TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.102.NO.119
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Kansas hogties Arkansas
The Jayhawk baseball team upset No. 7 Razorbacks yesterday 8-3.Page 1B
CAMPUS
Love and lying opera style
The KU Opera will perform a collection of scenes Thursday and Friday at the Lied Center. Page 3A
Cultivating values
Instituting moral values into society requires faith, not politics. Page 4A
OPINION
WORLD
Fire engulfs Philippine disco
A fire in Manila kills at least 149 people, some celebrating school's end. Page 5A
WEATHER
MIGHT BE WET
High 40° Low 28°
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
World News... 5A
National News... 6A
Scoreboard... 2B
Horoscopes... 4B
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Some stolen letters returned
Authorities recover many documents
Five of the six letters originally reported stolen from Spencer Research Library by a Northern Little Rock, Ark., man found their way home to the University of Kansas last night.
KU police, Kansas Bureau of Investigations and other law enforcement officials served a
search warrant to a Kansas City area historic documents dealer yesterday and recovered letters Robert H. Smith stole from the Spencer Research Library in February.
Sixteen documents missing from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, two documents from the Arkansas Historical Commission and two documents from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock also were recovered.
Smith was found guilty Friday on one count of felony theft in the Douglas County District Court and faces charges pending against him in Arkansas.
During Smith's plea hearing Friday, Smith agreed to help the police locate the stolen documents.
But KU police Sgt. Chris Keary
said that Smith's information wasn't helpful.
"We already knew all the information he had to give us," Keary said.
Keary said that Smith had stolen the documents from
Robert Smith
the library and sold some to a Lawrence historic documents dealer, who in turn sold the documents to the Kansas City area historic documents dealer. Smith sold other letters to dealers in Utah, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Police knew the whereabouts of the documents last month but
needed more information about other documents from Arkansas before they could recover the documents stolen from the Spencer Research Library.
Keary said that Spencer Research Library reported three more missing documents late last week, but he was confident that the one originally reported stolen document and the three reported last week would be recovered.
"The dealers didn't know that the documents had been stolen," Keary said. "We got a search warrant just to make sure that when we went over to get them, we could get them."
The Kansas City area dealer and his lawyer told police that they needed to see a court order before releasing the documents to the police. But Keary said when police served the man with a warrant, he was very helpful.
"We know where they are," Keary said. "Another dealer has them, but he is returning them."
Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Little said that Smith would not be charged with the theft of the three documents reported last week.
Whatever sentence Smith receives, Dean of Libraries William Crowe is just happy to have the letters back.
Little said that Smith could serve a maximum of 17 months in Kansas for the one count of felony theft.
"He would not be looking at any more time to serve, even if there were 10 more letters." Little said.
"it's come to a positive end." Crowe said. "Hallelujah!"
Jayhawks trim 'Horns to stubs
Kansas women's basketball players Shelly Canada, Suzi Raymant and Jennifer Trapp swarm around Texas guard Angie Jo Ogletree last night during a second round NCAA tournament game at Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks defeated the Longhorns 77-70 to move into the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history.
Kansas, the No.4 seed in the East region, will now play No.1 seed Tennessee Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Steve Puppe / KANSAN
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WOMEN: Basketball team reaches Sweet 16. Page 18
KU Insurance policy changes
Non-Lawrence students now eligible for health benefits
By Teresa Veazey
Kansan staff writer
When it comes to student health insurance, some KU students have fallen through the cracks.
But a change in policy yesterday by the insurance subcommittee of the student health advisory board should make it easier for KU students to receive the University's health insurance, even if they don't take classes at the Lawrence campus, said Jim Boyle, associate director of Watkins Memorial Health Center.
In the past, students who took six hours at the Regents Center in Overland Park and six hours at the Lawrence campus weren't eligible for the University's student health insurance plan, even though they were taking more than the required hours. In order to get coverage under the University's plan, students had to appeal to a committee comprised of Watkins administrators and a member of the student health advisory board.
