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University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1982
Heavy snow rarely closes KU campus
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
Recent snowfalls in the Lawrence area have ruined driving conditions and busied shoals, but students and professors hoping for class cancellations are expecting a rare occurrence, Jim Scally, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said yesterday.
"It's only happened one or two times in the last several years," Scally said.
A National Weather Service spokesman said yesterday that the worst of this winter's snow has already fallen. The forecast for the next 30 days includes some low temperatures with light snowfall.
In the event of heavy snow, the University Inclement Weather Procedure states, "All employees are expected to work at their assigned times and schedules regardless of weather conditions."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Executive Vice Chancellor Robert P. Cobb are the only people who have the authority to declare emergency conditions, according to the procedure.
Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscape maintenance for KU facilities operations, said just about every facility be handled by facilities operations.
"It just takes a little more time when it gets a little deeper," Mathes said.
Mathes said his staff of 35 workers begin snow removal after three to
rour inches have fallen. If it snows more than that, they retrace the same routes.
"If it started snowing this afternoon, about 9 or 10 p.m. we'd start, then go back over it," Mattsa said. "We try to work three to four hours, go home three to four hours, come back and work the next day."
Workers clear streets, sidewalks and handicapped access areas first, then park parking lots. Mathes said.
"We gotta get the traffic moving," he said.
Diane Ugle, a Lawrence Bus Co. employee, said buses could maneuver through almost any location sometimes impede progress.
"Sometimes we can go when traffic can't," Ogle said. "If cars block traffic there's no way we can run."
Ogle said the worst problem for buses in snow are the hills, but he said, "We have our own sand truck and sand some of the hills ourselves."
"There's nothing to stop you until you get to the bottom unless it's a car or a tree." Mathes said.
Mathes said the Lawrence police department has asked facilities operations to put patricaries at the top of dangerous hills, such as 13th floor when emergency equipment could not make it down to sand, salt or plow.
Patti Faler, co-owner of Jayhawk Tow and Storage, said the recent snows and subzero temperatures
"I imagine I have 200 to 309 calls a day," Faler said. "Each driver handles 30 to 40 calls a piece." He and Storage employ three drivers.
have caused hundreds of accidents and incidents of car troubles.
"Most of the accidents we got were driverease," Faler said.
She attributed most of the wrecks to street conditions.
raier said drivers could avoid problems by taking precautions.
"A lot of people weren't expecting the cold front and they didn't have any antifreeze in their cars," she
said. "And I realize it's kind of inconvenient, but they should go out and start their care before they go to work," he said. "And I just restart it again during the night."
Faler also recommended keeping gas tanks full to prevent fuel lines from freezing.
Faler said the best way to avoid accidents is to stay off the streets, but if driving is necessary, caution helps.
"A lot of people just take off," Faler said. "They think, 'I've got to get there.'"
Relief from cold temporarv
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
Kansans enjoyed a short relief yesterday from the bitter cold that has gripped the country for the past two weeks, but the relatively mild temperatures won't last long, according to Steve Schurr, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka.
A mass of cold air moving south from the Canadian plains will send a blast of cold air across the country, lowering temperatures in the area to about 8 degrees tonight and possibly snowflurries tomorrow or Thursday.
Schurr said that the area could expect little additional snowfall for the rest of the month, but that below-normal temperatures would con-
time through mid-February, ranging from the low teens to a high of 40 degrees. He said Kansans had seen the end, for awhile, of the bitter sub-zero temperatures that many parts of the country still experience.
At least 300 deaths in the last eight days have been blamed on the arctic cold that has settled in the Northeast. Record low temperatures were set in New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and in Minnesota a temperature of minus 44 degrees broke thermometers.
The forecast for next 30 days called for colder-than-normal weather for most of the east and parts of the west, except for Maine and southern Florida.
In Little Rock, Ark., police declared an emergency early yesterday morning when a drizzle coated the streets with ice.
Jim Baker, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, senior, takes advantage of the warmer temperatures to brush up on his backhand.
JOHN HANKAMMER/Kansan Staff
TOPEKA, Kan.—A bill that would stiffen penalties for people convicted of driving while intoxicated was introduced yesterday by State Rep. Ron Fox, R-Prairie Village, and 22 other House lawmakers.
