Wednesday, April 30, 1986
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Employees honored for years of service
More than 700 University staff and faculty members were honored yesterday at the annual meeting of the National Association in the Kansas Union, Baltimore.
Employees with five to 50 years of University service received service pines or awards depending on their number of years at the university. Lew, director of the department of personnel services, said yesterday.
The Employee of the Year also were announced at the ceremony, Verdie Wilkins, custodial worker in facilities operations, was named classified employee of the year, and Marion Sheppard, administrative director of public administration, was named unclassified employee of the year, Lewin said.
A 50-year service award was given to Virginia Detlor, assistant director of personnel health services.
The ceremony was sponsored by the Employee Recognition Committee and the department of personnel services, Lewin said.
University Daily Kansan
A Lawrence resident, Terri Barnes, 25, was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her former husband Frank Barnes, 34, Barnes' body was found in the Kansas River or March 19, Jim Flory, district attorney, said yesterday.
Barnes is the third person to be charged in the murder. Gary Thomas, 47, Lawrence, was charged with first degree murder and Bryce Brockman, 20, Lawrence, bleached his involvement in involuntary manslaughter.
Former wife charged
Barnes is being held in the Douglas County Jail on $10,000 bond. Her court date is set for May 7 at 9 a.m., Flory said.
Bomb threat false
A false bomb threat was made to Room 307 Strong Hall yesterday at 7:21 p.m., KU police said. The suspect called in the threat while students were taking a test in the area for about 20 minutes while police searched. The entire hall was not evacuated.
Craiq Sands/KANSAN
From left, Lisa Rasor, Topeka sophomore, Emmie Kennicott, Lawrence junior, Brad Wetzler, Fairway sophomore; and Mike Maher, Roeland Park junior, hang an anti-apartheid banner in the rotunda of Strong Hall. A rally in the rotunda yesterday commemorated a sit-in that began a year ago in Strong.
Hall adds assistants
The number of resident assistants was increased to 17 in order to have an assistant on every floor, she said. Each assistant will be assigned to 45 residents instead of the usual 90
The assistants were selected during the office of residential programs' staff screening in March, and will begin work in August.
Although the number of assistants has increased, their duties in the hall will remain the same. Some of the assistants' responsibilities are to coordinate educational programs, enforce hall rules and advise and counsel the residents.
Disputes on policy remain Protesters commemorate sit-in
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From staff and wire reports.
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
A year ago yesterday, a group of about 20 people started a sit-in at Strong Hall to protest Kansas law that would increase association investments in South Africa.
A few members of the KU Committee on South Africa commemorated the anniversary of the 4-day sit-in by setting up a table and banners in
"It was the sit-in last year that really got things going," Lisa Rasor, Topela sophomore, said. "The sit-in really raised student consciousness."
The sit-in last May was followed by two anti-aparthael rallies at which 65 protesters were arrested at Youngbring Hall, home of the Endowment Association. More anti-aparthael rallies came last semester, and protesters camped out in front of Youngbring from March 17 to April 12.
Earlier this month Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said the Association had adopted a policy of selective divestment in companies that invested in South Africa.
Selective divestment is a policy in which investors demand that companies with investments in South Africa conform in to a set of standards concerning apartheid. If a company does not conform, the investor divests.
Seymour said that student protests had little or no effect on the decision and that it had evolved over a long period of time.
The policy officially had been adopted early this year, he said, but hadn't been publicized because it was an internal matter.
Protesters halted the policy decision as a victory, but many have expressed disappointment that the Enforcement did not decide to divest completely.
Protesters at Strong yesterday ate pizza and talked about the divestment movement.
"We're just letting people know we're still around," Rasor said. "Just because the Endowment Association has agreed to partial divestment doesn't mean we're going to disappear."
Michael Mahar, Reeland Park junior, said the group was taking the advice of exiled South African newspaper editor Donald Woods by KU administration. Woods spoke at the University in February.
The KU administration says it has no control over Endowment Association activities because the Association is a separate corporation.
"When the administration says their hands are tied on this I think that's an empty statement," Maher
said. "The administration has no official power with the Endowment Association but it does have some inference, rather that influence is official or not."
Passers-by were encouraged to take literature about South Africa.
Ten people signed a paper asking for information on future rallies by members of the KU Committee on South Africa.
Unlike at the rally a year ago, protesters decided not to stay overnight at Strong.
Woman charged to buy time
United Press International
The Douglas County prosecutor yesterday said he charged a 77-year-old victim of Alzheimer's disease with involuntary manslaughter in the death of another elderly woman to buy time for authorities to find a suitable place for the woman to live.
The incident occurred last week at the Regency Health Care Center in Lawrence, where both women were residents.
A judge Friday found Inez Blankenbeker incompetent to stand trial and ordered her to remain at the Topeka State Hospital for not more than 90 days.
