University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 9, 1987
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Haskell student arrested after Sunday assault
A 29-year-old male student at Haskell Indian Junior College was arrested Sunday on charges of aggravated battery and sodomy against a 23-year-old male Haskell student.
According to Lawrence police, the victim returned to his residence hall room early Sunday morning and was sexually assaulted. Lawrence police initially responded to a fight. The victim later was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Curling iron starts fire in GSP-Corbin
A short circuit in a curling iron used by a Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall resident Aug. 27 caused $75 damage and slightly injured the resident, Lawrence fire chief Jim McSwain said yesterday.
The fire was caused by a loose nut inside the appliance. The nut lodged itself in the handle of the fire to it short circuit, McSwain said.
He said the iron burned the carpet after it was dropped on the floor. The resident suffered a crack in her hand, but refused treatment.
GSP-Corbin hall director Lori Reeser said an alarm pull station behind the GSP-Corbin desk failed to work because it was not wired in with the rest of the system, but he kept it up and pulled seconds later and functioned properly. All residents got out safely, she said.
Meeting for local artist series today
An informational meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, to discuss "Performing Nights," a series of six small performances designed to acquaint the community with local dancers, poets, actors and musicians. For details contact Candi Baker at the center.
False alarms stick despite debugging
With the cleaning out of the fire alarm system in Bailey Hall, faculty and students should be bugged less by false alarms — literally.
Facilities and operations officials said yesterday that insects hatching in the system could have caused some false alarms last year. The system was cleaned before fall cleanups. The Fire Department answered a false alarm yesterday morning.
Bugs, though, aren't the only problem with the Bailey system, said Harry Buchholz, an electronics technician for facilities and operations.
operation
Low ceilings in Bailey mean that cigar and pipe smoke set off detectors easily, he said.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, Morton Wayne Webb, the new vice president of the Black Student Union, was identified incorrectly in yesterday's Kansan. He is from Shawnee.
Children treated after playing with syringes
Because of an editor's error, Gerald Burkhart's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansan. Burkhart is the manager of Colony Woods apartments, 1301 W. 24th St.
By JAVAN OWENS
Two Lawrence children were given routine treatment on Sunday for hepatitis after they played with used hypodermic needles they found in a dumpster at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Main St.
Staff writer
From staff and wire reports.
A hospital employee saw the two boys, 7 and 6 years old, playing with syringes near the hospital's dumpster about 1 p.m. Sunday, Lawrence
Both children were pricked by the needles and the 7-year-old was sprayed with liquid from a syringe tip, police said.
police reported. The children were using the syringes as spears.
Judith Hefley, hospital community relations director, said yesterday that the needles had been used. But the hospital has not determined yet what the needles were used for, or how the boys got the needles from the
Hospital officials notified police and consulted neighbors to find both boys' parents.
dumpster, she said.
Hefley said hospital workers disposed of used needles by placing them in red, sealed boxes before putting them in trash dumplers.
"Normally, up until June, all of that would have been thrown in our incinerator," she said. But the incinerator broke down in June and
has not yet been repaired.
She said the red box that contained the needles would have been difficult for the boys to get into.
Hefley said that once hospital officials found out about the incident, they responded quickly.
"We treated them as we do one of our employees who has been stuck by a needle of unknown origin."
AIDS contamination can be confirmed only when AIDS antibodies are found in the victim's blood. But the antibodies can take from six weeks to a year to form, according to officials at Watkins Hospital.
The hospital did not test the youths for AIDS contamination, Hefley said.
Hefler said hospital employees had blocked off the area around the dumpster after the incident.
The hospital has ordered new dumpsters with heavy lids since the incident, Hefley said.
Birthday celebration for KANU scheduled
Bv MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
Next week's birthday party has all the elements of a perfect celebration: several hundred wellwishers, a large frosted cake and a 35-year-old guest of honor.
Tuesday, KAUN-FM, the University's public radio station, will celebrate 35 years of broadcasting. The station, which operates on the 91.5 FM frequency, plays jazz, classical and grass music.
The station went on the air at 1:45 p.m. Sept. 15, 1982, after John P. Harris, a Hutchinson publisher, and Sydney Harris, an Ottawa editor, donated money to build the station.
At the time of its inception, commercial-free FM public radio was a relatively new concept.
"People were not sure what to do with it," said Alan Berman, the station's development director. The station finds music concept and has evolved into a station that plays several different kinds of music."
Initially, the station played folk and classical music and was the home to the KU Sports Network, which broadcast basketball and football games.
During the 1960s, jazz and bluegrass music began to play a larger role in the station's format.
On January 15, 1962, the station became the first non-commercial educational FM station in the country to broadcast in stereo.
"Over the years we have evolved more toward playing a potpourri of music — our philosophy is not to build walls around certain types of music," Berman said.
Berman said that the station's philosophy of allowing a wide-range of educational programming allowed the station to air programs that the formats on other stations prohibited.
To this day, KANU broadcasts a variety of programs ranging from vintage jazz shows to live radio theatre and from opera music programs to in-depth national and local news.
