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University Daily Kansan / Thursday. October 25, 1990
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Campbell-Cline speaks at Topeka rally
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Independent gubernatorial candidate Christina Campbell-Chinea made a rare campaign appearance in northeast Arkansas to bipartisan political rally at the Statehouse.
The rally, sponsored by Southwestern Bell, featured most of the candidates for statewide offices, including Republican gubernatorial candidate Gov. Mike Hayden and a spokesperson for his Democratic opponent, Kansas Treasurer Joan Finney
About 1,000 people, mostly state employees, attended the rally, which included a high school marching band, balloons, banners and political stumping.
Each candidate spoke to the audience for
about five minutes.
"As an independent person, the media is not covering me although I have been campaigning out on the street every day for almost five months." she said.
Campbell-Cline, who was making her first campaign appearance in Topeka, told the people in the audience that they did not know what he said. But she media were not covering her campaign.
Campbell-Cline said that her extensive business and tax background as a certified public accountant qualified her to be governor.
She said taxes were the most important issue because they affected everyone.
"I'm going in a totally different direction than Mike or Finney in the fact that I think
She said that Kansans needed to unite behind a strong governor to push budget cuts.
we need to cut our budget back," she said.
"We must cut the budget by 10 percent," she said. "That would get us back to where we would not have a deficit. We are heading for the same way our federal government is."
Campbell Cline said that some people might have thought her plan was irresponsible.
"I'm a CPA," she said. "I'm an auditor. I did not ever audit a corporation where I did not find over 10 percent in waste and inefficiency in bureaucracy. We can cut 10 percent and not reduce any of the bottom-line services."
Campbell-Cline said that tax relief was necessary to keep small businesses from failing but that both Finney's and Hayden's tax-relief plans would take too long.
"They will be bankrupt by that time," she said. "What we need to do is get a direct tax credit for these people, for the small businesses, for the elderly who are losing their homes, and get it for them on their tax returns."
She said a vote for Finney or Hayden would be a vote for higher taxes.
Mark Schmeller, who represented Finney at the rally, said a vote for Finney would be a victory.
He told the crowd that state spending had increased 40 percent during the Hayden campaign.
one's earnings had gone up 40 percent.
"If it hasn't, then the state is spending your money faster than you can earn it," he said.
money faster than you can earn it," he said. Hayden said that he had been governor through some hard times but that the state had fared well.
"The state has improved financially in the past four years, better than it has in no other country."
He said his plan to finance property tax relief by raising the state's sales tax 1 cent would lower real-estate taxes 25 percent for businesses and 11 percent for homeowners.
"It makes sense to shift the tax burden to sales tax," he said. "It makes a lot of sense."
See related story p. 5
Police crack down on traffic violations involving bicyclists
Bv Debbie Mvers
Kansan staff writer
Mariann Lacey was riding a bicycle to Watkins Scholarship Hall on Laeie Lane about a t.m. 29 when she received her diploma in her car and asked her to sto
Lacey, St. Louis sophomore, said the officer gave her a $15 ticket for not having a light on her bicycle.
"I said 'Are you serious?' because I had no previous knowledge of this." Lacey said. "He said 'Yes, because we're really enforcing the bicycle laws this year.' He really stressed 'this year.'"
LJ. John Mullens of KU police said that officers had observed a significant number of accidents and traffic violations and had received complaints of near accidents involving bicycles since the semester started.
Today KU police would send a few patrol officers out to do nothing but ticket bicyclists who violated traffic laws. he said.
Mulens said that KU police received three or four bicycle complaints a week.
"B basically, what we'll do is put people out on foot, set them up in areas where we know there a lot of bicycle traffic." Mullens said. "We'll set them up at intersections where we get the most complaints."
Burdel Welsh, KU police spokesperson, said bicyclists must obey the same traffic laws as motor vehicle operators, including stopping at stop signs, signaling turns, obeying speed limits, changing lanes properly, staying in the proper lane and using headlights after dark.
He said that around the end of
September there had been several accidents, including a few in which bicyclists had flown over the hoods of cars and one in which a girl was hit by a bus after she illegally passed it on the right.
Mullens said that four of the most serious accidents on campus in the last five years involved bicycles in broad daylight.
Bicyclists hit pedestrians in three of those accidents. In the other accident, two bicyclists collided head on, and they both had to be hospitalized.
He said that pedestrians hit by bicycles could be injured more seriously than pedestrians hit by cars.
"When you absorb all of that energy in that small of an area, it can do some tremendous damage." Mullens said.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that about four students were treated at Watkins each week for injuries suffered from bicycle accidents.
About 90 percent of injuries sustained in bicycle accidents occur because the bicycle rider misjudges the speed or falls in loose gravel, Yockey said.
He said Watkins seldom treated students who were hit by bicycles.
"I can't remember the last time we treated a student hit by a bicycle because it's usually such a minor injury." Vockey said.
He said some students were injured in bicycle accidents because they hit cars.
