University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 5, 1987
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Car damaged by firecracker police report
A car parked at a residence at Oxford and High drives was damaged by a M-80-type firecracker. Lawrence lawrence police reported.
The police said the incident occurred about 1 a.m. the blast tore the car's windshield. Damage to the car was injured at $500. No one was injured.
Coach Bob Knight to speak at dinner
Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight will be the guest speaker Oct. 12 at a charity dinner sponsored by the Luncheon Cosmopolitan Club of Lawrence in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Proceeds from the dinner will be donated to the American Diabetes Foundation and to various local charities.
In his 16 seasons with Indiana, Knight has led the Hoosiers to three NCAA national championships, including this year's title, which earned the 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team, which won the gold medal.
Ron Miller, club president, said tickets for the dinner and speech cost $25 and could be purchased at Mister Guey, 920 Massachusetts St., and at Gordon's Boot Center, 2449 Iowa St. Tickets may also be purchased by sending a check to the Lawrence Luncheon Cosmopolitan Club, P.O. Box 25, Lawrence, Kan., 60044.
Violence protest march is tonight
A march and rally protesting violence against women is scheduled at 8 p.m. today at the South Park zoo.
The "Take Back the Night"
march is sponsored by Lawrence
Women's Transitional Care
Services. Inc.
1987 fall blood drive begins tomorrow
The event will feature speakers, poetry and singing.
The 1897 fall blood drive will be tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday in the Kansas University Ballroom. People can donate blood from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. Walk-ins are welcome.
Speech exemption exam scheduled
The department of communication studies will have its oral communication exemption examination Oct. 14 and 15.
The registration deadline is Friday. A non-refundable $10 deposit is required to register Students in our course offered on our studies office, 3009 Wescoe Hall.
The examination includes a prepared speech and an impromptu address.
Correction
Because of a copy editor's error, information in a story in Thursday's Kansan was incorrect. Worker bees, both the cordovan and the black and yellow, have stingers.
KU police and KBI study Wescoe blast
From staff and wire reports.
By JAVAN OWENS
KU police and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are investigating an explosion that occurred early Saturday morning at Wescoe Hall.
Staff writer
The explosion, which blew out a window, occurred at 1:45 a.m. on the second floor of Wescoe. No injuries were reported.
KU police officers were called after a custodian heard the blast. A
Lt. Treame Longaker, KU police spokesman, said the blast was caused by an explosive but doubted it could be classified as a bomb. Longaker the explosive did not appear to be set by a professional.
KBI officer also was a part of the investigation Saturday night.
into the building, Longaker said, which may mean the explosive was placed outside the building's doors. The doors are at the west entrance to second-floor offices and are in the corridor that connects Wescow Beach on level three and the cafeteria patio on level one.
"We know it was not a pipe bomb. But after that, we don't know quite what to call it." Longaker said. The window fragments were blown
She said the department would know more about the explosive after the fragments were tested in the KBI laboratory.
Longaker said the explosion was heard throughout the city but got little attention from residents. She said one of two students at the scene said he heard the blast from his apartment on 24th Street and Ridge Court.
also was called. Firefighters assisted the police by blocking off the road. The explosive did not cause a fire, the department official said yesterday.
"We usually have numerous calls on incidents like this one," Longaker said. "Our dispatcher received one phone call after the explosion."
The Lawrence Fire Department
Officials have not determined the damage to the building. Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations, said he would not have the estimate until today.
Greeks want to use buses to travel safely to parties
By LISA HUND Special to the Kansan
You've dressed in your best partying clothes, bought your food and drinks for the party, even picked up your date. Everything's set for the big night. Now you can get on the bus. The bus?
Yep, the bus. At least for members of many Greek organizations at the University of Kansas this fall, buses and other communal transportation to parties are becoming the norm.
According to leaders of many sororities and fraternities, such transportation is even welcomed by members.
Although some organizations have offered such transportation for several years, the accident last spring in which four KU students were killed after a train hit their car has spotlighted the need. The students were going to a sorority party.
