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Friday, Jan. 31, 1986
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Hearing date is set for KU prof murder Murder hearing set
The preliminary hearing of a man accused of murdering former KU professor George V. Hixson was delayed until Feb. 18, the Douglas County District Attorney said yesterday.
Eugene Avis Jr., 25, is charged with first degree murder and felony theft in the slaying of Hixson, whose body was found in his home Dec. 2. Police think Hixson was strangled about Nov. 22.
Rape trial postponed
The trial of a Lawrence man charged with six felonies in the October kidnapping and rape of a high-school-aged Baldwin City girl has been postponed until March 31, the Douglas County District Attorney said yesterday.
Jim Flory, the district attorney, said the trial was delayed because psychological reports on Mark Maas, the accused, were not available yet.
Flory said the reports were needed before the trial because Maas would plead insanity.
Maas, 19, was charged in October with one count each of aggravated assault, terroristic threats, aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated burglary and aggravated sodomy.
Maas is accused of forcing the girl into his car at gunpoint at the Lawrence High School parking lot Oct. 8. He also is accused of breaking into the home of the same girl, taking her to a rural area and raping her later that month.
Suspect is charged
A Lawrence man was charged Wednesday in the Monday night stabbing of a man he was trying to collect rent from, the Douglas County District Attorney's office said.
Alfred Dover, 837 E. 13th St., was charged with aggravated battery in the stabbing of Edward Davis Jr. Dover is being held on a $15,000 bond at the Douglas County bail.
Dover is accused of stabbing Davis in a second-floor apartment at 1319 Vermont St.
Dover was shot by a third man after Davis was stabbed, Lawrence police said. No charges have been filed against the third man.
Dover was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for a. 22 caliber wound to his right hip. Davis is listed in fair condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Weather
Today will be fair with a high in the mid-50s and southeast winds from 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will have increasing cloudiness with a low from 35 to 40. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high in the mid- to upper-40s.
Correction
Because of a photographer's error, Anthony Butcher, winner of the Mr. Ebony pageant, was incorrectly identified in a outline Monday.
Officials ask Senate to release excess fees
From staff and wire reports
By Lori Polson
A representative of the Kansas Board of Regents asked the state Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday to release more than $800,000 in excess fees created by an unexpected increase in enrollment at the University of Kansas.
Staff writer
Stanley Koplik, executive officer of the Regents, requested that the Legislature appropriate $804,772 to KU to help cover rising costs due to higher enrollment.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, also appeared before the committee.
About 900 more students than expected enrolled at the University for the 1985-86 academic year, von Ende said. When KU's budget was approved by the Kansas Legislature last year, the amount of money appropriated to the University did not take into account this increase.
"We find ourselves financially strapped," von Ende told the committee. "We are robbing other areas of our budget to pay for the increase in the number of students."
Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia and member of the committee, suggested that the excess fees generated by KU's enrollment be given to two Regents schools that had deficits in their budgets.
Kopik said the two schools, Kansas Technical Institute in Salina and Emporia State University, had fewer students enroll than expected during the 1985-86 academic year. These schools need an increase in revenue to meet their budget needs for fiscal year 1986.
sure that But Koplik said the excess fees were needed at KU to pay for programs short on money.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the KTI.
"We think we have a need," he said. "We would ask that a release of fees be directed to areas which were previously lacking in funds."
These areas include sick-leave payments to faculty members and measures to provide for the increase in enrollment, he said.
Von Ende said the committee would consider KU's request but probably would not make a final decision until the end of the legislative session.
Sidney Shapiro, professor of law and chairman of the University's Senate Executive Committee, appeared before the committee to represent the KU faculty.
"The single most frustrating aspect of teaching at the University of Kansas is that we lack the tools necessary to teach effectively," he said.
Sigma Kappa director had 'class and poise'
By Peggy Kramer
Staff writer
Anna J. Russell, Sigma Kappa house mother, died early yesterday morning at her daughter's home in Toupea. She was 60.
Julie Stein, former president of Sigma Kappa sorority, said Mrs. Russell had cancer since last summer, but doctors had not yet determined the cause of death.
Mrs. Russell had been the house director of Sigma Kappa, 1325 West Campus Road, for the past four years. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1947 and was a member of the Chi Omega sorority.
"She had class and poise," said Ann Kaplan, Sigma Kappa president.
Members of Sigma Kappa described Mrs. Russell as active, encouraged
Marge Hazlett, the Sigma Kappa advisory board director, said Mrs. Russell was a big fan of all sports and attended KU basketball and football games.
Stein said Mrs. Russell went to many of the KU football and basketball games with the women in the house until she was unable to go any more because of her illness.
Mrs. Russell was born Jan. 20, 1926 in Humboldt, Neb. She also lived in Concordia and Iola.
Mrs. Russell was the treasurer for the House Directors Group Association for two years, said Frances Platt, Alpha Chi Omega house mother.
"She was more than just a house director," Hazlett said.
Mrs. Russell is survived by two sons, Harker, Wichita; Frederick, Lenexa; one daughter, Pam Alexander, Topeka; and four grandchildren.
