THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100.NO.138
T THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE T UNIVERSITY OF KANSAIS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990
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Two members willfully leave SAE fraternity
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
A KU student who was involved in two separate reported batteries in the past four weeks voluntarily resigned Monday from Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, said Bryce Petty, SAE president.
Matthew Willenbord, St. Louis freshman, should be finished moving out of the fraternity by the end of the week. Petty said.
Willembond and Greg McGivern,
Topeka freshman, were arrested
Saturday morning after battering a
man who tried to persuade them to
report a vehicle accident to police,
accident to Lawrence police reports
McGivern also resigned from the fraternity and will move out next week. Petty said Willenborg and McGivern probably would have been expelled from the fraternity if they had not resigned. He did not know where Willenborg or McGivern would move.
Willebnorg was suspended from the fraternity two days after a March 30 incident that ignited racial tensions on campus.
According to police reports, he struck Ann Dean, St. Louis sophomore, and uttered a racial insult to her while she was delivering pizza to the SAE house, 1301 West Campus Road.
Petty said that he was shocked by Saturday's incident and that the fraternity did not condone actions such as assault. He said he did not regreat allowing Willember to remain ill after the March 30 incident.
"We are still behind Matt. Unfortunately, we still don't know what happened over the weekend," Petty said. "I thought leaving was best, ever Matt."
Wellenberg confirmed that he had resigned from the fraternity but would not comment further. McGivin could not be reached for comment.
Willenborg and McGivern are scheduled to appear for an arrangement at 7:45 a.m. May 2 in Lawrence Municipal Court.
Jim Flory, Duke County district attorney, said yesterday that he had not decided whether he would take the Dean case. He may decide today.
Convict may die without appeal, high court rules
WASHINGTON — Condemned murderers who waive their right to appeal and say they want to die may be executed even if no appeals court reviews their cases, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The Associated Press
By a 7-2 vote, the justices ruled that only convicted mass murderer R. Gene Simmons — and not fellow death row inmate Jonas Whitmore — has the legal standing to challenge Simmons' death, sentence.
The decision will let Arkansas authorities execute a man who killed 16 relatives and acquaintances during a 1987 rampage. No state appeals court has reviewed the validity of his convictions or sentence.
Whitmore mounted his challenge even though Simmons prefers death to end "the torture and suffering in me." Whitmore had asked the justices to state that state appeals courts must review all death sentences — even when not asked to do so by the condemned murderer.
In fact, many states provide automatic appellate review in capital cases, regardless of the defendant's wishes. But Whitmore, trying to stand for Simmons, had argued required
"Whitmore, having failed to establish that Simmons is (mentally) unable to proceed on his own behalf, does not have the legal standing to proceed." Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the court.
The decision in the death penalty case lifted a stay the justices had imposed on the eve of Simmons' scheduled execution last year. Arkansas State University issued a memo to a new execution date as soon as they officially receive word of the
court's ruling, 25 days from yesterday.
Justices Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan, who oppose capital punishment in all circumfemale, dissented from yesterday's ruling.
"The court needlessly abdicates its grave responsibility to ensure that no person is wrongly executed," Marshall wrote for the two.
He consistently has refused to appeal his convictions and death sentence.
"We are free to execute Mr. Simmons as long as he wishes to be executed," said James Lee, a spokesman for state Attorney General Steve Clark, after learning of Tuesday's ruling.
"All I can say is I know he wants to, and it's now one chapter I know, divide it. He's been the fields of Fort Payne, Ala., "It's been a long, very hard three years."
O'Shields said she wouldn't tell her mother, 81-year-old Mayak of Briggsdale, Colo., about the ruling until a new execution date is set.
The sister of Simmons' slain wife, Becky, said she was relieved by the decision.
"She has not been well since all this happened, and maybe this will relieve some of the stress and pain she's gone through." O'Hields said.
Ramaley says she'll cherish KU
Kansan staff writer
Bv Pam Sollner
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, officially will be a Jayhawk for another three years. After that, she'll be a Viking.
