University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 29, 1987
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Drop process changes after tomorrow
Tomorrow is the last day for most students to drop classes without petitioning.
Beginning Monday, undergraduates taking classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the schools of education, pharmacy, engineering, business and fine arts must submit a petition to the dean to drop a class. If the petition is approved, students will receive either a "W" or "F" depending on the school and their grades.
For further information, consult the Fall 1987 Timetable.
Undergraduates in classes in architecture, journalism and social welfare may continue to drop classes without a petition.
Course Source distributed today
The Jayhawk Course Source, a free Student Senate publication containing course information not available in the KU catalog, will be distributed on campus today and tomorrow.
Students may pick up the Course Source from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wescoe, Fraser, Blake and Strong halls.
Robertson to speak in Kansas City, Mo.
Pat Robertson, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, will appear today at a press conference fund raiser in Kansas City, Mo.
Robertson's press conference will be at 3:30 p.m. at the Downtown Airport. Later, he will appear at a private fund-raiser at the Westin Crown-Center Hotel, One Pershing Road.
The fund-raiser is sponsored by Americans for Robertson.
Lawrence man on bike hit by car
A 28-year-old Lawrence man is in fair condition after he was hit by a car Tuesday afternoon while riding his bicycle at 21st and Louisiana streets, Lawrence police reported.
Philip Dower, 724 W. 25th St., was southbound on Louisiana Street about 5:50 p.m. when he was struck from the side by a car driven by Victoria Kingery, 689, 2013Village. Kingery said that it was dark and that she did not see Dower until it was too late.
Dower was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by the Douglas County Ambulance and provided injuries, a hospital spokesman said.
Dower was cited for not having a headlamp on his bike.
Energy conference scheduled for today
An Energy Conservation Conference will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Howard Johnson, Capitol Street 35 and 95th Street, in Lenska.
The conference is sponsored by KU's Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center and is open to business and industrial representatives in Topeka, Lawrence and the Kansas City area.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the name and hometown of Mark Briggs were reported incorrectly in Tuesday's Kansas. Briggs is a Rose Hill sophomore.
Drug abuse panelists urge better education
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
From staff and wire reports.
Alcohol and substance abuse are serious problems with frightening effects that not enough people understand, experts told about 40 people yesterday at a seminar.
Staff writer
Bruce Woolley, an expert in substance abuse and drug testing in athletics, and Carlton Erickson, head of the alcohol and drug-abuse research program at the University of Texas, led the panel discussion, organized as part of the Alcohol Awareness Week.
The program was sponsored by Watkins Memorial Hospital and the Academy of Students of Pharmacy.
Woolley said drug dependency was frightening, but three particular drugs frightened him more than any others.
They are PCP or angel dust, MDMA, known as Ecstasy, and cocaine, specifically crack, a solid, smokable form of the drug. Wooley said all three were readily available on most college campuses, which heightened the urgency of the problem.
Woolley also said some cough medicine was commonly abused by athletes because drinking two or three bottles produced the same effect as alcohol, but did not show up on drug tests.
"You can't control the patient on these drugs, and the patient cannot control himself," he said.
Both Wooley and Erickson said not enough health care professionals were paying attention to the problems of alcohol and drug abuse. Erickson said health care professionals needed to educate students going into health care about how to detect and help people with a drug
"A lot of people don't take it seriously," Erickson said. "Alcoholism is a disease. One fourth of our population is affected by it to some degree."
or alcohol problem.
Erickson said people drank for two reasons: positive pleasure and negative pleasure. Positive pleasure, he said, is when a person wants to elevate his or her mood. Negative pleasure is when a person wishes to overcome boredom, anxiety, stress or pain.
Erickson said alcohol abuse and alcoholism were two separate things. Alcohol abuse, he said, is when a person drinks a lot, but is able to stop. An alcoholic has lost control.
Both kinds of abusers need treatment. Erickson said, but different types. That's why many counselors recommend using a combination.
is important, he said.
H. W. Buck, a doctor at Watkins, said alcohol was the underlying cause of many of the injuries or illnesses of patients admitted to hospitals.
Buck also said more than 50 percent of police work was alcohol-related.
"The lines on Mondays at Watkins are very much related to drinking going on over the ice," she said.
Cynda Benson, Lawrence graduate student,
said she didn't agree with all the opinions
expressed by the panel, but she thought the
seminar was worthwhile.
Benson is involved with Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Alanon, a program for spouses and friends of alcoholies.
Old frat house might be razed
BY VALORE ARMSTRONG
Staff writer
The old Theta Chi Fraternity house is one step closer to being replaced by housing for KU students after last night's approval from the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
the commission unanimously approved a plat, or land map, of the four-acre site and the lot south of the old Theta Chi house, 1329 W. Ninth St. The Lawrence City Commission will address the development plans Nov. 10.
John Shaver of the Shaver Partnership, a Salina architecture firm, applied for demolition of the house Oct. 6. The firm, representing the Lawrence owners of the properties, is making plans to build two-bedroom fourplexes. KU students would be the complex's primary market, Shaver said.
Ground-breaking for the development is set for Dec. 1, Shaver said, if the City Commission approves.
