University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 5, 1986
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News Briefs
Search nears end for journalism dean
A search committee Wednesday made its recommendations for the new dean of the School of Journalism to Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Bruce Linton, chairman of the committee.
Brinkman, who was the dean of journalism from 1975 until he resigned in April, will make the committee recommendations.
Candidates for the position are Mike Kautsch, associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas; William Norton, chairman of the department of journalism at the University of Mississippi; Paul Janenenhoff, president of Mattcott Co. Inc., in Washington, D.C., and James Carey of the University of Illinois Urbana.
Housing sign-up set
Linton said he hoped Brinkman would make the decision by the end of the month.
Students living in residence halls who want to stay in Lawrence during semester break need to register for vacation housing at the office of residential programs, 123 Strong Hall, by Dec. 9.
The fee for vacation housing is $115. Fred McEhlene, director of residential programs, said last month that at least 50 people would need to register in order to keep a hall open during the break.
The hall would not provide food services during the break.
Film show scheduled
The Kansas Film Commission will sponsor the Kansas Student Film Festival on campus this weekend.
Workshops on various aspects of film making will run from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. tomorrow in Dyche Auditorium. There also will be a reception in the Kansas Union at 5:30 p.m.
Five Hollywood film professionals will talk with students at the reception.
On Sunday, members of the commission will show and judge films submitted earlier this year by students from around the state. The screenings will begin at 9 a.m. and the commission will present the awards at 12:45 p.m.
Hays bank closes
TOPEKA — State banking officials declared the Hays State Bank and Trust Co. insolvent and ordered it to close yesterday, setting a record 14 bank failures across the state this year.
Bill Olcheksi, spokesman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in Washington, said deposits and liabilities of the failed bank would be assumed by the Farmers State Bank and Trust Co. of Hays, subject to court approval.
The two offices of Hays State Bank will be closed, but its customers may conduct business at the assuming bank's two locations today, Olcheksi said.
Hays State Bank became the nation's 129th bank to fail this year, Olcheski said Kansas' last bank failure occurred Nov. 13, when the State Bank of Hoxie was closed. That bank reopened the next day as the Prairie State Bank of Hoxie.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy today, and the high temperature will be in the 40. Winds will come from the south at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight, the skies will be cloudy and the low temperature will be 30 to 35.
From staff and wire reports.
University of Kansas students convinced Playboy magazine that they had just a little more expertise in the art of partying and blowing off steam after exams than their counterparts at Kansas State University.
KU outranks K-State on Playboy party list
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
Wayne Duvall, a free-lance writer for Playboy, placed both KU and K-State in a top 40 list in a January 1987 Playboy article about top party schools in the country.
KU, ranked 26th on the list, edged out Kansas State University, which ranked 27th.
Davall, who conducted his informal research through telephone interviews, said the race was "incomplete."
He said he first narrowed his list to about 250 colleges and then called four or five students from each college and asked them several questions.
But he said he decided the KU interviewees, whom he refused to name, gave responses that indicated they were slightly better partners than the K-State students interviewed.
"I asked questions like, 'What's your biggest blow-out party of the year?' or 'What's the most notorious make-out spot on campus?' " he said. "Then, the responses I got basically determined my list."
Other questions included "Who's the coolest teacher and course?" "What's your school's most memorable scandal?" and "What's the
Although unscientific, Duval said he thought his survey was valid because the descriptions of the top 40 colleges in the article were written in the students' words.
stupidest fraternity trick you've heard of?"
The article says of KU, "Sometimes called Snob Hill, this campus is loaded with 'Frisbee throwers with that pseudo-California look who go all out during Waste Yourself Week at the beginning of school.'"
Duvall said that although he experienced some indecisiveness in determining the exact ranking, California State University at Chico, and Berkeley, University school, was, without a doubt, the winner.
even heard of Chico State, but the responses I got there were incredible," he said. "Students said that some residents had actually moved out of town because the partying was so intense."
Duvall said he wrote the article with a sense of fun and hoped people would accept it with good humor.
"I was really surprised, because I had never
"There's a lot of pressure in school that needs to be let off, and partying is a great way to do that," he said. "And I'm not saying that these aren't academic institutions. I am just saying that they really know how to have fun."
Dvall said he'd received mixed responses from some of the colleges on the list.
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Computer center to get 50 more parking spaces
Adrian Harris, 3-year-old son of Brenda Harris, Lawrence resident, accepts a gift from Santa Claus, played by William Gibbs, Goddard sophomore. Santa Claus appeared last night at the Kappa Sigma fraternity Christmas party for children who attend the Head Start Community Children's Center, 925 Vermont St.
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
Construction is under way on a project to add about 50 faculty and staff parking spaces to the computer center parking lot, a facilities planning official said yesterday.
"There is a shortfall in parking, and any additional parking will be helpful," said Jim Modig, associate director of facilities planning.
However, some of the new spaces in lot 34, east of the computer center on Sunyside hills, are displaced temporarily to accommodate cars displaced from the Malotl Hall parking lot. Motig said
Lot 37 at Malott will lose some spaces for about a year while the new human development center is being constructed. Modig said
The new section of the computer center lot
The human development center, which will be completed in 1988, will be east of Malott on land now occupied by facilities operations buildings.
will cost about $33,000, which will come from the parking fee fund, Mödig said. Money for the fund comes from the sale of parking stickers and from parking tickets.
