The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, April 22, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 137 USPS 650-640
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansen staff
A car driven by Beulah Ingle caused extensive damage to the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on 23rd street yesterday, outlawing a support column shattering windows and damaging several tables. Police said her foot apparently slipped on the brake and hit the accelerator while she was parking.
Winn unsure of arrest's implications
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Rep. Larry Winn said yesterday that he had not had enough time to evaluate the political implications of his arrest Monday night for allegedly driving while drunk.
"I can't see that it has, or hasn't had any implications," Winn, a 61-year-old Overland Park Republican, said. "I'm sure there will be some repercussions, there's bound to be."
Even though Winn said he had misguided the effect of drinking and admitted, "It's not very wise to drink."
Winn, a 15-year veteran of Congress, claimed that he accidently mixed "two or three drinks" with medication for high-blood pressure that he had started taking six months ago.
Winn was stopped late Monday by a Kansas Highway Troop trooper, Clifford White, six miles east of Lawrence on Highway K-10. He was driving alone to his Overland Park home after a dinner at a private club in Lawrence, Winn's staff said yesterday.
Law enforcement records show that Winn refused both blood and breathalyzer tests for alcohol, and failed a coordination test.
Winn, who was booked at 11 p.m. Monday in the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center
and released from jail at 11:55 p.m. on a $500
shirt and exertions; he briefed his trump to fail as
well as EXPERIENCES.
Formal charges were not filed by late yesterday, but the Douglas County district attorney's office said charges would be filed before next week. The lawyer's appearance is scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow.
Winn said he would appear in court tomorrow, but was uncertain as to how he would plead.
MICHAEL GETTO, A SPOKESMAN for Winn,
said from DWC, D.C. that the trooper who
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stopped Winn "felt he went over the center line." Another assistant said that Winn, who has an artificial leg, failed the coordination test when the trooper told him to walk a straight line.
One of Winn's sons, Larry Winn III of Overland Park, said his father told him that he "had taken his blood pressure medication and then had had a few drinks, which had made him drowsy." He said his father spent the night at a private residence in Lawrence.
Winn, who spent most of Monday and yesterday at meetings on the KU campus said his drinks were spaced between 5:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. He has several more speaking engagements in the Lawrence area before Congress reconvenes at the end of the month.
He said that after being released from jail, he was able to get about seven hours' sleep and to keep a full schedule yesterday. That schedule included a morning meeting of Winn's Science and Technology Advisory Committee on the KU campus.
Winn, first elected to Congress from the 3rd district in 1986, is the ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate.
in the afternoon, he discussed pending clean air legislation with members of the Sierra Club alt.
THE CONGRESSMAN said he did not refuse to take a blood test. However, one was not taken, and Winn said he understood that his driver's blood test was suspended since the test was not administered.
"The trooper said to me, 'Do you want to take the test?' and I said, 'Let's wait while,' Winn said.
He admitted that he failed the sobriety test of walking a straight line and confirmed that he had declined to take a breathalyzer test. He said, however, he was not exactly sure why he
"Well, I don't know," he said. "I've heard through the walls that lawyers and people say the truth is always wrong."
'I did not refuse (the breath test)—you just
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Necessity increases need for remedial courses
ByBOBMOEN
Staff Reporter
Charles Himmelberg, mathematics department chairman, said that freshmen entering KU this year were at both extremes of the educational continuum. They were either much better than their predecessors in math or much worse.
About one-fourth of last year's freshman class had to take a remedial math course and about 10 percent of the class had to take a remedial English course.
During the past three years, an annual average of 3,700 freshmen have entered the University of Kansas. The University can accommodate that number, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to educate incoming freshmen because of their educational
Himmelberg pointed out that this year, 1,027 freshmen were enrolled in the math department's two remedial courses, Math 601 and Math 602. The two courses were enrolled in the courses six years ago.
He said many students who came to KU had already background in math and had to learn it from him.
James Gowen, professor of English said that since the "back to the basis" movement, in the
"Teachers have not reported any significant increase in writing ability," he said. "We always have problems with students who can't write as well as students historically have."
middle to late 1970s, he had not seen any significant change in student writing ability.
