University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 25, 1985
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News Briefs Longhurst proposes wait on buying guns
City attorneys are exploring a proposed ordinance by City Commissioner David Longhurst that would require a 72-hour wait before a person could take possession of a gun after buying it.
Longhurst said yesterday that he proposed the ordinance, after the suicide death of a KU student last week. The 21-year-old bought a gun the same afternoon she went to a city park and shot herself.
The commissioner said the 72-hour waiting period would allow "emotions to cool." The waiting period, which would register the gun with the local police, also would allow police to have an owner of record should the gun be used in a crime.
Campus/Area
Longhurst said city attorneys were drafting an ordinance on the issue, but no date has been set for a possible vote on the matter.
Ghosts and goblins will haunt the Master's Inn, 2222 W. Sixth St., tonight.
Clubs' party tonight
The KU Advertising Club and the KU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America are throwing a party, "Hallowen Happening," at 8 p.m. today at the motel.
Cost is $2 for members of either organization or $3 for non-members. Costume is required.
Free concert tonight
The BCR, Black Crack Revue,
Band will perform at 9 p.m. today
in the Party Room of the Burge
Union.
The performance is the third in a series of free Friday night dance concerts sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Members describe the band as an "afro, nuclear, funk, swing, reggae, tango band." BCR recently took part in a benefit to aid victims of the Mexican earthquake and expect an album to be released in the spring.
Officials to speak
Athletic Director Monte Johnson and Susan Wachter, Athletic Department business manager, will discuss the financial side of his job by presenting a seminar at 9 a.m. tomorrow in 135 Parrot Athletic Center.
The seminar, "The Business of College Athletics," is part of the University's Saturday Seminar series.
Johnson will present information about the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation's long-term sponsoring sports programs and facilities.
Wachter will explain Athletic Department budget and operating procedures and provide comparison figures for other Big Eight Conference universities.
Today will be sunny and mild, with highs in the low to mid 70s. Winds will be from the southeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly clear. Lows tonight will be in the upper 40s and highs tomorrow will be near 80.
Weather
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly identified the hometown and class rank of a student. Jim Regan, the student, is a Garden City junior.
From staff and wire reports
Med Center gets new scanning unit
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — New technology, called magnetic resonance imaging, is allowing physicians to diagnose medical problems by safely and accurately looking inside the human body.
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
MRI is far superior to other imaging techniques because of its clarity, cost, flexibility and low risk, according to a professor of diagnostic radiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The professor, Errol Levine, explained the technique on a video tape shown last night at an open house to introduce the Med Center's new MRI unit.
Construction of the unit began last year and its 80-ton magnet was delivered July 15. The
MRI is safer than other imaging techniques such as X-rays and CT scans because it doesn't use radiation, Levine said. Neither does it require injections to achieve high contrast.
A radio frequency coil in the unit sends waves that change the atoms' energy state. When the radio frequency waves are stopped, the atoms return to their normal state of energy.
A strong magnet, 20,000 times the magnetic strength of the earth, causes the nuclei of hydrogen atoms in the body to align with the magnetic field.
Med Center hopes to start MRI examinations in November.
A computer can convert the change of energy into an image that then can be seen on a television-like monitor.
Sol Battnitzky, professor of diagnostic radiology, said MRI's high sensitivity made it particularly useful for diagnosing conditions such as multiple sclerosis, tumors of the spinal cord and herniated discs.
radio frequencies are recorded. The computer uses those different frequencies to create detailed images.
Levine said MRI also was ideal for imaging the heart and blood vessels because rapidly flowing blood wasn't recorded. Also, images in sequence can simulate a beating heart.
Because every tissue in the body has a different concentration of hydrogen, different
"Other techniques may pick up these conditions, but perhaps not as readily," Batnitzky said.
A radiologist controls the area that is subjected to radio waves and therefore controls the area viewed. He can see various planes without moving the patient or the machine.
MRI also can give multiple views of the body, unlike the CT scanner, which can only view the body on a cross-sectional plane.
When Simone blocked Davis in the Gardner High School parking lot, Davis jumped out of his car and ran, Simone said.
Although a magnetic resonance scan costs about the same as a CT scan, Levine said, it could end up costing the patient less money because it is more sensitive than other scanning techniques.
Dalquest said that about 3:55 a.m. a Kansas highway patrolman spotted the car eastbound on U.S. 56.
Kansas Highway Patrolman Kirk Simone said he was traveling west on U.S. 56 when he spotted the car traveling east at speeds exceeding the legal limit.
He gave an example of a 69-year-old woman having difficulties with balance. CT scan results were normal. Results from a CT scan with materials injected into her for higher contrast also were normal. Several other tests showed no abnormalities. The cost of all of the tests, including two days in the hospital, was $2.115.
He said he turned around and pursued Davis' car, traveling faster than 110 mph, into Gardner.
Finally, Levine said, an MRI was done and showed a malignant tumor in her brain.
"I got out and tackled him. We both went to the ground, then he got up and went over a chain link fence into a football field," Simone said.
D'Ercole was knocked to the ground when Davis started to drive off. D'Ercole was not injured, Dalquest said. The passenger was not arrested.
Police nab man after car chase
Othick, who estimated Davis's speed at about 130 mph, chased Davis onto Iowa Street and south about eight miles outside the city limits, where he lost sight of the car.
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Dalquest said D'Ercole asked the passenger to step out of the car and began searching his side of the car.