The subcommittee approved a change in the definition of eligibility for student insurance from students in Lawrence to students in Lawrence-based programs.
The committee received at least 10 to 15 appeals each semester. But the number of appeals couldn't accurately reflect the number of students who were affected, said Alan Plerce, chairman of the student health advisory board.
Students who purchased an insurance plan through the Regents Center or Med Center often ended up paying a higher premium because those places had an older population with more problems and a higher cost, Boyle said. The University's plan was attractive because of its lower cost.
CBS visits campus for sports promotion
By Heather Kirkwood
Kansan staff writer
Gerry Nelson slipped on a sports jacket with a CBS sports emblem on the pocket, stood in front of a camera, waited for the Channel 5 lead-in, and read the cue cards.
For a moment Nelson, Council Bluffs,
Iowa senior, pretended to be a CBS sports
announcer and now has a video tape as a
souvenir.
"It was really hard to read the cue cards, but it was fun," Nelson said.
The event is co-sponsored by Student Union Activities and CBS Sports. CBS is using the tent to promote its sports programming during a tour of 25 universities.
Make-believe sports announcing was one of many activities yesterday in the 6,500 foot CBS Sports tent outside of Allen Field House. The tent will be open today from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.
Brian Flink / KANSAN
"It's been perfect timing," Bieley Scott, Wichita junior and SUA representative said. "It would have been horrible if we had lost the game."
Scott's committee worked with the CBS road crew for eight hours to construct the tent and has helped to run the games, which include football throwing, race car driving, virtual reality tennis, golf putting, basketball and the chance to make a CBS sports announcer video tape.
Students can earn points toward prizes such as hats, posters, note pads, pencils and T-shirts. Students can also enter a sweepstakes to win a Chevrolet pick-up truck.
John Knowles, Wichita freshman, stood in front of a television set and waved a tennis racket through the air as he tried to play virtual reality tennis.
Mike Evers, Chicago senior, participated in the Pizza Hut basketball shoot-out yesterday at the CBS Sports tent. Student Union Activities sponsored the event with CBS.
"It's pretty hard," Knowles said. "I thought
Rachel Kesselman, Memphis, Tenn., freshman, was thrilled with her golf score.
I hit it every time, but then I didn't."
"I hit it in the hole on the first try and got all four points," she said.
Although CBS is on campus to promote its sports programming, the network did not televise last night's women's basketball game at Allen Field House. ESPN has the contract to broadcast the women's NCAA basketball tournament.
Another two try for dean position
Interviews focus on candidates vision for future
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
The fourth and fifth candidates for the position of dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will interview on campus this week.
Charles Johnson, department chafman of political science at Texas A&M University, will meet with various University officials today and give a faculty presentation tonight. He will meet with student representatives tomorrow.
Sally Frost-Mason, acting dean of the college, will interview tomorrow and meet with faculty that evening. She will meet with student representatives Thursday.
Paul Armstrong, associate dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Oregon, and Leslie Flemming, dean of the college of arts and humanities at the University of Maine, interviewed last week.
the fifth candidate, Peter Spear,
associate dean of the college of Letters
and Science of the University of Wisconsin,
will interview April 1.
Kim Wilcox, chairman of the search committee, said that he was pleased with the turnout at last weeks meetings with faculty.
Topics such as the candidates perspective on joint-appointments, flexibility concerning degree requirements and how to generate funds, specifically for equipment, were discussed, Wilcox said.
"We had a very good turnout from the department heads," he said. "The faculty representation was small, but there was some good discussions from the faculty."
Wilcox said that the candidates were asked questions concerning their vision for the college.
He said that he hoped the committee would have a recommendation for David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, by the first or second week of April.
Charles Johnson has been department head of political science at Texas A&M since 1992. The department is one of the largest in the country, and administering a $3 million budget is one of his responsibilities. He was associate dean of liberal arts from 1987-1992.
Frost-Mason has been acting dean of the college since 1995 and was associate dean at KU from 1990-1995.
"I was pleased, to say the least," she said about being a finalist.