University Daily Kansan, February 1, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Three killed in Topeka blaze
TOPEKA - Three young brothers were killed early yesterday in an apartment fire, including a 4-year-old who apparently staggered through the blaze and collapsed at the second-story window that his parents had used to escape.
Killed in the fire were Shawn Strand, 4,
and his brothers. James, 3. and David, 1.
and nursery brothers, James 5, and Mar-
The children's parents, David and Melanie Strand, were admitted to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in satisfactory condition with first and second degree burns, officials said.
KU to receive Truman money
The University of Kansas and two other universities will receive an annual $1,000 scholarship for international studies, the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation in Independence, Mo., said this week.
The scholarships also will be given to the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Georgetown University in memory of Edwin Beinecke Jr., Jerry Smith and Hi the five people, friends of President Trump who were officers of the foundation for many years.
the scholarship recipients will be named at the Foundation's annual commemorative luncheon in May. Scholarships are available to undergraduate, graduate and professional students at the three schools on the basis of their potential careers and contributions to international service.
Wolf Creek seminar offered
A seminar on the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, sponsored by the Kansas Law Review, will be at 9 a.m. tomorrow in 107 Green Hall.
Legislation concerning Wolf Creek, specifically that which affects electricity rates, will be discussed by state legislators, representatives of the Kansas Corporation Commission, professors and law students.
Speakers at the seminar include State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, State Rep. Bob Vancram, R-Overland Park; and Ernest Angino, professor of geology and civil engineering and mayor of Lawrence.
Registration ends Tuesday
People who want to vote in the Feb. 26 primary elections in Lawrence have three days left to register.
The county clerk's office in the Douglas County Courthouse. Eleventh and Massachusetts streets, will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to register voters.
Voters may also register at Independence Inc., 1910 Haskell St.; Ballard Community Center Inc., 708 Elm St.; Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St.; and the city clerk's office at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
registration is necessary for people who have never registered before, or for previously registered voters who have moved or changed their names.
Death penalty bill introduced
TOPEKA - Forty-six House members have signed their names to a bill that seeks to impose the death penalty for certain crimes of murder.
The bill was introduced into the Kansas House yesterday.
teep. Clyde Graeber, R-Leavenworth, is the main backer of the measure that would allow courts the option to sentence to death by lethal injection persons found guilty of
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Graebe yesterday said he was pleased that 45 House members had signed on as co-sponsors to the bill.
An aide to Gov. John Carlin yesterday reaffirmed that the governor's position on the death penalty had not changed, and that Carlin would veto any such measure was presented to him for signature.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with high from 5 to 10 above. Winds will be from the north at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low from 10 below to 15 below. Tomorrow will be partly sunny, and not as cold, with a high in the teens.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
House passes higher drinking age
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The Kansas house yesterday approved a bill to raise the state's legal drinking age and also an amendment that would give anyone 21 or older who holds a valid club license the privileges of private club membership.
By a 95-29 vote, the House gave its final approval to the measure and sent it to the Senate. The bill will be referred to a subcommittee that already is reviewing a drinking age bill offered by the state's beer wholesalers.
Many lawmakers said the amendment did not belong on the drinking age bill and faced possible constitutional problems.
The subcommittee of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee is not expected to meet until late next week and probably won't reach a decision for two weeks.
Senate President Robert V. Talkington, R-lola, said the Senate planned to look at both bills and "put 'em all in there and shake 'em up and see what comes out."
WHAT COMES OUT probably won't include the amendment offered by State Reps, Dennis Spaniol, R-Wichita, and Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood. The amendment would allow anyone 21 or older holding a valid driver's license to buy liquor by the drink.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence.
said of the provision that the state would be "issuing a license to drink with an additional permission to drive."
permission to do it.
"I don't think it belongs on this bill and I don't think this is the way to slip in liquor by the drink." Charlton said.
Charlton, who opposes efforts to raise the drinking age, said the bill also faced problems because it didn't put the state in compliance with federal law.
LAST SUMMER, CONGRESS passed legislation that required states to raise their drinking age to 21 or lose a portion of their federal highway aid. Kansas could lose up to $6 million if it is not in compliance by the Oct. 1, 1986 deadline and an additional $12 million if it still doesn't comply by October 1987.
