Hitting the books
Head football coach Bob Valesente insists that his players are students first and athletes second. And some of them are learning the hard way.
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The seemingly never-ending saga of campus lighting promises to last until at least winter as further delays bog down the project.
In the dark
Story, page 15
Big tan on campus
The first day of classes should provide a prime chance for summer's sun worshipers to show off on Wescoe Beach under calm, sunny skies.
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Vol. 97, No.2 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday
August 25,1986
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Scott Joy, Lawrence senior, front, and Steve Frank, Prairie Village senior, navigate their way down the Kansas River.
River race makes splash for charity
Staff writer
By PAMELA SPINGLER
With a thud, and then a splash,
the three students in the canoe hit
the water of the Kansas River as
the vessel turned belly-up in the
afternoon sun.
The three managed to drag the overturned boat to safety on the nearby bank. After a quick beer, they tried again — this time successfully.
Meanwhile, Saturday afternoon's Kutty's Ark Raft Race had begun without them.
A pirate whaler, an inflatable raft, canoes, inner tubes and a giant Styrofoam box were some of the crafts floating on the river for the third-annual charity event
sponsored by Theta Chi fraternity and Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
The race started at Riverfront Park and ended at Burcham Park, two miles downstream. And the only rule was that the crafts couldn't have a motor.
Monday Morning
"You could swim it if you wanted to," said Scott Petry, Lawrence senior and race chairman.
The race had three categories -- for individual competitors, pairs and teams of three or more. There were nine entries.
Individuals paid $5 to be in the race, pairs paid $10 and teams
paid $20. T-shirts also were sold, and proceeds went to the Douglas County Council on Aging.
Petry made no estimate on how much money was raised.
The one-man race included three inner tubes, an inflatable plastic raft and a large, Styrofoam box.
The Styrofoam box won
Don Welling, a 55-year-old Baldwin City resident, captained the cube in the finish line in 34 minutes and 45 seconds, amid cheers from a crowd of about 50 racers and spectators that had gathered on shore.
"I didn't hurry," Welling said.
"The current carried me along. All I did was raddle across the river.
things . . in fact. I saw a blue heron as I was floating down."
he said he chose the giant box because it was handy, and it was cheap.
"It's a packing box of some kind, and I got it out of a trash dumpster years ago," he said.
"It is very peaceful. You see
senior, was one of four Delta Upsilon fraternity members in the race. They manned rafts and inner tubes and wore 33-cent sunglasses.
"We talked about entering it, and it sounded like fun," Sinclair said. "We wanted to support a great philanthropy."
In the two-man race, two canoes
See RAFTS, p. 5, col. 5
McCollum no place for freshmen,some say
Staff writer
By NICOLE SAUZEK
The only sound on the 10th floor of McCollum Hall Friday morning was a woman singing softly. The hall was clean, the lobby neat.
Meanwhile, five floors down, chaos seemed to reign
There, the elevator door opened and a bicycle sped into the lobby. Over inoleum and carpet, the rider and bicycle weaved through bodies and turned toward the south wing.
As the hall door opened, a wave of deafening noise gushed into the lobby. As many as four separate stereos blared different songs as the biker stopped to yell down the littered hall for a friend to wake up.
In McCollum, 389 upperclassmen and graduate students occupy the eighth, ninth and 10th floors. Eight hundred freshman live on the floors below.
The situation has the upperclassmen and graduate students so upset that many of them
want to leave the hall They are concerned because McCollum was supposed to be a hall primarily for them.
But freshmen residents say they think the other students are overreacting.
"By putting so many freshmen into the hall, the atmosphere is never going to be the same," said Lawren Havlik, Hutchinson graduate student. "Now, it's as if a tradition's been broken."
According to contract terms, McCollum is a hall reserved for upperclassmen and graduates only. Freshmen are to be placed in the hall only if other residence halls are filled.
At the request of many of his fellow residents, Chris Moore, Junction City graduate student, met Thursday with Ken Stoner, director of student housing, about moving graduate students to another hall.
"I think that they have a legitimate concern." Stoner said. "The problem started when less graduate students applied to live in McCollium. It's not that we're giving preference to freshmen.
Lack of year-round housing at the residence halls has caused many of the graduate students to find other places to live. During the summer break, graduates must move out of the residence halls, find other housing and then return to the residence halls in the fall.
We just have to adjust the numbers to who apply." Two years ago, 50 freshmen were assigned to live in McCollum. Last year, 400 were admitted. This year, 800 of a total 1,189 residents are freshmen.
"The only answer is to change the policy." Stoner said. "The grad students' complaints will be relayed to the department of student housing soon for discussion."
He said he did not know how soon any changes might take place.
Moore said he also might start a petition drive if action wasn't taken soon.
"Noise is a paranoia that we have," Moore said.
See MCCOLLUM, p. 5, col. 1
County judge to decide fate of KU lawsuit
Rv SHANF HILLS
Staff writer
A Douglas County Judge could decide within 60 days whether a patrol sergeant for Campus Parking Services may sue the University of Kansas for age discrimination.
Edwin Fenstemaker, 59, a 35-year veteran of Parking Services, filed a suit in June that said he was demoted two levels — from lieutenant to parking officer — because of his age.
Fenstemaker is seeking more than $100,000 in compensatory and punitive damages and back pay that still is accumulating.
The suit also says that Donald Kearns, director of Parking Services, exerted substantial psychological force to coerce Fenstemaker into accepting the demotion in 1984.
A University discrimination hearing panel met to review the case and hear testimony in May. The panel concluded that Kearns had discriminated against Fenstemaker because of his age.
Based on a 1984 memorandum written by Kearns, the panel concluded that Kearns forced Fenstemaker to accept a demotion. Kearns issued an unsatisfactory evaluation in the memo and gave Fenstemaker 36 hours to resign or accept a demotion.
