Friday, April 17, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Tennessee
The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tornadoes tore through Tennessee and Arkansas yesterday, blowing out windows and ripping out roofs in downtown Nashville and splintering mobile homes in rural areas earlier in the day.
Four people, including a young brother and sister, were killed in rural parts of Arkansas and Tennessee.
"People heard it but couldn't see it," Manila, Ark., firefighter Michael White said of the early-morning twister that was cloaked by darkness and sheets of rain.
The earlier storm hit Manila, in northeastern Arkansas about 230 miles west of Nashville, about 3 a.m., killing Casey Lomax, 3, and Brittany Lomax, 5. Their parents were injured.
An hour later, a tornado spawned by the same storm killed Paul and Peggy Kolwyck in Roellen, Tenn., about 50 miles east of Manila. Their bodies were found 200 to 250 feet from their trailer home, which was torn apart.
Yesterday afternoon another tornado struck Nashville. About 100 people were injured. Most of the injuries were from flying glass and none was believed life-threatening.
Gov. Don Sundquist declared Nashville a disaster area. Several state buildings were damaged, including the Capitol and the James K. Polk office building.
The Tennessee Oilers' football stadium, which is about one-third complete, also was damaged.
The twisters were part of a series of storms that hit Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee late Wednesday and yesterday.
KJHK waiting to spread wings
THE HAWK
KJHX
90.7
By Chris Horton
chorton@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The student-run radio station at the University of Kansas has encountered another obstacle in its attempt to increase its broadcast area.
KJHK-FM 90.7 has been working on upgrading its signal from 100 to 3,500 wattts since June 1997, said Garv Hawke, general manager.
Hawke said the latest setback resulted from a competing application for an upgrade filed by an Emporia station of the same frequency.
The competing station, owned by Family Stations Inc. of Sacramento, Calif., will have a Christian format, but is still awaiting a building license from the Federal Communications Commission.
The deadline for applications to be filed in competition with KJHK's proposed power increase was Dec. 3, 1997, Hawke said.
Family Stations filed its application on Dec. 2.
"The problem is if two stations apply for signals that overlap." Hawke said. The Emporia station's application was for 3000 watts, which would create an overlap with the area covered by the proposed increase for KJHK.
KJHK filed its first application for a wattage upgrade with the FCC on June 2. 1997. Hawke said.
He said he originally thought it would take two months for the station to have its request approved, but waiting on the FCC and bids on equipment necessary for the power increase provided a series of delays before KJHK was notified of the competing application.
"It itseas as if every time we clear a hurdle, a new hurdle appears that we have to overcome," Hawke said. "This is almost four years after we originally started working on it."
Sam Fisk, Galesburg, III., senior and KJHK program director, said
the current delay in the station's proposed wattage increase was unforeseeable. '
"It wasn't meant to happen, but it did," Fisk said. "I guarantee it will happen within two years, but we're shooting for the next five or six months."
Attempting to remedy the situation through FCC procedures would create an undesirable wait, he said.
"If we go through the FCC with this, it's going to be a long process," Fisk said.
The department manager of Family Stations who wished to remain anonymous, said Family Stations did not want to push its way into a new community.
The department manager said Family Stations was going to make every effort to reengineer its facilities to allow KJHK to get its wattage increase.
The overlap in area between the proposed wattages for the two stations was minor enough that JKHJ would probably not have to make any concessions and reduce its desired wattage the manager said.
Regents to address property rights
By Brandon Coplep
bcoplep@kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
With policy, students can retain research
A Kansas Board of Regents task force unveiled its draft policy on intellectual property yesterday at a board meeting in Hadl Auditorium.
The policy, which the Regents' Task Force on Intellectual Property began work on in January, establishes basic principles governing intellectual property rights between universities, faculty, staff and students.
University administrators, faculty and student leaders all spoke favorably about the draft policy, reflecting the general agreement expressed at the January meeting.
"I've been careful to make sure the policy applies to all the works
produced on our campus," said Provost David Shulenburger, addressing the Regents.
The policy creates revenue sharing between faculty who create intellectual property and the universities at which they work, but only after universities recover costs of producing the property.
Students would retain ownership of intellectual property created during undergraduate and graduate course work.
Students employed by universities or faculty would be included in the revenue-sharing provision. However, students voluntarily assisting faculty would receive no intellectual property rights in the resulting works.
Jessica Greis, student body president at Wichita State University and president of the Regents Student Advisory Committee, said students assisting faculty without compensation should be included in the revenue-sharing provision.
hoped each institution would conduct a forum to receive comments and suggestions on the policy.
After gathering input from the universities, the task force will produce a final policy draft. The final policy would undergo an initial reading at the Regents meeting in May, and the Regents plan to take final action in October.
The Regents also heard a report yesterday from a committee recommending a tuition increase of 2.4 percent at all Regents institutions.
Regent Phyllis Robinson said she
The committee also recommended the Regents embark on a program to raise faculty salaries to peer levels. Salaries at Regents schools fall about 12 percent behind peer institutions, and Regent Murray Lull said the committee envisioned a three-year program to bring Regents' salaries up to peer averages.
"We're not asking for the moon and stars, we're just asking for average," he said.
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