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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 142 (USPS 650-640)
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New lights may shine by August
Steve Wade/KANSAN
By Barbara Shear Staff writer
Administrators and KU student leaders are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel in working to brighten and better lighting to the campus.
David Epstein and Amy Brown,
student body president and vice
president, met with administrators
Friday to discuss campus lighting.
Epstein said he was confident that by the time school resumed in the fall, the campus would be free from the Chi Omega fountain to Bailey Hall would be completely relit.
"Something dramatic will occur by fall — new lighting on the campus." Epstein said. "The students have won and will finally get what they went after. It's a real victory. The students will be able to see the campus at night as well as during the day."
During the meeting, Brown said, Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, presented a map outlining areas for lighting on the campus.
"The plans are all done and they are hoping to begin working on it this summer," Brown said. "They are going to find money for it right now."
War reunion
Alexander Silvashko from the Soviet Union, left, shakes hands with Buck Kotzebae from Colfax, Calif. The two fought in World War II and met at the Elbe River. They were reunited yesterday at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
Several different sources of money for the lighting were identified at the meeting. Keith Nitcher, University director of business and fiscal affairs, said lighting for the first phase of the project, Jayhawk Boulevard, would cost between $75,000 and $100,000.
The money for that, Nitcher said, probably will come from three different sources: the fiscal 1986 student loan; the student loan unallocated funds; the city's repairs and improvements fund. He said he hoped each source
See LIGHTS, p. 5, col. 1
Nerds vie in engineers'Olympics
Staff writer
By Sandra Crider
Randy Peterson pushed the taped glasses up on his nose and snorted excited.
"This is the happiest day of my life," said Peterson, Overland Park senior.
About 150 engineering students and faculty representing six departments participated in the Engineering Olympics on the front lawn of Learn- noreviewing university, the engineering student and honor groups helped organize the extravaganza.
Peterson had just been honored as the best nerd at the first Engineering Olympics on Friday.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department won the intra-departmental competition. The team came in second, and the department came in a distant second.
The winning team won a traveling trophy. Proceeds from entry fees and concessions, more than $300, went to Special Olympics.
Joe Ozorkiewicz, Lawrence senior and one of the organizers, said he
Mondav Morning
was pleased with the response.
Peterson won a $35 gift certificate for his plaid, polyester pants, the slide-rule swinging from his belt, the pocket-protector jammed with pens and wavy brown hair tarnished with a few pounds of Brvlecream.
"What we were trying to do was to get all the different engineers together and get them to know each other, to raise money for Special Olympics and have fun," Ozorkiewicz said.
He said he would use the money to stock up on pencils, erasers, spare batteries and books.
One of the judges, an engineering professor who refused to be named, said selecting a winner was difficult, but applauded from the audience and other persuasion tactics were deciding factors.
Peterson's winning secret:
He shrugged and said,"I just acted normal."
"I had a calculator at my back to
get me to vote for the winner," he said.
Other contestents were unhappy with the judges' decision.
Charles Renner, Hobbs, N.M.
senior, was first runner-up in spite
of the absence. He sign taped to his
back and the arms around the books
that kept falling to the ground.
"It's awful being a runner-up in a nerd contest." Renner said.
'It's awful being a runner-up in a nerd contest.' Charles Renner Hobbs, N.M., senior
"What get-up?" he said. "This is all standard equipment."
The anonymous judge absolved himself from taking responsibility for choosing one nerd over another.
Renner said his attire was not a costume.
"It's very difficult because there
are no nerds in engineering," he said then smiled. "Only in journalism."
In addition to the nerd contest, departments and groups sponsored events including an egg-drop contest from the roof of Learned Hall, a projectile competition, which was batting a softball at a target, a paper plate contest, and a ping pong contest was won by a throw of more than 100 feet, and a faculty pigeon eating contest.
Tom Mulinazi, professor of civil engineering, won the faculty pleating contest and received for his work a scholarship to two at Becerco's. 213 W. Sixth St.
Mulinazi said he prepared for the
dinner by eating lunch twice to stretch
this list.
In another eating contest, Keith Hayes, Shawnee junior, wolked down five twinkles in record time, barely by two of the ten other contests.
Legislators agree to raise sales tax
The driven winner suffered a stomach ache after consuming the Twinkies.
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
He groaned, then said, "But give me another hour and I'll be hungry again."
TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature finally adjourned early this morning after deciding to raise the minimum 3 percent to a percent effective July 1.
On the 95th day of the scheduled
90-day session, the House ended the
tax deadlock at 1:30 a.m. when it ap-
plained that sales tax increase with
a 65-60 vote.
The Senate, which had been waiting for passage of the increase, took up the bill soon after and concurred with the House on a 22-15 vote.
The House voted down the tax increase once and then reconsidered its action. After breaking into caucuses, the chamber sent the measure back to conference committee before taking the final tally.
Initially, the vote showed the measure losing 54-68. During a call to the House in which no members are allowed to leave the chamber, the tide shifted when House Speaker Mike Haven, R-Atwood, rose in
front of a somber House and changed his vote from no to ves.
"We're down here on the 85th day," Hayden said. "Our single obligation is to the people of the state . . . I vote ave."
