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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 7, 1986
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Hearings aimed at 'sin' laws Panel hopes for speedy action on amendments
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A legislative committee will begin hearings next week aimed at dratting legislation to carry out the three "sin" amendments voters approved during Tuesday's general election.
Leaders of the panel said they hoped for quick action when the Kansas Legislature convened in January.
"We will move very swiftly on our work," said Sen. Edward Reily, R-Leavenworth, chairman of the Special Committee on Federal and State Affairs. The committee will be tasked to govern to govern the newly approved lottery, pari-mutuel wagering and liquor-by-the-drink amendments.
The vice chairman of the committee, Rep Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said he hoped proper legislation would be pre-filed before the 1987 session began. The panel scheduled three days of hearings for next week
Gov.-elect Mike Hayden also said he hoped the start-up measures would be enacted quickly because voters said they wanted them carried out fairly and quickly.
"I think we're going to move with expediency to get them implemented." Hayden said. "We're also going to make sure they're squeaky clean, that criminal elements cannot take advantage of them as
Researcher to study programs for disabled
Mark Mathews hopes that elderly and disabled people across the country will benefit from his next year of research
Last month, the National Institute of Handicapped Research in Washington awarded a $50,000, one-year, post-doctoral fellowship to Mathews, a research associate with the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living.
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Mathews began his research Oct. 1, and will travel across the country through Sept. 30, 1987, to examine and compare different programs used by research and training centers for both disabled and elderly people.
Mathews said he would study as many programs as possible. The institute finances 35 research and training centers. About 400 independent living programs exist across the country.
"The fellowship will give me the opportunity to take a year off and look at how the different centers operate and how they can benefit others." Mathews said.
Mathews will compile his findings into reports that he will deliver to the institute in Washington and distribute to U.S. research and training centers.
"Each R' and T center has a slightly focus on the aspects of independent living for the disabled and elderly," Mathews said. "Despite their innovations, they don't seem to have an effective way of sharing their findings."
Mathews, formerly of Topeka, said he would try to develop ways to catalog innovations in independent living facilities.
o the centers can have many applications. "Often, one center may develop an innovation, say for
Right now, Mathews said, about the only way for centers to learn about other centers' discoveries is for researchers to read the various journals being published.
people with high spinal injuries," he said. "Across the country, there may be other centers that might be able to benefit from those findings, but they simply don't have an easy way to learn about them."
Unfortunately, centers have trouble keeping track of innovations described in the thousands of articles published each year, he said.
"A person could literally spend all of his time reading, with no time to actually do anything with the findings," he said.
Mathews, who holds a bachelor's degree in human development and a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Kansas, credited the entire staff's research efforts for his fellowship opportunity.
"Without the work being done by the rest of the people in the research and training center here at KU, my research wouldn't be possible," Mathews said.
He said that an average of 12 research projects were conducted in the center at any given time, with five doctoral-level researchers and 12 graduate students conducting them.
These projects, Mathews said, range from helping make community areas more accessible to the disabled, to researching the problem of handicapped parking violations.
Mike Jones, another research associate, said he thought Mathews' fellowship would benefit the KU center.
Tom Thornton/KANSAN
Mark Mathews, research associate with the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living, has received a $50,000 fellowship for research from the National Institute for Handicap Research in Washington, D.C.
Hayden to appoint his transition team
United Press International
TOPEKA — Governor-elect Mike Hayden yesterday said that he probably would announce the members of his transition team today.
In a brief interview in the speaker's office, Hayden said he was deciding who would be on the team, which would work with a similar team.
The Hayden win sent tremors throughout state offices housing Democratic appointees, particularly those workers who are "unclassified," in other words, unprotected by the state civil service system.
At the top of cabinet secretaries who might be expected to remain in office is Secretary Robert Harder of
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Concert sings praises of human rights
By NANCY BARRE
"It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."
Bill Foreman, Shawnee senior, and president of the KU chapter, said he was expecting at least 800 people to attend a Concert to Light One Candle."
That's the motto of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights activist organization. The KU chapter of Amnesty International incorporated the group's motto in the title of a benefit concert they are sponsoring in the Kansas Union Ballroom at 8 p.m. today.
in advance from Student Union Activities and $4 at the door.
The concert will feature three bands, three folk singers and a film that explains the purpose of Amnesty International. Emerald City Council, Manna, the L.A. Ramblers, Joe Moon, Joe Cracker and Mike Larkin will donate their performances for the event. Tickets are $3 if purchased
Foreman said the KU chapter, which has about 25 active members, got the idea for the concert in August after many members had attended a "Conspiracy of Hope" tour during the summer.
Amnesty International's national headquarters sponsored "Conspiracy of Hope," which featured famous artists such as Sting, U2, Peter Gabriel and Lou Reed.