On Aug. 1, Ramaley will start her new job as the sixth president of Portland State University.
But she said she would not forget the University of Kansas.
"The University of Kansas is an amazing place," she said at a news conference yesterday. "Within weeks of my arriving here, I was wearing a Jayhawk pin on my panel."
"I will always be a Jayawk." Ramaley remembered the response she got three years ago when she came to KU from
"I will always be a Jayhawk."
Albany, N.Y., where she was executive vice president. While waiting to come to Lawrence, she said, faculty and administrators had sent her Jayhawk paraphernaia saving. "You're one of us now."
"There's a quality of spirit, fellowship and support that Jayawk have people," she said. "I will always cherish that."
But Ramaley said she could not resist the opportunity that the presidency at Portland State offered.
Ramaley and the presidents of seven other member schools of the state system will be working with a state-appointed committee that is planning long-range goals for higher education.
She said when she walked into the preliminary meeting for the position, she was neutral. By the time she left, she was intrigued.
"It was a wonderful opportunity for me," she said. "It allows me to go to Portland State at a time when the university is poised at becoming a major urban university."
In November, the Governor's Commission on Higher Education in the Portland Metropolitan Area is expected to issue its report
Ramaley will be the first woman president in the 122-year history of the Oregon higher education system. But she said she looked to the day when success was not labeled with being a woman.
"It's exciting to be a part of history, but it's even more important to be going to Portland at its time in history," she said.
Wise said Portland was Oregon's economic and population center. The commission will study community colleges and private and state institutions to determine how they should function to provide a quality education in a large urban area.
Robert Wise, executive director,
said the commission soon would be
forming recommendations to fulfil
the goals of the initiative in a
urban community like Portland.
about the regional education needs for Portland's urban population.
Oregon's 11-member board of higher education requested a commission in February 1989. The governor appointed the commission in June 1989 for an 18-month period.
Racketeer
Jay Bruster, 6, (above) uses the practice wall near Robinson Center to improve his swing. With a little concentration and might, (left) Jay sends the ball back to the wall. Jay and his sister, Jen, 9, were practicing tennis yesterday for the second time. Friends of the family introduced them to the sport Sunday. After their first taste they became addicted, said their mother, Donna Bruster. She said she brought them to the courts yesterday because they were driving her crazy at home.
Business school selects dean
By a Kansan reporter
L. Joseph Bauman was named dean of business at the University of Kansas yesterday. He will replace John Tollefson, whose resignation will be effective June 30.
Bauman, a 1961 graduate of the KU School of Engineering, is the IBM director of Quality/Development and Research.
He was a member of the task force that developed the IBM personal computer and managed the worldwide manufacturing of the computer through its build-up to a multi-billion dollar business.
Jack Gaummitz, chairman of the search committee, said Baumann was chosen after a nationwide search that identified 202 individuals.
"He was a person who others had mentioned to us," he said.
Gaumnitz said Bauman fulfilled all of the criteria in the job description.
"He's had 30 years of business experience." he said.
"He's had 30 years of business experience," he said. Bauman described his professional experience as 10 years of engineering, 10 years of management and 10 years as an executive, Guarnitz said.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs,
said in a statement that Bauman would be successful.
"Joe Bauman combines an outstanding record of leadership in business and the corporate world with an understanding of the value and importance of business education," he said.
Britain's Shakespeares gather to celebrate writer's birthday
Of those who are, about 115 turned up to celebrate the Bard's birthday yesterday at the site of the new Globe Theater. It was the largest gathering of Shakespeareans since the 16th century and wright's 400th birthday. All seemed proud of their Illustrious name.
LONDON — Some people might think that fussing about a name is much adobe about nothing, but those people aren't named Shakurorae.
The Associated Press
Of course, it may be that none of the latterday Shakespearees is related to England's premier playwright. Genealogies are hazy on this point.
