University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 17, 1987
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Local Briefs
Rape reported after fraternity holiday party
Lawrence police are investigating the rape of a KU freshman that reportedly occurred at a fraternity party early Sunday morning.
The victim reported that she was lured into a storage room in the Sigma Chi fraternity, 1439 Tennessee St, and raped.
The police are seeking a suspect described as a 5-foot-11 white male, 19 to 20 years old, weighing 190 pounds with brown hair. Police said the victim apparently did not know her assailant.
The rape was reported 12 hours after the incident, police said yesterday. The victim received medical care from the memorial Hospital and was released.
The victim was attending the fraternity's Valentine's Day "after-hours" party. Approximately 200 people, mostly non-residents of the fraternity, attended the party.
The police said they did not know whether the suspect was a member of the fraternity.
The fraternity is cooperating with the police investigation and had been asked by police not to comment on the case, said Sigma Chi president Jeff Ehmke, Derby junior.
Bill would outlaw KU ticket scalping
TOPERA — The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved a bill to prevent ticket holders on state universities' property.
The bill, sponsored by State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, would try to prevent the sale of tickets for more than their face value.
Reserved seats for the Kansas-Oklahoma men's basketball game were selling for $37 more than the Allen Field House on Saturday.
Students should be protected from ticket scalping at state universities because they already pay attention to those schools, Winter has said.
The bill now heads to the full Senate for debate.
Hunter Thompson to speak at Union
Author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson will speak and answer questions at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
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Thompson is a former editor for Rolling Stone magazine and author of several books, including "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." He is known for his stream-of-consciousness writing style.
From Kansan wires.
KU may be Hollywood of Midwest
Lawrence might be home for new movie production studio
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Movie cameras may become as common as wheat to Kansans if movie producer Doug Curtis, a KU professor, builds a movie studio in Lawrence.
If Curtis succeeds, Kansas would harvest handsome profits from feature films produced in the state, and KU would become a leader in film production, state and KU officials said yesterday.
Curtis, owner of Oread Entertainment Group Inc., a Los Angeles based film company, is asking Lawrence to issue $3.5 million in industrial revenue bonds to finance Oread Studios in the University Corporate Research Park, Wakarusia Drive and 15th Street.
The 28,000-square-foot movie studio would house production offices, classrooms for the KU theatre and
media arts department and two 8,000-square-foot sound stages, said Marcus McCloud, Oread Entertainment's Lawrence representative.
Curtis, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1968, produced "Nice Girls Don't Explode" in Lawrence in the summer. The world premiere of the movie is scheduled for January 20th at 1020 Massachusetts St., said Bobby Patton, chairman of the division of communication and theater.
Jerry Jones, coordinator of the Kansas Film Commission, said Oread Studios would be a big boost to efforts to attract movie productions.
Curtis also produced "The Hazing" and co-produced "The Philadelphia Experiment" and "Black Moon Rising."
Jones said film producers were leaving California in record numbers to escape paying "premium wages"
demanded by the actors' and technicians' unions. He said they were also fleeing cities and homeowners that charge high rates for use of their property.
McCloud said movie producers were attracted to Kansas primarily because of low production costs.
"Kansas is a right-to-work state. Producers wouldn't have to do battle with the unions," McCloud said. "The state is more accommodating than California. The only thing the state is lacking is an adequate studio."
With Oread Studios, Kansas could compete for movies with Texas, South Carolina and several other studios that already have full-sized studios.
Millions of dollars would flow into the state from the films, Jones said. More than $3 million was spent in Emporia last year during the production of a miniseries about an Emporia minister who murdered his wife and conspired to murder his lover's husband.
Kansas could probably produce five or six feature films a year, Jones said. In 1986, three films were produced in Kansas. But no films were produced in Kansas in 1985.
Patton said that both students and the KU film program would benefit from Oread Studios. Students would be able to study and serve internships at Oread Studios, whereas now KU students have to go to the coasts to get hands-on film-making experience. Patton said.
