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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 6, 1987
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Local Briefs
Student hurt in collision of car, motorcycle
A KU student was injured Friday when he was thrown from his motorcycle after striking a car turning in front of him, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The student, Henry A. Driskill,
Lawrence junior, was treated at
Lawrence Memorial Hospital but
not admitted, a nursing supervisor
at the hospital said.
Driskill told police that he had been riding his 1985 Honda motorcycle southbound in the left lane of Tennessee Street, which is one-way, when a car in the right lane of Tennessee Street turned left in front of him onto 11th Street.
Driskill struck the left front side of the car, he said.
Marjorie A. Burns, Bonner Marriage, was driving the car, a 1977 four-door Chevrolet. She told police that she had turned left onto the road from the right lane because she hadn't seen a vehicle next to her.
Driskill was the only person injured in the accident.
Lawrence police cited Burns for an improper left turn from the wrong lane and Driskill for not having a class D license, needed to operate a motorcycle.
Scientist to speak on Darwin, history
Steven Jay Gould, a writer and natural scientist, will speak at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
Gould's speech is titled "Charles Darwin and the Science of History. The speech is part of the series 'Contemporary Thinking' in a collection sored by the KU Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science.
Gould has made important and sometimes controversial contributions to scholarship and theory in the natural sciences.
He has published many widely read books on popular science, such as "Ever Since Darwin," "The Flamingo's Smile," "The Panda's Toe" and "The Mismeasures of Man."
The speech coincides with the publication of his latest book, "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time."
Gould is a professor of geology and zoology at Harvard University. He also is a curator of invertebrate paleontology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Positions named;
fall jobs available
The Kansan Board last week named John Benner, Lawrence senior, as summer editor of the Kansan and Lisa Weems, Lenexa senior, as summer business manager.
Benner now is a columnist for the Kansan, and Weems is the spring business manager.
Applications for fall editor and business manager are available in 119 and 200 Staffer-Flint Hall. The deadline is 5 p.m. tomorrow. Candidates will be interviewed Wednesday by the Kansan Board.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, John Wells' name was incorrect in a story in Thursday's Kansan. In the movie "Nice Girls Don't Explode."
From staff and wire reports.
Danny Ray/KANSAN
Kevin King, left, and Dan Divine, members of the Iowa State Navy ROTC, compete in a pistol team contest. Iowa State took first in the pistol team and won the overall drill contest in the 20th annual NROTC Big Eight Competition, which took place Saturday in Hoch Auditorium and the Military Science Building.
Navy ROTC drills for perfection
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
As an officer shouted drill commands, 50 Navy ROTC midshipmen moved with staccato precision. But they were not training; they were competing.
They were participating in the individual drill knockdown competition, part of the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps' 20th annual Big Eight Drill Competition KU's NROTC unit sponsored the event Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
About 10 people, mostly participants' family and friends, watched the midshipmen perform the drill exercises.
"Attention! Present arms! Left shoulder arms!"
About 170 NROTC students from Iowa State University and from the universities of Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma demonstrated their skills in shooting, drill and general military knowledge.
Fifty students in navy uniforms, with alertness and deep concentration showing on their faces, executed drill commands as five judges moved along their street lines, keenly watching each student for one little slip-up, one foot out of one line, of the hand at an incorrect angle
Paula Bloom, Wilmette, Ill., junior, hung in there for a while, until she made a mistake and was told to walk out.
Lisa Bull, an Iowa State University sophomore, made it perfect and won the individual drill competition. James Madril, Lawrence sophomore, left the floor just before Bull, and took second place. Jon Berg, a University of Nebraska sophomore, won third place.
"You're always thinking, 'What's going to happen next?'" she said. "It's kind of nerve-racking when you want to make it perfect, not to get kicked out."
He said that attention to detail was the most important skill required to win the competition. Participants must have their feet on line and their heels together. They must execute the correct phase of the movement at the right time with soap and pen, he said.
Staff Sergeant Otis Jones of the ninth Marine Corps district headquarters in Shawnee Mission, watched the students as he shouted commands.
Those skills also were important
in other drill categories. From 8 a.m to 3 p.m., students also competed in squad drill, platoon drill, exhibition squad drill and exhibition platoon drill.
In the basement of the Military Science building, teams of five gave their best shot at the pistol and rifle team competitions.
Daniel Caballero, a University of Oklahoma platoon commander, said his team had practiced drill twice a day for two weeks before the competition, often as early as 6 a.m. Whenever they were together, for example while shining shoes or cleaning weapons, team members quizzed each other on military knowledge, he said.
Staff Sergeant Charles Roelens, adviser for the KU NROTC rifle and pistol teams, said the idea behind the competition was to promote discipline and team work.
"The students get to prove that they are able to form as a team, work together as a team," he said.
Iowa State University won two of the Big Eight cup trophies. One was for overall drill performance, the other for the pistol team competition.
The University of Colorado won a trophy for the rifle team competition.
Course Source available at Watson
Special to the Kansan
Rv MICHAFI MERSCHFI
The director of the Jayhawk Course Source hasn't been concentrating on just this semester's edition of a guide to courses at the University of Kansas.
"We've tried to build a foundation for the future," said Missy Kleinholz, Course Source director and Topeka junior.
"You can't just wave your magic wand and establish something like this at the University," she said. "It takes time to build them."
That philosophy helps explain why the 27-page course guide, copies of which were scheduled to be available yesterday at Watson Library, hasn't come out until the final days of pre-enrollment advising, and why it includes only 37 classes. The course guide was originally scheduled to be available at the beginning of last week.
tests and term papers, and others describe only how final grades are based.
The new Course Source lists class descriptions ranging from a paragraph to a page. Some describe texts.
To save printing costs, Kleinholz requested information only from professors teaching classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with more than 50 students total in all sections, eliminating many smaller, upper-level classes.
