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Thursday, Sept. 19, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
The League of Women Voters will have a dinner meeting and program to discuss "Mert Pay for Public School Teachers," at 6 p.m. today at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St.
Friau's plea entered and trial date is set
A trial date of October 31 has been scheduled in Municipal Court for Robert Friauf, professor of physics and astronomy.
The court decision came after city officials took big Bob's Used Carpets, 738 New Hampshire St., to court because the company would not paint over red, white and blue stripes on its south wall.
Voters to discuss pay
Yesterday, on his client's behalf, Fraiu's attorney entered a plea of not guilty of charges of indecent exposure.
Friauf was arrested Aug. 25 on charges of ldwacc and lawicious behavior after he was seen sitting naked between two parked cars. The charge was later reduced to indecent exposure, which carries a maximum fine of $500, six months in jail, or both.
City officials will continue to enforce the sign ordinance because the court lacks jurisdiction over a lawsuit for an ordinance, the statement said.
Lynn Weis, senior research associate at Research and Training Associates of Overland Park, Missouri, will speak in panel discussion after her speech.
City won't appeal
City Manager Buford Watson, in a news release, said yesterday that the city would not appeal Municipal Court Judge Jeff Heeb's decision that part of the city sign ordinance was unconstitutional.
The public is invited to the dinner and program. Anyone interested should call Miriam Hoelter at 842-4489 for dinner reservations.
William Wilson, assistant superintendent for Human Resources for the Lawrence school district, and Margaret Holdman, math teacher and counselor at Central Junior High School, will discuss advantages and disadvantages of a merit pay plan for the district.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and very warm with highs in the lower 90s. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and lows of 65 to 70. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and highs in the low to mid-80s.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported the starting time of an Entrepreneurs Week seminar today at the Adams Alumni Center. The seminar is scheduled to start at 5 p.m.
Because of a reporter's error, Ahmad Raee, Shiraz, Iran, graduate student was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansan
From staff and wire reports.
Lawrence police sue city over wages
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
The Lawrence Police Officer's Association filed a lawsuit in Douglas County District Court yesterday morning accusing the city of willfully violating the police salary contract for 1986.
Harry E. Warren, attorney for the association, said the LPOA was seeking $10,000 in actual damages and $10,000 in punitive damages.
"In the allegations set forth, we can demonstrate there is at least an $8,000 difference in what the city paid for the car they were going to pay." Warren said
David Reavis, LPOA chairman,
said that when the city voted on Aug.
6 to include a 4.5 percent salary increase instead of a 5 percent increase for the 1886 budget, all 53 members of the LPOA agreed that a lawsuit was in order.
"We have a written and signed agreement." Reavis said. "The city has not lived up to that agreement."
The cost of living increase for that period was 2.9 percent, according to the Consumer Price Index for the greater Kansas City area.
LPOA contends that an agreement negotiated in July 1984 between the city and the police force called for a 5 percent cost of living increase. That, he added, the city had wrongly used a clause in the agreement to rengee on the terms.
Mayor Mike Amyx said yesterday that city staff had recommended the wage adjustment for police be lowered because of the drop in the cost of living and the provisions of the clause to reopen discussion.
below 3.5 percent or above 6.5 percent between February 1984 and February 1985.
"The city commission went along with the staff recommendation because we didn't want to see a mill levy increase." Amyx said.
The LPOA disagrees with the city's interpretation of that clause.
Warren said the "reopen discussion without prejudice" wording in the clause meant both parties had to agree on any deviation from the original 5 percent increase.
"The city had the obligation to negotiate any change in the terms of the contract with the LPOA and to persuade them to accept the change," he said. "If they could not, then they were required to provide the 5 percent increase."
City Attorney Milton Allen said yesterday that the city had not yet been served with notification of the suit.
"I can't comment on their allegations without seeing the papers, but what the city is saying is, 'Look, you can't get the increases unless you can take the decreases'."
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Campus picnic
Gerard Callens, Lille, France, graduate student, gives Anna Creese, Lawrence senior, a bite of his sandwich. Callens took advantage of warm
New trials are sought in protests
and sunny weather and left his wheelchair to enjoy lunch yesterday afternoon in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
About 60 protesters, including many students were arrested May 3 and 9 at the hall during demonstrations against the Endowment Association's investments in companies that do business in South Africa.
One protester filed two appeals. The names of those filing appeals were unavailable last night.
By a Kansan reporter
The protesters were convicted in July in Lawrence Municipal Court of misdemeanor criminal trespassing stemming from protests at Uteberg University. Uteberg Endowment Association has offices in the building.
Seven anti-apartheid protesters yesterday filed appeals in Douglas County District Court on their convictions this summer of criminal trespassing charges.
Of the trials this summer and fall, seven protesters were acquitted because the city couldn't prove they had been in the area when warnings to clear the area were issued by police.
