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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.101.NO.148
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1992
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Tornado territory
Tornadoes are a frequent sight in Kansas during the spring and summer months. The KU Severe Weather Chase Team is a group of students who go out looking for tornadoes under conditions that make most people seek shelter This week they found several around Beloit, Kansas.
New handbook available
SEE STORY ON PAGE 8.
The Office of Student Affairs has written a new, expanded student handbook that answers questions about transfer of credit, harassment, employment after graduation, tutoring, resumes, traffic regulations and other subjects.
The new handbook is in the form of a date book, complete with an academic year calendar, a list of all student organizations, and a copy of University codes, policies, rules and regulations. The handbooks will be distributed to every new student through orientation, residence halls, and fraternity and sorority houses. It will also be mailed to all new students living off campus. Other students can buy the calendar for $3.95 beginning tomorrow at the Kansas and Burge Union bookstores.
WEATHER
KU administrator heads Olympic committee
By Kristi Klepper
When the 1992 Summer Olympics begin July 25, a University of Kansas administrator will be in Barcelona, Spain, to witness the culmination of four years of his work. He is not an athlete; he is an organizer.
Kansan staff writer
Wayne Osness, head of KU's health, physical education and recreation department, is an eight-year member of the U.S.Olympic Committee Board of Directors.
"It rewarding to see gold medal winners stand on the platform with the U.S. flag and the national anthem, knowing that I had something to do with them being there,"
The USOC makes all policy decisions for the Olympics, including selecting governing bodies at the national level for each sport, lining up corporate sponsors, and setting guidelines for drug testing.
Osness said.
The Summer Games are the largest event in history, Osness said. "They are also one of the largest economic events. Trying to keep all that in perspective is not easy."
He heads the USOC Education Committee, one of the board's standing committees. He is one of 119 board members who volunteer time to the committee, which meets twice a year.
As committee head, Osness devotes much more time to Olympic-related projects. He has traveled and spoken to groups all over the world, including Greece, Korea, Italy and France.
"Our goal is to provide the opportunity for every child in the U.S. to have the opportunity to be an Olympian and to provide lead athletes with the opportunity to develop their talents so they can be competitive in the international arena," Osness said. Osness said drug control was a main con-
Osness said drug control was a main concern for the committee.
"We establish policies to protect the athlete, sometimes from him or herself," Osness said.
The board also raises money for Olympians by organizing corporate sponsorship.
As head of the USOC Education Committee, Osness also develops educational programs and sets up training centers for athletes.
sorsorship. The United States is one of few countries in the world whose governments do not finance their Olympic athletes, but Osness said it was better that way.
"The games belong to the American people, and the board is set up to preserve that." Osmess said.
During his four years of heading the committee, Osness has designed an Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. Mich. Athletes use the center to train for the Olympics while working toward college degrees.
Wildlife program endangered
Andrew Arnone / Special to the KANSAN
Anne Deegan-Chandler (front), Sunflower Farm manager and WildCare volunteer coordinator, examines a baby opossum. Nine opossums were brought to WildCare 10 days ago after a dog killed their mother. Judith Emde (back), a wildCare volunteer, checks on other animals.
KU budget cuts force Wild Care to go solo
By Andrew Arnone Special to the Kansan
By Andrew Arnone
After 12 years of sponsorship by the University of Kansas, the WildCare Rehabilitation and Public Education Program, which has provided public education and care for injured or orphaned wild animals, was discontinued yesterday.
But rather than folding, the renamed WildCare Inc. plans to continue service as a private, non-profit organization.
The decision to eliminate the Wild-Care program from the Animal Care Unit in Malott Hall follows a wake of budget cuts and shortages, said Robert Bearsse, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies, and public service.
"The unit was running a deficit between $1,000 and $2,000 every month," he said. While the WildCare program was a nice public service, it was not directly related to the unit's legal responsibility to take care of laboratory animals. Bearse said.
Nancy Schwarting, executive director of the now independent WildCare Inc., acknowledges that the University's decision to end the program was due in part to too much growth and too little money.
"The program began in 1979 when people started bringing injured wild animals to the Animal Care Unit. Schwarting said. "Since then, Wild-Care's purpose has been to educate the public about wildlife, as well as
offering professional care for over 3,000 injured or orphaned wild animals."
But with today's budget deadline, the WildCare program will no longer receive food, utilities and medical supplies from the University. WildCare also must remove all its animals and equipment from Malot Hall. It will keep one small area for answering phone calls and arranging for animal pickups, Schwarting said.
Unfortunately, the program continued to grow, but the budget did not, Schwarting said.
She noted that WildCare's revenue from fund-raising and membership drives had doubled every year but that it was not enough to offset budget cuts.
If it weren't for the budget cuts, WildCare would have been able to support itself at the University in the next year or two," said Schwarting.
