Campus/Area
Thursday, Aug. 29, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Forgery investigated
KU police began an investigation yesterday into the forgery and cashing of a foreign student's $1,229 check between Nov. 9, 1984, and Dec. 10, 1984, KU police said yesterday.
A foreign student reported that he never received a check he was expecting from his home country, and when he went home this summer he discovered that the check had been cashed, KU police said. The student said he had not endorsed the check.
Applications due
Applications for the 1985-86 Leadership Lawrence program are due by 5 p.m. Sept. 6 at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, 209 W. Eighth St. The selection process will begin Sept. 9 and the 15 participants will be selected by Oct. 1. Members of Leadership Lawrence participate in seven one-day programs concentrating on Lawrence's history and future, business and industry, state and local government and communication and the media. For more information, call Jean Milstead at Douglas County Bank, 843-7474, or Gary Toebben at the Chamber of Commerce, 843-4411.
Workshop scheduled
Have you ever seen someone across the room whom you've wanted to know better, but you just didn't know how to approach him or her? The Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall, is offering a workshop, "Dealing with that Uneasy Feeling," to help improve communication skills and deal with shyness. The workshop will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. To register for the workshop, call the center at 864-4064.
Nepal is topic of talk
The associate director for membership and public relations of the Museum of Natural History will speak on "Nepal: A Visitor's View" during the first University Forum at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1924 Oread Ave. Cathy Dwigans, the associate director, will talk about the architecture and city life of the Kathmandu Valley and views of the Annapurna and Mount Everest regions of Nepal. She also will show slides of her visits to Nepal, which she took with her husband, Ray Wilber, in 1922 and 1984.
The luncheon costs $3. Reservations may be made by calling Ecumenical Christian Ministries at 843-4933 by noon Tuesday
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Winds will be southerly and 5 to 15 mph. Skies tonight will be fair and temperatures will be in the mid to upper 60s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error,
the back-to-school issue of the
Kansas incorrectly reported
business hours for The Harvest. 745
New Hampshire St. The restaurant
is open from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. Monday, from 8:30 a.m. to
9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
From staff and wire reports.
Tough brakes around town Police have eye on cyclists
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
As the semester begins, KU and Lawrence police are once again putting the brakes on bicyclists who ignore traffic laws.
"We've had some complaints about bicycle riders, generally because of them running stop signs," Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police department said yesterday. "Every year at the beginning of the semester we have to increase the enforcement of the laws."
KU police officers will be watching especially for bicyclists who run stop signs, exceed the speed limit, do not wear reflective clothing or do not have reflective materials on their bikes. Longaker said.
"If they're going to be a bicycle rider, they need to know what the bicycle laws are." she said.
The bicycle rider must obey the same laws as a motorist, according to a bicycle security pamphlet distributed by KU police. This includes yielding to pedestrians on crosswalks, signaling when making turns and avoiding obstructive traffic.
Longaker said the intersection of Memorial Drive and West Campus Road was the one bicyclists most frequently rode through without stopping at stop signs.
Another dangerous intersection that bicyclists often ignore was Crescent Road and Naismith Drive, she said. Longaker said bicyclists often did not yield at this five-way
Officer Bob Avery of the Lawrence Police Department said yesterday that Lawrence police officers were getting "so tired" of bicyclists not obeying traffic laws that they were writing more citations.
Bicyclists who zip around campus exceeding the 20 mph speed limit are just as much in violation of the law as a motorist, Longaker said.
intersection, cutting in and out of traffic.
"Following basic traffic safety is a big thing." Avery said. "Many times a rider is coming down the hill at 50 mph. He goes through an intersection without stopping and causes an accident."
Both Longaker and Avery said bicyclists who ride on campus and city sidewalks also posed problems for pedestrians.
According to city ordinances, it is illegal for bicycle riders to ride their bikes on any sidewalk within a business district or on a sidewalk store, business, place of assembly, or specifically prohibited by post sign.
According to Kansas law, every bicycle ridden at night must be equipped with a lamp on the front of the bike that emits white light visible from at least 500 feet. Bicycles also need to have approved red reflectors on the rear of the bike.
