THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 99, NO. 149 (USPS 650-640)
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
WEDNESDAY JUNE 28,1989
KU not alone in radio woes Other college stations seek out alternatives
by Charles Higginson Kansan staff writer
KJHK-FM is not the only college radio station to face financing problems and controversy about programming.
Stations on other campuses fulfill variety of missions and derive support in a variety of ways. They have access to a variety of solutions to their problems
KUNM-FM, a station in Albuquerque operated by the University of New Mexico, has suffered particularly hard times. Lymn Brown, station manager at the 13,000-watt station, said the station had been the subject of a lawsuit by listeners and protests by staff members.
KUNM, a public radio station,
serves a large regional area. Brown
listeners sited the station about
two years ago, claiming that a drastic
format change should not have
been made after a fund drive.
She said the station's management tried to prevent announcers from mentioning the pending change on the air. One announcer who did so was assaulted, during a broadcast, by the station manager, Brown said. She said the station's 80-member colleague staff quit in support of the lawsuit.
Brown said the format change replaced some of the station's freeform programming with jazz. In free-form programming announcers structure an entire program using music from a single artist, or use many kinds of music to pursue a theme such as a season or color.
"It can be very creative and very exciting, but it can be difficult to do if you're not well versed in many kinds of music," she said.
The station also broadcasts material from National Public Radio. Brown said most of the programming was college-oriented alternative rock.
In response to the lawsuit, KUUM's board of directors was expanded and restructured. Brown said. It now has 15 members, including faculty, students, staff and five members of the station's listener community.
The University of New Mexico, which holds the station's license from the Federal Communications Commission, has no academic broadcasting program. Brown said. The station has no direct academic function.
KUNM's total budget is $300,000 of which about $107,000 comes from the university's student government, Brown said.
John White, station manager of KUCB-FM in Boulder, Colo., said that the station broadcasts at 30 a.m. and 7 p.m. at Colorado College if its FTC license.
White said KUCB had an internship program through the university's communications studies department and was starting one for news through the journalism school. He said, however, that the station operated well, but not input and that no academic requirements existed for participation.
"We don't let non-students on," he said.
He characterized the station's programming as free-form alternative music. Most of its $5,000 annual budget was devoted by student government, and about $5,000 is generated by the station. White said the studentgov-
See UNIVERSITY, p. 6, col. 5
Baked beans
Edwin C. Sample, Lawrence, endures the heat at the Lawrence Farmer's Market at 10th and Vermont streets. Sample was selling
yesterday. The market is open Tuesday and Thursday from 4 to
6:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Academics mission promoted by Big 8
Athletics not only bond, official says
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Establishment of an organization to promote academic cooperation among schools in the Big Eight Conference was announced yesterday by University of Missouri President C. Peter Magrath and Haskell Monroe, chancellor of its Columbia campus
"For too long the Big Eight universities have been identified in the public mind with athletics, "Margrah's academic academies is our primary mission."
"Putting together an association of Big Eight Universities has long been an objective of mine, and I am enthusiastic that all of our eight universities, covering six states, will be even more closely aligned," he said. "We will mission regionally and nationally. And it will strengthen and intensify our collaborative efforts and programs."
The Association of Big Eight Universities, formed recently when Big Eight presidents and chancellors meet in Kansas City, elected Kansas State University President Jon Wefald as its chairman.
It takes the place of the Mid- America State Universities Association, which since 1960 has coordinated a limited number of joint
It's basically to help the Big Eight institutions collaborate with each other," said KU executive vice chancellor. "It simply continues the work of MASUA."
Judith Ramaley
KU executive vice chancellor
activities. A full-time executive director will be hired to develop cooperative programs and seek financial support.
"We are all public universities, and we are the predominant institutions of higher education in our respective states." Monroe said. "Our unification strengthens each university and increases the viability of the entire Midwest."
Members of the association are Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa State, Colorado, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
"It's basically to help the Big Eight institutions collaborate with each other," said Judith Ramaley, KU professor of history. "We continue the work of MASUA."
Kansan reporter Gwendolyn Parrett contributed information to this story.
Chinese in U.S. afraid to return home Arrests scare KU pro-democracy student and staff activists
by Dick Lipsey Kansan staff writer
In the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the subsequent executions of pro-democracy activists in China, some Chinese students and staff at the University of Kansas won't be returning home for a while.
"Right now it's almost impossible for students to go back," said Deng Yanpei, Shenyang, China, graduate student, Monday. "Students who joined the protests feel that it's dangerous to go back now."
"If activists go back, there is no way others can help if they get in trouble," said Miao Desu, a scientist at the KU Museum of Natural History. "Personally. I would not want to take the chance. We didn't anticipate this. We were naive."
Wang, Mingjing, Nanjing, China graduate student, said he was less concerned about danger to students still in the United States.
