Monday, Jan. 21, 1986
Campus/Area
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University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Baby found on stairs in good condition
A baby boy, who was found yesterday at the bottom of a stairwell in a Lawrence apartment building, is in good health at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence police said last night.
Police refused to comment last night on where the baby was
Tonganocia graduate student
Alabama St., said that at about
5:30 p.m. a police officer knocked
on his door and asked him whether
he knew of any pregnant women
who lived in his building
The officer also asked him whether he had seen anyone in the building with a cardboard box, or whether he had noticed a cardboard box at the bottom of the stairwell, he said.
Hardy said he told the officer he hadn't seen a box in the stairwell when he came home at about 1:40 p.m.
Apparently the officers had knocked on all the doors in the building, Hardy said, because they indicated to him that they had been unable to find anyone who knew anything about the baby.
The hospital refused to comment about the baby's condition.
A 20-year-old KU student, who was the victim of hit-and-run after an argument, was treated and released late Friday night from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Student hit by car
The student, Brent D. Larkin, Parsons junior, was struck by a car in the 800 block of Michigan Street after getting into an argument with the 17-year-old driver of the car, police said.
The argument began after the driver, and the passengers in the car began yelling obscenities at Larkin, police said.
According to police records, Larkin threw a beer glass at the car, breaking the suspect's rear window. The driver backed up the car, knocking Larkin down
The driver of the car was charged with assault. No charges have been filed against Larkin.
Street lights fixed
Street lights on Jayhawk Boulevard were back in operation last night after being out of order Saturday night.
Russell Bucholtz, assistant director of preventive maintenance, said yesterday that he didn't know what had caused the lighting outage, but that it would be fixed today. He said temporary action was taken to get the lights on last night.
The problem was reported to the KU police department late Saturday night. The police then reported the problem to preventive maintenance when they began work at 8 a.m. yesterday.
Buchholtz said preventive maintenance ran a test on the lights yesterday afternoon and they worked fine at that time.
He said the lights can be turned on manually if they again fail to come on automatically.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, Dorothy Bowles was incorrectly identified in Friday's Kansan. Bowles is an associate professor of journalism.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and mild with highs in the lower 60s and southerly winds at 10-20 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with lows in the lower 40s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and mild again with highs in the lower 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Police issue 2 ATO men summonses
By a Kansan reporter
Two members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity were issued summonses at about 3 a.m. Sunday to appear in court after two police officers searched the fraternity for illegal fireworks.
The officer who issued the summonses could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Joe Unell, Overland Park freshman, and Randy Bloom, Kansas City, Mo. junior, were issued summonses for igniting fireworks, fraternity members said.
Dave Hoee, Arlington Heights,
Ill., senior and president of the
fraternity, said police came to
the house after suspecting that bottle
rockets were being fired from the
windows.
Unell said two officers entered the fraternity and led him outside. He was issued the summons after police found him standing near the fireworks, he said.
Hoese said that as the police were leaving the house with Unell, several more fireworks were heard outside of the house. The police then reentered the house and searched the rooms.
Police confiscated street signs and fireworks, he said.
Bloom said that he was returning home when he saw Unell handcuffed and standing with police. Bloom told he approached the officers and told them he was a house officer. He was then handcuffed as a responsible officer of the house. Bloom said.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department, said it was legal for police to perform room searches in open housing units such as fraternities when they had reason to believe illegal objects were on the premises.
Sports ticket costs rocket; 7 games left
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
The basketball season at the University of Kansas is more than half over, yet some students who purchased all-sports tickets are trying to sell them for at least five times their present value.
Student all-sports tickets were completely sold out by the first week of the fall semester. Tickets, which cost $45, cover all home football and basketball games and the Kansas Relays.
KU Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday that the athletic department had not determined a specific price breakdown for each sport, but the basketball portion of the ticket was probably worth about $22 to $25.
With seven games left of the 16 home games scheduled, the student season basketball ticket is only worth $10.
Friday's University Daily Kansan had four classified ads selling student season basketball tickets. Steve Land, Chicago freshman, was one of those trying to sell a ticket.
Monty Ratzall, Wichita senior, is also trying to sell an all-sports ticket. Although he said he had received about 20 phone calls, he didn't sold the ticket yet.
Land has taken the names of the seven or eight people who have called about buying the ticket. Land will tell one of those callers today that he or she can buy the ticket. The highest offer was $55.
"People aren't willing to pay the price," he said.
Ratzlaff's highest offer was $60. He said he would sell the ticket when he got what he considered a fair offer.
Charles Haltenbeck, professor of psychology, reads a page as it comes out of an electronic braille printer. Haltenbeck owns his own computer software com pany that specializes in software for blind people.
Blind couple creates braille software
By Sandra Crider Staff writer
One KU professor sees things differently from most people.Instead of using his eyes, he uses his ears and hands, and is in business to help others do the same.
Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology, and his wife, Cindy, a senior in music theory, own KANSYS, Inc., a company that provides computer services and software that translate information into braille and enable people to use computers. Both the Hallenbecks are blind.
