KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Monday, November 16, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 60 USPS 650-640
KU students arrested at Wolf Creek
BY TERESA RIORDAN
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
BURLINGTON-Eleven protesters, including seven KU students, were arrested over the weekend for trespassing at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant site at Burlington.
The protesters, part of the 86 Kansas Natural Guard members protecting the plant's construction, were arrested at the request of officials of the Kansas Gas and Electric Co.
THE FIRST ARRESTS were made Friday night, as two KU students crossed KGKE barriers to hike on a road usually open to the public to a nearby cemetery, where they intended to hold a vigil in the memory of Karen Silkwood.
The protest was on the anniversary of the death of Silkwood, who died in a 1975 automobile accident soon after she spurned an investigation into an Oklahoma plutonium fuel plant.
After crossing the barriers, the two were stopped and read a statement by the KG&E security officials. The protesters refused to leave and were arrested for criminal trespassing, said Gary Smith, Lawrence junior, one of the two guard members arrested.
Stephen Robinson, Wichita senior, the other member arrested at the cemetery Friday night, refused to post bond and issued a statement Saturday saying that he would not eat until Gov. John Carlin responded to a five-point demand in investigation of the construction at Wolf Creek.
Robinson is in custody at the Woodson County
Jail. Yates Center, in lieu of $100 bond.
Smith posted bond and was released Saturday evening.
The group had entered KG&E property on two previous occasions in 1979, without any reaction from KG&E officials, Joyce Kendrick, group spokesman, said.
"I was really surprised," she said. "This
protest wasn't much different from the others except for their reaction."
THE PROTEST this weekend was larger than previous ones, however, in which only about 10-15 people participated, Kendrick said.
Love Koerper, KG&E manager information services, said that KG&E had ordered the arrests this weekend, because, "as the plant nears completion, every year there have been 25 arrests." The officer as far as security and integrity of the plant go. The sensitive areas have been expanding."
JACK KLINKNETT, the groups' lawyer, said that the KG&E security had an "overzealous
"If they had just let it happen there would have never been any problem," he said. "People
walking a few feet onto their property and dropping a few seeds isn't going to bring the nuclear industry to a screeching halt.[14]
The other nine arrests occurred Saturday when protesters allegedly crossed onto KG&E property and refused to leave until they had planted cottonwood trees and wheat.
Three of those arrested refused to post bond and are still in custody at the Franklin County jail in Iowa in lieu of $100 bond. Lynn Pieschl, 19 West 14th St; Pat Slick, Lawrence graduate student; and Becka Vaughn, 1128 Delaware St.
Others who were arrested and released yesterday on $100 bond were: Charles Barnes, Oklahoma City sophomore; Sarah Morgan, 1021 Rhode Island; Virgil Agnue, Hays senior; Dean Goering, Derby sophomore; Keith Abrams, Dark stork member; and Tom Sherwood from Overbrook.
The people released on bail will be arraigned Friday.
Students attend class in renovated barn
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
The art students might not have been born in a burn but they attend class in one.
The campus pace does not get much slower than it is out at the Chamney Barn. A few at a time, students come and go at the old stone Lawrence dairy part of a large Lawrence dairy farm.
The barn looks much as it did when it was built in 1940, but the dairy horn has disappeared and the inside of the barn is used as a glass blowing studio.
The KU facilities operations department recently installed a new roof on the old barn and two other structures that were once part of the Chamney Dairy Farm. Harold and Ed Chamney owned the farm until 1983, when it became Kansas University Endowment Association.
AS THE ART students in the barn explained how happy they were to finally have a decent roof over their heads, an old dog slept in the center of the floor.
A wooden door to the barn burn open to let heat escape from the 2,000-degree glass furnaces. Students thurst long metal pipes with glass on one end into the furnaces, occasionally withdrawing the pipes to blow through them reshaping the glass.
Students were issued hard hats about a month ago when facilities operations em-
players were replacing the barn's leaky,旧
iron roof, but students said it was worth it.
"We had nails falling on our heads." Bob Hodges, a Lawrence graduate student in glass design, said recently. "That's what we have the hard hats for.
"We might have had dirt coming down on us, but it was worth any inconvenience we had."
Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said the new "imitation shake" roof for the barn was inexpensive and should last a long time.
"The thing about it is that we're doing the job for less than half of what outside contractors estimated it would cost," Anderson said.
Monday Morning
THE NEW ROOFS for structures on the
best Campus,
cost the University about $1,400,000.
Although Anderson was proud of the project's low cost, it still is 10 times the original cost of the barn, said Ed Chamney, 3515 W. Eighth Court.
"It's wonderful that the barn was built in a way that they can still use it," the 70-year-old Chamney said. "The reason they can use it is because it has a high ceiling."
Chamney said he often visited the barn and
See BARN page 5
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Stat
The Chamney Barn, once used in an old dairy farm operation, is now used by KU students. The barn is located on West 15th Street.
Martin, professor of pharmacology, wins HOPE Award
Gene Martin, professor of pharmacy, left, leaves the field of Memorial Stadium after being named the winner of the 1881 HOPE Award. At the right is Tim Bengtson, associate professor of journalism, a HOPE Award finalist. Ceremonies were held before the KU-Colorado football game Saturday.
The Kansan is now accepting applications for the spring semester business manager and editor positions. These are paid positions with a salary of $18,000 per experience, although any student may apply.
