University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 19, 1988
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Appeals vary in 44th district race
Incumbent anticipates third term
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
The State Legislature is not in session, but Rep. Jessie Branson's schedule continues as if it were.
Jessie Branson
It's been nine years since the Democratic representative from Lawrence has had a vacation, and she shows no sense of letting up now.
"There isn't nothing lazy about Jessie," said Petey Cerf, president of Kansans for Improvement of Nursing Homes and a longtime acquaintance of Branson S. "She is one of the lawmakers we have, who has made lawmaking when she makes up her mind to do something, she gets it done."
Clad in jeans and running shoes, Branson talked of her activities from her living room, where her grandmother lives, and campaign signs competed for space.
"I'm very much involved in gaining access to services for people with no health care coverage," the 67-year-old legislator said. "Fifteen percent of (Kansans) are without it, and I have inadequate coverage. The best can do is apply Bard-Aids by expanding the Medicaid coverage."
Another issue that will challenge the Legislature next session is school trustees' prism and the probable increase in property taxes, the fight will be to override the law.
receives at least the same amount of state money next year as it does now.
Branson said that if e- elected to the third four-year term in the state's 44th District, she would continue to finance the Margin of Excancing.
"This time around, the Margin will be quite a drain on the general fund," she said. "It will take an extra super revenue." She added that money we need for the second year.
But the monster issue of them all is be highways. She said that Lawrencio's fcway but questioned whether there would be money for new projects in New York.
"The only way I can vote for a comprehensive highway plan is if we listened to the highway lished by the highway's department for (or various projects)," she said.
Student would represent KU in Legislature
A 23-year-old KU student would like to serve in the State House of Representatives because she wants to bring the student voice to Topека.
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
"Students would be one of my key constituents," said Ree McGhee. Lawrence graduate student. "The young are not that well represented because they're figured for a low voter turnout group."
Renee McGhee
McGhee, a Republican, said she decided to get involved in state politics because she believed that the 44th district, which includes much of western Lawrence, needed better representation.
She said she would propose using money from the state tax windfall for prison construction and would work with her team to ensure others could help support themselves.
If elected, she would support the Margin of Excellence, increased salaries for classified employees and a selective admissions policy.
McGhee also would support prison reform and the death penalty, especially for convicted drug pushers.
McGhee said the state needs more conservative leadership.
ishment (than Rep. Jessie Branson)," she said.
"I am more conservative in fiscal policy and in areas like capital pun-
McGhee has a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas in chemistry and is working on a mass spectrometer for gas identification. She grew up in Lawrence.
She served three terms in Student Senate, two terms on the University Affairs Committee and one year as Chair of the Senate Committee Board chairman.
Kelly Milligan, campus director for Associated Students of Kansas, served with McGhee on Student Senate and the University Affairs team. She is a good senator who got that done and represented students well
"It was apparent in the Student Senate who was padding their resumes and who was taking it terribly hard," he ever doubted Renée took it seriously.
Personnel, safety procedures blamed for leak
AKEN, S.C. — Poorly trained personnel and inadequate safety procedures were blamed for a leak of 375,000 gallons of water contaminated by the spill from Savannah River Plant, a report said yesterday.
Officials with the Du Pont Co., which operates the nuclear weapons plant for the Department of Energy, also said an oversight caused underreporting of the amount of radioactive contaminant in the water released into a creek on July 8, the University of Bristol, and the Augusta Herald reported yesterday.
The amount of radiation spilled into the water is too small to pose a health or safety threat, official said.
According to a Sept. 21 Du Pont report, the water was contaminated by 17 mililiters of the oil used in cancer cases. The report, obtained by the newspapers last week, said the 17 mililiters figure was based on data col-
But officials had continued to collect data through mid-September, and those numbers weren't in the report. Monday, Du Pont officials reported that 26 million contaminated by 26 millions of Cesium-137.
A millicurie is one-thousandth of a curie, the unit used to measure radioactivity.
The unusual occurrence report was completed
Jerry 25 and revised Sept. 16. SRI spokesman Cliff
Webb said:
included the change. It was an oversight. The data was available but it was not used."
Webb said the change did not make any difference in public safety or health. The report had to be completed within three weeks of the accident, but Webb said he was advised as additional information became available.
Poorly trained personnel and inadequate procedures were blamed for the water being released into Four Mile Creek, which flows into the Savannah River, the report said.
The Associated Press
Through August, including the July 8 accident,
104.5 mililiters of Cesium-137 were released into
the sea, the maximum Dpont can release per year is 173 million, which is equal to about 14.5 mililiters per month.
