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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 25, 1980
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Still waving after 50 glorious years KU flags atop Fraser Hall endure history and winds
by Brett Brenner Kansan staff writer
Every day since 1939—weather permitting—the KU flag has waved atop Fraser Hall. Well, almost every day.
In 1939, a new flag was chosen from a field of 250 contestants to replace the flag adopted in 1932 by the Men's Student Council.
In 1953, to stir up the rivalry, a group of students from Kansas State University broke into Fraser Hall and stole the KU flag. It was only missing for a day before police recovered it.
Kelly Lamson/KANSAN
The old flag was described in a 1832 edition of the University Daily Kansan as being similar to the flags of both Cuba and Japan. It had a Jahawk in a white triangle field on the left with crimson and blue stripes, according to the Kansan.
The winning design, created by Eleanor Grider, was submitted to the department of design in 1939 and has become the traditional KU flag. It has red letters trimmed in white on a blue field.
In 1975, the University adopted a ceremonial flag to fly only on special occasions. The flag was the idea of the University of Kansas Alumni Association and was meant to draw attention to such things as sporting events and other special events.
The schedule for the flying of the flag is determined by the chancellor's office through the work of Phil Endacid, associate director of facilities operations for housekeeping services.
Endacott said that the ceremonial "Special K" flag only flew on a limited number of days featuring certain events; varsity football games, varsity men's and women's basketball, and women'sasketball. Rets' state holidays, commencement and opening day of the fall and summer semesters.
of the fan and summer semesters.
He didn't know why other sports
were not covered by the schedule.
"It is the same as when I came here nine years ago," Endacott said.
The University tries to fly the flags every day, endacott said, even though the flags will shred at the ends in a 20-mile-an-hour wind. Damaged flags usually are mended.
The mending causes the flags to become gradually shorter as the end is continually trimmed and resewen. Dacott said. Once the flag is shortened to a noticeable point, it is retired from service.
Kansas' AIDS cases increase
Complacency viewed as problem by expert
bv Mario Talkington
Kansan staff writer
The number of AIDS cases reported last year in Kansas increased by nearly 65 percent from the previous year, a state health official said yesterday.
orienteer from 68 to 112 cases is in line with the nationwide trend, said Karen Tappan, AIDS epidemiologist for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
"People should not be complacent and think it's its work out of Kansas," Tappan said. "We are not out of the woods, nor will we be for some time."
some time. The number of reported AIDS cases in Douglas County was not available. The state health department only releases the number of cases in a particular county when that number is more than 10, Tappan said.
sauf:
Johnson, Wyandotte, Sedgwick and Shawne county are the only four Kansas counties with more than 10
reported cases. The four counties account for 158 of the 215 AIDS cases reported in Kansas since 1981, Tappan said.
Despite the rising number of cases and an improvement in the public's knowledge of AIDS, people do not seem to be taking steps to prevent themselves from acquiring the virus, Tappan said.
Tappan said that people could be infected with the AIDS virus and carry it for as many as 15 years before showing symptoms
"They have the information, but they're not acting on it," she said. They don't really think it's ever going to happen to them."
"Until people come down with the disease, we don't know it (that they carry the virus)," she said. "Maybe they don't even. It's really scary."
In 1988, almost twice as many people were tested at the state's 50 testing and counseling facilities for
the AIDS antibody than in 1987. Tappan said.
Last year, 9,495 people were tested and 153 were diagnosed as having the AIDS virus.
Tappan said that of the 9,495 people tested, only 1,350 were 20 years old or younger.
ing of immortality and AIDS really doesn't concern them," she said.
Ann Ailor, charge nurse for communicable diseases for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, said the number of tests conducted at his unit had increased in Douglas County from 265 in 1977 to 362 last year.
Computer helps students choose career
bigger. "Most young people have this feel.
bv Alan Morgan
Kansan staff writer
Choosing the right career to enter after college is not always an easy decision, especially if a student is lacking in direction.
is lacking in it.
However, a little known career guidance counselor named SIGI has been helping match students with career fields for the past three years through the University Counseling Center.
SIGI is the center's System of Interactive Guidance and Information computer program that helps students with their career-planning.
Lorraine Shearing, Tulsa sophomore, is one of them.
then.
"I was totally lost before I used the SIGI program, so it was really worth my time to use it." Shearing said. "Now I have an idea of possible careers that I can pursue, and that would be interesting to me."
Shearing said that she heard about the program from some friends and decided to contact the center. She plans to look into the occupational fields that the program recommended.
insists that the program recommends
"It told me I should be a lawyer, bank officer or
involved with public relations," she said. "So I'm going to take a course in public relations."
Steven Stuart, career resource specialist at the center, said that the SIGI program was similar to the interest test students take along with the American Collegiate Test.
The SIGI program defines what the student is looking for in an occupation by asking series of questions. It then lists occupations that match the students skills and lists facts about the occupancy.
tools.
