University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 11, 1987
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Some offices close today for Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day, so if you have errands to run or need to visit a government office, try calling first. Several area offices and businesses won't be open.
Federal offices, including the Social Security Administration office. 2210 Yale Road, and the U.S. post offices, will be closed. Banks and savings and loans associations will be closed, and KPL Gas Service, Ninth and Tennessee streets, will be closed. For KPL emergencies, call 843-6000.
Society to sponsor honors reception
The Ph Kappa Phi honor society will sponsor a reception for nominees of the KU chapter from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in the English Room of the Kansas Union.
The KU chapter of the national honor society selects undergraduate members from people in the top 5 percent of the senior class and graduate members from the top 10 percent of candidates receiving degrees.
All nominees and members are invited to the reception.
For more information contact Floyd Preston, professor of engineering. 4006 Learned Hall.
Kansan Board fills top two positions
The Kansan Board yesterday selected the University Daily Kansan editor and business manager for the spring semester.
Alison Young, Omaha, Neb.
senior, was named editor, and
Kelly Scherer, Green Bay, Wis.
senior, was named business manager.
Young is currently the associate campus editor, and Scherer is the retail sales manager.
Applications for news and business staff positions for the spring semester now are available in 119 and 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Business staff applications are due by 5 p.m. Nov 13 and news staff applications are due by 5 p.m. Nov 16 in 200 Stauffer-Flitt Hall.
Hearing on mall moved to City Hall
A fourth public hearing on three proposed sites for a suburban mall is scheduled tonight, but the meeting place has been changed to City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission held three earlier hearings at the Central Junior High School auditorium. But city planner Linda Finger said yesterday that crowds at the last several hearings had been smaller than expected.
Tonight, the commission is scheduled to hear public comment on a 55-acre site northwest of Wakarusa Drive and Highway 40, proposed by Lawrence attorney Ed Colllister. After that, Warmack and Co. will make its proposal for a 101-acre site south of Clinton Parkway on both sides of Wakarusa Drive. The commission has already heard a proposal by Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs of Cleveland.
Future Farmers will meet
Convention in KC to include speeches by Bush, Dole
From staff and wire reports.
By MICHAEL HORAK Staff writer
About 23,000 representatives and instructors clad in the familiar blue Future Farmers of America jackets will converge on Kansas City this week for the organization's 60th annual convention.
The organization's three-day conference, which will begin on Thursday with speeches by Vice President George Bush, U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett and this year's Miss America, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, will conclude on Saturday with a speech by Republican pres-
identical candidate Senate Minority Leader Rob Dole.
Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee lacocca, former Secretary of Agriculture John Block and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach also are scheduled to speak during the convention in Municipal Auditorium.
FFA is a national organization of 430,000 high school and college students between the ages of 14 and 21 who are enrolled in agriculture-related courses. Students attending this week's convention are representatives of local chapters from all 50
states.
Dave Sheets of Leesburg, Va., the organization's coordinator of radio and television publicity, said changing times had brought about a change in FFA.
"We've evolved over the years from an organization that prepared people for careers in farming to an organization that prepares people for high technological careers in agriculture." he said.
Sheets said the use of computers in agriculture was an example of the organization's movement into the 21st century.
Dave Niebergall/KANSAN
Building blocks
A piece of the future science library is lifted into position by crane. Workers yesterday were working on the building, which will be located south of Hoch Auditorium.
Play continues without director
By KIRK ADAMS
Staff writer
The good luck cry, "break a leg", may not be the right thing to wish Ron Willis, chairman of the department of theater and media arts.
Willis suffered a broken bone in his left ankle, a broken nose and a broken rib Thursday when he fell about seven feet from the stage into the orchestra pit in Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Willis is director of University Theatre's first production of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet," which opens tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Crafton-Preyer.
Willis underwent surgery on his nose yesterday to set the broken cartilage and to clear his breathing.
stage . . . actually he fell into the orchestra pit."
Marie Willis, his wife, said, "He was setting levels for the lighting, and it was consequently very dark on the stage. He walked forward thinking that it was the solid
Though the director was injured, work on the play has not slowed. This week, as in several of the past weeks, students rehearsed from about 6:30 p.m. to midnight each day.
catered day.
Karen Christilles, Buckhannon, W. Va., graduate student, has been directing the play since Willis was injured.
Christlems said the directing for the play had been completed before Willis was injured.
