University Daily Kansan, July 25, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
News briefs from staff and wire reports
No contest plea entered; Timmons to be sentenced
Roderick Timmons, a 21-year-old KU defensive guard will be sentenced Aug. 3 for sexual battery, a misdemeanor, in connection with a March 2 incident at Jawahawk Towers, 1603 W 15th ST.
The prosecution dropped the charges of rape, sodomy and unlawful restraint in exchange for the no contest plea.
The purpose of the bargain was "to save the victim the trauma of a jury trial," court documents said.
Man, 26. charged with third rape
A 28-year-old man arrested July 15 was charged Monday with a third count of rape and one count of aggravated kidnapping.
Terry Walling, for whom police still don't have an address, might have used 8-by-10 photographs of Michael Jackson to start conversations with women he later raped, Lawrence police reported.
Walling is charged with two raps on July 13 and one on July 14. According to police reports, the first incident happened in the Oread neighborhood, and the other two happened in the 2400 block of West 25th Street and the 1700 block of West 24th Street.
Hall visitation policy approved
The KU Residential Programs Advisory Board gave final approval this week to the residence hall visit policy that would require residents to obtain written consent from their roommates before inviting overnight guests.
The policy was submitted last spring by the Association of University Resident Halls, a student governing body, in response to the advisory board's proposed ban on overnight guests in residence halls.
The policy is designed to encourage roommates to set up their own guidelines on visitation, as well as personal property and housecleaning, said Ruth Mikkelson, associate director of residential programs.
Roommates will be required to discuss every item outlined in the policy and sign an agreement on overnight visitation, study, sleep and housecleaning habits.
Roommates must try to solve problems that arise during the year themselves before asking residence hall officials for room changes or going through a grievance process which ends before the University Judiciary Board.
Under the new policy, guests must sign in and leave identification and must be escorted in the hall, which will tighten security, Mikkelson said.
Hall officials hope that this policy will discourage unaccompanied visitors from wandering in the residence halls.
Restricted hours and security hours, such as those at GSP-Corbin Hall, take priority over the visitation policy. In these halls, times (weekdays) are limited.
Gandhi's relative to speak here
The great-great-nephew of Mahatma Gandhi, Yogesh K. Gandhi, will arrive in Lawrence tomorrow, another stop on his 35,000-mile trek around the earth in a search of "a self-sufficient, healthy and peaceful world."
Gandhi launched the "Serve All Life Today." or SALT March, with plans to speak to citizens in 25 major U.S. cities before moving on to Central and South America, Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
The U.S. stretch of the modern SALT March began June 11 in Los Angeles and will end in Washington D.C. Gandhi will meet there with President Reagan on Oct. 2, what would be the Mahatma's 115th birthday.
"We have created Operation SALT March to inspire and enable people all over the world to participate and experience their essential oneness," Yogesh Gandhi said. "Massive change, as the Mahatma taught, is entirely dependent upon individual change. I expect to personally speak with millions of people to encourage them to be that change."
Gandhi led a warm-up march in April from San Francisco to Sacramento, in preparation for his trip around the world.
The SALT marchers will enter Lawrence at noon today in the lot next to the Aztec Inn, 807 Vermont St., continuing to Watkins Park, for a peace praver at 1 p.m.
A pot luck reception for the marchers will be held at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St., at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by the Mahatma Gandhi film documentary at 8 p.m.
Lawrence man to head program
A Lawrence man will administer a new Kansas program to prevent domestic violence that will be financed with a $2 increase in the cost of marriage licenses.
Howard Klink, 937 Rhode Island St., will become director of the Kansas Crime Prevention's Reparations Board on August 1. In addition to the domestic violence program, the board allocates funds for rape prevention programs and restitution to crime victims.
Klink said that after he and the board establish guidelines for the fund, which would be about $300,000, they would solicit proposals for its use from all over Kansas.
"Shelter care facilities will be among the programs seriously considered for funding." Klink said.
Police departments might also apply for money to fund programs to teach their personnel how to deal with domestic violence, he said.
Poison ivv effects can be reduced
Poison ivy is no less a problem for today's gardeners, hikers and hunters than it was for primitive American Indians and early settlers.
