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Tuesday, December 1, 1992
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Lawrence man is charged with first-degree murder
A 21-year-old Lawrence man, who was arrested Friday in a double homicide near a Lawrence bar, formally was charged yesterday with two counts of first-degree murder.
Stephen B. Perdue was charged in the slaying of Topeka residents Jerry Thompson, 42, and Jim Buswell, 32. The men were shot to death with a semi-automatic handgun near Henry T's Bar & Grill, 3520 W. Sixth St., after a five-man brawl over the use of a pool table moved to the bar's parking lot, Lawrence police reported.
Perdue was given a preliminary hearing date of 13:0 p.m. Dek. 10 in Douglas County District Court.
KU alumna donates money to College through estate
Irene Nunemaker, a KU alumna and Teopeka philanthropist, yesterday committed $1 million through her estate to the University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Nunemaker previously gave $350,000 in 1971 for the Nunemaker Center, 1506 Engel Road, home to the KU honors program.
She graduated in 1922 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Her career included jobs with Capper Publications in Topeka and Avon cosmetics in New York. She is a member of the Kansas University Endowment Association board of trustees, the University of Kansas Alumni Association, the Museum of Art Patrons and the Chancellors Club, a KU donor organization.
Topeka man to be tried in attempted robbery
A 20-year-old Topeka man arrested nearly two weeks ago near McCollum Hall will stand trial on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery, a Douglas County district judge ruled yesterday.
Deondo Russell was arrested about 1 a.m. Nov. 19 after he and three juveniles fled the scene of an attempted robbery in a car.
Lawrence police allege that Russell and a male juvenile attempted to rob a 25-year-old Lawrence man near Ninth and Ohio streets but left after discovering the man had no money. Russell and the juvenile were armed with a handgun, police said.
Police reported that two juvenile females were also in the car, which was stopped in the parking lot.
Russell's trial was scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Dec. 11 in Douglas County District Court.
Trial of former KU athlete to be continued to January
The trial of a former KU football player charged in the murder of Jeffrey Holly will be heard at 9 a.m. on Jan.11 in Douglas County District Court, according to court records.
The trial of Ronnie A. Caldwell, a 26-year-old Lawrence resident, was scheduled to begin yesterday, but a motion to continue the trial postponed the case until the later date.
Caldwell and Rodney W. Harris, also a 26-year-old Lawrence resident, were charged in Holly's July death. Harris originally was charged with first-degree murder but entered into a plea bargain that allowed him to plead guilty to aiding a felon, a lesser charge, in return for testifying against Caldwell. Harris will be sentenced on the charge Dec. 17.
Both men were three-year football lettermen for the Jayhawks during the mid-1890s.
Police charge KU student with giving false fire alarm
A 20-year-old KU student yesterday was detained and given a notice to appear in court in connection with an Oct. 30 false fire alarm in Oliver Hall, KU police reported.
Seth H. Korey, Scottsdale, Ariz., sophomore and Hall mall Test, was charged in with giving a fax to a security agency.
Burdel Welsh, KU police representative, said that police received information regarding the false alarm through an investigation and an anonymous tip. The KU CrimeStoppers board will decide later whether to award the person who gave the tip, he said.
Kansan staff reports by Joe Harder and Lynne McAdoo
Nuclear reactor demolition
Demolition crews have almost finished dismantling a nuclear reactor housed in Burt Hall. The reactor, too small to produce power, was used for teaching and research from 1961 to 1984. It produced radiation used in biological and chemical experiments.
The size of the reactor:
almost 20 feet tall
about 20 feet wide at the base
seven-feet thick concrete walls
In 1986, crews removed the radioactive core, which measured about 1.5 feet wide, 1.5 feet long and two feet tall. Rods containing about two pounds of radioactive aluminum alloy were placed in caskets and shipped to North Carolina for burlal.
Research: KC Trauer Graphic: Sean M. Tevis
In September 1992, crews dismantled the 20-foot-tall aluminum tank that ran down the middle of the reactor structure. The reactor contained 200 gallons of water, cooled the reactor.
Stages of taking apart the reactor:
Also, workers used jackhammers to carve out part of the inner wall of the concrete barrier surrounding the reactor. That part of the concrete was exposed from radiation had been exposed to low-level radiation along with the aluminum tank.
Since Nov. 20, crews have been working to destroy the remaining concrete barrier. Small explosives are attached to the concrete; each set of explosives chips away at the structure in small, controlled blasts. They are detonated once or twice a day, pose no threat to the surrounding environment. Pedestrian traffic diversized last in case.
Radioactive materials were put in steel boxes and shipped to Washington for disposal.
Source: Kansan staff research
The demolition is expected to be completed in a few weeks. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to complete the next year and clear it for other uses.
