University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 9. 1987
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Local Briefs
Shorter period for add-drop is considered
The University Senate Executive Committee is considering a proposal to shorten the time period during which students may add or drop classes, SenEx administrative assistant Sandra Wick said Friday.
SenEx referred the proposal to one of its committees. Wick said.
Wick said several SenEx members thought the add-drop periods at the beginning of each semester should be shortened, particularly because of the burden of recent enrollment increases. Students now have almost a month to add or change sections.
Teacher-Business Exchange planned
Twenty-two local teachers and businessmen have been selected to participate in tomorrow's Teacher-Business Exchange Day, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Education Committee
The 11 business representatives will spend tomorrow morning in 11 Lawrence teachers' classrooms. In the afternoon, the teachers will visit the businesses. The group will meet to discuss their experiences at 4 p.m. at the Adams Alumni Center. 1266 Oread Ave.
European courses offered in program
The University of New Orleans is sponsoring its 12th annual summer school program in Innsbruck, Austria, from July 5 to Aug. 15.
More than 60 courses focusing on the cultural, historical, social and political issues of Europe will be offered. Also available this year will be business and science classes.
Professors from the universities of New Orleans, Florida and Innsbruck will instruct the classes. All courses are taught in English.
The cost is $1,969 and includes tuition, university fees, housing, breakfasts and lunches, nursing and security services, social functions and insurance.
Enrollment is limited to 250, so interested students should seek information soon. For a brochure, write to UNO-INNSRBUCK 1987, c/o International Study Programs, 400 E. 63rd St., Minneapolis, 70418, or call the office of international study programs at UNO: (504) 286-7116.
Two radio plays planned for blind
The Wichita Radio Reading Service, a service for the blind and visually handicapped, has received a grant to produce two radio plays about Kansas frontier settlement.
The Kansas Committee for the Humanities gave $2,500 for the plays. The first play, 'New and Old: The Story of Pastor Olson and the Smokey Valley People,' is about the settling of Lindsburg.
The second play, which is about the English settling of Runnymede, will be aired in December.
Clarification
The amount of a proposed increase to the student activity fee for the fall and spring semesters that would help finance women's and non-revenue sports was incorrectly reported in Thursday's Kansas. The amount would increase from $6.50 to 10$.
From Kansan wires
KU Connection provides service to link students
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
They use handles like Spuds, Dungeonmaster, the Spectre and Mudshark and talk to each other on the phone through their computers.
They are the subscribers to Lawrent's computer chat-line, the Connection.
Started in the fall of 1985 by two KU students, the KU Connection began as one of several computer bulletin boards, a service that allows those with computers and phone modems images, or computer mail, to each other.
At the beginning of the fall, Scott Weiner, Chicago junior, and Ross Lippincott, Overland Park senior, decided to expand their service to accommodate six people at once, allowing them to chat.
"It is a completely different kind of bulletin board service," Weiner said. "You actually talk to each other on the same line."
"All you have to have is access to a computer with a modem and our telkio."
He said that the service didn't require prior knowledge of computers and that the system had self-explanatory instructions.
"People who use the system, who and find it, subscribe to it," he said.
Weiner said that the number of subscribers fluctuated between 20 and 30 and were divided evenly between the sexes. Weiner said quite
a few people called infrequently to chat for a free five minutes.
He said the service cost $10 a month and was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He said the service used most between 4 and J am.
Weiner said that he and Lippincott hadn't yet made back the money they had invested in the system because of the high cost of phone installation.
Weiner said they had a difficult time circulating the service's telephone number.
"I think we can break even by the end of this semester." Lippincott
Joel Brandon, Dumas, Texas,
sophomore, said that he used
computers for recreational purposes and
enjoyed the service.
"I think it's great, it serves its purpose really well," Brandon said. "The people I've met have the same personality life as they have on the computer."
Shelly Dean, Shawnee freshman,
said that she had been a subscriber
for about four months and also had
met a lot of people through the
service.
Weir said, "Most of the users are really good friends. Three or four couples even started going out because of this."
Recently, however, the KU Connection has lost several subscribers, some of whom said they thought the line was becoming too social.
Drunks still driving despite costs, help
By LISA A. MALONEY
Many people still will drive drunk despite stiff penalties for drunken driving convictions and the availability of free taxi services, a Lawrence police officer said recently.
Staff writer
Lawrence police Sgt. David Cobb said that most people didn't realize how much a conviction for driving under the influence could cost them.
Few students can afford to spend the two days in jail or two days of community service that a conviction carries, he said. A driver convicted of DUI also must attend an $85 rehabilitation program.
In addition, a convicted driver must pay court costs, fines and property damage costs. Insurance rates also increase, and the company may decide not to carry the policy at all, he said.
A driver with a $400 annual full-coverage policy would find insurance rates rising to as much as $2,100 for five years after a DUI conviction, Cobb said. Liability coverage, the lowest possible insurance allowed by law, would cost the driver $800 a year.
Lawrence has no public intoxication law, except for a law that makes it illegal for drunks to direct traffic, he said.
"There's no law saying you can't
have no homework. No law saying you can't
crawl."
Charles Bryan, coordinator for KU on Wheels, said that drunk driving was a societal problem. People who were drunk would be in cars feel uncomfortable without one.
"You're still going to have people who have to have their car. That's what they've grown up with, and habits are hard to break," he said.