"That's a lot," he said of this year's total.
IN JANUARY, THE President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties issued a report that said, "public schools are failing to provide the quality education desired by the American public." The report also said that the president would form their traditional role adequately, together with emerging needs of the 1980s, may have disastrous consequences for the nation."
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Carlin turns forum into debate on tax
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
The forum was billed as a "discussion with Gov. John Carlin on education finance," but it turned into a re-run of the traveling "Severance Tax and You Show."
Last week Carlin delivered a message similar to the one he delivered in the Big Eight Room of the Renaissance Museum.
In an effort to raise public support for the mineral production severance tax that the State Senate defeated earlier in the session, Carlin brought one message.
"The severance tax is not a cure-all," he told the crowd of farmers, students, faculty and legislators, "but without it we will have to make cutbacks that just hurt our future."
JUST AS IN EL DORADO Concordia and Pittsburg, Carlina explained that the severance tax would help the greater portion of the Kansas state to lighten the load on the state's general fund.
From that fund, he said, came such items as the KU budget and elderly relief monies. If the severance tax were passed, the governor maintains, allocations for school finance and highway repair could be moved out of the budget because there were money for the KU budget and elderly relief.
"We have great responsibilities to carry out the programs we have now," Carlin said. "Without the severance tax we will have even greater responsibilities on the general fund.
"Without the severance tax, it will be extremely difficult to maintain the level of services we have now. I don't print money; the client has to respond to the needs of more funding."
Once the Legislature re-convenes April 29 for a session to consider Carlin's vetos and finish other business, Carlin said he would intensify his push to find a way to pass the severance tax. It is then that he must find a bill that he can tack the tax onto as an amendment.
THE OTHER WAY that Carlin could revive the dead tax would be to have the legislative supporters of her re-introduce it. The answer is no, she wouldn't. is that it would probably take too much time.
"I don't want to speculate about how effective my efforts have been or will be," Carlin said. "That will come down to the votes on the House and Senate, which is crucial for rest and support for the tax is rapidly growing."
Legislative response to Carlin's town meeting series, however, has been skeptical. Senate President Ross Doyen, of the leading critics of the law, said that the he was not seriously influenced by the trips.
Neither, he said, had he received strong constituent pressure to switch his position. Instead, he criticized Carlin for failing to discuss the side of the taxing issue—less state spending.
"Certainly less spending is an alternative." Carlin said, "but it is an inappropriate alternative because there are literally no programs that we can slash any further.
"If we cut higher education, we hurt out future. If we cut aid to the elderly we forget our responsibility to care for them. There are plenty of legislators who will propose cutting spending, but none of them have come up with reasonable cuts."
SOME OF THE CUTS that Carlin said he was told about were with the cuts to the Burden of Records behind him.
"I still stand behind my original recommendations as being the maximum the Regents funds could be trimmed," Carlin said. "The money was there originally for the Regents budget proposals, but the Legislature began cutting away to erase the need for a severance tax. It is fortunate that higher education was caught in an effort to avoid the severance tax."
Carlin said that he opposed the cuts to faculty pay and that he was disappointed with the Regents plan to increase tuition next year by 22 percent.
"I am disappointed in the tuition increases for a couple of reasons," Carlin said. "For one thing I don't like the timing of the decision and for another, I have not considered that was given to the matter."
Carlin said that the timing of the Regents decision was bad because of all of the federal plans to drastically cut back student loan programs.
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Staff Reporter
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Federal budget reductions may cut university research
The federal government's fight to control inflation may put a money squeeze on research projects at universities, and may eventually lead to higher taxes. Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kans., said yesterday.
Winn's comments came after his Science and Technology Advisory Committee recommended that the federal government implement tax incentives to industry to provide more resources for research.
The committee, which met yesterday at the Nichols Space and Technology Center, is composed of representatives from the University of Florida and other universities in the State University and several Kansas industries.
Former Kansas Gov. Robert Bennett, chairman of the committee, told Winn that tax incentives would also encourage industry to make a pool of researchers available for hire by universities, and thus stem the tide of faculty leaving for jobs in the private sector.
