University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 6, 1987
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Local Briefs Topeka police arrest student on theft charges
Topeka police arrested a 20-year-old KU student Tuesday night in connection with a house burglary in which $100,000 in property was taken, a Topeka police spokesman said yesterday.
The student, a Topeka freshman, was arrested on charges of burglary and felony theft and booked into the Shawnee County Jail at 2 a.m. Wednesday, a jail official said.
The student's bond, set at $5,000,
was assured by his father. The
student was released at 2:44 a.m.
the official said.
The house burglary in question occurred Nov.29 in Topeka.
Journalism school to dedicate artwork
The University of Kansas School of Journalism will dedication a portrait bust of William Allen White, the former Emporia Gazzette editor for whom the school is named, on Monday.
Tuesday is William Allen White Day at the school.
The bust was sculptured by Elden Tefft, professor of art, and is on the first floor of Stauffer Flint Museum. The bust is at 5:15 p.m. in 100 Staffer Flint.
The Alumni Corporation of Phi Delta Theta fraternity provided funds for the sculpture through a gift to the Kansas University Endowment Association. White was a member of the KU Phi Delta Theta chapter when he was a KU student.
Tuition for study in Japan offered
Scholarships covering full or partial tuition now are available for a one-year program to study language and culture in Japan, the U.S.Japan Cross Culture Center announced.
The center also offers other two to three-week programs, but with out scholarships.
Students must send applications, two photographs and a $100 registration fee more than a month before they plan to leave for Japan. The short courses tentatively are scheduled to begin in March. Students can register online July. Tuition for the short courses varies between $900 and $1,100.
Campus and Area
More information can be obtained by writing the U.S.Japan Cross Culture Center, Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center, 244 S. San Pedro St., Suite 305, Los Angeles, Calif., 90012, or calling (213) 617-2039.
Companies in N.Y offer internships
The National College Internship Service is now accepting applications for summer internships with the universities in the New York City area.
Placements are made according to each applicant's needs.
For applications, call (516) 673-0440, or write to the National College Internship Service, 374 Ave. Ackle Park, N.Y. N. 11743.
Because of a reporter's error, an organizer of the Citizens For a Better Downtown petition drive was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansan. He is Phil Minkin, Lawrence resident.
Correction
Technology a priority for state
Legislators want good jobs, strong universities
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
TOPEKA — Kansas legislators have their sights set on developing a high-technology economy with high-paying jobs and strong universities, a state senator said yesterday.
"We're on the right road, but we've got a long way to go." State SEN Wint
Winter said a national report about state economies' ability to grow provided a good road map to plan Kansas' economic development.
"I think it's a remarkable document," he said.
The report was discussed yesterday by Charles Krider, research associate at KU's Institute for Public Affairs and Research and professor of business.
Krider spoke to the Senate Economic Development Committee
about the report by the Ameritrust and Stanford Research Institute. Winter is chairman of the committee.
Krider said universities should cooperate more with businesses on science and technology research.
"We need to have a highly skilled
coach," he said, confined to
low-paying jobs. "He said
According to Krider, if Kansas will develop a low-wage economy, it will be forced to compete with foreign countries that could have even lower wages.
Krider said several plans in the Legislature, such as allowing branch banking or providing guaranteed credit for business, would aid development.
"It's very important for the state's economic future that they follow through with it," he said after the meeting.
Kansas is way below the national average in industry research through universities. Krider said.
But he said the state had a high percentage of graduates earning doctorate degrees.
"I wish we were keeping all those in Kansas," he said.
States economic developments state three factors, the report states. States
Access to high technology. States must have research centers for sci- and technology and practical ways to incorporate the research into businesses.
Skilled, flexible labor. Advanced education of workers is necessary, and companies should help train and retrain workers.
Money available for new business endeavors.
Danny Ray/KANSAN
Manuel Puig, author of "Kiss of the Spiderwoman," talks about his book and his life. Puig spoke to a group of students yesterday afternoon at an informal meeting in Nunemaker Center.
'Kiss of the Spiderwoman' author says he did not like film version
Staff writer
By JENNIFER FORKER
The author of "Kiss of the Spiderwoman" doesn't like the award-winning film adaptation of his controversial novel.
At a lecture last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom, Argentine writer Manuel Pug told about 300 people that he had little to do with the popular film that won William Hurt a 1985 Academy Award for best actor.
"I dislike the film, but I like the effect it had on the people," said Puig in a thick Spanish accent.
Puig told the small group that the movie "Kiss of the Spiderwoman" was darker and gloomier than the novel and that the actors did not portray the book's characters accurately.
Earlier in the day, Puig spoke to 15 people at an informal gathering at Nunemaker Center.
Hurt portrayed a homosexual lost in a dreamworld, trying to stave off the pain of being trapped in a South American prison. Raul Julia played Hurt's idealistic, revolutionary cellmate.
The movie characters were younger than those in the book, but their lines weren't changed to reflect it, he said.
Originally, Burt Lancaster was cast in Hurt's role but became ill, Puig said.
