University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 14, 1987
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Faculty breaks ground for new science library
About 75 people watched Friday as administrators and faculty joined in groundbreaking ceremonies at Kansas' new science library.
The $13.9 million library is expected to be open by the fall of 1989. It will be southeast of Hoch Auditorium and will house the University's science and technological collections, including maps, plans, journals and microfilms.
The exterior of the building will be finished in three limestone textures to match the style of other buildings on campus.
Joining in the groundbreaking and speeches were Chancellor Gene A. Budig; Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor; James Ranz, dean of libraries; Kansas Board of Regents member Richard Senecal; Charles D. Michener, Watkins distinguished professor of entomology; and W.J. Argersinger, professor of chemistry and former vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and former dean of the graduate school.
KU student's trial moved to October
The trial of a KU student who was charged after a May car accident that injured three other students has been postponed until
Eldon Alldritt, Wichita junior, is charged in Lawrence Municipal Court with one count each of reckless driving and operating under the influence. According to Lawrence police, the suspect that struck three cars parked in the 2000 block of Stewart Avenue early May 5.
Alldritt's lawyer asked for the postponement Friday morning.
Student arrested after Friday chase
A KU student was arrested early Friday morning after police chased him away from a KU sorority house.
Police said the student was trying to enter the Alpha Phi sorority, 1602 High Drive, through a fire department, residents in the house called police.
The student was arrested for attempted burglary, criminal trespassing, possession of false identification and resisting arrest, Lawrence police reported. He was later released without bond.
While fleeing the police, the man ran out of his shoes and fell, police reported. He then became entangled in a volleyball net and ran into a wall. He suffered minor brushes on his head and cuts on his feet but refused medical attention.
KU band member to play in parade
KU marching band member Mark Sinser has been selected to play in the "We the People 200" parade Sept. 17 in Philadelphia.
Simerly, Lakewood, Colo., senior, will play a euphonium in the parade, which is a celebration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Euphoniums are similar to baritones.
From staff and wire reports.
Transcript fees will go toward computer
Rv MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Transcript pick-up service and free copies of transcripts are a thing of the past for KU students and alumni, but the director of student records says it's for their own good.
Staff writer
Since July 1, transcripts have cost
hospitals more than director of
student records.
The records office is charging the fee to help raise money for a computer system that would shorten the length of time it takes for students to receive transcripts. The new transcripts will look better, too. Thompson said.
The system will be similar to one at Kansas State University, where transcripts are provided to students instantly for $2.
At the University of Kansas, Thompson said, it now takes at least four days for the office to mail transcripts. Thompson hopes to reduce the wait to two days.
Pick-up service was canceled last January because students who made appointments to pick up their transcripts sometimes got priority over students who wanted their transcripts mailed to them, Thompson said.
Pick up service will resume when the office gets the computer system. Thompson said he hopes to have the computers working within a year. But transcripts will still cost $2, he says for other improvements in services.
Certification of enrollment, also provided by the office of student
records, will continue to be free, he said.
Thompson said he and other administrators had decided to charge for transcripts to pay for a computer system only after waiting for years to see whether they could get the money from some other source.
In April, the office informed Student Senate of the pending change and told members that the primary reason for the charge was to cut down on the number of requests. Last month the office had about 70,000 requests.
Thompson said that although a reduction in requests probably would be a side effect of the fee, it wasn't the reason fees were being charged.
"Once we get computer-generated transcripts, we won't have to worry
The same number of students probably will i equest transcripts, he said, but now that students have to pay for them probably will request fewer at a time.
about that," he said.
Thompson said that some students who were used to picking up free transcripts had been surprised or unhappy with the change. But most students never request a transcript until their senior year, he said, and never knew that transcripts once had been free.
Scott Burchett, Overland Park resident, said he wasn't bothered at all by having to pay to have a copy of his transcript sent to the junior school; he didn't bother; since it would be the only copy of his transcript he would ever need.
Burchett, who attended KU three years, said he hadn't known that the charge was something new for KU.
Students who need many copies of their transcripts for job applications or scholarships might be able to avoid paying the fee by checking to make sure they need official copies of their transcripts, student advisers said.
The records office provides transcripts that have official stamps. But students can get unofficial copies by themselves or from their advisers by copying their own transcripts from their confidential folders.
Fred Sardowski/KANSAN
Bill Moses, Chicago freshman, sports a mohawk after he was plastered with Edge extra-rich gel shaving cream. Moses and about 50 other McCollium Hall residents fought with shaving cream Saturday behind McCollium.
