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Friday, October 3, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Moore addresses Noon Forum
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
Dennis Moore, Democratic candidate for state attorney general, told about 30 people yesterday in Green Hall that he would win this year's election with integrity, credibility and good judgment.
Moore's speech was a part of the Noon Forum, sponsored by the School of Law.
he said the sexual harassment law suit involving his opponent, incumbent Bob Stephan, was not an issue in the race.
Moore said the subject was not appropriate because it was the private business of Stephan and the woman involved.
"What is appropriate is the credibility, integrity and judgment of anyone seeking public office," Moore said. "The way it was handled is the appropriate issue."
Moore said Stephan used taxpayers' money to settle the case. A settlement was made for $24,000, and Moore questioned where $12,000 of the money came from.
He said that last week he had asked Stephan for the answer. Stephan told him to go look at the newspapers because the answers were there.
Stephan has maintained that he already
Moore said he had checked the newspapers and had found nothing but excuses for not telling the truth about the settlement.
told everything he knew about the settlement after it occurred last fall.
The criminal justice system was another issue Moore raised. He said his opponent had never been down in the trenches.
never uses. Because of his 10 years' experience as a district attorney in Johnson County, Moore can handle the problems better, he said.
can harm the person. He said the prosecution of criminals in child abuse and molestation cases needed to change.
change.
"Little kids are not little adults," Moore said. "They don't have the ability to go into a courtroom."
Tape recording the statements of the children outside the courtroom would protect them from having to face their abusers in court, according to Moore.
Moore said, "That is the kind of attorney general that is needed, one that understands and is committed to solving problems.
Sentencing laws, Moore said, are an area where citizens have expressed concern. The sentencing laws should not allow officials to be lenient and let convicted persons off for
good behavior.
Sixteen years ago, when Moore graduated from law school, was the last time the laws were overhauled. He said Kansas started out with some good laws but now it had a patchwork that no longer fit together.
good behavior.
Moore said he would put a commission together of defense attorneys, crime victims, enforcement officers and judges to study the laws and make recommendations.
The drug problem is severe in Kansas and 50 percent of all felony crimes committed in the state are felony-related, Moore said.
He said that he didn't like the idea of the death penalty but that it was necessary for the small percentage of people who had no regard for human life. He said the death penalty was not an issue in the attorney general's race.
He said the criminals were either under the influence while committing a crime or were robbing someone to get money to buy drugs.
Moore would propose a mandatory prison sentence to the Legislature to combat the drug problem whether he went as the new attorney general or district attorney.
Paul Karnaze/KANSAN
Dennis Moore, Democratic candidate for state attorney general, speaks to KU students at Green Hall. He spoke yesterday about making criminal prosecution stricter.
Med Center students feel severed from KU
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Although Jayhawks still adorn campus buildings and bulletin board memos, and the KU identification card is still as essential to sustaining student life as food and water, students at the University of Kansas Medical Center say they feel excluded from KU.
"I don't feel like I'm a part of KU anymore," said Caron Klinger, who is a respiratory therapy student. "It's as if I'm going to a completely different school."
Klinger, St. Louis senior, and other students said life at the Med Center lacked the spirit of the Lawrence campus.
Kunger said that when students didn't go to Lawrence to party they went to Jimmy's Jigger in Kansas City. Kan, Jimmy's Jigger is like the Wheel for KU Med Center students, she said.
Janet Love, a nursing student and overland Park senior, said. "It's more like real life. Its not like being in a college town because everybody is always studying. If Med Center students want to have fun, they go to Lawrence."
"It's positive, but not always as much tup." she said.
Carol Clutz, occupational therapy student and Fairport, N.Y., junior, said coming to the Med Center was a trade-off. She said studying at the hospital provided valuable experience for her career but lacked the happy-loyck atmosphere of campus life.
A. J. Yarmat, director of the Center for Student Affairs and Educational Development at the Med Center, said students who leave the Lawrence campus to study at the Med Center go through two big adjustments.
First, they must adapt to a new educational system encompassing a greater and more challenging workload. And, second, they must adapt socially in an environment that doesn't offer many organized social activities.
"After going through that horrible freshmen year and just finally truly arriving at college, they suddenly must go through it all again," Yarmat said.
The Center for Student Affairs and Educational Development is an organization that was established one year ago as a response to the problems of students' adjustment to life at the Med Center, Yarmaat said.
The purpose of the center is to offer a support service to minimize the obstacles between the students and their path to educational goals, he said.
