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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 2, 1990
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You lead, I'll follow
Two students walk, as if playing follow-the-leader, in the walkway that connects Malott and Haworth halls.
Brian T. SchoemiKANSAN
Lawrence recycling motor oil
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Oil once again has become a buzzword in the United States.
Since Saddam Hussein sent his army into Kuwait, the price of oil has gone up steadily. U.S. citizens have been encouraged to conserve oil.
In Lawrence, used motor oil can be recycled. MORK, the Mobile Oil Recycling Kart, is at Earth Bound Sites in Lawrence every weekend, said Pat Marvin, city recycling coordinator.
Lawrence's EarthBound program consists of drop-off sites for grass, leaves, motor oil and car batteries. People can drop off their recyclables at Centennial Park, Sixth and Iowa streets, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Perry Park, 12th Street and Monterey Way, from 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Marvin said that 1.470 gallons of oil had been recycled since the city began collecting used motor oil in June.
"When we started recycling oil in the city garage, it became obvious that people wanted that service, and they wanted it available on weekends," she said. "Right now we're looking for a good winter site."
The used motor oil is picked up by Deffenbaugh Industries of Kansas City, Mo. It is used as fuel or refined into renewed motor oil, she said.
"I like to recycle oil because it is valuable as a fuel," Marvin said. "It also calls attention to the fact that you shouldn't just pour oil into your waterways and our soil in one year than the Exxon Valdez ever spilled."
MORK is a small, red trailer with two 55-litron red barrels attached to it. Plastic hoses have been attached to the barrels so they can be emptied, and mesh screens have been built down the gaps of the barrels to filter mat debris.
Tony Domingo, employee at the Lawrence city garage, helped build the motor oil cart out of spare parts.
"There are no new parts in this thing," he said. "It's totally recycled Everything that we used to make were things we had lying around."
Resolution calls for group to address defense policy
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
An attempt by the KU administration to address the ROTC issue at the national level has been praised as a positive move by some, but some students have expressed concern about losing sight of the local problem.
Concancion Gene A. Budig signed a University Council Resolution on Saturday that calls for the establishment of a committee at KU to address a Department of Defense policy that says homosexuality is incompatible with
The Department of Defense policy conflicts with KU's antidiscrimination policy.
The committee described in the resolution would consist of faculty and student representatives who would work with other universities that have ROTC programs and two national educational institutions to resolve the issues of Delphi.
The committee would also work directly with the Defense Department.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said he hoped the group would have five to seven members.
the committees should be small enough for members to work intensively, yet big enough to represent the KU
Aimee Hall, student body vice president, said she thought the committee would help the University effect-
"I think this is a step in the right direction," Hall said. She said the issue should not be ignored locally, and because the University was in conflict with a national policy, the committee would help KU.
tively address the ROTC issue
Hall said the resolution was probably more appropriate than an earlier University Senate resolution, which would have barred future KU undergraduates from applying toward KU's 12 hour minimum graduation requirement.
"And a lot of faculty viewed it as a threat to their academic freedom." Holl said.
The earlier resolution concentrated too much on the local level, she said.
academic freedom, truth source
David Wacker, a member of the KU American Civil Liberties Union, agreed that the committee sounded like a good way to help resolve the ROTC issue at KU.
"It's definitely a step in the right direction," he said. Wacker expressed some concern about the importance of the project, and he was worried.
The problem needs to be addressed on a local level he said. "There's no need for us to wait while they deal with the problem."
However, Wacker said he wondered how active the committee would be.
"Chancellor Budig forms a lot of committees." Wacker said. "And I've never seen much of what they actually do."
Leaders, administrators meet
Bv Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
Student leaders who met with administrators Sunday said it was a positive step, but not all of them were convinced that the meetings were a sign of action.
Administrators telephoned student leaders Saturday night to set up meetings for Sunday. The administrators listened to the concerns of each group in separate meetings.
Scott Manning, member of ACT UP, said he and five members from Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas met with Del Shankel, interim vice chancellor; David Hardy, assistant director of the organizations and activity center; Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life; and Amber Eversole, director of the organizations and activities.
"We presented them with a list of objectives," Manning said. "They didn't really respond right then." They were supposed to be responding, but they
"That is something that could be done immediately."
Mannue said. "That would be a sincere gesture."
