Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Topeka police find body of local woman
The body of a 26-year-old Lawrence woman, who apparently had committed suicide, was found Sunday afternoon near a creek in Topeka, Topeka police said yesterday.
Police said that the body of the woman, who had been staying with her boyfriend in Topeka, was discovered by a 12-year-old boy who was walking along the creek near the boyfriend's home.
William Leifer, Shawnee County deputy coroner, said the woman apparently had shot herself once in the head with a 22-caliber gun. And been dead about four days before being found, he said.
The death is being investigated by Topeka police detectives.
Leifer said a four-page note addressed to her boyfriend was found near the body.
Bar patron arrested
A 20-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Saturday night at Cogburns, 737 New Hampshire St., after he waved a knife at two other tavern patrons, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police said the man pulled the knife on one of the patrons in an attempt to stop the patron from fighting with his friend.
He also pointed the knife at the patron's girlfriend when she protested, police said.
Police arrested the man on two counts of aggravated assault.
The man is being held in the Douglas County jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.
Pickett to lecture
Calder M. Pickett will give his inaugural lecture at p.m. today as the Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism.
Pickett will discuss "Some Moments in the History of America — and the History of the American Press" at 8 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
In his talk, Pickett will offer a sample of the chronicles of American life through slides, books and recordings of historic voices.
The inaugural lecture series was established in 1980-81 by the office of academic affairs to introduce new distinguished professors and to focus on their scholarly accomplishments. The lectures are free to the public.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and much colder, with a 50 percent chance of rain possibly changing to snow. Temperatures will be steady or falling to the lower 30s. Winds will be north to northwest at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be clearing and very cold. Lows will be 15 to 20. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny but cold, with highs around 40.
From staff and wire reports
Correction
Because of an editor's error, an item in the Week Ahead at KU calendar in Monday's Kansan incorrectly listed the time and place for a campus lecture. David Beard, University distinguished professor of physics and astronomy, will lecture on "Comets" at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in 3920 Mallett Hall.
Mike Horton/KANSAN
Roger Wilks, an employee of Lawrence Transfer & Storage Co. Inc., 2200 Delaware St., delivers two voting machines to Stauffer-Flint Hall. Twenty-four voting machines from the Johnson County Election Office in Olathe were delivered to campus yesterday for Student Senate elections tomorrow and Thursday.
Candidate meeting pre-empted
By Frank Ybarra Special to the Kansan
A meeting that could have given student body presidential and vice presidential candidates an opportunity to answer voters' questions failed to materialize last night at McColum Hall.
The question-and-answer session sponsored by McCollm Black Caucus never took place because McColm residents were having all-floor photos taken in the lobby where the event was to be held.
Instead, candidates from the Chrysalis and Common Sense coalitions took advantage of the situation by having an informal "social
gathering" to talk with students after a Monday Night Football game was turned off.
David Epstein and Amy Brown, presidential and vice presidential candidates for Common Sense Coalition, talked with students for about half an hour before Epstein had told because he was losing his voice.
Epstein said he thought that his coalition had a good chance of winning tomorrow and Thursday's elections if voter turnout was high
"If people get out and vote we will
be he said. 'It will mean tradi-
tionalism.'
Epstein said the issues be and Brown ran on were appealing to to
students because they dealt more with Student Senate and other campus concerns.
However, Milton Scott and Ruth Lichtwert, presidential and vice presidential candidates for Chrysalis Coalition, said that Common Sense was only trying to get elected and not really worrying about concrete issues
Scott said that Common Sense's plans would be ineffective if it won
"We're concerned about people," he said, "not just ideas that will get us elected."
Support groups offer assistance during elections
"There's no way they can implement them on the day they get into office," he said.
This is one in a continuing series of stories dealing with the Student Senate and Senate elections scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday.
By Bonnie Snyder Of.the Kansan staff
Support groups are a new phenomenon in Student Senate elections.
The first support group was Students for Frontier, which campaigned for the coalition led by William Easley and Jeff Polack, this year's student body president and vice president.
Support groups are similar to political action committees, or PACs, which are interest groups that collect money to back candidates or platforms in local, state and national campaigns.
"We resemble a PAC as much as the student body president and student body vice president resemble the president of the United States," said Tim Henderson, president of Students with Common Sense, a support group that is backing Common Sense Coalition, whose presidential and vice presidential candidates are David Epstein and Amy Brown.
Henderson said Sunday that he began work on Students for Common Sense in April and the group registered as a student organization in September.
Group members usually do workg, such as making posters and talking to people in different living groups. Henderson said.
He said members of his support group did not have to pay dues but could give voluntary donations.
He said Students with Common Sense's hardest job was just motivating students to go to the polls.
"Our goal is to get people to vote," he said. "We feel confident that if people vote, we'll win."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday that support groups were a good idea if students are recruiting students to cast ballots.
"The only way Student Senate will have any credibility is if we get a large student voter turnout," he said.
Epstein said that no one in the Common Sense support group, which has about 125 members, was running for office.
Henderson said some members, however, might receive appointed positions if Common Sense Coalition tomorrow and Thursday's elections.
Just as Frontier was the only coalition with a support group last year, only Common Sense has a support group this year.
Ruth Lichtwardt, vice presidential candidate for the Chrysalis Coalition, said she and Milton Scott, presidential candidate, did not need a support
She said that the coalition knew it had support and did not think it had to formally organize supporters into a group.
