University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 10, 1986
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Three work days left to register to vote
Eligible voters have until 9 p.m. Tuesday to register for the Nov. 4 election. The county clerk's office in the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St., is extending its business hours and will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, Monday and Tuesday.
Voters also may register between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. the same days at the city clerk's office in City Hall, 6th and Massachusetts streets; between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. at Douglas County Democratic Headquarters, in Holiday Plaza, 2449 Iowa St.; and between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Douglas County Republican Headquarters, in the Malls Shopping Center, 711 W. 23rd St.
Voters must have resided in the voting precinct for 20 days before the election. They must re-register if they have moved or changed their names or if they did not vote in the two previous general elections.
Protest continues
About 50 people braved the cold last night to demonstrate in front of the Kansas Union against the second day of showings of the movie "Hail Mary," directed by Frenchman Jean-Luc Godard.
The protesters, including 23 from St. Mary's College, northwest of Topeka, chanted outside the entrance of the Union, saying the movie was blasphemous.
Two KU students staged a counter-demonstration, chanting "Free speech, yes — vomit gas, no," referring to a stink bomb that spectators said they thought had been thrown into the theater during the movie's first showing on Wednesday.
Nominees to debate
The candidates for Kansas Secretary of State will debate at 8 p.m. Monday in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Republican candidate Bill Graves, assistant secretary of state and State Rep. Judy Runnels, D-Topeka, will participate in the debate, sponsored by College Republicans and KU Democrats. The candidates will answer four questions prepared by two KU political science professors and a local political affairs reporter. After answering the questions and making closing comments, they will take questions.
Weather
Skies will be mostly cloudy today with a 20 percent chance of showers. The high temperature will be in the low 60s. Tonight and tomorrow will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance for more showers or thunderstorms. The low temperature tonight will be in the mid-50s. The high temperature tomorrow will be in the mid-60s but will drop into the 50s during the afternoon.
From staff and wire reports.
Chris Faelev/KANSAN
Terry Lund, facilities operations worker, cleans up trash left by students on Wescoe Beach. The beach was littered Tuesday, as it is most days, with copies of the Kansan. Wescoe Beach usually has the most trash on campus.
Tide of trash litters Wescoe Beach
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
There could be the scenario almost any weekday on Taybowl Boulevard...
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Students grab Kansans from the distribution box and take out the inserts by a nearby trash can. Then, perhaps, they mindlessly leave the newspaper behind on the steps of Wescoe Hall, to be blown by the wind or shuffled about under passing feet.
Large amounts of trash collect around campus daily, and the most troublesome area is Wescoe Beach.
Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscape maintenance for facilities operations, said the trash was a problem. He said facilities operations employees spent about four hours a day picking up after campus litterbugs.
after complaints. "I have three people who quit the job they're on early to pick up the trash at the end of their shift," he said.
Mathes said employees picked up the trash three times a day — in the morning, shortly after lunch
and at about 3:45 p.m., toward the end of their shifts.
He said the employees started picking up the trash early so they could get off work on time.
Kansans are the biggest trash problem on campus, Mathes said. He said that if his crew didn't pick them up as soon as possible, the problem would worsen.
would worsen. "They don't stay put," he said. "If we don't pick them up early, then they blow pretty much the length of Jawhawk Boulevard."
Mathes said students could improve the trash problem on campus by taking the time to place their Kansans in trash barrels located around campus.
However, Mathes said he wasn't bothered by having to pick up after students.
"It's something that has to be done to make the grounds look better," he said. "I'm generally pleased with the student help in other areas of the campus."
responsible for cleaning all the trash from that area daily. He said this worked best because the employees became familiar with an area.
Mathes said campus was divided into four sections, each assigned to an employee who was
"They know where the trash is apt to be and they work toward these areas," he said.
Mathes said trash accumulated at the bus stop at Snow Hall and in the area between the Kansas Union and Dyche Hall.
When the weather is good, he said, the problem usually is worse because students are outside more.
Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping for facilities operations, said his office also was involved in picking up the trash around the buildings.
