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Vol. 94. No.3 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday morning, August 23, 1983
Pot-burning system chaotic, Harper says
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
"Political mish-mash."
That's what Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan thinks of Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Harper's allegations that the manner in which marijuana fields are being destroyed is poorly organized and unprofessional.
Harper, in a memo to Stephan released yesterday, said he was baffled how marijuana fields were destroyed with virtually no attention given to the people of the individuals who had cultivated these crops.
Harper said that such a system generated a few quick headlines but made it difficult, or impossible in some cases, to find and prosecute the individuals responsible.
Stephan, however, defended the program
Stepnane, nowever, deferred the program.
HE SAID YESTERDAY. "I don't think Mr. Harper realizes how much marjana is grown in Kansas. If Mr. Harper knows so much, why doesn't he find the fields instead of sitting back in his office and giving free advice?"
Stephan said that the present program did lead to arrests.
"As the result of one of our forays into Doughns County, last week we will be making some changes in our policy," he said.
In the past three weeks, more than $2.5 million of marijuana in Kansas fields has been destroyed, according to law enforcement officials.
Friday, officials destroyed several thousand
Harper's memo was also sent to Thomas Kelly, director of the Kansas Bureau of investigation; to Rex Johnson, Douglas County auditor; and to Richard Stanwix, Lawrence police chief.
plants in Douglas County near the Shawnee County line.
Johnson also defended the marijuana- destroying program.
"WE'RE GETTING the marijuana," he said.
"We're getting it off the street.
"Whether we make an arrest or not, we're hitting the individuals responsible in the pocket."
In his memo, Harper said, "Successful marijuana cultivation requires frequent irrigation this summer. By setting up surveillance cameras and creating an opportunity to catch the lawbreakers in the act,"
the know-ers in the town. Johnson said, however, that it would be better to destroy the fields instead of sitting on them for several days.
Harper said that he would volunteer an investigator, David Anderson, to coordinate and investigate the case.
STEPHAN SAID THAT Anderson was competent for such a task. But Stephan was unwilling to turn over control of the marijuana field investigations, he said, "on the basis of a political memo written to enhance Mr. Harper's chances of election."
Harper, a Democrat, was appointed district attorney in July 1982 to fill former district attorney in Malone's term when Malone to become the district judge. Harper's term expires in 1984.
Report promotes 9 KU programs but some still question rankings
Staff Reporter
BY SUSAN WORTMAN
But the Gourman Report, which has some KU officials bragging about their programs, is the same one that other officials have called "anecdotal."
The University of Kansas can boast of having nine undergraduate programs ranked in the top 10 in the nation, according to a report compiled by Jake Gourman of Northridge, Calif.
The KU programs that the Gourman Report ranked in the top 10 are engineering physics, architectural engineering, architecture, entomology, speech pathology and audiology, American studies, petroleum engineering, aerospace engineering and geography.
Gourman issues reports periodically that are based on questionnaires submitted by various institutions. Among the criteria Gourman uses to make his evaluations are the number of students enrolled in the programs, the number of degrees earned in the program, or each program and the age of the institution.
ROBERT COBB. KU executive vice chancellor, was one of those who questions Gourman's report.
"I'm not a big believer in the Gourman department. It'll seem rather anecdotal and not based on experience."
"I'm just curious of the adequacy of his data.
It does not seem any more valid than others."
Max Luca, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Development, also had reservations.
"It itse that the departments that were ranked higher in the report put more credibility
in it than those that were ranked lower," Lucas said.
Gourman could not be reached yesterday for comment.
HOWEVER QUESTIONABLE University officials find national rankings such as the Gourman Report, students seem to find them useful when choosing the university they will attend. And the office of university relations continues to publicize the information in the
"WHEN WE TALK to students, we find that they have seen the reports and that they are a factor in their enrolling." he said. "Students are very intelligent. They check into schools they are interested in."
"A lot of people ask for it," said Karla Carney, marketing and promotion editor for communication services.
Lacas said that many students he had talked to had also read the report.
Such national rankings have helped KU recruit students from across the country, said Vincent Muirhead, professor of aerospace engineering.
"This summer a civil engineer from the East Coast came to KU with his son. He had read the Gourman Report and another report on engineering, but he thought his son is going to school." Murhead said.
THE REPORT HAS helped encourage more students to come to the KU School of Engineering, Muirhead said. It has particularly influenced out-of-state students.
Muirhead estimated that between 10 percent and 20 percent of the University's students found out about KU through reports on how the University's programs rank nationally.
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Calling himself a registered republican "for many, many a job as a state field representative for Sen. Robert Dole, years." former KU head football coach Don Fambrough accepts See story p. 10.
Chancellor cites progress in high tech
Budig sees rising KU state role
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas will play a greater role in economic recovery and in the development of high technology industry. Chancellor David L. Wynn will yesterday morning at the JIRH KU convocation.
