MONDAY,SEPTEMBER 25,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102, NO.26
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TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Houston bows to Jayhawks
CAMPUS
Haskell rallies against cuts
The Kansas football team is 4-0 after a dramatic 20-13 victory Saturday. Page1B
Students protest possible cuts to Bureau of Indian Affairs budget. Page 3A
NATION
Air Force crash kills 24
Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage after a crash killed everyone on board. Page 5A
WORLD
Mass grave found in Bosnia
540 bodies discovered in northwestern Bosnia are believed to be muslims and croats killed by Bosnian Serbs. Page 5A
WEATHER
RATHER NICE
AAAAAHH
High 70° Low 47°
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
Opinion . . . . . 4A
National News . . . 5A
World News . . . 5A
Scoreboard . . . 2B
Horoscopes . . . 4B
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Plans scrapped for gravel lot near towers
Proposed parking no longer needed
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
rinding a parking space with a Jayhawker Towers permit this year hasn't been quite the impossibility that the parking department had imagined.
Open parking spaces in the Daisy Hill lots and a decrease in towers permits sale has led Design and Construction Management to scrap the
idea for a 50-car gravel lot southwest of Tower A. This will save about $30,000 in construction costs.
After Design and Construction Management closed two levels of the towers' west garage and one level of the east garage in July due to structural instability, the parking department scrambled to find 285 parking spaces to compensate for the loss.
Donna Hultine, assistant parking director, said the department planned for the worst-case scenario.
"We were kind of nervous," Hultine said. "We weren't really sure what we'd be able to salvage or use
from the Jayhawker Tower garages."
As of Sept. 12, the department had sold 402 parking permits, down from 500 permits last year, Hultine said. That was 82 cars fewer than the department had planned.
The temporary gravel lot was one of four measures to alleviate the parking shortfall. Although parking was a challenge in late August, converting lots 109 and 123 to towers resident parking and honoring towers permits in Daisy Hill lots 101-105 have taken care of the problem, Hultine said.
Don Kearns, director of parking.
said building the gravel lot wasn't necessary.
"The question came up, do we really need it?" Kearns said. "We've been monitoring Templin lot 101 every morning, and there are about 40-50 spaces open every day."
In spite of the open spaces at Templin Hall, 28 towers residents were parked west of the Burge Union in lt 72 Friad morning, Kearns said.
Those residents either can upgrade their permits to yellow and pay the $18 difference to continue to park there, or they can move their cars to a tower lot, he said.
tions of the garages' open levels will be closed so workers can install steel shoring and plastic netting to ensure the safety of people and vehicles. The first section, which is the southeast portion of the west garage, is closed today and tomorrow.
Residents will need to move their cars on the morning of each section's first day of closure, Kearns said. Only one section will be closed at a time. Fliers and signs will let residents know in advance which days each section will be closed. The work will be completed in mid-October.
During the next three weeks, sec
Andrew Rullestad / KANSAN
Julie Hartman (left), Grayslake, Ill., senior; Amy Wewers, Edmond, Okla., sophomore; Angle Nance, Shawne sophomore; and Julie Pedlar, Wichita sophomore, time their designated runs during Wheat Meet yesterday.
Wheat Meet features fun and running
Beta Theta Pi wins event that supports KU cancer research
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Lisa Saspasap is not used to following orders.
"I'm usually rebellious," she said. But the Kansas City, Mo., sophomore learned yesterday that listening carefully can pay. Sapasap won the giant Simon Says contest at the 1995 Jon Blubaugh Memorial Wheat Meet and earned a free trip to Chicago.
"Musical chairs is really my thing," she said. "But I think I'm going to have to look into doing more Simon Says."
Sapasap was one of about 250 participants in Wheat Meet, which featured a full range of track and field events, plus less serious contests like Simon Says.
The annual track meet, sponsored by Chi Omega sorority and Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity,
raises money for KU cancer research.
Holly Emmot, Overland Park junior and co-organizer of the meet, said she thought the fundraiser would net about $9,000.
Beta Theta Pi fraternity won the meet, successfully defending its title from last year. Beta Theta Pi won nearly all of the long-distance races and field events and more than doubled the points of its nearest competitor.
it's been a good day," said Brett Lukert, Sabetha senior and coach of the Beta Theta PI team.
Michael Defries, Mission Viejo,
Calif., sophomore, said the secret to
Simon Says was to not look at
the leader, who was Bob Lock-
wood, instructor in health, physical
education and recreation.
The Simon Says contest and a fun relay were held halfway through the meet and drew the most participants.
"You have to look at his belly button," Defries said.
Defries made it to the final six contestants using his strategy but then was tricked into giving Lockwood a high-five.
"It was a cheap shot," Defries said.
The 400-meter fun relay had participants hopping with raw eggs in their mouths, pushing balls with their heads, spinning around a baseball bat until they were dizzy and leap-frogging their way to the finishline.
Julie Hanson, Minneapolis freshman, said the key to the "dizzy bat" leg of the relay was not watching the ground spin.
"I just closed my eyes and didn't look." Hanson said.
A raffle was held at the end of the meet, and Megan Johnson, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, won a trip to the Bahamas.
