University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 26, 1986
3
News Briefs Assault at Robinson reported by student
A male KU student allegedly was sodomized at knife-point by another male at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday in a men's locker room in Robinson Center. KU police said.
The victim received medical attention at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and was released.
The victim was assaulted at knife-point but did not receive any physical injuries, said Sgt. John Brothers, of KU police.
Aggravated criminal sodomy is a Class B felony punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years to life imprisonment and a maximum fine of $15,000.
The press secretaries for the Kansas gubernatorial candidates will speak at 4 p.m. today in 210 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Secretaries to speak
Brothers said the case still was under investigation.
Gloria O'Dell, press secretary for Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, Democratic candidate, and Kelley Hayden, press secretary for House Speaker Mike Hayden, Republican candidate, will speak about politicians and the press.
Band Day activities
The meeting, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists, is free and open to the public.
The bands and flag teams will perform with the Marching Jayhawks during halftime at the KU-Indiana State football game.
More than 6,100 band members from 89 Kansas and Missouri high schools are expected to attend KU's 39th annual Band Day tomorrow.
Band Day activities also will include a 9 a.m. parade beginning at Seventh and Massachusetts streets and ending at 11th and Massachusetts streets in downtown Lawrence.
Office extends hours
The bands then will march to Memorial Stadium for rehearsal and lunch. Visiting musicians may watch the Marching Jayhawks perform the traditional pre-game schedule to begin at 1 p.m.
The Douglas County Treasurer's office in the County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets, will extend its hours on Thursdays beginning Oct. 2.
The new hours will be from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The office will continue to be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Fridays.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, an increase in the KU budget was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan. There will be an 8 percent increase in student employment, and not in student health fees.
Because of a copy editor's error, statements about the general fee fund were attributed incorrectly in a story in yesterday's Kansan. They should have been attributed to Ward Brian Zimmerman, budget director.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high temperature in the mid-80s and southerly winds from 10 to 20 mph. Tonight's skies will be partly cloudy. There will be a 40 percent chance for thunderstorms and a low temperature in the mid-60s.
From staff and wire reports
Merchants support 'sin amendments'
By JOHN BENNER
If Kansas Chamber of Commerce members had their way, the three proposed "sin amendments" to the Kansas Constitution would pass Nov. 4 by a large margin.
Staff writer
Merchants responding to a Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry regional survey showed overwhelming support for liquor by the drink, a state lottery and pari-mutuel wagering, Ed Bruske, a spokesman for the chamber in Topeka, said yesterday.
Bruske said only a few Lawrence Chamber of Commerce members voted in the regional survey in Topeka, which was included in the state result.
The chamber will take another regional survey today in Johnson County.
Gary Toebben, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, said he did not expect many Lawrence chamber members to attend today's meeting.
More than 760 business operators from five Kansas cities voted in statewide surveys between Sept. 15 and Sept. 18. Ninety-five percent supported liquor by the drink, and 5 percent were opposed.
Pari-mutual betting at horse or dog tracks was supported by 45 percent of the respondents, with 14 percent opposed and 1 percent undecided.
The last of the "sin amendments," a proposed state-run lottery, was
Toebben said he thought Lawrence merchants would strongly support all three measures by 80 percent to 85 percent.
favored by 87 percent of the chamber members, and opposed by 13 percent
Bruske said the survey results were not surprising because, if the amendments were to pass, the proprietors anticipated increased revenues and reduced tax loads.
A recent poll conducted by Kansas CBS-TV news affiliates and the Kansas City Times showed that as much as 5 percent of the respondents from the general public had no opinion on the three issues.
Similarly, a telephone poll conducted between Sept. 2 and Sept. 11 by Central Research Corp. of Topeka, indicated that between 5 percent and 7 percent of those interviewed had no opinion about the amendments.
According to these two surveys, each having a margin of error of about 5 percent, between 60 percent and 70 percent of the general public support the two betting amendments and liquor by the drink.
The liquor-by-the-drink amendment would be on a county-option basis. If the amendment is passed statewide in the Nov. 4 general election, liquor by the drink would be legalized only in counties where the amendment passed.
