University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports Debaters argue their way into top 10 in tournaments
Three KU debate teams placed in the top 10 last weekend in tournaments in Arkansas and Illinois, Donn Parson, KU director of forensics, said yesterday.
The team of Al Fitzner and Steve Ellis, both Wichita freshmen, placed fourth in the senior division in an invitational basketball tournament at the State Fair.
Ellis also placed third in the speaking category.
At the Arkansas tournament, 24 teams competed in the senior division.
At Northwestern University in Evanston, III., two KU teams placed fifth and eighth in the senior division, which comprised 91 teams.
Debaters Jerry Gaines, Houston junior, and David Rhaea, Salina senior, placed fifth at Northwestern. Jim Seed, Louis junior, and John Fitzpatrick, Louis junior,
For the first time since the spring semester began, KU debaters will not compete this weekend.
AURH applications are available
Applications for the Association of University Residence Halls officer elections are now available in the office of residential programs, 123 Strong Hall.
The elections for president, vice president, secretary and treasurer will be March 5 and 6.
Candidates must file their applications by Feb. 24. They must also submit a petition with 50 residents' signatures.
Under AURH rules, presidential and vice president candidates running together may not live in the same residence hall.
Both presidential and vice president candidates must file separate petitions even though they run as a team.
KU music society to present concert
Pi Kappa Lamda, a KU music honorary society, will present its annual Concerto Concert, featuring KU student soloists performing with the University Symphony Orchestra, at 8 tonight in the Kansas Union ballroom.
Admission to the concert is $2 at the door.
The eight student soloists were selected after auditions before a committee of faculty members
six KU graduate students will conduct different portions of the concert. George Lawner, conductor of the University Symphony, also will conduct part of the concert.
Philosopher to speak about politics
R. M. Hare, former professor of philosophy at Oxford University and a contemporary moral philosopher, will speak at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Alderson Auditorium.
His works, which some philosphers say have influenced the development of contemporary ethical thinking, include "The Language of Morals," "Freedom and Reason" and "Moral Thinking."
Amateur radio classes begin todav
The KU Amateur Radio Club will begin offering ham radio operating classes today, the president of the club said yesterday.
James Ronnau, the president, said that the classes were free and would be taught by members of his club and the Douglas County Amateur Radio Club.
The classes will start at 7 p.m. and will run today through April 24 in room 2027 Learned Hall.
ON THE RECORD
A TELEVISON, JEWELRY and cash were stolen last weekend from a KU student's apartment in the 2200 block of 28th Street, Lawrence police said. Police estimated the loss was $510. Police have no suspects.
A KU STUDENT reported that a radar detector worth about $400 was stolen Saturday night from his car in a parking lot north of Allen Field Hospital.
A STEREO WORTH $200 was stolen Saturday from a KU student's car in a lot at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, KU police said. Police have no suspects.
WHERE TO CALL
For other questions or complaints, ask for Doug Cunningham, editor, or Don Knox, managing editor.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising is 864-4358.
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KPS officials and city discuss rate talks
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In a study session yesterday, the Lawrence City Commission and Kansas Public Service Gas Co. officials discussed changing the way that the city manages its gas company in formulating ceilings on gas rates.
the negotiations policy is outlined in a franchise agreement between the city and the gas company. That agreement will expire in May, and the city and the gas company must have an agreement by then.
KPS President Bill Salome said he thought the agreement should require that the arbiter used in the negotiations be changed every few years. An arbiter is a firm that negotiates the city and the gas company's
THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT says that if the city and KPS cannot agree on a rate schedule for gas customers, an independent arbiter must determine a rate schedule that satisfies both sides. A conflict often arises about the maximum rate the gas company may charge.
KPS was not satisfied with the set of rates the last arbiter, Drees, Dunn & Co., recommended. That schedule set a fluctuating rate for large interruptable customers such as the University of Kansas, he said.
"That rate schedule could require us to keep KU on
at a less than commodity rate," Salome said. "We're not going to do that."
The fluctuating rate schedule for KU is designed to keep it as a continuously customer. If it can keep KU as a customer, KPS might not have to raise residential rates as often.
Assistant City Manager Mike Wildgen said that the city wanted the franchise agreement to state that if KPS asked for more than one rate increase in a arbitrator, KPS would have to pay the full cost of an arborist.
Interruptable customers can switch to an energy source other than gas at any time.
"KPS can come in every day and ask for a rate increase." Wildglen says. We just think there ought to be. "Let's look at KPS."
THE PRESENT AGREEMENT says that when the co-op and the gas company cannot agree on a rate increase, the gas company will be responsible.
In the past, Wildgen said, KPS has asked for a rate increase every year. The last arbitration cost $18,000, and the city had to pay $9,000 for it. KPS paid the remaining amount, he said.
