University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. April 14 1987
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Local Briefs
Law students place second in competition
The KU School of Law was the host Saturday for the Midwest Regional National Appellate Advocacy Competition and a KU team placed second.
Team members Mary Ann Bumgarner, second-year law student; Steve Smith, second-year law student; and Michael Jika, second-year will attend the final competition August 7 and 8 in San Francisco
A team from Oklahoma placed first in the regional competition, in which 12 teams from seven states participated. The event was sponsored by the American Bar Association/Law Students Division.
7 Crimson Girls chosen for fall '87
Seven Crimson Girls have been chosen to dance at KU athletic events next year. Five more will be chosen in the fall during the first week of school.
The seven are Kristy Ramsey, Wichita freshman; Kathie Gunderman, Overland Park sophomore; Claire Henderson, Lawrence sophomore; Natalie Nickell, Overland Park sophomore; Nici K Weigel, Lawrence junior; Alison Knowles, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; and Keri DeMarls, Lenexa sophomore.
A panel of 12 judges chose the seven at call-back auditions Sunday. About 80 students auditioned at the first tryout Thursday.
Immigration laws focus of workshop
A workshop for foreign students on the new immigration laws will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Conference Room at the Burge Union.
The event is sponsored by the office of foreign student services and will be conducted by Clark Coan, the director.
Coan said that he hoped the workshop would dispel some of the myths that foreign students had about immigration laws.
The workshop will provide information on post-degree training for foreign students, school transfers and procedures for returning home. Coan said.
3 students elected as group officers
Three KU students were elected as officers of the Kansas Young Democrats during the group's election. They joined Washburn University, in Topeka.
Milicent Williams, Olathe sophomore, was elected to a second term as national representative for the Kansas Young Democrats. Williams is the president of the group's KU chapter.
Rick Fisher, De Soto law student, was elected to a second term as the second vice president, and Yngar Brynidssen, Palatine, III., junior, was elected 2nd district chairman, Brynidssen is the KU Democrats' membership chairman.
From staff and wire reports.
Campus and Area
Course exercises students' minds
By JERRI NIEBAUM
L. A. Rauch/KANSAN
Read the following instructions only once. Then do what the five instructions say without referring to them again.
Jan Erland, director of Mem—Expan, uses two ventriloquists' puppets to teach people how to increase their memory capacity.
1. Draw a circle around the date-line on this page.
2. Put an "X" through the name above this article.
3. Draw a triangle inside the largest ad on this page.
largest ad on this page.
4. Draw a line through the last
5. Put an "X" through the headline of this story.
Most people probably won't be able to complete this exercise without making mistakes, or without looking at instructions again, but it can be done.
Jan Jlander, director of *Men-ExPan*, 2002 Quail Creek Dr., said that by exercising the parts of the mind that organized and retained information, people could become better readers, writers and listeners.
Erland has taught grade school and junior high school children in regular classrooms and in learning disabilities classrooms. She has an undergraduate degree in education from Drake University and a master's degree in learning disabilities from the University of Kansas.
As a teacher, Erland saw students of all intelligence levels who were not exposed to any of the sciences.
"A lot of average kids were going to really lose out back on the job market," Erland said.
So Erland started Mem-ExPan in an office in her home six years ago. Now she teaches the 15-day seminar to about 100 students a year.
Mem-ExPan is designed to improve thinking skills in people aged 10 to adult with low, average and high intelligence.
Donna Griffin, Lawrence senior,
took the Mem-Expan course in the
summer. A fourth-year architecture
student. Griffin works 30 to 40 hours a week and doesn't have as much time to study as she needs.
She said the course helped her better retain information, gave her more confidence in her ability to learn and reduced her stress about
Eland said most students did not learn as well as they could because they had never exercised their mind enough. They had a poor attitude about learning.
Erland teaches a "whole-brain" learning strategy that integrates the right side of the brain with the left side. The right side controls social and creative skills, and the left side controls analytical and language skills.
Most people's minds are dominated by right-brain thoughts, she said. By using creative learning strategies that stimulate the brain's right side, the left side can be tricked into working.
One way that Erland incorporates creativity with analysis is by using ventriloquist puppets as teachers. The colorful puppets give instructions to the students in varying voices, appealing to the brain's right side.
But the instructions that the students remember are organized and evaluated in the analytical left side. In this way, the creativeness of the instructions tricks the mind into using its left side to remember.
Memorizing instructions of puppets and drawing shapes on the Kansan may not seem important, but
if the brain is not exercised it will not get better at thinking, Erland said
Erland's students take national standardized tests, such as the Woodcock Johnson Psycho Educational Battery and the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, to determine where they need to start on the exercises. They are retested at the end of the 15-day seminar. Erland said the students improved by an average of 16 IQ points.
The course is taught in one- to two-hour sessions on 15 consecutive days, excluding Sunday. For $450, students receive the sessions and a packet of tapes and manuals that they use to continue the course at home.
Local restaurants battle in delivery war
Late-night deliveries provide a quick fix for hungry students
Staff writer
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
When KU students want to eat out without going out, they turn to the saving grace of the delivery person to satisfy late-night hunger pants.
Pizza holds the title of the topranked delivered food item, but it isn't the only food available for delivery.
Yello Sub, 642 W. 12th St., and the Bum Steer, 2554江a St., are alternative restaurants that compete with pizza for delivery business.
