Monday, Jan. 27, 1986
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Thieves roll away restaurant salad bar
A salad bar and two plate-glass sneeze guards were stolen from Mel Amigos, 2600 Iowa St., between 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday.
Apparently the thieves rolled it away sometime during the night, Macmecon said. She said she didn't know why someone would want a six-foot long, wood-grain salad bar — sneeze guards included.
A U.S. State Department official will speak at 8 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Diplomat to give talk
William J. Jacobsen, the official, will speak on "U.S. Policy Toward the Republic of South Africa."
Jacobsen has been a member of the State Department in South Africa.
He has directed a U.S. Liaison Office in Namibia and has served in South Africa, Portugal and Mozambique.
He also started a reading room in Soweto, South Africa, and taught a seminar on U.S. policies in South Africa at Harvard at Columbia.
The lecture is sponsored by the department of political science.
Commander named
Mary Walker-Irvin, Moab, Utah senior, has been named Air Force ROTC Corps commander for the semester.
Walker-Irvin will supervise all ROTC activities and conduct a leadership laboratory during the semester.
A panel of commissioned officers selected Walker-Irvin. She has a staff of 40 juniors and seniors.
Art critic to speak
Donald Hoffmann, a Kansas City Star art and architecture critic, is scheduled to give a speech on "Sullivan and Architectural Criticism," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Wesco Hall, room 3139.
His lecture will be based on the book "Kindergarten Chats" by Louis Sullivan, who lived from 1856 to 1924 and is considered the founding father of architecture in this country.
The lecture will be illustrated with slides of buildings throughout the United States.
Canadian to speak
Gregory Baum, a Canadian sociologist and theologian from the University of Toronto, is scheduled to speak about "Religion and Social Change in Canada" at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 6 in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The lecture, sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities, is free and open to the public.
Baum plans to discuss the role of various Christian churches in solving moral and ethical problems in Canada and the United States.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid-20s and southeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear with a low in the teens. Tomorrow will be sunny and warmer with a high near 40.
King's day celebrated with music
By Monique O'Donnell
From staff and wire reports.
Gospel music echoed through the halls of the Kansas Union late yesterday afternoon marking the last event in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
Staff writer
More than 30 gospel singers crowded the stage in the Ball Room of the Union when the music began at 3:30 p.m., half an hour past schedule.
But to the audience that was standing and clapping to the song, "God is Just a Prayer Away," the short delay didn't seem to matter. Later during another song, five people from the audience climbed on stage to sing with the choirs.
"This has been a big weekend for us," said Lennie Wesley, program director of the Black Student Union and KU gospel choir member. "This celebration is something black students really look forward to."
But Wesley said the event was not just for black students. BSU encouraged all students to come and join in.
Gospel music is special, he said, because it isn't just music, it's a religious inspiration.
“It’s an inspiration and a driving force to us,” Wesley said. “And if you listen to the words it can be a way of life.”
Del-Metri Bynum, BSU vice presi
<U>U's gospel choir, the Inspirational Gospel Voices, sing in the Ball Room of the Kansas Union. They participated in yesterday's Gospel Extravaganza, which
dent, said the gospel extravaganza was part of "The We Connection" weekend sponsored by the BSU.
The event featured The Inspirational Gospel Voices, KU's gospel choir; The Elements of Faith, a choir from the Kansas City area; and Jonathan Hicks of Topeka.
Wesley said planning the weekend had been a lot of work, but to the 10 to 15 students who planned and organized the events, it was well worth the effort.
Ametta Reaves, a member of the KU choir, said some people came to the event seeking some kind of
was the final event of "The We Connection" weekend. The Extravaganza was sponsored by the Black Student Union
musical entertainment. But she stressed that gospel was more than entertainment.
"We want to share the love we're trying to express in our songs even to those people who are not here for religious reasons." Reaves said.
Martin Luther King stressed during the years he was still with us — that we needed to show more love," she said.
"That was one of the things Dr.
When the KU choir sang "I Shall Wear a Crown." members of the other choirs and the audience joined in.
Architects don't plan all-nighters'
By Piper Scholfield Staff writer
Pizza, coffee and radios are the foundations some architecture students use to endure late nights at the Lindley Hall annex.
Sophomores in the School of Architecture and Urban Design have their studios in the white annex behind Lindley, and anyone passing by late at night can look through the lit windows and see the students at work.
Baine said she had lots of company because there were usually about 40 other students working all night.
Kelly Baine, St. Louis sophomore, said she had spent about 10 or 12 nights in the annex this year.
"Everyone turns on radios," said Baine. "It's like a big party."
The reason students spend so many nights working in the annex is a combination of procrastination and the difficulty of the projects, she said. Usually a project is assigned about once a month, but everyone puts it off.
Stephen Grabow, director of programs in architecture, said the professors didn't intend for the students to stay up all night when they assigned the projects.
Grabow said the tradition of architecture students staying up all night went back to the 19th century in France. A wooden cart, called a charrette, went through the French Quarter and picked up the architecture students' work to be taken to the instructors for review. Some tardy students would hop onto the cart and
continue to draw as the cart moved on.
David Wolfe, Wichita sophomore, said he didn't mind staying up all night as much as he minded the building.
Timothea Miller, St. Louis sophomore, said she didn't think spending the night working in the annex was so bad.
Wolfe, who described the annex as old, run-down and noisy, said he hadn't spent any nights there this semester, but expected to
During the two nights she had spent in the annex, she said, there had been around 70 students.