"Only half of the population is sensitive to average contact with the poison," Arnold said.
Natural immunity is present in all persons originally, Arnold said, but the degree of sensitivity varies.
Though poison ivy can't be eliminated, its effects can be reduced, said Susan Arnold of the University of Kansas Medical Center's Poison Control Center.
Poison ivy can cause a red, itchy skin rash in mild cases, and blisters that may become infected in severe cases.
Poison ivy cases should be treated with an antihistamine cream or lotion containing diphenhydramine or a cortisone cream to help relieve the itching. Arnold said.
Eating poison ivy leaves will not make a person immune, contrary to old wives' tales, she said. Consuming the leaves could result in serious gastric upset and even death.
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CHARLES HIMMELBERG editorial editor
With summer orientation and pre-enrollment for new students completed, program officials are hoping that the number of new KU students this fall will compare favorably with fall 1983 figures.
KU expects new students to number 4,400 this fall
By the Kansan Staff
The fourteenth and final summer orientation session was on July 14. But the final count of participants in all the sessions is not yet known, Lovey Ulmer, coordinator of the program, said.
Gil Dyck, dean of the department of educational services, which runs summer orientation, said that he expected about 4,400 new students this fall, based on preliminary numbers from the summer sessions.
About 4,400 were also enrolled in fall 1983. Dyck said.
Dvck said that 2.877 students had
ABOUT 300 TO 400 more freshman students and about 700 additional transfer students would probably enroll in the fall. That would bring the total to about 4,400, he said.
Customers can be winners in local food store battles
Last summer, 6,333 new student-
and parents attended orientation
sessions. Of that number, 3,460
were in the fall and 285
dents who attended KU in the fall.
pre-enrolled through the 12th summer session. He estimated that about 600 more attended the final two sessions.
By KAREN MASSMAN Staff Reporter
Ulmer said she hoped that total new student enrollment would remain near the fall 1983 level. But she was uncertain that it would.
The competition among the ten major grocery stores in Lawrence is intense, with each store hoping to attract the most customers by promising lower prices and better service — and the consumer is benefiting.
Umer said that the total number of parents and students attending this summer's sessions should be similar to those of summer 1983.
"It should ride somewhere around 6,400." Ulmer said.
Wynne Dillon, co-manager of Kroger Super Store, said that Lawrence consumers were also more educated in general because the city is a college town. Therefore, they are more conscious of comparing food prices.
KRIGER LOOKS AT its competitors twice a week, she said. Some of the things the store looks at are toys, Christmas hours, promotions, sales and traffic.
For every dollar spent by the consumer, Dillon stores make a profit of half-a-cent, Bob Weigel, manager of the Dillon store at 1740 Massachusetts Street, sad. He said that Dillon's had to be more conciliated with the volume of customers rather than making a profit of every dollar.
Jim Lewis, owner of the four Rusty's Food Stores and the only independent grocer, said he believed the competition was due to having too many food stores in a town the size of Lawrence, which caused each store to compete for the same dollar.
He said that in the 1970's there was a boom time in Lawrence and D.C.
Several ways consumers can lower their food bills are by using coupons, reading grocery ads in order to take advantage of specials, and knowing the store. Lewis said. It is important for a customer to know the store because all price specials are not advertised in the paper.
And consumers can benefit from the high degree of competiveness among food stores.
CONSUMERS CAN ALSO save by buying the store's brand names. For example, Kroger peaches are less expensive than Del Monte peaches although they are both made by Del Monte.
Food Barn, once a conventional Safeway store and still owned by Safeway, became known as a warehouse selling store in order to lower prices and increase volume. Its on the average, are reduced 10 percent, manager Earl Hutchens said.
The decrease in prices is due to the fact that the merchandise is not displayed, but put on the shelves in boxes. This allows for more volume. With more volume Food Barn can allow for less profit per dollar, but still afford to make a profit, Hutchens said.
Because of the competition in town, most major food stores offer specials every week, double coupons, and several specialty departments.
DOUBLE COUPONS are expensive for food stores to offer since the stores are not reimbursed by the other half of the doubled coupon.
