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Suiting up
Freshman Sara Munson posed this summer for the cover of this month's Swimwear Illustrated. She also is one of three models featured on the magazine's inside pages.
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Health food
Watkins Hospital will save up to $70,000 a year because it discontinued its food service this summer. Food for the hospital's inpatients now is provided by the Lawrence Memorial Hospital food service.
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You must be sloshing
Today will be mostly cloudy and breezy with a chance of thunderstorms. Tonight should be rainy and cool.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 29 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday October 2,1986
Flattened brush in this culvert slows water flow caused by recent rains. City Public Works works had not given the 15th Street culvert, between Maryland Street and Haskell Avenue, its annual cleaning as of yesterday.
Citizens criticize drainage system
Bv IOHN BENNER
Staff writer
During a recent rainstorm, Walter Morton was down at his ofice sandbagging the door to keep water out.
He said that when the storm sewers backed up, the culvert under 15th Street couldn't carry the water away fast enough. Water then flows over the road and floods the Morton Building Materials brickyard at 900 E. 15th St., sometimes getting high enough to leak into his office — almost three feet above ground.
In 1982, a city fund containing about $15,000, originally earmarked for projects that would ease this and other Lawrence flooding, was instead spent on general city projects.
Rather than storm drainage control, the money was spent on such projects as street and sidewalk improvements and traffic light installations, said Mike Wildgen assistant city manager.
Today, the city has no program that deals exclusively with storm drainage, he said.
In December 1980, the Lawrence City Commission voted to tack 50 cents per month on all city water bills to pay for a plan that would identify and ease flooding within the city.
The measure raised about $65,000 illegally, said E.R. "Buzz" Zook, spokesman for Citizens for Better Government.
Zook said he took the city to court to fight the assessments because they violated a state statute, which said a city could not take action within 60 days of sequestration notification of an ordinance.
The city waited only 26 days before making the first assessments, and did so after only
See DRAINAGE, p. 5, col. 3
Russia, U.S. expect progress at meeting
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union joined the Reagan administration yesterday in predicting a breakthrough on curbing nuclear weapons at the meeting in Iceland between President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Presidential Chief of Staff Donald Regan said the two days of meetings Oct. 11-12 could lead to better understanding and compromise that would lead to arms reductions."
The Associated Press
Reagan and Gorbachev also are expected to take up the U.S. order to expel 106 Soviet diplomats over the next two years. As part of the deal that brought U.S. reporter Nicholas Daniello home, Shultz extended yesterday's deadline for two weeks for 25 diplomats to denalt.
For the Soviet Union, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said he expected some kind of breakthrough in Reykjavik, in the form of instructions to lower-level weapons specialists.
The two sides also have established an extensive dialogue on the guerilla wars in five countries; Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Nicaragua, since Reagan proposed a year ago that they set up negotiations to end the conflicts, the official said.
Secretary of State George Shultz, meanwhile, said Reagan had accepted Gorbachev's proposal for a two-day, informal meeting within two weeks because "the name of the game here is to solve problems."
Beyond the arms control issue,
Reagan and Gorbache may agree
on broader cultural exchanges and
expanding consular offices in the two
countries, an administration official
said.
He said Reagan would press Gorbachev to allow more Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Jewish emigration is at a two-year low.
Solbach questions Parker's poll
By BETH COPELAND Staff, writer
Martha Parker, Republican candidate for state representative, released survey results last week that have been questioned by her opponent and by a polling specialist.
Parker, who is running against incumbent State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, for the 45th District House of Representatives seat, concluded from the poll that Solbach wasn't representing his constituents.
The 45th District comprises Clinton, Kanwaka, Lecompton, Marion, North and West Wakarusa, Willow Springs Township and the far north, south and west parts of Lawrence.
Parker designed the poll and mailed about 10,000 surveys to registered voters in the district. About 700 people responded, and their party affiliation was determined by the mailing labels.
"Martha sampled about 10,000 people," he said. "The highest response she received was 687. That means she had a less than 6 percent return."
Sobach called the survey self-selecting.
"The people who responded were people who either felt strongly about Parker's candidacy or felt strongly to give or more of the issues on the SUNY."
Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, who specializes in political polls, called the poll nonsense because it wasn't
"One has to be leery of the results because there's no way to ascertain whether the respondents were representative of the public." Cigler said.
representative
"My first impression from just looking at it is, 'What a silly poll,' he said, referring to the poll's design. The surveys had "yes" and "no" boxes but no box for respondents who were undecided on an issue.
Cigler also said that the letterhead on the poll, "Martha J. Parker needs to know your views!" favored Parker and that it suggested a systematic bias.
Solbach, however, praised Parker's intent behind mailing the poll.
"I would commend my opponent for trying to find out the issues in the district." Solbach said.
Parker said the poll revealed to her the attitudes of the people in her district — attitudes that she said were contrary to Solbach's voting record.
"Solbach has repeatedly voted against the death penalty," she said. "Overwhelmingly, the people want it. It's obvious he's not representing what the people want."
Parker's poll indicated that more than 82 percent of the respondents in the 45th District supported the death penalty.
See SURVEY, p. 5, col. 2
SURVEY QUESTIONS
Solbach Parker
NO Do you support the death penalty? YES
NO The 1986 Legislature placed a cap of YES
$1,000,000 on an award in a medical mal-
practice case. Do you support this legislation?
