SPORTS: The Kansas swim teams will play host to their first meet tomorrow, Page 7.
图
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.55
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
4.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6.1992
ADVERTISING: 864-4358
(USPS 650-640)
NEWS: 864-4810
Duck hunters find body
79-year-old man drowns in lake
By Lynne McAdoo and Joe Harder
Kansas staff writers
The body of a 79-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man was discovered yesterday floating in the water off Clinton Lake's western shore.
Two duck hunters discovered the body of James Cunningham Sr. near a 1984 Oldsmobile Omega. The blue, four-door vehicle with Wyandotte County license plates was resting 27 feet from shore in approximately one foot of water. Cunningham was pronounced dead at the scene by Carol Moddrell, Douglas County coroner.
Moddrell ruled the death as a drowning after an autopsy yesterday afternoon. She said she was unable to determine how long Cunningham had been dead because of the low temperature of the water.
"It was like being under refrigeration," she said.
The car had entered the water from County Road 2, a gravel road that directly enters the lake $4/2$ miles south of Stull.
Douglas County Sheriff Ll. Mike Suitt said that Cunningham was reported missing Tuesday by his family in Kansas City.
play, but at this point there's no reason to suspect it."
Suit said that Curningham apparently had gotten out of his car after driving into the lake.
"Basically, he's just an older gentleman who sometimes has problems remembering where he's at," he said. "Nobody knows why he was in the lake."
Judy Oshburn, operations coordinator at the Douglas County Sheriffs Department, yesterday said, "We're not rulining out the possibility of foul
Cunningham was the driver and only occupant of the vehicle, according to information released by the sheriff's department.
Steve Sheldon of Lenexa and Steve Carter, duck hunters from Topeka, said that they discovered the body between 9:30 and 4:54 a.m. yesterday.
Osburn said the department received the call at 9:59 a.m. The sheriff's department, Lawrence and Clinton fire departments and the Douglas County Ambulance Service responded to the call.
Julia Clarke / Special to the KANSAN
Andy Moon, left, employee of the Kaw Motor & Salvage Company, and Jeff Nelson of the Douglas County Sheriffs Department hook tow cables to a car discovered in Clinton Lake.
Lincoln shuttles to the stadium
Korovy's Restaurant, 201 Sun Valley Blvd.
Misty's Restaurant, 63rd Street and Lakeck Avenue.
Big Red Explorer Buses — North St. Fairgrounds
Southeast Community College, 8800 O. St.
Holmes Lake, 70th Street and Vandorn Avenue
Heated battle set for chilly night
Road trip to Lincoln
Weather for the game
The Kansas football team plays the Nebraska Cornhuskers at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in Lincoln. Nebraska's Memorial Stadium is at the northwest corner of the University of Nebraska campus, on 10th Street north of City Highway 6. The trip is nearly 200 miles and takes about three-and-a-half hours.
Finding Lincoln, Neb.
Kansas reaches for Big Eight title against Nebraska
The temperature will be in the high 20s with a 5 to 10 m.p.h. wind. There is a slight chance of snow. Dress warmly.
1 Follow Interstate 70 west to the U.S. Highway 75 interchange west of Topeka.
2 Cross North and continue until reaching Nebraska City, Nebraska.
3 Take Nebraska Highway 2 west to Lincoln.
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
More than 3,000 Kansas fans are expected to make the trek to Lincoln, Neb., this weekend and endure subfreezing temperatures to watch the Jayhawk football team play the Cornhuskers for first place in the Big Eight Conference.
Bernie Kish, director of KU ticket operations and sales, said that his office had sold about 3,500 tickets to KU fans.
Source: Kansan staff research by Muneera Naseer
"We'll have at least 3,000 fans up there and probably more," he said. "This is the most people that have gone to an away Nebraska game in at least 20 years.
Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN
"We're going to bring a lot of blue shirts up there to counteract that red. Or I should say, we're going to bring a lot of blue overcoats," he said, referring to a prediction that the game-time temperature will be in the low 20s.
Kish said that Joe Selig, ticket manager for Nebraska athletics, was surprised when Kish told him last week that KU would not be returning any unpurchased football tickets this year.
"He said, 'This is unbelievable, Kansas
always returns football tickets to us,' " Kish
said.
Kish said it was great to have such strong fan support at away games.
"It seems like the people who go on the road are louder than those at home," Kish said. "When you have 2,000 people cheering against three or four or five times that they are cheering in the world', and they're wild. I just think it has a hell of an effect on the football team."
Kish said that if the team played well and had few turnovers, it stood a good chance
"It's going to be a great game," he said. "We're 16-point underdogs, but that's fine. Nebraska has the best offensive line in the country, and people say we have one of the best defensive lines. Well, we're going to find out who's better."
Many of the students going to tomorrow's game are from Nebraska. Lisa Sieckwies-
kens
ki, Omaha, Neb., freshman, said that she was going home with one of her friends for the weekend. They hoped to get tickets to the game but had not found any as of yesterday.
