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Accident at work injures Ottawa man
An Ottawa man was listed in fair condition yesterday at Shawnee Mission Hospital in Overland Park with injuries he suffered in an industrial accident in Lawrence on Monday.
James Moss, 29, an employee of Mitchell Construction, was laying cable from the back of a truck in the 2300 block of 151st Street when a cable broke. Moss was caught in the cable and was pulled from the truck, which injured his left leg.
Senate to end year
He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then was transferred to Shawnee Mission Hospital with a fractured left knee.
The Student Senate will have its last regular meeting of the year tonight.
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Student Senate elections will be Nov. 19 and 20. Both old and new senators will meet Nov. 26 to make通知 From the old Senate to the new
Also, today at 5 p.m. is the registering deadline for groups of candidates who want to run together as a coalition without a presidential or vice presidential candidate.
Applications must be turned into the Student Senate office, in the basement of the Burge Union.
KU author to speak
Kelly Kindscher, Guide Rock Neb., graduate student, will give a lecture on edible plants of the prairie at noon today in the Public Education Room of the Museum of Natural History.
Kindscher, author of the book. Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie
- An Ebhno Botanical Guide, "is speaking as part of the launchcon lecture series that the Museum of Natural History sponsors.
Educators to meet
Kindscher will be talking about the types of foods that Native American Indians consumed on the prairie.
An all-day humanities symposium on "Educating for Life" is taking place today at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive
The symposium is open to teachers, administrators and school board members. The event is sponsored by the Hail Center for the Humanities, the School of Education and the Kansas Department of Education.
Professor to speak
Surendra Bhana, Langston Hughes professor of history will speak on "University Apartheid in South Africa" at 11:40 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. The presentation is part of ECM's Weekly Lunchroom Forum.
Weather
Skies today will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light rain. The high temperature will be in the low to mid-50s. The winds will be light and variable. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, and the low temperature will be 40 to 45 degrees. The high temperature tomorrow will be in the 50s.
From staff and wire reports.
Lawrence and KU police have reported a rash of bomb threats in the last two days.
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Police report rash of bomb threats
Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, reported three bomb threats Monday and yesterday, and the Lawrence police reported one threat yesterday. Neither Lawrence nor KU police found
someone called the Kansan Business Office yesterday and said a bomb had been planted on a bus. The caller didn't name a bus company or a specific bus.
The person who answered the telephone, and who asked not to be identified, said the caller whispered the threat. "I put the bomb on the bus."
The Kanan notified police about 10 a.m. Police then notified all Lawrence bus companies, including the Lawrence Bus Company and R.W. Harmon and Sons, Inc.
"When people make crank phone calls, people don't realize how disruptive they can be," Brothers said.
Duane Ogle, president and general manager of the Lawrence Bus Company, said the bus company took the threat seriously and notified all of it buses.
Ogle and KU police officers stood at the Kansas Union and other stops fligging down buses. Ogle said he didn't ask that the buses be evacuated. But at least one driver evacuated his bus when notified.
The other bomb threats were at a fraternity and residence halls.
Ellsworth Hall received a threat around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Brothers said. The male caller told the desk assistant not to worry about the bomb and
said that residents would feel it, according to Brothers.
A female called both the Information Center and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall about a bomb in Corbin Hall about 12:45 a.m. yesterday.
Lawrence police were notified about a bomb threat against the Pkappa Alpha fraternity.
Paul Lattan, Chicago sophomore and a house member, answered the telephone and heard the threat.
He said the female caller told him that a bomb was in the house and that it would explode.
Lattan told the fraternity president, and they notified police.
Police said they did not have any leads but were investigating.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Becky Altenbernd, Eudora freshman, waits for a bus in front of Snow Hall while trying to avoid the rain. Yesterday's drizzle made traveling to and
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from classes a soggy business. Today's weather should be mostly cloudy with highs in the 50s.
Proposal for testing is denied
Staff writer
By ATLE BJORGE
The College Assembly yesterday narrowly voted not to test new undergraduates for their ability in English and mathematics, a proposal the assembly had approved in 1984
Michael Johnson, chairman of the English department, said he had favored the idea of competency testing when it was first proposed.
"It would cost a minimum of $100,000, and it would involve staff we needed."
But, he said, the testing obviously wouldn't work.
Although the assembly approved the proposal, it never took effect. The proposal would have affected 4,000 to 5,000 students a year.
However, several faculty were wary of dropping the proposal.
Felix Moos, chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, recommended that the proposal be dropped.
John Davidson, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy, said competency testing is an essential incentive to improve writing standards.
Haskell Springer, director of freshman and sophomore English, said English wasn't the department of writing.
