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A pinhead for president?
Zippy the pinhead, a syndicated comic character, is running as a write-in candidate for student body president. A few students started the Zippy campaign to protest the lack of alternative candidates in the Student Senate elections.
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Fifteen seniors on the football team will play their last KU game Saturday. The seniors reflect on the highlights of their careers and say the program will improve.
Senior farewell
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Chill out
Today will be partly sunny but cooler with a high temperature in the upper 40s. Tonight will be mostly cloudy and cold.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 62 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday November 18, 1986
Lawrence smoking policy nears passage,leaders say
By JOHN BENNER
Staff writer
A proposed ordinance restricting smoking in Lawrence may become law before the end of the year, city officials said yesterday.
sanity yesterday.
At a study session yesterday, city commissioners and city staff decided on the final wording of a proposed ordinance to restrict smoking in public places.
If passed, the ordinance would prohibit smoking in elevators, rest rooms, buses, polling places, public assembly places, grocery stores, banks and the sales areas of retail stores, among others.
Some places that would not be affected by the proposed ordinance are bars, publicplaces 500 square feet or less, restaurants that seat 30 or fewer people, rooms being used for private functions, hotels, and bowling centers during league play if the league decides to permit smoking.
After several weeks of discussion, the commission decided to give an employer precedence in disputes over non-smoking lounges and cafeterias for employees.
An earlier draft of the ordinance had stated that a non-smoker would be given precedence when the designation of smoking and non-smoking areas was contested $ ^{10} $
Commissioner David Longhunt had said before yesterday's study session that he could not support an ordinance that could allow an employee to take advantage of an employer.
"I don't want an upset employee to use the ordinance to get back at his employer," Longhurst said. "The final consideration should lie with the employer."
consideration should be made. Commissioners and staff also determined that the city fire chief would be responsible for enforcing the proposed ordinance.
Under the proposed ordinance, the fire chief would handle initial complaints and could grant exceptions to the provision.
provision.
commissioners said they were anxious to provide a two-step appeal process, with the commission as the second step if a request for an exception cannot be resolved by the fire chief.
Mayor Sandra Frager asked that city staff have a final draft of the proposed ordinance ready to be discussed at the commission meeting Dec. 9.
The proposed ordinance must be discussed at two commission meetings and then published before it could become law.
City drafts morals ordinance
By JOHN BENNER
Lawrence officials yesterday decided on the wording of a proposed city ordinance that would prohibit selling, renting or displaying "harmful" materials, including videotapes, to minors.
Jerry Little, city prosecutor, said the city needed a more comprehensive indecent materials concerning minors ordinance because the current ordinance did not include videotapes, was too vague to be enforced and could be easily challenged in court.
Little wrote a model draft of the ordinance, which the Lawrence City Commission considered in a study session yesterday.
City commissioners and city staff discussed the model ordinance and decided on several changes. Passages defining the words "minor,""performance" and various sexual terms were removed. Books and magazines were added to the list of materials to be regulated.
The proposed ordinance would define material that is harmful to minors by using a "three-prong rule" developed by the U.S. Supreme Court to define obscenity, Little said.
The first rule describes harmful material as that which appeals to the sexual interest of minors, as defined by
"the average person applying contemporary community standards."
Second, material depicting sexual acts that is overly "offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable to minors," would be considered harmful.
Last, if the material "lacks serious literary, scientific, educational, artistic or political value for minors," it would be considered harmful.
Little said he had styled the proposed ordinance after a Wichita ordinance currently on appeal in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
He said that the Wichita ordinance's ability to withstand appeals showed its strength.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said the city commission probably would consider the final draft in about two weeks.
about two weeks.
If passed, the ordinance would require vendors to display "harmful" materials behind racks that would screen most of their covers.
Someone convicted of violating the proposed ordinance could be fined as much as $500, be imprisoned up to six months, or both.
Minors arrested under the proposed ordinance would be prosecuted under a state statute that prohibits the use of false identification. Little said.
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Leafv business
John Standing, Lawrence resident; shows off a giant sycamore leaf from one of his trees. Standing was raking his yard Sunday afternoon.
Reports of N. Korea leader's death false
United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean President Kim Il-Sung, laying to rest rumors that he had been assassinated, greeted visiting Mongolian leader Zhambyn Battmunk yesterday in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, news reports said.
Kim's appearance was his first since reports began circulating over the weekend that he had been assassinated.
Early Sunday, the South Korean Defense Ministry reported that Kim, 74, had been shot to death, quoting what it said was an announcement broadcast by the North Korean military along the 155-mile Demilitarized Zone separating the two nations.
the official (North) Korean Central News Agency, monitored in Tokyo, reported, "Comrade Kim Il-
Sung went out to the airport and warmly met Comrade Zhambyn Batmukh."
