Friday, Feb. 7, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Police say man kills wife, shoots himself
the deaths of two former KU students in Shawnee on Monday have been ruled murder-suicide, the Shawnee police chief said yesterday.
Ronald and Ramona Brown were found dead in their Shawnee home, said Charles Stump, the Shawnee police chief. Police think that Ronald Brown shot his wife about 2 a.m. Monday and then shot himself.
Financial problems may have triggered the shootings, Stump said.
Ronald Brown, 25, graduated from KU in 1983 with a degree in general studies. Brown was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. After graduation, he worked for several computer companies before opening a gift shop with his wife in May of last year.
Ramona Brown, 22, was a graduate of Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kan. She married Brown on May 19, 1985.
Teenager arrested
A Lawrence teenager was arrested by Lawrence police early yesterday morning for stealing $51 and a 6-foot teddy bear valued at $225. Lawrence police said.
Sgt. Dahlquest said police were called to the shopping mall at Sixth and Kasold about 1:30 a.m. Police saw two men near the mall who ran when police arrived.
Officers returned to the mall and found that the front door of Bear Land, 601 Kasol Dr., had been broken and a cash register had been pried open. The officers then found a 6-foot teddy bear in the back seat of a car parked at the shopping center. Dahq肆 said the car was owned by a relative of the juvenile.
Officers chased the juvenile before he was apprehended. Dahlquest said. The other man got away.
Local man killed
Police said they did not know the identity of the second man and had not recovered the money. Dahlquest said the two also were suspects in the theft of $90 from a gas station between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 5:30 a.m. yesterday.
A rural Lawrence man was killed in a hit-and-run accident Wednesday night near Stull, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
ed in a hit-and-
Wednesday night
Kansas Highway Patrol sam.
George D. Smith, 55, of Rt. 6,
apparently had stopped his car in the middle of a road 1; mile when Stull had gotten out when he was struck, the highway patrol said.
Smith's body was found by a passing motorist at 8:30 p.m., the highway patrol said. There are no suspects.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and cold with a 50 percent chance of snow and a high around 30. Winds will blow to the north at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and cold with a 30 percent chance of snow. The low tonight will be 15 to 20 and the high tomorrow will be 25 to 30.
Because of an error, three men involved in a shooting-stabbing incident at 1319 Vermont St. were identified in the Jan. 28 Kansan by their race.
It is against Kansan policy to describe someone by race, ethnic origin or religion unless the description is relevant to the story or part of a detailed description of a fictive.
Apology
The Kansan apologizes for the error.
Brains battle in trivia bowl
By Grant W. Butler
What is the active ingredient in NutraSweet?
Staff writer
What was the only non-human that made Time magazine's man of the year?
From staff and wire reports.
When was the first World Series, who won it and in how many games?
The quiz bowl, which took place in the Kansas Union, was sponsored by Student Union Activities and Lambda Sigma.
Questions that are the stuff of trivia nightmares were fitting challenges for contestants in last night's first round of the University of Kansas College Quiz Bowl.
The semi-final and final rounds will begin tonight at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
"Some of these teams are really serious about winning," Bill Mar, Garden City sophomore and president of Lambda Sigma, the sophomore honor society, said yesterday.
Mar said a lot of work went into
putting together the tournament, but the final round would be worth it.
"This is pretty fun now, but tomorrow it will be the two best teams and they will win."
In a quiz bowl round, the four-member teams are asked tosse-up questions by a moderator, and the first team to answer correctly gets a shot at a bonus question. In a tosse-up question, the person answering cannot confer with team members, although discussion is allowed during bonus questions.
The team with the most points at the end of two 7-minute periods wins.
Sixteen teams participated in last night's first round. The team that wins the double-elimination tournament will receive a traveling trophy, and will then go to Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Mo., as KU's representative in the regional tournament on Feb. 21 and 22.
Gene Wee, program adviser for SUA, said the game was not new to college students.
been around for a long time," he said. "It was on TV in the 1950s and 1960s. When it went off the air, the Association of College Unions International decided it wanted to continue the contests."
