University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 8, 1986
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News Briefs
Police discover body of apparent suicide
Lawrence police found an apparent suicide victim Monday at a business in the 1900 block of Massachusetts Street.
HOPE deadline set
Police said they found a 47-yearold Lawrence man hanging by a rope at 12:43 p.m. Monday.
Police are investigating the incident.
Nominations for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award must be submitted by noon Friday at the dean's office of each KU school.
Seniors will vote for their choice for this year's HOPE award, which is presented annually to the faculty member who receives the most votes from the senior class. Primary balloting will be Oct. 13 and 14 at each school.
The HOPE award will be presented at halftime of the KU-Nebraska football game Nov. 15.
The HOPE award selection committee, which comprises the four senior class officers and the leaders of 10 student organizations, will interview the top 13 vote-getters Oct. 20 and 21 and select six finalists.
Final balloting will be on Oct. 27 and 28.
Writer to give talk
A lecture titled "The Origins of the Cold War" will be presented tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Parlor A of the Kansas Union.
The lecture, sponsored by the Department of History and the Polish Studies Committee, will feature Jozef Garlinski, president of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad.
Garlski, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, has written several books on World War II and is widely recognized by historians as an authority on the subject.
The lecture is open to the public.
Docking to speak
Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, will address the University Senate at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Docking was invited by the Senate, which is a combination of the Student Senate and KU faculty, in early summer.
He will address the University Student Senate Executive Committee and the Classified Employees Executive Council jointly at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Regents Room of the Kansas Union.
Docking will answer questions from the audience after the 3:30 address.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan about Quixotic Artistry, a local art store, misidentified a sterling silver necklace. The necklace is priced at more than $100.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy today with a high temperature near 80. Southerly winds will be 10 to 20 mph. Skies will be partly cloudy tonight with a 30-percent chance for rain. The low temperature will be in the lower 50s tonight.
From staff and wire reports
Susie Bishop/KANSAN
Coalition declares candidacy in race for Student Senate
John Catt, left, and Howard De Gaumo, employees of Stevenson Roofing, Topeka, put up scaffolding Tuesday in front of Watson Library. Once the scaffolding reaches the roof, workers will remove the roof tiles and replace deteriorating materials underneath, which has allowed water to leak into the building.
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
Up it goes
Two student senators yesterday announced they would run for student body president and vice president in November's Student Senate elections, saying they wanted to make the Senate "user friendly."
They are the first students to enter this November's race for student body president and vice president.
Brady Stanton, Prairie Village junior, is running for president and Kelly Milligan, Topeka junior, is his running mate. Both are Nunemaker senators, who represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The two announced they would run as part of a coalition named Cheers and said nearly all the 57 senate posi-tions on the coalition's slate had been filled.
Coalitions are groups of candidates who campaign together on the same platform.
The two candidates also announced their campaign managers: Martie Aaron, Wichita senior, and Jason Krakow, Prairie Village sophomore.
Stanton and Milligan said the essence of the Cheers coalition was its emphasis on service to students.
"We think Student Senate can do more for students and less for Student Senate," Milligan said yesterday.
"Students should see tangible results from the $56 they pay for activity fees each year."
"The Senate can proudly point to some wonderful programs that were started last semester." Aaron said, in a trend that needs to be continued.
The candidates said they wanted to make some changes in the Senate's structure to eliminate internal roadblocks that slow the Senate's effectiveness.
Students pay a $28 activity fee each semester along with tuition. The Senate allocates the revenues from those fees to a variety of programs and student groups.
The coalition's name indicates the positive outlook on solving campus problems that the candidates want to bring to Senate, they said.
Stanton and Milligan said they thought Student Senate should be a service organization for students, a trend they said the current Senate had started.
"Cheers has a friendly name to it," Krakow said.
Stanton and Milligan said the, would seek more student opinion, perhaps in the form of student polling.
'We think Student Senate can do more for students and less for Student Senate.'
- Kelly Milligan
Student Senate
vice presidential
candidate
"It's amazing how few students know where to go with problems." Milligan said. "We want student awareness of Student Senate to extend beyond the November elections."
