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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103.NO.43
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20,1993
(USPS 650-640)
City could regulate Sunflower cable rates
Company would apply to city for rate hikes
The City Commission may have a chance to review and approve what Lawrence residents pay for cable television.
By Tracl Carl Kansan staff writer
The commission voted last night to apply for certification from the Federal Communications Commission to approve changes in Sunflower Cablevision's monthly rate. Sunflower now charges each customer $18.50 a month, which is $1.70 less than the federal government's maximum rate.
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If the city had not decided to apply for certification, Sunflower would have been able to independently raise its monthly rates by as much as $1.70 after Nov. 15, which is the commission's deadline to apply for certification.
Dan Simons, an owner of the World Co., Sunflower's parent company, said Sunflower had no plans to raise cable prices, but the city's regulation of cable rates would not guarantee that prices would stay the same. Simons said the company still could raise prices and the city commission still may approve that increase.
Commissioner Doug Compton said if the city took control of cable prices, it probably would not approve a rate increase.
Under the Cable Act of 1992, each city government is given the opportunity to decide whether it wants to approve local cable company rates or let the cable company decide its own rates.
"It has nothing to do with trust or mistrust of the cable company," she said.
Simons said he was surprised by the commission's decision.
Commissioner Jo Andersen said she had not received any complaints about Sunflower's service, but she thought it was the city's responsibility to take the opportunity to approve rate changes.
"Why should they take on the cost of regulating something the market place says is not broken?" he said.
The reason the FCC decided to let local governments approve rate changes was to regulate cable companies that had a history of bad service and unfair prices, Simons said. The fact that Sunflower's customers compose 80 percent of the cable market shows that the company has customer support, he said.
"Our biggest regulator is 23,000 customers." he said.
If the city's certification is approved, Sunflower would not be able to ask for a rate change until this spring.
City Manager Wilden said the certification would not give the commission control over whether Sunflower would carry Fox affiliate KSHB-TV, Channel 41.
Study shows Mozart may help on tests
By Chesley Dohl Kansan staff writer
FOR KU students, Mozart might be the perfect study companion.
Studies recently released at the University of California-Irvine found that students who listened to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D major for 10 minutes before taking IQ tests scored higher than students, who listened to relaxation tapes or silence, said Gordon L. Shaw, neurobiologist and professor of physics.
After working with brain models, Shaw said that he and Frances Rauscher, California-Irvine professor of psychology, hypothesized that classical music could excite inherent natural patterns of the brain.
"The brain's neurons are more receptive when there is a patterned level of organization," he said. "Music is a perfect source for priming the mind."
He said classical music helped organize the brain 10-15 minutes before test taking. However, Shaw pointed out that Mozart did not help students' long-term memories.
Classical music, such as Mozart's, is known for its organized, repetitive series of complex tones and pitches that are pleasing to the ear. Even at birth, infants show strong reactions to music, Shaw said.
Jason Greenwood, Chanute sophomore, said he began listening to classical music during his freshman year of college. He said it was the only thing he could listen to when he studied.
"Lyrical music distracts me, and I usually end up singing along with it," Greenwood said. "When I'm studying for tests I listen to classical music, and then I go to sleep listening to it."
George Heller, professor of art and music education and music therapy, said he questioned the accuracy of the California-Irvine study because it used only 36 students.
"The results were really interesting, and I don't deny their truth," Heller said. "But it's difficult to make profound statements using so few subjects."
This winter, the California-Irvine researchers will experiment further using different types of music, including hard rock.
- Old Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton are favorite study aids for Karl Wertzberger, Lawrence senior. He said he could relax more at his studies when he listened to classic rock.
But after hearing the results of the California-Irvine test, Wertzberger said he might make a switch.
"God knows I need all the mental stimulation I can get when I sit down to study," he said. "I'd probably consider giving Mozart a listen."
John Gamble / KANSAN
Hop no more
Darcy Selenek, Grinnell junior, dumps preserved frogs into a bucket of formaldehyde for storage in a Haworth Hall biology lab. The frogs are used for dissection experiments by Biology 104 students.
Rangers to leave Somalia
Pentagon expects 750 to return; Clinton sent back-up Marine troops
The Associated Press
The move reflected the administration's effort to pursue a political settlement following the deaths of 18 Americans in the disastrous Ranger raid on Aidid loyalists Oct. 3.
WASHINGTON — In a step away from armed confrontation with Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President Clinton ordered a pullout yesterday of Army Ranger forces he had sent to Somalia to capture the clan leader.
"Right now we are engaging in a political process to see how we can resolve our mission in Somalia," Clinton told reporters at the White House. "We're in a stand-down position."
