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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, August 28, 1990
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Hot days can cause a concern for health
By Courtney Eblen
Kansan staff writer
Rie Rosenkranz knew he was in trouble Thursday as he neared the end of a 6-mile workout.
He was among a pack of KU cross-country runners on the Kansas River levee in 100-degree, breezeless heat. Then the waves of dizziness began.
"I'd never felt like that before," he said. "I sort of knew by then I wasn't just tired."
Rosenkram walked down the levee to lie in the shade, but then walked into the river and sat down in the water.
"I just wanted to get cool fast," he said. "I was dizzy and weak and just drained. I didn't know how over-ear I was getting until it hapened."
The recent heat wave has KU athletes chugging water by the gallon to avoid heat exhaustion during practices.
Cross-country and track coach Gary Schwartz made a rule for his athletes that he said went for anyone who worked out in hot weather. Don't pass a water fountain without taking a drink.
Instead of holding their three-hour practices in the middle of the day, Schwartz arranged for KU cross country practices to be in the morning and early evening to beat the heat.
But KU football players are holding their practices as usual - in the middle of the afternoon.
Steve McCullough, Lawrence resident, jogs along Clinton Parkway in near-100 degree weather.
Lynn Bott, head athletic trainer, said practice would not be rescheduled because part of its purpose was to improve the endurance Saturday afternoon games.
There have been few problems on the practice field. Bott said "We pump them full of fluids from the
time they wake up until the time they come to practice." he said.
Players drink at least four liters of fluids before practice, six liters during practice and several more after
practice
"Heat exhaustion is a real threat for people who are outside for prolonged periods of time," said Charles Yokey, chief of staff at Watkins
Memorial Health Center
Watkins officials have not treated anyone for heat-related illnesses, probably because classes have begun and students are inside.
Preliminary census shows increase
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
City and county officials said they were pleased with results of the preliminary 1980 census population estimates from both Lawrence and Douglas County.
The report stressed that the figures were only preliminary results and were released as part of the postconcenus local review program to give officials a chance to correct inaccuracies.
Price Banks, city planning director, said Lawrence officials had been preparing for the results by making estimates based on the number of residences in the city and comparing them to the federal numbers.
The tentative population count for Lawrence is 64,766 and 81,109 for Douglas County.
Banks said the county population was difficult to estimate because Lawrence city officials did not have access to Leptompson and Eudora records.
"We feel the totals look pretty good because our estimate was 65,000," Banks said.
However, he said there might have been a problem with some inaccuracies because one census area that Hall listed the half's population at 68.
"But it might just be a glitch in their numbers," Banks said. "We'll tell them about it though."
Joe Svoboda, Olathe senior and JRP desk assistant, said the JRP figure had to be wrong.
"We have six floors with 50 to 60 people on each floor," he said.
Frank Harwood, Oliver Hall director, said census forms were distributed in April to all residence halls.
Banks said preliminary results showed that KU had a population of 3,100 students who live in group quarters.
"We delivered the forms to the students and informed them to return them to the front desk, but we had no one who did that. We carried them and who didn't," he said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the University of Kansas had good distribution of forms and good student participation.
"We have different totals though for federal, state and county figures because each agency counts students in a different way," he said.
"For example, one report wants to know how many students are from Lawrence but who also live in dorms, to see if students could possibly get counted twice, once by the form and once by their parents." he said.
"It's very complicated to explain because we fill out multiple forms to multiple agencies." Stoner said. "What it just comes down to is that we will cooperate with every agency that requests information about our students. Students think they don't count, but they do."
Marvin Postma, director of the Kansas City, Kan. Regional Census Center, said there was a vast difference in federal and federal census counting procedures.
"For federal census counting, students are counted wherever they are living as of April 1," he said. "For state census, students are only counted if they are Kansas residents." Of staters are not counted."
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said the state conducted a census in 1988 for legislative reappo
The 1988 state census did not count students at all, he said.
"They conducted a one-shot census and what happened that it cost Douglas County a seat in the Legislature," he said.
Students should be counted as living in Douglas County if they live here nine months out of the year, McKenzie said.
The county filed a lawsuit against the state in December 1988, and the case is pending in Shawne County District Court, he said.
The count of 81,109 for Douglas County was higher than the predicted 76,500, but McKenzie said the 1990 preliminary results were more accurate than the 1988 state census, which listed the population as 59,441.
Postma said those figures would be expected in a state census because the state requires students to be present in orders for them to be counted.
Although bar owners try to work with police and neighbors in complying with the nose ordinance, the new law has a hassle, a local bar owner said.
