Monday, March 24, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Enrollment material will be distributed
Enrollment cards and confidential folders for Liberal Arts and Sciences undergraduates are scheduled to be distributed Wednesday and Thursday in the Kansas Union.
Students should bring their picture I.D.s between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to the Kansas Union football team for 1088 fall semester enrollment.
Undergraduate advising is scheduled April 1-11. Students also must get their dean's stamps during those dates between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at 4107 Wescoe Hall.
KSU leader selected
Students enrolled in professional schools should check with their schools for enrollment procedures.
The Board of Regents, at a closed meeting Saturday in Overland Park, unanimously selected a Minnesota chancellor as the new president of Kansas State University.
After the meeting, the Regents announced John Wefald, chancellor of the Minnesota seventh school state university system, as the replacement for K-State's announced his retirement last year.
Wefald is expected to assume the $92,000-a-year post July 1.
The Regents made its selection from a list of three finalists who were interviewed Friday and Saturday.
Protesters settle in
Divestment protesters had pitched three more tents in front of Youngberg Hall as of yesterday, bringing the tent total to six.
But four of the tents were empty Saturday night, as five campers slept in two tents. Chris Bunker, president of KU Committee on South Africa who started the camp in March 17, said he needed more campers.
Camp-in participants are protesting Kansas University Endowment Association investments in businesses doing business in South Africa.
Bunker said campers watched the Kansas-Michigan State basketball game Friday night after his brother Jack, Prairie Village sophomore, brought a portable television set to the campsite.
Turtle bill faces vote
The Kansas House plans to vote today on whether the ornate box turtle should join the meadowlark and the buffalo as an official state animal.
The House tentatively approved a bill Friday that designated the box turtle — Terrapene ornata, Agassiz — the official state reptile.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, the name of Phil Kline, Shawnee law student and chairman of the KU College Republicans, was misspelled in a story and cutline in Friday's Kansas.
Because of an editor's error, the amount of time Better Hotels Inc., has been selling in Lawrence was incorrect in Friday's Kansan. The company has been selling here for five months.
Spring temperatures in the mid-60s will continue today under mostly sunny skies with gusty, southerly winds from 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be fair with a low in the mid-40s. Tomorrow will be warmer with a high in the low- to mid-70s and a 20 percent chance for thunderstorms.
Weather
From staff and wire reports.
Rock concert awes fans with tunes of suffering
The Alarm ignites fans with sound
By Dawn O'Malley
Sound the sirens.
The Alarm, a four-man band from North Wales, sizzled the audience Friday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom
The band played their foot-stomping, bands-in-the-air music to about 750 music revelers. The air combined music from its first album, "Declaration," and its second album, "Strength," for a 90-minute concert. The Alarm was part of SUA's Standing Room Only concert series and was co-sponsored by KYYS-FM.
When the lights went dim, a hush traveled through the crowd as the show began with "Marching On" from its first album. The crowd went onward toward the stage unable to hold themself back.
The throaty voice of Mike Peters, lead vocalist,
seemed to please the audience. Throughout the concert,
he encouraged the audience to sing along and to join their hands in the air as a sign of unity.
The songs are a result of real experiences, Dave Sharp, the band's guitarist, said.
"People will accept anything," said Sharp. "We are asking people to question before they accept.
Peters walked along the crowd barriers to shake people's hands.
"I believe man is suffering," Peters said during the concert. "It can happen to a lot of people. But you can rise above it with help from friends and strength."
And he went into "Dawn Chorus" from the album "Strength."
"I'm a lonely man walking lonely streets. I'm soaked to the skin with the pain of my unease," sane Peters.
"Their lyrics mean something," said Brad Wade, Raytown junior and a member of the audience. "You can relate to the lyrics."
The positive attitude was catching — people danced and sang along to the band's tunes.
The audience came alive with "Absolute Reality". Peters serenaded the audience as he walked on the crowd barriers shaking people's hands.
"The songs are people dealing with depression, problems and struggles," said Clarke Smith. Prairie Village junior. "But it is uplifting. You get energy from the music."
The band showed the audience how much energy they had with its 20-minute finale beginning with "Blazing Glory." People joined their hands above their heads as the music played. Even those perched on others' shoulders held their balance to wave their 'hands in unity.
Mike Peters, lead singer for the Alarm, leads the audience of 750 people in a song Friday at the Kansas Union Ballroom. The Alarm was part of Student Union Activities' Standing Room Only concert series and was co-sponsored by KYYS-FM.
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
No break for Easter next year
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
Students planning to relax the Monday after Easter should savor the day and maybe eat a few extra hard boiled eggs.
"It's simply a matter of getting our business over with," he said.
Next spring, KU students won't have Monday off after the holiday, Dick B. Tracy, chairman of the University Senate Calendar committee, said recently.
Tracy said that the nine-member committee unanimously approved the calendar change last year to help the semester move along more quickly.
Tracy said that at least 80 academic days were required in each school year. Each academic vacation tacks days onto the yearly school calendar. One fewer holiday would merely shorten the year.
"Students should be reminded that they aren't going to school for an extra day." he said.
But some students aren't quite as eager to give up their Easter holiday.
Stephany Coffey, Lawrence senior,
said she couldn't go anywhere for
spring break this year, because she
had to catch up on homework.
