Wichita sponsor accuses KU of 'blacklisting'WSU
Staff Reporter
By BARBARA JENSEN
State Rep. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita,
said yesterday that the University of
Kansas Athletic Corporation had blacklisted
Wichita State University from scheduling
football and basketball games with KU in
1969 and 1974.
Meacham is a sponsor of a bill in the Kansas House that would require KU and Kansas State University men's and women's basketball teams to play WSU teams once a year. The House sent the bill back to committee Tuesday.
Meacham said an editorial appeared in the Wichita Beacon in 1989 quoting minutes from a KUAC meeting in which a policy was adopted that prevented KU from scheduling games withWSU. He said the policy was reaffirmed at a KUAC meeting Oct. 9, 1974.
--one minutes said, "Mr. Walker said he had received several impressions about the possibility of scheduling Wichita State University for both football and basketball. The board expressed no interest in adding another football schedule. No formal action was taken."
"I'd call that a blacklisting policy," he said.
"In both instances, a sentiment was expressed," Del Brinkman, chairman of the KUAC said yesterday. "They are neither binding nor official. There is nothing to prevent the athletic director from scheduling names with WSU.
ACCORDING TO Mike Kennedy, sports director for KAKE-TV, Wichita, the editorial quotes minutes from a Sept. 28, 1959 KUAC Meeting.
The editorial said, "11 was the unanimous sense of the board that since the University of Kansas represents and serves all of the people of the state of Kansas, it is unquestionable that it would pursue to purposely undertake a course of conduct which would necessarily invite a choice between allegiance to KU and allegiance to another educational institution in the state of Kansas, and accordingly, that it was not supposed to be in athletics with the University of Wichita.
Debate swells again on death penalty bill
By TAMMY TIERNEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The original version of the bill provided for execution of persons convicted of first-degree murder and murder while committing a felony. Execution would have been induced by an intravenous injection of a lethal drug.
TOPEKA-Despite considerable dissention among its members, the Kansas House yesterday revived a bill that would reinstate the death penalty in Kansas.
The revised bill, the result of more than four hours of debate, will go before the Kansas House today for final approval. If the bill would move to the Kansas Senate.
However, in keeping with a campaign promise, Carlin said he would give the bill serious consideration if it passed the Legislature.
Gov. John Carlin said yesterday that he thought the bill "had a long way to go."
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee voted to substitute a 30-year mandatory prison sentence for first-degree and felony murder. That change was proposed by State Rep. Douglas Baker, D-Pittsburgh, capital punishment was morally wrong.
TODAY'S SWITCH came in the form of an amendment by House majority leader Robert Frey, R-Liberal, one of the authors of the original bill.
Frey's amendment changed the bill back to its original form. He said he was sure the bill would pass.
Frey told House members he was sorry to have to bring up the subject of the method of execution. Oklahoma and Texas have laws for execution by injection, although no person yet has been executed by that means, he said.
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Also included in Frey's amendment were provisions for a panel of a pharmacologist, a toxicologist and an anesthesiologist. The panel would help the Secretary of Corrections in deciding which drug to use in cases where there was no medical duty jurors opposed to the death penalty.
FREY'S AMENDMENT passed 80-44 on a roll-call vote.
Expressing disapproval of the amendment, Baker told representatives that if it was morally wrong for one person to kill another, then it was wrong for the state to kill.
"It's a common misconception of the people back home that capital punishment is a deterrent," he said. "But Missouri has the death penalty and their homicide rate is 45%. Oklahoma and Oklahoma have capital punishment and their homicide rates are $1\frac{1}{2}$ times the rate in Kansas."
"If our rate is lower, why do we need the death penalty?"
Baker also said it cost more to execute a convict than to incarcerate him for 35 years. He said the public would receive the same sentence, he added, as sentenced to life imprisonment or executed.
Sobach said the death penalty did not increase the safety of the public and did not insure a "swift and certain death for convicts."
ALSO SPEAKING against the armenment was State Rep John Solobh, D-Lake City.
