University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
The University Daily
Wednesday, February 3, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 88 USPS 650-640
JON HARDESTY/Kansan Staff
Cars spin their wheels on Sunflower Road behind Watson Library Tuesday as they attempt the icy grade. Even a heavy truck gives up and turns around.
Some still stalking to legalize falconry
By KEVIN HELLIKER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Historically, it was called a sport. At least 27 people in Lawrence call it a crime. But to Scott Johnson of Junction City, falconry is a compelling vocation that should be legalized in
"All the scientific evidence supports falconry," Johnson said yesterday. He began pushing for legalized falconry in the state after moving here from Minnesota six years ago.
"But there are 12 qualified fencerists in Kansas fighting against hundreds of letter writing agents."
"Kansas seems backward in a lot of ways, and this is just one of them."
Johnson's hope that Kansas might join the 45 states in which falconry is legal were shot down yesterday when the Kansas House of Representatives voted 65-50 against a bill that would have added falcony to the state's repertory of hunting sports.
A favorite pastime of medieval kings, falconry is the hunting of small game with trained falcons or other types of hawks. Although the sport once thrived in ancient China, Egypt and Europe before virtually dying out last century, it is now a popular sport of the North American Falconers Association.
Johnson, a decade-long member, said the sport
was denounced in Kansas by environmentalists who did not know anything about it.
Two legislators fighting the bill, proposed at Johnson's request by State Sen. Mark Werts, R-Junction City, were State Reps. John Solbach and Betty Jo Charlton, both D-D Lawrence.
"People say falconers are careless, but we spend hours a day with the birds," he said. "My job and everything else is secondary to falconing—or was until I moved to Kansas."
"There was too much conflict in the testimonies of experts about the environmental impact of nuclear power."
These testimonies, given before the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee last month, prompted Solbach to motion that the Senate pass such last year passed favorably through Senate.
The committee amended the bill, however, and sent it to the House floor. Werts said last night that the House's disapproval of the bill was not its end.
"That was just a voice office," he said. "They had a machine for social assistance. As long as there'a a breath, there's a hope."
Solbach and Charlton said that one reason they voted against the bill was that they, like many representatives, received petitions from their constituents asking that falconry remain illegal.
Tate Collins, whose name topped a petition of 22 Lawrence residents opposed the sport, said they were in a fight with the team.
Richard Johnston, a KU professor of biology and ornithologist at the Museum of Natural History, agreed that opponents of falconry were too emotional, even though he fought the bill.
declining in Kansas and legalized falconry would sawn ramrant nest-robbing of the birds.
"Falconers do not police themselves very well," she said, "and that sport in the same way. The Falcons play."
"Anyone who looks at the record has to agree that what falconers have done in the last 20 years is poor."
Johnson defended falconers, however, saying they rehabilitated birds that were wounded, spread hawk populations into areas where extinct and treated their pet birds like children.
"Our birds are not locked in cages," he said. They are free to fly all day long. But they are locked in cages.
"This is a case of a minority fighting with facts and a majority fighting with emotion."
Johnson, who wrote a letter to the Legislature recommending disapproval of the bill, said the only exciting sport falcon in Kansas was the prairie falcon, whose nest could not afford to be
"If we had 12 young prairie falcons disappear in one year, that would represent a major fraction of the recruitment for that year," he said.
KU officials laud new pre-enrollment
By ANNE CALOVICH
Staff Reporter
Most students and administrators yesterday lauded Chancellor Geneva's decision to institute a study on mental illness at KU.
"This is a sign that KU is really trying to instill said James Jeffrey, Kansas City in him."
"This will be much more efficient. The pressure on the student getting classes and having somebody pull cards for them early will be relieved."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, served on a committee to study pre-
"I understand it will not cure the enrollment problem, but I believe it will greatly improve our ability to serve students, and because of that, I'm estatic," Amber said.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said details of implementing the system still had to be worked out. He said the offices of Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, and Richard Mann, director of information systems, would be all involved in the implementation of all service departments also be involved.
Students will pre-enroll next November for spring semester 1983
Ambler said pre-enrollment might affect a change in dropping and adding courses. With the lapse of time between pre-enrollment and the beginning of the semester, premature and changed decisions would force more adds and dross.
One possible deterent would be to charge a fee to students that drive or add courses for conference.
John Patterson, comptroller, said that charging a fee for discretionary drops and adds would encourage students to pre-enrol. He said a fee would probably run $5 to $10.
Cobb said such a policy would be considered only after the basic implementation of the rule.
Patterson said he hoped the University would also implement phase II of the committee's recommendations, which would place the accounts receivable billing system behind the
computer system. Such a process would modernize contacting, possibly tiring all fees into one bill a student, Patterson said. In this case, housing, parking, student health fees and tuition would be included in one bill. Patterson would cut down on postage and record keeping.
Ambler said various locations were being considered to house the approximately 20 terminals to be used in pre-enrollment, but that a space in Strong Hall would be more favorable because it is close to the office of admissions and records.
Many students are looking forward to pre- enrolling.
Jeffie said that he had supervised registration at the university for the last two years. "We have workbooks, worksheets," Jeffie said.