"It is the view of the panel that the gravity of the situation required more time for a decision, and that Mr. Fenstemaker was coerced into requesting a voluntary demotion," said Deanell Tacha, then vice chancellor for academic affairs, in a memo summarizing the panel's conclusions.
The panel also suggested that the demotion of Fenstemaker be less severe. Fenstemaker was promoted from parking officer to sergeant and now is a full-time sergeant with Parking Services.
Fenstemaker could not be reached for comment.
James Rumsey, Fenstemaker's lawyer, said Friday that he would not comment on pending litigation.
Kearns, who was named as a defendant in the suit along with the University, referred all questions to Mary Prewitt, special assistant attorney to University general counsel.
The suit should reach the oral argument stage within 60 days. Prewitt said Friday, at which time a judge issued a motion to dismiss the case or send it to trial.
Prewitt filed a motion July 14 saying that Fenstemaker's suit should be dismissed for several reasons.
See DEMOTION. p. 5, col. 1
Staff writer
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Athletes' drug tests increased by policy
Chancellor to speak at 9:30
Student athletes will face more drug tests — both announced and random — and stricter penalties for drug use because of policy changes the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation made earlier this month.
In addition, all athletes under the jurisdiction of the KUAC will be tested, Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said last week. In the past, only a small percentage had been tested.
The program also may include cheerleaders, the pompon squad and mascots. Monte Johnson, athletic director, and an administrative staff committee are considering the addition of the spirit squads to those tested under the $2\frac{1}{2}$-year-old program.
"Our main goals are to educate, deter, rehabilitate and then counsel," Hunter said. "We're not trying to be tricky or deceitful. We want to educate the athletes about the use and abuse of drugs."
The stricter drug policy will cost the sports medicine department $23,350 for fiscal year 1987, an increase of 36.5 percent from the previous fiscal year. Last year's program cost $17,106.
Each athlete will be tested a minimum of twice during the academic year. Both times the test results should be submitted, and might be notified of one or both tests.
athletes who do not pass the drug test. Athletes who test positive for drug use could lose their scholarships and the right to participate.
Athletes' urine is tested primarily for use of cocaine, amphetamines, anabolic steroids and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), found in marijuana, said Lynn Bott, director of sports medicine.
Penalties also will be tougher for
After 40 days, the athlete is tested again. From then on, testing continues randomly every month until the end of the athlete's academic year.
"On the third offense, the athlete is subject to suspension, loss of financial aid, or both," Bott said. "Perma-
Previously, an athlete was tested during the preseason physical and once randomly during the year.
The first time an athlete tests positive, the KUAC Drug Policy Committee, which is Bott, Hunter and the player's head coach, is informed of the test results. The athlete then is informed and advised to get professional counseling.
See TESTING, p. 5, col. 3
Convocation to kick off semester
By NANCY BARRF
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will give the 121st annual Opening Convocation address at 9:30 a.m. today in Hoch Auditorium.
All classes will be canceled from 9:30 to 10:20 a.m., and the entire University community is invited to attend the ceremonies. Student Body President David Epstein will give the welcoming address.
The University announced Thursday that Budig would present both the Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards and the Chancellor's Club Teaching Professorships at the convocation.
The Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards were established in May 1981 by Takeru Higuchi, Board of Regents distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chemistry. Four awards of $10,000 each are given annually to benefit outstanding KU researchers.
Richard T. DeGeorge, University distinguished professor of philosophy, who will receive the Balfour Jeffrey Award for his research in the humanities and social sciences.
This year's recipients are:
Jan Roskam, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of aerospace engineering, will receive the Irvin Youngberg Award for research achievement in the applied sciences.
Lester A. Mitscher, University distinguished professor and chairman of medicinal chemistry, will receive the Dolph Simons Sr. Award for his research in the biomedical sciences.
William J. Bell, professor of entomology and of physiology and cell biology, will receive the Olin Petefish Award for his research in the basic sciences.
The Chancellor's Club Teaching Professorships were established in 1981. Recipients are given $5,000 annually while they teach at the University.
This year's recipients of the Chancellors Club awards are:
N Ray Hiner, professor of history and of educational policy and administration.
Symbols redesigned 20 years ago
Norman L. Martin, professor of diagnostic radiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Lawrence A. Sherr, professor of business administration.
By NANCY BARRE
Staif writer
Today's Opening Convocation marks the 20th anniversary of the redesigning of three symbolic KU relics — the ceremonial mace, collar and official seal.
Two KU professors refurbished the mace, collar and seal and presented them to the University in 1966 in honor of its centennial celebration.
Carlyle H. Smith, professor emeritus of design, redesigned the mace and collar. Elden Teft, professor of art, redesigned the University seal, which is on the collar and is embossed on all official University documents.
The mace, a large wooden staff carried by the marshal of the University at official functions such as convocation and commencement, was designed by Smith. The collar resembles a large chain, and the seal is in the center of a metal medallion
attached to the collar.
"When I was redesigning it (the seal), I tried to work from what was there, but no one knew where the original design came from," Tefft said.
"Although we still don't know where the first seal came from, we
did run into some interesting things when we researched it."
He said that on the original seal, the biblical image of Moses at the burning bush made Moses appear bald. However, upon further research through KU's department of religious studies, he found that Moses originally had been wearing a turban that had been worn away in time.
On the newer seal, Teft replaced the turban. He said he wanted to modify the seal, employing historical elements, rather than completely change it.
"I just wanted to find out the truth about Moses' baldness, and make the lettering more legible," Tefft said.
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Smith also preserved historical elements in his design. He used wood from the staircase of old Fraser Hall to make the mace's eight-pound wooden shaft.
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