University Daily Kansan / Friday, August 29, 1986
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Student, hit by car now in fair condition
Larry W. Washburn, 20, Wellington sophomore, who was hit by a car late Saturday, was listed in fair condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Washburn suffered a head injury, facial fractures and a fracture of his left leg in the accident. Initially, he was listed in critical condition.
He was hit while walking across McDonald Drive on his way to the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive. No date has been set for Washburn's release from the hospital.
Taiwan buvs wheat
TOPEKA — A Taiwanese trade delegation purchased about 3.1 million bushels of wheat, valued at $9.6 million, yesterday during a buying session in the Kansas Senate chambers.
The 21-member delegation, seated at senators' desks, opened bids from American grain firms during the hourlong session. The latest purchase brought the value of grain purchased in Kansas during eight visits since 1978 to about $150.4 million.
The purchase is the largest the group has made on stops in the United States this year.
Festival at Clinton
The Clinton State Park Advisory Board will sponsor a Kansas Silver Centennial Celebration during the three-day Labor Day weekend in honor of the state's 125th anniversary.
The festival will be at Clinton Lake on Campground 2. Scheduled events include skydiving demonstrations, hot air balloon shows, and a Saturday bike parade. A tractor pull will highlight Sunday's activity.
Corporation formed
A variety of displays, including an antique display, will be exhibited throughout the weekend. The celebration is free and open to the public. Profits from concession sales will be used to purchase park playground equipment.
Lynn Anderson, a former Lawrence Chamber of Commerce president, has been elected president of a new corporation formed to direct the marketing and development of a new industrial park east of the city.
The corporation, The Douglas County Development Inc., is a nonprofit organization. The park will be on 300 acres north of Kansas Highway 10.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, the date of the Study Abroad Graduate Studies Program informational meeting was incorrectly reported.
The meeting was yesterday. For those who missed the meeting, information still is available in the program's office, 203 Lippincott Hall.
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that a Student Senate committee voted to give freshmen a seat in the Senate. The committee voted to put a freshman seat on the Student Senate Executive Committee.
Weather
Skies will be cloudy today with a high in the upper 80s and southerly winds from 10 to 20 mph. Skies will be partly cloudy tonight with a low around 60.
From staff and wire reports.
KU faculty may form bargaining group
Rv PAM MILLER
Members of a temporary faculty committee met yesterday in Strong Hall with the University general counsel to discuss the repercussions of organizing into a faculty group similar to a union
Staff writer
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, explained the Public Employer and Employee Relations Act to the Faculty Executive Committee and its subcommittee appointed to examine the possible move.
With a better understanding of the laws, the nine-member committee plans to investigate the implications of having the faculty form into a collective bargaining unit, which is similar to a union.
Thomas explained the public employees' rights to organize and how the employees may organize into a unit, if they choose to do so.
"We have to be especially careful to find out the facts and cautious in pursuing the facts," Pete Johnson, professor of education, said.
Members of the committee stressed the committee's purpose was not to make a recommendation as to whether faculty should form a collective bargaining unit.
the temporary committee was formed by order of FacEx to look into the situation after several faculty members began expressing interest in forming a unit at the beginning of the year.
Tom Madden, Lawrence representative of the Kansas National Education Association, a statewide teachers union, said that he had talked to about 180 faculty members since February and that most were interested in organizing.
replace tenure positions, he said.
In order to hold an election to pick an organization to represent the employees, Thomas said, at least 30 percent of the members of the bargaining unit must sign a petition to call for an election.
Their primary concerns were salary and benefits, outmoded equipment and failure to
Thomas said that about 1,200 KU faculty members were members of the bargaining unit. About 400 members would have to sign the petition for election.
A secret ballot election would then be held, and the organization with the majority of votes would become the official representation, with the approval of the state public employees relations board.
Thomas said that if the organization were formed, employees and employers would have to meet and discuss in good faith such issues as working conditions.
would differ from a private sector union in several ways.
Madden said a collective bargaining group
First, unlike a private union, any decisions reached by the two parties would not become effective until approved by the Kansas Legislature. Also, under state law, a teaching staff may not go on strike.
Faculty members expressed concerns about the effectiveness of such a bargaining unit.
"I fail to see how you can negotiate if youre negotiating with the Legislature. I don't see that it has any teeth in it," said Thomas Dean, professor of architecture and urban design.
T.P. Srinivasan, professor of math,
disagreed.
"It is after the legislative act that we (as a bargaining unit) can do so many things," he said. "After the Legislature has made its appropriations, then we could decide what comes next."
Jacquelyn Pector, Chicago freshman, will be opening for female pop singer Whitney Houston on Sunday night at the Riviera Club in Chicago.
Singing from Chicago to Houston
By PAMELA SPINGLER
A KU freshman is getting a late birthday present — a chance to live out her dream.
sell a chance to live with a
A few days ago, Jacqulyn Pector turned 18.
