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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, November 11, 1976
Vol. 87 No.58
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Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Occupational pottery
Melissa Fast came from New York as a special student in occupational therapy, not knowing that a ceramics course would be part of the curriculum. Yesterday, however, she worked in Flint Hall on one of the five six-inch cylinders she has to make for the course.
Frats uncertain of future parking
By JOHN MUELLER
Presidents of two university of Kansas fraternities, Phi Delta Theta and Phi Kappa Sigma, said yesterday they had no idea where they were going to park their cars now that city commissioners won't let them park in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road.
Jeb Bayer, Phi Delta Theta president,
said. "The whole house is pretty upset.
There's not really that much that we can do."
The commissioners voted Tuesday to remove 24 parking spaces from the block where Phi Delta Theta and Phi Kappaappa Internity members have parked in the past.
FIREMEN HAD URGED the removal, saying that they wouldn't be able to fit one of their large trucks into the spaces at the Edgehill curb if a fire broke out.
The fraternities also were denied 30 parking spaces on Louisiana Street's east side, where commissioners earlier had told them not to park and could play during a 90-day trial period.
Ed Hite, Phi Kappa Sigma president, saddit commissioners had kept their hands on the committee.
"I think they put it put off until the last meeting to catch us off guard." Hite said. "It was a mistake."
ACCORDING TO BAYER, 60 of the 80 members of the Phi Delta Theta House own cars. The parking shortage will hit the house's 20 freshmen especially hard, because they aren't assured parking space in the house lot.
Student-writer from novel family
Bayer said that Phi Delta Theta's corporation board, which owns the house, had talked about replacements for Edgellhair park at the board's last meeting. The commissioners reversed on Louisiana Street parking, Bayer said.
"We talked about taking the lot at Louisiana and 17th and putting parking there," Bayer said. "But it's not a realistic alternative. The architect said that the whole lot would take $20,000 to $30,000 to develop."
THE CORPORATION BOARD architect, Stan Steats of Kansas City, Kan., said yesterday "it's not economically feasible and it's out of reason to build a new lot of retail stores in alcove, so we need retaining walls." I don't know that those guys can do.
Bayer said he didn't know, either.
"The only thing we can do would be to take out our north yard, and that would cost a little more money."
Staff Writer
By PAUL ADDISON
ANOTHER UNCLE, Jack Sher, who wrote the film scripts for the movies
Melissa Fast leaks back on a chair in the barren kitchen of her Kentucky Street apartment and flings her hands through the air.
"Body Language," she says with a smile, "has taught me a lot and altered the life style of our family. My father's always been a writer. It's just that this one book was a best seller and it has enabled us to live better financially."
Fast, a New York City special student, comes from a family of writers. Her father, Julius Fail, has written "The Pleasure Book," "The Beatles—the Real Story," "Body Language," "Bisexual Living," and a number of moderately successful nonfiction novels. Her uncle, Howard Fast, was also a writer. "Spartacus," "April Morning" and the Emmy award winning television play, "Ben Franklin."
"Shane" and "Kabu O." is currently writing a new television comedy. "Holmes
Her mother, Barbara Fast, will be her first major book, "Intimacy", published in the year 2013.
"I living in a family of writers has definitely made me more ambitious." Melissa says. "You see that it's possible to get things done, did it on. There always seems to be pressure."
"IT'S A WEIRD feeling, although today most people know the book rather than the name. They're surprised when they find out."
"When 'Body Language' became successful, I was a bit embarrassed but proud of my father. He was on TV a lot and people kept asking me, 'Is that your father?'
"I'm currently writing a book about the Bronte family. I have a real fascination for them all. We all are so creative and they inspire me," she said, before but maybe there's a common bond.
Melissa came to KJ in early 1975 to study occupational therapy after completing a nursing degree. She attended College, in New York. She loves her field of study, she says, but at the same time has
both the fever to write and the fervor to get published.
"WRITING IS A ROMANTIC occupation.
