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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 3, 1986
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News Briefs
Drug hearings set for three ex-students
Preliminary hearings for three former KU students charged with cocaine-related offenses are scheduled for 9 a.m. today in Douglas County District Court.
Robert F. Bell, 35, was charged with one count of selling cocaine
Kevin Sommer, 20, was charged with one count of selling cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine.
Both Bell and Sommer received a continuance of the preliminary hearings Aug. 27.
Gregory Trimarche, 21, was charged with one count of aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine.
All three men are Lawrence residents and have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Opening scheduled
Lt Gov. Tom Docking,
Democratic gubernatorial candidate,
will speak tomorrow evening at the opening of the 1986 Douglas County Democratic Party's campaign headquarters,
2449 Iowa St.
Russell B. Mesler, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, will speak today at 12:05 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Aroad Ave.
The meeting will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to meet with Docking and other candidates for elected office after the speech. Refreshments will be served.
nobly Nuclear Reactor Accident." He will compare the Chernobyl nuclear power reactors with those generally employed in the United States and discuss the differences in safety mechanisms used to contain the nuclear fuel and fission products that are dispersed during a nuclear accident.
Historian to speak
Mesler was the supervisor of the KU nuclear reactor until it was decommissioned in January.
Richard Rodger, visiting professor in the history department, will lead an informal discussion about "British Universities" at a brown bag lunch at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Numemaker Center.
Rodger has taught British, U.S. and European economic and social history at the universities of Edinburgh, Liverpool, and Leicester. He also taught short courses at Leiden and Amsterdam universities. During the 1982 and 1983 academic years, Rodger taught at KU.
Rodger's primary research interests are British housing, urban development and class relations since 1800. Now he is writing a book on housing in the 19th century.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy today with a 20-percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the mid-80s. Southerly winds will be 10 to 20 mph. Partly cloudy skies will continue tonight with a 30-percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows will be in the upper 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Sororities disagree on merits of quota system
New system forces some members out of houses
By BETH COPELAND
Staff writer
Under a new quota system, some women who pledge KU sororities are forced to live outside their chapters' houses because the groups do not have enough space.
The quota system, instituted by the KU Panhellenic Association last spring, was designed to distribute more evenly the number of pledges. However, several sorority officers said the quota encouraged houses to pledge more women than they could hold.
In the past, individual sorority houses and their alumnae determined the number of pledges accepted in the house, enabling some sororities to accept larger pledge classes.
Panhellenic required that each of the 14 sorority houses on campus accept no more than 49 pledges this year. However, house officers may decide to take fewer than 49 pledges.
The quota is calculated by dividing the number of women who register for rush by the number of sorority houses.
"We automatically take the quota," said Karin LeVeau, Overland Park senior and Alpha Omicron Pi president. "The national chapter wants us to be competitive with houses on campus."
Danny Kaiser, coordinator of greek programs, said the quota prevented any sorority from accepting a bulk of the pledges.
The quota system gives sororities
the opportunity to be equal, while at the same time giving more women the opportunity to join a house," he said.
The quota, however, poses a problem for some of the smaller houses
The Pi Beta Phi sorority, 1612 W 15th St., has enough room to house 71 women. The house's president, Nancy Dickinson, Lawrence senior, said she would class of 40 women, only about $1 \frac{1}{2}$ pledge classes could live in the house.
Until this year when the Pi Phi house accepted 49 pledges, the average size of the pledge class was between 25 and 35 women.
1603 W. 15th St.
While Pi Phi pledges are guaranteed a place in the house for their first semester, a priority system determined which women would be asked to live outside the house.
The Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, 1510 Sigma Nu Place, also has a priority system. Women are rated on a point system based on seniority, grading and participation in house activities. Women with the fewest points are asked to live out.
LeVeau said that the house was able to handle larger lodge classes but that the quota may cause future housing problems.
"Someday we'll be asking ourselves where we're going to put
all these girls." she said.
Julia Joslin, Silver Spring, Md. senior and member of Alpha Omicron Pi, said the new quota system forced some sorority houses to push active members outside the house.
I'm a senior and have been with the house for two years," she said. "Because of the quota system, 49 new pledges to live in the house . . . and I'm living down the hill."
Three apartments in West Hills. 1012 Emery Road, serve as an annex to Joslin's sorority.
Jenny Ballard, a vice president of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Gower Place, said she favored the quota system because it allowed the house to accept more pledges.
