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Friday September 3,1999
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CAMPUS
English group to parody Shakespeare and others
"Pariodes Lost" will take the stage this Labor Day in Swarthout Recital Hall in English Alternative Theater's annual staged reading.
The play, a group of six parodies by American playwrights Eric Bogosian, Christopher Durang and Wendy Wasserstein, spoofs authors from William Shakespeare to Euripides, with an homage to detective duo The Hardy Boys.
"In the true spirit of fun and play, we try to feature as many faculty members from the English Department as possible alongside KU students and townpeople," said Paul Stephen Lim, associate professor of English and director of the staged reading.
Lim said that this year's Labor Day per formance would be the seventh in the 10 years of EAT. The group schedules the event early in the year to include as many faculty members as possible.
"Parodies Lost" will be a staged reading, meaning the actors will be reading from scripts onstage. The actors' movements are planned out, and there will be a few props and costumes. But each parody only will have had four rehearsals before the Sept. 6 performance. Lim said.
Ryan Larkin, Lyndon senior, will act in a parody of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" Monday night. He said that the lines were funny but that the play might possibly offend Williams' fans.
"I expect to see a whole room of smiling faces," Larkin said, "and maybe one angry person in the back."
"Parodies Lost" will be at 8 p.m. Labor Day at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The event is free.
Lydia Taylor
College Republicans spu support for Brown Bear
The University of Kansas College Republicans are asking students to show support for the Brown Bear Brewing Co., 729 Massachusetts St., in its quest to obtain a new liquor license from the City of Lawrence.
The group will have a table from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Wescoe Beach to gather signatures for a petition to present to the Lawrence City Commission at Tuesday night's meeting. The table also was at Wescoe Beach yesterday.
Timothy Burger, Lenexa senior and the group's vice chairman, said the group gathered about 160 signatures. He said College Republicans decided Sunday to take action against what it saw as bad government.
"It's a case of government asserting itself where it's not necessary." Burger said. "The Brown Bear is a
good business and a place that students like."
— Derek Prater
The Brown Bear was forced to close Aug. 21 when city officials would not renew its liquor license. Under a zoning regulation, drinking establishments opened downtown after 1994 are required to make 55 percent of their revenue from food sales. An audit supplied by the Brown Bear for the city revealed that the brewery made only 50 percent of its profits from food sales.
The Brown Bear reopened Aug. 27 to serve food but no alcohol. The owners formed a new corporation and are in the process of applying for a new liquor license.
lowa man threatens CLAS,requests $10 million check
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received a threatening letter in the mail Aug. 24 at 200 Strong Hall.
— Derek Prater
Sonia Farmer, a secretary at the college, opened the seven-page letter. After reading it, Farmer gave the letter to Sally Frost Mason, dean of the college. Frost Mason contacted the University of Kansas Public Safety Office Wednesday.
Mason said that Riordan did not appear in the college's computer system as a student and that she did not want to press charges now.
The letter was apparently from a man named Thomas Riordon, of Carroll, Iowa, who wrote that he was upset with the University and that he believed he deserved a $10 million check from the University.
Lt. Schulyer Bailey said that the letter appeared to be the ramblings of an upset man and that the Public Safety Office would continue to investigate. He said the office had not yet determined why Riordan believed he deserved money from the University.
Michael Terry
Flags flew at half-staff on campus yesterday to mark the death of Judge M. Kay Royse.
Campus flags at half-staff to honor Kansas judge
Gov. Bill Graves requested that flags continue to fly at half-staff through Sundav.
A judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals since 1993, Royse, 49, died of cancer Wednesday at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka.
Appointed by Gov. Joan Finney, Royse was the second woman to serve on the court.
She earned a bachelor's degree with honors from Emporia State University in 1970 and a master's degree from Emporia State in 1972
In 1978, Royse matriculated into the University of Kansas School of Law, where she was admitted to the
Order of the Coif and served as editor in chief of the Kansas Law Review.
Police respond to violence at Lawrence High School
LAWRENCE
Two different episodes of violence this week brought area police to Lawrence High School, 1901 Louisiana St., Lawrence police said.
On Aug. 25, Lawrence police responded to a call regarding a criminal threat. An 18-year-old student started an argument with a coach in gym class. He said that no one paid attention to him and if he strapped dynamite to his body people would pay attention. The student was suspended.
