University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 21, 1986
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News Briefs Replacement search begins in January
A nationwide search to replace Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, will begin in January and end by July 1, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said yesterday.
Budig the search was not inconsistent with the hiring freeze imposed last week because it was an important position and it would not be filled until the next fiscal year. The University imposed the freeze in anticipation of a 3.8 percent cut in state budgets.
Forecasts by phone
Cobb will leave the position at the end of December to return to teaching.
The KU Atmospheric Science Club will answer telephones Monday and Tuesday to inform students about weather conditions for their trips home for Thanksgiving.
Students may call 864-4329 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday or Tuesday. The club will provide forecast information for travel in North America.
The club is composed of KU meteorology students and will provide the travel forecasts as one of two annual projects. Grant Pitzer, club president, said his organization would man the travel forecast hotline again to aid students traveling during spring break.
The Lawrence Urban Renewal Authority will meet at 3 p.m. today in the city commission meeting room at City Hall. Sixth and Massachusetts streets, to discuss plans for a downtown shopping mall.
Mall to be discussed
Hannes Zacharias, city management analyst, said the board would consider tax increment financing bonds, which require a public vote before the city can issue them.
Building plans OK'd
Under tax increment financing, the bonds would be guaranteed by the increased value of the land after the mall is completed.
Plans for a $2.5 million retirement complex to be built on Lawrence's west side received the approval of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission Wednesday night.
The retirement complex is the second such plan proposed for Lawrence in the past two months.
The complex would be a 63-unit, three-story structure with an atrium to cover a central courtyard.
Before construction can begin, the plan must go before the city commission for approval.
KC editor to speak
Joe McGuff, editor of the Kansas City Star and Times, will speak to students at 4 p.m. today in 210 Stauffer Fint Hall.
McGuff is expected to discuss his transition from sports editor of the Star to editor of both newspapers.
The KU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi is sponsoring the event, which is free and open to the public.
Weather
Skies today will be mostly sunny. The high temperature will be around 60. The winds will come from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight's skies will be partly cloudy, and the low temperature will be near 40.
Fraternities and sororites assist the needy
From staff and wire reports.
The holiday spirit will benefit underprivileged people in Lawrence this Christmas season, thanks to several KU fraternities and sororites.
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, 1537 Tennessee St., helped the Douglas County Council on Aging yesterday by delivering to elderly people unable to leave their homes.
Jim Riggs, publicity chairman for the
John Livaditis, Glenview, Ill., freshman; David Ross, Springfield, Ill., freshman; Jim Simon, Deerfield, Ill., freshman; and Charles Luejtie, Overland Park, freshman, helped deliver meals to persons in Edgewood Homes, 160 Haskell Ave., a low-cost housing development.
house, said the fraternity had planned to help the council more this semester and in the spring.
Livaditis said the experience had given him a better perspective on how some people
Leutje said, "They looked really happy to see us. They probably don't get to see many young people."
less fortunate than himself live.
The meal site at Edgewood is one of seven meals in Douglas County that help provide meals for elderly people, said Louse Hornberger, meal site manager for the council.
Hornberger said the Council on Aging was recruiting students from the University of
Kansas to assist disadvantaged people in Lawrence.
The Gamma Phi Beta sorority, 1339 W Campus Road, and the Sigma Chia fraternity, 1439 Tennessee St., joined forces Tuesday and collected cans of food in west Lawrence.
Todd Mussinger, Hays junior and Sigma Chi philanthropy co-chairman, said the two Greek groups collected about 2,000 cans to give to the Salvation Army to distribute to needy families.
Lee Collard, Auburn senior and Ellsworth Hall president, gets more than just a slice of pumpkin pie. Collard was one of three Ellsworth Hall staff members who got a pie in the face yesterday as part of a fund-raiser to help the underprivileged of Lawrence.
Splat!
Ellsworth staff members get 'pied' for local family
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
Staff members at Ellsworth Hall were willing to get a pie in the face last night so that a needy family in Lawrence would have a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings.
Ellsworth had a pie-in-the-face contest that began Tuesday and ended last night at the hall's special Thanksgiving dinner.
The money collected from the contest, about $100, will go to a needy family in Lawrence. Steve Cramer, Omaha, Neb., junior and hall vice president, said the hall government would donate another $100 to a family through the Salvation Army.
'My floor went door-todoor, collecting money for this. They wanted me to win because it would be prestigious to get a pie in the face.'
Stephanie Bonnett Berryton junior
Fifteen jars with the names of the hall staff, resident assistants and hall president were placed at the front desk, and residents donated money to the person they wanted to see get pie in the face.
The three people who collected the most money this week received a pie in the face. Following Thanksgiving tradition, all pies were pumpkin with whipped cream on top.
About a dozen possible victims stood in a corner of the cafeteria, dressed in protective gear — garbage bags — wondering whether they would be the ones to hit. Only the three residents with pies in hard — Eric Seah, Kansas City, Co. freshman; Paul McDonald, Arkansas City freshman; and Deeann Erickson, Greeley, Colo., sophomore — knew who the winners, or losers, were.
The three to receive a face full of Mrs. Smith's best pumpkin pie were Cheryl Wiley, food service manager; Stephanie Bonnett, ninth floor resident assistant; and Lee Collard, hall president.
hall preside in.
