University Daily Kansan, March 4. 1981
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Motorcycles
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Clinton, a motorcycle rider himself, said he had never been in favor of helmets as a deterrent to drunk driving.
"At the speeds that they are talking about," he said, "a helmet becomes virtually useless. I have seen just as many highway motorcycle accidents as I have as I have on people who did not wear helmets."
A study presented to the Insurance Committee, however, contradicted the study cited by Clinton. According to University of Kansas research, cars with rearview mirrors had alarms decreased motorcycle accident fatalities.
The study showed a significant enough decrease with helmets that several legislators on the committee were immediately persuaded to support the law.
Among legislators favoring the helmet law was State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, who said she thought the bill would be approved if it was voted on in committee Thursday or Friday.
"I have seen the results of motorcycle accident that have caused severe injury," Branson, a former nurse, said. "More often than not, the accident has been prevented if the rider had worn a helmet."
Branson said the higher incidence of serious
injury to riders with helmets was driving up health costs, which is eventually paid by the tax
Motorcyclists have said that many serious accidents could be prevented if the state funded motorcycle educational programs, instead of enforcement on enforcement of the helmet and insurance law.
"The officers will be having to stop us almost every time they see one of us riding without a helmet," Chappell said. "Then they would have to track down our insurance policy. Instead of wasting money on all of that, they could spend it on motorcycle riding education."
O'Sullivan said the main problem in serious motorcycle accidents was not careless riders, but careless car drivers. Although there may be signs warning the driver to watch out for the motorcyclist, he said, it is human to overlook smaller objects.
Chappell said Iowa had abolished its helmet law and had installed an education program instead, and currently has the lowest rate of motorcycle accident deaths.
Owners of motorcycle shops said they did not think the bill would hurt their business.
"The sales of buses in Missouri are just as good as ours are, even though Missouri has a helmet law," a salesman at Kelings Kawasaki, 3200 Iowa St., said. "A lot of riders won't wear a
Art Summer, owner of Lawrence Yamaha, 506 W. 23 St., said he also did not think sales would lag, but that he did support voluntary use of helmets.
"I think it is unconstitutional for the Legislature to make somebody do something that they don't want to," Sommer said. "I would like to see them propose some education hills."
helmet when they are out on the road, they will just put it on when they get into the town."
Sommer said he was in favor of education programs because he had noticed most of the motorcycle fatalities in Lawrence were riders with six months experience or less.
"Few accident victims are experienced rideons," he said. "It is just like car drivers, except that there is naturally more chance for injury on the motorcycle."
The assistant safety administrator for the Department of transportation said something unexpected.
"Based on seven years of study," D. E. Robinson said, "it has been shown that the rate of serious injury or death in motorcycle accidents outstrips what the total percentage should be."
"Out of a total of 4.4 percent of all drivers who are motorcycle riders, 19 percent suffer serious injury or death. That is entirely too high and something needs to be done to lower that figure."
services of these groups," Abbott said yesterday.
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"The administration can blame the $5 tuition increase for Health Services on the Student Senate, and then they're trying to come across as heroes by cutting that $5 cents."
BERT COLEMAN, student body president, agreed with Abbott, adding that the 55 cents would be a minute amount compared with the other expected increases in tuition.
"I think that the increase in tuition is going to be huge and this 55 cents is just a drop in the bucket," he said. "These groups need the money and it's been recommended and justified through a long and arduous process by the Finance and Auditing Committee and the Senate."
Loren Busby, Senate Finance and Auditing
Committee chairman, said he was disappointed the chancellor made his decision before meeting the committee.
"Dancellor Shankel is rubber-stamping what Ambler recommended without giving the Senate the chance."
Busby said that the students should have control over the amount of the activity fee.
"Even though I'm sure Dr. Ambler has no justifications for making the cut," Busby said, "I don't hope he examined the issues closely enough to be making a recommendation to the chancellor without the Senate having a chance to present its side."
"You may just as well call it the administration activity fee, paid for by the students," he said. "They're letting us control the cutbacks, but not the increases."
Mall
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attended the Planning Commission's hearing on JVJ's payroll.
Zinn, although refusing to comment on the possibility of a lawsuit, said the presence of a court reporter at the hearing was "unusual for Kansas.
"In some states, where these hearings are conducted more formally, court reporters aren't unusual," he said. "But, on an issue as complex and far-reaching as this one, having a court reporter there is not only appropriate, but prudent."
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