University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
350 elect AURH officers
The uncontested race for the four Association of University Residence Halls offices ran smoothly, the AURH adviser said yesterday.
Mark Denke, AURH adviser and assistant director of the office of residential programs, said about 350 residents had voted in the elections Monday and Tuesday. About 1,300 residents usually vote, Denke said.
The four winners from the Alliance coalition, the only coalition that ran, are: Andrew Blossom, president; Liz Walt, vice president; Margie Houston, secretary; and Mike Pringle, treasurer. The coalition received 280 votes.
Denke said there were fewer than 10 write-in votes. The winners will be sworn in office at the March 19 AURH general assembly meeting.
Pizza funds finance team
Domino's Pizza is giving 30 cents of each pizza order this week to the men's track team, Bob Timmons, head track coach, said Tuesday. The team will have to go to Florida State University from March 13 to 16 for the Domino's Pizza Relays.
The team has depended on Domino's pizza sales to help defray the cost of the trip for three years.
Timmons said he hoped everyone in Lawrence would eat a lot of pizza this week.
One-man show goes to capital
Jack Wright, professor of theatre and artistic director of the University Theatre, will star in the KU production of "The Sage of Emporia" at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., on Friday and Saturday.
Wed. Wright portrays William Allen White, former editor of the Emporia Gazette, in the one-man show. The play is based on the writings of White and includes passages from two of his noted editorials, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" and "Mary White."
The play made its debut at the University of Kansas in March 1981. Wright since has performed the show throughout Kansas and the Midwest.
Both performances, part of the gallery's "Portraits in Motion Encore," are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The play was first performed at the gallery in 1983 as part of the "Portraits in Motion" series.
Cancer research grants given
The Kansas University Endowment Association has received two grants for cancer research for the University of Kansas Medical Center, Endowment Association officials announced this week.
One grant for $33,000, from the John W. and Eiffe E. Spears Memorial Trust, will finance five one-year pilot cancer research projects, four at the Med Center and one at the University of Kansas School of Medicine — Wichita.
The other grant of $44,400 donated from the Flosse E. West Memorial Trust, will finance research by Andrew Parkinson, assistant professor of pharmacology.
Each researcher in the pilot projects will study one aspect of cancer research. Research topics will include cell destruction suffered by bone-marrow transplant patients, techniques for early detection and diagnosis, and accurately diagnosing and determining the degree of malignancy of uterine cancer.
disease researchers are: John Clancy
 Jr., associate dean of the School of
Medicine; Myra Hurt, research assistant
professor of medicine; Richard Silver-
stein, associate professor of biochemistry;
Ronald Weiner, assistant professor of
diagnostic radiology; and Lynn Lavia,
assistant professor of gynecology and
obstetrics at the Wichita branch.
Today will be mostly cloudy and windy. The high will be 65 to 70. Winds will be from the southwest at 15 to 30 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The low tonight will be around 40. The high tomorrow will be 55 to 60.
Weather
Compiled from Kansan stuff and United Press International reports.
Amended drinking bill passes to House
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Liquor by the drink easily cleared a Kansas House committee yesterday, but only after picking up a provision that would limit the places where it could be sold.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee endorsed an amendment to the Kansas constitution that would end the state's ban on open saloons in counties that vote in favor of the amendment. There was no debate on the resolution.
of 1000 has now paid its dues." Walker said. "It's the best of all worlds," Walker said. "The governor gets his part and we can still confine it to eating establishments."
THE STATE NOW requires clubs with reciprocal status to earn at least 50 percent of their income from the sale of food. The
An amendment proposed by State Rep. Thomas Walker, R-Newton, to limit sales of liquor by the drink to places that earned at least $10 per gallon from the sale of food narrowly] passed 119.
important by law. The measure now moves to the full House, which has scheduled debate on the resolution for March 20 and 21. Because it is a proposed constitutional amendment, the resolution requires a two-thirds majority for passage.
amendment would do away with required club memberships in counties that approved liquor by the drink.
The resolution would send the liquor-by-the-drink issue to the state's voters in the November 1868 general election. If passed, it would be unlawful by the drink on a county-by-county basis.
Supporters say they are still five or six vote short of the 84 necessary for passage by the House.
State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, opposed Walker's amendment but said he voted in its favor to assure passage of the resolution by the full House. There would not be enough votes for passage without the amendment, he said.
"WE PICK UP at least five votes by doing this," he said. "That might be the margin we need."
He said House supporters still hoped to win enough votes to pass the resolution without the Walker amendment.
vancum said the 30 percent food sales requirement would still permit virtually all of the non-recipiable private clubs now in the state to serve liquor by the drink.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, voted against the food sales amendment because she said it had no place in the constitution.
STATE REP, MICHAEL Peterson, D-DanKS city, said the restriction proposed by Walker should not be a part of the resolution to amend the constitution.
She abstained from endorsing the full resolution and asked for a separate vote. The would vote on the House floor.
The net effect would be to move the state's private club laws into the constitution," Peterson said. "I don't believe we should give up the case of legislation in the state's constitution."
Committee Chairman Robert H. Miller,
R-Wellington, said after the meeting that
because of the amendment, he would vote for the resolution on the House floor.
The Rev. Richard Taylor, president of Kansans for Life at Its Best!, the anti-liquor lobby, he wished the committee had made the food provision 50 percent of sales in
"Public liquor by the drink is a big step in the wrong direction," Taylor said. "This is a little step in the wrong direction."