The House bill would phase in the increase over three years, beginning July 1, so that those who are not yet 21 but who now can drink 3.2 percent beer would not lose the privilege. The state would not have a uniform drinking age until July 1988.
Although the state is still waiting for the specific federal regulations, State Sen. Edward F. Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth, said a U.S. Department of Transportation official told him the state would lose a portion of its airway aid as long as it was not in compliance.
"We don't have the luxury of not doing anything," said Reinhardt. "I really hate the cost of the investing age billy."
STATE SEN. JEANNE Hoferer, R-Topeka a member of the subcommittee examining the drinking age issue, said she wanted to raise the drinking age in a way that would make the state comply with the federal guidelines.
"I just think we should do it within the time frame," she said. "There are going to be some unhappy people no matter how we do it."
Hofferer said she also had reservations about the changes the bill would make in the private club law. The amendment to extend membership in reciprocating clubs to anyone with a driver's license may not be constitutional, she said.
However, Patrick, one of the co-sponsors of the amendment, said it was no more unconstitutional than current exceptions for holders of a motel key or airline ticket. The law now allows travelers who have a motel key to buy liquor by the drink in certain clubs.
"It would do away with the private club system, she won't see why anyone else is in a private club."
"If it's unconstitutional, then the reciprocal private club act is unconstitutional. The government's job is to enforce it."
The bill that passed the House would continue to permit 18-year-olds to work in taverns and restaurants that served beer, as well as to sell beer in grocery and convenience stores.
Panels want code status for 5 groups
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
Five new organizations will be recommended for revenue code financing at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting, the Senate Finance and Student Executive Committees voted last night.
Organizations with revenue code status are reviewed by the Senate Finance Committee every two years, rather than every year.
The committees will recommend to the Senate 18 groups for revenue code status.
Headquarters, Inc., University Dance Company, Hilltop Child Development Center, Consumer Affairs Association and Hape Victim Support Service were the five new organizations that received joint committee approval during the five-hour meeting last
Tim Henderson, Finance Committee chairman, said the full Senate on Wednesday night would have the final vote on the organization's status.
Senate will meet at 6 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
A bill to approve the 18 organizations will be introduced during the meeting. Henderson said, but senators probably will vote on each group separately because of the many questions associated with Senate financial matters.
Committee members at last night's meeting were not allowed to discuss budgets with the group.
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The committee members were there solely for approving a group to become or remain a revenue code group. Henderson said.
The Finance Committee will begin budget hearings for revenue code groups on
Representatives had 15 minutes to tell the committees about their organizations.
Speakers from each group stressed stable, responsible service to students when speaking to the committees. They said the two-year budget schedule would make it easier for them to continue serving the campus community.
Other groups approved by the committee were KU Forensics, Legal Services for Students, Chamber and Concert Music, University Theatre, Associated Students of Kansas, University of Kansas Technical Institute, Student Council, Senate Robinson Center, the University Daily Kansas, KU Bands, Recreation Services and JKHK-FM.
The Omniscients and The Assistants battle it out at the College Quiz Bowl in Alderdon Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Clark Bricker, acting associate dean for the College Of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor emeritus of chemistry, moderated the bowl finals which were won by the Aardvarks from Battenfeld Scholarship Hall. The Aardvarks will advance to regional competition later this month.
Students match wits in contest
By RICK ZAPOROWSKI
Staff Reporter
Eight men sat eelow to elbow at a long table like a panel of jurors scrutilizing an intense trial. Each leaned forward with one hand clutching a buzzer and the other tapping the table nervously or holding his forehead in thought.
But these students, in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union, were the ones on trial, and they battled their cases by using the facts stored in their minds.
Last night, the College Quiz Bowl climaxed as the Aardvarks from Battenfeld Scholarship Hall defeated the Jarvis Lunt team from Pearson Scholarship Hall for KU's championship.
The match was close, but the Aardvarks came out on top with a score of 140 to 105. Both teams showed similar responses of foot stamping when they missed a question and sighs of relief when they answered one correctly.
About 20 people watched the championship and oftenounced in their seats because of the frustration of not being able to answer the questions the players did not know.
