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October 20, 1999
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Vol. 110 • No. 44
A University of Kansas paleontologist plans to unveil his reconstruction of a camarasaur. His interest in dinosaurs began when he was a child.
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Living in a tenant's paradise
Dan Billen, Topeka freshman, Carl Holden, Topeka sophomore,
Jay Mullinix, Wichita sophomore and Doug and David Everhart
Topeka seniors, play a game of pool in James Juola's, profess
of psychology, basement. The five students are renting Juola's house, 2564 Jasu Drive, while he is on sabbatical leave, until next July. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN
KU students take nontraditional route to renting
By Lori O'Toolle
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Jay Mullinix, Wichita sophomore, said he and his four roommates sometimes thought they were being watched — like they were part of a secret psychology experiment.
The five University of Kansas students said they lived in the fanciest house they probably ever would live in — ironically, during a time when they have the least amount of money.
It's a 74-year-old white, two-story home located a couple of miles south of campus.
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The home belongs to Jim Juola, professor of psychology, who is on sabbatical leave in Europe with his wife.
Until May, it is the students' home.
The students jokingly said the whole situation seemed too perfect — what else could it be except an experiment?
That is why they tease one another when one mistakenly says "Jualo" instead of "Juola."
"You know they heard you say that, don't you?" they say.
table and a TV area.
Mullinix said the guys also joked about the reason one of the toilets broke — the Juolas wanted to see who would find it first and what his reaction would be.
All jokes aside, they agreed the home was a college student's dream come true. The rent is cheap, $200 a piece each month. It is fully furnished. There is plenty of space. There are five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a formal dining room, a den and a basement complete with a pool
Still, they don't get off that easily.
David and Doug Everhart, twin Topeka seniors, Carl Holden, Topeka sophomore, Dan Billen, Topeka freshman and Mullinix have to mow and care for the spacious lawn, feed and walk the Joulas'
There also are additional smaller duties, including watering the plants and taking care of the collection of antique clocks that hang throughout the house.
easily-excited dog, Lady, and feed their anti-social cat. Athena.
The men responded to a home-for-rent
advertisement in The Laurence Journal World last year. They started celebrating their find the first time they saw the house's exterior, with its clean, white paint, the front porch with its four, tall
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History made at University with new dean
By Nathan Willis
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When Toni-Marie Montgomery becomes the dean of fine arts this spring, she also will become the first African-American academic dean in the history of the University of Kansas.
However, Montgomery won't be focusing on her place in University history when she assumes the dean's duties from interim dean Carole Ross on April 3.
"For me, I don't focus on, 'Oh, I'm the first African-American dean," she said. "Instead, I think, 'What is it that I can do to make sure that I am not the last?'
Montgomery said she wasn't surprised to be the first African American in such a high position at the University, given the small number of minorities who were in high academic positions at universities across the nation.
for example, she is currently the director of the school of music at Arizona State University. But, she said, among the deans and directors of the nation's top-20 music schools as listed by U.S. News and World Report, she is the only woman or ethnic minority.
Provost David Shulenburger, who announced her hiring last week, said that he gave little thought to race in his decision.
The numbers are so small at this level, it doesn't surprise me I'm the first" she said.
"She's basically an experienced, extremely qualified person," Shulenburger said. "That's what we set out to hire, and that's what we hired."
Info tables and bus ads complete responsible drinking campaign
By Nathan Willis
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Kansan staff writer
Campaign members set up information tables Monday at Oliver Hall, Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall and Ekdahl Dining Commons. The tables spread the campaign's message that most students drink only moderately, said Ellie Prosser, graduate research assistant for the campaign.
By the end of the week, students will be able to see literature promoting responsible drinking in two more places across campus.
To coincide with Alcohol Awareness Week, the Social Norms Media Campaign, which is trying to curb alcohol abuse at the University of Kansas, is unveiling the last two forums it will use to spread its message this semester.
In addition to the tables, two KU on Wheels buses will begin featuring ads for
the campaign. Prosser said.
Alcohol Awareness Week, which is a national awareness campaign, was a natural time for KU's social norms program to unveil its last two ways of spreading its message, Berkley-Patton said.
The campaign already has distributed posters in the residence halls and awarded residents $5 each for displaying them. In sum, the campaign paid nearly $300 to residents who hung the posters, more than had been anticipated, Berkley-Patton said.
Jannette Berkley-Patton, project facilitator for the campaign, said the bus ads hopefully would be up by the end of the week.
The campaign also continues to purchase ads in The University Daily Kansan, something it has done since the beginning of the
The tables will remain for a couple of weeks and the bus signs will remain in place for the rest of the semester.
The bus ads, however, represent a departure from some of the campaign's previous techniques to reach students.
They were purchased because the campaign is trying to promote its message more strongly to students who live off-campus, Berkley-Patton said. Efforts such as the tables and posters primarily had affected only those who live in student housing.
"Since alcohol is our issue, we can use the visibility of Alcohol Awareness Week to help promote our message." she said.
