University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 15, 1986
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News Briefs
Tacha will speak at honors program
Deanell Tacha, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, will speak at the University of Kansas Honors Program's annual Honors Convocation on Sept. 21 at Nunemaker Center.
Tacha, former vice chancellor for academic affairs and an alumna of the Honors Program, will speak at 3 p.m. on "Toward an Informed Future."
Honors Convocation, a gathering of honor students and honor faculty, allows students to consider the aims of an honors education.
The program also recognizes outstanding academic achievements of students in the Honors Program.
Tacha's speech will follow a 2 p.m. reception for honors students and a 2:30 p.m. honors awards ceremony.
Tacha was nominated in November by President Reagan for the judicial position and was confirmed in December by the U.S. Senate.
Rally for summit set
The KU Coalition for Peace and Justice, the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Meeting for Peace Committee will sponsor a rally at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on the lawn between Wescole and Stauffer-Flint halls.
The purpose of the rally is to send a delegation of 12 students and Lawrence residents to Washington, D.C. The delegation will deliver invitations for a Lawrence summit to the White House and the Soviet Embassy on Thursday.
Earlier this semester, members of the groups began a campaign to bring a summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Lawrence.
The groups have been collecting signatures of KU students and Lawrence residents on postcards addressed to the leaders. The number of signatures will be announced at the rally.
Fire damages truck
A 4-year-old boy in a parked pickup truck started a fire inside the truck with a pack of matches yesterday, according to a spokesman from the Lawrence Fire Department.
The child was alone in the truck, which was parked in front of Dillon's, 1740 Massachusetts St., when the vehicle caught on fire, the spokesman said. The boy was playing with matches and accidentally lit paper in the front seat.
The truck also rolled into another vehicle. The estimated damage to each vehicle was $1,500. The boy was not injured.
Professor to speak
Sharon S. Brehm, professor of psychology, will speak on "Passionate Love: A comparison of Stendhal and Teresa of Avila" at 11:40 a.m. Sept. 17 in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave
Weather
The presentation is part of the Weekly Luncheon Forum sponsored by Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
From staff and wire reports.
Today will be party cloudy with a 30- percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the low- to mid-80s. Winds will come from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy again with a 30-percent chance of rain. The low will be in the mid-60s. Tomorrow should be party cloudy with a high in the low- to mid-80s.
Women's Support Group
Take this opportunity to join with other K.J. women in discussing topics of personal interest.
Tuesday, September 16 7-9 p.m. International Room Kansas Union
For more information contact Lori Irving at the Women's Resource Center 218 Strong Hall 864.3552 sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
Classes to grow in new program for department
By ATLE BIORGE
Staff writer
The department of Western Civilization next year will enter the league of the mammoth lecture classes.
The problem now is where to find lecture halls big enough to place the students, said John Davidson, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy and a member of the Western Civilization Advisory Committee.
The need for a larger lecture hall results from departmental changes in the works.
The advisory committee would like to have a 500-student lecture hall, Davidson said, but departments compete for the use of Hoch Auditorium and the large lecture rooms in Wescoe Hall.
The department of Western Civilization last year received a $120,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to make wide-ranging changes in its program. This involved hiring new faculty, changing the reading list, coordinating lecture and discussion sections, and making the students do more writing. Davidson said.
Each senior faculty member also will teach one honors section, Woelfel said.
James Woelfel, director of the Western Civilization department, said two senior faculty members would work together to teach one of three large lecture classes.
All classes would meet twice a week in the large lecture sections and once a week in small discussion sections, he said.
Now, the two-semester introduction to the Western intellectual tradition is taught in weekly discussion groups of about 30 students by graduate teaching assistants.
Davidson said he didn't think any of the 30 GTAs would lose their jobs.
the course is required for most undergraduate degrees at KU, and about 1,000 students go through the program every semester. Davidson said.
The lecture format will provide a necessary background to the discussion sections, said Ted Vaggalis, graduate teaching assistant.
because the committee is trying to reduce the number of students in each discussion section to 10.