"Last year, there was a little old lady that stepped out of a business and was run down by a bike rider," Avery said.
City fines for riding a bike without
a light are $15 plus $5 in court costs.
any other bicyclists cited for traffic
infractions are ticketed for $12.50 and
$5 in court costs.
All bikes in Lawrence must be licensed — an easy process that costs only 25 cents, Longaker said.
Riders can have their bikes licensed at 332 Carruth-O'Leary Hall from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays or at the information desk on the second floor of the Douglas County Judicial-Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St. The center is open 24 hours a day.
Longaker said licensing of bicycles assisted the police department in returning stolen bikes to the owner. To license a bike, the rider must provide the brand name and serial number.
In 1984, 28 bikes with a total value of $2,784 were reported to KU police as stolen, Longaker said. Five of those bikes, valued together at $788, were recovered.
Since January, 12 bikes with a combined value of $2,472 have been reported stolen to the KU police. This year, KU police have recovered one bike reported missing in 1984 and one reported missing this year, Longaker said.
Although bike racks are available throughout campus, Longaker said riders locked their bikes to almost anything. If a complaint arises, or if the bike is locked in a handicapped access area or entryway, KU police will remove the bike, Longaker said.
Cutting a concrete sidewalk can be hot and dusty work, as Frank Slusser of Jayhawk Masonry Co. Inc., Topeka, knows. The company is replacing some of the sidewalk outside Naismith Hall that cracked when a crane used to repair the building drove over it.
A dirty job
Greenpiece members ponder Senate spots
By Gary Duda
Of the Kansan staff
A 50-foot American elm tree helped form the roots of one of the first prospects for November's Student Senate elections.
Last year's controversy over the proposed Science and Technology Library caused some students to become concerned about the elm tree, which stands on the proposed site.
Todd Cohen, Alta Vista sophomore, started Greenpeace as an informal student group to save the tree, near the Military Science building. Greenpeace members tied hundreds of feet of green ribbon on trees around campus to protest the possible loss of the 70-year-old tree.
Cohen said yesterday that Greenpiece had evolved over the summer into a coalition. Although there are only five active members now, Cohen said that Greenpiece was developing a support group and may run candidates in the next Senate elections.
"We have a meeting Sept. 9 to see how much interest there is," he said.
"If there is enough we'll go ahead with it."
David Klassen, Scandia senior and member of Greenpeace, said that the movement has helped protect the seabird.
"It's more of our springboard," he said. "The fact that this issue came up and provoked such conflict demonstrated clearly that there is a great need for the administration to have a greater degree of communication with the student body. Greenpiece is hoping to establish such communication with an advisory board and the reorganization of Student Senate."
The main issue of Greenpeice's platform is the formation of a U.Iiversity advisory board. Klassen said that the advisory board would consist of students, faculty and alumni.
to have more say in the long-term planning of the University," he said.
"We hope to form an advisory board in order to allow the students
Greenpeace members also envision a reorganization of Senate.
Cohen said this would be done on two levels. The first level would change the physical makeup of the Senate by dividing it according to living areas instead of schools of study.
The second level would focus on limiting the time of debate in the Senate and cutting through red tape, Klassen said.
"We want to pressure Student Senate to stop being a mere debating society and make it more of a legislative body," he said. "As it is now, Student Senate is a joke."
Cohen said that he hoped the ideas behind Greenpeace would bring about action and awareness on the campus.
"Too many students are letting themselves become ignorant or apathetic," Cohen said. "Students are getting the shaft in the world today. Greenpie hopes to encourage students to be active or at least aware. We don't believe that students have to wake up thinking about South Africa, just be aware of it."
William Easley, student body president, said that Greenpiece's ideas were fine but he didn't think that they were addressing real problems.
Easley said he didn't think that there was a communication problem between students and administrators.
"Looking at the results of the past two elections it has swung from one extreme to another," he said. "I think students will support a coalition that strikes a balance between the two that will be effective."
