Tuesday, April 8, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Student pleads guilty to using fake passes
A KU student pled guilty yesterday to theft of services in which he used a forged pass to attend football games last fall.
Lonnie Sheilda, Denver senior, was sentenced by Associate District Judge Michael D. Malone to two years probation. Sheilda also must pay attorney's fees, probation fees, witness fees and court costs.
Malone told Shellada to pay $50 restitution to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and perform 10 hours of community service by working for KUAC.
Sheileda pled guilty to the misdemeanor charges of using the forged stickers on two occasions last fall. He had bought 10 stickers, which were meant for use only by student athletes, from another student and then resold five for $50.
AIDS experts to talk
The University of Kansas Microbiology Society is sponsoring a symposium to educate the public about AIDS.
Charles Wood, assistant professor of microbiology, and George Dawson, a senior scientist from Abbott Laboratories in Chicago, are scheduled to speak. Abbott Laboratories is the nation's Deficiency Syndrome screening test that is available to the public.
The researchers will speak on developments in AIDS research and screening of AIDS antibodies at blood banks and in the general public. The syposium, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Friday in 1005 Haworth Hall.
Seven organizations from the School of Business are participating in a phonethon to raise money for business school student scholarships and the Executive Lecture Series.
Clubs raise money
The fund-raiser, which began Sunday evening and will continue through tomorrow night, has raised over $4,000 in pledges, Gordon Fitch, associate dean of business, said yesterday.
Fitch said the school hoped to raise between $15,000 and $20,000.
HASE between 2013 and 2016. The groups participating in the fund-raiser are the Accounting Club; the Association of Business Doctoral Students; Beta Gamma Sigma, a business honor society; the Business Placement Council, an advisory group; Delta Sigma Pi, the business professional honor society; the Graduate Business Council and the Undergraduate 'Business Council.
Kansan to hire staff
The Kansan is accepting applications for summer and fall editors and business managers.
Applications are due by 5 p.m.
Friday. They are available in the
Kansas business office, 119
Stauffer-Flint Hall; the journalism
dean's office, 200 Stauffer-Flint;
and the Student Senate Office,
B-105 in the Kansas Union.
Applicants will meet April 16 with the Kansan board, the governing body of the newspaper. The editors and business managers will be chosen afterward.
Applications for other news and business staff positions are due by 5 p.m. April 16 in 200 Stauffer Flint.
Weather
Today should be partly cloudy with a high temperature of 65 to 70. Northerly winds will blow at 10 to 20 mph.
From staff and wire reports
McCurdy hopes to play jazz great
Instructor finalist for Armstrong role
Tony Vourax/KANSAN
By Grant W. Butler Staff writer
Ron McCurdy, instructor in music, directs Jazz Ensemble I. He is one of four finalists for the lead in a musical production based on Louis Armstrong's life.
After directing the KU basketball band at the Final Four in Dallas, Ron McCurdy went to Washington, D.C., for his own final four.
"There were over 100 applicants to play the part of Louis Armstrong in a theatrical production." McCurdy, instructor in music, said yesterday. "I was one of the four finalists."
In what was billed as "The Search for Satchmo," McCurdy spent two days last week in intensive preparation for the final audition for the part of Armstrong in an, as yet, unnamed musical production about his life.
"They flew us up to Washington where we went through two days of acting lessons and musical preparation for the audition," he said. "We were all musicians, so I'm sure the acting wasn't incredible."
Although he didn't get to see how his competition for the role performed, McCurdy said he was hopeful that the word he would receive in two weeks would be positive.
"My ego is saying 'You have a chance.' But I'm being low-key about it because if you get it, that's great, but if you don't, everyone asks you what happened," he said.
If selected to play the role in the show, which is being produced by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, McCurdy must take a leave of absence from KU and begin rehearsals this summer for the show.
"It's still in the embryonic stage," he said. "They want to open it in September in New Orleans and take it to Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit. They want to have a full head of steam before they take it to New York because that's where all the critics are."
family when he isn't performing would make life on the road difficult, be said
Being away from teaching for a year and only being able to see his
"That's the hardest part about this whole thing," McCurdy said. "I'm kind of a homebody and I would be gone quite a bit.
"I love KU. Basketball is where it's at with Larry Brown, and we're going to have a great Jazz Festival next year. I would hate to leave because there are a lot of good things happening here."
But the roar of the greasepaint that is beckoning McCurdy is too strong to be ignored.
"It would be a tremendous honor to be able to play Louis Armstrong," he said.
The department of music, he said, has been receptive about the possibility of McCurdy touring with a musical because it would increase exposure for him as well as the jazz program.
"It sits fine with me if he happens to get the part," Shumway said. "But then there's no assurance of that."
Stanley Shumway, chairman of music, agreed that a role in a Broadway-type show would help the jazz program.
McCurdy would make an excellent candidate for the role, he said, because he has studied Armstrong since he was young.
"It would be a big plus for KU because he would be in a good position to give exposure to the school."
But McCurdy's absence would create a difficult task for the search committee that would be looking for a replacement, Shumway said.
What would happen to the jazz program is a concern of McCurdry, who said he would be a part of the search committee.
"I wouldn't want some bozo to come in off the street," McCurdy said. "We've worked so long to get the program where it is and it could all go down in one year."
for the audition, McCurdy said, he played "Hello Dolly" and "Blueberry Hill" in the style of Armstrong, and was then given the song "Red Beans and Rice" to sight-read.
