University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 27, 1986
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News Briefs
Hearings set to start for 2 ex-KU students
Preliminary hearings for two former KU students arrested on cocaine-related charges are scheduled this morning in Douglas County District Court.
Robert F. Bell, 35, is charged with one count of selling cocaine. Kevin Sommer, 20, is charged with one count of possession of possession of cocaine.
Both were arrested late last month after a yearlong investigation that led to the arrest of 21 people.
The hearings will begin at 9 a.m. at the Justice and Law Enforcement Building, 11th and New Hampshire streets.
Honors post filled
Sharon Brehm, professor of psychology, will become the director of the College Honors Program and an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in January.
Brehm will replace David Katzman, director and an associate dean since 1981, who will resume teaching in the history department, said Robert Lineberry, dean of the college.
Lineberry made the selection July 31 after a committee of students and faculty made recommendations. A search for a new director began in the spring after Katzman decided to return to teaching Lineberry said.
Brehm joined the KU psychology department in 1975.
Ex-student to speak
Latin American Solidarity will start a fall education series with a rice and beans supper at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
'After the supper, Rhonda Neugebauer, a former student and activist at the University of Kansas, will give a presentation titled, "An Update on the Nicaraguan Revolution."
Neugebauer returned Saturday from a two-week trip to Nicaragua, which was sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association.
The dinner and presentation is open to the public, but a donation of $1.50, to help pay for medical supplies for El Salvador and program expenses, is requested.
grand expensives This will be the first in a series of eight dinners and presentations
Where to call
Readers who have ideas for stories or photographs may call the Kansan at 864-430.
For ideas about campus and area coverage, ask for Abbie Jones, planning editor. For arts and entertainment ideas or On Campus items, ask for Grant Butler, arts editor.
For sports, ask for for Frank Hansel, sports editor, and for photographs, ask for Jacki Kelly, photo editor.
To report any problems or complaints, ask for Lauretta McMillen, editor, or Kady McMaster, managing editor.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly stated the number of violent crimes that occurred in 1985. The number should have been 39.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high near 75. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 15 miles per hour. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low near 50.
From staff and wire reports.
Only parts of Towers remodeled
Some laud, others boo work
By NANCY BARRE
Amy Schwartzburg is happy with her remodeled apartment at Jayhawk Towers, but two floors away. Denise Stockton thinks she's getting a 'raw deal' in her old-looking room.
dear in her door looking round.
Ascending the staircase from the third floor of Tower B to the fifth floor one can see the difference.
The third floor apartments sport brand new beige carpeting, mini-blinds, lights, refrigerators.
On the fifth floor, things are dimmer and dingier. The carpet is a faded, spotted greenish-blue, the rooms have dim ceiling lamps and no dishwashers, and the refrigerators are only small cubes.
The office of student housing has spent about $306,000 on the apartments since the remodeling project began in the spring. In addition to redecorating some of the interiors and adding new appliances, the office has added a new roof to one building and waterproofed two others.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said KU, which has owned Jayhawker Towers since 1981, started the remodeling project in order to attract more tenants.
"We figured we'd spend a little money in order to get more people living there." Stoner said. "The
Some of the students with remodeled rooms are delighted, but others, whose rooms haven't been worked on, are a little disgruntled.
Occupancy in the towers already has increased by 150 students from last year, he said.
higher occupancy rate would then eventually cover the cost of remodeling."
'We've got this little tiny refrigerator, and they expect four people to use it, and everything just doesn't fit.'
Rina Taufan, Jakarta, Indonesia, junior
Schwartzburg, Lawrence junior, whose apartment has been redone, said she was pleased with the results. She belongs to the Pi Beta Phi sorority, which rented six apartments in the complex to house an overflow of members from the sorority house across the street.
"So far everything's been great. The new carpeting makes all the difference," Schwartzburg said.
"They're giving us a raw deal," Stockton said.
Other residents expressed dissatisfaction with the older, tiny refrigerators.
"We didn't get new lighting, new carpeting, a new refrigerator, or anything. I don't understand why some people got everything done, and we didn't get anything done."
"We've got this little tiny refrigerator, and they expect four people to use it," said Rina Taufan, Jakarta, Indonesia, junior, "and everything just doesn't fit."
Some rooms have been completely remodeled while others haven't received new carpeting. Stoner said was because the office wanted to remodel one floor at a time.
"We couldn't do everything, so we've tried to do a whole floor, or a whole tower at once, rather than one room here and one room there," he said.
Although there is no projected completion date or estimated total cost for all the towers, Stoner said the housing office planned to continue with the remodeling project.
Brenda Steele/KANSAN
Facilities operations department employees T.J. Reyes, left, and Marvin Robb prepare the area around the Vietnam Memorial for landscaping Robb said that sod would be laid today and that shrubs would be planted
Program is tabled by NASA
soon. Reyes said the University planned to have the area landscaped in time for the first home football game, Sept. 13 when KU plays North Carolina.
Dirty job
By BRIAN SNYDER
The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in January not only set the shuttle program back years, it also put the Journalist-in-Space selection process on hold indefinitely, the project's director said yesterday.
Staff writer
The goal of the Journalist-in-Space project is to choose and train a journalist to ride aboard a shuttle.
"NASA asked us to cease all selection activity on July 1," Eric Johnson, the director, said yesterday from Columbia, S.C. "and we informed the 40 semifinalists that we would comply with their wishes. We closed our office at that time."
