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A $90,285 project to partially re-roof Watson Library is scheduled to begin soon. A wooden structure now covers the entrance of the library as a safety measure for library users.
Bluebonnet reunion
Tomorrow, members of the 1961 KU football team will reuite in Lawrence to remember their Bluebonnet Bowl victory over Rice — the only bowl game victory in KU history.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 34 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
October 9, 1986
Students surprised by drugs in ceiling
By RIC ANDERSON
The winners of a rowdy game in the second floor lobby of Templin Hall on Tuesday night received an unexpected item — a bag of marijuana.
LaDale George, St. Louis, senior, and resident assistant at Templin, said eight or nine residents were playing a game in which they tried to touch their heads to the ceiling when the tile broke and a cellophane bag of marijuana plopped out.
"Needless to say, no one claimed it." George said.
He said that although he had never seen marijuana fall from the ceiling, he wasn't surprised it happened at Templin.
"It could only happen on this floor," he said. "They top the list in noise complaints. They top the list in disturbance reports."
George said several other bags of marijuana, for a total of $3_{1/2}$ ounces, were found above the ceiling.
George did not know whether all of the marijuana had been found, but thought his residents probably would organize a search. The residents gave the marijuana they found to George, who turned it over to KU police.
"There was one bag that fell out of the ceiling," he said. "Then we saw three or four more bags in the hole."
Brad Harris, Sedan freshman, said he was in the hall when the incident occurred.
Harris said he thought there was about a half a pound of marjiuana in the bags. The bags looked dusty and old, he said.
KU police Sgt. John Brothers said the police probably would not investigate the incident because the marijuana would be almost impossible to trace.
What surprised him, he said, was that the residents were trying to touch the ceiling with their heads.
Brothers said this type of incident occurred somewhat frequently.
"We would like to discourage this type of activity because of the potential possibility of injury," Brothers said.
Ammemarie Massett from St. Marys Academy holds a sign to protest the showing of the movie "Hail Mary" at the Kansas Union.
150 Catholics decry showing of movie about life of Mary
By COLLEEN SIEBES
"Hail Mary," a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, is a contemporary version of the story of Mary and Joseph. In the film, Joseph is potrayed as a cab driver. Mary is shown nude in several scenes. The movie also contains profanity.
"The movie, 'Hail Mary,' is entirely contrary to the cherished beliefs of Catholics and all men of good will," said Francis Slobodov of Paxico.
About 150 Catholics knelt in prayer last night in front of the Kansas Union to protest a movie that they said personally attacked Catholics and defamed the mother of God.
Slobodnik, who has not seen the film, said it portrayed the Mary as a vulgar-mouthed woman engaging in pornographic activities.
For the 7 p.m. show, about 500 people filled Woodruff Auditorium of the Union. The movie also was shown at 9:30 p.m. It is scheduled to be shown twice tonight.
Gary Price, director of SUA, said SUA had agreed that people had the right to see the movie and form their own opinions.
"I've never experienced suicide, but I know it's harmful to my health," he said.
Price said he had received more calls from media representatives than he had from protesters.
"It's turning into more of a media event," he said.
Slobodinn said he was concerned that the movie was being shown at a state school which was paid, in part, by the tax dollars of Catholics.
"It's a matter of respecting other people's beliefs," he said.
About 100 protesters were from St Marys, about 20 miles northwest of Topeka. They included students and faculty from St. Marys Academy, four Roman Catholic priests from the parish there, city residents and many young children.
Slobodnik said he thought that the movie could have a bad effect on society and that it had the potential of changing people's beliefs.
One young child, when asked why he was protesting the movie said, "Because it's bad, I guess."
Newspaper reviews of the film depicted it as religious art and not as its true meaning, sacrilegious pornography, he said.
Michelle Heffner, Topeka freshman, said, after seeing the movie, that she didn't understand how the protesters, most of whom admitted never having seen the movie, could denounce something that they hadn't seen.
Hefner said the film illustrated Joseph's frustration in trying to understand how Mary became pregnant and why she refused to have sex after marriage, she said.
"The movie dealt with emotions that haven't been dealt with in the scriptures," she said.
Berney Williams, a KU graduate and a Catholic, said, after seeing the movie, that he thought the movie was deeply religious, but very confused. Williams said he did not find the movie offensive.
Boggas said he refused to attend a movie that insulted other Christians. Although the movie didn't threaten his beliefs, his actions should back up his thoughts, he said.
"It itkes something stark to discuss religion today," he said. "When you have programs like 'Solid Gold' on television, it takes something like this to get people's attention."
Terrence Boggs, KU graduate student who participated in the protest, said portraying Joseph as a cab driver devalued his beliefs and misrepresented the beliefs of Christians.
Anne Sanders, KU teaching assistant, said the movie bored her.
"It's really stretching to see any kind of symbolic portrayal of Christ's birth," she said.
Frances McGowan of St. Marys said she didn't think she, as a protester, was imposing her beliefs on non-Catholics.
"The Catholic church was founded by Jesus Christ and all other religions are protesters," she said.
Price said only one or two KU students had called to register opposition. The remaining protests came from Lawrence residents and other cities.
"This is a college campus, things like this are supposed to happen here," he said.
