University Daily Kansan, June 29, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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News briefs from staff and wire reports
Lawrence officials want injury-free Fourth of July
Although many communities suffer damages to property and people during the Fourth of July holiday, Lawrence residents have been lucky.
Last year there were no fireworks-related injuries reported at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, nurse Jackie Jarof said.
There was also no significant increase in the number of fires reported in Lawrence during the Fourth of July holiday, according to the Bureau of Fire Statistics.
While Lawrence and its residents may have been unharmed by fireworks during the Fourth of July last year, the rest of the state was not as lucky.
Marion Bartlett, fire prevention inspector for the Kansas State Fire Marshal, said that last year 109 people were injured by fireworks. Seventy-two percent of those injured were under the age of 20.
In Kansas, only fireworks in the class C rating are permitted to be used by the general public. Ratings are determined by the amount of gunpowder the fireworks contain. Although bottlerockets fall under this category, they have been banned because of the number of fires caused by them in past years, Bartlett said.
Within the Lawrence city limits fireworks can be lit only from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 2 and 3 and from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. July 4.
The Lawrence Jaycees will sponsor a Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza at Memorial Stadium on the KU campus on July 4. In addition to the fireworks the band Pagan Idols will perform. Gates will open at 7 p.m., and the fireworks will begin at dusk.
For people having their own fireworks display, Bartlett suggests reading the firecracker label first, staying away from buildings or dry areas, keeping a bucket of water or hose nearby, lighting firecrackers one at a time, not throwing firecrackers, and keeping emergency phone numbers close by.
Theatre group to present musical
This weekend the Summer Youth Theatre, in its first performance of the season, will present the musical "Once Upon a Mattress" at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
The musical is based on the Grimmies fairy tale, "The Princess and the Pea." Carol Burnett made her acting debut in "Once Upon a Mattress" on Broadway in 1959. It was written by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer and Dean Fuller, with music by Mary Rodgers and lyrics by Barae.
Performances will be today and tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for children.
KP&L to cut costs with programs
The Kansas Power and Light Co. has proposed two programs to reduce costs for its electricity and gas customers.
Peak Subscription Service, an experimental program aimed at holding down future costs of electricity, will offer incentives to customers who limit their use of electricity on summer afternoons, when electricity use is at its peak.
KP&L has selected 64 customers in the Topeka area to participate in the program during July, August and September.
The participants will choose their own electricity limit, and KP&L will assist them in determining what their peak level in the past has been and what their optimum peak should be.
If the program is successful, it may be expanded to delay the need to build more power plants.
This week, KP&P requested the Kansas Corporation Commission to lower rates for gas customers, beginning Sunday.
KP&L requested the decrease to improve the efficiency of its natural-gas distribution and transmission systems, and because of its spot market purchases of gas and increased gas production from one of its oil fields.
Center offers family aid classes
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St., will offer three classes on family adjustment during July and August.
A one-day workshop for children of divorced or divorcing parents will be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on July 21. A parent interview will be required.
"Parent, Toddler and Preschooler," a class for parents of children from 18 months to 5 years old, will meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. July 10 through Aug. 14. The class will consist of lectures, discussions and problem solving activities.
"Mothers and Infants," will meet from 10 to 11:30 a.m., July 20 through Aug. 10.
Further information on enrollment and fees can be obtained by calling the center.
KU bookstores donate recorders
The KU bookstores have donated cassette recorders to the Applied English Center and the department of speech-languagehearing: science and disorders.
The recorders will be used in a graduate class this fall semester to study speaking problems, such as stuttering. Students will learn how to develop listening skills and determine whether an individual has a problem.
The Applied English Center will use the recorders in classes of non-English speaking students. The recorders will assist the faculty in monitoring students' comprehension of the language at various speech rates.
Chamber of Commerce relocating
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce will move across the street from its present location, 823 Vermont St., to a historic building on the southeast corner of Eighth and Vermont streets by December 1, 1984. Pete Whittenen, chamber president, announced this week.
Whitenight said that the chamber chose the new site because of its location and visibility, as well as the exciting potential of restoring one of the oldest buildings in downtown Lawrence.
The Chamber of Commerce will occupy the first floor of the historic landmark. The building was built by August Poehler in 1869, the same year that the first City Hall and fire station, now across from the building on Eighth Street were built.
Women past 40 often believe that they do not need an annual Pap smear, Magrina said, but the cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in older women are often more advanced than in younger women who have annual Pap smears.
Women over 40 need Pap smear
Women who are more than 40 years old need to have yearly Pap smears, Javier Magrina, gynecological oncologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center. said recently.
Magrina said that most Pap smears would not diagnose all female-organ diseases. Twenty percent of Pap smears may show a negative reading while a disease is present.
WHOM TO CONTACT
If a woman with a negative Pap smear has abnormal pain and bleeding, she should ask for more tests, Magrina said.
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New visitation rules please hall staffs
If roommates decide to have members of the opposite sex in their room during security hours, they will now have to go through a more complicated check-in process at the security desk.
