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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 15, 1986
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News Briefs KU student robbed in JRP parking lot
A KU student was clubbed and robbed about 8:45 p.m. Monday in the Joseph R. Pearson Hall parking lot.
Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said a man attacked the student from behind with a blunt object.
Brothers said the man grabbed the student's wallet, which contained $6, after hitting him on the back of the head. The student fell to his knees but was not seriously injured.
Police are investigating a suspect, Brothers said.
Four students set a trash can's bag on fire about 10 p.m. Monday in Watson Library, according to KU police.
Fire set, police say
Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said witnesses saw the students throwing lighted matches into the trash can. Although the damage was limited to the trash bag, the damage could have been worse, he said.
Brothers said police had no suspects. They are investigating the case and would appreciate anyone with information to contact police.
Club sponsors forum
A forum on divestment, sponsored by the Undergraduate Philosophy Club, is scheduled for 3 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
A four-member panel will discuss the topic of "Fiduciary Responsibility and Divestment," a workshop of O Rourke, president of the club.
The event is free and open to the public.
The panel will examine whether fiduciary organizations should be restricted when they invest to ethical constraints not covered by the law. Fiduciary organizations are responsible for the money of others.
Panel members will include Richard De George and Donald Marquis, both KU professors of philosophy and John Gergacz, associate professor of business.
Jeff Southard, former Kansas deputy attorney general, also will be on the panel.
Candidates to speak
'Local candidates for seats in the Kansas House of Representatives will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall in a debate sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Candidates will make opening statements and then take questions from the audience.
The candidates scheduled to attend are Bob Miller, Democrat, and David Miller, Republican incumbent, from the 43rd District; Jessie Branson, Democratic incumbent, and Chris Miller, Republican, from the 44th District; Martha Parker, Republican, and John Solbach, Democratic incumbent, from the 45th District; Ben Casad, Republican, and Betty Jo Charlton, Democratic incumbent, from the 46th District.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy today with a high temperature in the upper 90s. Winds will be variable at 5 to 15 mph. Skies will be clear at night with a low temperature near 35.
From staff and wire reports.
Residents turn out in higher numbers to register to vote
By BETH COPELAND
Staff writer
Between 500 and 700 Douglas County residents scrambled to register to vote yesterday before the books were shut at 9 p.m., according to the Douglas County clerk and county election officer.
Patty Jaimes, the county clerk,
said that until two weeks ago, only 25
to 30 people registered on any given
day. By early October, that number
jumped to about 50 registrants a day.
On Monday, more than 200 people
registered to vote.
"I think it's human nature to put off registration so long," Jaimes said. "When people realize it's the last day, they come on down."
She estimated that 37,000 Douglas County residents would be registered to vote in the Nov. 4 general election, exceeding the 35,673 registrants in the August primary election.
She attributed the high number of registrants to the public's interest in the state constitutional amendments and to the convenience of registration.
After the primary election,
Douglas County residents could
register at one of about 20 different
locations, including the county's
Republican and Democratic
headquarters.
Lillian Barker, the Delta Chi fraternity housemother and a volunteer at the Douglas County
Republican Headquarters, said about 75 people had registered to vote since Oct. 1. At 3 p.m. yesterday, 25 people had registered at the headquarters, 711 W. 23rd St.
At the Democratic headquarters,
2449 Iowa St., between 80 and 100 people had registered to vote since Oct. 1.
Among the registrants in the flurry at the Douglas County Courthouse was State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, who represents the 2nd District.
"I registered to vote when I was 18." Winter said. "I just remembered yesterday (Monday) that I had moved and had to reregister."
Asked at the window whether he wished to declare a party affiliation, Winter responded, "Yes, the Bull-Moose Party." Later he said, "I was just kidding; I'm actually a Republican."
Winter stressed the importance of voting.
"It's neat to come down here and register to vote," he said. "The right to vote is the foundation of political process."
Larry Ricci, an 18-year-old Leawed freshman, registered at the Douglas County Courthouse yesterday to vote in his first election.
"I know the last day is kind of late, but I had some free time," he said. "It's kind of exciting to do it the first time."
Docking comes back to campaign in city
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, the Democratic candidate for governor, stressed the need for the state to progress when he spoke at the Kansas Union last night, his third trip to Lawrence in the past six days.
"I hope people understand and appreciate that I have strong personal ties to the town and the University." Docking said, explaining that he was born here and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kansas.
"I want to come back here even though my schedule is very tight," he said.
About 35 students attended the speech, co-sponsored by Student Union Activities and Associated Students of Kansas.
Docking's Republican opponent in the Nov. 4 general election, Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden, was invited to speak at the forum but did not accept the invitation.
Docking spoke to Student Senate and University Senate on Thursday, and he and Hayden addressed the Economic Outlook Conference at KU on Friday. Tomorrow Docking will speak at the Lawrence World Food Day Teleconference at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
Gloria O'Dell. Docking's press secretary, said Monday, "He doesn't take Lawrence for granted. He does need their vote to win on the 4th."
