University Daily Kansan. February 7,1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Low-power television firm wants station in Lawrence
Low Power Technology of Golden, Colo., has filed an application to establish a low-power television station in Lawrence, the Federal Communications Commission said yesterday.
The FCC did not say when the license for the station, which would broadcast on channel 30 might be granted
The FCC grants licenses to low-power stations to provide local broadcasting, unlike most commercial stations, which broadcast broadcasts in the air.
Heidi Terrill of Low Power Technology filed the application for the new station
The FCC is also considering three applications for a license to operate a full-power station in Lawrence. Last summer, the FCC conducted hearings in Lawrence to consider the applications, but the licence will probably not be granted until later this month.
Commission to vote on cable theft law
The Lawrence City Commission will vote tonight on whether to make the theft of cable television service a violation of municipal law.
The city has already given first approval to the proposed ordinance, which would make the city's law as tough as the state law on cable thieves.
State statutes sets a penalty of up to $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail for cable theft
The city's current laws do not cover cable television theft. Suspected thieves are now prosecuted in municipal court on a charge of petty larceny.
In the past five days, Sunflower Cablevision reported seven cases of illegal book-prints to Lawrence police.
Dave Clark, Sunflower general manager, said his company planned to take the seven cases to court.
In the last three months, 30 cases of cable theft have been discovered and turned over to police for investigation. Clark said.
"It'a a big problem," Clark said. "I'd like to emphasize that we're taking a hard stand. There will be no deals made."
Bipartisan review of plant wanted
TOPEKA, Kan. — House Democrats yesterday demanded that the Republican leadership dissolve a special committee on the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant and appoint a bipartisan group to review options for the $2.67 billion plant.
However, Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, said such a committee was unnecessary. Doyen discounted Democrats' fears that the ad hoc committee of Republican leaders would present the final say-so on Wolf Creek.
House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg, said, "Maybe we're all waking up to the fact that just because you've assumed for 10 years that something was going to happen doesn't mean that it should happen or that it's the only option."
Assistant Minority Leader Don Mainey, D-Topeka, said that if the Republicans denied their request, Democrats probably would be forced to hold their own public hearings on the state's first nuclear plant that is under construction near Burlington.
Two KU theatre students honored
Two University of Kansas students received awards at the American College Theatre Festival in St. Louis Jan. 26-29 for designing the set and costumes and composing the music for "DADADADADA," a play written by a KU student.
David McGreevy, Wichita graduate student, won a first place award and a citation of merit in the regional competition for designing the set and costumes for the play, written by James Larson, Lawrence graduate student.
McGreevy also won a citation of merit for his lighting designs and a cash award for his costume designs
Jordan Stump, Lawrence junior, received a citation of merit for his original score for the play.
McGreevy's designs will be entered in the ACTF national contest and be exhibited this spring at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
"DADADADADADA" was presented for the first time last September at the University.
Debate team wins at Baylor tourney
A KU debate team placed first and two other KU teams placed in the top five in a tournament last weekend at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
In the junior division, Robert Bradley, Wichita freshman, and David Thomasanek, Wheeling, III, freshman, placed first. George Lopez, Wichita freshman, and Eddie Watson, Arkansas City freshman, placed fourth.
in the senior division, John Culver, Overland Park freshman, and Marty Aaron, Wichita sophomore, placed fifth among 32 teams.
Bill would limit transfer of sales tax
TOPEKA — Two legislators plan to introduce a bill today that would limit the amount of sales tax money transferred from the state general fund to the highway fund and increase the state tax on gasoline.
The bill would put a limit on the amount of sales tax money that may be transferred from sales of new and used vehicles. The limit would be set at the current level of $5 million instead of increasing annually as scheduled.
Rep. James Lower, R-Emporia, said the change could save the general fund $75 million over the next five years.
"The general fund can't afford those transfers," Lowther said Monday.
The transfer was approved in the final weeks of the 1983 Legislature in a compromise highway financing package.
