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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 10, 1987
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Local Briefs
Local couple dies in wreck in Minnesota
A Lawrence couple was killed Tuesday in a two-car accident in central Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Highway Patrol.
Delbert Eisele, 67, and his wife,
La Verne Eisele, 61, former owners
of Marks Jewelers, 817 Massachusetts St., were returning to Lawrence from a vacation in Park Rapids, Minn.
Delbert Eisele was driving on a county road when he crossed a highway and struck a pickup truck broad-side. The driver of the truck, Alan Crandall, 28, of Minnesota, also was killed.
A patrol spokesman said that a patrol heavy morning fog, Elisse missed a stop sign. All three pronounced dead at the scene.
Funeral arrangements for the Eiseles are pending at WarrenMcElwain Mortuary.
Lawrence residents get obscene calls
Obscene calls to Lawrence residents that began about two months ago, and then stopped, started again last week.
Judith Hefley, director of community relations at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said a female telephone caller, who says she is taking a survey for the hospital, is asking residents obscene questions. The hospital is not conducting a survey, and the calls should be reported to the Lawrence Police Department. Hefley said.
Police have received no complaints about the obscene caller since last week, said Sgt.丹 Dalquestef of the Lawrence police.
Robinson to close briefly for repairs
Robinson Center will close at 5 p.m. Friday instead of at 10:30 p.m. due to repair work on shower water lines. The center will open again at 8 a.m. Saturday.
Douglas County to receive grants
Douglas County will receive $30,680 in block grants under the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance Act of 1984.
Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan announced yesterday that $21,580 would go to a victim-witness program in the district attorney's office and $9,100 to victim-witness services through the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
The block grant program is administered by Stephan's office. Money was available to the state for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 and requires a 50 percent match by state or local governments.
Eisenhower to talk at WSU lectures
David Eisenhower, grandson and biographer of President Dwight Eisenhower, will open the 1987-88 Wichita State University Forum Board Lecture Series on Sept. 28.
Eisenhower will speak at 9:30 a.m. at the Campus Activities Center Theater on the campus in Wichita.
Also scheduled to appear are Dick Cavett, PBS talk show host and author, on Nov. 2; Max Robinson, ABC News correspondent, on Feb. 8; and Sonia Johnson, a feminist author who was ex-communicated from the Mormon Church, on March 7.
From staff and wire reports.
Faculty wooed by unions for Nov.17 vote NEA, AAUP seek to represent teachers in Legislature, salary negotiations
Bv NOEL GERDES
KU faculty need to form a union to raise their salaries and eliminate a sense of powerlessness, the head of a group seeking to represent the faculty said yesterday.
Staff writer
"The administration listens to itself, not faculty," said Robert Hohn, collective bargaining committee chairman of the American Association of University Professors. A would address that problem, he said.
Hohn spoke to about 40 people at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
the KU chapter of the National Education Association, or not to form a union. If no option receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the two options with the most votes will be placed on the ballot again.
Faculty members will vote Nov. 17 and 18 whether to form a union, represented either by the AAUP or
Those eligible to vote are faculty with the rank of lecturer or above who hold at least half-time teaching positions, librarians, research scientists and curators, said Terry Madden, Medken. KU-NEA. These with the titles of chancellor, vice chancellor, dean or director will not be eligible to vote.
Hohn, who is a professor of educational psychology and research, said KU faculty salaries were rising at a rate similar to the university's. No U.S. college or universities.
ty has given its faculty members a smaller salary increase this fiscal year than the average 1.5 percent increase KU faculty members will receive, Hohn said.
"Financially speaking, we are falling further and further behind," Hohn said.
Forming a union to handle collective bargaining for faculty will not automatically raise faculty salaries, but faculty unions will benefit faculty unions prosper as a whole.
At KU, the faculty now has no representative of its own to directly lobby the state Legislature and the Board of Regents. Although KU administrators now convey faculty opinions, their main goal is to represent the entire University.
"We need a voice that speaks for the faculty alone," Hohn said, adding that the AAUP was the logical choice to represent the faculty. AAUP has a long tradition of guaranteeing the rights of university faculty and has a national network of information and sources, he said.
The AUAP, founded in 1910, represents about 50 universities around the world.
Madden agreed with Hohn that the faculty needed a new unifying force and that a union would be the most effective. He said the faculty should play a stronger role in University government than it does now and should should form a union that would only represent faculty.
But Madden disagreed that the
Artist from China bikes across U.S.
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Even with his tanned, peeling skin and smooth bicyclist's legs, Bingyao Chang does not look like someone who has ridden a bicycle halfway around the world.
Maybe it's because he, unlike others who go for marathon riding attempts, is not a professional bicyclist, or any kind of professional athlete.
Chang, who heads for the Kansas City area today after a threeday stay in Lawrence, is a vice professor at the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing, China, and a well-known Chinese playwright, poet and painter.
speaking through an interpreter, Chang said yesterday that he was riding around the world trying to articulate art and culture of different nations.
He decided to go by bicycle because he missed too many sights when traveling by car or plane. He said he liked having the freedom to observe what he wanted.
Chang, 52, left his home, his wife and his 18-year-old son in January 1986. He rode across Hong Kong and returned to San Francisco last February.
He said that before embarking on his trip, he spent fifteen months riding the length of the Yellow River in China — 2,900 miles — because he thought he must understand his own nation's culture before he could understand the rest of the world.
Qingli Wan, a former colleague
of Chang's and now a KU graduate student, said Chang was famous in China, particularly for his poetry and paintings.