"We do entry ways about 15 feet away from the building," he said.
He said they also concentrated on the area around Wescoe because of the trash buildup.
around West Beach we can "We work through the morning and try to keep up with it as much as we can so it doesn't blow around all night long," he said.
Committee considers parking solutions
Staff writer
Rv PAM MILLER
Because of a parking problem that some faculty and students think has become a parking crisis, a group of Student Senate senators and the transportation coordinator have formed a parking services committee.
Five of the seven committee members met last night to consider solutions to certain problems. Les Lauber, Osage City junior and All Scholarship Hall Council senator, gave committee members new figures on the number of parking permits sold. Lauber received the figures from parking services yesterday afternoon.
After comparing the number of available parking spaces to the number of red-zone stickers sold, committee member Charles Bryan, coordinator of KU on Wheels and Lawrence sophomore, said parking services had oversold red-zone stickers by 66 percent.
Committee members discussen suggesting to parking services that the parking lot south of Robinson Center be changed to angled parking, which would create more parking spaces.
Committee member Phil Duff, Columbia, Mo., senior, discussed the possibility of restructuring the red zone parking lots between Green Hall and Murphy Hall to create more
parking spaces.
Duff said the changes would include blocking off one parking entrance on the north side and the south side and making the two parking lots into one lot.
The rows of parking could then be moved closer together, Duff said. As a result, the number of parking spaces would be doubled.
Laura Rohan, Topeka senior, said she was concerned about any changes that would take away greenery.
"I think if we do that, we're destroying the look of the campus," she said.
Duff said the plan would leave as much greenery in the parking lot as it
has now, only those areas would be in different locations.
Duff also told the committee it should recommend that those who felt their parking stickers were not useful should be able to have their money refunded.
The committee also discussed finding a replacement service for students who need to have their cars unlocked or car batteries jumped. Parking services has discontinued those services.
Lauber said he had talked with a representative of the American Automobile Association about getting a discount rate for students.
Docking discusses S. Africa
By BETH COPELAND
Lt. Gov. Tom Docking's higher education speech yesterday in the Kansas Union turned to the subject of South Africa when a student questioned the Democratic gubernatorial candidate about his investments.
About 50 people attended the speech sponsored by University Senate, which is a combination of Student Senate and KU faculty. It was held in Woodruff Auditorium.
Kirstin Myers, Shawnee senior, asked Docking why he opposed a grain embargo against South Africa and why he continued to own stock in International Business Machines Corp. a company that does business in South Africa.
South Africa practices apartheid, a policy of legal segregation and economic discrimination against blacks.
Docking said, "I am in favor of every effective change in South Africa."
He acknowledged that he owned 100 shares of IBM stock and that he might sell them. He said that an individual's ownership reflected personal beliefs and would not affect the beliefs of the 10,000 other Kansans who own stock in the company.
criticized a grain embargo, saying it would hurt the domestic economy and that it would serve no purpose in terms of foreign policy.
"The use of food as a tool against South Africa is morally wrong," he said. "If it were effective, which it is not, the denial of food would hurt the people who we want to help."
people who made Docking said education remained his priority. The candidate, an alumnus of the University of Kansas, outlined his plans to enhance the quality of education.
FUTURE, which stands for Full University Tuition/Undergraduate Reward for Excellence, is a plan designed by Docking that would give tax breaks to parents who invest early in their children's education.
FUTURE also calls for higher faculty salaries and a 100 percent tuition waiver for graduate assistants.
Docking said the program would help parents pay for their children's education and also curb "brain drain," the flight of college-age and graduate students to other states for higher education.
"People leave the state because there are no opportunities here," he said. "I want to encourage children to seek their education in the state."
Docking also said he advocated the entrance of Washburn University in Topeka into the Board of Regents system as soon as the state's economy could handle the expenses of another school.
The Regents system comprises the six state universities and Kansas technical Institute in Salina.
Docking, who opposes the death penalty, also addressed the issue of crime.
He advocated a victims' bill of rights, stiffer sentences and tougher parole standards.
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