"The only thing we can be sure of with this bill is it bt some time the wrong person will be charged."
Before giving the bill tentative approval, House members voted down amendments that required death by injection to be carried out in public; to provide for public hanging as the method of execution and to execute by non-public hanging.
"It was also the unanimous sense of the board that, for the same reason, it was desirable to avoid scheduling football games with teams which already customarily play the University of Wichita or nationally or internationally in their opponent of the University of Wichita."
MINUTES FROM THE 1974 KUAC meeting stated that, Clyde Walker, former KU athletic director, said the football program was completely scheduled through 1982 and the basketball schedules were completed through the 1975-76 season.
Mike Harper, student body president and KUAC board member, said he saw nothing wrong with KU playing WSU, but he thought it should not be involved in scheduling decisions.
“IF THEY DON'T have anything better to do in the Legislature, I'd be glad to call Mechanch and give him a list of about 50 tins I'd like to see done.” he said.
Brinkman said KUAC had no official policy concerning scheduling with WSU.
"If the fans and public interest here wanted KU to play WSU, we probably would play them. But the legislature is trying to prevent it. The state here just are not intertwined," he said.
The KU women's basketball team already
plays regularly with WSU
Proposals similar to Meacham's bill have been submitted to the Legislature yearly for review.
"I see the bill as correcting a grave in justice," Meacham said. "I'm not trying to demure the traditions and pride of KU and the University." She said she a certain degree of equality for WSU."
Tenacious Tiger
Ed Harolan, Missouri senior, member of the Antlers, screams and
gestures at the KU team last night at Heaven's Center in Columbia. The Antlers are an organized group of the generally crowd crowd.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Thursday, February 8, 1979
Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89. No. 90
Antelope play again in Kansas
Staff Reporter
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Martino spoke last night to about 20 persons at the Museum of Natural History as part of a Wednesday evening lecture series.
Satellites, orbited 570 miles above the earth, played a crucial role in the release of pronghorn antelope in Kansas last week, according to Edward Martinko, director of the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program.
His topic focused on earth-bound problems being tackled by aerial and satellite photography, which is often referred to as remote sensing.
Lab studies infant awareness
By RON BAIN
Staff Reporter
A gurgling baby sits in a dark, curtained booth. A picture of a woman's face appears on a screen inside the booth, and the reflection is caught by the reflections of the screen shining in them.
Hidden observers simultaneously press separate switches, and a droning voice is heard.
"Baa. Baa. Baa? Baa? Baa," says a flab recorded voice. The monosyllabic is
varied only in pitch, rising occasionally in a high, questioning intonation.
The baby's eyes are wide in fascination for a moment, but then she looks away.
The baby, a subject in a human development experiment designed by Joe Sullivan, Lawrence graduate student, begins to squirm and make sour
"DO YOU WANT to take a break?" Sullivan asks, turning on the lights
hair and glasses, is a researcher at the Infant Study Center in Haworth Hall.
Sullivan, a bearded man with curly
The experiments he is conducting are designed to determine whether two-month old babies can discriminate sounds that are pitched like questions.
Sullivan's project is part of a research program conducted at the center to investigate how and when children develop their language capabilities.
Sullivan's experiments with two-month
Joe Sullivan, Lawrence graduate student, monitors a baby's reactions to different sight and sound patterns for data in a
Experimental baby
human development experiment. The experiment is an attempt to determine how and when children develop their language
old babies are part of the preliminary research being done in the infant study, which could take several years to complete. he said.
Another researcher working on language research at the center, Ed Gaddis, Lawrence graduate student, said the research was an attempt to answer
"How much can babies understand about language before they start talking?" he said.
ACCORDING TO Sullivan, children may be receptive to language long before they speak their first words.
"It seems like a big jump. But actually, if you can look at what they were hearing and what they were processing and what they were learning about the language just by hearing it, then that would make a difference," he said, afterward." he said.
Sullivan uses recordings of computer-generated syllables and of human voices speaking meaningless syllables to test children's discrimination abilities.