McCollum residents get creamed
By FRED SADOWSKI Special to the Kansan
It was a call to arms. The battlefield was a volleyball court, but nothing was at stake except good clean fun. It was the second annual McColum Hall shaving cream fight Saturday afternoon behind McColium.
The rules of the fight were simple:
do not spray cream in anyone's face,
do not go out of bounds, throw away
your empty cans and pick up a
About 1,000 cans of Edge extra-rich gel shaving cream were at the disposal of about 50 combatants, who were dressed in nothing more than shorts and T-shirts, and sometimes less than that.
packet about stress management.
This year's shaving cream figh,
was the brainchild of McColum resi-
dent assistants Mark Gillem, Walnut
Creek, Calif., senior, and Steve
Courtney, Overland Park junior. The purpose of the fight was two-fold, Gillem said.
Each resident assistant must organize an academic, social and educational workshop over the course of a semester. The shaving cream fight counts as an academic workshop because the residents
"We have all this shaving cream and we have to use it," he said. "Also, we're using the event for stress management. This is one of the ways of relieving stress."
learn stress management as a part of the fight. Gillem said.
Janet Bearly, McColum assistant residence hall director, said that the fight was an annual event. The staff had known about it. All ball residents could attend.
"I've heard a lot of good things
the fight since it happened."
she said.
The shaving cream came from "Good Stuff" boxes distributed free at the beginning of the semester throughout the hall. Every hall resident gets one of the boxes, containing items such as toiletries and aspirin. Bearly said that the shaving cream was removed from the boxes before they were distributed.
Authorities believe body in Colorado may be KU student
By a Kansan reporter
A naked body that authorities think might be that of a KU student has been recovered from a pool at the bottom of a 500-foot waterfall in Telluride, Colo.
Bill Masters, sheriff of San Miguel County, said the body of an oliv-skinned male, probably of Middle Eastern descent, was found in the pool Sept. 3.
Masters said police had found no identification for the man. He traced the man back to Lawrence through interviews with some youths who were accused of the person of the dead man's description at a Grateful Dead concert Aug. 16.
The youths said that the man had identified himself as Eric, an art student at the University of Kansas.
They said they last saw him on the day of the concert sleeping within 100 feet of the waterfall.
The youths said the man had what he called a "Harmonic Convergence Tuning Fork," a large wooden sculpture with dreadlocks of hair stapled to it. Masters surmises that the man hitchhiked to Colorado with the sculpture.
Masters said the man was 5 feet 7 inches tall and of stocky build, with shoulder-length dark hair and a thin dark beard.
Anyone with information identifying the man is asked to call the San Miguel County Sheriff's department at (303) 728-3081.
The KU police department is aid ing in the search.
Simon Says turnout short of world record
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
Simon says: More people! Members of the Chi Omega sorority, 1345 W. Campus Rd., and Alpha KappaLambda fraternity, 2021 Stewart Ave., didn't set a world record with their Simon Says game on Friday.
They didn’t even come close. But members said the game, which was played on the lawn in front of Allen Field House, was a success anyway. “I think it went over real well, considering all of the other events that were going on last week,” said Carrie Booe, Leawood junior and member of Chi Omega. Greek Week also took place last week, so some people were participating in that, she said.
It was really funny." she said.
The two Greek houses had hoped to earn a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records by getting as many KU students as possible to play Simon Says. Officials with the Guinness Book said they would consider making a trip to at least 1,500 people participated. The actual turnout for the event was 350 people, although about 1,000 tickets were sold. Booed said.
But many of those who did turn out had a good time. Kristin Schudy, Leawood senior, was one of the participants. "At first they went really slow, and then they started to speed it up and people started getting called out. I don't even know what I did to get out. I just looked up and about four of us were doing something different than everybody else.
The Simon Says game earned over $2,000 for the Cancer Research Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Participants paid $2 in advance or $2.50 on the day of the game.
'Things are easier to organize the second time around so maybe we will.
Carrie Booe Chi Omega member
Prizes were awarded for the top three winners — those who stayed in the game the longest without being called out. First prize was a trip to Chicago for two, second prize was a $20 gift certificate from Dos Hombres and a case of Corona beer and third prize was a $20 gift certificate from Arensberg Shoes or Dos Hombres.
Brian McCaffrey, Tonganoxie senior, won the third-place prize. "A friend of mine told me about it and wanted me to go with her. She ended up getting 10th place and I got third place. It was great," he said.
Boo said she wasn't sure whether they would try again next year to break the record, and they're easier to break the second time around, so maybe we will," she said.
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