Friday, Nov. 22, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
Court files charges against KU gridder
News Briefs
Misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct, battery of a police officer and obstruction of the legal process were filed Tuesday in Douglas County District Court against Timothy M. O'Neal, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sophomore and a walk-on with the KU football team.
A 21-year-old Lawrence woman was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Wednesday after an apparent overdose of an unidentified drug, Lawrence police said yesterday.
A hospital spokesman said she was released yesterday.
A date for a jury trial will be set at 11 a.m. on Dec. 5.
Police said the woman told them she had smoked a marijuana cigarette.
Drug abuse inferred
After the woman returned home from a visit with a friend and became sick, her roommate called police and an ambulance.
O'Neal was arrested Nov. 9 outside the Jazzhaus, 9261 Massachusetts St., after he allegedly caused a disturbance then refused to give police his name, resisted being handcuffed, and pushed an officer twice, once into the side of a doorway.
O'Neal was booked into jail on Nov. 9 and bail was set at $1,750, but he was released on his own recognition.
Trophy on the line
Police said no charges had been filed in connection with the incident.
The Ninth Annual Deaner Cup,
named for the late KU trainer
Dean Nezmith, will be up for grabs
at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Memorial
Stadium.
The competition pits KU sports trainers against KU football managers in a game of touch football played by eight-man National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. The game will be refereed by senior football players. The managers' team has a 7-1 lead in the series
Food drive planned
The stadium will be open for spectators.
The senior honor society, Mortar Board, has planned a Thanksgiving food drive to be conducted at the KU-Missouri football game Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
The group asks that those attending the game bring cans of food to be collected at stadium entrances. The donations will be given to the Emergency Services Council for distribution in Lawrence at Thanksgiving.
Bringing a can of food is not con-
sidered as admission to the game.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny, with highs around 40. Winds will be variable at 5 to 10 mph. The sky will become increasingly cloudy tonight. Lows will be around 20. Tomorrow will be sunny and cold, with highs around 30.
From staff and wire reports.
Dismissal of charges sought
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Members of the KU Committee on South Africa asked during a meeting yesterday that administrators drop charges against five anti-aparthief protesters arrested Nov. 4 in Chancellor Gene A. Budig's Strong Hall suite.
The five are charged with interfering with the conduct of public business in a public place, a Class A misdemeanor. They pleaded not guilty to the charges Nov. 12 at a hearing in Douglas County District Court.
Yesterday's discussion was the second formal meeting between students opposed to apartheid and two administrators and a faculty member appointed by Budig. Representatives from the Black Student Union also attended.
As in the first meeting earlier this month, the group failed to agree on a subject for their discussions. At the first meeting, members of the KU Committee on South Africa said they wanted to
discuss divestment by the Kansas University Endowment Association. The administrators and faculty member said they wanted to discuss educational activities.
Members of the KU Committee on South Africa said the charges against the five protesters should be dropped so they could work with the administration to establish conversation between the University and the Endowment Association on divestment.
Protesters have been struggling to convince the Endowment Association to divest from companies doing business in South Africa.
In addition to this proposal, the members outlined three other proposals during the 12-hour meeting. The KU Committee on South Africa will present the proposals in writing to the administration Monday, Heather Cusick, Salina junior and a member of the Committee on South Africa, said.
The proposals discuss the relationship between the Committee on South Africa and the University and problems the committee faces, Cusick said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he would not comment on the proposals until he read what the members of the KU Committee on South Africa formally proposed.
Ambler said yesterday's meeting was frank.
"I think that whenever you're talking, something is accomplished." he said.
In addition to the proposal to drop charges, Cusick said, another proposal asks Budig to call for discussion between the University and the Endowment Association on divestment in light of Attorney General Robert Stephan's recent interpretation of a state law regulating investments.
In that ruling, Stephan said divestment in companies doing business in South Africa was not
The other two proposals deal with protesters being photographed by KU police during their demonstrations and concerns of committee members that information about their political activities should not be kept by the University or the Endowment Association.
"Competition is going to be the key word as we look toward the next legislative session." Gov. John Carlifn said yesterday, referring to the tight budget looming for Kansas next fiscal year. Carlifn spoke in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Universities face cuts, Carlin says
By Dave Silverman Of the Kansan staff
Gov. John Carlin brought his budget campaign to KU yesterday emphasizing stiff competition for scarce state funds and the importance of education in the economic future of Kansas.
Carlin spoke to about 150 faculty and students in woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union as part of the University Senate会议.
"Competition is going to be the key word as we look toward the next legislative session." Carlin said.
"The question, in terms of competition for dollars, will come down to one significant issue. Will we, as a state, understand and appreciate the difference between spending tax dollars and investing tax dollars?"
Earlier this month the state's budget outlook for 1987 worsened when the estimate for state general funds over the next two years was cut by $132.6 million. For agencies that receive state funds, the decrease has meant significant budget cuts.
"It's a competitive situation that we face. There are great demands in many areas with, quite frankly, very limited resources."
Carlin said substantial cuts in the Board of Regents budget, announced last week by the state's budget officer, were a reflection of the economic realities the state faced.
"The budget director's responsibility is to live within the resources available." Carlin said. "He is communicating, by his cuts, the facts of
life. He's not any more supportive of those cuts than I am. But he cannot recommend dollars for higher education that do not exist."
He said that education was a priority for the state and that he would emphasize that point to the Kansas Legislature.
Carlin said he hoped his investment theme for the allocation of state money would impress legislators to look toward the long-term effects of next year's budget.
Education is the principal responsibility of state government," Carlin said. "It represents two-thirds of the budget."
A final budget proposal for fiscal year 1987 would be presented within the next two weeks, Carlin said. He would not reveal the elements of his proposed budget or whether it would include a revenue generating device, such as a tax increase.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig attended the Senate meeting and said that Carlin's message was an encouraging one.