Greg Andrews, Independence, Mo., senior and co-organizer of the meet, said that everyone had fun and that Chi Omega and Alpha Kappa Lambda enjoyed raising money for KU cancer research.
when we go to our national meetings, it's nice to be able to say what all we've accomplished," he said. "The hard work is definitely worth it."
Wheat Meet
1995 JON BLUBAUG MEMORIAL
WHEAT MEET RESULTS
TEAM WINNER:
Beta Theta Pi
MEN'S RESULTS
100 M - Rolf, Delta Upsilon
100 M - Rolf, Delta Upsilon
100 M Hurdles - Cage, Phi Delta Theta
400 M - Anderson, Beta Theta Pi
800 M - Seifert, Beta Theta Pi
1600 M - Seifert, Beta Theta Pi
3200 M - Seifert, Beta Theta Pi
400 M Relay- Phi Kappa Psi
1600 M Relay- Beta Theta Pi
Long Jump - Leyendecker, Pi Kappa Alpha
Triple Jump - Scholz, Beta Theta Pi
High Jump - Heck, Beta Theta Pi
Discuss - Wiley, Beta Theta Pi
Shot Put - Wiley, Beta Theta PI
WOMEN'S RESULTS
100 M - Ridenour, Alpha Chi Omega
200 M - Ridenour, Alpha Chi Omega
3200 M - Watson, Chi Omega
Jews find renewal in new year
By Hannah Naughton Kansan staff writer
They are called the days of awe, the days of penitence or the days of repentance.
They are the 10 days in the Jewish calendar set aside as a time of self-evaluation. They began yesterday at sundown with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, and will end with Yom Kippur on Oct. 3. Rosh Hashana lasts for two days, ending tomorrow at sundown.
"Jews around the world are to reflect on what they've done in the last year and what they should be doing in the next year," said Victor Frost, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and president of the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive. "It's a 10-day period where people are supposed to do a spiritual examination."
At this time, people have two processes they go through, said Jack Winerock, volunteer at the center and professor of music and dance. One is examining the relationship they have with God. The other process examines the relationship they have with other people.
"For someone who doesn't do anything Jewish all year, it's a way to get back in touch with the Jewish community," said Lauren Schmidt, Austin, Texas, senior, and resident of the Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St.
In celebrating Rosh Hashana, Jews focus on three things, Winerock said. They are Tefilah, which means prayer; Tzedukah, which means charity or justice; and Teshuvah, which means to turn again.
"The assumption always is that people are good but make mistakes and can turn and come back on a higher spiritual rung," Winerock said.
Two ceremonies took place at 7:30 last night at the center. One was more traditional, and the other used guitars, more modern Hebrew songs and was led by Amy Lefko, Sloux City, Iowa, senior.
Three more ceremonies will occur at the center: 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.today and 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Student hurt in gymnastics class
By Scott Worthington
Kansan staff writer
Neck surgery needed after failed back flip displaced vertebrae
A KU student who injured her neck last week in a gymnastics class is in fair condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center and said yesterday that she should make a full recovery.
Khemart Suthiwan, Wichita freshman, said that doctors repaired two vertebrae in her neck during surgery Thursday and expected her to be fully recovered in about a month.
"The doctors said everything went really well," Suthina said.
Suthiwan injured her neck Thursday during a Basic Skill Instruction in Women's Gymnastics class at Robinson Center. She said she was trying to do a back flip and landed awkwardly on her neck.
from her her recovery room at the Med Center.
According to a KU police report, Douglas County Ambulance Service responded to the scene and transported Suthiwan to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was transported shortly afterward to the Med Center for surgery.
"I was really lucky," Suthiwan said. "Doctors said if I would have landed a little differently, I would have been paralyzed from the neck down."
Sutihwan sad doctors told her two vertebrae were displaced
Sithuwan said she had been a gymnasit for many years and had performed back flips many times. She said she probably would continue playing other sports but not gymnastics.
and were putting pressure on her spinal cord. Doctors operated on the front and back of her neck. They replaced a disk and performed a bone graft.
"I think this has scared me enough." she said.
"The state agency is liable only when an employee acted negligently," Marino said. "If an injury occurs in a class, it doesn't necessarily mean someone is responsible."
Rose Marino, associate general council for the University, said yesterday she did not know if liability was an issue in the accident.
University officials said the decline could be a result of smaller-than-normal freshman classes in 1992 and 1994.
Kansan staff report
Fewer students are attending the University of Kansas this fall than a year ago, according to 20th-day enrollment figures released Friday.
KU enrollment drops by 407 from last fall
Enrollment at all KU campuses totaled 27,638, which was 407 fewer students than last fall. Enrollment at the Regents Center increased from 1,539 last fall to 1,756 this fall.
This year's freshman class is 8.5 percent, or 277 students, larger than last year's. This year, 3,555 first-time freshmen are enrolled at the University. Of the new freshmen, 2,339 are from Kansas, 236 more than last year.
This year's freshman class has 11.6 percent more ethnic minorities, for a total of 346, than last year's. African Americans represented the largest increase, with 116 first-time freshmen, 21 more than last year.