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Wednesday, January 20.1993
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Steve Smith, acting president of the Pinkney Neighborhood Association, said the neighborhood began fighting the idea almost immediately.
Responding to complaints from Lawrence residents that increases in the voltages of overhead power lines would create dangerous electromagnetic fields in residential neighborhoods, the Commission voted unanimously to direct its staff to draft an ordinance allowing the city to determine the placement of power lines.
"The higher voltage lines pose a great health hazard to everyone in the area."
The issue arose over 10 months ago, when KPL decided to increase the voltage of a power line running along Fifth Street, in the neighborhood surrounding Pinckney Elementary
Smith said the power lines would produce electromagnetic fields. Electromagnetic fields are suspected to cause cancer, especially in children.
"It's a problem that you don't think about until you're forced to deal with it," he said. "I've got two children and my house is only 30 feet away from where the lines are going to be. And the other people' from the neighborhood think something needs to done to ensure their safety."
Currently, Kansas Power and Light Co. makes those decisions.
The City of Lawrence will have greater control over the placement of electrical power lines, the Lawrence City Commission decided last night.
Jerry Cooley, city attorney, advised the Commission to refrain from taking action.
"If the Commission doesn't act on this, it couldn't be held negligent from problems resulting from the power lines," Cooley said.
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The Commission also voted to send KPI, a letter requesting that it not make any changes to the power line along Fifth Street until the city's staff had an opportunity to review the proposed ordinance.
City to control power lines
By Todd Selfert
Kansan staff writer
- Approved an ordinance that brought the city's requirements into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act;
In other business, the Commission:
■ Approved an ordinance prohibiting mudity in establishments selling alcohol and cereal malt beverages;
Approved a site plan to locate a Taco John's restaurant on the southeast corner of E. 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue.
STEP helps keep minorities at KU
By Angela Sciara Kansan staff writer
meet weekly on a one-to-one basis.
The program originally started in the fall of 1987, but because of a lack of financing, it was allowed to die, Diaz said.
Although the program targets minority students, all students are welcome. Students and counselors
Addison Parker, Topeka senior and counselor for STEP, said the program helped one student decide to stay at KU.
"She was thinking about leaving KU and returning home," he said. "She told me later that I talked her into staying."
Ricardo Perez, San Antonio graduate student and counselor for STEP, said the program made a big difference for many minority students.
In addition to helping freshmen and sophomores get a better grasp of the English language, STEP offers seminars on everything from time management to applying for financial aid and planning a safe Spring Break.
"Here to help, here to serve," reads the motto of the STEP program — Students Together Excelling in Education as Peers.
"I could just see it in their faces," Perez said. "They started to enjoy going to classes."
For a second semester, the Office of Minority Affairs is offering the program as a counseling resource for minority students. STEP offers counseling for academic problems as well as problems with adjusting to life at a large university, said Roland Diaz, assistant director of minority affairs and head of the counseling program.
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