FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102, NO.35
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SPORTS
Battle of the unbeatens
The Jayhawks will clash with the Buffaloes tomorrow, and one team will suffer its first setback. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Healing old wounds
(USPS 650-640)
The founder of the Institute for the Healing of Racism says the solution is in our thinking. Page 5A
NATION
Nuns break tradition
A group of cloistered nunsventured out of its familiar surroundings to see the Pope.Page 6A
WORLD
Serbs, enemies lay down arms
Officials announced a 60 day cease-fire in Bosnia yesterday. Page 6A
WEATHER
COOL
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion . . . . . . 4A
Nation/World . . . . 6A
Features . . . . . 8A
Sports . . . . . . 1B
Scoreboard. . . . . 2B
Horoscopes . . . . . 4B
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Fraternity works to make the grade
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Phi Kappa Tau is cracking the whip to ensure its fraternity members crack their books. And the members are glad.
The national fraternity notified the KU chapter this fall that it had failed to meet the fraternity's grade point average policy. The house average GPA is required to be .1 above the average GPA of all male students at the University. Last spring, the chapter's GPA was 2.655, or .075 below
the 2.73 KU average.
If the chapter doesn't improve its average, the national fraternity could place it on social probation, which means no social functions between Sundays and Thursdays, said Craig Little, assistant executive director at the Oxford, Ohio, headquarters.
To keep that from happening, the fraternity is pushing study sessions and has developed incentives to encourage members to work harder, said Chris Lantman, scholarship chairman.
"We've divided the house into teams and compete academically," Lantman said.
Gary Smith, KU chapter president, said that some Phi Kappa Tau members signed informal contracts saying they would try to raise their GPAs.
But although Phi Kappa Tau's national headquarters has a GPA policy, some fraternities don't. Two examples are Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which had the lowest average GPAs last semester in the fraternity system.
Kevin Virta, Pi Kappa Alpha executive director in Memphis, Tenn., said that the national fraternity's only penalty for a low average GPA was that individual chapters couldn't receive national awards.
Brian Wilcox, manager of chapter operations at Sigma Alpha Epsilon's headquarters in Evanston, Ill., said that his fraternity had a minimum GPA requirement for initiating new members but no house GPA requirement.
The University doesn't have its own GPA requirement for fraternities but relies on the national fraternities' policies, said Dan Mudd, Interfraternity Council president.
Lantman said he was glad Phi Kappa Tau was involved actively in improving its members' grades and that the fraternity members were responding well to the challenge.
Most sororities at KU have average GPA standards, said Brooke Karch, Panhellenic vice president for administrative affairs.
"We just slacked off a little bit, and it's not going to happen again," he said.
Phil Long / KNIGHT BOUNDER TRIMLINE.THE MIAMI MEDALS
A boat that was washed ashore from the winds of Hurricane Opal rests on the front porch of a condominium in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. The condominium normally isn't beachfront property, but water from the storm surrounds the building.
Students keep an eye on hurricane
Florida natives wonder anticipate Opal's effects on families, hometown
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
Preparing for a hurricane can mean dealing with chaos.
Hurricane Erin taught Lisa Anderson that last summer when it was on the way to her hometown.
"You couldn't get into the grocery store," said Anderson, Coral Gables, Fla., senior. "You couldn't get water. You couldn't get building materials."
The people along the Gulf of Mexico are experiencing the same chaos because of the destruction caused by Hurricane Opal. As it moved Wednesday through the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Opal had gusts of 185 mph. People all along the coast have fled to shelters or other towns out of the path of the hurricane.
While Anderson's family is safe from Hurricane Opal, other students have family and friends who live in the path of the storm.
Rachel Fischer, Atlantis, Fla., sophomore, said she had friends who lived in the panhandle area. However, she said that she would have to wait a few days to talk to them because phone lines were down.
"I don't know how they are doing," she said.
Cammil Baker, Atlantic Beach, Fla., freshman, said her hometown was just east of the area affected by Hurricane Opal. However, the rains the hurricane will cause in surrounding areas will guarantee that her town will be flooded.
"We get a little storm and it floods," she said.
Baker said Atlantic Beach is on low ground, making it an easy target for floods. She said the town was not well-prepared for hurricanes, and it would be wiped out if one did make its way through the East Coast town.
Anderson said that after Hurricane Andrew caused severe damage in much of southern Florida in August 1992, people had been a lot more panicked about the possibility of hurricane weather.
Fischer said that when hurricane season arrived right after the summer, stores began putting up signs saving. "Supply-un
"None of the buildings are fortified," she said.
Now." She said some organizations gave out information telling residents where they could go for safety if their homes were not fortified.
Phil Larsen, Indianapolis junior who works at KU Weather Service, said the storm had died down yesterday as it moved inland. When it was just south of Lexington, Ky., the winds had slowed to about 50 mph.