BUT THOSE PROPOSED INCIDENTS should be balanced with efforts to control inflation, Bennion said.
"Universities are aware of problems with stopping inflation." Winn said. "But they also felt that they were going to have to do a better job of making their services known."
Winn said KU had a head start in space
Larry Winn
research and could compete with other schools and industry for the opportunity of sending students to college.
"I'll do what I can, but the experiments must stand on their own." Winn said.
The University has already been given permission from NASA to use the shuttle launch in 1985 to put two solar-polar space crafts into orbit around Jupiter and eventually around the sun.
WNNN SAID that even if universities stepped up research efforts, the government might not benefit.
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Weather
It will be partly cloudy today, with winds northwesterly at 15 to 25 mph and a high temperature of 70, according to the KU Weather Service.
Lawrence firefighters prepared for emergencies
Tonight skies will be clear, with winds northwest at 5 to 10 mph and southwest at 4 to 8 mph.
Tomorrow it will be sunny with a high in the low 70s.
By KATHY MAAG
Black, dense smoke and wailing sirens awakened most of the 172 residents in the 10-story Westport Central Apartments in Kansas City, Mo., Friday. In panic, most of the residents clung to windows in the upper floors, waiting impatiently for rescue.
Staff Reporter
Intense heat and smoke prohibited the firefighters from entering the building when they arrived. Problems were doubled when firefighters found an open truck wouldn't reach above the seventh floor.
The firefighters placed a ladder in the morkel's bucket, then climbed up to reach 10ft-ft.
"It was the bravest thing I've seen in 21 years with the department," Harold Knabe, fire department spokesman, said.
HIGH-RISE FIRES are a problem for departments with limited equipment, as Kansas City firefighters have learned.
Lawrence is no exception.
Dormitory students need fire rules
Fire Safety Tips for High-Rise Dwellers
- If you smoke smoke, call the Lawrence
pacific air medical service, call the
KU emergency number 864-100.
- If there is a fire, get dressed and get your room key. Before you open the door, feel it with the back of your hand to see whether it's hot or cool. If it's cool, look out the door and down the hall to see whether there's smoke or fire in the exits.
If not, proceed to the stairs and get out of the building. If the door is hot or smoke is sleeping through in stay in the room. Place a pillow under the window and let emergency number to tell them you're
Precautions to Prepare for a Fire
- Know where all fire exits and alarms are located.
- It’s a good idea to buy smoke detectors to not in individual rooms.
- trapped. If there's a smoke outside, open the window and hang a sheet outside to let fire spread.
- If there’s a fire in your room, get out and close the door. Activate the fire alarm on your way to the exit. Tell the fire unit your room should so they can locate the source of the fire.
- Stairwells and fire doors should be kept open to prevent flames and smoke from spreading.
Lawrence firefighting equipment can only reach a maximum of eight and one-half stories, according to Fire Chief Jim McSwain. But he said there was no concern for alarm.
"It's normal for them to fight fires out of reach of the aerial ladders," he said. "It's a common practice and/or challenge all departments in a city this size have to encounter.
"Our training procedures are adapted to cope with this type of system."
The tallest buildings in Lawrence are seven residence hills, including McColum, Elsworth, Hashinger, Lewis, Templin, Oliver and Hassinger, a bank tower. Most of the buildings are 10 stories.
LAWRENCE FIREFIGHTERS are ready for a high-rise fire. McSain said.
"The construction of the buildings already has it remedied," he said. "There are enclosed stairwells, which are a safe means of exit and safe for the firemen."
McCollum, Ellsworth and Oliver halls also have standpipes on each floor that firefighters can connect hoses to without relying on outside hoses. he said.
Each hall is made of reinforced concrete and hydale tile, with blocks on the exterior, Dean Milroy, assistant director in charge of maintenance, said. There is a 30-inch concrete ledge on every hall floor, except GSP and Corbin, that students could use for exits in case of fire.
None of the halls have smoke detectors, but all SUPERVISORS have