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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 11, 1987
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Local Briefs
Trial will begin for KU student in car accident
A KU student will go to trial today in Lawrence Municipal Court on charges stemming from a Moot Court case against three other students one sorely.
Eldon Aldritt, Wichita junior, was charged with one count each of operating under the influence and reckless driving. According to Lawrence police, Aldritt was the driver of a car that struck three cars parked in the 2000 block of Avenue early on the morning of May 5.
John Buzbee, Hutchinson junior,
lost his left leg below the knee
after he was pinned between two of
the parked cars.
Malfunction causes midnight whistle
The whistle that signals the end of classes has been sending confusing signals lately.
The whistle blew at midnight Wednesday because of a malfunction in an electronic printed circuit board. The director of plant maintenance.
The circuit board was a replacement for the part that malfunctioned at 5:20 p.m. on Sept. 3. At that time, the whistle blew for a full minute before a plant worker shut off the power.
free nature hikes sponsored by city
The first in a series of nature hikes sponsored by the Lawrence Parks & Recreation Department will be tomorrow morning.
There also will be hikes on October 10 and November 14.
Hikers should meet at 8 a.m. at
South Park Center, 1141 Massachusetts St., on the day of the hike. Hikers should enter the park via the biking route.
Casual, comfortable clothes are recommended.
The hikes are usually two to three miles long and are finished by 11:30 a.m. said Jane Suellen-Schulenberg, supervisors for the department.
Patrick Clark, a KU graduate,
will lead tomorrow's hike.
The hikes are free and open to
the public.
Additional information is available by calling 841-7777.
Literature forum scheduled for today
Literature students, teachers and scholars may attend a comparative literature conference beginning at 4 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Professor Juliet MacCannell,
University of California-Irvine,
will speak at 4 p.m. today on "A
Comparativist Looks at Jean-
Jacques Rousseau's Confessions."
Speech will focus on artist's drawings
Don Lambert, Topea graduate student, will speak on "The Art of Elizabeth Layton" at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. A reception will follow in the Central Court.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the name of St. Ami's Church was misspeiled in yesterday's Kansan. The church is in Mission.
From staff and wire reports.
Error-filled Western Civ manuals rewrite Bible
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
The Western Civilization department was surprised this fall when it discovered an altered version of the Bible in its new collected readings and student manuals.
Staff writer
There were problems with Aristotle, too, said James Woelfel, director of the department.
Printing errors in the 1878 editions of the two manuals excluded some required readings, included unaccessible reading and garbled the text of other readings.
The Bible readings had the most errors in them, Woolfel said. The material had been garbled, making it "wildly inaccurate," he said.
"I'm not talking about just your typographical errors," he said. "I'm talking about starting in the middle of a paragraph or the middle of a sentence."
Correction booklets are expected to be distributed free next week at the KU Bookstore, said Sue Thayer, textbook office supervisor for the store. Bill Muggy, manager of the Jayhawk Book Store, said he would distribute the booklets free if the store was not charged for them.
booklets in the Woolfeil said Ginn Press, a Lexington, Mass., firm that published the student manual and collected readings made the mistakes and was paying for printing the booklets.
store will announce the availability of the booklets in their classes.
He said the 1967 edition of the collected readings included errors in Aristotle's "Politics," which the department changed from last year.
The Western Civilization department makes changes in the reading material each year, Woolfel said.
The Bible section errors included the absence of readings on Job, which previously had been included, he said. Paul's letter to the Ephesians was included in that reading, and had not been requested. The errors made the section unusable.
The student manual didn't contain the list of weekly readings usually printed on inside front and back covers, and some bibliographical material was incorrect on the first page of each essay in the manual, he said.
"They didn't print the changes, they printed the old readings. We tried to remedy by making sure we put the correct reading assignments on our sylabi for the large lecture classes." Woelfel said.
Students in smaller lecture classes
take up the changes by their
interactions with the course.
He said reading material on the
Bible and on Lenin had also been left out.
"The other essays are just fine," Woelfel said. "They seem to have made the other changes that we instructed them to make."
After finding the mistakes, he said he contacted the publisher and sent them a corrected version of the books.
The publisher then agreed to provide a separate booklet containing additions to the manual and a list of errors made in the 1987 edition.
Because of the lack of time, however, Ginn Press then sent Woelfel and the House of Usher, a Lawrence booklet containing the corrections.
House of Usher, 838 Massachusetts St., will distribute 2,600 copies of the booklet to the KU Bookstore and the Jayhawk Book Store next Tuesday, said Rhonda Leebrick, general manager.
Woelfel said, "Since next week is the week we're studying Aristotle, I've told our teaching staff to go ahead and use the old material."
He said the problem had been frustrating for the department, which was in the process of changing the training format to include larger classes.
"We did not need this at the beginning of the fall term. We didn't need this at all to happen," he said. "We are inaugurating a new format and it makes money without having to deal with these problems with the readings."
Western Civilization 204 students Tanya Hektor, Chicago sophomore, and Anne Schudy, Leawood junior, said they were unaware of the changes being made for the manuals
Reunion events draw media
"Ours is fine," Hektor said, "I didn't know about it."
