University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 4, 1986
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News Briefs
Statue and pedestal stolen from Wescoe
A statue of former KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, valued between $15,000 and $20,000, was taken between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 5 a.m. yesterday from Wescoe Hall, KU police reported yesterday.
Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said the statue, an 18-inch-high bronze bust of Wescoe, was taken from the east end of the third floor. The pedestal also was removed
Brothers said police were investigating the theft but had no suspects.
Award given to prof
He encouraged anyone with information to contact KU police.
Victor Papanek, J.L. Constant distinguished professor of architecture and urban design, will travel to Yugoslavia to receive an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Zagreb on Dec. 19.
Papanek is receiving the award for his work in using industrial design to help disadvantaged people and developing countries.
The University of Zagreb has only awarded 56 honorary doctorates in 317 years. All previous awards have been to Nobel Laureates or heads of governments.
Papanek is the first American to receive the award.
Debaters win honors
twelve KU debaters won honors during Thanksgiving break, including six first place awards in tournances at Wichita State University, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The tournament at Wake Forest University is the largest of the fall semester and includes teams from across the country. John Culver, Overland Park senior, and George Lopez, Wichita junior, took first place in the senior division of debate.
Culver also was selected as the top speaker from the 200 debaters competing.
Steve Ellis, Wichita senior, and Barry Pickens, Winfield sophomore, took fourth place in senior division.
In the tournament at the University of North Carolina, Culver and Lopez took third place. Ellis and Pickens won fourth place. Pat Whalen, San Antonio, Texas, sophomore, and Dave Macdonald, Fargo, N.D., sophomore, won fifth place.
2 selected for contest
TOPEKA — The Kansas Rhodes Scholarship Committee announced yesterday that a student from Princeton University and Kansas State University would represent Kansas in the finals of the Rhodes scholarship contest.
David Mehnther of Roeland Park, who attends Princeton, and Kelly Welch of Moran, who is a student at Kansas State, were chosen from 15 contestants, said Committee Chairman Oliver H. Hughes.
The Rhodes award allows U.S. students to attend Oxford University in England for two or three years. The scholarships, created in 1902 by British politician Cecil John Rhodes, pay for all tuition costs and living and travel expenses.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature around 40 degrees and southeasterly winds to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low temperature in the mid-20%.
From staff and wire reports.
Slattery says he won't ask for bypass vote
Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., told opponents of the proposed Lawrence bypass yesterday that he would not ask for a popular vote to approve financing for the project.
Bv IOHN BENNER
Staff writer
"You elected your county and city commissioners." Slattery told the group. "My job is to help the local unit of government, and they have all shown support for the project."
Slattery met with several Lawrence residents, including a former mayor and KU and Baker University biologists, at the Kansas University campus, for reasons for opposing the proposed bypass.
Criticism of the bypass ranged from environmental and traffic concerns to the
Tim Miller, lecturer in religious studies and publisher of the Plumber's Friend newsletter, said he was angry that county residents had not been allowed to vote on the issuance of general obligation bonds to pay for the county's $4 million share of the proposed $21 million bypass. General obligation bonds are repaid with tax money.
absence of a vote in July 1985 before the Douglas County Commission issued bonds to finance part of the project.
"This is the largest project in county history, and we have voted on smaller ones," Miller said. "Why not require a bond referendum?"
Miller and others attending the meeting suggested that Slattery work to get an amendment attached to a federal highway bill requiring a
In July 1985, Attorney General Bob Stephan issued an opinion, at the county's request, that said public vote on the bond issue was not required because cities and counties could make their own rules without higher authority.
majority vote by county residents before the county electors can worth of federal votes, sealmarked for their benefit.
A House-Senate conference committee faileo in the last congressional session to work out differences in a highway bill that could provide $10 million for the bypass.
At yesterday's meeting, bypass opponents also proposed a hearing in front of a conference committee when Congress reconvenes next month.
Slattery said that only the committee chair:
man could arrange a hearing and that the size of the total federal bill made such a process nearly impossible.
Other bypass opponents cited what they called shortcomings in the environmental impact statement conducted to assess the effects of the byssus on surrounding land.
Joe Collins, KU zoologist, and Roger Boyd, Baker University professor of biology, told Slattery that the preliminary environmental report was incomplete and had been drafted without consulting local biological experts.
Slattery said he would make sure that the project adhered to all EPA rules.
"They're not going to short-circuit the system of the impact statement or the Enviro-mental statement."
Chris Feeley/KANSAN
Sitting pretty
About 700 students showed up for last night's Western Civilization review session in the William P. Albrecht and George R. Waggoner auditoriums in Wescoe Hall. The auditorium can seat a total of about 600 people. Ted
Vaggalis, instructor in Western Civilization, said that next semester more rooms probably would be reserved. "We screwed up," he said. "We didn't schedule enough rooms."
AURH to sponsor Playfair workshop
Staff writer
Bv PAM MILLER
For the first time at the University of Kansas, scholarship hall and residence hall dwellers will get a chance to play together next semester.
The Association of the University Residence Halls will sponsor Playfair, a workshop for large numbers of people, on Jan. 14. The exact location of the Playfair workshop has not yet been determined, but either the Allen Field House or the Anschutz Sports Pavilion is being considered, said Noelle Jibril, national communication coordinator for AURH.