"College bowl is a game that's
Elizabeth Souders, Stanley junior, a member of the Meadow Party Political Action Committee team, said this was the third year she had participated in the quiz bowl.
"I love Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy, so it's good practice. It's the thrill-of-victory, agony-of-deefat thing. It's the adrenaline. You just get really excited."
"Sometimes there's a superstar who can answer all the questions or can answer just a few words of the question."
"People get pretty wrapped up in it," he said. "A team that flies and a moderator who reads the questions fast can make the scores go really high.
One strategy for success in the games, Wee said, is to form a team with all of the members having different majors.
The questions are harder this year, she said, but it all depends on the player's area of expertise.
A recent episode of Saturday Night Live lampooned the College Quiz Bowl in a skit called "Party School Bowl."
"Abraham Lincoln was a president of the United States. Name another?" asked guest host Chevy Chase.
After a long pause, an actor playing a student answered hesitantly, "Kennedy?"
The contestants had difficulty answering questions about government, math and logic, but displayed their cerebral expertise on synonyms for vomit and the gallon capacity of different types of beer kegs.
By the caliber of questions asked at the KU quiz bowl, observers could conclude that the participants were versed in more than mere parting.
Those who answered spartame, the computer and the 1903 Boston Red Sox in eight games probably could participate in more than the "Party School Bowl."
Epstein to see Budig today about lights
By Piper Scholfield
Staff writer
Epstein said he and Amy Brown, student body vice president, would begin lobbying the Kansas Legislature for support of the lighting proposal within the next two weeks.
Student Body President David Epstein will meet with Chancellor Gene A. Budig today to discuss the possibility of improving campus lighting.
Lt. Jeanne Longacker of the KU Police Department said that as a law enforcement agency, the police favored more lighting on campus even though statistics indicated the crime problem was not because of inadequate lighting.
A question Epstein said he would ask the chancellor was why an improved lighting plan had not been included in any chancellor's budget in the last five years.
Jayhawk Boulevard was the initial target of the lighting program because of the amount of traffic there, he said. If one well-lighted centralized walkway was provided on campus, students could follow that path.
Epstein he thought that everyone agreed that poor lighting was a problem on campus but that no one would pay for the improvements.
"It hasnt even been on the wish list." Enstein said.
Campus lighting has been an issue in every Student Senate election in the past five years. Epstein said the University or the state should pay for the lighting improvements, not the students.
Better campus lighting is needed to ensure the safety of students, he said.
Epstein said he based the importance of better campus lighting on a 1985 KU campus lighting and crime study. The study included the estimated costs of the plan, a map of poorly lit areas that needed improvement and the number of campus crimes committed between 1977 and 1983.
The study indicated that the largest number of crimes investigated occurred in areas of University housing. Most crimes were committed in the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall area and at Stouffer Place.
Police favor better lighting. Longacker said.
"Right now we have the most inefficient lights; they light the skies and trees, everything but the ground," he said.
It initially would cost $50,000 to improve lighting just on Jayhawk Boulevard. Estein said.
Wilfred Lee/KANSAN
A Lawrence firefighter hoses down the door frame of The Wood Works, a subsidiary of Quire Industries. Fire broke out yesterday afternoon at the building, which was originally part of a World War II prison camp, near 11th and Haskell streets. No one was injured. MaJ, Don Morrow of the Lawrence Fire Department said that although extra equipment was used because of the building's size, the fire was brought under control in 15 minutes. The Wood Works produces computer furniture.
Center helps voiceless speak
Staff writer
By Lynn Maree Ross
Verbal communication requires thoughts, a pair of vocal cords, a breath of air and the physical ability to express an idea. But sometimes people, through disease or injury, lose the ability to speak.
The Communication Aids Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center helps those who can't express themselves vocally to choose an alternate means of communication, Hannah Fenley, a speech-language pathologist at the Med Center, said yesterday.
Tom Guyette, also a speech-language pathologist at the Med Center in Kansas City, Kan., said the patients couldn't communicate because of a disease or injury such as muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, stroke or amytrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
The first step in patient evaluation, Fenley said, is to look at the patient's motivation, language and speech skills and financial situation.
