University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 13, 1986
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News Briefs
Two drug suspects waive hearing rights
Two Lawrence men indicted in July on cocaine-related charges waived their rights to a preliminary hearing yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
Tory E. Graham, 23, Kansas City, Mo., and Jonathan S. Flicker, 23, Austin, Texas, appeared yesterday in the courtroom of Ralph King Jr., Douglas County district judge, for their preliminary hearings.
After they waived their hearings, King set a trial date of Jan. 26 for both men, who are free on continuing bond.
Flicker, who was charged with one count of selling cocaine, was released on a $10,000 recognition bond. Graham, who was released on a $30,000 recognition bond, was charged with three counts of selling cocaine and one count of possessing cocaine.
Flicker and Graham were indicted along with 16 others in state court on July 21.
Shop owner iniured
Lawrence police reported that the owner of a local car repair shop was injured Tuesday when he attempted to stop a man from driving away without paying his repair bill.
Leon Jennings, the owner of Leon's Bug Barn, 1226 E. 23rd St., injured his wrist at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when he jumped on the hood of a Porsche driven by a Kansas City Mayor, Mo. man.
Jennings tried to stop the driver,
who apparently had not paid his
$246 bill, police reported.
The driver did not stop, however, and sped off at about 80 mph with Jennings clinging to the windshield winners.
Jennings, who was not hospitalized, jumped off the Porsche when the driver slowed to make a turn.
The driver was booked into the Douglas County jail on a charge of aggravated assault. He was released Tuesday on a $5,000 recognition bond.
Smokers to get help
Watkins Hospital will sponsor the FreshStart program from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow on how to stop smoking, according to Janine Demo, health educator for the hospital.
The hospital will give the program again from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 20. Both will be at Watkins Hospital.
Manager selected
Lisa J. Weems was selected as the 1987 spring semester Kansan Business Manager, the Kansan Board announced yesterday.
Weems, Lenexa senior, was chosen after applicants for the position were interviewed by the board. She will serve as head of the Kansas business staff next semester.
Applications for other business staff positions are available in rooms 119 and 200 of Stauffer-Flint Hall and are due by 5 p.m. today.
Applications for Kansan editor for the spring semester are also being accepted and are due by 5 p.m. Monday. Applications for other news staff positions are due by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high temperature around 30 and southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low temperature in the mid-20s.
From staff and wire reports.
A home for Thanksgiving
Program to give foreign students taste of U.S. life
By SHANE A. HILLS
Staff writer
At Thanksgiving, when many KU students are home enjoying hot turkey, football games and family reunions, most of KU's 1,777 foreign students will be passing the time at McColm Hall.
No families, no home-cooked turkey dinners. Just a view from Daisy Hill.
But about 35 foreign students will spend four days over Thanksgiving break with families in Kansas and Missouri.
These students, who are part of KU's Homestay Program, will eat Thanksgiving dinner with people they never met in homes they've never seen.
The Homestay Program is designed to give foreign students an introduction to U.S. family life, according to Patricia Willer, assistant director of the KU Foreign Student Office.
"The program gives the students a chance to see a little bit more complete picture of U.S. life than just what they experience on campus," she said.
She said foreign students were allowed to participate in the program only once during their stay at KU because the University had host families to accommodate only about 40 people.
Students provide their own transportation to the homes. The program still has openings for more students this year, she said.
Harold Witham, who lives outside Augusta, about 15 miles east of Wichita, said yesterday that he and his wife had invited two foreign students every year for at least 10 years.
"We have a bedroom built over our garage," he said. "We call it the boy's dorm because that's where the
'The program gives the students a chance to see a little bit more complete picture of American life.'
Patricia Willer assistant director, KU foreign student office
young men stay every Thanksgiving. We always seem to get two boys, no girls, for some reason. And they are almost always both from different countries.
Willer said the program helped alleviate the homesickness foreign students experienced around this time of the year.
"We take them out and show them the sights around town, take them to our family get-togethers, all sorts of things."
"We've made some real good
In Lee, Chongku, South Korea, graduate student, said he learned he would be visiting a family in Kansas City. Mo. Lee plans to teach English when he returns to Korea
friends, and we still keep in touch with each other, in fact, one fellow just called a few days ago."
"I think it is good when I get more exposure to American culture," he said. "American English is very different from the English we speak in Korea.
"I'm not really sure what Thanksgiving is. I guess it's supposed to be a festival to thank God for the harvest, and a time for big family reunions."
Lee said he was homesick because he came to KU about a month before his first child was born. He said he hoped to bring his wife and son to Lawrence during the Christmas break.
"They work much harder in school there," he said. "We carry about 30 hours of course work each semester."
Alex Herbigo, Poligny, France,
freshman, said he would be hard at
work in school if he were in France
during Thanksgiving.
Herbigo said he looked forward to the opportunity to speak English and meet new Americans.
By BETH COPELAND
Staff writer
Four weeks after K-State's football victory over KU, Manhattan and Aggieville leaders continue to consider ways to prevent future riots on the rivals' game days.
Manhattan leaders work to deter riots
Jim Schottler, president of the Aggieville Merchants Association, said the group's officers were meeting about three times a week to call information from Kansas State University and Riley County Police Department officials.
Police arrested 22 people Oct. 18 in Aggieville, after K-State defeated KU 29-12. Schottler said that the Aggieville district contains more than 12 taverns and 115 businesses and that the riot caused between $20,000 and $50,000 in damage.
Riley County police are viewing video tapes of the riot and may make more arrests.
Col. Lester Bieler, assistant director of the Riley County Police Department, said that police were investigating KU students involved in the riot but that he couldn't answer on possible future arrests.
Bieler said the department hadn't outlined plans for next year's football game because police would follow the recommendations of the merchants association and the Manhattan City
Commission.
