Wednesday Jan. 22,1986
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Sadat's wife, Jehan to speak here tonight
The widow of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, Jehan, will speak on "Women in the Middle East" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Hoch Auditorium. Doors will open at 7 p.m.
Jehan Sadat was invited to the University of Kansas by Youssef El-shoubary, International Club president. El-shoubary said he and other Egyptian students hoped that Sadat's speech would dispel some stereotypes that American students had about Arabic people.
A panel of five faculty members and students will ask two questions each after Sadat's speech.
Motel guest robbed
Joseph S. Oscar, of Minneapolis, was attacked and robbed at about 2:15 a.m. yesterday in his room at the College Motel, 1703 W. 6th, police said.
The victim had taken a cab to Louise's Bar, 1009 Massachusetts St., where he played pool and talked to some people in the bar. Police said three of the customers drove Oscar back to his motel at about 12:30 a.m.
About two hours later, the three men returned and forced their way into Oscar's room, police said. One of the men struck Oscar in the face. Then, while one of the men held Oscar down, another searched his luggage. The third man stood outside the room.
Cash, a Chicago Bears watch and a radar detector worth a total value of $172 were taken from the room. police said.
Police said Oscar described the attackers as two white males and one black male, all in their 20's. Police have no suspects.
Rec center planned
Lawrence residents are one step closer to getting a new recreation center as a fund-raising campaign reached its third and final phase Monday.
The Holcom Recreation Center Foundation Capital Fund Campaign began its third phase with a meeting of the Community Teams Committee at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 W. Turnip Access Road, said Carl Knox, general campaign chairman.
The purpose of the capital fund campaign is to raise $500,000 to aid in the planning and construction of a $1 million recreation center to be located in Holcom Park, which is at the corner of 26th Street and Lawrence Avenue.
KU gives fungi home
The University of Kansas Medical Center has become the new home of the National Fungal Genetics Stock Center.
A $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation made the center move from Humboldt State University of California possible.
Weather
Today will be sunny with highs in the mid to upper 30s and winds from 5 to 15 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly clear with tows tonight in the upper teens. Tomorrow will be warmer with highs in the mid 40s.
Michelle Brouillette/KANSAN
Angie Curtis, left, Carrie Wilks, and Christina Adams, sell girl scout cookies at a table in the lobby of Lewis Hall, Pat Adams, Christina's mother and troop leader, said that yesterday evening's business was slow because of the KU/OU basketball game. Curtis and Wilks are members of Brownie Troop 611, and Adams is a member of Girl Scout Troop 631.
Munchies Girl Scouts peddle their cookies
By Tom Farmer
Staff writer
To fight those midnight munchies, students can order Girl Scout cookies this week in their residence hall lobbies.
"I've got a feeling we're going to clean up on the hill," Pat Adams, troop leader and organizer of the residence hall sales, said yesterday. "I think the girls are going to raise more money than ever before."
She said KU students were responding well to the Brownies, grades 1-3, and Girl Scouts, grades 4-6, who were taking orders.
Laurann Fulk, Platee City, Mo., senior and Hashinger resident, said, "It was neat to see little kids in the hallway. There were a lot of residents who reminisced about selling cookies when they were little."
Adams said the idea to sell cookies at residence halls came to her while she was working on her job as a housing maintenance employee for the University.
Before the girls could take cookie orders, Adams had to get permission from the Organizations and Activities Center and then a signed permission slip from each hall's resident director that specified the date and time when the girls would be there.
The cookies are available in seven varieties, said Janiece Scribner, associate chairman for the Girl Scouts. But Thin Mints are the biggest seller.
Adams' troop of six Girl Scouts and a Brownie troop of 33 girls received orders for 400 boxes of cookies Monday night at Templin and Hashinger halls.
Adams' 10-year-old daughter,
Christina, said, "It was great. I sold
49 boxes by myself. We all sold a lot."
Twenty cents of the $1.75 per box cost goes toward the troop's general fund. That money is spent on trips to summer camps in Topeka and Dover, and to provide, among other things, scholarships for the girls'
school-related activities, Scribner said.
Adams said, "One year, I took 18 girls to Worlds of Fun with the money they raised. Some of them may not have been able to go otherwise."
Brownies, wearing brown and white uniforms, and Girl Scouts in green and white attire will take orders today at Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall-Corbin Hall between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.; Oliver Hall from 4:30 p.m; to 5:30 p.m; McColum Hall from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Lewis, Hashinger and Ellsworth walls from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; and Joseph R. Pearson Hall from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Tomorrow, they will visit McCollum and JRP from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; GSP-Corbin from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and Lewis, Templin and Ellsworth from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
A group of concerned citizens has formed a coalition to persuade the Kansas Legislature to pass a mandatory safety-belt law, an organizer of the coalition said yesterday.
Adams said this was the first time in her seven years with the Girl Scouts that they had gone to the residence halls.
Group presses state to pass seat-belt law
Staff writer
By Lori Polson
Bill Henry, coordinator of the Kansas Safety Belt Coalition, said a dozen organizations had grouped together to form the coalition. Some of the organizations include the Kansas PTA, the Kansas Medical Society, the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Kansas Women for Highway Safety.
Henry said the bill would be presented to the Senate Transportation Committee sometime this week.
He said the coalition thought that lives and money could be saved by enacting a mandatory safety-belt law.
Every year $236 million is lost as the result of car accidents, he said.