"The English department can't do the job of the whole college," he said.
Davidson moved for a faculty referendum on the competency testing proposal, but the assembly refused because no one moved to stop the debate.
Richard DeGeorge, professor of philosophy, moved that the proposal should be sent back to the undergraduate committee so it could look into alternative ways of assuring competence.
DeGeorge's proposal was defeated 17 to 21.
By a Kansan reporter
A Lawrence man is free on his own recognizance after federal and state officials arrested him Monday on warrants issued last week.
Local drug defendant arrested and freed
Christopher Clark, 24, 414 14th St. was one of the 21 people arrested in Lawrence in July on drug charges
The U.S. District Court in Topeka on Friday issued the federal warrants for Clark after he failed to show up at court. The state judge ordered J. Pat Haley, a district Court law
clerk, said yesterday
Clark surrendered to federal officials Monday, and the officials let him go on his existing 10,000 bond Clark was found guilty Oct. 2 in U.S. District Court in Topeka of one count of distributing cocaine. His sentencing date is scheduled for Nov. 14.
Among those changes is that students will have to enroll successively in English and mathematics classes until they have fulfilled degree requirements.
Clark could not be reached for comment. Clark's attorney, David Gilman of Overland Park, said Clark "was in distress and he did not receive a summons on time."
James Carothers, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the intent of the competency proposal would be covered by some of the changes that would go into effect in 1987 with the new curriculum changes.
Police explain room searches
Bv RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
Students living in residence halls should not be overly concerned about leaving evidence in their rooms during fires or bomb threats showing that they have violated hall rules, according to KU police.
During a fire or bomb threat, he said, officers were concerned with protecting residents and their property. He said police needed all
"In a situation like that, the 'infcats' main concern is evacuating the building," said John Brothers. "We don't do it, do not so in there looking for beer."
residents to leave the hall because people remaining in the hall could either be hurt or steal other residents' belongings.
Brothers said many times firefighters, not police officers, searched most rooms. But the officers try to make sure that students don't interfere with firefighters, he said.
Although the police did not look for infractions, he said, they had the fiddle.
"Because of the search and seizure law, an officer who is operating in a normal capacity can take evidence that indicates a crime if it's in plain view," he said.
Brothers said the police could confiscate evidence such as beer or drugs and use them as a basis for a criminal investigation.
Proposed train ride may offer scenery, robberies
However, he said, he could not think of any such incidents.
"I believe they're told just to leave their room, lock the door and go down."
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Some Baldwin City and Douglas County officials are hoping for a few train robberies next summer.
Mark von Schlemmer, assistant director at Hashinger Hall, said that no Hashinger Hall resident had been charged for infractions after a fire or bomb threat.
He said hall residents should leave their rooms, not clean them up, dur. The fire was in the kitchen.
If their hopes are realized, people will be able to get a feeling of what it was like to ride a passenger train in the early 1900s on a historic rail system in Baldwin, according to Phil Barnhouse, president of the Santa Fe Trail Historical Society in Baldwin.
Plans are underway for an old-fashioned steam engine to pull restored passenger cars along five miles of track south of Baldwin.
Barnhouse said he hoped to draw people from the Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka areas to an afternoon of history and fun.
Barnhouse said he hoped the train would be running by Memorial Day weekend
route, including farms and forests, a few special events might be planned.
"We might try to set up train robberies along the route, just for fun," Barnhouse said.
"We hope people will come and get a glimpse of history right here in Baldwin," he said. "And he has done so for us."
He said that in addition to the sights along the
Barnhouse said that the train ride would last about one hour and that he thought tickets would cost $3 for adults and $1.50 for children.
He said he hoped the train tours would draw more people to other historical sightings in Bakersfield.
'We hope to have tours of the city to show off
Barnhouse said the idea for the historical railroad first arose in 1982, when the Santa Fe railroad donated its Baldwin station to the city. City officials then gave the station to Barnhouse's organization.
our city's heritage as a stop along the Santa Fe Trail," he said.
Since then, about $40,000 has been invested to restore the station to its original appearance.
With a restored railroad station, the society began looking into the possibility of getting a train.
"The station is just like it was back in 1906, complete with woodwork and chandeliers." Barnhouse said.
Barnhouse said he met with officials of the
The two historical societies are in the process of purchasing tracks running from Baldwin to Ottawa from Santa Fe railway. Although the organizations have raised the $80,000 to buy the tracks, they must get approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission.
"We met with the KCC October 27 and met no opposition whatsoever." Barnhouse said. "We have a lot of support, including the county's."
Chris McKenzie, Douglas County administrator, said he supported the Baldwin project because it would be an economic boost for Douglas County.
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