University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 11, 1986
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News Briefs
Veterans Day brings campus ceremonies
Members of the Lawrence Veterans of Foreign Wars and KU ROTC units will conduct Veterans Day activities today on the KU campus.
The ceremonies will start at 10:45 a.m. at the KU Vietnam Memorial, which is near the Chi Omega fountain.
The ceremony will open with the Campanile carillon playing "The Star Spangled Banner." The Campanile was built as a memorial to those who fought in World War II. The Lawrence Veterans of Foreign Wars will sound taps, give a 21-gun salute and lay a wreath on the Vietnam Memorial.
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Col. Michael D Wyly, professor of naval science and head of KU's Navy ROTC unit; Peter DeNucci, VFW district commander; and Tom Berger, chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, are scheduled to speak.
KU and Lawrence police reported that vandals damaged four cars in the city and eight cars on campus during the weekend.
Sunday night, vandals knocked out the passenger window of a 1982 Honda parked in the 1300 block of Ohio Street. Vandals also knocked out the driver windows of a 1979 Dodge parked in the 1800 block of Mississippi Street and a 1979 Chevrolet parked in the 300 block of Fourth Street.
Vandals also spray painted the passenger door of a 1975 Volvo, Lawrence Police reported.
All of the incidents happened between midnight Saturday and noon Sunday.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police spokesman, said he did not know whether the incidents were related because they happened in different areas of Lawrence.
Five cars were spray-painted Saturday night in a parking lot at Ohio and 14th streets behind Stephenson Hall, KU police reported. Police reports said vandals painted obscene words and streaks on the cars.
Two cars parked in the 1500 block of Lilac Lane and a car parked by the Chamney Barn on 15th Street were also spray-painted.
Business speech set
All of the campus incidents happened between 4 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday.
A former editor of Administrative Science Quarterly will talk about "High Reliability Organizations," at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Karl E. Weick, who has the Harkins and Company Centennial Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak as a part of the Visiting Scholars Series of the School of Business.
Gordon Fitch, associate dean of business, said he thought the speech would deal with how the company work. Weick's area of expertise.
Weick has been a faculty member at Cornell University, Stanford University and the University of Utrech. Netherlands. He received a doctorate in psychology from Ohio State university in 1962.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny and cold with a high temperature in the lower 30s and northerly winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low temperature around 20.
From staff and wire reports.
Brenda Steele/KANSAN
Snow daze
Motorists and bicyclists along West Campus Road brave the snow and rain. Snow began falling early yesterday afternoon.
Odious odor lingers on in Union
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
James Long, Union director, acknowledged that the odor existed, but said that he and his staff could not identify its source.
However, Warner Ferguson, assistant Union director, said he thought the smell was the result of a stink bomb that may have been released during the movie "Hail Mary," which was shown in Woodruff Auditorium on Oct. 8 and 9.
"We don't know the source for sure, but it occurred at about that time," he said.
Although officials found no evidence of the bomb after the show, Ferguson said he was not aware of the smell before the first showing of the movie.
Ferguson said some Union staff members thought the smell was a chemical mixture from the stink bomb.
"It was either physically set off by someone
woodwright Auditorium, or put into the ventilation
Aerosol sprays have been used in an effort to eliminate the odor, he said, but they have not
One possibility, he said, is to consult with companies that specialize in eliminating odors. Despite the odor's duration, Ferguson said he thought the odor slowly waned, disappearing.
Union officials are trying to think of different ways to eliminate the odor, Ferguson said.
"But once in a while you still get a pretty strong whiff of it," he said.
Long said the odor should be gone in a couple weeks. He said that spraying and time would take care of the problem.
Students who have classes in Woodruff say the smell is annoying but tolerable.
Prof finalist in journalism dean search
By PAMELA SPINGLER
The journalism dean search committee yesterday announced that Mike Kautsch, associate professor of journalism, was one of the four finalists for dean of the School of Journalism.
The other three finalists were not announced yesterday, but will be announced later.
Yesterday was Kautsch's first official
inauguration of journalism school as candidate
for the dean
Kautsch, who has taught at the University for seven years, said he had decided to throw his hat into the ring because of loyalty to the
Lee Young, acting dean, said that although Kautsch was a member of the staff, he was treated as a visitor to the school yesterday. The young had a policy to treat all candidates equally.
"I'm not so much a candidate, but someone to do the job," he said in a conference with students.
"I feel motivated by my sense of loyalty to the institution to try."
Kautsch said that the faculty's priority toward the undergraduate programs was the driving force behind the school and that it added unity to the faculty.
"There is no diffusion of purpose," he said.
After Del Brinkman, former dean of journalism, took the position as the University's vice chancellor for academic affairs, Kautsch said he was worried about the school losing its priorities.
"If we lose them, my chief reasons for staying would be gone," he said.
In 1984, Kautsch won the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award, which is given annually by the senior class. Before coming to KU, he worked as an investigative reporter for the Atlanta Journal.
Boss fans rock local shops in live album rush
One of the drawbacks to being dean, he said,
was that he would have to uoit teaching
By NANCY BARRE
Jim Pritchard heard that "The Boss" was back.
Yesterday, Pritchard, Omaha, Neb, senior, rushed out to get the latest recording from Bruce Springsteen, also known as "The Boss."
The five-record live album was released across the country in stores yesterday.
