University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 1, 1987
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Fire officials to give results of safety checks
The Lawrence Fire Department will announce findings from its fire safety inspections of KU fraternity and sorority houses at 9 a.m. Friday. The announcement will be at fire station number one, 746 Kentucky St.
Fire Chief Jim McSwain said in July that his department in the future would take "a more conservative view of problems that have been grandfathered in the past" at fraternities and sororites. In April he fainted the Sigma Phi Epsilon institution house, 1645 Tennessee St.
The fraternity will have an open house of its renovated house Sept. 9.
Senate committees taking applications
Student Senate will be taking Senate to students this week, said Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president.
Senators will be on Wescoe Beach from about 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to hand out applications for various Senate committees. Any student can apply. Applications are due Friday in the Senate office, room 149 in the Burge Union.
Quincy said she wanted student senators to keep office hours on Wesco Beach all semester. If the weather is bad this week, the senators will be in the Strong Hall rotunda.
"We think it keeps student senators accountable," Quincy said.
Sanchez to speak in Landon series
Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica, will deliver a Land on Lecture at Kansas State University first stop of a U.S. speaking tour.
During the lecture at 10:30 a.m.
Sept. 21 at McCain Auditorium,
Arias is expected to discuss the
peace accords he reached with
four other Central American
countries this month in Guatemala.
Arias will speak to Congress on Sept. 22, address the opening session of the United Nations on Sept. 23 and receive an honorary degree from Harvard University on Sept. 24.
State Sen. Nancy Kassebaum will deliver a Landon Lecture at 10:30 a.m. Sept.9 at McCain Auditorium. Kassebaum is the daughter of former Kansas Gov. Alf M. Landon, for whom the lecture series is named.
Magazine awards journalism school
Prospective journalism graduate students with a liberal arts background but little or no journalism experience will benefit from a new award made to the school by the publishers of Reader's Digest magazine, said Rick Musser, associate professor of journalism and director of graduate studies.
The Readers' Digest Foundation has awarded the school $12,500 this year. The award is renewable. Mussler said the school would likely sponsor two fellowships a year for book筹集 200 and use the remainder for sending brochures and information to small, liberal arts colleges.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, Stanley Koplik's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansan. Koplik is the executive director of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Meal plan allowing flexibility
Bv VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
KU residence halls have a new meal plan this year that includes reciprocal eating privileges between all the halls and a computerized way of checking in.
The new reciprocity rule applies to all residence halls, including all-men and all-women halls.
"There has been a nice interaction between halls at meal time," said Rand Schneider, residence hall hall and Lewis Hall, all an women's hall.
Men are welcome at meals there as long as they are escorted, Schneider said. She said some residents from nearby halls ate at Lewis.
And residents said that generally the new reciprocal eating program wasn't causing long lunch lines at the balls closest to campus.
Mark Daubert, Otis sophomore, is a resident at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, one of the halls closest to campus. He said he hadn't noticed more residents from other halls than usual eating lunch at JRP, although some women now ate there.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said, "This new system will be a whole lot more flexible because students can eat in any residence hall cafeteria they want. It will also be more economical because we can better determine students' eating patterns."
Lenoir Ekdahl, director of food services, said the computerized system also would provide a more efficient way to booking people in and out of cafeterias.
When students go through the lines, they need their KUIDs, which now have a metallic strip on back the. The card is run through a computer which then reads the code on the strip and counts that student. Incoming freshmen living in residence halls received their I.D.s with the metallic strip on it. Students who already had I.D.s received new ones.
Stoner said that because the computer determined how many students usually eat at each residence hall at Piedmont College, he'd determine how much food to order.
Also, the system allows the housing
of it to operate cafeterias more
efficiently.
For example, some halls have more residents who go home on weekends than others, he said. When very few residents remain in the halls they can all be asked to eat in one cafeteria, he said.
Rob Loud, Concord, Calif., senior, leaps high in the air to perform a "clipper jump." Loud was practicing his hacky-sack skills Friday afternoon in front of Wescoe Hall.
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
Jump shot
Free cab service costly for Senate
By BRIAN BARESCH
Staff writer
Students wanting a free ride home from Secure Cab last spring may have found themselves calling the wrong number after the service switched cab companies.
To avoid possible confusion this spring, Secure Cab soon will have a permanent, on-campus 864 number.
The Student Senate service, nicknamed Tipsy Taxi because it frequently serves students who may not be fit to drive home from parties, is free with a valid KUID from midnight to 3 a.m. week nights and from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. weeks.
The service's phone number is now 843-280-2881. Charles Bryant, director of the Senate Transportation Board, said he would be in effect in about a month.
Last January the phone number changed when Union Cab, 1045 New Jersey St., underbid City Cab Co., which originally had the contract. As a result, the number in the directory was incorrect spring semester.
Bryant said the new, 864 on-campus number would be transferred from the Burge Union to the cab company during Secure Cab's operation hours. The transfer cost, about $20 a month, will be paid for by the cab company, he said.
Student Senate finances the service by paying Union Cab Co. $2.50 for each ride the company gives to a student. The service was started in March 1866 to offer saferides home to students who has been drinking. It is also available to students who may not feel safe walking home late at night
The service provided about 300 free rides a week to students in March, last semester's busiest month.
according to Ward Thompson, president of Union Cabal, sister company
Bryant said he expected the same number of passengers this year once the new phone number was published and in effect.