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Unlike most things the campaign has done, the bus signs are not an idea modeled after the successful social norms campaign at Northern Illinois University, she said. Instead, they are home-grown ideas based on the need to reach off-campus students, she said.
"The bus signs are unique to KU," she said. "KU has such a strong bus system, and we wanted to reach students who don't spend a lot of time on campus."
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Red tape ties Bullwinkles in liquor bind
By Derek Prater writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The City of Lawrence is waving a red flag in the face of the Bull.
Last night, city commissioners authorized Mayor Erv Hodges to put up an appeals bond to ensure its legal battle with Bullwinkles, 1344 Tennessee St.
The bar sued Ray Hummert, city clerk, for denying a zoning certificate required for a drinking establishment license from the State Alcohol and Beverage Commission. The license would allow the bar to sell liquor and stay open until 2 a.m. District Judge Robert Fairchild ruled in
District Judge Robert Fairchild ruled in favor of Bollwinkley on Sept. 8.
The city paid the appeals bond to avoid any legal action by the bar during the appeals process. The city does not have to grant Bollwinkles the zoning certificate until the appeal is decided, said Jerry Cooley, city attorney.
If the appeal fails, the bond is forfeited to the bar to cover compensatory damages.
The city commission went into an executive session after the consent agenda to meet with Cooley and discuss the matter. Executive session is closed to the public and can be used to protect attorney-client privilege.
After the executive session, commissioners voted 5-0 to authorize the appeals bond.
Cooley said the appeals process could last as long as a year because of a backlog of appeals. Neither
he nor Mike Wilden, city manager, would speculate on the outcome of the appeal, but Wilden did say why the city was going ahead.
"We think we're right." he said.
Bunwickles is located in an area not zoned for beer or liquor sales but was allowed nonconforming uses because it was established before the zoning regulations were passed.
Neither bar owner Kevin Polian nor his attorney, Edward Collister, could be reached for comment.
From January 1993 to January 1998, Bullwinkles operated as a drinking establishment. In January 1998, the bar surrendered its drinking establishment license after being charged with serving alcohol to minors.
In the fall of 1988, Polian bought the bar. The sale was contingent on the bar's reinstatement as a drinking establishment. When Hummert would not issue the zoning certificate, both parties in the sale brought suit against him.
The bar still was allowed nonconforming uses and reopened as a cereal malt beverage establishment, which can serve only beer and must close at midnight.
City attorneys argued that converting the bar from a cereal malt beverage establishment to a drinking establishment was an expansion of its non-conforming uses.
Fairchild ruled that because the bar was previously a drinking establishment, there was no expansion of use.
Edited by Julia Nicholson
KU ACLU says religious issue on hold, but not sealed shut
By Clay McCuistion writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Three weeks after Chancellor Robert Hemenway vigorously defended the legality of the University of Kansas seal, the KU chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has decided to drop its questioning of the seal.
The lack of students claiming injury by the possibly religious seal and the organization's limited resources have stalled the ACLU's momentum.
"Right now we have a few other issues we're going to be concentrating on," said Kevin Sivits, president of the KU group. "It's been moved to the back burner."
At least for now.
These other issues included a Nov. 30
presentation of "inherit the Wind" and a visit next semester by Nadine Strossen, national director of the ACU.
"These two things are relatively time-intensive for us," Sivits said.
On Sept. 9, Sivits and KU ACLU member Buddy Lloyd sent a letter to the chancellor, asking him to justify the seal's depiction of Moses kneeling before a burning bush, circled by a Bible verse in Latin. The two wonders if the seal violated the wondered U.S. Constitution's separation of church and state.
On Sept. 28, Hemenway responded with a letter of his own.
"I view the seal of the University as one of its valuable assets, one that has served the University well for over 120 years," Hemenwrote. "I will not hesitate to
"We're better off, we had this dialogue," Lloyd said. "This just proves we're
not afraid to tackle the tough issues."
defend fully the continued use of the seal." The KU ACLU netted considerable media attention for the query.
about future possibilities. "Eventually one probably will step forward."
"We would not proceed without atplaintiff," Lloyd said, although he remained optimistic.
To continue, the group would need a plaintiff for a lawsuit, alleging he or she had been hurt in some way by the University seal.
Lloyd and Sivits both said emphatically that the issue had not been forgotten.
"This should in no way be construed as
the ACLU giving the KU seal a clean bill of health," Lloyd said.
The group's questions caused turmoil within the KU organization, leading to the Sept. 12 resignation of executive director Alexis Vanasse.
Vanasse had said that once the questioning of the seal had finished, she would consider returning to her job.
"I'm kind of hoping to come back within the next couple of days," Vanesse said yesterday evening.
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Korb Maxwell, student body president,
said he was glad questions about the seal
had been put aside for the moment.
"I do not believe that the University seal infringes upon anyone's rights," Maxwell said. "I'm happy that the ACLU leadership has decided to postpone the issue."
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— Edited by Jamie Knodel