Stuart said that SIGI first determined a student's interests and values before consolidating the information into 20-25 possible occupations. The student can then narrow the field to three possible choices with the help of the computer.
"People make the best decisions when they are informed," Stuart said. "Hopefully, a person can use the information they obtain from the SIGI program to make a good decision on their own."
Stuart said that the SIGI program was open to all KU students from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is free of charge. Stuart recommended that students make an appointment to use the program, and added
that there was a one-hour sitting limit for the use of SIGI.
"The entire program can take a up to a couple of hours to complete, depending on how much information a person wants to get." Stuart said.
matter a person would want to handle. He said the program would be most beneficial to freshmen and sophomores, and that it should be used in conjunction with personal counseling.
"Some people come in and think that the program is all inclusive," Stuart said, "Too many people use it as an end to the decision-making process rather than a component of the decision-making process."
Stuart said that because the program was not based on an individual's ability, the program required the student to answer the questions honestly.
Stuart said that most people had discovered the program through their friends who had been enrolled the Career and Life Planning class.
"Actually, it's a very good program." Stuart said. "It's easy to use, and if a student has any questions there is always someone here to help them."
Exclusive nightclub is short-lived, has many debts
Kansan staff writer
by Mary Neubauer
Failed partnership contributes to its closing
As he sat on a white, leaf-printed couch, occasionally popping his knuckles and glancing at the television while thinking about the past, a former owner of Club Nouveau told me: "I still love my partnerships, missing money, court cases and illegal aliens.
Jony Saidian, the club owner, said that although the club opened and closed within one week's time, it would have done well if Behrouz "Steve" Abipour, his partner, had not left the country, leaving Saidian with their company's unpaid bills.
Saidian said he met Abipour in San Diego. Six months later they decided to form their company, Abipour-Saidian Inc. (ASI), and to open a night club.
"Steve wanted to open a club in Los Angeles," Saidian said. "But I told him L.A. was not good; it was too expensive. I had been to Kansas before to visit my brother and knew Lawrence needed an exclusive nightclub."
Starting a business
Saidian said both he and Abipour put money down for the club's building at 101 Mississippi St., but most of the money
came from Abipur. They spent $190,000 on remodeling, including designing the sound system and the lighting in the building, he said.
bitting, he said,
"Steve and I made an agreement that I would work for him for $40 per hour or for half the company's shares," Saidian said.
"We started hiring employees and contractors for the club. When we opened on Nov. 18, without advertising, about 250 people showed up."
Saidian said that about two weeks later, Abipour told him that he needed all the shares in the company to renew his visa and green card to work in the United States. Saidian said Abipour also asked him not to respond to a request for a share in his company's name so the officials would not find out that Abipour had been working illegally.
"I told him I wasn't going to put up with his illegal stuff anymore and was going to tell the employees the truth," Saidian said. "Steve left for Bolivia two days later and
hired someone to take the sound and lighting systems out of the club."
saidian said he then filed a court order and got the lighting and sound systems back and told the employees the truth about Abiour.
"I opened the club again the next day to try to make some money so I could pay back the contractors and employees," Saidian said. "I told the employees they could come back and work as labor and I would pay them cash.
Then Steve came back and told me he wanted to open the club without me or sell his shares. But he couldn't find anyone to buy his shares so he said he would give no more money to the club.[11]
Saidian said that after these problems, Abipour never talked to him again and returned to Bolivia in December.
Never heard from again
"Somebody who puts $250,000 in a business and leaves the country has something
wrong with his brain," Saidian said. "But my contacts have told me that with Steve it's easy money, easy go."
If a casey person said that Abipour owed him more than $70,000 and that ASI had outstanding bills with its employees and contractors. Saidian said he personally had outstanding bills with the lawyers he had hired to help clear up the club's problems.
"ASI is just in the air," Saidan said. "In a couple months, the company will dissolve. There's no account or money left. I talked to the employees, but there's nothing left for me to do. I have no money. I'm getting help from my brother just for living expenses."
Alan Smith, Valley Center sophomore,
and didn't receive payment for his work.
Smith said Abipour and Saidian set up the club to be exclusive for an older type of crowd. Its sound system was probably the largest in Lawrence, he said.
Smith said the partners told the employees numerous lies.
"They went so far as to tell us they were cousins and the club was their family's company," he said.
Before it was remodeled for Club Nouveau, Smith said the building had been the Lawrence Connection, a teen bar, and the Palladium, a 21-club.
"It sat empty for a year after that until Abipour and Saidian leased it." he said. "I'd be afraid to open another club there now. The building's history is too terrible, even though it has a prime location. It's all like a soap opera that gets worse every enclosure."
mary Dietrich, Independence, Mo,
sophomore, was a waitress at Club Nouveau
and didn't get paid for her work,
either.
"They told us that they had other clubs in California and Florida," she said. "They also said we could work at them over Christmas break if we were close by, but wanted us to come back here after break."
"Tony (Saidian) told us Steve was the one who started all the lies. But a lighting man talked to me one night and told me it was all Tony."
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