University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, December 2. 1986
News Briefs
Ex-student pleads guilty in drug case
Kevin Sommer, 21, 2227 Tennessee St., pleaded guilty Wednesday in Douglas County District One one count of delivering cocaine.
Sommer, a former KU student, was indicted July 22 on one count of conspiring to possess cocaine and one count of possessing cocaine. Twenty others were indicted on cocaine-related charges at that time. His plea was the result of a plea bargain.
Sommer appeared in the courtroom of James Paddock, Douglas County district judge, who accepted his guilty plea and set Jan. 9 as Somer's sentencing date.
Police report thefts
Lawrence police reported that four apartments in the 1300 block of Ohio Street were burglarized during Thanksgiving break.
The thefts occurred between Nov. 25 and Sunday in the same apartment complex.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police spokesman, said the thefts probably occurred on the same night.
Two of the thefts were reported yesterday
A microwave oven, television set, stereo equipment and jewelry, valued together at $2,332, were reported taken from one apartment. A videocassette recorder, stereo equipment and a microwave, valued together $3,269, were reported taken from another
The other reports were not available. Dalquest said police were investigating the incidents and had no suspects.
Oil spills from field
Undersheriff Lauren Anderson, office spokesman, said the oil spilled onto the ground, into a creek and flowed into a nearby vard.
Workers from the Lawrence Fire Department, Eudora Fire Department, Douglas County Public Works and Emergency Operations Center put straw bales on the spill as a temporary measure. Anderson said.
Anderson said Larry Knope, Kansas Environmental Protection Agency agent, had been assigned to spill the oil is still on the ground.
Drug survey to begin
Anderson said the owner of the storage tank could be charged with negligence.
A University committee will survey about 1,000 students early next semester about drug use on campus, a member of the committee said yesterday.
Pat Willer, a member of the Student Affairs research committee, said that the survey, which had 11 multiple choice questions, would be mailed at random as early as next February.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said recently that the survey would be used by his newly formed task force on drug abuse and in preparing a report for the Board of Regents.
Weather
Light snow will begin early today with little accumulation and partial clearing by afternoon with a high temperature around 40 and northwesther winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 25.
From staff and wire reports.
Senate seats decided in ballot recounts
By SALLY STREFF
Although final election results for two Student Senate races won't be tallied until today, official results in the remainder of the races were announced last night.
Staff writer
The recount decided two ties, and changed previously announced unofficial results in two other races. With six seats still undecided, candidates from the Cheers coalition won 29 seats, candidates from Initiative coalition won 25 seats and independent candidates won two seats.
In the race for one of two education seats, Cheers candidate Chris Dalton beat Initiative candidate Mickey Masterson in a tie that was decided
In the race for two fine seats, Cheers candidate Stacie Burkhart, who originally was fourth of four candidates, won a seat after the recount. She ousted Initiative candidate Peter Beckett.
by lot. In a race for one of 10 graduate student seats, Cheers candidate Bonnie Dow won a tie with Cheers candidate Dan Lowe.
in the race for one of eight liberal arts and sciences seats, Initiative candidate Ladale George won a seat after the recrimination, eliminating Cheers
campus seats and on-campus residence ball at large-seat will be recounted today.
Many of the ballots had been invalidated by the Student Senate Elections Committee on election night and were marked too lightly or improperly.
ed to recount ballots ir. all Senate races last week and to include ballots that had been previously invalidated
The review board consists of the chairman of the Elections Committee, two other members of the Elections Committee, a member of the Senate Student Rights Committee, a law student and a representative from the administration.
Both newly elected and old members of the Student Senate will meet tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas University. Three
old senators will be elected as holdover senators at the meeting.
The board last night also admonished the Cheers coalition for not listing an open party sponsored by its support group on its campaign audit but decided the violation was not serious enough to penalize the coalition.
The board specified that in the future all campaign parties open to non-coalition members be listed in the expense reports.
The Elections Review Board also levied the $25 fee against the Cheers coalition for improperly hanging design posters during the campaign.
The board also recommended that
the Senate Elections Committee clarify Senate rules governing where posters may be hung in various campus buildings.
Glenn Shirllife, chairman of the Elections Committees, said he thought a University policy governing posters already existed, but that he'd never actually seen it published.
The board decided not to redo off-campus elections. Initiative presidential and vice presidential candidates Betsy Bergman and Stephanie Quincy had requested that the elections be run again.
The two alleged that poll workers had allowed students living in fraternities and sororites to vote in the off-campus elections.
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City sidewalks
Demetria Morrison, right, Lawrence, gives money to Salvation Army volunteer Thomas King. King has been working for the Salvation Army for the past four Christmas seasons.
Plant prepares snow plows
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
The National Weather Service in Topeka predicted a 1-inch snowfall for last night, and facilities operations employees reacted by getting snow removal equipment ready.
Wayne Reusch Jr., physical plant supervisor for facilities operations, said the equipment and operating crews were waiting for the snow to fly.
Reusch said the removal would begin when KU police called to tell him that the conditions on campus were slick and hazardous.
His crew, he said, concentrates on the main streets on campus, parking lots and hills when it is first called out. Main thoroughfares include Jayhawk Boulevard, 15th Street, Naismith Drive and Sunnyside Avenue. The crew has about 20 workers, who take different shifts.
He said the crew first scrapes snow from the streets and then spreads sand to provide additional traction on ice.
