THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.41
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
October 21, 1975
Homecoming rally Friday
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Jayhawk Boulevard will be filled with more than Cushman carts and Lawrence buses this Friday during KU's homecoming rally.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
has sent faculty memoranda suggesting
that students be dismissed from 12:30
classes at 1:10 p.m.
At that time, two units of the KU marching band will parade from Chi Omega fountain and from the Kansas Union, at Strong Hall, where the rally is planned.
Coach Bud Moore, football players, yell leaders and the pompon squad will be there, according to Bob Foster, director of the KU band.
The Jayhawks play Oklahoma State
sacrifice in the annual homecoming
football game.
Capote on campus
Tom Hirick, "Voice of the Jayhawk"
UCLA U.S. sports network, will be master of
oremetal
"We'll keep it to a snappy 15-minute rally. The coach and the players will talk a little bit," Hedrick said yesterday. "Homecoming is for the old grads coming back, but it's also for the students. It should be more than just another football game."
Truman Capote spoke to an audience of about 759 last night in Hoe Auditorium. Before the show, Capete took a few minutes in
A sound system has been provided by kLWN, which will also have a remote unit (RU).
Hertrick said a larger audience and better quality band would make the rally different from this year.
his dressing room to rest and work out the last minute details of his program.
Capote tells tale of story teller
By NANCY RICHARDS
Staff Writer
With a few exceptions, author Truman
wrote that he had never been wrong; were
seldom wrote for live paraphrasing.
Capote spoke to 750 students in Hoch Auditorium.
Capote said that as he traveled to the University, he asked himself why a writer selected one of four or five stories in his head and then wrote the one and disgusted
He said one reason was that many stories were better told than read. Capote said narrative stories depended on a storyteller, and it didn't matter how much he wrote, stories that would be best when written.
Capote illustrated his view of a writer's creative process with two stories. The first was a true story that he had decided not to write, which he told to his audience.
"There's a great deal of difference between writing a story and telling a story," he
HE THEN READ one of his stories, "A Christmas Memory," Capote said it was an autobiographical story whose heroine was the author's niece. The story was Capone as a 7-year-old child.
Capote said some changes were involved in the Christmas Memory" although it was not explicitly stated.
"It has been transmuted by that strange prism of the eye." he said. "It has been born in it."
"A Christmas Memory" was a composite of several stories or remembrances from a boy's early Christmas. The Christmasmas of the late couple, the old lady cousin, whom he called his friend.
CAPOTE'S READING of the story expressed the soft warmth his work had captured. The story was filled with memories of little oddities, that make and enrich a life.
Questions from the audience followed Capote's reading of "A Christmas Memory." During this part of the evening he told us about his career and some of his future plans.
He said that unlike Proust, who deliberately disgusted many of his factual characters to the point of transposing their sexes in a leepping with a person's real sense in his speech.
Capote said that he blended journalism and fiction together in "In Cold Blood" and
he thought that the use of real characters could apply to his novels as well.
The author described his personal writings habits as being unlike those of writers who chose to work on a steady basis of six months or for six hours every day.
"The most writers do is six hours work," he said, "but two hours of that is spent just fooling around--sharpening pencils and carrying on."
Overwriting is often the result of intense concentration, Capote said. He said a writer needed to work at a personal pace, but one that didn't exhaust the creative process.
"If you want to create a certain feeling in a reader, you must of course have felt that feeling very strongly," he said. "But you must have little of the feeling in yourself. You should feel coldness, but without any emotion to interfere with the creative process."
Capote said one of his theories was that a
The author said he wasn't going to work with the Patti Heart case right now. He's not a lawyer.
"I don't think that it's fair now that it is in the courts," he said. "I think that people should leave it alone until she has her day in court."
Authorities await license request
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
City officials are waiting for an application for a cereal malt beverage license from the University of Kansas to allow the sale of beer in the Kansas Union.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday that he designed an application to help apply for the job.
The Board of Regents at their regular monthly meeting Friday in Topeka, approved the sale of 3.2 per cent beer at the six-state supported Kansas universities.
Vera Mercer, city clerk, said she had expected to have the application for the beer license early yesterday morning. She said that if she had received the application, it probably would have been on tonight's Lawrence City Commission agenda.
