University Daily Kansan, September 23, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Eleven professors named HOPE award semi-finalists
Eleven professors were named semi-finalists yesterday for the annual HOPE award given by the University of Kansas senior class to an outstanding educator.
The 11 semi-finalists were chosen from a field of 271 nominees.
The HOPE semi-finalists are: Tim Bengston, associate professor of journalism; Novy Bowman, assistant professor of education; Karlyn Campbell, professor of speech and drama; Chuck Chowins, assistant professor of journalism; Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science; Don Green, Conger-Gable professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; Mike Kautsch, assistant professor of journalism; Louis Michel, professor of architecture and urban design; Frank Pinet, professor of business; Lawrence Sherr, professor of business and United Telecommunications faculty fellow; and Erica Stern, assistant professor of occupational therapy.
Seniors will vote and narrow the field of candidates to five on Oct. 5 and 6.
Legal group seeks to aid farmers
TOPEKA — More than 250 Kansas farmers are targeted for foreclosure this year by the Farmers Home Administration and the only free legal aid group in the state will be unable to help them without state money, its executive director said yesterday. $
Roger McCollister of Kansas Legal Services'Inc. said he was asking the Kansas Legislature for $135,000 to fund a new program aimed specifically at family farmers facing bankruptcy.
specifically at family markets. The agency currently receives no state money, but its federal funds will be restricted within 30 days to prohibit free legal aid to people with more than $30,000 in land and $4,500 in a vehicle, he said.
County approves elevator contract
The Douglas County maintenance department asked county commissioners to approve a new elevator contract and to buy linoleum for an area nursing home.
r remont Hornberger, maintenance supervisor, asked the commission to approve a new contract for the general upkeep of the elevators in the Douglass County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center.
U. S. Elevator Co. had the contract previously, Hornberger said, but the elevators were not being kept in good condition.
'Dav After'tickets available Oct. 4
Tickets for special screenings of "The Day After," the nuclear holocaust television movie that was filmed partially in Lawrence last fall, will be available beginning Oct. 4, the Lawrence Convention and Visitors' Bureau said in a press release yesterday.
The tickets, which are free, will be available beginning at 8 a.m. at the Student Union Activities ticket window on the main floor of the Kansas Union and at the Convention and Visitors' Bureau Office, 823 Vermont St. About 500 tickets will be available for each of the two public shows.
Public screenings will be Oct. 12, at 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Union. A screening by invitation only will be at 8 p.m. Gov. John Carlin, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Lawrence Mayor David Longhurst will attend the formal screening, the bureau said.
"The Day After" will be shown on ABC-TV on Nov. 20. The movie stars Jason Robards and Steven Guttenberg. More than 1,200 students were used as extras in the movie.
ON THE RECORD
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S Department destroyed about 150 marijuana plants Wednesday morning that were discovered over the weekend by a person who had recently rented a house near the site of the plants. A sheriff's spokesman said that the marijuana was on a farm in Clinton Township. The spokesman said that the new renter had seen the marijuana as he toured the property. No arrests have been made.
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Carlin plans to avoid party headquarters
Carlin also said he hoped that history would show that the party's state committee made the right choice last weekend when it elected Wichita toolmaker Pat Lehman as its new chairman. Carlin had asked that Overland Park attorney Larry Gates be elected to the party post.
FIVE DAYS AFTER the election, Carlin said the state committee's decision indicated that its members wanted to play a bigger role in running state party headquarters. Their control of the party could be seen as a "plus," Carlin said, because it will relieve him of some party responsibilities.
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin, on the losing side of a dispute over who should lead the state Democratic Party, said yesterday that he probably would use an outlet other than party headquarters to conduct his political business.
By United Press International
"The state committee made a decision to go a different way," said Carlin, who put his political prestige to the test in adamantly supporting Gates. "I hope history shows it's a correct one."
But he said he would not shirk his duty to help raise money to retire the state party's $90,000 debt, much of which was caused by his re-election campaign last year. Prior to last weekend, Carlin would have worked closely with the party headquarters staff to set up events to raise funds.
He said he probably would use an outlet such as Kansans for Carlin, his campaign committee, to raise funds and perform other political business,
"It's very conceivable that I will be doing more on my own — more so than if Larry Gates was chairman and I was doing work with him," the governor said.
such as finding Democratic candidates to run for state offices next year.
