The 900 club
KU played its 900th football game Saturday, and after the'Jayhawks' victory over Utah State, they hold an record of 445 wins, 399 losses and 56 ties. Sports Monday takes a look back at some of the team's most memorable moments.
Or "good morning," as some KJHK listeners may have learned last week.
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'An chau'
The radio station and the Free Chinese Club have begun airing five-minute broadcasts that teach Chinese.
Summer's last stand
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In a last-ditch effort to make things miserable, today should be hot and humid as summer bows out. But the first days of fall may be just as muggy.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday September 22,1986
Vol. 97, No.21 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
TOPEKA — 10p:
Spectators at the 10th annual Superbatics air show gather around the A26B Pretty Patti. The Pretty Patti performed yesterday at Forbes Field, Left; Dankel Helgin, senior member of the French Connection aerial acrobatic team, performs a vertical maneuver.
Action is attraction at Topeka air show
Stait writer
By RIC ANDERSON
Monday Morning
TOPEKA — It was hard to tell the pilots from the spectators this weekend at Superbatics '86, an air show sponsored by Combat Air Museum at Forbes Field east of Topeka.
Both groups wore patches and T-shirts decorated by aircraft with names such as "Northrop P-51 Mustang" and "Consolidated B-24 Liberator." Many had their eyes covered by dark military-issue
pilot's glasses - small and squarish with straight earpieces
The difference appeared to be between action and spirit. In some cases, the action meant sending a 40-year-old airplane through a torture test of vertical climbs and power dives.
Howard Pardue said air show flying was a hobby for him. Pardue flew his F4U Corsair, a World War II fighter plane, in the 10th annual event.
"I like to come do a little flying," he said. "I like the association with the pilots and the people."
For Pardue, "a little flying"
consisted of vertical climbs and dives, several 90-degree snap rolls and a full-throttle ground pass at more than 300 mph.
In addition to the three Corsairs he owns, Pardue also flies several of the World War II aircraft in the Conteaderte Air Force, a nonprofit organization based in Harlingen, Texas, which performs in several shows a year.
He often flies a different plane every week. He said he never had a problem, even though the only time to practice was while performing.
said. "With any airplane, though, if you handle it right, it'll fly right."
When he's not flying in air shows around the country, Pardue earns money in the oil business in Breckenridge, Texas, to pay for his hobby.
"Each one has its quirks," he
Allen Simmons, a flight instructor at the Beech Aircraft Corp. in Wichita, said flying in air shows wasn't up to him.
"We only fly if Kilroy wants to," Simmons said.
Kilroy is a Douglas C-47
See SHOW, p. 5, col. 1
'St. Elsewhere,' NBC big winners at Emmys
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif — NBC obliterated the other networks in the Emmy Awards competition last night, sweeping the 11 comedy categories and winning for best miniseries and outstanding special.
NBC's top-rated drama "St. Elsewhere" was the big winner with six awards. "The Golden Girls" won best comedy, and "An Early Frost," a story about a family torn apart by AIDS, picked up four awards.
In all, NBC won 34 of 82 awards.
NBC's "Peter The Great" won two awards, including best miniseries. The most prestigious award of the night — outstanding drama special — went to NBC's "Love is Never Silent." about a deaf woman.
Dustin Hoffman won for best actor in a miniseries or special for his moving performance as Willy Loman in the CBS production of "Death of a Salesman." Marlo Thomas won for best actress in a miniseries or special for CBS's "Nobody's Child," in which she played a woman in an insane assylum.
CBS's "Cagney & Lacey," which won three awards, was named outstanding drama of the season. Sharon Gless won the award for best actress in a drama. The show also won for best director and best supporting actor.
William Daniels, who plays Mark Craig on "St. Elsewhere," was named best actor in a drama.
"St. Elsewhere" also picked up another award as Bonnie Barlett won for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series. The show also won an award for best writing in a drama series.
In comedy, "The Golden Girls" picked up four Emmys, including best comedy and Betty White's best actress in a comedy series. "Family Ties" star Michael J. Fox won for best actor. "Cheers" received two Emmys. "The Cosby Show" won three, even though Bill Cosby did not compete. He withdrew his name because he does not believe in actors competing for awards.
Director Steven Spielberg, who has not won an Academy Award for any of his movies, failed to break his 9-year-old directing jinx when he lost
The leading contender for the most prestigious Emmy — outstanding drama special — had been NBC's "An Early Frost," but although it received four awards, the award went to "Love Is Never Silent."
ABC's romantic private eye spoof "Moonlighting," nominated for more awards than any other show, picked up only one craft award for editing from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
"Amazing Stories" did however win four Emmys, including John Lithgow's best guest performer award in a drama series.
the best director award for his NBC series "Amazing Stories."
In all, NBC had 148 nominations, followed by CBS with 90, ABC with 51, PBS with 30 and syndicated shows with four.
Comedian Red Skelton was the only sure winner going into last night's show. He received a special Governor's Award from the Academy from another mainstay of the early days of television, Lucille Ball.
Regents OK plan for KU building
By TONY BALANDRAN Staff writer
The Board of Regents cleared the way Friday for a $12 million Human Development Center at the University of Kansas.
The Regents approved final plans and contract documents to allow bidding on the demolition of several buildings that stand in the way of the proposed development center.
The Regents met at Fort Hays State University on Thursday and Friday.
Bids for the demolition contract as well as the demolition are expected as early as December, said Allen Wiechert, KU director of facilities planning.
The plans call for the demolition of seven buildings to make room for a four-story brick building, which will be connected by a walkway to the east side of Haworth Hall, Wiechert said.
