University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 22, 1986
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News Briefs
Vonnegut to tell how to get a job like his
Kurt Vonnegut, author of "Slaughterhouse Five" and other books, will speak about his career in today in Hoch Auditorium.
"To Get a Job Like Mine," the name of "How Vongut's speech, which will be presented in a question and answer format.
Novegnut's appearance is sponsored by Student Union Activities and Student Senate. The event is free to the public.
Topic to be refugees
Francisco Lopez, a member of the Central American Refugee Committee in Houston, will speak at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Lopez will discuss the refugee situation in El Salvador and Central America Latin American Solidarity is sponsoring his visit.
The speech is free and open to the public.
Meeting cancelled
The University Council meeting, scheduled for Oct. 30, has been cancelled, officials said yesterday.
A memo to University Council members from Sid Shapiro, presiding officer, and Mel Dubnick, University Senate Executive Committee chairman, said the memo prepared for action by the council.
The next University Council meeting is scheduled for Nov. 20.
Reardon upgraded
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Mayor Jack Reardon's condition was upgraded from critical to fair yesterday and results of tests should be available tomorrow, officials at the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday.
Reardon, 43, was transferred out of the intensive care unit, said Marvin Dunn, chief of the division in major cellular diseases at the medical centre.
The mayor was hospitalized early Sunday morning after suffering two episodes of coughing up blood, said Dunn.
The tests were to determine whether the incidents of coughing up blood were linked to his previous heart problems.
Reardon was vacationing at the Lake of the Ozarks and was flown to the medical center by LifeFlight helicopter after consulting with Dunn by telephone, the doctor said.
Exemptions tests set
The department of communication studies will give exemption exams Nov. 5 and 6 for beginning communication classes.
Students seeking exemption from Coms 130, Coms 140 or Coms 150 can take the exams in 109 Snow Hall.
Students should register with the department in 3090 Wescoe Hall by Oct. 31. A $10 deposit is required at registration. The department will refund the money after the student takes the exam.
For more information, call 864-3633.
Weather
Skies will be cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain today and a high temperature around 60 degrees. Southerly winds will be to 15 mph. Skies will be mostly cloudy tonight with a low temperature around 50.
From staff and wire reports.
Opponent berates Charlton
BY KAREN SAMELSON
Ben Casad, Republican candidate for the 46th District seat in the Kansas House of Representatives, said yesterday that he was concerned that his opponent was not effective in representing the University of Kansas.
Staff writer
Casad charged that his Democratic opponent, State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, did not help increase the KU budget to correspond to increased enrollment.
"Charlton did nothing to bring about fee releases for KU in 1985. Because the House of Representatives moved or deleted the fee release from the Regents funding bill, KU did not receive funds it was asked to pay. In a prepared statement at a press conference yesterday morning.
Charlton later responded, "I really don't think Mr. Casad understands the methods of funding."
She said that the Legislature used the University's enrollment estimate in determining financing and that the money had been allocated before the increased enrollment was discovered.
Charlton said she and other legislators would continue to push for the release of extra funds for the 1988
fiscal year and also seek supplemental funds for this year.
"I am devoted to the University," she said, emphasizing that she teaches a KU Western Civilization course every semester.
Casad worked as a campus vending machine route worker until recently, when he resigned to devote more time to his campaign.
He said that if the state's general fund could not adequately finance the Regents schools, a slight tuition increase might be necessary. But he doesn't want that to happen, he said.
Casad said that if the Legislature approved the 1987 budget for the Board of Regents schools, KU would be able to survive.
Concerning the possible entry of Washburn University of Topeka into the Regents system, Casad said he hadn't taken a stand on it but he thought it was worth investigating.
The Regents might be able to get an important university without having to buy the property, he said, but the living would have to be considered.
Charlton said she opposed the move to admit Washburn to the Regents system because the state couldn't afford it.
Casad also said he was concerned about the economic condition of the
46th District, pointing out that Charlton had one of the worst voting percentages given by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
'Her votes are indicative of an attitude at best described as reluctant
ly in favor of serious effort to improve the economic conditions of the state," he said.
Casad listed seven bills he said Charlton had opposed, including the lottery, pari-mutuel wagering and liquor-by-the-drink amendments.
Charlton said she had opposed only one economic development bill, a bill that invested state funds in high-risk areas. She said she had opposed a sales tax exemption bill that Casad listed because she did not support more exemptions.
She said she also voted against the "sin" amendments after careful study as a member of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
She said both labor and industry endorsed her.
Casad said that he would like to see some industries developed to create jobs for people in his district and that the state Department of Commerce could help with that goal.
Reogie Robinson, third-year law student, is the first black editor of the University of Kansas Law Review
Politics lead editor to law career
Staff write
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Looking out a fifth-floor window in Green Hall with a view of Jayhawker Towers and Daisy Hill, Reggie Robinson, editor of the Kansas Law Review, contemplates his future.
"I know now that I want to be an attorney for awhile," said the third-year law student. "But I don't know if it's going to want to do five or 10 years."
Robinson, who was named editor of the review this summer by a selections committee, is the first black editor in chichette the 34-year history review.
But Robinson said being black wasn't relevant to his position.
The KU School of Law publishes the law review, a journal about different aspects of law, four times a year. The staff and editorial board of the review consists of 45 second- and third-year law students, a faculty adviser and two faculty representatives.
Robinson's duties include reading the articles before publication and serving on the board that oversees the law review's operations.
