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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25.1996
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PAGE 1 VOL.103, NO.66
Man exposes self, chases KU student in parking lot
A man in an apartment complex parking lot exposed himself to a KU student Saturday evening and then chased her out of the lot.
Rachel Walker, Overland Park sophomore, thought the man at the dumpster at the Malls Olde English Village, 2411 Louisiana St., was just throwing away some trash, but when he turned around, his pants were pulled partially down.
"I was walking out to my car and saw him," Walker said. "He turned around and I could see that his pants were pulled down and he was touching himself. When he saw me he started walking toward me."
Walker immediately got into her car to leave, but the man chased after her car as she left the parking lot.
Walker said she had wanted to turn left onto Louisiana Street, but the traffic was too congested.
"I didn't want to give him a chance to come up to my window, so I turned right," Walker said. "Then I went in the back entrance to the lot, went back to my apartment and called the police."
Walker said that the suspect was tall, but had a round belly, and that he was wearing a plaid shirt, blue jeans and a red baseball cap.
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—Kansan staff report
ANILA, Philippines — Despite a lack of dramatic breakthroughs in President Clinton's talks yesterday with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, both sides signaled that their troubled relations were on the mend. They agreed to exchange presidential visits for the next two years.
Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Shen Guofang described the 90-minute meeting as friendly, positive and constructive.
"Clearly the relationship has stabilized and gained momentum from where we were last spring," said Winston Lord, assistant U.S. secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. That was when China staged war games and launched missiles near Taiwan, and the United States dispatched a carrier battle group to the region.
In an intriguing element of their talks, Jiang told Clinton the remnants of a World War I I-era U.S. bomber, believed to be a B-24, with human remains inside had been found in the southern China region of Guangxi.
Admiral Jeremy Boorda's suicide note made public
WASHINGTON — Admiral Jeremy Boorda's suicide note has been made public in a 20,000-word story in the December issue of Washingtonian magazine. It provides new details on the chief of naval operations' death — an event that stunned Washington.
Freelance writer Nick Kotz reports that Boorda had confided to his son, Edward, that he planned to resign two years early as the Navy's top officer. He mentioned the enormous demands of the job and the stress on his wife, Bettie.
Boorida shot himself in the chest on May 15, just hours before he was about to be questioned by reporters about two Vietnam combat decorations he wore but may not have been qualified to display.
The magazine says the decorations affair was only one factor.
Another, Kotz writes, was a drumbeat of hostility from the Navy's old guard, which considered Boorda a political admiral.
—The Associated Press
Giving more than thanks
KU students fill boxes with food at the Salvation Army Church, 946 New Hampshire St. Students from several sororities and Oliver Hall volunteered yesterday. The boxes, which will be distributed today, contain donated Thanksgiving dinners for about 400 Lawrence residents.
Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
Student volunteers help box dinners for Salvation Army
By Ashlee Roll
Kansan staff writer
The food for the dinners came from private donations, except for the
Turkey, green beans, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie: a feast that many students will have during the holidays. But for some local families, a meal like this is out of their price range.
Yesterday, about 60 volunteers lined up at the Salvation Army Church, 946 New Hampshire St., to box Thanksgiving Day dinners that will go to 400 Lawrence families. The dinners will be distributed today.
"There are some families that have trouble affording things like a turkey," said Betsy Anderson, holiday assistance coordinator for the Salvation Army. "There are families that apply and we prepare food for Thanksgiving distribution."
turkeys, which were bought by the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army has been distributing Thanksgiving dinners for six years, and Bob Kolars, Salvation Army soldier, said that the volunteers this year finished the boxing job the quickest.
"Last year we were really hurting," he said. "There was only about 10 percent of the volunteers that we have this year."
Many of those volunteers were students from Oliver Hall.
"We just wanted to help out, and we can't afford to donate food," said Jennifer Conoley, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore.
With the large number of volunteers, the process of boxing the food only took about 45 minutes.
The volunteers from Oliver were recruited by several resident assistants, who posted sign-up sheets throughout the residence hall.
"It was a program and service project," said Janae Ouellette, Clay Center, junior and Oliver Hall resident assistant. "We just put up a sign-up sheet and the girls were enthusiastic about it."
"This is marvelous," said Kolars. "I don't think they know how much they are helping."
Although the Salvation Army does not serve a dinner on Thanksgiving Day, they will provide one on Nov. 27. And, for some of the student volunteers, the thought of Thanksgiving is what prompted them to volunteer their time.