Senate officials say seats remain empty
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
Thirty-eight percent of the seats in the Student Senate are vacant, but Senate officials said yesterday that attempts to fill them had bogged down.
Michelle Roberts, the Senate's executive secretary, said 25 of 66 Student Senate seats were not filled because of resignations or removals.
An additional nine senators are on suspension and face removal.
Senators are suspended if they receive two unexcused absences or four excused absences. They may appeal their suspensions to the Student Senate Executive Committee. If they don't appeal, they are removed.
Glenn Shirllife, chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, told the Senate on Wednesday night that his committee was not having much success trying to fill empty seats.
The committee met Tuesday night and filled one empty graduate seat with a write-in candidate from last fall's elections, he said. But no other seats have been filled.
For example, two students who ran
No regular or write-in candidates could be found to fill the empty pharmacy seat, Shirtliffe said. The same is true of one special student seat, one off-campus seat and one fine arts seat.
for liberal arts and sciences seats last fall turned down a vacant seat this week, Shirtliffe said, and the committee couldn't contact a third
When the committee cannot find an interested or eligible student for a seat, it asks other senators in that school to suggest students in the school who might be interested, Shirlte said. If the school only has one senator, the committee asks the Senate for recommendations.
Beth Hanna, El Dorado senior, said she resigned as a social welfare senator Monday because her classes this fall took too much time.
David Epstein, student body president, said, "We find whoever we can and put them in."
"My classes are my first priority," she said.
She said she didn't realize when she ran for Senate that her classes would be so demanding this year.
Chris Roesner/Special to the KANSAN
Solar studies
Jonn Becerra, St. Joseph, Mo., senior, studies Spanish while catching some of the summer's leftover sunshine beside a pool at Jayhawker Towers. Beside him yesterday were Dave Welsh, center, Topeka senior, and Mike Heitmann, St. Louis sophomore.
Couple prays for boy hit by car
By a Kansan reporter
A Lawrence couple who helped a 6-year-old boy struck by a car Wednesday still is pulling for his recovery.
"My husband and I have been praying for Jeff since the moment of the accident," said Barbara Taylor, who with her husband, Paul, administered first aid to the boy after the accident.
Jeffrey Brothers, 2118 Marvonne Road, was upgraded to serious condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is the
son of Barbara and Mark Brothers. Mark Brothers is a lieutenant with the Lawrence Police Department.
A Lawrence police report said Jeffrey was hit about 3:30 p.m near Broken Arrow School on East 27th Street by a car turning left off Belle Haven Drive.
Barbara Taylor said Jeffrey was barely breathing when they reached him.
She said the car was traveling about 10 mph when it hit Jeffrey. She said she thought Jeffrey probably had stepped onto the street at the same time the driver turned the corner because he didn't see the car.
Paul Taylor has been a paramedic for 10 years and has been working with the Douglas County Emergency Ambulance Service for $5^{2}$ years. Mrs. Taylor also has had emergency medical training.
Jeffrey was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and transported to the KU Med Center by the Life Flight helicopter Wednesday night.
He suffered a pelvic fracture, a skull fracture and multiple bruises.
Verdict awaited in murder trial
Staff writer
By RIC ANDERSON
The trial of a Lawrence man accused of second-degree murder recessed yesterday after jury members, who deliberated for almost six hours, could not reach a verdict.
Deliberation began at 10:10 a.m. after the jury heard concluding statements from Michael Riling, White's lawyer, and Frank Diehl, prosecuting attorney.
Curtis White, 30, is accused of shooting and killing Lawrence resident Russell Gensler, 26, May 31 in Centennial Park, at the corner of Iowa and Sixth streets. He will return to Douglas County District Court at 9 a.m. today to await the verdict.
Diehl argued that White had not fired the gun in self-defense as
White previously had testified.
White testified earlier that he had fired the gun in an effort to ward off an attacker. White said Gensler was not the attacker.
Diehl also pointed to a test conducted by FBI agent John Riley that indicated the lead composition of the bullet taken from Gensler's head was the same as bullets left in the gun.
Riling told the jury there were too many discrepancies in the state's case, including the bullet test, to convict his client.
