University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1985
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Talk to cover patients' rights
Whether people should be involuntarily committed to mental institutions will be discussed by a University of Chicago Law School professor at noon today in room 104 of Green Hall.
NEWS BRIEFS
Norval Morris, the professor, will speak as part of the Judge Nelson Timothy Stephens Lectureship.
Currently, laws in all 50 states prohibit committing people against their will to mental institutions unless a court finds them dangerous.
The lectureship was established in 1946 in memory of Stephens, who helped found the University of Kansas School of Law.
Teacher faces sex abuse trial
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A former teacher's aid at a nursery school has been ordered to stand trial in Wyandotte County for abusing two students who unquably abused two of the school's students.
Judge R. David Lamar Tuesday found probable cause to try Judy Frazier, 26. Kansas City, Kan., on two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child. Franz allegedly assaulted a boy and a girl, each about $2 \frac{1}{2}$ years old, at the Wood Haven Nursery School.
The girl's therapist who testified on the preliminary hearing said she believed the girl also had been abused by a male patient. The girl, said his client maintained her innocence.
Assistant District Attorney Kate Foster pointed to each child's ability to act out the alleged sexual mistreatment using anatomical dolls.
The girl's mother and therapist testified the child had told them she had been kissed and fondled by Franz. The therapist described that the girl "was described by the girl as 'Judy's friend.'"
The attorneys in the case had agreed that neither victim would testify at the
Franz left Wood Haven when the allegations first arose in November.
History topics to be discussed
The Graduate Association of Students in History will sponsor a conference on various history topics at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Regional and Regional rooms of the Kansas Union
Graduate and undergraduate students in history will be presenting papers on American history, European history, women's history and ancient and medieval history. After the presentations, there will be discussion and time to ask questions.
Group to test blood pressure
Blood pressure readings will be offered
numphed weekly by a local committee of
health officials.
The group will give blood pressure tests from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at Ellsworth Hall. Thursday, March 28, at Kaiser Cancer Center Friday, March 29, at the Kansas University
Volunteers from the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity will assist the program committee of the Douglas County chapter of the heart association in giving the tests, said Patrick Blanchard, chairman of the committee.
The purpose of the drive, Blanchard said, is to educate people about high blood pressure.
Trained student volunteers will administer the tests and explain the results. If the test indicates the need for attention by a physician, Blanchard said, the group will refer the person to the Douglas County Health Department for a checkup.
"A lot of times people think 'Oh, I have high blood pressure,' and then forget about it." Blanchard said. "The follow-up is an important part of the program."
Weather
Today will be decreasingly cloudy with a high of 55 to 60. Winds will be from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear. The low will be in the mid 30s. Tomorrow partly cloudy. The high will be in the upper 50s.
Compiled from Kanson staff and United Press international reports.
House OKs tough drinking measures
From Staff and Wire Reports
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday set the stage for today's debate on a proposed liquor-by-the-drink constitutional amendment by approving three measures that toughen the state's drinking laws.
The mouse gave final approval to one bill that strengthens the state's drunken driving laws and preliminary approval to a bill that bans a long list of drinking promotions, such as happy hours. It also approved a bill that penalizes minors who buy or drink alcohol.
The House also sent to a house-Senate conference committee a bill passed Tuesday by the Senate that would raise the state's legal drinking age to 21. The House refused to endorse a string of amendments added to the measure by the Senate.
The bill was designed to avoid the loss of more than $18 million in federal highway funds that Washington has threatened to raise. The bills that do not raise the drinking age to 21
THE SENATE'S AMENDMENTS would make widespread changes in the state's drinking laws, from permitting the sale of alcohol to 18-year-olds to serve linen in private clubs.
One amendment, proposed by State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, would allow alcoholic beverages to be served at specially designated, non-educational buildings at Board of Regents universities.
