University Daily Kansan / Friday. October 24. 1986
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Free course guide available tomorrow
The Jayhawk Course Source, a guide to freshman and sophomore classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will be distributed on campus starting tomorrow.
Missy Kleinholz, student director of the guide, said Student Senate would receive 5,000 copies of the 48-page booklet from University Printing Services today.
Student senators will distribute copies of the free guide to the front desks of organized living groups, including residence and scholarship halls, and fraternities and sororities.
Copies of the guide also will be available at Watson Library, Kleinholz said.
The guide, financed by Student Senate, describes requirements and instructors' expectations for classes. The information for the guide came from questionnaires given to academic departments during the summer.
The new freshman officers are Andy Draper, president, Wichita; Kim Raynor, vice president, Overland Park; Ann French, secretary, Prairie Village; and treasurer, Overland Park.
Class picks officers
Elections were Tuesday and Wednesday.
This year's sophomore, junior and senior class officers were elected last spring. BOCO sponsors and arranges several campus activities such as the Rock Chalk Revue, Homecoming Parade, HOPE awards and the University's Opening Ceremonies.
Bonn editor to speak
A West German journalist will speak at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 27 on "Divided Germany — a Threat to Western Security?"
Thomas Kielinger, editor-in-chief of the Rheinsicher Merkur, a weekly newspaper in Bonn, will speak in 4002 Wescow Hall.
Biochemists to meet
The KU departments of history and German languages and literatures will sponsor Kielinger's visit, which was arranged by Willard Snyder, Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kansas City, Kan.
William J. Rutter, Hertzstein professor of biochemistry from the University of California at San Francisco, will give the keynote address at the 29th Annual West Central States Biochemistry Conference in Lawrence this weekend.
Rutter will speak at 8 p.m. today at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holidome convention center, 200 McDonald Drive.
The convention is open to the public.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the name of Mary Padilla was misspelled in a story about the 1986 Hispanic Youth Leadership Symposium in yesterday's Kansan.
Weather
Today's skies will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain or drizzle. The high temperature will be in the mid-60s. The winds will be from the north at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight's skies will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of more rain. The low temperature will be 50.
From staff and wire reports.
By JOHN BENNER
Local plant admits to recent chemical leak
Officials at a fertilizer plant east of Lawrence, acknowledged yesterday that their factory was the source of a chemical release last Friday which coated cars, caused power outages and caused the browning of plants and grass.
Staff writer
Kansas Department of Health and Environment officials met with Farmland Industries' representatives yesterday to discuss the origin of the leak, the measures that would be taken to correct it and the prevention of future leaks.
Don Clark, Farmland plant manager, said a clogged wet scrubber caused the leak. He said in pressureless heats the plant water, on air that contains ammonium nitrate.
Officials at the Poison Control Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said Monday that the substance was not harmful in crystalline form. However, if it is inhaled in a powder form, it could cause coughing or make breathing difficult, they said.
Normally, the water combines with the ammonium nitrate, creating a liquid solution and the air is then released harmlessly outside the plant.
Clark said that last Friday night the wet scrubber became clogged and ammonium nitrate escaped into the water. When the scum was carried away in water droplets,
Clark said the fallout occurred mostly in southeast Lawrence and
accumulated on cars and fences in the form of a white crystalline film
Farmland said that in the meantime it would increase manual monitoring of the system to prevent blockages.
Moody said the KDHI would not renew Farmland's operating permit if the new equipment was not installed. He said Farmland normally would apply for next year's permit before the end of 1986.
Farmland submit a complete report about the leak, detailing the cause and preventive measures to be taken against future leaks.
KDHE also asked yesterday that
Moody said Farmland was asked to telephone the KDHE immediately in the event of a future leak, and then to write a report written as soon as possible.
Moody said yesterday that his department had asked Farmland to provide free car wash for residents whose cars were covered with ammonium nitrate as a result of the leak.
In a prepared statement released by Farmland yesterday, the company said it had initiated a program "to remove any residue that may have accumulated on cars, fences and the like."
Clark said his company would deal with residents' complaints on a one-on-one basis.
Several residents said the company already had paid for washing
T. A. Mindrup, district manager for KPL Gas Service, said the residue had caused reported power outages during the weekend.
Mindrup said the ammonium nitrate coupled temporary electrical connections, causing outages in southeast Lawrence. He said the connections had been replaced and others had been cleaned by Monday.
Tom Thornton/KANSAN
Yesterday, some Lawrence residents near the plant said the residue was to blame for damaging their plants, lawns and shrubs.
barbara Becht, St. Louis senior, checks to see whether the bricks are built on an arch she is building. She worked on the project for her. She said she spent about 10 hours a week on the project.
