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University Daily Kansan, November 20, 1980
Officials present evacuation plan
By DOUG BURSON Staff Reporter
City and county officials have developed a detailed plan to evacuate Lawrence residents in the event an accident should occur while transporting nuclear or toxic waste through the city. Lawrence fire chief, said yesterday.
Phil Leonard, Douglas Count/ emergency preparedness coordinator; Leon Manel, Kansas radiological officer; and Joseph Evacuation procedures and other preventive plans to members of the Sunflower Alliance, a group concerned about nuclear power and nuclear attack at the Douglas County Courthouse.
HIGH LEVEL nuclear waste is being transported through Lawrence on its way to a disposal site in Illinois, Tolly Johnson, number of the Sunflower Alliance, said.
"We want to make sure exact procedures are planned sheaf a frame."
instance, on the Massachusetts Street Bridge. "Smith said."
Trucks carrying nuclear waste travel north on Iowa Street to Sixth Street and then cross the Massachusetts Street Bridge. McSwain said.
Leonard said that although all situations could not be foreseen and controlled, the law of Lawrence was to decide the nuclear or toxic waste accident.
McSain said that if there were an accident, the Lawrence Fire Department would be the first to respond probably within 60 seconds.
"Our action would depend upon a number of factors," McSwain said. "We would check the wind direction and wind speed so that we could protect the people who would begin a primary evacuation if there were no nuclear waste involved."
To determine the amount of radiation being released from the wreck site, McSwain said, radiological meters owned by the area were used. If the area was safe and, if necessary, the size of the area that would be evacuated.
The evacuation plan would include transmissions on emergency broadcast stations, police canvassing of affected neighborhoods and bus and taxi transportation for those who need it, McSwain said.
"During an evacuation, we probably would tell the people that there was a radiation hazard so that they would stay safely in the situation," McSwain said.
LEONARD SAID THAT doctors at Lawrence Memorial Hospital would be the type and extent of possible injury resulting from an accident involving nuclear waste.
"We have all types of plans for any hazardous material spillage or leakage in the area," Leonard said. "We didn't start thinking about this last week."
Manell said the inability to immediately identify the type of waste involved in the accident would not be a problem. When large amounts of plutonium are transported, a convoy of trained personnel with proper equipment to battle radiation travel with the waste, he said.
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Law fees lost to general fund
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
When KU law students line up to pay tuition this January, they each will pay from $55 to $85 more than other KU students.
Staff Reporter
They agreed to pay extra tuition in 1966 to increase the law faculty's salaries. But sometime between 1966 and 1980, the extra money may have been funded by University's general fund, Michael Davis, dean of the law school, said last week.
In fact, Davis said, no one is sure what the numbers about $80,000 a year is being used for.
A GROUP OF KU law students has been trying since last fall to find the misplaced salary supplement. However, both the supplement and the students have become lost in the University's $144.4 million budget.
Originally, the money was added to faculty salaries. But as the law school and other KU faculty salaries changed, Davis said, it was hard to keep track of the tuition differential's final resting place in the University budget.
"The funding structure of the University is a kind of maze," said David Seely, second-year law student and chairman of a committee formed last year to study the school's tuition differential. "Our tuition goes into a fund, but it's not clear that all that money goes back into the law school."
For example, Davis said, if a law professor is given a $500 bonus and then
The extra $500 then would be
collected or booked in
another part of the University.
moves away, his successor's salary probably would be lower.
In this way, the law school's salary supplement may have entered the University's general fund bit by bit, Davis said.
Seely said members of the tuition differential committee were more interested in using the money for his research and in saving themselves $55 a semester.
"Personally, I wouldn't mind paying more tuition if the extra money was used to help retain and recruit faculty members," Seely said. "But if we can't get that, we'd like our money back, please."
SINCE LAST SPRING, he said, the committee has tried either to reduce the law students' tuition or to make it more receivable benefits from the differential.
Because it was too late to change the University's 1908 budget, Seely said, the committee asked Sen. Wint Winter Sr., R-Ottawa to sponsor a bill that would channel extra tuition funds into KU's law school.
The bill passed 38-2 in the Kansas Senate but died in a House committee.
Former state senator Arnold Berman
Seely said it would be hard to recover the law school's extra $60,000 and place it in a special fund.
*The nearest research centre be the nearest research centre to
Now, KU's budget for fiscal year 1982 is sewn up tight, and this spring, the University will begin work on its 1983 budget
was defeated Nov. 4 by Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, and Winter retired from the Legislature this year.
Davis said one way to beat the tuition differential was to wait.
AT THAT TIME, Davis said, the Board of Regents could eliminate the differential by maintaining the law on homeschooling and increasing other schools' tuition.
During her campaign, Eldredge said the tuition differential was University business and should not be decided in the Legislature.
However, Seely said, that still would not help bolster the law school's faculty salaries. Increasing salaries was the committee's goal and the goal of students who approved the original tuition increase in 1966, he said.
"The faculty's quality is high," Seely said, "but it may not stay that way when every one of our faculty members is on a college course to private practice or at another university."
This fall, Davis said, about 15 third-year law students were offered higher starting salaries than many KU faculty members earn.
According to the school's placement office, at least two of KU's 1980 graduates earned $32,000 last year. The other classes of nine of their former professors.
Salaries for KU's law faculty range
$2,000.00 to $10,000.00 a year, accor-
ding to UCLA.
"The economic sacrifices that professors make are becoming larger because firms are paying more and more money," Davis said.
To help supplement law professors' salaries, Seely said, the committee is trying to persuade all law schoolates to contribute $5 a year to the school.
"We're mainly concerned with the school," Leban said. "We want the KU Law School to be a better one in the long run."
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