University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 25, 1986
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Man to stand trial on cocaine charge
A Lawrence man charged with selling cocaine was ordered Wednesday to stand trial by Douglas County District Judge Ralph King.
Brian Cross, 22, 1012 Emery Road, was one of 21 people, including 12 former KU students, indicted in July on state and federal cocaine-related charges. Cross was charged with one count of selling one gram of cocaine.
The arrests were the result of a joint effort by various law-enforcement agencies, undercover police officers and informants.
Including Cross, seven of the people indicted on state charges have gone through preliminary hearings and face jury trials next month and in October.
Cross' trial was set to begin at 9 a.m. Oct. 20 in Douglas County District Court.
Cheering trvouts set
Junior varsity cheerleading and pompon tryouts will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Clinics will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. tonight through Wednesday in the sports pavilion.
Judges will choose six men and six women to make up the JV cheerleading squad, and are considering choosing two additional cheerleaders as alternates, said James Speed, a judge.
Two women also will be chosen to fill spots on the pompon squad.
Cheerleaders will be judged on tumbling and gymnastics, partner stunts, jumps, high kicks and cheering the "I'm a Jayhawk" fight song. Pompom girls will be judged on high kicks, cheering "I'm a Jayhawk" and a dance routine.
Arts ticket available
Patrons of the fine arts can get the same kind of deal sports fans can.
The all-performing arts ticket, like the all-sports ticket, allows students to attend a variety of events for one price. With the arts ticket, students may attend all 17 performances of the University Theatre, the University Concert Series and the Chamber Music Series. The $55 cost of the all-performing arts ticket is $38 less than what students would have to pay for individual tickets.
Students can reserve seats to any performance during the year, said Charla Jenkins, theatre public relations director.
If students failed to reserve all-performing arts tickets during fee payment, the tickets will be available at the Murphy Hall box office.
There is no limit on the number of tickets available, Jenkins said.
Corrections
Because of an editor's error, the boxed quote on page 1 of the Back-to-School issue was incorrectly attributed. It should have been attributed to David Epstein, student body president.
Because of a reporter's error, KU police officer Tom Stanton was improperly identified in a story in the Campus/Area section of the Back-to-School issue of the Kansas.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high around 90 and winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be fair with a low around 70 Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of after noon thunderstorms and a high around 90.
From staff and wire reports
Student activity fee to remain the same
By SALLY STREFF
The $28 student activity fee students pay at the beginning of each semester will not change for at least two years, the Student Senate Executive Committee decided yesterday.
Staff writer
The decision means that until at least the fall of 1988 student groups that receive money from the fee will get the same amount of regular Student Senate financing that they did this year.
SUUNEX voted to postpone for one year the revenue code hearings that determine financing for the groups.
Revenue code groups are large organizations, such as Legal Services for Students and KJHJ-FM, that serve many students. They request an annual level of financing every two years. The Senate allocates funds for these groups by splitting up the activity fee.
The vote was in response to the Senate's decision in the spring to change its elections from November to April. Because of that decision, elections will take place twice this academic
year, once in November and once in April.
Tim Henderson, finance committee chairman and the sponsor of the proposal, said he thought it was important to hold revenue code hearings after elections so that politics did not play a large role.
StudEx met for two hours yesterday before voting 5-3 to postpone the hearings. Members declared the situation an emergency and acted for the full Senate, which StudEx has the power to do under Senate rules.
"We have to move revenue code hearings as far away from elections as humanly possible," he said.
Previously, Student Senate elections occurred in November, and revenue code hearings started in January. After the date of elections was changed, senators also changed the time of revenue code hearings, moving them to this fall.
However, Henderson, Pratt senior, said that because elections were taking place twice this
year, hearings at any time would be influenced by politics.
"Representatives get much more attuned to what gets them elected as elections get closer." Henderson said before yesterday's meeting. "Someone says: 'Maybe if we give more money to them they'll support us.'"
Henerson sent letters to the 19 revenue code groups, saying he wanted to postpone the hearings until fall 1987. The set at those hearings would go into effect on July 1, 1988.
Only four groups wrote back, and only one of those four, Consumer Affairs, said hearings shouldn't be postponed.
David Hardy, law and graduate student representative to the University Senate Executive Committee, protested abandoning what he called the Senate's primary responsibility.
"Students expect us to watch their money," he said. "That's what we do as Senate, that's our most important function. I don't care if we do it in the spring or the fall, I think it's really bad not to do it."
Michael Anderson, co-chairman of the Senate Student Rights Committee, said the action might give a nine-month windfall to student groups, during which they wouldn't have to justify their spending to Senate.
But David Epstein, student body president, said, "We are going through immense changes. These are special circumstances."
Henderson asked, "What would bother students more? Postponing revenue code for one year or jacking up the student activity fee another $3 or $4 for people's political whies?"
