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Tuesday, September 22, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Police still looking for driver-assailant
By JAVAN OWENS
Staff writer
Lawrence police are still searching for the driver of a car involved in a possible aggravated battery against a KU student early Sunday morning at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house, 1911 Stewart Ave., police spokesman Sgt. Don Dalques said.
Scott Moore, Overland Park senior, was in good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, a spokesman said yesterday. He was admitted to the hospital about 1:30 a.m. Sunday for head injuries he suffered after an apparent altercation with four men in a car that night.
According to the police report, a 1978 or 1979 yellow Camaro Z-28 followed the double-driver bus that stopped them. The carers home from a party to the house.
Fraternity member Glenn Martin, Birmingham, Ala., junior, said Sunday that he could not identify the four passengers in the car but that he was certain they were high school age.
The car stopped next to the bus at
the fraternity, which is on private property, members said. Fraternity members surrounded the car, according to the police report. House members exchanged words with the car passengers.
But Moore said yesterday that he was not involved in the altercation that led to his getting hit by the car.
Moore said he got off the bus and walked around the front of the car. Then the driver accelerated. Moore said the hood of the car to avoid getting hit.
"I tried to take the lesser of two evils," Moore said. "All I can remember is seeing the driver's face while I was riding on a road."
As the driver turned east on 19th Street, Moore was flung off the hood of the car. The car then headed east down 19th Street, the police report said. It reported that members could distinguish a "DG" on the Kansas license plate.
Picture could reveal dead man's identity
By a Kansan reporter
The San Miguel, Colo., County Sheriff's office has released this picture of the man sheriff's deputies in a raid on the home. [not waterful] near Telluride, Colo.
The man told people he met in Colorado that he was an art student named Eric from the University of Kansas.
The picture was taken with a video camera before the Grateful Dead concert Aug. 16 in Telluride.
San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters said his office still had no leads that directly linked the man to KU.
Anyone with information about the man should call KU Police at 864-5572
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
Pardon me, miss
KU preventive maintenance worker Sid Hays gives a lift to a foam mannequin perched on the Chi Omega fountain. Haws moved the
dummy yesterday evening after someone notified the workers of the prank.
Independence blast still a mystery
The Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — Investigators continued searching yesterday for the cause of a noon-time explosion in the southeast Kansas town's central business district that flattened one building and damaged several others Sunday.
The owner of the meat market
destroyed his mother said he thought
that the explosion
Roger M. Johnson, a spokesman for Union Gas System, Inc., said yesterday that the explosion was under investigation and that it would be premature to speculate on a cause.
insurance adjuster who asked that his name not be used said it would be in the neighborhood of $500,000.
"It's a good thing it happened when it did. If that thing had gone on Saturday afternoon or Monday afternoon, there'd have been several fatalities," said city Street Superintendent Leon Sherwood.
Investigators had no firm estimate of the monetary damage, but an
On the Record
Campus whistle returns after short absence
- Two blue 10-speed bicycles valued together at $200 were taken between 8 p.m. Sept. 14 and 8 p.m. Sept. 15 from a residence in the 3300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported.
Malfunction in power supply corrected; students, faculty cope with its sound
- Two cameras, a flash and a leather camera holder valued at $1,150 were taken between 1 a.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday from a car parked at Raintree Place, Lawrence police reported.
■ An AM-FM radio/cassette player and speakers valued $750 were taken between 8 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday from a residence in the 3000 block of Harvard Road, Lawrence police reported.
A 1976 Honda moped valued at $250 was taken between 1 a.m. Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday from the bike rack on the west side of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, KU police reported.
Staff writer
By JORN E. KAALSTAD Staff writer
The campus whistle that knocks you off your feet at the end of classes started to howl again yesterday after it was silent for a week.
The whistle has been mute because of a malfunction in the power supply to the master controls, said Randy Mankell, director for electronic systems.
Samuels said representatives from the manufacturer of the control systems repaired the computer-based controls yesterday.
when it blew for a minute after mechanics replaced a circuit board that they thought was causing the original problem, said Bob Porter, associate director for physical plant maintenance.
The whistle had blown at midnight twice earlier this month. Then, on Sept. 14, the whistle was shut off
Normally, the whistle blows for seven seconds at the end of class periods.
Students and faculty members had mixed feelings about the absence and impact of the pandemic.
Tim Arwine, Garden City graduate student, said he enjoyed the peace and quiet when the whistle was out of order.
"The whistle is an intrusion for my ears." he said. "If people aren't
T
he whistle is an intrusion for my ears. If people aren't intelligent enough to read a watch, they don't belong in a university.'
- Tim Arwine Garden City graduate student
Dana Leibengood, associate dean of journalism, whose office is within a hundred yards of the whistle, said he enjoyed the whistle, because it helped keep a tight appointment schedule.
He said he wasn't bothered by the noise from the whistle.
"That's probably because I have a 90 percent hearing loss in my left ear." Leibengood said.
Shelby Gernon, Hiawatha graduate student, said she liked the whistle, although she said it was obnoxiously loud, because it told her when classes were over.
Election for tax increase to be Nov. 3
intelligent enough to read a watch, they don't belong in a university."
By a Kansan reporter
The Douglas County Commission yesterday gave final approval to Nov. 3 as the date for a special election on a 1-cent county sales tax.
The tax proposal is a response to a $1 million revenue loss in the county and its cities because of the 1988悍革 the federal program. This loss, coupled with state and other federal cutbacks, would severely deplete money for capital improvements, nonprofit organizations and social services.
The commission also approved a resolution outlining how the county would spend its share of the revenue generated by the tax. Several Douglas County cities, including Lawrence, will receive a portion of the revenue.
The resolution divides the county's
24% for human services
7% for township roads.
24% for human services. 4.5% for historical programs
- 23% for the replacement of bridges and culverts
40% for public parking and public building construction and improvements.
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