He received his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Kansas. While at KU in 1978-79, he was student body vice president. He participated in ROTC and later served four years in the Army.
He was born Aug 4, 1957, in the Panama Canal Zone. His father was in the U.S. military, so they moved around often, he said. Robinson now lives in Overland Park and commutes to Lawrence.
"I liked the campus, and I knew some of the professors from before," he said. "I felt comfortable with the school."
Robinson said attending KU as an undergraduate influenced his decli-
Robinson said he had decided he wanted to be a lawyer when he became interested in politics at age
Robinson said that although he still was interested in politics he was unsure whether he would later chose it as a career.
11, during the 1968 presidential elections.
“As you get older the things that are closer to you personally and geographically become more important to you. Things such as raising a family, and raising it right, become more important.”
"When I was young, I wanted to be a lawyer and then become a United States senator," he said. "But now, I just don't know."
Since he's been in law school, Robinson has worked during summers for law firms in California, Washington and Missouri.
Robinson said he was unsure what area of law he wanted to practice.
When he graduates from law school in May, Robinson said he would work as a clerk in Kansas City, Kan., for Deanall Tacha, U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge.
State investigates source of residue
By PAMELA SPINGLER
No one is sure what caused the sugar-like residue that covered cars in southeast Lawrence on Saturday morning, and state officials still are investigating the incident, which might have caused power failures over the weekend.
Staff writer
Chemists from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka have not completed analyzing a sample, said Bob Moody, the department's public information officer.
Apparently, the chemical, which officials said was harmless, was first dispersed into the air Friday night.
Moody said the department had not confirmed who or what was responsible for the fallout. He speculated, however, that chemicals from Farmland Industries, a fertilizer plant on Kansas Highway to in Lawrence, were the cause.
"We are meeting with Farmland on Thursday," Moody said. "And if they are found responsible, we will send them a written report on what happened."
Yesterday, a chemist from Farmland Industries analyzed and found nitrates in a residue sample. The acidity of the product produces ammonium nitrate.
Don Clark, plant supervisor for Farmland Industries, said the fallout appeared to have come from the plant.
"We're still unsure what caused it, but we are sorry it happened." Clark said. "We certainly don't know anything to hurt the community."
He said the company was unaware of what was taking place
until they received a telephone call from a nearby resident Saturday morning. He said the company was doing everything possible to help residents who had reported having the residue on their cars.
"We sent out teams to talk to them and offered to reimburse them for cleaning the cars," Clark said.
Clark said the residue should wash off with warm water.
"I want to stress that we meet federal standards and that the technology we use today is used everywhere."
Problems from the residue may not have ended with the coating on cars.
T. A. Mindrup, district manager for KPL Gas Service in Lawrence, said 1,500 residents in southeast Lawrence experienced power outages for 55 minutes Friday night, while 200 other residents had no power from 9:55 p.m. Friday until 4 a.m. Saturday.
"In 30 some years, we've never seen this type of problem," Clark said.
"It's my assumption that a contaminant caused our equipment to fail," Mindrup said. "I don't have any proof of that, however."
Another power failure was reported at 1:50 a.m. Monday and lasted for 1:15, affecting 800 residents. Another 200 residents were without power until 6 a.m. Saturday.
He said power conducted along temporary poles had failed in southeast Lawrence from the Farmland plant west along 19th Street to Delaware Street. Temporary poles in other parts of Lawrence were not damaged, he said.
College may delete rule that adds hours
By ATLE BJORGE Staff writer
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may drop a new requirement that adds on hours toward graduation, if a student completes 75 credit hours without certain freshman-sophomore classes.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, last week proposed to the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising that the college drop the degree candidacy standing requirement for students working toward degrees in bachelor of arts or bachelor of general studies.
The committee deferred voting on the proposal and will examine it again.
Under the policy, which went into effect this semester, a student has to take a third English class, a mathematics class beyond MATH 902, fulfill the college speech requirement and take one class in each of the distribution areas before completing 75 credit hours.
If the student fails to do this, a penalty of credit hours is added to the hours needed for graduation. The student must then classes the student didn't complete.
Carothers said the degree candidacy standing requirement was intended to encourage students to complete basic courses promptly.
from doing what they want to do.
But he said he thought a college requirement — early and continuous enrollment — that would go into effect next fall would serve the same function. Under that requirement, students would take English and mathematics classes each semester until they fulfilled their requirements.
The degree candidacy standing requirement, Carothers said, is difficult or even impossible to enforce, and it doesn't seem to deter students
"When they become seniors, it seems unreasonable to require students to go on one more semester," he said.
Pam Houston, assistant to the dean of the college, said the degree candidacy standing requirement had replaced an older policy that added 45 hours to a student's graduation record and under the same circumstances.
Houston said, "If a student didn't take the required class class before his last semester, he had to stay for two or maybe three more semesters.
In the past, students were encouraged to petition for exemption
"It itemed to me that the punishment didn't fit the crime, so we started not enforcing that particular requirement."
"A lot of that had to do with math," she said. "Students were putting off taking math courses until their last semester, and we're not going to wait with the new early and continuous requirement in English and math.
"It was time consuming for the students to fill out petitions, and it was time consuming for us to look at every petition.
"The old regulation was very frustrating, because (the office of student) records had to evaluate every student, while at the same time, they knew that the students probably would petition."
Under the new requirement, the student records office still has to handle all of them.
Problems may arise from it because it is obscure. Houston said.
"It's not something you'd normally expect, she said. "The people who are being arrest are aware of the regulation, and students are aware of it either."
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