Page 12 University Daily Kansan, February 12, 1982
SUA Daytona trip canceled
By JIM LEHNER Staff Reporter
A Student Union Activities spring break trip to Daytona Beach, Fla. traditionally popular with KU students looking for a midsemerian tan, was canceled this week because of lack of interest.
Jill Remsberg, SUA travel chairman,
said recently only five students
registered for the trip, compared to
about 80 last year.
REMBSERM SAID THE Daytona Beach trip cost $270—a price many KU students were not willing to pay. But she said the trip to Padre Island, Texas, which cost $20 less, had attracted nearly 125 people.
"People chose Padre Island over Daytona because it's cheaper," Remsberg said. "Students are hardpressed and looking for the best deal available, and Padre has that. Besides, KU students will be able to identify with other people from around the state who are supposed to be down there."
The Padre Island trip usually has been successful, but the poor showing of the Daytona Beach trip was unexpected.
"I'm very surprised with the low turnout for the Daytona Beach trip." Remsberg said. SUA had sponsored the race, which ended with good results the previous three years.
She said that usually within the week before the Daytona Beach trip, a rash of people signed up. That did not happen this year.
OTHER TRAVEL agencies in Lawrence have not experienced a drop in reservations for spring trips.
Beverly Berens, supervisor of the Kansas Union branch of Maupintour Travel Service, said Maupintour usually worked with a lot of people who drove a round-trip airplane to Daxton Beach.
where everyone else is," Berens said. Many people requested to go to Florida, Padre Island or one of several ski resorts. She said the only surprise she had seen this year was student interest in trips to Mexico.
Berens said her office usually set up trips for people who wanted to travel individually.
She said it was more difficult to make motel reservations for places like Padre Island because most resorts now require a $50 damage-fee deposit and some of the more expensive concessions were not accepting students.
Another trip sponsored by SUA, the Ski Taos trips, has increased its numbers. George Wee, SUA program adviser, said the Ski Taos trips had shown a dramatic increase in the past two weeks.
Weekend Arts
TODAY
"THE ABDICATION," a play by Ruth Wolff, will be staged nightly at 8 p.m. through Sunday at the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are available at the Murphy Hall box office.
SUNDAY
TOMORROW
Hall, and the International Club office. 115B of the Kansas Union.
THE FILM, "MAN OF MARBLE" will be shown at 2 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Proceeds from the film's ticket sales will be used to purchase food packages to be sent to needy people in Poland.
THE AFRICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION will sponsor BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN NIGHT DINNER AND PROGRAM at the office of minority affairs, 234 Strong. Tickets are made at the office of minority affairs, 234 Strong.
THE OPENING RECEPTION for the POSTERS by PHIL ROSCEK exhibition will be from 4 to 6 p.m. in the art and Design Centre. The exhibition is in conjunction with the University Arts Festival and will be on display through March 5.
THE UNDERGRADUATE
BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the sunflower Room of the Kansas
Union.
SUNDAY
TODAY
TOMORROW
THE SIMULATIONS GAMING
GROUP will meet from 10 to 4 p.m. in
Cork II of the Kansas Union.
on campus
AMNSETY INTERNATIONAL will meet at 1 p.m. in the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union.
THE MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES will meet at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY MORNING WORKSHIP will begin at 10 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
There will be a SUNDAY EVENING SUPPER at 5:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
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Veterans push for Agent Orange bill
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TOPEKA-Vietnam veterans yesterday asked a Kansas state Senate committee to approve a program to assist and study veterans who may be suffering from exposure to Agent Orange.
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
BUT AN agricultural pilot supported claims by the Veterans Administration and the Chemical Administration with evidence health agents Agent Orange with health problems.
The pilot, Jim Floyd, representing the Kansas Agriculture Aviation Association, said he had used the same chemical to spray crops and range land in Kansas and other states for 12 years.
Veterans testifying before the Public Health and Welfare Committee blame a string of problems, from cancer to insomnia, on Agent Orange, a defoliant sprayed over South Vietnam during the late 1960s.
One woman, Jan Highy of Topeka, said the chemical had ruined her son's life.
"My son is virtually a vegetable now," she said.
