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University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 13, 1987
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Local Briefs Student jailed on terroristic threat charges
KU police arrested a KU student Wednesday on charges of making terroristic threats, police said.
The student, an Ellsworth Hall resident, was booked into the Douglas County Jail at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday. No bond was set, and the student still was in jail yesterday afternoon.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said several people told police that while they were talking to the student, they heard the student make threatening remarks about his roommate's girlfriend.
Longaker said KU police brought the student to police headquarters in Carrburgh O'Leary Hall there about 5 b.m. he arrested them there about 5 b.m.
Making terroristic threats is a class E felony, punishable by five years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine, Longaker said.
Senate approves financing for crew
The Student Senate, in action taken late Wednesday night, passed a $15,210 bill for the Kansas Crew.
The Senate Finance Committee had passed the crew bill Tuesday night at $14,400, but the Senate added an additional $810 for life vests at its meeting.
Michael Foubert, graduate senator, made a motion to amend the bill so crew would be denied any crew duty in the next year, but the motion failed.
The crew will use the $15,210 to purchase one eight-man racing vehicle and eight $190 aircars or $400 coxswain amplifier system and the life vest.
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
The Senate also passed bills granting $1,125 for typewriter servicing and supplies to the Watson Library typing room; $2,138 for conference fees and materials to the Model United Nations Organization; $1,380 for a quarter-time employee's salary to the Graduate Student Council; $304 for Senate elections ballot printing costs; $435 to finance the Korean Student Association's Korean Night and $277 to the Pakistan Student Association
Cancer society plans daffodil sale
The American Cancer Society's Douglas County Unit will have its annual Daffodil Days sale on March 21. The local unit will sell bunches of 10 daffodils for $5. Proceeds will go to the society for education and research purposes.
Daffodils will be sold from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wal-Mart, 2727 Iowa St. . Hillcrest Shopping Center, Ninth and Iowa streets; and the sidewalk in front of First National Bank, Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
The local unit hopes to raise $1,000 from the sale this year, said Susan Zigler, chairman of Daffodil Days. Zigler said workers would deliver daffodils to local residences if requested.
Clarification
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Kanans, the amount of a proposed increase in the student activity fee for women's and non-revenue sports is incorrectly reported in a story in yesterday's paper. If approved by the Board of Regents, the fee, which is paid each semester, would be increased by $1.50 next year and by $1 the year after that.
From staff and wire reports
Quiet time
Lee Sok Peng, Malaysia freshman, studies on a balcony behind Wescoe Hall. After a few days of cold weather, students were able to return to studying outside yesterday as the high reached 60.
KU band program in financial straits
Bv TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
The University of Kansas' band program is beginning to show symptoms of the illness of underfinancing.
Students now share some of the instruments traditionally supplied by the department, such as percussion instruments, tubas and French and baritone horns, because the department doesn't have enough money to buy more.
This year, six students have been sharing two bass clarinets, and six other students have been sharing one baritone saxophone.
Tom Stidham, assistant director of bands, said he had even borrowed a French horn from Lawrence High School.
Paige Firling, Shawne graduate student who shares a baritone saxophone, said that sharing was bad for the program and the students.
"The horn is getting that much more wear and tear," she said. "And if you want to practice, you can't, somebody's using the instrument."
Firing also said that when different bands performed at the same concerts, students who shared their instruments, were being used.
"Approximately 10 percent of our instruments become obsolete and totally depreciated every year." Baker said. "If we get $10,000 just for instruments, we could spend it and still have major needs."
Jamie Baker, Harper senior and president of KU bands, said the age of many of the instruments also was a problem. Many instruments are older than the students who play them.
Baker said the instrument problem was so severe that it would take you 10 minutes to play.
"The department just doesn't have an adequate budget for the upkeep of our instruments," he said.
Stidham said, "The availability of funds has not kept pace with the need for instruments or their inflation costs. Things have slipped out of hand the past few years."
