THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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The University of Kansas
Tuesday February 14,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
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Snowstorm causes vacation
EDITOR'S NOTE: Coverage of the snowstorm was compiled from stories filed by a group of Kansan reporters yesterday. They are: Pam Manson, Allen Holder, Robert Beer, Carol Hunter, Nancy Crawford, Rob Hunter, Rob Hagan and Melissa Thompson.
"Classes at the University of Kansas resumed today after a 'once-in-a-decade' blizzard dumped 12 inches of snow on students, forcing a one-day vacation for students.
Cancellor Archie R. Dykes said last night that he made the decision to cancel classes yesterday because of the overall snow, which is the depth of the snow and hazardous roads.
Dykes he did he did not yet know if students would have to attend classes an extra day to make up for yesterday's holiday. Students are required to attend class a certain number of days each semester, but Dykes said he did not know if yesterdays cancellation would not KU arrangement the minimum attendance requirement
Classes were last canceled Feb. 23, 1971.
See related stories and picture page three.
but only for a half day. Raymond Nichols was chancellor at the time.
The blizzard that hit Lawrence Sunday night was a once-in-a-decade occurrence, Joe Eaglerman, professor of geography and meteorology, said yesterday.
"USUALLY THIS KIND of storm starts developing over Kansas and moves to the east before it gets bad," Eagleman said. "I once seen a storm like this since the early 60s."
Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence Unified School District 497 and many Lawrence businesses were closed because of the storm.
While KU students in Lawrence spent yesterday's holiday wading through snowdrifts and dodging snowballs, their counterparts at the University of Kansas Medical Center trudged to class—at least them did.
About 60 percent of the students in the School of Medicine made it to classes at the Med Center, James Lowman, dean of the School of Medicine said.
"BY THE TIME we got to the School of Medicine, they were already into their 8 o'clock classes," Lowman said. "If things were, we might not have classes tomorrow."
Students in the School of Allied Health and the School of Nursing got the day off, he said. The decision to cancel classes for students at the schools was made independently.
Police reported no serious accidents yesterday because of poor road conditions.
years later because or poor road conditions. However, the Lawrence Street Department, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Kansas Turnpike Authority reported many motorists stuck in the snow.
The Lawrence Police Department said that the main streets of Lawrence were in fairly good shape. However, most of the roads had not been cleared of snow, they said.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported no major accidents. They said that K-10 was closed and that the other highways around Lawrence were slick and hazardous.
FACILITIES Operations workers at KU started spreading sand and clearing snow on the campus.
About 25 facilities employees worked through the night trying to clear the streets by 6 a.m. morning 50 am. After breakfast from snow on campus streets and sidewalks
Richard Perkins, associate director of property maintenance, said the campus will be able to
"The drifts of snow have been cleared off by tractors with blades," he said. "There's still a layer of snow and ice covering the streets, but they're relatively clean."
Jim Mathes, assistant director of land maintenance, who is in charge of snow removal at KU, said that facilities workers had stopped spreading sand Sunday evening because the snowfall was too heavy.
"THE SAND doesn't do any good underneath the snow." Mathes said. "All we can do now is keep shoveling the streets and sidewalks. We've dusted some sidewalks three or four times to keep them clear."
Mathes said some employees were sent home yesterday afternoon so they could attend school.
"Hopefully the wind will die down, and we won't have trouble with blowing snow and snowdrifts," he said. "We're going to get some of the parking lots cleared tonight."
A spokesman at the Lawrence Street Department said city employees had started clearing street at midnight. He said about seven tractors scraping the streets.
The city closed 11th, 12th and 13th streets from Tennessee to Louisiana streets
The city has been collecting the snow in trucks and dumping it in empty fields
See BLIZZARD page nine
Staff Photos by ELI REICHMAN
Leisure and labor
Although as much as one foot of snow fell in some areas of Lawrence, students like Dean Woolsey, Topach sophomore (above), took advantage of the heavy snowfall. However, luck was not on Woolsey's side in his run down Potter Lake hill, or with Chester Wilks and Bob Sheard (both) who were stuck with the nasty dust of cleaning up the campus.
Students pursue day-off activities
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
Staff Writer
Debra McDaniel lost her car Sunday night.
McDaniel, Kansas City, Kan., senor,
upwake after morning to find that her
furious neighbor was having a
Unable to get out of her courtyard in Kansas City, McDaniel gave up trying to get to classes and spent the day at home. The University of Kansas had been canceled.
Grubbaugh said she expected to make a decision about the postponement sometime
Student Senate, class officer and student body president elections may be postponed because of yesterday's snowfall. Jill Chairman Committee Chairman said yesterday.
Snow throws elections into limbo
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow and
thursday in the Kansas University lobby,
Weschel Hall cafeteria on the fourth floor.
Visit our booth and second floor Summerfield Hall
better. Susan Winslow, Lawrence graduate
If voting does take place as planned tomorrow and Thursday, the poll schedules will be announced.
Thursday only, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Learned Hall.
Tomorrow only. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Fraser Hall lobby.
Tomorrow night, 5 to 7 in Lewis,
Thursday night, 5 to 7 p.m. at McCollim Hall, Pi Delta Theta, Douthart Hall, Ellsworth Hall, Joseph R. Pearson Hall, Delta Delta Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, GSP-Corbin Hall, Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Kappa.
