University Daily Kansan, February 3. 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports Team of Paola students wins College Quiz Bowl
"The Committee for the Annexation of the Southern Hemisphere," made up of students from Paola, narrowly defeated "Fists of Fury" last night to win the University of Kansas College Quiz Bowl Championship.
CASH, consisting of senior Don Wilbur, sophomore Mike Hart, sophomore Amy Brown and graduate student Brian Wright won when the other team gave a wrong answer.
With one minute remaining in the final round, "Fists of Fury," made up of students from Wichita and Topeka, answered incorrectly a bonus
The correct answer was Alexander II
CASH will go on to the regional tournament, Feb 17-18, in Warrenburg. Mo.
"Fury" captain Jackie Aaron, Wichita graduate student, shouted, "Nicholas II," as the incorrect answer to the question: "Who abolished serfdom in Russia in 1861 and introduced the first elected institutions of local government and was finally killed by a bomb in 1881?"
Truck overturns after brakes fail
A truck overturned yesterday on the West Turnpike Access Road after its brakes failed, a police report said.
The report said that the driver swerved to the left at the intersection of Princeton Boulevard to avoid hitting a car that was stopped at a traffic signal. The truck then overturned, dumping a load of dirt on the West Turmike Access Road, the report said.
The driver of the truck was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then sent to a Lawrence doctor's office for treatment of minor injuries to her face and wrist.
County won't help finance airport
The Douglas County Commission will not help the city finance a new terminal for the Lawrence Municipal Airport, county commissioners said yesterday at a breakfast meeting for the city and county commissioners.
Although the county commissioners agreed that the terminal was needed, County Commissioner Beverly Bradley said that the county's decreasing tax revenue would prevent it from providing funds for the new terminal.
Bradley said that the tax revenue was decreasing because the Kansas Legislature had passed a bill in 1983 that removed the personal property tax from farm machinery.
Drop-add period will end Tuesday
The last day students may add classes and enroll is Tuesday.
However, some departments have a different schedules for adding and enrolling, and the last day to add a class in some departments has already passed. Gary Thompson, director of student records, said that final dates are listed in the timetable in each department's section.
The last day to drop a full-semester class is Feb. 14.
After Feb. 14 students may drop classes and will receive a "W" or an "E" depending on what class is dropped. Thompson said
He said a student enrolled in a class outside of his major must drop according to the policy of the department that teaches the class.
ON THE RECORD
COMPUTER SOFTWARE worth about $150 was stolen Tuesday morning from Nichols Hall, KU police said. Thieves apparently walked into the open building and stole the software, police said. Police have no suspects.
CANDY AND MONEY worth about $130 was stolen yesterday morning from a vending machine in Marvin Hall, police said. Police have no suspects.
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Two months after receiving an official complaint, the Lawrence Police Department yesterday issued a written policy that outlines four situations that permit the department to use videotape in its investigations.
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POLICE CAN VIDEOTAPE traffic accidents, Olin said, for use in police academy training and they can film certain evidence at the scene of a crime. Students must watch when "probable cause suggests impending violence," the guidelines state.
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The complaint, presented to Olin by Daniel Wildcat, the president of the ACLU chapter, questioned the filming by Lawrence police of a protest sponsored by Latin American Solidarity in November.
In a written statement to the police in November, Wildcat said, "It's our feeling that the practice of video surveillance of a political demonstration intent, has a chilling effect on the exercise of free speech and peaceful assembly."
WILDCAT MET WITH Olin in November. The police department said then that it would issue a written set of guidelines outlining the situations and types of public gatherings police may videtote.
The police who video-taped the November demonstration did so because a city ordinance was being violated, Olin said. One of the demonstrators was using a bullhorn, which is a violation of a city ordinance, he said.
No mention is made within the guidelines of the free political express-
The guideline states that videotaping is proper when a city ordinance, state law, or regulation directs it.
Olin said that only two demonstrations, the protest last November and a similar march in October of 1979, have been reported as surveillance by Lawrence police.
