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University Dally Kansan, February 17, 1983
Legislators visit West Campus for help with scientific issues
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
A Kansas House committee visited the University of Kansas yesterday and was given a crash course on geology, map-making and data analysis
The legislators took no test after the tour, but members of the Kansas House Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Kansas Geological Survey who conducted the tour said both groups learned something from the visit.
"We enjoy doing this," said William Hambleton, director of Geological Survey. "They can go back to Topesa after they enter about what their legislation is about."
THE COMMITTEE deals with problems posed by natural gas, oil, water and wastewater.
Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, a member of the committee, said the visit gave her more background on environmental issues that she would address. Her expertise in geological Survey officials often treatty at hearings of the committee.
"It helps us better understand what they're talking about when we ask for their advice." Charlton said.
Hambleton; Richard von Ende, KU executive secretary; and Dean Lebesthy, associate director of the Geological Survey, accompanied 15 committee members on the tour of computer mapping and seismographic content in Moore Hall or West Campus, the Geological Survey headquarters.
John Davis, senior scientist at the Geological Survey, said the survey's research benefited the state in several ways.
HE SAID that in 1980, the Kansas Department of Transportation hired a Geological Survey team to determine where 70 overpass near Russell was sinking.
The survey team used a seismograph, an instrument that detects ground movement, to determine that the fault was causing the basin was causing the overpass to sink.
Similar techniques may be able to cut the cost of water exploration for
Kansas farmers and ranchers, Davis said.
Charlton said that many of the topics covered in the afternoon visit related to the war.
For example, she said, the survey tour touched on methods to detect underground oil and gas, relating to the "deep horizons" bill now in the Kansas
THE BILL would require oil companies to prove to those landowners who received royalties that they were pumping as much oil as possible from the ground.
Because the Geological Survey and the Legislature work together so closely, Hambleton said that conflict sometimes arose.
He said a bill was introduced into the Senate this year that would put the Geological Survey in charge of leasing mineral rights on state lands.
MINERAL RIGHTS are now leased by the state agency that owns them.
The Geological Survey opposes the bill because it does not want to become a state regulatory commission, Hambleton said.
Petition wants youth tried as adult
A KU student has begun to circulate a petition asking that a 16-year-old Lawrence youth, who has been detained in connection with a Jan. 30 rape case, be sentenced.
THE YOUTH IS also charged with acts that, if he were an adult, would be classified as aggrassated battery and
Jan Short, Salina junior, said Wednesday that she planned to give the petition to the Douglas County District Attorney's office Friday morning.
armed robbery in connection with two separate incidents in January and
Short said that she thought that if the youth were convicted, he would receive a harsher sentence as an adult than as a juvenile.
Short, who lives in Sellars Schooling Hall, said that she was organizing drive herself. Sellars is near Gowen Park and she was accused of assaulting a KU student the
Short said that she was circulating the petition among all KU scholarship balls and at some fraternities and sororites.
THE PETITION says, "We believe that any individual who is old enough to perpetrate crimes of this magnitude is old enough to be tried as an adult and accept the consequences of his behavior."
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City candidate drops out of race
Self-defense seminar to help women learn rape prevention
Roger Borland, 319 E. 19th St., cited health problems as his reason for dropping out of the race
THE PRIMARY will narrow the list of candidates to six. The general election will be April 5. Three commission seats are open.
Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioner Tom Gleason have decided not to seek re-election. Don Bins is the only incumbent running.
To make women more capable of defending themselves against potential rapists, the Lawrence Police Department will conduct a self-dense seminar at 7 this evening at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
Police officers Jessie Treu and Ed Brunt said the seminar would concentrate on basic, common sense methods of self-defense.
"We won't be doing judo or karate or anything like that." Trun said
BRUNT SAID, "We'll be teaching methods that anyone young or old can use to escape a rapist."
Treed said that she and Brunt would personally demonstrate methods of escaping from an assailant. She said their demonstration would focus on what a woman should do to avoid being attacked and what she should do after being assaulted. They also explain ways for a woman to escape after the rape was in progress.
The self-defense program has been presented several times since October 2013.
"But this is the first time it has been open to the public," she said.
Haworth trailers relocated
Splitting a trailer in half, putting it on wheels and moving it to West Campus takes time, teamwork and trucks.
Yesterday, half a trailer was moved from between Haworth and Summerfield halls to the West Campus botanical complex, west of 21st and low streets.
LARRY DAIN, the owner of C and M Mobile Home Service in Topeka, said the remaining sections would be moved
All three trailers in the area have to be relocated to make room for the Haworth Hall addition, said the project manager for R.D. Anderson Co. Inc., the construction company building the addition.
to West Campus in two weeks.
The three trailers housed projects for handicapped educational development, said Kathy Bolland, the coordinator of one of the projects.
Bolland said because the new location would be 1½ miles from Haworth Hall, it would be a slight inconvenience for researchers and professors.
She said two trailers would be set up at the West Campus site, then her project would be moved to the trailers. Then she said, the last trailer would be moved.
The other project has already been moved from the trailers into a facilities operations building east of Haworth.
On the record
A CLERK At a 7-Eleven Food Store, 3025 W. Sixth St., was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital early yesterday morning, police said. The clerk apparently fought with two customers who entered the store about 2:45 a.m. and became belligerent, police said...
A MAN WROTE a bad check last week for a 1979 Corvette valued at $8,000, police said yesterday Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald by University Motors, 814 W. Iowa St.
A LAWRENCE WOMAN reported to police that a man stole her purse Tuesday in the 2500 block of Iowa Street, where she reportedly lost more than $300 in cash.
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