University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 16, 1986
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One cocaine hearing delayed until Oct. 8
Dennis Barritt, one of 21 people indicted in July on cocaine-related charges, yesterday had his preliminary hearing in Douglas County District Court delayed until Oct. 8.
Barritt, 40, was supposed to have had his preliminary hearing at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. He did not appear, however, and Douglas County District Judge Mike Malone issued a warrant for his arrest and set bond at $50,000.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday that the warrant was dropped after Barritt arrived later and explained that he mistakenly had thought his hearing was scheduled for 4 p.m.
Group to stage rally
The KU Coalition for Peace and Justice will have a rally at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall to count postcards signed by KU students and Lawrence residents. The postcards ask President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to have an arms control summit in Lawrence.
The Coalition recently collected several thousand postcard invitations signed by KU students.
KU graduate dies
After the conference, a delegation of KU students and area residents will travel to Washington.
Phillip W. Whitcomb, who was in his mid-80s when he began work on his doctorate at the University of Kansas, died Thursday in Paris. He was 94.
Mr. Whitcomb enrolled at KU in 1978 after he retired from a 64-year career as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press and the Christian Science Monitor. He received a master of philosophy degree in 1980 and a doctorate in philosophy in 1981.
After Mr. Whitcomb completed his doctorate, he taught Western Civilization courses at KU for a year. He and his wife, Genevieve, then returned to Paris, where he read and studied.
Greeks get GPA cup
Mr. Whitcomb was born Nov. 24, 1891 in Topeka.
The Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity each will receive the Chancellor's Cup for attaining the highest grade point averages for Greek organizations last semester, officials announced last week.
Delta Delta Delta sorority women had an average GPA of 3.0182, closely followed by Kappa Alpha Theta's 3.0181 GPA.
Alpha Gamma Delta rounded out the top three with a GPA of 2.96.
A previous listing did not include Delta Delta Delta because of an error in tabulating grades.
The other top fraternities and their average GPAs are Phi Gamma Delta, 3.06; Sigma Nu, 2.93; Phi Delta Theta, 2.92; and Theta Chi, 2.88.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of morning thunderstorms and a high temperature around 80 degrees. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and a low temperature in the mid-60s.
From staff and wire reports
State legislators' out-of-state travel expenditures increased 44 percent in fiscal year 1986, and local legislators' expenses increased 242 percent, according to a recent report from the state Division of Accounts and Reports.
State and local legislators take more out-of-state trips
By KAREN SAMELSON
Bill Muir, the governor's comptroller, said last week that officials generally felt good about the expenditures and were trying to hold down costs as much as possible.
However, the number of trips also increased. The number went up 42 percent on the basis of the new test.
State legislators spent $182,215 in fiscal 1986, which ended June 30. They spent $126,959 the year before. The number of trips increased from 165 to 235.
Government travel costs rise
Staff writer
Local legislators spent a total of $4,107 in 1986, compared with $1,202 in 1985.
KU Democrats had to contend with confusion caused by a false alarm yesterday morning at Wescoe Hall, but they still managed to get a good turnout for their voter registration campaign, the acting president said last night.
State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora, spent $1,837 on two trips in fiscal year 1986; State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, spent $1,727 on two trips; and State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, spent $543 on one trip.
Todd Cohen, the acting president, said the students streaming onto Wescoe Beach made finding the registration table difficult.
State*Reps. Jessie Branson and Betty Jo Charlton, Lawrence Democrats, did not use any state travel funds.
About 150 students registered at Wescoe or in front of the Kansas Union. Cohen said.
Solbach is the ranking minority party member on an interim judiciary committee concerning liability.
He said he submitted an extensive report about the seminar and made it available to his colleagues.
"I found it to be a very good conference," Solbach said. "It has helped me to gain more expertise in that area."
In 1985, Winter spent $674 and Branson spent $282 on one trip each.
Registration will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the two locations. The 15 KU Democrats who have been deputized by the county clerk to take registration also will visit residence halls during the dinner hour tomorrow and Thursday, he said.
By a Kansan reporter
Shari Getting/KANSAN
Most students registered as independents yesterday, he said, and registrants listing party affiliations were about evenly divided.
Cohen said he expected to register more Republicans than Democrats overall, based on 1984 registration results.
Legislators aren't reimbursed until they turn in their reports, he said. They are reimbursed for their travel expenses, lodgings and meals but they must donate their time.
Voters register despite alarm
The organization is following the party platform in helping people to register regardless of their affiliation. he said.
"It wouldn't have happened this way without NCSL," Winter said. "There's no question but that its been extremely valuable for me and, I think, the study."
He said it was his second conference in eight years in the Kansas House.
The volunteers also told students how to vote absentee at home. The students were told they or their parents should contact the county clerk in their home county to get a ballot.
He recommended that the state finance a study, which was done by Tony Redwood, the director of the University of Kansas Institute for Public Policy and Business Research.
Winter spent $1,032 on the Seattle trip and $695 on an NCSL assembly in Williamsburg, Va.
However, Winter said that the Seattle conference was useful for him because he met Belden Daniels, who later was hired as a consultant to the Legislature for its economic development program.
Solbach attended a two-day NCSL seminar in Denver on liability insurance, which cost the taxnavers $543.
