University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 24, 1987
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Lawrence boy struck by car listed serious
The 10-year-old Lawrence boy injured Thursday when he was struck by a car remained in serious condition yesterday in the intensive care unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., a hospital spokesman said.
The boy, Lawrence Neis III, 1636 Pennsylvania St.. was struck by a car about 3 p.m. Thursday on 19th street just west of Miller Drive. Neis was taken away from Lawrence Memorial Hospital to the Med Center by KU Care flight air ambulance.
Banner contest entries due soon
All entries in the Downtown Lawrence Association-Lawrence Arts Commission banner contest must be submitted by 5 p.m. tomorrow at the DLA office, 123 W. Eighth St., Suite 103.
Carolyn Shy, DLA Main Street program director, said four banners, one for each season, will be awarded for each banner, will be awarded for each bapper
Entries must be one-eighth inch in scale, or 4 inches by 12 inches, and be mounted on an 11-by-14 illustration map board. Contestants may only use three colors, Shy said.
For more information, call Shy at 842-3883
KU students' film to play Thursday
"Song of the Sword," a two-hour feature film produced by a group of current and former KU students, will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday in Lippincott Hall.
The film, described as a sword and sorcery epic based loosely on the legends of King Arthur, was produced by Maria Anthony, Ry Brown, and Clark Jamison. It was directed by J Stanley Haehl, a former teacher student.
Council discusses concerns of blacks
The Big Eight council on black student government met at the University of Oklahoma last weekend and discussed the concerns of black students on predominantly white student campuses
Del-Metri Bynum, Topeka junior, was elected next year's president of the council, and Eddie Watson, Arkansas City senior, received one of two awards for Outstanding Black Student Leader.
The University of Kansas sent 70 students to the conference that was attended by about 4,000 students. The four days were filled with workshops, a career fair and a reggae party. The conference was held at KU two years ago.
Correction
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Kansan, the time for the Rock Chalk Revue listed yesterday in the Kansan's calendar was wrong. The Rock Chalk Revue will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
From staff and wire reports
School could limit future enrollment
By CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
The School of Social Welfare's 42 percent increase in enrollment in the last five years may force it to limit social welfare programs, the dean of the school said yesterday.
The school had 500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs in fall 1982. The number increased to 713 students in fall 1986.
"We cannot allow enrolment to be said Patricia Ewalt, dean of school."
"We have been admitting all who met our admission requirements without regard to space limitations. We'll have to be more selective from the outset, and if the number of applicants reaches the limit we can manage, we'll have to stop admitting."
Charles Rapp, associate dean of the university, the increase had overloaded some classroom
"We're at the point where we're
how good a job we are in"
be "insists". be "insists"
"The bottom line is that we need more faculty positions even if enrollment levels off rather than increases. But that's not an option right now. We can't even get raises for the faculty
He said that one reason for the increase was that the school began recruiting more students, especially for the undergraduate program.
The school had worked with Kansas City junior college advisers to let students know about the program, he said. It also expanded the number of summer classes at the Regents Center, and in Topeka and Wichita.
already here."
Ewalt said, "I think that the large increase has come about because of our specific intention to make our product more possible without sacrificing quality.
"More and more students need programs that are convenient to where they work and will allow them to continue to work."
Rapp said, "We've talked about limiting enrollment but no decisions have been made. You want to allow people with the credentials and talents to get a social welfare degree
Edith Black, assistant dean o. social welfare, said that she didn't think the increase had hurt job opportunities for graduates.
"I've got four or five job openings on my desk right now that I don't have students for," she said.
Candidates argue city development
Bv TODD COHEN
Staff writer
It was mostly sugar and spice. But at the tail end of the second debate between the 10 candidates for Lawrence City Commission, some real emotion emerged.
The last candidate to speak, Commissioner David Longhurst, angrily defended criticisms from challenger Dennis Constance.
Constance had criticized the development of the Business Improvement District, a program recently approved by the commission in which businesses and the city work to improve the downtown area. Businesses are assessed a fee determined by their size.
"I don't think there is cohesiveness." Constance said.
Longhurst said, "It's real easy to sit back and take shots. People who have been involved in that process know how difficult it really is.
"We have really, really struggled with this. We can't do better."
But Constance refused to back down. After the debate concluded, he said, "If we can't do better than what we've done, maybe we better find a whole new vehicle."
Challengers Thomas Graves, Henry Johns and Ellis Hayden also had criticized BID. Bid said he liked the idea but was concerned that most
downtown merchants didn't
Forty people listened to challengers Mike Rundle, Carol Brown, Bob Schumm, Hayden, Johns, Graves and Constance, and incumbents Ernest Angino, Howard Hill and Longhurst debate at the Lawrence Senior Citizens Center, 745 Vermont St.
