Monday, March 17, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs KJHK receives honor from Spin magazine
KJHK-FM, KU's radio station,
has been honored for its support of
the local alternative music scene
by Spin magazine.
David Miltiyng, KJKH program director, and Mark Lip仕斯, KJKH station manager, received the award March 1 at the Spin Radio Awards ceremony in New York City.
Mittyg, Lipsitz, and KJKH trait director Michael Bassin were in new York City for an Interactive Broadcasting System convention.
Spin magazine praised KJKH as "an instrumental praise in developing and promoting a local alternative music scene."
Four other stations received awards.
Spin's April issue has an article on college radio stations, including KJHK, Lipsitz said.
Scholarship started
A scholarship fund has been established by an alumna to honor her former KU professor.
Marguerite Burke, Vienna, Va. contributed $15,000 for the Mary Grant Scholarship fund.
Burke was one of Grant's students when she attended KU in the 1930s. Grant, professor emeritus of classical languages, retired in 1960 after 39 years of teaching. Grant still lives in Lawrence.
The fund will provide scholarships for women undergraduate and graduate students who show financial need and academic promise.
Judge to give lecture
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., circuit judge in Philadelphia for the 3rd U.S. District Court of Appeals, is scheduled to speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The lecture, titled "American Race Relations' Law and South African Apartheid: Some Similarities and Differences," is part of the KU School of Law's Stephenson Lectures in Law and Government.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
KU student finalist
Tony Arnold, Wichita junior,
was one of 80 Merit Finalists in
the Time College Achievement Award
competition.
Twenty winners were chosen in the competition. One hundred awards were given for academic excellence and exceptional extracurricular achievements.
Arnold, who was nominated for his academic record and his achievements in public service, received a Truman Scholarship in 1985.
Arnold has been invited to New York to receive his award for being a Merit Finalist. He also will be recognized in a campus section of Time magazine.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms, but temperatures should reach the low- to mid-60s. Winds will be gusty and from the south at 15 to 25 mph. Evening will bring a 70 percent chance of thunderstorms with temperatures in the mid- to upper-40s. Cloudiness will continue tomorrow with temperatures in the mid-80s and a 60 percent chance of rain.
From staff and wire reports.
Chancellor's home affords little privacy
House still the center of activity
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
Seventy years ago, Elizabeth Watkins sat on the porch of her plantation-style home at 1532 Lilac Lane and enjoyed being at the center of campus activity.
Today, the house, where KU chancellors have resided since Watkins' death, has become even more of a public place, although chancellors and their families sometimes wish for a little more privacy.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and his wife, Gretchen, who have a 3-year-old daughter, Katrynn, have lived at house since he was appointed in 1981.
Diane Dultmeler/KANSAN
"It's kind of a glass house," Gretchen Budie said recently.
People walk by at all hours of the day and night on the way to campus and peer at the large windows, trying to see what the chancellor and his family are doing. she said.
"I don't consider it a luxury when it is as big and public as it is," she said.
The house is a 26-room, neo-classical revival built in 1912 by one of the wealthiest men in the Midwest, industrialist J.B. Watkins.
Watkins and his wife, Elizabeth, built it with the hope that it would be used after their deaths as a permanent chancellor's residence.
After Watkins died in 1912, his wife, a KU graduate, remained there until her death in 1938. She left the University gifts, including the house, that totaled $2 million, making her the most generous private contributor in the University's history.
The furniture in the downstairs living room of the chancellor's house, including this baby grand piano, was provided by the University.
Jim Scaly, assistant to the Cancellor, said KU chancellors, whether they liked it or not, were expected to live in the residence.
"The Regents have a policy that a college president must stay in the building."
This created a problem for Del Shankel, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Shankel, who served as chancellor for a year before Budig was selected, was required to move into the chancellor's home even though he had another home in Lawrence.
"We moved twice in one year," he said.
Shankel said that while living in the house, he and his wife and two children enjoyed the help of Betty Boyle, a housekeeper hired by the University to do day-to-day maintenance.