"And the bicycle rider always comes up a loser in that encounter," Yockey said.
Letter lessons
Millie Puris, a bulk mail technical at the main post office, 645 Vermont St., explains the mail sorting system to Lee Wilson's
Deerfield Elementary School first grade class. First graders from Deerfield toured the post office yesterday as part of a field trip.
Computer Center takes suggestions
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Computers in the KU chemistry laboratory took too long to print umushander Sampath's master's project. So Sampath, Lawrence graduate of MIT, and other computer scientists use the more powerful computers at the Computer Services Facility.
But the computer center lacked ChemDraw, the software he needed.
Yesterday, Sampath attended a forum to complain about the center. He asked center officials to purchase laptops used by 40 to 50 students on campus.
To his surprise, they agreed.
Herb Harris, assistant director of user services, said the center probably would purchase the program. Center officials try to meet student needs he may have whenever they know that students must speak. But the students must speak up.
"Students have a lot of power if they just organize themselves," he said. "Just grousing around and planning is not going to get any done."
Yesterdays' forum, which was attended by three students, was an unusual one. The students wanted from the center. Harris said it was unfortunate that more students had not expressed their needs to the center.
For example, students seem concerned about the availability of microcomputers, Harris said, and they frequently express that concern verbally and through the center's suggestion box.
General-use computer labs frequently are crowded, and some of them are difficult to use because they are in buildings that close at 10 p.m. Harris said. The problem is worse when the monitor and at the end of the semester.
"There's a lot of unhappy people there," Harris said, "because they
're under stress and because they have to sit and wait and waste time when they don't have a lot of time to waste.'
But no one came to the forum to ask for more computers.
Student complaints at the forum would have made the center more likely to expand services, Harris said.
New general use labs are a possibility, he said. The center is considering adding labs and has found two possible locations. But because of the lack of money, the likelihood of new laboratories is unclear.
Stressed students have choices for relief from midterm anxiety
Kansan staff writer
By Courtney Eblen
Not long ago, Eva Cook vomited nearly every night before she took a test or even a quiz.
Although Cook, Olathe senior, knew she was prepared for each test, her hands shook so much she barely could write her answers.
Martha DeMond, Leawood senior,
recalled one instance when stress got
the best of her.
"I had three tests in one day," she said. "I was just brain dead going into the third, and I so answered what I could and then I wrote, 'This is the third test I've had today, and I can't even make anything up.'"
Cook and DeMond have a combination of test anxiety and stress, a
Cook and DeMond are enrolled in Allan Press' stress management class in the department of social welfare. Both said that they took the class to fulfill graduation requirements but that relaxation techniques they had learned in the class, such as meditation, were helpful.
condition faced by many KU students, especially during midterms. But while midterms are winding down, the stress has not gone away.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Charles Yockey Center, said the majority of illness Watkins was stress-related, usually carried by students trying to do too much.
Press said his course explained the sources of stress and ways to control
it. The course also recommends ways to manage time effectively.
But it is not a counseling service,
Press said. And like almost every KU
course, the class has a number of
tests.
"The worst thing they can do is waste time by worrying and studying ineffectively." Press said. "Rather than spending a lot of time and energy replaying things they could have done weeks before, they could prioritize what little time they have left."
There are several offices on campus that offer stress-management assistance. Among them are the University Counseling Center in Bailey Hall, the Mental Health Clinic at Wakkins and the Wellness Center
in Robinson Center.
Yockey said most people under stress suffered from a lack of sleep. Others develop more nagging illnesses.
Beginning in September, students began coming to Watkins with upper-respiratory infections, which they contracted because their weary immune systems could no longer defend against illness. Yockey said.
Ulecers and diarrhea also are trigged by stress. In addition, headaches, hives and chest pains can develop.
"The more stress you are under, the more sleep you need," Yockey said. Students often resort to caffeine to stay awake.
"We have people come down here
But stress can manifest itself after more harrowing circumstances. Press said people could suffer a form of depression, which could haunt them for years.
with a pulse rate of 180 because of lack of sleep and too much caffeine," he said.
Students who have stayed up days in a row sometimes become so tired that they collage. Yockey said.
On Tuesday, a semitrailer tried to make a right turn around Cindi Routh's car. The truck turned too sharply, and its rear tires plowed into the driver-side door of Routh's car, drawing it a few feet.
"I thought I was going to die," Routh recalled. "It was like slow motion. I kept thinking, 'I can't get
out, I can't get out. '
Unhurt, Routh climbed out the passenger-side door. But she could not stop shaking.
Routh, a Lawrence senior, had a test the next morning in *Press* class. Despite trying numerous relaxation techniques, she could not force herself to study because of adrenaline-induced flashbacks.
Routh took the test the next morning and got a B, lower than her usual. A average, she said
Routh said that her life had returned to normal but that the experience taught her an important lesson.
"It made me realize how close we always are to dying," she said. "I won't ever forget it."