MONDAY, MAY 6, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.102.NO.151
(USPS 650-640)
SPORTS
Jayhawks lose to Cowgirls
Kansas lost a close match and was eliminated from the NCAA tournament. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Looking to the future
New CLAS dean Sally Frost-Mason already has plans for the college. Page 5A
NATION
Dole deals with complaints
Fellow Republicans say that his campaign is poor and that the party tattered. Page 8A
Liberian refugees flee
WORLD
Dozens of homes and buildings burn as Monrovia is consumed by violence. Page 7A
WEATHER CLOUDY
High 72° Low 54°
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
Opinion...4A
Nation/World...6A
Features...10A
Sports...1B
Scoreboard...2B
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Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Fun brings a crowd to the Hill
Sport course adds to the excitement
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
An eclectic group attended Day on the Hill on Saturday.
Three KU students dragged a sunflower-printed couch up the west Campanile Hill to watch the show. A Lawrence mother, flowers in hair, sat bumed while children ran around her. Hacky sackers, frisbee throwers, dogs and moshers dotted the lawn.
About 3,500 people attended the University's annual outdoor music festival.
"There's a lot of different variety of people here," said Amy Fast, Plains freshman. "I come from an area where country music is the main thing, so this is kind of radical for me."
Justin Case, Stick, Paw and The Floyds warmed up the crowd at the festival. Poster Children, a national band, headlined the show.
Howie Kantoff, drummer for Poster Children, described the band's music as aggressive, punk-influenced pop.
"We try to have diverse influences so it becomes an eclectic stew of sorts, but the core of it's post-punk pop," Kantoff said. "Whoever comes, we'll entertain, young, old, todlers."
Some students were disappointed by the musical lineup.
"They don't have a real big headliner like they did last year, but it's some pretty good local and regional bands," said Phillip Smith, Augusta sophomore.
ABOVE: Concert goers pack West Campanile Hill to watch The Floyds play at Day on the Hill. About 3,500 people attended the event on Saturday. RIGHT: Bradford Rogers, keyboard player for The Floyds, surfs on the crowd. Rogers' shirt was torn off him by people in the mosh pit.
But most people said they enjoyed the concert.
"This is the first time I've been here," said Malachi Winters, a high school student from the Wichita area. "It's really relaxing, and it's been a nice day out."
And KU police officers said the day had been safe.
"We haven't seen any medical emergencies out of the mosh pit yet," said KU police Sergeant Chris
Keary. "For the most part, it looks like the crowd is following the noalcohol policy."
During the show, Champion Sports set up an obstacle course at the top of the hill. KU students competed to make the best time running through the course. Two KU students won all-expense-paid trips to the Olympics in Atlanta this summer to compete against students from other universities.
Mike Chandler, Kansas City, Kan, freshman, won a trip with a 16.35 second run through the course.
"I just came up here for fun," Chandler said. "I didn't even think about having the best time."
But Amber Mounday, Valley Center junior, said she ran the course to win. Mounday ran the course in 18.72 seconds for the best female time.
Student to express culture
Lawrence senior to pay tribute to her heritage by graduating in Native-American regalia
By Susanna Lööf
Kansan staff writer
The commencement committee wants a year to consider whether traditional Native-American regalia should be allowed at graduation. But Dorothy Stites won't wait a year.
"I will be wearing my Native-American dress during graduation," she said. "And I'm going to encourage other Native-American graduates to do the same."
Sites, Lawrence senior, said about six Native-American graduates would wear Native-American regalia at graduation.
Sites said she was going to wear a Native-American dress to make the Native-American culture visible and to make people realize that it won't go away. Another reason is to honor the Native-American spirituality, she said.
Sites and George McCleary, chairman of the logistics commencement committee and professor of geography, met Friday.
"The spirituality of being Indian is what has gotten me through college," she said.
McCleary said the issue was too complex for him to decide by himself.
Allowing Native-American regalia at graduation would be changing traditions that are as old as the University of Kansas, McCleary said.
"It's bigger than me, and it's bigger than she," he said.
"We're showing respect for that tradition by examining this carefully," he said.
"There's a spectrum of opinions on this." he said.
McCleary said he had received both support and opposition for Stites' wish.
"There's a spectrum of opinions on this," he said.
The commencement committee will gather opinions from the entire University community before
"I will be wearing my Native-American dress during graduation. And I'm going to encourage other Native American graduates to do the same."
it makes a decision, McCleary said.
The decision will be made in time to publish a potential change in the 1997 commencement brochure, McCleary said.
However, the lack of a decision does not mean that Stites and others wearing Native-American regalia will be forced out of the procession.
"The only time that the marshals at commencement have asked students to leave is when what they were doing was tasteless." McCleary said.
Marshals have asked students that were so drunk that they were falling down to leave the procession, and they have also made a student wearing an offensive sign take it off, McCleary said.
Sites said she hoped that the committee would address ways to make students respect the procession more during their year of consideration. She also said she thought her efforts to get permission to wear a Native-American dress were worthwhile despite the lack of a decision.
"It's worth it because it makes people think about issues such as this," she said.
On-line access may face proposed $55 increase
Kansan staff writer
By Heather Kirkwood
Students who dial into the University's computer system next year may pay more for the privilege.
The University Senate Executive Committee and the Academic Affairs Computing Committee have proposed raising the cost of a terminal server account from $30 a year to $85 a year next fall to pay for more lines, said Jan Weller, director of networking and telecommunications services.
Weller could respond to the proposal as early as this week.
"When the fee went into effect a year and a half ago, we had no idea how many people would sign up," Weller said, "The number of people and the amount of time they are spending on line has far outstripped the cost."
Weller said more lines needed to be added to keep pace with growing demand, but there was not enough money in the budget to upgrade the system again.
There are 256 terminal server lines going into the University's system. More lines must be added in multiples of 32 at a cost of $1,200 per line. Thus a minimum upgrade would cost $38,400.
payment sales representative for America Online, said customers with that service pay $9.95 a month, or $119.40 a year, for five hours a month of unlimited access, plus $2.95 each additional hour.
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"Then you have ongoing charges for maintenance and manpower, and the demand is not showing any signs of peaking." Weller said.
Even if the $55 increase is approved, students wanting access to e-mail and the Internet from home may still get a bargain.
Prodigy also offers an identical package, said Brian Ek, vice president of governmental affairs for Prodigy. But it also offers customers 30 hours a month for $30 and $2.95 for each additional hour.
CompuServe also has a package identical to America On line and Prodigy, plus a package of $24.95 a month for 20 hours a month. Each additional hour costs $1.95 and access is not unlimited, said Shelly Randall, a CompuServe new marketing sales representative.
Weller said she didn't think the increased cost would keep students from using the service.
"It is still pretty inexpensive, and I think we look pretty good in comparison." she said.
Grey Montgomery, newly-elected student body president, was surprised to hear about the possible increase.
"Wow," he said, "I'm a bit concerned by that. It's more than doubling the cost."
Montgomery said that he thought the price increase, if it was implemented, was just another rising cost students would be faced with to get an education.
"It certainly isn't very comforting in this day and age with tuition going up," he said. "The cost of education is going up quite a bit in a lot of different ways."
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