Thursday, May 1, 1986
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KU student injured in bike-car accident
A KU student received minor injuries yesterday when he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle at 11th and Mississippi street.
Donald Burke, Fayette, Mo.
senior, was riding his bicycle north on Mississippi Street at about 8:25 p.m. when a car driven by Lucy Webb, Gardner freshman, crossed by turn by turning onto 11th Street.
Web told police she had stopped to make the left turn but did not see Burke. Burke told police he was driving and thought she would yield.
Webb took Burke to Watkins Hospital, where he was treated for jacaranda and a fracture of the front bone that was reported later, police said.
Union checks stolen
Someone stole a batch of worthless checks yesterday afternoon from the Kansas Union business office would like them returned
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said that the thieved reached over a counter at the business office at about 3 p.m. and grabbed checks that had been cashed.
The checks were stamped for deposit only, Ferguson said, which made them worthless because they cannot be cashed. The checks are of no value to anyone except the Union, he said.
Anyone who wasched a check at the Union business office between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. yesterday should call Larry Schmidtberger 1-847-625-4977 and give him their name and the amount of the check cashed.
Man gets new heart
Ferguson said an appropriate reward would be given to anyone who could provide information to the recovery of the checks.
Francis Oruzuk, manager of business and mass communication programs at the University of Kansas, is in stable condition at St. Louis's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. He is a heart transplant patient.
A transplant team performed the operation April 24, making Orzulak the hospital's fifth transplant recipient, Denise Buenning, public relations coordinator at St. Luke's, said vesterday.
Buenning said Orzulak was alert and doing well.
Orzulak, 37, suffered from cardiomyopathy, a condition resulting in an enlarged heart and a weakening of the heart muscle.
AIDS talk scheduled
His wife, Marian, is the secretary to KU's general counsel.
Richard P. Keeling, physician and chairman of the American College Health Association Task Force on AIDS, will be on campus Monday to talk about the medical, legal, ethical and educational aspects of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Keeling is scheduled to speak from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monday in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Today will be slightly cloudy with a high temperature in the mid-70s. The wind will come from the east at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low around 50. Tomorrow should be sunny with temperatures in the upper 70s.
Weather
From staff and wire reports.
JDI ends petition drive, plans fall effort
Weather
Members of the Jayhawk Defense Initiative have given up until next fall in their efforts to have a nuclear fallout shelter built beneath the KU campus.
Staff writer
Bv Tim Hrenchir
Eric Matheis, JDI vice president and Overland Park junior, said yesterday that the group threw in the towel after getting about 1,500 student signatures, 1,000 short of the number needed to put the issue on a student ballot.
"We started late in the semester and we weren't very well-organized," he said. "That
amount of time and work it would take."
Kirstin Myers, JDI president and Shawne junior, said, "I still feel we could have gotten better."
JDI began a petition drive on March 26 to push for the construction of the fallout shelter, saying that the drive was intended to bring students out of a nuclear malaise.
The group needed signatures of about 2,500 students — 10 percent of the student body — to put the issue on a student ballot. If the group wins, an election would have been held in the fall.
Matheis said that about half of the people to whom JD1 members had talked decided not to join.
"They all seemed to agree with our basic purpose," he said, "but they disagreed with our methods. A lot of them thought we were too satirical."
JDI members say that the Reagan administration's policies have drastically increased the chances for a nuclear war and that the administration therefore has an obligation to save people during such a disaster.
Group members said they had studied many government documents that indicated a government effort to regulate the use of fertilizer.
Group members will use knowledge gained from the failed petition drive in another attorney.
"A lot of people consider building a bomb shelter to be absurd, but we're just borrowing our absurdity from the government," Myers said.
Myers said that only a few group members had been especially active in soliciting signatures and that those members weren't the ones who waited until time to the cause because of schoolwork.
"Now at least we know how to do this," she said. "Now we realize that we need to get more people mobilized from the beginning to do the dirty work of getting student signatures."
"I was planning to get a lot done late in the semester," she said, "but I didn't realize I needed it."
Though the petition drive fell short, Myers said JDI gained minor successes in becoming visible on campus, garnering support from 46 students. A group of educators and obtaining $147 from the Student Senate.
Matheis said that next year JDI would emphasize educating people about the aspects of nuclear war by distributing pamphlets and newsletters about it.
Capital visit finds favor for a bypass
By Juli Warren
Staff writer
Local officials said yesterday that Kansas congressional delegation staff members in Washington seem interested in the southern trafficway around Lawrence.
Sandra Preager, Lawrence mayor,
Nancy Hiebert, County Commission
chairman, and two representatives
from the Lawrence Chamber of Com-
merce to attend Sunday from
Sunday to Tuesday for a U.S. Chamber
of Commerce annual meeting.
Praeger said she and Hiebert met informally with the delegation and presented a recently completed study to the representatives staff.
"They've promised to look into it
and see what they can do to help."
Praeger said. "They agreed it was a
good project and a good proposal."
During the visit, the officials in Washington were understanding that federal money was tight because of the budget cutbacks, Praeger said.
"We're just hoping that in the very selective process, our proposal will be chosen," she said.
The local financing of the project's groundwork was an advantage, Praeger and Hiebert said, because it showed commitment.
Hiebert said, "I think they were very favorably impressed with the local initiative."