"It had to take something tragic like that in order to open up a lot of eyes," said Roe Riggio. "Our social character, 1537 Tennessee St. His fraternity."
y provided buses to its most recent party, although members were not required to ride them. His chapter may decide to make taking buses to parties mandatory in the future.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1301 W. Campus Road, already makes mandatory taking buses to date parties, said president Brad Chandler. He said there was a $50 fee for anyone who did not ride a bus to a party.
"We've had people in our house experience DUI's (arrests for driving under the influence) and they really appreciate the buses so they don't have to take that responsibility." he said.
The Pi Beta Phi sorority, 1612 W. 15th St., made riding buses mandatory, since last spring's accident, for all its parties except out-of-town forms, said social chairman Cynthia Katafasz.
The fraternity has the buses run all night so that people can leave at any time. Also, Chandler said he or her friend drove one car for emergency purposes.
is that some of the bus companies won't let you take coolers on the buses," Katafaszs said. However, she said her sorority solved the problem by having someone designated to take any coolers or alcoholic beverages out to the party site before the party begins.
Concerns about insurance and liability, as well as last spring's accident, have prompted the Kappa Sigma fraternity, 1045 Emery Road, to provide mandatory buses to parties this year, said president Mark Klimuk.
"The only problem we've run into
By providing the mandatory buses to parties, the fraternity was also preparing to conform to a new insurance policy being established by its national organization. The policy will continue to transportation in the future, be said.
Although the Alpha Phi sorority, 1602 High Drive, does not have plans to provide buses or communal transportation to all parties, designated drivers will be stationed at all parties and strictly enforced this year, said president Cindi Beggs.
Joe Wilkins III/Special to the KANSAN
Kansas band clubs given time on debt
Staff writer
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Drum Corps International has given the KU band's honorary fraternity and sorority until May to pay off debts. A July drum and music corps show.
Kappa Kappa Psi fraternity and Tau Beta Sigma sorority still owe $4,000 to Drum Corps International from the Horns on the Range drum corps show July 22 at Memorial Stadium.
The deadline for paying the money without penalty was Sept. 20, but Pat Trebe, publicity and promotion manager for Drum Corps International in Lombard, Ill., said last week that the group would begin groups until May to raise the money.
Trebe said that Drum Corps International would not charge any penalties for the late payment.
Randy Timm, Kappa Kappa Psi member and one of the show's organizers, said, "We were really happy we wanted us to bring the show back bad."
He said the fraternity and sorority were unable to pay the money because of poor ticket sales from the show. The groups needed to sell 2,000 tickets to break even, but only 1,500 sold. He said. Tickets cost $7 and $8.
Group officials have said that one reason the show didn't make money was because the groups were not able to secure an outside sponsor. A lack of advertising also may have cut down on attendance. Posters, announcements on radio and television and word of mouth were the only promotions.
Trebe said that payment arrangements were different from show to show, but that the corps usually tried to work with sponsors in any way it
She also said that the international corps had appreciated the work that organizers of the Lawrence show had done, and had granted the extension because Timm had assured her that the groups could raise the money.
Timm said the groups had already raised about $500 from the sale of band jackets and T-shirts on Parents' Day. The rest of the money can be raised by a concessions stands the groups run. KU home basketball games, he said.
Trebe said that the organization would consider Lawrence for another show next year but that the rules usually prohibited more than one show within 100 miles of another during a season.
The international drum corps championships are scheduled for 10,18,19 and 20. Moe My
But earlier this month, Timm said it might be possible to organize a show with a different drum corps organization.
Because the corps were pleased with what they saw during their stay here this year, Timm said, at least one is making plans to stay in Lawrence during the international championships.
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Bobby Patton, chairman of the division of communication and theatre in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said yesterday that he would leave at the end of this semester to become dean of the School of Arts and Letters at California State University at Los Angeles.
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He said the new post was a chance for him to move up and establish contacts throughout the Los Angeles area, becoming the arts center for the world.
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Patton, a KU graduate, joined the KU faculty in 1966, and has been division chairman since 1972.
Patton will be in charge of the school's departments of music, art, theater and dance, communication studies, English, philosophy and language and literature. He also will be in charge of the Los Angeles High School for the Arts, which he described as similar to the school the motion picture "Fame" was based on.
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