CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 21.1996
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New technology for Oldfather
Rick Gibson, Prairie Village senior, works on a digital editing system. The equipment was bought for KU film studies with the help of a benefit held last year. This year's benefit will be at 7 pm. Monday at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.
Oscar night event to include prizes, red carpet treatment
Benefit guests will see stars
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
Black ties aren't that common in downtown Lawrence, but there will be more than usual Monday night.
The Lawrence Film Commission will host the second annual Oscar night Monday at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. The event is a fund-raiser for Oldfather Studios, home of KU film studies.
"Last year they raised $2,000, and that money was used as seed money to purchase a nonlinear digital video editing system," said Mike Gunter, building manager for Oldfather Studios. "The new equipment allows us to digitally edit video on a computer."
Gunter said the proceeds from this
year's fund-raiser would help purchase digital sound equipment to augment last year's acquisition.
"We need to update to what is becoming the industry standard," Gunter said. "Digital editing allows us to leave the original video tape uncut because we can do it all on the computer hard drive."
Gunter said there would be a video camera at the door Monday night, and everyone entering would be visually announced on the big screen in the theater as part of the red carpet treatment.
"Last year was a lot of fun, with a pretty full house," Gunter said. "The crowd was a mix of undergraduate and graduate students and various people from the community."
Gunter said that a lot of people wore black ties, but some were less formally attired.
"There will be a lot of prizes, with the big one being a trip for two to Hollywood," said Karen Christilles, director of public relations and advertising for the event. "Everyone will fill out a ballot
and try to guess who will win in each category, and the one who picks the most winners will get the trip to Hollywood."
Linda Elwell, chairwoman of the prizes committee for the benefit, said that she was still gathering prizes.
"We have two tickets to 'Gigi' at the Lied Center, two tickets to the Imagination Workshop, two for the Goodtime Radio Revue, two each for the Crown Center and Dickinson theaters," Elwell said.
Other prizes include a $15 video rental coupon at Liberty Hall video, movie T-shirts from Sunflower Cable and $25 gift certificates for Tanger and Riverfront malls.
Tickets are $15 for the public and $10 for students. Tickets can be purchased at Oxbow Nature Store, 938 Massachusetts St.; Lawrence Riverfront Factory Outlets, Sixth and New Hampshire streets; Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.; Hastings Book Store, in Southwest Plaza; Student Union Activities, level four of the Kansas Union; and at the door.
Car rental company steers toward EQs
Enterprise Rent-A-Car to test KU applicants' emotional intelligence
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
A large national employer wants to put KU students in the driver's seat toward a career in management.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is scheduling interviews from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and tomorrow in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
Enterprise is the second largest employer of students graduating from college, according to a survey by Black College magazine. The Peace Corps is the only employer that gives more jobs to recent graduates, according to the article.
But Enterprise will not be looking for typical qualifications such as grade point average, class rank or IQ. Instead, it will evaluate emotional intelligence, which is measured by EQ, the emotional quotient, said Bob Rybareczk, an Enterprise EQ team member helping to conduct the interviews.
Ann Marr, Enterprise human resource manager at St. Louis, said this was the first time the company had used the EQ test as a screen for employees.
Rybarczyk said individuals with high EQs recognized and understood their emotions and knew the best way to react to them.
Students who apply for an entry-level management position will be given an EQ test, which will mainly serve as an icebreaker for the applicant, Barycar乙vk said.
The St. Louis-based company started its search for applicants in its hometown. Lawrence is the second stop on a tour of 36 college campuses in 18 states.
Marr said Enterprise was recruiting 2,000 college students because it promoted from within.
An applicant's EQ is important to the company, but employment will be determined by an interview not the test he said.
Students start out as an entry-level management trainee, which involves working in the rental office, she said. Marr said trainees started out renting cars, doing marketing and sales, working in customer service and even washing cars.
Brad Barackman, human resource manager at Enterprise's Kansas City office, said he was looking for 50 people to work in Topeka, Lawrence, St. Joseph, Mo., and the Kansas City area.
