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Monday, February 11, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Coyote Sport for Guns and Poison
By CRAIG STOCK
Kenan Staff Reporter
His appearance isn't very impressive—he usually weights less than 35 pounds, his cushion is frequently加大 and he has that sty look you usually associate with used car
But despite his unrepressiveness appearance, the coyote (Coyota latisrans), a cousin of the wolf, has stirred up an impressive amount of interest.
In 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of the most popular
coyote poison, Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M-44, spring-loaded tube containing sodium hydroxide, which was then banned for several years in Kansas.
"THEY'RE NOT NECESSARY." E. Raymond Hall, professor emeritus of zoology said yesterday. "I don't see any need for the use of that kind of thing at all."
Hall said the indiscriminate use of poisons was the result of poor management techniques used by sheep growers, who have found it easier to exterminate
predators than to tend their flocks carefully.
The Environmental Protection Agency, however, agreed last month to permit the use of the M-44 cyanide gun on private land. The department later released December that he opposed this relaxation of the ban on poisons because the sheep ranchers had a record of callous disregard for wildlife. The slaughter of scores of 772 sheep in 1972 is an example of this disregard, he said.
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A POLITICAL SCIENCE and speech- human relations major, Hunter is a Carl Erickson scholar and member of the Owl Society. He is president of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of the Interfraternity Council.
Beisner and Hunter acknowledge that they have been called the status quo element in the election, and that some people have expressed about the purity of their coalition.
"The purpose of the coalition," says Hunter, "is to make it so the Student Senate is not a joke, to make more people more involved."
"The intention," Beiser says, "of putting (the Unicamp coalition) together was to bring people from all over the campus, participateomen, into the decision process."
It isn't a political machine, Beasner says. Candidates running on the Unicamp coalition have their own platforms, which are geared to their own constituencies, he
BEISNER AND HUNTER'S platform centers on three main issues: academic policies, Security and Parking reform and Affirmative Action.
They advocate revamping the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences undergraduate advising system. They propose an investigation of the existing system by a senate committee, which would suggest alternatives such as paid upperclass advisers within the Colleges-within-the College.
THE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE requirement should be reduced, say Beisner and Hunter, and funds now given to the Department of Education needled to other, more popular departments.
Re-evaluation of the Intensive English Center and other foreign-student services is another part of the Beisser-Hunter platform. They propose establishing a committee to study international student problems.
The Security and Parking Department's system of ticketing, of appealing tickets and of budgeting should be studied by a task force. Beiser and Hunter say.
THE TASK FORCE would be given a time limit in which to study and recommend alternatives to the Security and Parking budget.
Beisner favors reinstating the initial
ruses kill any animal in contact with them, not just the coyote, Hall said. The continued use of poisons by ranchers prevents many valuable furbearing animals from re-establishing their populations, he said.
warning ticket and changing the fee for violations from $ to $5. He would also like to see a one-stop, pay-later appeals system established.
Beisner and Hunter also advocate appointing a senate coordinator for Affirmative Action to find and bring into the senate qualified women and minority students; assuring equality for women's intercollegiate athletics; and reestablishing Operation Escort to improve pittsfield campus security.
THE PLATFORM ALSO recommends that the senate work toward setting up a formal advisory board to assist in the KU budget-making process.
Beasner says he and Hunter have spent about $300 on their campaign so far.
COYOTES AREN'T a big problem in Kansas and Douglas County, according to Earl Van Meter, Douglas County agriculture extension agent.
According to Van Meter, there were 12 complaints about livestock losses to coyotes in Douglas County last year. He said that when a complaint was received, the state wildlife control agent was notified. If the agent is too busy to handle the complaint, local coyote hunters are then asked to kill the problem coyote.
Although bounties on coyotes were outlawed several years ago, the Wildlife Damage Control Handbook, prepared by the cooperative extension service at Kansas State University, has been hunted as a sport in Kansas. Methods used, according to the handbook, include trap-
reviewed. Docking has recommended increases of 7.4 per cent for educational programs, 8 per cent for the physical plant, 6 per cent for the Kansas Geological Survey, 3.5 per cent for research and 6 per cent for extension.
Other requests that were cut by the governor and that will probably be discussed are funds for women's in-patient equipment and building and street repairs.
ping, hunting with dogs (sometimes involving the use of airplanes or trucks as spotters) and hunting from blinds after calling the coyotes.
In previous years, the University's budget was presented to the Senate Ways and Means committee. The procedure was changed this year to improve the efficiency of the committee procedure and to allow subcommittees of three and four men to visit each of the regents' schools to see firsthand what the schools needed were.
ALFRED VAN METER of 1119 Delaware, huns coyotes almost every week. He said there are many coyotes in the Douglas area, but there is also "an awful lot" of hunters.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Keith L Mitcher, vice chancellor for business afairs, and John Conard, assistant to the chancellor, will present justifications for reinstatting items that were deleted from the Rigent's requests by Gov. Robert Docking.
Kansas University administrators are appearing before the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee this afternoon in Topeka to review the University's 1975 budget before it is presented to the full legislature.
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Robert Hoffman, professor of systematics and ecology, said that although coyotes weren't in any danger of extinction, there shouldn't be attempts to exterminate them.
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Van Meter sells the pelts of the coyotes he shoots. Pelts in good condition usually sell for about $10, he said, although some turs have been sold for sale because of their mangy condition.
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The top priority item is a 10 per cent increase in faculty salaries requested by the Kansas Board of Regents for all six state universities. Docking proposed an 8.8 per cent increase.
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Coyotes occasionally attack livestock and a farmer has a right to defend his livestock, Hoffman said, but the indiscriminate use of poisons was wrong.
A requested 10 per cent increase in general operating expenditures will also be
Administrators to Justify Increases in KU Budget
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