Riling said it was logical that the bullets were shipped to the same town but warned jurors not to
assume that the bullet from Gensler's head was the same as the bullets left in the gun.
Furthermore, because the state did not run a ballistern test, which is used to match the grooves on the barrel of a gun to the marks left on a bullet. Riling said, positive proof was impossible.
He also argued that three of the state's witnesses had testified that Sherman Tobert, 32, shot Gensler.
Tolbert was charged with second-degree murder and assault in the same case. His trial is scheduled for Oct. 27 in Douglas County District Court.
Jury members recessed for lunch at noon and returned at 1:30 p.m. for more deliberation. The jury recessed for the evening at 5:45 p.m.
Staff writer
Memorial service set for professor emeritus
Rv ALISON YOUNG
A memorial service is scheduled for 3 p.m. today in 100 Smith Hall for Marston McCluggage, professor emeritus of sociology, who died late Tuesday at his son's home in Fairway.
Mr. McCluggage, 80, who continued to be actively involved with the University of Kansas after he retired in 1976, had been!!! since December.
After Mr. McCluggage retired, he and his wife traveled extensively and visited every state except North Dakota.
"He did love to travel," his wife, Charlyne McCluggage, said yesterday. "But he would never travel during the basketball and football seasons."
never missed any sporting events, even after he got sick."
One of his daughters, Charlyne Michnick, 2016 Oxford Road, said, "He was a very big sports fan and he
"He was always interested in what was going on in his field of study," she said.
Norman Yetman, professor of sociology and American studies, said Mr. McClungage continued to attend sociology department meetings after his retirement.
Michnick said that even after her father became too ill to attend the meetings, he still remembered when they were.
Of his many professional accomplishments, Yetman said Mr. McCluggage especially was proud of being selected by the KU chapter of the Mortar Board in 1974 for the group's outstanding educator award.
"He was always on the go." Michnick said.
Mr. McCluggage had been actively involved in several University committees and leadership positions since he joined the KU faculty in 1938.
He was a member of University governance for several years and was chairman of many committees, including one that was responsible for laying the groundwork for some of KU's organizational policies.
In 1976, Mr. McCluggage was selected for a two-year term on the Kansas State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. When he received the appointment, he had said he wanted to work toward ensuring due process of law for prisoners.
Mr. McCluggage had interest and knowledge in criminology, which led him to give professional training sessions for staff at the Kansas State Penitentiary in 1960, 1982 and 1972. In 1974, he served as a consultant in the development of training courses for
Kansas correctional personnel.
His teaching and research interests included organizational behavior, behavioral science applied to concrete situations and collective behavior, especially as it influenced the formation of public opinion and social movements.
Mr. McCluggage graduated magna cum laude from the College of Emporia in 1928 and received his master's and doctoral degrees from KU.
While a professor at KU, Mr. McCluggage had been chairman of the graduate studies committee and the introductory course program of the sociology department. He also served as acting chairman of the department twice, from 1953 to 1955 and from 1973 to 1974.
"His primary commitment was to undergraduate education," Yetman said.
In addition to his wife, Charlyne.
and daughter Charlyne Michick,
other survivors include two sons,
Newton of Fairway, and Todd of
North Kansas City, Mo.; another
daughter, Terry Lightstone of
Prairie Village; three brothers, Rex
of San Jose, Calif., Max of Denver,
and Joseph of Dearborn, Mich.; and
six grandchildren.
Marston McCluggage
-15100 -14100 -13100 -12100 -11100 -10100 -9100 -8100 -7100 -6100 -5100 -4100 -3100 -2100 -1100
The Kansas Film Institute
FRI, SEPT. 26, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 P.M.
SAT, SEPT. 27, 7, 9, 11 P.M.
DYCHE HALL DCWNS AUDITOTIUM
IN COLD BLOOD
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson
Columbia, Directed by Richard Brooks
Black and White; Probably Rated PG, A 3:
133 minutes, 1967
The screen play of Truman Capote's bestseller chronicles with homily realism the brutal murder of an entire family in Kansas. "One of the tired pictures of the year are possible of the decade." - SALMON AUDIT