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wednesday, February 27, 1985
Vol. 95, No.104 (USPS 650-640)
Incumbents win places in primary
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
The lowest voter turnout in 10 years marked yesterday's city primary election in which three incumbent city commissioners won the ballot for the April 2 general election.
Barkley Clark, professor of law at the University of Kansas for 16 years, has accepted a teaching position that will begin in September at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Clark, a former Lawrence mayor, said he would miss his colleagues and students at KU.
Yesterday, 6,002 nurses narrowed the field from 11 contenders to six. The six will vie for three Lawrence City Commission seats. The two will be sworn in, and the finished in the first, second and fourth places.
Mike Amyx, who has served on the City Commission for two years, finished first of the 11 candidates with 3.107 votes. Incumbent Commissioners Howard Hill and Nancy Shontz finished second and fourth responder. They received 3.053 votes, and Shontz put 2.332 votes.
Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk, said the final vote total was close to 22 percent of the registered voters.
"I'M NOT SURE if it is low in the percentages," she said. "I might be waiting, if it's record low." she said.
Sandra Praeger, former Lawrence-Douglas
Division officer, then in third place with 3.031 votes
(in third place with 3.031 votes)
Fifth place went to Mona McCoy, 516 W. Sivth St. who received 147 votes.
Sixth S', who received 147 votes. Fifth Road, finished in sixth place, with 1238 votes.
The general election on April 2 will decide who will fill the three seats for the next two years.
About 30 people gathered at the courthouse as the votes from each of the 30 precincts
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1
Library to ease Spencer squeeze
Staff Reporter
BY HEATHER R. BIGGINS Staff Reporter
Rick Embers smoothed the crumpled corners of a Russian geology map in a filled metal trav.
"It really shouldn't be this way." Embers, map librarian, said Monday, walking between the crowded map cabinets in the basement of Spencer Research Library. "This collection is too crowded, and the maps aren't cared for as well as they should be because of the conditions.
"We need more space."
we need more space.
More than 250,000 maps are stored in cabinets and shelves in the library, and current holdings exceed 100 percent of capacity. By 1899, holdings are projected to be 124 percent of capacity.
Embers and other Spencer Research librarians said they expected to feel the crunch until a proposed science and technology library was built. The new library will provide them with relief from the constant need to shift materials every time a collection is returned or a new one is acquired.
THE SPENCER RESEARCH Library was designed to contain only three departments; the department of special collections, the Kansas Collection, and the University Archives.
But during the remodeling of Watson library in 1962 was necessary or two dwarfed Watson. Watson
The government documents department
the basis of Science Research Library
That move caused Spencer Research Library to burst at the seams, and librarians said they didn't expect conditions to change until the science library was built and the temporary departments in the basement moved out.
JIM RANZ, DEAN of libraries, said the new science library would contain primarily science materials during its first phase, which is scheduled for completion in 1899. The department will then be moved into the Hall Mall Science library on the sixth floor.
As the departments in Spencer Research Library continue to receive collections, library workers must shift permanent collections to make room. Shelves are moved closer together and shelf heights increased. Patrons make due with the lack of study space and library workers find it a little more difficult to locate materials.
Government documents will not move to its new home in the science library until phase 2.
THE STAFF COFFEE room in the Kansas Collection is often used as a holding area for collections until space is made. Sheryl
Williams, curator for the Kansas Collection,
said the basement had been used as the department's holding area before government documents and maps moved in.
Current holdings in the Kansas Collection are 68 percent of capacity and collections are 100 percent.
As the repository for records that document the history of the University of Kansas, University Archives can weed out records that aren't of value anymore. But John Ginsberg said the destruction of records no longer of value didn't eliminate space problems.
Holdings in University Archives are at 75 percent capacity; projected 1899 capacity is
Ranz said, "For all practical purposes, we consider a library full at 80 percent capacity. The whole library system will need relief by the time the new library is built."
Alexandra Mason, special collections librarian, said, "It could get harder to reassure our donors that their contribution will be taken care of properly."
The department of special collections' current capacity is 10 percent and expected to increase to 20 percent.
"We've always found a place for each new collection, but we will be too tight by the time we get to it."
"The sooner that library is built the haspier a lot of us will be."
Law prof to leave for capital in May
After years of involvement in state and city government, Barkley Clark, professor of law for 16 years, has decided to tackle Capitol Hill.
By ANN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
Clark, 45, will leave the University of Kansas School of Law at the end of this semester to teach at George Washington University. The law school more than twice as large as KU's.
Clark said he hoped to work on issue concerning bank deregulation and work with Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, when he said he regarded as the best legislator it
Law school officials and law students say they are losing one of their finest teachers.
"Barkley is certainly a substantial loss to the law school," said Michael Davis, dean of the law school.
NEXT YEAR Clark will be replaced by a visiting professor to give the school time to find a permanent replacement. Davis said.
Students praised Clark, a 1965 graduate of the law school at Harvard University, for his dynamic, animated teaching and his ability to make students enthusiastic about subjects.
"A lot of the courses I took were because Clark was teaching them," said John Kohler, Lawrence second-year law student. "I heard about him before I came here."
