August 29,1984 Page3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Police say family dispute prompted girl's departure
Indra Govan, a 17-year-old Lawrence girl, was found about 7:30 p.m. Monday, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman said yesterday.
POLice said that Govan's disappearance was the result of a family dispute.
the result of a family dispute.
Govan had been missing since last
Thursday. She went to enroll for classes at
Strong Hall and did not return home.
Wolf Creek to open by May 21
Her brother and a friend found her car in a parking lot near the Computer Center. Her keys and a notebook were still in the car.
TOPEKA — The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant project is proceeding on schedule and the facility should be on line at 100 percent capacity no later than May 21 of next year, utility officials reported yesterday.
Kansas Gas & Electric Co., the utility in charge of building Wolf Creek, also released an in-house report evaluating management decisions and cost increase factors at Wolf Creek, which is being built near Burlington.
The voluminous documents, dated May and June 1984, generally credit management decisions with saving hundreds of millions of dollars in building Wolf Creek and blame a glut of cost regulations for 57 percent of cost overurrs.
K&GE met with the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday for the third in a series of bimonthly meetings to keep utility regulators abreast of progress at Wolf Creek. The commission will decide next year how much of the plant's enormous cost should be borne by utility customers.
Senate to have open house
Student Senate will sponsor an open house from 2-5 p.m. Friday in its offices on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
Students, administrators, faculty members and staff are invited, said Carla Vogel, student body president. Visitors will be able to tour the offices.
Refreshments, including popcorn and orange juice, will be served.
8. Rage just Vogel said the purpose of the open house was to let students know more about the offices.
"It's their office." Vogel said. "The students pay for it, and it's good to let them know where their money goes."
Fair attracts most KU groups
Vogel said a student senator suggested this spring that the Senate sponsor an open house. If Friday's event is successful, she said, more open houses may be planned
Nearly 65 percent of registered campus groups participated in an activities fair in the Kansas Union lobby Thursday and Friday, said London Bonds, assistant director of Student Organizations and Activities.
Of the 88 organizations registered on campus, 57 participated in the fair. Bonds said. Representatives of some groups talked to as many as 200 students.
This was the first year Student Senate participated in the fair, said Carla Vogel, student body president.
At the booth, Senate officers handed out committee applications and answered questions for students, she said.
"The first day had more traffic than the second day." Vogel said. "We talked to about 50-60 students."
Escapee captured in Wichita
WICHITA — A man who escaped from the Sedgwick County Jail by climbing down a firehouse and bedsheets suspended from an eighth-floor window was captured yesterday by police, officials said.
Ronald E. Dial, who was being held on charges that included attempted first-degree murder, was captured without incident at his wife's home shortly before 9:30 a.m., said Wichita Police Officer Dale Kauffman. Dial, a Wichita resident, had escaped from jail Monday night.
Weather
Today will be sunny and hot with highs around 100 and northerly winds of 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear with a low in the mid-60s. Tomorrow will be clear and hot, with highs in the upper 90s.
Mercury hits 106; record set
By the Kansan Staff
Record-breaking temperatures yesterday drove students inside as they sought a haven from the heat.
from the lake.
Wescoe Beach was nearly barren as the National Weather Service reported a high temperature of 106 shortly before 5 p.m., surpassing the record set in 1954 by three degrees.
degrees.
The unusually high temperatures were even more surprising to forecasters because of low temperatures late last week, said Paul Frantz, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka.
The willing heat left several students unenthusiastic about the weather.
Greg Lederer, Chicago sophomore, said he was unaccustomed to the Kansas heat and humidity.
"It's kind of like walking in a steambath," he said.
Janet Buchanan, Topeka freshman, said,
"The first couple of days back it was cool, but now we're to be dead at heat of summer."
The high temperatures this week have caused no heat-related fires in Lawrence, but Douglas County officials issued a ban on burning to take effect yesterday, firefighters said.
The ban will be lifted when conditions change.
But the hot and dry weather will remain for a few days, and temperatures will drop only slightly from the plus-100 degree mark, said Frantz, the meteorologist.
A high-pressure system in the upper atmosphere over the Plains area kept cooler weather to the north, Franz said. South and southwest winds helped force the mercury higher, he said.
The weather service also cautioned local residents to take steps to prevent heatstroke and heat exhaustion. Frantz said.
One neat-related illness was reported at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Officials said a high school student who had been running was treated and released Monday evening.
Remodeling may move some union facilities
By DAN HOWELL
Staff Reporter
Bookstores, offices and food services at the Kansas Union may move to different floors to consolidate operations in a coming renovation, the Union's director said yesterday.
Director James Long said that efficiency and consolidation were central ideas for the project, which probably would begin in late 1985 and cost more than $4.1 million.
Long said that the University of Kansas renovation committee was considering putting all bookstore operations on one floor and all food services on another.
"We are trying to have better efficiency with our resources — our human resources, our building space, our use of energy." he said.
The door also has not closed on the possibility of a privately owned fast-food restaurant in the Union, Long said. A committee of the corporation beamed with enthusiasm after a franchise restaurant in the Union, in response to student interest and concern.
In last year's Student Senate campaign, a fast-feed franchise in the Union became an issue when Kevin Walker, Momentum Coalition candidate, spoke in favor of it.
The renovation also may make late-night food service possible. Long said.
BUT ANY CHANGES that are made won't happen overnight, he said.
"It may take four to five years due to financing and due to phasing — the Union must continue to operate while this is going on," he said.