Olin Petfish, the gas company's attorney, said that the reason the last arbiter cost so much was that the city asked for more information than in previous arbitration cases.
"We have not had rate increases as much as the average utility across the country," Petfish said.
City Commissioner Howard Hill suggested that the city work with KPS directors. But Salome said that if Democrats were to gain control of the mayor's office,
"You need somebody who has some expertise in rate making." he said.
CITY COMMISSIONER MIKA Amy suggested that the city hold a public hearing with the arbiter before it reported to the city. With the present system, it would be possible for a public hearing to accept the rate schedule an arbiter came up with, he said.
However, City Attorney Gerry Cooley disliked the idea of a public hearing.
"The cost to the city has been minimal."
"You may have a public meeting, but I don't know what you're going to accomplish by it, other than
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said that she thought a public hearing was a good idea, but Petefish said that a meeting in New York should be the next.
The present agreement says that interruptable customers do not have to pay the tax.
Federal official favors a higher drinking age
Commissioner Ernest Angino said that he thought interruptable customers should have to pay a franchise tax, which non-interruptable customers have to pay.
"The franchise tax should be put on interruptable customers only when they are paying the same rate everybody else is paying," he said.
By LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Supporters of legislation that would raise the drinking age in Kansas from 18 to 21 told a House committee yesterday that raising the drinking age would save lives.
Jim Burnett, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told the Federal and State Affairs Committee that at least half of the 43,000 deaths on one nation's highways each year were the result of drunk driving.
He also said that people between 16 and 21 years old were the most likely to drink and drive.
accidents by more than 200 percent." he said.
"Young people are over-represented in fatal
IN KANAS, Burnett said, 27 percent of drunk drivers involved in fatal crashes in 1982 were under 21, but that age group makes up only about 11 percent of the state's licensed drivers.
The committee will hear opponents of the measure today.
One bill now before the Legislature would raise to 21 the drinking age for weak beer. Another bill would allow 18- to 20-year-olds to buy and drink beer in "18" years, but it would never be longer no longer be allowed to purchase beer in stores.
Kathy Page, a senior at Wichita West High School, told the committee that raising the drinking age to 21 would help keep underage people from buying alcohol.
"People say that it won't do any good to raise the drinking age to 21 because if kids want alcohol bad they shouldn't be allowed," she said.
"But if it isn't as easy to get, then maybe some of us could have said that and that could make the difference of saving one life."
PAGE ALSO TOLD the committee about a day in
life when a high school friend was killed, and five
others were wounded.
"I never dreamed it would happen to someone I know and love, only to strangers," she said.
"The person driving had been drinking beer," she said, "No one even thought about the gory driver's injury."
Several supporters of raising the drinking age told the committee that Kansas was surrounded on three sides by states that had raised the drinking age to 21. The state, in effect, was the law, and Nebraska, just passed it last week, they said.
James Hamilton, of the Nebraska Council on Alcohol Education, said the lure of the lower age limit in KKU is more difficult to overcome.
"I don't want the 40th parallel to become 'Blood Border.'" he said.
LAURA STEUBEN, a junior at Shawnee Mission
Eagle High School, when people turned 18, they
were ready to buy beer.
She said that high school left school at lunch for what they called "liquid lunches."
King's son wants Reagan, prejudices voted out
Staff Reporter
By MARY SEXTON
King spoke at the Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Okla.
Americans must vote in the 1984 election to rid the nation of social and economic prejudices. Martin Luther King told more than 300 students Sunday.
Kevin Harrison, a KU representative at the conference and a co-chairman of
the Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee, said that King told the audience that the right to vote was the most important right in America.
King, the 26-year-old son of Martin Luther King Jr., emphasized the need to vote the Reagan administration out of Washington, Harrison said. King said that "Reaganomics" hadn't helped most Americans.
The conference was held in February to coincide with Black History Month, BH.
Fifteen KU students and administrators attended the two-day conference, which was designed to inspire black students to participate in student government as a way to spark change.
The problem of prejudice against black students was fresh in the minds of OSU students after a cross was burned at a library on Friday, and black fraternity there, Harrison said.
He said that OSU administrators had shrugged off the incident by calling it a prank. But black students weren't sure that it was just a prank, he said.
On Sunday, representatives at the conference protested the incident by silently marching from the student
union to the fraternity where the cross was burned, Harrison said.
Harrison said that next year the conference would be held at KU.
Rodney Bullock, Durham, N.C. senior, was named "Mr. Big Eight" of the conference.
KU was named the most outstanding Big Eight University because KU representatives participated in the activities more than any other univers-
The University of Kansas also won two awards at the conference, Harrison said.
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SCRIBBLE. 1983
STABAT MATER, 1983
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