University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1981
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Speed
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in which it could punish marginal violators." Charlton said. "Why just tonight, I was out eating with my sons and they asked how I could have my name on such an unpopular bill.
"The feeling I got from some KU students and area residents is that they are very much against it."
HOWEVER, CHARLTON, said there were some advantages to the measure.
"The main idea behind the bill is to help decrease consumption of oil and therefore decrease dependence on foreign imports," he would also help improve safety on the roads.
since the move to lower the grace limit to 55 mph was made in 1974, Charlton said, the
"The reason for the increases is because each year drivers are driving faster and faster, ex-
number of highway fatalities had been climbing each year.
ANOTHER REASON why Kansas has been trying to pass the legislation, Charlton said, is because of threats from the federal government to hold back highway funds.
"The federal government is saying the states are not enforcing the speed limit," Charlson said. "They said that Kansas was not one of the better enforcing states."
State Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge, said that Kansas was one of the last states to approve the 85 mph speed limit and that when it finally reached this limit, it included the grace ceiling up to 65 mph.
Charlton / said that although she favored keeping some grace limit, she wanted to keep it within 5 mph of the speed limit.
"It just seems unlikely that a driver's speedometer could be off by 10 mph without the driver noticing it," she said. "A difference I would think would be hard to detect."
"I really don't think that the law will be fair, because it is very easy to slip over the speed limit when driving way out in flat western Kansas."
"The state did not like the measure when it was first passed so the Legislature included the limit." Harder said. "Now that we are getting the bill, the government, the Legislature has to change the law."
Moppers
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good lead and the jaukee stold in my way. It's happened a couple of times that people will stand in my way, and I don't think it's a duke. Come to me. Never heard her the cheerleaders. Go 'bear red.'
Just as the fans make mop racing exciting, and to make it a harrowing experience for the proppers.
"It takes a special kind of person to go out there because some can't take the harassment," Acker said. "It takes gut. If you can't take it, it can be very embarrassing."
Even without the harassment, the two have met their share of embarrassment.
Acker's list of mishaps are more than enough to drive any noopper to an early retirement.
"It was pretty embarrassing the time I knocked down the Jayhawk," he said. "I've also had a basketball player come down on my mop and break it. I've been up side the head with a banana and I've been cussed out really good by a woman, because I shook some dirt on her porch."
Thomas, though hardy as fortunate, recalls one incident that he'd prefer to forget.
"One time I got so excited during the race that I missed a whole strip of the floor," he said. "I had to go back out there all by myself and mop it. It was really lonely out there."
BOTH ADMITT, however, that the few minutes of glory they enjoy each game has made the embarrassment worth it. And they say they've earned that glory.
"People don't realize that we do more than just mop," Thomas said. "When everyone has left, we're still here closing down and cleaning up. We do things people don't notice like fixing doors and toilets and anything else that doesn't work. The whole maintenance crew deserves recognition."
Now that Acker and Thomas have found the lamelight, neither plans to relinquish it too much.
Already they are making plans to spice up the mop races. Acker is talking of getting someone to wave a checkered flag or announce the race. He considers getting Jayhawk plaques for the mop races.
Thomas is planning to create some new stunts for the mop races, including spins and dances. Both moppers are looking for some upbeat music to mop by.
But they say that carrying out their innovations will depend on continued support from
"The more they get involved, the better races they'll see," Acker said. "Who knows, probably one day they'll come and watch the game, or the basketball game will be the halftime show."
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Snow
O'Brien said he was not looking for another job even though he was very unsatisfied with the company.
"I would really have to think hard before
luck because of the consequences," he said.
"We really want to be able to talk with
them."
Burchill, however, expressed concern that if the Haworth addition were not funded this year, the costs would go up so much it would be impossible to build according to the original plan.
O'Brien said that the state did a wonderful job with the Malott Hall addition and that he hoped the Haworth addition would be of the same quality.
"The cost of an equivalent facility some day compared to now is going to be very different."
Burchill said that in the plan for the Haworth addition, the biology division was asking for only two-thirds of what the Board of Regents space formula provided for.
"We have pared back our requirements already," he said. "If you put it off and the economy starts going up, the money is going to pay for less."
Change sought in meetings policy
The University Council Committee on Organization and Administration decided last week to recommend that the University's closed holding policy be made consistent with state law.
Anthony Smith, committee chairman, said his group would recommend that the University Senate executive committee include a statement in the Senate code requiring the University's closed meeting procedures to conform to state law.
THE KANASA OPEN Meetings Law permits closed meetings if they are held to discuss non-elected personnel or matters that affect patients or residents of a public institution.
The law requires an announcement if a meeting is to be closed and requires that an agenda be made available to any interested people.
Before a meeting may be legally declared closed, a body must justify the closed meeting in writing, explaining what subjects will be discussed and saying when the open meeting will resume.
The law also requires that no final decisions be made during a closed meeting.
Smith said that committees on campus always had the option to close a meeting if the subject involved candid discussion of personnel, such as canvassing or holding on committee member nominations.
Smith said that his committee's main concern in analyzing KU's policy was to ensure that closed meeting procedures were dealt with legally.
"We wanted to find a solution that was acceptable, and fortunately, the solution was to use a digital tool."
THE UNIVERSITY and its committees are considered state agencies, Smith said, and consequently, are subject to the state open meetings law.
Bernstein objected to the existing policy, which allowed meetings to be closed at the request of one committee member when sensitive matters were being discussed.
The committee was charged to deal with the issue last summer after KU's open meetings policy was questioned by Mark Bernstein, a former fine arts student senator.
Minority funds outpace enrollment
By BOB MOEN Staff Reporter
The School of Business has a large amount of scholarship money. More than minority students, but just doesn't have the students.
Stephen Allen, assistant to the dean, said the funds were in the thousands of dollars but would
Because minorities make up less than 1 percent of the school's enrollment this month, the school has a surplus of scholarship money from private businesses.
student enrollment at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Charles Krider, associate dean of the school, said many firms, including Ford Motor Co. and IBM, had given scholarship funds to the school for minority students.
"We've got more funds but no students," he said.
Allen, who is also adviser to the Minority Business Students Council, said a new program was developed to increase minority enrollment to 5 percent within three years.
As a result, Krider said, the school has established a program to increase minority
He said the program was designed to inform KU students and selected minority high school students in Kansas City, Wichita and Topela about the scholarships. Students would receive an explanation of business school requirements and help in finding summer internships.
Kim Young, treasurer and acting president of the Minority Business Students Council, said the group was giving its full support to the program.
"It's good because it gives minority high students a chance to find out about the college."
Allen said an informational room to answer questions about the program would be held Feb. 6.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN KANSAS NURSING HOMES?
Hillcrest Medical Center
"It took nine students in and we had nine different patients. The patients were lying in urine or in decease, and there is no mattress pads on there, so it just run up on those people, and it in their hair and under their toenails and dried between their toes." (Official Transcript of the Hiltownam-Topeka Administrative Hearing, January, 1980)
"Collectively, as well as individually, these problems were not outside the range of reasonable normacy for a skilled nursing care operation . . . The 1980 certification which is currently under consideration should be issued without delay or predilection." *Hearing on Health and Environment, January, 1980*
The Above Quotations Are Excerpted From
"Seeing Through a Kansas Nursing Home"
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