This weekend, she will have the break most
young singers only fantasize about.
She will be returning home to Chicago to be a warm-up act in a charity performance for well-known pop singer Whitney Houston.
"This will be the biggest performance I've done," Pector said. "I've sang in many shows, but never one this large." The show, a benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, will be held on Thursday and Friday.
Pector, a theater-voice major, auditioned for
and won a four-year scholarship from the KU School of Fine Arts. She chose KU because she could major in both of her interests, she said.
She had planned to attend the California School of the Arts but found she could major only in voice.
Pector said she was involved in many plays while in high school. Her singing in musicals attracted the interest of Art Therois, the owner of Rise-Up Productions, the agency organizing the concert.
She said she met him one night at dinner, and he said he would like to hear her sing.
Then she got the call two weeks ago about singing this weekend. At first, she didn't believe him, she said.
"But he was serious." she said.
Pector will be opening for Houston at midnight Sunday at the Rivera Club in Chicago.
Houston is scheduled to perform at Poplar Creek, a concert hall in Chicago, Sunday night. After her show there, Houston is scheduled to sing at the Rivera Club for 15 minutes.
Pector will be singing one song, but she hasn't decided which one. She said she would make the decision after she and her accompanist had practiced.
"I'm really excited and kind of nervous." she said.
Pector said her family was pleased
"My mother is shocked, she still can't believe it," she said.
ROTC unit 'activated' at ceremony
Staff writer
By NANCY BARRE
Accompanied by the mild flutter of a few flags and a fuzzy, tupa-recorded version of the "Star Spangled Banner," the largest class of Army ROTC cadets since the Korean War got a promotion yesterday.
In Army terms, the ROTC Jayhawk Cadet Battalion, about 200 members strong, were "activated." The action occurred for ceremonial, not combat purposes, in front of Allen Field House.
of KU's ROTC unit, said the increase was partly because of scholarship and job opportunities the Army offers.
hope to instill a sense of pride for the University of Kansas Army ROTC tradition," said Ted Lockhart, Rapid City, S.D., senior and newly appointed cadet commander.
During the early 1950s, KU's Army ROTC hit its peak enrollment of about 600 cadets. During the late '60s and early '70s, when student opposition to the Vietnam War was heavy, the number dwindled to less than 20. But during the last few years, the number of cadets has been steadily increasing.
The newly formed Jayhawk Cadet Battalion formerly was the KU Army ROTC staff unit, but over the summer, it received the loftier title of "command unit."
"Now that we're a battalion, we
for the first time ever, the Army ROTC program across the nation changed its status from staff unit, to command unit. A staff unit cannot be activated, a command can.
The Army made the change in the
program because the ROTC's overall commander, Maj. Gen. Robert E. Wagner, was promoted from a staff officer to command officer, Laster said. Wagner came to campus this summer to explain the changes to University administrators.
"The major difference between a staff officer and a command officer is that a command officer has more latitude and flexibility — he's the boss." Laster said.
Laster said the change also would give more direct responsibility to the cadets.
Lt. Col. James Laster, commander
TV-30 end puts stop to training
By JANE ZACHMAN
Von Freeman, a video jockey for the station, said word of closing came after a number of mishaps at the station.
"A decision was made not to have V.J.s at the station and just air the music videos," Freeman said.
TV-30 has called it a wrap.
Then, he said, the station antenna was struck by lighting, and video tapes had to be sent through equipment not available in the studio.
The station broadcasts consisted mainly of music videos and hourly newscasts, but the station also aired classic movies and educational programs at night and during the afternoon. In addition, the station gave broadcast journalism students a chance to gain experience working in television.
The low-powered television station that was based in Lawrence closed its studio in May.
Jeff Nighthyrd, president of Low Power Technology Inc., based in Austin, Texas, confirmed that the station was closed. He said the closing was because the saton was losing money but refused further comment. Low Power Technology owned the station
"Then one day all the V.J.s got phone calls telling us that we were tired." Freeman said, "and then the station closed."
The School of Journalism had been using the station as a teaching ground for some students in the broadcast journalism sequence.
During the 1965-86 school year, as many as 50 students worked at the station, said John Katch, radio and television lecturer and first general manager of the station.
Katich said the station seemed to be doomed from the beginning. He said the station was meant to work in connection with two other stations in Topeka and the Kansas City area.
"The three-city format would have been more viable. We would have had a larger market and a wider range of viewers." Katich said.
"Forty percent of our viewers were college students," he said. "Eighteen to 28-year-olds made up 90 percent of the viewers."
Another problem faced by the station was the poor reception of the project by area merchants.
Katich said Lawrence merchants had a negative response to the music video format and that they were reluctant to invest advertising money into the station.
He said the merchants' negative responses to the music video programming had grown out of the hardrock format of stations similar to Music Television.
"The people who worked at the station didn't like the format of the programming either but were willing to go along with it because of the three-city format," Katich said.
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