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University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 3, 1987
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Local Briefs
International club and hall to hold festival
The KU International Club and McCollum Hall will sponsor a Festival of Nations tomorrow in McCollum's lobby.
KU students from about 20 countries will participate in the festival, said Thuer Laham, club president. The festival will include an exhibition from noon to 5 p.m. featuring costumes, handicrafts and literature from each of the countries.
"We would like to leave one day for students from different parts of the world to put away their differ-ient gifts, just have a good time." Laham shadda.
A 90-minute cultural program representing the music, dance and costumes of the different countries will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Both the exhibition and the cultural program are free, Laham said.
Students also will have the chance to sample food from different countries. For a 25 cents, students can buy one plate of food from any one of the countries represented, Laham said.
Navy ROTC to hold drill competition
KU's Navy ROTC will sponsor the 20th annual Big Eight Drill Competition from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at Hoch Auditorium
Navy ROTC squads of a maximum 12 members, platoons of 13 or more members and exhibition groups will compete in precision drill, rifle and pistol team categories.
Deadline to get ballot is Monday
Active-duty marines will inspect the groups before the competition begins.
Registered voters who want to vote in Tuesday's general election but are unable to go to the polls have until noon Monday to apply for absentee ballots, Douglas County Clerk Patty Jaimes said yesterday.
Voters who are unable, for medical reasons, to go to the polls may send another registered voter to pick up a ballot before the Monday deadline. Jaimes said. Ballots must be returned to her office by 7 p.m. Tuesday to be counted.
Fall applications for Kansan available
Applications for Kansan fall editor and business manager now are available in 119 and 200 Stauffer-Finn Hall.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. Tuesday. The Kansan Board will interview candidates Wednesday.
Kansan summer news staff applications are due by 5 p.m. Monday. Summer news staff candidates should sign up for interviews in the Kansan newsroom, 111 Staffer-First Hall.
Clarification
Because of incomplete information, a Student Senate coalition's platform was misrepresented in Wednesday's Kansan. The Synchronicity coalition is in favor of a 100 percent fee waiver for all graduate teaching assistants. In addition, Phillip Duff, Synchronicity presidential candidate, said that using the entire Senate unallocated account to open extra classes would serve only 100 students.
From staff and wire reports.
Candidate favors minors in taverns
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Accidents like one last week that killed four KU students could be avoided if Lawrence repealed a law that bans minors from taverns serving 3.2 percent beer after 8 p.m., a Lawrence city commission candidate said last night.
Ellis Hayden, speaking at the Kansas Union in a debate sponsored by KU's Student Senate, said students wouldn't have to rent rural buildings for parties if they were allowed in taverns.
The four students, at least two of whom were under the legal age to purchase 3.2 beer, were killed when their car was struck by a train at a crossing on a rural Douglas County road. The students were on their way to a Chi Omega sorority party in a rented barn north of Lawrence.
"If those students had been allowed in, maybe they wouldn't have been out there. Think about that," Hayden said.
A city ordinance allows underage persons to enter until b 1 p.m., but not drink, at establishments with cereal malt beverage licenses, Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said yesterday.
The city, which issues only cereal malt beverage licenses, has no authority over liquor consumption and sale. Wilden said.
John Cissell, a student senator who moderated the debate and represented the Senate's position, said Manhattan and Stillwater, Okla., have similar ordinances but without any time limits.
Cissell also said candidates should consider the Douglas County coroner's report, which stated the four victims were not legally drunk at the time of the accident. Results from a Kansas Bureau of Investigation blood test have not been released.
Hayden was responding to a ques
tion of whether the candidates would support an ordinance like those in Stillwater and Manhattan, which are diverse. The University and Kansas State University.
The current Student Senate administration ran for election last fall on the Cheers platform, which promoted changing Lawrence's ordinance so minors could enter but not drink in taverns until closing time.
However, Wilden said the Senate administration never made a formal request for the change. Commissioners Ernest Angino and Howard Hill said student senators had never consulted them either.
Of the six candidates, only Mike Rundle opposed the idea.
"I don't think it has any value," he said. "The potential for abuse is pretty high."
Rundle, who said his family had suffered from problems associated with alcoholism, said the Senate should focus its efforts on solving the problems of alcoholism.
Angino said it was premature to discuss the issue because the Kansas Legislature was considering legislation to execute the liquor-by-the-law law, which last year and might make changes in cereal malt beverage regulations.
Dennis Constance said he supported the idea but expressed reservations because it would burden bar owners. Minors would have to carry I.D. cards so owners would know not to serve them, he said.
Hill and former commissioner Bob Schumm were more enthusiastic. Schumm said that when he was a commissioner in 1980, he wrote the ordinance now on the books and would support a review of the law.
the support of the law Hill said he sympathized with the Senate. The current laws often separate friends who vary in ages.
"Let's take it off the books," Hill said.
'Nice Girls' bombs in Lawrence debut
If "Nice Girls Don't Explode," what was that bomb I saw last night in Lawrence?
The long-awaited world premiere of "Nice Girls," filmed here last summer, was delayed from Wednesday night because of mechanical difficulties. Apparently, the movie got no better with age.
Columnist
John Benner
In fact, this juvenile pseudo-country included insulting jokes about another country, predictable situations, abuse of a cat, and crude jokes about human reproductive organs. Even the slapstick wasn't done well.
desire to keep April at home
In other words, don't waste $4 on this movie. It's too bad my ticket to get there.
Mom convinces April that her overheating hormones are causing the oesophagus to leak.
