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VOL. 101, NO. 17
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
TUPPERAY NS 46012
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990
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Campaign Kansas within $4 million of reaching its goal
Kansan staff writer
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By Chris Oster
With almost two years left in its five-year schedule, Campaign Kansas has closed to all candidates.
Jordan Haines, national campaign chairperson, announced yesterday that $173 million had been committed to the campaign, which began in May 1988.
The campaign will continue through June 1992
"Never before in the history of this University have commitments from its alumni and friends reached such an impressive level," Haines said.
John Scarffe, director of public relations for Campaign Kansas, said the target amount would not be increased as the campaign neared its goal.
The original goal of $150 million was increased in September 1989.
Campaign Kansas is a project of the
Kansas University Endowment Association to pay money for improvement of the university.
Searife said the association in no way attempts to establish academic priorities for schools.
The Endowment Association is an independent organization, separate from the Univer-
He said academic standards were left to the state and the chancellor
Certain goals were established at the campaign outset, and efforts were made to
Scarfie said 96 percent of the money donated to Campaign Kansas was donated with designations and limitations as to how the money was to be spent.
Goals of the campaign that have not been reached include unrestricted funds, various equipment needs, financing for the Lied Center, campanile renewal and expansion of
the Parrott Athletic Center
Unrestricted funds account for about 4 percent of the total campaign goals. Scarife said the unrestricted money was given to the campaign without having specific purposes attached. It is up to Chancellor Gene A. Budie to decide how to allocate the money
In the past, it has been used for student financial aid, merit scholarships, minority scholarships, graduate fellowships and various events and needs.
Window to KU
Jason Garcia, Lawrence Bus Company employee, washes the windows on one of the KU buses. Garcia said he washed the windows daily.
Jail has alternative
Program monitors inmates at homes
In an effort to alleviate overcrowding at the Douglas County jail, an alternative to imprisonment was pre-defined by the county commissioners yesterday.
Kansan staff writer
The program allows offenders to stay at their homes instead of being incarcerated at the jail. They will be monitored by random telephone calls, their breath will be analyzed by a breath analyzer if they have a crime history and then more accurate identification will be verified by a camera called Vistel.
The jail will soon begin using an electronic monitoring system for offenders on the work-release program.
Pat Murray, president of Telemonitoring Systems of Kansas in LaCrosse, said the camera was easy for offenders and authorities to use.
"This may sound like Big Brother is watching, but the offender would have privacy until he pushes a button on the Vistul to send his picture."
The camera and the breath analyzer will be attached to the telephone.
Betty Barlow, chairperson of the Douglas County Jail Committee, explained the benefits of the monitoring system to the commissioners.
"The system is unique because there is a human connection that will talk with the offender," he said. "That person will ask what happened, wave at the camera or something like that to make sure it is the offender."
By Elicia Hill
hours of the night, and if they ever did not answer their phone, authorities would be notified immediately," she said. "This program does not have any start-up costs and would cost seven to eight dollars a day."
Offenders would be called at all
George Heckman, chairperson of the Community Corrections Board, said the courts might be able to use as a step in the probation process.
"First, the offender would be on work-release, and then he would go on the computer monitoring system," he said. "The cost of the system could be placed on the offender as part of the court fees."
It costs $33 a day to house an offender at the jail, she said.
Barlow said, "Every morning they are let out to go to work and are in the public all day long. As long as no idea they have done anything."
Hannie Hicks, probation supervisor for Douglas County Corrections, said the system would be used only for traffic violations while intoxicated traffic violators.
County Commissioner Mike Amyx said he was concerned about the safety of the community by allowing an offender to stay outside of jail.
Mark Matese, director of the community corrections program, said that the system did not insure community safety but that offenders would be screened carefully to deter them. The program would be eligible for the program.
Cheney fires Air Force chief
Thirty-three states are using some kind of monitoring system for house arrest offenders according to a report from the National Institute of Justice.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Dick Cheney fired Gen. Mike Dugan as Air Force chief of staff yesterday after Dugan publicly commented on possible plans to unleash massive air raids on Iraq and target Iraq President Saddam Hussein personally.
Dugan's discussion of targets violated Pentagon regulations
The Associated Press
Dugan, in the top Air Force job only three months, said in a statement that he regretted "any embarrassment that my comments may have caused to the administration" and said that he be presently presenting his own views.
Cheney said that Dugan had violated Pentagon rules by discussing military targets and disclosing class
Douglas County judges will be asked to review the program Sept. 28.
Chevy lauded Dugan's long Air
Force career but said that he had no
sified information about the size of U.S. forces in the area.
"There are certain things we never talk about." Cheney said. "I was concerned about the lack of judgment" by Dugan in offering "wid-ranging speculation about decisions made by the president in the future."
He stressed that the Bush administration had refrained from publicly discussing possible military options to protect U.S. troops
and Iraq went to war, the Pentagon planned to unleash an air campaign designed to "decapitate" the Iraqi government. It also hastened his family and even his mistress.
The general said that until two weeks ago, U.S. target planners had assembled a conventional list of Iraqi targets which included Iraqi air defenses, airfields and warplanes, missile sites and other military installations. He said other targets were targeted on roads, railroads and perhaps domestic petroleum production facilities, but not the oil fields.
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future in the military.
