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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 26, 1989
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Lawrence stores fight shoplifting Security experts patrol aisles
By Rich Cornell Kansan Staff Writer
Rings operate even though many shoplifters are prosecuted.
Lisa walked into the Dillons Super Store, 3000 W. Sixth St., and separated a grocery cart from its clinging neighbors. Then, she walked around the store, filling the cart with items from every aisle.
But Lisa, who asked that her last her last name not be used, doesn't search for bargains. She looks for shoplifters.
Sometimes, she finds them.
A thief once became angry and blasted Lisa with a hand-held container of tear gas.
"I got macer over some chicken at the dell," she sad.
As security manager for Lawrence's three Dillons stores, she coordinates several undercover surveillance patrols the aisles in search of thieves
The three stores together spend about $60,000 a year to prevent shopping. But security officers in the stores say that by preventing thefts, she said.
"Grocery is a target area because everybody goes to the grocery store." Lisa said.
She said professional shoplifing
incentives can help inter-
merchants.
She said individual shops
"The rings are what's hurting this town," she said.
The rings operate in groups, and a group of three or four shoplifters may enter a store two or three times a day, she said.
medicine.
Security workers recognize the shoplifters but cannot follow all of them at once, she said. The unwatched shoplifter will take high-dollar items such as cigarettes and
Catherine Kelley, Lawrence Police Department crime prevention specialist, said most of the professional shoplifters came from out of town. They typically enter a store when it is most busy or least busy, she said.
The rings still operate in Lawrence even though many businesses have started prosecuting all shoplifters, Kelley said.
"For a long time, because we didn't prosecute, people found this was a good place to come," she said. "I don't think the thing was going on so much."
Kelley said prevention would stop schooling better than anything else.
She presents crime prevention seminars to local businesses, suggesting they prosecute all crimes. She also offers businesses followed her suggestions.
She said that in addition to professional shoplifters, Lawrence businesses suffered from juvenile offenders as well as people stealing for
"Juveniles represent almost 51 percent of all shoplifters caught," Kelley said.
And some people steal to survive, she said.
But Jim Lewis, owner and manager of Checkers, 2300 Louisiana St., said his store suffered more from employee theft than from shoplifting.
He spends $100 to $600 each week to contract Fact Finders, a Kansas City, Mo., firm specializing in security, he said.
Lewis said shoplifters were easy to catch because "they're watching you more than you're watching them."
the sake of it
Most shoplifters,he said,steal for
"They usually don't need it," he said. "They're not stealing to survive. They're stealing to steal."
Adult shoplifters caught in Checkers are prosecuted, Lewis said. However, juveniles caught stealing often face another authority.
"If it's a delinquent I call the parents and get them involved," he said.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said youth shoplifters
usually di not go to court.
"Rather than running the case through the juvenile courts when it's a case of two packs of Double Bubble, or them to a shoplifter class," Flory said.
The class educates youths about the serious nature of the crime, he said. It has been operating for a year.
About 150 youths have gone put through the program, and only a few have gotten into trouble again, Flory said.
Bioscience center houses many services
By Travis Butler Kansan staff writer
This article is the third of an occasional series.
The Higuchi Bioscience Center on West Campus administers a good deal of the medical/biological research on campus.
"The purpose of the organization is to provide a framework of support services for individual research centers — accounting, payroll, purchasing, and so forth," said Shirley Duncan, executive director. "We do this so that each center doesn't have to have its own staff support."
The Higuchi Center was named in honor of Takeru Higuchi, Regents Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University from 1967 until his death in 1987. Higuchi was instrumental in founding both the organization that bears his name and its companion company, Oread Laboratories, 1501 Wakarusa Drive.
"Oread scientists work with our scientists to turn basic research findings into products and services," said Richard Foster, who were designed to work together."
Currently, the Higuchi umbrella shelter three research centers, she said: the Center for Biomedical Research, the Center for Bioanalytical Research and the Center for Drug Delivery Research.
The Center for Biomedical Research has existed for a number of years and performs basic biomedical research in many different areas.
The Center for Bioanalytical develop ways of solving difficult Research was established in 1983 to bioanalytical problems, and the Center for Drug Delivery Research was established in July to develop better ways of getting drugs to the parts of the body where they are needed.
While research at the Center for Bioanalytical Research does not focus on any one discipline, its results can be used to further pursuits in many areas.
"It has wide-ranging applications," Domer said. "It can be useful in food or water testing, various kind of environmental testing, and agriculture."
