University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 23.1987
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Local Briefs
Evening calls won't be taken by department
Because of a budget cut in the department of facilities operations, students will no longer receive training and radio calls in the office from 3-4pm.
Persons on campus who have maintenance or housekeeping problems during those hours should call the preventive maintenance shop, at 864-3716, said Steve Green, assistant director for management information in the department.
Green said KU police should be contacted in case of fire or security problems, or if the preventive enforcement shop line can not be reached.
KU graduate named 1986 Kansan of year
A KU graduate has been named Kansas of the Year 1986 by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas.
George E. Nettels Jr. earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from KU in 1950. He is known, where he heads two companies.
Nettels serves on the board of advisers to KU's School of Engineering and the civil engineering department, and on the board of trustees and executive committee of the Kansas University Association. He also is a member of the Chancellor's Club
Nettels received KU's Distinguished Service Award in 1980. In 1982, he received the Kan-
gerian award for his work with Fred Eldsworth Medallion.
Nettels will be honored at the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas banquet Jan. 30 in Topeka. The banquet is an annual Kansas Day event.
Gannett executive will receive award
The 1987 William Allen White Foundation national award will be presented to John C. Quinn, executive vice president for news for Gannett Co. Inc., at a luncheon Feb. 10
Quinn, who is scheduled to speak, will receive the Foundation's medallion. The luncheon and award ceremony will begin at noon in the Kansas Union.
W. Davis Merritt Jr., the Foundation's president, will present the award to Quinn, who was chosen for the award last fall.
Business programs available in Hawaii
The Pacific Asian Management Institute of the University of Hawaii at Manao will offer several certificate programs in international business from May 25 to Aug 14.
Campus and Area
A 29-day study abroad program will take students to industrial centers in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. The program features leading faculty from around the world.
N. H. Paul Chung Awards and National Resource Fellowships are available on a competitive basis. Please visit www.nationalresource.org April 1 and Feb. 13, respectively.
For further information contact the coordinator of student programs, PAMI at the University of Hawaii, CBA-C202, 2404 Mail Way, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. Phone (808) 948-7564
From staff and wire reports.
Budget issues are priority for KU Senate
By BENJAMIN HALL
Budget issues have stolen the Student Senate spotlight this year, student body president Brady Stanton said yesterday.
Staff writer
But that won't prevent his administration from working to meet on-campus goals, he said.
Lobbying the Kansas Legislature to stop University budget cuts and release excess fees is the Senate's top priority this semester, Stanton said.
Normally, the Senate doesn't bother with the Legislature, Stanton said. But proposed budget cuts totaling more than $3 million are the greatest threat to the University's well-being.
"That aspect of our jobs is becoming more and more important," he said.
The proposed cuts in the University's budget include $1,334,392 in instruction costs and $360,342 in academic support costs.
Stanford said he would try to spend two days a week lobbing at the Statehouse. Student
Student body vice president Kelly Milligan said that although the Legislature had taken priority, the Senate would still work on programs on his and Stanton's campaign platform.
senators also will visit lawmakers and write letters to pressure them.
*Stanton said he and Mingdan planner to*
*■ be the first-free, short-term loan*
*■ program for students.
The Senate would provide loans of up to $100 after a quick credit check and interview, Stanton said. The Senate would hire a business or accounting graduate student half time, at a cost of $6,500 a year, to interview applicants, Stanton said.
The program should be in operation within one and a half months, Milligan said.
"This is kind of what I'm taking under my wing, this and the Statehouse." Stanton said.
Stanton said he was working with Jerry Rogers, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, on the idea.
"We're having the legal aspects checked out," Stanton said. "We've got to watch out for
the safeguards — that's what's slowing us down."
A similar loan program at the University of Alabama has a repayment rate of 97 percent, Stanton said.
- Open a student typing room in Watson Library.
The library's old smoking room soon will contain six available typewriters, including four new ones, if the Senate allocates the needed $1,500. Stanton said.
The money would pay for four typewriters and initial supplies, he said. The library would provide chairs and typewriter stands and oversee security.