The bill they plan to introduce Tuesday would replace the transfer with a 1 cent increase in the motor fuels tax on Jan. 1, 1985, followed by an increase in the fuel taxes.
ON THE RECORD
A CAR STEREO WORTH about $350 was stolen Sunday from a KU student's car parked in the 1000 block of Mississippi Street. Police have
A STEREO WORTH ABOUT $550 was stolen Sunday night from a KU student's residence in the 1000 block of Mississippi Street, police said. Police have no suspects.
A STEREO WORTH $545 was stolen Saturday night from a house in the 1100 block of Indiana Street, police said. Police have no suspects
AN OFFICIAL OF the KU office of business affairs reported that a tent worth $300 was stolen Sunday morning from outside of his home in the 400 block of Rockfence Place, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A TAPE RECORDER WORTH $600 was stolen Wednesday night from a repair room in the audio-visual department in Lippincott Hall, police reports show. Police have no suspects.
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Report says prison is not for nonviolent
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Advisory Committee on Prison Overcrowding, established by Secretary of Corrections Michael Barbara, submitted the report, which included 16 recommendations, at a press conference in the State Office Building.
TOPEKA — State legislators should relax laws requiring prison sentences for persons convicted of non-violent crimes, said a report released earlier in the county. The committee.
David Barclay, special assistant to the secretary of corrections, said that because of the public's concern, lawmakers and others in the criminal justice system had become stricter with lawbreakers in recent years, adding to the state's prison overcrowding problems.
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S report said that the overcrowding problems must be solved by changing buildings. It was rather than by building new prisons.
Barclay said that the public must be
"It makes little sense to send someone convicted of stealing bicycles worth about $300 to prison, when the defendant incarcerating a felon is $11,000 a year."
"In situations where the value of the crime is less than the cost of incarceration, you have to examine the wisdom of it," he said.
convinced that it was impractical to imprison people convicted of nonviolent crimes.
WHAT THE PUBLIC has to realize, Barclay said, is that even if the state built more prisons, the operating costs of those prisons would be tremendous because the prison population would keep growing.
He aid that although the public thought that the state's prisons were filled with violent offenders, 45 percent were offered there for non-violent offenses.
He aid that the construction and operating cost of a 500-bed facility over a 30-year period would be $300-$340 million.
"The committee wanted to make a clear distinction between violent and
At a news conference, Barbara called the report thoughtful and insightful but expressed reservations about one recommendation calling for an emergency release mechanism that would be triggered when the state's prison population reached 90 percent of the maximum capacity established by law.
non-violent offenders," Barclay said. "There are fairly large numbers of inmates who go to prison who might not need to."
"I FEEL THAT if we go with an early release mechanism, we are liable to forget these other options," Barbara said.
The report said that 14 other states had emergency release mechanisms, and at least five have used them to ease prison overcrowding.
Barley said a trend toward less incarceration had emerged in recent years as states experimented with new ways to fight prison overcrowding.
He said some alternatives included community service work, financial restitution and more creative use of local jail time — on weekends or in
evenings — so that the offender could keep a job, pay taxes and support a family.
The advisory committee's report also recommended:
*Repolaring a law that the Legislature passed two years ago which increased minimum sentences for class D and E felonies.
- Creating a sentence of probation for most first-time class E felons.
- Expanding community service sentences for non-violent offenders.
- Making theft of less than $300 a misdeemer and theft of more than $300 a class E felony. Now, theft of more than $100 is a class E felony.
Barclay said that Barbara had set up meetings with legislative leaders next week to discuss what recommendations might be acted upon this session.
The Legislature has already passed bills establishing two pre-release centers in Topeka and Winfield to ease overcrowding problems.
The state's prison population now is about 1,300, officials said. The designed community center in the city is $2 million.
Children from the Hilltop Child Development Center play soccer on the lawn in front of Watson Library. The children enjoyed the warmer weather recently. The center is at 1314 Joyhawk Drive.
