University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 28, 1986
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News Briefs
Three men arrested on drug charges
Lawrence police arrested two Lecompton men and one Perry man Sunday on charges of possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The Perry man also was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and driving while intoxicated.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police spokesman, said workers in a restaurant on Sixth Street called police and told them the men were spitting at them through the restaurant's drive-through window.
The Perry man's truck was in a parking lot across the street from the restaurant when police arrived. Dalquest said.
When officers approached the truck, Dalquest said, the Perry man drew a knife. He put it down, and when the officer drew his revolver,
Officers searched the truck and found small quantities of the drugs, Dalquest said.
The Lecompton men were each being held yesterday on $6,000 bonds. The Perry man was being held on a $6.250 bond.
Hayden will speak
Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden will speak about higher education and field questions at the second fall meeting of the University Senate tomorrow. The meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The speech is free and open to the public
Fellowship awarded
Hayden, the Kansas House speaker from Atwood, will face Lt. Gov Tom Docking in the Nov. 4 election. Docking also spoke to the University Senate recently.
The National Institute of Handicapped Research in Washington, D.C. has awarded R. Mark Mathews, a research associate with the KU Research and Training Center for Independent Living, a one-year post-doctoral fellowship.
Mathews' grant is one of three fellowships awarded nationally this year.
He will study the needs of people who are disabled and those who live in senior citizen homes to find ways that they become more independent.
Mathews has a bachelor's degree in human development and a doctoral degree in developmental psychology from the University of Kansas.
Pumpkins to be sold
Jayhawks for UNICEF is sponsoring its second annual "Pumpkin Patch" sale from 1 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the west side of Wesley Hall
Pumpkins will be sold for $1 a piece with proceeds going to the United Nations Children's Fund
Other activities include a pumpkin decoration contest between fraternities and sororites. Students may offer donations for their favorite pumpkin; the winning pumpkin will be announced Nov. 5.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature in the mid- to upper 20, and southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be most clear with a low temperature around 40.
From Kansan wires.
Last of uranium removed from reactor
By KIRK KAHLER
Most of the radioactive material left in KU's nuclear reactor was removed last week, the reactor's director said yesterday.
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Harold Rosson, the director and a professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said the University of Kansas officials removed the last of the uranium from the reactor Friday.
Officials took 1.5 grams of uranium contained in a neutron detector, which is used in nuclear experiments, to Kansas State University, he said.
The uranium is only mildly radioactive and is not a safety hazard, Rosson said.
Rosson said K-State would use the detector for experiments conducted at their reactor. He said neutrons contain a form of radiation needed for experiments.
Officials had removed radioactive fuel from the reactor in late January and early
Ben Friesen, director of KU Radiation Safety Service and professor of biochemistry, said all the active waste had been removed from the reactor. But some parts of the reactor that became mildly radioactive during operation still had to be removed. He said the removal had not been scheduled yet.
Friesen said the scrap uranium eventually would be buried in Hanford, Wash, which has one of three federally approved nuclear waste burial grounds.
kilograms of scrap uranium metal, which isn't hazardous, from the reactor Oct. 21.
Adcom Express Co., a nuclear waste broker from Illinois, transported the scrap uranium to Hanford.
Rosson said the reactor, which began operations in June 1961, ceased operations in 1984. At the same time, KU discontinued its nuclear engineering degree program.
He said the reactor was shut down because K-State had built a nuclear reactor and offered
a nuclear engineering degree.
KU decided the state didn't need two nuclear engineering programs because the student demand for the programs wasn't enough.
He said the reactor primarily was used to teach students and to manufacture isotopes used for research by the chemistry, physics and biology departments.
The reactor will be completely decommissioned when the University receives the needed money, Rosson said.
Rosson said two forms of decommission existed. The University could either dismantle the reactor, which could cost up to $400,000, or entomb it in concrete, he said.
Sherif Shaaban. Lawrence graduate student and facilities operations employee, blows trash and leaves from bleachers in Memorial Stadium.
Blow out
Unveiling of mall plans expected
Staff writer
By JOHN BENNER
Site plans for a proposed downtown shopping mall will be unveiled today at 9 a.m. by a representative for the developer, Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs of Cleveland.
The Urban Renewal Authority will meet in the city commission meeting room at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
At the URA's meeting, Don Jones, the JVJ representative, is scheduled to discuss his company's progress toward securing written commitments from Dillard's and two other major department stores who have shown an interest in the mall.