Only two workers were scheduled to work last night because of the basketball game and because only one inch of snow was expected, he said. He added that he expected the crew would mainly be sanding the streets because of the small amount of snow expected to fall.
If conditions worsen later, more workers are called out to help remove the snow and ice.
Because of last night's men's basketball game, the crew would have had to wait for all the traffic to clear before it could clean the parking lot at Allen Field House and the streets leading to and from the field house.
The crews clean parking lots at night when no cars are parked in them, he said.
Another crew took over at midnight last night, he said, and worked until this morning.
right, he said. He worked until this morning. Reusch said that tractors equipped with brooms would be used to clear the sidewalks. Sand and fertilizer would then be spread on the sidewalks to melt the ice and provide traction for pedestrians.
By JOHN BENNER Staff writer
City to restart BID process
By JOHN BENNER
Because of a merchant association's mistake, the city will start a legal process related to proposed improvements in downtown Lawrence all over again.
Lawrence city commissioners last week reconsidered their Sept. 23 resolution of intent to establish a Business Improvement District after a city resident questioned the accuracy of a petition drive that showed a majority of businesses supported establishing the district.
A Business Improvement District would assess downtown businesses to pay for salaries, operating expenses and promotions coordinated by the district.
Before the city appointed the district advisory board, it asked the Downtown Lawrence Association to conduct a petition drive to determine whether downtown merchants and property owners supported such a district. A petition drive is not legally required for establishing an improvement district.
E. R. Zook, a city resident, filed the complaint that challenged the results of the downtown association's petition drive which showed 57 percent of downtown businesses supported establishing a district.
Zook said that the association and the district advisory board had miscounted the number of businesses affected by the district, and that by his count only 39 percent had actually shown support for the plan.
Hannes Zacharias, city management analyst, sent a memo, dated Nov. 20, to the mayor and to the city commission stating that he had omitted several businesses from its drive.
Zook said that the board had contacted 346
businesses but that it had left out more than 145 businesses from its list.
"Among the ones left out, I have counted 24 retail establishments, 45 unoccupied properties and 24 beauticians and barbers," Zook said.
He said state statute defined unoccupied property as a business when it was held for investment, lease or sale.
Zacharias said the city would recognize unoccupied property as businesses but said the preliminary district proposal would exempt such properties until occupied.
"The planning committee thought that benefits of the BID could not be felt by these people," he said. "Also they thought it would be difficult to find some owners."
Because the city decided to rework the legal process, affected businesses and other interested parties must be notified again about plans to form a district and a second public hearing must be set to discuss the formation of the district.
The commissioners set a study session for 11:30 a.m. Dec. 8 at city hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, to discuss the next step in the district process.
Some of the promotions in a preliminary district budget include paying for putting hoods over parking meters in the downtown area during the holiday shopping season and subsidizing Saturday KU on Wheels bus service.
Lawrence set up a district advisory board, which presented a proposal in September detailing the formation and administration of the proposed district.
By COLLEEN SIEBES
And, in fact, said Bob Moody, health department spokesman, the number is actually higher. Cold weather can be dangerous for the elderly.
Groups give aid from cold
During the past five years, about 45 Kansans have frozen to death in their homes, according to a Nov. 14 report published by the state Department of Health and Environment.
But not only the elderly suffer — hundreds of other Douglas County residents do.
The Rev, Jimmy Cobb, committee member for the Warm Hearts project, said the number of Douglas County residents that can't afford to heat their homes is higher than usual this year.
The Warm Hearts program is a volunteer fund-raiser organized by Lawrence citizens to assist Douglas County residents with their heating bills.
Rising unemployment and higher utility costs have increased the need for aid, he said. Last year, Warm Hearts raised $83,000 to help Douglas County citizens pay their heating bills.
But Cobb said the Cold Weather Act, a policy that the Kansas Public Service gas company, which serves Lawrence, adopted this past week, help keep some people from freezing this winter.
The act, listed under the 1986 rules of the KPS, states that when the temperature outside is 32 degrees or below or when the forecast indicates that the temperature will be below freezing for more than 24 hours, the heat in a person's home cannot be turned off.
Janie Garcia, an official at the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, said the SRS grant $219,082 last year to aid $313 County families with their heating bills.
Sue Beers, director of the social service department of the Lawrence Salvation Army
post, said enough blankets were donated last year to give blankets to everyone in Douglas County who requested them. However, she said many people were unaware of this service.
Moody said that the elderly are especially susceptible to the negative effects of the cold because many of them have poor blood circulation and have lost their ability to feel the cold.
Kansians aged 65 or older, account for 55 percent, or 25 of 45, of those who have died during the past five years from hypothermia.
Hypothermia is an unusually low internal body temperature caused by exposure to the cold.
It develops when the body loses heat faster than it can be replaced. In order to warm vital organs with a limited amount of heat, the body reduces the flow of warm blood near the skin. This is what makes people feel cold.
For most people, the problem is easily resolved by adding clothing. But because many old people are unaware that they are cold, they are at greater risk of becoming hypothermic, Moody said.
He said that the elderly also were at greater risk because many of them lived alone, had poor diets, suffered from other illnesses, had limited physical activity and often used prescription drugs.
Some prescription drugs suppress the bodily functions that normally warn people that they are cold, he said.
Far more hypothermia-related deaths occur than are reported. Moody said, because many deaths result because hypothermia has worsened existing diseases. Because of this, he said, the cause of death, though initiated by hypothermia, is listed as another disease.
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