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VOL. 100, NO. 17 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
T THE STUDENT NEWSPAF OF THE T UNIVERSITY OF KANKSAS
TUESDAY
SEPT.19,1989
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Mixed reaction to Alpha Phi's plan to return
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
Alpha Phi sorority, whose charter was withdrawn last spring, has been invited to make a presentation to Panhellenic Council Oct. 21 and 22 to be considered for recolonization at the University of Kansas.
But some alumnae question the parity's decision to try to return to college.
If Alpha Phi International Fraternity's October presentation is accepted, the chapter could be recolonized by January, said Gina Bielle, panhellenic adviser.
The women who were members of Alpha Phi when its charter was withdrawn still would be considered alumnae and could not be active. The phi Phi recolonized, said Dawn Tabinksy, former Alpha Phi vice president.
The alumnae have met twice, but have not decided if they are for or against recolonization, said Jeanne Kreaker. Alba Phi university.
The charter of the Alpha Phi chapter was suspended Jan. 21. The chapter was given 30 days to appeal the decision.
After appealing the decision, the chapter announced that Alpha Phi International had withdrawn the chapter's charter effective May 21.
All initiated members and pledges
are given the option of becoming
alumni.
Tabinsky said the alumnae wanted to know why Alpha Phi International thought it could be successful if it recolonized at the University.
Joyce Shumway, Alpha Phi International executive office general manager, said, "We feel we can come in with a new group of people."
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'We feel we can come in with a new group of people.'
Joyce Sihnway
Alpha Phi International executive
official office
office general manager
Shumway said Alpha Phi had an advantage over the other chapters that were presenting because it already had a house in Lawrence.
If recoonization occurs, members could move in next fall, she said.
But Tabinsky said the alumnae were not very pleased with International.
"They are more committed to a new group than to us," she said.
Tabinsky said that the alumnae might be meeting with International at the end of September and that she wanted people to know that the majority of who they were and that they were still active as alumnae.
Ann Rowson, Alpha Phi alumna,
said she would not be mad if the
chapter recolonized.
"There are a lot of mixed feelings" she said.
Elizabeth Skeet, Alpha Phi
alumnia, said she felt that she was
being denied the collegiate exper-
tience she could have gotten from
Alpha Phi.
Skeet said if the board had waited to recolonize until all past members had a chance to graduate, more of the emotions would have passed.
"It is hard to deal with because I was a pledge last year," she said.
"They would be turning over a new leaf, and we would be turning over a new leaf," she said.
E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN
Headed west
The late-afternoon sun casts shadows behind these students heading home from classes. The students were emerging yesterday from the
Nalshim Drive underpass near Learned Hall. Continued sunny skies are forecast for today.
Parking violators' cars sent to North Lawrence
By Bryan Swan
By Bryan Swan Kansan staff writer
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Students whose cars are towed for violating University parking regulations still will have to make a long journey to North Lawrence to pick them up. During the summer, Kaw Motor Co. was again awarded the University's towing contract.
However, Donna Hultine, associate director of Parking Services, said that the distance was not meant as additional punishment but that Kaw Motor Co. was the most qualified wrecker service.
"Every year we have a bid and whoever has the low bid gets the contract," she said. "We pick who ever charges least to the student."
Huline said Kaw Motor Co., 1545 N. Second St, was chosen because it met several criteria, including a certain number of available wreck-
Sometimes we'll get one call a day or other times 50. I wouldn't want to depend on it as the only source of
Kaw Motors Co. employee
— Larry Ledbetter
ers, maintenance of a secure storage lot and 24-hour service. She said the bidding process was controlled by the University of Kansas Purchasing Office.
Getting to Kaw Motor Co., however, is half the battle. KU on Wheels does not have bus routes in North
Larry Ledbetter, an employee at Kaw Motor Co., said students had access to their impounded vehicles 24 hours a day. He said $15 in cash and a release slip from parking services were required to retrieve a car.
Hultine said that between Fall 1988 and the beginning of this semester, 410 vehicles were towed for excessive violations. During that time, excessive violation was defined as having five or more tickets. She said that an additional 394 vehicles were towed in the past year because of other violations, which included parking adjacent to fire hydrants, parking in handicap stalls or displaying forged or altered parking permits.
Lawrence, and Secure Cab taxi service operates only after 11 p.m. and runs only to residences, not businesses.
Ledbetter said it was difficult to determine how much of the company's business was generated by students.
"Sometimes we'll get one call a day or other times 50," he said. "I wouldn't want to depend on it as the only source of income. It's not cheap
Ledbetter said that in recent years some students have attempted to illegally recover their cars from the storage lot.
to operate a wrecker, and you have to pay a driver $6 or $7 an hour."
"KU students have driven their cars into the gate or driven their cars into the fence," he said. "It makes no sense. Instead of paying $15 for the bill they do $1,500 or $2,000 damage to their cars."
Hultine said that students who thought they had been wrongly ticked and towed and who decided to appeal to the Parking Board of Chicago realize that the money they had paid the wrecker company was lost.
"Students can't get their money back from the company because the University called the wreckers out here," she said. "The goods were received, and it's a done deal."
Three tickets prompt a tow
By a Kansan reporter
Effective yesterday, Parking Services began towing vehicles from campus that have been ticked three or more times for parking violations.
