University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1984
Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
KU will send 15 students to Mexico for job training
The School of Engineering and the department of Spanish will send 15 students to Mexico this summer to prepare them for employment in branches of U.S. corporations in Mexico.
David Kraft, dean of the School of Engineering, and Robert Spires, chairman of the department of Spanish, secured a $136,000 federal grant in October for the program. The grant will pay for the 15 students' trips this summer and it will pay for their return to Mexico in the summer of 1985. The money will also pay for an additional 20 to 25 students to go to Mexico for the summer of 1985 and the summer of 1986.
While in Mexico, the students will study Spanish and the Mexican culture, said Pam Madl, director of placement for the School of Engineering.
The program is open to sophomore engineering students. Students interested may attend informational meetings at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 and March 1 in Room 1014 Learned Hall.
Wheat classification costs farmers
TOPEKA — Wheat experts told a Senate panel yesterday that the problem of wheat classification was serious and that it could cost the Kansas farm economy millions of dollars.
Bill Phillips, director of the Agriculture Experimental Station in Hays, told the Senate Agriculture and Small Business Committee that the classification of Arkan wheat as a soft grain instead of hard grain could cost Kansas farmers up to $10 million.
Soft grain brings between 20 cents and 80 cents less a bushel on the market, so the classification is costly, he said.
market, so the classification is costly. The Arkan is a new, hard red winter wheat variety developed by the Kansas Agriculture Experimental Station and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It was first distributed in 1982.
The Federal Grain Inspection Service was in error classifying Arkan as a soft grain, Phillips said.
Students will compete in backgammon, table tennis, Scrabble, Pente, Risk, bridge, spades, chess, checkers, Go, Frisbee and darts, said Dave Davis, indoor recreation director for SUA.
Student Union Activities will turn the Kansas Union into a battlefield tomorrow when the sixth-annual SUA All-Campus Tournament begins.
SUA sponsors games tournament
The tournament will end Sunday night, he said
The tournament will end Sunday night. The games are open to anyone in the Lawrence area. The winners of each event will go to a regional tournament in Lincoln, Neb., Davis said. Competitors in the tournament will come from Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The regional and national tournaments are open to University students only.
The winners of each event will receive a T-shirt, and SUA will pay a portion of the winners' expenses at the regional and national tournments. Davis said.
ON THE RECORD
A 400- to 500-POUND Angus calf worth $325 was stolen from a farm near Lecompton early Sunday, police said. Police have no suspects.
AN ELECTRIC SANDER, drills and two wedding rings, estimated at a total value of $2,800, were reported stolen Sunday, police said. The theft occurred sometime between Christmas and Sunday. Police have no suspects.
FIVE KEGS WORTH ABOUT $250 were stolen from the living room of Lewis Hall, 1530 Engle Road, after a party Saturday night, KU police said. The kegs belonged to Green's Party Supply, 808 W. 23rd St.
WHERE TO CALL
Do you have a news tip or photo idea? If so, call us at 864-4810. If your idea or press release deals with campus or area news, ask for Jeff Taylor, campus editor. For entertainment and On Campus items, check with Christy Fisher, entertainment editor. For sports news, speak with Jeff Cravens, sports editor.
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.
NCAA PARASITES CONTINUE TO ADAPT
The carefully constructed laybirk of lies which surrounds the amateur athletics kingdom underwent a marked increased in size when 1500 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) delegates convened in Dallas recently. Although our colleges and universities need more books, periodicals, library space and qualified teachers to keep up with and transmit the details of today's "knowledge explosion," there were, among the blackslapping zealots committed to vaporization, 175 college presidents willing to feign distress while splitting hairs about "the intensity of recruiting, the length of seasons . . . freshman eligibility" and other amateur athletics revenueproducing factors.
Just before departing for the golf course, these amateur athletics aficionados overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for the testing of athletes for drug use and the punishment of those caught using illegal drugs. While some will consider this resolution convincing evidence that the NCAA, after years of pussyfooting, is finally going to cease appeasing, a brief addendum will probably dispel that notion.
