University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 25, 1986
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News Briefs Sentencing today for attorney Smoot
A Lawrence attorney who pleaded guilty Sept. 30 to possessing cocaine is scheduled for sentencing in the U.S. District Court in Topeka.
Bradley J. Smoot, 34, the attorney and former chairman of the Douglas County Republican Central Committee, was charged Sept. 22 in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan
U.S. District Judge G. Thomas
van Bebber will sentence Smoot at
9:30 a.m.
Federal law enforcement officials charged Smoot after Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, pleaded guilty to distributing about one gram of cocaine to Smoot on Jan. 16 at the Law Lawrence interchange of the Kansas Tumpike.
After his guilty plea, Smoot was allowed to remain free on a $1,000 recognition bond.
Police seek two men
Lawrence police said yesterday that they were looking for two men who had wrecked a stolen car about 1 a.m. yesterday at Haskell Avenue and 21st Street.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police spokesman, said the men stole a 1974 Dodge sedan from a trailer park in the 1900 block of 19th Street.
After they got in the Dodge, they ht a KPL Gas Service power box and another car, which was driven by the owner of the stolen car. The wife of the owner had called police when she heard the Dodge start.
Police chased the men to 21st and Haskell, where the men hit a stop sign and a tree then ran from the site. Dalqest said.
Unit gets 2nd grant
A recent $23,000 grant to the Children's Rehabilitation Unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., will help to provide quicker, more complete diagnoses of hearing impairments, the unit's director said recently.
Raymond Barrows, a board member of the Kansas City Star Co., bequeathed $15,000 to the Children's Rehabilitation Unit when he died in 1970 after a distinguished career with the company.
The trustees of the Barrows Foundation recently gave the unit a second grant of $23,000.
Joseph Hollowell Jr., the unit director, said part of the grant would be used for a more sophisticated system of analyzing the needs of children with hearing impairments. The other part will be used to start workshops about language learning problems.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error,
the price for Expressions dance
lessons was incorrectly listed in
yesterday's Kansan. The price is
$10 for five lessons.
Weather
Skies today will be mostly sunny. The high temperature will be in the low-to mid-50s. The winds will come from the south at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight's skies will be partly cloudy, and the low temperature will be in the low-to mid-30s.
From staff and wire reports.
KU task force to study drug abuse
The tragic death of Len Bias and other college athletes revealed a nationwide problem of drug abuse on college campuses and prompted a KU task force to study drug abuse, an administrator said yesterday.
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, appointed the task force Nov. 7.
The task force, headed by James Strobl, director of Student Health Services, will attempt to assess the use of illegal drugs and alcohol abuse at KU. The group also will evaluate the effectiveness of the existing drug and alcohol educational programs here.
As a result of the national focus on drug abuse, the Board of Regents began examining drug abuse educational programs at the six state schools.
The Regents then requested that an official from each school present additional reports in six months and in a year.
Ambler formed the task force as a result of the Regents request. Ambler will use the group's findings to prepare his report for the Regents meeting in April.
The task force is not scheduled to meet until early in December.
However, the research committee of the division of student affairs has already developed a survey to assess students' perception of the drug problem at KU. Ambler said. The survey will be given to a sample group of students early in the spring semester.
Ambler said the most important function of the task force was to evaluate the existing alcohol and substance abuse programs at KU. A variety of protocols were developed concerned that they are only moderately effective.
Most of the programs address alcohol abuse, he said.
Ambler said that awareness of the problem already had precipitated some action.
For instance, the department of health, physical education, and recreation will offer a new course on drug abuse this spring, which is designed specifically for student athletes.
The other members of the task force are Lynn Heller, health educator at Watkins Hospital; Gary Hunter, associate director of the University of Kansas Athletic Association; Lawrence Magee, physician at Watkins; Fred McElhenein, director of KU Residential Programs; Matthew McPherron, Prairie Village senior and chairman of the Student Health Advisory Board, appointed by the Student Senate; Wayne Osness, chairman of the department of health, physical education and recreation; and Lorna Zimmer, director of the KU Student Assistance Center.
Amy Rhoads/Special to the KANSAN
Final-ly
After working almost 60 hours on the final project for his architectural design class, Dennis McGrath, St. Louis sophomore, puts some finishing
touches on his model. Students in the class must design and build a model, which is due today.
Mandate may make costs of waste disposal increase
Staff writer
By CRAIG HERRMANN
KU officials say they aren't worried about how to dispose of certain hazardous wastes but are worried about how much the disposal will cost.
Steven Cater, KU's environmental health officer, said yesterday that he was concerned about the possible effects of a federal Environmental Protection Agency mandate on students.
He said the mandate required that many wastes that could once be disposed of in a dumpster be collected.
Incineration is more costly than land-fill disposal, Cater said, because the operation costs are higher.