Budig said that KU was keeping abreast of state and national trends toward economic growth.
He also said that the state and KU were working together, citing money appropriated earlier this year by the Legislature to aid high-tech development and support "centers of
excellence" at three Regents schools, including KU
"The purpose, of course," Budig said, "is to bolster the economic health of the state by enhancing further the support higher education can provide.
"OUR FACULTY AND STAFF can make enuring contributions in areas of economic significance. . . This initiative will also result in e.panded opportunities for academic study, and greater assurance for graduates in these fields."
Before Budig's comments on high-tech and advancements in research, four University professors were honored as the recipients of the
HiguchiEndowment Research Achievement Awards. Each received a $10,000 research grant.
Andrew Debicki, University of
professor of Spanish and Portuguese, received the Balfour Jeffrey Research Award for
achievement in humanities and social sciences.
Ronald Borchardt, Summerfield distinguished professor of biochemistry, received the Dolph Simons Sr. Research Award for achievement in biomedical sciences.
THE OLIN PETEFISH AWARD for accomplishments in basic science went to Thomas Armstrong, professor of physics at the University of Chicago, for achievement in applied sciences of importance
See SPEECH p. 5, col. 2
Despite a hot summer, KU reduces energy use
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
But, even with reduced energy consumption,
KU's electricity bill went up.
In spite of an unusually hot summer and an increased use of air conditioning, the University managed to reduce its energy consumption from last summer, the assistant director of plant maintenance for facilities operations said yesterday.
Although he was unable to provide statistics on last summer's energy bill, Porter said this summer's bill was higher than last year's. He also noted that the energy consumption in kilowatt hours went down.
Robert E. Porter, the assistant director, said that just electricity bill for the entire campus was $145 a month.
Porter attributed the decrease to energy conservation measures.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT conservation measure, he said, consists of turning off the air conditioning for one hour in three or four hours to conserve heat, and is about to buildings across campus, Porter said.
"We shit them off for an hour to keep the demand load down," said Donald Beem.
See ENERGY p. 5, col. 1
United Press International
Palestinians look at a house demolished by a shell early yesterday morning in the Borj Barajne refugee camp in Beirut
Beirut airport bombing kills 8, injures 30
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syrian forces and Druze Moslem militiamen shelled Christian neighborhoods around the Beirut airport yesterday, killing at least eight people and injuring 30 others, including the commander of the Italian peace-keeping force in Lebanon.
An Israeli soldier was killed near the ancient Phoenician port of Sarafand, 35 miles south of Beirut, when an Israeli vehicle was bombed, military sources said. The Israeli military spokesman for the area, which is well inside the Phoenician Israeli lines, had no information about the attack.
The stepped-up violence followed a campaign by President Amin Gemayel to reach a national conciliation with the "National Salvation Front" opposition group, which includes Druze leader
FLIGHTS CONINED despite shelling of the area around the international airport, which was closed for six days by similar shelling two weeks ago.
Some shells landed around the presidential palace in suburban Baada, Beirut radio said.
palestine.
A Lebanese security source said that at least eight people had been killed and 30 others wounded in the barrage that enveloped Beirut's Christian sectors and touched Burj Barajne, a Palestinian and Shite Moslem area.
Phalange radio, broadcasting from the Chris
See MIDEAST p. 5, col. 2
WASHINGTON — Organizers of the 20th anniversary "jobs and freedom" march on Washington laid out yesterday their legislative agenda for the 1980s, starting with creation of a Martin Luther King national holiday.
By United Press International
March leaders seek King day, housing reform
Unlike the historic 1963 march, when King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech, the list of short-term goals for Saturday's marchers includes only one piece of pure civil rights legislation — toughening of the Fair Housing Act.
The national director of the march, District of Columbia congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy, said, "It ought to be clear we are
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not having a civil rights march here in 1983 any more than they had exclusively a civil rights march in 1963."
The agenda for the new march has been expanded to press not only for ' jobs and opportunities, but also for diversity.
WITH MORE WOMEN'S and anti-nuclear groups joining this decade's march, the coalition's congressional wish list pushes heavily for equal rights for women and against nuclear weapons. With the nation's severe economic problems and unemployment, it stresses job creation and aid for the poor.
"What good does it do to be able to go to a lunch counter if you don't have any money to purchase a hamburger?" Fauntroy asked at a news conference.
The list outlines the organizers' short-term goals in Congress. Fattoury stressed that it was only the group's "first steps" in what he foresaw as a increasingly active political movement.
He vowed that the way congressmen vote “on the legislative items we have identified today will be the basis for our support or opposition to their re-election in 1984.”
IN THE AREA of civil rights, the planners of the march endorsed a bill sponsored by Sens. Charles Mathias, R-Md., and Edward Garner, presiding enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.
they also are calling for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, a public works bill that promises funding for a million new jobs in the federal government administration's immigration-reform bill.
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