Getting even
Change in aid form will cause delay
Staff writer
By ALISON YOUNG
American College Testing Financial Aid forms, usually available Nov. 1, will be delayed this fall because of last minute changes in the form. ANCT program official said yesterday.
He said ACT usually printed the forms during the first week in September for nationwide delivery by Nov. 1.
Mark Hefron, ACT assistant vice president for financial aid services in Iowa City, Iowa, said ACT didn't receive approval from the U.S. Department of Education until Tuesday to begin printing the forms.
Heffron said he hoped forms would be available before the end of the semester.
Jerry Rogers, KU director of student financial aid, said yesterday that the delay wouldn't
cause many problems if the forms arrived before students left campus in December.
"They can't fill them out until January 1 anyway," Rogers said.
Financial aid forms use information from the student's personal and family income statements from the previous year and more cannot be filed until after the end of the year.
If the forms aren't ready before the middle of December, Rogers said, dependent students, who would have to forward the forms to their parents, would be inconvenienced.
ACT prints 6.5 million forms and, even printing 24 hours a day, is able to print only 1.5 million each week.
If deliveries are made before semester break. Hefron said each school would receive
only half the usual number of forms.
The University of Kansas usually receives from 4,000 to 5,000 applications in the first shipment, Heffron said.
Hefron and Rogers said they didn't anticipate any problems despite the smaller antitheft.
Late changes made by Congress in qualification for independent student status caused the
A second shipment will be made after Jan. 1,
Heffron said.
Because students use ACT forms to apply for federal financial aid programs, the forms must be approved by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Office of Management and
Uncertainty is in future of program
Staff writer
By ATLE BIORGE
The future of one of the most popular undergraduate degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, personnel administration, is uncertain, college officials said yesterday.
About 400 undergraduates, out of 12,914 students in the college, are majoring in personali-
When the University of Kansas reviewed its programs for last week's meeting of the Board of Regents, personnel administration was the only program the University suggested could be "kept in its current form, substantially revised or discontinued."
Robert Lineberry, dean of the college, appointed a task force last month to study the program and to make recommendations on any changes.
This is just a routine review of a program nobody has looked at for more than a decade. Lineberry said. The program also will be reviewed by the Regents next summer.
The personnel administration program is an interdepartmental program that draws its classes from other departments.
"The Regents asked us to review the program before the 1987 revision," he said. "We begin with the assumption that there are strengths in the program."
But the principal problem is that the program doesn't have a strong core of personnel administration classes, Lineberry said. He said that if the program had more personnel administration classes, it would belong in the business school, not the college.
The task force will submit its study to the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising. The committee will make a recommendation, which will vote on the future of the program.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, is the chairman of the task force. The six other members come from the departments of history, anthropology, communication studies, sociology and psychology.
In the two previous meetings, Carothers said, the task force has tried to review the history of the program and decide what information it will need to review the program.
"Personnel administration is sometimes perceived as a professional program a job
school names development coordinator
Michael Fragale
Michael H. Fragile, 48, president of M.H. Fragale & Co., financial consultants, will coordinate the school's programs that relate to the business community in Lawrence and throughout the state and region.
John Tolelton, dean of business, said Fragale's duties would include directing the KU Small Business Development Center and the KU Small Business Institute. The institute pairs teams of graduate business students with area small
An Overland Park financial consultant with 23 years of business experience has joined the University of Kansas School of Business as its first business development coordinator
By BILL RAYNOLDS Staff writer
businesses so the students may gain experience with financial analyses and marketing surveys.
"We wanted someone with successful business experience who could establish linkages between KU and external business clients." Tollefon said.
The SBDC is co-sponsored by the Small Business Administration and the School of Business. The center provides free or low-cost market and
Fragile is a governor-appointed member of the Kansas Advanced Technology Commission, which he said fostered a better working relationship between businesses and state universities. He is also president of the Johnson County Chambers President's Council.
Fragile said one of the center's goals was to help potential small business owners acquire money from them, and then to help them start their businesses.
product research, financial analyses and training programs for small businesses.
Venture capital is money invested at a high risk, but with a good chance for a high-rate return.
Washburn University, Johnson County Community College and the six state universities have SBDCs, financed by the Small Business Administration with matching funds from each school.
"We want to be known as the ven-
capital center in this area."
Franklin
"I'm hoping to take what I've learned in corporate life and utilize that through working with small businesses," Fragale said.
He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, N.Y., and a master's of business administration in management from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
Most recently Fragile served as chief financial officer for Sutherland Lumber, West Coast, in Kansas City, Mo. He also has professional experience with Touche, Ross & Co., in tax and audit, and he was division controller and vice president for financial plans and controls with Control Data Corp.
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