Hardy questioned whether political wrangling about revenue code hearings occurred to the extent Henderson contended.
But Henderson said that by last April two coalitions already had formed for this November's elections.
"That was last April," Henderson said. "Can you imagine what it will be like in October?"
Ed Sellers, Belton, Mo., and Grant Cochran, Grandview, Mo., practiced before their turn in the Sixth Annual Kansas Fiddling and Picking Championships yesterday at South Park.
Pickers leave 'em grinning
Staff writer
Rv IANE ZACHMAN
Folk music lingered in the air yesterday afternoon in South Park. Children ate cotton candy, and dogs romped around in the midday sun.
The music provided a relaxed atmosphere for those picnicking, biking, walking or just out for an easy day before the beginning of school.
The Sixth Annual Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships had come to Lawrence.
But many performers were there
more for the enjoyment of playing rather than the competition.
For Theresa Gabauer, Overland Park, this was the first time she had entered the miscellaneous string instruments contest.
"We just come for fun," said Mary Franzke, Topeka, a contestant. "We've found a lot of people we haven't seen for a while and it's just fun to get together."
"I don't think we placed in the top three, but it was nice to spend the day listening to others and having fun," she said.
There was even a politician. Dennis Moore, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general, encouraged a crowd of about 75 people to sing "This Land Is Your Land" as he performed with his group, Denny and the Doo-Da's.
The audience was entertained by folk music performers between competing musicians, including the bands Full Circle and Last Kansas Exit, both of Lawrence, and The Sons of Ravon of Wichita. Dan Newton,
The Hodges family of Osakaoska try to edge their singing voices toward perfection before competing in the Sixth Annual Kansas Fiddling and Picking Championship yesterday in South Park. Beth Hodges, Osakaosaa freshman, her sister, Davi Kramer, and her brother, Brett Hodges, sang and played. Kramer's 3-year-old son, Zeb, gave the group a little moral support
Lincoln, Neb., also performed a "squeezebox" exhibition on accordian and concertina.
Steve Mason. Lawrence senior.
said, "I've played in all the festivals since they began in Lawrence. Today I'm in the folk singing and fiddle contest. It makes for a nice day in the park."
Member sues frat after fall
By a Kansan reporter
A member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity is seeking more than $20,000 in damages from his fraternity for injuries he received when he fell out of a second-story window at the group's house.
Timothy McGivern, Topeka junior, suffered head injuries and a broken shoulder in February 1985 after he fell out of his bedroom window at the house, 1540 Louisiana St., while getting into bed.
The suit was filed Aug. 13 in Douglas County District Court, naming the local chapter of the fraternity as the defendant. No court date has been set.
The suit states that McGivern suffered permanent disfigurement from the injuries.
keep the house free from "defects, hazards, and dangers." McGivern is seeking damages in excess of $10,000 for his injuries.
McGivern also is seeking additional damages in excess of $10,000 because he claims the fraternity was negligent by not providing screens, storm windows or other protective devices, such as bars, on the windows.
Representatives of the fraternity could not be reached for comment.
The suit charges that the fraternity was negligent because it failed to
Although McGivern refused to comment on the status of the suit, he said he would speak to his chapter tonight at a meeting about the suit
McGivern's attorney, Harold S. Youngentob, Topeka, said he would not comment on the status of a suit that had not been settled.
McGivern, who was a sophomore at the time of the accident, lived in the chapter house last year.
Woodruff's care for students remembered
By JOHN BENNER Staff writer
Staff writer
The name of Laurence C. Woodruff is familiar to any KU student who has visited Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. It was named in his honor.
His contemporaries remember him as a man who cared deeply for students and who for years made beginning biology classes more interesting than most of his students had anticipated.
Mr. Woodruff died Monday at the age of 84 and left behind many friends and acquaintances who agree that today's students would have been glad to know him.
"His great love of students and the University set a standard of excellence in our student services program that made a substantial
contribution to the great reputation this University enjoys today." Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a prepared statement.
Mr. Woodruff began his association with the University of Kansas as a freshman in 1920, and received a bachelor's degree in 1924, earning his master's in 1930. He received a doctorate in entomology from Cornell University in 1934.
After receiving his doctorate at Cornell, Mr. Woodruff served as an instructor there until 1934. He returned to KU that year as an assistant professor of biology and became an associate professor in 1939.
"With enrollment down during World War II, entomology professors were not needed," said
Raymond Nichols, chancellor emeritus. "Because our registrar had been called up for military service, we asked Laurence to act as registrar. He turned out to have a flair for administration — something I glad we were fortunate to spot."
Mr. Woodruff served as registrar through the war, then became the dean of men in 1947. He was appointed the first dean of students in 1953 and held that position until 1967 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 for administrators.
Mr. Woodruff's family suggests memorial contributions to the KU Endowment Association to create a Woodruff Scholarship Fund in Biological Sciences.
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