THE DOUBLE-ELIMINATION tournament, sponsored by Student Union Activities and Lambda Sigma Society, the
sophomore honor society, provided 20 four-member teams with a chance to use their knowledge of history, science, literature, politics and other categories.
Teams score 10 points by being the first to answer a toss-up question. The team answering that question then gets the chance to guess the points by correctly answering a bonus question.
The team with the most points after two 7-minute halves wins the round and moves up the tournament bracket. A team continues to win two rounds or wins the championship.
Clark Bricker, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor emeritus of chemistry, moderated competitions that the competitors seemed to know many facts.
“IT'S MOSTLY RAPID recall,” he said. “I don't think this measures intelligence. It shows how many facts you have stored up.
"I think if you are good at this you'd be good at Trivial Pursuit."
Members of the victorious Aardvark are Brian Barresch, Wichita senior and team captain; Michael Schmidt, Manhattan sophomore; Damian Richards, Manhattan junior; and Gene Alloway, Parsons junior.
The team will advance to the regional competition in Warrensburg, Mo., from Feb. 15 to 17.
Legal officials begin inquiry into local firm
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Two KU professors will begin research today for Culture Farms Inc., a Lawrence company being investigated by the Consumer Protection Division of the attorney general's office, one of the professors said yesterday.
James Akagi, chairman of the microbiology department, said that he and Del Shankel, professor of microbiology, had received a research grant for about $450,000. But that the University of Kansas was not directly involved with the company.
Akagi said that he and Shankel had a one-year contract to do quality control tests and basic research for the company. He said the contract could be negotiated again at the end of the year.
Attorney General Robert Stephan said Culture Farms Inc., 220, Delaware St., which opened in Lawrence two months ago, sells kits to consumers for the growth of cultures from milk and cheese for use primarily in cosmetics.
HE SAID HIS office was investigating the company's claims that consumers could more than double their investments in technology with the Kaugaon Consumer Protection Act.
Akagi said, "KU is not endorsing their product or their work. If the attorney general's investigation does turn up anything, our names, at most, would be tarnished. Not The University's. But I don't think that will happen."
Shankel said the investigation would not affect the research done by him or Akagi.
affect the research done by him or Akagi.
"It would affect us only to the extent that it may affect the company's future," he said.
Stephan said numerous calls from consumers in Kansas and states as far away as Florida had prompted the investigation. He said he did not have an exact count of how many people had called.
BUT IE SAID, "I know that many Kanans have invested in the cultures, paying $350 to $3,500 for them. I'm trying to determine what the market is there for."
Culture Farms Inc. resells the cultures grown at home by consumers to Cleopatra's Secret Inc., a Reno, Nev. cosmetic company, Stephan said, but that company has marketed none of its products yet.
"The cultures are being raised for products that aren't on the market," he said. "I'm concerned that we'll reach a point of diminishing return. All these kits will be sold and there will be no place to sell the cultures."
Stephan said he did not know whether Coepatra's Secret Inc. had decided when it would release the email.
"If they have, they're keeping it a deep, dark secret." he said.
CHIRIS MANKUSO, vice president of marketing for Culture Farmcs Inc., said in a prepared statement, "The number of inquiries from consumers indicate the extreme interest the public has in our concept." He added that marketing and advertising materials to assure complete compliance with the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.
"As an additional indication of good faith, we have voluntarily escrowed the funds necessary to protect any first-time investments made by Kansas residents until the results of the investigation prove this to be unnecessary."
Mankuso would not say whether the funds would protect investors in other states.
Stephan said he had received no complaints about the company, but the consumer needed to "go slow" with this company.
"I just want to make sure it is as good as it sounds," he said. "Consumers need to be aware that we have not determined that the company is all that it says it is."
Officials at Culture Farms, Inc. have said the company will employ about 100 students from KU and Haskell Indian Junior College.
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For better concentration for study! For increase of mental power! For the inner power of martial artists! To increase Ki energy, the life force!
The meeting is at 2 p.m. every Sunday in room 102, Robinson Gym. The class will be taught by a Martial Art Master. Everybody who has been longing for a true meditation must not miss this chance to join.
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