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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday October 26,1987 Vol. 98, No.46
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Model students
acy students use their bodies to build the molecular model of testosterone, the male sex hormone. The students built the model Friday afternoon on the hill behind Malott Hall
Meeting stresses reducing stress
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Around this time of the semester — with midterms papers and previous due
One reason for most students' stress is their desire to get good grades.
individuals, papers and projects due — many students are more familiar with stress than they want to be
Bruce Liese, psychologist in the department of family practice at the University of Kansas Medical Center, told about 100 medical students that to handle stress, they should keep everything in perspective.
It's a tradition Tailgate parties are loved by KU alumni
Liese was the opening speaker at the American Medical Students Association Fall Region VIII Convention. More than 250 medical students from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Minnesota attended the three-day convention.
Liese encouraged the medical students to stay in constant touch with their emotions and not to deny their feelings and needs.
By MICHAEL HORAK Staff writer
See MEDICAL, p. 6, col. 1
By virtue of sliced roast beef, chocolate chip cookies and potato chips, Alberta McGrath gained membership into a group of football fans whose motto is, "Our stomachs may be upset by the poor play of our football team, but never from an empty stomach."
Monday Morning
In the shade of a large orange oak tree near Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Mr. McGrath, a 1955 KU graduate from Prairie Village, had her first tailgate party.
"I had this mental picture of what a tailgate party should be like," McGraath said, pointing to an enormous picnic lunch she had made for her husband and two daughters who attend KU. "This is pretty close."
Sitting on a brown and yellow blanket chosen to match KU's autumn landscape, McGrath pronounced the party a success.
"I love it," she said.
For several hundred KU alumni, football fans and students, tailgating is a tradition as important as going to the game itself.
It has to be tradition that brings us here. It's not the quality of football game that brings us here every week.'
"You need good people, excellent food, lots of beer and a designated
Brad Wells 1950 KU graduate
Many of Saturday's tailgaters sai their pre-game picnics offered them
"It has to be tradition that brings us here." said Brad Wells, a 1950 graduate from Newton. "It's not the quality of football game that brings us here every week."
the chance to meet with old friends or to see their children or grandchildren who now attend KU. For some, tailgating is a chance to embellish victories over Oklahoma and Nebraska in the good-old-days of KU football.
For a few eager tailgaters, the tradition began long before many KU students had left their beds.
Shortly before 9 a.m., a couple in their mid-50s drove their blue van, its horn rigged to play "I'm a Jayhawk," into the parking lot behind the Kansas Union.
The smoke from their barbecue grill signaled that tailgating had begun.
The parties that followed varied from family picnics to alumni gatherings of more than 100. A retired couple ate fried chicken near the Campanile, while college students parked a leg of beer in the Union parking lot. Everything from cold bratwurst to barbecued steaks were served.
driver." Wells said, describing how to throw the best party.
Three middle-aged lawyers from Topeka added a sense of humor to that list.
"You've got to be able to put up with opposing fans who think the best thing to do is rub in our losses," one said, declining to give his name because he was drinking a martini. "We laugh right along with them and wait for basketball season."
One of the lawyers said there was a certain competitiveness among tailors.
As game time neared, the card tables that held pots of baked beans, potato salad or fried chicken began to disappear. Burreac grilles were doused with water, packed into boxes and sld into car trunks.
With KU's band warming up in the stadium, Alberta McGrath and her family packed up their leftover food and headed for the game.
"We found that our neighbor was cooking porterhouse steaks and we knew we had to serve Kansas City strips to outdo him," he said.
Police and state laws dry out tailgate parties
Staff writer
By MICHAEL HORAK Staff writer
Dean Graves sat on the back of his pickup truck in the Kansas Union parking lot Saturday afternoon and ate fried chicken with his wife and an old fraternity brother.
"What's the key to having a great tailgate party?" he asked. "Beer and great company."
Graves, a 1975 graduate from Lea-
wood, drank Coors Light with his picnic lunch.
"Without beer," he said. "it's not a tailgate party."
Many of the tailgate parties before KU's homecoming game served some kind of liquor. Most had beer, mixed drinks were not uncommon.
Kansas law allows tailgaters to drink cereal malt beverages, or beer that has an alcohol content of less than 3.2 percent, on campus property. But consumption of all other liquor is illegal.