The House sent the drinking age bill to a conference committee made up of members of both the House and Senate to create a version acceptable to both chambers. If approved, the measure will go back to both chambers and then to Gov. John Carlin for his signature.
All the liquor measures eventually could be decided by the conference committee, where Senate supporters of liquor by the drink hope to use the drinking age bill as a bargaining chip for approval of liquor by the drink by the House.
STATE REP. ROBERT H. Miller, R-Wellington, State Rep. Jack Shriver, D-
Arkansas City, and House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, will represent the House on the committee.
Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola, appointed Majority Leader Paul Burke, R-Lewood, State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Calhoun, and Senator Johnston, D-Parsons, to the committee.
The committee is scheduled to meet 7 a.m.
Friday.
Burke said yesterday that Senate approval of the tougher drinking measures adopted by the House yesterday depended on what the House did with liquor by the drink.
Many senators oppose an amendment added by a House committee to the bill that would restrict the sale of liquor by the drink market that received 30 percent of its sales from food.
"I DON'T THINK the Senate will do anything until we have assurances of receiving a clean liquor-by-the-drink bill from the House," he said.
Supporters of the liquor-by-the-drink resolution have said they are still four or five
votes short of the 84 needed to send the measure to the voters in the 1986 general election.
Two of the drinking bills voted on by the House yesterday easily gained preliminary approval. The measures, initiated in the Senate, were designed to win the approval of legislators who were uncertain about the passage of liquor by the drink.
One of them bans tavern and club drinking promotions designed to encourage drinking. Two-for-one specials, free or reduced-price drinks, and all you-can-drink specials are among the promotions that would be eliminated by the bill.
The other bill would penalize anyone under the legal drinking age who drinks, buys or tries to buy alcohol.
A House committee removed a Senate provision that would have stripped the driver's license from underage drinkers and replaced it with a lower fine and the choice of community service.
Reagan's policies spoofed by folk singer at meeting
By JOHN RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter
Political satirist and singer-songwriter David Lippman attacked the values and beliefs of conservatives in a performance last night at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The performance was sponsored by Latin American Solidarity as part of the group's two-day educational, forums on Central America. Another scheduled speaker, Victor Rubio, an official of a political group opposed to the Salvadoran government, was unable to attend due to ill health.
Lippman entered the stage as his alter ego, George Schrub, a member of the Committee to Intervieve Anywhere and staunch supporter of right-wing dictatorships. Holding three fingers up, he called it the victory sign for World War III.
"The free world includes any country we can buy." Schrub said.
WHAT FOLLOWED WAS one hour of convoluted songs and twisted lyrics designed to point out the foibles and hypocrisy of money-hungry and materialistic Americans.
Scriub hoped the United States could teach its values to other parts of the world. For instance, he said, the "Committee to Pave El Salvador" should be finished by Christmas.
"It's a rich and varied world, I hardly know what to plunder next." Schrub said.
Lippman changed the songs to popular songs to get his ideas across. To the tune of The Song 'My Generation,' he 'sang, people try to put us down just because we woke up.'
President Reagan and his aides were among Lippman's favorite targets. An original song titled "Moderately Repressive Regimes" begins, "Our president once was an actor — with all the finesse of a tractor."
About Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, he said, "Kirkpatrick has worked hard at the United States, but it is still functioning, so she resigned."
While he was criticizing the U.S. government's foreign policy, he used a machine gun to point out the world's trouble spots on a map. As Schrub saw the world, the United States was surrounded by communist threats.
In its seriousness, the second half of Lippman's performance was in stark contrast to the first. Dressed casually in jeans and a plaid shirt, Lippman sang folk songs, one stressing his concern for the Salvadorans who had lost their lives because they opposed the government.
the government.
Lippman, 34, has played at benefits, rallies, night clubs and festivals since the late 60s.
David Lippman sings a song of political satire at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. The singer-songwriter and political satirist performed last night as part of a two-day forum on Central America sponsored by the Latin American Solidarity at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building.