"You have to walk a line between what would be best and what you can get."
Only professors in the college were asked for class descriptions for this edition, Kleinholz said, because the university has the biggest school at the University.
The information in the guide came from professors' syllabuses.
"The faculty criticism last time was that there wasn't enough about the course, about the philosophy of how they teach," Kleinholz said.
But despite attempts to make things easier for them, fewer than 40 of the 600 professors written to replied. Kleinholz said part of the problem was budget cuts.
"You want to serve as many students as possible for your student debt as well." Kogelkha's quote.
The guide, which is financed by Student Senate, came out last fall for the first time. Senate gave $13,500 to the guide for this academic year. As of last month, about $8,000 was left in the Course Source operating budget, Kleinholz said. The Senate Finance Committee has approved $8,588 for the 1987-88 guides.
Eric Young, Columbia, Ill., senior said he didn't think the Course Source would help him.
"I don't choose my classes by whether or not I have to write a term paper," he said. "Besides, there are other books that be 'here' where that's not in the catalog."
But Kent Oberheur, St. Louis freshman, was more impressed, and said he would use the information on his studies to help decide his fall schedule.
"I really like this. I wish I would have had it last semester," Oberheu said.
Residents, not city should initiate mall choices, group says
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
Lawrence residents have for too long been in a position of reacting to city commission decisions on the downtown mall, instead of initiating those decisions, a group of KU professors said Saturday.
Much of the discussion on a downtown mall so far has centered on what citizens don't want, and that has led to a lack of consensus between the commission and the people, said Burdett Loomis, associate professor of political science.
Loomis spoke to about 75 people at meeting at Liberty Hall organized by the Center for Women's Studies.
"The vision of politics and development in this town is so lacking, it takes your breath away," Loomis insinuosness just hasn't been there."
As a result, it has been possible for mall developers to have proposals accepted without respect to the needs of the community, he said.
Darwin Daicoff, professor of economics, said, "He builds the building, he leases the thing and he's gone. He's back in Ohio. That's his ecom-function. What does he care if one of you guys are out of business?"
The mall would drain away one quarter to one-third of the existing business of downtown merchants, he said.
Dateoff said a feasibility study conducted by the city's mall developer of record, Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs of Cleveland, exaggerated the trade benefits the mall would bring.
According to the study, the anticipated trade area for the mall would extend from Winchester in the north to Ottawa in the south, and from DeSoto in the east to just outside Topeca in the west. Daicoff said
What they're saying is that someone who lives just north of Ottawa will come to Lawrence and that someone living outside Topeka is going to shop in Lawrence." Daicoff said.
The developer's study indicated that building the mall would increase trade by 37 percent. But a study done for the city by a consulting firm years ago indicated that the increase would be only 18 percent, he said.
Daicoff said there was no justification for building a mall as large as what the developers propose. The proposed 365,000-square-foot mall in the 600 block of downtown is twice as large as the market justifies, Daicoff said.
"If you make the market area big enough, you can justify anything."
After the meeting, Gladys Cummings, Lawrence resident, said, "It demonstrates that the developers are aware of the benefit from a pall of this kind."
Carl Crandall, Lawrence resident,
said, "It's taken until it's time for a vote for people to say, 'Hey, wait a
bit.' But it’s never too late to do something.
Tuesday, Lawrence residents will vote on three advisory questions concerning the proposed mall.
"It's time to establish a plan of attack, to establish what we do want, instead of what we don't want. I'd like to see more of these meetings," Crandell said.
Outside Liberty Hall after the meeting, about seven people not connected with CBD also protested the mall.
The group, led by Lawrence resident Dee Tolar, held placards showing a Godzilla-like attack destroying Lawrence. On the creature's chest were the letters JVJ. "Don't feed the beast," the sign said.
Tolar said, "I think people can see developers are trying to manipulate our vote with their thousands of dollars, with their huge ads. I don't think the people of Lawrence are so stupid that they can be bought off."
Staff writer
Death penalty bill fails
By JOHN BUZBEE
Morals, not politics, caused the state Senate to reject the death penalty Friday, Lawrence legislators said.
Six state senators reversed their 1983 stand on capital punishment and voted against the bill, which was defeated 18-22 in a substantial setback for Gov. Mike Hayden. Hayden had strongly supported capital punishment in his campaign for governor last year.
But State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, who opposed the bill, said the vote transcended the political arena.
"Friday, April third, was a time when the moral and intellectual honesty of senators won out over politically insignificant members of the wonderful day in the life of Kangas."
Senators who voted for capital punishment in 1985 but against it this session were Ross Doyen, R-Concaria; Robert Frey, R-Liberal; Frank Gaines, D-Augusta; Richard Gannon, D-Goodland; Phil Martin, D-Pittsburg; and John Strick Jr., D-Kansas City.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said, "I think it took a great deal of courage for the six students who changed their votes to do so."
Solbach opposed the death penalty
State Reps. Jessie Branson and Betty Jo Charlton, Lawrence Democrats, both voted against the death penalty. Branson said the cost of the death penalty into practice was one reason the Senate defeated it.
"it just not as cut and dried and tired as it sounds to have a death penalty."
think that most voters want people who are tough-minded and intelligent.
The bill was stalled in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, which eventually passed it on to the Senate with no recommendation. Branson said that delay also helped to defeat the bill.
"It did allow time for members of
the Senate to do some soul-search
thru."
Senate President Robert Taklington, R-Iola, said the death penalty would not be brought to the Senate because it was seen as a measure of enough people changed their votes.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Winter said that since former Gov. John Carlin had promised to veto the death penalty in past years, senators who opposed it could vote for it and yet know it wouldn't become law. Polls have indicated that most Kansas voters support the death penalty.
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