University Daily Kansan, September 22, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Former KU administrator to head Upjohn program
Ralph E. Christofferson, a former KU vice chancellor for academic affairs, will head a new biotechnology department staffed by 75 scientists and researchers, the Uniipnch公司 announced yesterday.
Christoffersen, 45, who resigned the KU post in 1980 to become president of Colorado State University, will be assigned the task of consolidating and expanding Uplohn's biotechnology research programs, include units specializing in molecular biology, cell biology and chemistry.
"With this expansion effort we will be able to augment significantly both our human health and our agricultural biotechnology research," said R.T. Parfet Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Upjohn, based in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Christoffersen holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from Indiana University and served as president of Colorado State University from 1981 to 1983. He started teaching chemistry at KU in 1966 and worked in academic affairs for five years before becoming vice chancellor in 1973.
In the field of physical chemistry, Christofferson has written more than 80 articles and books. He was twice nominated for the HOPE award, given each year by KU seniors to an outstanding faculty member.
Christofferson received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship to Harvard University in 1972.
TOPEKA - Kansas consumers would fare "every bit as well" under natural gas purchases from the Williams Companies if the Oklahoma firm is successful in its merger with Northwest Energy Co., a Williams spokesman said yesterday.
Williams announced it had signed a merger agreement to buy Northwest Energy Co. of Salt Lake City for more than $800 million. A wholly owned subsidiary of Northwest, Northwest Central Pipeline, has purchased a majority stake in the purchaser of natural gas produced in Kansas. It also serves Missouri.
Because of Kansas dependence on Northwest Central Pipeline, the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday held an investigatory hearing on the proposed merger, even though Williams refused to concede jurisdiction over the offer to the utility regulators.
KCC Chairman Michael Lennen said that the KCW was worried Williams would not continue Northwest Central's "aggressive" policy of renegotiating take-or-pay clauses in natural gas contracts. He said that Northwest Central had resulted in lower prices for Kansas consumers.
Stab victim's condition satisfactorv
A 27-year-old Lawrence resident stabbed in the back early Tuesday morning has been been moved out of intensive care at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and is listed in satisfactory condition.
Brad Miller, an employee of Sergeant Preston's of the North, 815 New Hampshire St., was stabbed in the back by one of two assailants about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of East Eighth Street.
Police said Miller had left work and was walking through an alley when he met the assailants. One of the assailants and Miller exchanged words and they began to fight in the street. The other assailant then stabbed Miller in the back. police said.
Miller walked home after he was stabbed and then was driven to the hospital.
Police have no suspects
Workshop to advise on harassment
The KU affirmative action office will direct a workshop tomorrow titled "Sexual Harassment: Women Only" from 10 a.m. to noon in the KU Library on Friday, February 26.
Mary Hoferek, assistant director of affirmative action, said yesterday that affirmative action counselors would advise women of their rights and responsibilities in the event that they are sexually harassed.
The workshop is the first in a series of renewed efforts by the office to comply with regulations established by the Office of Federal Contract Management.
She said the workshop would provide opportunities for the staff to hear public response about KU's affirmative action programs. The office will conduct a sexual harassment workshop for men in late October.
Countv OKs additions to remodeling
The Douglas County Commission yesterday approved some last minute touches for remodeling the Douglas County District Courtroom.
The commission voted to buy blinds for the windows of the jury assembly room, the judge's chamber and the court reporter's office. The blinds will cost about $1,000.
The cost of the blinds will push the cost of the courtroom remodeling project to $155,560, nearly $12,000 more than the remodeling was
However, that figure is less than the $206,000 that the commission set aside for the remodeling.
The courtroom was supposed to open by Aug. 29. However, Walter Hicks, county architect, said that the remodeling work should be completed by the beginning of next month.
Cleaver says violence once needed
TOPEKA - Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, who fled this country in the late 1960s after a shootout with police, said yesterday that violence had its place in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
But Cleaver, in Topeka to help celebrate National Constitution Week, said that he realized now the importance of peaceful demonstrations and would take place on Tuesday in Luther King Jr.