The city commission must approve all requests for beer licenses. Before they approve a request from the University, they must pass a point of contact and building inspection to approve the Dishonor.
Mercer said that if the application was in our office today, it might be on the computer.
Dykes said he thought a representative of the Union would make the application soon, but he wasn't sure who the representative was.
Frank Burge, director of the Union, was out of town yesterday and was unavailable
COMMISSIONER MARNIE ARGER-NEGRO Regions made the decision so soon. She said that perhaps the Union also had been taken by surprise and the application hadn't worked.
Early last month, Argersinger drafted a letter from the city commission that asked the Regents to allow the sale of beer in the Union.
The letter was written because commissioners had received complaints from residents living around 14th and Ohio streets about nearby bars.
The residents said students who frequented the Wagon Wheel and Jiahawk building were among them.
Three weeks ago, the commission decided to close 14th Street from Tennessee Street to the campus during home football games to alleviate the problem. The commission
decided that most of the problems occurred during the games. They also decided that John Wooden, owner of the Wagon Wheel, would have to build a fence around his property to keep drinking students off the street. The fence was finished yesterday.
Consumption of beer is allowed in the Union; sale of beer isn't.
City Manager Buford Watson said he also was happy with the Revenants' action.
Watson said it was possible that the city now wouldn't have to close 14th Street during the home football games if the traffic congestion died down.
However, Watson said, he doubted whether business at the Wheel would dominate the market.
MAYOR BARKLEY CLARK said he didn't think the crowds would subside enough for the city to leave 14th Street open during games.
"Ultimately," he said. "I think the city needs to consider some zoning changes."
John Wooden, owner of the Wheel, has said he wants to change the zoning of the wheel.
The Wheel is on property that is zoned residential-dormitory. Since the Wheel is a commercial business it can't expand according to city ordinances.
Jobs open on Kansan
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the spring semester Kansean will be accepted noon oct 31 in 168 Fulfr Hall.
Application forms are available in 105 Flint; the Student Senate office, 106B Kansas Union; the office of the dean of men, 228 Strong Hall; and the office of the dean of women, 222 Strong.
The Kansan Board will interview candidates and select a spring editor and business manager Nov. 3.
Laptad's is site of barn-burners
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
Med Center works on anti-cancer drug
Staff Writer
By DIANE M. WILSON
Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The Mid-America Cancer Center Program (MACCP), directed by James T. Lowman at the University of Kansas Medical Center, will soon coordinate cancer research, speed information from researchers to patients, and provide cancer education and data analysis in Kansas and western Missouri.
Lowman said Friday that MACCP qualified as comprehensive by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in clinical treatment, delivery of information, treatment to outlying areas and basic research, especially drug development.
Higuchi said that Mathias P. Mertes, professor of pharmaceutical medicine also participated in cancer drug research, training and developing new chemical species
MACCP coordinates research at KU, Kansas State University, the Midwest Research Institute and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Lowman said.
The KU anti-cancer drug development is under the direction of Takeru Higuchi, chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, in association with Arnold Repta, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Higuchi said KU's pharmaceutical chemistry department found "effective and safe ways to get a chemical into a patient." Some drugs work best as capsules, some as injectable fluids and some as drinkable fluids. he said.
A chemistry laboratory is the beginning of a system of drug development that will eventually be entirely directed by MACCP, according to Lowman.
In addition, Lowman said KU produced small quantities of new compounds for
testing and some radioactive labels.
Radioactive labels are tiny amounts of radioactive material put into drug tests so the body can detect them through the body to determine how they work.
A new drug is next tested in tissue cultures of both animals and human beings. Lowman said only persons for whom there are possible subjects for testing new drugs.
The next step in drug development is toxicity testing, in which the drug is tested on animals to see what its side effects are, he said. Changes are made in the chemical structure of the drug to avoid as many side effects as possible.
Sometimes it's hard to tell who really
wants it. Students at Apted or
University of Kansas students.
The production of the new drug in small quantities for testing purposes and the radioactive labeling of drugs couldn't be done on a large enough scale at KU, he said, unless a new laboratory was made available.
