University Daily Kansan, November 1. 1982
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Local 1596 joins computer age
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Progressive fire protection and a desire to help the Lawrence Fire Department remain the best in the state have prompted the local fire department to put the department into the company age, the union's president said Friday.
Jerry Karr, local 1586 president, said during a special donation ceremony that brought the computer for about $1,100 and his ownership but would but the city use it.
The only other fire department in the state that has a computer system is the
"As far as I know we are the first union to donate something like this," he said.
THE UNION decided to buy the computer system partially because they saw a need to increase the speed with which they could find information, and partially because it would help the union in contract negotiations.
"We need data," he said. "We need to justify, our existence. This gives us more accurate records of our productivity."
Now, the computer stores only data, but within five years the union would like to expand its use to create a computerized central dispatch, he said.
Karr said the purchase was made quickly because the firemen wanted to
THE SYSTEM cost each of the approximately 50 members of Local 1596 about $100. Even with such a high cost, the union voted 46 to three for the purchase.
Russel Brickell, member of the union and night operator of the computer, said the computer would greatly improve find finding speed and overall efficiency.
"Some of the small details, such as who buys the paper, have yet to be worked out," he said. "We're hoping that the city will want to take care of the incidental expenses after seeing what took care of buying the system."
"Paper files are too slow," he said.
"With the computer, if I wanted to know all the places that had had over-occupancy violations in the last month, the information would be right at my fingerprints. And we will have both bodies when we are making inspections."
"We were not able to come up with the money in the budget," she said. "From the city's point of view, this is great. It's still the union's machine, but if they decide at some time that they don't want to lend it to us anymore, we would have an idea of whether such a system would be worth it to us to buy."
She said the union's initiative could influence the city when the time comes to determine its role in the city.
"The cost will be less," she said. "They've already taken some of the burden upon themselves and that makes it much less expensive for us."
NOT MANY firemen know how to operate the computer yet, he said, but the department hopes that eventually every fireman will be able to use it.
Pi Kappa Phi pushes for donations
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
Mayor Marcel Francisco said she was happy to see citizens take control of a fire.
As the sun's early-morning rays peeked between clouds and trees to cast finger-like shadows on the streets of downtown Lawrence, members of Kappa Phi fraternity mounted wheels and embarked on a 40-mile route.
Staff Reporter
Amidst hooking horns and Massachusetts Street traffic, they pushed wheelchairs back and forth through a two-block area of downtown, soliciting donations from Saturday morning shoppers.
R. Scott Dorman, Overland Park junior and member of the fraternity, said the money would go to the Pi Kappa Phi national fraternity, which provide Play Units for the Severely Handicapped, or PUSH.
"Pennies for PUSH," chanted James Tusten, Lawrence junior, as he passed roving shoppers. "Help hand- in laundry from wasting away in institutions."
DORMAN, THE fraternity's PUSH chairman, said the PUSH units, which cost $10,000, provided touch, sound and visual stimulation for blind, deaf or severely retarded children in institutions.
"The units help the children to develop their senses," Dorman said. "It stimulates and motivates them to know whom they aware of their surroundings."
A typical PUSH unit is 16 feet wide, 16 feet long and seven feet high, and has nine alcoves where children can respond to different stimuli, including light and sound, air currents, textured surfaces and a walking course.
The purpose of PUSH, he said, is to help handicapped people have an opportunity to develop and enrich their lives.
He said the fraternity collected about $500 Saturday for PUSH.
LAST YEAR, Dorman said, the group went the 40 miles on the Lawrence High School track, but this year they made more because they
could solicit monev while pushing.
saturday the fraternity members passed out pamphlets about PUSH and asked shoppers for their change.
Jon Bair, San Diego, Calif., junior,
said the Nebraska fans, who were in
town for Saturday's football game,
gave more than he expected.
At times during the day, the members got out of their wheelchairs to solicit money from motorists at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
Tusten said PUSH was one of the reasons he joined Pi Kappa Phl.
"We ARE one of the only fraternities that has its own charity," Tusten said. "Most raise money to give a charity, but we have one of our own. It means a lot to me in being a member." The capped kids a new lease on life."
Homecoming to reunite Kansas alumni of '40s
Dorman agreed: "I think it's kind of a neat thing. We have one — and only one," he said. "We are the only national fraternity that has its own philanthropy."
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
KU alumni of the 1940s who will return to the University of Kansas this weekend said yesterday that they were among those with friends they had not seen in years.
The alumni will have plenty of opportunities to find each other throughout the "Fabulous Forties" homecoming weekend, which will include a full schedule of activities for KU graduates from 1940 to 1951.
Geneva Hempill, class of '42, said, "I'll really be disappointed if people demand that I serve."
Hemphill, in her senior year, was president of the Jayhawk James, the
"THEY THINK that their football said now — it was worse then," she said.
That year, KU beat Kansas State University, which she said was an important event for a school with a shaky football team.
The students thought the victory was such a great event that they wanted the day off, she said. And, to her surprise, a rumor began circulating that the students should not go to classes. Hemphill said she thought the men's
pep club, the KuKus, had started the rumor.
"The next thing I knew, we on the carpet in the chancellor's office," she said.
But it was too late
"It was on. No one went to class," she said.
Homecoming events will kick off
Friday afternoon at 2:30, when four
homecoming queens of the '40s will be
in the homecoming parade.
THE FRIDAY night homecoming warm-up dance and the Saturday night dance will be open to everyone.
Clyde Bysom, Lawrence, class of '40, is a co-organizer of the Crimson and Blues Swing Band, which will perform both nights. Clinton Harbur, Kansas City, Mo., and Jim Knox, St. Louis, both class of '43, also are band organizers.
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The band is composed of about 20 alumni from across the country, Bysom said. Bysom said he, Knox and Harbur led Lawrence bands during the '40s.
"Every Wednesday night at the student center, a midweek student," Ryan said.
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