SNOW
"We're on a change order right now. How can we be finished?" he asked. "We're changing the lighting; we're changing the mechanic's lights. On the last four or five changes, there's been nothing on paper."
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He said he was not expecting to pay any liquidated damages, at least not without a fight.
"I'm sure they're not going to initiate any. We would fight it down the wire," he said. "We feel if that is the case (having no legal dispute between the architects, the state of Kansas and me."
"I would rather pay a lawyer $80 an hour than pay $300 a day. We'll fight it to the end."
Dave Evans, an architect with Gould Evans Architects, 708 Massachusetts St., confirmed that there have been several changes in the plans.
"There were some conditions, as there are with any renovation, where you don't quite know what you've got for sure until you get in contact with someone," so changes are very typical and not out of the ordinary at all."
Doug Riat, assistant director of facilities planning for construction projects in the Bay Area, said delays would be blamed on the contractor or other factors was
"It depends on why he requested
those days," he said. "The requests for additional days may not have been valid."
Computer science classes, math classes and the Museum of Entomology will move into the six-floor north wing of the building for the said Bill Durham, chairman of the computer science department.
The contractor's work on phase I of the $7.23 million renovation began Aug. 14, 1987.
Moldi said bids for phase II of the project would go out in mid-December. It will be completed in two stages.
Phase I involves mostly the north wing of snow, including the removal of asbestos, demolition of the interior, completion of the fourth and fifth floors and installation of a chair tower and an elevation of the second floor removed from the mammalian laboratory west of the north wing.
Phase II, stage one, includes the demolition and renovation of the south wing's interior and roof; in the shaft completed phase
Work on phase II, stage two, will involve the construction of a work, largely on the south wing, will include removal of asbestos and completion of offices, compartmentalization of the office.
CRASH
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He said an Boeing investigator was en route to the crash scene.
In a telephone interview from his home, Cole said it was impossible to figure out how the trouble had been reported about the aircraft because those records were not available.
Cole said initial reports received by Boeing indicated the plane was 1,700 feet above the ground 10 miles from the Ahmadabad airport but added that he was skeptical because it looked like a crash. There could be an aerialERROR error.
The pilot might have been trying to duck beneath the fog or could have descended to that level and then
climbed higher again before the final landing approach, "but that's all just speculation." Cole said.
The 137 entered service in 1986 is the world's most popular commercial aircraft with more than 2,000 ordered in five different models.
The last 737 to crash was秋 16, when a Boeing 737 ran into a fall in northeast Ethiopia. Thirty-one people were killed.
Today's crash was the second
one this week. A Unguana Airlines Boeing 707 crashed
near New York, killing 31.
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Are you an outstanding senior?
The 1989 Jayhawker Yearbook is currently accepting nominations for the
1989 Hilltopper Awards.
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to nominate seniors that they believe are outstanding in their academic and extracurricular activities.
Criteria for selection include:
★★ Respect of the nominee's peers as well as his or her professors.
$ \star\star $ Involvement and leadership in campus and community activities.
$ \star\star $ References that can address the quality of the nominee's service.
★ ★ A G.P.A. of about 3.0.
Nominations are due at 5:00 p.m., Friday, Oct.21, at the SUA Office in the Kansas Union or the Organizations and Activities Center, 105 Burge Union. Seniors may nominate themselves.
Applications are due at 5:00 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14, at the SUA Office in the Kansas Union or the Organizations and Activities Center, 105 Burge Union. Seniors may nominate themselves.
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MAIN ENROLLMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES SPRING 1989 (Graduate Students see page 2 of the Timetable)
(Graduate Students see page 2 of the Timetable)
CAUTIONS
- Advising and Dean's Approval Stamp Periods END EARLY. Make an appointment soon to see your advisor.
- Plan your schedule well! List a good selection of alternate courses.
- Bring signed yellow Special Permission/Approval cards for courses coded I or P!
KEY DATES
- Enrollment Card Pickup:
Oct: 20 & Oct. 21: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences;
School of Business
Oct. 24-Oct. 28: All other schools
- Advising Period:
- College of Liberal Arts an Sciences: consult the letter mailed to each student, or request duplicate on Oct. 20 or 21 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Oct. 24-Oct. 28: School of Journalism. Oct. 24-Nov. 4: All other schools Pre-professional School Co-advising: See page 2 of the Timetable
- Dean's Approval Stamp: Oct. 24-Nov. 4 All schools.
- Enrollment:
Appointments start Friday, Oct. 28. Check your enrollment card for your preassigned appointment time.
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