University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 2, 1987
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Local Briefs
Lawrence boy removed from intensive care
A 16-year-old Lawrence boy, who suffered head injuries Feb. 19 when he was struck by a car, was moved Friday out of intensive care at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Earl Lawrence Neis III, who now is listed in serious condition, had been in intensive care since the day of the accident. Larry was struck by a car when he ran into his way home from school.
The boy's grandfather, Wayne Jenkins, said yesterday that Larry had regained consciousness Friday and was improving.
"He improved a lot today. It just takes time," Jenkins said.
"Jenkins said Larry would begin physical therapy today."
New scholarship to honor teacher
The School of Education has a new scholarship established in honor of a Kansas teacher and administrator.
The Gladys L. Mason Memorial Scholarship fund for education students was founded late last year by Mason's three sisters. The first scholarship recipient will be named this spring.
Eligible students must have graduated from a Kansas high school, and first preference will be given to Fort Scott High School graduate or any high school in Bourbon County will be given second preference.
Mason was a Fort Scott High School graduate and spent much of her career in Bourbon County. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kansas.
Police say gold ring stolen from body
Someone apparently took a wedding ring from the finger of a woman at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, possibly after the woman had died, Lawrence police said yesterday.
A police spokesman said police thought the 14-karat gold ring, described in a police report as pricedless, was taken Feb. 20 or 21. A hospital spokeswoman at hospital Feb. 19 and died the next day, a hospital spokesman said.
The woman's grandson, Philip W Dittmer, Toppe a freshman, told police Wednesday that the ring was discovered missing after his grandmother's body was removed from the hospital. Dittmer said he received the mother was wearing the ring when she was admitted to the hospital.
Police have no suspects at this time, the police spokesman said.
U.S. official invited to give speech at KU
The United States assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, Elliot Abrams, has accepted an invitation to speak at the University of Kansas.
" "Abrams has accepted, but we haven't settled on a date or topic." James Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said.
Abrams is heavily involved in the United States' Central American policy. He is considered by many to be a "hard-liner" on Latin American policies, mainly because of his support for the rebels in Nicaragua.
From staff and wire reports.
Orienteers pick personal paths
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
For orienteers, the shortest distance between two points may not be a straight line.
Instead, it may be around an uncrossable fence or over the narrowest point of a stream.
"Part of orienteering is taking the smart way raker than making a beeline," Fritz Menninger, 30, Lawrence resident, told a group of beginning orienteers at a meet yesterday afternoon.
Orienting, which could be called a combination of cross country running and map navigation, helps people to a West Campus course.
The group met at Nichols Hall. Experienced orienters跑着 up in bright running suits and light, cleated shoes. They carried compasses and wore sport watches.
The orienteers, some beginners and some world-class competitors, spent a windy afternoon scampering over soyggy ground, checking their maps and compasses and looking for markers.
Beginners wore anything from camouflage jackets and heavy boots to light sweats and running shoes.
Organizers gave the orienteers a detailed contour map with a series of marked spots. The beginners had to find seven markers, or controls, on a 2.8 kilometer course. The intermediate course was 4.5 kilometers and had eight markers.
The advanced course was 6.8 kilometers long and veered farther off the beaten path. Advanced runners first had to find nine controls. At the ninth, they picked up another map for six more.
The orange and white markers hung from trees and from man-made objects. A paper punch was used to punch out holes in the palm of a punch had a different dot pattern.
orientees proved they had found all the markers by punching in the different dot patterns in numbered boxes on their maps.
The meet, which was sponsored by Orienteer Kansas, a KU student group, drew a diverse crowd.
Lawrence residents Brad Sanders and Kyle Jamison weren't interested in running. They showed up in heavy coats and boots, and walked off in search of markers.
"They were relatively hard to find," said Sanders, who did orienteering as a Boy Scout. "You had to know where you were going.
"I would do it again. It was a blast. It adds a dimension to a foot race."
They didn't win the race, but they found all the markers on the intermediate course.
Chris Dallager, Lawrence graduate student, and Kathy Roske, Lawrence senior, finished the beginners' course together, but not having a wrong turn through the woods and running off the course.
Elizabeth Blanchard and Larry Schneider, both Lawrence graduate students, study a topographical map of West Campus. Blanchard and Schneider competed on a beginners' orienteering course yesterday.
"We took a short cut that ended
up being a long cut," Dallager said.
Dallager said that he and Rosko were trying to become regular runners, but probably wouldn't be serious orientees.
Mike Eglinski, Lawrence special student, ran the fastest time on the
advanced course. He sprinted back to Nichols Hall in 48 minutes and 35 seconds, sweaty and splattered with mud.
Eglinski said he had been owerteering for more than six years and had competed all over the world in several countries in Europe.
State to honor Constitution's 200th year
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
"We the People," are the beginning words of a document that forever changed peoples' concepts of their government and their rights.
In the summer of 1787, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington gathered in Philadelphia with 52 other delegates from the original 13 states of the Union to hammer out what would eventually become the U.S. Constitution.
On Sept. 17, 1787, after much debate and compromise, 39 of the delegates approved ratification of the Constitution for the 13 states.
And in much the same way as the original 13 states then approved the U.S. Constitution, the Kansas Legislature last year approved formation of a committee to observe the 200th anniversary of its origin.
"It's the longest enduring constitution in the world," said State Sen Merrill Werts, R-Junction City, a member of the Kansas Commission on the Bicentenial of the United
States Constitution. "That should give some credence to the thought that went into it."
The Legislature established the commission to organize events, distribute literature and coordinate Kansas activities with the national celebration. Werts said.