"Easter break is the next time for vacation." she said.
Coffey said the elimination of Easter vacation wouldn't be as bad if spring break were moved closer to the Easter holiday. Then students wouldn't feel the need for another vacation.
According to the calendar committee's new schedule, spring break will be a week later next year.
Tracy said, "It had nothing to do with eliminating Easter break."
The committee moved spring break, he said, because the University had at one time considered starting later after Christmas vacation. The student traditionally divides the spring semester, then would come too early.
Angela Nonaka, Buckner, Miss., junior, said, "I personally like the Easter break."
$5 increase in fees is passed by board
Staff writer
By Lori Poison Staff writer
Jim Long, director of the Union, said the increase was necessary to pay for part of phase one of the renovation. Phase one is estimated to cost $6.5 million.
The board of directors of the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation unanimously passed a recommendation Saturday calling for an increase of $5 in student fees to help finance the renovation of the Kansas Union.
"Our short-term projects and meeting the needs of our students must find a place in our long-term goals," Long said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Student Senate would recommend the recommendation at its meeting Wednesday.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will decide whether to ask the Board of Regents for the increase after hearing the recommendations of the Memorial Corporation and the Senate.
But, he said, "The Chancellor has not taken a fee request to the Regents without the approval of the Senate."
The Senate only offers advice, Ambler said.
Budig must ask the Regents for the increase at its April meeting
for the change to take effect next fall. Ambler said.
If passed, the increase would be used to support revenue bonds issued to raise money for the first phase of the project, Long said. Financing for phase two has not been decided yet.
Student fees are divided into two parts - general fees and restricted fees. The general fees portion is set each year by the Regents. The University recom- mends an amount for the restricted fees.
Restricted fees are divided into student health fees, Student Senate activity fees, women and non-athletic sports fees and Kansas Union fees.
This year, KU students paid $120 in restricted fees, $28 of which went to the Union. If the measure passes, $33 of the restricted fees would go to the Union.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said the Union fees portion of the restricted fees had not increased since fall 1980. At that time, Union fees increased by $1.50.
The increase will remain, Ferguson said, for about 10 to 12 years, or until the revenue bonds are naid off.
"The fee would be collected as long as the need is there for it to support the bond," he said.
Med Center violations cited
By Lynn Maree Ross
Staff writer
The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a complaint last week that could cost the University of Kansas Medical Center $3,500, Med Center officials said. The complaint reported deficiencies in the Med Center's animal care unit.
Med Center officials said, in a prepared statement, "We are aware of the complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture stemming from alleged deficiencies dating from January 1985. These alleged deficiencies have been corrected."
The USDA's complaint referred to parts of inspection reports from January through October 1985, said Roger Lambson, vice censor for health policy and program development. The complaint cited problems
with air flow in the rooms of the care unit and resting space in some of the cat cages.
Barbara Meador, coordinator of the animal resource program, said the care unit contained a variety of animals such as rodents, rabbits, cats, dogs and pigs, which were used in research programs.
The air in the rooms of the care unit should be recirculated 10 to 15 times an hour, but Meador said the old ventilation system couldn't do that. The Med Center improved the system last year after the USDA first reported the deficiency.
Lambson said that after the USDA's first report the Med Center spent 10 months and $15,000 evaluating and upgrading the ventilation system so that it could recir-
culate the air properly The Med Center also ordered new cat cages.
The USDA last inspected the animal care unit in October, Lambson said, and its report seemed to inform everything had been corrected.
Now that the Med Center has received a formal complaint, it has 20 days to file a response, said Vickie Thomas, University general counsel. If the facts of the complaint are in dispute, USDA will hold a hearing and an administrative judge will make a decision about the report.
If the judge rules against the Med Center, it may have pay a $3,500 penalty.
"There is no question we were out of compliance during that time," said Kay Clawson, vice chancellor at the Med Center.
Seven indicted in drug ring
United Press International
INDEPENDENCE — A doctor, a pharmacist and five others were named in a 733-count indictment for unlawfully providing prescription drugs for Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma residents, the county attorney said.
Montgomery County Attorney Sally Pokorny yesterday said that people from as far away as Wichita, metropolitan Kansas City and Tulsa, Okla., would obtain unneeded prescriptions for stimulants and depressants from John Vakas, Cof-
feyville physician, and have them filled by pharmacist Robert Coldwell, of Coldwell Drug Store, in nearby Independence. Both communities are in southeast Kansas.
Pokerny said Vakas conspired with Independence resident Eligit Clark to provide him with prescriptions so Clark could obtain drugs for resale.
Five people were arrested over the weekend; two arrest warrants remained outstanding yesterday, authorities said.
A Montgomery County grand jury handed down the staggering 733-count indictment Friday.
Vakas, 49, is charged with 411 counts, about half of which are felonies, for allegedly prescribing drugs without a legitimate medical purpose, Pokorny said.
Coldwell is charged with 299 counts, nearly all being felonies, for unlawfully dispensing drugs.
"Allegedly he was filling prescriptions for two opposing drugs to the same person at the same time," Pokorny said. "That should lead one to only one conclusion. Either the doctor who is writing these doesn't know what he is doing or the people don't plan on taking them."
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