As part of the roommate agreement, residents will decide together whether they will allow members of the opposite sex in their rooms, at what times and under what conditions.
The Association of University Residence Halls' new visitation policy is getting warm responses from residents and employees of the University residential system.
By MICKI SAMPSON
Staff Reporter
THE NEW POLICY, which was prepared by the visitation subcommittee appointed by the advisory board, calls for roommates in the residence hall system to sign an "official AURH-ORP roommate agreement" and for increased security in all the halls.
James Jeffley, AURH president.
Both employees and residents said that the new policy, adopted Monday by the Residential Programs Advisory Board, would make the residence halls safer and would help establish better communication between roommates.
said that the new plan would be a victory for everyone, and that residents would favor it over the comprehensive plan suggested by the advisory board that would have restricted all visitation of the opposite sex to non-security hours.
KATHY RANKIN, of Lawrence, who will be a freshman in the fall, agreed that the new plan would be better than the old.
Rankin, who will be living at Corbin Hall this fall, said that she favored the roommate agreement and that she and her roommates had already planned to determine visitation hours for their room.
"The ID part sounds kind of complicated, though," she said, referring to a new security rule that would require residents and their guests to leave some form of identification at the security desk when checking in during security hours.
Under the new policy, the job for the hall resident assistants will be easier, Amy Brown, resident assistant at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, said.
"There will be tighter controls over who is in the hall," she said.
BROWN SAID THAT she would be able to find out how many guests were in each room quickly, and that by looking at a roommate agreement signed by both parties, would know
whether one of the roommates was being put out by the male visitors.
"It will put the responsibility on the roommates to work their problems"
Bruce Willett, security monitor for
It (the new policy) will put the responsibility on the roommates to work their problems out for themselves.
- Amy Brown. resident assistant
SECURITY MONITORS could ask anyone in question to show their hall identification, he said, but most don’t carry their hall ID with them.
Oliver Hall, said that the new security policy would be harder to enforce in the coed halls than in the single-sex halls.
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hours are visitors or residents." Willett said.
Sherrill Robinson, assistant resident director at McCollum Hall, said that the policy at McCollon in the past had been for visitors to sign in and leave a form of identification at security desk during security hours.
Part of the security policy states that visitors of the opposite sex who enter the hall before visiting hours check in with their host or hostess.
In response to these complaints, last spring the advisory board suggested a comprehensive visitation policy that would forbid residents to have members of the opposite sex in the private areas of the hall during security hours.
The success of the new policy, Willett said, "depends on how much support the security monitors get from the other staff members."
"In a coed hall, you won't be able to tell if the people in before security
THE NEED FOR a new campuswide visitation policy came about last year when members of the advisory board received numerous complaints from residents and parents about roommates who were abusing the current policy
St. Lawrence center awaits appeal decisions
The plan was reconsidered when 98 percent of the students who responded to a petition put out by Jeffley said that they did not favor the plan.
By SHAWNA SEED
Staff Reporter
Two lawsuit involving the St. Lawrence Catholic Center have pushed back plans for the center's expansion and construction of a church by several months and have left the center "in limbo," the center's director said.
"This court thing is really holding us up," said the Rev Vince Krische.
B. G. Barr, 1605 Crescent Road, a member of the Crescent-Engle Neighborhood Association, filed the suits against the city of Lawrence. The association opposes the construction at Crescent and Engle roads, and the lawsuits appeal the city's decisions allowing the construction.
WHEN THE CITY Commission approved the site plan for the expanded center and church in February, Krische said that he had expected the designs to be completed in about six months, bids by the end of April and construction underway in late fall. The lawsuits have pushed that timetable back.
Krische said that designs were
under way, but that the center had not yet taken bids for the construction.
"I wish I could tell you where we are. We're designing, but awaiting completion of the hearing," he said.
Starting construction in the fall is no longer possible, he said. By the time plans are complete enough that they can be completed, Krische said it will be December.
THE WEATHER IN December will prevent breaking ground. Krische said. He said that he now hoped construction would begin in March, about five months behind schedule.
The neighborhood association filed its lawsuit only against the city. But on May 18, Judge James Paddock granted the motion of Archbishop Ignatius J. Strecker of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kan., to become a participant in the lawsuits.
In April, Strecker filed a counter appeal to the neighborhood association appeal.
The litigation involving the center, the city and the neighborhood association may draw to a close soon. Court records show that a motion to dismiss both lawsuit against the city will be heard at 9 a.m. on July 5.
parking spaces required at the center.
although the actual motion has not been filed.
The expansion plan that was finally approved called for a 392-seat church, expansion of the existing student center and a 98-space parking lot.
The second lawsuit, filed March 28,
appealed the City Commission's
decision to approve a site plan for the
center.
francis
The first lawsuit, filed March 2. appealed the Board of Zoning Appeals' decision to consider the center a church and not a school. The decision reduced the number of
JOHN NITCHER, Barr's attorney,
said that a motion to dismiss had not
yet been filed, and that he knew
nothing of one.
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