VOL. 100, NO. 69 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY DEC. 5, 1989
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Renovation scheduled for Hoch Construction to include new lecture halls
By Liz Hueben Kansan staff writer
In 62 years, Hoch Auditorium has gone from a basketball arena to a concert hall and will undergo another metamorphosis in the 1990s.
Hoch was dedicated Oct. 14, 1927,
and was first used for Christmas
vespers on Dec. 12 of that year.
Jim Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said that during the next chapter in the building's history, it would house science library stacks and new lecture halls. The building is now the temporary home to facilities operations' house-keeping.
The building's interior would be basically rebuilt within its shell, Modig said. There would be five levels of classrooms inside the auditorium, according to preliminary plans.
Later, though, basketball coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen pushed for a bigger field house; Hoch seated only about 4,000.
In its glory days, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, then-unnamed Hoch Auditorium, with its 3,600-pound stage curtain, was compared to New York's Radio City Music Hall, and it was the home of the Jayhawk basketball team.
The departments of music and dramatic arts pushed for a new fine arts building for better acoustics.
Because Allen Field House was dedicated in 1955 and Murphy Hall was dedicated in 1957, Hoch Auditorium is not frequently used anymore.
Although financing and construction are several years away, some plans for the building have been made.
Modig said the classrooms in Hoch would be similar to the lecture halls in Wescoe Hall. ___
See HOCH, p. 10
Clouds of smoke from about 1,000 burning tires barrel into the sky in Leavenworth County.
Tire fire east of Lawrence raises smoke and questions
Property owner denies knowing cause of burning rubber
By a Kansan reporter
An estimated 1,000 tires burned yesterday on private property 10 miles east of Lawrence.
The fire, which developed a cloud of black smoke that was visible from Mount Oread, started about 10:30 a.m. behind some bushes on the R.H. Brauer property one mile south of Linwood, a Leavenworth County official said.
Chuck Magaha, Leavenworth County chief of emergency operations, said Brauer did not know how the fire started. Magaha said the fire, which burned in an open field, was seen from more than 30 miles away and was reported by a resident of Kansas City, Mo.
Last night, the tires were still burning.
Magaha said that about a third
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1 the fire, which developed a cloud of black smoke that was visible from Mount Oread, started about 10:30 a.m. behind some bushes on the R.H. Brauer property one mile south of Linwood.
of the estimated 3,000 tires dumped in the bushes had burned by the time firefighters left. He expected the fire to continue for at least two more days despite efforts of two Leavenworth volunteer fire departments who fought the flares for six hours yesterday.
names for six hours yesterday.
Four trucks from the Sherman
and Fairmount township departments and one builder, owned by the Leavenworth County fire chief, were at the scene:
"They dumped 17,000 gallons of water and if the wind does not change, they'll be OK." Magaha said.
Magaha said the firefighters, who left the scene at 6 p.m. yesterday, were going to check the fire again this morning.
Brauer, a truck farmer, denied having started the fire, Magaha said.
"The tires belonged to the owner," he said.
Magaha said that Environmental Protection Agency representatives arrived at the scene at 3 p.m., but that no charges had been filed.
E. Joseph Zuroa/KANSAN
A volunteer firefighter retreats after running out of water.
Minority retention remains problem at KU
By Jennifer Metz Kansan staff writer
Minorities question business school requirements
For many, attending a predominately white university brings home for the first time an additional burden of being a minority, said Marshall Jackson, interim director of the Office of Minority Affairs.
Minorities face twice the challenge that most college students face when they go to a school such as the University of Kansas, some concerned officials say.
This is the first in a series about the problems of recruitment and retention of minority students.
"Minority students are unsure about how they are received and perceived, whether it be by the faculty or in their residence halls," Jackson said.
The studies at both universities were conducted between the fall semesters of 1978 and 1987. They were started after the students' first year of college.
Studies of Black, Hispanic, Asian and American Indian students at the University of Kansas and the University of Oklahoma have shown that retention rates for minority groups fluctuate more than do those for white students.
"We have not done the type of research to find out what has and hasn't worked and what students need to help them be successful," he said.
Observing a problem is one thing, but finding the root of the problem is tougher, he said.
David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs
"Attrition studies show us what is wrong, that there is a problem," Jackson said. "But we need to find out why. If we don't do that, we're shooting in the dark."
See RETENTION, p. 10
By Cory S. Anderson and Beth Behrens Kansan staff writers
Business Overseas Lowery said the official number of Black students in the school was unknown.
High standards for admission into the School of Business have kept our students from attaining an undergraduate degree in the school, but minority students probably have been the hardest hit, said Sharnique Lowery, president of the Minority Business Student Council.
"I requested those figures two months ago, and nobody has been
able to tell me where to find them," she said. "If I had to hazard a guess, the number of Blacks alone actually in the School of Business is between three and five. There are people I know, and I've seen faces. Out of 700 students in the school, that's very few."
ornements at the school, the Office of Minority Affairs and the office of institutional research and planning said they did not keep figures on Black enrollment in the school.