"Double coupons are a customer service we have to do." Hutchens
Hutchens said that if Food Barn discontinued doubling coupons, they would lose business.
Food Barn, Dillon, Rusty's and Kroger offer limited double coupon specials.
IN ORDER TO attract customers, a one-stop shopping concept has been adopted by many food stores in Lawrence. Specialty departments, such as bakeries, delis and floral departments, have been implemented in most major stores. However, Food Barn does not have the space for specialty departments. Hutchens said.
Part of the increase in the specialty departments can also be attributed to the increased competition among fast-food stores in town. Weigel said.
"We're catering to a public that wants fast food," Weigel said.
Rusty's, Kroger, and Dillon stores all have extensive delis and bakeries. At Dillon, pizza is also made daily.
RUSTY'S HAS imported cheese and seafood sections. Lewis said that he established the seafood section after the Prairie Schooner, a seafood shop, went out of business, thereby demanding the demand for seafood in Lawrence.
Long store hours are another example of where customers can benefit from the competitive food store market. Rusty's and Kroger are both open 24 hours a day.
Dillon has recently started its own seafood department.
Dillon said that staying open all night was profitable, and since Kroger usually stocked its shelves at night it was not difficult to have the store open for business.
Defense doubts story of a key state witness
Bv United Press International
EMPORIA — A defense lawyer Tuesday said the state's case against a Lutheran minister accused of plotting to kill his former secretary's husband hinged on the questionable testimony of a key witness.
Irwin Shaw, defense lawyer for the Rev. Thomas Bird, who was charged with criminal solicitation, told jurors that the state's case depended on the testimony of Darrel Carter of Emporia. Carter told prosecutors that Bird had told him about two plots to kill Martin Anderson. 34.
"If his testimony is not to be believed, then the state's case is flawed." Shaw said.
Shaw said the defense would show that Carter got involved with the case only because his brother Daniel was killed in a car accident charged in the killing of Anderson.
SHAW SAID DARREL. Carter's story got "better and better and better" each time he told it.
"The embellishments upon his story cast considerable doubt upon his credibility." Shaw said.
Defense evidence would show that the discussion between Bird, Anderson and Darrell Carter was about fireworks to be sold by a youth group at the church Bird used to lead, Shaw said.
Yesterday the prosecution's first witness, Lorna Anderson, Anderson's wife, refused to answer questions in a relationship with the defendant.
Lorna Anderson's attorney cited the Fifth Amendment, which protects a person from being compelled to be a witness against himself.
Authorities alleged that the minister and Lorma Anderson were having
District Court Judge Gary Rulon called for a short recess after Anderson's testimony to consider a joint motion to limit the area of questioning, so she would be able to testify.
Martin Anderson was shot to death on a Geary County highway in November 1983. Authorities said Bird's alleged solicitation took place in May 1983, but was never carried out.
BIRD, 33, FORMER PASTOR of Faith Lutheran Church in Emporia, was accused of trying to find someone to kill Anderson's husband, Martin.
Earlier, prosecutor Rod Symmonds said in opening arguments that the state would attempt to prove that Bird and Anderson were in love with each other and were having an affair.
"The state's case is not as simple as we would like," Symmonds told the 12-member jury. "Each witness will be like pieces in a puzzle as the state means for every witness to be important."
THE LYON COUNTY attorney outlined the alleged meeting between Bird, Lorna Anderson and Darrel Carter, in which Bird gave Carter two possible plans for Martin Anderson's death. Carter refused to take part in either plot, Symmonds said.
Lorna Anderson, 31, who now lives in Hutchinson, Monday pleaded not guilty in Geary County District Court to two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and one count of aiding and abetting first-degree murder.
She said that a man emerged from the darkness and shot her husband after she had stopped their van on a Geary County highway because she felt ill.
No one has been charged with the actual murder.
Daniel Carter of Emporia and a Mississippi man have both pleaded guilty to criminal solicitation in Anderson's case.
Carter, Lorna Anderson's former hairdresser, was given four years of probation after he pleaded guilty. Gregory Curry of Glenn, Miss., is appealing his sentence of two to five years probation.
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