Miller also spent $1,007 on a five-day NCSL national conference in Seattle, which he said was too large — about 5,000 people — and lacked focus.
Miller, who did not take any trips last year, spent $830 on a three-day trip to San Francisco for a National Conference of State Legislatures committee meeting about prisons.
"I'd be hard pressed to go back to another NCSL annual meeting," he said. "Maybe that's the small-town boy coming out of me."
Miller said the meeting presented some useful ideas about private industry's involvement in prisons.
He said the House leadership had asked him to go because he is chairman of a House Ways and Means subcommittee that reviewed the budget of the state Department of Corrections.
He said it was cheaper to fly to Washington, D.C., and rent a car, which also enabled him to speak with Senate Majority
Winter said he got the idea for a report on economic development at an NCSL meeting two years ago in Louisville, Ky.
Leader Bob Dole.
Sidewalk swap
Fifth grade students at Hillcrest Elementary School, 1045 Hiltop Drive, trade baseball cards during recess. Pictured left are Michael Angelet-
Transience.
By PAM MILLER
ti, Young-Hak Lee, David Patterson and Ian Bricke.
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity formed at KU for the second time in the University's history during the fall of 1984. Since then, the members of the house have lived in three different houses.
The Acacia members moved out of the house in the spring because of a lack of members, and the Phi Kappa Tau members moved into the house one week before the fall semester began. However, the Acacia's national chapter still owns the house.
Phi Kappa Tau is a frat on the move
KU's youngest social fraternity has one outstanding characteristic.
Members of Phi Kappa Tau are now living in the Acacia fraternity's house, 1100 Indiana St.
Even as Phi Kappa Tau settles into its new, larger house, members know they might have to move again.
According to Danny Kaiser, director of organizations and activities and greek activities coordinator, national members of Acacia and KU Acacia alumni plan to come to the campus in January and try to rush new members.
David Bullinger, Wichita senior, who lived in the Acacia house in the spring, said that none of the members who moved out would be involved in the rush. The national fraternity considers the spring's
members as alumni.
Tom Gooden, Phi Kappa Tau president, said that if Acacia would receive enough pledges to fill the house the Acacia fraternity would move back in.
And that means the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity could be house-hunting again.
The fraternity first started at the University in 1948 and lasted until 1971, Gooden, Webster Groves, Mo., junior, said. When the fraternity formed again in 1984, the first house it moved into was the former Phi Kappa Sigma house, 1625 Edgehill Rd., but had to move out when the membership dropped.
With only nine guys and a large debt, we moved to Zeta Beta Tau's old house on 1101 Ohio, and they moved into our old house. We switched houses, actually." Gooden said.
The house they occupy now has helped tremendously with getting new pledges, said Dave Parett, New Fairfield, Conn., sophomore.
The membership was built up to 20 by the end of last year. Gooden said.
"It has definitely helped." Parett said. "My pledge class (in spring 1986) had six people. This semester's pledges already have a budget over what ours had. This house gives us new ways to earn money."
fall and is hoping to get a pledge class of 15 to 20 by the end of this month, Gooden said.
The fraternity didn't go through formal rush last month because members didn't know until the last minute that they would be in Acacia's old house. The fraternity is having informal rush dinners every Thursday this month.
Gooden said the fraternity liked the informal way of rushing because it saved money and because the members aren't "putting on airs."
But with this house, Gooden said, the officers can afford to be choosy about who they pick for their fraternity.
Phi Kappa Tau already has seven pledges this
"Right now this house is paying for itself, so we're not rushing just anybody in," Gooden said. Parlett agreed, saying that the house generated enough fees to cover operational costs.
"We've finally passed that stage where we rush guys just so we can eat," Parett said.
Gooden said the fraternity members were trying to increase awareness of the house by participating more with other Greek houses.
"We're not terribly well-known," Gooden said. "But people who know us, like us and others simply just don't know who we are."
Journalism may add doctorate to program
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
A School of Journalism committee will study whether the school should allow students to receive doctorate degrees in journalism, Lee Young, acting dean of journalism, announced last week.
However, members of the committee said they did not want the school to add a doctorate program to its curriculum if the addition would harm the school's undergraduate programs.
Young appointed a five-member committee to study the possibility of adding a doctorate program last month.
He said the list of universities studied would include the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota.
Even if the committee recommended establishing a doctorate program, Young said, it still would have to be approved by the office of academic affairs and the Board of Regents.
Young said the committee would look at other universities with journalism schools to see how their doctorate programs were set up and what those programs' benefits were.
Calder Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism and committee chairman, said concerns would include the cost of the program, the effect on the undergraduate curriculum and the effect on the faculty.
Pickett said the time of the committee's first meeting had not been set. The committee has no set date by which it must make a recommendation.
If the degree would harm the undergraduate curriculum, he would have reservations about carrying out the doctorate program. Pickett said.
Mike Kautsch, associate professor of journalism and committee member, said that because the school was a relatively small part of the University — almost 800 students were enrolled last year — its emphasis had been on the undergraduate programs.
The school's faculty members generally are supportive of adding a doctorate program if it doesn't hurt the undergraduate programs. Kautsch said.
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