But at the same time it's one of the toughest fields to break into. Once you're it's not so hard to continue, but to start you have to know what to write. More important, however, you have to know how to write.
"Today, the subject matter of many of my father's books is determined by the publisher who then commissiones him to develop a basic idea. He then spends six months building a well communicated book, working on it every day. It isn't a nine-take job. A writer is always writing. You never know when something you say might end up in a book."
FOR MELISSA, coming to KU has helped
SEE WRITER page seven
See WRITER page seven
Marnie Arargsinger, city commissioner, said last night that the fraternities hadn't been notified of the change, adding, "I will be here tomorrow," on Louisiana parking in the first place.
BUT ARGERSINGER DEFINED the change, saying, "I don't have any authority to do that," expect the street to provide the damn parking. Streets are for traffic, not for parking."
Hite said that commissioners had asked the two fraternities for suggestions on where to park after the Edgehill spaces were removed. The Louisiana Street suggestion had been both fraternities' 'top suggestion, according to Hite.
LOUISIAN STREET'S west side has enough parking spaces for the fraternities, and the street is also safe.
also park there because the spaces are close to campus.
The only option Hitler saw for his fraternity was for the members to pull down a fence in front of the house and then park up on the adjacent land. But the fence is privately owned, he said, and the city might not go along with the idea.
Arsinger was the fraternity members should walk more. "The automobile isn't a
"Those guys don't realize we took the parking off to save their lives in case of fire. After Baker, they should be grateful." Argersinger said, referring to a fire that killed five fraternity men at the Kappa Sigma house at Baker University in August.
MAYOR FRED PENCE said last night that he didn't know whether the fraternities
had been notified of the Louisiana Street change.
"I don't know if it's even the city's responsibility to provide parking for them."
responsibility to prevent parking be trained."
" affects all of us in the house. It's really irritating. We'll just have to go down to the next commission meeting."
The Tuesday meeting will be the second reading of the ordinance that removes the last road. It will be the last chance fraternity members have to argue their case.
BOTH HITE AND BAYER said they planned to talk with commissioners before the start of the walkout to discuss the parking problem with members of their houses within the next few days.
State prepares for check
By MARTIN ZIMMERMAN
Hard Drive
The state fire marshal's office said yesterday that it would begin interviewing prospective fire inspectors next week in preparation for safety inspections of Lawrence apartment houses and complexes.
Paul Markley, state fire protection technical adviser, said the inspections
"We want to get started on this as soon as
we get the new men lined up," he said. "I think 30 days is a good ballpark guess for him to be able to win."
The month-long interval, Markley said, was needed to hire and train the three additional permanent inspectors required for the inspections. The exact timetable for the tours will depend on how much training the new personnel need, he said.
MARKLEY'S STATEMENT comes in the
MARKLEY-Black Monday of a young
woman who was kidnapped.
Oct. 30 at her home in East Lawrence. The woman's 10-month-old daughter also died in
Veterans to discuss fairness of election
Markley originally outlined the apartment inspection program late last month while he was in Lawrence completing a series of fire inspections at KU fraternities and sororites. That announcement came shortly after a $50,000 fire at the Park 25 apartment complex on south Iowa Street.
By STEVE LEBEN
Charges of election irregularities will be the major topic of discussion at a general meeting of Campus Veterans and National Guard members asking that new elections be held.
Mike Dixon, Lawrence senior, and Claire McChristy, Lawrence sophomore, circulated the petition, which asks for a new policy for law enforcement officers by the end of this month.
"It's not ouster proceedings or anything else," Dixon said. "All we want to see is a good, clean election."
Bill Evans, Lawrence senior, defeated Dixon by two votes last May for president.
DIXON SAID THAT ballots hadn't been prepared by the time voting was to begin last May. 5 When he came to the house in March that day, he said, he typed a up ballot.
Dixon's bailout listed the candidates in alphabetical order with Dixon's name above them.
