THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL 100, NO.4 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY
AUG. 30,1989
Suspicious thefts could be related
By Rich Cornell
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Kansan staff writer
Lawrence police are investigating two scams from last week that may be related, a police spokesman said yesterday.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said the cases involved two suspects. One suspect distracted the victim while the other made the theft.
"I'ts the typical type scam where they work in pairs." he said.
Mulvenon said each victim's similar descriptions of the suspect led police to believe the
two crimes were linked
The first theft happened Aug. 22 at the Cross Reference Bookstore, 2449 Iowa St. Marita Gribble, owner of the bookstore, told police that a man and woman entered the store at 5:40 p.m. The man badgered her, asking her to help the woman find a book.
Gribble helped the woman for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, the man went behind the store's desk. Gribble found him there a little after 6 p.m., and the couple left the store.
Gribble did not notice anything missing until Friday when she realized that $915 was gone. She reported the theft to the police.
Gribble said she was sure that the money was taken by the couple because she checked her records and nothing else was wrong.
The second theft happened Sunday. Eva Schwartz, 85, told Lawrence police that a man and a woman entered her home at 1541 Massachusetts St. after telling her they were inspectors for the cleaning service she used.
"That was the only thing suspicious that occurred the Gribble said. 'They have to be in charge.'"
After entering the home, the man complained about not feeling well and went into the bathroom, according to police records.
Schwartz and the woman stayed in the living room, waiting half an hour. When the man returned, the two left.
Schwartz then realized she had left her purse on the kitchen counter. She discovered it opened with $65 missing.
Police are investigating the two cases and are trying to find the suspects, Mulvenon said. The suspect's knowledge of Schwartz's cleaning service indicates that the couple is from Lawrence, he said.
However, Mulvenon said Schwartz's poor vision decreased the reliability of her description.
Students of Ballet Intermediate I imitate the movements of their instructor, Patrick Suzeau.
Hayden's campaign examined Legislator seeks special counsel
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - A legislator said yesterday that the Legislature should create an independent prosecutor's office to investigate allegedly illegal contributions to Gov. Mike Hayden's 1986 campaign.
Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood, said he and Rep. J.C. Long, R-Harper, would introduce legislation in 1990 to create an independent counsel's office in Kansas, modeled after federal legislation. Under the plan, the state Court of Appeals would appoint the counsel to investigate possible wrongdoing by executive and legislative branch officials.
The proposal also would delay the investigation until the 1900 Legislature creates the office. The Legislature convenes in January.
Patrick publicly questioned whether Attorney General Robert Stephan could conduct a thorough, impartial investigation of the contributions, made by former Lt. Gov. Dave Owen, a prominent Republican fundraiser. Stephan said his office had not been able to "convey" later this week so that witnesses can be subpoenaed and put under oath.
In addition, Patrick attempted to tie Stephan and several other promi-
See HAYDEN. n. 8
By Lisa Moss
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
K. W. Cates, Overland Park senior, wishes he could just roll out bed, go downstairs and eat a meal at Templin Hall. But he can't.
“In consolidation, we are looking at extending services,” she said. “We would like to have stations that each serve a different type of food. We would like more menu variety.”
This fall, Templin residents are being served meals at Lewis Hall because of the first phase of consolidating residence hall food services, said Peggy Smith, associate director of student housing for food service.
Most schools have consolidated food services, said Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing. Although the next phase in the consolidation plan is to expand Lewis' cafeteria, the housing department does not have plans to consolidate all the housing food services.
Any other consolidation plans would happen several years in the future, Stoner said.
Smith said that Lewis was an ideal location for changes, and the large dining room could accommodate more serving lines in the future.
"There has been a national trend that includes offering extended hours and offering more variety in terms of
menu." Smith said
It is not possible to offer options like this in all eight residence halls, Smith said. Because residents may use any residence hall cafeteria, the improved Lewis facilities can be used by other residents.
Joel Schuckman, Topeka junior and Templin resident, said the only reason he was upset was because he was not told about the change when he decided last semester to live in Templin this year.
"The walk is no big deal," Schuckman said. "It is right across the street."
Stephen Tucker, Derby sophomore, said he had no problem eating in the cafeteria of an all women's residence hall.
Smith said that a continental breakfast still would be served at Templin from 6:30 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday.
She said the residence hall staff of Templin and Lewis were excited about the meal change.
"It is nice to live in an all girls dorm, but this way we get to meet guys too," Kirkland said.
"They want interactive programming. It is a way to meet new people," Smith said.
Cindy Kirkland, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, said she liked meeting different people.
It's that add-drop time of the year
By Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
The hall was buzzing with activity. By 10:30 a.m. yesterday, the line already stretched around the corner and down the hall.
The students were not waiting in line for concert tickets or to see a movie, but were
Edith Guffey, assistant director of student records and registration manager, said she expected many students to go through the add-drop process at the enrollment center in Strong Hall during the next nine days. Guffey said exact counts were not taken on the number of students who go through add-drop every semester.
"We really don't know how many will add-drop, but I expect that we will be busy the entire time," she said. "We have 10 terminals going."
The period to add a class begin yesterday and will continue through Sept. 8. Guffey said the enrollment center would be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 6 to 10 p.m. during the period.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said many required courses in communications, English, psychology and Western Civilization were already closed and would be difficult for students to add.
"We're just about at capacity in every department. It's very difficult to make adjustments," Shulenburger said.