Meanwhile, semifinalist don't know whether they'll ever get a chance to ride in space. Diane Eicher, a reporter for the Denver Post, said she didn't know whether or when the process would continue.
"I think the whole thing is done for but I like to hope it will get started again," Eicher said.
Johnson said the selection process would resume after NASA had approved a new design for the shuttle and had successfully completed two or three flights. It would be possible for the selection to continue before the end of the decade, he said.
In a letter to Richard Musser, KU associate professor of journalism and a regional selection project coordinator, Johnson said there probably would be a delay of several years before NASA would return to normal launch operations.
However, when an opportunity arises to ride the shuttle, the 40 national semifinalists would be contacted.
"Mankind will go on with space exploration," White said. "This is an opportunity to cover an important news story. The shuttle will be the press box. The program is shelved now, but it's still a viable project."
Eicher's feelings were echoed by Robert White, a journalist representing the Mexico, Mo., Ledger. He said he hoped the delay in the selection process was only temporary.
Staff writer
Hotel to return to luxury look
By KIRK KAHLER
The rubble inside the Eldridge House Hotel makes the historic building resemble a bomb-torn casualty from World War II.
But Nancy Longhurst, the hotel's general manager, said that when the $3 million renovation is completed in December, it will be comparable to the Alameda and Raphael hotels on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. Mo.
Construction began last month to convert the structure, at Seventh and Massachusetts streets, from low-cost apartments back to a luxury hotel. Longhurst said the restoration was
an effort to return the structure to its appearance when it was rebuilt in 1925.
The hotel, rich in history that dates back to the Civil War, was placed on the Kansas State Historical Register this weekend and was recommended to the Federal Historical Register for approval. Longhurst said.
In addition to guest rooms, Longhurst visited visitors would see a doorman in full dress take baggage and guests to the front desk and on to their rooms.
Longhurst said the hotel would offer 18 luxury suites. Each will have two telephones, a refrigerator and a wet bar,
Other services offered by the hotel will be a gift shop, a piano lounge, three retail shops and an outdoor pavilion, Longhurst said.
Construction should be completed by Dec. 31, Longhurst said.
Longhurst said the Kansas Sports Bar and Grill and the Eldridge House Restaurant and Club that once occupied first-floor space in the building, both closed July 1.
The bar will reopen in the basement under the new name of The Big Six Sports Bar and Grill, named after the first bar in the basement of the hotel, Longhurst said. The restaurant will also reopen but has not been renamed, Longhurst said.
Enrollment up in initial count
By a Kansan reporter
Administrators' expectations that the student population would increase were met Monday, when the semester's first official head count showed that 3.8 percent more students have enrolled this fall.
This year, 939 new students enrolled at KU, bringing the total number to 25,599, including those on the Lawrence campus and at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Last year, 24,660 students were enrolled on the first day.
"I am gratified that such a large number of able students find that Kansas University can assist them in meeting their educational objectives," Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a prepared statement.
increased 3 percent, with 641 students, bringing the total to 21.81. The Med Center gained 111 new students.
Off-campus enrollment increased by 187 students, or 15.2 percent, for a total of 1,415 students. Off-campus enrollment includes those students who attend classes at the federal penitentiary in Leavenhood, at the Regents Center in Overland Park, and in Topeka for the Capitol Complex program.
Complex program. Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, said that the number of enrolled students usually increased as late enrollment continued.
On the Lawrence campus, the size of the student body
However, the first-day figures include part-time and full-time students. Full-time figures, which are the ones used to determine the financing that the University gets from the state, will not be computed until enrollment ends Sept. 16, Eversole said.
Staff writer
Network to change location next year
By JANE ZACHMAN
Just as students have settled into their new homes for the year, the University of Kansas AudioReader Network is looking forward to moving.
The audio-reader network is planning to relocate to the former Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house, 1120 W. 11th St., by next summer, after the house is renovated.
The fraternity is now located at 1100 Indiana St., former home of the Acacia fraternity.
Since the network, now located in Sudder House, 1150 W. 11th St., began broadcasting in the early 1970s, the lack of sufficient space has been a constant concern, said Rosie Hurwitz, network director.
The network is a service for the blind and handicapped which broadcases to at least 6,500 audio-reader receivers in use in homes, nursing homes and hospitals.
Hurwitz said the University's network mainly served the Lawrence and Kansas City areas, providing recorded materials and audio equipment.
Through the Association of Radio Reading Services' National Tape Exchange Program, the KU
"The new building will finally put us under a dry roof and give us room to add some badly needed equipment," Hurwitz said.
network distributes an average of 20,000 hours of tape each year to other radio reading services and individuals.
She said that in 1975 a 50-foot mobile home had been added to provide more room but that the growing network still had been crowded for space.
The Sudder House allows the network only 450 square feet. The new building will provide 4,000 square feet of usable space.
The network's services will be located on the first two floors of their new location, Hurwitz said. The attic will be used for storage and equipment. The garage will be an engineering workshop and will provide library space.
"The project is really stretching us." Harwitz said. "We don't have the funds to renovate the basement area vet."
Half of the $300,000 for renovations was a gift from the Louis and Dolpha Baehr Charitable Foundation of Paola and the other half was raised by matching donations. Hurwitz said.