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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 124 (USPS 650-640)
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Program gives clue to career
By Brian Whentle
Staff writer
Students still investigating which academic major is right for them may find the answer in crime and delinquency studies. But they may have to play detective to find out about it.
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Students may not know that there is such a program because of its low visibility, said William Arnold, associate professor of sociology and director of the program.
The crime and delinquency studies program is an interdisciplinary major that is not listed with other majors in the course catalog, Arnold said. Instead, it is listed with special majors such as women's studies.
Interdisciplinary majors are those that combine classes from various schools and departments to create one major.
"It should be more publicized," said Kevin Johnson, a probation officer with the Douglas County Court Services and graduate of the program.
But the office of admissions knows of the program and tries to keep it moving.
The major has been approved by the College Assembly, the governing body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, but needs to be approved by the Board of Regents before it can be made an official major at the University. Arnold said.
"In a sense, the University has recognized it," he said.
Wichita State University, which has an Administration of Justice program, has fought Regents' approval of a proposed duplication of its program, he said.
Arnold said one of the obstacles to crime and delinquency studies becoming an official major had been that he was supposed to gram duplication at its schools.
Wichita State's program isn't as liberal arts oriented as KU's, Arnold said. Their program also has vocational classes such as marksmanship and first aid, which KU's program doesn't offer.
Students who want to graduate with a degree in crime and delinquency studies have to petition the college advising committee, he said. Anyone receiving a degree in a special major must have his or her coursework approved by the committee.
Because it has been approved by the College Assembly, approval by the committee isn't hard to obtain if a student has followed the guidelines, be said.
Most students in the program go into law enforcement or probation fields. Arnold said. And the program is designed to train students for those fields.
"We've had no trouble, as far as I know, of people finding jobs." Arnold
Janny Manning, Karen Beary, Overland Park freshman, and Calvin Thompson share the limelight and a ride.
"I'd highly recommend it to so-
Jayhawks return to cheering fans
See DELINQUENCY, p. 5, col. 1
By Frank Ybarra
Staff writer
The chanting of the fans was nearly deafening when the KU Spirit Squad came on the court. Just behind the squad was the basketball team led by head coach Larry Brown.
The players stood tall as they walked down the sidelines yesterday for one last appearance in Allen Field House. The band played the KU fight song and the fans cheered, "Go Jayhawks, fight Jayhawks, win Jayhawks."
But the scene, repeated so many times during the season, was different this time.
Instead of orange balls swishing through nets as players position themselves for rebounds, there was a microphone and chairs set up on the north end of the court. Larry Brown wasn't even wearing a suit.
And this time, the fans in the field house weren't cheering just for a team; they were cheering for their heroes.
About 6,000 KU fans were at the field house to cheer the basketball team upon their return from Dallas. The pep rally was after the parade, which started in downtown Lawrence and ended outside the field house.
Among those present at the rally were Kansas Gov. John Carlin, Chancellor Gene A. Budig, Mayor Mike Amyx and David Epstein, student body president.
They came to tell the players and coaches that they were proud of the team's performance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four. Kansas lost to Duke University, 71-67, in the semifinals.
Max Falkenstien, color commentator for the Jayhawk Network who emceed the rally, helped raise the noise level in the field house with his opening remarks.
"We're no less proud of them than when they left, right?" he asked the crowd.
The fans answered with thunderous applause.
Amyx waved his arms in the air to keep the cheering going and then congratulated the team on its effort.
"This has got to be one of the most exciting days in Lawrence history," he said.
Epstein also brought cheers out of the crowd when he said, "This team has proved there is great basketball past the Mississippi."
However, Epstein was less successful with the crowd when he told a joke about center Greg Drelling and forward Danny Manning.
"Although we won't have our Starman back next year, we will have the Return of the Jedi," he said.
In response to Epstein's humor, Brown lead the crowd in waving the wheat, a gesture KU fans make when players from opposing teams foul out.
Calvin Thompson, KU guard, presented the NCAA semifinal trophy to the chancellor and addressed the crowd.
"We appreciate your support throughout the entire year," he said. "You guys are great."
The KU Pep Band played another round of the fight song when Brown was introduced.
"I don't know why you guys are sitting down now," Brown said, pointing to the fans who were sitting in the area which would normally be behind the KU bench.
Earlier in the year, a controversy developed over whether fans in that area should sit or stand during games because they were blocking the view of the fans seated behind them.
Carlin said the team had made everyone in the state proud of its performance.
Brown then complimented the three seniors for their play during the season.
"Calvin, Ronnie and Greg have laid the foundation for the program you would want," he said.
"I was proud of you in Dayton. I was proud of you in Kansas City. I was proud of you in
Dallas" Carlin said. "You won with class, and you
won in league, you lost with class."
Monte Johnson, athletic director, said that the rally would not be the last of its kind.
"This is why Larry Brown loves Kansas," Johnson said.
About noon, a parade started at Seventh and Vermont streets.
The rally was just a part of the cheering going on for the basketball team yesterday.
Thousands of people lined Massachusetts Street as Larry Brown, his family, and 13-year-old Ryan Gray rode in front of the team in an old-fashioned white可信型.
Gray, who is suffering from a brain tumor, has sat on the KU bench during several games and traveled with the team to Dallas.
Behind Brown, each of the starters and most of the other players rode in separate convertibles. As the parade moved from downtown to campus, several fans climbed onto the cars with the players.
About 4,000 fans lined Jayhawk Boulevard to watch the parade.