The center is located in the Hearing and Speech Clinic. Fenley works in rehabilitation medicine and sees children with various disabilities in the children's rehabilitation unit.
Motivation is important, Fenley said. The most difficult obstacle for many patients to overcome is feeling unacceptable because they can't communicate. Many times, once the patient or his family discovers the advantage of using a communication aid, the desire to communicate overcomes negative feelings.
Patients are referred to the center from within the hospital or by a family doctor or other speech and language clinicians.
The center uses a number of aids when evaluating a patient. The simplest and most inexpensive is a piece of heavy paper with pictures glued to it. The most complicated and expensive aid is a computerized alphabet and word board.
Fenley said evaluation was important. If the patient is evaluated improperly, he could end up with the wrong aid.
Fenley said the types of pictures used on the board would depend on the needs of the patient. If the patient is immobile, she said, he may only need pictures of a glass, a plate of food and a toilet.
For patients who are partially mobile, the center has a computerized board. It uses letters and words or pictures depending on the language skills of the patient.
work best. A person with Lou Gehrig's disease, he said, might be unable to move his arms and would use a computerized board.
For example, one of the communication aids requires the patient to hold a plastic board, marked with the alphabet, in front of his face. If the patient's arms are not strong or are immobile, that aid wouldn't be useful.
Guyette said the type of disease or injury the patient had played a big part in determining which aid would
Learning to use the proper communication aid is important for people who have no other way to express themselves.
"It allows you to be more independent." Guyette said.
Fenley said a breakdown in communication meant someone couldn't share his own thoughts.
Someone who is immobile and can only shake or nod his head to communicate has to depend on others, Fenley said. If the person wants something he has to hope that someone will ask him the right question.
"Spontaneity is so limited," Fenley said.
Students pay more at center
By Sandra Crider
Fifth-year education students are in a financial Twilight Zone.
An ad hoc committee composed of University staff and one student is examining the special needs of the education students who are somewhere in the void between undergraduate and graduate status.
Paul Haack, acting dean of education, said the ad hoc committee, which met last week, was formed last semester because the pioneer students in the fifth-year program were facing new problems.
Students who attend the Regents Center in Overland Park are paying more tuition for the same education they would receive in Lawrence. And under federal financial aid requirements, the fifth-year education students are neither undergraduates nor graduates.
There are not enough fifth-year teaching internships within the Lawrence community, so many students must take jobs in the Kansas City area and take supplemental courses at the Regents Center, Haack said.
At the Regents Center, students are charged more for higher level courses, although all credit hours cost the same at the Lawrence campus. The Regents Center does not charge extra for out-of-state students, however.
Haack speculated that the Regents Center had different fee policies because of the special nature of the students there. Most of them are part-time students who live in Missouri. In Lawrence, most of the students are full-time and Kansas residents.
Regardless of the reason for the different fee schedules, students who take internships in Kansas City do paying more for the same education.
Students do not see the purpose for the different fee rates.
"They feel it's not fair to be paying more when they're over there at our convenience and not at theirs," Haack said.
Sherri Williams, Wichita fifteen-year student, said the center gave the students a special waiver last semester because the students were unaware that their tuition would be missed. The school district required Williams said officials informed them that the exception was a one-time event.
"Teachers who taught us over here are no different than those in Lawrence," she said. "As a matter of fact, they're the same people."
Another main concern of the committee is the inaccessibility of financial aid to fifth-year students. They already have earned a bachelor's degree at the end of four years, but have not yet completed the program.
According to Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, fifth-year students are ineligible for undergraduate grants and for graduate Guaranteed Student Loans that are twice as much as the undergraduate GSLs.
"All they have to do is straighten out the classification of the students and they'll be fine." Rogers said.
Students caught in the middle are going where no class has gone before, Williams said. Part of the problem is that the school didn't have clear policies when the program began, and many of changes were made along the way.
The committee will meet Tuesday to discuss the details of a special loan proposal for fifth-year students that it will present to the Kansas University Endowment Association.
"It's a lot better program now than it was when we first entered it, but it's been kind of trial and error as they get the kinks ironed out," she said.
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