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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 8, 1987
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Local Briefs
BSU chooses new officers for 1987-88 year
The Black Student Union has announced its officers for the 1987- 88 school year.
Caution urged near children's crossings
Brian Dougherty, Leavenworth senior, was elected president. Vice president is Morton Wayne Webb, Lenexa junior; treasurer is Julia Eklund, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore; and secretary is Melinda Grace, Kansas City, Mo, senior
Lawrence public schools open today, so KU students should be aware of mph school zones near campus. Areas to watch for with the flashing signs during public school hours include Sunset Street, Indiana Street, Howard Road and Kentucky streets.
Whizzo the Clown in critical condition
The man known for years as Whizzo the Clown to Lawrence and Kansas City-area residents remained in critical condition yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital, a hospital spokesman said.
Frank Wiziarella, 71, a Prairie Village resident, has been in intensive care for several weeks. He entered the hospital in July for surgery on a stomach tumor and has had complications since, said his wife, Kitty Wiziarella.
"They're certainly doing all they can do," she said. "It's just between the patient and God."
Frank Wiziarella created the Whizzo character for KMBC-TV and also appeared on KCMO-TV, which is now KCTV.
Engineering group offering awards
Minority students in engineering may apply before Dec. 1 for 130 fellowship awards available through the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
Each GEM award pays tuition,
fees and a stipend of $5,000 per
academic year and provides summer
employment with one of $2
employees. The value of the
between $20,000 and
$30,000 each.
Corrections
Because of a copy editor's error, the Pyramid Pizza providing food for the canoe race between the University of Kansas and Kansas State University was misidentified in Friday's Kansan. The Pyramid Pizza is at 707 N. 12th St. in Manhattan.
because of an editor's error, the name of Glen Marotz, professor of geography, was misspelled in Friday's Kansan.
Jeff Klein/KANSAI
50s-era poetry club is part of River City Reunion
From staff and wire reports.
By JULIE McMAHON
Poet Allen Ginsberg, left, talks with Tim Miller, KU lecturer in religious studies. The River City Reunion opened last night with a party at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Staff writer
There's a club on campus that got its name from a '50s television show and is reminiscent of the '50s era.
Club Babaloe, whose name came from the television show "I Love Lucy," is dedicated to poetry and the memory of the beat era, in which bohemian youths voiced discontent with post World War II U.S. values.
The club, which is three years old, consists of poets who read their works to each other. In the past, they've met in homes and at the Glass Onion, 624 W. 12th St. But this week they will meet in a back room of the City Museum of City Reunion. The room has become Club Babaloo West.
Bill Volmut, Topea senior, said "Dharma Bums" by K Jacker奥蔼, a beat author, had influenced him and given him the idea for the readings.
"I came up with the idea of reading at people's houses to promote community poetry, drink wine and have a good time," he said.
Mike Mader, Great Bend graduate
who is just kind of do it
when we feel like.
Five students organized the club's contribution to the River City Reunion. Along with Voltmot and Mader, the core of the group includes Bill Hoag, Wichita graduate student; Alison Dishinger, Lawrence freshman; and John Gardner, Lincoln, Neb., graduate student.
"It's not a classroom environment at all," Mader said. "It's just straight appreciation of people getting up and reading."
Volmut said, "We haven't had people take their clothes off. It's just a celebration of life basically. Even the professors there are really
One of those professors helped Club Babaloo become involved with the River City Reunion.
George Wedge, associate professor of English, teaches a class on works by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Wedge met Burroughs when Burroughs visited his class.
So when James Grauerholz, Burroughs' secretary, suggested bringing nationally known and local poets to Lawrence, Wedge became involved. And through Wedge, Club Babaloo became involved.
Grauerholz and Bill Rich, a
Lawrence promoter, are River City Productions. They will produce the reunion's off-campus events. Student Union Activities and the department of English have organized the oncampus events.
Club Babaloo and the reunion organizers said they were looking forward to this week.
"I'm looking forward to the moments when one thinking person speaking causes another to enter a part of their mind they haven't been
in for awhile and answer back,"
Wedge said.
Rich said Jello Biafra of the band, The Dead Kennedys, and Timothy Leary were both scheduled to speak at 2 p.m. Saturday at Liberty Hall. Biafra, who will arrive in Lawrence on Thursday, is a late addition to the River City Reunion because he was acquitted just last week in an obscenities trial.
Although readings won't begin until today, the River City Reunion
RIVER CITY
REUNION
The River City Reunion book signing will be at noon today at the Oread Book Shop in the Kaneland Union building from noon to 1:30 p.m. through Saturday.