"He will be retired," Cheney said. "Gen. Denau is a fine officer with an outstanding record of 32 years of service to the Air Force and to the nation. This was not a pleasant action for me to take but a necessary one."
Dugan's comments, reported Sunday by the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, were made during a trip to and from Saudi Arabia, where he visited deployed Air Force troops.
Dutran said that if the United States
"That's a nice list of targets, and I might be able to accept those, but that's not enough," Dugan said, adding that he developed a "better list" of high-value targets in Iraq that stressed the importance of attacking Saddam and his inner circle.
Health officials require immunizations
By Courtney Eblen
Students who have not proven to KU health officials that they have been immunized against measles may receive holds on their spring 1991 enrollment cards, said Jim Strobl, director of student health services at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Beginning today, Watkins will mail more than 1,500 letters to freshmen and sophomores who either have not turned in their proof of immunization or have not reported to Watkins for a measles-mumps-rubella shot.
Kansan staff writer
Although only two cases of measles have been reported — not confirmed
The letter will inform students that if they do not comply with the ruling by Sept. 28, they will receive holds on their enrollment cards. The ruling, instated in Fall 1989 to halt a meauses outbreak between Kansas and students who started school at the University of Kansas beginning in Fall 1989.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins.
to the Douglas County Health Department, local health officials are prepared to deal with more, said
Yockey diagnosed a possible measles case at KU on Thursday, the first this fall.
The student, a Topeka freshman, was sent home to Topeka following the diagnosis but will return to class this week. Yockey said. It probably took two weeks before blood tests reveal whether the student had the measles.
Each case that is confirmed has the potential to spread to outbreak proportions, he said.
As of Friday, 232 cases have been confirmed this year in Kansas — twice the number for the same time period last year.
Of those cases confirmed, one person has died.
On May 12, a 13-year-old Wauwatensee County boy died of pneumonic complications from the measles. He never had been immunized.
Although state law requires that each student be immunized, it is up to each school board to enforce the law.
Greg Crawford, director of public information for the Kansas Health
Department, said St. Mary's Academy, where the boy attended school, had other students who were not vaccinated.
Crawford said many parents previously had not allowed their children to be vaccinated because of religious beliefs.
crawford said that after the death,
St. Mary's Academy required all students to receive an MMR, and most parents complied.
Cindy Wood, an epidemiologist for the Kansas Health Department, said there probably were many other schools not enforcing the law.
Yokey said that since the immunization program began in 1958, it had undergone stages that had added confusion to the recent outbreak.
"We don't really know how many because it's their responsibility," she said. "We have to leave it up to the local school board."
Most people who were born before 1957 either already had had the disease, or had developed a natural immune response that do not need vaccinations. Yockey said.
An immunization program that
proved worthless was the "disease" vaccine used between 1963 and 1987. Since the measles virus had been transmitted to a vaccine, it lost its effectiveness.
The virus had been killed to avoid the possibility that an injection might give a patient the measles, Yockey said.
Those who received only one shot of live vaccine should not worry unless they come in direct contact with someone who has measles, polio or other cases, an MMR booster is required if the man had not already had it.
Students who received an injection between 1963 and 1967 and who have not had it updated need to do so, Yokkey said, because the vaccine was ineffective. The "live" vaccine used today was insulated in 1968
The immunization program now endorsed by the Kansas Health Department says children should receive their first MMR shot between 12 and 15 months of age and a second one before they enter kindergarten.
SES offers free tutors in 5 halls
English,math offered
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
This semester, Supportive Educational Services will offer free tutoring in math and English to students in five residence halls.
Milton Scott, an associate director of housing, said the new tutoring service would be offered Wednesday and Sunday nights in Ellsworth, Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin, Pearson, Pearson, Lewis and Oliver halls.
Scott said the service was in such high demand that Lewis needed an additional math tutor. The other one tutor in math and one in English
Nohuto Yoshioka. Tokyo junior, tutors Michelle Fischbach, Overland Park freshman, in pre-calculus.
Richard Lee, director of SES, said the program received a $7,000 grant through the Educational Opportunity Program and Senate at the end of last spring.
But Lee said that the financing was not enough for the residence hall tutoring service and that he was going to into alternate channels of financing.
"Based on numbers that we've had over the past two weeks, the money from EOF will not sufficiently cover two semesters." Lee said.
Lee said that SES previously had provided free tutors only to students who showed financial need.
Other students paid an hourly fee of $6.25. Lee said this fee was 60 percent of what private tutors
charge.
Charge:
Joshua Howe, Bartlesville, OKa,
senior, said she and other English
tutors had not been approached by
many students for help.
"Most of them haven't gotten their first papers yet," she said. "The math tutors are the busy ones."
Some students are willing to wait for long periods of time to get help.
MuiHiang Puah, Singapore freshman, said she once waited two hours to get help on a Math 104 assignment.
Jane Schmit, Overland Park freshman, said that she needed more help in her Math 122 class than the tutors could give and that she also would need to pay SES for a private tutor this semester.
"I think even if they could charge a
small fee, it would be better," she said. "Then they could get more people in here."
Schmit said she was generally happy with residence hall tutors.
"The other night, I had a problem and the tutor here couldn't even do it," she said. "I was very frustrated, figured it out, figured it out and called me later."