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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 89 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, February 5, 1985
Pulitzer Prize winner poet Gary Snyder visited classes yesterday as part of his visit to the University. Snyder will speak at 8 tonight in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. He traveled with a group of American writers to the People's Republic of China last fall.
Boundaries confining visiting poet suggests
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Poe Gary Snyder yesterday presented a problem to a KU cultural geography class. He asked the students to describe where he would not naming the state, city or county.
He then described his home in northern California in terms of its rivers, plants and man-made features.
"Cities only last a little white," Snyder said. "National boundaries last about 500 years."
Snyder, for the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his book "Turtle Island," spoke to a class taught by Pete Shortridge, professor of geography. Snyder also met with a poetry writing class and an Oriental art history class as part of his visit to the University, sponsored by the Center for Humanistic Studies.
HE WILL SPEAK at 8 tonight in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union "Arts of Politics in Action: A Writer's
Visit to the People's Republic of China." Snyder visited China last fall with a group of American writers that included poet J. K. Sinnersberg and novelist Macine Hong Kingston.
Snyder said his Mead County home was
nature-based, a unit that didn't fit its
natural environment.
"Mead County is a political entity that doesn't match the bioregional entity." Snyder said. "It straddles the Sierra Nevada ridge, forcing those who live on the east slope to cross a mountain pass, and crossing with snow, to reach the county seat."
He said Mead County was typical of the way the political boundaries in the western part of New York State were
"It was all done so hastily that it all has to be redone." Snyer said.
HE DESCRIBED BIOREGIONALISM as an environmental and political philosophy based on natural borders as opposed to political boundaries.
See SNYDER, p. 5, col. 1
Proponents urge pari-mutuel vote
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Kansas residents should be given a chance to vote on the issue of part-mutual betting on horse racing, a Senate committee was told yesterday.
The measure under consideration by the Committee on Federal and State Affairs proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit racing operated by non-profit organizations.
If approved by a two-thirds vote of both houses and by a state referendum, the proposal would allow local voters to decide whether they want pari-mutuel betting in their counties.
The meeting, which about 60 people attended, was to be continued this morning to allow the committee to hear from the issue's opponents.
Four proponents of the measure addressed the committee, including Kansans for Parity Action.
JONATHON SMALL, LOBBYIST for the group, said the resolution was patterned after a plan used in Nebraska and was signed by criminals from controlling the ractecards.
Small said he did not think pari-mutuel horse racing would damage the state's moral atmosphere, as opponents of the resolution contend.
Small said studies done by his organization indicated that 3 percent of the people who gamble would abuse their right to place bets. Mr. Hobson had legalized gambling in the form of bingo.
"Let's give the people of Kansas the right to vote on the issue," he said.
John Shoemaker, representing Capital Research Services Inc. of Topeka, said that 748 random telephone interviews were conducted in the state and that 79 percent of those polled they wanted to vote on the issue
HE SAID OF the 79 percent in favor of voting, 55 percent said they were in favor of pari-mutuel horse racing and 30 percent
were opposed. The rest wanted to vote but had not decided how they would vote.
Al Becker, president of the American Horse Council, said Kansas ranked fifth in the nation in the number of quarter horses owned by individuals in the state. Allowing pari-mutuel betting and racing in the state, he said, would help the Kansas economy.
"We have an industry that needs help and nurturing to get it off the ground." he said
Jerry Holley, vice president of broadcasting at Stauffer Communications, said Kansas was the only state left in the region to not have pari-mutuel betting.
He said the Kansas Futurity, one of the top five money-making horse races in the nation, had to be run in New Mexico because it was illegal in Kansas.
HOLEY LEAV HE OWED quarter horses and would like to be able to race his horses in HORSE RACE.