Angino warned that if downtown development plans fell through and a "cornfield," or suburban, mall was built, the city would lose sales tax revenue and that downtown property values would decrease.
Graves, who owns a downtown business, said he opposed it because membership was compulsory.
The downtown mall proposal dominated the rest of the debate, which was sponsored by the Downtown Lawrence Association.
"If you go to Kansas City, you're got mails. If you go to Topeka, you've got mails." Graves said, adding that Lawrence because of its atmosphere, Lawrence because of its atmosphere.
Longhurst complained selfishness was stalling down development
Graves said a mall would not attract shopers to Lawrence.
Brown was the only candidate to clearly support the developers of the multi-
Buckled down
Jo Ann Krause, Lawrence resident, is secured on a stretcher by Douglas County Ambulance attendants, Patrolman Gary Sampson gave Krause a citation for failure to yield the right of way. She struck the car in the background that was driven by Anna Neibarger, Lawrence freshman, left, near 23rd and Louisiana streets. Krause was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Neibarger was not injured.
Research links art to science
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein were on the same wavelength.
This idea isn't new. But until 10 years ago, art historians lacked an explanation for how the connection between Picasso's cubist art and Einstein's theory of relativity may have been established.
Timothy Mitchell, associate professor of art, offered a solution to the mystery. He summarized the findings of his research, conducted in the portrait at the Speed of Light," published November in The Sciences magazine.
"Relativity was a dynamic, revolutionary idea that challenged man's basic assumptions about reality, and it appeared at the same time as the new artistic movement," Mitchell said.
"Awareness of these ideas freed
artists to new ways of thinking and new forms of expression. They broke down the boundaries of time and space."
Cubism seems linked to relativity, Mitchell said, partly because cubist paintings of distorted objects correlated with the idea in relativity theory that matter and energy were interchangeable.
The artists also painted objects as the objects would look if they were viewed from several different perspectives at the same time. This allowed a relativistic understanding of time as a fourth dimension, he said.
John Ralston, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said, "From the physicist's point of view, it is commonly understood that relativity affects ideas quickly spread and really opened the eyes of artists and philosophers."
But Mitchell said historians were puzzled when the artists who developed cubism in Paris between 1907 and 1914 had not heard of Einstein's theory.
Mitchell found the answer, he said, in the writings of an amateur physicist. "The problem is that it's hard."
The physicist was Gustave Le Bon. In 1905, Le Bon and Einstein, each without knowledge of the other's work, published theories of relativism. Mitchell said. Einstein became famed, but Le Bon disappeared into obscurity.
Ralston said several physicists were known to have worked out relativity equations before Einstein. But Einstein was the first to interpret the equations correctly and show their revolutionary implications, he said.
Scholarship service helps students get financial aid
Staff writer
By JERRI NIEBAUM
More than $100 million dollars worth of student financial aid from private corporations goes unclaimed each year, according to the book, "Financing College Education," by Kenneth Kohl.
At the same time, state-supported scholarships are being cut.
"The government is becoming more and more tight with the dollar . . . it is going to cut where it can," said Paul Hemphill, assistant director of Student Aid Finders in Boston.
If the company does not provide the student with a list of at least five scholarships, the student will not be required to pay the $39 fee.
By calling the Student Aid Finders' toll-free number, students can receive a scholarship information packet and a data form that they may mail to the company. Four to five weeks later, the student will receive a computerized listing of potential scholarships.
Hemphill said that about half of the several hundred students who applied to his service found scholarships.
Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, said students often did not know about private partnerships or where to apply for them.
Catalogs kept in the financial aid office list corporate and other private scholarships, but Rogers said the catalogs were not widely used.
Students who use the catalogs can find scholarships they may be eligible for and write to the companies offering them. The company will usually send the student a formal application.
Rick Sheridan, Lawrence graduate
Last month, Sheridan started operating a local office of Chicago's Great Potentials Resource Center, a seven-year-old service that also offers students a computerized list of scholarships they are eligible for.
For $33 each, students fill out data forms with information about their ancestry, religion, birthplace, hobbies, skills and other characteristics. They also describe past activities, such as sports, and give information about their parents' income and
student, said, "It's an overwhelming task to sort through the catalogs."
He said he had several customers who recently had completed their data forms and were waiting for replies from the Chicago office.
"A lot of these scholarships aren't based on your grade point average." Sheridan said.
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The company guarantees that it will provide the student with at least 5 scholarship sources. Great Potention, but not perfect. If a list isn't provided, Sheridan said.
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