University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 26, 1987
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KU graduate dies; services are tomorrow
Services for Jill Kovac Sharp, 24, a KU graduate who died of injuries suffered Saturday in a motorcycle accident at Yosemite National Park in California, will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Skradsk Funeral Home in Kansas City, Kan
Burial will be at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City, Kan.
Mrs.Sharp graduated from KU in 1984 with a degree in electrical engineering. She was a member of the National Society of Women Engineers.
She is survived by her husband Dan Sharp of San Francisco; her parents Albert and Helen May Kovac of Kansas City, Kan; her brother James M. Kovac, of Kansas City, Kan; and her sisters Jeannie Long of Olathe and Julie Kovac of Kansas City, Kan.
Today is last day to sell back books
Book buyback ends at 5-45 p.m today on the fourth level of the Kansas Union.
Wallace College Book Co. of Lexington, Ky., which is representing the KU Booksbooks for book buybacks, will pay cash for used textbooks being used this semester at KU, Kelly Duncan, salesman, said. For textbooks in use at KU, students will get half of the price now listed in the bookstore.
The company also will buy books not in use at KU if they are in use at another university that the company represents, Duncan said. The company determines the prices for these books.
Non-traditional orientation today
The non-traditional students organization will have an orientation program for new non-traditional students today at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The orientation will cover topics important to the non-traditional student such as child care, community services and education school, and building a social life.
Lip reading classes for hearing-
impaired adults will be offered
from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. each
Wednesday at the Lawrence
Senior Center, 745 Vermont St.,
beginning today.
Larry Marston, local audiologist and University of Kansas Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic supervisor, will teach the classes. To enroll, contact Mary Coral of the Council on Aging at 842-0543.
Corrections
The organization that Gregg Stauffer is associated with was incorrect in yesterday's Kansan. He is the president of the Lawrence Tenants Association.
Because of a reporter's error, the sponsor of a meeting was incorrectly reported in the Aug. 19 Kansas. The Lawrence/Douglas County Planning Commission will sponsor a public hearing Oct. 7 to discuss three suburban mail rezoning requests.
From staff and wire reports.
Officials look for phone fraud
Long-distance carriers continue watch over Lawrence
By JAVAN OWENS
There's no such thing as a free phone call.
Staff writer
That's one lesson MCI investigator Jerry Slaughter would like for KU students to remember from last semester when the long-distance carrier cracked down on unauthorized use of calling cards.
One person is facing the results of the investigation
James C. Malone, a former Lawrence resident, was arrested in May and charged with phone code abuse, a class A misdemeanor. Malone's trial is set for 2 p.m. Oct. 23 in Douglas District Court. If convicted, Malone could face up to one year in county jail and up to $2,500 in fines.
More than 200 people avoided going to court by turning themselves over to investigators who were in Lawrence from April 6 to 16.
MCI and U.S. Sprint investigators, who set up an office in a local motel, allowed students to come forward to pay for their illegal phone calls, without criminal charges being filed against them.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said Monday that Slaughter had submitted two additional cases for prosecution. One was dropped because of insufficient evidence. Another case, involving an out-of-state KU student, is pending the student's return to Lawrence, Flory said.
"There have been no further reports from law enforcement or MCI — at this time there won't be additional charges filed," Flory said. "I'm sure they will be presenting information down the road for prosecution. Once they've focused in on a problem here, 'they'll keep an eye on it'."
Before MCI investigators came to
Lawrence, they were at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas; Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas; and American University in Washington, D.C. Investigators were able to obtain enough evidence for prosecution of students at the universities.
Slaughter said, "Our last approach basically was to give students an awareness that it is illegal to use phone codes they have not paid for. . . We would hope that they got the message and that we had an impact. Some schools, like Texas, don't get the message as clear."
Slaughter said that from now on MCI would keep a close watch on Lawrence. But the company's approach will be a little different.
Evidence gained through electronic surveillance will go to the district attorney's office for immediate prosecution, he said.
"We picked out the most flagrant crimes and warrants were issued to
the people whom the DA thought he had the best cases against." Slaughter said. "As for those people who thought they got away, we are still watching."
Evidence gained in the last investigation against people who did not come forward still can be used against them in new cases, Slaughter said. The statute of limitation for prosecution is two years from the time the crime is discovered. Civil cases also could be filed against those students.
Slaughter said he could not disclose the amount of the money MCI recovered from the Lawrence area, but he said it was in the several-thousand-dollar range.
Brian Bales, an investigator for U.S. Sprint, said he thought the majority of abusers of Sprint codes had fully cooperated and no further steps would be taken at this time.
Professor has photographic memory
Staff writer
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
Janette Minnich, Valencia, Calif., senior (left), and Amy Porter, Wichita senior, pair up for a photo session with Larry Wrightman, professor of psychology. Wrightman uses the pictures to learn students' names.
Trustee Keeler, 79, dies
The students moved hesitantly to the front of the classroom. Some giggled. Others stared impatiently. But they all went Tuesday, two at a time, to a sunny corner by the chalkboard in 212 Fraser Hall.
