University Dailv Kansan / Thursday. October 1. 1987
THE FAR SIDE
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By GARY LARSON
Nerds in hell
KU graduate,100 dies in Lawrence
By a Kansan reporter
Alicia McNaughton Seifrit, a 1909 graduate of the University of Kansas, died Monday at the Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. She was 100.
Mrs. Seifirat was born July 8, 1887, in Reno, in Leavenworth County. She received a teaching certificate from KU and then taught at elementary and high schools in Tonganoxie, before leaving the Pasco City, Kan., before retiring in 1850.
Mrs. Sesiflived in the Tanganoxie area until 1980, when she moved to Laos.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of 1812 and the Daughters of the American Colonists. She was a
60-year member of the PEO Sisterhood in Tonganoxie and belonged to the Tonganoxie Reading Club. She was a board member of the Maple Grove Cemetery in Tonganoxie.
Survivors include a son, Lt. Col.
John Cain of Redlands, Calif; a
daughter, Mrs. Nancy Eisenbise of
children; and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Quisenberry Chapel in Tonganoxie, with burial at Maple Grove Cemetery. Friends may call from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow. The family suggests that contributions may be made to the Presbyterian Manor, 1429 Kasold Drive.
Assailant of student sentenced
The man who shot KU student Amy Thompson last Halloween, causing her to be paralyzed, was sentenced to life in prison Friday at the Jackson County Court in Kansas City, Mo.
By a Kansan reporter
The man, Richard L. Scott, was sentenced to four consecutive life terms with a chance for parole in 14 years. Scott pleaded guilty July 15 to the murder of eight men whom one count of assault and one count of robbery in the first degree.
Although Scott entered a plea in July, the sentencing was delayed pending a pre-sentencing investigation, a clerk of the court said. The investigation was completed last month.
Thompson, a 25-year-old graduate student at the time, was shot in the back of the neck last October as she left a Halloween party at 49th and Wyandotte streets in Kansas City, Mo.
The bullet traveled through her neck to her brain. Surgeons removed part of Thompson's brain to remove pressure. Thompson's motor and sensory cells were damaged permanently because of the injury, her doctors say.
Thompson is in rehabilitation at the Texas Institute in Houston.
By JAVAN OWENS
Political science department chairman Burdett Loomis reassured about 50 students last night that the department's Washington D.C. internship program would be available next spring.
D.C. internships remain available
Staff writer
"I wanted to look out for the future generations. I wanted other students to have the opportunity that I had." Jackson said.
The program, which has been in danger of being dropped in the last two years because of a lack of money and problems finding faculty advisers, will accept 20 or more KU students this spring, Loomis said. Loomis spoke at a meeting for interested students.
Loomis attributed part of the program's resurrection to the attention it had received from past interns.
Selina Jackson, a Lawrence senior who was an intern in the spring, said that she became upset after learning that the program was in danger of being cut. She and some of the other 20 interns wrote letters to Chancellor Gene A. Bell to inform them of the danger of liberal arts and sciences, to see whether the program could be saved.
He said the program's problems stemmed from faculty advisers having to pay for many of their
expenses. The adviser who was committed to go this spring recently declined.
"Realistically, it would be better to have one of our own faculty members there." Rowland said. "You build networks and contacts that could help others students later."
Pete Rowland, professor of political science and a past adviser, said the loss of the adviser had jeopardized the program because it was too late to find another teacher for the spring. A consultant from Washington will have to act as adviser to the students.
Loomis said that Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, had allocated one month's summer salary advance for the adviser's expenses. Before, the faculty adviser had received regular pay during the four-month internship program. Loomis said the advance would encourage more faculty to apply in the future.
The program also will benefit because it is now solely sponsored by the political science department. Loomis said. Before, the program was supportive of effort between the department and the honors program.
"The vice chancellor has been very supportive of what we are trying to do." Loomis said.
More attend meteorology club
By a Kansan reporter
Organizers and members of the Atmospheric Science Boosters Club said they were pleasantly surprised yesterday by the number of students who attended the club's first meeting this year.
"It's about three times as big as it was last year," said Mark Bogner, Kingman sophomore. Twenty people attended the meeting.
John Dolusic, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, was one of those who organized the meeting at Malott Hall. "There are at least seven or eight more people who couldn't be here because of classes," he said.
Dolusic said the club planned field trips to give students hands-on experience in meteorology.
Those trips will be to television stations an international other services.
"It broadens our horizons of what the opportunities really are," Dolusic said.
Club members said they also would try to bring guest speakers to camps.
Dolusic said that most club members, including himself, were meteorology majors but that membership was open to all.
interested in meteorology, not just students," Dolusic said. "The public is welcome."
"There were about 400 calls last year during spring break," Bogner said. "I think I answered about 100 of them myself." "I got into this for the field trips and the experience. Plus it looks good on a resume," he said.
One of the club's main projects is operating a weather hotline before the Thanksgiving and spring break holidays to provide travel advice to students. The club also operated the hotline last year.
"It's certainly for anyone who's
5 buildings get a wash for $18,000
By a Kansan reporter
Men in yellow raincoats have been climbing on scaffolds on some campus buildings since Monday. The buildings are getting a periodical bath, said Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations.
The limestone buildings are difficult to keep clean, Porter said, because mold spores grow on them. When humidity is high, the buildings attract carbon dioxide, causing black spots.
Workers clean the buildings with jet sprayers that spray water as hot as 200 degrees. Porter said part of the work areas would be blocked off from the public. He said students should not walk directly under workers.
The buildings are cleaned whenever money is available, Porter said. He said the University of Kansas had contracted a cleaning company to clean five campus buildings for, $18.000.
The north and east sides of Alle,
Field House and the north sidesoof
Malot Hall, Watson Library, Fraser
Hall and Dyche Hall will be cleaned.
All work should be completed in
the next 30 days, depending
on the weather.
On the Record
A waterbed, baby bed, dresser, stereo, bookcase, buffet, kitchen table, six chairs and clothes, valued together at $2,599, were taken between June and September from a residence in the 1700 block of Ohio, Lawrence police reported.
■ A wedding ring set, a silver ring and a silver watch valued together at $350 were taken between 10 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday from a residence in the 400 block of Arkansas Street. Lawrence police reported.
■ A 1977 Olds Cutlass Supreme valued at $650 was taken Sept. 24 in the 1000 block of North Third Street. Lawrence police reported.
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