Senate rules and regulations do not say anything about support groups, but David Day, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said groups had to stay within the rules that governed campaigns.
That includes spending limits, he said. Each coalition can spend $400 for the presidential and vice presidential campaign. Senatorial candidates have three cents times the number of students in the school, whichever is more.
KU ready to remove nuclear fuel from reactor
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
The radioactive fuel from KU's nuclear reactor will be removed sometime in the next two months, the associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies said yesterday.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig signed a contract last week to allow a South Carolina company to remove the radioactive fuel from KU's nuclear facility. Richard Robert Bearse, the associate vice chancellor,
He said Chem-Nuclear Services Inc., Columbia, S.C., would supervise the transportation of the weapons-grade nuclear fuel to the Savannah Department of Energy Reprocessing Plant.
December or January. The exact time and day are kept classified by the U.S. government, he said.
The shipment will take place sometime in
"The reactor has not been used in over a year," he said. "It seems silly to continue to maintain the reactor in the face of government changes."
The University of Kansas will pay Chem-
Nuclear about $70 an hour to complete paper-
work related to the removal project, Bearse
said. The government will pay for the transporation of the fuel. Chem-Nuclear officials arrived at KU this weekend to begin work.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires all colleges and universities with highgrade nuclear fuel to change to low-grade fuel, he said.
KU was one of 25 universities ordered in Oc
tober to either remove excess nuclear weapons-grade fuel or show just cause why it should stay
Harold Rosson, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said the contract signaled an end to the use of the small reactor, which was shut down in 1984 after operating for 23 years.
"It's not a particularly useful device to have around." Rosson said. "Each year it becomes more and more complicated with all the regulations."
The reactor, which is in the Nuclear Reactor Center next to Learned Hall, produced its first nuclear reaction in June 1961.
"We don't have the time or the expertise to move the fuel ourselves and still take advantage of the free transportation the Department
of energy is providing," he said. "Chem-
Nuclear has the experience of preparing
the large amount of paperwork, permits,
authorization and supervision."
KU will save about $20,000 in transportation costs, Rosson said.
The procedure will involve removing the 16 aluminum-uranium alloy fuel elements from the 20-foot deep reactor pool, which contains about 6,000 gallons of water.
The stainless steel and lead encased reactor is protected by 610,000 pounds of concrete, which is stepped at the bottom to provide maximum shielding from the radiation produced by about 3 kilograms, or about 7 pounds, of the radioactive isotope U-235, he said.
Schol halls have the stuff legends are made of
Rv Roh Tinslev
Of the Kansan staff
Scholarship hall residents lead Spartan lives of studying and sharing chores to make their living arrangements work.
One Pearson Hall resident, however, not only doesn't work, but lives in his own penthouse on the fourth floor of the three-story hall.
Jarvis Lunt, a perennial Pearson resident, has become something of a Pearson institution.
"He's the 35rd man who lives on the fourth floor." Dan Cunningham, Leneca graduate student and former Pearson resident, said Sunday.
Pearson residents have enjoyed life with the mythical Lunt since at least 1976. That is the year Beulah Harding became Pearson resident director, a position she filled until 1982.
often appears in the hall yearbook without a picture. Cunningham said,
If Lunt is a wallflower, he has grown to tremendous proportions in the fertile imaginations of Pearson residents.
Today, Harding is director of Lewis Hall, but she remembers Lunt well.
Pearson Hall has space for 52 men. Lunt is shy by nature. His name
"It was sort of like having a nook," she said.
cepted the position at Pearson
Minty's origins are shrouded in mystery. He was alive and active, and his legacy is still being explored.
Despite his shyness, Lunt must be an adventuresome playboy at heart. Residents still talk about the day he was born and how his brand new Porsche was ready.
"People had to do a lot of fast talking," said Jim Williamson, Topeka senior and Pearson resident. "The guy at the Porsche dealership wasn't real happy with us."
Harding said, "I suppose the poor salesman was out a commission on that one."
Lunt has lived at Pearson probably since the late 1950s, but no one is sure. Cunningham said.
When he isn't tinkering with fast cars, Lunt is an avid reader. He has subscribed to nearly every national
magazine ever published, Cuningham said.
Lunt's favorite magazines include The Economist, Time and Newsweek.
"He's got Playboy and Playgirl subscriptions, too, so we're still not sure about Jarvis," said Dave Adkins, Topeka graduate student and former Pearson resident.
Lunt receives all sorts of mailor items, Adkins said.
"Of course, he was never prompt in paying his bills," he said.
If an imaginary man needs imaginary friends, Lunt should meet Wilbur Nether of Stephenson Hall.
Nether must be aspiring to public office, but he doesn't know quite where his allegiances lie.
"He's joined all kinds of organizations," said Jeff Bandle, St. Louis senior and Stephenson resident. "He was a member of the Socialist Party, the College Republicans and Young Democrats for Freedom, all at the same time."
Nether also is a neo-Nazi and a card-carrying member of the Moral Majority.
His interests include cooking. Once he ordered a wok set, said David, *Fonseca, Gardner senior and Stephenson resident.*
Nether also receives survivalist magazines and communist propaganda in the mail. Bandle said.
"Some years, Wilbur is a very quiet person," he said. "In other years, he raises all sorts of hell."
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