University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 15, 1987
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Student shot with pellet gun at greek house
A KU student was hit by a bullet from a gun early Sunday morning while he was leaving a party at the Palm Paifraternity, 1602 W. 15th St.
The student told Lawrence police that he had been invited to the party by friends who lived in the house. When he arrived, he was refused entrance because he was not on the party guest list.
The student told police that a house member at a second or third-floor window shot him in the upper arm with the pellet gun. The student did not receive medical treatment. Lawrence police are investigating.
Docking to give talk about management
Former Lt. Gov. Tom Docking will speak at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at 252 Robinson Center. Docking, who has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Kansas, will speak about public and private management as part of the School of Business Executive Lecture Series.
Amateur radio club to give free classes
The Douglas County Amateur Radio Club will offer a nine-week course starting Thursday for those who are learning in learning about amateur radio.
Klissa Rueschoff, secretary of the Douglas County Amateur Radio Club, said the purpose of the course was to help students pass a Federal Communications Commission test and receive a novice license.
The class will be at 7 p.m.
Thursdays in the basement of
Lawrence Fire Station No. 1,
Eighth and Vermont streets.
The class will be free, but students will
have to buy a manual and tapes.
Primary guide book aids Missouri voters
Missouri Secretary of State Roy Blunt has published an eight-page guide to help Missouri voters
In 1986, a primary replaced the party caucus system that had been used to select presidential delegates to national conventions.
"The 1988 Missouri Presidential Primary" is designed to answer questions such as how presidential candidates would win delegates. Copies are available from the Missouri Division of Elections. Office of the Secretary of State, Box 778, Truman Building, Jefferson City, Mo., 65102.
Layout and design workshop planned
A layout and design workshop will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 23 in room 303 of Staffer-Flint Hall.
The workshop is sponsored by the KU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America.
Sharon Bass, associate professor of journalism, will demonstrate layout and design techniques from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Participants will be given a sample page to design from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Registration deadline is 5 p.m.
Sept. 16. Registration forms can
be obtained in room 200 of Stau-
fer-Flint.
From staff and wire reports.
Carlin endorses proposal
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
Former Kansas Gov. John Carlin endorsed the Board of Regents Margin of Excellence proposal yesterday during a monthly comment at KANU-FI.
"We in Kansas have reached a point where we must make a further commitment to higher education in order to maintain the quality we have come to expect but which is surely slipping away from us," Carlin said.
Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring Regents schools' budgets to 65 percent of the amount it had in 2011 to use faculty salaries to equal the amount peer institutions pay their faculty.
"The Margin of Excellence program is an opportunity to turn those statistics into real dollars and real revenues in higher education," Carlin said.
Carlin was governor from 1979 to 1986 and served eight years in the state Legislature before that. He now is a lecturer in urban studies at Wichita State University. He said that after listening to university officials make budget requests for 16 years, he now had firsthand experience with the scarce amount of money at Regents schools.
"Seeing is indeed believing," he said
Students train on outdated equipment and often as many as 12 faculty members share one secretary, Carlin said. Experienced fast learners make less than some first-year public school teachers with bachelor's degree, he said.
Tad Ayres, general counsel for the Regents, said that the Regents had not asked Carlin to endorse the Margin of Excellence proposal, but he did not say whether former governor's name carries influence in Topeka, he said.
The Regents plan to ask others, such as business leaders, newspaper editors and prominent alumni, to endorse the proposal, he said.
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
Snow job
Dust and sparks飞 as Gary Hupp of Topeka saw through a wall at Snow Hall. Construction workers were cutting holes in the west side of Snow on Monday to prepare for installation of a six-story stairwell.
Man dies in bicycle accident
By a Kansan reporter
A 29-year-old Lawrence man died late Sunday night after his bicycle collided with a car at the intersection of 23rd and Ousdahl.
The man, Jeffery L. Mesenbrink,
608 Kentucky St., was hurled by the collision onto the hood of a red Volkswagen Beetle and into the windshield. His head and chest broke through the windshield.
According to Lawrence police, Mesenbrink was traveling north on Ousdahl about 7:30 p.m. He was hit by the Volkswagen as he headed north through the intersection as the light turned green.
Mesenbrink was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He went into surgery for multiple internal injuries about 9 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 11 p.m. Douglas County coroner Alan Sanders said Mesenbrink died from injuries suffered to his head and chest
The driver of the Volkswagen, Kristine A. Patti, 29, of 101 Ohio St.
While attempting to make a left turn on 23rd, she collided with the bike.
The police report did not indicate whether Mesenbrink was wearing any protective equipment. There were no skid marks indicating that the Volkswagen had made a fast stop, according to the report.
Patti told police that she didn't see the bicycle and was well into the turn when the bicycle hit her right front fender.
