THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.102,NO.29
USPS 650-640)
SPORTS
Player kicks around a change
Kansas women's soccer player Jackie Dowell changed her mind and became a Jayhawk. Page 1B
CAMPUS
GTA unions plan to rally
Graduate teaching assistants will hold a conference Friday about subsidized health care.Page 5A
NATION
Student loan cuts rile Democrats
A Senate committee's plan to make student loans more costly has Democrats drawing battle lines. Page 6A
WORLD
Israel-PLO pact nears completion
The two sides are scheduled to sign the agreement on Palestine self-rule today at the White House. Page 7A
WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY
PARTLY CLOUDY
High $ 8 1^{\circ} $
Low $ 5 8^{\circ} $
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Scoreboard . . . 2B
Horoscopes . . . 4B
National News . . 6A
World News . . 7A
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HARVEST OF ARTS FESTIVAL
Celebrating the diversity of arts and culture in the Lawrence area
EVENTS
WHEN
A film festival, poetry readings and children's activities. All are free
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Sunday, Oct. 1 through Oct. 8.
Partial calendar on Page 3A
WHERE
More than 200 area merchants will display works of art and poetry in their windows.
The New Grange Group performs at the 1994 Harvest of Arts Festival. The 1995 Harvest of Arts Festival will be Oct. 1-8 in downtown Lawrence.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Festival to honor local talent
Downtown merchants will display Lawrence area art in store windows for a week to showcase local artists
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
As window shoppers browse through the downtown area next week, they will be exposed to the variety of art offered by various painters, poets and sculptors of the Lawrence area.
More than 200 area merchants will display works of art in their windows. These displays are part of the fourth annual Lawrence Harvest of Arts Festival, Oct. 1-8, which will feature various events to celebrate the diversity of arts and culture in the Lawrence area. Activities include a film festival, poetry readings and children's activities. All events are free.
"This is put on by a group of dedicated Lawrence residents. It's our gift to the city," said John Wysocki, lecturer for the School of Architecture and chairman of the Harvest of Arts Festival.
Wysocki said this event was started three years ago in an effort to show residents of Lawrence the diversity of its area artists.
Ardys Ramburg, president of the Lawrence Harvest of Arts Association, said she founded the Harvest of Arts Festival in 1992 after reading an article that said although Lawrence had a wide variety of artists, they were not featured often enough. Ram-
it's an opportunity for them to enjoy some of the best local talents," he said. "It's bound to raise one's awareness of the performing arts."
burg said she started talking to store owners and asked them to feature art in their windows for a week.
Ramburg said that by showing the art in the store windows, merchants were letting people know that Lawrence is a town full of artistic talent.
"It helps our reputation as an arts Mecca to grow," she said.
Jill Legler, manager of Sunflower International Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., said with more than 200 businesses participating in the displays, even those who are not professional artists can put their work on exhibit.
"Anybody who has something to show can show it." she said.
Legler is also in charge of the children's exhibit, which will be on display at the second floor alveol of the Riverfront Plaza, 1 Riverfront Plaza. Legler said this is the second year the festival has included children. Including children and taking their works seriously is important to their artistic development and if that does not happen, they are afraid to express themselves artistically as adults, she said.
"What happens to many, many people is that they develop inhibitions about their creative expression," Legler said.
Ramburg said that although no KU student organizations are participating in this year's Harvest of Arts, she hoped students would become involved next year.
Festivals to be held concurrently
Organizers hope change will increase both events' attendance
By Craig Lang Kansan staff writer
To attract more visitors, this year's annual Celebration of Cultures Festival will be held in conjunction with the Harvest of Arts Festival for the first time.
The seventh annual Celebration of Cultures Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. at Buford M. Watson Jr. Park, Seventh and
Kentucky streets. As many as 50 organizations from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds will perform or set up booths selling cultural pieces and international cuisine. The event is free.
