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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 25, 1985
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Two hurt in accident when car rolls over
A 20-year-old student and a 21-year-old Overland Park woman were treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after an accident Saturday on Emery Road near Sigma Nu Place, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Lawrence police said Steven K. Pearson, Kansas City, Mo., junior, was driving north on Emery at about 45-50 mph when he lost control of his car at the curve about 200 feet north of Sigma Nu Place. The rear of his car struck the curb on the east side of Emery.
Witnesses told police the car rolled onto its top and back onto its tires before coming to a stop.
Jason Green, Lawrence freshman and a passenger in Pearson's car, told police that he and the other three passengers got out of the car and that Pearson drove away.
George Alyea, Blue Springs, Mo., freshman, and Christine Walker, 21, Overland Park, both passengers, were taken by Douglas County Ambulance Service to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where they were treated and released.
Pearson was cited for driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an injury accident and not reporting an accident, police said.
Pearson's attorney contacted police about 11 a.m. yesterday, police said.
Composers honored
Three members of KU's music composition and theory faculty have received the 1985-86 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards.
The professors being recognized for their contributions to contemporary composition are: James C. Barnes, associate professor of music theory; Charles Hoag, professor of music theory; and John Pozdro, professor of music theory.
Concert to be held
The 61st annual Vespers concert will open the holiday season at KU with traditional Christmas songs performed by five musical groups at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in Hoch Auditorium.
Performing during Vespers are student members of the Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Singers, University Chorus and the University Symphony Orchestra.
Before each Vespers performance, Albert Gerken, University carillonneur, will play carols on the Memorial Carillon, and a student brass ensemble will play carols from the balcony of Hoch Auditorium.
Holiday closes union
The Kansas Union will be open during regular hours until 5 p.m. Wednesday and then will be closed from Nov. 28 through Dec. 1. The Burge Union will be closed from Nov. 27 through Dec. 1.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a chance of drizzle. The high will be around 40. Winds will be out of the southeast at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. The low will be in the mid- to upper 30s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and a high in the 40s.
From staff and wire reports.
Administrators warn of large budget cuts
KU administrators sounded the fiscal alarm to about 200 alumni Saturday as a result of possible drastic budget cuts facing the University next year.
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
"The future of Kansas is at stake," Chancellor Gene A. Budig said at the annual alumni development committee meeting at the Kansas Union.
Budig and other KU administrators spoke at the meeting about economic problems facing the University.
Earlier this month, Alden Shields, state budget director, told members of the Board of Regents that Kansas would take in $132.6 million less than projected in state revenue over the next two fiscal years. He said that translated into a cut of at least $17 million from KU's lowest budget request.
Budig told the committee that despite Kansas' bleak economic outlook, the University had continued to excel as an academic leader
Proof of KU's strength, Budig said, is the high rating the University recently received from the New York Times as one of the country's finest academic institutions.
had continued to exert as his叔侄杰尔洛 "KU has never been stronger than today."
Budig said the University needed additional support from the state if it was to maintain its academic strength. He said the future of the state was tied directly to the future of the University.
"We are the key to the state's economic future," he said. "The time is right to invest. History tells us that the time for a state to invest in higher education is when it faces economic problems."
Budig said investment in the University made good economic sense for Kansas.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said that while the University was a leading academic institution, it could be better.
"We are the state's principal asset," Budig said. "Few will dispute this fact."
"This is a fine university," he said. "It has an immense capability, however, to be a better one."
Cobb outlined the Board of Regents' budget proposal for the University. He said that the Lawrence campus had several priorities for its fiscal year 1987 budget that could not be ignored if the University was to remain competitive.
The university is 60 percent behind its peer institutions in the area of its other operating expenses, such as money needed to purchase equipment, books and supplies, Cobb said. An increase in that area is necessary, he said, if the University is to be competitive.
Salaries for unclassified and classified personnel as well as student workers are also below par at the University, Cobb said. He said the University needed to make salaries competitive if it wanted to obtain and keep qualified people.
D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center, presented the Med Center's economic situation. He said that while the Med Center was in good shape, added investment was needed if it was to remain competitive.
Wint Winter, co-chairman of the alumni committee, said the budget issue needed to be taken up with state legislators.
He said that unless the state had some kind of tax incentive it would become harder and harder to find money for anything.
Trainers, managers play game
matter to an AI. In the winter said it would take greater effort in the future to maintain KU's tradition as an academic leader.
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
These football players didn't come to Memorial Stadium on a frigid Sunday to play for the national championship, a bowl bid or even a playoff berth.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
It was for the love of football.
Ronnie Caldwell; KU sophomore wide receiver, gave the touchdown signal yesterday for the football Managers in the ninth annual Deaner Cup game against the sports Trainers. The Managers won the game 31-20. The game was played at Memorial Stadium.
It was for the players in the game were the men who were managers of the football team this season and the men who were trainers for the KU sports programs.
they give their time to the game of football by working on the sidelines, in the training room or anywhere else needed to help the football program operate smoothly. Yesterday, they wore the navy blue and white jerseys of the Kansas Javhaws.
The Ninth Annual Dealer Cup Game pitted the Managers against the Trainers in a game of eight-man flag football.
KU football players Ronnie Caldwell, Dan Crossman, Travis Hardy and Paul Swenson acted as players and markers Mark Lesher, Mike Lesher and Rod Newson operated the chains for the two teams. The players said they were glad to give their time so the managers and trainers could have their turn on the turf.
'They do a lot for us all week,' Mike Lesher said.
Mark Lesher said, "Well, we like football and this is pretty fun."
It wasn't all fun and games on the field. As is usual with true-blooded sportsmen, these players played to win.