He also had to portray Armstrong as both a young and old man.
"They're looking for someone who can sound like him and act like him," McCurdy said. "That's why we went through that whole battery of rehearsals."
While he would have to sing like Armstrong in several numbers, he said, the emphasis would be on trumpet playing ability and acting.
To sound like Armstrong, McCurdy said, he would just have to deepen the tone of his speaking voice. There would be an opportunity to learn singing techniques that wouldn't hurt his vocal cords.
"I don't have anything to hurt anyway," he said. "I'll never be a real singer."
But for the now, McCurdy can only wait for word of whether he will have a chance to portray one of his inspirations, Satchmo, on the Great White Way.
Senate hears bill on scalping
Two performers would be chosen to play the role and to understudy the part, he said, so he has an even shot.
Staff writer
By Abbie Jones
TOPEKA - To outlaw scalping on campus would protect innocent fans from being accosted, Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, told a Senate committee yesterday.
"Ticket sales are very, very critical to us." Hunter said, "It should be done properly through the Athletic Department, through the ticket sales."
"Technically it's not too late." Winter said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony in a last-minute push to pass a bill that would prohibit the sale of a ticket to any event for more than its value. The bill would prohibit the sale on university property. Violators would be punished by a maximum $500 fine and one month in jail.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, revived the bill, which he introduced last year. Although the bill would have an uphill climb, Winter said, it isn't too late in the session for it to pass.
Both the Senate and the House would have to adopt resolutions suspending the rules and exempting the bill from the deadline for consideration of bills in their house of origin. Jeanne Hoferer, R-Topeka, and vice chairman of the committee, said a vote would be taken today.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said scalpers worked up a scheme in which a supervisor would send junior high kids out to ask for free tickets.
"They prevail upon you for extra tickets and then they take them back to their supervisor who stands next to our ticket window and sells them at a discount," von Ende said. "We cannot get police to remove these people from our grounds."
Students also were left out of the Final Four tournament in Dallas where richer Texans bought the tickets that students couldn't afford, Winter said.
William Hanna, Newton senior and the student representative for the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, said the bill would prevent students from losing out to richer people.
"If tickets were forced to be sold for face value we wouldn't be forced out of the market," Hanna said. "At least they'd be on equal terms with everybody else."
Susan Wolcott, Wichita State University ticket manager, said revenue was lost when people who wanted tickets would buy them from the scalpers instead of the University.
Men pleased with hall restoration
By Juli Warren Staff writer
Sitting on the bare concrete step of the balcony, the two men proudly look around them.
"It's a real treasure in here," said David Millstein, one of the men. A reddish-beard covers his smile.
The lanky Charlie Oldfather agreed: "It's getting to be more of a treasure every time we turn around."
Their project has continued in the face of an effort to declare that area of downtown Lawrence as slum and blight so the city may condemn the land and buy it for a proposed downtown mail.
The partners have been working on restoring Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., for about 11 months.
By July 4, they hope to have created a theater for both live entertainment and classic movies.
A study is now being conducted to determine whether Liberty Hall and the rest of a 2 $ \frac{1}{2} $ -block area of downtown are blighted.
The building is the only one in the study that is not in the mall footprint, according to Hannes Zacharias, city
He said Liberty Hall was excluded from Town Center Venture Corporation's initial plans because it was a historical structure being renovated and because it had community appeal as a cultural center.
management analyst.
Meanwhile, the renovation of Liberty Hall continues.
Outside, workers are cleaning and waterproofing the building and glazing the terra cotta.
Inside, the wall above the stage is dark blue with pinpoints of stars. Paintings of asteroids and nebulae brighten each side wall
Report says more staff needed at Med School
Staff writer
By Lynn Maree Ross
The University of Kansas College of Health Sciences needs a transfusion — a faculty transfusion.
An accreditation team visited the College in November to evaluate its performance and make recommendations for improvement, Eugene Jacobson, dean of medicine, said yesterday that the team's preliminary report addressed a variety of areas including the need for hiring additional faculty members.
The school needs more faculty members to teach microbiology, biochemistry, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology and pathology. Jacobson said. The report says the new faculty members should be interested in teaching and research.
It also stated that the team was concerned about the average age of present faculty members, he said, and the shortage of money to hire new teachers.
"We need new, young faculty members." Jacobson said.
The average age of the professors at the College is 56, associate and assistant professors, 41, and instructors, 39, said Ron Spangler, director of institutional research.
However, while the report indicated the College needed new faculty members, it wasn't a bad reflection on the present faculty,
Jacobson said. According to the report, the present faculty is superior.
Jacobson said he understood the need for new faculty members but he didn't know where the school would get the money to hire them.
The College may get help from the Kansas Legislature. Jacobson said a bill now in the Legislature would give the medical school extra money — not included in its budget requests — to recruit new faculty members.
If the Legislature doesn't give the College the extra money, it won't necessarily lose its accreditation. However, the school would have to explain the situation to the accreditation team.
"We would explain to them that we would like to hire new faculty members," Jacobson said, "but we'd explain about the funding."
Besides pointing out the high quality of the present faculty members, the report mentioned other areas where the school was doing well. One of those areas was the interaction between the Med School and the University of Kansas Medical Center, Jacobson said.
According to the team's report, the hospital interacts successfully with the school and with medical education.
“This is a good school,” Jacobson said. “We anticipate that the school will have a normal form of accreditation — five to seven years.”
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