'Wrack & Roll'
Bradley Denton, a former KU student, signed copies of his his newly released science-fiction novel, "Wrack & Roll," in the Kansas Union yesterday.
Cat scratch fever
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Pet owners should be especially cautious of pet-associated illnesses that could be passed on to humans during winter months when animals spend a lot of time indoors.
A bit nippy
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Today will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high temperature around 30. Tonight will be partly cloudy and cold, with a low in the 20s.
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Vol. 97, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
November 13, 1986
Erosion from heavy rainfall has washed away dirt from around drainage pipes and from under roads that cross Naismith Drive between 19th and 23rd streets. The city has closed three roads that have collapsed or have been weakened by the erosion. Increased water runoff from city and University construction has caused the problems.
Construction hampers drainage
Runoff from Mount Oread floods some parts of city
By IOHN BENNER
Staff writer
During rain storms, Eleanor Woodyard, 2204 Alabama St., sometimes has to keep an eye out for people to keep them from hurting themselves in the street near her house.
When the sewers fill, she said,
the manhole cover pops off and
the exposed hole could be dangerous to
pedestrians and motorists.
Woodyard said the water, which has gotten as high as eight inches in the street, didn't keep motorists off the road.
"People don't stop driving here," she said. "They just drive faster."
Flooding in the neighborhood south of Mount Oread, on Naismith Drive and on 23rd Street results from KU construction and other building in Lawrence, say Woodyard, other residents and city officials.
In 1983, Lawrence added an ordinance to the city code that was designed to ease flooding in the city, said Teresa Gardner, city engineer.
Gardner said the ordinance required new city construction projects to detain water to keep it clean. The water was drained before the construction.
However, because the city considers University property beyond its jurisdiction, KU construction has continued without detaining excess flood water, said Price Banks, city planning director.
Gardner also cited runoff from private construction projects on land south of Mount Oread and construction on campus for backing up storm water on Naismith Drive and on 23rd Street.
"The ordinance requiring water detention is a relatively new policy," Gardner said. "We feel the University needs to incorporate detention into new projects."
"We also need to do that in the rest of the city. The University is not 100 percent to blame."
She said water flowing off Mount Oread to the south was responsible for the collapse of two roads and the weakening of two others that cross Naismith Drive between 19th and 23rd streets. The city recently allocated more than $400,000 for repairs of the street and of a broken water main in the area.
"The water got in between the culverts and the road surface and eroded away the dirt," Gardner said.
Storm water runoff down Naimshi Drive has caused problems for residents as well as for the city, said former Lawrence ei-
She said public works officials had told her that storm water had eroded the soil under water mains along Nismith Drive.
Marilyn Bradt, 2003 Naismith,
recently returned from a trip and
found that her front yard had been
dug up by city work crews.
Bradt said the city quickly had repaired a broken water main that serviced her house. She was unable to use her water for one day, she said, because it had dirt in it.
parking lot, the Malott Hall addition and the Summerfield Hall addition
In 1973, the University submitted a 10-year plan to the Board of Regents that outlined KU's needs for future development.
In those 10 years, the University completed eight main projects on more than 500,000 square feet of land.
The construction projects, all on the south side of campus, are the O Zone parking lot, Anschutz Sports Pavilion, the Computer Center and its parking lot, the Art and Design Building, the Burge Union and its
The University also has plans for two more buildings. A science
See EROSION, p. 5, col. 1
KU has not yet felt state budget pinch, some officials say
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
Although state budget officials are working during a transition period between governors with a projected budget deficit of $12 million, KU officials said earlier this week that the University's budget had not yet experienced cutbacks.
"We haven't felt any financial or physical effects yet." Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU budget director, said yesterday.
The current conditions of the state have not yet slowed down the planning process for the University's fiscal 1988 budget. Zimmerman said.
Each year, the University of Kansas prepares a tentative budget and delivers it to the Board of Regents for permission to seek those specific amounts from the Kansas Legislature. That budget was delivered to the Regents over the summer, he said.
"We are asking for the minimum amount of resources to finance the mission the Board of Regents would like us to fulfill." Zimmerman said
The Regents then request the University to readjust its figures and submit them to the Budget Division of the Kansas Department of Administration. The University did this Sept. 15, Zimmerman said.
Right now, the Budget Division is analyzing the state and the state's needs to ensure all state agency budgets are funded by the University's budget, are feasible.
The state office will review the KU budget and will make recommendations to the University through the Regents, said Gary Stotts, acting director of the Budget Division.
Stotts said he would meet with governor-elect Mike Hayden's transition team, which was appointed Friday.
Stotts said he hoped the division would respond to the University by next week, at which time the University would schedule a hearing before Gov. John Carlin and his staff. Hayden probably would be present at the meeting.
"We have not made a recommendation yet," he said. "Hopefully, we will get all of that ironed out soon."
"We will look at (the KU budget) of course, while considering the financial condition of the state."
Zimmerman said the Budget Division would recommend to the governor the amounts that were feasible in terms of the resources available.
Each year the University presents its request to the division and 'where we agree, we thank them and where they agree.' The governor, Zumerman said.
Before the KU budget was sent to the Budget Division, the Board of Regents requested KU to make several adjustments. One of the requests concerned the money budgeted for new and improved programs.
The University, in its tentative budget, requested $7,548,732 for 19 new and improved programs during fiscal year 1988, the 1987-88 academic year, he said. The Regents reduced that by almost 59 percent, authorizing the University to seek $3,113,933 for creating only eight programs.
