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Tuesday, September 26, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Five ducks return to Potter Lake
Officials say turtles still threaten birds
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
The quacks are back, but they haven't been authorized.
Sometime last week, five renegade ducks found their way into Potter Lake. The ducks were put in a cage without the knowledge of KU animal officials, said Nancy Schwarting, care unit veterinarian.
Heldi Steindel, Murrysville, Pa., sophomore, takes a moment to feed ducks at Potter Lake.
Usually, care unit staff members bring ducks to Potter Lake each spring, she said. This year they were housed near the zone of snapping turtles in the lake.
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Turtles bite at duck's feet, severing ligaments and often requiring amputation, Schwartzing said. The turtles are still in the lake, she says, but the new ducks are in equal danger of getting nipped from below.
The care unit's ducks are at O'Connell Youth Ranch on the outskirts of Lawrence. The ranch is a boys' home where the ducks spend each winter. Schwarting said the ducks would stay at the ranch as long as snapping turtles
were in the lake
"If there is any hope to bring them back, the public is going to have to get involved — write letters and that sort of thing," she said. "It's not all that hard to trap turtles, but the public interest has
to be there."
Jodi Wente, receptionist at the care unit, said that although her department did not put the ducks in the lake, care unit staff members did have some responsibility concerning the ducks.
Each winter, she said, the Potter Lake freezes and ducks must be removed.
"Our department would probably go and remove them," Wente said.
Automakers protest environmental ads
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An environmental group's 30-second public service advertisement that links automobile pollution to global warming has prompted the auto industry to protest the ad spots and demand equal time.
and the automobile's part in it.
The ad was unveiled a week ago by the Environmental Action Foundation, which said it was distributing the spots to radio and television stations across the country to warn about the effects of global warming
Within 24 hours, Thomas H. Hanna,
president of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, dispatched a letter to television and radio stations announcing that the ad was "clearly political nature" and full of misinformation.
He wrote that if the environmental group's spots were used as public service announcements, "we intend to demand equal time to rebut the misinformation and misleading material they contain."
Ruth Caplan, executive director of
the Washington-based environmental group, called a news conference yesterday to bring attention to Hanna's letter. She characterized his demand for equal time as ludicrous and accused the industry of attempting censorship. She denied that the ad was misleading.
A spokesman for the Detroit-based trade organizations said Hanna's Sept. 19 letter was sent to 850 radio stations and 200 television stations nationwide.
Hanna charged that the environmentalists were misusing free air time of public service provisions by making a political statement.
He said the ad overstated the threat of global warming, which he said was still disputed in the scientific community and places too much of the blame on pollution from U.S. automobiles.
Hanna said he would not object if the spots were run as paid advertisements that give a point of view, but he said the environmentalists should not be given free air time.
Former aid to Hayden denies activist's charges
The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. — Doug Mays vehemently denied yesterday a parimutuel racing activist's allegation that Mays said that Gov. Mike Hayden's 1986 election campaign had received a large donation from Alabama racetrack developer Paul Bryant Jr.
"It's one of the most classic cases of sour grapes I've ever witnessed.
"Absolutely, it never happened," Mays said. "To the best of my recollection, I don't recall it at all. The things he describes me as saying are so outlandish they don't even deserve a response.
"What can I do but sit here and say it isn't true? This guy is obviously very bitter that he lost a racing license and has decided he's going to get even."
Mays, now state securities commissioner, was coordinator and finance director in Hayden's campaign for governor three years ago.
"Doug verified it. I was amazed he would do it; there was no misunderstanding. The money was from Bryant. It was clearly understood that the money was from Bryant."
The pari-mutuel activist, Norman Rose of Kansas City, Kan., told the Topeka Capital-Journal that he had confronted Mays about rumors of Bryant's significant contributions to the War in Vietnam. In 1980 and 1986 that Mays had confronted it
Rose was active in the Kansas City Racing Association before and after Kansas voters in November 1986 adopted a constitutional amendment that legalized part-mutual wagering. The commission, Mo. restaurant owned by David Schmidt, a former applicant for a Kansas racing License.
"He just owned up to it," the newspaper quoted Rose as saying.
He was a minority stockholder in Kansas Racing Management Inc., a group led by Schoenstadt that considered seeking a license to build and
operate a horse and dog ractetrack complex in the Kansas City area. The license went to Sunflower Racing Inc. of Wichita, which is building the Woodlands racing complex in Wyandotte County.