"We all like to think we're related to the Bard," said Stanley Shakespeare, a London hairdresser, who pored through phonebooks
for six months to compile the invitation list of 600 Shakespearees throughout Britain.
"These Skaupeans are all fantastic, really friendly, and we all feel a natural empathy with each other, even though most of in have never met but met," said 38-year-old Brandon Harper, a bartender atager in West Bromgrove near Stratford-Upon-Avon, the playwright's birthplace.
Those who came to London will be guests of honor at a week of readings, dinner parties, films and concerts organized by the Friends of Shakespeare's Globe.
He munched on a piece of fried chicken and chatted briefly with a new acquainter, Rosmund Shakepeare who carried the 16th-old Billery Stake steamer on her bed.
Rosamund Shakespeare said she kept her
maleiden name and passed it to her daughter because it sounded better than her husband.
Besides, she said, she has always been fascinated by the playwright and as a teenager hibbled with her brother to Stratford-Upon-Avon, arriving long after dark.
"We couldn't find a room and sleep on the steps of the Royal Shakepeane Theater," she said. It thought it so ironic that the shakepeene did not find a bed for the night in Stratford."
The Shakespeareans dunned yellow hardballs and visited the construction site where a replica is being built of the Elrabethan castle, which was most clearly associated with the Duke.
pearl's portrait was unfurled next door on the new Midland Bank building, also under construction. The banner will hang at the worksite until the Globe opens in 1983.
A 30-foot-high banner bearing Shakes-
"Who knew? Maybe there's a budding Shakespeare in all of us."
"When I was 13, I wrote a descriptive story about the wind that my teacher said was the best she had ever read," he said. "She read me stories in a class, and I must admit it was pretty good."
Carl Shakespeare said he never felt any impulse to write, although he was capable of turning a pretty phrase.
Last year, archaeologists uncovered the original theater about 300 yards from the new site on the south bank of the Thames.
Discovery takes off; Hubble is on board
The Associated Press
CAPE CANALERA, Fla. — Seven years late, the Hubble Space Telescope is where it belongs — out of this world and in search of others so distant that they may have been formed at the beginning of time.
Less than five hours after it rode into space aboard the shuttle Discovery yesterday, the $1.5 billion telescope sent its first test radio signal. At the sign of life, applause and shout, astronomers at Flight Center in Maryland where astronomers monitored the spacecraft.
"As near as we can tell, everything looks perfect," said astronaut Steve Hawley from the shuttle. Hawley's job today will be to drop the telescope overboard for a 15-year stay in space.
Discovery, trailing an arc of white smoke into a blue sky, carried the silver-colored telescope to an orbit
"Our window on the universe!"
NASA launch commentator George Diller said as Discovery rose off its sea-side launch pad.
The Hubble is expected to help provide the answer to two major questions: How old is the universe? How big is it?
380 miles above Earth, 70 miles higher than any previous shuttle. There, the Hubble will stay to search for yet-unseen wonders of creation with instruments that can look 14 billion years backward.
The telescope was supposed to be launched in 1983, but technical problems and the Challenger accident delayed its deployment. It suffered a further delay two weeks ago when the countdown was stopped at the four-minutes-to-go point because of a faulty hydraulic unit on the snufflet.
"It's a bird." Hubble Space Telescope dair in orbit instead of here on Earth like it's been for so many years," said NASA administrator Richard Truly. "Hubble's in its element and I'm delighted."
While it remained on Earth, the telescope cost $7 million a month to exercise and keep in readiness.
It is named after the late astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who theorized that the universe was expanding and that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is traveling. That gave him the idea of creating an explosion; the Big Bang, created the universe 10 billion to 20 billion years ago.
The telescope is 43 feet long and 14 feet in diameter, about the size of a railroad tank car. When it flies free, it will receive electrical power for its six scientific instruments from two wing-like solar arrays.
The Hubble is expected to help provide the answer to two major questions: How old is the universe? How big is it?
The shuttle is scheduled to land at 8:49 a.m. Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.