University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 24, 1989
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KU halls continue to lose residents
by Michele Logan
Kansan staff writer
The people next door blare their radios at all hours of the night, there is never any places where you can hear them.
perform some of the complaints from students in residence halls, but some students plan to return next year.
"I'm returning next year because I'm hall president, and I didn't want Hashinger to be left without people who could make hall life said Kirk Isenhour. Mission sophomore."
but if current trends continue, Isenhour might not have as many people for whom to make hall life fun.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing,
said the low occupancy rate was due not
to retention but to the declining number of
freshmen enrolling at KU.
In January, residence hall occupancy reached one of its lowest points in the past four years. With a limit of 4,752, all nine residence halls at the university of Kansas housed only 3,680 students.
The number of freshmen entering KU fell from 6,967 in 1987 to 6,358 in 1988, a decrease of 609 students.
"Intent to return" forms were due in February, but Stoner said the student housing department would still accept late forms. Housing contracts were due in March.
Stoner said that so far about 1,116 residents had indicated that they intended to return to the residence halls next year and that about 30 percent of them expressed interest in living in the halls next year.
"These figures are down a little because students are still shopping around and taking a look at apartments." Stoner said. "But they don't have an office level, which is level down overall from last year."
Stoner said the halls offered students such conveniences as not having to hassle with grocery shopping, cooking and baking; computers as computer rooms and an academic resource center.
For incoming freshmen, a new program
called the "Excellence in Ellsworth Experience" will be offered for the first time next year.
The department of student housing is trying not only to attract freshmen but to retain upperclassmen by reducing the price of single rooms in all halls by $416 a year.
The cost for private rooms will be lowered from $3,340 to $2,923 in all halts except Hashinger Hall, where private rooms will cost $3,028.
"Last year at this time, we had sold 200 single rooms. Now we've sold about 350 rooms." Stoner said. "And we'll continue to make as many single rooms as people want."
Students win weekend races in concrete canoes
During a break between heats; Bruce Lutz, Highland Park, Ill., senior, watches two Kansas entries at the races.
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
Southwest and Midwest civil engineering representatives wanted to prove one thing to themselves and to the crowd: that concrete canoes float and make good race
Early Saturday morning at Tuttle Creek near Manhattan, trailers padded with hay bales, old mattresses and towels carried up at the first glance looked more like anchors.
Each canoe was painted and had a name emblazoned on its side to distinguish it from the rest. The two KU canoes were named "Youth Gone Wild" and "The Colonel's Wife." The Kansas State canoe was named "Cat's Fish." Other boats sought distinction with the Exxon Valdez," and "Oklahoma State 89."
Jack Messer, a chemistry teacher from Alma, said he was at the competition to win. He had been thinking about
He explained that the canoes could float because the concrete was not mixed with water.
"They use Styrofoam balls or vermiculite as the aggregate (mixing material)," he said. "It is a brownish-gray type of material sometimes used for packing. They both make the mixture lighter than usual concrete."
The light concrete still made heavy canoes. KU canoes weighed in light for the day at 208 and 212 pounds, but the two weights of State canoes weighed 408 and 500 pounds.
we designed them to make the trips
haskell, N.D., graduated Paul Lindsorm,
HACKLEY. N.D., graduated
A canoe construction competition required that the canoes float while completely filled with water. North Dakota State's canoes sank.
The biggest upset of the day came when the KU faculty and staff team lost its race for the first time in 13 years.
Before the race, David Darwin, KU professor of engineering, said he believed it would be unlucky.
Teams paddled 500 feet to a buoy, turned
around and paddled back.
around and please catch Darwin's canoe and blew it off course, almost into a dock.
Dan Spoonemor, civil engineering laboratory manager on Oklahoma State's winning team, said he heard Darwin
velling during the faculty/staff race.
"I kept pushing as hard as I could," he said. "I felt like I'd been eating cotton bals. I had my mouth open the whole way back. I could have caught every bug
Mark Herman, Veblen, S.D. junior, on the South Dakota team, laughed after being rescued when his canoe broke in two and sank during one of the men's division games.
"Everybody else is out here to win. We're out here to swamp."
"We were waiting too long at the beginning and took on a lot of water from a leak we sprang." he said. "Then it swamped to
KU did win, taking the overall team trophy home and placing four men's teams in the six-tteam final round.
Arkansas won the men's final KU team No. 2 finished second, Oklahoma State placed third and KU won fourth through sixth.
KU had one team in the women's final. It finished second to Arkansas. The KU coed team won its final.
