THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1989
Four Oscars presented to 'Rain Man'
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — "Rain Man," the story of a conniving car salesman who learns to love his autistic brother, won the Oscar for best picture Wednesday night and brought up honors to actor Dustin Hoffman and director Barry Levinson. Jodie Foster, who played the victim of a gang rape in "The Accused," was named best actress.
"Rain Man" also brought an award to Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow for their original screenplay, bringing its total to four Oscar's at the 61st Academy Awards. Tying with three each were "Dangerous Liaisons", the orate drama of drawing room seduction in pre-revolutionary Paris, and the action of live action and animation, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Geena Davis, the free-spirited dog trainer in "The Accidental Tourist," and Kevin Kline, the wild-eyed, oversexed sackcracker in "A Fish Called Wanda." were surprise winners in supporting roles.
"Cruelty might be human and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable, and that's what this movie is about." The director's child star who won her first Oscar
"I'm supposed to be jaded by this time, but I'm not," said Hoffman, who also was named best actor for "Kramer or Kramer" in 1972. He
embraced loser Gene Hackman on his way to the stage, where he basked in a standing oasis in tribute to his father, who displayed portrayal of an autistic savant.
"We tried to be as faithful as we could and be entertained," said Levinson of the low-key "Rain Man," which also starred Tom Cruise as Hoffman's brother and has grossed $134.6 million at the box office.
"This is really hard to two actors — Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise," Levinson said. "If they didn't deliver the movie, I wouldn't watch it. I wouldn't be up here this evening."
Davis said, "First of all, I want to thank Anne Tyler for writing such a wonderful book."
Davis accepted the first prize of the night at the 61st Academy Awards.
She has said she read Tyler's novel when it was first published and coveted the role of Muriel.
The award to Davis drew velps of approval from the audience of 6,500 in the Shrine Auditorium, possibly because the favorites appeared to have been a good one. "Mississippi Burning" and Sigurour Weaver for "Working Girl."
"This is astonishing," said Kline, who also had not been considered a front runner.
"Liaisons" won Oscars for
See OSCAR, p. 6, col. 1
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
Some enrollment cards incorrect
VOL. 99, NO. 119
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
Edith Guffey, assistant director of the office of student records, said that students should receive the new, green forms early next week.
Because of an error in enrollment appointment times, new "permit to enroll" forms will be mailed to institutions and colleges—colleges and Arts and Sciences.
Appointment times are supposed to rotate each semester, allowing students who enrolled last in their level to continue. The following semester, Guiley said,
"The rotation did not happen." Guffey said.
She would not elaborate, saying only that it was caused by "human error."
The permits are being reprinted on green paper with the corrected appointment times. Guffee said.
If students already have cleared enrollment holds, and have received an adviser's signature and dean's stamp on the invalid white permit, they do not need to repeat each step with the green form, Guffey said. Those students should staple the green permit to the calendar to to the enrollment center at the appointment time on the green card.
"The only thing that's changed from the regular procedure is that on the first permits students got, the appointment time is invalid." Guffey
Between classes, Chip Budde, Lawrence junior, examines one of a series of human figures made by Alan Hockersmith, Shawnee Mission senior, in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
The green permits will be mailed to undergraduate students in liberal
arts, Guffey said. Students in other schools will receive green permits in their enrollment folders.
Seniors and graduate students will enroll first April 7 through April 13
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"We really feel obligated to do this because students depend on the rotation schedule to have their opportunity to be first," she said.
Enrollment appointment times are sorted first by the student's year in school, then by the last three digits of the student's identification number, Guffey said.
Juniors will enroll April 14 through April 18 Sophomores and freshmen will enroll April 19 through April 26 Students will seek degrees in spring 2017 will enroll April 27
Seniors and graduate students will enroll first - April 7 through April 13. Guffey said.
Sue Schumock, a secretary for the advising support center, said that the center expected to receive phone calls from confused students.
Any student who has not received a new permit by the time of his sched-ud advising appointment should have this information at the appointment, Schumock said.
It is acceptable to have everything filled out on the original form as long as the student also takes the new form to the enrolment center, she said.
"Anytime there is something like that, we expect lots of phone calls," she said.
Anne North, chairman of the committee, said that, in 1988 com-
Displays help give visibility to the arts
Kristin Dempsey, Chicago junior, nails down part of her exhibit during the art show in front of Stauffer-Fint Hall.
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
She was going to Arts on the Boulevard.
Leon Bontemps woke up early yesterday, but not to go to class.
"The biggest problem was finding students and getting them to participate. We learned how to do it, and next year we'll definitely go straight to the students. The professors are too busy."
I woke up at 6 o'clock, and I was like, Oh great, this is the day. It's got to happen," said Bonetmusa, Tulsa, Oka, senior. "I had my doubts that it was really going to work. But then I got up on the bed, I swapped up set up and the art, and was so excited."
"Next year, we want to get as many people involved as we can." Bontemps said. "Hopefully we can get the same people that were in this year and then they can bring others."
Bontemps said that the committee had worked on the project since the beginning of the year. However, because the last project was in 1984, it was as if the team were starting from scratch.
Bontemps is a member of Student Senate's cultural affairs subcommittee, which organized the museum and art on campus yesterday.
mittee members went to professors and asked them to help spread the word. It didn't work. The event had to be canceled.
This year, committee members put up posters, went to classes to talk about the event and talked to a few professors.
"Our goal is just to basically make it bigger," North said. We've got to let people know who's a good fit and how and how to get involved."
Tom Zehner, Wilmette, Ill., senior, was one of 10 people who displayed artwork on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
"Usually, I just kind of do my work and tuck it away in my locker. "Ezhner said." After he left, "I am ready. This is my one day of glory."