Kate Wozniak/KANSAN
Holocaust scholar to speak same evening as Farrakhan
Staff Reporter
By SHARON ROSSE
No one planned for Lawrence L. Langer, a scholar on Holocaust literature, and Louis Farrakhan to speak on the same night, the Hillel faculty adviser said yesterday.
Alan Lichter, the adviser and associate professor of English, said Hillel, the Jewish student organization, had invited Langer to speak at the University of Kansas about three months ago, before Farrakhan's visit was announced.
"It was purely coincidental," he said.
"But it is ironic that Farakhan, who has made racist and anti-Semitic comments, anger should appear on the same night."
The departments of English, humanistic studies and religion, along with Hillier, are sponsoring Langer's speech, which is scheduled for 8 p.m. next Thursday in the Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Langer, who holds the alumnae-endowed奖学金，will attend Simmons College in Boston, also will speak to several classes during the day.
LANGER SAID YESTERDAY he knew
that I was playing on campus but would
pick comment on Farrugia.
"As long as he stays out of my way," Langer said. "I'll stay out of his."
Langer said he would discuss the problem of making choices in abnormal situations — such as the Holocaust — and how writers had expressed that dilemma in poetry, short stories, survivors' memoirs and war trial testimony.
Arkashan, a black separatist leader,
will speak the same night in Hoch
Sachsen. He is one of the young
Union Lecture Series and Alpha Week,
sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Lichter said that Hillel would neither encourage nor discourage its members' attending Farrakhan's speech, but he said that he thought Langer's lecture would be more interesting.
But despite the two speakers' opposing views, Christine Cressie, president of the Black Student Union, said she did not find any differences between the speakers or the audiences.
"THEERE WILL DEFINITELY be a conflict of interest," she said. "With the speaker talking about the Holocaust and Farrakhan's references to their religion, it will be difficult. But I don't anticipate problems because we respect their right to speak and we hope they will respect Farrakhan's."
Missing safety feature may have caused fire
By KATHY FLANDERS
A missing safety feature under a deep fryer was the probable cause of Tuesday's fire at a local restaurant, Jim McSwain, Lawrence fire chief, said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
The fire at Vista Drive In Restaurant, 1527 W. Sixth St., caused extensive smoke, heat and fire damage to the entire restaurant and gutted the kitchen.
Mike Gasper, owner and manager of the restaurant, said he planned to reopen the restaurant in one to three months.
The fire started in the center unit of a three-unit vat fryer in the restaurant's kitchen. Burners and a ventilation system were underneath each unit. Each burner was supposed to have a thermal coupling — a heat-measuring device that would shut off the burner if it got too hot.
THE OUTSIDE BURNERS had a thermal coupling, but the middle burner didn't, McSwain said.
McSwain said, "Obviously, the safety device was bypassed that was meant for the unit," he said. On Tuesday a preliminary investigation into the cause of the fire discovered that the middle unit had no thermal coupling and indicated that grease residue under the vats was what first caught on fire, McSwin said.
Fire department investigators Wes Hale and Mike Stalcup are continuing their investigation.
Without the thermal coupling, heat built up undetected in the vent area under the unit, to a temperature that ignited the excess grease, he said.
"It heated up, igniting the grease underneath the vats," McSwain said. "That brought thevat temperatureup, which ignited the vats of grease and then spread across the frying surfaces."
HE SAID THE grease fumes under the vats started burning at about 450 to 500 degrees, raising the temperature of the grease in the vats to 800 degrees and igniting it.
"We're lucky there weren't any injuries." McSwain said. "The speed of the spreading of the fire shows why we place so much emphasis on capacity seating regulations."
A malfunctioning safety device — an automatic fire extinguisher — in the hood ventilation system over the frying area allowed the fire to spread from the vats, McSwain said.
"It's supposed to go off by itself." Gaspar said. "It didn't when the fire started, so I pulled the manual switch. It didn't work either."
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