University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 30, 1986
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secretary, said that the mistakes were unfortunate but that it wasn't a major gaffe.
He said, "It'll lose us a few votes, and it'll gain us a few votes.
"Campaign fliers sometimes contain errors, and they're not all ours."
Tom Laing, Docking's campaign manager, said the figures came from the Department of Corrections annual report for 1985.
Kelley Hayden disputed the facts in an earlier Docking flier that said Class B felons were freed after an average of three years behind bars.
"I guarantee you our numbers are nailed down." Laing said, adding that they would apologize if the Hayden staff said, "We have a problem."
Overall, Laing said, the Docking campaign is moving in a good direction.
Laing also suggested that the Hayden staff knew the facts were incorrect before they printed the fliers and distributed them.
At a rally in Lawrence last night, Kelley Hayden said no correction would be printed.
"We're taking no effort other than to say the Yorkie Smith example was wrong," Hayden said.
Nathaniel "Yorkie" Smith, of Iola, was cited in the flier as an example of someone who would have been executed if the death penalty, which Docking opposes, had been enacted. Smith was convicted of second-degree murder, a crime no one has yet to propose the death penalty for, in 1982.
Endorse
"I think press coverage ought to cover where our error lies," Kelley Hayden said, adding that by the time a correction was printed and distributed, the election would be over.
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before the Senate meeting. "We're not in this particular instance."
The Black Student Union received
$362.70 from Student Senate for the
fourth annual Black Student Union
excursion.
But Glenn Shirliffe, Senate Elections Committee chairman, said at the Senate meeting that, according to his interpretation of Senate rules, any group endorsing political candidates would be seen as a political organization and thus lose its Senate financing.
Senate rules say the Senate cannot finance a political organization.
Shirltife also said that, as the chairman of the Elections Committee, he would view endorsements by student groups, including BSU, as having monetary value. He would thus assess an endorsement as a campaign expenditure to the coalition that received it.
Senate rules limit the amount of money a coalition can spend based on
"Any costs to advertise this debate would be considered campaign expenditures," Shirtlife said.
Shirtliffe said he might submit a
bill to the Senate that would exempt the Kansan and JKH-KFM radio station, both of which are financed by the Student Senate, from that regulation.
The Senate's rules already exempt the Associated Students of Kansas from the regulation.
Epstein said he had the same concern last year but had been powerless to do anything about it.
Endowment
The Black Student Union endorsed Epstein's election opponents for student body president and vice president last year.
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they're willing to give more." he said.
But for now, the Endowment Association is reminding people on an individual basis through letters and word of mouth that donating before the end of the year might be financially beneficial. Sevmour said
Seymour said that despite the decrease in total contributions this year and his concerns about the amount of contributions next year, he was encouraged by the overall results of the annual report.
Gifts from the annual giving programs increased from $2.7 million in fiscal 1985 to $3 million in fiscal 1986, a 10 percent increase, the report said.
Money from the annual giving programs is used for immediate needs, such as student loans, scholarships and gifts that have been invested, Seymour said.
Total scholarship aid given by the Endowment Association increased to $5.1 million in fiscal 1986, up from $4.5 million in 1984-85, an increase of 13.3 percent. Also, 26 new individual scholarships were added to the 29 existing scholarships.
Radon
In other gains, the annual report said that the Endowment Association's income from investments increased about 27 percent. Investment rose from $18.8 million in fiscal 1986 to $26.1 million in fiscal 1986.
Watras' house was built on the Reading Prong area, which contains large amounts of uranium and stretches under parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
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Benjamin Friesen, KU professor of biochemistry, said radon levels in homes could vary drastically depending on a number of factors. Construction of houses, cracks in basement walls or soil permeability could affect the amount of gas seeping in, he said.
One house with a high level of radon might be built adjacent to a house without any radon, he said.
Despite what testing indicated, the existence of radon would be costly for everyone, he said, because even those who didn't have radon in their homes would have to prove it. Mortgage insurance also would rise without an assessment of the radon level, he said.
Friesen said he thought the standards set by the EPA might be too strict.
If a problem with radon in Kansas were detected, there are many inexpensive methods of deterring accumulation in homes, Armstrong said.
"Society is paranoid about radiation," he said.
Eliminating lingering radon could be as simple as filling cracks in basement walls or opening a couple of windows. But it is possible that extreme cases in some homes could mandate reconstruction, he said.
Don Steeple, director of research at the Kansas Geological Survey, said most of the black shale in Kansas is in the eastern most third of Kansas.
Large deposits of highly radioactive Hebner shale existed near the surface soil in Lawrence and Douglas County, he said. But because Hebner shale is only one to two feet thick, it was unlikely to produce enough radiation to pose serious health hazards, he said.
Today, plans for testing and research of radon in Kansas are underway.
The EPA recently approved the issuance of 2,000 charcoal canisters to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for testing of radon, state and federal officials said.
The cannisters will be placed in homes in Kansas that are located on potential radon-risk soil to detect the concentrations of radon during the heating season when homes are most tightly closed.
Halloween Dance Friday, Oct. 31 at 8 p.m.
At The St. Lawrence Catholic Center Admission $2.50
ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC
CAMPUS CENTER
631 Crescent Rd. 843-0357
"Designing for present Building for the future"
Friday 12-6 p.m.
Sat. 9-1 p.m.
Engineering Expo
Learned Hall Open to the Public
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- Friday · October 31 · 1986 ·
MOUNT DREAD a Kansas Union Halloween
- New Orleans style Funeral March on Jayhawk Boulevard at 11:20 a.m.
- Free Masquerade Ball in the Hawk's Nest at 8 p.m. with The Mackender-Hunt Band.
- Costume Contest and Party-Pictures taken in a casket at the Masquerade Party.
- Oread Book Shop-20% off all science fiction and horror books.
- KU Bookstore All Horror and Science Fiction video rentals 50¢. Special discounts on film processing and other items. Free Schick Razors and campus trial paks while supplies last.
- Candy Corn on sale for $1/lb. at the Information Counter.
- Moonlight Bowling in the Jaybowl-50¢ a game from 7-11 p.m.
- "Hot As Hell" Chili 754 in Food Service and free sorbet in the Hawk's Nest while supplies last.
- SUA Pumpkin Carving Contest in the Kansas Union lobby, Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Free Horror Movies in Traditions Room 8 p.m.-2 a.m.
"Night of the Living Dead," H.G. Wells' "Things to Come"
and "Little Shop of Horrors."
- SUA Horror Movies in Woodruff Auditorium. "Phantasm" at 3:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. and "Motel Hell" at midnight.
Friday October 31 1986