University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 10, 1986
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News Briefs
Student crashes car into side of Wescoe
A female KU student was hospitalized Saturday evening after she drove her car into Wescos Hall, KU police reported.
Sergeant John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said the student was driving north on Sunflower Road and was approaching her car when her car went off Sunflower about 60 yards short of Jayhawk.
The car plowed through two rows of shrubs and a bike rack and hit the northeast corner of Wescoe Hall. Brothers said.
Brothers said she damaged both her car and a moped that was parked in the rack.
Brothers said she was taken to Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Overland Park. He did not know the extent of her injuries or whether she was released from the hospital.
Lawrence girl raped
Lawrence police reported that a 17-year-old Lawrence teenager was raped between 9 and 11 a.m. Saturday.
Officer Ernest Gwin, Lawrence police spokesman, said the girl was raped in a vehicle. She apparently had passed out from intoxication, he said. A house mother at a Haskell Junior College dormitory reported the crime.
Gwin said police were investigating the case.
City resident knifed
Lawrence police reported that a 21-year-old Lawrence man was stabbed three times in the chest at 1:45 am. Saturday after he rear-ended a car in the 1100 block of Sixth Street.
Officer Ernie Gwin, Lawrence police spokesman, said the man was stabbed by an unknown suspect who apparently was angry about the accident. However, Gwin said, the wounds were not serious, and the man was not hospitalized.
Tenure deadline set
Gwin said that the man did not get a description of the suspect and that the police's only lead was that the suspect was driving a red Datsun automobile.
The deadline for self-recommendations for promotions and tenure for some faculty members is today.
Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in the schools of engineering, education and fine arts should turn their self-nominations into the office of academic affairs by 5 p.m.
The office will send the self-nominations to the appropriate committees of the college and the University.
The departments and schools usually nominate the faculty for promotion, said Frances Ingemann, chairman of the University committee for promotions and tenure.
However, faculty who think their departments have overlooked them can nominate themselves through the self-nomination process, she said.
Weather
Today there is a 50-percent chance of light snow, and the high temperature will reach only 30 to 35. Winds will be northerly 15 to 25 skies. Skies tonight should be cloudy with a 30-percent chance of light snow. The low temperature will be in the teens. Tomorrow should be sunny but cold with the high temperature only reaching around 30.
From staff and wire reports.
A Lawrence man who pleaded guilty last month to two counts of aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court to three to 10 years in prison.
Howard Edmiston, 44, 934 Connecticut St., was the first of the 21 people indicted on cocaine-related charges July 21 in Lawrence to be sentenced.
Local man sentenced for drug charges
Bv RIC ANDERSON
In addition to Edmiston's sentencing, Ralph King Jr., Douglas County district judge, set trial dates Friday for two of the 21 and heard another of them plead guilty.
Staff writer
a long history of substance abuse that led to the cocaine charges.
In his final statement, Edmiston's lawyer,
Steven Rhudy of Lawrence, said Edmiston had
Rhudy said that Edmiston, a former realtor, began having problems with alcohol, which resulted from financial problems, in the last 10 years.
When the alcohol problems led to family problems, Rhudy said. Edmister turned to cocaine.
Edmiston's cocaine abuse, Rhudy said, led him away from his family and toward other drug abusers.
However, Rhudy said, Edmiston began to turn his life around before he was indicted. He was making amends with his family and was seeking professional help for his drug problems.
Rhudy said Edmiston, who had never sold drugs to anyone but undercover agents, also would provide future evidence for the district attorney's office.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said he would not recommend a sentence length, as is often done, because Edmiston had planned to help in other trials.
King said that although he did not think EDMiston sold drugs only to undercover agents, he would recommend the minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, which would willingness to help the district, attorney's office.
After the sentencing, Edmiston waited in the Douglas County jail for transportation to the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing.
He originally was charged with four counts of
aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine and one count of possessing cocaine. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 14 to an amended charge of two counts of aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine.
King set Dec. 1, as the trial date for Kevin Sommer, 22, 1227 Tennessee St., and scheduled Brian Cross, 22, 1012 Emery Road, to appear for trial Jan. 12.
King set Dec. 5 as Bell's sentencing date.
Robert Bell, 35, 1900 W. 31st St., pleaded guilty Friday to aiding and abetting the delivery of cocaine.
Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, is scheduled to be sentenced at 10:30 a.m. today in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.
Fraternity shows its fashion sense
Rv SALLY STRFFF
Stacey Rolfe loves clothes.
Sometimes, when she shops for a pair of shoes, Rolfe, Wichita senior, said she buys a pink and a purple pair of the same kind, just for fun. Often she buys clothes even when she really doesn't have the money.
Saturday night, she was happy.
In a short, black leather skirt and oversized jacket, she strode to a platform in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union with a smile on her face. Saturday marked the fourth year that she has coordinated a fashion show at KU. Her only rule: she gets to model, too.
"it's something I love to do." she said. "I just couldn't live without a show."
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity sponsored the fashion show, which attracted about 200 spectators who crowded the room. Cedric L. McCay, Kansas City, Mo. senior, and a member of the fraternity, said the show's proceeds would go to one of the fraternity's public service projects, either the Great American Smoke-Out or the United Negro College Fund.
Gliding or dancing to pop music, 11 female and 8 male models displayed fall and winter clothes.
which were provided by Lawrence stores.
Between the different sections of the show, singers performed while models rushed to change clothes.
The show consisted of business, evening, casual and formal wear, and models wore everything from a men's black Yves St. Laurent tuxedo to a woman's jeans outfit by Guess.