When children develop growth hormone deficiencies—although this usually occurs in the preteen years, it can happen at any age—they stop growing. Injections of the growth hormone enable the afflicted to resume normal growth while additional injections can bring about accelerated growth which will permit the recipient to catch up with his peers.
The growth hormone is collected from pituitary glands during autopsies by the federally funded National Hormone and Pituitary Program in Baltimore and distributed throughout the country to about 30 researchers. In an attempt to decrease the cost of hospital care, regulations requiring autopsies in a stipulated percentage of patient deaths have been discarded and a hormone shortage has resulted.
Wishing to unethically better their performance, explains University of Kansas Medical Center Pediatric Endocrinologist, Wayne Moore, "a lot of—(amateur) athletes (are) using steroids. If they are caught, they can be disqualified from competition. With the growth hormone... (which) athletes are using ... for muscle strength ... muscle strength is improved without the fear of detection, so it's become very popular."
This NCAA resolution—seemingly a call to action—is really another paper pronouncement designed to hide the price some of the 2,000 children now receiving growth hormone treatment pay for the NCAA buccaneer on-going despilation.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr.
(Paid Advertisement)
Superfund would clean up waste dumps
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A $5 million superfund would be the first step in cleaning up hazardous waste in Kansas, the secretary of the Department of Health and Environment yesterday told a House committee considering hazardous waste problems.
Barbara Sabol, the secretary, said the superfund would enable her department to test more than 200 old storage dumps across the state to determine whether they needed to be cleaned up.
Sabole gave a list of 201 sites across the state that might be eligible for superfund money to the committee. Four sites in Lawrence are on the list, which is divided into high- and low-priority sites.
The old Callery Chemicals building is one of the 108 high-priority sites. The
"BEING ON THE LIST doesn't mean there's any immediate danger," Sabol said. "All it means is that we need to do work to work to determine if there is a danger."
The University of Kansas Sunflower Research Station in Eudora is also located at the University of Colorado.
Farmland Industries, Rocky Mountain
Bank Note and Company buildings
www.rockymountainbank.com
WWW.PRINT.ORG
She urged the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to recommend that the House pass a bill creating the superfund.
The superfund is part of a five-bill package on hazardous waste that the Department of Health and Environment is now putting together.
The package has the support of Gov. John Carlin. He referred to the problem of hazardous waste in his State of the State Address earlier this month.
Sabol said that by the end of this week all of the bills should be drawn up.
THE PACKAGE ALSO WOULD prohibit ground burial of hazardous waste and bring Kansas into coniferation. There are requirements on hazardous waste.
introduced in the House and placed before the committee.
Money for the superfund would come from general tax dollars, and would reach a maximum of $5 million over five years.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Dawrence, a member of the committee, said she supported the package and it would be recommended for passage.
"There may be some amendments, but I think the committee will pass all of them."
Saboi said all of the 201 sites would be studied if the superfund became law. A decision on which sites to clean up would be made according to the type of waste found and the danger it poses to the population and the water supply.
IF WASTE IS FOUND it will be
onsite, up and disposed of safely
on-site.
However, she said, if the waste is contaminating water, it might be taken to other disposal sites.
Several committee members asked Sabol about a clause in the superfund bill that would allow the state to recover money spent to clean up sites
Sabol said that if the waste could be traced back to a company, the company would be responsible for either collecting up or paying the state to clean it up.
Several city landfills are on the list, and Sabal said that if that waste could not be traced back to the responsible parties, wives would have to pay for the cleanup.
But she said collecting might be hard because it is sometimes difficult to trace the cause of waste and because some of the companies have gone out of business.
Agency wants staff campaigning limited
By United Press International
TOPEKA — In an effort to strengthen laws on governmental ethics and campaign activities, a state agency yesterday proposed a bill to prohibit state officers from using state employ-ment or political work during business hours.
Janet Williams, report examiner for the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission, said the agency had received several complaints of state officers using their staff and office equipment
during business hours for political activities.
Though declining to specify to the Senate Elections Committee which state officers had been reported, Williams generally cited the offices of the governor, attorney general and insurance commissioner.