Exemptions in the law allow lique to be served for specific occasions within KU's museums, both student unions, Anschutz Sports Pavilion and
the chancellor's house.
James Denney, director of the KU police department, said his officers would continue to arrest people who violate the state's alcohol laws.
"We are looking for the obvious set-up — the big parties where alcohol is involved freely," he said. "We enforce what we are able to enforce."
KU police has 29 officers on duty at home football games. Lawrence and Douglas County law enforcement officers and the state highway patrol also are assigned to work at the games.
Denney said that some of his officers, both uniformed and plainsloped, walked through parking lots looking for alcohol violations.
Football fans are given a warning before they are arrested because many of the visiting fans aren't familiar with Kansas liquor laws, he said.
Although the consumption of liquor is illegal on KU property, fans won't break the law if they drink their liquor on private property.
KU-NEA will not file complaint on official
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
A group trying to form a faculty union announced Friday that it would not file a complaint with a state department of education statements made by a top KU official.
Tom Madden, organizing coordinator for the KU chapter of the National Education Association, said in a prepared statement that KU-NEA instead had sent a letter to Judith Ramaley, KU executive vice chancellor, to clarify its position on her statements about a union.
Ramaley said yesterday that she had not yet talked with or received correspondence from Madden and that she had no further comment.
In the Oct. 9 issue of The Ocean, Ramaley was quoted as saying, "I don't think unionization will improve the financial condition of the faculty, but it is a primary concern of the organized to have favorable attention to the campus."
Harmally said last week that the Oread had quoted her correctly. The Oread is a weekly employee newsletter, and the office of university relations.
KU-NEA was concerned that her statements may have violated a state labor law that prohibits employers from interfering with
employees' right to form a union. Madden said last week.
Raymond Goetz, retired KU professor of law, said there was not enough precedent to determine whether Ramaley's comments violated the Kansas law. A similar federal law generally has applied to things such as threats or promises of benefit, he said.
Madden said yesterday that he would not comment on KU-NEA's decision until Ramaley received the letter. He said he would not rule out an enlistment with the state Public Employees Relations Board in the future.
Ramaley wrote the introduction to the pamphlet.
A KU pamphlet of guidelines for administrators says, "So long as the members of the administration do not interfere with the rights of faculty members to form, join and participate in employee organizations, these persons are free to express their opinions concerning the process. Only through a frank discussion of the issues can faculty members make informed judgments about these important matters."
Actor Don Johnson makes his way to a waiting limousine. Johnson received the KU department of theater and media art's first Buddy Award Saturday night at Cratton-Preyer Theatre.
Don Johnson is KU's first Buddy
Arts/entertainment editor
The star of the NBC television series "Miami Vice" was the center of attention Saturday for the crowd that nearly filled Crafton-Preyer Theatre, where he received the first Buddy Award.
Homecoming Day meant an unusual coming home for one former KU student — actor Don Johnson.
Bv KIFRSTI MOFN
The award, named for Charles "Buddy" Rogers, an 83-year-old University of Kansas alumnus and one of the most popular actors during the 1920s and '30s, was established by the KU department of theatre and media arts to call attention to the department and to recognize former students and friends of KU who have become internationally known.
"I even wore socks," he said jokingly, pulling up his pant leg.
He also joked about his grade point average and attendance records, but said that he learned much from
"I tell you, this is, wild coming back here," a smiling, playful Johnson told local media at a press conference before the award ceremony was Johnson's first visit to KU since he was a student here 20 years ago.
studying Shakespeare and other classics.
The fundamentals that I learned 20 years ago — and I say that with a shock, let me tell you — are the same fundamentals that I use every day when I go to work on 'Miami Vice.' Johnson, now 38 years old, said. "If it would be for KU, I probably wouldn't be sitting here in front of all these people."
Johnson, who was born in Missouri, grew up in Wichita. He received a theater scholarship at KU in the summer of 1967 and stayed through college until when he left to attend the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
While at KU, Johnson performed in theater productions of "Macbeth," "The Stygan Shore" and his favorite, the musical "Gvovsy."
A fellow student, Nicholas Eliopoulos, remained his friend and now is executive director of the Don Johnson Company in Universal City, Calif. He produced Johnson's video "Heartbeat" and edited a video of Johnson's films, which was shown at the ceremony.
To repay some of what KU had
See BUDDY, p. 6, col. 1