60s-style art draws approval
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
The portraits are something a Disney animator might do on an acid trip; over-inked, sinister cartoon characters that show an evil face behind an Uncle Sam mask in one drawing, subtly attack the morality in Donald Duck comic books in another and promote Kansas marjuana in another.
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By a Kansan reporter
The River City Reunion, this fall's continuing cultural event in Lawrence, has caught widespread attention from both national and international media, such as the Rolling Stone Magazine, The New York Times and Stern, one of West Germany's largest magazines.
These and other examples of 1960s-style underground art have been gathered by Lawrence artist Jim Barnes for a display at the Kansas Union. The display has been open this week and will be open until 5:30 p.m. today.
City Reunion organizers, said Time magazine, Stern and Elle, a New York fashion magazine, all had reporters and photographers at the event.
The presence of cultural celebrities such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Marianne Faithfull and a weeklong series of performances by other well-known poets, musicians and filmmakers have attracted reporters from newspapers, magazines and television and radio stations to Lawrence.
Bill Rich, Lawrence resident and one of the River
Michael Emerton, Kansas City, Kan., senior and a member of the River City Productions news staff, said mainly local radio and television stations covered the Reunion. He saw six television crews on campus
The Kansas City Star and Times, Wichita Eagle- Beacon and the Topeka Capitol-Journal also have covered the event, Rich said.
Barnes said he didn't expect the display to go over well in the conservative 1980s, but he's been surprised.
"There's been an incredible response," he said. "I'm very astonished by how much people really enjoy this type of artwork."
Emerton said the press coverage so far had been positive, enthusiastic and at times well-written.
Barnes said that he expected people to be deterred or offended by the crudity and roughness of some of the drawings and paintings, but that hasn't happened at all he said.
"They love it." he said
The display, which Barnes put together in connection with this year's River City Reunion, fea- more than 100 works by 4 artists.
Lawrence artist Jim Barnes' exhibit of more than 100 works by 14 artists is part of the River City Reunion celebration. The exhibit will be in the Kansas Union Gallery until 5:30 p.m. today.
Most of the artists are from the Lawrence area, Barnes said, but the display features work by nationally known artists S. Clay Wilson and Roger Shimomura, a KU professor of art.
The display also includes copies of comic books such as Zapp, one of the most popular of the underground comics, Barnes said.
Barnes said that he thought one reason people were reacting well to the display was that because the display was at the Union, many people who normally would avoid
art shows had stopped in to view the works.
He said that those people might find other forms of art highbrow, but that the works in his display would appeal for people to become engaged.
"This stuff just hits you," he said.
Mark Sprague, Overland Park sophomore, said he had been to art shows in the past and found them boring, but he had come back to view the underground display a
second time.
Sprauga said he was particularly impressed with the detail some of the artists used on their works, even though he called some of them scary.
Office looking into Lawrence hazing report
From staff and wire reports.
Douglas County district attorney Jim Flary said yesterday that he was investigating a possible hazard incident that reportedly occurred earlier
this month in Lawrence.
Also yesterday, a Kansas State
University fraternity was disciplined by the school's Interfraternity Council after a female student was treated for alcohol poisoning after a party at the fraternity last week.
However, Flory said he could not provide any further information about the investigation.
Men glad urinals installed
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At K-State, the IFC placed several sanctions against the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter, including placing the organization on social probation for this academic year.
Since the beginning of the school year, the men on the west wing of the 10th floor of McCollium Hall have been without urinals in their bathroom, while the women of the east wing had two working urinals. The problem resulted from the having urine from the east wing, where they lived last year, to the west wing, which was previously a women's wing.
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"It itse ridiculous to make a big deal out of it," she said. "People don't have time at home, and they need it. If I had to just lift the seat, they would be fine."
Afterward, between 1 and 3 p.m., two urinals were removed from the women's bathroom on the cast wing of the 10th floor and installed in the men's bathroom on the west wing, George Kitchen, plumbing supervisor, said.
Kitchen said the two urinals removed from the women's wing probably would be replaced by two new urinals in about a week.
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Stephens, St. Rose, La., graduate student, said he met with Ken Stoneer, director of student housing, at 8 a.m. Wednesday and presented a petition signed by 22 male residents of the west wing of the 10th floor.
"We don't know if male students will be living on that floor next year so we will probably have to put new ones in." Kitchen said.
"If someone had called our attention to it two weeks ago, we would have been much better."
Bryan Stephens' petition to get urinations installed in a bathroom in McColum Hall was an instant success on Wednesday.
Carol Adams, Overland Park graduate student and a resident of the east wing, said she was surprised the urinials were removed.
By BEN JOHNSTON
Stoner said he would have corrected the problem earlier if he known it existed.
The female residents cracked jokes while the urinals were removed. Kitchen said.
Stephens said he was pleased the urinals were installed so quickly.
Staff writer
"Housing was very gracious about the whole thing." Stephens said. "I don't think they could have done it any faster."
"They had a ball," he said. "They laughed their heads off."
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