University Daily Kansan; March 29, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
House bill to increase fines for training dogs to fight
TOPEKA - The House yesterday gave tentative approval to a bill that would increase the penalty for attending dog fights and would prohibit owning dogs trained to fight.
Final action on the bill is scheduled for tomorrow
The bill amends current law to prohibit the training, owning, keeping, transporting or selling of any dog for the purpose of dog fighting. The penalty for the crime would be a class E felony, punishable by one to five years in jail and a $5,000 fine.
In addition, any dog that is diseased or disabled beyond recovery for any useful purpose could be humanely killed under the bill's provision. The bill covers all dog fighting and not just pit dog fighting.
The bill also would allow law enforcement officers to take into custody any dog on the premises where a dog fight occurred. If a dog owner is convicted, the dog would not be returned and the owner would have to pay for the expenses incurred in caring for the dog.
Sentiment for the bill stemmed from an incident last October in Harper, Kan, in which Grace Parsons, 67, was mauled to death by two pit bull terriers. The owner of the dogs, David S. Reynolds, 19, is scheduled to stand trial for her death April 24 in Sedgwick County District Court.
KANU's new tower nearly complete
Although the new tower at KANU-FM is almost completed, the station's director of development said yesterday that the station would not begin operating at full power until additional work was completed at the West Campus site.
Al Berman, the director, said, "They still have about as much work to do on the ground as they did in the air."
The station will probably conduct its fund-raising drive, "Campaign for Excellence," about three weeks after the station returns to full power, according to Berman.
"We've just been hanging on, quite frankly," Berman said.
He said that the three-man tower construction crew still had to finish painting the tower and then adjust the tension on the ground wires supporting it. Installation and testing of the new antenna will follow the construction of the tower.
Berman said he didn't know when the station might begin broadcasting at its full power of 100,000 watts.
The station has been broadcasting at reduced-power since December 1982, when vandals cut three support cables, causing the 605-foot tower to fall.
Lecture features Nobel Prize winner
The 1983 Nobel Prize winner in physics, William A. Fowler, will lecture at the University of Kansas next week about the secret of how gold was made from base metals during the formation of the universe.
The lecture, "The Quest for the Origin of the Elements: Nobel Lecture in Physics 1983," which is sponsored by the KU department of physics and astronomy, will be at 8 p.m. April 3 in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The lecture is open to the public.
Fowler, who is professor emeritus of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has done research in nuclear physics and other branches.
Fowler will also participate in a technical colloquium on "The Missing-Neintrinos putz" 13:30 p.m. April 4 in 2013 Malott Hall.
State cites records of nursing home
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has cited the Valleyview Care Home, operated by Douglas County, for a record-keeping problem in the documentation of patient care, the director of the nursing home said yesterday.
Judy Harkins, the director, 2518 Ridge Court, said that the problem had occurred when the home used a different method to keep its records.
The administrator of the home and Harkins discussed the citation with the Douglas County Commission during its meeting yesterday.
Harkins said that improvements and changes were made in the record-keeping system in the first of March, after the department noticed the problem during an inspection in January.
Journalists to receive awards at KU
Three Midwestern journalists will receive outstanding service citations today from the University of Kansas chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha, a national journalism honor society.
The three journalists are Lucile Bluford, editor of the Kansas City Call; Zula Bentington Greene, for 50 years the author of the Peggy of the Flint Hills column in the Topeka Capital Journal; and Peter MacDonald, chairman of the board of Harris Enterprises.
A dinner honoring the three journalists and 48 journalism students who have been invited to join the KU chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha will be at 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 10.
Bluford is a KU graduate, and MacDonald studied accounting and finance at KU.
KU begins exchange with Denmark
The office of study abroad yesterday announced a new exchange program with a university in Denmark.
The Denmark International Study Program will feature courses in architecture, business and general studies, Mary Ryan, assistant director of the office of study abroad, said yesterday.
While in Denmark, two exchange students will study at the University of Copenhagen.
In previous years, the University of Kansas has sent students to Denmark, but this program will be the first exchange with the country, she said.