"No gestures, just smile," said Larry Wrightsman, professor of psychology. "OK, cheese."
It's picture taking time as usual on the first day of Wrightsman's classes.
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
Staff writer
He said he went through the picture in a room, or instance, when he watched football.
Wrightman takes pictures of all his students in all of his classes. It helps him learn their names faster, he said. After the pictures are developed, he passes them back and has the students put their names on the back.
groaned and fidgeted. They looked around at each other and laughed in disbelief as he took his camera out of his briefcase and continued his lecture
William W. Keeler, a trustee of the Kansas University Endowment Association and retired president of Phillips Petroleum Co., died Monday in Bartlesville, Okla., at the age of 79.
Halfway through the first class period of Psychology 666, Wrightsman said he would be taking pictures at the end of class. The students
An eye problem makes it important for Wrightsman to learn his students' names, he said, because students have trouble knowing whether he's calling on them when he just looks at them.
Wrightsman said. "It's very rare that they just don't want their picture taken."
"Also, beyond that, it's not a good situation when you're interacting with people and you don't even know their names."
"Most students are very tolerant,"
Mr. Keeler had been an Endowment Association trustee since 1969. He also was president of the University of Kansas Alumni Association from 1968 to 1969. He was a member of the Chancellor's Club and contributed at least $1000 to KU each week.
"My right eye pulls over," he said.
"So, even though my name is Wrightman, it's my left eye that's looking at you.
As he talked, Wrightsman wrote on an outline of his lecture that he'd scribbled before class.
"My outline is getting so messy. I always do this," he said at the end of class. "That's all we're going to do today."
"Let's take time out to get photos taken."
Dick Wintermote, special projects director at the Endowment Association, said, "He was a generous contribution to our highly loyal and interested alumnus."
Mr. Keeler received the KU Distinguished Alumni Service Citation in 1961 for his many humanitarian services. He was the first elected chief of the Cherokee Nation, and was active in Indian welfare and education issues. He served on several presidential advisory committees, such as the National Advisory Committee on the War on Poverty and the President's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise.
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols said he knew Mr. Keeler when Mr. Keeler was a member of the board. He also was a student in chemical engineering.
"He was a brilliant student," Nichols said.
Mr. Keeler was born April 5, 1908,
in Dalhart, Texas. He graduated
from Bartlesville High School in
1926, and from 1928 to 1929,
and 1931 to 1934.
He started his career in the oil industry at Phillips in 1924 as a summer worker in the company's engineering department. He joined Phillips full time in 1928, and advanced until he became president and chief executive officer in 1968. He retired from Phillips in 1973.
Mr. Keeler, who had suffered an extended illness, is survived by his wife, Ruby, of Bartlesville; three sons, William Robert Keeler, of Reno, Nev.; Bradford Roger Keeler, of New York; Kenneth Richard Keeler, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and six grandchildren.
The funeral will be 10 a.m. tom-
row at the First Presbyterian Church in Bartlesville, spokesmen for the Neekamp Funeral Home said. The burial will be private in Bartlesville's White Rose Cemetery.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
KU Radio Club places fifth internationally
Staff writer
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
The KU Amateur Radio Club caught a wavelength, and club members are sitting on top of the world after placing fifth recently in an international radio competition.
The competition, the World Single Sideband Championships, took place during a 24-hour period on Jan. 11 of this year, said Mark Campbell, a former club president who now is a student at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Results were published in the June issue of 73, a magazine for ham radio operators. The results are summarized below.
The club competed in the 20-meter wavelength class.
could, Campbell said. Points were awarded for total contacts and the number of states and countries communicated with.
Six club members competed with thousands of other ham radio operators, trying to talk to people in as many locations as they
The KU team, broadcasting out of Learned Hall with the call letters K0KU, racked up 142,800 points, after making 378 contacts.
Locations where contacts were made included 36 states, in addition to Alaska and Hawaii, six Canadian provinces, and 26 countries, including Argentina, Italy, Antarctica, Czechoslovakia, and Tristan, da Cunha, a tiny island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.
Campbell said the competition was one of the biggest that ham radio operators could participate in.
"It's not the Olympics, but it's certainly the Pan Am games," he said.
"It's really an incredible blend," he said.
"You can have great equipment, but if the guy behind the mike is clueless, you're not going to make contact."
It takes a combination of skill, equipment, and luck to place in an international competition. he said.
It's not the Olympics,but it's certainly the Pan Am games.'
— Mark Campbell former club president
Proof of contact had to include an exchange of call letters, a code that rated signal strength, and the location of the person contacted.
Almost all ham operators throughout the
world converse in English, although morse code is sometimes used, Campbell said. Conversations are usually about the weather, equipment, or the locale of the operators.
"You try to learn a little bit about where a plane might, whether it's South Dakota or South America."
Besides entering contests and talking to people from around the world, ham radio operators also take part in many public service activities, said Klissa Rueschhoff, a secretary in the department of electrical and computer engineering and "den mother" for the club.
Rauschoff said that in the past, the club had helped in relaying messages to support vans in a Lawrence bicycle race and in doing storm watch duty and sending weather information to the National Weather Service.
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