Hallenbeck, who lost his sight in an injury when he was a teenager, provides braille materials for the University of Kansas; Entertal, a telephone soliciting company at 619 Massachusetts St.; and several local restaurants.
The company also offers software that translates a normal disk into braille and prints it out on a braille printer. Another program gives the computer a voice. For the blind user, the speaker takes the place of a screen.
Hallenbeck said that he was constantly challenged to make computers more accessible and helpful
for the blind. KANSYS, Inc. is his vehicle for innovations that help take the place of eyes.
The business is a part-time effort for the Hallenbeckes, who said they thought of it as a valuable service rather than a money-maker.
Hallenbeck said, "What we develop here is a means for the blind person to do something he would not otherwise be able to do.
"What's really amazing to us is how much can be done independently. The business is a way to share that with others."
Entertel employs a blind phone agent who uses lists of customers' names and telephone numbers translated by the Hallenbecks' computer into braille, said Jennifer Haase, office training manager.
The agent, Sharon Luka, 2125 W. 23rd St., said that before she began working for Entertel, she had received six months of data entry training from Hallenbeck.
When she began working for Entertier, Luka said, she listened to customers' names and numbers on tapes put out by the company and then typed them out in braille. To save herself hours of unnecessary
work, she told Haase about KANSYS. Inc.
Charles Barnett, manager of the Eldridge House Restaurant and Club, 701 Massachusetts St., said he had his braille menus made by Audio-Reader, a KU-based closed circuit radio station for the blind, until the Hallenbecks convinced him that their service could do his new menus.
Barnett said it was worth the extra expense to keep customers happy.
"When a blind or otherwise handicapped person comes in, I'd like them to be as comfortable as possible here, so we try to provide the facilities to do that." he said.
Mr. Steak, 920 W. 23rd St., also uses KANSYS' service for menus. Mark Rimmerman, manager, said the restaurant had bad braille menus for more than two years and that they were used about two or three times a week.
KU's Office of Academic Affairs had Hallenbeck use his computer to translate their faculty and staff handbook into braille. June Michal, assistant to the vice-chancellor of Academic Affairs, said that there were several blind people on the
faculty and that Hallenbeck had requested a braille copy.
After exploring who had the equipment to do the job, Michal said Hallenbeck was the best choice. Using his computer, he translated the handbook into braille, then AudioReader made copies using their manual braille machine.
Cindy Hallenbeck offered the company's service to the music department to print braille programs for the University Recital Series.
Hallenbeck said they were experimenting with computer programs that would allow a blind person to type out notation that would then print out on a musical staff. Blind musicians usually work from braille music which needs to be transferred to notes on staff paper with the help of a sighted person.
The Hallenbecks operate the business out of a room in their home. 1016 Ohio St. The staff consists of the two of them and a helper to handle the company's correspondence.
"We're pleased with all the work we've done, and we hope to expand."
Because the company is so small, it can sell its products for less money, Haffenbeck said.
Staff writer
New education program gains approval
By Mark Siebert
In May, about 50 education students will become the first class to complete KU's five-year education program, and some members of the extended program are giving it a passing grade.
So is the Kansas Board of Regents, which on Friday called the program a model one.
Students in the program said they supported the new curriculum but emphasized that some problems needed to be worked out, especially financial aid for fifth-year students.
The program, which began in 1981, calls for education students to receive a bachelor's degree in education after four years. They receive their teaching certificate in their fifth year after completing
student teaching, internships and graduate hours.
"The program has the potential to be a model program but there are a lot of bugs that need to be worked out," Roberta Cavitt, Silwell senior, said.
Paul Haack, acting dean of the school of education, gave a report Thursday at the Regents' monthly meeting in Topeka that included a plea for more financial aid for education students in their final year. Haack said that no formal action was taken Friday, but that the board essentially supported the program.
"The Regents felt it was an important program because a lot of people around the country are showing interest." Haack said.
The financial aid problem was partially resolved by a committee
George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and chairman of the committee, said two fee problems had been acted on and a recommendation had been made concerning loan programs.
organized by the office of academic affairs. The committee was formed in December as a response to a petition containing the signatures of 170 education students.
Because they are considered graduate students, education majors in their fifth year are not eligible for much of the aid they received in their first four years. In their petition, the students asked for fee waivers and improved loan accessibility.
Haack said that no fee break would be given to students because
the cost of an extra year of education would be regained in higher salaries when the students graduated and accepted teaching jobs. The students' petition called for a fee waiver or a grant from the KU Endowment Association to cover the cost of tuition.
In response to the petition, a fee difference of $300 to $400 between the KU Regents Center in Overland Park and Lawrence campus has been eliminated, Haack said. Basic fees at the Regents Center were lowered.
Lawrence campus students now pay about $100 more because of an increase in tuition.
Although not finalized, the committee also recommended an interest-free loan fund be set up to help those education students who show real need, he said.
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