Stanton and Milligan said another goal of their administration would be to ensure that programs started by the Senate continued past their term.
"If anything Student Senate does is going to make a dent, these programs need to stick around," Milligan said.
Stanton and Milligan last month sponsored a bill asking the Senate to form a safety board to oversee all safety programs on campus. The Senate passed the bill.
Milligan said such boards were more permanent and would operate independently of the full Senate.
Stanton and Milligan both said the Senate committee structure needed to be altered and more responsibility given to Senate boards. In addition, the candidates said they wanted to form new boards, structured like the Transportation Board and the University Lecture Series Board.
Whooping cough hits; area residents suffer
Stanton and Milligan outlined an extensive platform of programs to assist students. The programs include providing short-term, no-interest loans, typewriter use for a minimum cost and the opportunity to charge goods and services at the Kansas and Burge unions.
Aaron said research on those and other programs had started more than a year ago.
Staff writer
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Two KU students are among 27 Douglas County residents who have contracted whooping cough, according to the Douglas County Health Department.
The number of cases of whooping cough in Douglas County increased to 27 after 12 additional cases were documented yesterday by the Douglas County Health Department.
No specific information was available on those involved in the
Of the 27, three cases are in Lecompton and 24 are in Lawrence. As of yesterday, none of the reported cases had required hospitalization.
Ann Ahlor, communicable disease nurse at the Douglas County Health Department, said health officials expected to see more cases, although they were doing everything possible to contain the disease.
Whooping cough is more serious in infants and young children, who are highly susceptible to the disease, said Barbara Mikkelson, head nurse at the Douglas County Health Department. But she said the outbreak in
Mikkelson said schoolchildren who have contracted whooping cough could usually return to school five days after beginning antibiotic therapy.
Allor said the high level of immunization in the county would help contain the disease. About 98 percent of school-age children in Douglas County had been immunized, she said.
"As a last resort, I went through the yellow pages and called the first publisher on the list — Chilton Publishing," Marimow said. He was hired.
He worked for Chilton for three years at various positions before he got a job at the Philadelphia Bulletin as an assistant to J. A. Livingston, a syndicated economics columnist.
Mikkelson said those who were immunized and contracted the disease could be cured easily through antibiotic therapy. Because the disease is contagious for about two weeks, the outbreak may not be controlled for some time.
Marimow, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1978 and 1985, said he applied at all the newspapers in Philadelphia, but since he had an English degree and not a journalism degree, no one was interested in hiring him.
A victim will first experience a runny nose and a minor irritating cough, but within one or two weeks, the cough will develop into severe spasms.
"It was through osmosis," he said. "I think any good reporter who has a desire to get past the press releases, does in-depth reporting."
In 1978, Marimow won his first Pulitzer for meritorious public service for a story he wrote with his partner, Jonathan Neumann, about police harassment in Philadelphia.
So he decided to pursue a journalism career.
In 1972, the Philadelphia Inquirer hired Marimow as a business and economics writer. In 1976, he started covering the city hall beat and that's when he began investigative reporting.
"When we first found out we had
Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that begins with symptoms similar to those of the common cold but can lead to fatal diseases, such as pneumonia and encephalitis.
He won a second Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 1985 for a series of articles about police dogs attacking citizens in Philadelphia.
Douglas County had affected an unusually high number of adults.
He said that they had known they were in the running, so everyone was nervous about the award.
Marimow said the idea to become an investigative reporter didn't happen all at once.
"That time I was excited," Marimark said, but added that he thought that one Pulitzer was enough for a lifetime.
In the heat of the Vietnam War, he didn't know whether he would be drafted. But he did know he liked to read, write and research.
Two-time Pulitzer winner visits
By PAM SPINGLER
"No one makes it through life without someone nudging them on in a certain direction," he said.
Staff writer
Like many other college graduates in 1969, William Marimow did not know what he wanted to do with his life after leaving Trinity College in Hartford. Conn.
Bill Marimow
won, I was relieved," Marimow said.
Marimow said Livingston was the most influential person in his professional life.
He said his duties included researching and copy editing Livingston's columns.
"I was his Man Friday," Marimow said.
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