University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 23, 1987
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Local Briefs
Birthday suit gets attention of KU police
It was his birthday so he wanted to do something special, the KU student told KU police Tuesday after they had clapped him down.
In honor of the occasion,
the student stepped up to the Chi
Omega fountain at 3:30 p.m.
toook the camera.
The teacher, jumped on.
and made a serious misjudgment. He ran north along West Campus road, straight past KU police headquarters at Carruthen-Olary Hall.
He soon attracted the attention of two KU police officers, who immediately gave chase, one on foot and one in a car.
The student made it to the Kappa Sigma sigma hierarchy house, 1045 Emery Road, where several people were holding open the doors for him, just before police officers arrived, a KU police spokesman said.
For his one-man birthday-suit party, the student received a notice to appear in Lawrence Municipal Court on charges of indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer, the KU spokesman said.
Campus and Area
KU director gets arts fellowship
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded an Arts Management Fellowship to Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Concert and Chamber Music Series.
Davis, one of 15 arts administrators in the country to receive the grant, will work this summer in the endowment's national office in Washington, D.C. She also will attend special seminars and field trips.
Mark Bieri, membership coordinator for the Swarthout Society, will serve as acting director of the Music Series while Davis is away.
Trip to Mars topic of student contest
The Planetary Society of Pasadena, Calif., has announced that its Mars Institute is having a Mars Student Contest. The prizes are $750 and an all-expense-paid trip to Boulder, Colo., this summer for a Mars conference.
The institute is sponsoring two contests. The first asks students to design an international Mars mission that uses the technological capabilities of various space programs. The second asks students to examine the social, political and economic benefits of an international mission to Mars.
Students must submit their entries by May 1 to Mars Institute, The Planetary Society, 65 North Catalina Ave., Pasadena, Calif., 91106.
Faculty Senate to meet for forum
The Faculty Senate will have a forum on collective bargaining today.
The University Senate will meet at 3:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Immediately after the meeting, the Faculty Senate will have a meeting and an informal forum on collective bargaining.
Members of an ad hoc committee on collective bargaining will participate in a brief panel discussion about issues raised during their research. The forum also will include a question and answer session.
Gov. Hayden adjusts to new executive position
Bv CHRISTOPHER HINES
Gove Mike Hayden came into office last year with two major campaign promises — the death penalty and a new state gasoline tax to finance Kansas highway construction.
Staff writer
The Senate defeated the death penalty by four votes, and the House so far has failed to address the gasoline tax issue.
"I think it has been a time of shakedown this session for the governor and the new leadership in the city," he said. Betty Jo Charlton D-Lawrence
Charlton worked for former Gov. John Carlin during his first year as the Kansas chief executive, while he was making the transition from speaker of the House to governor. Like Carlin, Hayden also launched himself to the governorship from the position of speaker of the House.
"It's hard to realize that you're in a
different branch of government." Charlton said. "I think he has already proved himself as a leader in the House, but it's a different type of leadership when you're in the executive branch. It's that old check and balance built into the system."
“It's not all roses.” Winter said. “You just can't call people in and bully them or use legislative tactical maneuvers on an issue such as the death penalty. It's a very personal issue. Legislators have to come to grips with it themselves.”
Winter questioned why Hayden had made the death penalty such a personal goal but said he supported Hayden's initiatives in other legislative areas, such as education.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, was part of a coalition of Republicans that helped defeat the death penalty in the Senate for the first time in four years.
"As governor, he can only sign the
death penalty," Winter said. "It's not like being speaker of the House. You have to use less force and more style with the legislators. That's how the system works."
Hayden also has battled with the House this year over revenue estimates for fiscal year 1988, with the House Republican leadership cutting his budget by $23 million and renegade Republicans pushing for an additional $10 million in cuts.
A state economic consensus committee meets twice a year to make projections on the state's revenues for the next fiscal year. The committee this year also has had to estimate how much money the state would take in from changes in the federal tax structure.
This has created some of the new political divisions at the Legislature, with each lawmaker making his judgment of the committee's predictions.
"The governor has a right to his opinion," said State Rep. Bumpen, R-Topeka, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "But we're not quite as optimistic."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said it was a surprising situation when Democrats were supported by a Republican governor's budget.
"I think what you have are Republicans jockeying for power in the House," Solbach said. "Hayden is playing a different ball game as governor."
Winter said Hayden's budget recommendations this year were better than he had expected, especially in higher education.
"We need to get the faculty and classified employee salaries up," he said. "But I think the governor is moving in that direction."
The Legislature has not brought up yet the issue of a 5 cent per gallon
sales tax supported by Hayden that would finance highway construction in southeast Kansas, Charlton said the possibility existed that Hayden might call a special legislative session this summer to address the issue.
"I know the governor feels stongly about the issue," she said. "Unless the Legislature does something about it when it returns April 29, it's a real possibility that we'll be back this summer. But that is expensive."
Winter said that supporters of the new highway construction had put a lot of pressure on Hayden to keep his campaign promise.
"These people want their highway yesterday," he said. "I don't know how much support there is for it in the house if we're at the end of the session, and they haven't even discussed it."
Bad shades could be hazardous
by JERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
Students with bright futures are quickly realizing that they "gotta wear shades."
"Any pair of ophthalmic quality frames is going to be fairly expensive," said T.J. Speckman, Garden City sophomore, who works at Visions, 806 Massachusetts St.
And they can spend anywhere from $1 for a pair of Mickey Mouse sun glasses to $250 for a pair of handmade glasses with python skin frames.
