University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 8, 1987
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Man released after KU police question him
KU police held an 18-year-old KU student for questioning late Tuesday night after a Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall resident reported that he was following her.
The man was later released without being charged.
According to police, the woman was walking toward GSP-Coribin from the hall's parking lot when she saw a man behind her. She told police she thought the man had been hiding in bushes because she had looked around the lot before leaving her car.
She ran to the hall and notified hall security monitors and police. Security monitors spotted a man entering the building, then streets and directed police there.
Police apprehended a man in an alley on Tennessee Street. He was held for questioning then later released.
Student arrested booked, released
A 20-year-old KU student was arrested Tuesday on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, KU police reported.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said an officer who was making rounds at 8 p.m. notice了她 a man pulling a knife out of his pocket at the corner of West Campus Road and Memorial Drive. Longaker said pedestrians walking on Memorial Drive also observed the man handling the knife and were alarmed.
The man was arrested and booked at the Douglas County Court about 9:15 p.m. and released later that night on a $1,500 bond. He is scheduled to be charged at 4 p.m. Friday at Douglas County District Court.
Kissinger to speak Oct. 22 at KC hotel
Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state, will speak Oct. 22 at the Marriott Hotel, 10800 Metcalf Ave., in Overland Park
Kissinger will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will answer questions afterward Tickets are $15 per person through the Jones Store Co. by (816) 391-7050.
University Senate to hear plans today
University Senate will meet at 3:30 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The University Senate Executive Committee plans to report on health insurance, open and selective assessment and a proposed University-wide core curriculum.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will speak at the meeting. An open discussion session will be afterward.
KU debaters place first in tournament
A KU debate team took first place in a 78-taem field at the Vanderbilt Debate Tournament last weekend in Nashville, Tenn.
Team members Matt Meyer,
Winfield freshman, and Susie Saber-
t. Garden City sophomore, also
graduate and fifth in individual
competition.
Two other KU teams tied for eighth in the tournament
From staff and wire reports.
Business school eases enrollment
By MARK TILFORD
Staff writer
Undergraduate students in the School of Business will no longer be required to obtain an adviser's signature before receiving a dean's stamp during pre-enrollment, the associate degree emphasis affairs in business said yesterday.
David Shulenburger, the associate dean, said the policy was started to make the School of Business consistent with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which has a similar policy for tuniors and seniors.
Shulenburger said a letter had been sent to all business majors, informing them of the new policy.
"We still strongly encourage students to see an adviser," Shulenburgs
Students may be admitted to the business school as juniors.
Woo Jung, associate professor of economics, who has done advising in the past, said it would take some time for her to understand a policy would have a positive effect.
Some professors are overloaded at advising time, with anywhere from 12 to 24 students to advise, Jung said.
"By the time they get to the junior-senior level, students pretty much know what is going on." Jung said. "Sometimes they will just bring the
card in for a signature and it is all filled in out. But we have to reserve 15 or 20 minutes for each student, and that is time we need for something
Jung said he would not want to see students get in trouble, though, through a lack of proper advising.
"I don't think you can say it is simply a good or bad policy," he said. "We'll have to see how it works case by case."
Kent Smith, president of Delta Sigma Pi, the professional business fraternity, said he hadn't heard much reaction from business students because it affected policy because it affected students who had experience with enrollment.
"At your junior level, you should have a pretty good grasp of what's going on with the enrollment procedure," Smith said. "The most important thing is that they haven't cut off your luxury of being advised."
Folder pick-up for spring 1988 enrollment will be Oct. 21 and 22. Advising will be from Oct. 26 to Nov. 6.
Large-group advising meetings in the School of Business will be held, one for business majors on Oct. 26 and one for accounting majors on Oct. 28.
New program to link Latin America, KU
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Staff writer
The KU department of Latin American Studies is in the process of initiating a new exchange program involving six Central American nations.
Charles Stansifer, director of Latin American studies, will travel next week to San Jose, Costa Rica, to discuss the program with Rodrigo Garcia, secretary general of the Central American Confederation of Higher Education.
Stansifer said that the Central American Confederation had yet to approve the program, which would allow the University of Kansas and Kansas State University to exchange students with universities in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig approved the program yesterday, and Stansifer said that he expected K-State President Jon Wefald to approve the program this week. The Board of Regents must give final approval to the program, Stansifer said.