CARLIN SAID HE wanted to play a key part in finding good Democratic contenders for legislative seats and not to be "plugged in" to the party apparatus.
He downplayed suggestions that his new independence represented a split from the party faction that rejected his candidate, saying he was willing to help party headquarters in an easy way he had been unable to wait for Lehman to seek his assistance.
"When Pat calls me, I'll be very happy to meet with her," Carlin said. "She won on a campaign to separate
berself from the second floor of the Statehouse, where his office is.) I wouldn't want to foul it up for her by having it known that she and I are talking."
BUT HE SAID he now is "freer to go my own way" rather than being tied to the party structure.
Carlin said Lehm would have complete freedom to choose her executive director and said he would support any candidate she thought was right for the job. One of the bigger disputes involved was whether she was the governor's decision to allow the new party chairman to choose her own executive director.
Lehman and her supporters had contended that party leaders should have more say in hiring the new executive director.
Disabled to get 10% off at Gibson's on Tuesdays
A Lawrence store wants to give disabled citizens a break.
Beginning next Tuesday, Gibson's Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St., will give disabled citizens a 10 percent discount on all merchandise they buy on Tuesdays, Arthur Cromer, the store's executive vice president, said yesterday.
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
The store offers a 10 percent discount on Tuesdays to senior citizens but, at the request of a disabled citizen, does not extend the service to handicapped people.
"I had a gentleman in here who was disabled, and I thought it would be a good idea." Cromer said.
THE PERSON WHO requested the discount was Arlen Flanagan, a Lawrence senior who suffers from a chronic respiratory condition.
Mona NicCoy, executive director for Independence Inc., an organization that offers a variety of services for the handicapped, said, "I think, in some cases, it could be very helpful for people on fixed incomes."
MCCOY HEARDAbout Gibson's
afternoon afternoon and had
not talked to Crane.
"Perhaps they will follow Gibson's lead," Flanagan said. "This is just like giving the disabled a 10 percent raise in their standard of living."
"Generally speaking, I have some misgivings about how they are going to determine who is disabled," she said.
Cromer said that because he had just decided to accept the request, he didn't know how the store would determine who was disabled and who wasn't.
"A lot of people are severely disabled, but it is not visible."
"They are going to have to be on call or show us some sort of identical hardware."
He said that publicity about Gibson's new policy would be good because it could influence other stores to offer similar discounts to disabled citizens.
Flanagan said that he had worked for several changes in the city, and the University of Kansas to make the lives of disabled people easier.
Cromte said he didn't know how much money the store would lose from the 10 percent price reduction, but he estimated that for both senior citizen and non-identified customers, the store would make $1,000 less than it normally would on Tuesday.
THE LOSSSES WILL be considered a donation or a charity, without the condescending implication that the word charity sometimes has, he said.
"There are about 600 disabled people in Lawrence," he said.
"Disabled people need a break too," he said.
Half price for KU Students
Once is not enough!
3:30 p.m. Sunday, September 25
Crafton-Preyer Theatre/Murphy Hall
The University of Kansas Chamber Music Series opens the 1983-84 Season with the Guarneri String Quartet —in its 9th straight season.
Program
Haydn
Quartet in C major, Op. 74, No. 1
Hindemuth
Quartet no. 3, Op. 22 (1921)
Schubert
Quartet in D minor, Opus Pothumous D. 81
"Death and the Maiden"
Arnold Steinhardt, Violin David Sover, Cello
John Dalley, Violin Michael Tree, Viola
*NU students must show a valid ID at the time of purchase and at the door on the day of performance. Partially funded by the KL Student ActivitiesFee, KU Endowment Association and the SwooshWear Society.
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office. All seats reserved. For reservations, call 913-684-3982 Public: B10 and 58; KU students with ID* 55 and S4; senior citizens and other students 59 and S7
McCoy said that she thought some disabled people might think the action was patronizing but that the discount would be welcome.
She said she didn't know of other stores in Lawrence that had the same policy.
"I think this is a first, if it is true," she said.
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Crome said that publicity was in no part a motivation for extending the campaign.
Independence Inc. is a state federally and locally funded organization that offers disabled people transportation, non-medical personal care, counseling, housing and legal aid and a variety of other services. McCoy said.
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