In August, about 470 students took advantage of the service, the company said. A week-by-week breakdown was not available.
Bryant estimated that the Senate would pay about $20,000 for the rides that
That is up from the close to $2,800 the Senate paid the first year, said Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president.
"Secure Cab is extremely successful — so successful that it's exceeded our wildest expectation of how much it would cost," Quincy said.
Bryant said the transportation board was looking at ways to curb abuse, such as people who use the service regularly to get home from a late job. One possibility would be to limit rides or charge riders a fee, he said. The board now is working on a definition of abuse.
This winter's contract bidding process might not be competitive because City Cab Co, folded over the summer, Bryant said. He said the board was considering putting other options, including a special bus or van route, into the bidding process.
"Hopefully there'll be competition in the next bid," he said.
"We're hoping to get them calling us when they need a cab," he said. "Overall, I think it's a worthwhile program."
Thompson said that his company was breaking even with the service but that it needed to make students more familiar with Union Cab.
College Bowl to appear on television
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
Five-member KU team to be featured on Nov. 1 Disney Channel broadcast
Five KU students will appear on the Disney Channel in November but not as Mousekeeteers. They will be shown participating in the 1987 National College Quiz Bowl.
Last year's KU team, known as Onan's Angels, will be one of 16 teams appearing in "College Bowl
87", which will air at 5:30 p.m. sunday from Sept. 13 to Dec. 20. The
team will appear on the Nov. 1 broadcast
The team's members are Richard
Turk, Overland Park senior; James Mamalis, Prairie Village junior; Saku Gunasegaram, Sri Lanka senior; John Chappell, Overland Park senior; and Eric Matheis, Overland Park senior. Gunasegaram is an alternate for the team.
The team traveled in June to Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla., for the five-day taping of the tournament.
"We usually got to the studio by 9:30." Turk said. "It usually took until four in the afternoon to get everything done."
Turk said he did not find the taping of the contest distracting.
"I don't really mind being filmed all that much. The production was fine. The tournament itself everybody had problems with." he said.
He said many contestants did not like the fact that teams were eliminated after a single defeat. He said he thought the host, Dick Cavett, was humorous but a little unfamiliar with the rules.
"The questions were just too easy for a national tournament," Turk said. He said he thought the questions
were simplified because the contest was geared toward a home audience
The KU team lost in its first round. But that meant more time to explore Center and the Magic Kingdom, both part of Disney World, members said.
Gunasegaram said, "That was kind of the nice thing about losing."
She said she also enjoyed learning about the different perspectives of college students from across the nation.
County to reappraise property in two student residence areas
Staff writer
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Douglas County began Monday to reappraise property values in a one-quarter-square-mile area north of Memorial Stadium, where many KU students live.
August Dettbarn, reappraisal field supervisor for the county, said it would take three data collectors about three weeks to reappraise all the houses and apartments in an area bounded by 11th Street on the north, Sixth Street on the south, Louisiana Street on the east and Emery Road on the west.
Dettbarn also said a 1-square mile area bounded by 15th Street on the north, Sixth Street on the south, Iowa Street on the east and Kasold Drive on the west would be appraised in about three weeks. He said the area, which also has a large student popul
lation, would be the last part of Lawrence to be reappraised.
Reappraisal is a process that determines the proper updated value of real estate. It is done by adding the value of any improvements made on a property to the original value before changes were made.
The updated value is then used to determine the amount of property tax paid.
"We ask the owners how many rooms they have, how many bedrooms they have, how many bathrooms they have and many other questions designed to determine the value," Dettbann said. "If there are no changes from the last reappraisal,
To determine the market value of a house or apartment, data collectors measure the foundation and ask the architects about the interior of the structure.
we don't change the value."
Appraisers will make their rounds between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If owners are not home when they visit, the appraisers will leave information cards to be filled out. Appraisers may identify cards, Dettbarn said.
Dettbarn said the county appraised property every year, but in 1984, for the first time since 1964, the state decided to do a statewide appraisal.
"The counties report to the state, and apparently the state felt a lot of things weren't being reported," he said. "They wanted to have more equity. I guess there were cases where people put in an extra bathroom or kitchen, and there was no record of it, so the state said, 'Go out and find these people.'"
2 thieves green with envy snag plant from yogurt store in broad sunlight
Growing pains
By a Kansan reporter
Lawrence police are out beating the bushes to find two men who walked into a yogurt store about 1 p.m. Sunday and snatched a potted plant from a counter.
Cecilia Wood, manager of The Country's Best Yogurt, 711 W. 23rd St., said employees saw two young men walk out the door with the 3-foot high, green and yellow plant and its bamboo wicker pot, plant it in their car and drive off.
Apparently, the green-thumbed young men who took the plant also were green about disguising their appearances. Employees were
able to furnish police with enough informa for Wood to say she thought there was a good chance the alleged plantnappers would be caught.
Wood said she thought the plant was a member of the dieffenbachia family and was valued at $30. The plant had no name but had grown on employees during the year it had adorned the counter.
"We miss it," she said.
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