Herpes pill may have long-term effects
State Rep. Arthur Douville, R-Overland Park, spoke against the proposition. He said
See BETTING, p. 5, col. 1
BY HEATHER R. BIGGINS Staff Reporter
The Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of a pill to treat and prevent outbreaks of genital herpes represents "a great step forward," but some local medical authorities warn against long-term use of the drug.
The drug is not a cure for herpes, but can be an effective relief from outbreaks and may block possible spreading of the virus, said Mara Gabriel, spokesman for the Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., manufacturer of the pills.
Under the brand name acyclovir, the drug has been marketed as an ointment and used intravenously in hospitals since 1982. The drug will be available at local pharmacies Feb 11.
people, appears up to three weeks after contact with the virus and causes pain, tingling and blisters that "disrupt the lives and normal functioning of it's victims."
"NOW THERE'S AN easy, effective means of control," she said.
Genital herpes, a sexually transmitted disease that may afflict five to 20 million
But R. W. McClure, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital, said the convenience of the pill could cause patients to abuse it.
"The drug becomes more convenient when in pill form and it will catch a patient's eye." McChure said, "but the more a patient uses it, the less likely or she develops an immunity to its effects."
"Therefore, it takes more of the drug to have the same effect until the patient can no longer be treated by the drug," he said.
George Traigier, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, said the drug worked by blocking the reproduction of the virus in dogs. The drug does not kill the latent form of the virus.
GABRIEL SAID THE drug benifited patients who experienced frequent attacks, or those who wanted to prevent an occasional outbreak.
The manufacturer's clinical studies demonstrated that 70 percent of patients who had taken acyclovir on a daily basis from four to six months had no signs of a recurrence.
Gabriel said, however, that extremely high doses in lab animals caused chromosome abnormalities.
"There is no way to know the long-term effects right now," she said. "The capsule has been studied for four years and there is risk such as cancer."
EDWARD WALASZEK, CHARMAN of pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that Burroughs Welcome Co. was one of the most respected drug testing companies and that its decision to market the pill was an indication of the pill's safety and effectiveness.
More time to pay fines may be just the ticket
Staff Reporter
By KEVIN LEATHERS
Staff Reporter
Students and faculty may have more time to pay their parking tickets, thanks to a recommendation by the parking services board.
The recommendation, which will be reviewed by the University Senate Executive Committee on Thursday, would change the time allowed for payment of a parking ticket without a penalty for late payment. Under the recommendation, the time allowed would be extended from 14 calendar days to 15 working days, about three weeks.
The board also suggested that notices be sent out to violators who hadn't taken care of them.
Don Kearns, director of KU Parking Services, said the notices would help take care of the person who showed up for
enrollment and found he had left a ticket unpaid. Kearns said the parking service had received many complaints from people who, or another, were unaware they had violations.
IF THE RECOMMENDATION is approved by SenEx, the proposal will go before the University Council on Feb. 21. If the Council approves the applicant's cellor Gene A Badgi will have final review.
But Kearns said formal approval of the board's proposal would be merely a formal request, he said he felt certain that the recommen­ tation would be a part of the parking service policy.
"SenEx and the University Council usually follow the board's recommendations," he said. "We've thought it out very clearly and I know, any reason why they wouldn't support it."
Kearns said he supported the recommendation and felt it was the first step in
improving relations between students, faculty and the Parking Services.
"This type of arrangement has been in place at other schools and it's been very successful," Kearns said. "Not only will it facilitate the payment of tickets, but it will also help with public relations. I think this would do nothing but benefit the students."
Kearns said the parking service was concerned with its public image within the University community and had considered hiring a consultant and placing ads to help students and faculty better understand the service's role.
"We've been taking a bum rap for a long time in regard to the parking situation," he said. "But we're walking a pretty delicate line between convenience for the students and the staff, not always the administration. Things can't be perfect. But we're sure trying."
Beer taps replace gas pumps
Powwows popular at the Tee Pee
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
For many moons, the clump of tepees huddled outside of town has been a popular hangout for KU students and Lawrence residents.