"It still too early for the government to take action against the students here," Ming said. "They can't do anything to affect activities and students in China, it will be very hard. They are followed and watched."
Miao said the Chinese government was probably trying to gain information about the activities of Chinese students here.
"They were always prepared to keep track of who did what," he said. "I would not be surprised if someone here in Lawrence is doing that. With over 160 students and visiting scholars here, you never know if even one guy reports or collects newspaper clippings.
"We are not sure if we have such people around here, but there is solid evidence that demonstrations in the big cities were closely watched," Miao said. "Some people took two or three hours of film of individual demonstrators."
"The government may have tapes, and pictures and articles that have been published," Wang said. "These
may be used to talk to our relatives at home, to warn us to be quiet."
Wang said the turmoil in China was part of a larger pattern.
"There is a proverb in China since the Communists took power," he said. "The proverb says 'one turmoil one revolution.' The expression followed by repression Now there will be a general purge of Communist Party members sympathetic to the students. How far can the power it will be carried out is not certain.
"Unless there are political guarantees that opposition can be tolerated I couldn't go back," he said.
Police seeking man for questioning
by Heather Anderson
Kansan staff writer
Detective Sgt. Jeffery Dysart, Overland Park police department, said yesterday that Richard Grissom, 28, was the man who fled from Lawrence police through the back window of an apartment in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street Sunday night.
Overland Park police have identified and want to question a man in connection with the disappearance of a KU graduate whose car was discovered in the parking lot of a Lawrence apartment complex.
The graduate, Joan Marie Butler,
24, was last seen June 18 after she left
a friend's house near the Country
Club Plaza.
Police discovered Grissom when a local resident reported that Butler's car was in the apartment complex parking lot.
When officers arrived to check the car, Grisom came out of an apartment and got into the car. Police approached Grisom as he returned to the apartment, but he slammed the apartment door in their face and
escaped through a back window
Butler, a KU graduate, is employed by a Kansas City advertising agency. The agency has been recruited to serve as the release about her disappearance.
Tim Benttison, associate professor of journalism, and one of Butler's former instructors described her as reasonable and serious-minded student.
"If there were anyone intent on getting a job in the advertising business, it was Joan Butler," he said. "She was convinced that advertising
was going to be her cup of tea
"I'm horrified to think what might have happened to her."
Gt. Dytt described Grissom as a black male, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 185 pounds. He is thought to be driving a brown two-door Toyota or Mazda. He has used diatoms of Richard Lee and Riaki Cho.
Anyone with information about Grissom's whereabouts should call (913) 381-352. Ext. 530.
Student receives full biomedical scholarship
When Tu Bui reached his senior year at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, he was told he couldn't take any more biology courses.
by Gary Patton Kansan staff writer
That is because he had completed them all by the end of his junior year.
then all by the end of his junior year. When Bui enters the University of Kansas next fall, he will have plenty of biology classes to keep him busy. He is one of two incoming freshmen who has received full, four-year scholarships for studies in biomedical sciences.
The scholarships are part of an undergraduate science program for minorities and women that will be paid for by a $500,000 grant KU received Friday. The money is the first installment of a $1 million grant Howard Hughes Medical Institute to be used over the next five years.
"This grant will increase the pool of people working in the sciences and will have a major impact on KU for years to come," said Michael S. Gaines, professor of systematics and ecology and the grant's project director. "Getting this grant is the most significant contribution I have made in my 19 years at KU."
The KU grant is part of $61 million the Maryland-based institute will distribute to 51 U.S. universities. The purpose is to increase the number of students in research and teaching careers in the medical and biological sciences.
Bul, 18, whose family immigrated to Shawnee from Vietnam in 1975 and gained U.S. citizenship in 1981, said she would not join two brothers and a sister at
KU.
"Tu is the smartest of the bunch," "Quen Buj, 23, a senior majoring in computer science." "But I like to see some strange theme influence on his science studies."
Tu followed in his oldest brother's footsteps as a student researcher. Both won awards in high school for Greater Kansas City Science Fair projects that they had worked on at University of Kansas Medical Center.
Gaines said the Hughes grant would pav for similar apprenticeship
programs that would allow high school students to conduct laboratory research with KU professors.
The grant also will pay for two outreach programs designed to attract Kansas and Missouri high school students.
The enrichment program will bring high school students entering their senior year to KU for four weeks of summer mini-courses. Gaines said the summer program, which begins in 1990, would help bridge the gap between high school and university life and would
improve student study skills in English, math and biology.
The discovery program will pay for overnight campus visits by students and their parents to explore KU and the biomedical science buildings.
Gaines said $70,000 of the grant would be used to attract prominent women and minority biomedical professionals as guest speakers.
"We want highly visible professionals who will interact with students and serve as role models." Gaines said.