The EPA mandate added wastes to the F-list, which is a category of hazardous wastes that requires disposal by incineration. Cater said.
Some common hazardous wastes on the F-list are toluene, found in fingernail polish remover, and acetone, found in some paints, he said.
"For example, the toluene in a nearly empty bottle of fingerprint polish remover is a flammable substance."
"When the private citizen disposes of it, he can simply throw it in the trash, to be taken to the land fill. But, when the University must dispose of the same bottle, it becomes an F-listed waste and must be incinerated."
He said that although the University's chemistry labs generated F-listed wastes, most of the F-listed wastes generated by the University came from the paint shops.
"Paint and solvents contain some common F-listed wastes, like acetone." Cater said. "When the paint shops decide to use it, they must be disposed of in an incinerator."
He said that KU had a contract with GSX Industries, of Greenbrier, Tenn., to dispose of the waste but that the University might face rising costs when the contract expired.
Cater said that Kansas had no commercial hazardous waste land lills or incinerators but that he thought a few commercial sites could be to get the proper permits to begin operation.
"It is a simple law of supply and demand." Cater said. "With more F- listed wastes that must be incinerated, and a limited number of plants, disposal costs are bound to rise."
Dennis Murphey, manager of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Waste Management Bureau in Topeka, said the mandate enacted this month came after 10 years of legislation.
Two KU athletes will not be able to jump in Jell-O
By a Kansan reporter
Two KU athletes will not participate in the Dec. 3 Jell O Jump to benefit the March of Dimes because of a National Collegiate Athletic Association rule.
Danny Manning, KU basketball forward, and Phil Forte, KU football defensive end, cannot be named as celebrity participants for any charity, according to an NCAA rule.
The University of Kansas Public Relations Student Society of America recently made a retraction from its Nov. 11 press release after it learned that the athletes could not participate. The initial press release announced that Manning and Forte would jump in Jell-O as some other sports celebrities will.
The student society and Levi Strauss and Co. will sponsor the Jell-O Jump at 7 p.m. in the Holiday Inn Holideome, 200 McDonald Drive. Money from the event will go to the March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation
Men's head basketball coach Larry Brown and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and KU graduate, Frank Seurer, will jump in the Jell-O.
A grand prize, which includes round-trip airfare for two and tickets to the Feb. 21 Kansas basketball game against St. Johns in New York's Madison Square Garden, will be given to the person with the highest pledge. Globemaster Travel, of Kansas City, Kan., is sponsoring the prize.
Ecological complaint challenges highway
By JOHN BENNER
Staff writer
A KU zoologist said that he had sent a letter yesterday to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., that described a preliminary environmental impact report for the proposed Lawrence bypass as "seriously flawed."
Joseph Collins, zoologist at the KU Museum of Natural History, said the report had failed to show that a comprehensive analysis had been made of the environment surrounding the proposed bypass site.
"We are working with the federal highway department to refine statements about the environment," Hempen said. "We know there might be some problems that have to be addressed."
Frank Hempen, Douglas County engineer, said the county was willing to work with Collins and other Lawrence residents to prepare a final environmental impact statement.
Meanwhile, the Lawrence City Commission continues its work for the bypass.
The commission tonight will consider the terms of a tentative agreement under which the Kansas Turnpike Authority would agree to build an interchange to serve the proposed Lawrence bypass.
Roger Boyd, Baker University professor of biology and director of the Baker Wetlands, said he agreed with Collins
The Baker Wetlands, home to at least two endangered species, is an area south of the city that would be affected by the proposed bypass.
"It's my impression that the study was done to confirm what the county wanted to hear — to go ahead and build the bypass," Boyd said.
Collins said that he and his colleagues previously had assessed other impact statements for the state of Kansas and that most reports he had seen contained a more comprehensive list of the number and variety of animals and plants within an affected area.
"The county says they have contacted experts about the study, but to my knowledge they have not talked to any of the people at KU or at Baker," Collins said. "Only Baker University would have some of the information they would need."
Collins said the impact statement dealt more with the engineering studies than with environmental concerns.
He said a thorough study would take until fall 1967 to finish.
"You can't do a proper study now because most of the animals are underground," Collins said. "You would have to wait until March to start, and it would take several months to do properly."
Slattery recently sent a letter to the Kansan stating that he was confident that funds would be allocated for the bypass during the next congressional session.
"I am confident that funding for this project can be defended successfully when the House and Senate bills are considered by a conference committee." Slattery said.
David Orr, a spokesman for the Federal Highway Administration in Topeka, said he was not as confident that the money would be allocated
"The Senate is against funding specific projects rather than general improvements." Orr said. "As a House member, Slattery would be a little more optimistic about getting the money."
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said the preliminary impact draft could be ready for a public hearing by late January or early February.
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