Chang will open an exhibition of his paintings in Los Angeles in January and will lecture at universities in New York and Washington, D.C. He also has been invited to Europe, Holland, Fragile, Italy and India.
Chang said he had thought of abandoning his trip a few times and missed his family very much. He said he had two plans for the rest of his trip, one that would take two years and one that would take
He said he didn't know how long it would take to finish the trip. Before January he planned to travel by car, but he hoped to meet President Reagan.
Chang said his trip was being paid for partly by U.S. corporate sponsors, including the Los Angeles Times, that helped plan his route across the United States. Chang also pays for the trip by selling his watercolor paintings of people and landscapes.
He said he carried his brushes and paper on his bike, along with a tent and sleeping bag. While white rider he covered 40 to 50 miles a day.
Chang said he had run into only a few problems on his trip, such as hot weather in California and a flat tire in Topeka. Even though he speaks only a few words of English, he said he found U.S. citizens very amenable.
Bingyao Chang, vice professor and painter from the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing, China, is traveling across the United States and around the world by bicycle. Chang left his home in January 1986 and will continue his journey today after a three-day stay in Lawrence.
Chang has had peoplevolunteer to house him overnight, help him fix flat tires and drive their cars in front of his bike to break the wind.
He demonstrated his interest in
people when he turned the tables on reporters interviewing him last night, asking them questions about their concerns and their opinions on patriotism, love and friendship.
Group helps foreign women, children cope
Staff writer
For the 20th year, Small World, a non-profit Lawrence organization, is offering classes to help foreign families cope better in the United States.
Women and children from foreign nations who are uneasy about living in Lawrence can learn about life in the United States and improve their English at off-campus classes this fall.
However, men are not invited because many Arabic women have religious beliefs that do not allow them to meet with men other than their husbands, said Kathy Mulinazzi, the organization's co-chairman.
By KIRK ADAMS
volunteers who speak Arabic,
French, German, Spanish, Korean,
Chinese and Hausa, an African language.
Mulinazi hopes that people who speak other languages also will volunteer. In past years, the organization always has found teachers speaking participants' native languages, she said.
Small World offers four levels of English courses, from the most basic English to a class in conversational English. The classes are taught by
Small World has programs for children under 3 years old and children aged 3 to 5, said Judy Keller, an educator of the children's programs.
For adults, activities include U.S. and international cooking, crafts and sewing. Mulinazzi said.
"We'll be doing art activities and games and songs," Keller said.
"A lot of the people want to learn how to make pizza," she said.
The group meets from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway, during KU's fall and spring semesters. A night class also meets the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the same place. Small World also plans to offer transportation after the first week.
Mulinazzi said people could register from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. today or at any meeting. Fees to help pay costs are $10 a family for one semester, or $18 a family for both.
Mulinazzi said she expected from 60 to 100 people to attend the meetings after the classes got started.
Another activity Small World offers is field trips that, Mulinazzi said, women could participate in along with their children.
She said last year for Halloween,
Small World took a trip to a pumpkin patch where the students picked apples and carved them into jack-o-lanterns.
"They were really interesting, especially the Oriental women's pumpkins, because they turned out to be more like dragons." Mulnazzi said.
For participants who are from countries with warm climates and thus are unprepared for the cold Kansas falls and winters, Small World plans to have a clothing exchange in October. "They think 50 degrees is cold," she said. Keller said any donations of coats, sweaters and other winter clothes could be dropped off at the church but should be marked for Small World.
AAUP would be a better faculty representative because it was an organization of university professors and because most members of the NEA are secondary and elementary school teachers.
Staff writer
He said the NEA represented faculties at 75 universities across the United States.
By BEN JOHNSTON
"What we have to offer faculty is a long and well-established state organization that already has influence in the state Legislature." Madden said.
Students awaiting housing
If patience is a virtue, KU students waiting for apartments at Stouffer Place may be saints by the time they move in.
All 300 apartments in the University of Kansas' housing project, which is reserved for students who are married or have children, were occupied this year. Ruth Swain, Stouffer Place resident hall manager, said that students who wanted to move in would have a long wait.
Stouffer Place consists of 25 buildings east of the Daisy Hill residence halls, on Engel Road between 16th and 19th streets. Of the 300 furnished apartments, 200 are two-bedroom and 100 are one-bedroom.
"Students who want a two-bedroom apartment will have to wait about a year," Swain said. "There is always a long line for two-bedroom apartments. Right now it is so long we are not even counting the number of names."
"There are 25 people on a list for one-bedroom apartments," Swain said. "The list is shorter for one-bedroom apartments, but the waiting period will vary. Someone got in recently after a three-month wait."
At a time when KU's residence hall system is overcrowded, Swain said the Stouffor Place waiting lists were the longest they had ever been.
Students on the waiting lists can move in when a current tenant decides to leave, which is usually at the end of a semester. Tenants who give housing officials 60 days notice can leave anytime. Swain said.
She said Stouffer Place was popular for a variety of reasons.
"It is hard to say which is the most important reason." Swain said. "I most often hear the economic reason — that the apartments are reasonably priced. The second reason I hear that it is a good place to raise children. The third reason may be the location."
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said monthly rent had been increased this year at Stouffer Place from $156 to $160 for a one-bedroom apartment and from $176 to $180 for a two-bedroom apartment.
"We hadn't raised the rates for three years," Stoner said. "It was done to offset basic operating costs."
An increasing number of single parents are living at Stouffer Place.
"When I first came here in the fall of '83, there was only one single parent that I knew of," Swain said. "Last year there were 22, and this year there are 24."
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