University Daily Kansan/Monday, January 23, 1989
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Answers are near as a phone Info Line puts the information callers want at their fingertips
Kansan staff writer
by John P. Milburn Kansan staff writer
What happened on "All My Children" today?
Will it rain? What does a person do for frostbite?
Good questions. The answer: Can the info here No, it is not KU Information, but a new system created by Woodward Publications Inc., to provide information to Lawrence residents 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. During the first three days of last week, the service took 31,137 calls.
The computerized system began Jan. 1 to provide free, up-to-date news, weather, sports, health and other information, said Susan Mason, director of Audio Text, a division of Woodward Publications. Rural residents must pay long-distance charges to use the system.
The Info Line uses recorded information, syndicated programs from a group in New York and Bright Voice Systems of Wichita, one of the first companies in the nation to develop programmed information, Mason said. Local informational
programming is done by KLZR/KLWN radio stations.
Local businesses sponsor the Info Line, and many have talking ads in the system, Mason said.
Callers can use the system by dialing 842-8255, then entering a four-digit number for the desired information. The four-digit numbers are listed in the Lawrence telephone directory published by Woodward. The system can be accessed only by touch-tone telephones.
Directories were delivered last week to all residents of the area, including those in University-operated housing, Mason said.
Installation of the system began two months ago and will be complete when Woodward begins operation of a programming lab in its offices at 3125 W. Sixth St., she said.
Mason said initial response to the service had been so overwhelming that two additional lines were added Friday.
were audited Friday.
She said that the first system of this type in
Kansas was started in Topeka two years ago. Systems have since been started in St. Joseph, Leavenworth and Manhattan/Junction City.
Bob Newton, station manager of KLWN/KLZR, said the stations communicated local news, weather, sports and community events. Programs are updated by the radio staff daily.
He said that his staff had had difficulty calling the system to update information because of the volume of calls to the service.
"The system is going to be good for us because people who normally don't tune in will be hearing our reports and may decide to start listening." Newton said.
More than 500 such information systems are in use across the country, Mason said. She said that Woodward will to target the Lawrence county callers 25-30 years old, the average age of Lawrence residents.
Business honor code could get approval
Rules should be similar to College
by a Kansan reporter
Students in the School of Business probably will have an honor code by the end of the semester, but students associate professor of business.
Undergraduates in the school approved the code by a 3-1 margin and graduate students by a 5-1 margin during voting late last semester.
The code is similar to the academic misconduct rules and regulations used in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
A committee of students proposed the honor code to the executive committee of the business school Dec. 13. The executive committee plans to send it to the business school faculty assembly Friday for its first reading.
The code will then be up for discussion until a second reading at the following meeting, when the faculty assembly will vote on it, Garland said.
He said that faculty response to the proposal was overwhelmingly positive and that he didn't foresee any obstacles to its approval.
Using a chisel and mallet, Jeffrey Arsenault, Chicago, Ill., hacks away at a 14,000 pound slab of limestone. A 16-inch wax model of the sculpture is used as a reference for Elden Tefft, professor of art, and Jeffrey Arsenault as they work on the 12-foot stone at Burcham Park, Third and Indiana streets.
Kansas honored in stone
KU professor hopes to finish sculpture by next year
by Jennifer Corser Kansan staff writer
Near the bank of the Kansas River, two people will stand back-to-back. Wheat will weave between their heads will rise above their heads.
This scene will be chiseled in stone as a tribute to Kansas and to humanity's relationship with the environment, like the Golden Tefft, the Lichen Tefft.
Tefft, professor or art. a charge of turning the piece of limestone into a work of art. He was esteemed to help with the stonecarving.
For now, however, it is merely a 12-foot piece of limestone rising above a mount of dirt at Burcham Park, Indiana and three streets.
Although the sculpture does not have a name, some people have made suggestions as to what it should be called, Teft said. "Ad Astra," Latin for "to the stars," is one suggestion.
Telfit said he preferred to take the scenery surrounding the riverfront site into consideration when he named the sculpture.
"I suppose the closest name to it is 'Vista Point'," he said.
Work on the sculpture began at a Stone Symposium at Burcham Park in October. It was sponsored by the Kansas Sculptors Association of Lawyers and Bayer Stone of St. Marys and Manhattan.
During the symposium, Tefft and other sculptors cisheed away soft parts of the limestone. Since the symposium, a base has been poured and the stone has been erected on top of the base. But because limestone contains water and freezes during cold weather, progress on the sculpture has been slow.
"If we'd known the weather would be so nice we could have
Although the sculpture does not have a name, some people have made suggestions as to what it should be called. 'Ad Astra,' Latin for 'to the stars,' is one suggestion.
been working on it this fall," Teftt said.
Work on the sculpture is evidenced by the chips of stone lying at its base. The very top of stone is beginning to take shape.
Smaller stones of different sizes and shapes surround the larger stone. Tefft said the smaller stones would be carved into seats.
Anyone who wants the experience of carving stone is encouraged to work on the sculpture, Tefft said. Most people do not know what it is like to work with stone and this sculpture is an opportunity for them to learn.
"Stone, I find, is generally a mystery to people," he said.
Tenn said that his sculpting class would work on the sculpture after spring break and that he hoped to complete it by next year.
"I expect that when the weather turns nice we'll be down there two or three times a week so we can teach and students can join us," he said.
So far, no one visiting Burcham Park has attempted to deface the stone, said Jeffrey Arsenault, a stone carver and Tefft's teaching assistant. Once, however, Arsenault said he caught some people having a party on top of the stone before it was erected.
Arsenault, who graduated from the University of Kansas last semester, said the sculpture was an enormous time commitment. It would cost a million dollars because it only stone rather than several different materials.
"There's a lot more thinking that goes on in carving directly on stone," he said.
"The piece is going to be really incredible when its done."
KU officials react to stop anti-Semitic activities on campus
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
KU officials have reacted to recent anti-Semitic activities on campus, condemning the actions and calling for an end to racism.
the accounts that changed.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for
academic affairs, released a memo Thursday to all KU faculty members in response to the defaement of two KU professors' doors with swastikas. Brinkman asked faculty to
read a statement from Chancellor Gene A. Budi to students on the first day of classes.
Budig's statement was an excerpt from the Chancellor's address to the 11th Opening of the Senate on May 6, 2014.
sity for those who would use coercion, physical or psychological, against other members or guests of this community," he said.
"There can be no place in this University for bigotry, intolerance, racial or sexual discrimination, anti-Semitism and the like," Buduig said in his address.
Statements from the University Senate Executive Committee, Executive Vice Chancellor Judith Ramaley and the Office of Communications were attached to Brinkman's mem.
University community to reaffirm and strengthen its efforts to eradicate religious bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia on campus and in student living areas.
areas.
"No view gives any of us the right to instill fear through vandalism," Ramaley's statement said.
long ago in the past.
Further, there is no room in this Univer-
The SenEx statement urged "the entire
The statement from the Office of University Relations said KU police had several
leads in the defacement incidents.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokes-
man, said the investigation into the defaec-
ments was continuing.
"The work has involved one or two of our investigators working full-time and also some of our officers," she said. "Anything that happens on campus that is threatening or fearful to the people of the University affects and involves the police department."
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