Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Friauf gets exposure charge from the city
Robert Fried, professor of physics and astronomy and former chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, was charged yesterday with one count of indecent exposure. Mike Glover, Lawrence city attorney, said.
Indecent exposure is a misdean-
nor and carries a maximum
fine of $500, six months in jail or
both, Glover said.
Friauf was arrested Aug. 25 when several witnesses saw him sitting naked between two parked cars in the 2100 block of Harvard Road.
Two anti-apartheid protesters,
arrested in May at Youngberg
Hall, will be tried at 1 a.m. today,
in Lawrence Municipal Court.
Jim Flory, Douglas County District Attorney, said the original lewd and lascivious behavior charge against Friauf was dropped because the incident was not serious, and the city ordinances were more appropriate in dealing with the incident.
An arraignment hearing has been set for Sept. 18 at 7:45 a.m. in Lawnice Municipal Court.
Jane Ungerman, Lawrence seniere will be tried on one count of criminal trespassing and Shawn Holstrum, Wichita freshman, will be tried on two counts of criminal trespassing.
Protesters go to trial
Ungerman said she was convicted July 12 for the criminal trespassing charge on May 3 and was charged a trial today is for her May 9 arrest.
Both students were arrested on May 3 and May 9 while protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in schools, universities of South Africa's called of racial segregation called marathéid
Holstrum will be tried for both the May 3 and the May 9 criminal trespassing charges.
Jogger struck by car
A 22-year-old KU student was knocked unconscious when he was struck by a car on Clinton Parkway Sunday, according to police reports.
Richard Lipscomb, Lawrence sophomore, was jogging west on Clinton Parkway about 11:30 p.m. when he was struck by a car at the Lawrence Avenue intersection, the report said.
A Lawrence man was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of battery of a police officer, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The officer stopped at about 7:55 p.m. in the 900 block of Mississippi Street to help a motorist with a radiator leak, Sgt. Don Dalquist said.
A man came out of a nearby house, he said, and asked both the officer and the motorist for a warrant. Dalquist said the man became very loud and started calling the police officer names.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s and east winds from 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance for thunderstorms and lows in the mid 60s. Tomorrow will continue to be cloudy with a 30 percent chance for thunderstorms and highs in the low to mid 80s.
To the rescue Animal control unit rids area of skunks
From staff and wire reports.
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
It's a nice neighborhood; it only had an odor problem.
The quiet area between Pearson Scholarship Hall and Ohio Street seemed to be infested with skunks, according to Alice Burg, 1430 Louisiana.
"I moved in the first of June, and after a couple of weeks or a month, I noticed the awful smell," Burg said last week.
"I started watching at night. I could see them coming around the corner. They started digging a hole or a nest."
She called her landlord, who contacted the Animal Control office through the Lawrence Police Department, and Animal Control sent an officer to set a trap.
"We ended up catching sever skunks," Burg said. "The week before Labor Day we caught one each morning on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday."
The officer sets a small cat trap enclosed with black plastic. Cobb said. He said the plastic kept the trap dark so the skunks weren't so scared after they were caught.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Animal Control office said the office did not have a regular skunk patrol.
"It's not part of our work agreement. But we do it to help people out sometimes," he said.
He said peanut butter was the bait.
Then you just wait. Burg said the Animal Control officer would come every morning to check the trap.
"He was great," she said. "He would just talk to them, and they wouldn't squirt him."
Cobb said trapped skunks were taken to the wild range preserve near Clinton Lake and released.
"If they're a real problem, we'll take them to the other side of Clinton," he said.
Other residents in the area weren't as plagued as Burg.
Mark Ritchie, an Olathe senior who lives near Burg, said he had smelled the skunks but didn't consider it a problem.
Ellen Adler, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said, "We've smelled them, but we haven't seen any. We've seen them before, but not this year."
Cobb said wood or brick piles or underbrush, which all tend to have many insects, attracted skunks.
"They like a good, dark place where they can hide and eat," he said.
Group charges harassment
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The KU Committee on South Africa filed a complaint yesterday with the University of Kansas, stating that the photographing of protesters by a KU police officer in plainclothes during convocation Aug. 26 intimidated and harassed members of the group.
William Taylor, Lawrence graduate student who drafted a letter sent to Chancellor Gene A. Budig, stated in the letter, "We regard the actions of the on-duty officer...as a subtle threat to citizens participating in a legal and peaceful expression of concern."
Taylor said yesterday that some people didn't feel comfortable when their pictures were taken, and that this might have influenced them not to participate.
"We were demonstrating legally," he said. "Photographing protesters keeps them from feeling that they can exercise their rights."
The officer was photographing protesters from a distance, Taylor said, and many protesters weren't aware they were being photographed.
In the letter, the committee requested that University authorities investigate the matter and inform the members of the results.
"We would like to see that this doesn't occur again in the future," Taylor said.
Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Cobb said Rodger Oroke, director of support services, would make an inquiry into the matter.
James Denney, director of KU police, said that a detective had taken pictures during convocation.
"We look forward to a report from Mr. Oroke," Cobb said.
Some students get insurance refunds
Police officers, in plainclothes and in uniform, are on duty and take pictures at all big KU events, including convocation, Dennie said.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Two hundred students who were accidentally charged up to $100 for a health insurance deductable since last November are being reimbursed just now, a sales representative for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas said yesterday.
