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Wednesday, February 22, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Aimless tracks
Although most of the snow has been cleared from campus sidewalls, some people still prefer to forge paths freestyle. The jumbled tracks seen from the top floor of Haworth Hall yesterday showed that some people still did not think that a straight line was the shortest distance between two points.
Shoplifting
stances had cases been taken beyond the deans' offices to the county prosecutor's
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FERGUSON SAID that there was not any reason that one bookstore had not directly contacted them.
the 'neans' offces felt that they could take care of the situations, generally by putting them on probation and by putting them on probation for a period of time and having them report back to their staff, we could control the situation, and so we could feel that we were in the business of prosecuting.
However, Brock said that if a particular
theft was clearly intentional, she thought
it was probably intentional.
"If there is no fear of being apprehended, it's going to increase the shoplifting, which we can prevent."
If a shoplifter is prosecuted, the penalties for the crime can be harsh.
Colt Knutson, Lawrence city prosecutor, said shoifilling was punishable in two ways—as a violation of city ordinance and of state law.
UNDER THE city ordinance, a theft of $50 or less is a misdemeanor and can be tried as ptery larceny in court. The crime is defined by the fine of $100 or 30 days in the city jail or both.
Under the state law, a theft of $0 or less is a Class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine not to exceed $2,500 and a jail term of one year. That excess $0 are a Class D  felony under state law and are punishable by a fine not to exceed $2,500 and a jail term of one and 10 years under state penitentiary.
Brock said besides cracking down on prosecuting shifftakers, the bookstores must be able to deal with arrangements of the physical layout of the store is one way to do that, Brock said. She said she already had rearranged some areas of the Union bookstore to help discourage thefts.
BROCK SAID A cash register had been placed near the pen and pencil section to help employees watch that area of the store. The pen and pencil being stolen from the bookstore each day.
Art and engineering supplies are a prime target for shipfilters, she said.
--service and a cash register to that part of the store.
That department of the Union bookstore is now self-service. Bruck stock was sold at the union store on Friday with an addler clerk
Bookstore employees have been instructed to ask anyone they suspected of shoplifting whether the person had forgotten to pay for the merchandise before appeal, Frock said. She said that gave the customer every possible chance to protect himself.
One cashier who has worked at the Union bookstore seven years said she stopped a shoplifter in the bookstore last week. She was arrested with 10 to 15 pencils without payment for them.
SHE SAID she asked the man whether he had forgotten to pay for the pencils, and he returned to the cash register and paid for the items.
"If I see 'em, I'm going after 'em," she said.
A cashier supervisor who has worked in the store 16 years said she recently had caught shoplifters three consecutive nights. One incident involved a woman who was trying to take more T-shirts than she actually was paying for.
"I was kind of embassed, but I wasn't
'about to let her get away with it,' she said.
Increased customer service and employee training also would help deter shoppers, Brock said. She said she had started limited programs with a few of the training programs could not be started until she bad finished putting together a new supervisory staff.
Brock said she would like to have a student security force trained to watch for them.
BEFORE INSTITUTING such a program, however, Brock said she would have to feel sure she would have student loan debt. Kansas Union Memorial Corporation Board.
"there's no sense starting a program that's not going to have teeth to it," she said.
However, Robert Havel, a Justice Department spokesman, has said that Gen. Torrijos has never been a target of investigation.
The purported involvement of members of the Torjira family in drug smuggling has been brought up in current debate over the Panama Canal treaties.
in washington, the Senate was told by its intelligence committee yesterday that Gen. Torrijos knew officials of his government were engaged in drug trafficking but that there was no conclusive evidence that he was involved himself.
Torrijos is Panama's ambassador to Spain.
Brock worked at the bookstore at the State University of New York at Buffalo and then
YEWORK (AP)—A six-year-old federal indictment unsealed daily accuses the brother of Panama's chief of state and president of pounds of heroine into the United States.
U. S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein ordered the indictment against Moises Torrijos, Gen. Omar Torrijo's brother, unsealed after U.S. Attorney David Trager said the facts it contained had become public knowledge.
Existence of the indictment was disclosed last year, but a Justice Department source said it had never been unsealed because he had never returned to the United States.
WHOSE DECISION?
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Joseph Califano personally opposes abortion. Congress collectively opposes abortion. Califano administers the stringent new abortion laws which provide funds to terminate pregnancies only if a woman's life is in danger, there were no injuries or deaths, there was not rape or rage. An incest or rape victim must be forced to attack either a law enforcement agency or government-affiliated clinic within sixty days. She does not need to sign an agreement she was attacked and is not required to sign an agreement. So poverty
The indictment contained three counts: possession of heroin, smuggling it into this country from Panama and conspiracy in its identification, unindicted co-conspirators.
Indictment accuses brother of Torrijos of heroin smuggling
On October 1, 1978, HEW certified its first fatality of a Medicaid patient dying from a septic infection after being funded for proper heparin treatment, a 27-year-old man who was hospitalized with the McAleen, a broken arm number 26 suffering an amputation and jaundice, after a brutal blood infection caused by a $450 Mexican abortion. She did a week later. Earlier that month, the woman, who had a Medicaid care team complaining about her condition, was named that Medicaid-funded abortions were no longer available since federal money was officially cut off on August 4, a few weeks before her forced rescue care. She was an unknown Mexican town found an abortionist and her death.
Now, factions in the Kansas legislature, in concert with the aims of hard-lobbying national groups like the John Birch Society, are calling for a "back to school" state back gate for abortions, implement minimum compliance with federal standards, amend the U.S. Constitution to recognize a focus as having civil rights under attack, and give states additional powers to aid fit the aims of various conservative organizations (anti-abortion)-like people, for one and with a little luck repairing what has been broken. Thirteen states have approved a thirteen more are needed.
The Federal and State Affairs Committee of the Kansas House of Representatives is now considering these issues.
CHAIRPERSON—Hon. Ardena Matlack COMMITTEE MEMBER—Hon. Lloyd Buzzi
Contact them at the House of Representatives Chamber, Third Floor State House. To appoint your witness, please call 181 B Union Hall, 405 Wescoe Street and write a postcard
PERTINENT BILLS; H.R. 273, 3059, 594 3053, 3103
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managed the bookstore at Boise State years before coming to KU.
While at BSU, she instituted what she said was the first all-student security force in the city.
Brock said that besides observing from floor level, students watched for shoplifters through elevated mirrors and from security cameras. She said the students can communicate by telephone from the towers. She said students who participated in the program also helped to build the
THE FIRST YEAR she was there, Brock said, the thefts were cut from $0,500 to $2,000. Brock implemented the student security system and by theft we decreased to $5,000, he said.
Brock said she would not favor television surveillance systems to watch for shoplifers in KU bookstores because of her reputation and equipment at the bookstore in Buffalo.
"The manager there elected to put in a very extensive internal television surveillance," she said. "It was horrendously expensive and utterly useless.
"It almost made a game with the students who were shopping. It was not really the type of system that I thought I would like."
Brock said that when she got to Boise she thought of using students rather than cameras or uniformed policemen to patrol the stores.
Brock also questioned the worth of television equipment because she said the tapes were not admissible in court as evidence.
"I FELT that well-trained students could deal with other students on a one-to-one basis."
Brock said the program, which students had helped to design, worked because it was backed by the administration and was well advertised in the student newspaper.
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