FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102 NO.127
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TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
In the zone
After batting .210 last season, Kansas sophomore Sara Holland is slugging .372 this season. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Qualified admissions
Gov. Bill Graves signed a law restricting entry into Regents universities. Page 3A
WORLD
Data box gone from plane
The flight data recorder could have provided clues to the causes of the crash. Page 6A
NATION
Unabomber suspect charged
He was held with one count of possessing components of a bomb. Page 7A
WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY
High 47° Low 27°
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
Opinion . 4A
Nation/World . 6A
Features . 8A
Sports . 1B
Scoreboard . 2B
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James Frink, an intern teacher at South Junior High School, lectures a class of junior high students. Frink left the Lawrence
Police Department in 1990 to pursue a career in teaching science.
A new authority
Story by David Teska ● Photos by Brian Flink ● Illustration by Micah Laaker
Former police officer James Frink found a more positive way to influence kids
James Frank checks for a winner during a game of periodic element bingo in his seventh grade class. The game was designed to teach students the elements' symb
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Kathy Stunts' science class is slow getting started this morning. The bell just rang at South
'bel just rang at South Junior High School, but the students aren't motivated to settle down.
Intern teacher James Frink, Lawrence senior, education major and former cop, stands against the lab table at the front of Room 56 waiting for things to quiet down. In a deep, steady voice practiced on the streets of River City, Frink warns them what will happen if they continue talking.
Silence descends among the 12 year olds.
"Your name will be mud," he says.
Frick, 43, has a knack for gettin' unruly groups to listen, a skill retained from his previous career. Until 1900 Frink was Officer James Frink of the Lawrence police department. But his concern for children, coupled with a deeply rooted desire to make a difference in their lives, pulled him off the force and into the classroom.
He is 20 years older than most intern teachers from the University of Kansas, but Frink said he saw his age and experience as an advantage.
Non-traditional students make up one-third of students both in the teaching certificate program and those with student teaching internships this summer. Non-traditional is defined as a student older than 25 or married.
KU students in teacher certification program
Source: School of Education
Students in KU teacher certificate program
TOTAL: 155
Student Interns
TOTAL: 137
Noah Musser/KANSAN
71% Traditional Students
29% Non-traditional Students
Vision coalition banner stolen
Voice vice-presidential nominee accused in the attempted theft
By Nicole Kennedy Kansas staff writer
Samantha Bowman, Voice coalition candidate for student body vice president, has been accused of driving the get-away car in an attempted theft of a Vision coalition for Student Senate banner.
Sherman Reeves, Vision coalition campaign manager, filed an election-code-violation report yesterday implicating Bowman.
According to the report, Reeves was driving on Jayhawk Boulevard at 8:30 Wednesday night when he saw an unidentifiable male take the rolled banner from the Vision coalition's Wescoe Beach table and carry it up the steps in front of Wescoe Hall.
"I parked my car and followed the individual down the back Wescoe steps," the report read. "As I rounded the corner, he was putting the banner in a car and getting in."
Reeves then claims he approached the car, asked the passenger for the banner and then took it from the back seat, noting that Bowman was behind the wheel.
Bowman said she was not in the car, but her car was involved in the incident.
"A friend had borrowed it to pick up another friend of mine from class," Bowman said. "I didn't have anything to do with it, and I was upset when I found out that it happened."
Cesar Millan, Voice candidate for student body president, said he believed that Bowman was not involved.
"I don't whatsoever, for one second, believe that she was in the car or that she did that," Millan said.
Bowman said she would encourage Voice candidates not to violate the election codes.
"The best thing I can do now is advise all the members of the coalition to tell their friends that we don't have any intentions of destroying the other coalitions' property or doing any dirty campaigning," she said.
Jamie Johnson, Vision coalition candidate for student body vice president, said he was astonished at what had happened.
"We've been telling our people over and over again that we're going to run a clean campaign," Johnson said.