Lowyc said the scarcity of Blacks was due partially to a lack of communication between pre-business students and the school concerning the
expectations for admission to the program.
ro apply to the school, a student must have completed 60 hours of college courses with at least a 2.2 grade point average. Three of those courses must be preparatory business courses that the student must pass with a 2.0 GPA.
Stricter admission standards were implemented in Fall 1986 to control the number of students in the school. The standards take both cumulative GPA and ACT scores into consideration for admission. About 60 percent
See BUSINESS, p. 10
Kansas climbs AP poll to 2nd spot in country
By Gene King and Paula Parrish Kansas sportswriters
Not since 1868, when the Jayhawk basketball squad traveled to the Final Four in Dallas, has Kansas had a number two ranking.
"The people that rated us No. 2 didn't watch us shoot free throws." Coach Roy Williams said after the Jayhawks routed the Tennessee Martin Pacers 103-48 last night in Allen Field House.
Junior forward Mark Randall said that it was not this week's poll that concerned the team.
At least not until yesterday, when the new Associated Press' Top 25 poll was released, and Kansas found itself just one natch away from being the top-ranked team in college basketball.
Kansas, 7-0, placed second behind Syracuse with 1,443 points and 17 first-place votes. The Orangemen, 4-0, garnered 1,535 points and 38 of 63 first place votes, placing them first for the second week in a row.
Syracuse will face No. 6 Duke Wednesday night in a contest that Boeheim said would be one of the toughest his team has faced so far this year, even though his Orangemen beat 18k-ranked Temple 735-756 last weekend to win the Carrier Classic Championship.
their training.
Kansas just last week went from
unranked obscurity to number
four in the nation.
"It doesn't mean anything right now," he said. "It will mean something if we're up there toward the end of the year."
In a telephone interview yesterday morning, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said jokingly that Williams was devoting too much time to his golf game. He was referring to an analogy Williams made between golf and his style of coaching that was printed in the Dec. 4 issue of Sports Illustrated.
Regulator of savings and loan bails out
Boeheim, after watching the Jayhawk win the Dodge NTT tournament more than a week ago, said Kansas and the Big Eight Conference looked very strong this year.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - M. Danny Wall, under fire for his handling of what might become the costliest savings and loan failure in history, resigned yesterday as the government's chief savings and loan regulator.
In his letter of resignation to President Bush, Wall complained that he was being made "a scapegoat" for the problems of the industry and denounced a "steamy stream of one-sided information" from congressional hearings concerning the
collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif.
Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, D-Texas, chairman of the House Banking Committee,篮壁灯 for allowing Lincoln to remain open until April, even though government examiners had recommended in May 1987 that it be closed. The ballout of the institution is expected to cost taxpayers up to $2.5 billion.
In turn, Wall criticized Gonzalez yesterday, saying he "resorted to corruption of the truth" in
Wall set no firm date for his departure, saying he would stay on for a transition period. He said he was looking forward to a job outside of government but had no specific position in mind.
Wall has been the chief target of hearings by Gonzalez's panel for nearly two months. At first, only Gonzalez called for Wall's resignation; but in recent weeks, the committee chairman was joined by Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, private groups and several newspapers.
trying to force the regulator out.
Bush not yet ready to delare end to Cold War
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — President Bush said yesterday that it was too early to proclaim an end to the Cold War, but added that Mikhail Gorbachev's acceptance of sweeping reform in Eastern Europe "absolutely mandates new thinking" by the West.
See related story p.10
wrapping up his weekend summit journey with a stop at NATO Headquarters, Bush also told reporters that the United States would maintain "significant military forces in Europe as long as our allies desire our presence."
The president said that he wanted a treaty making initial cuts in superpowers' conventional forces in Europe definite before seeking deeper reductions. He told NATO leaders that he hoped a multinational summit could be convened in Europe next summer to sign such an accord.
Conventional forces aside, the United States and Soviet Union are negotiating a proposed 50 percent cut in long-range nuclear weapons, as well as a proposed ban of chemical weapons.
weapons.
The president spoke as Gorbachev
was convening a meeting of a radically reordered Warsaw Pact in Moscow to review the weekend.
Bush and Gorbachev leaders agreed at an unprecedented joint news conference before leaving Malta that their meeting heralded a
The dramatic change in Europe continued uninterrupted during the day, as the Soviet Union and the four other Warsaw Pact countries condemned their own invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1988. In Leipzig, East Germany, about 200,000 demonstrators broke into wild rounds of applause as speakers called for German reunification.
new era of cooperation in East-West relations, including arms control and trade. They intend to meet again in the United States in late June.
The Old Army said
At his news conference, Bush said,
"We stand at the threshold of a new
era ..." but declined to assert that
the Cold War had ended as Gorbachev suggested.
He said his goal was to see "individual freedom everywhere replace coercion and tyranny."
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Bush said of Gorbachev, "I think he my measure, and I took his. And I think we both feel more comfortable about our common objectives."