Hayden's vote prompted 11 other votes to switch in favor of the bill.
Afterwards Hayden said he still didn't like the measure, but thought it was what the majority of the legislators wanted.
"If we have the courage to appropriate the spending, it is only reasonable to have the courage to raise taxes," he said.
State representatives Jessie Branston and John Sobach, D-Driveness, voted for the measure. State Rep Betty Jo Charlton, D-Driveness, originally voted against the increase, but changed her vote after Hayden
Concert problems are part of the job
See BILLS, p. 5, col. 5
By Grant W. Butler
Staff writer
Staff writer
Every time Sarah Vaughan jerked her microphone, a ringing went through Hoe Auditorium.
"Can you hear that? There's a little bird in there," Vaughan said.
During a medley of songs by George Gershwin, she quit singing the original words and inserted her own.
"'It's very clear there's something wrong with this microphone,' Vaughan sang.
"I hate this microphone. Always making funny noises. I don't know why someone doesn't hear it and get angry, what the hell, the show must go on."
About 2,000 people attended the one-and-a-quarter-hour performance, which featured a variety of vocal styles from Vaughan's students and applications to a jazzy version of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns."
And the show does go on, according to Jackie Davis, the director of the Concert and Chamber Music Series, which concluded its 1985-86 season with Vaughan's performance on Saturday night.
Dealing with problems such as bad microphones, demanding stars and scheduling conflicts is all part of the of presenting concerts, Davis said.
"They're minor problems because we've dealt with them before," Davis said. "When they first occurred they were big problems.
"We've been through the orchestra who didn't like Hoch and wouldn't dress formally. We've been through the artist being late for a performance and we know how to deal with it."
For. Vaughan's performance, Davis said, a few extra problems had to be dealt with. Vaughan required limousine service and special accommodations, and wouldn't attend a reception or give interviews.
But meeting the demands to a task is just part of the problem-solving that goes into putting on a performance. Davis said.
One problem that persists for the series is the continues of Hoch Auditorium. Davis said. The stage is small and the dressing rooms are
"Hoch Auditorium does not meet up to the expectations of any major dance company," she said. "That makes it tough to negotiated prices."
When the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed in the Series in February, they were bothered by the stage conditions at the company had to make adjustment in their choreography and lighting.
A proposed new performing arts center would take away the problems of presenting events in Hoch, Davis and Koch. When the series will have to make do
"I tell agents that we don't want them to come if there will be complaining over the halls," she said.
"We know it's a problem, but until we have a new performing arts center we can not do anything about it."
Scheduling is another area of concern for the series, especially after two conflicts with basketball games this year, she said.
The Dec. 3 performance of "A Christmas Story" was the same night as the Kansas-Southern Illinois game. The Feb. 11 performance by the Canadian Brass conflicted with the Kansas-Missouri game and was rescheduled for March 31, which was the same night as the National College Athletic Association final game.
"It can't conflict with an athletic
Growing crime of date rape rarely reported by victims
By Peggy Kramer
See CONCERTS, p. 5, col.1
Staff writer
When Suzy, a 23-year-old KU student, exchanged phone numbers with a man she met a year ago on a plane. When Suzy thought she had made a new friend
"We talked on the phone a few times and when he came into town we went out," she said recently. "The weather was OK, so we went out a second time.
"On the second date he wanted to get physical. I said no, but it didn't matter," she said. "Why can't you ever resettle the word 'no'?"
Rape is the fastest growing violent crime in the United States today, and Ellie LeCompte, co-director of Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services, said 30 to 40 percent of the support center were date raps.
Suzy, who asked that her last name not be used, was the victim of date rape.
"A woman is in more danger in an isolated, dark place in a car with someone she knows, than jogging alone at 11 p.m.," she said.
Two-thirds of all reported rapes are committed by dates or acquaintances. LeCompte said. In half of the rapes known the attacker for a year or more.
Studies done in California and Ohio indicated that one in every five women by the age of 22 will have been raped on a date.
Victims of date or acquaintance rage rarely report the incidents, LeCompte said, because they know that the people they did something to entice the rape.
Sgt. John Brothers, crime prevention and community relations for the KU police department, said acquaintance rape differed from date rape in that the victim knows the attacker by sight and not necessarily by name.
Criminologists estimate that four to 10 times as many rapes are committed as reported
"Those women that do report are the exceptions." she said.
Shirley Houston, registered nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said date and acquaintance rape cases were under investigation. A victim couldn't believe it had happened to her. Feelings of guilt and shame accompany the humiliation of being raped.
LeCompte said victims also thought people would be less likely to believe they were raped by a friend or date because they might have had sexual intercourse with the rapist before.
But women need to be aware that they are protected by law even if they previously have willingly had sex with the ranist.
In 1983, a rape shield law was added to the Kansas Statutes to protect rape victims. Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said it was possible to use the shield law in date rape cases.
The shield law prohibits the defendant from bringing up in court the victim's past sexual conduct. The information can't be used unless the defendant files for a motion and convinces the court that the evidence is absolutely relevant to that particular case, he said.
Suzy said she never reported the in-
See RAPE, p. 8, col.1
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