Thursday, Jan. 30, 1986
University Daily Kansan
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Golf coach Weiser earns marketing job
Kent Weiser, a ticket manager since August 1985, will become the new director of marketing, the Athletic Department announced yesterday.
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said Weiser would take over the position Feb. 1.
Weiser, who has been head women's golf coach since fall of 1984, said he would continue to coach the team.
Weiser, who graduated from University of Kansas in 1981 with a degree in psychology, said his new duties would include promotion of ticket sales, game-day promotions, advertising and gaining support for non-revenue sports.
Weiser also said he wanted to increase fan interest in non-revenue sports by telling fans when events were scheduled.
He said one of his first projects would be to organize KU supporters in area cities to help boost ticket sales and support KU athletics.
Hunter said Diane Wehmeyer, a ticket office employee, would succeed Weiser as ticket manager.
Haskell man robbed
A 20-year-old Haskell Indian Junior College student was robbed at Sixth and Massachusetts streets early yesterday morning while he was walking to his residence hall, Lawrence police said.
The student told police that he was near the Kansas River bridge between a 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. when he was jumped from behind. The assailant pushed him to the ground and took his wallet, which contained $100, police said. The student's hand was cut during the robbery, police said. Police didn't know whether the student's hand was cut by a knife or hurt when he was knocked down.
The student described the robber as a 6-foot-2 white male, police said. The student went to his residence hall and was then taken by personnel there to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for treatment of the injury, police said.
4 chairmen elected
Four Student Senate committees elected chairmen Tuesday night
Jill Glabreth, Overland Park senior, was elected chairman to the University affairs committee. Gordon Woods, Ulysses graduate student, was elected chairman of the cultural affairs committee.
The new chairman for the minority affairs committee is Jason Krakow, Prairie Village sephomore.
Glenn Shirtlife, Ottawa,
Canada, graduate student, will be
chairman of the elections
committee.
Photo lecture tonight
Van Deren Coke, director of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will present a lecture and slide show at 8 p.m. today in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the address of a Monday night stabbing and gunshot incident was incorrect in yesterday's Kansan. The correct address is 1319 Vermont St.
Today will be partly sunny, windy and warmer, with a high temperature in the low to mid-50s. South winds will increase to 15 to 25 mph by afternoon. Tonight will be clear with a low temperature around 30. Tomorrow should be partly cloudy with a high temperature in the 50s.
State University. Although Tuesday's shuttle disaster will cause delays in space transportation progress, the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, probably won't be affected, Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, said yesterday.
Star Wars will continue, prof says
Weather
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
"Some of the research will be delayed, but it's not likely to be a major factor in the Star Wars development," Armstrong said.
Armstrong and Ronald Bass, associate professor of physics and astronomy, received a grant of $80,000 in June from the Office of Naval Research to study the SDI.
rice of Nava the Reagan. He bass said the SDI, which was proposed by President Reagan to send a missile defense system into space, would be prone to the same
types of disasters that could happen to any technical system in its developing phase.
technical system breakout. Armed personnel problems would probably occur during the research phase of the SDI.
"We will have technical disasters — any technical system breaks down," he said.
"You can be very cold and callous and say we have a track record of one disaster in about 25 launches," he said. "If you projected that into the future with major deployments, you'd expect two or three more."
In spite of this, Armstrong said, most people wouldn't question the safety of the program. The actual development of Star Wars lies fairly far in the future and will provide time for researchers to iron out the wrinkles, he said.
The three-year testing period for SDI may be affected by Tuesday's shuttle explosion, he
said, but only if the President and Congress decide an extension is necessary.
From staff and wire reports.
"Even after three years, we're still quite a ways away from a deployable system," he said
No shuttle-launched nuclear weapons for space are proposed, so no nuclear disaster can occur at a launch site, he said.
Also, he said, the SDI involved, for the most part, unmanned, stationary, ground-based components. The risk of lives due to a disaster would be reduced, he said.
Armstrong said the worst thing that could happen during the SDI testing phase would be an explosion of a shuttle and components on the launch pad.
"The destructive capability of these weapons derives from other aspects of directed energy such as laser or particle beams," he said. "The fuels used to focus the beams are inherently less powerful."
powerful than Challenger's explosion, he said.
This type of explosion would be much less
Bass, still grieving over Challenger's explosion, said SDI would benefit in the long run from the accident.
"It is a tragedy, but it would be more of a tragedy if we didn't learn from it," he said.
Bass said that maybe by the time the SDI became a workable system, a number of different fail-saels, or back-up systems, would prevent the tragedies in case of a failure like the Challenger's.
KU plans to boost lobbying
Bv Abbie Jones
By Abbie Jones Staff writer
Administrators at the University of Kansas plan to increase lobbying efforts with state legislators to help solve the University's financial losses, Arno Knapper, chairman of the University Council, said yesterday.
Knapper said he and other administrators met with Chancellor Gene A. Budig Tuesday to discuss possible ideas to help communication between University faculty and legislators in Topeka.
The purpose is to keep the Legislature informed about what the University is doing and what our needs are," he said. "They do want to hear from us".
Knapper said the plan would be for faculty and administration to talk to legislators more often, attend more committee meetings in Topeka and for University Senate presidents from the Board of Regents schools to meet more frequently.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Administrators have lobbied in the past, Knapper said, but not consistently.
"It has not been done with any regularity, and that's what we're moving toward." he said.
Knapper said he hoped to draw interested faculty into the lobbying program during this time of economic uneasiness.
The University collected $313,039 more than was expected in fiscal year 1985 as a result of increased enrollment. Officials expect an additional $491,733 in excess revenue this semester, for a total of $804,772 more than the anticipated revenue from student fees.