Donna Hutline, assistant director of Parking Services, said nine cars were towed yesterday.
The number of unpaid parking violations considered excessive by the parking board was changed from five to three in February, she
Hultine a person who received a ticket had 15 business days to pay the fine. If three or more tickets were 15 days old, that
person would be considered an "excessive violation offender" and could have his car towed, she said.
The new regulation also applies to metered parking violations, Hultine said.
According to the 1989-1990 parking regulations brochure, the vehicle of an excessive violation offender may be immobilized by a wheel lock, which will cause damage to the vehicle if it is driven.
A student may recover the impounded or immobilized vehicle by paying all outstanding tickets and getting a release from Parking Services, according to the regulations.
Bush calls for tree-planting drive
The Associated Press
HELENA, Mont. — President Bush, urging a "new greening of America," proposed a national tree-planting campaign yesterday as a low-cost part of his national clean-air strategy.
He also said he would order special environmental training for Peace Corps representatives abroad, "to stop pollution before it starts and to promote economic development and environmental stewardship go hand-in-hand."
"Our Peace Corps volunteers are going to help spread the word in the developing world." Bush told an outdoor crowd in front of Montana's copper-domed capitol. Helena, a front, on a Waverain trip honoring three states that are marking 100-year anniversaries.
He said that beginning next year, Peace Corps members would be trained by the Environmental Protection Agency to deal with "a full range of environmental challenges," including waste disposal, water pollution prevention, pesticide management and reforestation.
Earlier, Bush suggested at a similar ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D., that trees should be planted along the country's interstate highway system as part of a national volunteer tree-planting program.
Reagan was criticized during the 1980 presidential campaign when he said that most atmospheric contamination came from natural rather than manmade processes, and that trees were responsible for 93 percent of the nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere. Environmentalista said Reagan's proposal of a nitrogen oxide, which comes from decaying plant matter and is not harmful, and nitrogen oxide, which is emitted by coal plants and is a pollutant.
In comments that seemed to come full circle from Ronald Reagan's 1980 observation that trees were a major cause of air pollution, Bush told his audience "every tree is a compact between generations."
Referring to trees as "the oldest, cheapest and most efficient air purifier on earth," Bush declared, "We need to reforest this bountiful earth.
"Nature has powerful rejuvenative forces, but we need to help them along."
The Bush administration was expected to make reforestation a primary element of its environmental policy, matching an international movement to preserve the world's rain forests.
"Of course, reforestation is only one part of our comprehensive and sometimes highly technical proposals to clean up America's air. But trees possess a value no high-tech solution will ever match."
"In the middle of this century, we built the interstate highway system, the greatest ground transportation network since Rome," Bush said. "Now let's make these corridors beautiful, quieter, greener — and cleaner."
"Trees can reduce the heat of a summer's day, quiet a highway's noise, feed the hungry, provide shelter from the wind and provide warmth in the winter."
Bush noted that the federal government had planted 490,300 acres of new trees last year. But he said that this was a relatively small amount and that the real solution was at the "grassroots level."
Birds of feather flock in cellar
By Chris Evans
Kansan staff writer
The basement occupants in Larry and Margaret Williams' house are afflower with activity.
Canaries, about 250 of them, rattle in cages and fill the air with noise as they chirp, chirp, chirp. The cages sway slowly back and forth, making the area a potential danger zone for those prone to seasickness.
The Williams don't seem to be bothered. Margaret Williams, an office assistant in the department of student housing, has collected and bred canaries with her husband ever since her sister gave her two canaries two years ago. Since then, the Williams' lives have changed considerably, they said.
"When we started, I never really paid that much attention to it." Larry Williams said. "I thought a canary was a yellow bird. I never realized there were so many sizes, shapes, colors."
- But there are many sizes, shapes and colors. Sleek, orange canaries share the basement with green canaries, which look more like they are covered with fuzz than feathers. Margaret Williams seems to know each one personally.
"You have to get them into condition," she said. "And you have to fool them."
The Williams' have connected fights in their basement
"That one's a Paris Frill," she said, pointing to one of the birds. "It's worth $150. That Gloster, there, that's about $50."
She said she bought, sold and traded canaries according to her mood. Mainly, however, she works to care for them and to make sure they breed properly.
to a timer, so that daylight can be simulated for the canaries. The number of lighted hours each day depends on the season the Williams' want to simulate.
A lone, blue light bulb remains lit constantly, to simulate moonlight and to help the canaries find a perch at night.
With this simulation, mating can begin on time, she said.
"A lot of breeders like to start on Valentine's Day," she said. "We start a little bit earlier than that."
"Canaries like to be on a schedule," Margaret Williams said.
She said the birds were doused with cold water every simulated winter but not each simulated summer.
"I want them to get finished with all that baby stuff." With breeding practices and special types of food, the Williams' control the color of the birds. The family often enters their birds in competitions.
"It's not good, really, to take birds to a show more than twice," Margaret Williams said. "It stresses them out. Then they won't lay for you."
The Williams' said they would take their birds this year to a national competition in New Orleans. There, they could win the canary-equivalent of an Olympic gold medal. They even could have one of their birds classified as the best in the country.
After Thanksgiving, Heartland Canary and Finch Club, a group that the Williams' helped form, will conduct its first big competition. It will take place at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
Competition season begins in October, after which the Williams may attend one contest a week, they said.