MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102.NO.64
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TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Bowl bound?
With a win against Oklahoma State, the Kansas football team likely has secured a postseason appearance. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Changing from racquets to weights
One fewer racquetball court at Robinson Center means a new weight room. Page 6A
NATION
Budget compromise reached
Government employees return to work. Page 7A
WORLD
kills 15
Bomb attack
A pickup truck packed with explosives rammed into the Egyptian Embassy gates in Islamabad, Pakistan. Page 7A
WEATHER
COLDER
High 50° Low 45°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
National News ... 7A
World News ... 7A
Scoreboard ... 2B
Horoscopes ... 4B
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It's down to business for new dean
Sarowski brings worldly wisdom to leadership
By Josh Yancey
Kansan staff writer
Thomas Sarowski isn't acting.
He's the real thing.
Sarowski was named the dean of business at the University of Kansas Fridav.
Sarowski, 55, had been serving as acting dean since July. The final agreement was made
Wednesday
a n d
announced
Friday afternoon,
he said.
The search for a new dean began last December, and a group of candidates was identified in the spring.
said David Shulenburger vice chancellor for academic affairs. Shulenburger said Sarowski was named dean after a formal interview and recommendation.
Thomas Sarowski
Sarowski said he expected to shoulder several academic duties
he had not handled as acting dean. He also was considering new teaching opportunities as dean.
"I need to be involved with students in a meaningful way," he said. "I'm leaning more toward directed study and student mentoring."
Sarowski previously had taught courses in the School of Business' Division of Accounting and Information Services as a distinguished lecturer and executive-in-residence since 1991.
Sarowski replaces L. Joseph Bauman, dean since 1990. Bauman resigned in February 1995 but said he would continue to teach.
"At this time in the life of the KU School of Business, it is exciting to have someone with a career's worth of high-level management consulting experience as dean," said Shulenburger. "The school will benefit from Tom Sarowski's experience and, with his leadership, will grow as a school of national and international stature."
A September issue of U.S. News & World Report ranked KU's School of Business 30th in the nation in a survey of administrators from 294 accredited business schools.
Sarowski earned a bachelor's in civil engineering from the Detroit Institute of Technology and a
master's in industrial administration from Purdue University.
He worked in Detroit and Kansas City, Mo., for Arthur Anderson & Co., a Chicago-based accounting firm, from 1964 to 1990. He retired in 1990 and came to the University to teach
"I have thoroughly enjoyed the past five years at KU," Sarowski said. "It has been rewarding to be a member of this faculty and to be a mentor to students who will be tomorrow's business leaders. It is a dream of many business executives to pass the knowledge they gained in the corporate world to the next generation. I feel lucky to be living that dream."
Performance artist Tim Jordan finds a home in Lawrence for nakedness music and freedom of expression
man
tain, but he also loves to make his audience a little uncomfortable. And when he confronts his sexuality under fluorescent lights, some members of his audiences start squirm.
But what may make them even more uncomfortable are the questions he raises about what art is, and just how bizarre the characters of Lawrence can be.
After all, Jordan did not become Typewriter Tim until he came to Lawrence in 1991. The music and the art scene in this little Kansas community gave Jordan the inspiration to transform himself into Typewriter Tim.
Roger Martin a local author who has chronicled the zany and sometimes twisted culture of Lawrence, has studied the city since 1968. He co-authored "Cows are Freaky When They Look at You," a book of hippie folk tales from the town's counter-culture days.
"The town, as I've understood it, has had a long history of a tolerance for shadiness in some of its characters." he says
In the 1960s and 1970s, Lawrence was home to a radical political and art culture. It was decidedly more wild than any other neighboring town. And although the free love of the 60s may have disappeared, Lawrence continues to be the kind of town where characters
See TYPEWRITER TIM, Page BA.
Man bites off former roommate's ear
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
A 36-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Thursday after allegedly biting off part of another man's ear, Lawrence police reported.
According to the police report, at about 12:15 p.m., Gibson was sitting on the porch of an apartment in the 900 block of Connecticut Street when Seibel approached and said
Richard Seibel was charged with aggravated battery at an arraignment Friday for allegedly hitting Jay Gibson, 55, and then biting off about a one-inch-wide piece of his left ear.
he didn't like the way Gibson was looking at him. Seibel then struck Gibson in the right side of the head and departed to his upstairs apartment. Gibson remained on the porch for about five minutes and then went inside his apartment. Moments later, Seibel entered Gibson's apartment and again struck him on the right side of the head. This time, Gibbon struck back, and a fight erupted. In the course of the scuffle, Seibel allegedly grabbed Gibson by the head, bit off part of his ear and spit it onto the kitchen floor.
Gibson, who used to be a roommate of Seibel's, said he was scheduled to see a plastic surgeon to fix the ear. However, sewing the piece back on will not be an option.
"The dog ate the piece of the ear," Gibson said. "And that's kind of a joke in itself. But it's really no laughing matter."
Seibel was being held in Douglas County Jail on $2,000 bond. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.
Gibson said that Seibel had been acting violent for the last two weeks and that this incident was a culmination of it.
"It's almost kind of like that Bobbitt case," Gibson said.
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
Hector Clark — whose flurry of faculty grievance filings prompted the University to draw up sanctions against professors who file frivolous grievances — is the first to be subjected to his own rule.
Professor appeals sanction
Last month, David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, banned Clark from filing grievances for five years.
Clark, an associate professor of engineering, appealed the order Friday.
Clark claimed that Shulenburger, the chairman of the judicial council and Chancellor Robert Hemenway had violated the rules and regulations of the University by imposing the sanction.
One of the University's rules says that no person shall be punished for filing grievances with the University and that no person shall be denied access to filing grievances, Clark said.
Shulenburger said the University recently amended a two-year
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See CLARK, Page 3A.