Monday, Nov. 18, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Armed man escapes after robbing station
A wooden cross was burned about 2:15 a.m. yesterday on a lawn in front of a home in the 1600 block of Haskell Avenue, Lawrence police said yesterday.
A man pointed a revolver at a 16-year-old gas station attendant Friday evening and escaped with more than $200 from the Jayhawk Oil Co. Inc., 902 W. 23rd St., Lawrence police站 yesterday.
Police said the cross, which was constructed by nailing two boards together, was about 4 feet 8 inches long. The woman sailed, soaked with a flammable liquid.
Police said the attendant gave the man a wallet containing about $200.
The attendant told police that a man wearing a green vest walked around the east side of the building, pushed open the door, walked in and pulled a revolver from under the vest.
Police said a 20-year-old black woman who lived at the home said she had been receiving harassing phone calls and thought the cross might have been burned as further harassment.
The liquid burned off but the wood did not catch on fire, police said.
The attendant told police that the robber was a white male about 27- to 30-years-old, was 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds and had a long nose.
8 cars broken into
Cross burned in yard
Eight cars parked in Lot 106 on West Campus were broken into early Thursday morning and car stereo equipment with a total value of $1,800 was stolen, KU police said Friday.
A national authority on women's psychology will give a speech, "Bitches, Nice Ladies and Other Angry Women," at 7:30 tonight in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Side windows of the cars were broken to gain entry. Damage to the cars was estimated at $1,100. Police have no suspects.
Talk to be on women
The speaker, Harriet Goldhor Lerner, is a staff psychologist and psychotherapist at the Meninger Foundation, Topeka. She wrote "The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships" and her work has appeared in publications such as Cosmopolitan and Nation's Business.
The KU women's studies program is sponsoring Lerner's speech.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms. The high will be in the upper 60s to lower 60s with southerly winds at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance for rain, becoming mixed with or changing to snow. The low will be around 30. Tomorrow will be cloudy and coldier with a 30 percent chance for snow and a high in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Regents seek money to insure Med Center
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
From staff and wire reports
The Kansas Board of Regents voted Friday to request that the Kansas Legislature appropriate more than $1.3 million for the University of Kansas Medical Center so it can purchase malpractice insurance for its residents.
Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said yesterday that the Regents would request $217,427 for the Med Center for fiscal year 1986 and $1.1 million for fiscal year 1987.
The Med Center's fiscal year begins July 1. The money requested for 1986, Nitcher said, would be for only the last quarter of the fiscal year because the Med Center officials didn't think the Legislature would be able to appropriate any money until April.
Nitcher said that by purchasing commercial
When the Med Center became a self-insurer, it essentially entered the insurance business. The Med Center, which became a self-insurer July 1 as a result of last-minute legislative action, was never granted the proper funds to serve that purpose.
insurance for its residents, the Med Center would no longer be a self-insurer.
Nitcher said Med Center officials didn't like the self-insurance status.
"The Med Center would prefer to have a commercial-type insurance for the residents rather than be involved in self-insurance," Nitcher said.
The Legislature, however, never intended the Med Center to become a self-insurer. Senate bill 362, which the Senate initiated at the request of University officials, originally would have put the residents under the liability of
their supervisors at the Med Center, Kansas City, Kan.
When the bill reached the House Ways and Means Committee, however, its intent was changed. The new version of the bill called for the Med Center to provide its own insurance for its residents, thus becoming a self-insurer.
Legislators have said that neither the House nor the Senate was happy with the bill but passed it because they thought it was the best they could do at the time.
The Legislature also was forewarned by officials from the Kansas attorney general's office that the bill left no provisions for equipping the Med Center with money to handle possible lawsuits against its residents.
State Seen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence, said the Legislature would either act on the Med
Center's recommendation or once again try to exempt the residents from liability.
He said that through an emergency appropriation, the Legislature could give the Median House $200.
Exempting the residents from liability. Winter said, was the original intent of the bill the Senate presented last session. He said the bill would have saved the Med Center money that could have been used in other academic areas.
In other action, the regents said it planned to file a "friend of the court" brief in the KU Alumni Association's tax appeal case. The association is trying to overturn a Board of Tax Appeals ruling against Alumni Alumni Rules for Douglass County property taxes. The board ruled that the center was not exempt because the association allowed non-alumni to join.
Gun law arouses public discussion
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
An ordinance that would establish a 72-hour waiting period to purchase a handgun hasn't been officially considered yet by the Lawrence City Commission, but the possibility of the commission passing such an ordinance already has created a lot of public interest.
the ordinance became an issue when Commissioner David Longhurst asked city staff members at the Oct. 22 commission meeting whether the commission had the power to adopt a waiting period.
Longhurst's comments were pro-
promoted by the Oct. 17 suicide of a
21-year-old KU student who shot
herself with a 22-caliber pistol two
hours after she had purchased the
gun.
At the meeting, he said the waiting period might further prevent people from taking their lives at the spur of the moment.
But others think the waiting period would be a nuisance and could easily cause irritation.
Lawrence police officers are circulating a petition against the ordinance and Lawrence National Rifle Association members have called city officials stating their views on the proposed ordinance.