A spokesman for the University of Copenhagen will speak to students about the program at 10 a.m. today in the office of study abroad at 203 Lippincott, she said.
Because of the new program, the study abroad office will receive funds to award one scholarship each semester to qualified students participating in the program. To qualify, students must have a 3.0 grade point average and must be a junior or above, she said.
ON THE RECORD
A KU STUDENT's brown leather attache case, portfolio, miniature tape recorder and wallet, together worth about $160, were stolen yesterday morning from a locked car in the 2100 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The police have no suspects.
A LAWRENCE MAN'S gasoline-powered post-hole digger, worth about $400, was stolen March 21 from his residence in the 1200 block of West 20th Street Terrace, Lawrence police said. The police have no suspects.
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By GRETCHEN DAY
SenEx calls urgent meeting on parking
Staff Reporter
The University Senate Executive Committee yester-day called for an emergency meeting of the University Council to consider changes in parking and traffic procedures.
The University Council will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Council Room of the Kansas Union to consider a Parking and Traffic Board proposal approved by the board. The present parking system at the University of Kansas
Committee members voted to call the emergency meeting after learning that the Board of Regents must have the plan before April 2. Members had previously advocated for theancellor Lancaster Gene A. Budig would have to act on the plan.
SenEx chairman, said that if the Council approved the grade appeals board, the proposal would probably go to the University Senate and to a mail ballot.
SENEX ALSO APPROVED and sent to the Council a proposal that would create a University grade appeals board. The Council will discuss the proposal at its regular meeting April 5.
James Carothers, associate professor of English and
If the Council does not approve the parking proposal at the emergency meeting, the parking system at KU will remain the same. An emergency meeting of the Carpathians was been called in more than 10 years, Carothers said.
Under the proposed parking plan, most permit costs would be reduced and parking zones would be reorganized.
Carothers said that he didn't know until last week that the Regents were required to act on the proposal. A public hearing on the plan is also required before the Regents can act. The hearing, which will be April 27, must be announced in the Kansas Register 15 days in advance.
Tuesday, the Regents notified the University that they needed the proposal by April 2 in order to meet all the required deadlines, Carothers said.
THE MIX-UP IS a result of a failure to communicate, be said, and the Council will discuss ways to
ensure that the same problem does not occur next year.
"We're running behind," he said. "I do not know where the breakdown came."
Bill Hopkins, professor of human development and chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, said the board did not have a definite timetable and was slowed in drafting the plan.
"We didn't know we had very short deadlines," he said. "We didn't know what day we were shooting at." The nonprofit proposes $150,000 in capital improvement funds to lodge lots near Haworth, Malott, and Summerfield Halls.
Parking lots at residence halls, scholarship halls and other housing units would be restricted to residents who buy permits.
Under the proposed parking plan, parking lots on campus that are restricted to traffic during the day would be designated as blue zones. Lots close to campus would become red zones, and all outlying lots would be yellow.
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
A KU faculty member said yesterday that he had sent a letter to Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan accusing Lawrence city commissioners of evading a state law in a proposal to build a new terminal at the airport.
Tim Miller, 936 Ohio St., a lecturer in religious studies, said that the city's desire for a new airport terminal had led the Commission to try to evade a state law that requires bonding bonds for an airport project without a public vote.
The city is now accepting proposals from private developers for the terminal but has not yet voted to build the terminal.
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The city wants to avoid taking the issue before the public. Mr. said, because voters in Lawrence have passed a law that would make it unlawful to
"From my point of view," Miller said, "they think they need the airport but the public doesn't understand that, so they want to override them."
Miller said that the city was planning to pay for the new terminal through a lease-purchase agreement with a private developer that would have the same requirements. The company said it with a bond issue — without allowing them to vote on it.
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said that she wasn't familiar with the law Miller cited and could not comment on the point of his letter.
Commissioner Ernest Angino, however, said, "I don't think that by any frame of mind lease-purchase is the same as bond."
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Miller said, "They decided the only way to an airport to work was to get the people to pay for it. But they tried two times and failed. So they have come up with this ingenious solution of lease-purchase."
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