, Popingo Video,
600 Lawrence Ave., requires its
customers to leave a deposit or get a
membership card.
In the last six months, Lindsey said, the store has lost only one player and two tapes. One customer who did not return equipment, he said, had fabricated the information on his application.
Todd Lindsey, assistant manager at Popingo, said a customer who did not leave a deposit had to fill out a membership application that included his address, home telephone number, work number and driver's license number.
If equipment is overdue, Lindsey said, he calls the customer and reminds them.
Stephanie Knackstedt, manager of Video World, Sixth and Kasold streets, said Video World owners had paid charges against any customers.
Customers at Video World must fill out a membership application, she said, which includes information similar to the Popingo application.
A difference between the Video World and Popingo applications, Knacksteff said, is that customers at Videotest.com include a reference on their application.
Slattery to visit Central America in January
Staff writer
By KAREN SAMELSON
Rep Jim Slattery, D-Kan, will visit Honduras and Nicaragua with a group of constituents in January to learn more about Central America, he announced last week.
"The United States is pursuing a policy in Central America that supports the killing of people." Slattery said. "And I'm asked to vote on that money."
During a news conference Friday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Slattery said that U.S. aid to Nicaragua amounted to supporting a war and that such support carried strong moral implications.
Slattery said he wanted to learn as much as possible about the people of Central America so that he could decide what would be a responsible, sensible policy for the United States to pursue.
"We better know what we're doing," he said. Slattery, who does not support aid to the antigovernment contras, said that U.S. allies in Europe and Asia, the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, Central American governments and the International Court of Justice did not support U.S. policies toward Central America.
Slattery, representative for the 2nd District, will make the trip with about 15 Kansas residents. Participants will include scholars, business people and journalists who are interested in Central American affairs.
"All of that raises serious questions about our policy," he said.
If Eugene Hasenfus still is being held in Nicaragua when Slattery makes the trip, he will plead for his release. Slattery has Hesnufus, an ex-Marine from Marinette, Wis., recently was convicted of crimes against Nicaragua. Slattery said he didn't think the new Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate would have any effect on aid to the contras.
The participants will pay for the trip, which will be from Jan. 9 to 17.
Slattery said he hoped to visit Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega and Roman Catholic Cardinal Obando y Bravo, as well as opposition leaders.
However, he said he thought it would be increasingly difficult for President Reagan to get congressional support for more than $100 million for the contrasts, especially in light of controversies about Hasentus, the disinformation campaign in Libya and arms sales to Iran.
Addressing the Iranian issue, Slatter said, "I think the administration and the president made a terrible decision in deciding to ship arms to Iran.
However, he said, "I hope that the president's credibility hasn't been too seriously damaged. I want this president to continue to be a strong president."
The U.S. public does not expect the president to be infallible, he said, so Reagan should admit the mistake and get on with the affairs of the country.
"I hope this scheme didn't originate with the president," he said.
Slattery also addressed several local issues, including possible federal financing for Lawrence's nonsouthern bypass.
"I'm very concerned about who is really running foreign policy in this country."
He said that Reagan should take a close look at who was working for him and making the decisions.
He said that if the community decided to build the bypass, he would help try to obtain federal money.
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