He said that one reason he wanted the program was because of the growing number of KU students participating in the University's current exchange program with Costa Rica.
"There are much bigger numbers than there were before, and some of those students may wish to go to other universities," he said.
Stansifer said that the new program would be much like the current Costa Rican program because it would enable Central American students studying at KU to pay resident tuition. The program also will make it relatively inexpensive for KU students to study in Central America.
Stansifer said that he also wanted the program started because KU had the nation's only federally financed Latin American area studies program that focused on Central America.
"Those universities are maintained entirely by public funds, and the department is not charged."
He said the program could go into effect as early as next semester.
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
It will sting just a minute . . .
Volunteer blood donor Kelley Thompson. Stillwell sophomore, waits nervously for a nursing technician to draw her blood. The KU fall blood drive, sponsored by the Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council, will continue from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union. Walk-ins are welcome.
Student trapped in elevator
By a Kansan reporter
A 19-year-old KU student was trapped in an elevator yesterday afternoon in Haworth Hall after a motor in a third-floor mechanical room apparently shorted out, causing heavy smoke to cover the third
Debbi D. Cure, Baxter Springs sophomore, was trapped in the elevator at 4 p.m. on the second floor until Lawrence firefighters were able to
very the doors open 20 minutes later.
Cure said that she noticed the elevator had stopped but that she thought it was stopping at the next floor. After a little wait, she said she tried to get the elevator started. Then she noticed smoke coming through the elevator vents. She pulled the alarm and screamed for help, she said.
“At first, there was a little smoke, and I started to beat on the door.”
Cure said. "Then there was a lot of smoke, and I pulled the alarm button."
While Lawrence firefighters pried open the elevator doors to rescue Cure, KU police helped evacuate all workers and students from Haworth. Three fire engines responded.
A Lawrence Fire Department spokesman said the smoke was caused by an overheated motor or a circuit that runs the elevator.
Conference to feature new business trends
Staff writer
By BRIAN BARESCH
Tomorrow will be a busy day for those who want to keep up with activities in the business world at the University of Kansas.
The annual Economic Outlook Conference, sponsored by the KU Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, will be in the Kansas Union all day and will feature discussions of economic development possibilities in Kansas.
Also, Business Week's Careers magazine will bring its Plymouth Career Search Workshop to the School of Business, and Fred Lovitch, professor of law, will moderate a day-long seminar at the Kansas City, Mo., International Airport on hostile business takeovers.
The Economic Outlook Conference, the 11th since 1977, will involve government and business leaders from Kansas as well as Wayne Angell, who is a member of the Federal Reserve Board, and Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden.
Anthony Redwood, director of the institute, said that the conferences provided useful ways of addressing the state's economic problems by providing a forum for discussion and for gaining new perspectives and ideas.
Businessmen interested in development will be able to apply what they learn at the conference to their own companies. Redwood said.
The institute, which is on Blake Hall's sixth floor, coordinates and produces business research.
Hayden is scheduled to speak on his state economic policy.
Angell will speak on the effect of nationwide interest rates, employment, income and inflation in the Midwest.
Angell, who got his master's and doctorate degrees at KU, was the director of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, Mo., for six years and has held several advisory and administrative banking jobs. He also was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives for six years.
Panels will discuss strategic economic planning, industrial competitiveness, local economic ideas and how to attract foreign investment, improve tourism and diversify agriculture.
The Careers workshops at the
School of Business will concentrate on job hunting techniques such as resume writing and interview skills. The workshops are free, and any student may attend.
Workshops start at 10 a.m. at 407 Summerfield Hall and at 1 and 3 p.m. at 426 Summerfield Hall. Each participant will be given a career search workbook and a guide to resume writing.
The KU School of Law will conduct the law seminar at KCI. The topic is an Indiana law that makes it difficult to over corporations against their will
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the law was constitutional.
would be unable to own more than certain amounts of voting stock in a corporation without the consent of the owner. The consent is very expensive, he said.
Missouri has passed a law nearly identical to the Indiana statute, Kovitch said. It least nine other states have passed similar laws since the Supreme Court case.
Kovitch, the moderator, said that under the law, a corporate raider
Legal and financial authorities, including a lawyer involved in the Supreme Court case, will teach the seminar. Kovitch said that most of those attending would be lawyers representing potential takeover targets.
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