CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 23, 1984
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GSP visitor rules called strict
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall has some of the strictest male-visitation rules of any public university in the country, and all of those rules could be changed by hall residents, according to the hall's resident director.
GSP and Corbin Hall are all-woman halls with a predominantly freshman population and have the most restrictive male-visitation hours of any of the University of Kansas eight residence halls.
MALE GUESTS ARE allowed to visit rooms, with resident escorts. Wednesday from 6 p.m. to midnight and weekends from noon Friday to midnight the rules are reviewed each year by the high government and are subject to change.
"Of my six years of experience in college administration at several schools, these are the strictest visitation hours I have ever worked with," said Julie Gross, resident director "I surprised they have survived this long."
'Each year, the hall government evaluates the constitution of the hall, and any rules or policies they would
like to change are put up for discussion." Gross said. "Every year there is not enough interest or desire to enforceation rules, if it even gets brought up."
This school year, the visitation hours were not questioned, according to Maureen Kelly, New Ulm, Minn., sophomore. Kelly was president of the hall government last semester when the constitution was reviewed.
"I don't think they know they can change the hours," said Amy Waibel, St. Louis freshman and treasurer for hall government. "If they did know, I think they'd try to change them, but no one ever takes any action on it."
CHANGING THE VISITATION hours would require adoption of an amendment to the hall's constitution by two-thirds of the hall's government officers and three-fourths of the hall's residents.
According to several residents and hall government officers, the students living in the hall are not aware of the they can play in the making of policy.
Gross said some residents simply preferred that the hours be left as they were.
"A LOT OF GRILLS don't want to change it because they are assured of
some degree of privacy at least a few
days each week," she said."
If an amendment were passed by the government it would then go to Gore.
"Some of the parents are very protective of their children, and I respect the parents opinions, but these parents say that they want to teach when they come to school." Gross said.
"THERE ARE A NUMBER of women who are former GSP-Corbin residents who now have daughters living here or who are going to live here that are interested in preserving the hall as it was when they went to school. They have their suggestions are restricted visiting hours or no visitation hours at all."
Beyond dealing with parents, Gross sees her problems with male-migration and female-migration.
"The first problem and really the most important one occurs when a resident infringes on her roommate's right to be in the room by having a male visitor and kicking the roommate out." Gross said.
The second problem, she said, is with actual violations of the visitation hours. Gross estimated she had handled 25 of people breaking visitation rules.
El Dorado oil refinery may be closed
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Renorter
Workers at a Getty Oil Co. refinery in the south central Kansas town of El Doro might be able to keep their jobs. The workers may be employed within two.
The Getty refinery in El Dorado may be closed in two years — putting some 525 refinery workers and another 450 who work in related areas out of work. If a buyer that is able to operate the plant at current production level is not found
Concerns about the possible closing before after Geldy got its company to pay a fine.
THE APPROVAL OF the merger resulted in a Federal Trade Commission consent order that required Texaco to sell the Getty refinery, said Greg Musl, legislative assistant for Sen. Nancy Kesbaum, R-Kan.
If a buyer is not found during the two-year waiting period, the loss of almost 1,000 jobs from the town's workforce of 6,000 would deal a heavy blow to its oil-dominated economy and 12,000 local residents, said Kirk Baughan, executive vice-president of the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce.
But El Dorado workers will not be the only Kansas residents affected by such a closure. The plant's closing would also mean a loss in income and sales in the state, said Ed Duckers, legislative assistant for Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.
Musil said that the consent order, established in February, was a response to antitrust problems in Denver. The court also ruled that a certain competition in the region, he said.
TEXACO ALREADY OWNS one of the four pipelines that pump crude oil to the Denver region. With the Getty pipeline, Texaco would have owned half the means of supply to Denver, and MMI was considered against antitrust laws.
Statewide concern about the possible closure brought a congressional hearing to El Dorado on Monday with Kassabeham and U.S. Rep. Bob Whittaker, R-Kan., leading the public hearing.
Musil said that Kassebahn wanted to ensure that the refinery, and the pipelines that would be sold with it, were adequate to attract a buyer. Before the refiner can be sold, the FTC must approve the deal.
The plant now refines 82,000 barrels of crude oil a day. The crude oil is
refined to produce gasoline and is then distributed through nine lines
Of those 82,000 barrels, 32,000 barrels come from independent oil producers in
CLOSING THE REFINERY could tighten the gasoline supply in Kansas because Getty stations would have to get the gas from other sources. With that, Getty would be operating in the state, prices could increase and demand decrease. Duckens said.
In turn, prices for crude oil could decrease of the lack of demand for the returned fuel.
Some refineries in the state are operating at only 70 percent. The Amoco refinery in Sugar Creek, Mo., closed two years ago, and the Mobile refinery in Augusta, has recently gone on the market, said Ross Martin, assistant director for the Kansas Petroleum Council in Topeka.
Another concern, he said, is the apparent decline of the refining end of the pipeline.
Martin said the refineries closed or reduced production because they were unable to meet demand.
The decline could affect drilling possibilities as well. If the demand and prices are down, he said, marginal wells won't be drilled.
Topekan enters race for 2nd District seat
Jim Van Slyke of Topeka formally announced his candidacy yesterday for the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District.
If he wins the nomination, Van Styke will run against against Democratic incumbent Jim Slattery, who was elected in 1982.
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
In his statement yesterday at the Douglas County courthouse, Van Stlyke said he supported President Obama's efforts to reduce the federal deficit. He said
that Reagan's proposal, which calls for spending cuts but does not increase taxes, should be passed in its package form.
He said that Reagan's proposed defense budget, which is 7 percent higher than the rate of inflation, was not enough to meet the defense needs of the country.
However, the money should be spent for the development of more advanced weapons so that nuclear weapons could be made obsolete, he said.
Van Slyke said that program spending could be reduced by instituting tight controls on government
defense projects and by allowing presidential line-item veto power. Line-item veto power would enable the president to reduce spending on numerous projects.
A sunset provision on temporary programs is needed to insure that the existence of these agencies is justified, he said. Too much money is spent on programs that should remain temporary agencies, and Congress's inability to remove them costs too much money, he said.
On agricultural issues, Van Slyke said that government should not interfere with farming.
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