The commission received no public money and is trying to raise enough funds from private sources to hire a coordinating director
State Sen. Audrey Langworthy, R-Prairie Village, said, "I think it's important that each new generation be educated about what many of us take for granted."
The University of Kansas also has formed a committee to coordinate KU activities, which include lectures, museum exhibits, concerts and a course this semester on the principles behind the Constitution.
Forrest McDonald, a professor of history at the University of Alabama, was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to be the Jeffersonian lecturer in humanities
this year. McDonald will give one of his lectures, "The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers," at KU in May.
Francis Heller, professor of law and political science, and W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history, are teaching a three-hour course every Thursday night called "1787 - The Year of the Constitution."
Heller, the Roy A. Roberts professor of political science, said a few reasons for the Constitution's longevity were the lack of detail in its wording and the United States people's acceptance of a supreme court.
"Many of the amendments to the Constitution are to fill in gaps left by the original document," Heller said. "This gives each new generation of Supreme Court judges some flexibility when making decisions."
Many nations that have constitutions have no judicial body to assure that legislative and executive actions are in accordance with the constitutions. Heller said Great Britain's parliament could be considered omnipotent because there was no
judicial branch to check legislative power.
"We as a people have accepted the Supreme Court's interpretation of our constitution." Heller said. "Most of the major changes in our government have come from the court's interpretations."
Heler said that although the powers of the Supreme Court were not clearly drawn out in the Constitution, the founding fathers generally understood the role it was to play in the nation's future.
But Robinson said the lack of definition in the Constitution concerning the court's role had left each defendant with an uncertain deciding authority of judicial power.
"We have an attorney general who has begun to make his own interpretations of the court's power," Robinson said. "And we have President Reagan's new federalism, which would give back much of the federal government's power and responsibility to the states."
Art show opens despite lack of usual funds
Rv TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
After almost being canceled because of budget cuts, the School of Fine Arts' Fifth Annual Gold Show exhibit opened yesterday in the gallery of the Art and Design Building.
This year, the Gold Show included only an art and design competition for high school seniors. Two $1,000 and six $500 scholarships to the University of Kansas were awarded to the students with the best portfolios.
In the past four years, the show has displaced work from all grades of
high school.
Simmonds said that this year the school received 78 entries, about 800 pieces of art, from high school seniors in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. About 100 pieces of art, including drawings, paintings, jewelry and ceramics, are displayed in the exhibition.
"We weren't able to have quite a big of a show as usual," said Corey Simmonds, coordinator of the show. "But we were able to keep the scholarship money up."
"We had quite a difficult time putting on the show this year." Thompson said. "This situation is obviously not preferable in my view."
Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts, said the cutback in the show was only temporary.
He said the show was better when people could see the different levels of work found in different grades. But Thompson said he was pleased with the show, considering that it had a late start and almost was canceled
Last year, the school received more than 3,000 pieces of art.
Thompson said the school had decided only a month before the
show's opening to allocate scholar-
ship money this year.
He said that because of the uncertainty about the show, many students sent their best work to other schools or scholarship competitions.
Joy Baze, Lawrence High School senior and a $500 scholarship recipient, agreed that there had been an air of mystery concerning the show.
The Gold Show exhibit will be open to the public until March 13. The gallery is open from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday
Speaker stresses potential of blacks
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
Roland Baker told more than 170 students Saturday night that they would be the first generation of blacks in the history of the nation to wield a significant amount of political and financial power.
"In your lifetimes the tradition of powerlessness will truly be broken," said Baker, chairman of the board of the Signature Insurance Group.
"Remember, we are reflecting on the building of the dream," Baker said. Blacks must not lose sight of their roots in building the dream, he said.
Baker, who is from Chicago and whose daughter attends KU, was the keynote speaker at the 10th annual Soul Food Dinner and Dance sponsorship Hall Black Caucus. The dinner marked the end of Black History Month.
"Family, heritage and roots have deep meaning for all ethnic groups," he said "Don't lose connection with those tangled roots which raised you."
The program, which included dinner and Baker's speech, also featured entertainment from different black campus organizations.
The soul food dinner included fried chicken, corn bread, corn on the cob, vegetable greens and killer black cake.
Black fraternities and sororites performed skits based on the dinner's theme, "Building on a Dream," and the Black Student Union Choir also performed. The entertainment and speech were followed by a dance.
Darren James, Normandy, Mo. sophomore and president of Ellsworth Black Caucus, the dinner and a Halloween party for the children of Head Start were the caucus' annual programs.
He said the main function of Ellsworth Caucus was to represent the hall's 30 to 40 black residents in hall government.
"We're a cultural support group for the blacks in Ellsworth," he said. Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin, Lewis and McColm Halls also have black caucuses, James said. The caucuses are affiliated with BSU but are financed through each hall's government.
"We're all under the leadership of the Black Student Union
Although the other caucuses have not had a lot of activity during Black History Month, James said he thought activity among KU's different black organizations was at a high level.
Brian Dougherty, Leavenworth junior and vice president of BSU, said he had been at KU for a year and worked with the student activity was reached a peak
Dougherty, a transfer from Florida A&M, a predominantly black university, said the level of activity among black students at KU was impressive for a school with a relatively small black student enrollment.
"I can honestly say that the activity at this campus is only a little lower than the activity at campuses and back student enrollments," he said.
Dougherty said that members from black student unions at the University of Missouri and Wichita State University were attending the dinner to observe the KU program. He said they were trying to revive black student activity at their schools and wanted to model their programs after a successful one.
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