"The University has bent over backwards to help us make the change," she said, referring to the $1-a-year sublease for WildCare's new five-acre location at Sunflower Farm, a 120-acre farm near DeSoto maintained for the Animal Care Unit.
The $40,000 cost of building an operations building, however, had to be collected by WildCare Inc. through individual and corporate donations.
See story, Page 5.
Yeltsin to follow Dole's call to Wichita
Russian president will speak at Wichita State during brief visit
By Anne Grego
Kansan Staff Writer
Russian President Boris Yeltsin will arrive tomorrow morning in Wichita for his only stop outside Washington, D.C., on this trip to the United States.
Yeltsin's Kansas trip resulted from a personal invitation Sen. Robert Dole, said Sarah Belden, Dole's assistant press secretary.
Yeltsin and his wife, Naina, are expected to arrive at McConnell Air Force Base at 10:50.
Yeltsin's schedule will include visits to a meat processing plant and a wheat farm, according to an itinerary released by Sen. Bob Dole's office.
But his first stop will be Dold Foods plant, which processes ham and bacon.
Kleinsauer said the 300 student tickets were zone within 20 minutes.
Seating in Miller is reserved for Wichita State students, faculty and staff. Students started sitting up about 9 a.m. yesterday for the free tickets being distributed at noon, said Joe Kleinsasser, director of news and media relations at Wichita State.
The Russian Embassy requested that
Yetish will then give a speech in Wichita
Willis the Miller Concert Hall beginning at 12
p.m.
Yeltsin speak in Miller Hall, which seats only 550. They wanted a friendly atmosphere, Kleinsauer said.
Yeltsin's speech will be broadcast to the public through closed circuit in Weidmann Hall and the Campus Activities Center Theater. The public is invited to watch the speech from there. Seating will be on a first come, first serve basis, Kleinsasser said.
Yeltsin's trip to Wichita State's campus is scheduled to last only 40 to 50 minutes.
While Yeltsin is giving his speech, his wife, Nana, is expected to visit Cowtown Museum, a historic village and museum showing a mid-1800s replica of Wichita.
Elizabeth Kennedy, associate director of the museum, said the Old West flavor of
Cowtown may have attracted the Russian Embassy to choose the site for a visit.
"We seem to be very popular with international visitors," Kennedy said.
After his speech, Yeltsin and his wife are scheduled to attend a barbecue at a wheat farm.
The Yeltis plan to leave Wichita at 3:30 p.m. for Canada.
Dole first invited Yeltsin to Kansas when Dole was visiting Moscow in September, 1990.
Belden said Dole was the only member of Congress to to meet Yeltsin last June at Andrews Air Force Base, when Yeltsin arrived for his last trip to Washington. She said this meeting may have led to Yeltsin's acceptance of the invitation.
CAMPUS SNAPSHOT
Crime on campus down 53 percent this year
KU's 1992 first-quarter crime rate of 3.62 crimes per thousand people was the fourth-highest of the state's seven universities.
First-quarter crime on the Lawrence campus of the University of Kansas fell more than 53 percent in 1992 from the same time last year, according to Kansas Bureau of Investigation statistics released last week. The drop is attributed to a 52.7 percent decline in theft from the same time last year.
By Anne Grego Kansan staff writer
robbery, aggravated assault/battery,
burglary, theft and motor vehicle
theft.
KU's first-quarter crime rate of 3.62 crimes per thousand people was the fourth-highest rate of the state's seven universities. Pittsburgh State University had the highest reported rate at 6.3, and Emporia State University had the lowest rate at 2.82.
KU crime figures show that there were 105 thefts, one robbery, 14 assaults, 23 burglars or attempted robberies. A third, a vehicle theft in the first quarter of 1992.
The KU reported that KU recorded 132 part-I crimes for the first quarter of 1992, compared to 286 in 1991. Part-I crimes include murder, rape,
The overall drop in crime was due
to a sharp decline in theft, Ll John Mullens of the KU police said. Theft at KU in the first quarter dropped from 222 cases in 1991 to 105 this year KU police records show.
Mullens said KU police did not believe the drop in crime was the result of less reporting of crime. KU police have tried to increase awareness on campus and encourage people to report small crimes so trends can be detected and larger crimes prevented he said.
The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., had an increase of 26.9 percent in first-quar
ter crime, KBI statistics showed.
Major Rick Johnson, assistant director of Med Center police, said that the majority of crime at the Med Center was theft and that the victims usually were not students but Med Center employees.
"We attribute the increase to an increase in awareness of reporting"
A community policing program to educate the public about crime and the importance of reporting even the smallest theft was in effect at the Med Center during the first quarter, Johnson said.
Campus Crime Rates
Crimes per 1000 people varied from 1991 to 1992 at the six Regents schools and KU Med Center