Wild sunglasses may look good to everyone else, but the wearer's eyes may suffer for the stares. In addition to buying glasses that are fashionable,
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Paying for quality frames doesn't ensure quality lenses, however, and quality lenses are necessary to protect the eyes, he said.
Sunglasses protect the eyes by absorbing light, especially ultraviolet light, which can cause cataracts, and infrared light, which can cause retinal and eventual vision damage.
So if the glasses do not protect against ultraviolet light, more damaging rays will enter the eye through a pair of unprotective glasses than through no sunglasses, McMinn said.
Christine McMinn, sales clerk for Sunflower Surplus, 804 Massachusetts St., said sunglasshoppers should be careful to buy ultraviolet-protection glasses. Sunglasses cause the pupil to open because the glasses are dark, letting more light into the eye, she said.
"You can be doing damage without knowing it," she said.
She said glass, even clear glass,
naturally blocked ultraviolet light.
but lenses made of plastic had to be specially made to block the rays. Safe lenses are labeled ultraviolet safe.
Ultraviolet rays from a relatively small amount of sunlight can damage eyes, but infrared rays are most damaging when they are reflected from snow, water or other highly reflective surfaces. Speckman said.
"Your pupils can only dilate so far," McMinn said. "And then you're just sort of left with the hand over the eve or the squouting."
buyers need to make sure they are protective. Cheap shades without the right protection can harm retinas and can lead to cataracts.
Although glass and specially designed plastic both filter ultraviolet light, only certain colors of lenses filter infrared light.
"A dark gray lens isn't going to do it," Speckman said.
Lenses come in amber, copper,
blue, gray, and brown.
Snow skiers and other people who
are outside in high intensity light should wear sunglasses with darker lenses because they absorb more light. Speckman said.
He said amber lenses were good for activities like skiing because the yellowish lenses increased contrast, enabling the person to see bumps while skiing, and were dark enough to block the sun.
Mirror coatings also are good in intense light, Speckman said, because they reflect the light away from the eyes.
Like amber lenses, copper lenses are high contrast. But copper lenses are used on photochromic glasses, those that change from lighter to darker. Because they adjust for different lighting conditions, these lenses are especially suited for driving, Speckman said.
Copper lenses also filter all blue
light, which causes glare, Speckman said. Glare results from reflections of blue light rays which are at the end of the color spectrum, making them relatively long. Longer rays cause more glare, which tires eyes and makes them sore, he said.
Blue lenses let in more blue light, causing glare and tiring eyes, Speckman said, so they aren't good for use in any lighting situation.
Green, gray and brown lenses are all-purpose lenses. Speckman said green lenses were the most comfortable because they absorbed light the same way eyes would without glasses. Gray lenses are like green lenses only darker, he said. Brown lenses block blue rays like copper ones do to them also good for driving, but they don't adjust with changes in lighting.
While different colored lenses
absorb light in varying degrees, different shaped lenses will reflect light differently. Poorly shaped lenses cause distortion, which makes eyes work harder to focus, so they tire quickly.
By looking at a reflection in the lenses, a customer can tell if the glasses create distortion. Glasses that distort will reflect an image that is out of focus or oddly shaped.
"It's like looking through a lens with a prescription in it when you're supposed to have none." Speckman said.
Cheap lenses usually create a lot of distortion, because they are pressed plate glass or plastic and aren't shaped correctly. Speckman said.
"It's stamped out with a cookie cutter," he said of cheap lenses.
Students face many policies if they want to drop classes
Staff writer
By JENNIFER FORKER
With less than two weeks of classes left, KU students face several different policies if they still want to drop a class.
Students who want to drop a class may do so until May 1. But each school at the University of Kansas has different procedures that must be followed before approval to drop a course is granted. The KU timetable lists each school's policy.
"Each school at the University has the authority to form its own drop policy," said Gary Thompson, director of student records.
said. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences makes it difficult to drop a class, but the School of Journalism readily approves requests.
Pam Houston, assistant to the dean of the college, said that the college had strict petition policies in the last third of the semester but that they were straightforward.
And although some schools make it easy for students to drop courses, they don't.
"I've very difficult to drop a class in the last third of a semester," Houston said. "Basically, a student has to show that extenuating circumstances occurred."
Approved circumstances include an illness or a family crisis in the last third of the semester that required the student to spend an abundance of time and energy away from the class. Another viable excuse is if the
student hadn't received feedback about a class grade before the petition period began April 2.
"Students often don't know how difficult it is to drop." Housain said.
The college approved 17 of the 29 petitions it received this semester. But Houston said that number was misleading because it appeared that students had a good chance of having petitions approved.
She said college officials explained the street policies to students who criticized the school.
"We're not trying to be punitive, but the college does feel that a student enrolled in the last third of the semester should complete the course." Houston said.
follow the policies of the school that offered the class rather than working through the student's school.
For instance, a journalism major who is taking a business class would have to go to the business school to drop the class.
Thompson said a student must
Thompson said this policy ensured fairness. All students enrolled in a particular course must go through the same procedures to drop it.
"It would be most fair that all students follow the same policy." Thompson said. "If you think of that as the premise for the whole thing, then the process falls together."
The business school has three procedures for petitioning to drop a course. Business majors who want to drop business courses have to obtain
their advisers' signatures on petition forms and drop cards. Then they must receive permission from instructors, who sign the drop cards and can issue W's or F's as grades. Finally, the business dean stamp is required.
Non-business majors dropping business courses must have drop cards signed by the instructors and then obtain the business dean stamp. The professors may issue W's or F's as grades.
But business majors dropping non-business courses must have their advisers sign the drop cards and obtain the business dean stamp. Then they have to work through the school offering the course.
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