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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 6, 1985
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SenEx to examine athletes' enrollment
The Senate Executive committee yesterday approved the formation of a joint committee to evaluate the practice of preenrollment for varsity athletes.
SenEx unanimously approved a measure that would combine the efforts of the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee and the Athletic Committee of the University Council to examine the reasons varsity athletes should enroll earlier than other students.
This year, more than 200 varsity athletes enrolled on Nov 4, the
At the time, Richard Lee, assistant athletic director, said early enrollment was one way to ensure that classes and practices would not become a conflict for varsity athletes.
In its report, SenEx asked for the justification for the early enrollment of members of athletic teams. It also asked for alternative proposals to the current enrollment policy for varsity athletes.
Holdup victim stable
A 17-year-old gas station attendant who was shot during a holdup Wednesday night was listed in critical, but stable, condition last night, according to a nursing supervisor at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Scott Lucas, a senior at Lawrence High School and the son of Rita and Don Lucas, 3009 Tomahawk Drive, was shot in the abdomen as he was leaving the University Phillips 66, 2434 Iowa St. to deposit the night's receipts.
Lucas regained consciousness yesterday morning after undergoing surgery from about 11 p.m. Wednesday to 2 or 3 a.m. yesterday morning.
Dance prof honored
Elizabeth Sherbon, professor emerita of dance, will be honored in the "Jean Erdman Retrospective — 1942-85," today, tomorrow and Sunday at the Hunter College Plavhouse in New York
Lawrence police are still seeking a suspect in the case.
Erdman, a prominent choreographer, is presenting a retrospect of her work as a choreographer in New York
Sherbon was a member of the Jean Erdman Dance Company from 1942 to 1954. She will be in New York for all performances.
Heating aid begins
The winter phase of the Low Income Energy Assistance Program went into effect Dec. 4.
Through the program, eligible low-income households in Douglas County may receive help in meeting their winter heating energy costs.
The amount of the benefit will be based on household income, geographic location, housing structure, and fuel types. The program ends March 31.
The Social and Rehabilitation Services office, 619 E. Eighth St., is taking applications for the program. For additional information, contact the office at 843-6511, ext. 230.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with highs in the 40s. Winds will be from the south at 5 to 15 mph. Skies will become increasingly cloudy tonight. Lows will be in the mid to upper 20s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with highs of 45 to 50.
From staff and wire reports.
Taxes to strain center's upkeep
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The University of Kansas Alumni Association cannot afford to pay real and personal property taxes and continue to maintain the quality of the Adams Alumni Center, the executive director of the association said last week.
"In time, parts of the building are going to deteriorate," said Fred Williams, the executive director. "It causes me concern that there may not be enough money to keep things up.
"And we have the tax situation hanging over our heads."
The State Board of Tax Appeals in Topeka expects to decide by January whether the KU Alumni Association is a true alumni association. A decision that it is a true association would give the association tax-exempt status in Douglas County.
If the Alumni Association is not exempt from paying Douglas County taxes, it would have to pay nearly $65,000 for 1984 and 1985 and taxes.
The 1985 Legislature passed a resolution saying that alumni associations would not be required to pay real and personal property taxes.
If the association is not declared tax exempt, Williams said, "We'll have to pay taxes instead of maintaining and refurbishing the building."
The committee considered the cost of maintaining the building, he said, but he didn't know whether anyone thought about taxes until the tax assessor broached the issue.
Kevin Carroll, general manager of the association, said. "We wanted to build a center better than any other university had. So far that seems to be the case."
"The maintenance and utilities of the building are about $250,000 a year," he said. "The building is so elaborate that somebody might spend 20 hours a week polishing the brass.
But the building requires constant maintenance, he said. The quality of the plush red carpet, the extensive woodwork and the furniture need to be kept in shape.
"I don't think people realized how much it would cost to maintain. We're meeting our expenses now but we're not meeting future needs. We're not able to finance new programs."
See ALUMNI, back page
The Adams Alumni Center, home of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, is known nationwide for its attractiveness, the executive director of the association said recently.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Many university officials travel to KU to see the design and style of the center as they make plans for their own alumni centers, said Fred Williams, the executive director.
Center gains national attention
Alumni directors have visited KU's center with presidents of their universities and architects.
Oklahoma State University officials visited last month, he said, and preliminary discussions have begun with the University of Texas at Austin.
Alumni directors at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona have talked to Williams about visiting next semester, he said.
The five universities that already have come to KU are Texas A&M University, Washington State University, South Dakota State University, the University of Illinois and the University of North Carolina.
The University of Nebraska recently built a center and came to KU while their center was being built.
Dick Wintermote, director of special projects for the Kansas University Endowment Association, said many alumni associations in the country were looking at the feasibility of building a center in the future.
KU's center is unique in its design and its function, Wintermote said, because it serves the needs of alumni as well as faculty and retired faculty. Wintermote was director of the alumni association from 1963 to 1983.
"The mission of the Alumni Association is to attract and influence people to be interested in and support the University," he said. "What better way is there to do it than through the alumni center?"
