Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
A watchful eye
Nell McCann, Overland Park senior, said that although he was Mt apprehensive at first, he now treats ticket writing as he would any other job. McCann is one of 40 student officers at the school.
Students wield ticket books
The 40 University of Kansas students who work as ticketers for Traffic and Security know that each ticket they write is a potential five-dollar fine for someone.
That took some getting used to, they say, writing those citations comes naturally.
"The first few days you get paranoid." Becky Scott, Lawrence senior and one of the tickers, said yesterday. "After a while, though, it becomes just another job."
SARA McALLISTER, Liberal, Kan,
senior, said, "I would walk around with my
ticket book hidden. I didn't want anyone to
know what I was doing."
Scott said that working in the winter was uncomfortable and difficult, but that being outdoors kept him cool.
"I really like it in the summer, it keeps you outside and it keeps you going," she said.
It keeps her going because all student employees who ticket cars must cover their territory on foot. Two students usually receive a section of the campus at the same time.
JOIN THOMAS, director of security and parking, said students wrote almost all of the parking tickets given. The campus police write only a few, he said.
The startage waiter for a student ticketer is $2.20 an hour, with a nearly automatic raise of the fee based on the number of hours there. There is a waiting list for the ticketing jobs, and openings are given to the earliest applicants.
John Jamison, Lawrence senior and a ticketer in the mornings in X-zone, said he wrote 10 tickets Tuesday afternoon in the morning at the Library and Lindley balls and HBO auditorium.
The students said no one had become angry when he got a ticket. If anyone questions a ticket, he's referred to the Parking Services offices.
students nor faculty members were given any breaks.
THE TICKETERS said that neither
"You have to remember that if we didn't give parking violators tickets, people who pay $30 to $40 for parking spaces wouldn't have any place to park." said Scott.
Jamison said, "I'd even ticket the Chancelor if he deserved a ticket."
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second story of a two-part series examining the problems of a community within a community, North Lawrence. In Monday's Kansan, North Lawrence residents voiced their complaints and concerns about their neighborhood. City officials answer the residents.
City sees N. Lawrence's needs, officials say
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said Tuesday that neighborhood development and preservation were high priorities in city planning.
Some city officials disagree with recent
disagreement. North Lawrence residents
hike in the neighborhood on Sept. 18.
By BERNEIL JUHNKE Staff Writer
notified through the newspaper. Because the entire city was involved, sending individual letters would have been impractical, he said.
"There are definitely things we should be planning and taking care of in North Lawrence. However, we can't fund everything at once," he said.
He said that industrial areas were concentrated near the railroad and that city planners had been careful not to let industry elbow into residential areas. He said the residents had the right to request rezoning of their property.
"North Lawrence is living with the consequences of living in a railroad area,"
He said that no rezoning had been done in North Lawrence in recent years.
Muriel Paul, North Lawrence Planning Council organizer, said, "As long as it inconsistent with the city's comprehensive plan, citizens won't be able to get areas
Wildgen said he didn't think charges that the city planned to make an industrial park would be justified.
He said the city was currently trying to
He said $8,000 of this year's Community Development funds were for North Second
buy property to expand Lyons Park near Seventh Street.
Nothing has been done on the Second Street project yet, he said. The city is trying to buy right-of-way on Second Street and has paid for a study of the area, he said.
Of $529,000 available to the city in Community Development funds for the 1977 fiscal year, North Lawrence will receive $348,000; South Lawrence follows: $265,000; demolition: $100,000; housing rehabilitation; $86,000, administrative contingencies; $50,000 engineering; $15,000 survey and planning; $20,000 Lawrence; and $3,500, Far East Lawrence.
Buford Watson, city manager, said the city provided some playground equipment and a baseball diamond in Lyons Park. He also helped establish a 5-years ago, and $35,000 was used to
resurface every oil-mat street in North Lawrence in the last two weeks.
He said millions of dollars had been spent on the Kansas River levee and the Mud Creek channelization project to prevent flooding in North Lawrence.
The levee was construction after the 1951 flood that caused the evacuation of 2,000 North Lawrence residents and the loss of millions of dollars worth of property.
Wilden said a traffic light was installed at Second and Locust streets more than five years after North Lawrence residents petitioned for it. He said the State Highway Department didn't determine there was a need for it until last year.
