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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.97
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1993
Panel reviews alcohol law
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Bill would lower drivers' legal blood-alcohol level
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
Several mothers tearfully testified before a Kansas Senate committee yesterday in favor of a bill that would make drivers legally drunk if they had a blood alcohol content of 0.08, instead of the current 0.1.
Leona Edwards of Mayetta told the Senate Judiciary Committee about her son Dale and four members of his
family who died when a driver with a 0.07 alcohol level struck their car on a Kansas interstate.
"He was not legally drunk, but he was driving on a crowded highway," she said. "This accident broke our hearts, our dreams and the dreams of our children. I hope you would lower the blood alcohol level so that no one else would go out and kill someone."
Gene Johnson, a representative of the Kansas Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Counselor Association, was the first of 17 people to testify in favor of the bill.
He said that a driver with a 0.08 alcohol level was only slightly less likely to get into an accident than a driver with a 0.1.
"In other words, they can't tell if that was their fourth highball or their fifth highball," he said.
State Rep. Mike O'Neal, R-Hutchinson, who heads the committee, said the purpose of the bill was to send a message to potential drunken drivers, not to increase the number of drunken driving convictions.
"We're looking to keep people from thinking. Well, I've had a couple of
drinks and I can still beat the 0.1.' and so they keep on drinking," O'Neal said.
KU police Lt. John Mullens said yesterday that there would not be a dramatic increase in the number of convictions if the bill was enacted. He said that when drivers register a 0.08 or 0.09, often they can be convicted by an arresting officer's testimony about their actions.
"Even though we can introduce other reliable testimony, without those b. a.c.s, which are heavily relied
However, Capt. Bob Giffin of the Kansas Highway Patrol said that in 1991, there had been 933 tests of about 20,000 tests in the state that resulted in 0.08 or 0.09 readings.
Catching drunken drivers Methods used by police to nail
- Officer notices unusual driving behavior or a driving violation (over center line, running a stop sign, etc.)
Officer administers test with portable breath tester for general blood alcohol content
■ After stopping a suspect, officer notices signs of alcohol on a person (breath, fumbling for license).
Officer may take suspect to a hospital blood-poison on a highly accurate machine that could be used to get a court order.
Source: L1 John Mullens K1 police
on by the courts, it's far more difficult to get a conviction," Giffin said.
"If they drink and operate a motor vehicle, they are actually breaking
The 28-page bill also contains a provision that would lower the legal limit to 0.02 for 18-to-21-year-olds.
two laws." Johnson said.
Only one person has registered to speak in opposition to the bill and will speak today. O'Neal said the bill will be voted on today or next week.
Unions use recyclables
See related stories, Page 6.
By Vicki Bode
Kansan staff write
The Kansas and Burge cafeterias are using napkins that help contribute to a safer environment.
In November, the Union Food Services started using unbleached. 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper napkins. Post-consumer paper is paper that has been recycled.
"We try to be aware of anything good for the environment." said Job. Clarkate of food services
Glatz said the lower cost of the recycled napkins was another advantage.
The Kansas and Burge Unions use 700 pounds of paper napkins each month, said Shelley Wells, coordinator of environmental education. Using the recycled napkins will save trees and conserve water and electricity.
"Using recycled products is important because it completes the cycle," she said. "Merely collecting used paper does not result in recycling and resource conservation. That paper must be reused to process new products to be truly recycled."
Recycled paper products have been used in the residence halls for more than a year, said Peggy Smith, associate director of student housing. The napkins used in the residence halls are 40 percent post-consumer recycled.
The snack bar on Wescoe Terrace also plans to use recycled napkins, said Bob Derby, concessions manager for the University. The snack bar will begin using recycled napkins when the supply of the old napkins is depleted.
"I really feel like we have a responsibility to help," Smith said.
New napkins
The Kansas and Burge unions use 700 pounds of paper napkins each month. They now have one-loaded ones. The switch means:
Six trees are saved each month.
2. 500 gallons of water are conserved each month.
1,400 kilowatt-hours of electricity are saved each month.
Air pollutant emissions are reduced by 21 pounds each month.
One cubic yard of landfill is saved each month.
Source : Shelley Wells, Env. Education Coordinator
Dave Campbell / KANBAN
Rachel G. Thompson / KANSAN
The Crimson Girls finished among the best dance squads in the nation in recent competition. They say, however, that they have not yet received their deserved respect.
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members Barbara Foster, left, Kansas City, Kan., senior, and Tanya Borham, Springfield, Va., senior, perform in the Ellsworth Hall hall during the Black Pantherine Show. More than 50 people watched various fraternity and sorority show on their steps last night.
Graduate overcame racial obstacles
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By Todd Selfert
Step it up
Award winners
"In the 1880s, Lawrence was having some serious economic problems," Jansen said. "At the same time there was a growing Black population in the town. Basically, it led to a competition for jobs and Blacks were perceived as the ones who caused the problem."
