CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, July 17, 1985
Page 3
News Digest
From staff and wire reports
Baldwin boy's leg hurt in mower
A 4-year-old Baldwin City boy was admitted in critical condition last night to Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., after his left leg was caught under a riding lawnmower.
Colin MacMillan, the son of Dennis MacMillan, Route 2, tried to crawl onto the lawnmower as his father was moving but slipped and fell underneath, Betty Pringle, Douglas County sheriff's deputy, said last night.
the nursing supervisor at Children's Mercy Hospital said Colin was attached to the intensive care unit but she would not give details on his ina commonist, jumped ball in July 1984 and has not been caught. A drug ring was linked to an investigation that included work by the County Drug Enforcement Unit.
The accident occurred about 7:45 p.m. at the family's home six miles south of Lawrence. Prunts said.
Colin's leg was described as disfigured by the nursing supervisor at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was treated briefly before being discharged.
The supervisor also said Colin was alert and stable
Vargas pleads guilty to cocaine charge
Alberto Tito Vargas, a 33-year-old Colombian, pleaded guilty to four charges that he helped run a cocaine ring in the Lawrence area on Thursday.
The remaining 17 counts against Vargas will be dropped when he is sentenced Aug. 12, said Richard Hathaway, assistant U.S. Attorney. Attorneys agreed to drop those counts as part of plea-bargaining negotiations.
Vargas pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and two counts of using interstate telephone lines to make cocaine.
The FBI arrested Vargas June 14 in Miami, more than a year after he and seven others were indicted by a Wichita grand jury.
Vargas was the last suspect to be arrested, but another, Juan Jerez, also a Colombian, jumped in July 1984 and has not been caught.
Jayhawk Bookstore has early discounts
The Jayhawk Bookstore is offering a 5.5 percent discount on new books and a 10 percent discount on used books for the fall semester if orders are made by October 31st.
The bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, requires a $10 deposit that applies toward book purchases. Orders can be made by mail or on a walk in
Borden to be professional-in-residence
The Kansas Union Bookstores in the Kansas and Burge unions offer a 64 percent dividend on all textbook purchases throughout the year.
The deputy managing editor of the Oakland, Calif., Tribune has been named the 1985-86 Gannett Foundation professional-in-residence at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Diane Borden, 37, is the 10th professional-in-residence and the first
"I was very honored to be selected." Borden said Friday. "I think it's going to be exciting and I'm looking forward to it."
Weather
Today should be sunny with the high expected to be 94 with southerly winds from 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with the low in the low 70s. Tomorrow is expected to be sunny with the high about 96. The extended forecast for Friday through Sunday calls for highs in the 90s and lows in the mid-60s to mid-70s.
Randolph says students aren't active
Former senator worked to give them voting right
By Sherry Gering Staff Reporter
The man who drafted the amendment that gave 18-year-olds the right to vote said yesterday that students needed to take a more active role in the leadership of the country by casting their votes.
During a visit to campus this week, former Sen. Jennings Randolph, D-W.Va., stressed the need for students to become involved in the world around them.
"I think the exercise of citizenship is something we should really zero in on, especially on college campuses," former Sen Jennings Randolph, D.W. Va., said. "Congress gave us this right and the responsibility is ours. Your own self goes on the line when you mark an 'X.'"
During the 1980 presidential election, only 24 out of every 100 young people eligible to vote cast ballots, Randolph said. And only 53 percent of the eligible voters in the United States cast ballots, he said.
In 1971, Randolph drafted the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Randolph, who served on Capitol Hill for 40 years, visited the University of Kansas yesterday and Monday. Among other activities, he spoke to a history class, toured the campus, had lunch with Chancellor Gee A Budig and attended a picnic with the staff of the Audio-Reader Network.
Randolph, 83, said he had talked to students on several campuses about the opportunity and responsibility that voting offered.
He was a Democratic representative for 14 years and West Virginia's senator for 28 years. He served as a delegate to the state house he chose not run for re-election.
In 1916 and 1918 he helped with his father's congressional campaigns, which were unsuccessful. But in 1932, Randolph, a Democrat from Salem, W. Va., won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives
Randolph's father and grandfather were both involved in political activities. He said he was 10 years old when he went to the 1912 Democratic convention in Baltimore with his father.
Randolph said he could not vote until he was 21 and said he thought his interest and association with politics mattered. He said in his desire to vote at a younger age.
During the 1930s Randolph served under President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and gave his support to Roosevelt's New Deal.
Randolph said no other president's leadership compared with Rosevelt's.
That night Roosevelt presented the outline for his New Deal programs. Within 100 days, Congress approved the 15 pieces of legislation, designed to bring the United States back from the Great Depression.
"I think the exercise of citizenship is something we should really zero in on, especially on college campuses. Congress gave us this right and the responsibility is ours. Your own self goes on the line when you mark an 'X.'" —Jennings Randolph
U. S. Senator
"He heild that special place in history that nobody will ever touch." Randolph said. "FDR could not walk, but he out America on its feet."
Randolph said that one dark, rainy night, he and a few other congressmen were ushered into the second floor of the White House. Roosevelt was seated behind his desk. He told them it would be a great sight to tell tales, but they had serious business to discuss instead.
"I fought for all of the New Deal," Randolph said.
He said he was attacked vehemently by those in West Virginia for his support of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The TVA is a government-owned corporation that provides electricity for the Tennessee Valley region.
West Virginia is a coal state and the people there feared that the electric power production would phase
out the coal industry. Randolph said But now, TVA is the largest purchaser of coal in that state.
He also said many people thought the programs of the Works Progress Administration were give-away programs. But, he said everyone who worked was paid for the jobs they did.
Talking about present-day politics, Randolph said he saw only one similarity between Roosevelt and Reagan. "Reagan voted for NDR,"
Randolph also is known for his strong commitment to the handicapped.
He is associated with legislation to aid handicapped people, particularly the 1936 Randolph-Sheppard Act, which allows the nation's blind to establish vending businesses in public buildings.
His concern for the handicapped stems from his early years in Salem. Two of his friends from his hometown were handicapped.
"I had seen the blind sitting in the dark corners of life and I wanted them in the marketplace," he said.
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