CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1984
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Damaged 'blue phones' are repaired promptly
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
Seven handsets stolen early Saturday morning from emergency "blue phones" were replaced promptly because of the potential hazards their absence could have created for KU students.
The seven handsets were stolen between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m., KU Police Lt. Jeanne Longaker said yesterday. But they were replaced later in the afternoon by workers from American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Longaker said she didn't know whether the thieves had specific motives or were just randomly committing vandalism.
A pedestrian scared off two thieves
and they were attempting to steal an
eighteen-year-old girl.
Longaker said that each handset cost about $25 to replace, but that the cost was irrelevant because while the phones were inoperative some KU students were left without access to an emergency phone.
JIM DENNEY, director of KU police,
said that because the handsets were
wired into the phones, and didn't have standard modular clips, the thieves would have had difficulty getting them to work on another phone .
The motive for the thefts may have been vandalism, he said. Or someone may have stolen the handsets, he said, because they felt the emergency kit could also under them as they committed other crimes near the phones, he said.
"That's why we replaced them as quickly as we did." Denny said.
Twelve blue phones are placed around the campus so that a person faced with an emergency situation can call the KU police dispatcher by only removing the handset from the phone, Longaker said.
CONSEQUENTLY, each time a handset was stolen Saturday morning, an officer was dispatched to the phone location, only to discover that not only was the dispatch a false alarm, but the phone's handset was also missing.
In 1982, four more phones were installed in similar locations.
In 1976, KU police installed eight phones at locations with heavy or moderately heavy pedestrian traffic and provided a access to a telephone, Longaker said.
Robert B. Waddill/KANSAN
Mark Cormey, Lawrence senior, takes advantage of a warm evening to toss a Frisbee on a tennis court near Robinson Gymnasium.
House defeats nonresident adoption ban
TOPEKA — Thirty House members today changed their minds and voted to defeat a bill which would have prohibited a nonresident from adopting a Kansas child who was not in the custody of an authorized adoption agency.
By United Press International
The bill had been requested by the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services as a way to prevent or reduce the possibility of nonresidents coming to Kansas to adopt, circumventing the laws of their own states.
The first vote was 83-41 in favor of the bill, but after Rep Robert Vancum, R-Overland Park, explained why he was against the representatives began changing their votes.
VanCrum said the bill was "nearly certain to increase the costs of adoption and would make it more difficult to treat older, older and handicapped children.
Few freshmen meet proposed entry requirements
By United Press International
He also said other states might retaliate against Kansas couples who seek to adopt outside the state. The bill also would favor the wealthy who could afford to establish residency in Kansas in order to adopt, Vancuran said.
TOPEKA - Only 7 percent of the 1983 freshman class at state universities fulfilled new recommendations of the Board of Regents for high school graduates, a spokesman said yesterday.
The spokesman, Joe McFarland, said the survey of current freshmen was taken to determine how many of the students would have been admitted to universities if course recommendations made a year ago were requirements.
McFarland appeared before the House Education Committee on a bill that would make the Regents' recommen- dation on mathematics three units of mathematics, science
and social science mandatory for university admission in 1988.
The bill would require entering freshmen in 1990 also to have compliance with the rule.
The Regents believe the idea is a good one, but one who's time has not been utilized.
Rep. Denzin Apt, R-tolla, sponsored the bill and said she was appalled that the bill would be passed.
THE TIME FOR mandating the recommendations depends on how long it would take school districts to be prepared to offer the additional courses, be said.
The Regents adopted the recommendations to be used as a tool for high school counselors in advising college students what courses to take, McFarland said.
THE CURRENT OPEN admission system increases state costs because of remedial courses and cost parents of unsuccessful students, she said. In addition, the system reinforces human failure. Apt said.
McFarland said while only 7 percent of current freshmen met all of the Regents' recommendations, 86 percent had taken four units of English; 57 percent had at least three units of math; 40 percent had three or more
dropped out or flunked out of Kansas universities. At the end of four years, only 25 percent to 27 percent graduate and still floaterearing floating around the system, she said.
units of social studies; 27 percent took three years of science; and 32 percent completed the two years of foreign language.
The bill would cut down on the number of "bonehead English and bonehead math" remedial courses offered by the universities. Ant said.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY law student Kevin Harris told the committee that the current system penalized average and above average students because of the money spent on remedial courses. He recommended that marginal students be required to complete two years of junior college.
Ermal Garinger, president of the Kansas Foreign Language Teachers Association, said there was no need to postpone the foreign language requirement because 290 foreign langua- gers were registered in recent survey said they were either not teaching foreign language or not teaching a full load.
House passes bill to repeal wage law; veto is expected
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Ignoring the threat of a VEA — by the governor, a House committee yesterday narrowly approved a bill that would repeal a
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 11-9 along party lines, with Republicans in the majority, to send the bill to the House Gov John Carlin said Friday he would veto the bill if it reached the Senate. Hayden, R-Awood, said he doubted the Republican-dominated Legisl-
lature could override the veto
The Prevailing Wage Act, passed in 1891, never has been enforced. It requires political subdivisions — including the state, cities and counties — to pay the prevailing wage on public works projects. Opponents say it is inflationary, favors unions and would increase the cost of public works projects across the state.
The bill to repeal the act was introduced after Carlin issued an executive order directing a state wide study be made to determine the prevailing wage in counties and cities.
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