Steve Jansen, director of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, said that Bruce, who graduated from the University in 1885, lived in a community that blamed African Americans for its problems.
The competition for work split a city that had been united, Jansen said. African Americans and whites lived and shopped in the same neighborhoods.
Segregation and hostility toward African Americans in Lawrence were among the challenges faced by KU's first African-American graduate. Blanche K Bruce.
Kansan staff writer
"It was common for Blacks and whites to go to the same schools," Jansen said. "Once they were in the classroom though."
Bruce may have faced some of his biggest challenges in the classroom.
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they were often segregated. Bruce probably had to sit in the back of the room."
"KU was officially integrated in the 1880s," Katzman said. "Clubs and other facilities were probably open to him that weren't open to Blacks 20 or 25 years later."
natzman said Bruce also may have had advantages over other African-American students attending the University at the time because of his social status.
David Katzman, a professor of history, said Bruce may have had more advantages than later African-American students.
"Anyone going to college in the 1880s was in an elite group," Katzman said. "Depending on who his friends were, he may have been included in a lot of activities at the University. He had the extra advantage of having an uncle who was a U.S. senator
from Mississippi "
Bruce's uncle, also named Blanche Bruce, served in the Senate from 1875 to 1881
The younger Bruce was born in 1859 in Brunswick. Mo. He attended a one-room schoolhouse in Howard County and later attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City. Mo. He began studying at KU in 1881.
After his graduation in 1885, he moved to Leavenworth and accepted a position as principal and eighth-grade teacher at Sumner School, an African-American elementary school. He remained in that position for 54 years.
Staff Johnson, a student of Bruce's at the school, said he admired his teacher.
"He was a wonderful person," Johnson said. "He taught all of his students well. When we got to high school we already knew a lot of things that the teachers there were trying to teach us."
Johnson said Bruce was committed to his students' education.
"He'd always tell us that it wasn't enough to write what he said down on paper," Johnson said. "He would say that if you just wrote it down on paper and the wind blew
Bruce also cared for his students outside of the classroom. Johnson said.
"He made us do what we were supposed to," he said. "... He always expressed his opinion about how we ought to live. He wanted us to be successful."
the paper out of the window, then there went your brains out the window. Once we had it in our memory, we would never forget it."
Bruce is probably best known for tutoring students for their admission exams into the U.S. military and naval academies. He tutored about 2,000 men for the exams. Only three failed their tests.
"The boy is not born who can hide his ignorance for an hour and forty-five minutes." Bruce said.
Bruce would tell his students that in military school they would be in classes of about 10 for periods of about an hour and forty-five minutes at a time.
Bruce moved to Baltimore to live with his daughter after he retired in 1939. He died there on Nov. 19, 1952, at the age of 93.
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renovation unearths time capsule; SUA plans new one
By Ezra Wolfe
Kansan staff writer
The capsule, which was known then as "the copper box," contains items chosen in memory of the students, alumni and faculty who died in World War I, according to the April 30, 1926, issue of the Kansan.
In addition to all the construction debris and dust, the renovation of the Kansas Union unearthed a time capsule buried in 1926, which will lead to the creation of another time capsule.
The copper box has not been opened, and the KU Memorial Corporation board has not decided yet what to do with the box.
Jim Long, board member and director of the Kansas and Burge Unions, said there were no directives on what should be done with the box.
"Whatever happens should be appropriate as to the spirit in which the original materials were placed," he said.
Long said the questions before the board included: Should the box be opened? With what kind of ceremony should the box be reentered? Who should be involved in the ceremony?
Currently, the box is being held at University Archives. The copper has oxidized and corroded, and there are open seams that expose the contents of the box to the air.
Long said if the box was opened, the contents would be put on display at University Archives until their reintirement.
A new time capsule will have a separate interment ceremony, Long said. The box and the new capsule will be placed in separate cornerstones.
dedication ceremonies, tentatively scheduled for Oct. 1.
"We want to see unique and original things that show what KU is about," Hatton said.
Student Union Activities will be accepting suggestions from students about what to put in the new capsule, said Todd Hatton, SUA president.
Nichols said that when the Union was finished, students did not express much interest in it.
"It wasn't a great solemn occasion,
but it wasn't jolly," he said.
"We had a dickens of a time getting them in there," he said. "The ballroom floor wasn't finished, so they couldn't dance."
As a student, Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols witnessed the 1926 interment of the copper box.
Time capsule unearthed
The time capsule, which was buried in 1926, contains many items relative to World War I and the Union.
The names of the 129 KU alumni, students and faculty killed in World War I.
The front pages of 11 newspapers that aided in the memorial campaign that built the Union.
A photograph of the governor
A copy of the graduate magazine containing the story of the drive to build the Unino
An issue of the Kansas City Star containing the news of the declaration of war and an issue
A picture of a Jayhawk
Three roses.
Source Kansan staff research
Dave Carroll / KAMSAN