University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 22, 1991
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No beer on Hill for tailgaters
Alumni expected to comply with prohibition policy
By Rochelle Olson Kansan staff writer
Alumni tailigators had better beware at tomorrow's football game against Missouri.
KU students won't be the only ones subject to the new policy of prohibition on the Hill.
State laws and city ordinances prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol and other cereal malt beverages on state property.
The University policy prohibits consumption and sale of cereal malt beverages containing 3.2 percent alcohol except in licensed spaces in the Kansas and Burge unions.
University administrators have asked KU police for help in enforcing the laws and policy.
LJ. John Mullens of KU police said officers would be working the areas between Mississippi Street and Izoma Street.
The boundary includes the major lots around the
stadium where alumni often tailgate before games.
The University has sent press releases about the policy to newspapers and television and radio stations in the Wichita, Kansas City and Columbia, Mo., areas, Mullens said.
He said that officers would try to speak with people before violations occurred.
But if an individual violates the law, he or she is subject to arrest, and that includes alumny.
"Who they are and why they are there would be material." Mullens said. "It's based solely on the law
Del Shakel, interim executive vice chancellor,
said state laws applied to alumni as well as students.
But alumni cannot be forced to follow the university policy prohibiting drinking of cereal malt beverages with 3.2 percent alcohol because they are not subject to University reprimand.
"We would be asking for voluntary compliance," he said.
The University is aiming to stop unacceptable behavior and control excessive alcohol use, Shankel said.
"Really we are trying to address a behavioral problem that has gotten out of hand on the Hill the past couple games," he said.
Shankel said that he never missed a home game but that he tailgated only in one of the approved places or off campus.
Dudley Smith, Overland Park attorney and KU alumnus, has had football season tickets for 20
"I've seen lots of people tailgating and having a beer or possibly a drink over all these years, and I've never noticed it creating problems for anybody," Smith said.
But he said that did not mean that people should break the law.
Some alumni may be upset with the enforcement of the law, he said.
"They're going to feel that it's part of a tradition that has gone on for a long time," Smith said.
Midway closing disrupts holiday plans for fliers
By Kochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Midway Airlines nearly stole Thanksgiving.
The Chicago-based company went bankrupt at midnight Nov. 13, leaving about 50 University of Kansas students without plane tickets.
Carol Khoury, travel agent for Maupin-
旅行 Travel service at the Kansas Union,
Kansas City
"No one has panicked or gotten angry," she said.
Khoury she found flights for some students on other airlines.
"It has been amazing how cooperative the other carriers have been," she said.
Some carriers are accepting the Midway tickets and allowing students to stand by.
But most people who are determined to go home will have to purchase new tickets,
Students who need to exchange their tickets can contact their travel agents or other staff.
She said that if a ticket was purchased with a credit card, the company usually accepted it.
It is assumed they have paid with cash or a card and they must file their own claim in Us. Bankruptcy Court.
Maria Alder, Wilmette, Ill., senior, had purchased Midway tickets for Thanksgiving.
She had to buy new tickets and send her old ones to her credit card company.
In the shuffle, she lost her new one-way return ticket from Chicago
"I feel really awful," she said. "I just want to buy myself an organizer so that I can keep my life organized."
Adler said she baked banana bread for her travel agent, Khoury, because of her help.
"In a stressful situation like that, you need someone to calm you down." Adler
Leslie Luehring, St. Charles, III, mop-
more, lose her frequent flier miles when
she's over 60.
She was able to get new tickets on Southwest Airlines for Thanksgiving but will have to return to Kansas on Monday instead of Sunday.
"I have to miss all my classes," Luehring said.
Jen Laird, Wheaton, III., junior, also purchased replacement tickets on Southwest.
Members of the Christian group, from left to right, Shey Knorr, David Knight, Leigh Bowerstock and Rob Woolan, Manhattan graduate student practice before their weekly meeting.
She said she would have to return to KU on Saturday, a day earlier than she had
University Senate looks at statement
Laird said she also lost frequent-flier miles and would miss the airline because it always offered good deals.