Susan Lunte is one of the researchers at the Bioanalytic center. She is currently working on emphysema-related research involving very low levels of a chemical produced by the disease. The topic was suggested by a company doing research on emphysema cures.
Her partner at Oread Labs, Osborne Wong, said, "We were approached by a person at a pharmaceutical company, who wanted to develop a substance to regulate elastase."
Elastase is the substance that causes the lung deterioration of emphysema. Lunte said, Her research showed that a number of factors in this chemical process.
Domer said the Center for Drug Delivery Research's task was to find the best way to get medicine to where it is most needed in the body.
"They want to eliminate side effects by delivering the drug to the needed site without affecting other organs," she said.
Three new centers are in the planning stages. Domer said.
Two companies bid for new golf course
Commission to hear proposals tonight
By Dave Wakefield Kansan staff writer
Cheaper green fees could become a reality for Lawrence golfers if city commissioners decide upon one of the measures they will consider at tonight's meeting.
Bob Billings, an Alvamar executive, is expected to present a proposal tonight for a golf course to be built on land west of Wakarusa Drive, between 23rd and Sixth streets.
The other proposal under consideration was developed by First Golf, a Denver company. Its course would be built on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' land south of Clinton Lake.
The only two public courses in town are Alvamar Golf and Country Club, 1800 Crossgate Drive, and Orchards Executive Golf Course, 3000 W. 15th St. Alvamar charges $18 for 18 holes, and Orchards, a nine-hole course.
Rick Rosenbaum, Overland Park graduate student, said he played golf in Topeka or Olathe because the green fees were cheaper. And at the expected $12 green fee, he would probably keep playing out of town, he said.
A spokesman for Alvaram, Jerry Waugh, said Alvaram allowed the University to use its courses for classes free of charge. The Athletic Department also holds three or four tournaments at Alvaram each year, he said. Alvaram does not charge the department for the tournaments but each KU golf team pays an annual fee of $1,000 to $1,500, he said.
charges $6.25 for nine holes. Both figures are weekend rates.
KU golf teams practice on Alvamar's public course, but they play all the courses in town from time to time. Brad Demo, women's golf coach.
"I might play the new course once in a while if it is a nice course," he said.
Harris said committee members would probably consider special proposals in order to be competitive with competing courses in Kansas City and Olathe.
Religious observances cause class conflicts
By Jennifer Metz
Kansan staff writer
With two important Jewish holidays approaching, some students may find a need to reschedule tests or exams that are in conflict with the High Holy Days.
University of Kansas faculty members recently received a memo reminding them of a rule in University policy that allows students to attend classes without permission, deny, assistant to Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor.
The memo included a part of the University Senate Rules and Regulations which states that, "... upon request at least one week in advance of the date, an exam or test may be taken at another time not in conflict with religious observance."
The rule applies to students of all religions, said Davente Litwin, director of Hillel, a national Jewish student organization.
The Jewish New Year, Rosh
Hashanah, falls on Saturday
and Sunday, and the Day of Atonement,
Yom Kippur, will occur Monday, Oct.
"Holidays begin the evening before, at sundown," said Michele Katz, staff assistant for Hillel.
This means that Jewish students who wish to go home for the holidays would miss classes or tests that interfere with the religious observances, she said.
Laura Cohen, Deerfield, Ill., junior, said, "A lot of times professors consider it as an absence, and not as a holiday."
Litwin said that some students thought instructors had a difficult time understanding the importance of these holidays. She said that it was important to create a spirit ofitivity to traditions and celebrations that were different from their own.
David Katzman, professor of history, said that many faculty members assumed that all students followed the same calendar.
Students who wish to follow religious observances may suffer consequences such as having to take a make-up exam that would be more difficult than the original exam, Katzman said.
"That violates the spirit of the rule," he said. "There should not be a penalty attached because one is a minority."
Some students also have difficulty taking exams that are given on Saturdays, he said, because the single most important holiday is the Sabbath, which occurs every Saturday.
"An observant Jewish student would be faced with flunking or breaking Jewish tradition," Katzman said.
He said he hoped that the University would consider changing its policy in administering final exams on Saturday.
KU to celebrate 125th
By a Kansan reporter
Most of us only get one day to celebrate our birthdays. The University of Kansas, though, is going to celebrate all year long.
KU will be 125 years old in 1991 but the party will be during the 1990-91 academic year, said Del Shankel, chairman of the 125th Year Anniversary committee.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig appointed the committee and will act as the honorary chairman, said Robin Eversole, director of University Relations.
The committee includes administration, faculty, staff, student and alumni representatives.
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