University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 19, 1986
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News Briefs KU football player charged with theft
A KU football player was charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with one count of theft.
Warren Shields, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore and KU linebacker, yesterday was instructed to appear Dec. 17 for a preliminary hearing. He is free on a $1,000 recognize bond.
Shields was arrested by KU police on Nov. 4 after he and another football player got into a fight in front of Green Hall.
Police questioned both men and found that Shields and Collis Brazil, Los Angeles junior and KU defensive end, started fighting after Brazil accused Shields of stealing a leather jacket from him.
Lawrence police last night arrested an 18-year-old Lawrence man for possessing an illegal firearm.
Police arrest man
When police arrived, Greer said, they saw a man carrying what appeared to be a shotgun.
The man ran into the house when confronted by police, Greer said, but was caught when he tried to leave through a rear exit.
Greer said the man had a shotgun that had been sawed off at the stock and barrel. The man had threatened the owner of the residence because he thought the owner had stolen a pair of his pants and $10.
Greeer said that although the resident did not want to press charges, police arrested the man for possessing the shotgun, which was shorter than the law allows.
Ramirez to speak
Sergio Ramirez, the vice president of Nicaragua, will speak at 8 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Ramirez will discuss U.S. nicaraguan relations, including U.S. aid to the contras, the Eugene Hasenfus case, the dangers of war and the possibility for peace.
his appearance, sponsored by the KU Center of Latin American Studies, is part of a speaking tour from Nov. 15 to 27.
Student not raped
Lawrence police reported yesterday that its investigation proved that a 17-year-old KU student was not raped Saturday, as she had reported, as the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, 1537 Tennessee St.
The student had reported to police on Sunday that she had been raped by a fraternity member after a party.
Officer Ernest Gwin, Lawrence police spokesman, said that although the student's condition report was not back from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, police had gathered enough evidence from witnesses to prove that she had not been raped.
Because police found that a rape did not occur, no one has been charged. Gwin said.
Randy Bloom, vice president of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, said the student and some of her friends reported the rape because of a misunderstanding.
Weather
Board favors increase in parking fines
Skies will be mostly cloudy today with a 30 percent chance of rain. The high temperature will be in the upper 40s with southerly winds at 15 to 25 mph. Skies will be cloudy tonight with a 20 percent chance of rain. The low temperature will be in the 30s.
In its latest effort to solve KU's parking problems, the University Parking and Traffic Board yesterday discussed and proposed several rule changes, including raising fines and eliminating toll lots.
From staff and wire reports
Bv KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
The University Parking and Traffic Board is studying rule changes that will immediately ease parking conditions on campus, said Kendall Simmons, staff member of the board.
Simmons said the proposed rule changes were independent of recommendations by an Evanston, Ill., consultant, who is studying campus parking problems. The consultant, Jean M. Keneipp, is scheduled to present his findings to Chancellor Gene A. Burdig on Dec. 5.
The board recommended that the policy on refunding parking permits should be changed to conform to the KU policy on tuition refounds.
The committee wants the University of Kansas to refund the full price of the permit if requested within 14 calendar days of the purchase; 75 percent of the price within 30 calendar days; and 50 percent within 45 days. After 45 days, no refund would be offered.
Lot 94 is directly east of Memorial Stadium and lot 91 is directly north of the Spencer Museum of Art. Lots 92 and 93 are smaller areas that join lots 91 and 94.
The board agreed to abolish tolls in parking lots 91 through 94. Instead of tolls, every other stall in these lots would be changed to a metered space. The metered spaces in lot 91
The committee also considered ways to prevent abuses of medical permits by limiting their privileges, making them more expensive and harder to obtain.
could be used by visitors and the other spaces by permit holders.
This would create about 225 metered spaces.
The rule changes were suggested in the board's meetings on Monday and Oct. 27. The proposals will be discussed again Dec. 2 at the next meeting.
ing that the permits be updated each semester and requiring more than one doctor to approve the permit.
Medical parking permits are given to those who have temporary medical problems that restrict their mobility, such as a broken leg.
Simmons said she did not know when the proposals would be acted upon. She said she hoped the proposals would work with those made by the consultant.
This would make the process of obtaining the permit more difficult, which the board felt would prevent the abuses.
Members of the board expressed concern that medical permits were not being taken seriously and doctors were signing vouchers declaring patients eligible for medical permits even if they were not.
board members also suggested raising fines for meter violations from $2 to $7.50. An increased fine would make the penalty for parking at a meter without paying equal to the penalty for parking without a permit.
Proposals to prevent this abuse included abolishing the permits, requiring people to apply for handicap license plates from the state, remi-
The present system makes the $2 fine for meter parking violations cheaper than putting money in the meter all day.
City asks applicant to use its attorney
By JOHN BENNER
Staff writer
Lawrence city commissioners last night inadvertently put Robert Phillips in a bind.
Phillips, a Lawrence developer, went before the commissioners to ask them to put on their agenda his request for a public hearing on a $1 million industrial revenue bond issue to pay for a second phase to the River Front Square industrial park in North Lawrence.
He went away from the meeting seeking a new bond attorney — one chosen by the city — while the commissioners discussed a proposed city policy that could allow them to tell future bond applicants which attorney to hire.