A memorial has been established, and gifts may be sent to the Sigma Kappa house.
Craig Sands/KANSAN
Services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the St. David's Episcopal Church, 3916 S.W. 17th Street, in Topeka. Burial will be at the Mount Hope Cemetery, 4700 S.W. 17th Street.
John Gilman, Mission graduate student, talks with Van Deren Coke, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at a reception after Coke's presentation. Coke spoke on the new trends in photography last night in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Roadell Hickman/Special to the KANSAN
Racquetball anvone?
Joe Foderberg, Overland Park junior, and Derek Updegraff, Wichita junior, enjoy a game of racquetball. They played just night at Robinson Center
Group reduces thesis crisis
By Jun warren Staff writer
School may seem like an endless series of impossible deadlines to undergraduates, but graduate students' single looming thesis or dissertation isn't any easier, according to a counselor at the University Counseling Center.
Center.
Joan P. Cesari, the counselor, began a group in 1983 to offer a confidential forum for support and suggestions to graduate students.
In a corner of the Kansas Union, three graduate students and Cesari meet weekly to hash out the problems involved in producing their final projects.
"It's not a heavy kind of thing," said Barbara Michael, of the group "a is a friendly bunch of people."
a member of the group. It is a trait that Members of the group can blow off steam about typist or adviser problems and know that their identity and what they say will be kept confidential.
However, Michael said, another important purpose of the group is to try to structure the project and develop self-motivated work patterns.
"Even if your advisers are checking up on you, you're still left with this nebulous deadline," she said.
MEMBERS can learn from hours over the weekend or to complete a bibliographical search — and report their progress to the group, Cesari said.
To motivate them to meet that goal, they should...
To motivate them to meet that goal, she said, they may set rewards or consequences.
Michael said, "It might be to go to a movie or go to dinner, with a friend or to sit and vegetate for a day.
her with a book in the hand.
"Sometimes the group is that reward, to be able to go back and tell the group. The members know how much it means."
Diane Bergquist-Lindeman, assistant director of admissions, was a member of the first group in 1983 and said it was part of the reason she finished her thesis in one year.
"It really helped me because I have a tendency to procrastinate," Bergquist-Lindeman said. "I felt like I owed something to myself, and I owed something to the group."
She earned her master's degree in counseling and did her thesis on the influence that mothers have on their daughters' career choices.
Cesari said she knew the benefits of such a support group because a similar group helped her get through the experience of writing her doctoral dissertation.
"It is a personal and emotional endeavor as well as an intellectual endeavor." she said.
Cesari earned her doctorate in 1982 from Texas Technical University in Lubbock.
Because members of the group graduate, the number of students in the group has fluctuated from three to eight. Cesari said.
eight. Michael said that having more members would be helpful because three was an easier number to maintain as a group.
or contemplates:
The diversity of members' areas of study also helps give them a fresh viewpoint on what they're writing, she said.
A math major, for example, would have to use different language when he talked about his thesis to an art history major, according to Cesari.
"Having people in the group outside of your field means you have to explain it to them," Cesari said. "You have to talk about it very differently than you do with your math friends."
In her pursuit of her doctorate in anthropology, Michael is working on a dissertation about gender roles of nomads who herd cattle in Sudan. She lived with the nomads for two years, she said.
Expert sees art in new photos
Staff writer
Rv Grant W. Butler
An aristocrat poses with her servants in a well-groomed backyard.
A broken metal statue lies abandoned on a hill covered with debris.
These images of life in Nicaragua, captured by a Mexican photographer, are an example of taking a simple photograph and making it metaphorically gut wrenching. This is just one aspect of recent trends in photography, according to Van Deren Coke, the director of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Coke spoke about recent trends in modern photography last night in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art. About 250 people attended the lecture.
"The problem in those countries is there are rich people and poor people, and the very rich are very rich,"
Coke said. "A good example of photography as a creative means of expression is to take these images but have them tell much more than a document in a clinical standpoint."
Coke said the most prominent current trends in photography incorporated more artistic expression, captured the encroachment of man on the environment, allowed the traits of the photographer to stand out and expressed feelings of fear and anxiety.
More photographers are using photography as an expression of art now, he said, because more people with artistic backgrounds are finding photography appealing.
I've round photographers who've been trained initially as painters have a little different viewpoint than regular photographers," he said.
"Photographers often put a lid on their development because they are concerned with technical development," he said. "Photographers with painting backgrounds add something new."
European photographers, he said, have achieved the same sort of success as artists with photography, because they incorporate their national backgrounds.
"Europeans philosophically aren't very concerned with photographic techniques — what kind of paper you use, what kind of lens opening — but rather what kind of idea is presented, especially metaphorically," he said.
Many photographers have limited themselves artistically by the traditional constrictions of photographic paper sizes, he said. Others have broken these constrictions by producing photos four feet by five feet in size.
Anxiety is a common emotion depicted in modern photography. Coke said.
"We live in a world full of anxiety, and for good reason," he said. "It's all around us. We sense it on a national scale and we sense it on an international scale, and naturally this is going to come out in the art of our time."
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