Kohler said he might change his schedule next semester because Clark would not be teaching some of the courses he wanted to take
Clark said that he knew several faculty members at George Washington University and that it was a logical place for him to go.
"It was a time in my life when I was ready to move on and do something new," he said.
CLARK IS KNOWN nationally for his published works, including three treatises used by bankers and their attorneys. He also conducts commercial law seminars across
He teaches classes in commercial law, local government and bankruptcy. Davis is a graduate of the University.
At George Washington, Clark will teach similar courses as well as a course in computer science.
Clark said he would miss classes filled with discussion and good humor and the "espirit of the faculty" "at KU's law school."
Carol Wolf, Lawrence third-year law student, said Clark often used humor in class to make dull subjects interesting.
Kohler said Clark had a tremendous ability and the ability to promote students' curiosity.
DAVIS SAID HE had worked closely with Clark since coming to KU. Davis was Clark's campaign director when he ran for the Lawrence City Commission in 1973.
Clark was a city commissioner from 1973 to 1983 and was mayor of Lawrence in 1975-76 and 1979-80.
He used the slogan "No Ax to Grind" in his campaign to persuade voters that he favored no business or consumer group over another, Davis said.
"Barkley was always very much in favor of many proposals that helped facilitate the role of the people," said Nancy Shontz, city commissioner.
In his 10 years on the City Commission — the longest term ever served, Clark said he
See CLARK, D. 5, col.1
Tavern owner protests switch in ASK strategy
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
The Associated Students of Kansas is failing to represent student interests in the Legislature by not lobbying to keep the power at 18, a local tavern owner said Monday.
Ken Wallace, president of the Tavern League of Kansas and owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said he wanted to let students know that ASK member Jerry Patterson had written so that it no longer represented student opinions on the dripping gale bill.
Last year, ASK vigorously opposed any increase in the drinking age from 18 to 21 for 3.2 percent beer. But after the federal government passed legislation to deny anyone state not complying with the higher drinking age by 186. ASK dropped its effort.
SANDRA BINYON, ASK campus director, said ASK members agreed that the state would raise the drinking age regardless of the ASK position and decided to try to arrange some benefits for students.
The main problem with the changed stance on the issue, Wallace said, was that the Legislature was more likely to listen to
ASK MEMBERS lobbied for provisions in the bill that would allow 18-year-olds to continue to handle and serve alcoholic beverages, as the age gradually over a couple of years.
Last month the House passed a version of the drinking age bill that included the provisions ASK wanted. The bill will be debated in the Senate next月.
Students find traffic court more appealing than fine
Binyon said the ASK legislative assembly enacted the drinking age issue in 2015.
This year, although the official ASK position has not changed, the group has focused more energy on other issues connected with raising the drinking age, on said.
"We decided to try to make the best of a ba situation and try to save some jobs," she said.
Wallace said, "We don't find the intensity or the sense of moral outrage coming from them that we found last year."
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
"we, as an industry, are still perceived by the legislature as protecting the right to sell," he said. "The young people of the country that can protect their right to purchase."
students who lobbied for student rights than to tavern owners who lobbied for student rights.
Many students have experienced humiliation, anger and a pinch in the checkbook from taunting beige parking tickets pinned beneath a windshield wiper. But a few students are fighting back — in court.
At the same time, KU law students representing the parking service and the people contesting the tickets sharpen their skills as attorneys and judges, said Sue Dickey, Leaward second-year law student in the traffic court's chief justice, yesterday.
THE TRAFFIC COURT was created more than 10 years ago with the approval of the Student Senate and the Kansas Legislature, she said.
The Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals,
a student-operated traffic court, provides a forum where students, faculty and staff can discuss traffic issues. "The University of Kansas parking service.
"Traffic court serves both the law school and the students," Dickey said. "It's a good, all-around program."
But despite free legal services and the chance to appeal a ticket believed to be undeserved, a small percentage of students appeal parking tickets.
"A lot of students don't bother to read the back of their ticket," said Donna Hutline,
assistant parking service director." And a lot
don't because appealing sounds ominous.
Lora Hawk, iola freshman, said she received a parking violation for parking crooked in the Gertrude Sellars Pearson Court. She said she was not aware of the traffic court.
"It's easier to take care of it and just pay the ticket," she said.
LAST YEAR, Dickie said, about 1,000 tickets were appealed in the bucket compared to 76,844 parking violations issued by the parking services for fiscal year 1984.
"Once the law students are given the responsibility, they decide fairly," she said. "They don't just think, 'Oh, the poor students.'"
Dickey said the traffic court also improved the operation of the parking service by discovering ambiguous wording or loopholes in its rules and regulations.
Hultine said about 60 to 70 percent of the appeals were denied.
First-year law students assume the roles of defense and prosecuting attorneys, and second-year law students test their gavels as judges, said Brenda Cosner, Overland Park second-year law student and a traffic court judge.
HALF OF THE lawyers defend the students, she said, and the other half represent the University. The law students switch roles at the end of each semester.
See TICKETS, p. 5, col. 4
A KU parking service employee places a ticket on an illegally parked car. Last year, the parking service issued approximately 76,000 tickets, but students, faculty and staff may ap peal the tickets in a traffic court operated by law students