Despite the problems that Greenpiece will face, Cohen likes the coalition's chances.
"I think that the communication board is open and always has been," Easley said.
Dance-taverns called a risk
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
An attorney general's opinion allowing taverns to segregate beer-drinkers from dancers may have little effect on Lawrence taverns and clubs, city officials and businessmen said yesterday.
Attorney General Bob Stephan said earlier this week in a legal opinion issued to Rod Ludwig, Mitchell County attorney, that tavern owners could legally partition off parts of their establishments to be used as dance halls by underage patrons.
Lawrence City Attorney Mitt Allen said yesterday that although the attorney general's opinion would apply to all taverns and clubs in Kansas, he could see no reason why Lawrence tavern owners would be interested.
"Mitchell County is out way out there with the jack rabbits." Allen
said. "I don't think any tavern owner in Lawrence is going to be interested in mingling drinkers and underage people. That tavern owner is going to be busy trying to keep the two groups apart. His partition better made of iron."
Ken Wallace, chairman of board of the Kansas Club and Tavern Association and owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said he didn't think any local tavern or club owner would be willing to risk having underage customers on the premises.
"It's not worth having the police in your place every night making sure that you're not serving underaged people." Wallace said. "Profits are made on beer sales, and we don't have a license? I don't know of any tavern owner who would put himself in that position."
Wallace said that a dance hall
adjoining a tavern would encourage underage patrons to socialize with patrons of legal drinking age, and that would make the new drinking laws even more difficult to enforce.
Ace Johnson, owner of the Sanctuary, 1401 W. Seventh St., said that "no businessman in his right mind would consider it."
"If the guy can do it and make a profit off that space, then more power to him," Johnson said.
Lawrence city ordinance prohibits minors from being in a tavern after 8 p.m. unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said the ordinance could save lives and property of bus owners from adding dance halls for minors to their businesses.
"It would depend how the place was partitioned off," he said.
Of the Kansan staff
Protester's trial set for todav
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansen staff
An anti-apartheid protester who was arrested in May at Youngberg Hall is scheduled to be tried at 2 p.m. today in Douglas County District Court.
Mark T. Parker, 25, Lawrence, will be the second protester to be tried in Douglas County District Court instead of Lawrence Municipal Court because he refused to provide identification when he was arrested May 9 during a protest at Youngberg, the home of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
He pleaded not, guilty May 21 to criminal trespass, a Class B misdemeanor.
Parker said yesterday that Jerry Wells, Douglas County assistant district attorney, would ask for a continuance in the case at 9 a.m. Judge Jean Shepherd. But Parker said that he had instructed his
attorney, Jack Klinknett, not to accept a continuance.
Warren R. Frerichs, 25, 1329 Ohio St., the other protester to be tried in district court, was acquitted on July 8 on a technicality. Frerichs, 8 repaired by Klinknett and Barry Shalinski, and another attorney, torney, was arrested in Chancellor Gene A. Budig's off the same day as Parker.
Klinknett and Shalinsky have represented about 55 of the 60 protesters this summer. The protesters were arrested on May 3 or May 9 or both while protesting the Endowment Association's investments in companies that do business in South Africa, a country that practices a form of racial segregation called anartheid.
Many of the 55 protesters pleaded no contest or agreed to a pretrial diversion, Klinknett said.
In a pretrial diversion, he said, the prosecutor agrees not to prosecute if
the defendant agrees to certain terms such as paying a fine or agreeing not to violate the law for a certain period of time.
Klinknett said, "About 30 cases went to trial, and only a few protesters were found not guilty."
They were acquitted, he said, because the city could not prove the protesters had heard warnings asking them to leave the Endowment Association's property before their arrest.
Klinknett said he was not pleased with the outcomes of the cases.
"I simply don't agree with the holding of the municipal court in convicting 26 or 27 people of criminal trespassing." Klinknet said.
At the protest at Youngberg, 44 others were arrested. Two protesters, Jane Ungerman, Lawrence senior, and Shaw Holstur, Wichita freshman, must be tried in municipal court.
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