FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL. 102, NO.88
SPORTS
Sunflower rival awaits Kansas
The No. 3 men's basketball team will face intrastate foe Kansas State on Sunday. Page 1B
CAMPUS
I'm OK, you're OK
Staff at Watkins say self-esteem is important to success in college. Page 3A
NATION
New AIDS Drug Presented
A new class of AIDS drugs reduces complications and prolongs life. Page 9A
NATION
Dole Labels opponent
Bob Dole warns that Steve Forbes plans to raise middle-class taxes aren't as beneficial as they sound. Page 11A
WEATHER
CHANCE OF FLURRIES
High 6° Low -5°
(USPS 650-640)
Weather: Page 2A
Campus ... 3A
Opinion ... 4A
Nation/World ... 9A
Features ... 12A
Sports ... 1B
Scoreboard ... 2B
INDEX
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Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Paramedics remove Tony McMechan from his overturned Ford Mustang after a one-car accident in front of Jayhawker Towers yesterday afternoon. McMechan was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with a fractured bone and lacerations and is listed in fair condition.
Car flips,then crashes into Jayhawker Towers
Auto accident hurts KU worker
By Amy McVey
Kansan staff writer
A 33-year-old KU employee is in fair condition after his car crashed into Tower B of Jayhawker Towers yesterday afternoon.
Tony McMechan, custodial worker for Lewis Hall, was driving east on 15th Street when his black Ford Mustang hit a light pole, crashed through a concrete barrier, flipped and slid into Tower B, KU police said.
Tom Helling, Overland Park senior, witnessed the accident as he walked home from class.
"I just happened to be looking up when I saw his car," Helling said. "It looked like it was going to be turning into the circle drive.
"The next thing I knew the car appeared to accelerate. I think he was probably trying to hit the breaks. I saw a light post go up in the air, and I saw the car flin."
Kip Grosshans, personnel administrator for student housing, said McMechan
Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Tony McMechan's car rests upside down next to Tower B of Jayhawker Towers yesterday afternoon.
"At 12:30, he should have been coming back to work from lunch," he said.
was on his lunch break at the time of the accident.
McMechan suffered a fractured bone
and numerous lacerations. Paramedics transported him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Police are unsure of the accident's cause.
Chancellor offers gala to students
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Tickets are free and have been available at the Student Union Activities box office in the Kansas Union for a week.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway does not want his Feb. 11 inauguration to be a stuffy, elitist event. Instead, Hemenway hopes to make the inauguration open to the University community — especially students.
But T.J. Joyce, Lincolnshire, Ill., senior, said yesterday that only five students had picked up tickets at the SUA office.
Invitations were mailed to student leaders last month, and 140 student leaders have re-served tickets, said
Jeanette Johnson, assistant to the executive vice chancellor
More than 1,000 tickets have been reserved by KU faculty, staff, alumni and other guests, but several hundred tickets remain available, Johnson said.
On Monday, tickets will be made available
to the general public, but students still may obtain tickets at the SUA office.
"The inauguration is not something for the chancellor; it's not for the faculty, and it's not for alumni," Hemenway said. "The students are the people who have the greatest stake in the future of the University, and this is a chance to take part in an event that looks at the University and where we are going."
The inauguration, which will be held at the Lied Center, will feature original music, an inaugural poem and comments by Hemenway, Gov. Bill Graves and Sen. Nancy Kassbaum.
Although the event will include prominent alumni and politicians, Hemenway said he would be addressing students and the University community.
"I don't see this as a hobnobbing event," Hemenway said. "This is a KU tradition and is an opportunity for students to be a part of history at the University."
The University has not had an inauguration since 1981 when Gene Budig became chancellor. Richard DeGeorge, chairman of the inauguration committee, died
For the students
Chancellor Robert Hemenway's Inauguration
**When:** 2 p.m. Feb. 11
**Where:** The Lied Center
**Tickets:** Tickets for the inauguration are free. Tickets are available to students at the Student Union Activities office in the Kansas Union. Tickets will be made available to the general public on Monday.
this was an opportunity to be a part of a long-standing University tradition.
"Students who are here now have a chance to take part in a new beginning for the University," DeGeorge said.
The inauguration is only one of several events planned for the inaugural weekend.
DeGeorge said the events were planned to appeal to a broad cross-section of the University community.
Acclaimed play flies into KU's Lied Center
There are 3,200 tickets left for this weekend's performances of Tony Kushner's award-winning play Angels in America at the Lied Center.
Four shows set for the award-winning Angels in America
By Susanna Löof
Kansan staff writer
But that does not mean the center's officials are disappointed with the sales, said Karen Christilles, director of public relations.
"We never expected it to entirely sell out," she said. "The size of Lawrence is just not big enough for that."
If there had been two performances of the play, it would have been much more likely to sell out, Chris-
tillessaid.
But center officials scheduled four performances to accommodate more people.
The play has been praised as the event of the decade by critics countrywide. It consists of two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroka.
One of the men in the gay couple has AIDS, which is one of the main themes of the play.
The parts are interrelated but independent, and they both focus on two couples, a gay couple and a Mormon couple.
The play also includes historical figures such as Roy Cohn and Ethel Rosenberg.
Cohn was a lawyer famous for his role during the McCarthy era. He was acquitted for fraud, bribery and conspiracy, and he died of complications of AIDS in 1986.
Rosenberg was suspected of being
"Having read the script, I don't think I am going to be able to watch it comfortably."
Kim Miller Erie, Ill., graduate student
a spy for the Soviet Union. She was executed in New York in 1953.
As of yesterday afternoon, 4,500 tickets had been sold to the performances. About 1,100 of those were student tickets.
Miller, who studies American theater history, said she expected the play to be educational and challenging.
Christilles said she did not think that the price, $15, for the least-expensive student tickets to each performance, had deterred students from buying tickets.
"Perhaps the time commitment would be a larger problems for students," she said. "It may be hard for them to find eight hours in a weekend."
"Having read the script, I don't think I am going to be able to watch it comfortably," she said. "There is a man dying of AIDS in it. That's nothing I can sit and watch at ease."
For Kim Miller, Erie, Ill., graduate student, eight hours is not too much to spend on the play. Nor is the expense. She said she thought the play was a landmark because it deals with contemporary issues in an open way.
When and Where to Find Angels
Angels in America, an award-winning play by Tony Kushner, is the tale of two couples, one gay and one Mormon. The play, presented in two parts, ties together their stories.
**Part I:** Millennium Approaches will be performed at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 3.
**Part II:** Perrestroika will be performed at 8 p.m. Feb. 3 and at 7 p.m. Feb. 4.
Student tickets are $15 or $17.50 for each part. They are on sale at the Lied Center box office and at the Student Union Activities box office in the Kansas Union.