CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, May 3, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Rudig to choose ombudsman
Chancellor Gene A. Budig may choose the new University bumbsmand sometime next week, an assistant to Robert P. Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday. William Bailour, the current bumbsmand, will retire at the end of the semester.
Budig will interview three candidates for the job next week before he chooses the next ombudsman, said Jeanette Johnson, the assistant.
The University ombudsman is the liaison between students, faculty members and staff. The ombudsman handles complaints from various University groups.
A list of the three candidates was given to the chancellor last week, said Sandra Wick. University Senate Executive Committee secretary SenEx members formed the search committee, which chose the three candidates from a list of 13 people.
Bailour, who has been the only ombudsman to serve at KU, will retire at the end of the spring semester after 28 years of service. He is 70 years old.
FDIC assumes Chanute bank
TOPEKA — Bad agriculture loans led to the failure of The Bank of Commerce of Chanute, Alan Whitney, a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation spokesman, said yesterday.
Eugene T. Barrett, Kansas state banking commissioner, said he took charge of the bank's assets and properties yesterday. A recent examination of the bank by his office showed that it had experienced substantial deterioration of its loan portfolio, which included a large number of agricultural loans, Barrett said.
The failure was the first in Kansas in 1985, and the 30th failure in the nation this year. It was the 18th failure of an agriculture bank in 1985. Whitney said.
"I think it is a safe assumption that bad agriculture loans caused the failure." Whiteness
The FDIC was appointed to act as receiver for the bank.
Aging conference scheduled
The bank's deposits will be assumed by the newly chartered Bank of Commerce of Chanute, Whitney said. The failed bank's offices were scheduled to re-open yesterday morning. Depositors of the failed bank automatically become depositors of the assuming bank, Whitney said.
The 10th annual Governor's Conference on Aging, scheduled for May 23 and 24 at the University of Kansas, will give older Kansans a chance to talk to state and national policy makers about issues concerning the aging.
Jack Ossofsky, executive director of the National Council on the Aging, plans to deliver the opening speech, "Aging in America," on May 23 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Participants then will be able to question a panel of experts about medical care, utility costs, nursing homes, social security, Medicare, tax return and family issues.
German Club plans Maifest
Maistest is a traditional German festival to usher in spring and to celebrate fertility rites, but the KU German Club plans to use Maistest to celebrate the end of the academic year.
William Keel, professor of German and faculty adviser for the club, said yesterday that the German Club's Mastiff wounded in a knife attack by bratwurst and knackwurst will be served.
The Maiest is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today at 1096 Baker St. Admission is $3.50, and the picnic is open to the public. For more information, call the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the French, president of the club, at 843-396-9.
Weather
Today will be foggy in the morning, otherwise sunny and warmer with a high around 80. Winds will be southeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the low to mid-30s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny and warm, with a high in the low 80s.
compiled from Kansan staff and United Press international reports.
Lawmakers stay busy after session is done
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Students who eagerly await the end of the semester can envy Lawrence lawmakers.
When the 1985 session of the Kansas Legislature finally adjourned Saturday afternoon, State Sen. Wen Winter Jr., 64, said it was like the last day of sixth grade.
"I just felt great. "Winter said. "I felt like I looked like a class and could look better with some speed frees."
Now that the 100-day session has ended, the legislators can look forward to eight months unhampered by late-bearng budget cuts. The legislature's next threat to vote on liquor by the drink.
They plan to spend time answering letters from their constituents. Some have legislative duties that continue through the 1996 election. They are even looking toward the 1996 elections.
WINTER AND STATE Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, have returned to their local law practices. Democratic Rep. Jessie Branson is planning for her daughter's graduation from the University of Kansas Medical School.
They all face a backlog of mail from people in their districts. In addition, Branson said she planned to meet with organizations in the area that happened to some of their pet programs.
But to do that, Branson said, will require extra research on her part.
"So much happened during the session, particularly right at the end, that you can't keep up with all the legislation and appropriations," she said.
Branson also writes her version of the session's highlights, although the Legislature's research department prepares its own compilation of the session's results. She said her report focused on legislation affecting women, children and families.
ALSO DURING THE summer. Branson plans to begin door-to-door campaigning to prepare for the 1986 election. She said the size of her district made it necessary to start early.
Lawmakers who spend long days in Topoka have little chance to stay caught up with their normal work. Winter said that although he has tried to spend a little time each day during the session in his law office, he had 10 to 15 large cases to pick up now that the session had ended.
"It's a good change of pace," Winter said. "It's a different part of my brain being exercised."
Solbach agreed. "You enjoy the legislative process, but it's very all-encompassing."
But the end of the session does not promise much relief from work. Solbach said he expects his law practice, the work around his home, to be less dafties to keep him busy during the summer.
Sobach said that he had not received his legislative committee assignment for the summer yet, but that he might work on a case examining medical malpractice erosion.
Winter, a member of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction and the Committee on Special Claims Against the State, expects to be busy with those assignments while the Legislature is adjourned.
He said that questions about planned prison construction needed to be answered by the building committee. He also anticipated a vote in favor of the plan to meet at least four times during the interim.
Winter said his feelings after this session were a contrast to the feelings of frustration, bitterness and failure he had after previous sessions.
"By far the achievements outweighed the failure and disappointment." Winter said.
Winter said many issues that had stymied the Legislature for years had been resolved, such as liquor by the drink and classification of property for tax purposes. This will allow legislators to concentrate on other issues, he said.
