Campus and Area
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 28, 1987
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Local Briefs
Searchers looking for a missing man yesterday found the boat that carried him and another man over a rock Dam on the Kansas River.
Searchers find boat but man still is missing
There has been no sign of Elmer F. Wolfard, who has been missing since the April 17 boating accident. Ricky Gilligan would swim to shore after the accident.
A Lawrence Fire Department spokesman said that the boat was in "pretty bad shape" and that it had "said if it had been submerged
A KU student has won a scholarship worth up to $6,000 toward graduate school, a spokeswoman for the central counsel's office said yesterday.
The student, Phillip N. Smith, Independence senior, won a national Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship for the academic year 1987-88. Smith is studying aerospace engineering.
The boat was found on a sandbail in Mud Creek about a half mile south of the Bowersock Dam about 11 a.m.
The Lawrence Daily Journal- World reported yesterday that the boat was not the one that Wolford had fallen from. But John Hackenhorn, owner of the boat, has confirmed that the boat was his, the fire department spokesman said. The two men had borrowed Hackenhorn's boat the day they went over the dam.
Aerospace student wins scholarship
The KU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi nominated Smith for the fellowship, said Vickie Thomas, general counsel. Vickie was one of fewer than 50 winners of national Phi Kappa Phi fellowships.
The KU chapter also recently awarded its James Blakiston Memorial Fellowship to Smith.
Driver runs over police officer's foot
A Lawrence man was issued a citation for inattentive driving after he drove over a Lawrence his foot on Saturday morning.
The officer, Robert Fox, was treated Saturday for unspecified injuries at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and went home for the day. A Lawrence police spokesman said that he didn't know what injuries Fox sustained but that Fox returned to work Sunday.
The incident occurred at 7:45 a.m. on North Third Street. Fox was standing next to his parked patrol car talking to two pedestrians, who were on the sidewalk, when the man, Michael Jones, drove by, brushing Fox and running over his foot.
Because of an editor's error, Brian Driscoll's class was incorrectly identified in a cutline in the Kansas. Driscoll is an ambidextrous.
Jones told police he misjudged the distance between his car and Fox.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, Mitchell Gage's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansel.
From staff and wire reports.
Fraternity fire worst since 1967
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Sunday's fire at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St., was the worst blaze at a residence for KU students since 1967.
Members of the Sigma Phi Epion fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St., stit through the remains of their belongings after Sunday's fire. Fraternity
The $450,000 damage caused by an early-morning fire at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, 1540 Louisiana St., on May 17, 1967, was the largest monetary loss in a student residence fire.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Serious fires at Greek houses and KU residence halls have been documented since 1934, when a fire destroyed the Kappa Sigma fraternity house, 1537 Tennessee St. Described then as the biggest blaze in the history of the University of Kansas, it caused a loss of $65,000.
No serious injuries were reported in the newspaper accounts of any of the fires. All Greek residence fires that caused more than $10,000 damage occurred at fraternity houses, including to University Archives records.
The most recent serious greek residence fire occurred April 6, 1984, when a blaze caused about $100,000 worth of damage at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 1301 West Campus Road.
Repairs were completed by fall 1984. Gacek said.
Kevin Gacek, Omaha, Neb., senior,
lived across the hall from the room in
which the 1984 fire started and was
the last fraternity member to leave
the house. Several rooms on the north
wing of the third floor were destroy-
ed by fire. A fire saved because steel fire doors had
been installed about a week earlier.
Since the destruction of the Kappa Sigma house in 1934, serious fraternity fires have occurred in every decade. In 1941, the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 1425 Tennessee St., was severely damaged during Christmas break, but newspaper accounts did
not record the monetary loss.
In 1952, the Acacia fraternity house, 1147 Tennessee St., was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $75.000.
The Kappa Sigma fraternity suffered its second serious fire April 13, 1970, when the house at 1045 Emery Road was extensively damaged. The loss was set at $200,000. The roof and third floor were rebuilt, and the house was redeclared in March 1971.
members were allowed to enter their house yesterday afternoon to retrieve articles left after the blaze.
The 1970 Kappa Sigma blaze occurred one week before a fire that caused $2 million damage to the
Kansas Union.
The Delta Upsition fraternity, 1025
Emery Road, sustained a $200,000
fire loss on Jan. 20, 1978.
Other student residence buildings have had serious fires in recent years. In November 1981, a fire that began in an elevator caused $80,000 damage to Naismith Hall. Also that month, fire caused $50,000 damage to an elevator shaft in Jayhawker Towers.
In the last 10 years, KU residence halls have had three serious fires. The student housing office classifies a fire as serious if the office files an
insurance claim for the damage, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
In January 1982, a fire in the lounge of Templin Hall caused $14,000 damage. A fire in the lounge of McCollum Hall in March 1973 caused $25,000 damage, and in November 1977, a room fire at McCollum caused a $10,000 loss.