Commissioner Howard Hill said yesterday that he had received a call from someone wanting to know whether the commission was going to consider the ordinance. The caller said he had a telegram from the NITA calling for him to be involved in bringing up the ordinance before it was on the agenda.
"I also had a caller who said he had 300 signatures on a petition, and he said he was against any form of gun control." Hill said.
Actual action on a gun ordinance might never be taken. No one will
know until the commissioners receive a report from Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager.
Wilden said his unfinished report detailed actions that the city could take toward adopting a gun ordinance. His report also contains copies of other cities' gun purchase ordinances. He expects to give the report to the commissioners this week.
Mayor Mike Amyx, who has received calls on both sides of the issue, said, "Before any decision will be made to take action, it is of public discussion on the issue."
After studying the report, the commissioners then would decide whether to put the ordinance on the commission's agenda.
Even though the ordinance has not been on the commission's agenda, opponents and advocates of the ordinance have criticized the last two commission meetings.
City Clerk Vera Mercer said she had received some calls about the ordinance issue. One caller that Mercer talked to Wednesday asked why Amyx had not allowed public comment on the issue.
Mercer explained to the caller that Amyx had opened the floor for public viewing.
Wilden said he couldn't understand why some members of the public were so quick to condemn Longhurst for asking a question.
"The issue came up just because Commissioner Longhurst asked if we could do something. They do that all the time." he said.
State statutes don't address a waiting period for the purchase of hazardous waste.
Hill said that if citizens had questions about the ordinance and about when it might be considered by the commission, they should call the city manager's office or the commissioners.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Psyching Up
Chris Wright, Lincoln, Neb., senior, took a break and concentrated before competing in the women's 100-meter treasevel during Saturday's dual meet with the University of Wyoming in Robinson Natatorium.
NCAA reviews KU probation
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Thomas said the meeting was requested by NCAA officials.
KU officials met Friday with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Committee on Infractions to review KU's football program, Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said yesterday.
"We received a letter asking us to meet to review policies and practices of the University because the end of the university period is coming up," she said.
was placed on a two-year probation by the NCAA in fall 1983 for violating the association's recruiting regulations.
The NCAA also imposed sanctions that prohibited KU from playing televised games and from appearing in post-season games during the 1984 season. No penalties were included for the 1985 season.
The University's football program
Thomas said she could not comment on issues discussed by the committee and KU officials. She did say the meeting was part of the normal process of the Infractions Committee.
tending Friday's meeting at the Westin Crown Center hotel in Kansas City, Mo., were Athletic Director Monte Johnson; Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director; Del Brinkman, faculty representative to the NCAA and the Big Eight Conference; head football coach Mike Gottfried; and Dave Didion, administrative assistant to Gottfried.
Besides Thomas. KU officials at-
Johnson declined to comment on the meeting because he said it had been agreed that any statement would have to come from Thomas.
Ten separate violations were cited by NCAA officials when the probation was imposed Nov. 21, 1983.
KU lags in toxic waste control, official says
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
The University of Kansas is behind many universities in identifying and controlling hazardous waste, the chairman of the Institutional Biohazards Committee said last week.
The chairman, John A. Landgrebe, who also is a professor of chemistry, said that until this semester, the University had no formal program to collect and dispose of hazardous waste and no policy on handling such materials.
This semester, a temporary hazardous waste storage site was established and a lask force was
formed to determine KU's position on hazardous materials.
"A lot of it has been just sitting around in laboratories around the campus," he said. "Some of this stuff has come from faculty members who have left the campus and simply left dirty laboratories loaded up with shelves of who knows what, all kinds of things."
A month ago, the University began storing hazardous waste in a trailer on West Campus, Landgrebe said. Before that, individual laboratories took care of the materials themselves.
The Biohazards Committee, which is involved primarily with academic research and teaching laboratories, set up the trailer on West Campus
and sent notices to various laboratories asking them to inform Landgrebe of any hazardous waste they had.
A transporter will pick up the materials this month or next and take them to a hazardous waste site in Louisiana to bury or burn them, he
"Then we simply went ahead and collected all of this stuff," he said.
Landgrebe said that hazardous materials were any that were toxic, flammable, corrosive or highly reactive, excluding radioactive materials.
Selenium, a toxic element, and hydrogen bromide, a highly corrosive acid, are two of the materials that are being stored in the West
Campus trailer
Radioactive waste is handled through Radiation Safety Service, which has clear-cut rules, he said.
"Those things are very precise, everything is laid out and spelled out," he said. "So in a sense they are very easy to follow once you know what they are.
"That's not really true for hazardous waste. It's too new, the regulations are very complicated and it's hard to believe what you're doing is 'right or wrong.'
The newly formed Task Force on Hazardous Materials may help spell *hazard*.
The task force was established this semester to examine problems with hazardous materials on campus, said
Ross McKinney, chairman of the task force and professor of civil engineering.
He said the University now had no comprehensive policy on handling hazardous materials, although several departments had developed their own.
"There hasn't been an overall policy," McKinney said, "but there have been lots of bits and pieces, and everyone was doing his own bit and piece."
The task force was set up to pull together the separate studies and programs and to make a recommendation for the University's position on handling hazardous materials, he said.
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