A 20-year-old Overland Park man yesterday led officers from eight Kansas law enforcement agencies on a four-hour chase that started in a rural area near the trails Cafe in Gardner, law enforcement officials said yesterday.
Lawrence police Sgt. Don Dalquest said Matthew Karl Lloyd Davis was booked in the Douglas County jail yesterday on charges of aggravated battery of a police officer, attempt to elude, obstruction of the legal process and on a Clay County, Mo., warrant for forgery.
Officer Fred D'Ercale and Cpl. Wayne Othick responded to the call, found two men sitting in a silver chair, and asked for a check for warrants, Dalquest said.
Dalquestre said the officers discovered the driver, Davis, was wanted on forgery charges in Clay and was given no warrants out for the passenger.
Capt. Laynard Shearer, Kansas Highway Patrol, said troopers were investigating several small envelopes of a substance thought to be cocaine that were found in Davis' car.
Dalquest said the chase began about 3 a.m. yesterday after police received a report of two men behaving suspiciously in an apartment parking lot in the 2300 block of Ridge Court.
The cost of MRI, which takes about an hour,
is between $500 and $600.
Bryan GravesKANSAN
Winter coat
Chris Morris, Newton freshmen, left, and Matt Liewellyn, Lawrence freshmen, scrape and paint the windows of one of the houses being painted by Evans Painting & Services, 1535 New Hampshire St. Yesterday's warm weather allowed the men to finish their job.
Years of planning come into fruition for war memorial
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
The building site of a campus Vietnam memorial, which has been in planning for about two years, will be dedicated within the next month, the chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee said yesterday.
"It's a step by step process," said Tom Berger, the committee chairman. "We're still shooting for Veteran's Day for the dedication, but there are technical aspects we have to wait on. We're not sure when the ceremony will be. All involved parties have not been notified."
Berger said that because the memorial would be built on state property, the plans must go through a state government process. He said the committee also was writing for the complete memorial to his artist's rendering of the memorial.
Said Berger, "The dedication will be a brief, informal ceremony where we will place a copy of the rendering at the site. The drawing should be about 20-by-24."
The memorial will be built in the southeast corner of Memorial Drive and West Campus Road, and will have several elements, said Stephen Grabow, chairman of the Committee on Art in Public Spaces.
Greg Wade, a landscape architect for the University of Kansas Architectural Services, said that two weeks ago he finished drawing a preliminary site plan that outlined existing conditions on the site.
"The next phase will be designing a detailed drawing of the memorial that a contractor could build from," Wade said. "The process is going on. I have to wait until we have a clear idea what the memorial will look like."
The memorial will consist of a long wall with the names of more than 60 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. A dedication inscription and a bench will be on a circular patio in front of the wall.
Both Berger and Wade said members of the committee visited a stone company in Topeka last week to determine the type of stone to be used for the memorial.
"It will be a type of limestone," Berger said. "Because of the quality of the stone, no metal plaques will be used. We'll cut into the stone. Metal would affect the appearance of the stone."
Berger said he wasn't sure when construction would begin on the memorial.
Berger said he was pleased with the progress of the memorial project.
"We are cautiously optimistic that construction will begin soon after the dedication ceremony," he said. "We hope to begin it then, if all the other things are completed on time."
Scrimmage to benefit Food Bank
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Fans admitted to ballgame for beans
Basketball fans will get a preview of the KU men's basketball team tomorrow and help a worthy cause at the same time by attending a benefit basketball scrimimage.
Admission to the scrimmage at Allen Field House, which will benefit the Douglas County Emergency Service Council Food Bank, is one can of food. The scrimmage is scheduled to begin 30 minutes after the KU-Oklahoma State football game ends, about 4 p.m.
Sherri Cannon, executive director of Ballard Community Center and Emergency Service Council board member, said yesterday that the donated food would be distributed equally among the Council's five member food banks.
The food banks are operated by the Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St.; East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation (ECKAN); 311 Maine St.; Penn House, 1053 Pennsylvania St.; the Indian Center of Lawrence, 1910 Hallsk Ave., and the Salvation Army, 946 New Hampshire St.
Cannon said the food banks needed items that included non-perishable, high protein foods such as peanut butter, dried beans and peas; packaged foods such as rice, noodles and oatmeal; and canned meals, vegetables, juice and fruit.
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said this was the third year the Athletic Department had sponsored a benefit scrimmage for the Emergency Service Council.
"I guess after the third time you could can an annual affair," he said.
"It's a wonderful drawing card," she said. "We are able to stock our food banks with a complete diet because of the variety of food contributed."
Susan Beers, Douglas County coordinator for ECKAN, said the benefit scrimmages had proven to be a successful way of restocking the food banks.
Beers said ECKAN'S food bank helped approximately 45 households a month.
Carol Lemirand, of the Salvation Army, said the Salvation Army food bank had received 2,000 cans
"There must have been about 10,000 cans total."
she said. "We didn't get that much last year, but we still had a good response."
Lemirand said most of the food the Salvation Army received would be distributed at Thanksgiving or the week after.
Cannon said all the agencies were op-rating with reduced funds because of cutbacks in federal programs, but they also were increasing the amount of service they provided.
"For example, the number of requests to our agency has doubled, and we're giving out twice the amount of food we used to," she said.
Cannon said the Ballard Center gave food assistance to about 80 households a month. She said the agency relied mainly on donations, all of which went for direct aid to clients.
Marcia Price, Indian child welfare act counselor at the Indian Center, said her agency provided food assistance for about 35 households a month. A spokesman for Penn House said that between 75 and 100 clients a month were given food by that agency.
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