"Some people who may not like our music tune in to hear our news," Berman said.
Many of the programs that have originated from KANU over the years have garnered
regional and national attention. The station received the prestigious Peabody award in 1973 for "The American Past," a program narrated by Calder Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism. Several other programs have been recognized with national awards.
past.
Tuesday, KANU will broadcast a special news segment on its history. The program will be broadcast at 6:20 a.m. and 7:20 a.m. and will highlight events and people that have had an impact on the station.
Berman said that the birthday activities planned for the remaining three weeks in September will try to focus on the station's rich past.
Personal birthday wishes written by KANU listeners will be broadcast throughout the day. The happy birthday poems and songs that will be broadcast were the winner of a birthday greetings contest the station sponsored earlier this month.
Tuesday also will mark the beginning of a series of two-minute historical sketches about the station. That series, which will continue through the end of September, will be narrated by current and past KANU announcers.
The station's actual 35th birthday parties will take place the last week in September.
On Sept. 26, the station will host a fund-raising banquet for 200 guests at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Tickets for the dinner are $40.
Noah Adams, former host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and host of a new program that will succeed Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," will be the keynote speaker.
On Sept. 27, KANU will have a public birthday party in Lawrence's South Park, on Massachusetts Street between 11th and 13th streets. Jazz pianist Makoto Ozone, the classical trio Salmigundi and bluegrass artist Dan Crarry will perform a free concert.
The station reaches audiences within an 80-mile radius and has satellite booster stations in Junction City, Manhattan and Emporia.
Light up
Jay Naegle, an employee at Hanover Electric of Hanover, installs new lights on one of five light poles. The company was installing the poles on campus yesterday.
Toilet trade irks men
Staff writer
By BEN JOHNSTON
Bryan Stephens can laugh about the problem with the bathroom near his room in the 10th floor of McColum Hall, but the joke has become old and anger has compelled him to act.
Stephens, St. Rose, La., graduate student, and about 35 other male residents have lived for three weeks in the west wing of the floor, where the bathroom has no urinals. On the east wing, the women share a bathroom that has two urinals.
get something done, and I got mad enough to do it."
Last year, women lived on Stephen's wing, and men lived on the west wing. This year, housing officials, seeking to create space for the larger than usual numbers of women who applied to live in McColum, decided to use the east wing on the 10th floor for women.
But they assigned men to a wing that has a women's bathroom and women to a wing that has a men's bathroom, Stephens said.
What Stephens did last Friday was begin circulating two petitions. One has been signed by 12 residents of the west wing of the 10th floor of McColum Hall. It asks housing officials to install two new urinals in the bathroom on that wing.
On the other hand, 10E has two perfectly functioning urinals. Maybe the girls can put plants in them and take advantage of the automatic watering system," states the petition.
"It got to the point where I was walking down to the south wing to go to the bathroom," Stephens said. "Finally, I just took the initiative to
Stephens said that he had not talked to housing officials about the problem because he felt a petition would send stronger signal.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he knew men were living on the west wing but he wasn't aware that the bathroom on that wing had no urinals. He said he had heard no complaints.
Because there are no urinals, the men have been using toilets, he said. "The seats are always getting splattered. It is kind of gross."
Stephens said the petitions would be mailed to Stoner on Friday.
Penalty for Missouri hazing to be harsher than in Kansas
Staff writer
By BRAD ADDINGTON
A law making hazing a misdemeanor will go into effect in Missouri Sept. 28, and it differs in some respects from the anti-hazing law that took effect in Kansas last year.
In Missouri, a hazing offense will carry a maximum of $1,000 in fines and a year in jail. In Kansas, hazing occurs on six months in jail.
The Missouri law prohibits acts that "reckleck endanger the physical or mental health of a student or prospective member of an organization."
The Kansas law does not address the question of mental health, saying that it is unlawful to force "another person to perform as a condition of membership in a social or fraternal organization, any act which could reasonably be expected to result in great bodily harm, disfigurement or death."
Danny Kaiser, coordinator for greek programs and assistant director of student organizations and activities, said it was not necessarily bad that the Kansas law did not address the effect of hazing on mental health.
"It would have been more complete if it did, but those sorts of things are harder to prove in a court of law," Kaiser said.
"I think a more complete definition of hazing exists in the student handbook."
University policies affecting rights and responsibilities, printed in the timetable, state that hazing includes, but is not limited to, "any action, activity or situation which recklessly, negligently or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health, welfare or safety of a person or exposes a person to extreme embarrassment."
hearing panel convenes to consider accusations of hazing against a person or an organization. The accusers and the accused participate in the hearing. The panel then submits recommendations to the dean of student life, who decides whether the house should be placed on probation.
Ann Eversole, director of student organizations and activities, said a
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fratern.
on probation in 1985 for hazing.
Brad Chandler, Hutchinson senior and president of the fraternity, said the University did not recognize the house as a student organization for a year. As a result, it was not allowed to participate in activities such as formal rush or homecoming.
"I know from talking to members of other fraternities that they have curbed their hazing because of the Chandler rule," Chandler said. "I think that's good."
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