University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1985
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Panel passes bill to ban waste burial
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A bill that would ban the burial of most hazardous waste easily cleared a Kansas House committee yesterday.
The House Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard from only two conferences before sending the measure to the full House for debate. The Senate passed the bill unanimously last month.
A similar bill died in the Senate last year.
The bill would prohibit the underground burial of hazardous wastes in the state, but it would not ban above-ground methods of waste disposal or not cover who generate small quantities of hazardous wastes.
THE BILL ALSO authorizes the state Secretary of Health and Environment to allow certain wastes to be buried if no other disposal method is economically or technically feasible.
conductly or technically. Barbara Sabol, secretary of the
Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the committee that the ban was necessary because hazardous waste burial threatened the state's ground water supplies.
"The costs for restoring or containing groundwaters contaminated by below-ground burial of hazardous wastes," she said, "and the costs will be borne by Kansas industry required to use alternative methods of disposal."
Committee Chairman Ron Fox, R-Prairie Village, said that legislators had become more aware of the
problem of hazardous waste disposal. Fox sponsored the bill that failed last year.
Bill Henry, a lobbyist for the Kansas Engineering Society who spoke in favor of the bill, attributed the change in the Legislature's treatment of the bill to an interim committee's favorable report on a ban on the underground burial of hazardous waste.
The Special Committee on Energy and Natural Resources reported last summer that a such a ban was in the best interests of the state.
Additions, revisions change face of timetable
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
Dozens of new and revised classes are offered in each semester's timetable classes that can turn a student's schedule into an adventure one.
Two such courses are Astronomy 294, The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, and East Asian Languages and Cultures 302. Japanese Ghosts and which are both to be considered by the College Assembly today.
The assembly will consider adding 26 courses and revising about 100 others, Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said yesterday.
Young said the initial process of proposing new courses or revising others was left almost solely to individual departments.
"FACULTY MEMBERS or the department's advisory committee will come up with the addition or revision for one reason or another." The committee which includes faculty members and student representatives, then votes
on the proposal. And if it is approved,
it is then sent to the Committee on
Undergraduate Studies and Advising,
and they present it to the College
Assembly for final approval."
The advising committee looks at departmental proposals monthly, Young said. The process from a department's proposal to approval is about two months and usually lasts about two months and usually lasts about a semester.
Young said the advising committee and the assembly generally based their approval of a new or revised course on whether it filled a particular need not served by an existing course.
Stephen Shawl, associate professor of physics and astronomy, last spring proposed the course he now teaches, The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life.
"I noticed that some other universities had a course on extracurriculars, and it was about time KU had one. So I made the proposal," Shawl said.
shawl described the class as a mixture of basic biology and physics and of the study of scientists' of possible life on other planets.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
KU WORD & SHIELD.D will meet at 7 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
THE TRANSCENDENTAL Meditation Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS
will meet in 5:45 p.m. at
Minsky's Pizza, 2228 Iowa St. Employees from University Relations will speak.
A SEMINAR TITLED "The Committed Marriage: A Christian Perspective" will be given at 3 p.m. on October 11, Christian Ministries, 2042 Oread Ave.
THE ST. LAWRENCE Catholic
Center will conduct its weekly scripture study at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
THE STRATEGY GAMES Club will conduct its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
WEEKLY CLASS AND discussion for Moral Development and Conscience Formation will be from 8:15
to 9:15 p.m. at the Catholic Center.
The EMILY TAYLOR Women's Resource Center will sponsor a workshop, "Excellence: Achieve It This Year," from 7:0 8:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
to 9:15 p.m. at the Catholic Center.
THE WEEKLY FOUNDATIONS of Catholicism class will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Catholic Center.
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The motion passed 5-4, with Chairman Roy Ehrlich, R. Hoisington, breaking the bill on the then killed the bill on a voice yote.
Lawmakers have speculated that midwives are concerned that they may not be able to meet stringent regulations that could be imposed if they were declared health care providers.
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While President Reagan and Congressman Jack Kemp, who in 1980 persuaded over half of the electorate that the government can only obstruct, are considered the first supply-siders, perhaps another prominent propagandist contributed to their relative success. During the late 1960s, William Shockley probably became the first supply-sider when he claimed that the different average levels of performance on standardized intelligence tests which existed between the races was the result of a genetically transmitted intellectual capacity.
Like so many supply-siders who followed him, it was Mr. Shockley's success in another field which first made him a public figure. (Before Mr. Shockley began dabbling in genetics, he and another man won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their development of the transistor.)
Mr. Shockley, who was concerned about the future of the country, hastily examined the aforementioned standardized intelligence test scores and concluded that because blacks were intellectually inferior to whites their higher rate of reproduction had a "dysgenic", i.e., detrimental, effect on the populace's collective genetic wealth. As each subsequent supply-sider has done, Mr. Shockley was able to overlook virtually all the variables which contributed to the phenomenon he was studying.
Mr. Shockley was an internationally recognized physicist before he began hypothesizing about genetic deficiencies. President Reagan, a former movie actor, and Congressman Kemp, onetime professional football player, also superficially explored before deciding that every national problem could fall before an active private sector.
Just as Mr. Shockley ignored such factors as poverty and racial discrimination in his analysis, Messrs. Reagan and Kemp can't see that industrial pollution, ineffective schools, widespread ignorance, adolescent suicides, child abuse, unwanted pregnancies, lackadaisical nursing homes, pockets of poverty, crime in the streets, and the venereal disease epidemic are public problems which can only be dealt with by principled governing bodies.
When hearing comfortable supply-siders imply that struggling farmers, intimidated teachers, exhausted nurses, and battered women unable to thrive in the current economic mechanism should smilingly seek greener pastures, I recall Mr. Shockley's comparable commitment to and resultant interpretation of the apparent and wonder why he isn't now lauded as the first supply-sider.
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