University Daily Kansan, April 24, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports Turnout for BSU elections increased, president says
The voter turnout for last week's Black Student Union elections was more than in past years, BSU President Cheri Brown said yesterday. Brown said that more than 90 students voted in this year's election, but BSU student bad apperence a big interest in the election.
Elected for next year's offices were Rochelle Moore, St. Louis sophomore, president; Christine Cressie, St. Louis junior, vice president; John Hollom, Topeka special student, treasurer; Kim Card, Wichita junior, corresponding secretary; and Ella Williams, Wichita freshman, recording secretary.
Brown said that the new officers would be introduced to BSU members during Unity Day on Sunday at McCollam Hall.
City answers appeals filed on center
The city recently responded to two appeals filed in opposition to the Lawrence City Commission's approval of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center's plan to build a church and expand its student center at Crescent and Engel roads.
Bill Barr, president of the Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association, appealed the city's approval of the Catholic center's plan for a $2 million complex, which includes a 392-seat church and an addition to the student center that would more than double its size.
The city's response says that the center's plan would not be an "objectionable" influence on the neighborhood, a claim Barr made in his appeal. The response also states that Barr has not suffered because the city approved the Catholic center's plans.
It also says that city commissioners did not discuss the issue in groups outside of City Commission meetings and says that if a court order results in damages, costs, or expenses claimed by the center, Barr would be required to reimburse the center.
House panel details prison package
TOPEKA — The House special committee on prison overcrowding yesterday recommended a package solution to the problem, including a temporary sales tax increase and a reduction in some sentences.
If approved by the Legislature, the one-year, half-cent sales tax increase would go to a public vote in August.
increase would go to a public vote in August.
It would raise $94.5 million to create a Corrections Fund and the interest generated each year could be used for any correctional purpose. However, any expenditures out of the $94.5 million principal, such as building a new prison, would have to be approved by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature.
The other key element of the committee's package was a recommendation that the House approve a Senate bill cutting minimum wage.
Stephan seeks help on bill for blind
TOPEKA - Attorney General Robert Stephan yesterday asked House Speaker Mike Hayden to schedule a vote in the House on a bill allowing guide dogs in restaurants and grocery stores.
Stephan said in a letter that although he thought current state law allowed guide dogs in both places "it would assist in clarifying this position with federal authorities if this bill were enacted by the Legislature."
The bill had been approved by the Senate but was pending before the House.
Stephan also wrote Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., seeking his help with General Services Administration officials who told the blind manager of a food concession at the Carlson Federal Building in Topeka that her blind employee could keep a guide dog on the premises.
oil company could be charged. "I do not intend to sit idly by and have any agency roll back the progress that has been gained over the years by the disabled," Stephan said in his letter to Dole.
ON THE RECORD
PRICE'S APPLIANCE & REPAIR, 729 New Hampshire St., reported that $300 in cash, four television sets worth $1,284, three video cassette recorders worth $2,162 and a stereo worth $744 were stolen Friday night, Lawrence police said.
A LAWRENCE MAN reported that seat covers worth $120 and a radio worth $100 were stolen from his car Saturday or Sunday while it was parked at the hotel.
A $200 STEREO was stolen during the weekend from a Lawrence man's car while it was parked in the 2100 block of Barker Street, Lawrence police said.
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Mail-order aphrodisiac is 'relatively toxic,' poison center reports
By DAVID SWAFFORD Staff Reporter
A drug once used to treat impotence, which many magazines now advertise as a sexual stimulant, has been found to be toxic, a spokesman with the Mid-America Poison Control Center said yesterday.
When yohimbine, the drug, was taken in small doses, it elevated blood pressure, created a warming sensation in the skin and produced headaches, said Steve McMillan, a registered pharmacist and a poison control specialist at the Poison Control Center in Kansas City, Kan.
No one had been admitted to the center because of a yohimbine overdose, McMillan said. However, two weeks ago a patient who was not expected to be in the emergency room at the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center in Denver
In larger amounts, he said, the drug caused anxiety, severe sweating, chest pain, numbness in the hands and feet and sometimes vomiting.
Dennis Sawyer, director of the drug consultation center at the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center, said
He said the center had sent out about 2,000 warnings to other poison control centers and emergency rooms, included Mid-America Poison Control Center.
the patient was "fairly intoxicated" by the drug's adverse effects.
"The gist of those warnings was just to let people know that yohimbine can cause bleeding."
Before the 1960s, urologists used the drug to treat impotence. The Food and Drug Administration restricted its use during the 1960s because of its negative side.
Urologists used it in tablet form and some generic drug companies still sell it that way. Sawyer said, but mail order houses are now advertising it in magazines as being available in powder form.
"The powder form as an aphrodisiac is just a new craze," Sawyer said. "The drug has been around for many, many years."
Vohimbine, sometimes referred to as
Yoyo, is a byproduct of an African tree.
McMillan said that mail-order houses were avoiding FDA restrictions by advertising the drug in magazines as an herb product, not as a drug.
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Carlin OKs financing for Regents schools
From Staff and Wire Reports
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin yesterday signed into law a bill that finances the state's Board of Regents and its seven schools for the next fiscal year
Under the Regents bill, $616.3 million would go to the board and its seven schools as well as all university capital improvements at the schools.
The financing level for the six universities and one technical school is higher than Carlin requested and includes a 7 percent salary increase for faculty and a 7 percent increase in other operating expenses for the schools. Salaries for classified employees are not included in the bill.
Also included in the bill is a 5 percent increase in student salaries and a 7 percent increase in money for utilities.
Each of the Regents schools will receive the following amounts:
University of Kansas, $153.272.672;
Kansas State University,
$151,504,834; Fort Hays State
University, $255,533,688; Wichita State
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Institute at Salina, $3,614,091.
Last week, Carlin signed a bill that requires Kansas physicians to inform patients who have abnormal lab results and to implement methods other than surgery.
Dron Stole, general counsel for the state Board of Healing Arts, which supported the measure, said that the board had received allegations that unnecessary breast surgery had been performed in a said that abnormal breast tissue was not always cancerous and might not require surgery.
Strole said that the thrust of the bill was to make sure physicians told their patients about risks involved in injury and in other treatment forms.
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