The River City Reunion showing of poetry videotapes by William Knief is scheduled for 1 p.m. today through Aug. 12, showing Room of the Kansas Union.
■ The River City Reunion art display exhibit of works by S. Clay Wilson and other alumni artists and current students is scheduled for 2 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
■ The River City Reunion group fiction reading will be at 2 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union, and the group poetry reading will be at the same time in the Pine Room.
The River City Reunion reading with Anne Waldman and Andrei Codrescu will be at 7 p.m. today in the Union Ball Room in the Kansas
At Club Babaloo West, behind Hoch Auditorium, open mike readings and performances by students and guests are scheduled for 9 p.m. today through Friday.
The Beatle's "Revolution" blasted as smoke and anticipation got thicker. Allen Ginsberg, supported by his cane, entered at 10 p.m. As he made his way through the crowd, he was followed by stares.
started with the Labor Day Ful
Moon Kick-Off Party last night at
the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire
St. The bar started getting crowded
45 minutes after the 9 a.m. start.
Public opposes highway plan
Voters' protests bring end to Hayden's special session
The Associated Press
Public opposition to the high cost of Gov Mike Hayden's highway plans cut short the special legislative session, state legislators said.
"Most had stacks and stacks of letters telling them not to vote for the indexing plan," said state Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence.
Hayden wanted to pay for his $1.7 billion highway proposal with an index plan to raise motor fuel and fees at the same rate as inflation
House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg, said, "The people defeated his program. I think the people of Kansas had too many questions about it, and that was reflected in the votes."
Hayden called the special legislative session, the first in 21 years, to consider his high school plan. The session broke up Saturday afternoon after
the house overwhelmingly rejected a scaled-down compromise by a House-Senate committee.
Hayden accused Barkis and the House Democrats of failing to rise above narrow partisan politics to address the state's need for safer highways and for economic development in depressed areas.
But Barkis said the House Democrats' response to the highway proposal mirrored what Kansans were saying "in the barbershops, the cafes, the restaurants, out at the county fairs."
Hayden accused Democrats of coming to Topeka for the special session determined not to allow any program to pass, hoping the Republican majorities in the two houses would pass a program heavy in tax issues and lobbying legislation in next year's legislative election when all 165 seats are up.
But Senate Minority Leader Michael Johnston, D-Parsons, said Hayden's attempt to blame House Democrats was simply an effort to divert attention from shortcomings in the proposals and from the fact that public support just did not
materialize.
Democratic leaders noted Hayden's own plan attracted only a small minority of Republicans' votes and said the governor hadn't made his case with voters. Several GOP lawmakers agreed.
Branson said the program never had a chance.
"I really think that it was flawed from the beginning," she said. "There was just not enough preparation. That there was a good, solid proposal."
House Speaker James Braden, RClay Center, said, "We just couldn't reach a consensus of 63 votes on any one plan. What went wrong with the program is that people perceived it as being too large."
Branson said she couldn't support a multi-billion dollar highway plan when other programs just as important were being developed were going to be cut.
She said she hoped the governor learned that legislators in both parties felt strongly about programs besides highways. Those would have to be considered if another highway plan were proposed, she said.
Two scholarship halls on KU's building list
By MARK TILFORD Staff writer
Two new scholarship halls may be built at the University of Kansas by the end of the decade, the director of student housing said last week.
"It's on the agenda for future construction," said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
Stoner requested the new scholarship halls in a list submitted a year ago to the Kansas University Endowment Association for its Campaign Kansas fund-raising drive.
Although KU's eight residence halls are full, Stoner did not request any new residence halls. He said that the demand for residence hall rooms is increasing in the future but it might not be great enough to fill a new residence hall.
Campaign Kansas is a fund-raising drive for the University with a goal of $100 million. It will be conducted over five years.
The University now has eight scholarship halls on campus, four for men and four for women. Each hall houses about 50 residents.
Stoner said the demand for housing and the popularity of the scholarship
halls in the last few years were two reasons to build new halls.
"There is a high interest in that type of housing at the University." Stoner said. "I think we've done a better job of marketing them."
Jim Martin, senior vice president of the Endowment Association and executive director for Campaign Kansas, confirmed that the scholarships list but said the request for halls would not get special treatment.
"The Endowment Association does not set priorities on any element in the campaign," Martin said. "Every project to be funded will receive equal attention."
Stoner said the halls could also be financed by a private individual or family donation.
"Typically the scholarship halls have been built by funds from private families," Stoner said.
Stoner said he had confidence in Campaign Kansas.
"I'm positive that they're going to meet the goals that they set," he said.
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