Schottler said the association's plans were in the early stages, so no proposal had been submitted to the commission. He said he expected the city to approve a plan for more security in the spring.
"We want to know how to make this a celebration of the rivalry of two schools, rather than an event in itself." Schottler said.
Dan Fowler, manager of the Dark Horse Tavern in Manhattan, suggested less visible police action on game days.
"I think police should rope Aggieville off and let the kids drink in the streets," Fowler said. "I think merchants should just board up their windows; that's cheaper in the long run than paying the damage of all the broken windows."
Bieler, however, took an opposite view.
"I'd favor closing Aggieville and keeping them out of there," he said.
Schottler said he hoped for a compromise between the two extremes.
"The students deserve to have a good time, and we like to have them here," he said. "Our plan is that people can come down to Aggieville, but we can prevent the destruction and bodily injury we've had in the past."
KU grad jams bookstands with 'Wrack & Roll'
Bv ATLE BIORGE
Staff writer
Bradley Denton, wearing glasses and a shy smile, doesn't look as if he would bash someone in the head with a greasy cycle chain.
Still, the characters in his newly released first novel, "Wrack & Roll," do not exhibit a great deal of consideration for their fellow citizens.
"There's something in every book that would offend some people." Denton, a KU graduate, said yesterday. "There certainly is in this book."
In a pamphlet he wrote about the novel, Denton said "Wrack & Roll" was an alternate history/science-fiction novel about decadence, politics, violence, lust and loud music.
The novel, parts of which are set in Lawrence, deals mostly with the effects of culture change. he said.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Bradley Denton, author of "Wrack & Roll," autographs copies of his book. The book depicts what would happen if the musical revolution of the 1960s had occurred 20 years earlier. Denton signed copies yesterday at the Oread Book Shop in the Kansas Union.
"I'm only 28," Denton said, "but I'm meeting 18-year-olds now who don't have the same outlook on the world that I have.
"It occurred to me one day that our lives would have turned out very different if the protest rock of the '60s had gotten its start 20 years earlier.
"I was five years old when Kennedy was shot. I remember that day. I was a young teenager during the Vietnam war. I'm meeting people now who only know this in retrospect.
"With this idea in mind I conceived a historic scenario in which this took place."
In the novel, President Franklin D. Koosevelt choked to death on a chicken
Union remained allied with Hitler's Germany throughout the war; and the University of Kansas served alcohol at its receptions.
When rock-superstar Bitch Alice died during a direct broadcast from the moon in 1967, fans went amok and destroyed the site of the space center
in Dallas, ending the U.S. space program.
Her daughter, the Bastard Child, and the band Blunt Instrument go on a gigantic concert tour while the guitar edging toward a nuclear holocaust.
My novel recognizes the fact that
there is power in rock 'n' roll," Denton said. "Power can be either good or bad, depending on who is wielding it."
Denton started working on the novel in November 1984, he said. One year later he sold the novel to a New York publishing company on the
basis of the first nine chapters
He has written short stories for different science-fiction magazines since he was 25, he said, so his name wasn't totally unfamiliar to publishers when he sent them the novel.
"The first publisher I sent it to bought it," he said.
James Gunn, science fiction writer and professor of English, said science fiction writers had a better chance than writers of other kinds of fiction at getting their work published. Gunn taught creative writing to Denton while Denton was at KU.
"A good writer, such as Brad, should have no difficulty getting a novel published," Gunn said, "especially after establishing a certain reputation as a short-story writer."
Denton received undergraduate degrees in astronomy and English in 1980 and a master's degree in English in 1984 from the University.
Denton said he thought the novel was selling well.
"The money people in the company were skeptical at first about printing a first novel this long," he said.
"Wrack & Roll" is 405 pages long.
Now, the first printing is sold out,
the second novel will go into a
second printing. The paperback edition
costs $3.50.
But Denton was hesitant to declare his instant success.
"I started writing stories for magazines when I was 15," he said. "I didn't make my first sale until I was 25."
School administrators discuss effective teaching
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Effective teachers must be willing to grow and learn as they teach, three public school administrators said last night.
The three participated in a panel discussion with education students in the East Gallery of the Kansas Union. They told the students what they looked for in new teachers.
"The willingness to grow distinguishes the best teachers from the rest," Harold Vestal, superintendent of De Soto Public Schools, told about 40 people. "Usually, those teachers are the ones who get hired."
"Students, parents and administrators all have different perspectives on the teacher and
how effective that teacher is." Vestal said.
"Kids need to feel safe in the classroom," he said. "They don't have to love you, but they must respect you and feel you are teaching them well."
Harold Omart, coordinator of in-service education in Lawrence, agreed that much of the effectiveness of teachers lies in students' perception of them.
"First contact is very important." Omar said. "If your first contact with a teacher is a failure, how often do you want to go back?"
Oomart taught teachers needed to be organized and able to present the material positively to
*Effective teachers are those who can focus all the skills they have on the needs of the child.*
Marvin Pine, principal of Tonganoxie Middle School, said educators must create a positive impression on students by organizing and planning effectively.
"New teachers in Tonganoxie must attend thorough monthly in-service workshops for the first two years." Pine said.
Vestal said that during job interviews, he tried to determine how effective a teacher was.
"There's one question I always ask during an interview," he said, "If you had a student who left the classroom disappointed, could you arrange for that child to feel successful the next day?"
Vestal said that half of the interviewees said they could not make the child's next day successful, while the other half said they thought they could.
Teachers who said yes usually had a better chance of getting hired, he said.
Vestal also said this question gave him information about the teacher's attitudes on education.
"Some teachers believe there are always a group of kids who fail," he said. "Effective teachers believe that all kids can learn."
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