During January in Douglas County, Lawrence city police arrested 35 drunken drivers; University police, one; the sheriff's department, five and the Highway Patrol, 10, he said.
Bryan said of the students who used SecureCab, the free taxi service sponsored by Student Senate, 90 percent were intoxicated. The service also is free to students who don't walk home alone late at night
But Bruce Beale, director of the Douglas County Citizen's Commission on Alcoholism, said, "There are so many drunk drivers on the road, it's going to take more than a taxicab service to make a dent in them."
Many people think they can risk driving drunk because few are ever caught, Beale said. Nationwide, only 2,000 2,000 drivers are arrested.
Spotting a drunken driver is often a matter of common sense, he said. Many forget to turn their headlights on when they drive or drive over cautious, Beale said.
Getting away with driving drunk once reinforces the belief that the driver can make it home one more time, he said.
He said that when a drunken driver was arrested, it was rarely the first time the driver had driven intoxicated.
County arrests have gone up from 30 a month to almost 50 a month in the last three months, Beale said. But the increase may be because of the rotation of officers from day to night shift.
Cobb said that the number of DUI arrests was not an accurate measure of SecureCab or other free taxi services' effectiveness.
Amy Rhoads/KANSAN
35 God look-alikes win in contest; pastor says ads capture attention
By JENNIFER FORKER
Pastor Don Conrad points out "God-like" characteristics during his sermon. Conrad told his congregation that everybody won the God look-alike contest during a service at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave
Staff writer
All 35 contestants in the Lutheran Campus Ministry's God look alike contest wuest day.
Everyone who attended the worship service won the knowledge that all people are made in God's image and have "God-like" qualities, said Pastor Don Conrad, the inventor of the Kansan advertisement that drew so much attention
Conrad places weekly ads to draw the attention and attendance of readers. It just so happened that last week's ad was curiously captivated. It drew four phone calls, said Conrad, four more calls than most ads received.
The ad was a spoof of the Ed Manning and Larry Brown look-alike contest. The ad said winners would be selected on mannerisms, physical characteristics, demeanor and overall presence.
"To get a kicker like this only comes once a year," Conrad said.
The prize for Conrad's contest? The ad said, "Winners get an incomparable award and will be given by Good News from above."
"I felt it was to a have a little fun. I hope nobody gets angry. We're not trying to deceive people," Conrad said of the ad.
The ads often are humorous but thought-provoking.
Thursday Kansan every week for the past four or five years. He said he enjoyed making the ads but preferred to pay a student, any student, $5 each week for creating them.
Two weeks ago, the ad asked God why people were responsible for keeping Oral Roberts alive. Roberts said last month that his followers needed to raise $4.5 million, or God would take him to heaven.
Conrad has placed ads in the
"Every Tuesday I'm miserable to get ideas," he said.
Conrad said, "It's mostly to let people know we're here. And there's a good theological point too."
The ad said, "I don't like being put on the spot, especially to decide if Oral dies or not."
"We hope the ads communicate the community we have. We're willing to laugh at things and be kind of informal."
The people who attended the service in search of spiritual growth found it offered in an uncommon, informal atmosphere. Instead of a gothic church with
stained-glass windows, the service was held in the bare, upper room of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The room contained plastic chairs, a large cross and an altar. A table with coffee and newsletters stood at the entrance to the room.
One thirsty man got up twice during the service to get coffee. A little girl next to him played with colored pens and hummed softly
John Lohman, Fort Wayne, Ind. graduate student, said he attended Conrad's services because of the informal attitudes.
"It's a relaxed, unstylish atmosphere. He does away with the cold; impersonal ministry That's impersonal our ministry unique." Lohman said.
Conrad used a chalkboard for the contest. He asked for requirements from the congregation for the contest winners. He wrote the answers, such as radiance, patience, bravery and forgiving, on the board.
Conrad said that if he had lined all 35 people in a row and had to choose the most God-like one, he would have to choose all 35.
"It's so hard to live the perfect life. Not only that, it's impossible. We all fall short or being God's look-alikes," Conrad said.
Unionization provokes debate
Staff writer
By BENIAMIN HALL
New moves to unionize KU's faculty could revive an argument about which groups should be included, the dean of law said yesterday.
Michael J. Davis, the dean, was University general counsel during union initiatives in 1975. He took part in length hearings that year about who would belong to a faculty union.
The Kansas Public Employees Relations Board finally decided that KU's bargaining unit should not include the law school, the College of Health Sciences, part-time research and teaching staff or anyone whose title included chancellor, dean or director.
In most states, petitions signed by 30 percent of an organization's members are required to call for a vote on whether to form a union. Davis said the KU faculty never voted on unionization in 1975 because organizers could not collect those signatures.
The same percentage usually is required to call for hearings to decide which groups the union will represent, Davis said.
"It's part and parcel of the same legal act," he said.
But in Kansas, a petition with only five signatures is enough to force
But under a peculiar Kansas law, just five individuals could force hearings to redefine the bargaining unit, Davis said.
Clifford Griffin, professor of history, said Wednesday at the University Forum that he and 40 other faculty members were trying to collect 400 faculty signatures on a petition to bring unionization to a vote. Griffin said unionization would give KU's faculty leverage with the state Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature.
The union organizers have about six months to collect the 400 signatures, which would represent about 30 percent of the faculty.
those hearings, Davis said.
Griffin said he liked the present Public Employees Relations Board's standards for the makeup of a faculty union.
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