University Daily Kansan / Mondav, September 29. 1986
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Foreign educators to discuss U.S. life
The University of Kansas American Studies department will sponsor a weeklong seminar, "Contemporary Life and Culture in the United States."
The seminar, which begins today and continues through Sunday, will be in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
Twenty-four educators from 22 countries, with the support of the Academy for Educational Development, will participate in the event.
The seminar is closed to the public.
Among the topics of discussion led by several KU professors in the American Studies department include "Continuity and Change in American Values," "The American Political System" and the "Contemporary American Family in Historical Perspective."
Boy in fair condition
A Lawrence boy was listed in fair condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center with injuries he suffered after he was hit by a car last week.
Jeffrey Brothers, 6, 2118 Marion road, was hit Wednesday near Broken Arrow Elementary School, 2704 Louisiana St.
Jeffrey is the son of Barbara and Mark Brothers, who is a lieutenant in the Lawrence Police Department.
Jeffrey was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital before being transferred by Life Flight helicopter to the Med Center.
Business prof to talk
Charles E. Krider, professor of business and director of business research at the KU Institute for Public Policy and Research, will speak Wednesday on economic development in Kansas.
Krider will speak at 11:40 a.m. at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
He is co-author of the interim Economic Development Study for Kansas, which was the basis of nine pieces of legislation on economic development passed by the 1986 Kansas Legislature.
A hot lunch will be served. The cost is $3.25 and reservations must be made by noon Tuesday. To make reservations, call 843-4833.
Irish author to speak
Peter Somerville-Large, Irish author and storyteller, will talk on "Irish Perceptions" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Somerville-Large has written several books about Ireland, including "Irish Eccentrics" and a history of Dublin titled "The Coast of West Cork."
Somerville-Large's latest book, "Portraits of Cappaghglass — Changes in Rural Irish Life," describes how the changes in Ireland's rural areas over the past 50 years have affected its people.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 60-percent chance for morning thunderstorms. The high will reach 75 to 80. The winds will come from the south 10 to 20 mph. Tonight, there is an 80-percent chance for more rain. The low will drop to about 60. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a 40-percent chance for rain and thunderstorms. The highs will be 70 to 75.
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Lawrence man convicted of manslaughter
Bv RIC ANDERSON
A Lawrence man was conceived of voluntary manslaughter Friday in Douglas County District Court after jurors spent two days deliberating for almost 10½ hours.
Staff writer
Curtis White, 30, was charged with second-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death of Russell Gensler, 26, also of Lawrence.
Douglas County District Judge James Paddock advised the jury to consider lesser charges if they found White not guilty of second-degree murder.
The maximum sentence for voluntary manslaughter — the killing of a human being
without malice or in the heat of passion — is 20 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
Second degree sentence of life in prison and a $15,000 fine. Mike Rilking. White's attorney, said he would file a motion for a new trial.
Second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $15,000 fine.
The motion will be heard Nov. 7. Paddock said that if the motion was not granted, White would be sentenced that day.
Frank Diehl, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said that although he was mildly disappointed about White being convicted of the lesser charge, he was pleased with the decision. Diehl and Jerry Wells, assistant district attorney, prosecuted the case.
Wells said he also was pleased with the decision.
"Obviously it was a difficult case," Wells said.
Gensler died after a fight broke out in Centennial Park among a group of men. Gensler was shot in the head with a 22-caliber pistol.
White admitted to firing the pistol to ward off an attacker, but said the attacker was not Gensler.
Witnesses in the trial had several different accounts of the incident. Some testified that Sherman Tolbert. 32. Lawrence. shot Gensler.
Tolbert also was charged with second-degree
murder and he pleaded not guilty Wells said that even though White was convicted, Tolbert was scheduled for trial Oct. 27.
Diehl said John Riley, a special agent with the FBI, supplied important testimony for their case.
Riley produced a report concluding that the bullet taken from Gensler's head and the bullets left in the gun came from the same ammunition box.
The trial began Sept. 22 with selection of jury members. The prosecutors presented evidence that afternoon and most of Tuesday, and the defense pleaded its case Wednesday.
KU group to launch creations
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches the next space shuttle, a group of KU students will have a special interest onboard.
About 25 engineering and science students will design and build experiments to be launched on the next shuttle flight, and the group has made reservations on a flight for the spring of 1988.
The student group is modeled after a University of Utah program that has sent experiments on previous shuttle flights.
The program is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors who are majoring in sequences of engineering and physical and life sciences. Although the group has a faculty adviser, all decisions are made by students.
Paul Fieseler, Lenexa senior and group organizer, said the group was in the preliminary designing process. Now the group is brainstorming for ideas for experiments and projects.
"We haven't decided what projects we are going to do." he said.
Fieseler said the project started in the spring and would take three years to complete - two years for the designing and building, and one year for analyzing the results of the experiments.
The cost of the reservation was $500, which was allocated to the group by Student Senate. The group will seek corporate financing to cover expenses, which Fieseler estimated at $10,000.
Fieseler said he was positive the space shuttle would fly again.
"I see the space shuttle as an important program for America," he said.
Ron Barrett, Kansas City, Mo. junior, said he got involved with the program because he had some ideas he thought might work.