Miller said she thought a lot of the students spent time on their designs, but not on the actual presentation. When the projects were due, the
students had to spend entire nights working on their models for presentation.
"There's lots of coffee pots and radios," Miller said. "We have vending machines and people order pizzas."
Doug Urich, Overland Park sophomore, said he even brought his television with him.
Urich said he didn't mind spending time in the annex, except that the building was so far out of his way.
He said that the projects were demanding and that he usually put off their completion and ended up staying all night.
John Kelley, Minot, S.D., sophomore, said he spent nights at the amex because the construction of models was so time consuming.
Store's clerk falls victim to con artists
erk KU documents librarian to retire
By Tim Hrenchir
Walker said that in his 20 years as a manager he had seen the con game tried many times. It is attempted about once every two or three months in the store.
By a Kansan reporter
Staff writer
Walker said he thought they looked over the check-out stands and picked an inexperienced clerk who might fall for the con.
Larry Walker, assistant manager,
said two men came into the store
shortly before 7 p.m.
The clerk became confused when the two men quickly asked him to make change and ended up giving the men $258.14 more than they gave the clerk. he said.
Two quick-chance artists conned a clerk out of $26.14 at Gibson's Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St., Friday night, according to police.
The men were allegedly professionals who had probably tried the scam before, Walker said.
Kathy Hill, who is in charge of United Nations documents at the library, said, "She knows more about documents than anyone else here. If you want a document and it's in the library, she'll find it.
"She put the department together and made it what it is today."
Employees at Spencer Research Library marvel at Marion Howey's familiarity with the library's huge collection of federal documents.
Howey, documents librarian since 1969, announced in a letter last week that she would retire April 30 from the position.
The two men went up to the clerk and started asking for change for $50 and $100 bills, Walker said. They told the clerk that they needed change to shoot crans.
Because the library has been designated a regional depository, it must keep every item it receives.
"We don't get everything that's printed in Washington," Howey said, "but sometimes it seems like we do. It really keeps you hopping to maintain it all."
The documents library, one of more than 1,300 federal depositories, stores federal records and documents it receives from Washington, D.C. Last December, it took in 2,027 depositary items plus more than 3,200 pieces of microfiche.
Lucas said, "You wouldn't believe the volume of documents we get. We get these wooden crates of mail and we have to keen everything."
Smaller depositories are allowed to dispose of some documents after five years, with permission from Spencer officials.
Lucas said, "We'll have documents popping out of the walls in about five years."
Amy Lucas, Lawrence sophomore, who has worked in the library for about two years, said, "People will come in here looking for one little quote from a legislative hearing, and she'll fidl it for them.
Howey said, "It's going to be someone else's worry. I'm getting out of here in time.
"But in three or four years we'll be out of space. My replacement should have the ability to plan a move. And they must know something about computers. I foresee that as becoming an important part of the job."
"She's incredibly intelligent. She knows this library backwards and forwards."
Howey is thoughtful of her employees, even to the point of keeping a record of each student-worker's birthday, Lucas said.
Howey works from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, then a student works at the main desk of the library from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Staff writer
'Herb' jokes don't bother local Herbs
Library patrons also get the care they need
By Leslie Hirschbach
Howey's polite manner belies that fact that she can be very firm. She said she once kicked an obnoxious high school debater out of the library.
Burger King's commercials feature "Herb" — that elusive American named Herbert who has never tasted a Whopper.
"She won't let a girl work the 5 to 6 shift in the winter," Lucas said, "because it gets dark early then and she doesn't want us going home in the dark."
"My husband talked me into it," she said with a smile. "The children were grown and I didn't really have anything to do."
"Some of the students who come in here are absolutely lost." Howey said. "I enjoy helping them get to the point where they're self-reliant. You have to browheat them sometimes, but once you get past a certain point they'll be all right."
Howey was born in Leavenworth and graduated from the KU School of Business in 1938. She didn't become a librarian until she was about 50 years old.
"She's a patient lady and she'll put up with brattiness to a point." Lucas said.
During the mid-1960s she attended Columbia University Library School.
Despite a lot of teasing by friends, several good-natured Herbs in Lawrence harbor Burger King no grudge for its latest series of advertisements.
On NBC's broadcast of Superbowl XX yesterday, Burger King continually ran commercials showing the bespectacled, Whopper-deprived Herb traveling to Burger Kings across the country.
"It's the first time Herbs have gotten any notoriety," said Herb Tuttle, 2626 Missouri St.
Tuttle said he was proud of the name, which belonged to his father as well.
Herb Williams, of Herb's Studio Inc., 711 W. 23rd St., has even mounted his own, small-scale advertising campaign from Burger King's multi-million dollar one.
"I've used the 'Herb is here, this is Herb's studio' idea," he said.
His name, which is becoming a household word, catches people's eyes and brings him business, Williams said.
He said he probably wouldn't get sick of the commercials.
"If they keep changing them and some of them continue to be interesting, I probably won't." he said.
"Sometimes, when I start to see it,
I turn the channel," he said.
Friedson said he didn't care if they used his name, or Josh, or Sam.
"Just picking any name and using it is dumb," he said.
Friedson said he never had been, nor did he plan to go to Burger King for a Whopper.
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Interviewing:
He especially likes the "Listen up, Herbert" commercial in which the teacher scolds young Herb, he said.
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