Bryant also sought a license to build and operate a dog track in the Kansas City area, but he lost out to Sunflower Racing.
Mays said he was devastated by the Capital-Journal story because it had only Rose's word that a conversation with him occurred.
He said he planned to contact an attorney "to see what legal action I might want to be taking against Mr. Rose. "
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
Study abroad money remains unclaimed
Several programs offer free tuition, room and board for KU graduate students to study abroad. But this year few students applied for the expense-paid education.
Mary Elizabeth Debicki, director of the office of study abroad, said that $15,000 in scholarships were available every year for graduate students. She said that she and I abroad. But that is only a fraction of the money available, she said.
Debicki said that about 35 graduate students studied overseas each year but that only 30 percent of those received financial aid.
"My guess is there is so much more money available," she said. "People just don't know how to go about applying for it."
The Graduate Direct Exchange Scholarships program is one of the largest available to graduate students, Debicki said.
As part of the program, KU graduate students can study in one of 12 cities in England, France, Germany and Switzerland. Students give free tuition, room and board.
Kathy Boyer, Lawrence graduate student, received a Graduate Direct Exchange Scholarship last year to study in Strasbourg, France.
"I was able to learn about post-1945 European artists — that obviously wouldn't have been easy to learn here," she said. "I was able to meet a number of contacts that should prove beneficial in the future."
Debicki said only one student had
applied for the scholarship by the Sept. 15 deadline
"It it makes me sick," she said.
"These people don't know what a wonderful opportunity they're giving up. They have an opportunity to study abroad, and they don't apply for financial aid."
Debicki said she extended the deadline and hoped more students would apply.
KU graduate students may also study abroad with the Fulbright Scholarship. About 600 are available in the United States each year, she said.
Fulbright Scholarships are structured two ways. They can provide round-trip transportation, language or orientation courses, tuition, books, living expenses and limited health and accident insurance for one year. Fulbright scholarships may provide a fixed sum payment in U.S. dollars for the grantee.
Debicki said that about five KU students were awarded Fulbright Scholarships each year.
"I ran people down, trying to get them to apply," she said. "I can't understand why they would want to patch up such a wonderful opportunity."
The Pearson Grant is another scholarship available to graduate students for overseas study.
In this program, Debicik said, approximately $30,000 was available each year to residents who have lived in Kansas for a minimum of five years. The money is divided in amounts of $2,000 to $2,500. She said no students had applied for the grant this year.
Witness details PTL payoffs
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jerry Falwell offered Jim Bakker $300,000 and other perks to keep his mouth shut after Falwell took over the scandal-riddled PTL, the TV ministry's chief builder testified yesterday
Falwell denied the account given by Wichita, Kan., builder Roe Messner, who testified for the defense at Bakker's fraud trial.
Bakker is accused of defrauding followers by using more than $3.7 million in ministry money to live in high style. The TV evangelist faces charges that he paid less than $5 million in fines if convicted on all 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy.
Falwell, founder of the now-defunct Moral Majority, took over PTL in 1987 after Bakker resigned
Messner testified that the offer to Bakker from Falwell included a maid, a security guard and telephone to him. If Bakker would keep his mouth shut.
It was not immediately clear whether Bakker turned down the offer, if the offer was made.
man, said that Messner was mistaken and that the offer actually was a demand from Bakker.
Falwell dispatched Messner to Palm Springs, Calif., to talk to Bakker, but he carried no offer, DeMoss said. Messner returned with a hand-written list of demands, DeMoss said.
Mark DeMoss, a Falwell spokes-
"Simply put, the items Roe Messner testified that Rev. Fallow sent him out to offer Bakker were items that Bakker requested and Messner wanted to buy, he said. "I would like to think Roe just forgot the sequence of events."
Messner testified that he handled a $265,000 payment to former church secretary Jessica Hahn to secure her silence about a sexual encounter she had with Bakker. Messner said he was called by Richard Dortch, PTL's executive vice president, on Feb. 21, 1985.
Messner said Dorfch told him that Bakker knew nothing about the payment. Messner agreed to make the payment in part because the Assemblies of God was named as the potential party in a lawsuit threatened by Hahn.
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