Included in this year's festival are booths set up by Brazilian, Middle Eastern and Native American clubs, as well as an African-American Barbecue.
See FESTIVAL, Page 3A
Hobart Jackson,
tenured professor:
"I've turned the corner but I'm not beyond risk. I still have a lot of work to do to heal."
Khabira Gruber, friend of the victim:
"it's disgraceful. How many times do you need to have someone violate the law before you say enough is enough?"
Professor avoids jail sentence
Hobart Jackson plans to teach at KU again
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Michael Malone, Douglas County district court judge, ruled that Hobart Jackson, associate professor of architecture, would not be incarcerated or have his probation extended, even though he pleaded guilty to violating his probation by continuing to stalk his former therapist, whose name has been withheld.
A tenured KU professor convicted of stalking a Lawrence woman avoided incarceration yesterday and said he plans to be back in the classroom next semester, if not sooner.
Because of the decision and his progress in therapy, Jackson said he planned to teach this spring but would return earlier if needed. Jackson had taken an indefinite sick leave from the University in August after reports of the stalking were made public.
John Gaunt, dean of architecture, said Jackson would be welcomed back once it was determined that there had been significant progress in the treatment of Jackson's illness.
Friends of the victim were outraged by the court's ruling.
"It's disgraceful," said Khabira Gruber, Lawrence resident. "How many times do you need to have someone violate the law before you say enough is enough?"
The victim, who was not in court, would not comment on the sentencing.
Jackson was convicted in November of stalking and was sentenced to six months in jail. His sentence was suspended, however, contingent upon his participation in a community corrections program and his refrain from further contact with the victim.
But in March, the victim observed Jackson driving by her house, and in April, her caller identification showed that a hang-up call had been placed to her home from Jackson's office at the University.
Jackson was arrested a second time and was charged with violating his corrections program. He pleaded guilty to the charges, and his sentence was postponed until yesterday.
See JACKSON, Page 3A
Learned Hall computers stolen
Kansan staff report
More than $5,000 in computer equipment was stolen Saturday from Learned Hall, KU police reported yesterday.
The suspects entered the computer lab of the chemical and petroleum engineering department, Room 4028, while it was open and took two MTEch personal computers and a Hewlett-Packard laser printer, KU police said.
"My guess is that no one was in the room," said G. Paul Willhite, professor and chairman of the chemical
Rugby club's jerseys still missing
and petroleum engineering department.
Willitie said the lab usually had an employee on guard and that the computers were secured with cables.
"Somebody came in, clipped the cables and removed the computers." Willhite said. "We didn't have enough security to prevent this from happening."
KU Police have offered a Crime Stoppers award of up to $500 for information leading to the apprehension of the persons involved, said Officer Cindy Alliss.
Kansan staff report
The KU Rugby Football Club can't play shirts against skins. They have no shirts.
Last week's theft of the rugby team's jerseys has left the team searching for ways to get them back.
"Maybe if we put the word out that they have been stolen, people might see someone wearing one and let us know," said player and equipment manager Kevin Rogers, Ellicott City, Md. sophomore.
Nineteen blue jerseys valued at
Rogers said the jerseys were taken to an apartment complex laundry facility by another player and were locked in the facility overnight. The next morning, they were zone.
$1,064 were stolen between 8 p.m.
Sept. 20 and 10 a.m. Sept. 21,
according to a Lawrence police
report.
Rogers said the jerseys cost $65 each, and the team, which is a club
The police report describes the jerseys as blue with red numbers on the back, blue collars and Jayhawks on the chest.
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sport and receives limited funds from the University, cannot afford to replace them.
The team had to borrow black jerseys for Saturday's game against the University of Arkansas, which the Jahvawks won 116-6.
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After the game, Kansas rugby club coach Bill Millshead said, "All I can ask is for someone to please bring them back, no questions asked."
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Rogers said the team was trying to get new uniforms. The team raised money for the jerseys through various fundraisers, such as securing sponsorships, Rogers said.
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