"That afternoon, the old administration came in and retyped the ballot with Evans' name first. They went ahead and counted ballots one through nine, which were my ballots, and the others, which were theirs," Dixon said.
"But when you look back through the ballots, ballot number five, which should have looked like my ballots, was like theirs," he said.
Dixon said that Evans was then a member of the executive council, which
EVANS SAID THE election committee had failed to meet last semester as it was scheduled to, so the administration was forced to handle the elections itself.
Evans said he was in the room at the
time, but wasn't involved in actually counting the votes.
McChristy said the petition was designed to show that more than just one or two veterans were upset with the way the organization was being run.
"Bill Evans wrote me on Campus Veterans stationery, simply stating that they believe me to be just one individual who isn't satisfied," McChris said.
DIXON WOULDN'T SAY exactly how many veterans had signed the petition, but the vote has been a big success.
There are about 1,000 veterans at KU who receive GI benefit checks from the federal government.
Fewer than 40 veterans cast ballots in the last election.
Several other topics will be discussed at Friday's meeting, which starts at 3:30 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
The only scheduled business, Evans said, is a proposed ratification of anew set of Campus Vetans bylaws.
HE SAID THAT THERE were no major changes being made in the bylaws, but that items such as quorum requirements would be revised.
Evans said he would probably ask those who attend the meeting to help raise money for a veterans' scholarship, which the group is trying to start.
About $300 has been raised so far, he said, is a proposed ratification of a new set of Campus Veterans by laws.
Evans, Dixon and McChristy all said they hoped for a large turnout at Friday's general meeting.
Under Campus Veterans rules, all KU students who are veterans are automatically members of the organization.
Once the inspections begin, Markley said, they will be limited to apartment houses and complexes that are three or more stories. Proper exits and fire extinguishers in the hallways will be among items checked, he said.
MARKLEY SAID HIS inspectors would have the authority to inspect only areas of apartment buildings that were considered public access areas, such as stairwalls, corridors and laundry rooms. The inspectors must receive the permission of the resident before they can inspect the inside of an apartment, he said.
John Kasberger, Lawrence fire chief,
said his department's three inspectors
would work with the state inspectors during
the tours.
"I don't think the fire marshal can speed up any more than he has," Kasberger said. "Since the Baldwin tragedy, all of his men are dead and they should be educated the educational facilities in the state."
KASBERGER REFERED to a fire Aug. 29 at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Baker University that killed five men. Baker is in Badwin.
Markley said the inspection of apartment buildings for fire safety formerly had been
See FIRE page 10
Student Senate votes $9,652 for two groups
Last night the Student Senate approved supplemental budget requests of $6,741 for the international Club and $2,911 for the KU ice Hockey Club.
By BARRY MASSE Staff Writer
The Senate 25 passed two resolutions calling for measures to insure student representation on various promotion and committee positions at the University of Kansas.
After lengthy discussions concerning ea.h of the requests, the Senate approved the two clubs' budget requests without cuts in their allocations.
See SENATE page 12
By DAVID JOHNSON
When she talks, Carole Tyson's background reveals itself in every word she speaks. Her slow, drawing脏 peg her origin somewhere south of the Mason Dixon line—specifically Atlanta, Ga.
Carole likes to read, has recently learned to bowl,
and is eagerly looking forward to attending school again. She'll enroll in the University of Kansas School of Engineering in January.
Carole has petit mal epilepsy, which is characterized by less severe seizures than occur in grand mal epilepsy. The petit mal seizures can be largely treated with antiseizure drugs, while epileptics have full or partial control of the disease.
Unlike some other diseases, epilepsy is only obvious when the victim has a seizure. A seizure can be a lapse of consciousness for a few seconds, or can be a minimal minutes of blockouts or general convulsions.
After talking with her, you know many things about Carole Tyson. However, you won't know one about the director.
people in the United States have some form of epilepsy.
Because epilepsy isn't a readily apparent disease and can often be controlled, Carole and her husband, Wilson, believe many epileptics won't admit they have it.