"Others have been spraying it since 1484." Floyd said. "And we're a rather healthy group. The Legislature is simply chasing an Agent Orange ghost created by the news media."
Solbach said he supported the "costless" part of the bill that calls for examinations of the veterans and also of farmers around the state who might be suffering from exposure to the chemical.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said Floyd could be right, Solbach, a Vietnam veteran, said not enough information about Agent Orange existed to justify the potential $2.5 million program.
But State Rep. Loren Hohman, D-Topeka, also a Vietnam veteran, said that through revenue and fundraising drives, the state could afford to care for resident veterans who may be suffering from the chemical.
TOPEKA—A legislative committee assigned to study the state's prison system gave final approval to a fainter-grade upgrade the Kansas correctional system.
"Those who are real victims might want to be looked after by the federal government," he said.
Hohnan, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee said he would do everything in his power to help the Senate in the house if the Senate approved it.
BUT HE said he did not think the state should be liable for treatment of victims.
"All the statistics that I have suggest that Agent Orange is responsible for health problems. People have created this sickness."
The bill's sponsor, State Sen. Roy Ehrlich, R-Hosington, said, "We don't want to lose the bank on account of a $2.5 million fiscal note.
"I don't think $2 or $3 million to treat them would be asking too much. Why should we worry about this contamination came from?"
ALTHOUGH a spokesman for the Division of Health said that a state program for victims of Agent Orange could cost the state about $1 million, one veteran said the program could save money ultimately.
RANDY TRACKWELL, a Vietnam veteran, said be quietly watched American soldiers die while the government argued about what shape the table should be for peace talks.
"We are all facing a deadly poison," he said, "a poison recklessly created by the chemical corporations in their zeal for profits; a poison which kills its victims by poisoning; a poison that cripples the unborn."
The move ended nearly four weeks of work.
Smith said that probably 22,000 of the 99,000 Vietnam veterans in Kansas had served in the part of Vietnam that was sprayed with 12 million gallons of Agent Orange from 1962 through 1970.
"From my perspective . . . I cannot accept the risk level that we now expose inmates, staff and me at the state prison. We should obambsman, Preston Barton, said.
the committee that their exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam war had resulted in symptoms印象的病症，numbness and skin rashes somnia，numbness and skin rashes
A figure that large warrants care from the state, he said.
But part of the plan did not meet the approval of Gov. John Carlin, who said he would oppose increasing the current mill levy, which is assessed against a fee to contractors for social welfare construction projects, to finance the new prisons.
"Our families are in jeopardy because of governmental delay in finding an answer to Agent Orange," he said.
RON SMITH, representing the Vietnam Veterans of America, said the state should not turn veterans away merely because the federal government had refused to take responsibility for them.
the veteran, Bill Moore of Topeka, said state research into the effects of Agent Orange and treatment of veterans who are less expensive than waiting and letting the chemical take its toll on unborn children.
Prison plan is approved by legislative committee
In a related development, the state's prison system ombushad told a senate committee yesterday that the state is now safe for both inmates and employees.
By United Press International
"If this bill is not passed, I feel like the state is asking the veteran to give his life one more time."
Barton testified before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, which is also studying problems within the state's prison system and is expected to submit its own report to the full legislature next week.
Trackwell and other veterans told
Included in the plan are suggestions that two new prisons be built within five to 10 years. And the committee endorsed Carlin's plan to build one of the medium-security prisons next to the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
The Special Committee on Prison Construction recommended in its report that the mill levy be expanded to include prison buildings. But the committee did not say the mill levy will be increased to generate more dollars.
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Monday, February 15
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MCC is looking for committed Christians willing to serve a 2 or 3 year voluntary service term in their major or related field of interest.
Tickets available at the KU Office of Minority Affairs, 324 Strong Hall, the International Club Office, Room 115B, Kansas Union, SUA Office and Sunday OMEKWE-864-6095.
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AFRICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION PRESENTS:
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Saturday, February 13, 1982
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Nominations are due by Monday, February 15, at 5:00 pm in the Student Senate Office. Self Nominations are welcome. Should you need further information about the responsibilities of the Student Senate Elections Committee Chairperson, feel free to contact the Senate Office at 864-3710.
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