Members oppose limit on DIC's role
By SHARON BODIN
Staff Reporter
A letter from the Lawrence City Commission that limits the Downtown Improvement Committee's role in downtown redevelopment caused dismay and disappointment for three DIC members yesterday.
The letter, which the city sent last week, said the DIC should act as an advisory body and an advocacy group. That is, it should advise the City about financing in the downtown plan and should promote it to the city.
DIC member Richard Kersenbaum said he was disappointed with the letter because it showed that the DIC's role diminished by the City Commission.
"It's obvious that throughout the development of the Town Center plan, the DIC's input has not been solicited," he said. "I think that since the public has not been involved in that plan, it seems we should be harder to sell the plan to the public."
THE LETTER WAS written because DIC members told the commission that they were confused about their role in downtown redevelopment. That confusion came after the city abandoned a bridge and that the DIC had negotiated extensively.
In November, the city broke off negotiations with the Sizerley Realtor Co. Inc., Kenner, La., and decided to begin a merger with the Town Center Venture Corp.
The letter from the commission to the
DIC said the DIC should serve the City Commission "in a purely advisory
It also said the DIC would present and promote the Town Center plan
DIC chairman Pete Whitenight said the commission wanted the DIC to endorse only the commission's viewpoints.
"I MIGHT HAVE been apparent the DIC had become an advocate of the Sizerel plan," he said. "The city wants us to be an advocate group, but only for the things they want. Have a hard time with that."
"The DIC was set up to be a screening body, a bunch ofunch of people. Whatever it was." Whitney said.
DIC member John Naughtin said, "I'm a little dismayed that the City Commission doesn't quite trust the DIC. It's like if we were given too much responsibility, we would sabotage the city. We can't replace it with the Sizerel scheme."
The letter said the City Commission would not allow other city groups to participate.
Naughtin said the DIC would do as the City Commission told it to do because its members wanted downtown redevelopment to succeed.
DIC MEMBER Jack Arensberg, who owns Arensberg Shoes, 819 Massachusetts St., said he approved the contents of the letter.
"We are just there at the pleasure of the commission," he said. "We do what they want."
wide latitude on the City Commission's part."
DIC member Nancy Hambleton said,
"It's a very general letter. It allows a
Hambleton said the commission had not specifically outlined the DIC duties because commissioners didn't know the redevelopment would get underway.
"I're getting impatient to get on with it. I think we all hope things are getting done that we don't hear about," she said. "I look forward to the next progress report and hope that things are getting done."
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KU student is arraigned in auto death Judge considers request for a trial without a jury
By the Kansan Staff
A 20-year KU student pleaded not guilty at her arraignment yesterday to charges of vehicular homicide, leaving an apparent accident and failing to stop at a stop sign.
Associate District Judge Mike Malone, who presided over the arraignment, said he was pleased with the ruling.
Susan Shaw, 1004 Alabama St. 3, was charged after the car she was driving hit a car driven by KU law student Paul Jauret, who died at the scene Jan. 22.
Jean Shepherd, Shaw's attorney, requested that Shaw's trial be decided by a judge, not a jury. Malone said that he would consider the request.
Malone freed Shaw on a $2,500 recognition bond, which means she will only have to pay if she fails to appear.
The fatal accident occurred at the intersection of 10th and Kentucky streets. Shaw was traveling west on I-95 from Windsor to Lexington at the stop sign at Kentucky Street.
Nourot and his wife, Alice, 1226 Haskell, were traveling north on Kentucky Street when their car was struck by Shaw's car Upon impact, police reports show, Nourot's car spun, causing his door to open. He was thrown from the car and police said he died instantly.
Witnesses said that Shaw left the intersection and turned on Vermont Street, reports show. Police officers reported that she returned within an hour and identified herself as the driver of the other car.
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Thursday, February 16, 1984 8:00 p.m. Hoch Auditorium
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This performance is part of the 1984 University Arts Festival, partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee. Swainstout Society and the KU Endowment association, this program is made possible by support from the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts through their participation in the Mid America Arts Alliance.
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