The alleged attempted theft of the Vision banner came after Tuesday's theft of a Voice coalition banner from the Sigma Kappa sorority house.
The election commission will test the legitimacy of Reeves' claim at an April 10 hearing. The commission already has finned both coalitions for improper placing of posters on campus during the campaign.
The Vision coalition was fined $50 for placing mini posters in classrooms and on departmental bulletin boards. The Voice coalition was fined $50 for placing posters on off-campus telephone poles and $20 for placing other posters over Vision posters on campus.
Senate rights committee restructures SLAB bill
By Nicole Kennedy
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate bill to disband the Student Legislative Awareness Board was dropped in the rights committee meeting last night at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
"This changes the organization to make it a little more stable, accountable and effective," said Todd Moore, off-campus senator who presented the bill. "There needs to be a direct connection to the only recognized lobbyist to the State Legislature, the student body president."
The bill was replaced by draft legislation that would restructure the board but would not disband the group as a Senate organization. Committee members unanimously approved the new restructuring bill, which will face final approval by Senate on Wednesday.
The board structure of two student coordinators and an advisory board would be replaced by a presidentially appointed legislative director and an advisory board.
The advisory board would include a
Board coordinators and some committee members expressed concern that the legislative director would be a political appointee.
lobby coordinator, a treasurer, an education and forums coordinator, a publications coordinator, a voter participation coordinator, the student body president, the director of organizations and activities, the president of the Student Alumni Association, the editor of the University Daily Kansan and the program director of KHJK
"This is a case example of why there are fewer dissenting voices in our Student Senate than there should be," said Dave Stevens, the board's issues coordinator.
But Moore said the restructuring and the creation of a presidentially appointed legislative director would improve communications and create Senate accountability.
Jeff Stowell, Language Arts and Sciences senator, also said the position would not become a political appointment.
"I'm a little disappointed that you feel that the integrity of the student body president is such that it would become a pawn of the coalitions," Stowell said.
Lucidity of dance is the attraction of Indian show at Lied tomorrow
East meets West at the Lied Center tomorrow, when the Kathak Ensemble and Friends will perform Ka-Tap — a vibrant fusion of Kathak, a classical northern Indian dance, tap dancing and jazz.
The group of three dancers and eight musicians innovated the program Symphony Space, which premiered at the World Music Institute on Broadway in November 1995.
Kansan Correspondent
"There are so many things in common between the music and dance traditions," said Janaki Patrik, co-founder of the Kathak Ensemble. "The jazz scatter and tabla have a conversation and there's not a word of English, but it's so lucid — its language is so emotional."
Both Tap and Kathak dance forms typically involve intricate footwork and improvisation. The dancers will interpret a musical collage provided by traditional Indian recitation, jazz songs by Duke Ellington and Hoagie Carmichael, jazz scatting and Indian percussion and string instruments such as the tabla and sitar.
By Nicholas C. Charsalambous
Kansas Correspondent
Patrik trained with Pandit Birju Maharaj, a priest who was the first to popularize the ancient Indian dance after Indian independence in 1947.
"Ka-Tap symbolizes how people can take on each other's cultures and traditions to another level," said Rina Bansal, president of KU India Club and Chandigarh. Indian graduate student
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The program, sponsored by KU Cultural India Club, opens a week of events sponsored by the International Students Association that are designed to help bring together the cultures of the world.
"Culture is never lost, it just gets diversified," she said.
The Kathak Dance Ensemble and Friends will perform at the Lied Center at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are $7 and $5 for India Club members.
Other Culture Fest events:
p. m. Tuesday, Kansas Union Ballroom
Malaysian Night, 6 p.m. Sunday, Kansas Union Ballroom
Multicultural Panel Discussion, 6:45
n m Tuesday, Kansas University
Native-American Student Association presents Blue Stew, noon Tuesday, in front of the Kansas Union.
Potluck dinner with international foods, 6 p.m.Wednesday, Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
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