The seven buildings to be demolished are a garage for vehicle maintenance, a vacant World War IIera barracks formerly used for research, a vacant brick structure formerly used for offices, a brick structure used for the employee motor pool and three wooden sheds for grounds and landscaping equipment. Wiechert said.
The plans will not affect the whistle that signals the end of classes or the facilities operations building, he said.
The center will combine the KU Bureau of Child Research and the KU Gerontology Center with the departments of human development and family life, special education, speech-language-hearing sciences and disorders, and radio-television into one building.
The project was financed through a $9 million federal grant and $3 million in private donations, Wiechert said.
Also on Friday, the chairman of the Regents said he was not optimistic that the Kansas Legislature would grant all the requests for higher
salaries and program improvements throughout the Regents system.
"The picture painted by the budget process in this state is not very optimistic." Chairman Frank Becker said at a news conference before the Regents meeting. "We hope to get two-thirds to three-fourths of our request."
For fiscal year 1988, beginning July 1, 1987, the Regents have asked the Legislature for an 8-percent increase in faculty salaries and a 1-percent increase in faculty retirement benefits.
The Regents requested a base increase of 5 percent for other operating expense portions of the budget and $12 million in program improvements for its institutions. The 1987 Legislature will convene in January.
The Regents also asked that student affairs offices, student government offices and presidents of the seven schools governed by the Regents make semi-annual reports about educational and testing programs for drugs.
The Regents Student Advisory Committee submitted a statement protesting the testing of students for substance abuse, calling such testing "a clear violation of students' liberties and their constitutional rights."
David Epstein, KU's student body president and newly elected committee chairman, said that although he thought there was not a significant increase of drug use at the college level, he did recognize it as a "problem that needs to be addressed separately by each institution."
However, Becker said the advisory committee made the statement not knowing what the Regents were going to ask of its institutions.
"We hire the presidents to run the institutions," he said, "and all we were doing was asking them what they were doing in this area."
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Mo. lottery revenue may go to education
Kansas to aid economic development
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
A Missouri state legislator has proposed using his state's lottery revenue to support education, but Kansas has no intentions of following suit, officials said last week.
Missouri state Sen. Harry Wiggins,
D-Kansas City, proposed a week ago
DECISION '86
that his state's lottery revenues — about $150 million — be used to support education, Missouri's first priority. The money now is going to the state's general fund.
Although Missouri officials must wait until the Nov. 4 general election to see whether voters approve the proposed lottery amendment, the Legislature already has dedicated the profits to other programs, mainly economic development.
Lawrence, said Missouri might be considering using the money for education to boost interest in the lottery.
However, she said, "I would not like to see it in Kansas because I believe education would get shorted in the long run."
She said that if educational programs received lottery money, they might up geting less from general fund appropriations.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-
Harley Duncan, secretary of revenue, agreed with Charlton.
Duncan said that if lottery sales suddenly declined, education might have to ask for more money to make up the difference, and the Legislature might not have any extra money.
However, Wiggins emphasized that the lottery money in Missouri would be in addition to existing education appropriations.
See LOTTERY, p. 5, col. 3
Students venture overseas to studv art and architecture
Bv BILL RAYNOLDS
Eight KU art and architecture students journeyed to the Alps of southeastern France this summer and left a "footprint" — a 15-foot tall totem pole.
Staff writer
The students had traveled to the small village of Peyresq. They participated in a three-week University study abroad program designed to give them a firsthand look at European art and architecture. The students received three credit hours for their work.
They were the only U.S. college students in Peyresq, and they wanted to leave behind a wolly American symbol. Therefore, they chopped down a tree and chiselled their individual artistic feelings into it.
"I wanted to be with art students in a creative atmosphere to stimulate my creativity," said Dee Dacey, Washington, D.C., senior. "It was a beautiful and inspiring experience. It wasn't tourity.
"The footprint concept of the trip was to leave behind an idea without words. We were looking for people's feelings, thoughts and ideas, and we wanted to express them through artistic means."
However, the group did more than turn a dead tree into a totem pole.
did not use the pen price.
Steve Johnson, Lawrence senior, said he gained a better understanding of French art by seeing firsthand instead of in a textbook.
"I gained a much clearer overall sense of history and past culture by seeing the art in real life," he said.
Tom Allen, Hallmark professor of design and the group's leader, said that it was KU's second year in the program and that KU was the only U.S. university to send students to Peiresq in an organized study abroad program.
The group's journey began in Ghent, Belgium, a week before they drove southward to Pevresd.
Allen said the group stopped at various museums and cathedrals in Belgium and France and had the opportunity to see original works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse and medieval as well as modern architectural styles.
"We OD'd on art and architecture," Allen said.
In addition, the KU group worked with
French, Belgian and Moroccan art and architecture students on a five-foot tall, cutstone monument that resembles Stonehenge. Allen said.
"The students gained a new perspective or life on this planet," Allen said. "Different folks working together give one a larger understanding of what we're here for."
Architecture and art complement each other. Allen said.
Peyresq is uninhabitable in the winter because of the snow, Allen said. About 12 people, mostly shepherds, live in Peyresq in the
"There's a tendency to isolate ourselves in our own disciplines." Allen said. "Art and architecture are closely related, and we try to get as much of a mix of both disciplines as possible to get the best result."
summer.
Allen said that one Peyresq woman who raised donkeys still received her provisions by pinning notes on her donkey's backs and sending them to the village below.
Other educational disciplines could benefit from a trip to Peyresq, Allen said.
"Peyresq would be a tremendous opportunity for KU to have two-week sessions for natural sciences, architecture and art," Allen said.
Every wildflower variety in France grows within 31 miles of Peyresq, and Allen said it would be an excellent location for botanical studies. He also said Peyresq's high altitude and clear air made it an excellent location for astronomical studies.