Robert Foster, director of bands since 1971, said the program was suffering even though its budget had grown due to increases in financing from the athletic department and Student Senate.
He said the problem with instruments resulted from both the band program's expansion and a dramatic rise in the cost of instruments.
In 1970, the band program had four bands and a budget from the music department of $10,000. At that time, the band bought two baritone saxophones together for $1,500.
"Budgets don't grow as fast as programs and inflation," he said. "The problem isn't unique to us. I'm sure other schools in the University have the same problem."
Now, the program has 15 bands and a $13,000 to $14,000 budget from the department. But now one baritone saxophone costs almost $4,000.
"You reach a point where you say 'Look, we've got to do something,'" he said.
To try to improve the situation, KU bands have requested $55,870 from Student Senate for fiscal year 1988, which begins July 1. They received $34,351 this fiscal year.
Foster said the program had spent $10,000 last year on just the marching band's percussion.
"It been a long time since we've had a good size increase from Senate." Baker said. "It's just not right for people in this type of high-quality program to have to share instruments."
Write-in candidate claims ballots were miscounted
By JENNIFER FORKER
A surprise write-in candidate, who lost the race for senior class president by five votes Wednesday, is claiming that more people voted for him than were counted.
Staff writer
The Board of Class Officers had elections Tuesday and Wednesday in the Strong Hall foyer. Candidates for Momentum, the only coalition that ran, won all 12 class offices.
Only 147 students voted in the elections.
Brian Turley, Overland Park junior, said yesterday that he decided to run for senior class president Tuesday night. He lost the election, 31 votes to 26 votes, to Cliff Stubbs, Kansas City KA, junior.
"I didn't do too bad for only finding
about the elections Tuesday
night."
Turley said that he had counted up the number of people who said they voted for him and that it was higher than 26.
"I'm going to see about getting a
Jim Winne, chairman for the BOCO elections and senior class vice president, said that about 15 ballots, both for Turley and Stubbs, were invalidated because students had voted outside of their class.
"It would've been a lot closer than five votes if those counted, but I still think Stubbs would've won," Winne said.
recount." he said
Winne said Turley could not win anyway because he hadn't complied with BOCO election rules. Turley to turn in a campaign audit by 5 p.m. Wednesday, verifying how much money he spent campaigning.
"He had ever opportunity to pick the rules and relations at the BOX," said Robert H.
He said he was surprised that Turley was the only write-in candidate for any of the offices.
John Feverly, outgoing senior class president, said it was common for coalition candidates to receive competition from write-in candidates. He said last year he defeated a
write-in candidate by only eight votes
BCOO had a special election last year after allegations that candidates violated a rule prohibiting campaigning within 50 feet of a polling place during the first election.
This year's elections were in the Strong Hall foyer instead of in front of Wescoe Hall, enabling BOC officer office to monitor the polling area. New offices.
New officers are:
* Stubbs, senior class president;
Jim Riggs, Leawood, vice president;
Elizabeth Mills, Dallas, Texas,
secretary; Damian Hornick, Kansas City, Kan., treasurer.
■ Brook Menees, Prairie Village,
junior class president; Krista Martin,
Overland Park, vice president;
Jim Calderon, Prairie Village,
secretary; Kathy Brennan, Lenexa,
treasurer.
■ Tim Raynor, Overland Park,
sophomore class president; Doug
Borchering, Overland Park, vice
president; Anne French, Prairie Village,
secretary; Tom Cartmell, Mission Hills, treasurer
Year-round housing proposed
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
A University Senate committee wants to keep at least one residence hall open year-round, but the student housing office thinks the idea would be too costly.
Foreign students and other hall residents who find themselves without a place to stay when classes are not in session would benefit from such an opportunity, members of the University Senate Foreign Students Committee said yesterday.
That idea is economically unsound, the housing office said.