In a typical year, two or three minor fires are reported in residence hall student rooms, and several more occur in trash chutes. Stoner said.
said fraternities and sororites were inspected once a year to determine whether they conformed to fire code regulations. Inspectors find some fire code violations each year, he said.
Common violations include alarm systems not turned on, propped-open fire doors, blocked exits and excessive use of extension cords.
"Most houses work real hard to at least make the minimum standard of the code," McSwain said. "Some have repeat problems because of a low emphasis on fire safety."
Jim McSwain, Lawrence fire chief.
Four K-State students start condom deliveries
Staff writer
By LAURA BOSTROM
A new Manhattan business delivers sexual protection to its patrons' homes in a plain brown bag.
The business, which is modeled after one at the University of Florida, began last weekend, said Troy Smith, president and a Protection Express partner.
Protection Express, a new enterprise started by four Kansas State University students, is a phone-in condom delivery business.
Smith considers the enterprise to be a business and a community service. The business isn't promoting sex but rather safe sex, he said.
"We are hoping that people coming
home from a night out, realizing that they have no protection, will utilize our service," said Bob Thayer, another veterinary student and business founder.
The students answer the business phones from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday, Smith said. Once a call is received, Protection Express takes the patron's name and address, checks for verification and then delivers the condoms. They hope to complete the delivery 15 to 30 minutes after the order is taken.
Protection Express sells three types of condoms. The condoms are sold in packages of three and cost $4 to $5.
Smith said that an instruction sheet
'We are hoping that people coming home from a night out, realizing that they have no protection, will utilize our service.'
— Bob Thayer business founder
business founder
ted diseases also were included in the brown-bag delivery.
explaining proper usage and a pamphlet explaining sexually transmit
STDs are quite prevalent on college camps, causing a need for a contraception delivery service. Smith said.
Lymn Heller, coordinator of health education at Watkins Hospital, said that she did not know whether STD rates were higher on a college campus than the national average but that a college population often was known for being highly experimental in its sexual practices.
"Across the country, STDs are at epidemic proportions," she said.
Heller said condoms had been advocated as a way to reduce the risk of STDs.
And if a condom business can be used as an avenue to heighten STD awareness, Heller said, "It's probably not a bad idea."
The students have a serious attitude about their business. "We're discreet and prompt." Smith said.
Although Protection Express did receive a few orders last weekend, Smith said that the first weekend's business was slow. He received a crank call during his shift.
University of Florida condom sellers warned the K-State students that the business would start out and the people realized it was not a joke.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Guides escort prospective students around campus
Staff writer
By IOHN BUZBEE
Campus tour guide Dan Liao stood at the point of a phalanx of giddy high school girls and pointed to Wescoe cafeteria.
"The food's all right," he said during a tour Friday. "Not too bad there."
Where's McDonald's?
basketball players if we happen to pass them?" asked Wichita Southeast High School student Dawna Washington.
Liao, Kansas City, Mo., senior and other student tour guides answer questions about food, classes, buildings and basketball as they escort prospective students and their parents around the hill.
When you see them, Liao said,
you'll know. Most of the questions he gets are serious, he said, and the
offbeat ones aren't any problem.
"They're just having fun, and you have fun with them," he said. "You just want to talk."
From there, groups head behind Wescoe to Staufer-Flint Hall and back to Jayhawk Boulevard. They end at the Kansas Union after about ar- hour of walking. It's good exercise. Liao said.
The office of admissions offers the tours. They start at Strong Hall, head down Jayhawk Boulevard to Snow Hall, cross the street and then go behind the Art and Design Building for a panoramic view.
"It's not that bad," said Debbie Foster from Wichita Southeast.
"Could you please point out all the
"It is too," replied Southeast student, the pleaeman. "They should give me a res."
Wescoe catereria is a good place, said tour guide Shelley Hansel, Wellington freshman.
"It is a great place to mingle, to leisurely hang out to do lunch, that kind of thing."
Friday.
The Jayhawks once played basketball in Hoch Auditorium, she said, and Potter Lake was built to provide water for fighting fires. Malott Hall is where they keep cadavers.
Liao said he liked guiding campus tours because he enjoyed speaking in front of people.
"KU's been really good to me, and I feel very strongly about KU," he said. "It's just one way of donating time to KU."
Most of the student tour guides are KU Ambassadors, said Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions. KU Ambassadors return to their high
Most students come for a campus tour with at least one parent, he said.
schools to promote the University of Kansas.
tour with at least one parent, he said. "It gives a visiting family an opportunity to learn about the camp us from the perspective of a student," he said.
Carrie Soderstrom, a St. Louis high school senior who toured KU on Friday afternoon, said, "When I came here, I didn't think I'd know where everything is, but it all fits together."
Her mother, Marilyn Soderstrom,
said, "It's a bigger campus than I thought."
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