"I thought about how good it was going to be to go home and have dinner with my family," said Mindie Miller, El Dorado sophomore. "Some people don't have that."
Guidelines may cause class drops
By Eric Weslander
Kenyon staff writer
Kansan staff writer
As the add/drop process comes to an end, some under- enrolled classes face the possibility of cancellation next semester.
Classes such as American Studies 292, which in the past has held more than 30 students but now has fewer than 10 enrolled, may be subject to the guidelines Chancellor Robert Hemenway has provided for the size of University classes.
Hemenway said the University should avoid offering undergraduate courses with fewer than 12 students and graduate courses with fewer than six students.
The cancellation of such courses can cause students to not explore their options at the University, said Evan Heimlich, program coordinator for the Office of Minority Affairs.
For example, American Studies 292: Topics and Problems on the Asian-American Experience has received high qualitative and quantitative evaluations from students, Heimlich said. The course, which is taught by graduate teaching assistant Partha Mazumdar, deals with contemporary Asian-American issues.
"The last time Pat taught it, it got overwhelming raves," Heimlich said. "Unless we get some bodies fast, it will not make the College's minimum of 12."
However, the minimum-student guidelines are not set in stone. When a class has fewer than the required number of students, the decision is passed from the registrar's office to each individual school.
"Our office doesn't automatically cancel things," said Brenda Selman, assistant registrar.
The individual schools' decisions are not automatic either. James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the school would begin to review classes this week to decide which courses to cancel.
"There's not any hard and fast automatic rule," Carothers said. He said introductory courses with several open sections were the classes most likely to be canceled and consolidated.
Robert Weaver, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said high-level courses were rarely canceled because of sparse enrollment.
"We don't cancel a lot of classes because of that rule, but there are always some each semester." Weaver said. "If one course is essential for students to graduate, we will typically allow the course to go on."
The main goal of the guidelines is to ensure that all instructors teach comparable numbers of students, said associate provost Richard Givens. For example, an instructor who teaches two classes of six students appears to have a similar work load as an instructor who teaches two classes of 30 students.
"The attempt here is to make sure that all faculty are teaching reasonable loads," said Sally Frost-Mason, dean of liberal arts and sciences. "There are classes and there will continue to be classes offered that will not meet the 6/12 guideline."
Glasses will allow audience to see virtually everything
By Cameron Heeg Kansan staff writer
It is hard to get more of a virtual reality than a live theater performance, but the University Theatre is looking to do just that.
"For this play, the things that we can do with virtual-reality technology will better help explain the internal feelings and images of the actress," said Lance Gharavi, Merriam graduate student and director of video technology for the play. "Creating images other than the ones on the stage with computer and video technology puts the audience in Emilv's mind."
The department will incorporate virtual-reality glasses in their production of Authur Kopit's Wings. The virtual-reality glasses will help the audience see more of the distorted reality the lead character, Emily, a former wing-walker, lives with after having a stroke.
The lightweight glasses produced by the Seattle-based company Virtual-I will allow the audience to view the actors on the stage combined with computer-generated, real-time and prerecorded video images.
The four layers of images, fed in at different times and sometimes simultaneously, might be overwhelming at first for the audience members, said Mark Reaney, associate professor of theatre and film. But after the initial shock wears off, the story line will take over.
"We are going to be as sensitive to the script as possible so it doesn't just turn into a technology show," Reaney said. "The experiences Emily goes through
Virtual Theatre
What: Wings, a play that uses virtual -reality technology.
When: 8 p.m. Dec. 2 through Dec. 10 and 2 p.m.
    in Dec. 7 and Dec. 8.
Tickets are sold out, but people can come an hour before show time for a chance to receive an unclaimed ticket.
Where: Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall
as a wing-walker and after her stroke are the real story, and the technology will help that come alive."
Jennifer Nicholas, Topeka junior who plays Emily, said she was concerned about the difficulty of playing the part with the various images the audience sees, but that she viewed it as a challenge.
"I have had the opportunity to see what the audience will be seeing, and now I can adjust the way I portray the character of Emily," she said.
Wings is not the first production by the University Theatre that visual reality has helped come to life. Two years ago the Theatre used a different form of virtual reality to produce a version of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine.
These two productions have created international interest for the technology. Theatre and documentary officials from France, Australia and the Netherlands will be in Lawrence to watch the play and get technical demonstrations.
"We keep pushing the envelope a little bit further each time," Reaney said. "We don't let people catch up."
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