The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, July 23, 1981
Vol. 91, No. 159 USPS 650-640
State faces reapportionment
Staff Reporter
By MARC HERZFELD Staff Reporter
One person, one vote. The principle of democratic representation seems simple, but making U.S. congressional districts conform to that principle is not an easy task.
The Kansas Legislature will have that difficult task next year. It will try to change current district boundary lines so that each of Kansas' five congressional districts have an equal population and the district boundaries do not slice through too many county and city lines.
Douglas County is currently in the 3rd District, which includes Johnson and Franklin counties and part of Wyandotte County. But according to Buffalo Watson, Lawrence city manager, at the district must be taken out of the 3rd District to ensure equal population distribution in each district.
Kansas' five congressmen have agreed on a plan that would reduce the population of the 3rd District but would also place Lawrence and County in the 8th District in southeast Kansas.
However, at a meeting yesterday afternoon in Lawrence with the Kansas Legislature committee studying reapportionment, Watson said of Lawrence wanted to stay in the 3rd District.
City Commissioners Tom Gleason and Donald Binnis agreed with Watson that Lawrence had far more in common with the Kansas City Baptist Southeast Kansas communities in the 5th District.
Binns told the state legislators, "I would say that 98 percent of the people in this city do not want to change from the 3rd District. I think we need a great deal of attention to what the people want."
State Sen. Elwane Pomeroy, R-Topeka, told Binns that the U.S. Supreme Court had placed a higher emphasis on equality of population than on common interests among communities.
State Rep. John Sobach, D-Lawrence, said the Legislature had set a goal of no more than 159 percent deviation in population between states, which translates into fewer than 780 people.
DAVID BERKOWITZ, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee, said the University of Kansas should be considered in any reapportionment for the 3rd
Gleason agreed with Berkowitz and said that the plan to place Lawrence in the 5th District would mean that KU's main campus and the KU campus would be represented by different congressmen.
Third District REP. Larry Winn, R-Overland told Winn that "we want to lose [Larry Winn] from midfield."
Dick Bond, Winn's press secretary, said, "Some people say Larry Winn wants to get rid of Lawrence and Douglas County because it's too expensive." The judge hurt him a great deal to lose Douglas County."
However, Winn did approve the plan that would place 1 insurance in the 6th District.
Fifth District Rep. Bob Whittaker, R-Augusta,
said that he would like to represent Lawrence.
"Frankly, I would welcome the challenge of representing Douglas County." Whittekae said.
Myrne Row, aide to 4th District Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Wichita, said Whitaker would benefit from Lawrence's proximity to the media centers in Kansas City and Topeka.
The congressmen's map has no legal weight because the job of redistricting is the
Legislature's. The governor could veto the Legislature's plan, and that plan could also be overruled in federal court.
The committee yesterday also reviewed other plans in addition to the congressmen's proposed map. One plan would place Douglas County in the 2nd District with Topeka and Manhattan.
Gleason said the 2nd District would be acceptable, though not as desirable as remaining in the 3rd District.
However, Alan Hill, East Shawnee County Republican ward chairman, said people in the 2nd District did not want to add Lawrence and Walker already contained Kansas State University.
"We already have one of the two major educational centers in the state in our district. This would cause an age inbalance in our voting population." Hill said.
State Sen. Jack Steinerg, D-Kansas City,
mentioned the placement of placing only part of
the city in the 2013 election.
State Rep. Joe Hoagland, R-Overland Park,
agreed with Steineringer that Douglas County could
"You're either going to have to split Douglas County or Wyandotte County," Hoagland said.
Both Wyndotte and Sedgwick counties are split now, and Steineger said that Johnson County might be split in next year's reappointment.
Steiniger said that dividing Johnson County would be fairly easy because it contained 22 cities, and that the split could follow city boundary lines to avoid splitting cities.
"No one county should be so dominant in a district," Steiner said.
The state legislative committee will try to give the Legislature a recommendation by early next year.
Students freed
Rv CHRISTODD
Staff Reporter
Three University of Kansas students and the 5-year-old daughter of one of the students were freed Tuesday morning by law enforcement officials after being held captive by a 36-year-old man for more than 24 hours, according to Dickinson County Sheriff Dale Ogran.
The suspect, Gilbert Mason, 2531 Redbud Ln., Apt. 25, was apprehended around 11 a.m. Tuesday when he stopped his car in front of a road block near Upland, Kan., where he had taken the victims and held them hostage, Ogran said.
MASON WILL BE charged tomorrow morning in Dickinson County Court and enter
The three students, who Dickinson County officials said were 29, 22 and 20 years old, told Ogran that the met Mason in Lawrence last weekend and accepted his offer to take them to Las Vegas on a pleasure trip via his airplane, which he said he kept near Uland.
Mason and the four victims left Lawrence for Upland at about 7 a.m. Monday, according to Ogran. Shortly after leaving Lawrence, Mason pulled a gun on the victims and told them that if they failed to cooperate or follow orders he would kill them.
Mason then drove the victims to the Upland area and continued to drive up and down roads near Upland until Monday night, when he marked the car near an abandoned house
and forced the victims to sleep in the car, Ogran said.
During the hours in the car, according to Ogran, Mason said that his father was involved in a $$ million heroin deal with the Mafia.
ON TUESDAY MORNING according to victims' accounts, Mason said he was changing his plans and that he wanted to go to Junction City to find a plane.
