Campus and Area University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 19, 1987
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Local Briefs
KU police arrested a KU student Tuesday afternoon in connection with an incident in which another student was reportedly threatened with a knife, KU police said yesterday.
Student faces charges in Oliver incident
Poll said someone entered a room in Oliver Hall about 5 p.m. Tuesday and threatened one of three people in the room, all students, with a knife.
One of the students called the police, who arrested the suspect at 7 p.m.
The 19-year-old student was booked into Douglas County Jail on charges of aggravated assault, jail records said. No bond had been set as of yesterday afternoon.
Aggravated assault is a class D felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
The district attorney's office has the power to change or drop the charges after reviewing the evidence in the case.
SUA applications are due tomorrow
Student Union Activities now is accepting applications for officers and board members. The positions will be responsible for SUA programs beginning the new fiscal year, July 1. The four officers and eight student board members are non-paid, voluntary positions.
The SUA office is incorporated in the Kansas and Burge Unions and organizes activities and special events for students.
Each board member is responsible for planning and organizing activities in one of eight areas. The areas are films, fine arts, forums, travel, indoor recreation, outdoor recreation, public relations and special events.
Deadline for SUA officer applications is tomorrow. Officer interviews are Tuesday. Student board member applications must be submitted to the SUA office by Wednesday. Interviews for these positions will be March 1.
Hall residents elect '87 AURH officers
All except Siebel were elected without opposition. Siebel was opposed by Crescent Bretz, St Louis, Mo., who, richman, ran as a write-in candidate. Siebel received 303 votes. Bretz received 44.
The four will take office at the association's next general assembly meeting on March 3.
Artist to perform hot glass sculpting
Ken Carder, artist in residence at Penland School in North Carolina, will demonstrate his technique for sculpting hot glass at a workshop in Chamney Barn on West Campus today and Friday.
The glass-blowing workshop will begin at 9 a.m. both days.
Vernon Brechia, associate professor of design, said he encouraged visitors to see the free glass-blowing exhibition.
Carder is a guest artist presented by the department of design and the KU Glass Club.
From Kansan wires.
Drink bill passes in Senate
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Staff writer
Private club owners and managers in Lawrence had mixed reactions to the liquor-by-the-drink bill that passed the State Senate yesterday.
The bill, which passed 35-4, would make liquor by the drink available at public restaurants in Douglas County after Kansas counties beginning July 1.
The legislation is needed to implement the voters' decision in November to end Kansas' constitutional ban on open saloons.
Although they may sound different, the proposed changes in liquor laws won't significantly modify the current laws, some club owners said.
"I'm very disappointed with the way things are going up there, mainly because the industry is not represen-
tative of the industry and the work of the Sanctuary, 1401 W. Seventh St."
Johnson said legislators didn't take chance they had to revolutionize Kansas.
He said discrimination in license fees, a food sales requirement and the waiting period before many of the changes could go into effect had "screwed everything up."
"They had a chance to go through everything and change it for the better. They are not doing it, so it won't get done." Johnson said.
A manager at Gammons, 1601 W. 23rd St., who refused to give his name, said the only effect that the changes would have would be to reduce the number of clubs Gammons could reciprocate with.
Because of a stipulation that 30 percent of a clubs' profits must come from food sales, clubs like Gammons won't be affected by new liquor-by-the-drink laws, and patrons will still need a club card, he said.
"Are we more sinful because we don't make 30 percent of our profits from food?" said Rick McNeely, manager of the Jazzhaus, 926 Massachusetts St. "Why all these stupid restrictions?"
Like Gammons, the Jazzhaus will remain a private club because it does not meet the food requirement.
Dawn Baldwin, general manager of Costello's Greenhouse Restaurant, 3400 W. Sixth St., said she thought that the bill would improve bar business and make seating more efficient.
Windell Scott, general manager of Becerros, 2515 W. Sixth St., said that the new legislation would boost bar sales and eliminate the hassle and confusion of the club system.
He said that the current lour laws sometimes created problems for out-of-state customers who didn't have a card or a card to drink in Kansas restaurants.
Rock imitators help fight disease
By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
Greg Filerman discovered that his father had multiple sclerosis almost 12 years ago.
Filerman, Chicago junior, said his father suffered back pain, paralysis throughout his body and fatigue
Jim Goodyear, St. Louis senior, and Kari Schoch, Chicago sophomore, relax before their introduction as Prince and Tina Turner at the Students Against Multiple Sclerosis benefit last night at Codburns. 737 New Hampshire.
Last night, Fierman was Bruce Springsteen, wearing a red headband, jean jacket and a four-day beard, as part of a Students Against Multiple Sclerosis, SAMS, event at Cogburns, 737 New Hampshire St
The event was one of a series to promote awareness of multiple sclerosis and raise money for research. The band Dow Jones and the Industrials played a benefit performance, which highlighted the evening.
SAMS is sponsoring the rock-a-like contest, and 12 bands have entered, everyone from Tina Turner to the Beastie Bows.
Last night was the second appearance by the lp-synchers, whose final campus competition will be March 6 at Coburns.