"Right now, we have a whole fistful of ideas." Barrett said, adding that one of the ideas the group thought of was sending sunflower seeds into space and analyzing the results.
Barrett said the program was a good idea because it allowed students to work on an actual experiment rather than a laboratory-controlled one.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries members discuss scripture after dinner. China, sophomore; Paige Newby, Plattsburg, Mo., sophomore; and Tawfic They are, from left: Sonja Benson, Mission, senior; Yunmong Yue, Shanghai, Sibani, Doha, Qatar, freshman.
Fellowship and cultures shared at ECM
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
STA WINES
Seven people gathered around the dining table and shared home-cooked food, different lifestyles and Christian attitudes.
The "family" enjoying this evening meal was a group of students who live together in the basement of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. They came together from different countries, different religions and different backgrounds.
Sonja Benson, Mission senior, was the designated cook for the meal that night. The group became silent as she gave the opening prayer,
"Thank you for the food, amen."
"I'm sorry," she said with a laugh. "I'm not eloquent."
But as the group began passing the food, the talk picked up as students discussed the happenings of the day — everything from the weather to painting the building's halls to the fine art of slurping Jell-O.
As they share group discussion and the duties of housekeeping and cooking, Jack Bremer, director
of ECM and campus pastor, said the students learn the most valuable lesson of all — to build a community around their Christian faith.
The students live in a family-like setting, where they share a living room and a kitchen. Five students have rooms of their own and two others, Paige Newby, Plattsburg, Mo., sophomore, and Yun-Meng Ye, Shanghai, China, sophomore, share a room.
The other members of the group are Dan Howell, Lawrence graduate student; David Pierson, Hays sophomore; Tawfiq Sibani, Doha, Qatar, freshman; and Xinqiang Li, Guangzhou, China, graduate student.
The living arrangement is called the Koinonia Community, Bremer said. Koinonia is a Greek word for community or fellowship, an aspect emphasized for the students living at ECM.
Students pay $135 a month for single rooms and $120 a month for the double. They all contribute what they can for the meal fund.
"The idea is not just to provide low-cost housing," Bremer said. "They learn about what helps this community and what hinders it."
Roommates Newby and Ye, both in their first year at the University of Kansas, heard about ECM from friends. They both said that living in the Koinonia had been a good experience.
"It's nice having someone here when you study." Newby said. "We all share the same kitchen, same living room. It's really neat."
Every Monday through Thursday evening, the students gather and share a meal. Every student takes a turn as the cook, Ye said.
Evening meals are times for the group to get together and find out more about other people's lifestyles. At the Wednesday evening meal, Ye ate Jell-O with her chopsticks and Newby also participated in Chinese etiquette.
"Watch this," Newby told Li, as Newby deftly picked up a biscuit with her chosticks.
After the meal, the students spend time together for devotion, a time when they read Bible passages or discuss the moral and ethical aspects of a current issue.
Koinonia Community has been in existence since Bremer became ECM pastor in 1979.
Weather delays balloon campaign for MS
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
The Students Against Multiple Sclerosis "Flying to Bust MST" hot air balloon campaign has been deflated by thunderstorms and mud two weeks in a row, and now it may not fly until February.
KU SAMS chose a balloon campa-
in to start the year because it
Steve Vogel, Topeka senior and acting campaign chairman, said yesterday that the campaign was scheduled to be launched at 8 a.m. Sept. 19 and then rescheduled for Friday. Both times bad weather kept the balloons on the ground.
would attract attention But Vogel said the delay probably wouldn't hurt the campaign financially.
The launching, which was to include three balloons, may still happen in February, he said.
February is the group's big campaign month, he said. In addition to the balloon campaign, SAMS will have its celebrity look-alike contest, an extensive sweat shirt promotion and a KU alumni benefit dinner.
Erik Hansen, KU Interfraternity Council president, said he was trying to get the greek system more involved with SAMS than it was last year.
support SAMS if there were interesting and fun things to do. He said the greek system might sponsor a concert.
Vogel said residence halls were very supportive of SAMS last year. Twenty-three contestants in the celebrity look-alike contest were from residence halls and five were from greek houses.
Hansen said more people might
Last year, KU SAMS set a goal to raise $10,000. They raised $26,000, and Vogel said they wanted to raise that same amount this year.
Vogel said 40 percent of the money went to the national SAMS office for research and the other 60 percent
went to chapter services to raise more money.
Vogel said the KU faculty and students were very responsive to SAMS campaigns. He said more people might get involved if they knew what multiple sclerosis was. He thought people confused it with muscular dystrophy.
"Multiple sclerosis is paralysis of the nerves and muscular dystrophy is paralysis of the muscles." Vogel said.
KU SAMS started last year when the national organization flew Vogel to Miami for a training seminar. Vogel and 150 other university
students learned about SAMS, advertising and fund-raising campaigns during the seminar.
Schools represented in the seminar participated in a money-raising contest last year. The University of Kansas placed third, behind Pennsylvania's Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Missouri.
Vogel said KU SAMS earned other rewards in addition to its third-place showing. SAMS is using a poster designed by the KU chapter for its national advertising campaign. The September issue of Newsweek On Campus magazine features the ad on page 12.
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