University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 7, 1987
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Local woman wins Rhodes scholarship
Marilynn J. Richtark, Lawrence, has been named one of 32 Rhodes scholars nationwide for 1988.
Richtarik, a Lawrence High School graduate who is a senior at Harvard University, is majoring in U.S. history and literature.
Also selected were Peter A. Bednekoff, Weir, who attends the University of Tulsa, and Richard Leawood, Leawood, who attends Harvard.
Each will receive grants for two years of study at Oxford University in England.
Search beginning for liberal arts dean
The committee searching for a new dean of liberal arts and sciences has received about 50 applications so far, chairman Rex Martin said Friday.
Applications and nominations are due Jan. 20, and should be sent to Martin, office of academic affairs, 129 Strong Hall. Interviews for six finalists will be in early February. The new dean will take over July 1.
Services today for ex-professor
Funeral services for Agnes M. Brady, professor emerita of Spanish and Portuguese, will be at 1 p.m. today at the D.W. Newcomer Overland Park Chapel, Brady, 82, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
She taught at the University of Kansas for 28 years before retiring in 1965. She was an internationally known author of about 30 Spanish and Portuguese textbooks.
Ex-alumni official, seed expert dies
Roy Edwards Jr., a longtime Kansas City, Kan, business and civic leader and former president of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, died Thursday night.
Edwards, 67, also had served as president of the Kansas City, Kan., Board of Education and the American Royal Association.
In 1978, he received a Distinguished Service Citation from KU and the Alumni Association.
The service to KU included membership on the board of trustees of the Endowment Association, the chancellor's search committee and the advisory board of the School of Business.
Edwards was chairman of the board of Research Seeds Inc. and before that was president of the Rudy-Patrick Seed Co. He was a nationally recognized expert in the field and was named president of the American Seed Trade Association in 1959.
Club hires attorney to recover losses
The Cosmopolitan Club, a nonprofit organization of Lawrence businessman, has hired attorney Andrew Ramirez in an attempt to recover losses from a last-minute speaking cancellation by Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight.
Knight had been scheduled to speak Oct. 12 in Lawrence as part of the Cosmopolitan Club's fundraising effort to benefit diabetes research. When Knight cancelled, Kansas coach Larry Brown spoke in his place.
From staff and wire reports.
Plan may cut arts enrollment, officials say
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
Staff writer
As support for selective admissions gains momentum, faculty in the School of Fine Arts worry that such a policy might discriminate against their students.
Ouness the state takes fine arts students into account when making its selective admissions policies, the school could face an enrollment drop, according to Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts.
Thompson said that he had no problem with some parts of the selective admissions proposals. But others are too oriented toward liberal arts and do not consider students in
The fact that so many different selective admissions plans have been proposed makes it more difficult, he said. The Board of Regents will consider a specific proposal when they meet next week in Topeka.
art and music, he said.
That plan, presented earlier this fall, would limit enrollment at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
The plan would require students to earn at least a 2. grade point average in required classes, earn an ACT composite score of 23 or rank in the top third of their class. The required classes are four years of English.
three years of natural science, social science and math and two years of foreign language. The plan would allow 10 percent of freshmen admitted to KU to be exempt from the requirements.
The recommended curriculum is a problem for potential art students.
He said that students with creative talent might have to give up arts classes to take the required classes, especially at smaller high schools.
Another problem with the proposals, Thompson said, is that the academic will need not be good indicators of how a student will do fine arts.
A study by the ACT service showed that students in the visual arts had lower than average ACT scores but did just as well in freshman English classes as other students.
That means that fine arts students with low test scores could be kept out, even though there was little relationship between those scores and their potential for success, Thompson said.
Many fine arts students have ACT scores between 19 and 22, Thompson said. Those students could be excluded under the Regents plan, even if they had the potential to succeed in the fine arts program.
Because fine arts students also
take many courses in the liberal arts. Thompson said that some selective admissions would not harm the school.
"But we'd like to be able to do it on our terms," he said.
Because students have to audition and submit portfolios to be admitted, the school already has its own selective admissions policies, he said.
Jerry Lubensky, professor of art, also said that he thought some standardized testing discriminated against visually oriented students.
But he said it was a university's role to give students a well-rounded education.
James Larson/KANSAN
KU organizations' formals continue a winter tradition
Members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and their dates fill the dance floor at Alvamar Country Club. The sorority has its annual formal Saturday night,
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
Black velvet, plaid taffeta, tuxedos and mistletoe have heralded the season of Christmas formalms.
Many formals at the University of Kansas are a tradition, especially for fraternities, sororites and residence halls. The formals usually have the same name every year and are often held at gym houses or local hotels.
Alpha Chi Omega had its annual Christmas formal, Snowball, Saturday night at Alvaram Country Club, 1809 Crossgate Drive.
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority has a Christmas formal with a different theme every year, said Sheri Falk, social chairman. The sorority's formal was Friday night at the KCI Marriott. Thursday night, the sorority had a pre-formal party at the house.
Sororities and fraternities aren't the only ones with formalms, however. Lewis Hall had its annual formal, The Fours and Bows this year, Saturday night.
Formals have been around KU for a long time and were especially popular in the 1920s. The Frosh Friolic, the Junior Promenade, Varsity dances, Law Scrim, Soph Hop and Twenty-Five Club were some of the parties and dance clubs popular fifty years ago.
Most were on campus and were chaperoned. Tickets usually cost about 50 cents, and parties usually ended around midnight.