Expired sherbet gets a raspberry
Residents at McCollim Hall turned a cold shoulder toward their dessert last night when they discovered that the expiration date on the sherbet they were eating had passed months ago.
Residents in the hall cafeteria quickly soured when they saw the evicted dates and took the sheerbout on their trays.
By TODD NELSON
A few diners shrieked as they read the expired dates on their sherbet containers.
David Swartz, Fairbanks, Alaska, junior, said that the data on his Stormwater container was March 1982.
only saw two others and all of those were out of date by at least a year." he said.
AT THE SAME time, cafeteria employees quickly removed the rest of the outdated containers from the
Six diners returned to the dessert counter in the cafeteria to complain about the dated sherbet.
However, Swartz and other residents said that the shebet looked and tasted all right.
Lenoir Ekdahl, director of food services at McCollim, said that she didn't notice the dates on the menu because she hadn't seen them.
she said that the All Star Dairy, 1800 W. Second St., had delivered the sheer to the hall this week.
IN A FREZER, Ekdahl found about 18 containers of raspberry shebert that had expired in October 1983.
rasberry sherbet that had expired in October 1983. "There really isn't anything wrong with it," she said,
"There really isn't anything wrong with it," she said,
"but there shouldn't be a date like that on it."
didn't have to be a lie because it
Ekdahl said that the sherbet had not spoiled because it
McCollum Hall caterina workers yesterday served shebet that bore expiration dates of nearly two years ago. The shebet came from the All Star Dairy, 1800 W. Second St.
had been stored in the freezer after delivery.
An All Star Dairy spokesman said last night that he could not comment on the problem.
Brandy Kennedy, Topeka junior, said that he had eaten pineapple sheberet that had an expiration date of May 1983. Marta Morales, Guatemala sophomore, said that her raspberry sheberet had the same date.
According to the container lids, the sherbet was made by J.I.C. Manufacturing in Hutchinson.
Clay Smith, Lawrence sophomore, said that he had a raspberry sherbert dated October 1983. However, he said that the sherbet was "more fun."
Committee passes traffic penalty bill
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — After a sluggish start, a bill that would toughen the penalties for violators of Kansas traffic laws speed downtown on its way to the Senate floor.
But the bill endorsed by the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee is less severe than a proposal originally submitted from the Kansas Highway Patrol and the state Department of Revenue.
THE RECOMMENDED bill would use a penalty point system to establish mandatory license suspension for persons receiving eight or more points. The bill would assign values from 1 to 12 points to driving offenses, depending on the severity of the offense. Drivers receiving more than eight points would receive a five-day suspension for each point.
If approved by the Senate, the proposal would then go to the House.
Under the plan, serious offenses.
The authors of the bill, officials of the highway patrol and the Revenue Department, had originally proposed a 10-day suspension for each point. But the council voted to debate, the committee voted 5-4 to cut the suspension periods in half.
worth six or more points, would stay on the driver's record for five years. Minor offenses would remain for two years.
STATE SEN, Joe Norvell, D-Hays,
proposed the change because he said
that 10 days for each point would make
sense. But he would be difficult for violators to obey.
The courts and the Revenue Department now share the responsibility for dealing with fraud.
Norvell also said that cutting the suspension time in half would bring Kansas in line with uniform suspension standards. U.S. D. Department of Transportation.
licenses. For more than two weeks the committee has heard testimony that the current system is not uniform and does not fit off with the minimum punishment.
THE BILL WOULD take away the court's power over licenses and give that power to the Revenue Department. The department would keep track of violations and would restrict, suspend or evoke licenses using the point system.
But the courts would still be responsible for convicting violators and handing out fines and prison sentences. Judges would retain the power to punish offenders beyond the mandatory punishments issued by the Revenue Department in cases where they believed it was necessary.
The sole exception to the point system would be the second and third offences for drunk driving. A first-time driver is not punished like any, other violation.
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