On this day, the Managers were the better team, winning 31-20. The last play of the game told the story of how the Managers dominated the game.
Manager quarterback John Bong, Lawrence senior, after taking the snap at the 40-yard line, rolled left to
evade an onrushing lineman and passed to tight end Paul Pettit, Topeka junior, who was wide open at the Trainer 40-yard line.
Pettit tucked the ball away and ran toward the left sideline. At about the 15 yardline, he flipped the ball to Rich Eckert, Effingham freshman, who was trailing Pettit. Eckert sprinted on into the end zone to give the Managers a 31-20 lead.
Mike Hill, Manager coach and head equipment manager, said the game originated nine years ago. The game is played each season on the day after the KU-Missouri game.
The winning team gets to possess a plaque, nicknamed the Deaner Cup after the late KU trainer Dean Nesmith. The plaque will remain in the managers' office for another year.
KU researcher wins Javits award
Bv a Kansan reporter
Ralph Adams, KU distinguished professor of chemistry, will receive one of 22 national awards given so far this year for neuroscience research.
Adams will receive more than $400,000 over a seven year period from the National Institutes of Health to support his research.
for this year for neuroscience.
The award is one of the Javits Neuroscience Investigators Awards, which are named in honor of former Sen. Jacob K. Javitis of New York.
Adams' research is based in electrochemistry. He and his students take measurements of minute quantities of biogenic amine neurotransmitters — important brain chemicals which may aid scientists in understanding brain functions and neurological and mental disorders
Adams' project, which concerns the precise chemical mapping of the brain, has received NIH support for 15 years.
Twenty-two research awards have been given since Oct. 1. Only two other awards have been given to Midwestern researchers — a University of Michigan researcher and an Ohio State University professor.
Recipients are selected from among scientists who submit regular grant applications to the NIH for competitive review.
Adams, a Princeton University graduate, joined the chemistry department in 1955. He is the first KU faculty member to be chosen for the awards.
Adams has received many awards for his scientific achievements. The week before he was notified of the Javits award, he received the Kolthoff Award from the American Pharmaceutical Association in a presentation in Minneapolis.
The awards were established by Congress three years ago in honor of Javits, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Synthetic drugs growing popular for drug abusers
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Designer drugs may soon start poisoning drug users in Lawrence as the drugs replace previously abused drugs, a pharmacy professor said Friday.
Lester Mitscher, chairman of medicinal chemistry, said designer drugs, such as Ecstasy, will soon reach Lawrence.
"It will be a problem in Lawrence before we can snap our fingers," he said
Mitscher said designer drugs were newly created substances that could be abused in place of historically forbidden drugs. Designer drugs are generally synthetic, while cocaine and heroin are mostly natural products.
Ecstasy is a recently outlawed designer drug.
A member of the Lawrence police Drug Enforcement Unit, who asked not to be identified, said the unit had no indications of designer drugs reaching Lawrence, but that it was aware of the new national trend.
"Society is skating toward another disaster it doesn't need." Mitscher said. "I hate to sound like a right-wing nut, but our society has been much too permissive toward drugs."
The new drugs usually go untested from the laboratory directly to the user in the street, Mitscher said. The abusers use themselves as guinea pigs.
"The toxicological effects aren't known," he said. "Normally it takes years to determine if a drug is harmful.
"The abusers don't realize or are indifferent to the risks they are taking."
The drug 3-methyl fentanyl, which has effects similar to heroin, has been responsible for about 100 overdose deaths in California since 1984, Mitscher said. Meperidine drugs have caused several cases of Parkinson's disease among abusers by destroying certain brain cells.
"Young people turn into zombies because of impurities in the compounds." Mitscher said.
Compounds that have been prepared at acidities or temperatures that are too high act as poison on the nervous system.
"Lives are being wasted for personal profit." Mitscher said.
And the profits are great. Frank Spaienza, a chemist with the Drug Enforcement Agency in Washington, D.C., said an investment of $2,000 toward the production of heroin would yield one kilogram of heroin, worth about $1 million on the street. A $2,000 investment in chemicals can
be turned into one kilogram of 3-menthyl fentanyl, worth about $1 billion.
Mitscher said, "The designer drugs are so potent that half a pound equals about 200 million doses. And you don't need a great deal of material. A high school chemistry lab would do."
Designer drugs give security to underground chemists. Producing heroin is a severe crime that carries a stiff prison sentence, Mitscher said. The career of the chemist is ruined. Producing drugs with new chemical structures that have not yet been made illegal is preferable.
"It's immoral, but not illegal," Mitscher said.
"The chemist can say he sold the drugs as vitamins or to dust on the roses to prevent cockroaches. He can act very surprised that people ate his compound."
To avoid the laws, the chemical structure of the drugs is slightly altered while they retain their effects. Three-methyl fentanyl is the fourth member of the fentanyl family of drugs which started to appear six years ago.
Designating a drug to be a controlled substance used to take several years, Mitscher said. The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 allows the attorney general to use emergency procedures. Now a compound can be made illegal for one year within 30 days after it has been determined that it is hazardous to public safety.
The drug 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), called Ecstasy or simply "X" on the street, was made illegal last July. It is related to 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) and methamphetamine.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, MDA has caused brain damage in animals and Ecstasy users experience problems similar to cocaine and amphetamine users, which include confusion, depressions and paranoia.
Mitscher said he thought a mastermind chemist was behind the sophisticated drug alterations. That person can now leave the production and distribution to others. The risk and penalties are lower to invent formulas for new drugs.
"Trends like these usually start in California," Mitscher said. "They move to the East Coast, and then they fill out the middle."