- Publish a guide to off-campus housing that would be distributed to students. The Senate would try to solicit advertising to cover the guide's costs. Stanton said
- Lobby the Lawrence City Commission to pass an ordinance to allow underage people into bars.
The bars could use some sort of marking system to prevent the underage people from
drinking. Stanton said.
"The kids are in there just to have fun and see people," he said. "It's a kind of discrimination by age. These people are 18 — they're adults."
Stanton said he was collecting information about a similar ordinance in Manhattan as a preliminary step but had not decided when to approach the commission about the plan.
Work with the Pearson Lecture Series and Student Union Activities to bring speakers to KU.
Basketball commentator Al McGuire and Jacques Cousteau's son are two possibilities. Stanton said.
- Push to begin construction of the campus lighting system that was approved last year
"We were promised it would be started before the snow flies. Stanton said, "Well we'll."
The project has been financed and the company already is hired, Stanton said. He he didn't know why there had been a delay.
English classes to enforce policy
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
Students thinking about skipping their English classes will want to think twice before missing class this semester.
The English department will drop students from their rosters if they miss two consecutive sessions without proper excuses. Barbara Paris, office specialist for the English department, said the policy had existed for several years but had not been strictly enforced before this semester.
"It's been on the University books or some time," she said. "No one here knows."
If students miss two classes in a row, instructors will send standardized forms to the department filled out for each student. Teachers also dates that students had missed class
The department will then notify students by letter that they must call the department within five days and explain why they missed the classes, or they will be dropped from the sections.
If students do not have an acceptable excuse, they will be dropped from the class.
Illness and death in the family are acceptable excuses, but each case must be considered.
"I want to give them the benefit of the doubt," said Jane Garrett, secretary for the English department.
Paris said one student had called and said she had missed class because she was in the hospital. She got not dropped from her English class.
"We like to have it (the absence) documented," Garrett said.
She said that about 60 students had been sent notices, and she expected 30 more to be sent. Most of the students she received phone calls from were planning to drop their English classes.
Paris said the department decided to enforce the policy because students who needed English classes to meet graduation requirements could not get in to them because sections were full. Some students enrolled in classes were not attending class but would not drop them.
Garrett said, "There are too many kids who really want to get into these extra-curriculars."
The policy is printed on page 45 of the University of Kansas Bulletin Timetable. Garrett said students might not be aware of the policy because it was written in very small print. She is proposing that the policy be printed on the bottom of student schedules next semester, although she is not sure the policy will be continued.
Krista Martin, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, said she was not aware of the new policy, but since she had missed the first few minutes of her poetry class, she may have missed the announcement.
"I won't have any problem with it," she said.
John Crain, Overland Park sophomore, said he had gotten a "B" in a class that he had been absent from eight times last semester.
"I don't think they can throw you out for (missing) two days." he said.
Paris said that a few English instructors did not agree with the policy, but most of them were complying with the rules and telling their students about the policy.
Autopsy outlined for students
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
KU law students yesterday had an opportunity to sense what a coroner's job is really like during the Noon Forum sponsored by the KU Student Bar Association.
Carol Moddrell, deputy coroner in the Douglas County coroner's office, used many graphic slides to aid her research in the identification and the medical/legal autopsy
Suicide, violence, unattended bodies or public interest are all things that Moddrelt said prompts the owner's office to perform an autopsy.
"As a general rule, if a younger person, meaning less than 40 years old, dies suddenly, then we perform an autopsy on the body," she said.
Moddrell said that she almost always went to the scene of an accident or crime to see when and how a person died.
"We look at the amount of blood near the body and at any disturbances in the general area, among other things, to determine if there was any foul play," she said. "Once we are in possession of a body, we take it to the morgue and perform an external autopsy on it."
From there, the evidence is sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Topeka for toxicology studies.
"Then we collect blood, urine and bile samples from the body." Moddrell said. "If we suspect that the person had been using drugs, then we also collect samples from the liver, lungs and brain."
Moddrell said coroners then search the body for injuries.
the body for injuries.