Mason then took the twenty-year-old student as a hostage and left the other students and the child at the abandoned house, telling them that he would kill his宿位 if they tried to contact police or law enforcement officials. Oran said.
Shortly after Mason and the hostage left for Junction City, the other two students ran to a farmhouse near the abandoned house and contacted Dickinson County Sheriff officials.
The officials in turn notified Junction City police about Mason's location according to Ortega.
before reaching Junction City, however,
Mason's car was spotted by a Dickinson
County deputy sheriff, who informed Ogran
deputies of the deputies of the car's
location and direction.
Ogran then set up a roadblock near Junction City, and was waiting for Mason and his hostage who were speeding toward the pursuit at 80 to 90 mph, with the deputy in pursuit.
Ogran said that as soon as Mason saw the roadblock and the deputy closing from behind, he slowed down, threw his hands out and surrendered both himself and the hostage.
Participants in KU's Museum of Natural History summer workshop identify fish caught in their net at Deer Creek. The workshops began June 1 and will continue until July 31.
U.S. Senate bill threatens recent feminist gains
By TIM ELMER
A recent bill sponsored by Osmr. G. Hatch, R-Uah, represents a potentially serious setback to women's rights, Helene Lecar, senior counsel for the Protection of Equal Rights, said Monday.
The bill, which is co-sponsored by seven Republican senators, attempts to restrict the recumbent.
Staff Reporter
"THE BILL WILL be a disaster as far as women's rights are concerned, particularly in higher education, because of the severe restrictions embodied in the bill," she said.
The Department of Education now interprets the Title IX law of the Education Amendments of 1972 to require that educational institutions must not discriminate against women, Lecar said.
The law prohibits discrimination against women even in university programs that do not
themselves get direct federal funding, such as some congressional forayes aboard.
HATCH'S BILL would restrict Title IX rights to women in three ways, she said.
Second, the bill would explicitly restrict the scope of the act to students only. Under present law, all women, including teachers and administrators, are protected by the law, she said.
Third, the bill would exclude Title IX rights from those students who receive federal aid in the form of scholarships, grants, loans and wages. In other words, only students paranoid about receiving federal aid would be protected by the Title IX law. Lear said.
The bill would affect not only colleges and universities across the nation, Lecar said, but also all elementary and secondary schools as well.
First, Title IX and its accompanying regulations would apply only to programs that receive direct federal aid in the form of grants, loans or contracts.
Federal aid to poor children,to school lunch
programs and many other programs now qualifies teachers, administrators and students in elementary and secondary schools for Title IX from discrimination against women, she said.
A high school girl who might not be allowed to take a shop course traditionally limited to males would have a means of redress under the Title IX law if the course were funded with federal money, but would not have the same rights in the state. If the course not funded with federal funds, she said.
The application of Sen. Hatch's bill to real-life situations would lead to lucidous results. Lecarars
JED RICHARDSON, professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Relations, who initiated the bill in that committee of which Senator Hatch is chairman, said the rights of the Title IX law had been extended far beyond the original intent of the law.
"Women's groups have been attempting to use the 1X as a leverage to get everything they want," said Rachel J. Mills, an assistant professor of physical therapy.
to be a sex-equity law. That was not the intent of the law."
The original intent of the law was to prohibit sex discrimination in the awarding of federal funds to people participating in specific programs for which the money was granted, he said.
See HATCH page six
Aquatic class involves kids
By MARTHABRINK
Staff Reporter
Shouting questions, the children waded eagerly into the cool water to catch crayfish,
Deer Creek, west of Lawrence on U.S. High way 40, was alive and splashed yesterday with 16 students and two instructors from the aquatic biology summer workshop for children.
"WHAT KIND OF minnow is this?" one student asked. "And is this a snail shell?"
"Do you want a dead fish?" another child called out.
The week-long workshop is one of 24 sponsored by the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. During the week, students take three days to observe the museum and watch films about ponds and streams.
The children gathered at Deer Creek agreed.
The workshop lessons focus on fish, aquatic insects and plants. However, the students were mainly interested in the fish, said Owen T. Smith, graduate student and a workshop instructor.
"Fish are more exciting and are easy to catch," said Megan Gellat, 11.
While others watched, several students stretched a wide net across the creek. Neda Ulaby, 10, said her job was to make the fish swim into the net.
"I have to scare the fish," she said. "So I just dance along in front of the net."
THE STUDENTS FILLED buckets with their fish and snacks in an aquarium with the same species of fish, using the items
The aquatic biology workshop was one of the most popular, said Ruth Gennitzch, director of
"When else can you get wet or go swimming in clothes without your mother getting mad at you?"
According to Gennich, the workshops are intended to expose children to a variety of subjects.
"Of course, we hope they retain what they learn," she said. "But mainly, we want to say 'Hey, look at all these neat things that can be found in nature.'"
The workshop cost between $15 and $25. Schedules and equipment are financed entirely by the fee.
REGISTRATION FOR THE workshops in april, and all classes have been filled for many years.
The workshops are also sponsored by KU's Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, Snow Entomological Museum, the University of Florida Museum and the Museum of Arthropology.
The other workshop topics include: beetles, bees and bugs; forest and prairie plants; the cosmos; wonders of the human body; and microcomputing.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be southeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Toulleant will be at 40 percent chine-
se. Toulleant will be the 8th high
tomorrow will be in the 8s.