University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Jury hears testimony that suspect was sane
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
0A psychologist and a psychiatrist testified yesterday that Donald E. Alexander was sane and capable of committing the crimes he has been charged with in the death of an 40-year-old Lawrence woman.
The testimony came in Douglas County district court on the fourth day of the murder trial of Alexander, 19, 303 W. 21st St. He is charged with aggravated burglary in the August beating death of Marguerite L. Vinward
Robert Schulman, a Topeka clinical psychologist, testified that although Alexander was withdrawn and kept away from other people, he was mentally capable of committing the crimes.
Schulman said Alexander suffered from a character disorder, not a mental illness.
"The type of condition that I observed was that which is generally described as schizoid, somewhat of a loner-type," he said.
SCHULMAN SAID he examined Alexander for $3\frac{1}{2}$ hours Dec. 12 while Alexander was in the Douglas County jail. He said he gave him psychological tests and interviewed him.
The prosecution then called Herbert Modin, a psychiatrist with the Mennenger Foundation in Topeka, who also examined Alexander.
From the tests, Schulman concluded that Alexander was a "sensitive person who doesn't express himself well."
During questioning, assistant Douglas County district attorney Jerry Wells asked Modlin if he might Alexander was a psychopath.
Modlin told Wells that he thought Alexander suffered from no mental illnesses and that he was not a psychopath.
Under cross-examination, defense attorney Mike Rellin asked Modlin if he was familiar with Alexander's past.
Modlin said that he was aware of this and admitted that someone who was emotionally disturbed or extremely depressed might not know the difference between right and wrong.
ON CAMPUS
The prosecution yesterday also called to testify Ken Knight, a forensic scientist with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
TODAY
THE STAFF OF In The Streets, a campus newspaper, will meet from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. Students interested in working for the newspaper are invited to attend.
DAVID CRAWFORD, CHARMAN of the department of musicology at the University of Michigan, will speak at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital
Hall in Murphy Hall as part of the department of music's Alumni Recital Series. Crawford's lecture is titled "Guillaume Dufay and Early Renaissance Attitudes Toward Greece and Humanism."
THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF the Lawrence Feminist Glee will be at 7 p.m. at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St.
Three Kansas sites added to hazardous waste list
by ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Three sites in Kansas have been added to the Environmental Protection Agency's list of hazardous waste sites requesting federal cleanup funds, the state secretary of Health and Environment said yesterday.
Barbara Sabol, the secretary, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that Strother Field, Big River Sand and Gravel Co. and the Furley waste dump were eligible for federal Superfund money to clean up their hazardous waste.
Strother Field is an industrial park four miles southwest of Winfield. Large amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbons were found in the supplies there three years ago. The site still poses a problem at the park.
acid and base wastes, is about 10 miles northeast of Wichita. And Big River Sand and Gravel Co. in Wichita is polluted with many types of hazardous waste, Sabol said.
The Furley site, polluted with
DENNIS MURPHY, in charge of hazardous waste management for the Department of Health and Environment, told the committee. "There might be other sites in Kansas that are bad as far as hazardous waste is concerned, but in relation to all sites in the nation, the three sites mentioned are bad enough to qualify."
Sabol said that the department was conducting private cleanup efforts at all three sites, but that staff with the facilities are available if the sites qualified.
At other hazardous waste sites in Kansas, the department is seeking contractors to perform cleanups. The department hires contractors identifiable, willing or financially able party exists to do the job.
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