The 1920 Jayhawker yearbook listed some rules of etiquette for students attending parties and formals. The rules suggested, among other things, that students should "gently glide in the dance, wearing a pleasant expression. Bow the head slightly, touch the hands lightly.
"No gentleman should use his bare hand to press the waist of the lady in dancing. If without gloves, use a handkerchief. No gentleman whose breath is tainted with the fumes of strong drink or tobacco should ever enter the presence of ladies in the dancing room.
"After dancing, a gentleman should conduct the lady to a seat, unless she otherwise desires; he should thank her for the pleasure she has conferred but should not tarry too long in intimate conversation with her."
But the same article parodied those rules of etiquette. It said, "Bump as many as possible. Look rough. Touch partner's cheek and hold her tight. When asking a woman to dance, use this: 'Got this struggle, Kid?' or 'Comon, shake a shoulder with muh.'
"If you're able to find any liquor in the country, come to the Varsity with it — on your breath. Never bring the bottle."
hand to press the waist of the lady in dancing — heavens, no! Put your bare hand on her shoulder or her back. Handkerchiefs are for the nose.
One formal popular a long time ago, the Puff Pant Prom, was a little different from the typical formal. Only women went to the Puff Pant Prom, but half of them dressed as men.
A notice in the Kansan several days before the Puff Pant Prom in 1924, attests to the popularity of the dance. It asked men willing to donate their clothing to drop off their suits at a masonium sometime before the party.
No gentleman should use his bare
Although fashionss have changed over the years, some of the basics of formalms are still popular.
Gigi Abegglen, salesperson at Scots, 91 Massachusetts St., said black velvet dresses were the most popular this year. Most of her customers were buying dresses to wear to formals or to Vespers. This was the busiest week of sales, she said.
Don't say 'Bah, humbug!'
Events scheduled for holidays
By AMBER STENGER Staff writer
With the holidays come parties, religious ceremonies, family gatherings and other celebrations. But for some people who are not religious or who are lonely, the holidays can be a tough time.
"Holidays can be difficult for people, depending on what their outlook is—how they are coping with things generally," said Linda Keeler, psychiatrist and coordinator of mental health services for Watkins Hospital.
Traditionally, holidays are thought to be family times, Keeler said, and that can depress lonely people.
Even people who have families often find holidays difficult.
"There are families that don't get along, or there are changes in family structures — anything from divorce to the death of a relative — that can create tension for people during the holidays," Keeler said.
To help prevent people from being depressed by the holidays, Keeler recommended that they make a plan of what they will do Christmas Day. She said that it helped some people to think of Christmas Day like any other day. She said that one woman she
knew, who did not like the holidays, got a book, stayed in bed and relaxed all day.
"We'll have an idealized perception of Christmas — Christmas card picture-perfect view," Keeler said. "And there is a tendency to have unrealistic expectations of the holiday celebration."
Students can be torn between fulfilling traditional family obligations and visiting their friends, she said. Students are used to being independent and may have trouble adjusting to parental guidelines.
Keeler suggested that students discuss what they wish to do during the holidays with family members so that the desires of most of members can be accommodated.
Epstein said she thought that meant people weren't reaching out during the holidays. She said talking with people about stress or depression can help, because people usually discover that those are normal feelings.
Marcia Epstein, director of Headquarters, 1419 Massachusetts St., said that the holidays often were a stressful time for people. However, Headquarters does not have more people calling for counseling.
During the holidays in Lawrence, several activities and services are available.
- Watkins Hospital: Counselors will be available during the holidays. Call 864-9500.
- Headquarters: Headquarters is open 24 hours and open Christmas Day, Call 841-2345.
- Salvation Army Church, 946 New Hampshire St.: A Christmas Eve program, including singing carols, will be offered. Call the Salvation Army for further information at 843-4188.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries,
1204 Oread Ave.; People can gather
at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 13 to go caroling to
people who are homebound in the
Oread neighborhood. Refreshments
will be available after the caroling
about 7 p.m.
Saint Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road : The center will have evening prayer services (through Thursday) until Dec. 17.
First United Methodist Church, 146 Vermont St. The church will have a caroling party at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 20 and a soup apaper afterward.
KU facilities operations ready for snow removal
Staff writer
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
One group that doesn't anticipate the coming of snow and winter with romantic illusions is motorists, for whom snow means dead cars and slippery roads.
But that is no surprise for facilities operations officials.
The department of facilities operations has stocked up 50 tons of sand and five tons of salt to make campus streets safe and clean. The associate director of garage and landscape facilities operations.
Richardson, who is in charge of winter preparations, said facilities operations workers have been prepared for winter since Oct. 15.
Maintenance workers have dusted off winter equipment to bring it up to the condition of last winter. Also, facilities operations' snow shovel drivers have practiced their routes to get acquainted with the job before the snow comes.
Richardson said facilities operations used salt to melt snow in the streets in weather above zero
degrees Fahrenheit. If it gets cooler than zero degrees, salt won't work and calcium is needed to melt the snow. Because calcium is a halide to asphalt pavement, it is only about a half ton each winter.
About 50 workers will be helping remove snow this winter, Richardson said. Facilities operations has about 20 to 25 snow removing machines, including everything small and snow blowers to roadgraders.
A tight maintenance budget will not affect snow removing, Richardson said.
Parking Services pays facilities operations to clear campus parking lots when they are covered with at least 3 inches of snow.
Although snow tires are allowed in Kansas from Nov. 15 to April 15, Richardson said he wished more cars with snow tires on many drove cars with bald tires.
Chris Ogle, general manager of Lawrence Bus Company, said snow caused many problems for buses.
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