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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 43 (USPS 650-640)
SUNSHINE
Warm
Details page 3.
Rather than rake
Naismith Hall residents Pam Unruh, Wichita sophomore, left, and Lori
Chad DeShazoKANSAN
KUAC plans closer watch over athletes
Lipkind, St. Louis freshman, enjoyed the fall weather yesterday with a leaf
fight in front of Haworth Hall.
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
The recommendations are part of a "working document" submitted by the KUAC Academic Committee during the board's regular meeting yesterday afternoon.
Johnson said the new procedures "would be a better checks and balances system than most schools have."
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday that full implementation of the recommendations would minimize the types of academic eligibility problems that have disrupted the athletic program recently.
At the beginning of this semester, five football players were declared academically ineligible. Two football players' eligibility will be determined in Johnson County District Court. Last year, 11 football players were declared ineligible.
Student athletes' academic progress from the time of recruitment to graduation will be closely monitored under recommendations endorsed yesterday by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board.
Academic Committee and professor of American studies and sociology, said the document contained some provisions that were still being formulated, but some of the procedures already had been implemented.
Norman Yetman. chairman of the
ST. LOUIS — The Royals last night at Busch Stadium started what could be another post-season comeback with a 6-1 drubbing of the St. Louis Cardinals in the third game of the World Series.
He said the procedures would insure that student athletes maintained the traditional high academic standards of the University.
"The main thrust of the document is to reinforce the notion that the University of Kansas is first and foremost an academic institution." he said.
One recommendation calls for the creation of an Academic Credentials Committee to review the academic records of athletic recruits. The committee will be responsible for alerting coaches to those student athletes who might be academic risks.
Man seized for selling fake passes
Another procedure will prohibit a student athlete from adding or dropping courses without the approval of his academic adviser and the director of supportive educational services.
Frank White, Royals' second baseman and clean-up hitter, drove in three runs with a home run and a double.
Yetman said, "We want to be sure we're recruiting academically eligible athletes who are capable of graduating from the University."
The World Series continues at 7:35 p.m. today at Busch Stadium. For more information on last night's game, see page 13.
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Longaker said the man was arrested on suspicion of eight counts of forgery
Royals win, 6-1; Cards lead series
A 23-year old KU student was arrested Monday after he allegedly sold two bogus season basketball tickets to a woman accompanied by a KU police officer who witnessed the exchange, a KU police spokesman said yesterday.
The student had placed a classified advertisement in the University Daily Kansan on Monday that said he had two season basketball tickets he wanted to sell because he was planning to graduate in December, said Lt. Jeanne Longaker, the spokesman.
A KU police officer, dressed in plain clothes, accompanied the woman to the meeting place on campus. After the exchange was made, the officer arrested the man.
See KUJAC p. 5 col.
The women noticed something was different about the way the numbers were written on the tickets, Longaker said.
She met the man, bought the tickets and went home. While she and a friend were talking, they compared the tickets to tickets bought from the University of Kansas Athletic Corp. Longan said
Longaker said the woman's friend, also a student, then called the man and asked him to sell her the tickets. They agreed on a price of $100 for the two tickets and arranged a meeting time and place.
The student who bought the tickets became suspicious and called the man back to ask him if he had any more tickets for sale.
She then called the police and told them she thought she had bought bogus tickets.
Culture firm transfers money from U.S.
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
More than $1 million generated by a culture growing scheme that cheated people in Kansas and across the country out of millions of dollars has been moved out of the country, a spokesman for the Nevada attorney general's office said yesterday.
Anne Perry, an assistant attorney general, said she had seen three bank drafts from Activator Supply Co. Pahrum, Nev., showing 1,070,510 being moved out of the United States.
In the alleged pyramid scheme, Activator sold culture growing packages to investors who thought they could resell the mature cultures at a profit to a Lawrence company that went out of business this summer.
Perry said the bank drafts, dated June 18 and 19, showed that Activator moved money from banks in Utah and California to Barclays Bank
International Ltd., Grand Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles.
The bank drafts, which Perry said she saw two weeks ago, showed transactions as follows:
$90,000 withdrawn from the Zion National Bank, Utah.
$100,012 withdrawn from the Burbank National Bank, California.
$880,498 withdrawn from Burbank National Bank, California.
More than 27,000 people lost between $80 and $100 million in the scheme.
As part of the alleged scheme, Culture Farms Inc., a Lawrence company now out of business, was supposed to buy the cultures back from people across the country who had grown them in their homes.
The cultures were to be used in the manufacturing of cosmetics. Most of the cultures, however, were reprocessed and sold to other investors as more culture growing material, called lactic activators.
In September, grand jury indictments were handed down to 12 of the leaders of the scheme. Terry Taylor, president of the Culture Farms, was among those indicted.
Each of the indicted leaders faces 63 counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy in connection with the scheme.
Culture Farms opened its headquarters in Lawrence on Jan. 4.
In the culture operation, Activator Supply Co. sold packets of the activator compound. Investors mixed the compound with milk and let it sour for seven days.
Investors, who were told they could expect a $900 return on a purchase of $385 worth of activator, initially received payments, but eventually payments stopped. The company used money received from new investors to pay
original investors to make the company look legitimate.
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan announced Jan. 31, that he was investigating Culture Farms. He issued subpoenas for Culture Farms records on Feb. 12.
The state securities commissioner issued a cease and desist order against Culture Farms on March 6. This order was counteracted by a order from a Shawnee County district judge.
