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University Daily Kansan / Monday. Mav 4. 1987
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Local Briefs
Post offices banks closed Columbus Day
Don't bother going to the bank today, and don't look for any mail. Today is Columbus Day, a federal holiday.
All banks and savings and loans are closed today, as are post offices. However, other city and KU officers will be open their normal hours.
Utility offices and retail stores also will be open during normal business hours. KU libraries and business centers will be open their normal hours.
Fire extinguished at residence hall
And, yes, classes will be in session as usual.
The Lawrence Fire Department was called to Joseph R. Pearson. Hall early Friday morning after a room on the second floor.
According to KU police, the fire started after a resident fell asleep, leaving several lighted candles on a window sill. The resident also had left a sheet in the window sill, and the sheet caught on fire.
A hall security monitor who was making rounds about 4 a.m. smelled the smoke and heard an alarm. He woke the resident and put out the fire with an extinguisher.
The resident's alarm activated the hall alarm, and the fire department responded. Residents of the hall were evacuated. No injuries and no damage to the room were reported. All student rooms at JRP have individual smoke alarms.
Bobby Knight won't speak as planned
Bobby Knight, basketball coach at Indiana University, will not speak at a charity dinner in Chicago because of a scheduling mix-in.
Taking Knight's place will be KU basketball coach Larry Brown and KU basketball players, said Ron Miller, president of the Lawrence Cosmopolitan Luncheon Club.
The club had announced that Knight would speak at a dinner at the Kansas Union Ballroom, with proceeds to go to the American Diabetes Foundation and local charities.
But Miller found out last week that Knight didn't plan to attend. The mix-up apparently was the fault of a booking agency.
Noted Kansas artist to receive honors
Rudolph Wendelin, the Kansas artist who created Smokey the Bear and Woodsy Owl, will be honored by Gov. Mike Hayden at 10 a.m. today on the second floor of the Canitol rotunda in Topeka.
Wendelin, who retired from the U.S. Forest Service in 1973, will be available to sign autographs from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Singer to speak at Union tonight
Bloja Jialfa, lead singer of the rock group Dead Kennedys, will speak at 8 p.m. today at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Biafra, whose trial on obscenity charges in connection with an album cover ended in a mutilated trial and First Amendment rights.
Computer system to help library patrons
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Microchips and keyboards will become a part of looking for books when a new computerized catalog is published on later this month at Watson library.
The system will not solve every problem students might run into when trying to find books, but it will offer students many new ways to search, said James Neeley, reference librarian.
Clinton Howard, assistant dean for technical services, said the first 12 terminals for users would be installed at Watson beginning the
first week of November. Other libraries will receive terminals in the following weeks. A total of 64 public-use terminals will be installed.
Howard said the terminals cost $95,000, but that cost does not include programming, which was done at the library and the programmers assigned to the library.
The new system has been the work of 10 years, most of that spent compiling the database for the system, Neeyle said.
The system's main computer, at the computer center, holds the listings for all libraries on campus. Students will be able to search the
As might be expected, students will be able to use the keyboards and color screens to search for books by title, subject, author or call number.
catalogs of any library from each of the terminals.
What might not be expected is that the computer can usually tell whether a book is checked out. It also allows users to check the operating hours of any library on campus. Through the computer, users also can suggest book titles for the library to purchase.
For people who aren't big computer fans the computer can also explain what is going on.
of a book search, at the touch of a button.
"This is really a revolution," Neeley said. "This is certainly the biggest thing that is likely to happen in the library for a long time."
The new system, or online catalog, will replace the microfiche system that has been used as a temporary system since 1983. But it will not replace the card catalog, which still is the only place most of the library's holdings can be found.
That shouldn't stop most people from being able to make use of the online system, Neeley said, which lists only books acquired after 1976.
just like the microfiche. For instance, a book printed in 1972 but purchased this year would be on the microfiche and new system. A book acquired by the library in 1950 would be in the card catalog only.
Last year, Watson acquired more than 70,000 books. Neesley said.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the terminals would eventually replace the card catalog as the way for finding books. How long that takes, he said, will depend on how quickly you need it for computing the cards, which go back more than 100 years, to a machine-readable format.
Chris Duval/KANSAN
Tuq of imagination
From left: Lawrence residents Sebastian Labador, 10, Joy Veerkamp, 8, Laura Templet, Ana Ruth Labador and Honna Veerkamp battle it out in an imaginary tug of war. Mime artists Labador and Templet put on a
pantomime routine Saturday at Pocket Park next to the Eldridge Hotel, Seventh and Massachusetts streets. The mimes' performance was part of the "I Love Downtown Lawrence Street" sponsored by the Downtown Lawrence Association.