Above, a common way of removing warts is having them frozen off with liquid nitrogen. Watkins Hospital offers a wart clinic from 9 a.m. to about 3 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Richard Schaffer, left, a Watkins Hospital physician, holds one of the rods used to freeze off warts. The rod is kept in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of negative 209.8 degrees Celsius.
Tony Vourax/KANSAN
Clinic puts freeze on warts
Staff writer
By CRAIG HERRMANN
If wrapping that ugly wart in a vinegar-soaked orange peel has failed, or if soaking it in a stump full of rainwater under a full moon has proven futile, Watkins Memorial Hospital can probably help.
In fact, Watkins physicians have been removing warts hand over fist for the past few years.
Magee said.
Every Wednesday and Thursday, doctors at the wart clinic use liquid nitrogen — not homespun remedies — to remove almost any kind of wart, said Larry Magee, Watkins staff physician.
The process, which takes about a minute on most warts, kills the wart and the skin surrounding it. After about a week, the dead wart and skin fall off, replaced by healthy skin.
He said that nearly any kind of wart was fair game at the wart clinic.
There are exceptions, however
For instance, the clinic doesn't treat venereal warts, which develop on the victims' genitals, Magee said.
"We usually treat those patients by individual appointments." Magee said.
Store to get out of ticket business
Many different types of warts exist, and the various kinds are named according to where they are located on the body. Magee said. Most are caused by viruses and can be difficult to remove, he said.
According to Magee, though other methods of removing warts exist, the best method of removal involves the freezing of the wart using liquid nitrogen.
Staff writer
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Lawrence's only large-concert ticket outlet, Pennylane Records and Tapes. 844 Massachusetts St., is lowering the curtain on such sales
Marc Olson, general manager of Pennylane Records and Tapes stores, said that after today the store would no longer sell tickets because profits from sales weren't enough to justify the time spent selling them.
"It wasn't worth the time and effort," Olson said.
Pennsylvania has two stores in Kansas City, Mo. and one in Lawrence. Ticket sales are being discontinued in all three stores. The Kansas City, Mo., stores quit selling tickets Monday.
The Lawrence store is now selling tickets to 40 different events, including the Lionel Richie concert on Sept. 27 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
Olson said that the time spent dealing with ticket sale concerns was detracting from services to record and tape customers.
Bob Worrell, an employee at a Kansas City, Mo., Pennylane, said from 75 to 80 percent of incoming phone calls concerned concerts.
Olson said that profits from ticket sales barely covered the cost of paying an extra employee minimum wage to handle the tickets.
He said the traffic drawn in by ticket sales did not generate additional record and tape sales.
Pennylane charges $1 service charge on each ticket sold. Olson would not say how much an outlet made on each ticket, but Worrell said his outlet made about 30 cents a ticket.
"We are strictly a records and tape business," he said.
money from discontinuing the service.
Steve Wilson, manager of Kief's Discount Records and Stereo Supply, 2100 W. 25th St., said Kief's quit selling concert tickets four years ago. The additional traffic was not generating additional sales and carrying them wasn't providing the advertising benefits it once did, he said.
Olson said he didn't expect to lose
Wilson said that Capital Automated Ticket Services, the agency from which they leased their ticket printer, previously had mentioned the names of individual record stores when advertising locations to buy tickets.
Now the company just advertises that tickets are available at all Capital Ticket Outlets.
Wilson said that tickets for big shows usually went on sale on Saturday mornings, their biggest retail business day.
Club gets extra financing from special Senate fund
Staff writer
The KU International Club received additional money in July from an unorthodox source — the Student Senate administrative fund — David Epstein, student body president, said yesterday.
Bv SHANE A. HILLS
Usually, a club or student organization would not be able to get money directly from the Senate administrative fund. Normally, a group can receive money only after the Senate Finance Committee and the full Senate have approved its request.
The club requested the money, $175, because it wanted to send letters to foreign students during the summer offering them rides to Lawrence from Kansas City International Airport, Epstein said. The
Epstein said he approved the allocation because the money was needed before the Student Senate Executive Committee could review the request and allocate the money itself. Under Senate rules, Epstein can decide how to use the $22,830 in the administrative account.
StudEx meets in place of the full Senate during the summer.
money was for postage and transportation costs.
In previous years, the Senate has guaranteed money to the club for the project, but it wasn't included in the club's budget request last year, Epstein said.
"It was never clear to me why they didn't include it in their budget. But they had already promised to pick these kids up, so I just approved it," he said.
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