University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 13, 1986
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News Briefs
McLaughlin honored as newspaper editor
Drew McLaughlin, former editor of the Miami Republican and Western Spirit in Paola, was honored posthumously on Saturday, when he was named to the Kansas Newspaper Editors' Hall of Fame.
Calder Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism, announced the induction at the Kansas Editors' Day ceremony in the Kansas Union.
McLaughlin, who died in 1982, graduated from KU's School of Journalism in 1938 and had been president since 1956 of the Miami County Publishing Co., which publishes the Miami Republican and Western Spirit.
Battery charges filed
An 18-year-old KU student was booked into the Douglas County jail Friday on charges of battery of a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said the man began yelling obscenities at officers who were investigating him. The man kicked one of the officers after they arrested him for disorderly conduct. Brothers said.
The incident occurred at 11:35 p.m. Thursday in front the Kansas Union, KU police reported.
Brothers would not give the reason the man was being investigated.
Drugs found in car
A KU student was charged with one count of driving under the influence of alcohol and one count of possession of an hallucinogenic drug Oct. 6 in Douglas County District Court.
Mark D. Alejos, 20, a sophomore, was arrested Oct. 3 when KU police officers stopped him for traffic violations. Officers found a bag of what appeared to be hallucinogenic mushrooms during a routine search of the car.
Alejos, who was released on a $750 recognition bond, is scheduled to appear in county court on Dec. 18 for a public hearing.
Docking to speak
Lt Gov Tom Docking. Democratic nominee for governor, will speak about higher education in Kansas and other campaign issues at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
The speech is sponsored by Student Union Activities and the Associated Students of Kansas. Views expressed are not necessarily representative of those of the SUA office, ASK or their members.
Docking will face Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden, the Republican candidate, in the Nov. 4 election.
The speech is open to the public.
Weather
From staff and wire reports.
Skies today will be cloudy with a 20-percent chance for light rain. The high temperature will be in the upper 40s. The winds will be northeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight, skies will be mostly cloudy but clearing in the morning. The low temperature will be in the 30s. Tomorrow will be sunny and warmer with the high temperature in the mid-50s.
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Arraignment to be set for former student
By RIC ANDERSON
A Douglas County District judge said Friday that he would set a date for the arrangement of a former KU student, one of 21 people indicted on cocaine-related charges in July.
Staff writer
William Wiedemann, 24, who was charged July 22 with three counts of selling cocaine, appeared Friday for his preliminary hearing in the courtroom of Mike Malone, Douglas County district judge.
Malone said that on Friday he would set the arraignment date, at which time Wiedemann may enter a plea.
Testifying against Wiedeman on Friday were Thomas Stephenson, a confidential informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Richard LaMere, a special agent for the DEA.
Stephenson testified that Wiedeman came to Stephenson's former residence, 1815 Mississippi St., and sold him one-half ounce of cocaine three times in 1985 — on Nov. 1, November 2, and Dec. 17.
LaMere testified that he was at 1815 Mississippi St. during each of the three sales and was involved in the money transactions.
LaMere testified that he decided he
However, during cross examination, LaMere told Wiedeman's attorney, John Nitcher, Lawrence, that no money had traded hands during the third incident.
After testimony, Nitcher made a motion to dismiss the third charge against Wiedeman because Wiedeman never received money for the cocaine.
would arrest Wiedeman during the third sale, a technique he called a "buy-bust."
Malone said he would consider the motion and return his decision to both attenders Thursday. Malone said he would consider changing the
Wiedeman was indicted July 22 in Douglas County District Court along with 17 others.
original charge to possession or distribution of cocaine.
Of the 17 indicated on state charges, 13 are awaiting trials, two are awaiting public hearings, one is awaiting sentencing and one had his charges dismissed.
Trial dates of the 13 are: tomorrow, Howard Edmiston, 44; Wednesday, Christopher Clark, 24; Oct. 20, Robert Bell, 35, Brian Cross, 20, and Kevin Sempler, 21; Nov. 5, Donald Bay, 27, Pamela Shields, 26, and Jackie Lee Strong, 28; Nov. 18, Den
nis barriff, 40; Nov. 19, Barbara Bay,
21, and JackHook, 14; and Nov. 24,
Carl Stilley, 24, and Rusty Howard.
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Samuel Rugles, 28, is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 10, and charges against Gregory Trimarche, 23, were dismissed.
Four people indicted in U.S. District Court in the same investigation are awaiting sentences.
Richard von Ende, 46, former University executive secretary, Michael Kiefer, 25, and Robert Parker, 31, pleaded guilty to cocaine-related charges and are scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 10.
Above, students at the yoga workshop practice the proper technique for the headstand position used during mediation. At Right, Judith Lasater, left, yoga workshop instructor, demonstrates the correct position of the shoulder blades during a shoulder stand with the help of class member Candace Marie, Fayetteville, Ark. The yoga workshop, sponsored by Yoga Midwest, was Saturday and yesterday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 845 Vermont St.
Yoga instructor leads 'innercising' workshop
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
About 30 people sat on wool blankets in a traditional yoga pose, but the air was not full of incense smoke, no one wore a turban and no one sat on nails.
Those all are misconceptions about the practice of yoga, according to the instructor of a two-day yoga workshop this weekend at the Lawrence Arts Center, 845 Vermont St.