The winners said that the pies were cold and that they weren't surprised they were the ones to receive the privilege.
"My floor went door-to-door, collecting money for this," said Bonnett, Berryton junior. "They wanted me to win because it would be prestigious to get a pie in the face."
Collard, Auburn junior, standing with whipped cream smeared in his hair and pumpkin on his face, said the pie was suffocating him, and blamed several of his friends for contributing the money to see that he was a target.
David Jackson, Overland Park sophomore, contributed to Collard's jar. He said he had wanted to contribute because Collard was a friend and because he had wanted to see the expression on Collard's face.
Businessmen say ratings do job of ordinance
Wiley said she wasn't surprised, because someone stuffed her jar yesterday. She said she felt good about being part of a good cause.
Staff writer
Cramer said he wouldn't be surprised if another $100 was collected by then.
Cramer came up with the idea for the pie contest. He said after the contest that a jar would be put out at the front desk to collect more money in his name. For every $25 put in the jar by tomorrow night, Cramer will receive a pie in his face.
By JOHN BENNER
Movie ratings, while not legally binding, do most of the job of a proposed Lawrence anti-obscenity ordinance, according to Lawrence movie theater managers and video store owners.
18 years of age.
Rance Blann, manager of the Hillerest Theatres. Ninth and Iowa streets, said the proposed ordinance would have little effect on his business
The proposed ordinance, due for discussion by the Lawrence City Commission next month, would provide for a decrease in harmful materials in those less than
The proposed ordinance describes harmful materials as those that are considered to be obscene by contemporary community standards.
"As I understand it, the ordinance is geared toward video stores." Blann said. "We do the best we can to check identifications."
Movies are rated by a branch of the Motion Picture Association of America as a service to parents, said Jack Poesigger, a spokesman for Commonwealth Theatres in Kansas City, Mo.
Poesigers, host of the "Jack Goes to the Movies" radio feature on KYYS-FM, said the motion picture
industry instituted the ratings program to avoid censorship by an outside organization or by religious groups.
"The biggest fallacy about the rating system is that people think it's a law." Poesigger said. "The system began during a time when the mood was censorship-minded. The Motion Picture Association did it to stave off future censorship."
He said the ratings board was made up mainly of psychologists and parents. He also said people had a misconception about X ratings on movies.
"It costs a lot of money to get your film reviewed by the board." Poigsig-
ger said. "The more it costs to make the movie, the more it costs to get it reviewed. If it doesn't get reviewed, it gets an automatic X rating."
Stan Smith, president of Reeiflims,
an adult film distributor in San
Diego, said none of the movies that
his firm had been sent to
buy for a review.
"It costs too much, and what we get is the same in the end." Smith said. "We release about 20 films a year aimed at the soft porn market."
"It's a need that has to be met," Smith said.
Lawrence video store owners said they had a variety of ways to avoid selling or renting harmful movies to
minors.
"Parents tell us on their membership card if they want to let their children rent R rated movies," Murphy said.
Ron Murphy, owner of Adventureland Video, 925 Iowa St., said his store did not sell X-rated films.
He said that his store rented movies only to those with a membership and that it sold no memberships to people younger than 18.
Mike Williams, owner of 7 Eleven,
2500 Iowa St., said he checked the
identification of anyone who looked
too young to rent an X-rated movie
Police lieutenant recovering from shoulder iniurv
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
Jeanne Longaker. KU police lieutenant, says she is working hard to recuperate from a shoulder accident that has kept her on sick leave since Sept. 18.
But Longaker said yesterday that because she enjoys working, her unplanned vacation had been boring and unproductive.
Both she and KU police are looking forward to her return. Longaker said she hoped to be back on the job in about a month.
"I think several of us are going to give a long sigh of relief when she gets back," said James Denney, director of KU police.
Longaker suffered a frozen shoulder, an injury caused by muscle tissue being wrapped around a joint, while moving a desk into her office in March. A three-week therapy program did not heal her shoulder, and Longaker had an operation in June.
However, the operation did not entirely repair the shoulder. Although Longaker worked through the summer, she decided to begin a new therapy program in September.
Longaker said her injury made her unable to fire weapons and to do hand-to-hand
"I'm still having a few problems," Longaker said. "But I'm doing better. It could be up to another month before I am able to come back."
maneuvers that police officers were expected to do.
Therefore, she said, she would not be able to perform her duties during an emergency situation.
Longaker, who is on paid sick-leave, said she built up sick-leave time since 1974 and had never had an injury like this one.
Longaker said she had wanted to come back to work since the day she left the office two months ago.
"It's one thing to plan a vacation and have some time to yourself," Longaker said. "But a forced vacation is just not the same. I had planned to do a lot of little things, like clean the
house, but I got depressed and moped around for a while after I went on leave."
Denney said Longaker's leave was both professionally and personally trying for the department.
"We see it as a serious problem," he said. "Jeanne not being there to run the community service program puts a lot of strain on the people who are covering her job. As a result, the department doesn't run very smoothly.
"Additionally, she's got a lot of friends down here and it just feels like a part of us is missing."
The strain was beginning to show in the department, he said.
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