CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, June 19, 1985
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News Digest
From staff and wire reports
Mobile home park's water not cut
The 160 families of a local mobile home park have water this week after the park's management made a partial payment on its water bill last week.
Water and sewer service to Ridgeview Estate Mobile Home Park, 1908 E. 19th St., was to be shut off Monday by the Lawrence Water Office because the bill was more than 60 days overdue.
But Debbie Van Ssuu, collection supervisor of the water office, said Friday that a payment had been received and that the water would not be billed.
Van S闸 also said Monday that Dyanna Wong, president of International Portfolios Inc., had signed an agreement for a schedule of payments to the city. IPI is the managing general partner of the mobile home park.
Wong could not be reached for comment. She is a resident of San Francisco where IPI is based, although IPI is a Nevada corporation.
Van Saum would not reveal specifics of IP's account except to say that the water department had given IPU until Monday to make a partial pay
Phone service waits for KCC's decision
Telecom Management International Inc. was ordered by the Kansas Corporation Commission last week not to solicit or accept any new customers or any fees until the KCC decides whether to certify the company to serve customers in Kansas.
TMI had been serving five Kansas cities — Lawrence, Topeka, Manhattan, Salina and Parsons — before Southwestern Bell suspended TMI's access to its national telephone network.
A hearing is set for 10 a.m. Aug. 5 at the State Office Building in Topka. At the hearing, TMI, a long distance telephone service based in Independence, Mo., will have to prove that the company can adequately provide long-distance service to Kansas customers.
Dan Reeder will leave his position as editor of the University of Kansas Alumni Association's Kansas Alumni magazine in early August to begin his own business, he said yesterday.
The company, to be based in Lawrence, will work with different types of communications from universities, colleges and associations to private
Reeder has been editor of the alumni publication since 1977. Before that, he was managing editor for a year.
Reeder said his decision to leave would be announced in his column in the next issue of the magazine, which will be out next week.
Topeka firm chosen to design KU center
A ropeka architectural firm was selected Friday to design the new $12 million human development center at the University of Kansas.
Kiene & Bradley Design Group Chartered will design the building, which is expected to become a comprehensive research and training center in programs for people with disabilities. The building will be constructed east of Haworth Hall on KU's main campus.
Most of the funds for the center are provided through a $9 million federal appropriation that KU received last October. Additional funds will come from private sources.
Kiene & Bradley will work with R.C. Coffee of Mission, a nationally known consultant in electronics and acoustics, to design the new iPhone 6.
The new building will house the KU Bureau of Child Research, the Institute of Human Development and Aging, the KU Gerontology Center and the department of special education, speech-language-hearing, radio, television and film, and human development and family life.
Clarification
In the June 12 issue of the University Daily Kansas, a story described an incident in which a KU student, Susie Fall, El Dorado, *ak*, senior, was charged with petty larceny after setting off the detection system at Wilson Library's main exit when she attempted to leave with a book that
In the story, Fall said she had one book in her backpack. However, acording to the first interview, supervision after the inci- diation also had two periods inside a notebook.
All of the materials had the computer code labels and due date dates moved from the cover to the back of the book and from the covers of the periodicals.
An undated check out slip for the periodicals was also found among Fall's belongings, according to the incident report.
Fall said Thursday that all the information on the library incident report was correct except for the information concerning物理iel accident. The library incident report contains an error.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with the high around 80 and winds from 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear. The low will be 55. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with highs in the low to mid-90s. The extended forecast calls for a chance of thunderstorms on Friday with temperatures in the low 90s. Saturday should be in the mid to high 90s with a chance of thunderstorms. Sunday is expected to be mostly sunny with temperatures in the mid-90s.
Fallout shelters becoming memories
By Jill Ovens
if you remember Buddy Holly, Adil Stevenson, the Rosenbergs and "Leave it to Beaver," then you probably remember Bert the Turtle.
Staff Reporter
Chuck Berg, associate professor of theatre and media arts, said Friday that he remembered Bert well.
"There were animated stills and animated cartoons of Bert the Turtle singing 'Duck and Cover,'" said Berg, who teaches a class called American Popular Culture of the 1960s. RTVF 580.
Bert was the cute character with the bow tie and hard hat created by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. The turtle advised American youngsters of the 1950s to "duck and cover" under their school desks in the event of an atom bomb raid.
Berg said he also remembered Nelson Rockefeller, who was then governor of New York, telling people they should build bomb shelters in their backyards and stock them with food, water and first aid kits.
Bomb shelters, or nuclear fallout shelters as they came to be known, were identified in the 1960s at several locations in Lawrence, including the KU campus, and are still in existence.
FALLOUT SHELTER
However, Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said the University was not actively maintaining fallout shelters.
"Signs identify buildings as shelters," he said, "but they're not."
Photo illustration by John Lechliter/KANSAN
stocked with anything. The shelter plan was initiated in the early 1960s and it's never been increased since then."
According to a community shelter plan supplied by Douglas County Emergency Preparedness, 36 shelters are available on campus, including some at residence halls, fraternities and sororities.
But the shelters are not easy to find. Information assistants at the Kansas Union and Watson Library are located in the shelters in those buildings.
"It itt goes to show you how useless it would be, but the only people who would know where it was would be the administration and they won't be in till Monday," a student worker at the library said Sunday.