"There's a time for non-violence just as there's a time for violence," said Cleaver, noted for his activities as a revolutionary.
On the political front, Cleaver said the election of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson as U.S. president would be "a disaster for America." Jackson has been mentioned as a possible contender for the Democratic nomination, although he has not officially announced his candidacy.
ON THE RECORD
ABOUT $160 was stolen at 10:45 p.m. Sunday from Gibson's Discount Center Service Station, 252 Iowa St., by a "quick-challenge artist," police said. Police said the con began when the suspect bought $2 of gas and paid for it with a $10 bill. He asked for the $10 bill back, but the employee, who was new, did not ask for the original change to be returned. The suspect then used a $20 bill to continue the routine until $160 had been stolen, police said. Last week two "quick-challenge artists" robbed three area stores of $141.
FOR THE THIRD time in a week, burglaries have broken into offices at a building at 1112 W. Sixth St. The latest burglary occurred sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Monday at the building, police said. Police said the burglar pried open a door to a doctor's office and stole $185 in cash and 415 stamps. Police reported Monday that $113 had been stolen from two other offices in the building. Police have no suspects in the burglaries.
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McClinton, who also was a running back with the Kansas Jayhawks from 1959 to 1961, will replace Ivanhoe Donaldson, a longtime associate of Mayor Marion Barry. McClinton starts work Oct. 21.
WASHINGTON — Former Kansas City Chiefs running back Curtis McClinton Jr. was named yesterday as the mayor of a deputy mayor for economic development.
By Staff and Wire Reports
Ex-Chiefs player named as D.C. deputy mayor
"I have observed a very dynamic increase in the growth and stability of the District of Columbia in the area of economic development," McClinton told a news conference.
He cited the newly opened Washington Convention Center, the city's Georgetown waterfront development project and improvements to the city's downtown retail district as growth areas.
The Oklahoma native said that one or his priorities was to "link jobs and
He said he was particularly concerned about the staggering rate of youth unemployment in the nation's capital.
"Coming up as an athlete, I had certain opportunities and role models early in the game," he said. "I had individuals showing me the way."
But McClinton said that the city's young people "have lost hope and lost the way. Whether or not they open a
opportunity to expansions of businesses."
shoe shine stand, it's that they learn the business focus."
The mayor said his new appointee had top level economic development and business experience and a wide range of experience in the business and private sector, including minority development.
MCCLINTON, A DIRECTOR of real estate marketing for Amtrak, turned to a career in economic development for his retirement from football in 1970.
Area unemployment rate falls as students return
By the Kansan Staff
The Douglas County unemployment rate dropped slightly last month with the influx of KU students, the director of Job Service Center said yesterday.
Ed Mills, the director, said the county's unemployment rate was 4.6 percent in August, down from July's 4.8 percent rate.
Mills said more jobs became available last month in Lawrence to serve students.
He said he expected the unemployment rate to decline even more next couple of months. He predicted that employment rate could drop a 4 percent
WHEN STUDENTS RETURNED, an additional 1,000 people began looking for work in the Lawrence area, Mills said. The labor force in Douglas County grew from 31,400 people to more than 32,400.
Most of the newly employed, he said,
were students who look part-time jobs.
were students who took part-time jobs. Nine-month employees such as food service workers and school clerks simply returned to their jobs that ended when the school year finished, Mills said.
Also, retail businesses hired more employees for the school year, Mills said. Jobs opened up in area clothing stores, grocery stores and restaurants.
Construction employment stayed about the same. he said. Next month.
he said, the figure might drop some because cold weather could decrease the demand for construction workers. Nearly 200 construction workers in the Lawrence area still are looking for full-time jobs.
Fluuctuating labor markets affect the Lawrence job market yearly. Mills said.
State unemployment figures will be released next week, according to the Department of Human Resources in Topeka.
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