Steve Hamlin, the sales representative for Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 2721 W. Sixth St., said the computer program in Topeka that billed patients was processed incorrectly, charging 200 Watkins Memorial Hospital patients up to $100 in deductibles. Patients at Watkins were the only insurance subscribers that the error affected.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the insurance company that complements the health care available at Watkins. Policy coverage may be purchased by students, but student fees do not pay for the insurance.
Under a policy drafted by the student health advisory board, which is appointed by the Student Senate, part of students' tuitions pays for outpatient tests, most medical examinations and treatments by physicians and nurses at Watkins. Students are charged for medication, room and board, inpatient tests and minor surgery.
Students covered by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan have to pay a deductible at any hospital other than Watkins.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield will pay for hospital services such as room and board, surgery, emergency care and physical therapy.
Hamlin said the program had been incorrectly processed in August 1984, and some students had been charged a deductable since November. The error was corrected last month.
"It took a long time to get the problem pinpointed." Hamlin said. "We had to make changes and start over from scratch. We are now in the process of paying students back. It's an unfortunate problem that's been created, but we shouldn't have any more problems this school year."
Hamlin said he should know in the next few weeks if the problem had been corrected because he should be receiving the claims that were submitted after the computer program was corrected.
Meredith Uttley, Lawrence graduate student and member of the student health advisory board, discuss when she was charged a deductible.
"There isn't any excuse for students not to realize that they were charged for the deductable because it is very clearly outlined on the claim summary form." Uttley said. "My concern is other students who don't own a vehicle or have blightly pay the fee without realizing it's a mistake."
Mary Baxter, supervisor of Watkins' business office, said that Blue Cross and Blue Shield was reimbursing Watkins and that she was refunding the students through the hospital. Many students paid the deductable without realizing that it was an error, she said.
"I've sent out a large number of refunds, but there are many more to send." Baxter said.
Committee presses KUEA divestment
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The University Affairs committee of the Student Senate passed a resolution last night demanding that the Endowment Association divest from South Africa.
Laude George, chairman of the University Affairs Committee, said that the resolution was similar to one his committee proposed last year, but this one was written in stronger language. The resolution will come before the Student Senate Wednesday.
George said this resolution was not asking or requesting but was demanding divestiture.
"it's not 'Would you please divest?' but 'divestiture now,'" he said.
The committee wants the Endowment Association to divest from companies that do business in South Africa because South Africa practices a policy of racial segregation called apartheid.
He said the committee passed the resolution without a recommendation because the members decided that the Student Senate, as the elected body, should write the opinion rather than the committee, which was appointed.
George said he expected the proposal to generate debate in the Student Senate and doubted the proposal would be accepted unchanged if at all.
The University Affairs Committee also passed with favorable recommendation a bill that would provide money for bringing speakers on disarmament to KU.
The Student Rights Committee of the Student Senate also met last night, but adjourned after the committee did not have a quorum of 17 members, which is about one-third of its membership.
Last night's business, including a bill to restructure Student Senate meetings, will be discussed at 8 p.m. next Monday in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
The Minority Affairs Committee met together with the Student Rights Committee last night but did not consider legislation. The time of the Minority Affairs Committee's next meeting has not been decided.
Kansas State University in nearby
Kansas State University in nearby Manhattan.
Bush remained in Topeka for a state GOP fundraising reception and dinner Monday night and was scheduled to return to Washington Tuesday morning.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Students of Landon Middle School and Vice President George Bush teamed up Monday to give former Gov. Alfred M. Landon one of his more memorable birthday parties.
Bush spoke briefly to the students and several dogen others who gathered at the front porch of Landon's large colonial style home in north-
Bush paid tribute to Landon as a man who "set a tremendous example in civic life, in public life."
sang "Happy Birthday," while the school band played.
The students gave him a cake and
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Some farmers say that as corn prices drop they might as well be pouring their crops down the drain. Ted Howell, Route 6, an employee of Farmer's Co-op south grain elevator, 20th Street and Moodie Road, watches Douglas County farmer Jen Breithaupt's corn crop fall into the storage bins.
Bumper corn crop expected
Bv Sandra Crider
Special to the Kansan
Douglas County farmers and grain elevator workers expect to be up to their ears in corn by the end of the week, but the bumper crop does not necessarily mean prosperity, according to the grain manager of a local farmers' co-op.
Bruce Krebble, the grain manager of the Farmers Co-op Association, 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue, said last week that this year's harvest will exceed last year's by about 20 percent.
This would be an increase of 139,200 bushels over last year's 698,000 bushels.
Krebiel said the co-op's价 for corn probably would be $2 a bushel compared with the $2.85 average
paid last year. The total cost of producing a bushel of corn for each year is about $2.17.
The fall in price is directly related to the abundance of the harvest, he said.
Although farmers will be producing more corn this year, they will make almost 16 percent less on the corn crop than in 1894, based on last year's harvest figures from the Douglas County Extension Office and Krebhiel's estimated 20 percent increase.
Corn comprises about 6 percent of all crops planted in Douglas County, according to statistics from the extension office. Wheat accounts for most of the acres in the county.
Co-op employees will work an average of 16 hours a day in around-the-clock shifts when the two-month harvest begins. Krehbil said.
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