Like the characters portrayed by Hurt and Julia, Puig said he spent many years hiding from reality. It stemmed from living in a small town in Argentina where she worked on the plains were flat. It was land favorable for cattle but not favorable for a little boy with a large
"Always my main characters reflect problems of mine," Puig said last night.
He yearned to be a famous filmmaker and won a scholarship in 1966 to study film in Rome.
imagination
He escaped the small-town boredom by living in the movie theater and replaced his life's reality with the movies' fantasies.
But eventually Puig switched to writing novels after finding his ideas too complex for films.
"The depths you can achieve in the page cannot be matched in the film," he said.
"I thought if I wrote fabulous scripts they would accept me for my genius." Puir said.
He said a novel could involve more complex ideas because the reader's senses could focus on a single page. But to embrace the movie's meaning, one must use sight and hearing to catch images, movement, words and sounds.
Students will get payment options on housing, fees
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
The good news for hall residents this fall is that they won't have to worry about making payments on their housing contracts during registration in August and January.
The bad news is that they will pay at least $27 more on each installment for the rest of the year.
In 1986, residents of all residence halls except Hashinger paid their $2,135 housing fees in nine installments of about $215 each. Next year, they will make the same payment in eight installments of $242 each.
Hashinger residents pay $2,224 a year and will make their payments in eight installments next year.
The eight scholarship halls and Juyahawker Tower's also will go from main street to the bottom.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the measure was part of a long-term plan to coordinate small mail payments with tuition payments.
By spring semester 1989, students will be able to pay tuition either in full each semester, or in two installments. If they choose the installment option for tuition, they will pay fees on August 1 and October 1 for fall semester, and January 1 and March 1 for spring semester, said Gary Thompson, director of student records.
Students also may be allowed to
pay fees by mail by 1898, he said. And they may want to make housing payments along with tuition payments.
Under the new plan, by 1989 hall residents will be able to choose to pay their bills in the same manner they install them in two installations each semester.
The plan will make it easier for housing and tuition billings to be made together. Stoner said.
Stoner said the proposal was put before the Association of University Residence Halls and the Residential Facilities. Both groups approved the measure.
Drew Blossom, Topeka senior and president of AURH, said the association was initially concerned about the size of each payment. With the change, residents will pay $242 in each of eight installments, where in 1985 they paid 10 installments of $185 each.
AUHR was worried that students who paid their housing bills out of earnings made from student jobs because the increase a burden, Blossom said.
But the association agreed to the change when it realized that the plan would give residents several payments and would not add to their financial burden.
"My personal opinion is that the good points will balance the bad points," he said.
Issue may bypass Agnes until spring
Bv TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Agnes the Frog, famous for her write-in campaign last fall against a proposed South Lawrence bypass, was asleep when the U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved money for the bypass.
But the fictitious frog may jump in protest again this spring, her spokeswoman says.
"Agnes the Frog is still in hibernation," said John Simmons, collection manager at the KU Museum of Natural History and Agnes' spokesman. "Who knows what will happen when the weather warms up?"
However, Agnes, whose supporters said the bypass route threatened the Baker Wetlands, a habitat for the endangered Northern Crawfish frog, had no plans to enter this spring's city commission race. Simmons said.
Her argument was with the county, not Lawrence, he said.
Agnes last fall was the sole opponent to Democratic county commissioner Nancy Heibert, who supported the bypass Heibert won a second victory.
The county needs to do more research and proceeding with the process. Supports
"Currently it seems they picked a route and are trying to justify it," he
The U.S. Senate passed a federal highway and mass transit bill, which contained $10 million for the bypass, 96-2. The U.S. House passed a bill Jan. 21 that also contained money for the bypass.
Because of differences in the two bills, a joint conference committee will draft a compromise bill sometime this spring, Renee Wessels, press secretary to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan, said yesterday.
To pay for the bypass, which will
Simmons said the whole project was faulty. He said he would ask the county to do a new "origin-destination" study, which determines traffic patterns and demands. He also will encourage reevaluation the need for a bypass.
Simmons also criticized the county for issuing the bonds without a public referendum, and for not opening the decision process to the public.
Hiebert said yesterday that numerous studies had been done already that produced "compelling data" supporting the bypass.
Hiebert also said the commission voluntarily had seven public meetings about the bypass in the last two years.
"We weren't required to do so by the state," she said.
An environmental impact statement for the area is being drafted now by a wide variety of state and federal offices, Hiebert said. A public hearing on the draft will take place sometime this spring, she said.
Agnes' supporters said that the bays route would destroy the wetlands.
extend 14.3 miles from 23rd Street toward 31st Street, and for a new industrial park, the Douglas County Commission issued $4.4 million in general obligation bonds in 1985, Hiebert said.
But Simmons said that the planning on the bypass had been sloppy. The first proposed route went right through the wetlands, and although the route has now been adjusted, the bypass is still too close, he said.
The Kansas Turnpike Authority and Lawrence intend to contribute $2 and $4 million respectively.
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