THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102.NO.126
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
Getting out the bats
The Kansas baseball team outlasted Oklahoma State yesterday, 19-13. Page 1B
CAMPUS
art students' thesis show
Graduate students will display their works this month in the Art and Design Building. Page 5A
Air Force jetliner crashes
NATION
Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown was among the 33 people killed in the accident in Croatia. Page 6A
Suspect may be Unabomber
WORLD
The Harvard graduate and former college professor was turned in by his family. Page 7A
WEATHER WINDY AND COOL
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
National News ... 6A
World News... 7A
Scoreboard... 2B
Horoscopes ... 4B
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Voice banner torn from house
Sigma Kappa's missing Voice coalition banner is causing headaches for both the Voice coalition and a person involved in the theft.
Guilty person suffered a cut on the head
Kristen Schutte, Voice coalition CLAS senate seat candidate and president of the Sigma Kappa sorority, said the banner, which was secured by cinder blocks to the top of the sorority house, was pulled down about 3:45 a.m. yesterday. The people who pulled down the banner also yelled profanities while throwing beer bottles at the house, she said.
When the banner came down, so did two large cinder blocks, reportedly falling on the head of the person pulling the banner down.
Broken cinder blocks and a puddle of blood streaming into the grass
were all that was left behind.
Lawrence police Sgt. Susan Haddl said that girls in the house woke when they heard the noise and reported the theft later that morning
Schutte said she gave the police names of people on the Vision coalition who she thought could have stolen the banners.
"The only thing you can do is point the finger at the other coalition," she said. "The average person walking down the street wouldn't have a reason."
Hadl said that police were following up on suspects and were taking into consideration that at least one
person involved in the theft had a gash on the head.
Cesar Millan, Voice coalition candidate for student body president, said that he also suspected that the Vision coalition had something to do with the theft.
Millan said that he had purchased the banner for $250 and wanted it back.
"It's a campaign, and there's a lot at stake," Millan said. "Every candidate puts in a lot of money to run for student senate."
"If anyone finds the banner they can return it to the Student Senate office — no questions asked," he
said.
Jamie Johnson, Vision candidate for student body vice president, said that he and Montgomery had checked the heads of members on their coalition and found no lacerations.
Grey Montgomery, Vision coalition candidate for student body president, denied that the Vision coalition had anything to do with the theft.
"We don't advocate anything like that," Montgomery said. "Obviously tearing down a banner is a campaign violation."
"Grey and I took a good look at heads and foreheads," he said.
Warm spell
Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Mike Walter, Dallas freshman, Tony Booker, Louisville, Ky., senior, and Dion Jones, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, sophomore, hang out on Wescoe Beach
during yesterday afternoon's warm weather. Temperatures are expected to drop the next few days. See weather, page 2A.
Scholarships bring gold
Two KU students win prestigious national awards
By Colleen McCain
Kansan staff writer
Long hours in the lab paid off for two KU students who recently won Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships in a national competition.
Ron Chen, Topeka sophomore, and Krista Shiley, Lenexa junior, are among the 264 students in the United States who won this scholarship, which recognizes excellence in science and math. Both will receive $7,000 scholarships.
For Shipley, a biochemistry and mathematics major, the second
time was the charm. She appoena for a Goldwater scholarship last year but wasn't one of KU's nominees.
Shipley has worked with Sally Frost-Mason, professor of physical and cell biology, and Kenneth Mason, assistant professor of biochemistry, researching genes related to pigmentation.
"This had been somewhat of a goal," Shipley said. "It's a lot of hard work to be counted among this group, so I'm really happy."
"Even in high school, she was working on research that students her age typically don't do," Frost-Mason said. "That early start has stead her well."
Frost-Mason said Shipley stood out because she began work on research earlier than most students.
continue conducting research and eventually teach at a university.
Mark Richter, acting chairman of biochemistry, has worked with Chen on research relating to energy metabolisms. Richter said Chen had accomplished so much in two years at the University because he had taken the initiative to begin working in the lab as a freshman.
Chen, who moved to the United States when he was 12, said his interest in science began in elementary school in Taiwan.
Shipley said that she would like to
Chen and Shipley are among 13 KU students who have been named Goldwater Scholars since the scholarship was first offered in 1989.
"That's kind of unprecedented," Richter said. "He interacts really well with other students in the lab, and he's really become a part of the lab family."
KU computers hard to access
Peer universities offer students more machines
By Stefan Hartmann Kansan correspondent
Every student user of KU's computer labs competes with 45 others who want to do the same thing.