"I think it's one heck of a proposal," Vaggalis said. "There is some concern that (large lecture rooms) makes you feel small, but I think that's a minor issue."
These changes should have gone into effect this fall, but have been posiponed until fall 1987. Woelfel said.
"Once we started making changes, we realized that there was just too much to do." he said.
As specified by the grant, the department has been taking applications for six tenured faculty members to lecture half time next year, Davidson said.
He said the committee had received about 10 applications for the six teaching positions. The deadline is today, he said, and the selections will be made within the next two weeks.
Woolef said the reading list for the two semesters will contain fewer authors and will be used for three to five years.
Gary Shapiro, professor of philosophy and a member of the committee, said students would read larger portions of the works assigned, instead of just parts of them.
Some names, such as Nietzsche and Sartre, have been taken off the list. Shapiro said.
Davidson said that in the second semester, students would read more political writings.
District Attorney Jim Flory, left, and State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., middle, listen to State Treasurer candidate Larry Montgomery at the opening of the Republican headquarters for Douglas County. Montgomery spoke Sunday. The headquarters is located at the Malls Shopping Center, 23rd and Louisiana streets.
Party opens headquarters
By KAREN SAMELSON Staff writer
Douglas County Republicans celebrated the opening of their county headquarters on an optimistic note yesterday.
"I sense a great Republican victory in November," said Fletcher Bell, who is seeking re-election to his post as insurance commissioner.
Bell and other candidates addressed a group of about 50 state and local Republican candidates, precinct leaders and other supporters at the official opening of the new headquarters in the Malls Shopping Center, 23rd and Louisiana streets.
Walker expressed confidence that he and Hayden could win the election and thereby put the Republicans in control of the executive and legislative branches.
Walker, who recently retired as head of the department of family practice at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said experience would play an important role in the election.
State Sen. Jack Walker, gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden's running mate, said the Republicans would win unless they failed to stick together.
Hayden has been speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives since 1983.
His opponent, Tom Docking, has been lieutenant governor since 1983.
Hayden also is drawing support from Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. Dole's local campaign chairman, John Lungstrum, said.
Republican candidates
Dole is being challenged by Guy MacDonald, an unemployed schoolteacher from Wichita.
Lungstrum said Dole had an easy race to keep his seat, so he had been helping other state
Phill Kline, who is opposing incumbent Jim Slattery for the U.S. House of Representatives 2nd District seat, emphasized agriculture during his comments.
He drew laughter from the crowd when he showed a hole in the bottom of his shoe to demonstrate how hard he had been campaigning.
Larry Montgomery, who is challenging incumbent Joan Finney in the state treasurer's race, emphasized the need to redefine the treasurer's duties.
Kline, a KU law student, called for criminal penalties for people found guilty of adding dirt to Kansas grain before shipping.
Broadcast students question Jolliffe's safety
Rv KIRK KAHIFR
Some broadcast students are disappointed with the condition of Jolliffe Hall and wonder whether the building is safe enough to be occupied.
Mary Coffey, Birmingham, Mich., senior, said she came to KU for the School of Journalism, but was very disappointed.
"I think it's a hole," she said.
The building's safety also concerns her, she said. Because the building has only one second floor exit and no handrails on the stairways, the state fire marshal will allow no more than nine people on the second floor at one time.
the present time. Kealing said.
Jolliffe may not be the prettiest building on campus, but it is the best that can be offered at
Another broadcasting student, Bob Kealing,
Leawood senior, disagreed with Coffey. He said
he thought the building must be safe if it was
being used.
Max Utsler, chairman of the department of Radio-TV, said the building still was structurally sound. It is located near the scholarship halls east of Fraser Hall.
"I'm very much aware of the limitations of the building." he said.
He said that the building would not be used if they were unsafe and that he saw no problem with it.
Ken Remfry, fire safety consultant for the state fire marshal's office; said Jolliffe was not a hazard.
"It ites to have more deficiencies than some, but less than others," he said.
Remfry also said that because the building was used only during the day, it is not as much a concern as if it were a residence hall.