Police, bar owners deal with ordinance
The preliminary results of the census may be challenged by the city in 15 working days, he said.
By Amy Zamierowski
Final population counts will be given to President Bush on Dec. 31.
Kansan staff writer
Tom Conny, owner of the Crossing, said Lawrence police answered no complaint involving his bar, at 618 W. 121st. St., about twice a week
"The police have to show up when they get a complaint, but lately they give out warnings instead of tickets," she said. "Really, we have been cooperating with us."
The noise ordinance, which was enacted last February, states that a police officer may order a group of people to disperse if they disturb the peace and quiet of the surrounding neighborhood.
Chris Mulvenon, police spokesperson, said the police department wanted to maintain a good relationship with bar owners.
Conry said that to prevent getting a noise complaint, he had loud sounds appear only Friday and Saturday nights.
Before the noise ordinance. Conroy scheduled loud bands at other times, he said.
"A few bands can't play any more because they are too loud," Conroy said. "The only way to deal with the norm ordinance is to be cooperative."
Conroy said that his business had not suffered because of the noise ordinance but that police made the call to the police a few times because of no complaints.
Dave Atchison, manager of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said bands at his bar played inside with
the windows closed to prevent noise complaints.
"Keeping the windows closed means that we have to keep the air conditioner on even when the weather turns cooler, but we do it out of consideration for the neighbors." Atchison said.
Mulvenon said the police department received noise complaints daily from people living near taverns, clubs and private parties.
"Officers are put in a precarious situation," Mulvenon said. "We don't want to be bullets about the noise ordinance. One of our department's guiding principles is to be fair but firm."
Conroy said that because the ordinance allowed police to decide which noises were too loud, it was too subjective.
Mulvenon said the city ordinance stated what constituted a loud noise.
He said one problem the noise ordinance created was tension between an establishment and its neighbors.
A noise complaint is a legitimate one, Mulvenon said, but it can become a nuisance when officers are deployed to work with someone more than three times in one night.
Mulvenon said most calls to the police were higher priority than noise complaints.
Brown said nightclub problems in the Oread Neighborhood were not from noise but from trashing of property and parking illegally.
Jennifer Kimball kinaid, coordinator of the Oread Neighborhood Association, said she did not support the movement because it was not enforceable or needed
Police use check lanes in effort to curb crime
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
Although it is normal for crime to increase in Lawrence when students come back to school, there are ways to prevent that from happening.
The Lawrence Police Department set up driver's license check lanes in an effort to prevent future crashes, spokesperson Chris Mullenon said.
Mulvenon said traffic increased at this time of the year as college students, parents of school-aged children and high school students drove more.
"This is just an excellent time to utilize the manpower we have available so people know that we're going to be out there." Mulvenon said.
He said police officers would set up check lanes as manpower and time permitted until Sept. 24. The violations that officers will check for include expired registrations, expired driver's licenses, defective equipment, people driving with no driver's license, people driving on suspended licenses and people driving under the influence of alcohol.
At a check lane conducted at the southbound lane of the Kansas River Bridge early Saturday morning, officers stopped four people driving under the influence of alcohol, two driving without a license, one driving without a license and one driving with an expired license and one driving with expired registration.
Early Sunday morning at the same location, officers stopped eight people driving without a license, three driving under the influence of alcohol and one driving with a suspended license.
Just as students contribute to increased traffic, they also contribute to an increased crime rate because they often become crime victims, Mulvenon said.
"Students have to be very aware that a lot of times, their actions make them targets," Mulvenon said. "They have to take preventive measures up front. There's no other way around it."
KU police Lt. John Mullens said that some students were naive when they came to college and that they did not observe some of the same safety practices on campus they would at home.
"We do have a better crime rate than the average for the state, but we're not completely immune from criminal activity." Mullens said.
Mullens compiled the following safety tips after studying reported crimes on campus from Jan. 1 to June 30:
- Lock the doors and windows of your house, apartment or room. About 21.6 percent of all reported burglaries involved forced entry.
- Cover or store valuable items out of sight when left in vehicles. Most items stolen in reported auto burglars were in sight from outside the vehicle. If someone breaks into a locked car, it is usually because they can see something inside that they want, Mulvenon said.
- Lock the doors and windows of your car. About 48 percent of all reported auto burglaries involved forced entry.
- Do not leave valuables unattended. Seven percent of all reported thefts occurred in open public offices and rooms.
- Check values regularly and report crimes immediately. Recovery of values is less likely the later the crime is reported.
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