The county paid for $100,000 and Lawrence paid for $50,000 of the engineering study, which proposed a route for the trafficway.
The recommended route would run from Noria Road and County Road 442 south and west, continue along 31st Street and east to southwest at 61st Street.
Praeger said that she hoped money would be allotted for the project in this year's federal budget but that she knew that was still uncertain.
At Kasold Drive, it would turn north, continue along Clinton Parkway for less than a mile, run through the county Road 13 to meet interstate 70.
The county also issued $4 million in bonds last year for the project.
"It all depends on how many other proposals are asking for the same funding source," she said.
The commissions also will discuss whether to proceed with an environmental impact study that would enhance finances for federal financing, she said.
Prauer said she and Hiebert would report on their trip at a joint meeting of the county and city com-
munity at 1:30 p.m. in City Hall.
In order to get the financing, the study probably would have to be done. Praeger said, and it quickly would save valuable time.
Praeger said that such a study would cost between $90,000 and $75,000 developing up to much of the equipment it already possessed the study could be engineered.
Them in the van
Mark Brown, philosophy teaching assistant, and Glenda Diamond. Los Angeles senior, share a conversation behind the Campaind.
Donations to KU drop off in'84-85 to $13.9 million
The Associated Press
WICHITA - Donations to the three largest universities in Kansas dropped or stayed the same in 1984-85, according to a survey that shows a trend toward increases in private donations to U.S. universities.
Private donations to the University of Kansas fell $3.8 million to $13.9 million during the period. Officials attributed the drop to the end of campaigns in 1983-84 to raise money for a new alumni center, an engineering library and an addition to the business school.
More than one-third of the corporate support to universities in the state went to KU. It totaled $3.7 million, up from $3.4 million in 1983-84. Kansas State raised $2.4 million, up from $2.3 million. Wichita State raised $1.5 million, up from $1.2 million.
One-half of the private money raised by Kansas State = $4.8 million — came from alumni. Wichita State and KU alumna also donated more than the statewide average at $1.5 million and $3.9 million, respectively.
The national figures, reported by the Council for Financial Aid to Education, based in New York, ranked Kansas 28th among 48 states in total dollars and Nevada didn't report to the council this year.
Paul Miller, vice president for the council, said the ranking doesn't mean much because Kansas doesn't have any heavyweight private institutions, such as Harvard or Stanford, that routinely raise more than $100 million per year in private donations.
Higher education nationally received a record $6.23 billion in gifts from private sources in 1984-85, up 13 percent from the previous year. About $1.1 billion is donated to a dozen elite public and university colleges.
"It seems to me for the state and the number of institutions and kind of institutions you have, you folks do really well." Miller said. "I see evidence of continuing strong support for Kansas institutions."
Directing trying but fun for KU grad
"The Dirt Bike Kid" rides into town
Staff writer
By Tom Farmer
Some college students were urged to transpose their minds to those of 13-year-olds watching a Saturday afternoon matinee.
The film, "The Dirt Bike Kid," was made with a Saturday matinee audience as the target, said Hale Ocatten, director of the film, which made its debut yesterday afternoon at Hillcrest Theatre, Ninth and Iowa streets.
Caston, a 1963 KU graduate, was in town to show his first feature film as a director. He usually is a writer and director. Office of the "Not necessarily the News."
"Getting access to expertise and wisdom of people who are Hollywood
Chuck Berg, director of film studies in the department of theatre and media arts, said having Caston in town was an honor.
After the showing of the movie, Caston remarked that the crowd laughed when it should be, but that maybe it would have gotten more enjoyment out of the film if the theatre had been half-filled with children.
"It works very well with families and kids." he said.
professionals is a big plus for our students," Berg said.
The star of the show is Peter Billingsley, a young actor who has worked with, among others, Teri Garr, Lindsay Wagner, Burt Reynolds and Tony Danza. Billingley also starred in box office smash "A Christmas Story."
Caston said that working with Billingley and the many other children in the movie was difficult but that it made their learning experience at the same time.
"Working with kids is sometimes very trying." Caston said. "You've
Eventually the bike helps him work out some personal problems and saves time for the small bale-basket and not for the town who is threatened by the town villain.
In the movie, Billingsley loves dirt bikes but can't afford one. He happens to come across an old bike that was raped by a woman with powers and allows only him to ride it.
Making the film was difficult but a great experience, Caston said. A 12.1 million, low-budget film, it was shot in Dallas in just 28 days last summer.
The film's crew had relatively little experience at putting together a feature film, but it worked well with the actors to make "The Dirt Bike Kit," be said.
"We had a lot of good luck" he said. "Unfortunately, the movie isn't doing well at the box office."
got to be patient."
Caston, who was born in Bogalusa,
La., moved to Independence when he
was five and attended school there
before coming to the University of
Kansas. After earning his bachelor's
degree in radio, television and film in
1963, he did post-graduate work here
until 1965.
Caston lives in Los Angeles and directs location segments for "Not necessarily the News," the winner of the annual BBC TV for cable TV's best comedy program.
He has written more than 500 TV commercials and has worked with professional actors such as Ted Bornstein, Alan Ruckert, Eastwood and David Letterman.
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People aren't flocking to theatres to see the movie because it is aimed at a young audience and the movie's subject was not test-marketed, Caston said.
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