Faulty wiring causes blaze; total damage to be $80,400
Eighty degree temperatures hinder firemen's progress
by Jennifer Corser
Kansan staff writers
A short circuit in a garage's wiring caused a fire to break out Friday afternoon in a Lawrence home in the 1000 block of Wellington, according to fire department records.
John T. Quick, owner of the house, 1054 William Road, said he was in the living room when he smelled smoke. He went into the basement and found it was on fire. He called 911 at about 1:22 p.m.
Four fire engines responded to the alarm at 1:27 p.m. According to records, it took firemen 45 minutes to get the fire under control and three hours to extinguish it.
The fire caused $70,000 in damage to the house, $400 in damages to a motorcycle and $10,000 in damage to a 1987 Buick parked in the garage.
"I've got a brand new Buck in there that just burned all to hell." Quick said, as he watched the fire from a neighbor's front porch.
A burning cat was rescued from the home by a fireman and was hosed down.
"It was pretty hot in there and the men had to cool off a bit," said Maul). Paul Findley, shift commander at station one. "We don't have a phone so that the others had a chance for a break."
Findley said he drove by the house and saw that the basketball goal, which was about 10 to 15 feet away from the house, had caught on fire.
Quick said he could not believe that the fire could not be put out quickly.
"The wind definitely had an effect on the fire," Findley said. "It could have spread to the houses next door if the wind would've been worse."
"It still doesn't want to go out. Of course, with a hot day like today and everything is already so dry, it's no wonder," he said.
AIDS awareness is intent of Condom Sense Week Condom launch to kick off planned events Condom machine forum canceled:
by Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
A 'condom launch' today in front of Wescoe Hall will kick off the events planned for Condom Sense Week.
"The purpose is to draw attention to the need for awareness in regard to AIDS, how the disease is transmitted and most important, how to prevent yourself from contracting AIDS," said Rennie Hancock, chairman of the Student Senate AIDS Force and Columbia, Md., junior.
Newburn said 200 helium-filled condoms would be released at 12:25 p.m. today.
ADPS information will be distributed at the launch and will be distributed at Wesco Hall at various times throughout the week. Information will also be distributed tomorrow at the Burge Union.
People distributing the information packets containing condoms will wear placards reading "With."
Those distributing information packets without condoms will wear signs reading "Without."
Newborn said that this was being done because some people would not feel comfortable receiving information with a condom in it.
Three panels of the Names Project quilt will be displayed tomorrow through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
The quilt is made of patches that bear the names of people who have died of AIDS. The patches were集中存放 in friends and families who victimized them.
There will be an AIDS science fair Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn between Stauffer-Flint and Wesco halls.
A panel discussion entitled "Viewpoints and Unique Perspectives on AIDS" will take place tomorrow at the Udvar-Havt Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
sense that we'll have a variety of tables set up with information on how to put on condoms and how to clean needles." Newburn said.
At 7 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union, Beverly Barbo, author of "The Walking Wounded." Or rather her son's AIDS related death
"It should be educational in the
At 7 p.m. Thursday in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union there will be a "Loved Ones Panel."
Newburn said that panel would consist of people who had AIDS as well as people who had not. He also discussed the effects of the disease on their lives.
"Hopefully, it will raise students' awareness of the dangers of unprotected sex and how to protect themselves," he said.
Steve St. Peter, Wichita senior,
said he hoped people would read the
information that would be available.
"Something like this really humanizes AIDS." she said.
Condom machine forum canceled; task force, officials expect to meet
by Scott Achelpohl
Tenight's forum about the installation of condom machines on campus has been canceled because University leaders appear headed for private talks on the issue.
Kansan staff writer
the issue. Rebecca Newburn, chairman of the Student Senate Task Force on AIDS, said scheduling problems and the administration's preference for a private meeting on the issue were two of the reasons the panel discussion was canceled.
The forum would have been the first during Condom Sense Week, a week of events to increase awareness of the usefulness of condoms.
"Public awareness of the need for the machines has already been heightened." Newborn said. "The administration thought it be much more productive to have a private meeting instead of a public
Newburn said she thought the meeting between the
The meeting would be used to discuss a possible change in the administration's policy against campus drug use.
"Public policy can be changed." Newburn said.
David Amble, vice chairman for student affairs,
said he had not been notified about the impending
meeting. Ambler, who was invited to participate in the discussion, said he thought scheduling conflicts were to blame for the forum's cancellation.
I think they (the members of the task force) arranged to have a forum before they had asked anybody to participate, "he should not have any bad questions," his issue last year. I suspect we will have a meeting on it."
I suspect we will have to answer the Ambler said he would reserve opinion on the value of the condom machines until interested groups met to discuss the topic.
task force and KU administrators would occur within two weeks.
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