"We check for such things as bullet
Carol Moddrell, Douglas County deputy coroner, speaks to a group of law students in Green Hall. Moddrell, a University of Kansas Medical Center graduate, spoke yesterday on the duties and legal aspects of forensic medicine at the Student Bar Association's Noon Forum.
paths and what a bullet went through to cause the victim's death," she said.
Coroners use several different methods to determine the cause of death to as accurate a degree as possible.
"Sometimes we examine the eye
fluids, stomach contents, or even fly larva if the body is in an advanced stage of decomposition," Moddrell said.
If a body has a reddish tint to the skin, she said, then livor mortis has set in. That means the person usually has been dead less than 30 minutes.
KU bookstores trying to combat textbook theft
Staff writer
By TODD COHEN
The KU Bookstores, in the Kansas and Burge unions, and the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, all of which buy, sell and pay refunds for KU textbooks, are common targets for people trying to sell stolen books, managers at both stores said yesterday.
The person had three obsolete books, marked by a stolen KU Bookstores' pricing machine, and a receipt that matched the prices. Everything appeared normal to the cashier, and the person walked away with $67.90.
The theft Tuesday in the Kansas Union was elaborate. That didn't surprise bookstore managers.
"There's more organization in book theft than people realize." Randy Parker, Jayhawk Bookstore textbook manager, said.
KU police spokesman Sgt. John Brothers said, this time the person unloaded "Inflation and Unemployment," "Chicago Board of Trade Commodity Training Manual," and a French novel, "Scenes in Seiour."
Michael Reid, general manager of KU Booksbooks, said the pricing machine had been stolen sometime before. He added that he deceived the bookstore once before.
Reid said KU Bookstorews were already in the process of getting a new system to mark prices on textbooks.
"This (theft) reinforces that decision." he said.
Parker said he had seen other price-marking systems but had no plans to change at this time.
Reid said a more common form of book theft occurred at the end of each semester when the bookstores bought back textbooks for use in the next semester. People try to sell stolen textbooks for cash then, he said.
Even if the bookstore detects a stolen book, the police can't do anything unless the book's original owner reports the theft to the police and can prove ownership. Reid said. Most students do not write their names in textbooks, he said.
"They have to be able to say, I can prove this is my book." Parker said.
He recommended that students write their names or KUID numbers on the back.
"A student should pick a page, and make it coincide with his birthday." he said.
KU Bookstores attempt to catch thieves selling stolen textbooks through its computer system, he said.
During buyback periods, the stores computers list only the books
When the bookstores receive a report of a stolen book, they enter its title and any identification into the computer, he said. A cashier may quickly check textbooks and notify authorities if a book matches the description, Reid said.
The Jayhawk Bookstore doesn't use a computer, and detection is very difficult. Parker said.
Checking for stolen textbooks would be a time-consuming process and would lengthen already long lines of tired, impatient students waiting to sell their books. Parker said.
Selling or being in possession of stolen books worth $150 or more is a Class E felony, which carries a fine of up to $10,000 and a one-to-five-year sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, he said.
For selling books valued less than $150, it is a Class A misdemeanor, which carries a fine up to $2,500 and up to a year in the county jail, he said.
matter of heart
C. G. JUNG, Psychologist, healer, father and friend. A man of courage and wisdom. A man with the deepest experience and insight into the darkness and light of the human soul.
MATTER OF HEART-an inspiring and compelling film portrait which explores the profound legacy of Jung. MATTER OF HEART-a film for everyone.A film, like Jung himself full of hope and insight into what we are and what we want to become.
Sunday, Jan. 25 2:00 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 26 7:00 & 9:30 p.m.
Director: Mark Whitnev
The Lawrence premiere of a documentary about psychologist and visionary explorer Carl Gustav Jung. Including interviews with his friends, patients and students, along with interviews of Jung himself. (1983)
"Matter of Heart is as good a starting point as any for those curious about Jung, and it will add a wealth of corroborative detail to those who already know something about him." — Jay Carr, Boston Globe.