Shelters in the Kansas Union are identified by signs on the west of the building, one on the first floor in the basement of the Kansas Union Bookstore and the other on the second floor.
Signs identify the halls in the east wing of Strong Hall on three levels as being nuclear fallout shelters, but no area can be separated from the outside on the first and second floors. Only the basement seems to provide reasonable protection.
Few of the other buildings still have signs displayed.
Ken Harmon, a retired police lieutenant who works part-time for Douglas County Emergency Preparedness, said that years ago discontinued the storage of food and medicines in fallout shelters.
Beatrice Wright, professor of psychology, said that now people realize that the shelters are useless for protection from nuclear attacks.
"There is an awareness that fallout shelters can't be very useful," she said. "If people are convinced that their existence may bring some solace."
"But there is a recognition, even on the part of the Reagan administration, that it's pretty futile and only serves to raise anxiety."
Harmon said a contingency plan existed to begin evacuation of all but essential personnel from Douglas County in a period of "rising international tensions." According to the crisis relocation to be held far as far south as laola, which is about 80 miles from Lawrence.
Harmon said the northern part of Douglas County had been identified as a high-risk area because it was close to Kansas City and Topeka, which are considered strategic because one is a large metropolitan area and the other a state capital.
Survev finds drinking ads ineffective
By Gina Kellogg
Staff Reporter
One-fourth of Kansas men ages 18 to 24 recently drove after heavy drinking, and nearly half reported driving after moderate drinking, according to a survey conducted recently by an associate professor of business.
John L. Lastovicka, the professor, conducted the random telephone survey in April and May. The survey was the first step in a $521,000 government study on the effect of advertising against drunken driving.
Of the 703 men interviewed, more than 25 percent said that in the past month they had consumed at least five drinks in one sitting before driving. Forty-five percent had driven after drinking three to four drinks.
A drink was defined as a glass of beer, wine or a mixed drink.
during camping trips or at areas where their friends hang out, the study said.
Typically, these young men drink mainly at parties, while playing ball.
The men tend to be single, ignore authority and use drug use, violence and sexuality as essential to a macho image, Lastovicka said Thursday. Beer was the overwhelming choice of a 'real man's' drink.
They also think that drinking does not increase the likelihood of a crash or noticeably impair coordination or self-control and that they would not
"Unfortunately, we also find that these people are risk-oriented thrill seekers," he said. "They are more affectionate and careless than a danger," they like a little thrill.
The study indicates that these men tend to think that drinking and its effects are fun, that not drinking makes them appear foolish to peers and that drinking helps them "do better with women."
lose their license if stopped for drinking and driving.
"These guys tend to see automobiles as being really important. Automobiles are a really big deal in their life," he said. "It's their party room, their stereo room, their bedroom on wheels."
The survey centered on males because they outnumber females 9 to 1 as drunken drivers. Lovastickova and Weiss within three percentage points, he said.
The Kansas Department of Transportation paid for the survey with a $50,000 grant. The National Highway Patrol provided the remaining $465,000.
The survey confirmed Lastovicka's theory that current anti-drunken driving ads may not dissuade young drunken drivers. These ads usually advocate social responsibility or use scare tactics.
result of a crash after drinking and driving is not so much going to result in injuring yourself or injuring a loved one but result in injuring your car, a prized possession, then maybe you're going to reach these people." Lastovicka said.
Maybe if you can show that the
So. Lastovicka said, he plans to devise television and radio ads that may show that drunken driving is destructive to machismo and could lead to damaging a person's all-important car, he said. They also may show drunken drivers as being unattractive to women.
Lastovicka will be developing ideas for cartoon prototypes of commercials in the next few months. These will then be shown to paid volunteers who will be asked questions to determine whether they are getting the main points out of the ads, he said.
Protesters still determined despite sentences
Staff Reporter
By Shawn Aday
A KU graduate and a KU student said this week that their arrests and sentences in connection with last month's anti-apartheid protests on campus would not keep them from further protests.
"I would do the same thing again," Lucia K. Wilson, a May KU校
Mary E. Kennicott, Shawnee junior, said yesterday that she thought the arrests would not deter further protests.
"Some people seem a little more enthusiastic and willing to take a stand, now that other people have," Kennicott said.
Wilson, Kennicott and two others, Lydia A. Kelley, a former KU student, and Sheryl L. Hampton, Prairie Village freshman, were sentenced Friday in Lawrence Municipal Court. All four had pleaded no contest to the charge of misdemeanor criminal trespass after their arrests May 9.
Municipal Court Judge George
Cattined Wilson and Kennicott $250
for a day of work in the court.
hours of community service work in lieu of payment.
Hampton was fined $25, and Kelley was ordered to pay $25 on each of two counts.
counts
Each bad to pay $5 in court costs.
Each turn to pay 35 in COE funds. The four were among 65 persons arrested May 3 and 9 at Strong Hall and at Youngburgh House, which hauls the Kansas University Endowment association, during demonstrations urging that the Endowment Association divest investments in South Africa, which practices a policy of racial segregation called apartheid.
Wilson and Kennicott said they had no regrets or hard feelings about the arrests or sentences.
"When I went over to the Endowment Association, I knew what I was going to do," Kennicott said. "I knew the maximum sentence was far, far harsher than what we actually got. I was prepared for harsh consequences."
The maximum sentence in municipal court for misdemeanor criminal trespass is six months in jail or a $500 fine or both.