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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1997
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SECTION A VOL.103.NO.90
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Man misses court dates, forfeits $7.500 bond
With his trial in six days, the whereabouts of Thomas Sun, Olathe sophomore, remain unknown to the Lawrence police department.
Sun was charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sodomy of his girlfriend in connection with an incident reported last fall in McColum Hall.
Yesterday morning in Division 1 court, Judge Robert Fairchild ordered Sun's $7,500 bond to be forfeited because he had failed to appear in court on Jan. 13 and 15.
Because of his previous absences in court, a bench warrant was issued for Sun's arrest Jan. 16. As of yesterday, the warrant had not been served, and police were unable to find Sun.
Sun's case is scheduled to go to trial Feb. 10.
KU freshman charged in string of burglaries
James E. Rumsey, Sun's attorney, did not attend yesterday's bond hearing and was not available for comment about his client's whereabouts.
Tah Lambbeck, Overland Park freshman, was arrested by Lawrence police Saturday morning with four counts of auto burglary.
At 6 a.m. Saturday, local police responded to a phone call regarding a suspicious person in the 900 block of Vermont Street.
When police arrived, they found Lambec lying down on the pavement beside a burglarized vehicle. Police said Lambec had rum-maged through some items that belonged to the vehicle's owner.
Before his arrest, police asked Lambeck to show identification. He then produced a woman's ID.
Police traced the ID back to a KU student whose car had been burglared earlier that morning in the 1100 block of 19th Street. At the time of his arrest, Lambeck was wearing a Georgetown sweatshirt, which was identified as one stolen from that car.
Sgt. Susan Haydl said Lambec appeared to be drunk at the time of the burglaries and his arrest.
In addition, Lambek was charged with burglaring another vehicle in the 1100 block of 19th Street and one in the 1800 block of Maine Street.
Kansan staff report
The court set bond at $10,000. Lambbeck was bonded out of the Douglas County Jail yesterday. He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 12.
North Korea requests international assistance
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea acknowledged yesterday that it had only enough grain to last until late spring and appealed for international food donations.
The World Food Program is preparing to issue another appeal—the third since last year—for large-scale food aid to North Korea, which the World Food Program said was in the throes of a life-threatening food shortage.
North Korea said yesterday that it was short 2.3 million grains of this year — about the same amount estimated by the U.N. agency.
Quoting a government official, the North's Korean Central News Agency said the country needed 4.8 million tons of grain a year to feed its population. It harvested only 2.5 million tons last year because of floods.
The news agency said the official, who was not identified, also thanked the United States for its efforts.
Easing its 47-year trade embargo on North Korea, the Clinton administration last week allowed nongovernmental organizations to provide humanitarian food aid to North Korea.
Government rations in North Korea were cut a few months ago.
—The Associated Press
Holds can delay enrollment
Plan would centralize all fee payments
By Dave Morantz Kansan staff writer
The battles and trauma of enrolling at the University of Kansas can make a freshman cry home to Mom. Running all over campus to pay enrollment holds and then missing an enrollment time add to the affair. But the University is considering a plan to centralize paying enrollment holds.
Jamie Johnson, student body vice president, has been pushing the administration to institute a plan calling for a centralized location at Strong Hill where students could
pay all enrollment holds.
But, he said, after discussing the plan with administrators last semester, his follow-up calls had not been returned, and administrators pointed fingers at one another.
"It's such a simple solution that it shouldn't be a big deal to implement," he said.
Johnson met with Lindy Eakin, associate provet, last semester to discuss the plan but has had little luck contacting anyone in the administration since then, he said.
Students with library holds must pay fines at Carruth-O'Leary Hall. Parking holds must be paid at the parking department next to Allen Field House, and medical holds must be paid at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Bob Turvey, assistant registrar,
say 5,293 students had one hold last
semester, 773 had two holds, 50 had
three holds and two students had
four holds.
He said that if fines were assessed to students between the time they received enrollment permits and their enrollment times, they would not be prevented from enrolling.
The decentralized payment process results from computer systems that do not communicate with each other, said Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost.
"I think it's a really good idea, but there's a lot of technical issues," she said. "It's not as simple as it looks from the outside."
Other administrators ask why students wait to pay enrollment holds until the day of their enrollment. Students are notified of holds when they receive enrollment permits two to three weeks before enrollment.
"Some people wonder why we should do this for people who have had a notification for three weeks,"
Hold payment methods
Current plan:
Library holds must be paid at Corrith O'Leary Hall
Parking holds must be paid at the department in the
- Parking holds must be paid at the park department, in the parking garage at Naismith Drive and Aniston Road.
Medical holds must be paid at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Student body vice president Jamie Johnson's proposed plan Students would pay all enrol-
But he said he was in favor of finding something to simplify the process. The registrar's office is analyzing the data, he said.
Eakin said.
"They'll break down the areas and see where problems occur and talk
A pilot program could occur as early as spring enrollment or next fall, he said.
