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University Daily Kansan, September 6, 1983
Bicyclists abuse traffic laws, officials say
By MICHAEL PAUL
Staff Reporter
Sometimes this month Peggy Offill will probably see an accident involving a bike and a car, she says.
Since classes began, Offill has seen too many close calls from her information booth at the intersection of Campus Road and Crescent Drive.
"One day last week, I counted in an hour and a half 57 bicyclists going the wrong way on Jayhawk Boulevard and heading into the traffic approaching from Crescent Drive," said Offill, who has worked as a KU booth attendant for
eight years.
James Denney, director of the KU Police Department, said that bicyclists heading west on Jayhawk Boulevard to Crescent Drive were supposed to stay to the right of the information booth, following the same path that cars took.
INSTEAD, he said, some bicyclists are veering to the left of the intersection and are heading onto Jayhawk Boulevard.
Denney said that bicyclists riding the wrong way caused them to be a problem, and he hoped to be able to pretend to be braver.
"One thing we have been noticing is that more bicyclists seem to be driving with less care," Denney said. "We tend
io encourage people to ride bikes, but to ride them safely."
Denney also said that at the intersection of Naismith Drive and 15th St. in Chicago, he parked his car.
"These incidents usually occur when drivers are trying to make a right turn and the bicyclists coming down Naismith either ignore the turning signal or can't see the turning signal." Dennev said.
JOHN MULLENS, KU coordinator of public safety, said most of the of the laws that apply to automobile drivers also apply to bicycle riders.
"Bicyclists can get speeding tickets." Mullens said.
Although KU police have issued
traffic citations to bicyclists, Denney said, citations are not extensively issued to bicyclists for breaking traffic laws.
About 400 motor vehicle accidents occur on the campus each year, Denney said, but only a small percentage of them result in bicyclists violating traffic laws.
"WE HAVE about one vehicle-bike accident a month, accidents in which the person is too injured to get up and walk away."
Mullens said 12 bicyclists were injured in vehicle-bike accidents in 1982. But no one had been injured as of July.
Student Senate to review proposed rule changes
The Student Senate tonight will meet for the first time this semester and will begin reviewing proposed rule changes that Lisa Ashner, student body president, said would significantly alter the Senate's legislative process.
Asnher said debate on proposed revisions to the Student Senate Rules and Regulations, the official operation policy of the Senate, would take place during the first three meetings. Revisions of Articles 1 through 3 will be reviewed at tonight's meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room
of the Kansas Union.
Article 1 is the preamble to the rules,
Article 2 deals with Senate membership
and Article 3 deals with the legislation
process the Senate uses.
The proposed revisions are designed to increase accessibility for students who want to become more involved with the Senate, Ashner said, and will renovate the committee structure of the Senate.
the Senate "We want to open up channels of communication and enable students to get involved with the Senate more
quickly and to a larger degree, "Ashner said.
ASHINER SAID the committee structure was being changed because several existing committees often duplicated work.
"We're going to be regrouping and renaming the committees so that they will make more sense to students." Ashner said. "We also want to make sure things aren't t specialized, so the committees will only be active once every six months."
the approval of the revisions will not take place until after all eight articles have been studied. But Ashner said the Senate would place top priority on and have them in operation before her administration in ends in November.
"Rather than waiting for someone new to get in office and saying 'Here are the new rules — you figure them out,' we want the rules put in effect so the new Senate knows their intent." Ashner said.
Owner resorts to 2nd loan to save Opera House
By the Kansan Staff
After running out of options, the owner of the Lawrence Opera House decided that a loan to pay off another loan was his last resort for retaining ownership of the building.
Skip Moon, owner of the Opera House, Seventh and Massachusetts streets, said that he obtained a loan
commitment Friday from University State Bank to pay off his mortgage at Lawrence National Bank.
The loan commitment was a last effort to keep Lawrence National from foreclosing on his loan, said Mike Riling, Moon's lawyer.
"It was a desperate grasp at something," Riling said. "It was either that, or let the bank have the building. There were not a whole lot of options."
Moon had been in bankruptcy court since last winter. Thursday was the deadline set by the court for Moon to raise the money necessary for making the Opera House mortgage payments. Moon did not have the money, so he went on an overnight book 67. Manhattan chases St., requested that Moon be released from bankruptcy court, which would allow the bank to bring suit against him.
"The new loan will buy the bank out," Riling said. "The Opera House would then have a new mortgage holder."
According to Don Johnston, president of University State Bank, 955 Iowa St., the loan will be approved if Moon can financial guarantees to cover the mortgage in case he cannot make the payments.
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Italy police fail to find girl
By United Press International
A force of 50 members of the elite police mobile squad and Carabinier, or national police, looked through the ruins around the Roman Forum and the network of tunnels, vaults and excavations.
Mehmet Ali Agca from a life sentence in prison.
"We still have hope but there are many ugly things." Emmanuela's father, Vatican messenger Ercule Interviewe on a state television KM
Investigators ordered the search after two new messages indicated the girl's kidnappers told her they were trying her if Italy did not release papal assailant
A man claiming to represent the "Turkish anti-Civil Liberation Front - Turkesh" called ANSA's Milan office at night and said a communique would arrive soon, then hung up.
Emmeula disappeared from a bus stop near her music school in the center of Rome on June 22. Her father, Ercole Orlandi is a messenger at the Vatican. Pope John Paul II delivered several times for her safe release.
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