University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 23, 1986
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Senate may study safety bill
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
The Senate Student Rights Committee approved and passed to the Senate a bill that would create a board to address campus safety.
A proposal to form a campus safety board came a step closer last night to being considered by the Student Senate.
Brady Stanton and Kelly Milligan, Nunemaker senators and sponsors of the bill, told the committee that the proposal would provide a comprehensive plan to organize all campus safety programs.
"Safety is a prime concern at KU." Milligan said. "What we need is something to make sure there is continuity in these programs."
Nunemaker senators represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The safety board would be responsible for evaluating all on-campus safety programs and services and suggesting new programs and services, according to the proposal.
Milligan said that although the SecureCab night taxi service sponsored by the Senate and other safety programs were working well now, they might be ineffective in a few years. Past safety programs started out well but tapered off from lack of enthusiasm or organization, he said.
A safety board would prevent that from happening, Milligan said.
Stanton said the senators had proposed a board because they thought it would be more effective if it operated relatively independent of the Senate, as the Senate's Transportation Board does.
"We want this to stick around after we're gone." Stanton said.
The safety board would consist of representatives from administrative offices, such as KU police, Lawrence police, the departments of student life and facilities operations and the office of student housing.
representatives from living-group organizations, such as the All-Scholarship Hall Council, the Association of University Residence Halls, the Inter-Fraternity Council and the Stouffer Place Neighborhood Association.
The board also would have
In addition, four student representatives of the student body at large, at least three of them living off campus, would be on the board.
The bill is scheduled for consideration by the University Affairs Committee, which can either kill it or pass it to the Senate with or without a recommendation. Because the bill, if approved, would change Student Senate rules, it had to go through the Student Rights Committee.
If the bill passes the University Affairs Committee, it probably will be on the agenda for tomorrow night's Senate meeting.
Stanton said he thought there was a good chance the Senate would pass the bill.
Slattery examines Fort Riley
The Associated Press
FORT RILEY  Rep. Jim Slattery took an unannounced tour of Fort Riley yesterday and promised to investigate allegations of poor workmanship on construction projects at the Army post.
At a news conference in Junction City after the surprise visit, Slattery said contractors, laborers, union representatives and private citizens told him that they were concerned about work on several projects at the base.
"Examples of these concerns are lack of inspections by the corps (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), use of foreign-made materials in construction, poor workmanship and the failure to post required notices and wages," said Slattery, D-Kan., who is a member of the House Budget Committee.
Allegations included problems with a roofing project, shoddy workmanship on barracks construction, use of an improper valve on a utility project and use of too much foreign steel on a petroleum depot project.
At a housing project, Tom Stoalabarger, post engineer, told Slattery that the material used on a second-layer roof did not last as long as it should have under local weather conditions. On one unit, some of the shingles appeared to be loosening at the edges and several areas were saring.
Stealabarburger said that the out-of-state contractor, International Rooting, had attempted to seal some of the loose spots by hand but refused to do anything else, saying it had completed the job.
"The project is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million, and the fact of the matter is that it's a terribly inferior job," Slattery said. "The Army admits that, and we're trying now to get the contractor back that did this work and try and get it done right."
Stealabarger estimated that the contractor had completed about 75 percent of the roofing job, and that about that much work had been paid for.
"At least we can identify who the contractor is, and when I get back to Washington, I'm going to find out if that contractor is doing work other places in the country." Slattery said.
"I just believe that if this contractor will not get out here to Fort Riley and clean up the job he did here, then the Pentagon ought to be saying to him. 'You're not going to get anymore work with us,'" he said.
Slattery, who is seeking re-election for his 2nd District seat in the November general election, was surprised to learn from corps officials that contractors at the base picked their own inspectors to OK their projects.
"That concept doesn't make sense," he said. "That's like the rookie guarding the banana boat."
Slattery also saw a petroleum storage depot that was partly constructed of South African steel.
pally considered. Bob Moody, president of the Riley-Geary County Building Trade Council, said only 10 percent of domestic projects may be constructed with foreign materials.
Slattery also visited a site where a pipe was constructed using $250 valves. Moody said specifications supposedly called for higher quality valves worth $1,700 each.
He said the corps would provide him with information about the valves and the amount of foreign-made materials used in the storage depot.
Georgetown decides to divest
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Georgetown University's board of directors has voted to divest all holdings in companies doing business in racially divided South Africa, officials said yesterday.
The decision came late last week upon the recommendation of two Catholic bishops conferences and a university advisory committee, said George Houston, the university's vice president for financial affairs.
already last spring, the Student Coalition Against Racism and Apartheid held numerous protests — including a weeklong sit-in — asking the board to divest its $28.6 million holdings in companies that include IBM Corp., CBS Inc. and General Motors Corp.
"You could call it a shift in views, but we haven't bent toward pressure of any kind from critics," Houston said. "We've been reviewing this for some time."
The university announced it will pull its holdings from companies that have no plans on leaving South Africa. South Africa has resisted worldwide pressure to abandon its policy of racial
separation known as apartheid.
Companies have 90 days after their own 1987 annual stockholders meeting to notify the university of their plans.
The university will maintain its holdings in companies that are beginning withdrawal from South Africa, according to a statement released by the university.
"The persuading factors in this were the two conferences — the American and South Africa Catholic bishops conferences — and our own committee, the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility." Houston said.
SENIORS Announcing Hilltoppers
The Jayhawker Yearbook is happy to announce the Hilltoppers. The Hilltopper Awards were established in the 1930's as the Jayhawker's way of recognizing those seniors who have made high calibre contributions to the University and/or the Lawrence community and consistently displayed unselfish, responsible leadership in non-academic areas of campus life. The award was reestablished in 1984 in order that outstanding seniors may once again be recognized.
involvement and leadership in campus and community activities
Criteria for selection includes:
—unselfish service to the campus and community
-references that can address the quality of the nominee's service
—a GPA of around 3.0, however grades will not play an
—respect of the nominee's peers as well as his or her professors
extremely important part in the selection
The nominations will be screened by a committee that includes KU faculty, student representatives, and the Jayhawker staff. Anyone can nominate a senior for this award and seniors can nominate themselves by picking up an application. Nomination forms and applications will be available at the SUA Office, 4th Floor Kansas Union, and the Yearbook Office, Jayhawk Towers, 003A. Deadline for acceptance of nominations is Mon., Oct.13, and the deadline for applications is Tues., Nov. 4, 1986.
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JAYHAWKER
On campus
The seminar "Love, Values and Spiritual Growth" will be at 4:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
■ Victor Papanek, J.L. Constant distinguished professor of design, will speak on "The Edifice Complex: The Designed Environment in the Age of Greed," at 8 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The KU Soccer Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. today at the University soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
trical engineering, will speak on "Electrical Safety: A Matter of Life and Death," at 11:40 a.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Orave Ave.
Dale Rummer, professor of elec.
The KU Kempo Karate and Self Defense Club will meet at 3:50 p.m. tomorrow in room 130 in Robinson Center.
Campus Christians will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
On the record
The Dr. Who Appreciation Society will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
Lawrence police reported two rifles and a television set, valued together at $815, taken between 2 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday from an apartment building in the 900 block of Michigan Street.
A videocassette recorder, videocassette and cash, valued together at $520, were taken between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Sunday from an apartment building in the 1300 block of New Jersey Street.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported a radar detector and a wallet containing cash, valued together at $450, taken between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday.
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