At the beginning of the film, we see April and her friend, Andy, as children. Mom tries to keep them apart by securing April to a leash in the back yard. I suppose the leash was intended as a subtle symbol of Mom's
Just in case you're still interested in seeing the film, here's the basic plot. Mom is afraid of losing her daughter April. To keep April at school, she wants fire to and blows up objects near April and her prospective suitors.
In any case, the film then jumps 13 years ahead to the occasion of April's date with a boy (not Andy) with a sports car. Mom exherts April to take along "some protection." The protection is a miniature fire extinguisher.
The young couple goes to a restaurant where April uses the extinguisher several times in the first five minutes.
Most of the film is handled the same way. Every time a situation begins to be funny, it is milked until long after the audience has finished laughing — if indeed it ever began to laugh.
April and Andy are reunited at a local recreation center where Andy has a serious pingpong accident and stops to see whether he is still alive.
Before the movie mercifully ends, the audience is subjected to idiotic jokes about shaved pubic areas, an insensitive joke about the Tylenol murders, and this gem of a monologue from Mom:
"April, there's only one thing tougher than being a mom and that's not being a mom. I just wanted to keep on being a team and not let our relationship shrivel up like a belly-button."
When Andy later shows up at April's house, Mom knows she has her work cut out for her if she's going to keep the two young lovers apart.
Early contract response may ease housing hassles
That's about as profound as a whoopie cushion is funny. Actually, a whoopie cushion would provide a bigger explosion than "Nice Girls" did.
KU's residence halls may be filled a little earlier than they normally are, and housing officials say that might eliminate some typical fall housing difficulties.
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
About 2,700 students, more than half the capacity of KU's residence halls, already have signed and returned housing contracts for the 1987-88 academic year, Fred McEilenie, director of residential programs, said yesterday.
That early response will help the office plan ahead and might ease its problems in finding last-minute tempiers. Students who contract labs, McFheenbry,
By March 25, the office had received 1,400 more signed housing contracts from prospective residents than it had by last March, he said.
Only 2,000 more spaces are available in the halls. he said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said halls usually didn't fill until July or August. This year, students would fill spaces could be filled before June.
McEllenie said, "That would indicate to people who want housing to get on the bandwagon."
Stoner said he had not expected the number of signed contracts received by March to be so high.
Last year, between August 1 and August 17, nearly 500 students arrived at the University of Kansas seeking student housing. Many of them had to live in temporary housing for as long as a month.
But students will no longer be able to find student housing if they arrive at the University just in time for fall enrollment and have not yet signed a housing contract. Stoner said.
McElhenie said, "That will make it easier for us because we won't have those crazy days in the fall when people are arriving on the spot and contracting."
One reason for the increase of early signed contracts received by the office is that the office changed its application process to encourage early signing of contracts. Stoner said.
Until last year, housing contracts were sent to students who requested
them only after the students had been admitted to the University.
That has made it possible for students to contract early, he said.
But last fall, Stoner said, that policy was changed to allow contracts to be mailed to students as early as they were requested. The contracts are not valid until the student is officially admitted to a school.
And a new University admissions deadline has placed a premium on signing contracts early, he said. Under the new deadline, students applying to the University after May 1 will not be admitted.
"That gives us a harder count of the students that are coming in." Stoner said.
McElhennie said that receiving so many signed contracts did not necessarily indicate that more students were seeking student housing.
"The halls might till up sooner, but that's not a bad thing," he said. "It might mean there aren't going to be more people applying."
Edvard Radzinsky, (left) Soviet writer-in-residence at KU, answers questions from his audience as Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, interprets Radzinsky talked to more than 100 people last night in the Kansas Union about recent cultural changes in the Soviet Union.
Soviet writer talks about creativity
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
Censorship of literature and music has ceased to exist in the Soviet Union, a leading Soviet plavright said last night.
Edward Radzinsky, Soviet writer-in-residence at the University of Kansas, said that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had ushered in a new era of cultural openness that had revitalized creativity and destroyed indifference.
In a lively question-and-answer session, Radzinsky's humorous comments frequently drew laughter from an audience of more than 100 people at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Radzinsky spoke in Russian, and Gerald Mikelsen, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, interpreted.
Radzinsky, one of the most popular and influential playwrights in the Soviet Union, will conclude a two-week visit to KU today.
dom in the Soviet Union began when Gorbachev came to power in 1965, but other factors have been at work. Radzinsky said.
“These changes have been dictated by internal necessities,” he said. “No one can change them monarch is the slave of history.
"If the policy of openness will continue, everyone can say what they like."
Jake Kippe, Lawrence resident and a senior analyst at the Soviet army studies office in Leavenworth, said after the speech that Mr. Nisky's optimistic view was correct, but that he forsaw problems.
"There are many contradictions in Soviet society," he said. "This is very difficult for any society, especially for the former Soviet Union, a traditional of the Soviet Union."
Radzinsky was asked whether he thought the U.S. government feared that cultural changes would
make the Soviet Union a more viable society and thus a more dangerous enemy.
"You may be right." Radzinsky said. "But we have said so many bad things about each other, and with such delight, that I am not going to say anything more.
"Our relations got so out of hand that they can only get better now. The rest of the world is tired of hostility between our nations."
Radzinsky said he always had tried to isolate himself from politics. He said that under Gorbachev, rationality finally was guiding the Soviet government's treatment of the arts.
Before Gorbachev, he said, the government usually suppressed the art and literature the public liked. But now, for example, rock bands that had been forced to play in secret are able to perform openly.
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