NO Do you believe in further increases in sales tax NO to fund state government?
NO Do you believe that Washburn University of NO Topeka should eventually become a state university?
NO Are you in favor of mandatory seat belt laws? NO
YES Do you favor laws restricting the ability of cities YES
to annex property into that city?
YES Do you favor the present method of selecting YES the Secretary of Agriculture?
NO Are you in favor of a prison honor camp being NO located at Clinton State Park?
YES Would you favor programs for economic NO development even if it means higher personal taxes (i.e. income or sales tax)?
YES Are you in favor of a moratorium on farm YES
foreclosures?
YES Do you favor continuing the "user fee" NO concept for funding road projects (i.e. motor fuel taxes are levied to pay for road projects) so those that use the roads pay for them?
NO Do you favor changing the election of the Kansas House of Representatives so that half the House is elected every two years and members are elected to four-year terms rather than two-year terms?
Vietnam group seeks loan for concert
Staff writer
Rv SALLY STRFFF
A student organization has asked Student Senate for a no-interest loan of $46,000 so that the organization can sponsor a concert to benefit the children of Vietnam veterans.
The Youth for Vietnam Vets organization wants to sponsor the concert, which would feature George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Nov. 11 at Allen Field House.
Proceeds from the concert would go to the Paralyzed Veterans of America for scholarships for children of Vietnam veterans who were killed in action or disabled, or for the children of POWs and MIAs.
But several student senators and the vice chancellor for student affairs yesterday voiced concerns about the legality of the Senate's sponsoring the concert.
The bill will be considered at the Senate Finance Committee's meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
Last year, the organization tried to sponsor a concert at Memorial Stadium with several rock bands, but the concert never took place.
Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student, and the organization's treasurer, said he had received a verbal commitment from Thorogood and his band to play at the concert. Krueger also said he had received tentative commitments from two other bands, but he would not name them.
The three bands would perform free of charge, but the organization would pay their expenses. KN
Krueger said the organization was asking the Student Senate for the money to pay operating expenses incurred before the concert, such as travel costs, lodging and equipment rental. The money would be repaid from gate receipts by Dec. 1, he said. Each concert ticket probably would cost $17, he said.
"We need working capital." Krueger said. "At this point it's fruitless to even talk about going forward without the promise of working capital. That
was a crucial mistake in the past.'
The organization is asking the Senate to transfer $46,000 from the unallocated account to the Senate's own internal account. The Youth for Vietnam Vets would pay expenses through the Senate treasurer, who would write all the checks.
Krueger said he had decided last week to ask the Senate for the money after receiving confirmation from Thorogood, because the organization didn't have enough time to find other sponsors.
He said it was highly unlikely the concert would take place if the Senate did not allocate the money.
David Epstein, student body president, told the Senate at a meeting last night that unless senators received more specific information about the concert, he would veto the bill if it passed.
The Senate bill which asks for the money was sponsored by Martie Aaron, liberal arts and sciences senator; Betsy Bergman, Nunemaker senator; Michael Foubert, graduate senator; Luca
Campus sci-fi center still in twilight zone
See CONCERT. p. 5, col. 1
Staff writer
By CRAIG HERRMANN
One of the largest collections of science fiction materials in the country is at the University of Kansas, but few people on campus know it exists, according to a KU English professor.
KU's Center for the Study of Science Fiction, located in the Spencer Research Library, contains authentic science fiction books, magazines, manuscripts and art.
But James Gunn, the center's director, said he thought more people off campus knew about the center than did people on campus.
"I think there is a lot of interest in science fiction here at KU," Gunn says.
"I wish more people on the campus knew about the center," Gunn said.
"It's available to anyone who wants to research and study science fiction."
Gunn, a professor of English and science fiction author, probably is most recognized for his novel "The Listeners" and for his four-volume "Road to Science Fiction" series.
One of the biggest projects of the center is the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year.
KU has been the home of the Campbell Memorial Award since 1979. Before that time, the award, first presented in 1973, was presented by universities around the world.
Campbell served as editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, which later became Analog magazine, until he died in 1971. Campbell was known to many
science fiction fans as the father of modern science fiction.
KU was chosen as the permanent home for the award ceremony mainly because of its central location, Gunn said.
The award is presented during a convention at KU devoted to the teaching and writing of science fiction, usually during the second or third weekend in July, he said.
Although the award ceremony has received financing from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Gunn said the response from people on campus still was very small.
"I'm a bit disappointed that more people don't show an interest in the conference weekend," he said. "It's a great opportunity for people to meet outstanding authors."
Gunn said science fiction had been a topic of interest at KU since the late 1960s, when courses on it were first taught at the University. Although the center was established in 1882, he said the University made its first large acquisition of science fiction materials in 1970.
Since then, the center's collection almost has outgrown its space in the Spencer Research Library, according to Stephen H. Goldman, associate director of the center and associate professor of English.
Although the center contains a
Goldman said the center quickly was becoming a central place for authors and other science fiction researchers to deposit any materials relating to their work.
See GUNN, p. 5, col. 5
Jiane Dultmeier/KANSAN
James Gunn, noted science fiction writer and KU professor of English, holds the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The award is given each year for the best new science fiction novel.
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