"I don't think anyone objects to the idea behind it," said Ken Stoner, director of student housing. "It's the mechanics of the thing that is the problem."
Elizabeth Soppela, director of the Applied English Center and a member of the University Senate committee, said foreign students were asked to arrive at the University a few days before enrollment so they could take a required English test.
Many of these students arrive at
the university knowing very little English. That problem is compounded when they have trouble placing a place to stay and to eat, she said.
Recently, Stoner told members of the committee that keeping one hall open year-round would cost a fortune and the housing office or the residents.
Residents' costs are at their lowest when hall occupancy is greatest, Stoner said. At those times, a resident pays about $12 a day for a room. But when occupancy is 50 or less, the cost goes up to about $100 a day.
That explanation of costs has brought the committee's plans to a virtual standstill. Sonpelsa said.
"The whole business is very unclear. Our request was to find out what a year's contract would cost. What we got was only part of the answer," she said. "It's a way of looking at numbers that's very frightening."
Costs per resident increase when occupancy is low because the office still has to pay for the air conditioning and maintenance of the entire hall, Stoner said.
"Unless you have 200 to 300 people living there, you can't operate it without a loss," he said.
But Sopselsa said most students probably would not be burdened financially if the costs were distributed over a long perod of time.
Students should at least be given the opportunity to decide whether they want to pay the extra money to stay in the halls during breaks, she said. Twelve-month contracts for residence halls should be an option.
"There is a risk involved," Soppelsa said. "But until it becomes a viable alternative, it's hard to predict what students would like."
But Stoner said, "Do you think students would be willing to spend $100 a day even if the costs were spread out over a period?"
Soppelsa said the committee would study the costs of all-year residence halls and would try to discover how many students might be interested in that option.
Athletes' early enrollment endorsed
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
The University Council voted yesterday to recommend that athletes continue to enroll before other students.
The council passed a proposal that would retain the privilege for athletes. It also would encourage athletic advisers to steer freshman and sophomore athletes away from high-demand courses.
The proposal, which passed the University Senate Executive Committee a week ago, will be sent as a recommendation to the office of academic affairs.
Some council members opposed special enrollment privileges for athletics.
Michael Foubert, Lawrence graduate student, said that many students had special needs and that athletes shouldn't be given preferential treatment.
"I would like to see all those competing on the same footing," he said.
"They have a big problem in trying to coordinate 14 sports and 400 athletes." Bass said.
The proposal was submitted by SenEx members Sharon Bass, associate professor of journalism, and Gordon Woods. Ulvsses graduate
But Daniel Bays, professor of history, said, "I see nothing so terrible about coaches having to make accommodations."
student. Their report said practice times and facilities constraints made early enrollment for athletes necessary.
Bays said the entire University faced enrollment and other problems.
"I see this as exempting the athletic corporation and athletes and coaches from problems the rest of us are dealing with," he said.
Bays submitted a substitute motion that would have recommended an end to early enrollment for athletes, but the motion failed.
Lawrence Maxey, professor of music, said it was unfair to give special privileges only to athletes.
He said that other student groups, such as debtors and musicians, also have a presence.
"Why draw the line at athletes?" he asked.
But Robin Davis, professor of physics and astronomy, said the University promised athletes an education.
"I think it's our obligation to do everything possible to help these people graduate," he said.
Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor, said, "We have to make it possible for a team to practice as a team in order to be competitive.
"You can't practice basketball if your center is in class at one time and your starting guard is in class at another time," he said.
Arthur Skidmore, associate professor of philosophy, said athletes should not enroll early, but instead take a course that conflicted with practice times.
Under the proposal, athletes would submit an enrollment card to the athletic department instead of to the enrollment center. The athletic department would review the cards to see whether courses met scheduling needs and academic requirements.
Academic advisers for athletes would receive a list of high-demand courses, and the advisers would be encouraged to enroll freshman and sophomore athletes in the earliest possible time slots for those courses.
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