In front of Wescoe Hall, they cheered "Lar-ry, Lar-ry" as Brown's car moved in front of them. Ron Kellegg waved to the crowd and Greg Dreling, who was riding with his wife, Kelly, and daughter, Jill, ran his hand on his new flattop haircut.
Calvin Thompson held the NCAA semifinal trophy above his head to the cheers of the crowd. Mark Turgeon had a hard time finding room to wave his hands because he was surrounded in the car by admiring female fans.
Jack Tyler, Lawrence senior, said he walked the entire parade route with the team and then shook Brown's hand as the parade neared its end at the field house.
"He needs to know that just getting us there was great for the University," Tyler said.
KJHK-FM plays pop as a joke
By Russell Gray
Staff writer
Van Halen, Billy Idol, Madonna,
Culture Club and Men at Work blared
from radios across Lawrence
yesterday.
What might be normal programming for some stations was an elaborate April Fools joke for KJHKH that calls itself "The Sound Alternative."
About a month ago the station decided on the prank just to do something different, which is in keepers' hands. The prank is faculty adviser-station manager
"It's a joke," Elliott said. "It was meant to take advantage of April Fools Day. It's certainly not a trial balloon of any kind."
Fowler Jones, disc jockey and production director, said he told people who called the station that it was a permanent change.
"We're playing them all," Jones said. "We're trying to make it as cheesy as possible."
Callers ranged from one person who said he was going to put an ad in the Kansan in protest, to one who liked it, to one who threatened to blow up the Kansas University Endowment Association. Jones said.
Jones said he, the program director and the adviser got together and worked out the idea. Some people at the station didn't even know about it.
"It's all in good fun," Jones said.
"We'd never change our format.
What's a good April Fools joke if nobody is fooled?"
One person who was fooled was Kevin Whalen, an employee at the Kansas Union.
Wahlen said he had listened to KJHK at least seven years — ever since it was piped into the intercoms at the residence halls. Lawrence is a center for progressive music because of the station, he said.
"They are all valid musical acts." Whalen said before he knew about the station's one-day format. "But they're not valid for JKHK.
"If it's an April Fools joke, it's a good one, and I'll look like an ass tomorrow, but I don't care."
Whalen called the sation, the Kansan and the adviser's office. He said he would cause trouble until the format changed.
Mark Lipsitz, station manager, said the joke was a kick-off to a couple of weeks of promotions. The joke would get listeners excited about KJHK just before today's remote broadcast from the Union.
"It's just in the name of good clean fun," Lipitz said. "We feel like we have a core audience that would flip if we changed our format."
So much time went into getting the broadcast ready for yesterday, Lipitz said he didn't have time to think about listener response such as Whalen's.
"The phones have not stopped ringing since noon." Lipsitz said. "Everything from requests to threats."
Commission picks Praeger as mayor
Bv Juli Warren
Staff writer
Commissioner David Longhurst presented the shirt to Praeger on behalf of her husband shortly after the commissioners unanimously elected Praeger.
Sandra Praeger's new T-shirt told the story last night after the Lawrence City Commission named her as mayor.
The mayor serves a one-year term, presiding over weekly commission meetings and signing documents on behalf of the city.
On one side it read, "The Old Gray Mayor," and on the other it announced the news: "Sandy."
As Hill seconded Praeger's nomination, he said, "I believe that Sandy Praeger will be an absolutely outstanding mayor."
Commissioner Howard Hill was re-elected vice mayor.
Former Mayor Mike Amyx, who is also a barber, received a cake decorated with a pair of scissors and a knife. Our mayor, a cut above the rest."
But she was not the only official who received a gift last night.
Longhurst praised Amyx's tenure, saying his overriding responsibility had been to the citizens, not to city staff or the commission.
"My hat's off to you, sir," Longhurst said. "You've done a fan
See CITY, p. 5, col. 2
Tony Vouraz/KANSAN
Outgoing Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx receives the key to the city from newly elected mayor Sandra Praeger. The key was given to Amyx as a gesture of appreciation.
House takes big bite out of anti-hazing bill
Staff writer
By Mark Siebert
TOPEKA — A House committee yesterday took some of the teeth out of an anti-hazing bill designed to clamp down on dangerous acts of initiation by student organizations.
The House Judiciary Committee passed the measure on a voice vote after removing the section of the bill that defines who could be the target of a hazing lawsuit.
He said informing students about the law at the beginning of each semester would draw enough attention.
State Rep. Joe Knopp, R-Manhattan, chairman of the committee, said a hazing law would be enough of a deterrent without allowing certain people to be named in a civil suit.
"It's put there for its deterent value," Knopp said of the law. "We did not like creating more causes of action."
Before the changes, the bill said that mental or physical pain and suffering resulting from hazing could result in a civil action for injury or damages.
Knopp said a lawsuit under the original bill probably could have been based more on the wealth of the defendant than on the nature of the hazing.
Any director, trustee or officer who authorized or commanded the hazing could be held responsible.
The committee also amended the definition of hazing.
On a 12 to 4 vote, the committee altered the bill to include only those hazing incidents that caused physical harm or significant mental harm.
Job applications for Kansan due
The Kansan is accepting applications for summer and fall editors and business managers.
Applications are due by 5 p.m.
April 11. They are available in the
Kansan business office, 119
Stauffer-Flint Hall; the journalism
dean's office; the Stauffer-Flat;
the Student Senate office;
R-106 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.