The greatest disappointment for lawmakers was the failure to approve a school finance proposal that was acceptable to Gov. John Carlin. Carlin veted one school finance bill before the end of the session and has threatened to veto another.
Chelan David, 13, son of Billie David, 200 W. 13th St., mows the overgrown lawn at 1215 Tennessee Street Chelan, who was mowing in the rain Monday, said that he had been working on the lawn since Sunday and that the rain made it difficult to cut the tall, thick grass.
Doug Ward/KANSAN
Plans building for KU institute in Costa Rica
Staff Reporter
By JOHN HENSON
After years of negotiations, the University of Kansas is one step closer to establishing a research institute with the University of Costa Rica in the South Pacific region of that country.
For the last three years the University has negotiated with United Fruit Company, the University of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican government for a role in the development of properties that will soon be abandoned by United Fruit.
The latest step in the process came on March 25, when United Fruit and the Costa Rican government signed a treaty ending the company's involvement in the South America coast of Costa Rica.
Included in the treaty was the donation of several properties to the Costa Rican government, with the understanding that they would be administered by the two universities. The properties are: six houses, 10 small apartment buildings, management offices, a central telephone building, a meeting center and a commissary.
THE PROPERTIES are in the townsite of Las Alamedas, just west of the port city of Golfo on the Golfo Dulce. Spanish for "sweet gulf." The population of the Golfo area is about 15,000. About 3,000 to 3,900 of the area had been employed by the banana company.
Charles Stansifer, director of Latin American Studies who has led the KU negotiations, said the signing of the contract signified progress toward the realization of the Gollob project.
"It's what we've been waiting for for months," he said.
department of anthropology at the University of Costa Rica
Several possible uses for the properties have been outlined in a proposal called "Golito Project," prepared by Stansifer and Maria Bozzio de Wille, director of the
"I have confidence in the desirability of these goals." Stansifer said "If we package them in the right way, I'm certain that the money will be there."
HE SAID THAT funds could be obtained through various university foundations and international agencies.
The possible uses vary from field studies in anthropology and archaeology to social action and community development projects. The University of Costa Rica could be involved.
According to Stansifer, Kansas State University and Louisiana State University have signed declarations of intent to cooperate with certain projects.
The next step is approval by the Board of Regents. According to Stansifer and to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, the University is waiting for a letter from the lawyer representing the University of Costa Rica stating that KU would not be liable for any debts or actions relating to the properties.
"BEING PROPERTY owners is not one of our principal interests." Cobb said.
"What has evolved during the discussions is that certain properties would be given to the government of Costa Rica, with the understanding that they would be administered by the two universities for educational and research purposes.
Stanifer said, "At the beginning there was a consideration that KU would take the Wheel."
"Before we enter into any foundation with its headquarters in Costa Rica, we want to be sure of all the legal and financial implications. We want to be certain that our obligations are in the fields of education and research, and that we are not seen as a foreign entity with economic interests in Costa Rica."
STANSIFER SAID that he didn't expect
liability of KU to be a problem, and that the next major obstacle would be financing for the individual projects.
"The issue is not whether they can be funded, but which will be funded first," he
The University of Costa Rica and KU have been partners in a student and faculty exchange program for 25 years. According to the office of study abroad, it is the longest standing such program between any U.S. university and Latin American country.
Cobb said, "I think the quarter-century of cooperation is unique and gratifying. The relationship with the University of Costa Rica has enhanced the educations not only of KU students who have spent the academic year in Costa Rica and Costa Rican students who have come to Kansas, but also of several members of the faculty at both universities.
"I SEE THOSE kinds of things being intensified and enhanced by the Goffito
Auree E. Johnson, director of the museum of anthropology and chairman of the anthropology department, and Oscar Fonseca, professor of anthropology at Costa Rica, have drawn up a plan for archaeological research in the Southern Pacific region of Costa Rica as part of the overall Golfo Project proposal.
The plan calls for an inventory of archaeological sites in the region, training of students from both countries in field research techniques, site excavations and excavation of an archaeological museum for the benefit of students and the general public.
"It (the project) would add a whole new dimension in terms of student training." Johnson said.
THE AREA HAS been little studied, but on the basis of information from other parts of Costa Rica, it is probably an area that is quite rich in archaeological sites. It would be
a marvelous opportunity for some of our students to do field work."
Another project that has been proposed is the establishment of an ecological research center, led by Orley Taylor Jr., professor of entomology at KU, and Carlos Valerio, professor of biology at the University of Costa Rica.
"The research opportunities for people interested in ecological problems pertaining to rain forests are just outstanding," Taylor said. "Golifto is situated between two of the world's largest rivers." People could use the Golifto center as a base for the study of all manner of organisms."
ONE BENEFIT brought about by the research center, according to Stansifer, would be a major contribution to the development of the South Pacific zone of Costa Rica.
Johnson said, "It's a very economically depressed region. One of the hopes of this program from the beginning has been that it would benefit the people in the region."
Stansier said that the establishment of the research institute would be beneficial to the United Fruit Company as well as to the universities and the region, now that the company has decided to abandon its holdings in the area and dismiss thousands of workers.
"It will be contributing to the stabilization of an obviously volatile social situation," he said. "It will foster a low profile of the company's image in the region. It will avoid the otherwise inevitable deterioration and decay of the town. And it will be making a contribution to the development of the region where the company intends to continue to operate."
"In effect, the creation of the institute is a permanent commitment of the two universities to contribute to the economic, social, scientific and cultural development of Pacific zone of Costa Rica." Stanssie said.
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