The campus winner will go to regional competitions, and the winner of those contests will head to Florida for the final competition
Filerman said he had entered other lip-sync contests. But his father's illness is the main motivation. Filerman's impersonations.
Multiple sclerosis attacks the nervous system with symptoms including fatigue, blurred vision, paralysis and slurred speech.
Active women between ages 18
and 40 are the most common victims, but sclerosis can attack anybody, said Wendy Tuckman, a program consultant for SAMS. "We really don't know who it affects or why," she said.
days when he couldn't get out of bed.
Filerman said his father had
"But if he wants to live, he has to force himself to get out of bed and take that first step," he said.
Shane Langston, SAMS co-chairman, said that he had never been
much of a crusader, but that he had been involved with and sometimes moved by MS victims.
Langston said the disease really hit home when it was diagnosed in a friend from a child psychology class.
Freshmen lack courses, study says
Staff writer
Bv BFNIAMIN HA11
Staff writer
Few KU freshmen meet the Board of Regents recommendations for high school coursework — recommendations some legislators and KU administrators say should be required for admission.
Only about 12 percent of KU's instate freshmen in fall semester 1985 met the Regents recommendations, according to a transcript study by the office of student records. And less than 14 percent met the standards in 1983.
The Regents recommend that students planning to attend Regents schools take four years of English, three years of social studies, three years of natural science, three years of math and two years of foreign languages.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said Tuesday that a KU task force recommended these standards be required for admission.
The requirements would end the state's policy of automatically admitting anyone with a diploma from an anatomy or zoology high school into Regents schools.
Two bills in the Kansas House also seek to change the policy.
The 1985 transcript study included 190 Kansas transcripts out of a freshman population of 3,792. Only 22 men received recommendations in all five areas.
Another seven students, though were just half a year short in one of the areas.
Martine Hammond, director of academic affairs for the Regents, said many Kansas high schools didn't even offer courses in some areas, especially foreign languages. Admissions staff would be able to meet in some areas in the state.
"That could really disenfranchise a student graduating from those schools," she said.
Hammond said a 1985 Regents
study of its schools showed about 15 percent of in-state freshmen met the recommendations. About 17 percent met them in 1983.
Many who failed to meet the requirements failed in the language area, she said.
About half of KU's freshmen failed to meet the foreign language recom-
The first report said, "It must be remembered that over 100 Kansas high schools had enrollments under 100 pupils in 1983."
Most rural schools don't have large enough enrollments to justify foreign language programs, it said.
"A two unit requirement in foreign languages would really say to the public throughout the state that the graduates of their small high schools cannot quality for state higher education," the first report said.
Hammond said the State Board of Education might begin to require every state high school to offer a
foreign language.
Norris J. Lacy, professor of French and Italian, said he approved of the idea of foreign language requirements.
"It would make our job much simpler," he said. But in a practical sense, he said, some state high schools may not be able to start language programs.
"In theory, I think a high school should offer at least four years of college education."
Hammond said the Regents had not recently discussed whether the curriculum recommendations should be made requirements.
The Regents debated the issue in 1983 when they sent out the recommendations, she said. But they didn't mention them in their requirements for ammission
"I certainly think the Regents, as a group, would be open to reconsider this proposal."
Educators welcome revised college curriculum
Staff writer
Rv PAUI SCHRAG
By PAUL SCHRAG
Fewer options will mean better education for students enrolling in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, but the fall, a college dean said yesterday.
"We're raising our expectations in the college in order to maintain quality," said James Carothers, associate dean of the college. "Students will receive a broader, deeper and more coherent education."
The new curriculum will reduce by more than 90 percent the number of courses that meet the distribution requirement. It also will abolish the option to defer enrolling in required
English and math classes.
The College Assembly approved the curriculum revisions in spring 1965, and the changes will go into effect this fall.
Carothers explained college curriculum changes to about 50 high school and community college teachers. After a brief Auditorium at the Kansas Union,
About 150 people participated in workshops, information sessions and tours that were offered during the annual conference for high school principals and counselors and community college officials.
High school and community college officials said they liked the
revised requirements.
"We're for the new curricu-
lum." said Karen Herzog, dean of campus services at Longview Com-
munity College, Kansas City, Mo. "Our college is mirroring these changes as well."
Gail Burkett, a teacher at Wichita South High School, said, "It's a good approach because students need a general background first. They can work on their specific career goals later."
Robert Anderson, chairman of the humanities committee, said, "Students used to shop around in a retail store and could go up with inadequate preparation for
advanced courses. Now, students will be directed into the courses that are vital for them."
"Students have faced a bewildering diversity of choices," Carothers said. "By limiting those choices, they will develop skills and habits that will help them gain a better understanding of their basic direction."
The most drastic change, Carothers said, was reducing from about 1,700 to about 125 the number of students he will meet the distribution requirement.
The requirement calls for students to take three courses in each of three areas: natural science and mathematics, humanities and social sciences.
The distribution choices were narrowed to remove some courses from the distribution category that were easier than most. Carothers said.
Students entering the college in the fall will have more to contend with than fewer distribution courses. Each distribution area has three subgroups, and students will have to take one class from each subgroup.
Carothers said this would discountage specialization and promote diversified study.
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