The Douglas County district attorney's office will investigate the accident further before deciding whether to file any charges.
Dave Furnas, a St. Louis junior who witnessed the accident, said Mesenbrink was riding at a high speed down he hill on Ousdahl moments before the accident.
Mesenbrink was employed at Volume Shoe Co. in Topeka. He had moved to Lawrence about a year ago and worked for the Bon Department Store.
Time to pay the piper nears, but drum corps lacks funds
Staff writer
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
The last notes of the Horns on the Range drum corps show faded from Kansas Memorial Stadium in July, but the bills from the show still linger for the KU band's honorary service organizations.
Kappa Kappa Psi fraternity and Tau Beta Sigma sorority, sponsors of the July 22 show, still owe $4,000 to Drum Corp International, said Randy Timm, a coordinator for the show and Kappa Kappa Psi member.
About 1,500 people paid $7 or $8 a ticket for the show — 500 people short of the break-even. Timm said.
He said the fraternity and sorority, which operate together on most functions, would have no problems raising the money through fund-raisers but wouldn't be able to meet DCI's deadline for payment. The deadline is 60 days after the show, which would be Sunday.
Leigh Anne Stout, the other coordinator, said the groups hadn't decided what they would do about the debt.
added every 30 days after Sept. 20.
Stout said.
Timm said that the groups had considered getting a loan but that most banks wouldn't consider loaning to them because the groups lack collateral. Timm said that the money could be paid back easily by May.
DCI, with headquarters in Chicago, Ill., has been understanding Timm said, and isn't threatening legal action to collect the money. But penalties for late payment will be
The fraternity and sorority raise money by operating concessions at KU home basketball games and by selling band jackets and T-shirts, said Jon Pinnell, Kappa Kappa Psi president.
Pinnell said that the debt was not causing big problems for the fraternity and sorority but that they wouldn't be able to consider any major expenditures and would scale back some of their activities, such as parties for marching band members.
Timm said one reason the show didn't make money was because the groups were not able to secure an outside sponsor. Timm said he thought that was because people in Lawrence were unsure about what to expect of a drum corps.
Corps performances at the show ranged on a West Side Story theme by the Hutchinson Sky Ryders corps to a three-ring circus by the Star of Indiana corps of Bloomington, Ind.
Stout said a lack of advertising money also cut down on attendance. Posters, announcements on radio and TV, are the most used of mouth were the only promotions.
"Everyone assumes drum corps is the same thing as marching band." Timm said. "It's not. It's a much bigger and higher form of entertainment."
Both Stout and Timm said that having the show on a weeknight had caused some problems for out-of-towners.
Despite the problems with the show and the debt, both Timm and Stout, as well as the presidents of the band fraternity and sorority, called the show a success and said they would have to show to Lawrence again next year.
Because of a good response from the crowd, Timm said he thought Lawrence could host a show yearly and turn big profits.
Because the DCI championships will be in Kansas City, Mo., next year and because DCI rules prohibit shows within 150 miles of each other during a year, the KU group would have to contract with an organization besides DCI to bring corps to Lawrence.
Some students at the University of Kansas are acting in a play that is a fairy tale about nuclear disarmament.
That's right, a fairy tale.
Students who live in Hashinger Hall and members of the KU Free Theater Co., a student group, are putting on a humorous half-hour production of "Passion," a play by Edward Bond. But the play does have a serious message.
Scott Heim, Little River junior and an actor in the play, said, "It's kind of a children's theater fairy tale about the nuclear arms race."
The play is directed by Neil Labute, director of the KU free theater, and costumes were designed by Carolyn Kirkland. Wichita senior
The scenic rendering and painting were done by Phillip Schroeder, Olathe senior.
Performances will be at 6 p.m. today and tomorrow at Potter's Pavilion near Potter Lake. If it rains, the performance will be at Hashinger
KU play is a fairy tale with a serious theme
Staff writer
The play, Heim said, is about a court magician who invents a nuclear bomb for his queen. The
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Other actors are Kate Godman, Kettering, England, sophomore, as queen; Jay Karnes, Omaha, Neb, senior; as prime minister; Kristi Keefe, Pittsburgh senior, as an old woman; Brent Wright, Overland Park, senior, as a soldier; Diane Bosilevac, Shawnee freshman, as Jesus Village, Jeanette Benoit, Paul Village, Budda; Mark von Schlemm, Leavenworth graduate student, as an angel; Tim Furnish, Westwood freshman, as an angel, and Jeff Plinsky, Topeka freshman, as the narrator.
Godman showed Labute a copy of the script last year. Because Godman plans to leave for England soon, the two wanted to do another play together. Labute said. The two have been in several plays together.
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