Pritchard bought his copy of "Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live — 1975-83" yesterday at Kisf's Count Records and Stereo Supply, 2100 West 25th St. It is Springsteen's first live album.
Pritchard said, 'My roommate and I knew they were going to be released on the 10th and we've been counting down the days.
"We've been planning on getting it for a month and we would have paid whatever it took to get it."
John McGrath, Flossmoor, Ill., senior, and Pritchard the roommate, bought not only the album, but also several blank tapes so he could record the album and give copies to his brothers and sisters for Christmas, he said.
Apparently McGrath and Pritchard weren't the only people who were eager to buy copies of the
album.
The managers of two record stores in town that are selling the 3:20 record set, which includes 40 songs and is selling for about $23, said sales and interest had been strong on the first day.
Lane Turner, manager of Pennylane Records and Tapes, 844 Mass. St., said he had about 150 records, tapes and digital compact discs in stock, and already had ordered 150 more because he anticipated high sales.
"Before we ever got them in stock we had about 10 or 15 already reserv- "Turner said. "And today we've
had about 50 phone calls asking about the record. At least every other call has been about the album "
Turner sold about 50 albums yesterday, he said.
Steve Wilson, manager of Kief's said he had about 500 copies of the album in stock.
Shirley Phillips, manager of Exile Records, 13 East Eighth St., said the store did not have the albums yet because of their recent relocation, but they were expected to come in soon.
"We've sold about 25 or 30 albums, and we've had about six calls about it," he said.
Phillips said she expected a high demand for the album, and therefore was not worried about selling the albums although they were coming in later than at other record stores.
Staff writer
By BETH COPELAND
Med Center official joins Hayden transition team
"Everyone wants it," Phillips said.
Governor-elect Mike Hayden appointed Marlin Rein, KU Medical Center official and legislative lobbyist, to his transition team on Friday.
Coburn said, "I read about the album in a magazine about four months ago, and I've been waiting for this exact date."
group of fiscal experts who will help Hayden prepare the state budget, to be submitted to the Legislature in January.
Foster Coburn, Kansas City, Kan. senior, bought one of the albums from Pennylane, said he had come earlier in the day, but had to return because the records had not arrived in the morning.
Rein was named, along with four other Kansans, to direct the transition from Gov. John Carlin's administration to Hayden's governor. After Hayden's resignation, Hayden will be sworn in office in January.
Rein has been the University of Kansas Medical Center's legislative lobbyist for several months and was recently appointed as the lobbyist for the Lawrence campus as well.
Hayden, an Atwood Republican and current House Speaker, said Rein would be "on loan" from the University.
Hayden said Rein would be in charge of a
Rein said yesterday that he would continue to serve as the University's lobbyist.
"There's an understanding that this will not last beyond the beginning of the legislative session." Rein said.
Rein said Hayden had talked with Chancellor Gene A. Budg before making the appointment.
Rein was hired at KU in August 1983 and is associate director of business and fiscal affairs and associate hospital administrator for Bell Memorial Hospital, the Med Center's hospital.
H. Edward Flentje, former aide to Republican Gov. Robert Bennett, will head the five-member team. The other members are
Rein said he probably was appointed to me transition team because of his nine-year term as the Legislature's chief fiscal analyst, which began in 1974. He worked with Hayden, who at the time was the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Sue Peterson, Hayden's administrative assistant while he was House speaker; McDill "Huck" Boyd, a member of the Republican National Committee, and John Conrad, former executive officer of the state Board of Regents and a former Kansas House speaker.
Commission may OK architect search for center
Bv IOHN BENNER
Staff writer
Lawrence city commissioners are expected to authorize the city manager to interview architects for the proposed $1.3 million Holcom Recreation Center tonight.
The center is planned for the corner of 27th Street and Lawrence Avenue.
In the Nov. 4 general election, city voters approved issuing $1 million in general obligation bonds for the project. The remaining $300,000 will come from private donations, said Carl Knox, president of the Holcom Recreation Center Foundation.
Fred DeVictor, Lawrence Parks and Reception director, said yesterday that the proposed 17,500-square-foot center would house a gymnasium, racquet courts, a game room, a fitness room, locker rooms and three multipurpose rooms.
He said plans for the project could be ready by March 1897, with construction set to begin as soon as April 1987. DeVictor said that if all went well, the center could be open by 1988.
Voters originally approved $500,000 worth of bonds for the project in an April 1984 bond issue.
foundation failed to collect matching private contributions to pay for the then-$1 million project, said Dave Billings, co-leader of the campaign drive for the second election.
The second vote was necessary because the
Billings said many people had thought the entire $1 million originally should have come from the city.
The bonds will be paid by property taxes and will cost the owner of a $50,000 home in Lawrence about $3.50 a year for 10 years.
Over 57 percent of Lawrence voters approved the bond issues; all but one east Lawrence precinct voted against issuing the bonds. North Lawrence has only one precinct and voters in
that precinct rejected the project by 66 percent.
received the project by 60 percent.
Don Binns, president of the Brookcreek
Neighborhood Improvement Association in
east Lawrence, said east Lawrence voters had
rejected the Holcom project not just because it
was inconveniently located.
He said his neighbors were angry that the city recently had cut back the number of hours the East Lawrence Recreation Center would be open.
Allan Heinze, KU director of health and physical education services, said Robinson Gymnasium probably would not be affected much by the proposed center.