Police returned to the school Tuesday, when an expelled student threatened to "kill off" an assistant principal and the police officer that responded to the call. The 18-year-old remains in custody at the Douglas County Jail on two charges of criminal threats, one of which is on a law enforcement officer.
Principal Dick Patterson said he did not see a need to change the school's security policy.
"These things do take place in our schools, and we take necessary and appropriate action," he said.
NATION
Katie Hollar
Outside inquiry sought for new Waco evidence
WASHINGTON—Previously undisclosed evidence in the FBI's 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian cult near Waco, Texas, has been impounded by federal marshals as Justice Department officials begin seeking an outsider to conduct a new investigation.
President Bill Clinton wants an independent inquiry, White
house spokesman
Jake Siewert said
yesterday.
The marshals took custody of an infrared videotape recorded during the early morning of April 19, 1993, when FBI agents lobbed incendiary tear-gas canisters at a concrete bunker
Clinton: Wants an independent inquiry into Waco.
Cult leader David Koresh and some 80 followers died.
adjacent to the Davidians' compound, an FBI source said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Associated Press
Scholars present papers at McNair symposium
While many students relaxed this summer, Ericka Morris spent her days researching the experiences of African-American slave women.
By Irina Rodriguez Special to the Kansan
Morris, Philadelphia senior, and 18 other students marked the completion of their two-month McNair Scholars Program summer research internships yesterday in the Kansas Union by presenting papers to students and faculty at the program's annual symposium and banquet.
The scholars, who researched full time this summer under the tutelage of faculty members, received three hours of academic credit and $2.400 stipends.
"It was hard work," Morris said. "My first draft was not acceptable. It taught me a lot about discipline and procrastination and gave me respect for graduate school."
Tim Kochanski, Lawrence junior, went to Mexico last spring break to experience firsthand the living conditions of factory workers in Maquiladora for his research.
communities with poor water and lacking public services and corruption," he said.
Joe Harrington, English professor and Kochanski's mentor, said it was gratifying to guide students' research.
"Ive seen people exposed to toxic elements,
Scholars' papers are often presented at professional conferences and are occasionally published.
Vickie Kennedy, KU graduate, has presented a paper about left-handedness at several conferences, including yesterday's symposium. She said it was exhilarating to see professors at different universities take interest in her research.
"Here a lot of college students looked at me like I was crazy, because I was researching such an exceptional subject in the society, based on right-handedness," said Kennedy, who enrolled in a graduate program in sociology this semester. "McNair played a very important role in pointing me to the direction I needed to excel."
The McNair Scholars Program at the University, which began in 1992, provides academic and social support to undergraduate students from low-income families and to groups traditionally underrepresented in graduate education.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1189: England's King Richard I was crowned in Westminster.
— Edited by Ronnie Wachter
1783: The Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.
1833: The first successful penny newspaper in the U.S., The New York Sun, was launched by Benjamin H. Day.
1838: Frederick Douglass boarded a train in
Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.
1895: The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, Pa. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeanneette Athletic Club 12-0.
ON THE RECORD
1943: Italy signed a secret armistice with the Allies.
1954: The Lone Ranger was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes in a period of 21 years.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched to a non-injury accident at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday at lot 90 on the south side of Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. One student's car struck another student's car while attempting to make a right hand turn. The estimated damage to the second vehicle was $1,300.
- A KU student's adding machine, telephone accessories and backpack were stolen between 2:30 and 2:33 p.m. Aug. 26 from Wescoe Terrace, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $370.
A KU student's sunglasses were stolen between 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday in the 2400 block of Louisiana Street,
A KU public safety officer was dispatched to the non-injury accident at 10:25 a.m. Wednesday at the corner of Naismith and Schwegler drives, the KU public Safety Office said. A KU student hit a parked car while attempting to make a left turn.
Lawrence Police said. The sunglasses were valued at $10.
A KU student's stereo was stolen between 11 p.m. Aug. 25 and 6 p.m. Aug. 26 from a car parked in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $250.
A KU student's CD player and 80 CDs were stolen between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. Aug. 27 in the 1500 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. The items was valued at $1,200.
A KU student's stereo and radar detector were stolen between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday from a car parked in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road, Lawrence police said.
The items were valued at $320.
A KU student's wallet and money were stolen between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. Wednesday in the 600 block of Gateway Court, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $35.
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