"I commend the governor," Budig said. "He wants the state to invest in the future. I'm confident he will attempt to be helpful towards education, budgetarily."
Budig said speculation on Carlin's intentions for the Regents 1987 budget was premature.
"There is no doubt that he is receptive," Budig said. "That is apparent. We must emphasize the investment aspect of the governor's message."
Garbage heaps offer treasures
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
A civilization often is measured by the quality of its achievements.
Perhaps a study of what it casts aside might be just as good as a yardstick.
The items that Lawrence sanitation workers salvage regularly from the city's garbage could fill a Christmas list that would bring tears to a shopper's eyes.
"We find all kinds of things for our homes." Wendy Reed, an employee of the sanitation department, said Tuesday.
Last week, Reed rescued a beanbag chair from the 805 tons of garbage that sanitation workers had removed from Lawrence homes and businesses.
However, discarded furniture is just the tip of the garbage heap of treasures that sanitation workers find.
and live ammunition are among the surprises sanitation workers encounter among the garbage.
"One man's junk is another man's treasure," David Pentil, Lawrence, said yesterday. "That's what I've always heard
Televisions and telephones, radios and dishwashers, jewelry, bicycles, tools and chain saws, wads of cash
"You would be surprised at what people throw away."
Pentlin has been a sanitation worker for about five years.
"It took my toes in there and just cut them off," he said. Sanitation workers also must
"I found a $40 Mickey Mouse phone." Crane said, "I plugged it in and it works."
The sanitation business seems to have all the elements for a 1930s adventure serial except Flash Gordon or a beautiful woman in peril. Danger a plenty lurks in the heaps of garbage along with buried treasure.
Crane stooped over and bent his left tennis shoe up into a nearly perfect right angle. His foot was caught in the jaws of a garbage truck's compactor one day.
dodge the early morning rush-hour hordes securing jobs and classes
"You've really got to watch, Pentlin said. "When people are going to work, they just go to work."
Sanitation workers also must
Sanitation workers don't need calendars to mark the changing of seasons. They just watch the garbage.
When the student exodus from campus begins each May, many students cast items aside to lighten their loads. Students sometimes toss mattresses, televisions, radios and cameras onto the rubbish heap, he said.
"I got one 35-millimeter camera with a zoom lens on it," said Ivan Ray. Lawrence sanitation worker.
The summer brings tons and tons of grass clippings and quite a few dead fish. Apparently most of the city's fishermen live on the north and east sides of Lawrence.
"out on the west side of town, you don't run into any fish," said Sonny Tarpy, sanitation supervisor.
Christmas tree. he said.
Many electrical appliances are tossed on the garbage heap with the
"I got a dishwasher out there that only cost $25 to fix up," said Jim Pentil, sanitation supervisor and brother of David. "I got a stove that didn't cost me anything, and it works."
Crane recently found a video cassette recorder with a broken "stop" button. It will cost $40 to fix, he said.
One day a worker found a purse containing $500 in cash.
"We find quite a bit of money," Tarpy said.
Such finds are reported to police, he said.
Occasionally someone throws something valuable away by mistake. When that happens, the sanitation office tells the landfill operator, and the truck that picked up the item unloads its offal burden away from the other garbage. The customer sifts through the day's haul for the lost item.
"Some of them find it, and some of them don't." Tarpy said.
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Fraternity volunteers take brand
Voluntarily branding a fraternity's symbol into the skin of members is a tradition for at least two black fraternities at the University of Kansas.
Omega Psi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi both perform the branding on members that request it, according to the presidents of those fraternities.
Terrence Anderson, Kansas City, Kan., junior and president of Omega Psi Phi, said yesterday that the majority of the 12 men in his fraternity wore the horseshoe-shaped Omega brand, although there was no pressure to do so.
Anderson said he decided not to get the brand for the same reason he wouldn't get a tattoo.
"It's just a matter of personal preference," he said. "Anyone can choose to have one or not to."
Stanley Diggs, St. Louis sophomore and a member of Omega Psi Phi, said he was branded after he pledged the fraternity.
"It's not something I want to have on my body for the rest of my life," he said. "If you don't have it, it doesn't mean you're not part of the fraternity."
"I decided that after all the stuff I went through to get into the fraternity, I wanted something to show for it."
He said none of the five other people who were initiated with him chose to receive the brand.
"There wasn't any pressure," he said. "It was stricty my own judgment. Even when I said I wanted to do it, they tried to talk me out of it. But it was something I wanted." Clifford Franklin, Lawrence junior and president of Kappa Alpha Psi, said that a few members of his fraternity wore brands.
But, he said, "It's not the norm. I think it's more popular in the South."
Although there is no certain ceremony that accompanies branding, Anderson said, only certain members of Omega Psi Phi can administer it. Those members know how to do it properly and take specific precautions so someone won't be injured.
A member slaps the spot to be branded for about ten minutes and ices it for about 20, Diggs said.
"I felt a little pain, like a pinch. It feels like a tight rubber band on your arm."
"You take the branding iron and sterilize it," he said, "and you use peroxide on it afterwards, about three times a day.
Diggs' brand, which is about three inches high, is on his right bicep. Others brand their legs, chests, hips or calves.
He said that although all the brands were of the Greek letter Omega, some members added their own touch, such as a lightning bolt or a number in the middle.
The tradition, which also occurs at Kansas State University and Wichita State University, dates back to 1911, Diggs said.
Veryl Switzer, assistant vice president of minority affairs at Kansas Sate University, said he was branded a member of Kappa Alpha Psi at KU in 1951.
"I was branded in Lawrence because we didn't have a branding iron at K-State then," he said. "It's been going on for years."
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
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