Sean O'Keeffe, 11, who is trying to set a world record as the youngest cyclist to cross the United States, stands with family members Kathleen, 8, his mother, Catherine, and father, John, just west of Lawrence on Highway 40. Sean started "
Bairbans, Alaska, and hopes to finish his ride — now at 1,600 miles — in New York City. He passed through Lawrence last night. Seal is helped only by his family along the way but is asking for pledges to benefit cancer research
Loan firm to open branch in city
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
The Student Loan Marketing Association announced yesterday that it will open a regional office in Lawrence that could bring more than 250 jobs to the city over the next two years.
government. The regional office will be at 1919 Delaware St. and will employ about 25 people when it opens in early October, said Larry Hough, Sallie Mae's senior vice president for servicing and systems.
The corporation, better known as Sallie Mae, is the nation's largest investor in government-insured student loans.
sevicing and
Hough had the 8,000-square-foot office the company had leased might be expanded within two years. He estimated the office would employ 25 people by the end of this year, 100 or more by the end of 1985 and 250 or more by the end of 1986.
THE LAWRENCE OFFICE will be the corporation's first regional center outside the Washington, D.C., area. Another Sallie Mae loan-repayment center is in Fairfax County.
Sallie Mae officials described the office as a place where workers would "process
student loan payments, update customer records, and remind borrowers of their obligations, rights and responsibilities."
The announcement was made at a 7:30 a.m. meeting sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 W. Turnipe Access Road.
More than 100 Chamber members, local government officials and KU representatives mixed breakfast with business, welcoming the news of the firm over scrambled eggs, bacon and toast.
Within three years, the Lawrence office should handle about 300,000 loans representing about $1 billion, said Barry Brotman, a former assistant manager at the Fairfax County center. He will manage the Lawrence office.
SALLIE MAE WAS created by Congress in 1972 to help banks and savings and loans meet the skyrocketing demand for student loans.
Sallie Mae raises funds by issuing securities in the capital markets. It then purchases loans from lending institutions.
These purchases take long-term student loans off the hands of smaller lenders, and keep dollars flowing back to the lenders so they can make more loans.
Pete Whitenight, Chamber president, said
the Sallie Mae office was "really upbeat news" for the city.
"This will be the first large-scale regional service center to be located in our community." he said.
Hough praised the city officials and executives Salie Mae had contacted during the last few months. He said his discussions with the Chamber were "a textbook example" of how to lure a prospective business client to a community.
SALLIE MAE OFFICIALS said they selected Lawrence from among several cities in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee because of an excellent business environment.
Hough said that key factors in the decision were the city's strong labor market, its geographic proximity to borrowers and the availability of support systems, such as telecommunications, transportation, and postal and banking services.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Mayor Ernest Anglo also addressed the audience, both stressing the compatibility of Salle Mae and the city's educational community.
Budig said he had met several times with corporation officials since they began considering Lawrence for the regional office in April.
Budig, faculty greet new students
By the Kansan Staff
"There is no reason to be bored during your years on Mount Oread." Budig said.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and KU staff and faculty greeted a small group of freshmen with words of advice and encouragement last night at the Freshman Welcome, sponsored by Mortar Board honorary society.
The variety of facilities and opportunities at the University of Kansas gives students ample opportunity to get involved, he said.
Despite extensive promotional efforts, only 20-30 freshmen showed up for the orientation. Monson said that in past years, as many as 150 students had participated in the event.
"So many students, even by their junior and senior year, won't go to their professors with a question." Monson said.
the Welcome ceremony was intended to give freshmen an opportunity to meet and talk with college professors in a nonacademic environment, said Paul Monson, president of Mortar Board.
Jennifer Nye. Salina freshman, said she went to the meeting to get to know 'another
"It helps you in understanding your professors in class," she said.
Cheryl Sharp, Gladstone. Mo., freshman, said she came to the orientation hoping that it would make her feel more comfortable at KU.
"I'm used to small classrooms and I'm
Two years ago, the Welcome was held in faculty members' houses. However, many students were nervous about going to a professor's house, so it was not too successful, said Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the Freshmen Welcome committee.
feeling very intimidated about this whole experience," she said.
in an effort to reach more students, the Welcome was moved to the Karsaa Union
"They know the Union. They've paid their fees and bought there books here." Monson
After opening remarks by KU faculty and staff, the students were shown a short historical film about the University.
New KU bus pass larger,harder to forge
Staff Reporter
BY JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
KU on Wheels' new bus passes should be more difficult to torgue than the green paper stickers used last year. KU and bus company officials said yesterday.
The passes are still attached to student identification cards and have the same design as last year - a Jayhawk at a steering wheel — but they are made of a metallic, silver-colored material.
"we have a better pass than we had last year," said Duane Ogle, one of the owners of the Lawrence Bus Co.
However, Ogle did not call the new passes forge-proof.
"We've got people at the University who are very artistic," he said. "It's a game to them."
OGLE SAID THAT students didn't seem to realize that forging the passes was stealing. Bus drivers will be on the lookout for forged passes this year.
"Our drivers are going to monitor them
"They're easier to see too," he said. "Ringer."
very closely," he said.
Mike Cuenca, Lawrence Bus Co. driver,
said that he thought the new passes would be harder to forge because of the reflective material they were made of.
Nancy Anderson, Student Senate Transportation Board coordinator, said she was pleased with the new passes.
The new passes were designed after 24 students were caught with forged bus passes this spring.
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