"The biggest problem is everyone feels he is the only one who has it." Wilson said.
But an epileptic is far from alone. The Epilepsy Foundation of America estimates that four million
Among the well-known people thought to have had epilepsy were Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, St. Paul, Budda, Napoleon, Handel, Dante, Socrates, Techikovsky and Alfred Nobel. Singer Neil Young, formerly of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, is also an epileptic.
"The business manager of the local dealer said Carole was fired because 'you couldn't read her writing.' "
suspicion of epileptics" might cause the epileptic to deny he had the disease.
Ellas Chedik, a Lawrence psychiatrist who some epileptic patients, said epileptics sometimes experienced social withdrawal or depression and may be able to overcome even to themselves that they have the disease.
RICHARD RUNDQIST, director of the University Counseling Center, said a "sociali
MARTIN WOLLMANN, director of Student Health Services, said cases of epileptics going off their medicine were "much rarer now than they were five or 10 years ago."
about epilepsy, thereby alleviating some of the stigma attached to epileptics.
In addition to coping with the real or imagined social stigma, many epileptics -42.1 per cent in a survey taken by the Epilepsy Foundation of India and the University of Kerala who worked for 12 years with the Internal Revenue Service in Atlanta, has been employed only once since moving to Kansas.
Wollmann said the public was now more educated
Carole said she had been clerk for two days at a Lawrence car dealership. On the afternoon of her second day, she had a petit mal seizure at work. She was wearing a mask for un-satisfactory performance of her duties.
HER STAY at the job was short.
A suit filed by the Tysons to the State Civil Rights Commission was dismissed.
The business manager of the local dealer said Carole was fired because "you couldn't read her name." The boss asked first, "What was the first day, she said, and had aired a replacement "three or four hours" before Carole had her seizure.
WHERE SHE APPLIED for a clerical jc in Kansas City that didn't involve meeting the public, Carole explained that she might have an occasional seizure. She wasn't hired. A recent high school graduate was, she said, despite Carole's 12-year experience with IRS.
"Thempier doesn't want to experiment or overcome his misconceptions," Carole said.
Finding employment isn't the only obstacle an epileptic must face. In Kansas, an epileptic can't get a driver's license unless a doctor certifies that he has been seizure-free for one year.
However, epilepsy hasn't hindered the Tyson's other activities.
the person who walks around on crutches from
football. People need to be more open-minded.
"Really we're just like everyone else . . . People need to be more open-minded about us."
WILSON IS THE staff photographer for the Campus Veterans' newspaper and Carole will enter the School of Engineering in January.
"Really we're just like everyone else," Carole said. "I don't feel I'm any more handicapped than
Among the common misconceptions about epilepsy that the Tysons often encounter is the belief that it's contagious. Epilepsy may be caused by a birth defect, a head injury, a certain illness or a prolonged lack of adequate nutrition, but not by contact with someone who has it.
Carole was one of two persons who survived an epidemic of spinal meningitis 25 years ago in Atlanta. Shortly after recovering from a high fever, she had her first seizure.
EPILEPSY IS DIAGNOSED through many methods including spinal tapes and neurological examinations. But the most common tool is the electroencephalogram (EEG), which measures the electrical impulses to the brain and records them on a graph.
Carole explained that the epileptic seizure was caused by a storm of uncontrolled electrical discharges from neurons in the brain. During her research, she was conscious but couldn't control her movements.
Either because of ignorance or fear, most people won't help an epileptic have a *n* seizure. Wilson
DON'T RESTRAIN the victim but clear the area so he doesn't injure himself.
the Epilepsy Foundation of America a divies that prevents to prevent injury to the malleus during seizure;
If the victim's mouth is open, place a soft object like a handkerchief between his teeth to prevent hurt.
—Turn the victim on his side to allow saliva to flow from his mouth.
—If the seizure lasts for more than 10 minutes, call a doctor.
After the seizure, allow the victim to rest.