University Daly Kansan, April 22, 1981
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Property petition vetoed by court
Those behind a referendum petition designed to restrict city acquisition of development property downtown are "unsure what to do" and want a ruling against the petition, a referendum co-sponsor said yesterday.
Douglas Country District Court Judge Ralph M. King Jr. upheld the city's contention that the petition would interfere with the city's powers and therefore could not receive a public vote under law.
The petition's co-sponsor, Richard Kerschenbaum, said that the judge's decision was "not surprising" to him. He added, "we are undecided whether to appeal it."
"We'll have to get together and decide what we're going to do," Kerschenbaum said.
The petition had sought to severely restrict the city's ability to
acquire downtown property for redevelopment, pending the city's adoption of a downtown comprehensive plan.
Kerschenbaum and other petitioners had expressed concern that inadequate safeguards existed to prevent the city's taking property for redevelopment without a specific overall goal in mine.
Kerschenbaum commented favorably, however, on the makeup of the new City Commission, which was elected two weeks ago.
"I a lot less worried about the city's future than I was two weeks ago," Kersenbaum said. "The City Commission has indicated that we are sympathetic, with our concerns, and that they're willing to work with us."
He said it was "definitely possible" that the petitioners could meet with the Commission soon, to
discuss the possibility of writing an ordinance that "would properly safeguard the rights of the property owner" and "would want to acquire his property."
"I'm pleased with the direction the new Commission is taking with regard to downtown redevelopment," he said. "It's a very open process, with consultations with the public."
really good outfit" Kersenbamba said of the Evanston, Ill. firm, which was hired by the city to draw up a comprehensive Lawrence plan.
Kerschenbaum cited last week's "listening session" involving the public, the city planning staff and the city consultant, Tska and Associates, as an example of such public input.
City planning director Garner Stoll said the plan should be completed by mid-July.
Bill simplifies budget requests
A bill to restructure the Student Senate's budget process overcame its first obstacle last night with few changes. The Finance and Auditing Committees.
By KAREN SCHLUETER Staff Reporter
Bursy told the committee last night that he had planned to continue with the investigation into funding-misuse charges against the Iranian Student Association, but that he had not been able to contact representatives of the group to inform them of the meeting.
Refusing to take a chemical test to determine how much alcohol a driver might have in his body, as U.S. Rep. Larry Winn did Monday night, can result in driver's license suspension for up to one year.
And bypassing those hearings is an unwritten policy of the Kansas Highway Patrol. Col. Carl Gray Jr., said he had been assistant superintendent of the natrol.
ALAN ALDERSON, Revenue Department attorney, said that as a rule the highway patrol officers did not hearings on the chemical test refusals.
The Student Rights Committee, however, still must consider the bill before it can be presented to the full Senate.
State law says "any person who operates a motor vehicle upon a public highway in this state shall be deemed to have been exposed to a chemical test of breath or blood..."
"The cards are stacked a little bit in favor of the guy who was arrested," Alderson said.
All the money from the summer fee is allocated to the Senate.
That especially is the case if the arresting officers would have to travel across the state to attend the hearing, and not opt to. Alderson said.
Winn, a Republican who represents Kansas' 3rd District, was arrested and briefly imprisoned late Monday for
Abbott said that since summer tuition had already been advertised, the increase could not be effective this summer. The money from the unallocated account would make up the difference for fiscal year 1982.
allegedly driving while intoxicated. A spokesman for the Kansas Revenue Department said that his department had not yet received a written notice of his arrest, and that he arrested Winn, charging that Winn refused the chemical tests.
Bren Abbott, student body vice president and one of the bill's authors, tried to introduce the bill to the Senate and first submitting it to a committee.
Aside from the DWT breathe, refusing to take the blood or breath tests is a separate charge overseeed by the state Department's Motor Vehicle Division.
TOPEKA-Kanaans arrested for drunken drive may get off the hook for refusing to take blood or breath tests if the law enforcers who arrested them fail to show up at special state hearings.
HIGHWAY PATROL TROOPERS maintain that for the Revenue Department's hearings, the sworn statement officers must write reporting that a driver refused the chemical tests should be sufficient for the state's evidence. The troopers maintain that they should not have to attend the hearing in addition to submitting the written refusal form.
The Senate voted to send the bill to the Finance and Auditing Committee and the Student Rights Committee in accordance with a rule passed last year requiring all legislation to go through committees.
"Beyond that (the refusal form) there are no circumstances the officer should be required to testify to," Gray said.
By United Press International
Merle Parks, one of three men hired by the state to conduct the Revenue Department's hearings, said that in roughly 50 percent of the hearings he conducted in eastern Kansas the arresting officer, including local and county police, did not appear at the hearing.
Drivers refuse tests, beat DWI raps
The bill, written by Abbott and Loren Busby, Finance and Auditing Committee chairman, establishes one committee to handle all budget considerations. Under the current structure, committees listen to budget requests.
Of those instances, the charge is dismissed in about 75 percent of the cases, Parks estimated.
If Winn requests the hearing, it could be 60 days before it is held.
If, for example, a Kansas City driver was arrested in Colby, the officer could waste two days traveling from his western Kansas district to the eastern Kansas hearing, Gray said. Troopers had hoped that the Legislature would change the law so that hearings would be conducted in the county of the arrest.
