University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 22. 1986
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News Briefs
Nominations sought for teaching award
Nominations for the 1988 Cancellors Club Career Teaching Award are due Friday in the office of academic affairs, 129 Strong Hall.
The award is given annually to a member of the faculty who exemplifies the strongest commitment to outstanding teaching at the University of Kansas and who has been with the University for at least 15 years.
The recipient will receive a stipend of $5,000, which comes from members of the Chancellors Club.
Students, faculty, staff and alumni may make the nominations, which should be accompanied by supporting comments, a curriculum vitae and departmental and school endorsements.
MIT prof to lecture
Christopher T. Walsh, chairman of the department of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 1986 Edward J. Smissman Memorial Edward's week at the University of Kansas
All of the lectures will be in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Walsh will discuss "Mechanistic Studies on Bacterial Alanine Racemases" at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, he will discuss "Mercury Metabolism and Bacterial Resistance."
Before he speaks Thursday night, Walsh will receive the Smissman medal, commemorating his selection as the sixth Smissman lecturer. At 3:30 p.m. Friday, Walsh will speak on "Nickel Dependent Enzymes in the Biogenesis of Natural Gas."
Smissman served as chairman of the KU department of medicinal chemistry for 14 years. The lectures are supported by a memorial fund established in 1974, after Smissman's death, by his wife, Clare Smissman.
Epstein to take post
David Epstein, KU student body president, was elected chairman of the Student Advisory Committee of the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday.
The Student Advisory Committee advises the Regents on student issues. The Regents met Thursday and Friday at Fort Hays State University.
He replaces Steve Johnson, student body president of Kansas State University, who resigned at last week's meeting.
Epstein said being chairman would give him an opportunity to have a larger say in the committee's recommendations to the Regents.
League deadline set
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department's deadline for adult volleyball leagues this fall is Wednesday. A signed roster and $100 team fee must be brought to the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., by 5 p.m.
Adult volleyball leagues offered are: men's power, women's power, coed power, coed recreation and coed water. Leagues are limited to six men's teams, 22 women's, 11 coed power, 11 coed recreation and 16 coed water.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with a high between 85 and 90. The winds will come from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30-percent chance of thunderstorms with the low in the mid- to upper-60s. Tomorrow's high should be in the low- to mid-80s with a 30-percent chance of rain.
From staff and wire reports.
Paul Karnaze/KANSAN
Although she may seem to old for it, Tom Walsh feeds his daughter, Kathy Walsh, Lee's Summit, Mo., sophomore and a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, during the sorority's watermelon feed. Leah
Festival to honor area filmmakers
By PATRICIA FEENY
Gauther, Lyons junior, watches after she had accepted the Walshes' donation. The feed was part of Parents Day activities Saturday.
Staff writer
The murders that shocked a small Kansas town return to the screen Friday in the 1967 thriller "In Cold Blood" at the Kansas Film and Video Festival.
Mark Syverson, Lawrence graduate student and executive secretary of the festival, said the festival would start Friday with six consecutive showings of the movie. "In Cold Blood."
The movie, which was filmed partially in Kansas, is based on Truman Capote's novel. Capote came to Kansas to research the Clutter murders that occurred in Holcomb.
The three-day festival concludes with an award ceremony Sunday
The festival is an opportunity for amateur and professional film artists to make contacts, show off their work and compete for awards. Syverson
The film and video competitions begin at 10 a.m. Saturday. The festival will offer three categories for film and video competition: short productions, long productions and experimental media.
The annual event was started by three men who wanted to preserve the film heritage of Kansas and promote future filming in Kansas.
In order to qualify for competition, the films must have a Kansas connection. Either they must be shot in Kansas, be about Kansas or the filmmaker must live in Kansas. Film
winners are given an Ozzi.
"We wanted to find some award sounding like the Oscar or the Emmy. Syverson said, "Kansas is the one we called it the Ozzi. I sounded up甜."
The award is a green pedestal with a gold film reel on the top.
Two Ozzi gives every year are the Life Achievement Ozzi and the Grand Ozzi. This year's Grand Ozzi winner is Douglas Curtis, a KU graduate.
Curtis co-produced "The Philadelphia Experiment," "Black Moon Rising," and "Nice Girls Don't Explode," which was filmed in Lawrence this summer.
The first Grand Ozii went to Nicholas Meyer, director of "The Day After," a television movie set in Lawrence that depicted nuclear war and its effects.
them with internships. Students would be able to get involved with every aspect of film production.
Curtis intends to develop a program at KU for theater and media arts students that would provide
Buddy Rogers, a KU graduate originally from Olathe, won the first Life Achievement Ozzi. He won an Academy Award for his performance in "Wings," which, in 1928, became the first movie to win the Academy Award for best picture.
At this year's festival, an advertising agent will be scouting people for free-lance work.
2 Senate committees wait to be filled
Staff writer
Three Student Senate committees now are filled, but two others still have openings, the chairman of the Senate Committee Board said yesterday.
By SALLY STREFF
The five-member Committee Board, whose members are named by the Senate, selects students to fill Senate committees.
The Committee Board fills vacancies left when members either resign or graduate. Members may choose to remain on committees from year to year.
Finance, University Affairs and Student Rights committees have enough members, said Renee McGhee, committee board chairman. Cultural Affairs and Minority Affairs committees have openings for students.