Culture Farms was put out of business permanently June 10 by state Securities Commissioner John Wurth. This prevented the sale and purchase of culture starter kits inside and outside Kansas.
Culture Farms announced Aug. 1 that it was filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act.
Some investors in California and Kansas have recovered part of their losses.
Lawrence named one of five Main Street cities
The five cities are now members of the National Main Street Center in Washington, D.C., and will receive
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Lawrence was named yesterday as one of five Kansas Main Street Project cities by Lt. Gov. Tom Docking at a conference in Salina.
About 20 cities originally applied for the program in September. Docking announced the final selections at Main Street Project 1985 Conference.
Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence,
said Lawrence, Manhattan, Hutchinson,
Independence and Winfield were chosen from 12 semifinalist cities.
technical assistance from the center. The center also subsists Main Street cities as expansion sites to businesses looking for new locations.
Zacharias said the first meeting
At last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting, Hannes Zacharias, city management analyst, gave Mayor Mike Amyx a proclamation from Gov. John Carlin that named him the other cities as Main Street City Day and also proclaimed Oct. 22 as National Main Street City Day in Kansas.
Zacharias said, "There are some very disappointed cities out there, obviously, that didn't get to be one of our communities. But we should be proud."
with the national Main Street group would be Nov. 12.
Amyx said the selection took Lawrence's downtown from a local setting to a regional and national spotlight.
"There are articles that will be written that will show off our downtown," he said.
City Manager Buford Watson said, "I'm really happy for the selection. I think the downtown merchants have worked real hard on providing a good proposal. So, I'm happy for them and for the city.
"I think we'll get a lot of technical advice. The group that will come here will be trying to preserve the old
but also will be trying to give some new aspects to our development."
Winter said that although the program didn't supply direct funds, it did supply coordination and planning advice from national experts in downtown refurbishment and revitalization.
"The selection is an acknowledgment of the commitment that Lawrence has shown and continues to show toward having a strong downtown," he said. "It's going to be very important to maintaining downtown as a vital and cultural center of our city."
Being named as a Main Street city also might attract new business to the area, Winter said.
"That's an exciting kind of lure to others outside of Lawrence to make the commitment to expand in Lawrence," he said.
The Downtown Lawrence Association sent the city's Main Street application to the Kansas Department of Economic Development office in September.
The City Commission endorsed the application at its Sept. 24 meeting and pledged to provide city funds for various downtown improvements.
The 1985 Kansas Legislature provided $40,000 to the Department of Economic Development for Kansas to apply to the National Main Street Center to become a Main Street state.
Commission refuses to rezone 65 lots
Bv Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
The Lawrence City Commission last night unanimously denied a request to rezone certain lots in East Lawrence from single-family residential to multi-family residential.
Barry Shalinsky, president of the East Lawrence Improvement Association, one group that opposed the rezoning, said that Lawrence was very liberal in its zoning restrictive and that multi-family units already in the area could stay in the area under the present zoning.
Commissioners listened to heated arguments from residents and landowners in the area. The residents said the quality of life in their neighborhood would decrease if duplexes were built in the area, but owners said property values in the neighborhoods would rise if the area was rezoned.
However, Shalinsky said zoning lot by lot would create "a precedent that someone can later come in and attack."
Dean Burkhead, an attorney representing 22 of the landowners in favor of rezoning the lots, said. "This is a nice living area. We're not trying to destroy it."
He said that not only did the city staff recom
mend rezoning the area, but that rezoning also would increase the value of the properties because duplexes could be built on the lots.
Ken Baldwin, 1012 Connecticut St., spoke for the residents of the 1000 block of Connecticut at the meeting. He said allowing duplexes to be built in the area could decrease the quality of life in the neighborhood. He said he had selected a house in the area because of its proximity to downtown.
"I kind of resent the fact that some of the speakers feel that people who rent duplexes are less than desirable citizens," he said.
"Now, they want to penalize me. I need you to protect me," he told the commissioners
Commissioners David Longhurst and Howard Hill said they thought considering all 65 lots in one request was too massive an undertaking. They thought it would better for those property owners to pursue their intentions legally.
Some of the property owners filed a lawsuit against the city in February 1983 opposing rezoning three years ago that changed the area from multi-family to single family residential.
The property owners represented by Burkhead made the request to the commission as an alternative to the lawsuit.
In other action, Robert Phillips, of Robert
Phillips & Associates, 733 Massachusetts St., requested $2 million in industrial revenue bonds to renovate the Eldridge House, Seventh and Massachusetts streets.
Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve the letter of intent to provide the bonds. Amyx voted against issuing the bonds.
Phillips did not have a statement of net worth for his partnership that is planning to do the renovation. He said his reason for haste on the issue was that the Reagan administration was considering taking away IRBs for city development.
Hill said the commission should approve the letter of intent because sometimes a risk was worth the chance to do something this important.
The revision extended the Town Center Venture Corporation, a local development group that plans to build the downtown mall, as developer of record until 1988 and added Jacobs, Visconti, Jacobs, a Cleveland development firm, to the project.
The commission also approved the revision of the developer of record contract for a shopping complex located generally between Sixth and Seventh streets and the alley east of Massachusetts and Kentucky streets
Bryan Oresinki Am Ai
Attorney Dean Burkhead tried last night to persuade the City Commission to rezone some East Lawrence lots.