Jones said the three chains had agreed verbally but had not signed any agreements to work with the mail developers. He is expected to present some preliminary site
plans for the project at this morning's meeting.
JVJ is working with the Town Venture Corporation, a Lawrence company, to develop the mail.
Hannes Zacharias, city management analyst, said having design plans would allow the URA to start a public review of the mall and its impact on downtown traffic and parking.
At the meeting, the URA also will consider organization of a public review process of
The URA will provide the forum for public concerns about the mail. Zacharias said.
Further action on downtown development will be discussed during the hearing on the creation of a business improvement district in the central downtown area.
The public can air its concerns about another downtown project at a hearing during tonight's Lawrence City Commission meeting.
The public hearing is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. today.
Mayor Sandra Praeger said one of the aims of the BID would be to work with a downtown mall if it were built. She said the BID would give downtown merchants one voice in negotiating with the mall about hours and promotions.
If formed, the district would assess fees on businesses within a determined area and could use the collected funds to pay for promotions, subsidize the KU on Wheels bus service and provide free parking during the Christmas season, among other expenses
Arms talks worry some W. Germans
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Special to the Kansar
Recent summit talks on possible reductions in U.S. nuclear weapons have some West Germans worried, a visiting West German newspaper editor said yesterday after speaking on campus.
Thomas Kielinger, editor in chief of the Rheinischer Merkur, a weekly national newspaper with headquarters in Bonn, spoke on the divisions between East and West Germany. The West German consul in Berlin was Kan., arranged Kielinger's speech here.
“There’s more to nuclear weapons than hating them,” Kielinger said after his talk in Wescoe Hall. “We’re (the West) faced with an enormous disadvantage in convention, so it has been allowed to exist only because of the American nuclear deterrence.”
possible removal of U.S. nuclear weapons because of the protection they offer, he said. However, the West Germans would be more willing to accept the arms reduction only if conventional weapons were reduced at the same time.
West Germans are concerned about the
"We're ambivalent to the result of the Reykjavik talks," Kielinger said "While we would like having the weapons removed, we don't want to be subjected to Soviet domination.
At the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, earlier this month, the United States and the Soviet Union discussed eliminating some nuclear forces.
Noting the superiority that the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact has in conventional forces, he warned that eliminating only nuclear weapons could put the West in a position to be blackmailed without a single shot being
"We are afraid of the political perceptions that go along with power."
fired.
Americans might understandably have a difficult time figuring out the Europeans because a few years ago they were protesting against the same weapons they now want to keep, he said.
"When they were introduced, everyone was afraid of a 'limited war'," Kielinger said. "Now they are terrified to have them pulled out."
"The Americans were damned for introducing the weapons, and damned again for pulling them out in such a hurry."
In his speech, Kielinger criticized West Germans who were too willing to demilitarize simply for the sake of demilitarization.
In West Germany such a compromise always has been tied to the reunification of West and East Germany, an issue that is still alive today, he said.
Residents find penny policy to be worthless
Bv COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
With today's economy, a penny will hardly buy a thought and five won't even get you a nickel at Tempin Hall.
Several Templin residents are upset because of a new policy which stops them from exchanging pennies at the hall desk for nickels, dimes and quarters.
"This dorm has decided that pennins are no longer legal tender," said Kevin Hula, Topeka senior. "Federal law says pennins are defined as legal tender up to 25 cents."
The hall directors started the policy this year because residents were bombarding desk assistants with jaws full of pennies to exchange for laundry and staff at Mark Lage. Goodland junior and Templin desk assistant
Jack Laptap, assistant hall director, who was responsible for the policy change, could not be reached
"I understand money is money, but it gets to be a bassle after a while." be said
Hula said he thought residents should be allowed to exchange a reasonable number of pennies. He said he was tired of walking across to Lewis Hall for small change.
"Last night I wanted a soda, but I only had 45 cents in silver and five pennies," he said. "I thought I wouldn't be able to get one but luckily, the desk assistant was nice enough to exchange my pennies for a nickel in her curse."
Another policy change which has brought directors and residents into conflict is one that says residents must buy stamms five at a time.
"It's a hassle," said Mike Ferguson, Topeka senior.
"If I'm only sending one envelope, what will I do with the other four stamps?"
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