Rolfe, who chose most of the clothes, said she had tried to pick clothes that were now popular. She included lots of gold, silver and leather because those were part of the "high-fashion casual" look that people were wearing right now, she said.
Before the show, female models applied last-minute makeup in the Regionalist Room, their makehits dressing room for the evening. Dresses, pants and blouses hung from hangers, hooks and doors. Purses, stray shoes, jewelry and cans of hairspray adorned chairs and tables.
Melissa Howard, Kansas City. Mo., freshman, and Martessa Lee, Topeka freshman, sat in a corner applying tape to the bottom of shoes to avoid scuff marks.
Howard, who has modeled for Kansas City stores, said the models had practiced for about two weeks for the show.
Several other female models said they also had modeled before, either professionally or just for fun. But across the hall, several of the male models paced nervously.
Michael Webb, Wichita sophomore, said this was the first time he had modeled clothes. During the practices, he had learned how to relax and present himself, he said.
He admitted that he was worried he would trip. "If I trip, I might run back in here," he said, indicating the dressing room.
As Webb sauntered into the room for the first scene in a gray suit and horn-rimmed glasses, spectators applauded, then erupted into howls of appreciation as he paused and casually blew a ring of smoke from a long cigarette in a cigarette holder.
Frederick Lewis, University City, Mo., senior, also got a chuckle when he modeled a double-breasted, black Christian Dior suit that the announcer said was from "Frederick's of U. City."
Sharrieh Hazim, Topea senior, and a member of Phi Beta Sigma who also modeled, said the show gave publicity to the fraternity and allowed people to demonstrate their talents.
Brenda Steele/KANSAN
Mel Garrett Jr., Kansas City, Mo., is one of two carriage drivers who will noon until Christmas. The Downtown Lawrence Association is sponsoring give rides on Massachusetts Street from 1 to 4 p.m. every Sunday after—the rides to promote shopping in Lawrence.
Carriages promote good cheer. business
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
Johan Witte
Some motorists smiled. Others slowed to stare at the horse-drawn carriages rolling down Massachusetts Street yesterday.
The horses took the cars' presence in stride, although occasionally they showed some stubbornness when their drivers tried to coax them to stop daling in an intersection.
"Traffic don't bother this pair," Mel Garrett Jr. of Kansas City, Mo., said after giving some customers a 15-minute ride between 7th and 11th streets.
Bernie Hausherr, of Lawrence, who had parked his closed carriage in the space behind Garrett's at 11th and Massachusetts streets, agreed. He said the bells on Garrett's open carriage had bothered his horse, Fire, more than the cars.
"We just like to make downtown a pleasant place to come," said Barbara Fatseas, Topeka senior and a part-time employee of the downtown group.
The Downtown Lawrence Association organized the rides to encourage local residents to do their Christmas shopping in Lawrence instead of Kansas City.
"Kids are just fascinated with the horses," she said.
Hausher waved at children as he reined in Fire at a red light, and some smiled and waved
The DLA charges $10 to help pay the drivers, she said.
Fatsea said that most of the customers were families, and some were couples.
Hausherr, who sported a top hat and a dark
"I don't think I've ever had an unhappy customer," he said.
Nor were any disgruntled passengers to be seen yesterday.
blue cape, said he had been giving rides at weddings for about a year.
Lawrence resident Angela Posch said that she and her sister, Sarah, had wanted to go for a ride when the carriages were downtown last Christmas. Because they didn't go for a ride last year, they decided yesterday morning that they would see Lawrence from a different angle.
"It was fun." Angela Posch said. "It's something new."
Garrett expects the rides to catch on as Christmas draws closer.
"It's going to get more popular as it goes along," he said.
Professors synthesize new drug for cancer
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff write
Two KU Medical Center professors have developed an anti-cancer drug that reduces the size of tumors and in some cases prevents cancer from recurring after it has gone into remission.
Chia/Chung Cheng, professor of pharmacology, and Robert Zee-Chee, research professor at the Med Center drug development laboratory, worked for 10 years with scientists from the National Cancer Institute to develop the drug called Mitoxantrone, or DHAQ.
DHAQ particularly is effective in treating breast cancer and leukemia but is not used to treat cancer of the lungs, brain or digestive system. Cheng said.
The drug is administered in
introductions, Cheng said, and is used
in combination.
DHAQ's effectiveness depends on the physical conditions of the patients and on the severity of the cancers. Cheng said.
Doctors in the United States, Belgium, China and Japan have been clinically testing DHAQ on cancer patients for 10 years.
Tests on more than 5,000 patients indicate that the drug is as effective as adriamycin, an anti-cancer drug, and many of its dangerous side effects.
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved DAHA, and it will be used in combination with the following products.
He said adriamycin, which has been used to treat cancer patients for more than 20 years, causes heart and liver damage, white blood cell loss, nausea and hair loss.
Too much adriamycin can kill elderly cancer patients, Cheng said.
"DHAQ helps cancer patients keep their dignity. This is very important." Cheng said.
DHAQ causes side effects only in patients who have previously been treated with adriamycin, he said.
DHAQ also is less expensive than adriamycin because it is synthesized. Cheng said. Adriamycin occurs naturally and is very expensive because it is difficult to isolate.
Researchers are beginning to study how DHAQ can be combined with other anti-cancer drugs to increase their effectiveness, he said.
Since he began working with the National Cancer Institute in 1954, Cheng has synthesized more than 3,000 compounds. Cheng said he planned to continue cancer research but lacked funding to investigate all of his ideas.
Research to synthesize a drug like DHAQ costs $200,000 to $300,000 for chemicals, laboratory workers and equipment, Cheng said.
"This is just the beginning," he said. "I have many other ideas."
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