Thursday. July 20,1978
Grasshopper hordes cause local concern
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By RANDY HEILMAN
Staff Writer
Many farmers are now trying to cope with a large grasshopper population that is damaging their crops.
According to Robert Beer, professor of entomology, there are six species of grasshoppers. The grasshoppers that are causing the problem range in size from three-fourths of an inch to 3 inches in length at maturity.
Beer said that the grasshopper population would not grow because this year's hatchings was over. He did say, "We'll have to put the population would get worse before it got better."
"The damage we see we will intensify because most of the grasshoppers in the state are half grown now," he said. "The closer they get to maturation, their consume, so they already begin immature damage on the agricultural scene in Douglas County."
Farmers in Kansas have been batting the Environmental Protection Agency in an attempt to get permission to use the fertilizer, which was banned several years ago.
*Permission to use Dieldrin is so tied up in legislation that clearance to use it*
can't be obtained until December,and of course it's too late by then," he said.
Bee said that Dieldrin was a lingering chemical that would kill grasshoppers instantly. After spraying, the insecticide would be effective for several weeks.
As of now, farmers are only allowed to use chemicals that are effective for two or three days. To kill a significant number of grasshoppers, a farmer would have to spray his fields at least two times a week, Beer said.
Beer blamed what he called the mistake, for the inability of farmers to get Dieldrin.
"I THINK ONE of the dumbest things we ever did was to outlaw the use of effective insecticides," he said. "They shelved just like any medicine that is discovered. We don't outlaw the production and availability of medicine, but we do control its usage. That is what we do with effective insecticides."
Bee beer that in western Kansas, the grasshoppers were becoming mature and were able to fly. He said a dangerous predator came to colap after the green plants were eaten.
"When there is no green foliage left,
the grasshoppers have been known to eat fence posts, automobile paint and people" clothing." Beer said. "They get voracious when they get hungry."
BEEd said that there were grasshoppers on the bushes on the KU campus but that he did not expect much conspicuous damage to be done.
According to Beer, a large part of the grasshopper population would survive
long enough to lay eggs this summer, which would create a problem again next year.
"We need to do something because this is going to happen again." Beer said. "I'm an environmentalist and I don't like to see insecticides dumped on the environment, but I also a realist, and I want to pay $' for a box of Wheaties."
Title IX...
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likely attract many talented players and the ability to compete athletically with other schools would drop off. Without a competitive team, alumni interest contributions to the school's money-making television appearances and bowl would become a thing of the past.
The other alternative of providing women's sports and men's minor sports the same advantages, the administration says, is financially prohibitive.
Although the administration has not made women's athletic programs comparable to men's revenue-producing programs, both have compliance with Tide X has been made.
The budget for women's athletics has been greatly revised and expanded, from $15 million in 2014 to $75 million. Senate, to more than $75,000 for next year from student fees and state appropriations.
Students receive
Facilities for women also have improved.
The facilities are well-organised in
"Some things have been accomplished in providing facilities, but we still have a long way to go."
Shankel said he hoped that within the next month, training facilities at the hospital would be completed.
"There are now women's dressing rooms in Allen Field House and within the next few weeks there will be additional office space for women's athletic staff also in Allen."
The addition, Shankel said, is scheduled to be finished in December 1979 and it will provide another swimming pool, more classrooms and more gymnasiums.
He said KU had essentially the same facilities for 23,000 students as it had when enrollment was less than 10,000 more than 20 years ago.
Part of the increased budget for women's sports will be used for improving travelling
"And we had only one intercollegiate athletic program then," he said. "Now we have two programs—an expanded intramural program plus a greatly expanded department of health, physical education and recreation."
"We have with the budget for the current year, facilities and opportunities for travel for women athletes that are about equal to men," Shankel said.
Previously, women athletes were limited to competition within Kansas or nearby. Air travel was limited to national competition and, depending on the sport, occasionally traveled abroad.
"It was considered a big trip to go to Lincoln,NB," Tracy Spellman, student
adviser to the council of women athletics, said, "When we went to the national tennis competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we had to drive."
Pat Collinson, administrative assistant in women's athletics, said, "We don't have a designated travel amount. The amount that is spent on travel will depend on how much is spent on other things like uniforms and equipment within each sport."
The amount of money available for female camps for women athletes also has increased.
Shankel谈, "With a proposal that Clyde Walker developed, money from the Williams Educational Fund, over a course of five years, provides athletic grants in aid and will increase the number of grants in aid and will build up their scholarship program."
"There's a great deal of fuzziness about what equality of opportunity means," Shankel said. "If it's the number of sports offered, then yes, we comply. If it's equality in budgeting, then no, we don't, and neither does anyone else."
KU's decision to exclude revenue-producing sports in providing equality of opportunity is not unique among colleges and universities.
"I think what equal opportunity means is for qualified and talented women athletes to participate in intercollegiate athletics in sports of their choice, to the same degree as men athletes to participate in intercollegiate athletics in sports their choice."
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Postal talks near deadline
WASHINGTON (AP)—Contract talks intended to head off a possible strike by postal workers remained deadlocked yesterday on the question of layoffs. The negotiators reportedly refused to bend on the issue.
"They just ran into a flagman," one looks both confused.
The talks are between the Postal Service and three postal unions, which represent 540,000 workers.
effectively refused to use "They just ran into a loglam," one close source said.
Federal mediators have been attempting to find a compromise so a settlement can be made by midnight tonight, when the current three-year contract expires.
made by midnight tonight, when the current thirty-second clock time. Postal strikes are prohibited by federal law, but some local union leaders have threatened to call their members off the job if an agreement is not reached by tonight's deadline.
In response to those threats, Postmaster General William F. Balger warned postal workers Tuesday that they could lose their jobs and be convicted of a felony if they participate in a strike.
National leaders of the postal unions have refused to talk publicly about a possible strike. However, the largest of the three unions, the 300,000 member American Postal Workers Union, has agreed to take part in the strike.
jobs in scarcely educated Manuscript fields. Similarly, the current talks have been stalled since Monday night, when negotiators stopped meeting face to face because of their bitter division over a no-layoff clause in the current contract.
military personnel in the postal strike was in 1797, when about 200,000 workers walked off their jobs in previous wildest strikes, mainly on the East Coast.
Workers who federal government also has drawn up contingency plans, which include the use of military personnel to deliver mail.
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