The Legislature won't decide until the end of the session whether the University will receive the extra money.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said it was vital to increase lobbying efforts at a time when the state has cut the amount of money allocated to Regents schools.
Charlton said that when legislative sessions were more hectic later this year, lobbying would keep legislators more aware of University issues and more receptive to University ideas.
"I imagine the efforts would be effective," Charlton said. "It's a matter of funding. This year the money is not there to appropriate. They will lobby for tax increases before they lobby for appropriations."
The Regents have requested an increase of $50.1 million for their fiscal 1987 budget. Gov. John Carlin's investment budget calls for a $21.5 million increase to be allocated to the Regents schools.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said increased lobbying would help University faculty to understand the issues and would help legislators to talk with faculty.
Michelle Brouillette/KANSAN
Evin Worthington, left, 4, and Spencer Roberts, 4, play on the slide at Central Park, Seventh and Tennessee streets. Worthington, daughter of Tim and Barbara Worthington, 1744 Kentucky St., and Roberts, son of Marion and Marcia Roberts, 305 Woodlawn Place, were playing in the park Monday afternoon.
Child's play
KU may offer free night cabs
By Monty Headley
Staff writer
A free night cab service for KU students may be a reality in about two months after the passage of a Student Senate resolution at last night's first meeting of the semester.
The endorsed plan will now go to the Senate Transportation Board tonight for final approval.
See related story p. 9.
Tim Boller, transportation board coordinator, said the tentative plans for the system called, for free cab rides from KU buildings, private parties and drinking establishments to a student's home.
In addition to giving rides to people who are intoxicated, the cab service will be available to students who are afraid of walking home late at night, Boller said.
"If someone stays in the library
onger than they intended, and they don't want to walk home in the dark, they can call the cab service and get a ride home. "Boller said.
Boller said the service would be available midnight to 3 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday through Sunday.
David Epstein, student body president, said a person who needed a ride from a bar could call the cab company or have the bartender call for a ride.
Students would need only to show a KU I.D. to the cab driver to get a ride, Eposten said.
The Transportation Board, which finances the KU on Wheels bus system, will finance the cab service.
Epstein said he wanted the service eventually to be extended to everyone in Lawrence.
down on drunk driving in Lawrence," Epstein said.
Epstein said the cost of the cab service would have to be transferred to the city if it served everyone in Lawrence.
"This system will hopefully cut
Kearns also announced that, beginning the next academic year, all people living in residence halls could buy a common parking permit.
Kearns said the possibility of lawsuits resulting from exploding batteries, injuries, and damaged doors had caused Parking Services to drop those services.
Group wants end to student voting
By Juli Warren
Staff writer
About 40 members of the group, Douglas County Citizens for Responsible Development, decided last night at a meeting to circulate petitions proposing the voting prohibition.
KU students should be prohibited from voting in county elections, a county citizens' group proposed last night.
The first half of the petition states that letting students register and vote, although they are not permanent residents, "allows a vocal minority to impose oppressive taxes on the permanent residents, while permitting the students to leave at their discretion without ever assuming any financial responsibility for their actions."
Signed petitions will be sent to state legislators, said Daryl Richardson, the group's president.
The group has been vocal in its opposition to the proposed bypass south of Lawrence, for which $4 million in general obligation bonds were issued.
Bob Stephan, attorney general, ruled last summer that a public vote was not required to issue the bonds.
The proposed bypass would begin east of Lawrence at Kansas Highway 10, follow the southern edge of Lawrence and head north to link up with either U.S. Highway 40 or the Kansas Turnpike.
Richardson said after the meeting at a Douglas County Fairgrounds building that group members thought students were more liberal and would vote for costly projects such as the bypass.
Concert planned for vets
By Monique O'Donnell
Staff writers
This spring, 60,000 people are expected to flood Memorial Stadium for a live aid concert to benefit disabled Vietnam veterans and their families.
Yesterday five KU students received approval from the University Events Committee to host a live aid concert on campus.
The concert, which is scheduled for April 27 in Memorial Stadium, is organized by KU Students for Vietnam Veterans. Reggie Estell, a member of the group, said the concert would feature five to six internationally known groups.
"This will be the largest concert ever neld in Lawrence," Estell, Overland Park senior, said. "But we can't give away any names of people performing yet, because we're still negotiating."
Estell estimated that attendance at the concert would be 60,000. The stadium's capacity is 51,000, but Craig Krueger, one of the concert organizers, said there also would be standing room.
The five students who requested approval of the concert were Estell; Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, senior; Kevin Gasser, Fairway senior; Mike Webber, Prairie Village senior; and Tim Bolzer, Lawrence senior.
When they went before the Events Committee, the five were prepared to show the work they had done over the last four months. The students entered the meeting with photocopies of letters, statements, proposals and contracts from celebrities and local politicians, which they presented to the committee.
The group also brought one of their sponsors and a concert promoter to the meeting.
"We have professionals to organize the concert," Krueger said. "I think the cause will support itself."
The 13 committee members and two members of the KU police department discussed their concerns about security measures for such a large concert.
The students said they had already contacted Event Staff Services, a national security company, about working at the concert. The company worked at the Super Bowl in New Orleans last weekend and at the Farm Aid concert.
After debating the issue for over an hour the committee voted to approve the concert under the stipulation that the students keep the committee members informed on the progress they were making. The students were given 30 days to complete all their arrangements.
Tom Barlow, a Kansas City, Kan., promoter hired for the event, said tickets for the concert go on sale for $20 and would be sold before the concert, but not at the door. He said the ticket sales alone should raise about $1 million.
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