Docking has spent time in the urban areas of the state because these areas have the greatest number of voters, O'Dell said.
"It's not an urban vs. rural thing," he said, maintaining that he speaks about the same issues everywhere he campaigns.
Docking said his campaign was more balanced than that of his opponent, who was emphasizing farm issues.
"You go where the voters are," she said.
"I hope you are interested in the issues, because they affect you directly," he told the students.
Docking again emphasized his views on education and mentioned his proposed FUTURE program. FUTURE stands for Full University Tuition Undergraduate Award for Excellence, a program that would allow parents to set aside money for their children's education.
Docking expressed his concern about the lack of student involvement in politics. He said this was one reason he often speaks to young people, he said.
The state would administer the fund and would guarantee full tuition for the students at a Kansas institution, regardless of the cost.
The program also would provide opportunities that would encourage young people to remain in the state, he said.
He also discussed the need for business involvement in education and the role that education should play in economic development in Kansas.
"Higher education has got to be part of the solution," he said.
Discussing economic development, Docking said that 88 percent of Kansas employers had fewer than 20 workers. The state should try to encourage big companies to locate in Kansas, he said, but the principal growth in the job market will come through small business.
Docking said capital punishment didn't deal with 99.9 percent of violent crime in Kansas, so he backed a more comprehensive approach to the criminal justice system.
Docking also takes a stronger stand on the proposed liquor-by-the-drink amendment, which will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot. Docking said he supported the amendment because it would modernize drinking laws and help bring Kansas at least into the 20th century.
Docking and Hayden differ on their stand on the death penalty, which Hayden supports and Docking opposes.
The state needs more full-time public prosecutors, tougher sentencing standards and more legal protection for the victims of crime, he said.
Garv Mook/KANSAN
Out on a limb
Jonathan Lee, Lincoln, Neb., senior, studies up in a tree near Wescoe Hall. He took advantage of the fall weather from his unusual perch recently.
Heat turned on to stop early chill
Staff write
By KIRK KAHLER
The chill felt in classrooms and buildings on campus should be gone today, according to the associate director of physical plants for facilities operations.
Bob Porter, the associate director, said Monday that the department finished turning off the University's air conditioning system Monday morning and began generating heat.
The outside air is delivered to the buildings through a duct system, he said.
"It (the costs) would be governed by the temperature and fuel costs at that period of time." he said. "It saves money any time the system is shut down for a period of time."
Unless the cold weather arrives early, like this year, the department usually waits until Dec. 1 to turn on the heat which saves money and energy. Porter said. Although he was unsure how much money the University saved by this method, he said the amount was substantial.
However, because of the unpredictable Kansas weather, Porter said, the department turned on the heat about six weeks early this year.
Porter said that if the temperature rose again to 60 or 70 degrees, the air conditioning would not be turned back on. Instead, outside air would be used to moderate the temperature in the buildings.
No matter what the department does, he said, some people still find the buildings too cold for comfort.
Tom Anderson, facilities operations director, summed up the process.
"It's dictated by God," he said. "Whenever it gets cold enough to necessitate heat, we turn it on."
Weather forecasts play a part in determining when the heat will be turned on. Porter said. Since recent forecasts have indicated that the weather would remain cold, the
department turned on the heat.
After the heat is turned on, he said, the buildings will remain cool for a couple of days because the same pipe system is used to cool and warm the buildings. He said 24 hours was needed to warm the water in the pipes.
Porter also said buildings took longer to warm up because of the materials used in their construction.
"The buildings are 90-percent masonry, which retains the cold temperature." he said.
The heat is turned on. Porter explained, when the temperature dips below 40 degrees during the night and doesn't rise above 50 or 60 degrees during the day.
Porter said need determined which buildings received heat first.
"I look at research capabilities as opposed to personal comfort," he said.
Several buildings on campus are involved in research that requires air conditioning all year long, he said. He said animal research and the protection of sensitive equipment came before personal comfort.
Desegregation suit stirs memories
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Linda Brown Smith, whose maiden name became the title of the landmark school desegregation case Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, testified yesterday that she felt inferior to white students when she finally was sent to a desegregated junior high after spending seven years in black elementary schools.
Smith, 43, was 7-year-old Linda Brown in February 1951 when her father filed the original Topeka desegregation case, which resulted
in the historic 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision to abolish segregation in public schools across the country
The case was reopened in U.S. District Court in 1979 by the parents of 17 Topeka schoolchildren who said the school board had not complied with the high court mandate to bring a racial balance in the Topeka schools.
Smith is the mother of two of the 17 schoolchildren in the current trial, which started last week before U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers
"I didn't have a feeling of inferiority until I attended junior high school
and saw what an integrated school was," Smith said during her 30 minutes on the witness stand.
She also said her son and daughter attended several Topeka elementary and secondary schools, and in each school the student body and faculty was always racially lopsided.
"I was involved in the activities my children were in and I noticed most children in the schools on the west side of town were predominantly white," she said.
A half dozen other blacks testified yesterday about conditions they endured as students and teachers
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