During the day, the Tee Pee, one mile north of town on State Highway 24-10, is shrouded in silence. But at night when the natives become restless, the clamor from their powwows is loud enough to bring rain.
A 45-foot-high stucco tepee and a building with tepee-shaped corners were the first — and the last — of a chain of gas stations operated by American Indians.
"They've gone through as many as 50 kegs out there," said Ace Johnson, who leases the Tee Pee.
Sinclair Oil Company planned to franchise the Tepee Filling Station and tourist center and "scatter them from here to Boston," said 86-year-old Frank McDonald, the Teeee's owner and former Haskell Indian Junior College athletic director.
But originally, the Tee Pee pumped gas not beer.
On May 30, 1930, Tepee Filling Station opened. Haskell athletes garbled in traditional costumes manned the pumps, McDonald said.
THE INDIAN VILLAGES would have offered tourist cabins, gasoline, Indian arts and crafts and information about various points of interest in Indian country. he said.
The large buckskin-colored filling station contained a large reception room with Indian decor.
"perhaps the most elaborate smoking room for men that can be found at any highway station in the U.S." a brochure said.
Meanwhile, ground was being broken for 16 tepee-shaped tourist cabins and an hogshaped restroom. The buildings were to be arranged in a half-circle like traditional Indian Villages, but McDonald's plans never materialized.
"KIDSWOULD HAVE said, 'Let's go to the place with the Indians,' " he said. "The deal would have made me millions."
But the Depression scaled McDonald's plans. Faded Hopi sign legends, the building with tepee-shaped corners and the large tepee are the only remnants of his dream.
"Harry Sinclair sold the business because of the crash," he said. "And nobody followed in."
"This was during Prohibition," McDonald said, "but everyone sold beer, including myself."
Johnson said McDonald was the first Anheuser-Busch distributor west of the Mississippi.
A few years later, the Tee Pee reopened as a barbecue.
McDonald squared his shoulders, straightened his turquoise bolo tie and bragged. "I got the first Bud sent into Kansas."
DURING THE DRY years from '33 to '37,
we increased the percent and 1 percent
beer, McDonald said.
"It wasn't considered a dive because guys, who were trying to impress the girls, took a chance. And then Tom White, who frequented the bar with his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers in 1947.
"I don't recall seeing University professors
who addressed me, but it was quite a hangout
for students and I felt very comfortable."
Back then, boilermakers were the drink,
and greets did the drinking, Johnson said.
"Everyone was a greek," he said. "There were no independents. You either lived in a fraternity, sorority or a scholarship hall, or you weren't in school."
MCDONALD SAID the tepe braved the food of 10 and countless kU parties, but not the food of 40.
"The turnipkill killed highway 40, which
nested next to the Tee Pee, and business
dress up."
Johnson, who owns The Sanctuary, 1401
and the family of employees
whose parents rent at the Tape Tree.
Layer after layer of beer-caked lintolem and tar paper was stripped off the floor, where in the late '50s students danced to the live music of the Kingsmen.
"They cut their teeth at the Tee Pee like Ina and Tina Turner did at the Red Dog Inn
History was imbedded in the Tee Pee's walls as well as on the bathroom stalls.
More than three feet of powdery silt from the flood was packed between the walls, he said. A dark water line still remains on the giant teepe's exterior.
"I hated to remove the silt," he said. "It must have been one bell of an insulator."
Ten years ago, Johnson remodeled the Tee
Pee. New walls and fresh paint covered
paintwork.
The Tee Pee is now used only for private parties and can be rented for $500 on Fridays, $550 on Saturdays, and $400 the remainder of the week. Johnson said.
Doug Ward/KANSAN
Tee Pee Junction, a gas station and tourist center in the 1930s, now is used as a rental hall for parties. The Tee Pee, one mile north of on State Highway 24-40, has been the site of gatherings for students and Lawrence residents in recent years.