Several North Lawrence residents are recently that neighborhood streets needed repair.
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"The city does yearly maintenance on city streets," Wilgen said.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, June 24, 1976
Angola's UN entry vetoed bv US
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)—The United States vetoed Angola's application for U.N. membership yesterday because of the "continuing presence and apparent influence of Cuban troops" in the West African nation.
U. S. representative Albert W. Sherer Jr., sitting in for Ambassador William W. Scranton who is on an African tour, cast America's 15th Council veto.
The other council members, Britain,
France, Italy, Japan, Panama, Sweden,
Pakistan, Benin, Guyana, Libya, Romania,
Sudan and Tanzania, voted for
membership.
The United States and China are the only council members that have not recognized the Popular Movement government in Angola.
The U.S. veto was its third this year and 18th since 1970. The Soviet Union has used the veto 110 times in the Security Council, the last time in 1974.
Sherer said the United States opposed Angola's U.N. entry at this time because it was not convinced the former Portuguese naval force required as a "peacekeeping state."
Proof of this, he said, is the "continuing presence and apparent influence of Cuban immigrants."
The United States also was irked by rejection of its requests to postpone the release of the book.
the convention, the issue of Angolan U.N. entry would no longer give Reagan a campaign weapon against the Ford administration.
Diplomatic sources said the Soviet Union pressed its Angolan angel to demand action on membership this week so as to embarrass the United States at the time Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is visiting the United States, Minister John Vorster of South Africa.
"unhelpfully ignore the interests of Angola to the temptations of short-term leaders"
Sherer, in an evident reference to the Soviets, criticized those who, he said.
A Cuban force estimated at 12,000 to 15,000 helped the Marxist战败 the win war over two rival Western-backed movements in Cuba became independent last November.
Most of the Cubans reportedly have stayed in Angola, Shera said. "There is no justification for such a large and armed force in a truly independent African state."
The United States reportedly indicated at an earlier closed session of the Security Council's admissions committee that if Angola agreed to wait until mid-August its chances for U.N. entry would be "maximized."
the political conventions, Foreign policy has become a major issue in the rivalry between President Ford and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan.
The Republican convention is scheduled to
begin of Aug. 16 in Kansas City.
Knowing that he is facing Republican
Struggle continues, Brown says
From his vantage point as a black who has become one of the two highest elected officials of his race in the country, George Brown, lieutenant governor of Colorado, looks at a world that has consistently oppressed blacks and sees little variation today.
Brown, who was the first black graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism, was at the University of Kansas this week to participate in the Urban Journalism Workshop at the School of Journalism to speak with Kansan reporters yesterday.
black issues paralleled struggles by blacks throughout history.
"I think that in South Africa you see the youth heading the way," Brown said. "In the early civil rights movement in this country, there are many examples of protests. They sit at the lunch counters."
Student rioting in South Africa erupted recently over the practice of requiring students to learn the Afrikaans language in schools, according to a rather learn English, perceive Afrikaans as
"They were the ones who could afford to—the older blacks had to worry about their jobs, while the students had little fear of economic reprisal."
Brown noted that certain contemporary
"I see no reason why the bees wouldn't do well in the Gulf and Southern states all the way to California," Michener said. "But if we try to get as much sun as possible by hybridize by maturing, with other strains."
Another troubling parallel Brown sees is between the harassment of the first elected black officials during the Reconstruction era, a similar harassment of black leaders today.
a symbol of oppression by early Dutch settlers in South Africa.
It's possible the bees' ferocity would be inedown if they were mixed with gentler bees when they were released.
The killer strain is native to Africa but was brought into the Brazilian because of
He cited a recent article by Carl Rowan in Ebony magazine that detailed harassment of black officials. Brown said a small part of the media contributed to that harassment.
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"I'm not accusing the media of a conspiracy," he said. "It's just that some of the media aren't accepting the responsibility for the attacks, the press and the freedom of information."
WHEN THE BEES will reach the United States depends on how well they can overcome natural barriers that slow migration, such as the northern Andes Mountains.
The bees are migrating north from Brazil at 10-20 miles a year and threaten to move into Central America, Mexico and eventually the United States. Micheler said.
