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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 10, 1990
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Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
What was that address again?
Allen Pickert, Atlanta senior, left, consults a map to determine the ward and precinct in which to register Denise Mead, Lawrence junior, for the Nov. 6 election. Voter registration tables will be set up from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until Friday in the Kansas and
Burge unions and, if weather permits, in front of Wescoe Hall. Associated Students of Kansas hopes to register 10,002 students this week on campus. Students also may register at the county clerk's office, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
Priddle bashes Finney's Margin plan
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joan Finney's plan to finance the third year of the Margin of Excellence with state gaming revenues would close two programs at the University of Kansas, said Harland Priddie, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor.
Finney's proposal would endanger
state financing for KU biogenetic and
core-aided engineering
research, said Priddie, who visit
the university's papers and radio
stations yesterday.
The two KU programs are financed through state gaming revenues. For fiscal 1998, the Higuchi Bioscience Center received $898,978, and the Center of Excellence in Computer Aided Systems Engineering received
$37,500 from the revenues.
State gaming revenues also finance research programs at Kansas State University, Wichita State University and Pittsburg State University.
"We should not sacrifice an excellent program with an unrealistic proposal!" Pridle said.
Finney's proposal would refinance the Margin through state gaming
monies, including revenues collected from the Kansas Lottery and the Woodlands Racetrack in Kansas City, Kan.
The Margin was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
Pranks at Blake spur SenEx talks
By Yvonne Guzman Kansan staff writer
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday discussed complaints about students tampering with equipment after the building closes at night.
Staff members researching late at night in Blake have complained about disruptive students staying in the building later than it is supposed to be open, said Mohamed El-Hodiri, SenEx member.
A primary concern is an elevator which frequently is out of order in the morning, he said. Some staff members said they thought that the elevator did not work because students were at night in an attempt to break it.
Robert Glass, a research assistant who works in Blake, said he heard four students talking about how long it takes to climb an overhanging jump up and down on top of it.
Problems with the elevator are only part of the evidence that students stay in Blake later than its hours allow, Glass said.
"The place is just trashed out by one o'clock in the morning," he said. "It gets nutsy at night."
Students who do not have permission to be in the building should leave by 10 p.m., said Lt. John Mullens of KU police.
Soft drink cans and other trash often are left out, Glass said. Janitors have found food stuck to the blackboards.
El-Hodiri said he was concerned about danger to women working late at night in the building because of the unauthorized late-night activity.
Frances Ingemann, SenEx chairperson, said she would discuss the matter with Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor.
Mullens said it was difficult to make sure that buildings like Blake were empty at night because of their large size.
People who are in the building when the doors are locked or who get in later with keys frequently prop the doors open for friends who want to study there, Mullens said.
Student Senate plans to convene at Oliver
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The setting may be different, but Student Senate will conduct business as usual tonight at its bi-monthly meeting.
Senate will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Oliver Hall cafeteria instead of its usual meeting place in the Kansas Union.
Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said that Senate decided to schedule its meeting in a place outside of the university. A member wanted students to see how student government was run.
"Sometimes students think that we are just people playing at people government," he said. "We are real students."
He said that he hoped students could put things they heard or read about Senate in a better context after they saw how Senate worked.
Warren said that he was not worried about students disrupting the meeting.
"They can always speak at open forum at the beginning of the meeting." he said.
Senate had been considering the idea of meeting in a different place on campus for a while. Warren said.
"We've talked about it in the past,' he said.
Senate might schedule another meeting in another location other than the Union later in the semester, he said.
Warren said that tonight Senate would listen to an appeal for a bill that would allocate $948 to the Air Force ROTC drill team for rifles, flag harnesses and office supplies. The institute voted last week in to pass the bill.
Residence hall will share Corbin's system until next month
He said he thought many students n Oliver would stop by the meeting o see what was happening in the cafeteria.
Frank Harwood, residence hall director at Oliver, said Senate had scheduled meeting in Olive instead and expressed support and enthusiasm among students.
Boiler to be installed at GSP
By Tracey Chalpin Kansan staff writer
A new boiler in Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall will be installed this month after a summer inspection found the building's old boiler to be out of date, a student housing official said.
Ken Stoner, director of housing,
said the old boiler had been removed.
The new boiler should be ready for
use by Nov. 1, the beginning of the
week. Mr. Stoner will run off of
Until then, GSP will run off of
Corbin Hall's boiler system.
Jim Modig, director of facilities planning, said, "Typically, a boiler takes six to eight weeks to manufacture, and then we install. We are compressing that."
Stoner said the GSP bolder project would cost about $150,000. The cost would include demolition of the old bolder materials for the new bolder and labor.
Modig said that the department contacted an on-call engineer hired by the University of Kansas after the boiler failed its annual inspection.
state.
Ken Leabella, manager at Zurich American Insurance, said the inspector requested Aug. 3 that the old boiler be condemned and removed because the non-economical riveted design was no longer used in the
The boiler installation was not part of scheduled Phase One or Phase Two renovation at Corbin, Stoner said.
Phase One, which is almost complete, includes more parking spaces and lighting in parking lots, improved handicap accessibility, utility improvements and construction of the new housing office.
The first step of Phase Two will concentrate on the outside appearance of the building, Stoner said. Interior improvements of student rooms will be included in the second step of the phase.
Phase Two of the renovation will begin after the boiler is installed in GSP. Stoner said.
KU offers low-cost breast exams
Watkins Memorial Health Center and The University of Kansas Medical Center are observing National Breast Cancer Awareness month by offering free or reduced-rate examinations by distributing pamphlets instructing women how to examine their breasts.
"I think it's very important that women know how to do their own exams," said William Buck, a gynecologist at Watkins Memorial Hospital in Salt Lake City, a good time to learn and get into the table of self-examination."
Candyce Waitley, nurse health educator at Watkins, said display posters and brochures about breast cancer would be placed around campus.
The University of Kansas Medical Center is offering free screen-
Breast cancer afflicts an estimated one out of every 10 women in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. According to the organization, women will develop breast cancer each year. Of those, 43,000 will die.
The cancer often begins as a painless lump or thickening, usually in the upper portion of the breast. It can spread to lymph nodes and eventually to other parts of the body through the bloodstream.
The American Cancer Society recommends that college-age women examine their breasts monthly and that they report any lumps, nipple discharges or other changes to their physicians imme-
mings and a reduced price on mammography at its Breast Cancer Screening Center, overay Wednesdays from 10am to 2pm in the collage, coordinator of the center.
Kansan staff writer
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The society also recommended that women ages 20 to 40 have their breasts examined every three years by a physician in addition to their monthly self-examinations. Guidelines were obtained through pamphlets distributed by the American Cancer Society.
Charles Konigsberg, Jr., director of health at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said the department's research showed that mortality rates could be reduced by at least 30 percent if women examined their breasts regularly.
For women under 35, the risk of breast cancer is minimal, but Szilayag said it was a good idea for women to get in the habit of examining their breasts beginning in their teen years.
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