"We believe we could save $45 million a year by a mandatory seat-belt law," he said.
The money lost is from medical expenses, vehicle damage and the time accident victims lose from their jobs, Henry said.
This is the second attempt by citizens to introduce safety-belt legislation, he said. A similar bill was defeated on the floor of the Kansas House of Representatives during the last legislative session.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D/Lawrence, said she supported the mandatory safety-belt law and thought it would fare much better in
the Legislature this year than it did last year.
"The bill has far more momentum this year," she said. "Since the bill was defeated last session, several other states have passed similar laws, and the statistics from those states show that the laws are effective when enforced."
Henry said that 16 states had passed mandatory safety-belt regulations, including Oklahoma, Nebraska and Missouri.
The bill also would request that the Kansas Department of Transportation present educational programs about safety belts to children in public schools.
The coalition's version of the bill would require all front-seat passengers in vehicles to wear safety belts or face a fine if stopped by police, Henry said.
Henry said Kansas already offered good educational programs about safety-belt use, but the coalition wanted to carry the importance of wearing safety belts one step further.
"Even with all the good education about seat belts, we haven't seen the use of seat belts rise very much," he said. "We feel that at this point, something besides education is necessary."
Kansas law already requires that children be strapped in. The Child Passenger Safety Act, passed in 1981 and amended in 1984, requires that all children under 4 be seated in an approved safety restraint while the vehicle is in motion.
S. African divestiture turns profit for fund
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - Heavy trading on Wall Street and other financial circles recently has allowed the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System trust fund to profit from the divestiture of $26 million it had invested in companies doing business in South Africa, a KPERS official said yesterday.
Marshall Crowther, KPERS executive director, said the trust fund had profited $1 million to $2 million by divesting from eight companies doing business in South Africa.
The KPERS board of trustees voted in September to divest from the companies which have not signed the Sullivan Principles — six pledges of support for equal opportunity and civil rights for South African blacks.
Crowther told the Senate Ways and Means Committee that the "bull market" allowed KPERS to
eliminate from its portfolio stock it held in the eight companies.
The $26 million represented slightly more than 1 percent of the KPERS $2.2 billion trust fund, which helps generate revenue for the statewide retirement system for public employees. Other money is supplied from deductions from employee salaries.
"If somebody adopts a similar position at a time when the market simply is doing nothing, it might take as long as two years," he said.
Crowther said trust fund investors were told that investments in the eight companies were to be sold "in the normal course of business strategy." The board set no time frame for divestment, he said.
AT&T grant increases engineering research
Staff writer
Further divestment by KPERS from companies doing business in South Africa, including companies that have signed the Sullivan Principles, isn't likely, Crowther said.
By Mark Siebert
KU engineering students could be using $500,000 of new computer equipment by mid-February, thanks to a grant from American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Victor Frost, assistant professor of electrical engineering, said yesterday that the equipment arrived about a week ago and was being installed in Learned and Nichols halls.
"This (grant) allows us to do state-of-the-art work in electrical and computer engineering." Frost said.
AT&T announced Monday that a $975,000 grant would be given to the University, the University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas State University. The Med Center received $175,000 for its School of Allied Health and KSU received $300,000 for its computer science department, said
Fran Anderson, an AT&T representative.
"We targeted those universities that will use the equipment in research," Anderson said.
Frost said he thought AT&T recognized the quality of telecommunications research at KU and realized the potential of the new computer program.
The equipment includes two large computers, 3Bs, two smaller computers, 3B2s, 20 graphic terminals, networking hardware, software and one year of maintenance.
Anderson said the donations were part of AT&T's university computer donations program, which gave $30 million to schools nationwide this year. This is the program's second year.
The company has been supporting the programs with funds for about two years, he said.
KJHK seeks recruits for show
By Monique O'Donnell
KU's student radio station, KJHK-FM, is offering students the opportunity to unleash their imaginations on the air.
Last week, Brad Schwartz, head of KJHK's special features program, posted flyers on campus, trying to recruit people to do five-minute radio segments. A different segment would be broadcast three times each day, said Schwartz, Highland Park, Ill., sophomore.
Staff writer
Schwartz said Sunday that he had a good response to the flyers. About 20 people called him last week.
"A lot of people aren't aware of the station or the program." Schwartz said. "I'm trying to get people that are interested in acting.
"I'd like to start some continuing drama so that people can get to know the characters, someone they can identify with."
But Schwartz said drama segments were just an idea, and he would be open to any suggestions from students interested in working for the program.
Mark Lipsitz, KJHK station manager and Overland Park senior, said there would be a staff meeting at 6 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. Students who are interested in working for KJHK are welcome to attend and apply for jobs, Lipsitz said.
He said students could work in writing, production or on the air for one credit hour a semester.
Yet students who have responded to Schwartz's recruiting efforts seem to want to gain radio experience rather than to collect college credits.
Brad Mayhew, Lawrence graduate student, is one example. After responding to the flyer, he said he would like to work with the KJHK special features program and do a series on supernatural experiences that have happened to people in Lawrence.
"I'd like to do it for the radio experience," Mayhew said. "But I don't really need the credit hour."
David Overton, 2345 Riog Court, said he would like to work for KJHK but didn't know whether the station would let him because he wasn't a student.
"I wouldn't mind putting my time in for free." Overton said. "I'd like to do a personal column for singles to meet other singles.
Students usually have priority when the station selects whom to hire, but the station manager may hire a non-student if one applies, Lipsitz said.
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