University Daily Kansan, February 29, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports Soviet team's sponsor says it will make debt payment
Athletes United for Peace has raised the $1,500 remaining on its debt to the Lawrence Holiday Im Holidome and will make the payment today. AUP's president said yesterday.
The debt was accumulated last April when a Soviet track team came to Lawrence to compete in the Kansas Relays.
Today is the extended deadline that the Holidome, 200 W. Turnippe Access Road, set for the payment of the debt, which was reduced from the original sum of $9,553 to $5,000 in an agreement reached between the two groups earlier this month.
The original deadline was set for Friday. When AUP could pay only $3,500 of the reduced debt, however, the Holidome granted them a five-day extension.
The extra five days allowed Bob Swan, the group's president, to raise the needed many through through donations, he said. Swan said he had raised all but a few hundred dollars of the debt and expected to obtain the rest by today.
AUR sponsored the Soviet's visit to Lawrence and their travel and lodging expenses. The trip cost AUP $50,000, but fund-raising
AUP still owes about a dozen other local businesses $12,000 to $13,000,
Swan said.
Prisoner caught carrying drug items
A Douglas County jailer Monday evening found a prisoner trying to carry drug paraphernalia into the jail with him, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department said yesterday.
The prisoner is a Lawrence man serving a sentence in the Douglas County jail for a drunken driving charge. He has been spending nights in the jail for the past week and has had time out of jail to work during the day, the report said.
When a jailer searched the prisoner Monday evening, the report said, the jailer found a "bong-type pipe and a tweeter-type instrument" in the prisoner's pocket.
ON THE RECORD
A CAR STEREO worth about $550 was stolen last weekend from a car parked at Bob Hopkins Volkswagen Inc., 2522 Iowa St., Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A LAWRENCE MAN reported that a car stereo worth about $550 was stolen on Friday from his car parked in the 800 block of Michigan Street, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A KU STUDENT said that his car stereo worth about $550 was stolen between 2. a.m. Sunday and 6:30 p.m. Monday from his car in a lot at the Meadowbrook Apartments, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A RADIO AND CLOTHES worth a total of about $192 were stolen Sunday or Monday from a student's home in the 1000 block of Emery Road. Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
Road, Lawrence police said that two stereo speakers worth about $50 were stolen over the weekend from his car while it was parked in the 700 block of Rockledge Drive, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
OF ROCKLEAD DRIVE, LOWER LEAST
TWO SPEAKERS WORTH ABOUT $99 were stolen on Monday from a locked auditorium at Murphy Hall, KU police said. Police have no suspects.
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Hazardous-waste bill would regulate shipments
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - All shipments of hazardous chemicals and radioactive material transported across Kansas would be regulated by the state, under a bill that will be reworked this summer by a panel of legislators.
Yesterday the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee voted unanimously to send the bill to an interim committee, a panel of legislators that will meet this summer when the Legislature is not in session.
If approved, the bill would establish the state's first all-inclusive regulation of hazardous-waste shipments.
Ammonia gas, chlorine gas and radioactive waste are some of the most common hazardous materials. Industries generally ship the hazardous materials by truck or train.
The committee will consider broadening the bill's language to set definite rules and regulations for the use of the drug.
As written, the bill would regulate only the shipments of radioactive materials. The bill's sponsor, State Sen. Norma Daniels, D-Valley Center, told the committee yesterday that the measure should be broadened to regulate the transportation of all hazardous materials.
shipping any kind of merchandise to the interim committee rewrites the bill, the Legislature could consider it when the 1855 session convenes next January.
She said the state's laws on hazardous-waste transportation were fragmented.
Daniels also said that several state agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Highway Patrol, were involved in regulating the transportation of radioactive materials. Those regulations include registering vehicles that transport radioactive materials into the state, inspecting the packaging of the materials, determining which routes the vehicles must follow, and dealing with safety violations and emergencies.
She said that the Adjutant General was the main regulator but that the department's responsibilities were vague and need to be spelled out.
Daniels said the bill's language should be broadened to include all hazardous materials because radioactive
"It's like a box of jigsaw puzzle pieces," she said.
"They are all there, but they are not together."
"The whole subject of hazardous materials is like a wheel, and radioactive materials are just one space in it."
Daniels said any new law should outline an emergency procedure in case of an accident, and she wants a law passed quickly.
Officials from the Department of Health and Environment, the Department of Transportation, the State Adjutant General's Department and the highway patrol testified in support of the bill. But they agreed that the bill should be expanded to deal with all hazardous materials.
Budig says unrestored cuts hurt morale
"I'd like to see the Legislature act now rather than wait to react to an accident," she said.
By LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin's failure to push for the restoration of KU budget cuts he made in 1982 has caused morale problems that have yet to heal at the University of Kansas, several KU administrators yesterday told a legislative subcommittee in Lawrence.
The morale problem was one of several concerns that Chancellor Gene A. Budig and several other University officials outlined for three members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Budig led the subcommittee, consisting of State Reps, Santford Duncan, R-Witchia; David Heinemann, R-Garden City; and Jack Shriver, D-Akansas City; that emergency budget redaction had been approved, but which never been restored to the University's base budget, had caused a morale problem for KU employees.
The reductions, $14.2 million from the Board of Regents schools, had been only a temporary solution to a state fiscal crisis. However, University officials said
that the Regents appeared to be the only sector that had not had those rescisions restored.
Budig began his statement to the subcommittee by saying that the University was concerned about finances for the remainder of fiscal year 1984, which ends June 30.
The University requested authorization from the Kansas Legislature to spend $417,879 generated from additional fees from an unexpected enrollment increase of 469 students, Budig said.
The University also requested a supplemental appropriation of $87,309 to cover increases in telephone costs that resulted from the recent breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The Regents requested an additional amount of $144,476 for the University for fiscal year 1985.
Budig also outlined for the subcommittee the University's requests for the Regents system.
Although Carlin recommended systemwide salary increases of 6 percent for unclassified employees, 5 percent plus $204 for classified employees and 5 percent plus $398 for classified employees to increase those salaries would be re-allocated from
"existing resources," which officials said represented the elimination of 19 positions at KU.
Budig said that the University requested restoration of $761,019, which is the amount of existing funds that the governor recommended be used to finance part of the salary increases.
The University also requested 7 percent increases in salaries for unclassified employees, funds for student employees and a 5-percent increase in salaries for classified employees.
Budig told the subcommittee that the University requested an increase in the fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants from 60 to 75 percent because it would enable universities to be more competitive.
The University also recommended a Regents proposal which would provide for 100 research fellowships of $1,000 each for KU to use to improve the quality and reach of the institution's promise of unusual research capability." Budig said.
The Regents requested that $1,545,000 of the 1982 cut be restored this fiscal year through recommended program improvements for KU such as laboratory and computing equipment.
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