Although the new spaces will be zoned red for faculty and staff, students will gain a few more spaces nearby when another construction project is finished.
Don Kearns, director of parking services, said that when the new facilities operations building on W. 15th Street was completed, its 86 employees would be able to park there.
Now, some employees park in the yellow zone of lots 61 and 62, at the intersection of Sunyside Avenue and Illinois Street. Kearns said, employees are allowed to park only in yellow zones.
Kearns said that the new spaces at the computer center would absorb overflow from the red section of lots 61 and 62.
Commission will consider controversial ordinances
The completion date for the additional spaces will depend on the weather. Modig said.
Staff writer
Bv PAMELA SPINGLER
Two controversial ordinances that would restrict smoking in public places and prohibit distribution of obscene materials to minors will be passed by Lawrence City Commission meeting Tuesday.
Commissioners will discuss a revised ordinance that prohibits the selling, renting or displaying of "harmful" materials to minors.
They also will consider the restriction of smoking in public places in Lawrence
The meeting will be the first of two discussions on the issues. Before an ordinance can become law, it must be considered at two city commission meetings and then published.
Jim Mullins, Lawrence resident, said he was happy that the ordinance was going before the
commission. Mullins organized a 400-signature petition complaining about theaters and video stores that allowed minors to view or rent R- and X-rated movies.
The ordinance has been revised to include specific definitions to make the law more understandable. Mullins said.
"It'a a very specific ordinance," he said, adding that the definition of harmful now includes ambiguous terms such as nudity, sexual conduct and sexual excitement.
Kansan reporter John Benner contributed information to this story.
Commissioners also will discuss the proposed restrictions on smoking.
"The material we're going after is basically deemed obscene," he said.
KBI reports increase in violent crimes in 1986
The Associated Press
The crime rate in Lawrence rose 12.8 percent during the January-September period.
TOPEKA — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported yesterday that 3.4 percent more violent crimes were committed in the state during the first nine months of 1986 than for the same three quarters of 1985.
Among the state's 35 largest cities, Wichita's crime rate rose 10.5 percent during the nine month period. Others showing increases in
cluded Kansas City, 19.6 percent; Topeka, 20.1 percent; Overland Park, 22.3 percent; Olathe, 27.4 percent; Hutchinson, 19.5 percent; Leavenworth, 15.7 percent; Manhattan, 20.7 percent; and Shawnee, 9.3 percent.
A 9.4 percent decrease in the number of murders tempered the overall increase in violent crimes, as the incidence of rape, robbery and aggravated assault increased during the January-September period compared to a year earlier.
The frequency of property crimes, burglary.
larceny and motor vehicle theft, was up 11.6 percent.
There also was a reported 33.4 percent increase in the number of reported anse cases, from 161 in 1985 to 819 through the first three quarters of this year.
The net dollar value of motor vehicle theft losses rose 15.5 percent to $29.66 million between 1885 and 1986, while the value of arson losses declined 19.8 percent to $3.77 million.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation com
plies the crime figures from reports it receives from about 300 local law enforcement agencies in Kansas.
Statewide, in the first nine months of this year, the number of murders was down to 77 from the 85 recorded for the same period of 1985.
However, rapees were up 8.9 percent, from 562 to 612; robberies increased 5.1 percent, from 1,402 to 1,473, and aggravated assaults rose 2.5 percent, from 4,609 to 4,722.
3 cities' improvement district spending similar
Staff writer
Bv IOHN BENNER
The budget for the proposed Lawrence Business Improvement District is several times that of the budgets in Hutchinson and Manhattan, but the three cities' districts actually spend about the same amount.
A district advisory board has proposed a $96,000 budget to run a downtown Lawrence improvement district with funds being culled from assessments to businesses. A Business Improvement District would assess downtown businesses to pay for salaries, operating expenses and promotions coordinated by the district.
Manhattan has two improvement districts and will collect $10,000 in one and $13,000 in the other this year, said Karen Daily, Manhattan redevelopment officer.
Hutchinson will collect about $22,000 through district assessments, said Kevin Walker, director of the district.
However, districts in both Hutchinson and Manhattan receive money from other sources to augment the money raised by the districts.
Manhattan receives $50,000 from the city and
Walker said Hutchinson relied on more than $60,000 in contributions from city, county and merchant association funds to pay for downtown development.
Although Lawrence would continue to spend funds collected by the Downtown Lawrence Association, neither the city nor Douglas County have budgeted money expressly for promoting downtown business.
the county and about $37,000 in additional money from private contributions for one of its districts. Daily said.
In addition to city, county and private contributions given to Hutchinson's district, the city paws Walker's salary.
Daily, an employee of the city of Manhattan, collects the district funds. She said her office handled the billing of both Manhattan districts and disbursed the funds.
If a business improvement district is approved for Lawrence, fees from the district would pay the director's salary for the proposed Improvement District. Adjacent Board funds.
This same study stated that the proposed manager's salary, the salary of a clerk/typist, and office rent and supplies would claim more than $42,000 of the projected $96,000 budget.
The Lawrence City Commission will have a public hearing in January to discuss the city's plans for the proposed district.
Lawrence's proposed district is larger than both Manhattan districts and the Hutchinson district.