Jerry Shelor, executive director of the pro-liquor group, Kansans for Effective Liquor Control, was visibly upset with the amendment requiring food sales.
"REV. TAYLOR REMAINS the most powerful lobbyist in the statehouse," Shelor said.
The Senate approved the resolution last month 28-12, one vote more than the necessary two-thirds majority.
If the amended resolution is approved by the House, a final version would have to be forged by a joint House-Senate conference committee.
Bob Barbour, Ft. Collins, Colo., graduate student, takes advantage of the warm weather to play a round of Frisbee golf in the wooded area near the Spencer Museum of Art. Yesterday's warm temperatures will continue today, with an expected high of about 60 degrees and a chance for rain tonight.
Terry Burkart/KANSAN
Airport lacks equipment; airline won't return to city
By MARC C. COAN Staff Reporter
A regional airline that served Lawrence before being grounded by federal aviation officials last month will not resume service to the city after it regains its flying status, the airline's president said yesterday.
Charles Morris, who yesterday was appointed president of Capitol Airlines, which is based in Manhattan, said the airline would postpone service to Lawrence Municipal Airport indefinitely until equipment to help planes land during bad weather was installed at the airport.
The move will leave the city without any scheduled airline service.
Capitol had its operating certificate revoked Feb. 23 by the Federal Aviation Administration for alledged paperwork violations. Capitol's decision to discontinue service was not connected with the revocation, Morris said.
MORRIS SAID THE airline planned to continue to offer flights connecting Topeka, Manhattan and Salina with Kansas City International Airport.
"We are closing our Lawrence operation because of our inability to get into the airport during poor weather," Morris said.
Because the airport does not have equipment that allows pilots flying in clouds to descend using only cockpit instruments. Capitol planes can not land safely at the airport during bad weather. Morris said.
The airline did not want to contue to serve the city if passenger safety was jeopardized, he said.
CAPITOL NOTIFIED THE city of its decision to discontinue service through a letter received Tuesday by Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager and acting airport manager. But Wildgen said the letter did not explain why the airline had reached the decision.
Wildgen said the airline had never complained to him before about the lack of equipment at the airport.
The Lawrence City Commission plans to discuss the airline's decision at its meeting Tuesday night, Wildgen said.
Morris said the absence of the poorweather landing equipment at the airport had caused passengers to become dissatisfied with Capitol's service.
Dave Seitz, manager of the airline's Lawrence operation, said Capitol had to cancel between 5 to 10 percent of its flights between Lawrence and Kansas City International Airport because of poor flying weather. When this happened, he said, the airline had to transport passengers by car.
Some passengers were inconvenienced by the extra time it took to travel by car, Seitz said.
Morris said that it was up to the FAA and the city to provide the necessary equipment to allow planes to reach Lawrence in bad weather. He said the airline would request that the FAA improve the situation.
State panel may rewrite classified pay plan
By NANCY HANEY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin's proposed pay plan for classified employees doesn't go far enough and should be revised, a subcommittee of a House and Senate committee decided yesterday.
committee issued, said State Rep. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, and chairman of the committee.
The Administrative Rules and Regulations Committee today will ask the state Department of Administration to work up a new pay plan based on guidelines its sub-
The committee will wait about two weeks for administrative reaction to its suggestions, Duncan said, then write its own proposal if no reaction has come.
Classified employees are state employees, such as clerk-typeps, whose jobs are identical statewide. There are about 1,200 classified employees at the University of Kansas.
IF A NEW pay plan can't be agreed upon
by the administration, the Legislature and the Kansas Association of Public Employees, the Legislature can pass an interim plan for one year until a new plan can be worked out, Duncan said.
It may be too late in the session to work out a new plan that can be agreed on by all the parties involved, he said.
Duncan said the committee would ask that the administration write a plan that gave employees gradual raises every year, rather than larger raises every five years. That
way, he said, employees would not have to wait so long between raises.
The governor's plan calls for a raise after six months, one year and then once every five years. Duncan said he didn't like the long wait.
HE SAID HE would ask that the administration set graduated steps in the system, so that employees would stay at designated levels of advancement the same amount of time that they do now, but that raises be given once a year rather than every fifth year.
Stolen mice probably main course for snakes
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Forty baby mice were sprung from their cages over the weekend. But instead of being set free, the people who care for them fear the mice probably will end up as food for snakes.
sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m.
Monday from the second floor of the Hall
Mammalian Genetics Lab, KU police said
yesterday. The lab is in an annex to Snow
Hall.
An Animal Care Unit worker discovered that the mice were missing Monday when he went in to care for them. The lab was locked
KU police said they were investigating the theft.
when he got there, and there were no signs of forced entry into the lab. KU police said.
The mice, valued at $40, were stolen
John Mulder, director of the Animal Care Unit, said the unit oversaw the health and care of the animals kept on campus for research and display purposes.
THERE ARE ANIMALS in Hall Mammalian Genetics Lab, Haworth Hall, Skissman Research Lab and the Museum of Natural History.
"The excess mice were to be fed to the snakes in the Natural History Museum." Mulder said. "They were probably taken by someone who had snakes at home they're feeding. Somebody probably had a key to the building. Most University buildings have more keys out than they should.
"But it wasn't one of the animal care unit people because we don't have snakes at home."