The board considers the earliest applications first, McGhee said. Students' preferences also are considered when the board makes its selections.
McGhee said the Committee Board probably would continue to accept applications for the openings in Minority and Cultural Affairs but would not advertise for applicants.
Applications for all committees, however, will be accepted because names are needed for waiting lists, she said. The board will select students from waiting lists to fill committees if present members resign or have too many absences.
Gordon Woods, chairman of the Cultural Affairs Committee, said Cultural Affairs had a history of not being filled. He said one reason might be that the committee's goals were not clearly defined.
The committee was formed to coordinate and support cultural opportunities in the University community, but its only specific responsibility is organizing a student arts festival each year, he said.
Jason Krakow, chairman of the Minority Affairs Committee, said his committee consistently had vacancies. The committee, which has not met this semester, still has 20 openings. It had about 20 openings last year.
The committee is supposed to have 45 members, but eight members constitute a quorum. Krakow said
The Senate rules allow each committee to decide the number necessary for a quorum.
Listeners get lesson in Chinese KJHK broadcasts teach language
By PATRICIA FEENY
KJHK listeners heard more alternative sounds last week when they tuned in to 91.5 on the FM dial.
A female voice said, "An chau," and a male voice answered, "Good morning."
Patricia Sutu, Taiwan graduate student, said she coordinated the programs to introduce Chinese culture to KU students and to promote better communication between Chinese-speaking and English-speaking students.
On Tuesday, JKJH and the Free Chinese Club began airing five-minute broadcasts that teach Chinese.
"Other than teaching people to speak Chinese, we will talk about cultural festivities, rituals and religion." she said.
Agnes Syu, Taiwan graduate student, records the messages in Chinese and Robert Tapp, program announcer, translates them into English.
Ssuut said the sentences taught would be simple phrases. The first lesson taught listeners how to say good morning.
Sautu said she approached other radio stations with the idea before coming to KJHK. None of them were interested in educational programs, she said.
Elliot said that when Ssuat came to him he thought it was a good idea.
But Sam Elliot, assistant professor of radio, television and film, was receptive, she said.
"After all, we are the sound alternative," he said.
Ssuut said the philosophy of the club was to promote cultural exchanges. Every year the club tries to bring Chinese culture to others. In the spring, the club taught Chinese language classes to local children at Wescoe every Saturday morning.
Ssuut the club wanted to do the same thing for KU students and faculty. However, because Chinese language classes are offered in the department of East Asian languages and cultures, the club cannot teach formal classes.
The club, which was started more than 10 years ago, has 70 active members and 250 members that receive club newsletters and information.
Ssuut said she would make transcripts of the radio shows available to anyone who was interested. The transcripts also would teach people how to draw Chinese characters stroke by stroke.
Ssuut said KJHK would report audience reaction from the first show to her as soon as information became available. She said she planned to advertise the shows more on campus because some students probably were not aware of them.
Poll indicates Hayden ahead in governor's race
From Kansan wires
Two polls released over the weekend indicate that Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden slightly leads Lt. Gov. Tom Docking in the Kansas gubernatorial race.
A Kansas City Times and CBS-TV
POLITICAL PULSE
In a separate Eagle-Beacon poll released yesterday, Hayden led Docking by seven percentage points. The poll indicated that Hayden had 43.6 percent of the Kansas votes, with Docking closing the gap at 36.6 percent.
affiliates poll released Saturday indicated that 43.6 percent of registered Kansas voters favored Hayden, a Republican; 39.66 percent favored Docking, a Democrat; and 16.5 percent remained undecided.
Almost 20 percent of registered Kansasans were undecided, and the margin of error was plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
The poll carried a maximum margin of error of 4.9 percent.
Kansas voters also favor the passage of proposed constitutional amendments in the Nov. 4 general election.
Both polls indicated that liquor by the drink, pari-mutuel gambling and a lottery were strongly favored by Kansans.
No disclosure
Docking's campaign organization Thursday decided not to disclose at this time how much money it had raised since the last campaign finance reporting period.
The move was in response to figures released by Hayden's campaign last week.
Mike Swenson, director of communications for the Docking campaign, said that until there was clear agreement of what money was being reported and what was not, the Docking campaign would not release any figures.
Hayden's brother and campaign spokesman, Kelley Hayden, said the
GOP gubernatorial campaign had made full disclosure and suggested the Democratic campaign might have something to hide.
As of Tuesday, the Hayden campaign had raised $296,413
The Legislature should impose mandatory drug testing of state employees involved in sensitive public health positions. Attorney General Bob Stephan said last week.
Stephan is the Republican incumbent opposing Dennis Moore, Johnson County district attorney, in the November election. Moore said that even though he thought drug testing of all state employees would
be unconstitutional, he expected the 1987 Legislature to pass a drug-testing law in some form after it convenes in January.
Carlin seeks legislation
Gov. John Carlin last week asked lawyers in the Kansas Department of Revenue to draft legislation to offer to the 1987 Legislature for implementation of pari-mutuel wagering on horse and dog racing in Kansas.
John Myrs, executive assistant to the governor, said the draft legislation would create a five-member Kansas Racing Commission to supervise pari-mutuel wagering if Kansans approve the measure in the Nov. 4 general election.
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