"We will try to accommodate the students by adding some additional sections and by making classes bigger," he said. "We'll do everything we can to keep a student's graduation on date." However, Shulenburger said freshman and sophomores should be open-minded about the classes they were willing to take to fulfill requirements.
"We always have a pattern of having more freshmen and sophomores closed out than juniors and seniors because of the enrollment schedule," he said. "I'd ask the freshmen and sophomores to be willing to accept what's available."
Robin Holladay, office assistant in the department of communication studies, said professors were given two to three closed-class openers to distribute to each class. Students who want to add a communications class should go to the class and explain the situation to the professor, Holladay said.
"Nine times out of 10 it works unless the room is filled to capacity with people sitting everywhere," she said. "It has always been up to faculty discretion."
Albert Cook, undergraduate coordinator for
See ADD-DROP, p. 6
The developments came as the city of Medellin was hit by seven bombs.
A plea for peace amid Colombia's war
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — The father of three purported drug barons begged the government yesterday to end its fierce anti-narcotics drive and negotiate peace, as Colombia moved to extradite a reputed drug finance chief to the United States.
► See related story p. 8
Police also said last night they frustrated a planned rocket attack on a state-owned distillery there. Four imported, high-powered rockets were found aimed at an alcohol storage tank outside the Licores de Antioquia plant in Medellin, a police snorkelmen said.
Eduardo Martinez Romero, identified as a major financial man for the Medellin cocaine cartel, was told by Colombian authorities Tuesday they plan to hand him over to the United States for trial, Colombian television said.
According to last night's report by the private syndicated news program NoHicoiro 24 Horas, Martinez was told that he was dressed up the day of plans to extradite him.
The Medellin cartel is the world's
Local firm wants to implement campus recycling
By Chris Evans
Kapen staff writer
Kansan staff writer
largest cocaine trafficking organization. Martinez is wanted by a federal court in Atlanta on charges related to a $1.2 billion drug money-laundering operation.
The owners of River City Recycling Co. said they had been trying to get a program of recycling paper and aluminum started at the University of Kansas, but could not because of a lack of University initiative.
However, Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said that he was interested in such a program, but that he knew little about it because of a lack of initiative on the company's part.
Both sides said that they thought it was time to get together.
"It would tickle me to death to talk to these people." Anderson said. "If we can get together and come to some sort of agreement, we'll put it into place as quickly as possible."
It was the first word that the United States had completed extradition paperwork and made a formal request for Martinez, a 35-year-old economist. He was the first of at least four extraditable suspects to be caught up in a sweep aimed at drug traffickers.
Mark Akin, co-owner of River City Recycling, a Lawrence company that recycles glass, paper, aluminum and other metals, said that he had been trying to instigate a program of recycling since March, but that he had no success.
"I contacted all over the University to find out where to do recycles." Akin said. "They just ignored
Deciding whether to recycle was a part of his job. Endacott said yes.
Akin said that he sent a rough-draft contract to Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping, in May. Since then, he had received no response.
us. After that, I just said, 'We'll find some other way.' "
"I'd be my boss' boss," he said.
"Or maybe my boss."
Endacott's boss is Anderson. Anderson said that he was contacted by someone from River City Recycle and asked him to make a program to discuss a possible program.
The meeting never took place. Yesterday, Akin and Anderson cited different times for when the August meeting had been scheduled.
Since the scheduling mix-up, neither side has made any effort to contact the other. Anderson, however, said that the issue was not dead.
"I'm very anxious to hear what they have to say." he said.
Anderson said that KU officials had been looking into recycling for several years but that many factors must be considered before a program could be implemented.
"How do you take 27,000 people, like you have on the hill here, and say 'We want cans here, paper here, etc.'?" he said.
Anderson said that students would throw cans, paper and other trash in any container they saw, rather than throwing products were to go in each container.
"They just come by and pitch it in," he said. "Who separates it after that? Should state labor be used for that?"
up containers for recycling aluminum cans and paper in Wescoe Hall last semester.
Brian Schwegmann, member of Environs, a student environmental awareness group, said that no state labor, or any sort of serious labor would be necessary. None was needed, he said, when Environs set
"We just marked containers and left them alone," he said. "We came back at the end of the day and the materials were not mixed. People put aluminum in the aluminium bins and paper in the paper bins. People love it. It's like basketball."
"If people can't do that, then there's something seriously wrong with our educational system," Schwegmann said.
Akin said he and his partners were not giving up on starting a campwide system similar to the one that was in Wescos.
Both the recyclers and Schwegmann said they felt that KU students were responsible enough to make a recycling program work, even if it meant the students would have to go out of their way to read the writing on a trash can before throwing refuse into it.
Meanwhile, Fabio Ochoa Restrepo,
the father of three reputed cocaine
kingpins, appealed in an open letter
to President Virgilio Barco to bury
the hatchet and agree to talk to the
drug barons.
The Martinez case is seen as a test of Colombia's resolve to press its attack on drug dealers. They have cowed the courts in this South American country through assassinations, threats and bribes.
"Let there be dialogue, let there be peace, let's have forgiveness, let's carry out a kind of erasing and clean slate." Ochos Restrorene wrote.
The letter was published on Tuesday in a Sogota newspaper.
In Washington, Justice Minister Monica de Greif reiterated the Barco government's refusal to negotiate with drug traffickers, who are blamed for the assassination Aug. 18 of Sen. Carlos Galan, a leading member of the credible The躺着 to the crackdown or drug trafficking.
Colombia's police intelligence chief said Tuesday that among the more than 11,000 people arrested in
See COLOMBIA. p. 6