University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 29. 1986
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News Briefs
Memorial scheduled for former professor
A memorial service for William P. Albrecht, professor emeritus of English, is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The service will be followed by a private ceremony at Pioneer Cemetery, located at Constant Avenue and Irving Hill Road.
KU to debate British
Mr. Albrecht, who died Monday at the age of 79, had been part of the KU faculty since 1957.
The KU debate team will take on two members of the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, a touring debate team, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
The team of Eddie Watson, Arkansas City senior, and Steve Ellis, Wichita senior, will debate for the University of Kansas. Mark Malcomson and Gary Bell of Great Britain will debate for the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth.
The topic will be "This House Believes That U.S. Foreign Policy Is Offensive."
Candidates to speak
Candidates for lieutenant governor will stage their only debate of the campaign at 8 p.m. today in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union
John Montgomery, Junction City publisher and former chairman of the Board of Regents, will debate state Sen. Jack Walker, professor of family practice at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Montgomery is Lt. Gov. Tom Docking's running mate on the Democratic ticket, and Walker is running with Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden on the Republican ticket.
College Republicans and KU Democrats are sponsoring the debate, which is open to the public.
Governor speaks
DENVER — Farmers and ranchers will be big losers if international trade hostilities aren't replaced by global marketing cooperation, according to Gov. John Carlin.
"We in the United States have discovered with commodities such as wheat, that we cannot buy our way into prosperity by underselling our competitors." Carlin told 130 delegates from 30 states at the first World Livestock Producers Conference.
"Some grain exporting countries need the cash flow that exports provide to repay debts." he said. "Regardless of what we do in the United States, we cannot undersell those countries."
Lobbyists set record
TOPERKA — Lobbyists spent $5,192 to influence Kansas lawmakers during September, pushing total lobbyist spending for the year to a record $454,986, the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission reported today.
Virtually all of the money in September went for food and beverages. The report said $5,025 of the total went for food and drink and $167 was spent for gifts, honoraria or payments. Lobstery reports reported spending no money for advertising or other expenses.
Weather
Skies today will be mostly sunny with the high temperature around 70. Tonight's low temperature will be in the mid 80s. Tomorrow's high temperature will be around 70.
From staff and wire reports
Corn off the cob
Top photo, Robert Gabriel, Eudora farmer, left, and Farmers Co-op employees, Ted Howell, Lawrence, center, and Tom Morison, Lawrence, wait for a grain bin to empty into the main storage area before unloading Gabriel's truckload of corn. Gabriel took his crop to Farmers Co-op, 20th Street and Moodie Road, yesterday. At right, Pat Ross, Lawrence farmer, left, watches corn being emptied from his truck by Scott Davis, Lawrence, a Farmers Co-op employee. Ross took the corn to Farmers Co-op, 325 Locust Street yesterday.
City indecent exposure cases increase
By RIC ANDERSON Staff writer
Staff writer
Two sightings of exhibitionists in the last three days was not an uncommon occurrence during the fall semester, said a KU professor and police officials.
Lawrence police reported that a man exposed himself to a KU student at 11 p.m. Monday at a sorority house in the 1600 block of Oxford Road.
A similar incident occurred in front of two women Sunday at 2 a.m. at a sorority house in the 1500 block of Sigma Nu Place.
Dennis Daily, a KU sociology professor, said flasher activity increases
ed in Lawrence during the fall partly because KU students returned. Exhibitionists have more of an outlet for their behavior, he said, because they can select their target from a bigger audience.
Exhibitionists are more active in the fall than the winter, Daily said, because of the warmer temperatures.
Ernest Gwin, Lawrence police of ficeer, said that police received about one or two reports of flashing a week in the fall if the weather was nice. The number of reports tapered off during the winter, he said, and police usually had very few reports in the
summer.
Daily, who teaches the class,
Human Sexuality in Everyday Life,
said there was no clear cut explana-
tion for the crease of flashing dur-
ding the spring.
During the summer, he said, reports dropped off because the population decreased.
"They might be scared of getting caught, because they're seeing reports published," he said.
Daily said the typical exhibitionist was a man between 17 and 40 years of age who was married, had children and was employed.
ing type of person," he said.
"His sense of his own masculinity is very weak or very shallow. Daily sauna."
Another common trait shared by the men was a sexual dysfunction that drove them to exhibitionism, he said.
"Basically, it's a quiet, unassum
Exhibitionists usually are not violent and will not approach the victim.
Although the exhibitionist does not make contact with the victim, he said, the act is harmful to the victim. Victims are usually female and exhibitionists are usually male, according to police reports.
Stephan would like to alter penal system
Staff writer
By KAREN SAMELSON
Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan told supporters last night that he thought the state's system for sentencing criminal offenders needed to be changed.
"I am firmly convinced that all too often we lock up the wrong person," Stephan said, adding that the criminal justice system needed to make more distinctions between first-time and habitual offenders.
Stephan told about 50 people at the Lawrence Country Club, 400 Country Club Terrace, that he supported a system that would give the same sentence to everyone with the same background convicted of the same crime.