Speaking for the Pentagon, Kathleen deLaski said that about 750 Rangers would be withdrawn from Somalia "in the next couple of days." Officials declined to provide a full breakdown, but the withdrawal likely will include about 600 members of the 75th Ranger Regiment and about 150 support forces.
Sixteen of the 18 Americans who died in the Oct. 3 raid were members of the Ranger task force.
DeLaski said that about 6,300 U.S. troops are still in Somalia.
Clinton said the time was right to pull out the Rangers because two Marine Expeditionary Units with about 3,600 men plus helicopters and armored vehicles, had arrived off the Somali coast aboard Navy ships. Clinton suggested that the Marines could substitute for the Rangers if necessary, although deLaski said there were no plans to bring the Marines ashore, barring an emergency.
Clinton's announcement came two days after the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, publicly confirmed that U.S. soldiers in Somalia had stopped trying to capture Aidid. DelLaski noted, however, that Aidid remained wanted by the United Nations for his alleged role in a June attack in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in which 24 Pakistani peacekeepers were killed.
"There is not an active effort to search for members of the Aidid apparatus," del Laski said.
Clinton sent an initial contingent of 400 Army Rangers to Mogadishu on Aug. 24 in response to a series of bloody attacks on Americans for which Aidid and his loyalists were blamed. Although the administration did not say it publicly at the time, the Rangers' mission was to capture the elusive Aidid.
That goal was never achieved, and the launching of the Ranger mission now symbolizes a turning point in U.S. military involvement in Somalia. The deployment triggered new questions and criticism from the public on whether the administration had a plan for getting troops out of the country.
Defense Secretary Les Aspin cited the Ranger deployment in explaining why he denied the requests of U.S. commanders in Somalia for more armor to protect American forces. The lack of armor impaired forces during the October Ranger raid. Its outcome led Clinton to announce four days later that he was beeing up U.S. forces in Somalia and setting a March 31 date for full withdrawal.
Aspin, meanwhile, met for 2 1/2 hours behind closed doors with members of the House Armed Services Committee yesterday. Afterward, he refused to talk with reporters, and several committee members criticized him for not agreeing to make the session open to the public.
Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania said Aspin was not answering hard questions. "I'm going to hound him until he does," he said.
The committee chair, Rep. Ron Dellums of California, who had criticized Clinton for sending the Rangers in the first place, said he was pleased they would be returning home.
"The president is on target," he said.
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KU employee helps to save visitor's life
Robin Kidney said that last Saturnay night began as "just another karaoke night."
But before the evening ended, Kidney, a Kansas Union cafeteria worker, was being called a heroine.
By Brian James Kansan staff writer
As she was walking to her car, Kidney noticed a few people helping a woman walk out the front door of Quality Inn University motel, which is in the same building as Duffy's.
At about 11:30 p.m., she finished singing the last in a series of country songs at Duffy's, 2222 W. Sixth St., and decided it was time to leave.
Kidney approached the out-of-town visitors and asked them what was wrong.
The woman who was being helped, Cynthia Arnold, 47, was attending her niece's wedding reception with her husband Larry, 43.
"It was like someone was stepping on my chest and driving a knife into one part of my heart," Cynthia Arnold said. "I knew it was the beginning of a heart attack."
"They said, 'We think she's having a heart attack.' Do you know how to get to the hospital?' Kidney said. "I told them I did."
Arnold said she first felt her chest tighten in the hotel's banquet room during a slow dance with her husband. After a short rest, they decided to leave with their three children. Arnold said the pain in her chest worsened with each step to the door.
Larry Arnold asked Kidney to drive his son's full-sized van to the hospital.
Kidneysaid it was the fastest decision she
had ever made. She said it was also the fastest she had ever driven.
"I drove like a maniac," she said. "I probably violated a few traffic laws."
Larry Arnold said they arrived at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in about three minutes — and not a moment too soon.
Cynthia Arnold suffered a massive heart attack only seconds after she entered the emergency room.
Arnold said the last thing she remembers before the heart attack was telling her husband, "I'm going to die. I am going to die."
Arnold's heartbeat stopped once in the emergency room, but doctors revived her with CPR.
Thirty minutes after her arrival at the hospital, she was taken by LifeFlight to St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, where she is
now in stable condition, hospital officials said. They expect her to be released in seven to 10 days.
The Arnolds said they consider Kidney a guardian angel.
"My wife would not be here if we would have' spent another minute in that van," Larry said. "She did something that she didn't have to do, but it saved a life."
"I thanked her aid thanked her when she came here on Sunday night," Cynthia Arnold said. "I thanked her with all my heart."
Kidney said she did not consider herself a heroine.
"A lot of people have pegged me that, but I consider myself more of a rescuer," she said. "I don't care to imagine what would have happened if I had said yes to one more karaoke tune."