The workshop, sponsored by Yoga Midwest, 1027 Massachusetts St. brought people from Oklahoma, Washington, Nebraska, Arkansas and Kansas together to relax their bodies and get in touch with themselves.
Yoga Midwest will be conducting workshops in some of the residence halls later this month.
"Yoga is really a philosophy," Judith Lasater, the workshop's instructor, said. "It is 5,000 years old. Yoga is a wider discipline than standing on your head."
Lasater, who has been teaching yoga for 15 years, said the yoga she taught had no religious connections. It is not against Christianity or any other religion, she said, but it teaches you to be in touch with the god within yourself.
The god controls how you sit, lie, stand and relax. Lasater said it actually enhances a person's own religious practices because it puts them in touch with themselves.
"Yoga is a life-affirming discipline adjunct to any religion," she said. "It is not a discipline that interferes. It is neutral."
Lasater, whose husband also is involved in yoga, teaches classes at the San Francisco Ivyenger Institute, a yoga school.
Lasater was instrumental in starting "Yoga Journal," the only magazine on yoga, and also writes a column for the publication. Lasater earned a doctorate in Eastern-Western psychology and a degree in physical therapy. She now is studying Spanish and piano.
“To be a good teacher you can't be narrow,” she said. “For a painter to blend color he has to feel life and incorporate understanding all the time. To teach life you have to experience it.”
Lasater has been to India twice to study yoga. She said she learned yoga that was straight and that did not push religious practices on anyone.
In 1970. Lasater started taking yoga classes because she had arthritis and insomnia and thought yoga might help her.
Doctors, lawyers, pregnant women, children and people in wheelchairs have participated in her classes.
"If you have a body, you can do yoga," she said. "It is not really physical. I don't call it exercising. I call it inercising."
Yoga can help you lose weight. Lasater said, not because it is physically exhausting, but because it makes people more aware of how they are. They then won't want to eat
something that is not good for them
In San Francisco, 40 percent of the students taking yoga classes are male. Don Hall, one of this weekend's few male participants, came from Washington at the invitation of Anne Adams, director of Yoga Midwest. Hall has been practicing yoga for 10 years and publishes a monthly newsletter on yoga for the Washington and Oregon area.
Adams opened Yoga Midwest, the only yoga school in Lawrence, in September 1985. It is a non-profit organization, which Adams said was inspired and guided by Lasater.
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"She is excellent." Adams said. "We are very fortunate to have her here."
Staff writer
Lasater told Adams, when Adams was her student, that she wanted her to go back to the Midwest and "get Kansans to stand on their heads."
By SALLY STREFF
From Lawrence, Lasater will go to Seattle and Dallas.
Two student senators announced Friday that they would run for student body president and vice president, saying their experience with the KU governance system would help them run Senate during a shorter-than-usual term.
Betsy Bergman, Prairie Village senior and a Nunemaker senator, is running for student body president. Stephanie Quincy, Iola junior, a Nunemaker senator and chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, is running for student body vice president.
Bergman and Quincy have formed the second coalition to enter November's Senate elections.
Nunemaker senators represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The two are running as part of the Initiative coalition. They said almost of the 64 senator positions on the coalition had been filled.
"That's precisely what Student Senate needs right now," Bergman said.
Bergman said "initiative" was defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as the "power and ability to begin a task or plan and carry it through."
Because the students who are elected student body president and vice president will be in office only six months, they will not have time to ease slowly into their jobs, she said.
Senate elections will take place twice this school year, once Nov. 19 and 20 and once in April.
"We won't have time to go in there and get acquainted with the office staff," Bergman said. "We have the know-how to get in there and get going. It will take us three days to get started, not three months."
Bergman has been a student senator for one year, and since March she has served as one of the three student representatives to the University Senate Executive Committee. Because of that position, she said, she already has a working relationship with administrators in the University governance system.
Quincy has been the chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee since December and knows how the Senate works, Bergman said.
"Her experience is chairing meetings," Bergman said of Quincy. "Mine is working with the administration."
Quincy said the coalition's main goal was to gear the Senate toward serving students' needs. Both agreed that the current Senate had done this by starting programs such as a student guide to courses and a nighttime taxi service.
The coalition is running on a platform that includes a plan to alter the advising system for the college and a plan for a guide to off-campus housing.
Committee to survey students on drug use
Staff writer
By ALISON YOUNG
Drug use by students at the University of Kansas will be surveyed by a University committee this fall or early next semester.
Diane McDermott, associate professor of counseling psychology and a member of the Student Affairs Research Committee, said the committee would survey use of drugs other than alcohol.
"We have no desire to pinpoint any particular person's use of drugs." she said.
The University will compare the survey results with services for students and decide whether any changes are needed.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said surveys usually were given to 15 or 20 classes during the first five
minutes of the classes.
This method provides a high rate of return and a very representative sample of the student body
The preliminary draft of the drug survey was prepared last semester. He said the survey topic was a response to the increased concern about alcohol and drug abuse.
The University Human Experimentation Committee must approve the survey before it is given to students.
Despite the survey's topic, which concerns the use of illegal drugs, McDermott expects candid responses.
"We are not concerned with any law enforcement."she said.
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How and when the survey will be given will be decided next month, McDermott said.
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