Ed Reidy, manager of Yello Sub,
said his delivery drivers averaged 50
deliveries a night. The Burn Steer
team had more than 100 night
nights and 30 to 40 on weekend nights.
Chris Lemmon, owner of the Bum Steer, said his restaurant was listed under "pizza" in the phone book. Because Lawrence has few alternative restaurants, pizza is the main competition, also is listed as pizza heading. pizza headings
The Bum Steer has been open for seven years and delivering for two. Lemmon said the delivery business had doubled each year.
Restaurants such as Mazzio, 2630 Iowa St. and Valentino, 544 West 23rd St. offer sandwiches, garlic nachos and a salad, along with pizza.
The Peking Restaurant, 2210 Iowa St., started delivering Chinese food two months ago. The Peking, which has been open for five months, is only Chinese restaurant in Lawrence that delivers, with 10 to 15 a day.
"we serve our customers that that said Gary Soo, manager of the Pekin."
Larry Friedland, owner of Checkers Pizza, 2214 Yale Road, said
Lawrence was a price-conscious town, including residents as well as students.
"The cheaper you can get it to them the better." Friedland said.
increases, which has been open two years, has doubled its business in the last year. Friedland said that pizza was the main revenue source and that he is trying to undercut everyone else.
Randy Altman, assistant manager at Pizza Shuttle, 1601 Iowa St., said the store's delivery business had increased every year.
"It's totally amazing how many people eat pizza." Altman said.
Managers said that weather and promotions were the main factors in determining the delivery business on a day, but it was still a guessing game.
On a beautiful day, managers may expect less business but end up with a
rush of people who decide to have parties. Nights such as last night, because of the weather, bring good business.
Yesterday, as cloudy skies rained down, and as thunder and lightning lit up the sky, people were calling in their delivery orders like mad.
"Deliveries are good during the winter and on bad-wather nights like tonight," Lemmon said last night.
"When it rains, the business pours," said Danny DeWalt, store manager at Domino's Pizza, 1445 N. 8th Ave., San Francisco, tree delivery within 30 minutes.
Pizza Hut has modernized its delivery system by establishing Pizza Hut Customer Service Centers. When customers phone in their orders, the center dispatches the delivery driver.
City staff examines ordinance for curfew
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Two proposals championed by the outgoing and incoming KU student body officers now are being studied by the Lawrence city staff and may come before the city commission within a month.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said yesterday that the city staff would take about a month to review a request to repeal a curfew prohibiting minors from entering beer taverns after 8 p.m. The curfew is part of an ordinance that would allow minors to enter but not drink in taverns serving 3.2 percent beer.
Also being reviewed is a proposal to add a non- voting, or ex office, seat to the commission for a KU student representative, Wildgen said.
He said the staff also would review state law and contact local law enforcement officials about changing the 8 p.m. curfew.
Commissioner Howard Hill, who leaves office at tonight's meeting after being defeated last week for reelection, had requested that the staff review the two proposals.
Hill said yesterday that he made the requests after talking with student senators at a city commission candidate debate sponsored by the Student Senate. At the April 2 debate, candidates were asked about their positions on the proposals.
The ex officio proposal was on the platform of the Bottom Line coalition, which won a Senate majority and the offices of student body president and vice president in last week's student elections.
The ordinance change was proposed in November by Brady Stanton and Kelly Milligan in their successful campaign for student body president and vice president with the Cheers coalition.
However, Stanton and Milligan have made no official request to the city in their term, which ends April 22.
"They got bogged down in revenue code hearings and the budget situation," Jason Krakow, student body president-elect, said yesterday.
"It's something that is important to us," he said of the ordinance change.
The law separates friends and possibly could encourage use of fake IDs and illegal liquor consumption, Hill said.
"I just think we should take it off the books," he said. "There are so many opportunities for people to drink. I don't think this is going to provide any significant impetus to drink."
Minority affairs plans to merge with student affairs
Staff writer
Bv ROGER COREY
The office of minority affairs at the University of Kansas is merging with the division of student affairs, the director of minority affairs said yesterday.
Vernell Spearman, the director, said the purpose of the merger was to reduce operational costs within the administration during a time of budget cuts and to make minority effective in terms of affordable resources.
affairs, in 324 Strong Hall, has served as an advocate for minority concerns at the University.
Since 1969, the office of minority
She said some superficial changes within the office would be made to respond to the merger's creation of a larger division.
"Our goal has been to point out to the University those inequities we see taking place on campus," Spearman said.
"But those changes will enhance our office," she said.
Minority affairs previously reported to the executive vice
chancellor. Under the new arrangement, minority affairs will become the sixth services office in the department of student affairs.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said in a written statement that the merger reflected a gradual change that focused on a human relations approach to campus minority groups.
He said some minority affairs programs, such as student peer counseling, might serve as models for other services through student affairs.
Bryan Braxton, president of the association of black graduate students, said he didn't think there would be any change in the minority affairs office, although some students had questioned the move.
"We are students, black students, and there are questions as to whether our needs will be met," Braxton said.
Spearman said the merger would not necessarily add new minority affairs programs but would allow the office to reach a larger audience.
"Many students are unaware of programs in minority affairs."
She said the office sponsored a variety of projects, including a minority student graduation banquet each spring, a pre-collegiate conference, a six-week summer program, an outreach office in Kansas City, Kan., and a peer counseling program.
Spearman said. "So we're trying to increase that awareness."
"We have very bright, very capable students who can succeed with support from the faculty and administration," Spearman said.
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