'Kwanzaa' celebration comes to KU
Moore's greeting was the beginning of the Kwanzaa celebration — a week-long festival that commemorates the gathering of the African-American community, as well as honors past achievements and looks toward future accomplishments.
Todd Moore, a resident assistant at McColum Hall, greeted almost 30 people gathered in McColum's cafeteria last night with "Habarigan"? the Swahili term for "What is the good news?"
By J.R. Clairborne
Kansan staff writer
He then taught the audience the proper response of "Njema," which means "It is good."
Kwanzaa, Swailili for "first fruits of the harvest," is the African-American holiday created by Dr. Maulana "Ron" Karenga in 1966. The holiday, normally celebrated from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, is being held this week to avoid conflicts with final exams. Moore said.
The campus Kwanzaa program is sponsored by the Ellsworth and McColm Hall Black Caucuses. Moore is a chairperson of the Kwanzaa celebration and an adviser for the caucus at Ellsworth.
Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, spoke
Thompson said the greatest gains by African Americans were made between the 16th century – the introductory of slavery into the Americas and 1954. He said the present generation of African-American youth needed the self-determination to assemble people of consciousness to invoke new changes by the turn of the century. Those people could include people of all colors of the world, he said.
about Kujichagulia, or self-determination, one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
"You need to include all those people willing to die for what you believe in," Thompson said.
Students face finals and stress
Workshops to help students prevent and alleviate stress
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt
Kansan staff writer
With final exams just two weeks away, stress is already beginning to overtake some KU students as they begin to cram.
To help prevent and alleviate stress, students can attend "Preparing for Finals Exams," from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at 4051 Wescoe Hall. Sponsored by the Student Assistance Center, the workshop prepares students for final exams by reviewing time management, memory techniques, test anxiety and test-taking strategies.
Linda Marshall, assistant director of SAC, said students who had attended the workshop in the past 10 years had said that it was helpful. But she hopes students will use the techniques they learn not only for finals preparation but also indefinitely.
Marshall said students should begin each semester with final exams as their long-term goal by setting aside study time early in the semester.
"If students start planning early, it makes it a little less painful." she said.
Dan Trent, graduate student clinician with Counseling and Psychological Services, suggests study tips for dealing with stress and tests: prioritize classes for studying, exercise, eat healthy foods and plan enjoyable activities.
Most importantly, students should not use alcohol or overuse caffeine while studying, and they should get plenty of rest.
"The letdown is a real physiological let-down," he said of caffeine. "Do not use alcohol for coping with the stresses of school. It is a depressant. Sleep is important for learning and remembering information."
Trent said some students suffer from more severe cases of stress as a result of text anxiety. Two types of test anxiety include anxiety because a person is unprepared for a test and anxiety because a person is prepared. Symptoms include pancicking, a fast heartbeat, difficulty breathing, sweaty palms, a feeling of being overwhelmed, nervousness and nausea.
Students who suffer from test anxiety can seek counseling from CAPS, said Trent, who counsels a group every semester. The next session will begin in January.
"The end of the semester is not a good time to treat test anxiety," he said. "It is a long-term process."
But students who suffer from severe test anxiety cannot alleviate their stress overnight.
KU to get math computer lab
Kansan staff writer
By Muneera Naseer
The National Science Foundation and the University of Kansas have granted $50,000 each to the department of mathematics to create a new computer lab in Snow Hall.
Ben Leimkuhler, assistant professor of mathematics, said that he and two associate professors, David Lerner and Ralph Byers, wrote a proposal last fall for a grant from the Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement program at NSP in Washington.
He said that about 18 computers with high-resolution color monitors would be available for students enrolled in Math 320 and more advanced courses but that it was to the instructor's discretion to use the lab for course work
"The computers would make mathematics more alive," he said. "Students will have more visual images to work with than just working with pen and paper."
Mathematica is the software that will be used to visualize symbolic mathematics.
Lerner said the computers would not reduce a student's mathematical ability because the student would have to know how to apply the mathematical theories in solving the equations.
Students would be able to compute equations and tackle problems such as computing the spread of disease or population, he said.
He said the computers also would save time.
"To draw a decent curve for a solution to a mathematical equation may require 2,000 points," he said. "To calculate each point could easily take a half hour, that is if I have not made any mistakes. A computer can do it literally in seconds."
James Lighbourne, program director in the division of undergraduate education at NSF, said that the KU proposal was well focused and unique in the concept of using computers to deal with real-life mathematical problems.
He said NSF's program was to help institutions develop innovative and new approaches to instruction.
Replacing a pipeline
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Facilities operations employees repair a ruptured water line at Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road. Water service to Bailey Hall, Bailey Annex and Stauffer-Flint Hall yesterday was disrupted as the crew replaced a section of the pipeline and was restored about 4 p.m. Mike Miller, assistant director of mechanical systems and utilities, said that the pipe, which was burted six feet below street level and about 50 years old, possibly broke because of ground shifts or age.
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