University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
Page 9
Lighting study names high crime-rate areas
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
The Stouffer Place apartments and Gertrude Sellars Pearson and Corbin hall areas are where many campus crimes occur, according to a study of campus lighting released last night.
Ronald Helms, the director of architectural engineering, compiled the study, "A Study of Outdoor Nighttime Crime and Campus Lighting," over a four-month period in 1983.
Helms said he researched the number and location of sexual, assault, robbery and window-peeping crimes that occurred on campus between January 1977 and February 2016 and correlated the frequency and location of the crimes to the quality of campus lighting in the area.
No definite patterns can be drawn from the study, Helms said. The KU campus has more lighting than elsewhere, therefore it is safer than other campuses.
The study showed that window peeping was the crime that occurred most often. Helms said. Fifty-two of the crimes reported were window peeps.
SEX CRIMES NUMBERED 30 and occurred most often near residence
All of the crimes that he surveyed increased between August and October each year, the study showed.
"This is the time period when you get a lot of new people who may be naive," Helms said. "They may come from some small towns and not think anything could happen to them."
Helms said the figures did not show a significant problem.
However, Helms said the number of crimes was not critical, but taking steps to prevent them was.
"If there is one rape that is prevented relative to lighting, that is important," he said.
"It's not a proper statement to say light is a deterrent of crime. It simply controls it," Helms said. "Putting a good quality lighting system on campus will not solve one problem, but several."
THE PRIMARY CONCERNS that the study raises in campus lighting are increased pedestrian, vehicle and bicycle safety, safer parking lots, and greater energy conservation, Helms said.
"Parking lot lighting is important because of the extended late night house hours."
Helms said the next step to improve the campus lighting would be to provide further studies to form a comprehensive master plan for a lighting program.
Helms said further study would be able to determine the amount of sunlight required for the areas and the type of lighting equipment appropriate to those areas.
The first step would be to increase lighting on paths that many students use such as Memorial Drive, Helms said.
However, he said that funds and time had to be made available before beginning the second study and before increasing campus lighting. He estimated that about $10,000 would be needed to pay for the study, which could be completed during the summer. However, he could not estimate what the total amount of the lighting project would be.
WILLIAM EASLEY. STUDENT body president, said Helms' study gave the Student Senate a starting base. Helms said he would find additional money to do the additional study. The money will also have to be raised.1
Easley said he would like to see the research started in June and finished by August.
Prescriptions filled at pharmacy day
Pharmacy students meet with representatives from about 30 hospitals, retail chain stores and industries. The Pharmacy School yesterday sponsored the Annual Pharmacy Career Day in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Representatives from retail stores, industry, sales and hospitals sat waiting yesterday as pharmacy students filled the Kansas Union Ballroom for Pharmacy Career Day. They were joined by others for students to come talk with them.
In fact, some representatives waited all day.
They were from the hospitals that couldn't offer graduates the high starting salaries that manufacturer and retail store representatives had. The director of human resources at Catherine Hospital in Garden City.
"I only interviewed about a half dozen students all day." Fagot said.
HOSPITALS OFFER STARTING salaries at about $21,000 to $26,000 while industry and retail offer about $28,000 to $33,000 to graduates, several representatives from hospitals and industries said.
Rob Simon, pharmaceutical sales representative from Burroughs Wellcome in Topeka, said jobs in sales to hospitals and pharmacies were also low, with starting salaries of $20.000.
"Most students want to get into manufacturing and testing," he said. "I interviewed about three students today."
Tom Hitchcock, assistant to the dean of pharmacy, said that with a $12,000 possible spread between sales and hospitals and manufacturing and retail, it was no wonder that about 75 percent in pharmacy graduates would go on to pharmacy stores in stores such as Dillon Stores Co. and Wal-Mart Counties City.
Fagot said, "These students have been through five years of school and they want to get out and make some money."
ABOUT 60 FIFTH-YEAR pharmacy students came to the Ballroom in hopes of getting asked back for another interview at the companies' offices over spring break.
Hitchcock said most of the representatives were from Kansas and Missouri organizations, such as Marion Laboratories of Kansas City, Missouri; the Academy of Leaenworth and retail stores such as K-Mart Display Stores
Hitchcock said that because the School of Pharmacy did not have an official placement bureau, this was not a problem; representatives were very important.
"In metro Kansas City, there are not many job opportunities because UMKC has its own pharmacy school that offers fine graduates," Hitchcock said in Texas, salaries are big and graduates are getting jobs there."
GORDON BECK, LAKE Forest,
III., fifth-year student, said he was
interested in industry because it
offered advancement.
He said that although the starting salary might be high for retail pharmacists, the opportunities in industry were even greater.
"Industry offers diversity in marketing and research and management." Beck said. "In industry, your salary ranges from $24,000 to $26,000 plus half of your salary in commission in sales."
Beck said he wanted to advance into international sales and management. A hospital in southwest that he said, didn't seem too appealing.
She said the clinical aspects of hospital work were appealing because she would be able to know which kinds of drugs the patient was taking, and she could then help the doctor by assisting in the therapy of the patient.
But Mary Ann Rinkenbaugh, Coffeyville, fifth-year student, said she saw some advantages to working in a hospital.
Steroids continued from p. 1
Sells said he had been approached by a steroids dealer in a Lawrence bar.
"He said. 'If you need any, I sell you.' "Sells said. "It's that easy."