African bees pose threat to US
A breeding mistake made almost 20 years ago could result in an invasion of the United States by a brand of killer bees, Charles Wentz and professor of entomology, said yesterday.
An unusually intense strain of killer bees was accidentally released by the Brazilian government after an attempt to crossbred them with a gentler strain for honey producing puposes. The African or "killer" bee produces large amounts of honey.
Michener said that the African killer bee was slightly smaller than the honeybee of this area and that its venom was the same as the honeybee's.
3 interns will be named
THE BEES developed their fierce, aggressive nature to fight predators that were constantly raiding and destroying their colonies for the honey stored there, Michener said. He said that the bees were fiercer in areas with many people, indicating that people may be responsible for their aggressiveness.
Their killer reputation derives from the bees' nervous nature. They've more easily disturbed than other bee strains, Michener doesn't attack unless they are threatened.
When disturbed, the bees secrete a chemical which communicates an alarm to the entire colony. The bees respond by attacking and stinging by the thousands.
Three administrative interns for the coming school year will be announced this week, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
its ability to produce large amounts of honey.
"If the intern is a teacher, we assign an
Eleanor Turk, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said that applicants specified administrative criteria accepted on the basis of merit. Turk said that only University employees could receive half-time positions.
The interns will be selected from University employee applicants who wish to gain administrative experience.
The intern program was set up two years ago to increase the number of women and minorities in administration.
"THE SEEN swarms of the bees in Africa and they haven't bothered me, but I was
assistant instructor or teaching assistant to take over half of his duties while he works on his internship," she said. "We reinburse all the departments somehow so the interns can concentrate on the new area.
"Most of the applicants are attempting to increase their knowledge of administrative work so they can later move into a more comprehensive job in administration. It will be a big help to many careers." she said.
In 1956, 30 of the killer queen bees were taken to southern Brazil for use in breeding experiments. A year later 26 were accidentally released. The killer bees mated with local bees, robbed them of their honey and took over their hives. The bees are now moving north into areas previously inhabited by the gender European strain.
Kurt said that the interns would not be receiving promotions but would simply devote half of their time to learning new techniques.
Shankel will meet with the other vice chancellors for advice before making the announcements.
Michener will leave on sabbatical in September to go to French Guiana, Colombia, Venezuela and Central America to bees and their effects on the environment.
MICHEREN SAID that the bee was a pervasive, "weed-like species" and that it was important to know how a species affects the environment in this way influenced the environment.
Michener wrote a book called "The Social Behavior of the Bees," published in 1974. He has studied social insects for more than 25 years and is working on another book about the biology of bees. He has organized two conferences on entomology and travelled extensively through the southern hemisphere to study bees.
'One of my objectives is to get data on
various kinds of bees to see if any have been eliminated by the African strain," he said. Michener said that the bees could affect vegetation in some areas.
"It may be that this bee is more efficient at pollinating certain plants and these plants could then take over areas and replace other vegetation," he said.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Charles Michener
Brown was the target of a scandal last year concerning misuse of state funds for traveling expenses. The charges have since been cleared up.
There also seem to be similarities in the environment KU offered to blacks when Brown was a student here 25 years ago, and the situation today.
"There weren't a great number of us," Brown said of his years at U. "I hope it improved tremendously, but some things did. Our chance indicate opportunities are still limited."
"When I was here, black students couldn't compete in sports," he said. "I played in baseball."
The Big Eight was known as the Big Six before Colorado and Oklahoma State joined them.
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IRS completes routine audit of endowment
An official from the Wichita office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is conducting a general audit of the University of Kansas Endowment Association, Todd Seymour, Endowment Association president, said yesterday.
Bill Rees, an IRS official, is conducting the audit, which will continue two or three
"Most everybody gets it (audited) at one time or another," Seymour said.
He said he thought the audit was part of a general program of IRS audits of public foundations. The Endowment Association, in which he is now, is classified as a public foundation.
IRS officials visited the Endowment
Association a month ago to discuss auditing
procedures.
The IRS office in Wichita couldn't estimate how long it would take to complete the audit. The association will receive a copy of the audit report, and must sign when the auditor has finished.
The Endowment Association is listed in the exempt organization group, which means that it is exempt from paying taxes because it is a non-profit, public foundation.