HOPE runners-up were Timothy Bengtson, associate professor of journalism; Don Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; Phil Huntsinger, associate head physical education and recreation; and Arno Knappler, professor of business.
Sitting in his office in Malott Hall with the award, which was presented to him Saturday at a pregame ceremony in Memorial Stadium, Martin explained his astonishment.
"I was surprised and grateful, to say the
1st," she said "yesterday." "I was gatigested, a
da massa of men!"
Martin is this year's winner of the Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator award, the University's only recognition of teaching excellence given entirely by the students.
"I teach only in the School of Pharmacy and since we admit only 85 students a year, our classes are rather small. I really don't expect to have a shot at it, quite frankly."
for 13 years, KU student have considered Gene Martin to be a good, possibly even a great, professor of pharmacology. Now they think he is outstanding.
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
"I really did not expect to win because we're such a small school," he said.
Application forms are available in the
Today the Kansan examines the three tickets for student body president and vice president. This Wednesday and Thursday, student voters must opt for the Groucho Marx
Inside
Completed applications are due in 105 Flint by
5 p.m. on Nov. 24.
Applications available for top Kansan positions
Student Senate Office, 105 B Kansas Union; in the office of Student Organizations and Activities, 220 Strong Hall; and in Room 105 Flint Hall.
"There're probably psychological reasons for it," he said, laughing. "I enjoy playing to the audience, in a way. One of the biggest thrills is to look out in the class and see a look in someone's eye that they're understanding what I'm saying, that it's catching on."
However, he said, 'I certainly put an effort to teaching and I teach it a great deal. Perhaps we can learn more by working through it, I try to make the learning of the material as worthwhile for all of us as possible.'
EVERY TEACHER should enjoy what he is done, he said.
To Martin, enjoyment is the key to teaching.
candidates or those of the Perspective or Working Alternative Coalitions.
See page 6 for profiles of the candidates and their views.
"I would recommend it because it makes it all worthwhile," he said.
1. unure they simply got the vote out. They got
and voted, he said. "The voting must have been
untrue."
BUT MARTIN; who is also the chairman of the school's pharmacy practice department, obviously did have a shot at it, and that was because of the students, he said.
Martin had been previously nominated for the HOPE Award, but this year was the first time he played on the varsity team.
"I don't know that I do anything," he said. "I can't come up with any secrets or tricks."
Martin said that he learned some of his teaching methods from his daughter, Megan, a graduate of the University of Texas.
See HOPE page 5
Body discovered hanging from tree
Alan Sanders, deputy coroner, said last night after a preliminary investigation that he was presuming the cause of death was hanging and that the man had committed suicide.
Police found the body of an unidentified man, thought to be in his thirties, hanging about 14 feet off the ground in a tree near the Kansas River at park and Indiana streets about noon yesterday.
"There were markings on his trousers that looked as if he had climbed the tree," Sanders and
A pair of cowboy boots and a hat were found under the tree and the man was barefoot, San
Sanders said that he found no evidence of a
struggle in the preliminary investigation but that a more complete autopsy would be performed
Police said a couple who had been walking in Burcham Park, the area where the body was found, told them they had noticed something banging from a tree across a creek.
Deputy sheriff and Sanders are still working to identify the 6-foot-3-inch, 170-pound man, who Sanders said had been dead for about 12 hours before the body was discovered.
It was not until they got closer, however, that they realized it was a body, they told police.
Sheriff Rex Johnson said no other information would be released until the sheriff's department had concluded its investigation into the man's identity and the cause of his death.
David Stockman
Replacement for Stockman a possibility
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., yesterday called Budget Director Director Stockman 'a great deceiver' amid reports that Secretary of Treasury Donald Regan may replace Stockman as the administration's foremost budget salesman on Capitol Hill.
Congressional sources said even though President Reagan gave Stockman a second chance after his published remarks in the Atlantic Monthly, Stockman's credibility problem would make it difficult for him to administer his major spokeswoman on the budget.
"Donald Regan is moving to the forefront," one Republican congressional source told the Washington Post. "Regan will be the point man, the one who comes to the Hill and destifies on the big picture. And Stockman, when he does testify, he makes a detail man—someone to explain the numbers."
HOUSE BUDGET Committee Chairman James Jones, D-Doka, said the Stockman revelation impiles. The American people were shocked by the decision. How happened if they had faith in the Reagan program.
Jones, who led the losing fight for an alternative budget earlier this year, said Stockman's comments and the deepening recession show the Democrats were right in battling Reagan's plan.
The article shows "a sense of cynicism" and "that they did not have faith in their numbers, they did not add up," Jones said on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday.
Stockman, however, has won support from Senator William Proxime, D-Wis., who in a speech to be delivered in the Senate today, praised the beleaguered budget director for having performed a "genius service for this country by speaking the truth."
"But in the long run what he has done may serve the interest of the country and even the state."
"Whatever his faults, Stockman understands this federal budget as no one else in the administration or in the Congress does. Let us read
Stockman got into trouble, Proxmire said, only because he "talked honestly and bluntly to a reporter armed with the most lethal of political weapons—a tape record."
PROMIXIE SAID he agreed that Stockman, by "speaking the truth," had done "some poisonous work" on his son.
See STOCKMAN page 5
Weather
The forecast for today from the National Weather Service in Topeka is for clear to partly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 80s. Winds will be from the west at 15-15 mph. Tonight's low will be in the upper 30s.
tomorrow should also be clear, with the high in the low 70s.