Black market operators also supply steroids to many gyms, which then sell them to individual athletes, Sells said. He said he received four or five from steroid distributors offering special deals when he opened his gym.
A 17-page flier he received in December lists assorted steroid products at prices and quantities range from $25 for $35 to a 20-coeff bottle for $900
Sells said he refused to sell steroids.
Knop, now an Olathe city commissioner and insurance agent, said steroids were sold in three of the five he trains at in the Kansas City area.
The University has not been immune to the steroid epidemic, which made headlines during the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 summer Olympics. Knop said he used them while at KU in the late 1960s. Bob Timmons, head men's track coach, said he had confiscated steroids from a track athlete during the 1970s.
Narewski and Colson, the former KU coach and javelin thrower indicted in South Carolina, will plead guilty Monday to the charges of
distributing steroids at Clemson, their attorneys said Tuesday.
Narewski and Colson resigned from the Clemson coaching staff and the investigation into their alleged illegal distribution of steroids began.
Timmons said Tuesday that he did not approve of the alleged actions by Narewski and Colson but that he was concerned for them as friends.
"I'm sorry that it happened in the first place," Tirmizs said. "Both have expressed their feelings that they're sorry they happened, too. They've also Stanley Sanders willingly have done anything that would cause injury to an athlete."
David Blutcher, a KU sprinter who trained under Narewsk in KU in 1977 and 1978, said he was shocked by the news. He said that while coaching at Narewsk promoted proper weight training, diet and rest, but not drugs.
"Even when I was injured, he didn't advocate taking drugs," Blutcher said.
National inquiry
The FDA is working with state and local agencies in the Clemson investigation and other steroid investigations around the country. Jim Smith, director district attorney, said he knew of no such investigations in Kansas.
Flory said fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs for resale, offering them for sale or possessing them with intent to sell were Class C felonies under Kansas law, which carry a minimum prison sentence of 10 years and a maximum penalty of 10 to 20 years. But he didn't think it was illegal to possess or use steroids without a prescription.
The growth of the steroid black market, described by an FDA official as a "malignant spread," is accompanied by growing national concern about the danger of steroids.
Robert Goldman, a Chicago sports physician, last month said five athletes who died last year because of heart problems and one who died because of liver cancer had used steroids. Goldman's findings are supported by a study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine that cites "overwhelming" evidence linking steroids to liver cancer, cardiovascular disease and at least temporary sterility.
But Eric Zemper, NCAA research coordinator, said last month, "Now that we're starting to look for them,
Bott, the head trainer, said athletes had not yet acknowledged the dangers of steroids.
The deaths of patients receiving steroid therapy for debilitating illnesses or traumatic injuries such as extensive burns have been reported for some time.
"We do know the adverse effects, but it just hasn't been accepted," Bott said. "The athlete is looking for a panacea, a quick fix, we're faced with this dilemma. But they are deadly."
Walter R. Dixon, associate professor of pharmacology, said that he thought that using steroids to increase muscle mass was dangerous but that there still was controversy about the risks involved.
"We're starting to get more evidence all the time about serious, detrimental effects."
we're finding documented cases among healthy athletes as well.
Some physicians and trainers think steroids are not dangerous if taken properly and in moderation. But athletes who are trying to "bulk-up" quickly see advantages in taking large quantities, said gym-owner Sells. He said their attitude was "if one lollipop is good two are better."
One definite and permanent side effect of steroids strikes growing high school athletes. Camille Heeb, a Topika pediatrician, said medical staff had treated boys who bowed conclusively that steroidsb held bone growth in young athletes.
"They're just guaranteed to be shorter than they normally would be." Heeb said.
Risks vs. rewards
The risks vs. the rewards for athletes using the drugs also have been debated, but the American Journal of Sports Medicine has reported that steroids can signifiably increase performance. Knop said he could not have thrown the shot as far as he did without steroids.
"It might just be that I didn't have what it takes to be a topnotch thrower," Johnson said. "It's frustrating." He explained, "it just makes you wonder."
The number of athletes who use steroids is unknown. Only about 80 out of 2,000 athletes in various men's and women's sports surveyed by the NCAA in 1984 admitted using steroids. But Zemper, the NCAA research coordinator, said that that percentage would be much higher if included only men's sports such as football, wrestling and track and field.
"The question is whether the (Clemson) situation is the tip of the iceberg or just an unusual situation that came to light." Zemper said. "It's just a really dangerous situation that we have to address."
Action was deferred on a first draft of the proposed regulations at the annual NCAA convention in January because delegates thought the proposed rules were ambiguous and thus unenforceable, said Del Brinkman, KU's faculty representative to the convention and dean of journalism.
"No one wants to pass a rule that can't be enforced," Brinkman said. "It is not a case of not wanting to do this, but of how are we going to do this."
The NCAA is working on regulations that would ban steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs and provide for testing at NCAA championships and bowl games.
Timmons said he had pushed for drug testing at international and national track events as far back as 1972. He said he thought that if drugs were used using drugs were declared ineligible, it would defer other athletes.
Zemper said a revised version may be considered at a special NCAA convention this summer. If apportioned populations could go into effect this fall.
He said he thought the revised NCAA regulations eventually would be approved.
"I guarantee you, if they do that, and they have severe penalties attached to it," Timmons said, "it will change it all out, but it will change it up."
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