University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1981
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rule. It's not in cement. The Legislature can
change its policies from time to time."
He said funding would partly depend on the impact of Chancellor Gene A. Budig's trips around the state. Budig is spending this semester traveling, to garner support for the University.
HE ADDED THAT several other state legislators had told him they were impressed by Budig's visits.
"It takes a while to establish rapport," he said. "It takes two or three years before the impact is felt."
"Chancellor Budig has done a superb job traveling across the state." Eldredge said.
"He's talked to legislators and educators. That's on the positive side.
"On the negative side, we don't yet know how much federal funding will be available. There'll be fewer state funds for higher education, because it is fighting for fewer dollars will be more intense."
Sobach said the fact that 1982 is an election year might also affect the University's future, but he wasn't sure whether legislators would be able to pleas for a better university or fewer taxes.
RAF TWE FIGURES don't help much in predicting the University's funding future, according to David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
For example, figures must still be tabulated for the distribution of graduate and undergraduate students.
Ambler said it costs more to teach graduate courses, so fewer graduate students might mean fewer graduates.
Commissioners hear plea for pigeons
By JOE REBEI Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission expressed
remarks that the findings of the investigation
from the audience with a large crowd present
By JOE REBEIN
"We hope that is not what we think it is," Commissioner Nancy Shontz said when the woman neared the podium.
The woman, Nancy Mimmerman, 1520 University Drive, pulled out a package of frozen black pigeons. Her evidence of "wholesale killing of the pigeon population."
The audience laughed. But then the discussion turned serious as citizens and representatives from state and local humane societies stated their case.
"Somebody has to speak up for the birds," Zimmerman said. "Do you know that in one day I counted 26 dead pigeons in a one block area in north Lawrence?"
Zimmerman's complaint stems from the fact that the Farmers Co-op Association, 325 Locust St., uses Avitrol, a repellent, to stop pigeons from roosting on its grain elevator. She also said the city used Avitrol to keep pigeons off City Hall, at Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
After an emotional discussion of pigeon control, commissioners agreed to stop the city's use of Avtrol and to ask the Lawrence Humane Society to design a model ordinance for controlling the birds.
"We need to in direct contact with the University and other areas who have had pigeon kill."
The commission also suggested that the
COMMISSIONERS DID not act on the society's suggestion to outlaw the killing of birds within city limits. A state statute allows pigeon extermination if the birds become health threats.
humane society look into KU's pigeon control methods, which they said included the use of chemicals that sterilized birds but did not kill them.
"I am not sure that this is not beyond the scope of the city's power," he said.
Once the commission receives the finalized model ordinance from the humane society, it will ask the state attorney general whether a local ordinance could be adopted.
But the conflict was not resolved as far as the humane society was concerned.
Pat Ireland, vice president of the Kansas Federation of Humane Societies, said that the elevators' continued use of Avitrol would lead to the slow and painful death of more pigeons.
"There is a large public concern," Ireland said. "We have received phone calls every half hour at the animal shelter about suffering pigeons."
IRELAND SAID 12 pigeons were brought to the city where citizens did not know how to treat the dying bird.
The use of the word repellent with Avirol is misleading, she said. "I have seen 67 dead and dying birds, it's a rather unpleasant experience."
The manager of the local elevator said he continued to work on the chemical because it solved a problem.
"We have been misrepresented to the public from the beginning," Ron Holdridge, general
"We were sparred by on a producer's loss of 20 bogs from disease, a disease partially linked to potassium"
manager of the Farmer's Co-op Association said.
"No one has heard our side.
Holdridge said after the meeting that the co-op had contracted with Presto-X, a Kansas City, Mo., firm to get rid of the pigeons that roosted on top of the elevator in north Lawrence.
Holdregre said the pest control contractor assured him the chemical was a repellent that would only kill about 10 percent of the pigeons and scare the rest away from the elevator.
"Our original intent was not to kill birds, but to drive them to another place."
Philanthropy request OK'd
Earlier in the meeting, the commission granted Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity's request to operate a haunted house at the fraternity's house at 1014 Mississippi St.
Dale Brooks, president of the fraternity, said the haunted house was a philanthropic project. "We had a lot of fun," he said.
The commission said the house could be open only from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the weekdays and Sunday afternoons.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said haunted house permits were seasonal and had to be inspected before use.
Brooks said the fraternity would ask the University for use of the X zone parking lot next summer.
He said both the fire inspector and the building inspector would inspect the house before it was ready.
Complaints follow KU partv
Shontz said she had received another complaint about a KU block party.
"I received a major complaint about the party on Naismith." Shonte said. "A woman called me three times during the party complaining about the noise."
Shontz has also received complaints about the Pikefest party held last month.
Earlier this month the commission granted a request from the Naismith Hall director to block Naismith Drive between 18th and 19th streets on Sept. 25 for a party block.
The commission has continued to grant requests to block off streets for block parties, as long as organizers provide adequate parking and set reasonable hours for the length of the party.
Suspects
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reduction, although he was not sure what the bond would be.
He added that he was representing Zekrgow and Khagavi only for the purpose of reducing their bonds. He said he was not sure whether he would represent them in further INS hearings.
"I just want to help them out of jail, which is one of our main concerns." Watson said.
Depending on what INS officials determine after they interview the two men, Geil said that anything from a departmental hearing to deportation procedures could result.
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