"She took care of the house and cooked the evening meal," he said.
Boyle remained when the Budigs moved in.
Scally said large-scale maintenance was taken care of by the University and the Endowment Association. Each year, a certain amount was set aside for utilities and repairs.
This year, he said, $15,000 of his funds would slide to Malawi the state's residences.
"It hasn't changed much since it was built." he said.
The chancellor's residence, a 26-room neo-classical revival, is at 1532 Lilac Lane, behind Fraser Hall.
Diane Dultmeler/KANSAN
Baby John Doe freed from parental rights
Staff writer
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
Baby John Doe, abandoned in a local apartment building Jan. 19, is one step closer to finding a permanent home.
Associate District Judge Jean Shepherd severed the parents' rights to the infant at a Douglas County District Court hearing Wednesday. Now the Lawrence Social and Rehabilitation Services, which has legal custody of the child, can begin the search for an adoptive family.
Anna Fender, the SRS representative at the hearing, said the parents didn't show up for the hearing.
"If they were interested in this child, they would have shown up by now," she said.
Although the infant's parents have not been identified and did not come forward to claim the child, an attorney, Margie Wakefield-Green, represented their interests in the case.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney,
said that each time a severance hearing takes
place an attorney is appointed to represent the
client. He also noted that the steps taken
conform with state statutes.
Failure to represent the parents' rights, Flory said, might give them an opening to protest the decision later. However, even in a case like Baby John Doe's, a protest probably would be futile.
"It wouldn't be a very good opening," Flory said.
The closed hearing was indicative of the protective atmosphere surrounding Baby John Doe.
Because the case involves a minor, the authorities have released little information about the infant. At the hearing, only the judge, witnesses and attorneys were allowed in the courtroom.
Fender said only one witness at a time was allowed in the courtroom to testify. Besides Fender, the students who found the infant and the judge were locked up before the judge severed parental rights.
Donna Flory, supervisor of protection services for Lawrence SRS, said she was relieved the hearing was over but the job was not finished.
The next step. Fender said, is to place the child in a permanent home.
Donna Flory said that although about 200 families in Kansas were eligible to adopt the child, SRS had narrowed the number to six or eight families. During the next two weeks, the SRS must rank those families during a staffing session.
"We will pick the most suitable family for this child." she said.
The prospective families present the staff with a social history and an autobiography.
City commissioners fight to protect funds
By Juli Warren
Staff writer
City commissioners tried to protect Lawrence's federal money sources at the National League of Cities conference in Washington last week.
The five commissioners, the city manager and the assistant city manager went to Washington March 8-11 for the annual meeting of the league.
The Lawrence delegation met with senators and representatives from Kansas and heard speeches on federal issues that concern cities.
Commissioner Howard Hill said that in the past the discussion had been based on the question of what programs to request money for.
"This time it was merely a matter of trying to protect the tools we have," he said.
Such tools, he said, include tax-exempt municipal bonds for projects such as sewer and street construction.
A provision of the budget being discussed by Congress would remove the tax-exempt status of the bonds.
Commissioner David Longhurst agreed that such a provision could inhibit investment in bonds.
"The bonds are much more marketable if
they're tax exempt because they can get a lower interest rate," he said.
Longhurst said he thought that municipal bonds should continue to be tax exempt, but that other bonds, such as industrial revenue bonds and housing bonds, did not necessarily need to be tax exempt.
Congress also is considering making the date of the provision retroactive to Jan. 1, the commissioners said.
"Everything's up in the air, until they resolve that question," Longhurst said.
The commissioners said they thought the retroactive portion of the provision would fail.
Another source of federal financing, general revenue sharing, probably will be cut from the federal budget, the commissioners said.
Longhurst said the cut of the program would trim the budget by $5 billion.
The league's position was to encourage Congress to extend revenue sharing, he said, but the city officials from Kansas realized it was a dead issue.
Cities most concerned are those that depend on federal revenue sharing funds for operating expenses, Longhurst said.
Lawrence gets about $700,000 in revenue sharing funds, according to city officials.
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