Zehner said he saw a couple of students looking at and talking about his friend's paintings for an hour.
"I think students really appreciate this," Zohner said. "Everyone's creative in their own sense, and they like to dream and talk about it. It's really neat to see somebody walking by really quick, and then they stop, just to look at a painting."
Joe Zeller, chairman of the department of design, said that events such as these were good examples and gave the students work visibility.
"That's what visual arts is — been seen," Zeller said. "There aren't too many opportunities for it, so any opportunity is a good one."
Jody Downing, Aitchison senior, played electric guitar yesterday between Dyche Hall and the Kansas Union.
"This seems to be an outlet." Downing said. "Most people like live music. I like live music. Being here on campus means it's easy access for students, especially for students who can't get into bars."
Aaron Andes, Lee's Summit,
Mo., sophomore, stopped to listen
to the music on his way to class.
"I think this opens a lot of minds." Andes said. "They can say, 'Wow, this is possible on campus.'"
Marla Rose, Wilmette, Ill. junior, said she planned to display some of her paintings in next year's event.
"We definitely need more of this." Rose said "Look at how happy everybody is."
Paper fuels controversy at Haskell
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Allegations and accusations are surfacing from discrepancies involving the publication of the Haskell newspaper, the Indian Leader.
"It appears to be a dispute over the Indian Leader newspaper dummy sheets and who should have control over them." Mulvenon said.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said that Darron Robertson, KU associate professor of law, and Dan Owen, KU law student, filed a report at 1:15 am yesterday, alleging that a suspect had made physical contact with Robertson's chest and verbally threatened Owen with bodily harm while he was at Navarre Hall on the Haskell campus.
At 1:24 a.m., James Hills, faculty adviser for the Haskell student newspaper, and his son, Shane, filed a report stating that suspected entered Navarre Hall on the Haskell campus late Tuesday night and removed four of the newspaper's dummy sheets, Mulvenon said.
Dummy sheets are the original version of a newspaper on which the stories are laid out.
"The case is still active and is being pursued." Mulenon said. "Additional interviews will be done and we can anticipate that we have control of the dummy sheets."
Robertson said he intended to take the student newspaper's dummy sheets to the student managing editor, who said she wanted to look at the paper outside of the room because there had been no student input in the editing and layout of the paper.
"I was acting within my rights as agent for the acting student managing editor," he said. "I simply picked them up from the table.
Shane Hills said Robertson was waving the sheet sheets above his head and refused to give them back.
"I backed away when I realized I wasn't going to get them back," he said. "They're trying to put up a big screen screen in the media. They'll talk about rights, but they never mention responsibility."
James Hills declined comment.
Shane Hills said he was invited by his father to help with the paper because he had a journalism degree.
"I coached the students, gave them ideas about stories," he said. "There is a lot of enthusiasm about that paper.
"Everything in that paper was student-written. There was no prior restraint, no censorship."
The Indian Leader usually is published twice a month. It had not been published since the 28, 1988, because its faculty怨答退租.
Editor called for approval
Marcel Stevens, the student managing editor, said she was called by James Hills to Navarre Hall at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday.
She said Hills told her that he needed two student officers from the Indian Leader Association to take over, so it could be published yesterday.
The association is a student club on the Haskell campus that publishes the Indian Leader newspaper.
"They told me they wanted to approve the final paste-up." Stevens said, "I called Dario Robertson and he brought Dan Owen. I was just going to tell them (the Hillses) that I wanted to look at it for a day or two until I could get some more stories in."
sevens that when she told her to Navarre Hall, Hills and his son were waiting for her and that the entire audience had been shouting out, even though she and other stu-
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Living groups may have to install sprinklers
Kansan staff writer
bv Michele Logan
14 the fire department and the city commissioners have their way, all KU Greek houses and the Sunflower House will have to install sprinkler systems to comply with the 1988 Uniform Fire Code.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said he had no idea when the commission would adopt the plan. A vote could come as early as next week, when a second reading of the amendment is scheduled.
The Lawrence City Commission unanimously voted Tuesday night to add two provisions to a proposed amendment requiring sprinkler systems in all organized living grounds.
Organized living groups are all buildings or spaces in buildings where group sleeping accommodations are
provided for more than 18 people in one room or a series of closely associated rooms under joint occupancy.
The first provision added to the amendment would require all fraternities and sororites and the Sunflower House to install partial sprinkler systems in sleeping rooms or dormitories within five years of adoption of the amendment.
The second provision would require installation of complete sprinkler systems within 16 years after the installation.
Ma) Richard Barr, Lawrence fire marshal, said that if the affected groups did not comply with the provision within five years, they could provide justification for the noncompliance and appeal to the Fire Chief for a one-extension.
If at the end of the extension the groups still could not
comply, then they could appeal to the commission for further extensions, he said.
Original amendment changed
Barr said it would be up to the fire department to enforce the amendment with annual and follow-up inspections. He said 39 organized living groups would be affected.
The original amendment proposed that all living groups install total sprinkler systems within three years of its adoption.
Dennis Constance, city commissioner, said the commission changed the amendment so that the houses would have time oo raise money for completion of the projects.
In the past five years, six Greek houses have had fires. Barr said he saw this as a cause for alarm.
"Our intention is to get the houses sprinkled, not to make it economically impossible for them to accomplish." Constance said.
"I want sprinkler systems installed so that they can provide for fire safety," Barr said.
provide for the safety, Barr said. Constance said he voted to approve the provisions because sprinkler systems had an 80 year record of protecting people from fires.
however, he said the best plan would have been for the fire chief to sit down with the affected groups and draw up a compliance plan that everyone could have agreed with
City Commissioner Sandra Praeger said her vote in
See PLAN, p. 6, col. 4