Squirrel shaver is just testing
Graduate student studies the animals' social structure
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
A man on campus is capturing squirrels and shaving them
But there's no need to alert the Humane Society or call the men in white suits to bring straight jackets and nets.
He is John Koprowski, a Cleveland graduate student in the department of systematics and ecology.
Koprowski uses a wire mesh trap, with peanuts and peanut butter for bait, to capture the squirrels. Then he uses scissors to shave patches of their fur.
Koprowski is conducting an extensive study on the social structure of the squirrel community. He said he was performing the study because the subject had not been thoroughly examined before.
The fur grows back white, thus marking the animals for his study, Koprowski said. He marks them in certain places so that he will know which squirrels he is observing in the future.
"I'm interested in the urbanization and the social structure of squirrels." he said.
"The nice thing about working on squirrels here is the density. This may be the highest density of squirrels ever studied." he said.
Rural areas usually contain four or five squirrels in each hectare, Koprowski said. On the KU campus, a hectare — about 2% acres — usually contains 16 squirrels.
The squirrels fight for several reasons, Koprowski said, including mating and territorial scuffles.
Because the campus squirrel population is so dense and the squirrels have been urbanized, they tend to be very aggressive, Koprowski said.
Koprowski said some of the marks on the squirrels were not his, but were results of fights among the
"I see them fight all the time," he said. "A lot of nasty stuff goes on."
By BETH COPELAND
See SQUIRRELS, p. 5, col. 1
Men also share responsibility in birth-control use, nurse says
Staff writer
Because men are equally responsible for pregnancies, they should be equally responsible for contraception, a nurse and KU graduate student said yesterday.
Michael Brown, a nurse at the Haskell Indian Health Center on the Haskell Indian Junior College campus, said he recently had written two pamphlets about male contraception because very little birth-control information was directed toward men.
"When out-of-wedlock births increase, people say. 'We need to
talk to women more,' Brown said. 'Why not talk to men?'
The pamphlets outline forms of contraceptives, consequences of unplanned fatherhood and measures to prevent contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
He said his birth-control message was directed toward men because their anatomy made them more fertile than women.
"Women are capable of conceiving only 15 to 18 hours out of every month," he said. "A man can promote conception every day."
Moreover, he said, a woman produces only one egg a month, and a
Finally, once women reach menopause, when menstruation ceases, their bodies are no longer capable of childbearing. Men, however, retain their fertility much later in life.
man produces several hundred million sperm in a single ejaculation.
"When you look at the body functions of males, why talk just to women?" Brown said.
The first pamphlet details methods of contraception.
The second pamphlet warns men
See RESPONSIBILITY, p. 5, col. 3
Malls are for strolling and trolling, even shopping
By JOHN BENNER
OVERLAND PARK — Few of the shoppers at Oak Park Mall have ever heard of the formerly sleepy village of Edina, Minn., but its claim to fame has changed their lives forever.
Staff writer
The shoppers say what happened in Edina was inevitable because of Minnesota's often frigid climate. And for years, Lawrence has been striving to follow in the footsteps of the Minneapolis suburb.
Thirty years ago yesterday, Edina opened the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the United States, ushering in a new era.
More than just weather-beating window shopping, however, has drawn shoppers to malls since 1956.
Yesterday at Oak Park Mall, people could be seen doing anything from speed walking to stroller pushing. Some were shopping, and some were just hanging out.
In Lawrence, the possibility of building a mall has been argued over for seemingly almost as long as Edina's mall has been open.
Mayor Sandra Praeger said that she didn't know when Lawrence could celebrate its own 30-year mall anniversary, but that she hoped the city could get a mall built within five
years.
Oak Park Mall, which has been open 11 years, has charms that Lawrence may or may not be eager to emulate.
A main entrance to Oak Park Mall, one of six, takes a shopper past movie theaters, all six of them, and into the mail proper.
A Barry Manilow tune that might have been popular in the '70s is playing over loudspeakers. This rendition has been skillfully executed by the 101 Strings Orchestra.
One senior citizen wearing a beret and running shoes was "walking the mall." Theodore Craig of Overland
park said he engaged in this practice almost every day.
"They let us in here before the shops open so we can get some exercise out of the cold," Craig said. "I'm not usually here this late, but I slept in this morning."
The hallways of the mall are filled with mothers pushing baby carriages and showing off their infants. They seem to come to the mall in groups. The same groups went together to the rest room, giggling, when they were younger.
Two young gentlemen said they were trolling for girls. Although they appeared to be about 14 years old,
In two hours they didn't get a nibble.
they said they were "seniors from months ago
Oltahe.South." She said
"I come here as seldom as possible," said Sherrie Bototatour, Mission, the clothes hog. "If I come here too often, I can't live with myself."
One self-proclaimed clothes hog was committing what seemed to be credit card suicide at the counter of a somewhat exclusive clothing store.
Leigh Schmidt, marketing director of the mall, said business from Lawrence had increased markedly since the connection of Kansas Highway 10 to Interstate 435 about 18
She said she arranged promotions for the 168 mall stores, including the Halloween merchant trick or treat
"We've been doing this for about seven years," Schmidt said. "The kids really love it."
Carl V. Long, owner of the Deck The walls poster and framing store, said that in the two years his business had been open he had received a lot of business from Lawrence.
He said that if a mail was built in Lawrence, he would consider opening another store there.
See MALLS, p. 5, col. 3