Med Center peer counselors ease stress
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
Seeing a page attached to a doctor's waist is not an uncommon sight at the University of Kansas Medical Center. But now, people other than doctors are wearing them.
Each month one medical student wears a pager to answer calls from other students who need to talk — or need someone to listen. The service is part of the Peer Counseling program at the Med Center.
Peer counselors offer students support and tell them where they can find additional support. Students must attend 10 hours of instruction and work 10 hours of small group practice before they are approved as
peer counselors. About 35 students participate in the program
"The Peer Counseling program has a formal network. But it mostly works on an informal basis," said Douglas Groswald, a fourth-year medical student who was a peer counselor two years ago.
"Let's say someone did badly on a pop quiz." Groswald said. "They're afraid it will compromise their whole grade. . So what happens if you do fail? The worst possible scenario is that you might be dropped from med school, but typically this means you have to take the class again. You ask them to reflect on that. You try to get them to think rationally."
mon counseling concerned interpersonal relationships and career decisions.
But Groswald said the most com
"I think students sometimes wonder why they get into this field in the first place," he said. "Some people in the class who come right out of college and who never took any time off go through the process of wondering if this is something they really want to do."
The Peer Counseling program is one of six programs that Student Support Services sponsors. Student Support Services is a voluntary student organization that tries to provide students opportunities to interact with one another on a more personal level.
"Four years ago, it occurred to me that students here would benefit from psychological support services because there really weren't any." Psychologist and psychologist in the department of family practice at the Med Center.
The first program that was organized was Extended Orientation. Liese went to a student organization and suggested that additional services were needed for students entering medical school.
In Extended Orientation, second-year medical students meet with groups of about 20 freshman students to discuss anxieties or problems they have during the first few weeks of school.
Fire burns mattresses at fraternity house
A short in an electric blanket caused a fire late Friday night at the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity house, 1941 Stewart Ave., the Lawrence Fire Department reported.
The fire department received the call about 11:20 p.m. But fraternity members extinguished the blaze before firefighters arrived. Fire officials said the fire was caused by an electric blanket on a bunk bed. Firefighters remained at the house for a 90-minute investigation.
The fire burned two mattresses on the second floor of the house but caused no other damage. No one was injured.
By a Kansan reporter
Gary Clothier, Wichita junior, said several fraternity members were sitting on the first floor
when they noticed smoke coming from the second floor. They called the 911 emergency number for them.
"No one was asleep at the time." Clothier said.
"We were really lucky."
He said the blanket apparently became overheated.
Musicians compete at tavern
By BEN JOHNSTON
Staff writer
Composers had the chance Sunday to perform their own unique songs in front of interested spectators at the Bottleneck tavern.
The occasion was the fifth annual Kansas State Songwriters' Championship. The event was produced by the Kaw Valley Songwriters' Association, a group of Lawrence music lovers.
Twenty-five composers competed in the Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire.
The winner was F.B. Samuel of Kansas City, Mo., Samuel said his style of music could best be described as acoustical rock 'n' roll.
I think my songs had good lyrical content, 'Samuel said.' They were able to get the right melodies.
"My music is American music," he said. "There is a whole kind of music that club owners are scared to play in their clubs. People like music they listen to while they talk to other people. But club owners don't know that."
The youngest competitor was Deb Girinus, 17, of McLouth Girinus, who won an honorable mention, said she wanted her music to reach out to the older generation that had popularized folk music.
"When you turn on the radio today, all you hear is some song blaring out lyrics about sex," Girmius said. "That is music to entertain, but it doesn't mean anything. I want to see the older generation; it there is at least one generation in the young generation who wants to play music that means something."
Janet Cinelli, Overland Park junior and co-producer of the contest, said the event encouraged performers of various styles of music to compete.
"We have anything from folk, to country to rock to punk to anything." Cineinl said. "This year we didn't get rocked up, punk, but we did get rock 'n' roll."
The four judgers were experienced musicians who have been a part of the Kaw Valley Songwriters' Association for a long time, Ciniell said.
"The judges listen to the words most of all," she said.
Genie Sullivan, Lawrence resident, said she had been to the event four times because she enjoyed the type of music the event featured.
"They get a pretty wide variety of original music," Sullivan said. "Almost every genre of music is represented, and, of course, it is of good quality. The music must be the many types of people as are here."
Barney Hubert, Lawrence graduate student, said he thought the contestants played more electric music this year.
"I like the music." Hubert said.
6th & Kasold
Monday Night Buffet
All you can eat $4.50 6-9 p.m.
Tuesday Night: Buy one combination dinner and get one of equal or lesser value for $1.
Wednesday Night: Fajita Combo $10.95
The
BLACK STUDENT UNION Will Hold Its
GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING
Monday, October 12 6:30 p.m.
Jayhawk Room / Kansas Union