"I worked summer orientation for freshmen last summer and they were so pleased because we did all the enrollment for them," he said. "I saw some of them the second semester and they were so perplexed—they were having to run here and there and having to pull this and they say, 'We are going to have a lot of people we said. Well, you're on your own.' This will eliminate that, or a good percentage of it.
1 think it's wise of Chancellor Budig to support and go through the implementation of this type of system. I think it sort of brings the technology we've been using this archaic system for so long.
Bill Sanders, Kansas City freeman, said pre-enrollment would simplify the enrollment
"I'm a freshman and I hate pulling cards," he said. "It's a mess. This way it is a lot simpler and much easier."
but Kristie Werner, Milstad, Ill. senior, said she had encountered problems with pre-payment of the loans.
"Personally, I've used computerized enrollment at another school and I wasn't too impressed," she said. "Students could get the job they wanted." A representative as an adviser. Those people were not qualified.
"It's not necessarily going to be that much more helpful. The number of sections will probably be the same and there'll still be the letter schedule."
Weather
COLDER
It will be bitterly cold today with a slight chance of snow, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high today will be 10 to 15 degrees with a low tonight of 0 to -5 degrees. Cold rain should continue Thurs.
Cold weather should continue Thursday, with an expected high of 10 degrees.
Odd objects add spice to bland spaces
By ANN LOWRY Staff Renorter
When a friend asked Brent Lamb to take care of his 1963 Triumph IV sportscar for him, Lamb didn't think twice.
He put it in his dining room.
And although Lamb, a Topeka senior, did not intend to make the car part of his apartheid-era family, he was a loyal supporter.
"It keeps me from dusting the floor," he said. "It keeps my apartment company while I'm doing it."
meet indinitee
"My dining room wouldn't be the same
that I would."
without it, Lamba she!
In fact, Lambda's girlfriend, Stacey Leslie,
Millastad, Ill., senior, said the car would
become a home for new pet gunes pigs.
The Triumph could remain in the apartment indefinitely.
Striving for that personalized, homey look to his Jayhawker Towers apartment, Kyle McNorton, Topeka senior, enjoys his authentic telephone booth. The booth once stood in the old student union at Kansas State University.
MARK McDONALDI/Kansan Staff
"We're putting the puinea pigs cage in with the car parts so the guinea pigs will get used to it."
An antique wooden phone booth graces the Jayhawk Tower apartments where Kyle McNon ton, Topeka senior, lives. Kansas State University tore its old student union.
"We just took it home and rigged it up. McNorton said in a telephone interview." "The door shuts, the light comes on and everything."
Like Lamp, many other KU students have found way to distinguish their living quarters.
McNorton also said he built a free-standing rough cushion frame to hang a wicker chair from, since the ceiling could not support the chair.
His walnut-stained, pine stereo cabinet stands five feet tall and has smoked glass doors and a mirror behind the turntable. He works with last weeks last fall working on it in the evenings.
Although he had two roommates, McNorton said, he did most of the work himself.
"They always sort of kid me about it, but I'd rather have it nice than just a hole in the roof. Or I'd rather we live in a house that an apartment has." A yard and everything, but I like it here."
canstorming a residence hall room into a distinctive room may be difficult, but several rooms can
A rubber hand holding a beer can and a cigarette extends from the wall of the
Hashinger Hall room that Kevin Freed, Prairie Village freshman, lives in.
Freed enhanced its effect by painting a treefleick of blood down the wall underneath the wall.
"People look at it and say, 'Wow,' *Freed* the roommate, David Lewis, Shawnee freshman,
Another feature of Hashinger that might surprise visitors is the art work students have painted in rooms and hallways during the past few years, Julie Weisshaar, Creston,
lowa, junior and Hashinger desk assistant,
said.
"If you go outside at night, you can see logs on walls and ceilings," she said.
Kipp Woods, Garden City Junior, painted the Big Eight team mascots tangled in a fight
A guided tour of the hall revealed geometric designs, floral motifs and replicas of album covers.
"It adds a little color to the gloom," he said.
Students don't have to settle for a drab bare apartment. Some adventure and ambition can inexpensively transform student living quarters into comfortable homes.
Finding used furniture in Lawrence is not difficult.
Bare quarters easily lightened
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
"Don't be afraid to do it yourself. There's nothing mysterious about painting and fixing," Greg Anderson, Ernst and Son Company, $83 Massachusetts. st., said Monday.
Anderson said that refinishing used furniture was the most practical way to fill an empty apartment cheaply.
rows of wooden chairs, stacks of dishes and an assortment of beds and desks await shopper's use at the Swap Shop. 608 stores are in St., where furniture is bought and sold.
"Some stuff I've had three or four times," Floy Standard, the store's owner, said.
Standard said she often sold merchandise to students in the fall and bought it back from them in the spring. Some customers buy everything for their apartments from the Swap Shop, including dishes, flatware, stainless steel and furniture, she said.
"We have pretty good values to offer," Standard said.
Prices begin at $10 for desk chairs, $25 for desks, and $50 for beds.
Standard said students should look for furniture that is sturdy.
"I know kids are gonna be rough on stuff—not all, but a little," she said.
Anderson said it was not difficult to restore old furniture once the hunt for it was over. Liquid slippers and steel wool take off the old furniture, leaving the pieces look like new after a little sanding.
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