Spiritual songs
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
The development of mission statements for the Board of Regents system and the University of Kansas has been the dominant issue for the University Senate Executive Committee, the head of SenEx said yesterday.
"I emphasize the importance of the mission statement, because to no small degree it will provide both direction and boundaries for the University," said Tom Beissecker, who heads SenEx.
The remarks were part of Beissecker's report to the full University Senate, which is composed of all faculty members and the members of Student Senate.
"One of the items that has dominated our attention throughout the year and that will continue to do so are the institutional and systemwide mission statements," Beissecker said.
University Senate had its fall meeting yesterday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. About 35 people attended.
Beiecker and Frances Ingemann, who heads the University Council, updated faculty members and student representatives about the most important issues facing the University's governance.
Ingemann said a mission statement was like a charter.
Evaluation of academic programs.
ernance in the replacement of high University officials, such as the vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
*The term mission statement basically is to say what you are supposed to be doing.* "she said.
- Changing grievance procedures at the University,
Beisecker also listed other important items on SenEx's agenda.
Monitoring the University's budget request to the Board of Regents.
Beisecker said the University should not be too modest in its budget requests.
Involvement of University gov-
"At some point, the University must be allowed to make the case for its full needs." he said.
After about 20 minutes, Senate adjourned and Council began its meeting.
Alan Black, professor of architecture and urban design, who heads the parking board, said parking fees and fines would remain the same.
Council approved the parking board's budget for fiscal year 1993.
The board expects to receive more than $1.2 million in fees and fines, the same amount it received last year.
Salaries and other operating expenditures will go up.
Other operating expenditures include travel, lot maintenance and telephone costs.
The last item on Council a gagda was a report by Bob Baw, professor of journalism, who heads the academic computing committee.
Basow said the University should focus on teaching with computers.
He said computers should be at the individual schools and departments rather than in general-purpose labs because that would better address the needs of the students.
"One of the misnomers we see is using the number of computers per student to determine where we are," Basow said. "The key variable is the placement of computers. They have to be in the academic units."
Malott Hall basement is office of research instrument builder
Special to the Kansan
By Amanda Stanton-Geddes
His office is the machine workshop in the basement of Malott Hall.
Jesse Nordeng's office is 20 by 60 feet with white walls and a dark-red tiled floor with dark-green and grey machinery that is 25 to 50 years old.
Nordeng builds all the outlandish research instruments that professors in Malott need. He builds wind tunnels, particle detectors and vacuum chambers.
The wind tunnel, finished in May after nearly six months of work, fills two rooms across the hall from the machine shop. Half of it is in an oblong chamber made of clear Plexiglas sealed by steel bolts. The second half in the other room is connected but inaccessible. The labyrinth of large wooden box fans funnel air through an angular path that winds like the coils of a snake.
Most machinists have engineers working with them to design the research apparatus. But Nordeng does all the work himself with help from professors and Pepsi, judging by the 22 empty soda cans sitting on a side table.
The machines Nordeng uses are dangerous. But Nordeng's only sign of this is a scar from six stitches on his hand. He keeps his dishwater-blond hair short — to the nape of his neck — because it could get caught in a blade if not. He wears ear protection and protective glasses when he is using the machinery.
The machine shop is stocked with 12 different diameters of scrap metal, 100 different diameters of steel poles, and a towering, dark-green cabinet with 300 one-by-two inch
"I intend to stay here until I retire, unless I can find a better job with the same pay."
Jesse Nordeng research instrument builder
drawers with tiny yellowed paper labels, all containing differ sizes and shapes of nuts, bolts, washers and nails. Most of the materials are recycled from previous projects and will be integrated into new ones.
Nordeng usually works from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a couple of breaks and a half-hour lunch. If he needs time off for his wife or his children, ages five and three, it is easily arranged.
He said that although some professors pushed him to finish their work quickly, he did not feel much stress usually. He manages to stay on top of things, building projects and maintaining the machines.
"I intend to stay here until I retire, unless I can find the same job with better pay."
Jesse Nordeng builds research equipment in Malott Hall
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