Tuesday, AURH allocated $1,400 to pay the expenses of Gail Nozotney, the Playfair leader who was a major donor.
Barbara Meyer, business manager for Playfair Inc.'s New York City branch, said that Playfair "is a large group activity combining non-competitive games for grown-ups to allow them to capture their
child-like qualities of play and lose their grown-up inhibitions."
The company sends representatives across the country to lead students and business people in Playfair workshops.
Jibril, Wichita senior, wanted to bring Playfair to KU after participating in a Playfair workshop in San Francisco at the National Association of College Residence Halls conference in May.
"When I did Playfair in San Francisco, I thought 'This is such an incredible experience,' " Jibril said. "We've got to have it here.' "
During a Playfair workshop, anywhere from 50 to 3,500 people get together in groups at one place and are led in games by a Playfair group leader.
Playafair staged its workshop at 180 universities
last year, including Kansas University and Wichita
University.
“It’s another sort of dancing cheek-to-cheek, so to speak.” Mever said.
The desired result of the workshop is to get the entire group laughing and get everyone to know other people.
The purpose of the games, Meyer said, is to have everyone win and no one lose at the games. Other games include giving people spontaneous standing ovations, knocking imaginary "monsters" off their backs and playing "Amoeba Tag," a version of the conventional tag game where every moves as slowly as possible and tries to touch as many people as possible.
Meyer said that the favorite activity of college
Deb Stafford, assistant director of the office of residential programs, said the idea to bring Playfair was Jibril's.
Professor to teach importance of the voice
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Staff writer
A KU professor is concerned that many people are able to recognize how the loss of an arm or leg would affect their lives, but don't think about what would happen if they lost their voices.
So, to educate people on the importance of the voice. John Michel, professor of speech, language and hearth. He is also the Professional Voice next semester.
and business people, for whom the voice is an important part of the job
"People in professions that require use of the voice often abuse their voices simply because they don't understand it. People must care for their voices."
The class is designed for performers as well as other professionals, such as lawyers, teachers
Voice is an important part of the job.
"A lot of people are ignorant about
the importance of their voices in
their professions," Michel said
yesterday. "A vocal loss is very
much a physical disability.
Michel said he hoped education and law students would enroll in the course because of the important role voice would play in their careers.
The course, which is geared toward students with no background in speech pathology, has no prerequisites.
"A teacher who cannot talk to his class or a lawyer who cannot verbally present a case might as well find a different job." Michel said. "Vocal production is a necessity in so many professions, yet so many people abuse their voices."
Michel said students would study several aspects of speaking and singing during the course.
be examined, as well as how people can avoid abusing the voice, Michel said.
The physiology of the vocal tract and how drugs and diet affect it will
Ronald Willis, professor of speech and drama and chairman of the Theater and Media Arts Department, said he thought the course would be beneficial to all students, especially those in theater.
"People who make their living through any kind of vocal production should know how to care for their voices." Willis said. "The voice is a necessity for personal expression and professional livelihood."
Sliders hit red Jell-O for charity
When he reached the top of the ladder, assistant men's basketball coach Mack Freidinger peered over the side. Below him was a pool filled with a thick red glob. The only way down was the slide.
By ANNE LUSCOMBE Staff writer
Freidinger raised his arms in the air and looked down at basketball head coach Larry Brown. Brown just grinned back at him, offering no help. Then Freidinger slid into the vat of strawberry Jell-O.
He was the first in a series of brave Jell-O jumpers last night at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
There was a method to this madness. The KU Public Relations Student Society of America, in conjuction with its Levi's 501 jeans campaign, sponsored the slide into the slime.
More than $1,000 was raised for the March of Dimes. Each person who raced at the 2016 race received a $10 gift card.
"We figured the way to get people involved was to think of the craziest idea we could," said Jenny Gardner, president of the group.
Gardner said that the organization used 316 pounds of dry Jell-O and mixed it in 11 large plastic trashcans. The trashcans full of Jell-O hardened overnight in the freezers at All-Star Dairy, 1800 W. 2nd St.
Yesterday, the Jell-O was moved to the Holiday Inn ballroom, which was covered with plastic to protect the floor and walls from the Jell-O splatterings. About 60 people gathered around the metal pool to watch. Next to the Jell-O pool was a similar one filled with hot water, a reward of sorts for those braving the chilled gelatin.
Carol Boyer, Prairie Village sophomore, changed the sliding style as she slid into the pool on her stomach, getting a real taste of the strawberry mess.
"It ittled look like any fun just plopping," said Boyer, who raised $142. "I always go down the slide at the pool head first. It tasted good, but I like strawberry. It was kind of embarrassing though."
Frank Seurer, former KU quarterback and now the third string quarterback with the Kansas City Chiefs, followed Boyer's example, sliding into the Jell-O head first.
When he climbed out his white socks had become pink.
"I really had a lot of resitation at first, but then I found out it was strawberry." Seurer said "It was cold, slimy and disgusting. It felt like 10,000 people blew their noses in it, but it didn't taste like it though. It was pretty good."
The society recruited the help of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority, Gardner said.
Larry Sinks, a Lawrence businessman, raised $250 and won the grand prize, plane tickets to New York City and basketball tickets to the Kansas-St. John's game in Madison Square Gardens.
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