University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 22, 1987
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Late printing of timetables delays pick-up
Fall advising for spring semester pre-enrollment begins Monday and will last through Nov. 6. Each school sets its own advising times within that period. Brover Burrell has served as an academic affairs, said yesterday
About 8,000 copies of the spring 1988 timetable will be printed by today, said John Sayler, director of printing services. The timetables are about a week behind schedule.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said that timetables would be distributed to students at Hall when Saylor delivered them.
Engineering Expo to be this weekend
A variety of engineering disciplines will be represented this weekend at the 68th Engineering Exposition at Learned Hall.
The theme for this year's show is "From a Dream to a Reality." Exhibits will be open from noon to 10am on Saturday and from noon to 5pm on Saturday. Admission is free.
The show, sponsored by the Engineering Student Council, is scheduled to coincide with home-coming weekend activities.
Almost 20 exhibits will be displayed, including computer demonstrations and space station models.
Songwriter, satirist to perform today
Songwriter and satirist David Lippman will bring his split personalities and political humor to the Latin American Solidarity meeting at 7 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Lippman performs jokes and satires of popular songs as he alternates between his regular left-wing personality and George Schrub, an ultra-rightist from the Committee to Intervene Anywhere, said Kate Barron, president of Latin American Solidarity.
Free lecture series on science begins
"Eyes on the Universe," a free scientific lecture series, will begin with "Solar Thermometry: the Spark that Ignited a Scientific Moment" at 8 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union
Richard N. Boyd, professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio State University, will present the lecture, which is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sci- tence at Ohio State University, the physics and astronomy department and The Astronomy Associates of Lawrence.
Black Leadership symposium slated
The University of Kansas Center for Black Leadership. Development and Research will sponsor the third annual Black Leadership Symposium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at the Holiday Inn Holdem, 200 McDonald Drive.
The symposium, titled "Preparing Tomorrow's Black Leaders for Opportunities in Government and Corporate America," will feature a keynote address by Horace B. Edwards, Kansas secretary of transportation.
From staff and wire reports.
GTA is nominated for HOPE award
Bv IENNIFER ROWLAND
Three times a week, Daryl Palmer, Lawrence graduate student, makes his way through Wescoe Hall to the two sections of English 10 he teaches, tutoring the latest issue of his reading assignment.
Staff writer
Palmer was one of 42 teachers nominated for this year's Honor for Outstanding Progressive docurator award, a distinction reserved for professors. The HOPE award is presented by the senior class.
Cliff Stubs, senior class president, said he didn't realize Palmer was a graduate teaching assistant until after Palmer's name appeared on a computer. Stubs and Palmer's name then was removed.
Palmer helps coordinate a class for graduate students in addition to teaching sections of English
He said that he wasn't aware of his nomination but that the award was a good way for professors to have an impact on students.
101 and a section of English 360, Advanced Composition.
Palmer, who has been a graduate teaching assistant for six years, said he liked teaching because it was exciting to see the potential for learning in students.
Shawn Steward, Overland Park freshman, said, "I think he genuinely cares about how we do. He will be there to help."
"If you just see that once in a while, that's all it takes," he said.
Pat Cautie, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, said he liked Palmer's class because it offered variety.
can relate to."
Palmer said his teaching style was directed at getting students to relate classroom learning to the outside world.
Picking up a copy of "The Living Language", a collection of essays used in English 101, Palmer said. "It does not excite me the way it looks, but there are still good things in there."
"I was expecting something from the classics. I haven't seen too many teachers who use Rolling Stone as a textbook," he said. "It's something you
Sometimes playing the role of both student and teacher is hard. Palmer said.
"You feel like an actor sometimes," he said. "You may go in to see one of your professors, and then ten minutes later you will see one of your own students."
Griming and raising his eyebrows, Palmer said
sometimes the life of a graduate student
teaches.
"There are days when you think there's no hope, it's just not worth it." he said.
Daryl Palmer, a graduate teaching assistant in the department of English, was selected as a HOPE award semifinalist. But he was disqualified
Don Johnson gets KU theater award
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
Staff writer
Lynnae Lehfeldt, Olathe junior,
said she didn't think Johnson's
achievements qualified him for the
award.
Don Johnson might be a popular actor, but KU theatre students critical of his selection for a special award from their school are about as common as fast cars and pastel suits on Miami Vice.
Some students have questioned why Johnson was chosen to receive an award from the University of Alabama ahead of other prominent KU alumni.
Some faculty members are strong in their support for Johnson, who will appear 8 p.m. Saturday at the Crapton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall and the first Buddy Award from the division of communication and theatre.
"It doesn't make me really angry," she said. "It's just embarrassing."
Harry Woods, Murphy Hall Box Office manager, said he expected the event to be a sell-out. About 300 to 350 tickets, which cost $8 and $10, still remain available. About 800 tickets have been sold, including most of the $10 seats, he said.
Scott Reeves, Olathe sophomore, also said theuard should have gone
But he said the decision to pick
Johnson was good politically because it might spark more interest in the award than if a more deserving but less-well-known actor were honored.
Reeves said he thought the idea of an award for someone who had gone to KU was good, but neither Reeves or the other they planned to attend the ceremony.