Jim Flory, the prosecutor, said the state hospital has advised it cannot keep Blankenbeker longer than that because her disease is not treatable. It may be worth considering emotional afflictions may stay at the hospital, he said.
"We were faced with this woman having no place to go," Flory explained yesterday. "The criminal charge and determination of incompetence were made to give us time to look for alternatives."
Blankenbeker is accused of striking Florence Mayes, 95, causing her to fall and strike her head on a piece of furniture. Mayes died from a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the blow to her head, Flary said.
"My concern is twofold — one is her safekeeping and the other is that she not be in a setting where an instance like this could be repeated." he said.
Flory said he is working with representatives of the nursing home industry to try to find a home for Bloch.
Harriet Nehring, executive director of Kansans for Improvement of Nursing Homes, said most victims of Alzheimer's disease have the potential for violating emotionally or grunted.
"You can deal with it directly in a way that keeps them from getting to the point where their anger and frustration and hostility is taken out against another person." Nehring said. "A facility has a responsibility to protect other residents against a person of this sort."
Because about 50 percent of the Kansas nursing home population has the neurological disease to some degree, it is essential that nursing home personnel be trained to deal with the ailment, she said.
The nursing home industry also needs to provide more space for residents so severely afflicted by Alzheimer's disease they are dangerous to others, Nehring said.
Pellock brothers plead not guilty
By a Kansan reporter
PARSONS — Kansas forward Mark Pellock, who was redshirted this year, and his brother, James, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Parsons Municipal Court to a charge of misdemeanor theft in connection with the theft of a car battery.
The Pellocks were arrested by Parsons police on April 19. A June 5 trial date has been set in Parsons, and both Pellocks are free on $75 bond, said Juanita Clark, municipal court clerk.
On April 19, a woman called police and said she two men trying to break into a car at an airport.
The witness told police that she saw the men walk away with the battery and get into a car. She said she did not see the men steal the battery from the 1966 Ford, which belonged to the apartment manager, because she was calling the police at the time.
Mark, 19, was in his hometown of Parsons the weekend of April 19-20 serving as a volunteer for the regional Special Olympics. James, 21, is a resident of Arkansas City.
New image helps halls get residents
By Peggy Kramer
The special emphasis on scholarship halls by the office of residential programs and housing department seems to have worked. The number of applications from students wanting to live in the halls next year is about 50 percent higher than last year.
Several factors are responsible for the increase in applications, Steve Chrzanowski, former president of the All Scholarship Hall Council, said.
"We are also trying to break down some of the fallacies about scholarship halls." Deb Stafford, assistant director of ORP and scholarship hall adviser, said Sunday. "Residents don't need to be on scholarship or have a 3.9 GPA to live in a scholarship hall."
For the fall, 292 applications already have been received, an increase of about 100 from last year. Chrzanowski attributed the turnout to the mailing of applications to high school students and increased attention given to the maintenance of the halls and this year's shortened application form.
In January, ORP hired 1,500 applications to qualified seniors in Kansas high schools. Chrzansowiak said 32 applications had been received.
ASHC obtained a list of high school honors students from the office of admissions, he said. The list targeted Watkins-Berger and Summerfield campuses in national Merit combo students and students with high ACT scores.
"To my knowledge, the mailing of applications to high school seniors hasn't been done before," Chrzanowski said.
school counselors across Kansas. Improved conditions and maintenance of the halls is a result of the housing department's renovation plan. Through the plan, one or two scholarship halls will be remodeled each year, beginning with Watkins and Miller halls this summer.
Applications this year were shortened and tied into the residence hall applications. Chranzowski said required references were reduced from three to one and essays reduced from five to two.
The new applications require students to pay a $25 deposit with the turned-in application just as applicants for the residence halls must do. Applicants have the option to fill out a preference card for reserved space in a residence hall in case they aren't accepted by a scholarship hall.
The scholarship halls are offered to students as an alternative to the residence hall. ORP provides a description of the scholarship halls, Staff said.
A selections committee of about 25 student volunteers from several scholarship halls, scholarship hall directors and administrators from other colleges. A ACT scores, class rank, references and essay questions, Stafford said.
Chranzowski said, "It is a great myth that students need to have a scholarship to live in the halls."
Once accepted, residents must maintain at a least 2.5 GPA every semester, Stafford said. They also must take to take 28 hours per academic year.
Each resident is responsible for a hall duty, such as cooking or cleaning, Chrzanowski said. Because of the extra responsibilities, residents pay $500 a year less than students living in the residence halls.
If a resident fails to maintain the 2.5 GPA or the class hours, the resident's performance is reviewed by the Academic Review Committee. If unsatisfied, the president of ASHC and student representatives.
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