If Oread Studios is built, KU would be the only university with access to full film production facilities, Patton said.
The KU program hasn't been able to build a successful media produce program, said Chuck Berg, directeur de la频道 and Curtis' former KU classmate.
Amy Rhoads/KANSAN
Joel Wilder, Topeka senior, looks toward Joseph R. Pearson Hall from a ramp at Kansas Memorial Stadium Wilder was taking pictures yesterday for his art photography class.
1987 course guide will expand to offer students more facts
By LISA A. MALONEY
Looking out
The fall 1987 guide will be expanded to cover all courses offered in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said Missy Kleinhold, director of the Jayhawk Course Source.
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"It's going to be significantly bigger," she said.
The Course Source, which is sponsored by Student Senate, is a guide to professors' requirements for courses in the college.
"I think it's important not only for the students but for the professors, because then they get students who know it, and taking the course," Kleinhaug said.
"One of the most frustrating things for professors is knowing that some of the students in their class are just there because they had that time slot open, or because they needed a humanities course."
Tom Woods, Senate treasurer, said students would be able to pick up free copies April 3 at the reference desk in Watson Library and in the Student Senate office in the Burge Union.
When the guide was first produced on a trial basis for the spring 1987 term, only freshman and sophomore-oriented courses were listed. Underclassmen would benefit most from the listings, Kleinholz said.
ers, projects and computer programs that were required.
This year, instead of a questionnaire, the professors will be asked to submit a one-page syllabus, and the guide will be expanded from 48 pages to 64 pages, she said.
If students knew more about the requirements of the courses they enrolled in, then fewer students would have to change their courses in the add-drop process, she said.
Kleinbolz said that the syllabuses would give students a better idea of the professors' personalities and their course philosophies.
Robert Lineberry, de of the college, said the syllabus would make the fall 1987 guide easier to read than the last one, which mainly contained statistics.
Professors filled out questionnaires that asked what type and how many tests would be given, whether the final would be cumulative or take-home, and the number of pap-
"I think people like to read things in English, rather than in code," he said.
Kleinholz said the Course Source board had not spent all of the $13,500 that the Senate allotted them last year because printing cost only $2,000. This year, the guide also will include about 10 pages of advertisements to help pay for the cost of expanding the guide.
"We're one of the cheapest groups," she said.
The Course Source board increased Kleinholz's salary this year from $150 to $175 a month to cover the time increase that the new guide would require, she said.
Student increase strains schools
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
Officials of the schools said the increase in students and the decrease in financing could result in overcrowding or enrollment-limiting policies.
Although enrollment in the schools of education, journalism and law dropped this year, most professional students have increased despite cuts in school budgets.
"There are classes, some in the design department, that are seriously overcrowded," said Jerry Moore, associate dean of fine arts. "That's not the most pleasant condition to teach in."
Moore said the school had the same percentage increase as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The school's enrollment increased by 170 students in 1987 and has increased steadily for a couple of years.
Although the school has no limit on the number of freshmen admitted, Moore said the school was considering putting caps on certain majors, especially in the visual communications area.
Charles Rapp, associate dean of social welfare, said his school had the same problem.
"The problem we're facing is over the past five years our enrollment as increased 42 percent," he said. The 30 new students gained in 1987 were only representative of the overall problem.
Rapp said the increase resulted in radically overcrowded classes, which needed to remain small to adequately teach social worker skills. The increase also forced the school to phase out its master's program in Wichita.
"We had to close that because of a mismatch between resources and demand," he said.
Although the enrollment figures for the School of Business showed a decrease of 190 students, John Tolleison, dean of business, said this year's figures were misleading.
Tollefon said because of changes in the school's admission policy, 1996 enrollment figures were artificially inflated.
Actually, Tolleson said, the school's enrollment is only slightly higher than the 1984-85 year. That was the year before the school's enrollment soared because everyone taking junior-senior level classes were required to be in the school.
"Instructional activity at the undergraduate level has remained essentially stable for the past three years," said Tollefson, who thinks enrollment can't go much higher because most classes are already full.
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