"We tried to get tickets here, and they're all sold out," she said. "Then we tried to get a friend of ours in Lincoln to get some, but there aren't any up there either. Hopefully, we'll be able to go to the game, but if not we'll watch it on ESPN."
Markie Loudon of the MacDill game.
Byron Loudon, Overland Park senior,
said he was going to the game because a bowl bid depended on the outcome.
ESPN will televisse the 6:30 p.m. game.
Chris Ensley, Kansas City, Kan., senior, is going to the game with Louden. He said that he thought Kansas had a good chance of winning.
"If they beat Nebraska, they're going to go
to the Orange Bowl," he said. "That will be
"My money is banking on KU," he said. Matt Schmatz, Omaha, Aba, junior, said that he and about 30 of his fraternity brothers were going to the game. Schmatz said that although he was from Nebraska, he would be cheering for the Jawhaws.
"My money is banking on KU." he said.
Karans coach Glen Mason said that he appreciated fans' support, especially in a
Junior kicker Dan Eichloff said that tomorrow's game was important to KU.
place like Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. He said that he was looking forward to tomorrow's game.
"I'm sure that a lot of coaches would tell you that it's a very intimidating place to go," he said. "I'm a little different than most people. I look forward to going to those places."
"From the way it looks, if we beat Nebraska we're pretty much going to be ahead for the rest of the way," he said. "I think this is a big game for the Big Eight Conference."
Program review recommendations to be made public
By RC Trader
Kansan staff writer
By KC Trauer
Details have not yet been set, but Nov. 17 is the targeted release date, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
The University will release all the recommendations resulting from its program review in a public meeting, University officials said yesterday.
Students and faculty then will learn what programs will be recommended for restructuring or elimination. Those recommendations are to be given Nov. 20 to the Board of Regents, which will then tell the University what recommendations to put into action.
Program review is an effort mandated by the Regents to examine University programs and develop ways of improving cost-efficiency and reducing program duplication among Regents schools.
The meeting's announcement was the first indication that the University would release the results of program review to the public before presenting those results to the Regents.
Meyen said the public needed greater access to the recommendations.
"We know people obviously have great interest in this," Meyen said. "They have been involved in the process and have high expectations."
Meyen said that although the official recommendations had not been decided, dears had discussed proposals with faculty members whose programs would be affected.
Just because the proposals are under discussion does not mean they will evolve into final recommendations, he said.
University officials have tried to keep confidential the discussion of what changes might result from program review, but speculation about those changes have circulated through some of the schools.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he hoped students and faculty would not treat the speculation as fact.
The Mission 2000 Committee, a group of University faculty and staff that has worked with administrators on program review proposals, met yesterday in a closed meeting with the Senate Executive Committee.
"I hope that people can wait and deal with this when indeed some real recommendations have been made," he said.
Nancy Dahl, SenEx chairperson, said both committees talked about the program review process and their efforts to make sure the University community was allowed feedback when the recommendations began to be implemented next semester.
Cadets get helicopter know-how 1,200 feet above KU
Homeless Week to begin
See story, Page 3.
Kids to plant space seeds
A candelight vigil tonight begins KU's Homeless Awareness Week. The week of lectures, guest speakers and special events will emphasize homelessness in Lawrence and the nation.
Seeds that were on board the space shuttle Endeavor as part of an experiment by the Kansas University Space Program will be planted by students from four Lawrence schools.
See story, Page 5.
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
Air Force Cadet Steve Tittel yesterday got a bird's-eye view of the bright Jahwayk that decorates the football field at Memorial Stadium.
Along with about 30 other Air Force ROTC cadets, Tittel flew over the University and Lawrence in a helicopter from Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Nostr, Mo. Two pilots from the base took the cadets on rides throughout the day to give them a taste of what a helicopter pilot's job is all about.
"That's what the purpose of the flight is — to orient us with the helicopter and what their jobs are like," Tittel said of the annual orientation flights.
Capt. Jack Shockley, Air Force ROTC instructor, said students learned about flying safety and visual navigation while taking the 20-minute flights.
Tittel said that he would like to be a pilot but that the profession was extremely competitive.
But the flight was not an intensive training like that prospective pilots must go through. Tittel said that he was able to look through the canouflage helicopter's windows and that he tried to pick out his house. The view from about 1,200 feet in the air is different from on the ground.
"Everything from the air seems a lot flatter," the Russell junior said. "There are a lot of things you can see better in the air than on the ground."
One of those things was the Jayhawk at midfield of Memorial Stadium. Tittel told the Jayhawk was not distorted in the air like it was on the ground.
Air Force ROTC cadets leave the field after taking an orientation flight over Lawrence
The inside of the helicopter is not plush, he said.
Encased in the black metal-plate walls are canvas benches that seat about five
cadets on each trip. Hanging from the gray-padded ceiling were cords with headsets that allowed the guest passengers to communicate with the pilots.
Tittel said the most exciting part was tak
ing off because the nose of the helicopter pointed down while the helicopter gained speed and propellers slapped the air.
Cadet Mica Ashmore, Topea senior,
said none of the cadets got sick.