Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1986
University Daily Kansan
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Police arrest student driving stolen BMW
A 20-year-old KU student was charged with possession of stolen property after police arrested him yesterday afternoon. He was arrested after police saw him driving a car in the 1200 block of W. 15th Street.
Three passengers, all KU students, were questioned but not arrested.
Police said the car, a $40,000 BMW, was reported stolen in Florida late in December.
Kwik Shop robbed
A woman stole cigarettes and an undisclosed amount of cash during an armed robbery at Kwik Shop, 845 Mississippi St., early yesterday morning, Lawrence police said.
The woman entered the store, purchased some cigarettes, then reached into her purse and told the cashier that he was being robbed. She then reached into the register and grabbed the money.
Police said they were looking for a black woman, 5 feet 4 inches, 120 lbs, in her late 30s. She was driving a brown four-door car with a Johnson County license plate and was last seen driving west on 9th street
Thomas to get award
Helen Thomas, United Press International White House bureau chief, will receive the 1986 William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit.
Thomas will receive the award Feb. 10 at the William Allen White Day luncheon at the University of Kapsas.
Robert B. Wellington, editor of the Ottawa Herald and the White Foundation president, will present the award to Thomas.
Award honors peace
An award of $250 will be given this semester to an outstanding student interested in peace research and conflict resolution.
The E. Jackson Baur Award, which is being presented for the first time, is named for an emeritus professor of sociology.
Students interested in applying for the scholarship can contact Scott McNall, professor of sociology. Nominations, which are due March 14, are also being accepted from professors.
The award can be used to support research, travel expenses or the cost of manuscript publication and preparation. Awards also can be be made for work in progress or work already accomplished.
McNall said the intent of the award was to call attention to and reward such research.
The awards committee will be McNall; Howard Baumgartel, professor of psychology; and Tom Beisecker, associate professor of communication studies.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and cold with a 50 percent chance of snow and a high in the mid-30s. North winds will be 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be cloudy and cold again with a 50 percent chance of snow and a low in the mid-20s. Tomorrow will be cloudy and cold with a 40 percent chance of snow and a high in the low 30s.
From staff and wire reports.
Tobacco warning label may be required
TOPEKA — If legislators in Washington don't pass a law requiring warning labels on chewing tobacco and snuff packages, the legislators in Topeka just might.
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee heard arguments yesterday in support of a proposed bill that would make it illegal in Kansas to sell tins or other chewing tobacco containers without a warning label.
The label would read: "Warning:
The use of this product could cause
guitar observer.
Any person violating the law would be guilty of a class C misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of one month in jail, or a fine not exceeding $500 or both.
oral cancer and other mouth and gum disorders."
Nationally, the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill that would not only require warning labels on smokeless tobacco but also ban their broadcast advertising.
One of three rotating warning labels would be required on tobacco packages: "This product may cause
oral cancer," "This product may cause gum disease and tooth loss," or "This product is not a safe alternative to cigarettes."
State Rep. Charles Laird, D-Topeka, said if the federal bill passed the Senate and became law, it would supersede the bill now introduced in the Kansas House.
"We should go ahead and pass this and let the fed know we're serious about it," Laird said. "I think it be nice to show our concern
and let people in our state know we're concerned."
He said tobacco companies were not fighting the bill in Congress because they would rather deal with a federal law than different laws in each state.
Committee chairman Robert Miller, R-Wellington, said the committee would not take action on the bill soon, but would wait to see what Congress did.
Stephen Zeller, an oral surgeon from Topeka, told the committee about the dangers of smokeless tobacco and showed slides of cancer
victims to support his stance.
"There is no doubt in my mind that smokeless tobacco causes cancer," Zeller said. "It's a fact."
Warnings are needed to avoid an epidemic of oral cancer in the years to come, he said.
The two most common types of oral cancer linked to smokeless tobacco are squamous cell carcinoma and verrucous carcinoma. Zeller said.
Squamous cell carcinoma, he said, is responsible for 90 percent of all oral cancer. It is also the most dangerous because it can spread to other parts of the body.
Class teaches unusual path to self-defense
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
The way of least resistance is a different approach to self-defense.
The approach, called Shaolin Yi Tao Gung Fu, is a style of self-defense that Robert Sprackland developed by combining traditional styles of martial arts with his own techniques. He teaches the style in a class at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Lawrence Community Center, 115 W. 11th St.
Sprackland, a graduate student in education,
said he tried to teach his students to use physical
instruments.
"The purpose is not to kill your attacker," he said. "We don't have the right to take something away that we can't replace."
The purpose of the class is to liberate the individual mentally and physically, he said.
"We try to get rid of the irrational fears people have and get them to understand that fear." Sprachland said. "We also try to get people to know their limitations and recognize the ones they give themselves."
Many of the students in the class said they benefited from this type of self-defense. One class member said the class helped her in other aspects of her daily life.
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"Besides feeling more confident, it teaches balance," Judy Peterson, a KU graduate, said. "I found my quicker reflexes and it has widened my perinerval vision."
Other students in the class said the art built character and made them more confident.
"It has made me more assured," Bridget Patti, Lawrence freshman, said. "I feel better about myself and don't let people push me around anymore."