Frank Housh, Overland Park junior and member of the KU chapter's concert committee, said he hoped the concert would raise awareness of human rights issues in the state and as a raise money for his organization.
The three main goals of Amnesty International are to release prisoners of conscience, to help ensure fair and
prompt trials for all political prisoners and to end torture and execution in all cases. Foreman said
The organization, which is not affiliated with any political doctrine, tries to eradicate human rights violations by identifying specific cases where a person's rights are being violated, and then sending letters asking the violators to correct the situation.
Foreman said the KU chapter normally didn't focus on specific individuals, but rather, sent letters to students in order to show their rights violations were occurring.
In the past month, the KU chapter has sent about 35 individual letters to the Chilean government asking that Chile be reinstated and that country be improved. Foreman said
In future months, the chapter will concentrate its efforts on another country, he said.
Concert promoters want the concert to be fun, as well as consciousness-raising. Housh said.
"It's not going to be as somber as it sounds, I hope it will be a lot of fun," he said.
Tim Eebel, Lawrence resident and drummer for the calypso and reggae band, Manna, said he was performing in the concert because he thought Amnesty International advocated the cause of world freedom
"At the concert, we're going to
"Amnesty International helps to provide freedom. I think this concert will raise awareness of what they're trying to do," Elebing said. "People need to realize that if anyone's going to die, that their freedom is being taken too."
Play couples high-minded ideas and theatrics
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Paul Lim was on a self-imposed sabbatical in England when he first saw "Master Class," a play by David Pownell. Memories of the play kept haunting him after he returned to the University of Kansas.
Staff writer
"This play has a lot of serious ideas," Lim said recently. "But it's not a high, dry, thinking piece."
Lim, director of "Master Class" and a lecturer in English, brought the play to the Lawrence Community Theater. It is the play's first U.S. performance outside of Washington, D.C., and New York. The play first premiered in 1983 in Great Britain.
"Master Class," presented by the Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire Street, at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow and No. 14 and 15 on Wednesday. For details, see the public and for $4 a service for seniors
"Master Class" had the perfect fusion of drama and intelligence. Lim said.
Stalin is trying to justify to Soviet citizens the millions of deaths Soviet soldiers have caused, he said. If the music moves the people, they won't be so desperate about the
"It has high-minded ideas coupled with high theatrics," he said.
The play is set in 1948 and tells the story of two Soviet composers, Dimitri Shostakovitch and Serge Prokofiev, who are thrown together by a journalist to compose a melody to the words of a poem written by Josef Stalin.
He said the play showed a different side of Stalin - the artistic side.
"The play portrays many, many aspects of Stalin." Lim said. "It doesn't condemn him, but it doesn't seem to condemn someone without forgiving them.
"The man is not totally without charm. He couldn't have been and still have gotten where he did."
Lim said he had been fortunate in casting the play. Since each character had to play the piano, he also played the guitar and played the piano or pianists who could act.
"We only had seven people audition for the parts, but I'm quite happy with the results," he said.
The cast includes Alfred Lata, a KU chemistry lecturer, as Prokofiev; Josh Walters as Zhdanov; Karl Ramberg as Dimitri Shostakovich; and Frederic Bahr as Stalin.
The play will change a little with each performance, Lim said, because Ramberg is an improvisational jazz pianist.
Jenkins
“It’s quite exciting,” Lim said. “He takes the basic melody and improvises.”
"I think American audiences in 1986, even though it's a period piece, can see certain parallels in regards with arts and politics," he said. "It makes people ask 'What role should politics play in the arts?'
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really enjoy watching dance," she said. "Professionally, I like to bring the big names here. It's more exciting."
She said she also liked to bring companies to KU that were less known and watch them become famous.
"I like to be able to say I knew them when," she said.
Her office on the second floor of Crafton-Preyer Theatre in a room that was used at one time for storage.
The walls are covered with chamber concert, jazz festival, drama, opera and dance posters. When Jenkins sits at her desk she writes on the walls in cabinets, which contain information past, ongoing and future events.
Jenkins speaks with a deep and raspy voice. She said it got that way from too many cigarettes and too little sleep.
"Telephone operators call me 'sir,' "' she said. "It doesn't bother me."
She said operators probably thought she said Charles instead of Charla and with her voice decided she was a man.
Jenkins is not married, but lives with her favorite felines, Bozo and Dumbo.
Jenkins grew up in Emporia. Her parents live there during the summer and in Arizona during the winter. She said she sometimes visited Lawrence somewhere else, but loved Lawrence too much to leave.
"I'm old enough to know better," she said about marriage. "I have too much fun on my own. I'm awfully independent. I drive people crazy with my Virgo personality."
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