An Austrian Embassy spokeswoman in the North Korean capital said there was no unusual activity before the scheduled visit by the Mongolian leader. "Everything seems normal here," she said in a telephone interview.
But a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said there was another broadcast from loudspeakers along the DMZ early yesterday that O Jin Wu, the North Korean defense minister, had seized power.
"The broadcast said O Jin Wu was in full control and all the North Korean people were behind him," the spokesman said. He said the broadcast was heard at about 6 a.m. local time (3 p.m. CST).
Kim II-Sung
Seoul officials did not have any immediate comment on reports that
Kim had met with Batmunkh.
North Korean officials in Peking and Tokyo yesterday had denied reports of Kim's death. "This is not true. The great leader is well," a
North Korean embassy official said in Peking.
North Korea's state-run Radio Pyongyang carried regular news and music programming all Sunday and the (North) Korean Central News Agency made no mention of the reported assassination.
Reporter
South Korean Defense Minister
Lee Ki-Baek told the General
Assembly committee. "In particular,
the Korean CIA and the Combined
Forces Command in Seoul have
notified us that Kim II-Sung is almost
certain to ... (be) dead."
Lee said a North Korean broadcast made over loudspeakers at 8 p.m. Sunday along the northern sector of the DMZ said, "Our great leader Kim II-Sung died of gunshot wounds while making a trip by train."
A death announcement was repeated yesterday on loudspeakers along the 2.5-mile-wide DMZ, Lee said.
Election will feature new ballots and seat
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
This week's Student Senate election will boast some new features computerized ballots, paid poll workers and a Senate seat for nontraditional students.
The Senate will pay organizations for their members to monitor the polls this year. Glenn Shirtlife, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said yesterday.
"You get what you pay for." Shirtliea said.
Last year, some students didn't show up for their assigned times, which meant that some polls were closed, he said.
The poll workers will come from student organizations interested in raising, said Spencer Colvin, Leawood senior and a member of the
committee.
One group will be in charge of each of the seven polls, he said, and a member of the Elections Committee also will be present at each poll.
The polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday at Fraser, Learned, Strong, Summerfield and Wescoe Halls and at the Burge and Kansas Unions.
The groups will get $4 for each hour their members work, Colvin said. The Senate has estimated that it will nav about $200 for each poll.
Shirtlife said that paying poll watchers was cheaper than having a new election if unwatched ballot boxes were stuffed.
the election will cost about $5,000,
including $1,400 for poll workers, he
See VOTING, p. 5, col. 2
Darcy H. Chang/Special to the Kansar
Ralph Bowles, left, Alton, Ill., senior, and Bryan Stringer, Wellington sophomore, stand by a hearse owned by Rumsey.
Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St. The two students live and work at the home.
Funeral home is living for students
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
saw him.
During the day, Ralph Bowles and his Stringer attend classes like most other college students.
But in the evening, they go home to work — and their work is deadly serious.
SEFROWS
That's because Stringer, Wellington sophomore, and Ralph Bowles, Alton, Ill., senior, live and work at the Rumsey Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St.
"When you're alone at night," Stringer said, "you might hear a noise and you start thinking..."
Stringer and Bowles drive the hearse and limousines to cemeteries, bring bodies from hospitals or nursing homes to the funeral home and greet guests visiting the home.
stringer says he likes his work. "It's not that hard, and you have
The telephone rings to inform the funeral home that someone has died and that someone from the funeral home must come pick up the body.
time to study." he said. "You could go to bed at 9 p.m. and sleep in as late as you want — as long as you answer the phone."
"They leave the phone out in the hall because we're supposed to be alert when we answer the phone." Stringer said.
Stringer and Bowles answer the telephone that rests on a stand in the hall outside their bedrooms. Each of them has a bell by his bed that alerts him when the telephone rings.
The casket display room is across the hall from Stringer's bedroom. The kitchen and the living room are on the lower floor, next to rooms used for families of
the deceased and display rooms for burial vaults and tombstones.
for our outdoor visits and Bowles said the job was nothing new to him because his father owned and operated a funeral home in Alton. He said he liked the job, especially while he was in high school, because others thought it was unusual.
"I liked it because everyone asked you so many questions," he said. "No one else had that kind of lifestyle or childhood."
Bowles said he started working for the Rumsey Funeral Home in May because he was tired of living in residence halls and apartments and because of his previous experience with the funeral business
"All my life, I thought I was going into the funeral business," Bowles said. "But a couple of
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See FUNERAL, p. 5, col. 1