Since the demise of TV-30, the local cable-TV station that employed KU broadcast majors, about a dozen more students must use Jollife
to work on projects.
Although this doesn't sound like many, Utsler said, it may cause a problem because the second floor of the building is restricted to nine people.
The restriction is a result of a fire-safety inspection last year. It was imposed because the second floor of the building has only one exit.
Coffey said the fire code was frequently violated because of the additional students using the building.
"It concerns me because we're up there all the time," she said.
Although the second floor is equipped with the remains of an old fire escape, it can be reached only by climbing through a window.
Francis Ellis, lab supervisor in Radio-TV, said he also suspected the fire code was violated with the extra people.
Although the second floor of Jollife is somewhat monitored, he said, the code was
"We don't run anybody off," he said.
Ellis said smoking wasn't allowed in the building because of the lack of a second exit on the second floor.
The department probably will be in a new building, and the target completion date is April 1988. Utsler said. The new building will be located behind Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Utsler said the department had to operate while it waited on the new building, and Joliffe had to be tolerated.
1914. Orlando Jolliffe donated $50,000 to KU to build the hall. It originally was a men's residence hall and has served various purposes through the years.
Ellis said the building still was a sound structure. Within the last year, he said, a state inspector checked the building and could find no structural flaws.
Scotty' meets fans and promotes 'Star Trek IV'
Staff writer
By NANCY BARRE
Cara Burres had waited seven years to see Scotty again, and she finally got her chance Friday in the Kansas Union.
James Doohan, better known as "Scotty" from the Star Trek television series and movies, was meeting students and signing autographs in the Kansas Union Bookstore on Friday.
Burres, Fayette, Mo., senior, was one of about 700 students who got a chance to speak with Scotty. Most students stood in line up to two hours waiting for their chance.
Burres sang a song for Scotty seven years ago at a Star Trek convention in Kansas City. Mo., and has
been waiting all this time to give him the lyrics.
"He wanted me to send him the lyrics right after the convention, but I lost his address, so I'm finally giving them to him today," she said.
Scott Daniel, Lenexa senior, said he had been watching Star Trek since 1973 but couldn't immediately pick Doohan from the crowd.
"I didn't even recognize him," Daniel said. "He looked so much older."
Daniel also was suprised to learn that Doohan wasn't really Scottish — a British boy.
"I was going to ask him if he really can play the bappipes, but I guess I should think of a new question." Daniel said.
Doohan, now in his mid-60s, was indeed hard to recognize. He is 20 years older and a good deal heavier. He does not speak the Scottish brughe he used in the Star Trek episodes.
Doohan began acting in the late 1940s. He was in the Canadian Army for six years during World War II and said he started acting by accident.
"Right after I got out of the army I was listening to a radio drama and it wasn't very good." Doohan said. "I thought, 'I can do better than that.'"
He spent the next four years teaching and studying acting in Toronto and New York City acting schools.
Doohan said he had done all kinds of acting, including drama, comedy, character acting, live theater, televi
sion and movies. Before Star Trek, he stared in a 52-episode television series called "Space Command."
But since Star Trek, he has been typecast as a science-fiction actor with a Scottish accent.
"I never would have taken the role of Scotty or stayed with it as long if had known that I would be typecast this way," he said.
"I'm an actor, I'm supposed to be able to do anything. Now, all I get is Scotsmen."
Doohan said he liked the role of Scotty because Scotty had a good sense of humor and made people laugh.
When asked why so many people liked Scotty, he broke into the familiar brogue and said, 'Why.
Doohan isn't making Star Trek movies, he tours the country signing autographs and meeting fans. He was at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln the day before he came to KU.
He said that he had dealt with the public more than any other Star Trek character.
"The tremendous love thing from the fans has to be met," he said. "You have to accept it and return it. Some actors are scared stiff, but for me, it's exciting to meet all of you."
He said his favorite actor on Star Trek was Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock. His favorite episode was "The Doomsday Machine."
because I'm so lovable."
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