Proposed DWI bill to stiffen penalties
By United Press International
'I felt it was about time the drunk officer is punished in a manner apper-
In part, the measure would increase the penalties for a person judged to be a habitual violator. Current language vaguely妨 besides a habitual violator for "operating a motor vehicle in violation" or the bill's language, order the habitual driver's driver, order the license, order the vehicle and levy a minimum $1,000 fine.
If a driver refuses a request by a law enforcement officer to take a breath or blood test for alcohol, the driver's license would be automatically suspended for six months. Currently, a driver's license could be suspended if a court decides the driver did not have reasonable grounds to refuse the test.
Finally, the bill would prohibit a court from softening a violator's sentence through probation or suspension. That provision contrasts significantly with current law, which allows a court to use its discretion when sentencing persons convicted of driving while intoxicated.
Penalties for first-time offenders would be increased from the current $100 minimum fine to a $350 minimum fine. In addition, the first-time offender would have to serve a jail sentence of not less than two days and his driver's license would be suspended for three months.
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Selection of the first recipient of three new teaching professorships to be funded by the Kansas University Endowment Association will begin as a fourth and final member of the selection committee is appointed.
New awards for KU profs
According to Deanell Tachia, vice chancellor for academic affairs, all four committee members' names should be released later today.
Tacha said selection of this year's professorship would begin immediately. The entire process was completed in early March, she said.
The professorships, to be awarded to a different faculty member each of the next three years, carry a $40,000 annual bonus. Each faculty member receives salary benefits. The bonus remains in effect for as long as an instructor attends at the
University in a teaching position, according to Todd Seymour, Endowment Association president.
In contrast with other distinguished faculty awards, the new teaching professorships will not be awarded on the merits of laboratory research or published material. Instead, the professor has an instruction instructor who has done an outstanding job in the classroom.
New Murphy ticket office to ease lines
For years, patrons of the KU performing arts have had to wait in long lines to purchase tickets to plays and concerts.
In addition to that, if things go according to schedule, the office will house a computerized ticket arrangement within two years.
Charla Jenkins, director of public relations for the performing arts, said
That problem should be minimized with the opening yesterday of a new church box office in Murphy Hall that can hold once for three separate events at once.
the new ticket box office was built after nearly five years of planning.
The new ticket box office features enough counter space for two or three people to service the public. The room is well lit and offers meeting events for the week.
For its employees, the new ticket office features plentiful cabin space that will enable them to keep records of upcoming events for the entire season instead of for one week as was the case before.
"I'm as pleased as much as anyone else that the new box office is finally a reality," Jenkins said.
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TOPEKA—On the same day a special committee began studying construction plans for the state's new medium-security prison, Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, introduced a bill to unravel those plans.
Doyen said his measure, introduced yesterday, would be submitted to the special committee and to another joint committee. The proposal is in Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
If passed, Doyen's bill would prohibit the building of the medium-security facility at KSP if the construction adversely affected security at the maximum-security prison, or if the new facility were attached to the existing
maximum-security prison at a location Doyen said would force the state to condemn at least eight houses west of the prison.
"With 1,600 acres around the Prison,
I think we should relook at the locacation"
"Doyen said."
"The bill is just a way of reviewing one more time to see if we're going in the right direction," he said.
Plans for the new prison have been in the works since November, when the Legislative Finance Council approved money to fund the planning process.
But Doyen argued he could not introduce his plan any earlier, "because I was in Australia at the time the Finance Council met."
Doyen's bill must be debated by a Senate committee, and then passed by
the entire Senate, and then travel through a similar House process before ending up on Gov. John Carlin's desk, who probably would not sign it into law.
"We're questioning whether the president of the Senate is serious about getting prison problems taken care of," Mike Swenson, the governor's assistant press secretary, said. "He's certainly not promoting progress."
Since the 1982 legislative session started last week, Republicans have introduced plans that would delay either the planning or funding for the new prison, a high priority issue in the Carlin administration in the wake of recent inmate and guard problems at KSP.
Swenson said the governor considered the Doyen proposal ridiculous.
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