Larsen said the hurricane got its energy from the heat from the water in the Gulf of Mexico. As the hurricane moves inland, it loses heat and slows down. However, Larsen said, the storm would continue to carry the moisture.
Larsen said the storms and the wind, which will be classified as an extra-tropical low, which is a downgrade from hurricane, would be moving its way up the Appalachian mountains, slowing down as it moved inward. Larsen said that by the end of the week it should make its way through New England and out of the United States.
"it's going to continue to dump rain," he said.
"By Saturday, it will be gone," he said. The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Opal causes widespread wreckage
The Associated Press
Opal caused an estimated $1.8 billion in damage to insured property, the Florida Insurance Council said yesterday, making the hurricane the second-costliest storm in the state's history. Hurricane Andrew, the costiest, inflicted $17 billion in damage to insured property in August 1992
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — Hurricane Opal lost its punch early yesterday after crashing into the Florida Panhandle, where it was washed away beach-front homes and tossed boats ashore. At least six people were killed.
More than two million customers lost power in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. It could take days to restore electricity.
Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles met yesterday with several Cabinet officers and other officials as they began coordinating relief efforts.
"We'll be able to get into the area as soon as they clear the airport."
Mike Walker Assistant secretary of the Army
"We are making sure airlift assets are on alert and ready to go," said Mike Walker, assistant secretary of the Army. "We'll be able to get into the area as soon as they clear the airport."
Delays in commercial flights were reported across a wide area. Forecasters warned of continued high winds and heavy rains.
But the howling winds already had done their damage, leaving crumbled piers, demolished homes, submerged highways and downed power lines along a 120-mile stretch of Florida Panhandle beaches.
Thousands of residents began returning to their homes yesterday, but many found roadblocks manned by police with orders not to let them back because there would be no power or sewage service.
Even 30 miles inland, officials reported widespread destruction.
A 76-year-old Crestview woman was killed Wednesday by a tornado spawned by Opal, police said. In Georgia, a man died yesterday when a tree in Marietta crashed onto his car, a second man was killed in a similar accident in Griffin, south of Atlanta. At Gadsden in northeast Alabama, police said a tree fell on a trailer, killing two people. And in western North Carolina, a man was killed when a tree fell on a mobile home.
Harry Connick to play at Lied
Kansan staff report
Harry Connick Jr. and his Funk Band will play at the Lied Center on Nov. 15 as part of the "She" college tour.
Tickets for the concert will go on sale at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, but line numbers will be handed out starting at midnight tonight, said Marian Sheeran, an administrative assistant for Student Union Activities.
Members of the SUA Live Music Committee will be at the Kansas Union to distribute the line numbers. The vouchers will prevent people from standing in line all night for tickets. Sheeran said.
Sheeran said she expected the tickets to sell out quickly.
"We're getting about a call a minute," she said. Students with a valid KUID can buy one ticket for $23 and up to three more at the regular price of $25.
Tickets will go on sale to the public Oct. 14.
University haunts sleeping students
By Craig Lang Kansan staff writer
It's a normal night for Heidi Grow, with one small exception.
She is trying to do her math homework, but Adolf Hitler is standing right in front of her, causing a distraction.
Grow, Greensburg sophomore, is just one of many students who cannot find an escape from the stressful life of college, even in her dreams. She said she usually dreamed about subjects in school when they were on her mind.
She said that Hitler's presence in her dream probably meant she was not fond of math.
Grow said that when the day of a test was approaching, she had dreams about the test. "I've also had the dream where you go to the exam late," she said.
Peggy Sullivan, child psychologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that when events in people's lives give
them stress, such as a test, it causes them to have dreams about that stressful event. By imagining an event is happening, the brain prepares the person for that event.
"A dream is a behavioral rehearsal," she said. "It's a way to work with something stressful. People do work through dream situations."
"I'm a compulsive person," she said. "When my mind is set on something, it just sticks."
Grow said that when the time for a test comes along, it weighs heavily on her mind. That causes the subject to surface in her dreams.
Asplund said that although her dreams usually were random and did not necessarily pertain to what was going on in her life, this particular dream probably had something to do with what was on her mind because it happened right before she was supposed to go to class.
Marisa Asbund, Overland Park freshman, decided to take a nap one day before going to her German class. In her dream, she was riding her bike and passed by a large house. On the lawn, her German instructor was dressed in hot pink, doing a flamenco dance.
"I was thinking about not going," she said. "Maybe it had a connection."
Annette Grace, Steamboat Springs, Colo., freshman, said she often dreamed of seeing her friends from high school attending classes at the University with her. She said she thought she dreamed about them because nobody else from her high school went to KU. She said she grew up with her friends, so her subconscious probably expected them to go to school with her.
Sullivan said it was not unusual for students to mix people and events from the past into their present lives as college students. She said that in a dream state, the mind did not particularly distinguish the past from the present.
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"There really not any time element in that kind of brain activity," she said.
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