"That is still our official request to the Board of Regents," he said.
Overall, the Regents allowed the University to seek a total general use fund of $125,301,974 for fiscal year 1988, he said.
One area in which the Regents did not suggest a change was the 8 percent increase the University is seeking for unclassified salaries, which include faculty members, Zimmer man said.
Youth charged in shooting
Bv KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Kansas City, Mo. police charged Richard Scott, 17, of Kansas City, Mo., yesterday with armed robbery and armed criminal activity in connection with the Oct. 31 shooting of Amy Thompson, a KU graduate student.
Sgt. Jim Barbee, supervisor of the police department robbery unit, said Scott was arrested at noon Tuesday at his home on East 61st Street after a similar shooting incident on Nov. 6.
"He was linked through a series of investigative leads and evidence." Barbee said.
Thompson, 23. of Kansas City, Mo., is in a coma and is listed in critical condition at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
Barbee said Scott was in the city jail Tuesday on an unrelated charge of armed robbery from the second incitement case.
Scott was charged, and will be tried, as an adult because 17-year-olds in Missouri are considered adults, according to Detective Lester Scott of the robbery unit.
Scott was moved later to the Jackson County Jail.
Bob Singleton, 25, of Kansas City, Mo., was robbed and shot in the face while sitting in his car in the Parliament Oaks apartment complex in the 7000 block of Crab Apple Lane in South Kansas City, Mo.
Police recovered a bullet from the shooting, which resembled one found at the scene of the Oct. 31 shooting.
In the Oct. 31 shooting, rhombus and several friends were leaving a party in the 4900 block of Wyandotte Street in Kansas City, Mo., when two men approached them. One of the men produced a gun and two shots were fired after a brief struggle. One of the shots hit Thompson in the back of the head.
The assailants ran away, but the second bullet was discovered nearby.
Scott was charged yesterday with the shooting of Thompson, Barbee said.
Ex-coach confirms drug use
Former KU football coach Dom Farbrough confirmed yesterday that some players during his tenure had used drugs but denied a former player's accusation that he had ignored the problem.
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Fambrough, now a field representative for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, was contacted by telephone yesterday in Stockton on the first leg of a two-day tour of western Kansas.
Fambrough said some players on the team had used various drugs while he was head coach, from 1979 to 2003 and that the problem was widespread.
"I'm not trying to deny that while I was there we didn't have those problems, because we did," he said. "I was not so much aware of (cocaine) as I was of other things, but yes, we had some drug-related problems.
"They were taken care of on an individual basis. In some cases players were dismissed, in other cases they were given a second chance."
He said two or three players had been dismissed and two or three others had not.
Gary Hunter, associate athletic director the University of Kansas since last year, said that neither he nor anyone else currently associated with KU athletics had any knowledge of possible drug use during Fambrough's reign.
Fambrough's comments came on the same day the Kansas City Times published a story saying that he "heatedly denied statements by his lawyer" Scribner that cocaine use was widespread while he was on the team.
"I'm sure there were cases I didn't know about, but certainly the ones I was aware of we tried to take care of to the best of our ability," he said.
Fambrough said he did not challenge Scriber's allegations of drug usage among players, only the statements that it was widespread and that he did not try to help the players.
"To be accused of overlooking something like that, well, it really hurts," Fambrough said. "When I see him, I intend to let him know how I feel."
Scribner made the remarks during an interview broadcast Monday night
He said he had no idea why Scribner, a punter at KU from 1980 to 1982, would say he ignored drug usage on the team. Scribner could not be reached for comment. In the WDAF interview, he said cocaine use was limited during the season to Saturday night parties after games.
He said he had not seen any instances where it affected players during games, although he thought it was a problem for players in academies.
Fambrough said he considered the problem of drug usage at the University during his tenure "almost common knowledge."
However, Hunter said Scri伯斯's remarks to WDAF were the first he had heard since coming to KU concerning widespread drug usage by football players in the Fambrough years.
Hunter noted that in the Kansas City Times story, three players who played under Fambrough insisted there might have been isolated cases of drug usage, but not a severe problem.
All KU athletes are tested for drugs at least twice a year, on a scheduled and random basis, Hunter said.
Jadey Antinson/Special to the KANSAN
Steve Marshall, a member of the Kansas City, Mo., branch of The Young Socialist Alliance, sells books and newsletters in front of the Kansas Union. Marshall and other Alliance members come to KU every few weeks to sell literature about struggles in South Africa and Nicaragua.
Socialist display violates rule
By BILL RAYNOLDS
Yesterday morning, two men were selling literature and buttons to benefit the Pathfinder Bookstore, a socialist bookstore in Kansas City, Mo.
But they did not know they were violating a KU guideline. The University Events Committee prohibits selling on campus unless the activity or event benefits the University community and is under the sponsorship of a registered organization or
University office
In the main entrance of the Kansas Union, they covered an olive-colored card table with socialist literature and a colorful display of buttons urging the release of Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, and an end to U.S. intervention in Nicaragua.
Jeff Powers, a member of the Kansas City, Mo., branch of the Socialist Workers Party, and his partner Roger Bland, a member of the Kansas City, Mo., branch of the Young Socialist Alliance, tried to interest passers-by in socialism.
Students filed past the cluttered table, and some of them stopped to laugh.
"Hey, how about a copy of the Militant, the largest-selling weekly newspaper of the socialist movement? Only 75 cents." Powers told a group of people standing by the table.
Bland said he did not know about the University policy and called it undemocratic.
See SOCIALISTS, p. 5, col. 1