The University of Kansas offers its 25,000 students 544 computers. That is 46 students per machine. The University has fewer computers than all its peer institutions — the universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Oregon. Kansas State University, which is not considered a peer institution, also has more computers for its students.
The University of Colorado, which has about the same number of students as Kansas, has 1,100 machines. That's 22 Colorado students per computer. The other universities have fewer computers than Colorado, but more than KU.
The University of Oregon has 500
machines in computer labs. That's only 44 fewer than KU, but Oregon has 16,700 students. Of the schools surveyed, only at KU do more than 40 students have to share a machine
Lorin Horosz, Kansas City, Kan. senior, said he thought that the facilities at the Computer Center were pretty good but that more computers were needed.
"During the daytime there seem to be zero computers to use," he said.
Kate McCulloh, Manhattan junior, said she never had to wait more than five minutes.
Nevertheless, McCullough said KU needed to provide more machines because she had often seen people waiting.
Students line up at the Computer Center in part because most uses of KU's computers are restricted. More than 70 percent of all computers are in departmental labs and classrooms and therefore can't be used by all students.
No other school surveyed has so many of its machines reserved for departments.
Parts of the KU computer fleet are
See COMPUTER, Page 2A
Waiting for Data
AVAILABLE HOURS
While KU's peer schools generally have fewer students waiting for each computer, their labs have shorter hours.
University of Kansas 168 hours per week
Kansas State University 168 hours per week
University of Oregon 90 hours per week
University of Colorado 102 hours per week
University of Oklahoma 89 hours per week
University of North Carolina 84 hours per week
STUDENTS PER COMPUTER
University of Iowa 98 hours per week
Andy Rohrback/KANSAN
Lied Center books next season's events
Students and Lawrence residents won't have to travel abroad to see Russian ice ballet or Japanese dancing or hear Tibetan chanting.
By Susanna Löof
Kansan staff writer
Tommy, ice ballet highlight schedule
Nor will they have to go to New York City to see Broadway productions such as The Sound of Music and Tommy.
These events and others will be performed at the Lied Center next season. Student tickets for the series go on sale tomorrow.
The 1996-97 season includes five series: New Direction, Swarthout Chamber, Concert, Broadway and
Family. The Family Series is new and was added to attract children and adults to the center, said Jacqueline Davis, director of the center.
The company will put a very shallow plastic pool on the stage, said Karen Christilles, director of public relations at the center. The pool will be filled with water, and a refrigerator unit will freeze the water. When the performance is finished, the company's staff breaks the ice, removes it and rolls up the pool.
Family Series events include two St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet performances of The Sleeping Beauty on Ice, Dec. 14 and 15.
The Broadway Series will be Tommy, Nov. 15 and 16, Carousel, Feb 7-9 and The Sound of Music, March 2.
The Concert Series includes the
Pittsburgh Symphony on Oct. 6, the Queenlands Ballet on Oct. 25 and a New York City Opera production of La Boheme, March 7 and 8.
The New Direction Series features a Nov. 2 performance by The National Song and Dance Ensemble of Tibet. The performance, which is part of the group's first tour outside of Tibet, includes six-foot horns and chanting.
The New Direction Series also includes an Oct. 22 performance by Sankal Juku, a Japanese Butoh dance company, and Feb. 21 and 22 performances by STOMP, an eight-member percussion group known for its award-winning ice pick Coca-Cola commercial.
The New Direction Series usually attracts an audience with the highest proportion of students, Christilles said. An average of 650 students attended each event in the New Direction Series this season.
"But those students are very dedicated," Christilles said. "We have a very loyal chamber-music audience."
The Swarthout Chamber Music Series attracts the lowest number of students, Christilles said. An average of 550 students attended each chamber-music event this season.
The Broadway Series and the Concert Series attract the same number of students, but since events in those series usually sell out, the proportion of students in the audience is lower, Christilles said.
A programming advising committee decides which artists to bring to the center. The committee consists of 20 members representing the University of Kansas and the Lawrence community, Davis said.
New Direction Series:
The 1996-1997 season at the Lied Center
Student tickets are $11 and $9.
Tickets to STOMP are $15 and
$10.
Lied Family Series:
Student tickets are $8 and $6.
Tickets to The Sleeping Beauty on ice cost $10 or $7.50
Concert Series:
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Chamber Music Series
Student tickets are $16 and $13.50.
Student tickets are $11 and $9.
Broadway Series:
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Student tickets are $17.50 anq
$15
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