The paperwork behind completing an IRB transaction is handled by a bond attorney who is paid from bond money. That means that an applicant such as Phillips must pay an attorney to help him.
Industrial revenue bonds are issued by the city to help developers build projects that will benefit the community, said Hannes Zacharias, city management analyst.
City Manager Buford Watson said that in the past bond attorneys not hired by the city had been unreliable and had cost the city payroll money to pay personnel who had to recheck the forms.
Although the city does not have a policy now, Phillips decided to abide by the commissioners' desire that he work with an attorney appointed by the city.
City commissioners said they thought the city should be allowed to choose bond attorneys because the reputation of the city was at stake when it issued bonds.
the forms.
Commissioners said the desire of the city to enlist law firms of its choice was not related directly to problems the city had experienced with Phillips in the past.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said although the bond was guaranteed by the value of the property purchased, if a problem were to occur, the credibility of the city's plans to issue bonds could be hampered.
Phillips received $630,000 from revenue bonds issued by the city in 1985 to build the first phase of the River Front Square project on N. Second Street. He also received IRB funds to pay for the renovation of the Eldridge House restaurant at 7th and Massachusetts streets.
Zacharias said a bond issue would allow Phillips to receive money pooled from bond sales at a low interest rate and the loan would be repaid from revenue generated by the firms that might locate in the new industrial park.
Cheryl Youngblood/KANSAN
36 days 'til Christmas
Fletcher, a Laurence Parks and Forestry worker, secures a string of Christmas lights to a tree on the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets
Few local people stockpile their blood
Staff writer
By KIRK KAHLER
Despite the risk of contracting AIDS through blood transfusions, few Lawrence or Kansas residents have reacted by trying to stockpile their own blood for personal use, hospital and Red Cross officials say.
By Byers, executive director of the Lawrence chapter of the American Red Cross, said Monday that some people did stockpile blood, or make autologous donations, but the practice was uncommon.
She said that people who donated blood for their own use usually did so because they had rare blood and their own blood might be the only available source of that type.
Some people also donate blood for their own use if they are scheduled to undergo surgery in the near future and if a doctor thinks that the donation is necessary for safety reasons.
Byers said.
The Lawrence Red Cross accepts and stores blood for people who intend to use it themselves only under these two conditions, she said, and only if a doctor has ordered it.
They do not store blood for people who are afraid of getting acquired immune deficiency syndrome through transfusions.
Byers said blood is taken from the patient and frozen for a maximum period of 52 days. After that the blood is no longer usable and is discarded.
The Red Cross charges $4 for each
unit of autologously donated blood.
Kalen Larson, assistant director of the office of communications for the American Red Cross in Wichita, said that autologous donations had been taken for three or four years and did
not result from the AIDS scare.
Larson also said that her office discouraged autologous donations because it was too busy collecting voluntary donations to deal with autologous donations.
"Some people are stockpiling, like on the coast, because there are more cases of AIDS there," she said.
Many people people also are discouraged from making the donations when the Red Cross tells them the drawbacks of an autologous donation, she said.
"We point out that, if they have an autologous donation waiting (in Lawrence)," Larson said, "and if they have a car wreck in Salt Lake City, it won't do them much good.
"You can't forecast when you'll need it or where you'll be."
She said her office also discouraged directed donations — people requesting that blood be donated by a friend or relative.
The Red Cross discourages directed donations so that a donor does not feel pressured to give blood and because the friends and relatives might not disclose physical ailments that could make their donation unacceptable, she said.
Larson said the blood the Red Cross received from volunteer donors was safe because those donors gave blood for altruistic purposes.
"These people have nothing to hide and research figures indicate it is safer than blood donated from friends or relatives," she said.
Judith Hefley, director of community relations at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said the hospital's policy was similar to that of the Red Cross.
Regents to suggest school improvements
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
The Board of Regents will suggest at its meeting this week ways that its schools can tighten their academic programs.
The Regents regular November meeting is scheduled tomorrow and Friday in Topeka.
Among the items on the agenda is a discussion on the role and scope reports, which each top executive from the seven Regents schools — including Chancellor Gene A. Budig — presented to the Regents in October.
But some of the results from that October meeting were not what most
Regents members had in mind, a Regents official said.
Regents Many Regents members were not satisfied with the schools' role and scope reports because they appeared to be too hopeful. Martine Hammond, director of academic affairs for the Regents, said after the October meeting.
Each report explained the purposes and the missions of its schools in terms of higher education in the state.
The officials of the seven schools gave reports on their schools that included self-examinations of their backgrounds, their roles in the
Regents system and their objectives in higher education.
The reports generally were not specific enough and were similar. Hammond said yesterday. After the October meeting the Regents staff reviewed the reports to differentiate among them by emphasizing certain disciplines in the schools.
The staff will submit a separate document with its recommendations to the schools tomorrow, Hammond said.
"The board and the institutions will have an opportunity to react," he said.
Final approval of the role and
scope reports will be in the Regents December meeting, she said.
Hammond said the staff's recommendations, none of which were asking for drastic changes in KU's report, will help guide the institutions in the programs in which they should specialize.
Hammond also said the reports would have definite budget implications.
"If new funds come about, then they would go into the area of emphasis," she said, "instead of areas of where these programs were not emphasized.
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