For many years, the association dreamed of having a building of its own, he said. In 1908, the board of directors of the association passed a resolution to start a fund for a center, he said.
Seventy years later, in 1978, the planning for the center began, he said. The building was occupied in August, 1983, the 100th birthday of the Alumni Association.
Kevin Carroll, general manager of the Alumni Association, said alumni and faculty used the center on a regular basis for meetings, retirement dinners and parties.
The Learned Club, on the second floor of the center,
has 4,200 members nationwide and 1,200-1,300
members in Douglas County, including 497 KU faculty
and 154 staff. Carroll said.
Alumni come in from the areas of Kansas City and Topeka for lunch and dinner, he said. The center serves 70-80 people for lunch on weekdays and 20-30 people for dinner. In addition, private parties usually draw 100-150 people.
Acupuncturist's needles spell relief
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Needles are the tools of the trade.
A tiny needle stuck just right in the back of the neck may ease the pain of a headache.
A needle the width of a couple of hairs, placed in just the right spot between the thumb and forefinger, may make a shoulder pain disappear.
Kasumi Arakawa, chairman of the department of anesthesiology and director of a pain clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center, uses those needles to treat some of his patients who need relief from pain.
The technique, called acupuncture, comes from the Chinese, he said, who believe the body has two energy forces which flow close to the skin. When these forces, yin and yang, are imbalanced, disease or pain develops.
The loci, hundreds of points on the body, are stimulated by sticking tiny needles into muscle. Because the needles are so fine, Arakawa said, the needle pricks should not hurt.
Traditionally, acupuncturists have twirled the needles for 45-50 minutes each while they penetrate the mus
"If one is having pain due to energy flow imbalance, we stimulate some loci and the energy flow is regained." Arakawa said Wednesday.
cle, he said. A simple treatment on two loci would take two hours, and an intensive treatment might take all dav.
Today, however, a weak electric current is passed through the needles. All the loci can be stimulated at the same time, so a treatment only takes 45-50 minutes, he said.
Although yin and yang and the location of loci are Oriental theories, a Western complement was described in the 1950s.
A researcher, Janet Trobell, found that most people have pain trigger points. Those trigger points are the same in people who are suffering from the same pain.
"The Chinese studied the points from yin and yang, and the West studied by close observation of patients," he said. "Even though their starting points were different, they came to a similar discovery."
More than 70 percent of the pain trigger points described by Trobell match with acupuncture loci, Arakawa said.
Arakawa said he used acupuncture on about 10 percent of the patients who came to the pain clinic. It seems to work best for sports injuries, such as tennis elbow, and for pain with no known form of treatment, such as arthritis.
"It's not a cure for arthritis," he said.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Twirling a needle between the thumb and the forefinger is one method of curing a headache through acupuncture, which is practiced at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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Lighting plan would create main routes Javhawk Boulevard called first priority
The director of a lighting study released Wednesday at the Student Senate meeting said yesterday that the first campus lighting improvements his study proposed would create two to four main access routes across campus.
"Safety is the overriding factor in the determination of improvements to the campus lighting network," the study said.
Suggested improvements are divided into four priority levels. The first is Jayhawk Boulevard.
Ronald N. Helms, director of architecural engineering and the director of the study, said Jayhawk Boulevard was the top priority
because more bicycles, cars and people traveled there at the same time than any other place on campus.
About 20 new lights would be placed along Jayhawk Boulevard between the Kansas Union and the Chi Omega Fountain. Helms said.
Helms said he thought parts of the plan could be finished in the next five years.
He said the cost of the equipment itself could be closely estimated but there was no way to guess the cost of the foundations, wiring and other
The study said the cost for Jayhawk Boulevard improvements would be about $50,000, but Helps said that was a very rough estimate.
"underground work."
"We tried to downplay the estimate, because we didn't want to fix $50,000 in people's minds," he said.
The next step after Jayhawk Boulevard lighting is completed would be to place lights along sidewalks that connect housing complexes to the center of campus.
Lights would then go up on other campus roads — such as Sunflower Road, Irving Hill Road, Memorial Drive, Naismith Drive and 14th and 15th streets — that connect buildings that are often used at night.
Level two builds on the level one framework.
Lighting main parking lots would be the final level-one improvement.
In this phase, new lighting would connect more remote locations, such as residence and scholarship halls, to level one routes.
Level three would cover convenient shortcuts that pedestrians often take.
Helms said the study planned lighting improvements for all of main campus but not west campus.
Level-four improvements would put the old lights that had been removed from other areas into use around areas such as Potter Lake.
Helms said the new lighting was important but said he didn't know
whether it should be the first priority for the University if the money was needed in other areas.
Two of Helms' students, Janet Yeagle, Napton senior, and John Varberg, Lawrence graduate student, did most of the work over the summer, he said.
The Student Senate set aside $10,000 to pay the two architectural engineering students to do the work and to cover supplies and other expenses. The study cost $4,600.
Jeff Polack, former student body vice president, who initiated the study along with William Easley, former student body president, said yesterday that money for lighting would not be handed to the University.
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