Monday, March 3, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs 2 killed,3 injured in one-car accident
Two men died yesterday afternoon after a one-car accident two miles east of Williamstown in Jefferson County.
Laurel C. Johnson, 32, of Raymore, Mo., and Donald M. Johnson, 51, died after the car, which was traveling east on U.S. 24, went through a ditch and struck a tree. Laurel Johnson was driving the car.
Three boys also were in the car. Two were taken by Life Flight helicopter to the University of Kansas Medical Center and one was taken to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
The boys' names and conditions were unavailable.
Crash hurts woman
Both men were taken to the Hampton-Barrett Funeral Home in Oskaloosa.
A Lawrence woman suffered minor injuries in a two-car accident Friday afternoon at the intersection of Ninth and Tennessee streets, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Katherine Berry, 20, 101 Emery Rd., was treated and released Friday afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokesman said.
Scott Durkin, 516 Indiana St., told police he was stopped on Tennessee Street when the traffic light turned green. He started to move forward, but stopped when two cars on Ninth Street ran the red light.
After the two cars crossed the intersection, he started to cross and was struck by Berry's car, which was heading west on Ninth, police said.
Berry told police that a pickup truck, which was alongside Durkin's car on Tennessee Street, hid Durkin's car from her view. The pickup pulled out in front of her. She sped up to avoid hitting it and hit Durkin's car.
Rock Chalk acts win
Winners of the 1986 Rock Chalk Revue were announced after Saturday evening's performance. The trophy for the best performance was won by Delta Upsilon fraternity, 1025 Emery Road, and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, 1433 Tennessee St.
The two groups wrote and performed the skit "Picking Up The Pieces."
A video cassette recorder, the award for the group who sold the most tickets, was won by Kappa Sigma fraternity, 1045 Emery Road, and Gamma Phi Beta sorority, 1339 W. Campus Park.
Corrections
Because of an editor's error, Del Shankel, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, was incorrectly identified in a photo cutline on page 3 of Friday's Kansan.
Because of a photographer's error, the bankrupt company named in a outline in Friday's paper was incorrect. The company that was unable to complete the Murphy Hall contract was Fair Roofing Co. Wichita.
The Kansan regrets the error.
Weather
Temperatures today should reach the mid to upper 50s under mostly sunny skies. Winds will be northwesterly at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with temperatures in the low 30s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs again reaching the mid-50s.
From staff and wire reports.
Hotline could help students plan trips
Bv Brian Kaberline
Students anxious to set out for spring break won't have to dig through newspaper weather maps or get up early to listen to the national weather. They can use a new weather hotline.
Staff writer
By calling the hotline, 664-4329,
students can get a free forecast
at within minutes for anywhere they
may be headed.
The Spring Break Hotline will be available Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will be provided by the Atmospheric Science Booster Club, Rual Filardi, club president, said yesterday.
The majority of the 15-member club is made up of meteorology students, Filardi, a Lenexa senior, said, and members making the forecasts all have experience with the KU weather service.
Chris Wikle, Overland Park senior, said the idea came about because of the number of calls the KU weather service received each year from students wanting the information.
The weather service received about 10 calls each day before semester break from people wanting to know the forecast for their destinations, he said. The hotline could serve many others with the same questions.
Dana Manweiler, Witchita freshman, said she thought the hotline was a good idea. Knowing what kind of weather to expect would help her decide what clothes to take
Don Snellback, Deerfield, Ill., junior, said he wasn't concerned about the weather when he took off for Padre Island, Texas, later this week. Because he has already made his reservations, he said, he will not change anything just because of bad weather.
Although Manweiler said the hotline would save her the trouble of trying to look up the forecasts herself, others said the weather didn't matter.
to Virginia and whether she could go to the beach.
Wikie said no one expected a bad forecast to change anyone's plans, but knowing what to expect would be helpful. The hotline may help alert students to unusual weather or weather that affects road conditions.
Grant Pitzer, club treasurer, said the service would provide members with forecasting experience for many different areas and help draw attention to the club.
But club members admit that the hotline will help them as much as those who call it.
If the hotline is successful, the club hopes to expand the idea to cover semester and Thanksgiving breaks, with sponsorship from area businesses, Pitzer, a Pittsburgh sonohome, said.
The club will make the forecasts based on information from the National Weather Service. They plan to keep a current forecast available for the most popular spots, such as Padre Island and Florida, he said.
Imposter
Steve Pope, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, does his best Billy Idol impersonation for a crowd at Cogburns. 737 New Hampshire St. Pope, winner of Thursday night's celebrity look-alike competition sponsored by Students Against Multiple Sclerosis, won a trip to the Caribbean for his performance.
Author describes threat of nuclear winter
Bv Sandra Crider
Staff writer
Paul Ehrlich's long fingers grasped an imaginary key in the air and turned it, and he said, "Military people don't want to do this in a hole in the ground and that's all they have to do with the war."
He shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's got no nizzaz."
Deep inside missile silos scattered across the nation, military personnel have keys which control the firing of the nuclear warheads.
Ehrlich, scientist and author of 22 books, including "The Population Bomb," explained the hatred people in the military had for nuclear
weapons to a small group at a reception Friday afternoon.
The gathering followed a speech Ehrlich gave on "Nuclear Winter" to about 300 people at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The lecture commemorated the centennial of Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific research society.