Marie Willis said her husband was confident that the cast and crew of "Hamlet" would be able to finish preparation of the play's technical and costume aspects.
After yesterday's surgery, Willis said he thought he would be feeling well enough see the play's opening performance.
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
S. Korea's elections important,profs say
Staff writer
The outcome of the presidential election in South Korea in December will be crucial to improve that country's relations with North Korea, two South Korean professors said yesterday at the Kansas Union.
Chae-Jin Lee, dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University-Long Beach, and Han-Kyo Kim, professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati, spoke to about 30 people as part of a symposium, "Korea 1988: A Nation on the Crossroads."
Lee, a former KU associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, spoke about "The Challenge of Democratization in South Korea." Yesterday was the last day of the symposium.
No matter what the outcome of the presidential election may be, Lee said, "South Korea will encounter a mixture of success and disappointment on its road to democracy."
Kim, who spoke about relations between North and South Korea, said, "This can be the first peaceful transition of power in the history of South Korea.
However, Lee said, "If the military sees any signs of weakness in the candidate that gets elected, it might intervene."
"A peaceful, democratic outcome of the election will have great impact on inter-Korean relations."
Gen. Chun Doo Hwan, South Korea's president, decided to resign this summer, and Lee said that four candidates were running neck and neck for the presidency.
Gen. Roh Tae Woo, 55, who favors economic prosperity and social order, has support among the military, big business and the upper class, Lee said.
Roh is an open-minded, articulate member of the South Korean Nation-
Kim Dae Jung, 64, also a member of the national assembly, is supported by workers, students and the liberal section of the middle class, Lee said. Kim Dae Jung is a populist, fighting for peasants, workers and democratic reforms, he said.
Kim Yong Sam, 60, is a parliamentary veteran without any managerial experiences. He shares many of Kim Dae Jung's views. Lee said, except that he is more favorable to the military.
Kim Jong Pil, 61, has extensive administrative and political experience. Lee said. He served as prime minister under Gen. Park from 1971
"If any of the Kims are victorious, there will be a threat of military influence in civilian affairs." Lee said.
Lee said he didn't discuss the candidates' issues because personalities were more important than issues in South Korean elections.
KU institute, state help Bell company in business study
By MARK TILFORD Staff writer
A new business always helps the state's economy, but an existing one is a surer thing.
That's the feeling of the Southwestern Bell Telephone company, which has enlisted the help of the state and the University of Kansas to study business retention and expansion in the state.
Southwestern Bell will present to the governor and the state Legislature a report and recommendations from its Kansas Business Retention and Expansion Program, which it is conducting with the state Department of Commerce.
The program's findings will include the results of a survey conducted by KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research.
Southwestern Bell initiated the program because of its interest in the state's economy, said Brad Farrort, the district staff member in Topeka.
Because Southwestern Bell's investment in the state is about $16 billion, "it makes great sense for us to invest in economic development." Farrout said.
department of commerce
In August, the KU Institute began a random telephone survey of about 1,000 businesses in 10 communities with populations of less than 100,000.
That interest has increased after the breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph into seven regional companies, of which Southwestern Bell is one. The realization that businesses could move to regions outside the Southwestern Bell region is one of the main reasons for the study. Parrott said.
Results of the survey indicate that in the future, 80 percent of new jobs will be created by existing businesses, said Mary Lou McPhail, business retention specialist for the state
Because the survey concentrated on expansion of existing businesses, only businesses that sold their goods outside their surrounding communities were included.
Bill Martin, director of economic development for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, served on the task force in Lawrence.
The interviews were conducted, Parrrott said, to identify trends in the population.
More than 100 Lawrence businesses were contacted in the phone survey, and 25 to 30 were then interviewed. Included were about three large industries that had said in an earlier Chamber of Commerce study that a lack of room for expansion was a primary concern for them.
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A report of the survey will be presented to the governor and the Legislature in December and to each one of the community task forces by mid-March. Parrott said.
"It's not often that a business like Southwestern Bell works with a government agency and a university," said Charles Krider, of KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research.
Southwestern Bell paid KU $42,000 for its work, Parrott said. Parrot will be working with the Commerce Department for 12 to 18 months as part of Southwestern Bell's executive loan program.
The survey was completed Oct. 30, Parrrott said. In the past week results have been used to contact task forces in each community. The task forces, made up of community leaders, conducted about 250 interviews with some of the businesses that responded to the survey.
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