The protesters who did not go to trial pleaded no contest or agreed to a pretrial diversion, which is an agreement to pay a fine or not to violate the law for a certain period of time.
Another protester, who was convicted recently, has said that she also planned to file an appeal.
In the most recent trials, Jane Ungerman, Lawrence senior, and Shawn Holstrum, Wichita, a student at the time of her arrest, were convicted Sept. 11. Ungerman said at the time that she planned to appeal her conviction, which was her second.
Mark Parker, 25, Lawrence, the last protester to go to trial, will be tried Oct. 22 in Douglas County District Court.
Health department works to stop AIDS
Bv Stefani Day
Of the Kansan staff
Diagnosed cases of the disease are increasing all over the country, and Kansas shows no exception. The number of AIDS cases reported in Kansas this year is 28 percent higher than last year.
AIDS — acquired immune deficiency syndrome — has become a nationwide problem and a byword for fear.
Bob Moody, information officer for the Kansas Department of Health, said yesterday that seven patients had been found to have AIDS this year compared to two patients last year. One AIDS patient was found in 1982 and one in 1983.
Nine of those 11 patients have died, he said.
Kay Kent, director of the Health Department in Lawrence, said no cases of AIDS had been reported in Lawrence.
Moody said the Kansas health department was trying to curb the escalation of AIDS cases by setting up blood testing sites around the state and establishing a toll-free hotline.
Scientists determined last year that the HTLV-III virus was the cause of AIDS. Six months ago, a procedure was devised to test blood for the HTLV-III antibody.
Roger Carlson, director of the
laboratories and research office of the Kansas health department, said Kansas public health laboratories began screening blood donors for the antibody as soon as the kit materials were licensed by the Food and Drug Administration.
The AIDS virus is thought to be spread primarily through sexual contact, infected needles and blood. It affects the immune system, leaving the body vulnerable to disease. As yet, there is no cure, although the FDA Tuesday announced its approval to test a new drug in humans.
Through a federal grant, several testing sites have been set up around Kansas, Carlson said.
The drug, HPA-23, which was available only in France, will be the fourth anti-viral drug to be tested in the United States.
Testing sites closest to Lawrence are the Topeka-Shawnee County Health Department and the Johnson County Health Department.
Because of the way the disease is spread, homosexuals and drug abusers who share needles are considered at high risk.
The AIDS hotline, 1-800-232-0040,
gives information about the HTLV-
III virus, AIDS symptoms and where
blood testing is available.
Higuchi is honored in London
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Takeru Higuchi, Regents distinguished professor of pharmacy and chemistry, will be honored by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain today in London. He will receive the certificate of honorary fellowship at a luncheon.
The council of the society named Higuchi as Honorary Fellow last June. The society has named only 12 scientists as fellows since it's foundation in 1841.
"This is another example of the very high esteem he has all over the world," said Ronald Borchardt, chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry. "It's
quite obvious that he is an internationally recognized scholar."
Borchardt said that Higuchi was considered the "father of pharmaceutical chemistry," and that he built up the department when he came to the University of Kansas in 1967.
Aya Higuchi said yesterday that her husband would be given the certificate while in London attending a meeting in honor of Arnold Beckett, a resigning British professor.
Higuchi has now received 35 professional awards and honorary degrees.
"I'm proud of all of his accomplishments," Mrs. Higuchi said. "Any honor is a great milestone in a
person's life. He works very hard and loves his work."
Pharmaceutical professionals credit Higuchi with creating a new branch of pharmacy, pharmaceutical chemistry, also called physical pharmacy. He has used principles and techniques from physics, mathematics and chemistry to make achievements in drug analysis and development. Higuchi holds more than 10 patents and has written more than 300 articles
On West Campus, Higuchi has established INTERx Research Corp. to complement the KU research programs, and Oread Laboratories, which try to promote University-generated ideas in commercial markets.
In U.S.-Soviet relations
Students should study peace
by John Williams Of the Kansan staff
Students should study both sides of controversial topics in U.S.Soviet relations as part of a "peace education," a nationally recognized social psychologist who specializes in U.S.Soviet relations said last night.
"The Russian people are almost as human as we are — human defined as consisting of an intense desire for peace and not wanting to commit aggression," said Ralph K. White.
professor emeritus of psychology at George Washington University.
White spoke to about 300 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night. The topic of his speech was "Fearful Warriors: U.S.-Soviet Relations," the title of his latest book, which was published in 1984.
The speech was sponsored by 20 organizations, including the office of academic affairs and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Both the United States and the Soviet Union are responsible for the failure of the SALT II arms control
He also said the Soviets had an intense expansionist policy, and the U.S. needed an adequate nuclear and conventional force as a deterrent but should not go overboard.
"We should at least maintain the present level of conventional strength in Western Europe," he said. "The danger of the Soviets attacking Europe is very slight.
talks, White said. But the Soviets have been more reasonable and have wanted an agreement more than the U.S. he said.
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