The trainees start at the bottom and move up to management positions, she said.
Trainees are paid $23,000 their first year, Barackman said.
Man arrested at high school
Police seize weapon, drugs in arrest at Lawrence High
Kansan staff report
Lawrence police yesterday arrested a Kansas City, Mo., man who carried a concealed weapon on the Lawrence High School campus. Police identified the man as a possible gang member.
Ashon Stokes, 18, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, resisting arrest, defacing the identification of a firearm, criminal possession of a weapon in a school and possession of marijuana.
Lawrence High officials called the police after Stokes and an unidentified 18-year-old man refused to leave the campus. The men said they were there to get something from a Lawrence High student that belonged to
When police arrived, Stokes refused to take his hands out of his coat pockets when officers ordered him to do so. Stokes was then placed under arrest and officers found a handgun with the serial number scratched off in his right coat pocket, Lawrence police said.
them, Lawrence police said.
Officers also said that Stokes was in possession of a bag of marijuana at the time of arrest.
Lawrence police Sgt. Susan Hadl said the incident of a nonstudent carrying a weapon onto the Lawrence High campus was unusual.
"Two to three times a year we come across a student who carries a weapon to school." Hadl said. "Here we have a situation where we have two kids that are not students. That does not occur very often."
Lawrence police said Stokes did not acknowledge any gang affiliation, but a red handkerchief found in Stokes' pocket led police to believe that he could be a member of the Bloots, who often don red attire
Unification sought by Asian students
China, Taiwan tension strikes close to home
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
China and Taiwan are eyeball to eyeball. The question remains which will blink first.
Hualun Huang, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student and president of the Taiwanese Student Association, said that in the wake of China's live-fire exercises in the Straits of
For both Chinese and Taiwanese students at the University of Kansas, the recent tension between their two nations has highlighted the political and economic differences between their respective societies.
Hualun Huang
Taiwan, Taiwanese students remained concerned about the tension between China and Taiwan. His organization supports an independent Taiwan, he said.
Qing-feng Liu, Shenzhen China, graduate student, said growing up in a society governed by the Communist Party, he was taught that China and Taiwan eventually would unify.
"China is so authoritative, and an economically backward country," Hualun said. "I don't think it is necessary for Taiwan to reunite with that country."
"We were taught that it was the most important thing," Qing-feng said.
He said that Taiwan President Lee Tenghui's rhetoric had made the Chinese government think that Lee was a separatist.
Dan Bays, professor of history and a student of Chinese history and politics, said the crisis had been building since last summer because China had begun to fear that Taiwan, which it considered a renegade province, was planning to declare independence.
He said that trying to influence elections had backfired, however, and support for Lee had grown among Taiwanese. But neither side should take the blame for the tension that exists between the two countries, Qing-feng said.
"The mainland government doesn't like such a person, so they're putting on pressure and trying to influence the elections," Qing-feng said.
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He agreed that China had attempted to use its military exercises to influence Taiwan's presidential elections that will take place Saturday.
"I think they thought they could strong-arm Taiwan," Bays said.
China started its first exercise March 12, and last week it launched four unarmed missiles at targets off Taiwan's coast. The second exercise, which started Monday, will run through March 25.
Hualun said that the United States, which has sent a carrier battle group to the region in a show of force aimed at China, should not get involved in the crisis with China's military. Instead, it should support Taiwan with equipment and information.
"The United States should provide more advanced.weapons, like aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles," Hualun said.
He said that although Taiwan couldn't compete with China militarily, it did have a much stronger economy.
"The crisis between Taiwan and China is not a zero-sum game," Hualun said.
Qing-feng said that when Chinese and Taiwanese students mingled at the University, they avoided discussion of their nations' politics and the ongoing crisis.
He said that he spoke with his parents and younger brother in Taipei last week, and though they were worried, they didn't think the crisis would turn into a war.
"They don't think the Chinese are desperate enough to incite a war," he said. "Both sides would suffer terrible losses."