But Eakin's assurances that the administration is addressing the issue do not satisfy Johnson. He is presenting a petition to Student Senate requesting that the administration act on the issue.
Johnson said the petition resulted from unreturned phone calls to administrators and what he felt to be a dismissive attitude.
"I would think that student body representatives would warrant a phone call," he said.
Eakin said Johnson's calls may not have been returned because everyone in his office was extremely busy.
Just driftin' by
"He's probably wondering what's happened with us," he said. "The message just probably slipped through the cracks with everything else."
ott Heath, St. Peter, Minn., graduate student, checks out a print on display at the Gallery in the Kansas Union. Finding
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the balance, by Forrest Toby Levy, will be exhibited at the gallery until Feb. 21.
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STRESS FRACTURES
Stress fractures, such as the one in center Scot Pollard's left foot, are common for young athletes. Story on page 3B.
Health workers reach out to eliminate eating disorders
Kansan staff writer
By Emily Vrabac
This week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and the Department of Health Education is providing information to students, faculty and staff.
Eating disorders affect seven million women and a smaller number of men in the United States, and the KU campus is not immune.
"I think people know that eating disorders are out there, and now we want them to know we have help for them," said Ann Chapman, dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Two health education interns, Holly Sheorn and Danelle Meall, will staff an information table from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union.
The KU Psychological Clinic continues to sponsor an eating disorders support group, which meets from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays in 327 Fraser Hall. Its first meeting of the semester is tonight.
Shehorn and Meall also arranged a display case in the union and hung informational posters at various campus locations.
"We want to make people aware and hope they will seek help," Shehurn said.
Besides the support group, several treatment options are available on campus. Chapman said she used a team approach at Watkins for students with eating disorders.
Eating disorders
Disorder symtoms
obsession with food or dieting low self esteem
inability to deal with feelings
perfectionist tendencies
dissatisfaction with body image
dissatisfaction distortion of body image
Ann Chapman, dietitian at Watkins
Boulder, CO 80324 964-5571
Who to contact for help
KU Counseling and Psychological Services, 864-2277
Alicia Cabrera, support group facilitator,
865-5757
Students meet with Chapman, obtain consultation from KU Counseling and Psychological Services and see a physician to make sure they have not damaged their bodies.
I spend an increasing amount of my time in individual counseling in this area," Chapman said. "Forty to 50 percent of my time is spent with individuals struggling to get control over food."
People with eating disorders feel a lack of control in their lives, Chapman said.
"As a result of a focus on body image, they feel they need to lose weight, whether the need is real or perceived on their part," Chapman said.
Repairs fund will not fulfill every request
By Kevin Bates
Kansan staff writer
Money for improvements to KU buildings and facilities has been approved by the Kansas Legislature, but actual construction will not begin until this fall at the earliest.
In September, the Kansas Board of Regents approved a list of repairs for the University, with price tags of anywhere from a few thousand dollars to more than $11 million for Joseph R. Pearson Hall renovations.
But Warren Corman, architect and special assistant to Chancellor Robert Hemenway, said that every building on campus would be touched in some way by the Crumbling Classrooms campus renovations fund.
All totaled, the University will receive $44.2 million for campus building improvements, the largest portion of the $163 million renovation fund for the state's six institutions.
Although bids for construction on the larger projects will not be taken for eight months to a year, preliminary designs have been created for 17 buildings, Stallworth said.
"The process takes a long time," he said. "We've got a long laundry list of things we're try-
Bud Stallworth, assistant director of design and construction management, said the process already had begun, even though students and faculty might not have noticed.
"The deans had to decide priorities. There's never enough money to do everything you want to do."
Warren Corman
special assistant to the Chancellor
ing to get done, so it's going to take a long time to get to them all."
The largest parts of the University's renovations — Strong, Malott, Murphy and Pearson halls — will use up about half of the $42.2 million, Stallworth said. That leaves the other half to be distributed to the rest of the campus.
"We would have liked to have had an open checkbook," Stallworth said. "We originally asked for something in the $260 million neighborhood, but it was pared down to $163 million. But we've tried to address everyone's needs."
"The deans had to decide priorities," he said. "There's never enough money to do everything you want to do."
Those needs vary depending on the department or building. Corman said that because the Legislature gave the University less than it would have liked, choices had to be made.
never enough money to buy Bruce Bublitz, associate dean of the business school, said he was disappointed in the amount made available for renovations to Summerfield Hall. Bublitz said the $150,000 allocation to the 39-year-old building would renovate only four rooms.
"We don't need a palace, but Summerfield looks like an old-grade school building," he said. "We could easily sink $1 million into it without fixing all the problems."
Others receiving Crumbling Classrooms money tempered their disappointment.
Peter Thompson, dean of the school of fine arts, said he wished his school could have received more money. But he said Murphy Hall would get three new rehearsal spaces, a larger library and new faculty offices. It also would be updated with a new elevator to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"We had to do a lot of trimming." Thompson said. "We would have liked to bring the dance program from Robinson Gymnasium, but I'm still thrilled that we got what we got."