Ehrlich, one of the early researchers on nuclear winter, spoke on what would happen if there was a large-scale nuclear war.
A large cloud of smoke and debris would block the sun's rays, he said. Kansas temperatures in July dipping to 40 degrees below zero and the darkening of the northern
hemisphere to continuous night were some of the possible effects he discussed.
At the cookies-and-punch reception in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union, Ehrlich chatted informally about members of the military and nuclear arms. He leaned toward the center of the circle of listeners and lowered his voice to softly emphasize a point.
People in the armed services longed for acts of heroism, crawling on their bellies through a muddy field or cradled in the cockpit of an F-16. Ehrlich told his attentive audience.
"All these people believe they will never be used," he said.
Ehrich visited with professors he had seen little of since receiving his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Kansas in the 1950s and chatted with students. Statistics rolled off his tongue with the ease of an old yarn on a summer evening.
"Four per second for 48 hours," Ehrlich said of how many bombs the size of the one that devastated Hiroshima could be dropped consecutively before emptying the U.S. strategic arsenal.
Ehrlich has made his fame by calmly making the threats of nuclear war and over-population consumable for the average person. His style, similar to a cross between Carl
Sagan and Andy Rooney, makes him a perfect candidate for television talk shows.
A broad smile appeared through Ehrlich's graying beard as he shook hands with an apologetic fan who had criticized him in the question and answer portion of his lecture for something Ehrlich had said on "The Tonight Show."
"I'm used to hard times." he said.
"I'm used to hard dieses," he said. Ehrlich entertained his listeners as he gave his opinion on the present administration in Washington.
"I thought that nobody could make me long for Richard Nixon," he said.
Children raise money in Jump Rope for Heart
Staff writer
By Lynn Maree Ross
The parking lot at Southern Hills Mall, 1601 W. 23rd St., became a giant playground as over 600 children, and some adults who were young at heart, took part in the annual Jump Rope for Heart.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. In 1884, over 69,000 Americans died from the disease.
Chuck Mead, Jump Rope for Heart coordinator, said the Kansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance sponsored the three-hour event each year to promote cardiovascular exercise and physical education programs in schools. The group coordinates its activities with the American Heart Association.
Some children jumping rope defied the chilling wind, wearing brightly colored baggy shorts. Other children were only half-hearted in their attempt to bring on spring and wore sweatsuits or long underwear under their shorts.
Regardless of what the children wore, their up-and-down motion and their laughter created a kaleidoscope of sight and sound to benefit heart disease research.
Every few minutes the sound of a cowbell would ring out over the crowd. The bell signaled to those jumping that it was time to let someone else in their group take over.
"Do you think he can jump for two minutes without stealing?" Mead asked the children.
KU quarterback Mike Norsech came to encourage the children as they jumped rope — and to do some jumping of his own.
Norseth did. Then he spent over an hour signing autographs.
Bob Valesente, head football coach, also showed up to cheer on the children. He said that because of research supported by efforts such as Jump Rope for Heart, he was alive today.
"It wasn't but a couple of years ago that I had
"by-pass surgery," he said. "It's given me a second chance at life.
"Hopefully they can see the results of some of their efforts."
Dan Haas, a seventh grader at South Junior High School, said he thought the event was important because adults and children could be affected by heart disease.
"I'm doing it for all the kids," he said. "They have a lot of life left to live and they could die from it."
Haas, jumping rope for the fifth year, said he received more than $105 in pledges this year.
Last year the children raised about $20,000 for Jump Rope for Heart. Mead said he hoped the project would raise $25,000 this year.
Missing date for financial aid could be costly
By Lori Poison
Staff writer
Students may have trouble receiving campus-based financial aid for next year if they have not filed their applications yet, a spokesman for the office of financial aid said Friday.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said that March 1 was the priority date for students to file their financial aid forms with the American College Testing program.
"I'm not desperate for financial aid, she said yesterday "But it helps."
ACT determines student financial need. Those figures are considered by the University of Kansas when
Tracy Thompson, Woodbridge, Va., freshman, has not filled out her financial aid forms yet, but said she planned to during spring break.
scholarship awards are given, Rogers said.
The students who already have filled their financial aid forms will be considered first for scholarships from KU. he said.
But students such as Thompson who haven't sent in their ACT forms
yet still can be considered for aid programs, Rogers said.
"The real hurry is that you are competing for precious campus-based funds." Rozzers said.
Campus scholarships usually are in high demand, he said. When too many qualified students apply for available funds, the applications that are received first will have priority
"March 1 is not a deadline; it's a priority date," he said. "We want to encourage students to file early."
The financial aid awards given by the federal government are based on
Awards given by the federal government include Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, National Direct Student Loans, the College Work Study Program, Guaranteed Student Loans and Pell Grants.
But, Rogers said, "Early filing doesn't do a lot of good unless the application is complete."
need, he said, and do not need to be filed as early as applications for KU funds.
An incomplete application will be held by ACT until the needed
The University has added a requirement for students applying for campus-based awards and Guaranteed Student Loans.
This year, for the first time, students have to submit the Family Financial Statement to ACT. The form is a statement of the financial condition of the student's family. In past years, the form was submitted to KU's financial aid office.
materials are sent, he said.
Rogers said the change was made to satisfy the federal government's laws for verification.
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