The center has a full-time counseling psychologist to assist students with their social and educational problems and a learning resource specialist to help students make more productive use of study time.
In the past year the center has been responsible for publishing a new student newsletter, called the KUMC Currents, which is issued quarterly.
The center also has organized aerobics classes, has started co-ed volleyball and basketball leagues and has opened a small weight room in its basement.
Yarmat said problems were compounded for younger students because their friendships were interrupted. Students entering the schools of medicine and graduate studies usually have already graduated with their friends.
Students in the schools of nursing and allied health usually leave in the middle of their undergraduate studies.
"I felt like a freshman again," Sarah Oglesby, nursing student and Iowa City senior, said about her first year at the Med Center.
Olglesbay said that leaving her friends was hard but that making friends at the Med Center was easy because the campus was smaller and everyone had a common interest in the medical field.
About 2,500 students are enrolled at the Med Center.
She said that students often put up signs around campus inviting anyone to parties.
Love said the lack of interaction between schools also isolated some students. She said this was a particular problem in the nursing school, which is a predominantly female field.
"All we see is girls," she said.
create a more skid-resistant sur face. Modig said.
Resurfacing project awaits approval
Because Pro-Turt is a liquid, the amount of the product applied can be regulated, creating a more level surface, he said.
The resurfacing was needed as a safety measure. Moldig said, because the old surface was uneven and deteriorating.
An $82,200 project to resurface the terrace between Strong Hall and Spencer Research Library is waiting to be OK'd before it is officially called complete, the associate director of facilities planning said yesterday.
James Modig, the associate director, said that the work had been done but that he needed to inspect the terrace before the deal with the contractor could be closed.
The product also was applied with a sand-like substance to
By KIRK KAHLER
Fro-Turf was used, he said,
because it would withstand the
Kansas weather cycle better than
the old sealant.
Staff writer
However, he said, the result is not always perfect.
Pitzer Products, a company in Pittsburg that did the repairs, used a polyurethane material called Pro-Turf to resurface the terrace, Medig said.
The new material also will expand and contract with the concrete, Modig said, whereas the former material did not.
Pitzer Products also installed the running track at Memorial Stadium, he said.
The money for the project was appropriated to facilities planning by the Kansas Board of Regents,
Pro-Turf is similar to the material used on the running tracks at Memorial Stadium and Allen Field House, Medig said.
"One spot still appeared to be what I call a 'birdbath,'" he said.
Modiag said.
Modig used the term birdbath to refer to recesses in the surface that filled with water after rainfall.
He said the surface needed to be repaired because de-icers used on it in the winter caused the old surface to deteriorate rapidly.
Pro Turf also can be reapplied if worn spots are detected in the future, he said.
The old sealant was an epoxy-like material where two components of the substance were mixed and then applied to the surface
with rollers. Modig said.
Cessna, the world's largest manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, announced in May that it would stop producing all single- and multi-engine aircrafts through model year 1987. Cessna said further reductions in employment were possible.
United Press International
Cessna Aircraft to lay off 700 employees
WICHTI — Cessna Aircraft Co., mired in a continued sales slump, today confirmed that it would lay off 700 employees, the company said.
The latest layoffs are in response to the worst sales slump in the history of the light-plane industry.
Cessna spokesman Dean Humphrey issued a statement that confirmed the company intends to reduce its workforce of 4,700 by 700. Exactly who will be affected and in which areas the layoffs will occur was not available, he said.
Cessna president Bill Van Sant said some of the latest layoffs were tied to the company's decision to no longer produce single-engine aircrafts, as well as poor sales.
Cessna is reeling from $30 million losses on sales of $166 million during the first half of 1986.
Employees were notified of the im
pending layoffs as they left work Wednesday. They were given a special edition of the company's newsletter that outlined Cessna's 1987 business plans.
In the newsletter, the company indicated it would focus its efforts on business jets and propjets - planes that Cessna thinks have the most potential for profit.
Cessna and two other light-plane manufacturers in Wichita, Beech Aircraft Corp. and Gates Learjet Corp., repeatedly have complained that the high cost of product liability insurance has caused the recent
stump in sales. Cessna Chairman Russell W. Meyer Jr has said insurance is the single largest component in the cost of piston aircraft.
A survey by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association in Washington said the cost of product liability insurance increased an average 500 percent from 1981 to 1985. Some companies have seen rates climb as high as 2,000 percent
The latest Cessna layoffs will reduce employment at Wichita's three light-plane makers to about 9,700 employees.
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