The old Theta Chi house was designed by a KU architecture student and was built in 1959. The fraternity abandoned the building in 1972 and, for the most part, it has been left vacant since.
The planning commission last night also unanimously approved, for the second year, a temporary shelter for the homeless for the cold months ahead.
Lawrence's homestead now will be able to spend nights at the gymnasium of the Salvation Army building, 946 Fifth Avenue.
The commission agreed to allow the Salvation Army to operate the shelter every year.
Last year, an average of 25 to 30 people spent cold nights in the shelter, sleeping on cots. Three volunteers will chaperone the shelter nightly.
The former Theta Chi house, 1329 W. Ninth St., still is standing, but its demolition will start soon if the Lawrence City Commission gives its approval.
Stockton/KANSAN City Commission gives
Senegal dance troupe offers tales of culture
Staff writer
By MARK TILFORD
It was like a page of National Geographic come to life.
The bright African dress, the electrifying dance and the wailing song all were part of a performance last night at Hoch Auditorium by the National Dance Company of Senegal.
About 650 people witnessed the 40-member troupe's two-and-a-half hour performance of nine tribal dances and folk songs.
"It was just so captivating to watch," said Tina Hawa, Westwood freshman, after the performance. "They did everything in union, but each dancer had a different style."
The dances were accompanied by the fierce beating of tribal drums.
Some dances told a story, but others, such as "Mandinkole," were basic dancing displays. The women were dressed in light blue outfits, the men in black knee-length pants, and with sashes of colorful beads, symbolizing the celebration of two communities meeting.
The dance was punctuated by acrobatics and occasional singing, and the five drummers
of the dancers are not homesick, Napoletano said.
The dancers are from the nation of Senegal, in the western-most tip of Africa. The company represents five of the ethnic groups of Senegal and Africa.
- The Woiti, Serefe, Diba, Peus and Socce.
The company has been on tour since September and will not return to Senegal until July, said Mark Napolietano, tour manager.
"They're pretty self-sufficient," he added. Napoléon described the dancers as some of the finest in the world.
Mamadou Ly has been with the company since 1966. He only gets homecourt at the beginning of the season.
A busy schedule gives the dancers little time to visit the cities they stop in, Boulder Sonko, and Reno.
"I don't have time to visit everywhere we have one performance and then another."
Besides the group dances, there were individual performances on instruments, as one dancer, dressed in a robe, would cross the floor (howly, playing an instrument and singing.
A "Gouye-Tama," an instrument from the Gouye tree, the national symbol of Senegal, made a sound that vibrated throughout the auditorium.
Despite the length of time on the road, most
Many of the dances had moves familiar to Americans, such as hands slapping in the air, and were evocative of a country-western square dance.
Women in white frocks with red sunbursts on the front and men in orange dress celebrated the engagement of a couple. A high priest dressed in black sang them into marriage.
Probably the most familiar dance of all, though, was "Khady Kebe," the story of a wedding that ended in tragedy.
Travelers told to look out for shady package deals
By IULIE McMAHON
Staff writer
The countdown to Christmas has begun for many students. Some will return to their hometowns to relax and watch television over the holidays, while others will go on fun and exotic vacations. But vacationers' fun could go souf they don't plan their trips carefully.
Students can get good deals on trips offered in packages that include transportation, hotel rooms and other options. Such package deals often are more convenient and cheaper than separate arrangements, said John Novotny, Master's student at Pinnatour Travel Service, 631 Massachusetts St.
Novotny said package trips often were less expensive, but students should be leery of packages advertised on posters and flyers that weren't connected with reputable companies.
"I see students come in with飞fers that say to send money to Jack Smith," he said.
Some of these agencies give good values, he said, but others don't.
"I'd suggest taking a real hard look at the hotels they are using, if they've been in business long and if they belong to a travel organization," he said.
Cynthia Harris of the Lawrence Consumer
Halls Association said vacation travel seems
to be a top priority for the summer.
She said she had received complaints from people who got misleading phone calls. The caller told people they had won a round-trip ticket to Hawaii, with seven days and seven nights free if they provided their credit card number, paid $35 and bought another round-
trip ticket at the regular price.
But the caller, Harris said, told people they had to go through a certain company to buy the other ticket. The price of the ticket was iniated so that customers weren't saving any money. By the time the customers found out, they had already sent in the $395.
In the same deal, customers found it difficult to get reservations at the specified hotels, and the location of designated departure airports was sometimes inconvenient, Harris said. The people who run the scam hoped that their victims would give up trying to take the trip so the company could keep the money, she said.
Novotny said travel fraud could be avoided if travelers dealt with a reputable travel agency that was economical and dependable. Travel agencies determine the needs of the traveler and then look for a package from a tour company that fulfills those needs, he said.
Tour companies, he explained, by plane tickets and book hotel rooms in large numbers at a discount. He added that it is not unusual of a package. The travel agencies get commissions from the companies for te service.
The value of the package can be checked by finding out rates for flights and hotel rooms and comparing them to the rates offered in the package. Novotny said sometimes the agency found the package too expensive and made separate arrangements.
He stressed the wisdom of depending on a reputable company.
"I wouldn't send my money to someone I didn't know and couldn't out," he said.