Stephan is seeking his third term as attorney general in the Nov. 4 general election and is running against Democrat Dennis Moore, the Johnson County district attorney. His appearance was part of the monthly meeting of the Women's Committee of Women, which also featured County Treasurer Nancy Welsh and District Attorney Jim Flory.
The sentencing structure can't change until the penal system changes, Stephan said. He added that the state needed adequate minimum-security facilities for non-violent offenders.
Before talking about his rise
from municipal judge in Wichita to attorney general, Stephan told his audience how much he appreciated support from his family and the public in troubled times.
"There's a special relation with those who have given a part of themselves because they believe in you," he said. "It's wonderful to know that you've made a difference in people's lives."
Stephan also spoke about decisions he had made during his eight years in office, including decisions that had been unpopular, such as a recent one that said liquor-filled chocolates could be sold only in liquor stores.
However, he said, "An important part of the political process is to be subject to criticism. Hopefully that criticism will be constructive."
Stephan said he was confident that he would win the Nov. 4 election because two recent polls said he had a high percentage points ahead of Moore.
He said the sexual harassment suit that was settled out of court last March probably would stay with him for the rest of his life, but he said he had complied with legal and ethical requirements.
"I don't have any apologies to make to anyone," he said.
The Associated Press
Voters should look at his work as attorney general, he said.
TOPEKA — Dennis Moore.
Democratic nominee for attorney general, said yesterday that he had the lead in the race against incumbent Robert Stephan.
Moore, who has been the Johnson County district attorney for the past 10 years, said he would visit 15 cities around the state in the four days leading up to next Tuesday's general election.
"As the election nears, Kansans are expressing a growing loss of confidence in the incumbent attorney general and a growing awareness of the leadership I can bring to the office." Moore said in a news conference. "Every day, more voters are deciding we need a new attorney general."
He based his assertions on recent public opinion poll that showed he had made dramatic progress in catching Stephan Moore attributed his progress to voters who were finally focusing on the race and his success in presenting himself as a credible alternative to Stephan.
"I feel very comfortable about what the outcome will be," Moore said. "I've felt a tremendous momentum in the last seven to 10 days. Mr. Stephan continues to lose ground and we continue to gain support."
of him because voters wanted someone they could trust implicitly.
Moore said he believed people were abandoning Stephan in favor
"I've always been guided by one simple principle: you always tell the truth," Moore said. "Public officials must be accountable. And no one is above the law. We must conduct the public's business openly. When a public official spends taxpayers' money, he owes the taxpayers an explanation — not a secret."
Moore took another shot at Stephan and his handling of a sexual harassment lawsuit which he tried to dismiss last March in a secret, out-of-court settlement.
The lawsuit forced Stephan to cancel his plans to run for governor, when it was revealed that the settlement included a $24,000 cash payment to Marcia Tomson, the former employee who brought the suit.
Since then, Tomson has refile charges against Stephan. He has refused to discuss the case.
Moore also criticized Stephan for not working to restore "common sense" to state sentencing laws. Moore said drug dealers should be thrown in jail and chided Stephan for appointing a committee to study the drug problem in Kansas.
Sgt. J卵 Brothers, KU police spokesman, said flashing victims should walk to a highly populated area as fast as possible and call the
The need to bring attention to family violence, such as child abuse, wife battering and mistreated senior citizens, also ranks high on Moore's list.
Brothers said victims should get an accurate description of the exhibitionist and his clothing and then call police quickly.
Flyer stirs criticism of Hayden
TOPEKA — Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden was the target of fierce criticism yesterday for an inaccurate pro-death penalty brochure that labeled the Carlin-Docking administration "ultra-h liberal" and "soft on crime."
United Press International
The four-page brochure, distributed by direct mail, included part of a large newspaper headline reading "Violent crimes up in Kansas," based on incorrect Kansas Bureau of Investigation statistics that were retracted by the agency two days later.
The flyer also contended that Kansas abolished capital punishment in 1972, when in fact the state's death penalty law was voided with many other states' by the U.S. Supreme Court.
It said if the death penalty had been in effect, Nathaniel "Yorkie" Smith of Iola, would have been executed for his first killing, rather than being "released by a John Carlin-controlled parole board" in 1982 only to kill three more people. The brochure fails to note that Smith was convicted of second-degree murder, which no one has ever proposed be subject to the death penalty.
Hayden, the Kansas House speaker, blamed the administration of Gov. John Carlin and Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, for a "total breakdown of law and order in the state of Kansas."
The brochure also said the "soft-on-crime" attitude of the administration was responsible for crimes by career criminals who spend little time in prison.
Docking press secretary Michael Swenson blasted Hayden for the brochure.
Come let a pumpkin be your canvas at the first pumpkin carving contest. Prizes will be awarded and pumpkins and tools provided. Show up anytime from 10:30-2:30 Wed., Oct. 29 or Thurs., Oct. 30 for on the spot carving.
Feel like taking your frustrations out on a defenseless pumpkin?
No entrance fee.
Sponsored by SUA Fine Arts Committee.
Kansas Union, Main Level Call 864-3477 for more info.
TO SIGN UP OR FOR MORE INFO CALL BILL AT 841-3856.