Administrators discussed the on-campus boundaries for public protest, Eddie Lorenzo, KU American Civil Liberties Union member, said. ACLU members met with Hardy, Everson and Kaiser.
Manning said he was told at the meeting that the
GLSOK's objectives included a recommendation that Chancellor Gene A. Budg announcement that he supported
chancellor had said that further protests on his yard would be counter-productive.
Lorenzo said that the administrators took a divide-and-conquer approach during the meetings.
"I don't know what happened at the other meetings," he said. "I think they thought if they kept us separate we couldn't share information."
Lorenzo said that administrators might try to take away the legal right to protest, but that the ACLU would not negotiate.
nor because he had there could be potential for student arrests," he said. "If there is a boundary, I want to know
Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, said there had been student disruption in the policy or practice at his student department.
The policy regarding student demonstrations in the Student Handbook states, "Support of any cause by orderly means that do not disrupt the operation of the institution is permitted."
"However, any time a student violates the policy, they could be subject to arrest." Eversole said.
She said no voationism. Kristin Lange, member of Women's Student Union, said she would meet with two administrators and members of February Daughters. The administrators were Barbara Ballard, director of the women's resource center, and Frances Ingemann, chairperson of the linguistics department.
institution is permitted. She said no violations had been reported this fall.
Trafficway explanation legal, Stephan decides
Attorney general says county not required to address every outcome of referendum
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
Attorney General Bob Stephan issued an opinion yesterday stating that the explanation accompanying a plea to stay free of fiefway referendum ballot was legal.
Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence,
requested the opinion Sept. 18 on behalf of Tim Miller, University of Kansas assistant professor of relig
Douglas County voters will be asked in November to approve a $4 million bond issuance the county passed in 1985 to build a 14.1-mile trafficway which would loop around the city of Kansas Highway 10 to interstate 70.
Miller said he was not pleased with the explanation that would accompany the trafficway referendum because he thought both sides of the issue should be presented on the explanation.
But Stephen's opinion said that it would impose an oppressive burden on the state to require the county to address every possible argument or outcome of a referendum in an explanatory statement.
The opinion also said that because the state imposed no requirements upon an explanatory statement, the explanation as it deemed appropriate.
"This is a mockery of justice."
Miller said, "Since the law doesn't say you can't do it, it's OK. If someone wanted to sell cars on the ballot for that matter, they could use there is no law that says you can't."
Miller first issued a complaint at the Sept. 10 county commission meeting when the wording was presented to the public.
At the meeting Miller told commissioners that the wording would bias voters toward voting for the trafficway.
it is very misleading for you to say this will not create new taxes," he said. "The taxes were placed on the taxpayers in 1983 without asking them, which the Supreme Court found was illegal. The basic question is, Do we want to authorize $4 million of local expenditures?"
The case Miller was referring to. Blevins vs. Hiebert, was heard by the
Kansas Supreme Court in July
Dron Stole, the attorney who argued against the bond issuance, said that although the county was allowed to keep the bond, it must put up with the risk of a lawsuit because the county improperly used its home-rule authority.
Miller said that in addition to misleading the voters about new taxes, the referendum also was misleading because the station did not that to retire the bond early would cost taxpayers additional money.
If the trafficway is not passed the voters will have to pay $125,000 in property taxes for deaffensement, the cost of refiring bonds early.
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said defaulence would cost a person who owned a $50,000 home a one-time fee of $1.38. A person who owned a $75,000 home would pay $2.07.
Theersa Nuckolls, an assistant attorney general who helped draft the opinion, said that the opinion was written with the understanding that the referendum was a non-binding election and that there were no specific legal requirements for creating explanatory statements.
"Since advisory elections are not binding and are basically held to take the temperature of the public on an issue, there are no rules stating they have to show both sides," she said. "It is our understanding that if this election were to go down November, the county could go ahead with their plans anyway."
Nuckels said this issue was confusing to many people because in the Supreme Court decision both sides basically won.
"Even lawyers have problems with this because it's a special case," she said.
McKenzie said that although the referendum was legally non-binding, the county commissioners had to accept the decision of their 'owners' decision was on the referendum.
"Stephan's opinion confirmed what we believed was the law," he said. "We feel it's accurate and complete are pleased that he agreed with us."