7:30 to 9 p.m. at Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa
Phi Kappa, Phi Kappa Gamma
and Chi Omega
Students must have an identification card with a 1978 spring enrollment sticker on the back.
Ballots will be counted Thursday in the Hawk's Nest of the Union after polls are closed. Grubbaugh said she hoped to have some of the results by 2 a.m. Friday.
Naismith, Sellards and GSP-Corbin halls and in Jawahayer Towers.
student, said that four-foot froats had buried her Honda car. Although she tried to dig it out, she was not able to dig out the snow beneath it so that the car could be moved.
Complaints about the election and polling procedures will be accepted by the Senate.
Winslow didn't get to campus, either.
Not all KU students spent their unexpected vacation at home. The slopes around campus were covered with students celebrating a day without classes.
AT LEAST 50 students gathered at Potter Lake yesterday. They came with trays, plastic cushions, pieces of cardboard and, in a few cases, with sleds.
They slid down alone or in chains. When sliding down forward got boring, they went further down and locked their feet.
At the intersection of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard, a seven-foot mound of snow piled by snow plows clearing the street provided a quicker start for sledders.
Carl Rossetti, Lawrence sophomore, was on his way to the library when he was at school.
Rosetti said that he would eventually get to the library, but that he wasn't sure when.
Most of the sledders said they had been on the slopes for at least an hour, and most said they had seen no signs of snow.
OTHER STUDENTS didn't need slets or slopes.
Rosetta said that as many as 20 student shelders had formed a chain down West 14th and East 15th.
Three men clung to a rope tied to the tie of a car and were pulled around Campanile Drive, providing all of the excitement of a sled ride without the hill.
Another student borrowed his friend's a skis and practiced cross-country skiing down Jaya Mountain.
Not all the activity was outside. Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, said that every booth was full yesterday afternoon.
Wallace said students were traying down West 14th Street and stopping in for a few beers when they reached the bottom of the hill.
Some students spent the night inside, but not necessarily at home. Stephen Strangelove, Ballwin, Mo., senior, spent the night tintique in the visual arts building.
But the same snowfall that provided the fun yesterday caused problems for students
STRANGLOVE said that his car was on campus, but that he lived in Jefferson County and had decided against trying to drive home.
TOPEKA-Marijuana decriminalization would only invite a generation of social misfits and genetically defective babies, a Senate committee was warned yesterday.
Kansas Senate debates pot laws
BY DIRCK STEIMEL
However, supporters of marjana decriminalization in Kansas said the charges against the drug were groundless as the state to deal realistically with marjana.
He also said he probably would not go to the cabin where the snow quit and the roads became passable.
Staff Writer
The bill, which is sponsored by State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, would classify a conviction of possession of less than one hundred pounds as a felon and would set a maximum fine of $100.
The marjuana decriminalization hearing was held yesterday in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee. Committee action on the bill is expected later this week.
William Abbott, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, told the committee he supported the concept of the bill because Kansas law enforcement agencies were wasting the state's time and money on minor marriana cases.
See DAY-OFF page nine
BECAUSE THE current penalties, which provide for a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $2,500 fine (not an interest), will be issued if the law is not adherent to pariade rules.
Kith Steph, director of the National Organization of Marijuana Reform laws, said he had used marijuana for 10 years and continued to be his father and mother.
"I don't think I'm a hazard to society like a bank robber or something," he said.
Leading the debate for the opposition was Gabriele Nahas, a research professor from Germany.
Nahas told the Senate committee that marijuana use causes damage to the lungs and brain and has reduced the amount of sperm cells in male test subjects.
"IT IS not a harmless drug," Nahas said.
"It is harmful particularly to the future of
"I don't see how I could ever support a bill promoting marijuana use, especially with the evidence of the damage to the sperm cells." Crofoot said.
this country. If this country is to remain in a leadership position in the world it must retain two things—the brain condition and reproductive capacity."
State Sen. John Croef, R-Cedar Point, a member of the committee, said he was against the decriminalization bill because it would increase the impression that marijuana use was okay.
The only way he would support a marijuana decriminalization bill, Crofof said, would be as prescription use for glaucoma patients.
Some physicians have used marijuana to relieve excess pressure on the eye, which
"Nobody has ever seen me that marijuana is any worse than liquor or cigarettes," Allegrucq said. "If it is proved to be physically harmful, then it should be handled as a health problem rather than a legal problem."
HOWEVER, STATE Sen. Don. Allegruci, D-Pittsburgh, said Glover's bill was the best way to handle the small possession offender who is charged with not go on the offender's record as a felony.
Allegrucci said he had been involved in many marijuana cases as both a prosecutor and a defending attorney. The present law is not a deterrent because it is almost never enforced, he said, and it doesn't even touch dealers.
Neither Alleluacci or Crofton could predict how the bill would do in committee.
Last year the House passed a similar bill calling for a misdeem penalty for the first two convictions of possessing less than one ounce. The Senate tried, but failed, to amend the bill on the floor to allow only one offense before a felony was charged.
Later the House bill was sent back to the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
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Miller
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Canada bills Soviets for satellite
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Locally...
Elections for student body president and vice president start tomorrow. Only two teams will be on the ballot, but they have very different philosophies regarding the president's and vice president's roles. The independent team, Jane Calacci and David Parris, say they want to build next year's Student Senate. Instead, they want the joint condition team, Mike Harper and Robinson, say they want to finish the current administration will leave undone. *stories page five*