BECAUSE THOSE OFFICES are full-time, year-round jobs, their occupants tend to use state employees — such as secretaries and aides — to conduct political duties during office hours, she said. Other statewide elected
offices are the secretary of state, state treasurer and lieutenant governor.
Williams said the commission favored a new conflict-of-interest law that would make it illegal for a state officer to direct another state officer or employee to use state facilities or services during business hours to promote or oppose a political campaign.
"It has come to the commission's attention that state employees are often used in campaigns during state duty time," William said in her report.
Under the commission's proposal, state officers could conduct political
surveys.
THE SENATE PANEL accepted the commission's legislative recommendations, but postponed acting on them. The committee and the Committee had a chance to review them.
Williams also urged the committee to adopt legislation that would prohibit a state officer or employee from appointing or participating in the appointment of children or parents to any compensated position in state government.
Applied English Center perplexes foreigners
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
For foreign students, life in a new country is filled with endless mysteries, from renting apartments to applying for a Kansas driver's license.
Haytham Nasir, Jordan junior, recently had a problem with both the Applied English Center and his spring enrollment.
Among the most perplexing of those mysteries, some foreign students say, are the problems of dealing with computer science at the University of Kansas. Center at the University of Kansas.
"I was sure I passed the test," Nasir said. "I wanted to check my test."
The Applied English Center had Nasir dropped from an engineering class after he failed to pass the English exam. He was given at the end of the fall semester.
'If the computer made a mistake on mine, how many others did it make on others?'
— Haytham Nasir. Jordan junior
When he tried to check the results of the test, he ran into road blocks.
THE CENTER TOLD him that students were not allowed to look at their test results and that someone would look into it, he said.
Nasir said he finally convinced an instructor at the Applied English Center to check the results of the test, and a mistake in the grading turned up.
"It's the first time we've ever seen this happen," said Elizabeth Soppela, director of the Applied English Center. "We were terribly upset when this occurred. After we found out, we spent few days rechecking all the tests."
A computer graded the tests, she said, and Nasir's was graded with the wrong key.
"If the computer made a mistake on how many others did it make on machines," Nasir said.
Soppelaa said she thought there were no other mistakes. The Center is now checking the test a third time to make sure, she said.
The Applied English Center is intensive remedial English instruction for foreign students that is designed to equip them to handle a University class load. All international students whose native language is not English are required to enroll in Applied English courses.
Half price for KU Students
Make a weekend of it at The University of Kansas February 4 & 5... we've got everything from Bach to Basketball!!
*Spencer Museum of Art:* "Diane Arbus: In Print 1960-1971"; "Paris and Modern art from the Alex Hillman Family Collection"; 9 a.m. 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4; 1:43 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5.*
Women's Basketball: The Lady Jayhawks meet Colorado, 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4.
Chamber Music Series: Canada's Orford String Quartet,
in concert, 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4, Crafton-Preyer
Theatre, Murphy Hall; tickets on sale at the Murphy Hall
Box Office, 913/864-3982.*
Men's Basketball: The Jayhawks meet Wichita State, 1 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5.
- A University Arts Festival Presentation
FOREIGN STUDENTS HAVE to meet three criteria to avoid enrolling through the Applied English Center. They must pass the English Language Proficiency Test, receive a score of 570 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language or have graduated from an English-speaking university.
Some foreign students consider the center a hindrance to their education, Nasir said, because they are anxious to get on with studies in their majors.
Soppelsa said that foreign students were limited in the number of classes in which they could participate.
the level of English proficiency they had attained.
"I was about to lose my scholarship because of their mistake," he said. "It will also delay my graduation by at least one semester."
THEY ARE ALSO LIMITED in the number of classes in which they can pre-enroll for the next semester, she said.
Because the center reported that he had not passed his English proficiency test, Nasir said, his engineering class had taught him to take nearly cost him in other ways, too.
When Nasir was finally allowed to enroll, the engineering class was already closed.
* Mega Meal Sale *
any 1/2 Sub, chips, soda or draw
only $2.50
w/coupon
good thru 1.30
1 coupon per person,
1 meal per coupon
Call-in's are fast 843-6660 I block North of the Union
1