Lowman said MACCP wanted drugs which were developed at KU to be tested in other laboratories coordinated by MACCP, instead of going through NCI in Washingt
Lowman said that MACCP's coordination of the entire development process would reduce the time between development of a new drug and its use for patient treatment.
except for those two areas, he said. ACCP could hasten the development of new technologies.
Laptad, maintenance carpenter foreman in KU's residence hall system, rents his barn to KU living groups and social organizations for parties. The barn is filled to the rafters with denim-clad students and on Saturday or Saturday night of fall semesters. They gather to drink coffee in the country barn just outside of Lawrence.
"We need federal help in only two areas" he said.
Since the scientists involved in all phases of the development will be in touch with each other through MACCP, problems with the drugs can be ironed out sooner and more efficiently than under the present system, be said.
Sometimes a drug is "shelved at the National Cancer Institute for being inef-
See CANCER DRUG page three
Officially, it is $1\frac{1}{2}$ miles north of the East Lawrence turnipke entrance. But for simplicity, Lapad tells his guests to head north out of Lawrence and look for a barn with LAPTAD'S and a large Jayhawk lit by floodlight on its side.
IT ALL STARTED in 1964, Laptad said last week, when his daughter, then a KU teacher, left the school to let his fraternity have a party in the barn. In those days Laptad ran a dairy. About 30 members of Triangle fraternity spent an hour at the barn for lunch, that they were initiating a KU tradition.
hugs have changed from that first party. Laptapd has sold his dairy and turned the pasture into a parking lot. He's reinforced the floorboards to support the people, sometimes as many as 200, who stomp on the floor to the rhythm of their iron rock 'n' fire. The second floor features flat walls putting up "no smoking" signs and closed off his straw-filled loft.
The night of the first party, there were no bandstands, light shows or heaters. Unacquainted to the blaring music, Laptad's dairy cows had trouble getting to sleep in the pasture just outside the barn's whitewashed walls. Laptad said.
WOMEN HAVE A RESTROOM now in the back room where Laptop once milked his cows. But men still have to rely on their own resourcefulness.
"I have 640 acres here," Laptad tells them. "If that's not enough, there are 640 acres."
Laptop and his wife, Margaret, have countless memories from the years they've opened their gates to KU's social life. One of the most recent occurrences before the Laptop's sold the dairy.
A fraternity, she said, signed a contract for a party to begin at 7 p.m. one Saturday. She was in town earlier than while the Laptap's weren't home. Driving along the highway, Mrs. Laptap said she
felt sorry for the poor farmer whose cows were wandering loose. She said she felt even sorrier when she learned that the farmer was her husband.
She found out that someone had left a gate open on his way to the woods to attend the party. The couples had to leave their beer and go back to the cows' coax the cows back to captivity, she said.
The Laptads remember students, especially from "back East," who had never been on a farm before coming to a barn party, they said.
One girl was delighted to finally get acquired with country life, Mrs. Laptad said. The girl summarized her excitement by saying, "Oh, what a darling barn." An
untrusting boy asked Laptad, "Is this a real barn?"
Several years ago, Mrs. Laptad said she answered a knock at her door about midway through a passage. Standing before her, she said, was a barefoot 6- footed football player, who wore a helmet and told her he had a splinter in it. Mrs. Laptad removed the splinter from the foot.
The Laptops charge $60 a night for the use of their barn. If it's a cold—parties have been held in sub-zero temperatures—they charge $15 a day. The heaters they've offered for 30 years, cost $22.
The barn is so popular that Laptad said it is not unusual for reservations to be made in the same building.
Laptad said the popularity is caused by the barn itself, which has remained largely unchanged since it was built in 1889. The two-story structure was built by Laptad's grandfather who acquired the property in 1906 and later became chunks of the Midwest to finance railroad expansion. Union Pacific trains still roar through the middle of the farm.
The first time there was a party in the barn was the day it was built, Lapsed said. The next year he had a party.
from KU, Kansas State University, Baker University and Washburn University have
See BARN page three
Party barn
Max Lapatida's barn, north of the east turpentine entrance along Highway 24-59, is the site of many weekend parties for KU
Staff Photo
students. Laptad has been renting the old dairy barn to student organizations from as far away as K-State since 1964.