Even though the art centers on physical self-defense, most people in the class have found that they haven't had to use it.
Joseph Bicknell, Prairie Village senior, said he had used it mentally, but not physically.
James Minor, 933 Kentucky St., uses Shaolin Yi Tao Gung Fu techniques to throw Joseph Bicknell, Prairie Village senior, during a simulated knife attack. They were participating in a self-defense class last night at the Lawrence Community Center, 115 W. 11th St.
Lee Beletis, New York graduate student, said she found that people had more respect for her when they discovered that she knew martial arts. However, she said, she did not advertise it.
"When people find out that you know martial arts, then they want to fight," she said.
Sprackland has been practicing martial arts for 28 years.
"It was total infatuation," Sprackland said. "I was watching a 90-year-old instructor being attacked by six large guys. He defended himself without moving his feet at all."
Student Senate hopes to get hot line
By a Kansan reporter
Student Senate wants a telephone hot line to be installed in the Kansas Union to improve communication between the officers and students, the student body vice president said yesterday.
Amy Brown, vice president, said the hot line would be installed by March and would consist of a telephone answering machine
available to students 24 hours a day.
Students could use the hot line to voice opinions, questions or complaints about Senate affairs.
"A lot of people may be too intimidated to come into the office themselves," she said.
Brown said the Senate planned to use the line to poll student opinion on Senate issues.
The line also could be used for general questions and Senate officials would refer students to the proper office, Brown said.
The hot line would not try to be a counseling or crisis service, nor would it try to provide services already supplied by the University Information Center, she said.
Brown said the Senate was accepting bids for equipment and maintenance for the line and should know the cost by next week. The proposal will then go before the full
Senate for approval.
Krista Thacker, El Dorado sophomore, said she was interested in Senate issues because she was involved in student government in high school.
"If the Student Senate issues were advertised more, then I think students would call in to the hotline," Thacker said. "I don't think it would be used a lot, but I think it would be used a little."
By Russell Gray
Staff writer
Police today refused to comment on the shooting deaths of two former KU students discovered Monday afternoon.
Autopsies have been performed, and the investigation is expected to be completed in about two days, police said.
According to police, the shooting in Shawnee of Ronald and Ramona Brown probably took place Sunday afternoon, because Monday's newspapers were still on the couple's front lawn.
head, police said. There was no sign of a forced entry into the house or a struggle.
Mr. Brown, 25, graduated from the University in 1983 with a degree in general studies. Mrs. Brown, 22, also was a former KU student.
Both died of gunshot wounds to the
After graduating from the University, Mr. Brown was a sales representative for a computer company. He also worked as the head of marketing and marketing analysis for Crystal Computers in Lenexa.
Mr. Brown graduated from
Mrs. Brown Mission South High School
in overland Park, Mrs. Brown graduated from Shawnee Mission East in Prairie Village. The couple was married on May 19, 1985.
In May 1985 the couple opened a personalized gift shop called Namesakes, which they operated until their deaths.
While at the University, Mr. Brown was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, 2000 Stewart Ave.
John Hess, a KU graduate and fraternity member, said Brown was a very nice, quiet person.
"I thought it was a tragedy," Hess said. "He always seemed very much like one of the rest of us."
Mike Pautler, St. Louis senior and fraternity member, said, "Ron was a nice guy."
University hit by flu and colds
Staff writer
By Lynn Maree Ross
Loungs and sneezes have plagued students and faculty at the University of Kansas in the past week, but the school continues to function.
"Some have dragged themselves to class and then dragged themselves home again," she said.
Elaine Vick, secretary in the physics and astronomy department, said last week that many teachers had taught classes when they should have been home in bed.
Dave Barnhill, secretary in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said the incidence of illness at the school had been higher than usual. Almost everyone on the staff, if they didn't have sick, at least had flu-like symptoms, he said.
The latest round of illness also has affected Robinson Center, the University bookstores and the bus service.
Allan Heinze, director of physical education and recreation facilities, said that both the students using the center and the center's staff had been bothered by illness. The number of students using the center has dropped from about 1,500 students each day to only 1,200 students.
He said at one point, six staff members were sick. However, illness has not curtailed activities at Robinson.
"We have quite a bit of backup," he said. "Overall, we've been able to keep the shop open."
Mike Reid, assistant manager for the Oread, Burge and Kansas Union bookstores, said he was having problems because of sick employees.
The bookstores are busy because students are coming in to get special refunds, he said. With 10 of his 60 employees ill yesterday, customer assistance was the area most affected.
Another service area that has been affected by illness is the Lawrence Bus Company.
Bus Company
Duane Ogle, manager of the bus company, said the illness had caused healthy employees to work overtime.
Ogle said, "Everyone is going to get their share of it, I suppose."
Watkins Memorial Hospital has seen its share of sick students, too.
James Strobel, director of Watkins,
said doctors treated about 250 students on a usual day. But last week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 325 students came in for treatment each day.
Richard Schaffer, a physician at Watkins, said about 50 percent of the patients had flu-like symptoms. He was reluctant to say whether the illness was influenza, an acute infectious disease characterized by fever, muscular pain and inflammation of the respiratory tract.
The only way to confirm that the illness is influenza, he said, is to run studies three weeks after onset of the symptoms.
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