Faculty members are more excited about Johnson's return.
Kem Wessel, assistant professor of the theater, said Johnson was a critically acclaimed actor who had been in theaters and was deserving of the award.
"I'm proud to give the award to him and proud he has accepted and is coming to the University," Wessel said.
Patton said there was no question that Johnson, who attended KU in 1967 and 1968, was one of the most successful players, which justified his receiving the award.
The award is named after Buddy Rogers, who attended KU before becoming one of the most popular film stars of the '20s and '30s. He will share the stage Saturday night with Johnson.
Bobby Patton, chairman of the division of speech and theater, said the Buddy award was supposed to go to a popular actor from KU.
because the award is only for professors. The HOPE, or Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award is presented by the senior class.
Board may remove parking lot meters
BY JOKN E. KAALSTAD
Staff writer
The parking board last night discussed removing meters from yellow-zoned lot 90 by Robinson Center after a survey indicated that permit holders were parking in metered spaces after yellow spaces were taken.
The parking lot was surveyed every day around 10 a.m. from Sept. 11 to Sept. 24 by KU Parking Services.
In the 10 days surveyed, an average of 61 yellow-permit owners parked in metered spaces each day. METERED spaces are intended for visitors.
Also during the 10 days, the lot had an average of 123 vacant metered spaces each day out of a total of 478 metered spaces.
Andrew Torres, faculty parking board member, said the board should consider taking meters out of the lot based on the survey, which was presented at yesterday's meeting at 208 Strong Hall.
"These figures are hard to argue." Torres said. "They speak clearly to him."
Don Kearns, director of parking,
said removing meters would result in
Torres argued that Parking Services would lose revenue from students but not from visitors because the survey indicated many vacant
meter stalls.
"Even if we take out 60 meters, there will still be at least 60 vacant meter stalls on the lot." Torres said.
roger trempin, student board member, said students with yellow permits thought they should have a right to a space.
Templin said students were getting upset with KU parking control because of the parking shortage.
Ray Moore, chairman of the parking board, said, "People are not buying a permit to park. They're buying a hunting license."
Letters from 'two KU students,
Stephen Phillips, Lawrence law student,
and Steve Huff, Overland Park junior,
both of which complained about yellow permit oversell,
discussion about removing meters.
Morris Faiman, faculty board member, suggested scheduling a special parking board meeting to address the meter issue.
"It must be before 8 a.m.". Faitman said. "After that it's impossible to get a parking space on campus."
Moore scheduled the meeting for 8 a.m. Nov. 12 at 208 Strong.
In other business, the board authorized Moore to write a letter to the executive vice chancellor and pay for their visitors' parking.
Now, about 200 daily visitors get free courtesy parking. Moore said.
Opinions over mall vocalized
Citizens group denounces plan
Staff writer
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
More public response and two other proposals will be heard at a third session scheduled Nov. 4.
Lawrence residents finally had their say on a proposal for a suburban shopping mall last night during four hours of debate. But it isn't perfect.
Testimony last night at the Central Junior High auditorium before the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission to approve the Coalition to Keep Plan 95 Alive.
Nine witnesses testified to the evils of a Jacobs, Vissioni and Jacobs Co. proposal to rezone 61.4 acres at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road for a mall. Representatives of JVJ, a Cleveland developer, rebuted after most witnesses.
John Lungstrom, a land-use attorney representing '95 Alive, told commissioners, "It's not for developers to reconstitute the plan. That's your job."
Plan 95 is a comprehensive plan that says downtown Lawrence should be the center of business and civic life for the Douglas County area.
Lungstrom argued that the citizen group's namesake was not outdated as JVJ had said at the last public hearing. He said the plan, which was adopted by the city in 1977, was annually reviewed by the planning commission.
Testimony addressed subjects such as the appropriateness of commercial zoning in what is now an agricultural area; a mall's effect on surrounding areas, on traffic and on the environment; and a comparison of Lawrence to 13 similar cities with both suburban and downtown malls.
Witnesses were quick to deny that residents rejected Plan 95 in an April 1987 advisory vote in which they rejected a plan for a downtown mall.
Paul Schumaker, associate professor of political science at KU, said the vote represented a protest, not a rejection. Citizens were upset about the proposed bill because their senators' decision to make the vote advisory and not mandatory, he said.
He said the vote could not be construed as a mandate for a suburban mail.
Phil Minkin, steering committee member of Plan '95 and co-chairman of Citizens for a Better Downtown, said the vote in April gave residents not just one, but three chances to vent their anger at being ignored in discussion of downtown development.
Minkin said questions 2 and 3 on the three-question ballot were vague and could have been interpreted more than one way.
About 130 residents applauded Minkin, who characterized himself as an active and somewhat emotional participant.
Michael Davis, dean of law, said the commission wouldn't have to worry about a lawsuit whether it or someone denied the suburban mall proposals.
Price Banks, planning director,
spoke before the public comment,
finishing his staff's report on why
VJP proposal should be rejected.
Banks said a suburban mall would become a mini-city, draining the life from the downtown.
Banks also said the natural features of Lawrence promoted growth to the west, not the south where JVJ's mall would be built. He said already expanded roads and utilities to the west would go unused if the proposal were approved.
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