John Smith, chief of the department's driver control bureau, said law enforcement officials must arrest a driver before the chemical tests could be administered. Coordination tests may be administered before the arrest.
ESPECIALLY TROUBLESOME is the requirement that the arresting driver travel to the慕斯drunken driver hotel in the adjacent county for the hearing, Gray said.
Last night, Finance and Auditing voted to add a clause to the bill providing for the replacement of the committee. The clauses if members resigned during a term.
If the driver refuses to take the chemical tests, the law enforcement officer notifies the Revenue Department, which tells the driver he may request a hearing on his reasons for refusing to take the test.
A valid reason for refusing the arrest would include the assertion that the arrest was improperly made, officials said.
In other business, the committee voted to allow $3,400 to be taken from the Senate's unallocated account and given to the Senate.
During Revenue Code hearings in February, the Senate receive a $1 increase in the summer student activity fee.
It is not automatic that when an officer does not appear that the case is in evidence, Parks said, there is no evidence to use against a driver who charges the charge.
"I haven't had one (trooper) show up in about a year and a half," Parks said.
'Third World' aids unrest, prof. says
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
The Soviet Union and the United States have used Third World nations as pawn in their power-play games, creating problems in those countries, a political science professor from Warsaw, Poland, said here yesterday.
Political unrest is "the result of the frivolity of the United States and the Soviet Union," the professor, Boguslaw Krasnov, who about 20 people in the Kansas Union.
Zaleski, who is teaching at the University of Nebraska this year on exchange, focused on Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
The professor earned his doctorate in a study of the Indo-Pakistan conflict from 1947 to 1971. He has spent a year studying in India.
For example, he said the United States and the Soviet Union had been rivals in Afghanistan. But as Britain had fallen, Britain was the Soviets' rival. The two countries
have tried to outdo each other by building airports and highways in Afghanistan.
In the late 1960s Russia pulled ahead because the United States was spending its resources in Vietnam, he said.
Meanwhile, the leadership of the three countries has suffered from instability, he said. In 1977 and 1978, the year, the countries all lost their leaders.
Prime Minister Indra Gandhi lost her election in India, and in Pakistan,ziu-u-Haq seized power in a bloodlessziu-il-Haq. Nur Mohamed Taraki took the country d'eat in Afghanistan, and that country has experienced two coups since.
"It became a custom to kill former leaders," he said half-jokingly. "There is no recipe for stability."
"It is impossible to solve conflict of
Even Europe, the most stable continent in the world, is unstable, he said. He cited the conflict between the English and the Irish as an example.
Third World nations" as long as the superpowers interfere there, Zaleski said.
"Pakistan is playing a very important role in American strategy," he said. America has had military bases there since 1947.
When the United States went to war in Vietnam, he said, it created a domino effect in Cambodia and Laos.
"This situation could be repeated if America intervenes in Afghanistan," he said, adding that Pakistan could be affected.
Afghanistan is important to the Soviet Union because it is close to the Indian Ocean, he said. India is also the Soviet's ally.
China wants power anywhere, Zaleski said.
Some political forces are afraid that any more intervention in the Third World could destroy what little stability there is, Zaleski said.
Car enters restaurant
Kentucky Fried Chicken, 658 W. 23rd St., didn't have a drive-in window until yesterday afternoon, after an elderly woman accidently made one when her car crashed through the building's west wall.
Lawrence police said the woman, Beulah B. Ingle, 65, of RFD 4, Lawrence, had driven into the parking lot shortly before 1 p.m., and was pulling into a parking stall when her car came from the brake onto the accelerator.
The car lunged forward, knocking out a wall support beam and stopping in the restaurant's dining area, causing $5,000 to $8,000 damage.
Damage to Ingle's car was minimal, police said.
No one was seriously injured in the crash, but one customer, Carolyn J. Courtney of Overland Park, received a minor knee injury. She was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Three KU students who were sitting in front of the window that the car plunged through escaped unhurt.
"I just saw things flying, and then I saw Kay fall to the floor, and Deb was kind of pushed to the other side," Cassie said. "Kansas City, Kan., sobsagp, said."
Sitting with Strimple were Kay M. Brennels, Lenexa sophomore and Debbie Jones, Leavenworth freshman.
If the three had picked the booth directly across from the window, Strimple said, they would have ended underneath the car.
Inside she received a "banded-up leg" and was shaken up. She said did not eat at the restaurant very often, but she did eat at the restaurant she probably would not eat there again.
Striimple, unlike Ingle, plans to return to collect a free meal, replacing the one destroyed in the crash.
Police said no charges were filed against Ingle.
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University-Community Service Scholarship/Award
As a result of the efforts of many students on the evening of April 20, 1970 in the saving of furniture, art objects and invaluable service to firefighters during the Kansas Union fire, some insurance carriers decided to present to the Kansas Union a cash gift. After presentation of the gift, it was suggested that the Student Union Activities Board seek those students deserving of being awarded scholarship/awards from the interest on the gift.
Qualifications
- Regularly enrolled students at the University of Kansas at the time of application (spring term) and at the time of the receipt of the award (fall term).
- Service to the University and/or the Lawrence community.
- Scholarship, financial need and references will be of minimal consideration in application reviews.
Applications
- Applications must be received by 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 28, 1981 in the SUA office, Kansas Union. Interviews to be held April 29, 1981.
- More information and applications available in the SUA office, Kansas Union.