While an infant is looking at the female face on the screen in the darkened booth, the sounds are played and an observer records how long the child watches the image. When the child looks away from the screen, the recording is turned off.
AS THE CHILD gets used to hearing the repeated syllables, he becomes habituated to the sound and loses his original interest, according to Sullivan.
If the baby's interest is renewed when the pitch of the sound is varied, Sullivan said, then he would be showing signs of discriminating between differently oriented sounds.
However, babies sometimes don't respond to the experiment because they are in bad moods or because they are not interested, he said.
"Infants are hard to work with," he said. "They're just not predictable."
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Pronghorn antelope, abundant in Kansas before cultivation of crops destroyed its rangeland habitat, have been brought back to the state in large numbers in the past two
In the past month, 350 antelope have been rounded up in Wyoming and transported to Kansas by the state Forestry, Fish and Wildlife Department, which released in four different areas of the state.
Photographs taken of Kansas by two Landast satellites were used to determine areas of the state where rangeliad was not converted into cropland, providing the most stable habitats for the antelope, Martinko said.
MARTINIKO SAID satellite photography had been used well by the state commission,
When satellite photographs showed that central pivot irrigation systems were devouring the sandscape prairie in southwestern Kansas, game officials knew the endangered lesser prairie chicken faced the loss of its habitat.
Afraid that this loss could cause the extinction of the lesser prairie chicken, a rare bird, in Kansas, the commission now is seeking a new plan to preserve as sandy prairie, he said.
Remote sensing also has been used to spot water and air pollution. Martino said.
Landsat photos were used as evidence in a lawsuit claiming crops were damaged by a polluting power plant in southeast Kansas, he said.
AND A MYSTERY concerning rainy weather on the shore across Lake Michigan from Chicago was solved when Landstat photographs were examined. Plumes of air pollution, blowing from Chicago across the shore, were forming clouds over the opposite shore.
One of the most controversial uses of remote sensing has been to determine the
replacement of prime agricultural land by urban development. Martino said.
The first Landsat satellite was sent into orbit in 1972. Since then, two others have been launched, one in 1975 and another in 1980. The first Landsat stopped operating last year.
In Platte County, Mo., aerial photographs from the past six years were compared to determine the amount of development that has been near Kansas City International Airport.
But, Martino said, technology used by the military is highly classified.
Martino said the Platte County planning commission, dismayed by the amount of farmland that had been lost, re-zoneed the area to prevent further development.
In 1891, a fourth satellite will be launched. It will be more advanced, providing a better image of the land area it photographs, Martino said.
Advances being made now in remote sensing are duplicating inventions already used by humans.
"We're inventing with federal funds what they have already invented with federal funds. It's a duplication of effort, but I don't see any way it's going to change."
Photographs taken by high-altitude military aircraft flying at 60,000 to 80,000 feet supposedly can distinguish license plate numbers on cars, he said.
Each of the Landstant satellites, recording images continuously, passes over Lawrence
A COMMUNICATIONS satellite can transmit the records recorded by a Landsat satellite to any location on earth. But the connection to the communications satellite
He said the only station in the United States that processed the information recorded by the satellites was the Goddard Space Center in Maryland.
Undertakers offering discount funeral rates
By LESLIE GUILD
Staff Reporter
If the rising cost of living is getting you down, relax. The cost of death, to some, is stable, according to Max Steele, president of Wornal Home! Home, Kansas City, Mo.
Steele offers discount rates on funerals to persons who pay dues to become members of the Greater Kansas City Memorial Society. However, at least one Lawrence funeral director offers prices lower than Steele's.
Siegle said he was able to set discount rates because of the volume of business the company has.
had not raised his prices to members since 1975.
The society, Steele said, has been in operation in Kansas City since 1962 and is affiliated with the Continental Memorial Hospital. The members chose his prices after open bidding.
STEELE SAID he offered services for simple cremation to members for $255-$75 less than the non-member cost of $400. He said he offered members a minimal chapel service with a burial, which would cost non-members $725, for $615.
Steele said a simple cremation included pickup of the body in the Kansas City area, a
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