University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 11, 1986
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News Briefs
Continuances given for cocaine hearings
Three men arrested July 21 for sale and possession of cocaine were granted continuances on their preliminary hearings, which were scheduled for yesterday.
Howard Edmiston, 44, Lawrence resident, who was charged with selling and possessing cocaine, had his preliminary hearing moved to Sept.24.
Jonathan Flicker, 23, and Tory Graham, 23, both former KU students, had their preliminary hearings moved to Nov. 12. Flicker has been charged with selling cocaine and Graham has been charged with both sale and possession.
Attorneys usually ask for continuances so they will have more time to prepare their cases.
Local driver charged
Kathy Haun, 22, of 420 North St. was charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with refusing to yield the right of way, resulting in an Aug. 7 accident that killed a Lawrence resident.
Mary Murphy, 56, of 3232 Iowa St., was killed in the accident, which occurred at the intersection of North and Second Streets.
Police reports said Haun was turning left onto Second Street when she hit the side of Murphy's car, which was traveling north.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said a charge of vehicular homicide could not be proven against Haun.
Reports said that Murphy was speeding, was not wearing her glasses and was legally intoxicated.
Haun will appear in court at 4 p.m. on Sept. 23 in Douglas County District Court.
Rally to raise spirit
A pep rally to raise spirit for Saturday morning's opening game against the North Carolina Tar Heels will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in front of Robinson Center.
The football players and coaches will be featured at the rally and the KU Crimson Girls, the University pompon squad, will perform.
Three students organized the rally for a project assigned in a physical education administration class.
John Christie, one of the students, said organizers had chosen a rally to promote support for the KU football team.
"It's kind of sad that we have a Division I school and every year the basketball stadium is filled, and the football stadium never is," he said.
Panel topic is drugs
The KU Student American Pharmaceutical Association is sponsoring a lecture and panel discussion on "The Effects of Drugs on Physical Performance."
The lecture will be from 12:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Featured speakers are Bruce H. Woolley of Brigham Young University and William R. Garnett of Virginia Commonwealth University. Woolley's topic is "The Athlete: Use and Miseuse of Drugs." Garnett's topic is "Interrelationships Between Medicine and Exercise."
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of morning rain and a high temperature in the upper 70s. Tonight will be clear with a low temperature in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be sunny with a high temperature in the mid-80s.
Murphy Hall roof work may be done soon
Construction to complete a three-year Murphy Hail roofing project tied up by legal red tape is expected to begin within two weeks, a KU official said yesterday.
Staff writer
Bv KIRK KAHLER
The new contractors are Everley Roofing and Heating Inc. of Lawrence and R.D. Anderson of Topeka, said James Modig, associate director of facilities planning.
"I'm hoping we will have some response in the next couple of weeks to set the project back into motion."
Modig said.
The project to replace faulty bricks supporting a new roof was halted in spring 1985. Modig said, when the state filed papers declaring that the company hired to do the work was not fulfilling its contract.
During that time, Fair Roofing Inc. of Wichita, the company hired by the state, filed bankruptcy and a bank declared that it had a claim on the contract for the project.
Another contractor could not be hired to finish the brick work because of bankruptcy proceedings.
Legal questions over who had control over the project stalled the project's completion.
In May 1985, the court ruled that Fair Roofing was bankrupt
United States Fidelity and Guaranty of Wichita, a bonding company, was assigned to assess the amount of work completed by Fair Roofing, the amount of work left and the amount of new damage to the building that occurred because the job was left unfinished.
About 50 percent of the brick replacement remains.
To speed up completion of the project, the state agreed to forego all liquidated damages it had incurred. Liquidated damage is a money figure charged to the construction company for every day the project exceeds the contract deadline.
Modig said this amount was more than $40,000.
Within the last month, Modig said, the bank's hold over the contract has been resolved and new contracts have been drawn. Once the contracts are approved by USP&G, the new contractors will meet to discuss the
construction.
Modig said the work still to be completed was the easiest half of the project.
"I'm hoping it will be done by the first part of December," he said.
Modig said the work to protect the new roof was unavoidable because the roof was a $239,930 investment. The rooting and the brick work, which cost $81,550, were paid for with state funds.
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Surveving the courts
Juert Ketter, KU facilities operations worker, makes a drainage survey of the varsity tennis courts behind Allen Field House. Ketter said Tuesday that parts of the courts had been flooded after heavy rains.
ents impound von Ende's car
Staff writer
By ALISON YOUNG
Richard von Ende's car was seized Tuesday by federal Drug Enforcement Agency officers, a DEA official said yesterday.
Von Ende, University executive secretary, is awaiting trial on cocaine-related charges. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
George Clemente, Kansas City, Kan.
DEA agent, said von Ende's 1984 blue Corvette was seized from his Lawrence residence Tuesday. The car was taken to a DEA impound lot in Kansas City, Kan.
Clemente said the car was scheduled to be released today to von Ende's leasing company, Security Pacific Credit Corp. of Kangas City, Mo.
Bil Grove, credit and operations manager for Security Pacific Credit Corp., said he could not comment on the status of von Ende's car.
Clemente said von Ende's car was seized
because it allegedly was used to transport controlled substances, which is in violation of federal narcotics laws.
The DEA had been unable to locate von Ende's car before his appearance at Monday's hearing in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., said Clemente. He said DEA agents had spotted the car in the courthouse parking lot.
DEA agents approached von Ende and his attorney, Michael Bennett Jr., of Topeka, after the hearing to discuss seizing the car.
Clemente said that the DEA allowed von Ende to keep his car Monday to visit a physician and that von Ende had agreed to surrender the car.
Von Ende has been on sick leave from the University since June. According to Douglas County District Court records von Ende has "a contagious kidney infection."
Information about the number of days remaining in von Ende's sick leave is confidential, according to a state regulation.
However, Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said that full-time University employees, such as von Ende, received one day of sick leave for each month they are employed with the University. She said these days may be accumulated over the years.
Thomas said full-time University employees received a maximum of 22 vacation days a year, plus one discretionary day.
Von Ende, who has been with the University since 1970, also has some vacation days he may use if his sick leave expires.
Each fiscal year, between July 1 and June 30, vacation days accrue at a rate of two days a month and must be used by Dec. 31 of that same calendar year.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said that no decisions had been made if von Ende used up his allotted sick leave and vacation time.
Prof responds from S. Africa point of view
By SHANE A. HILLS
Staff writer
Being black is a state of mind for those who are oppressed in South Africa, Surendra Bhana, Langston Hughes visiting professor of history, told about 40 listeners yesterday.
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Bhana is from India but has spent most of his life in South Africa, where he is head of the history department at the University of Durban-Westville.
"As an Indian I fall under the same rules the blacks do in South Africa," Bhana said. "It has nothing to do with the color of my skin."
Bhana, who received his doctorate in U.S. history in 1971 from the University of Kansas, answered questions at Nunemaker Center in an informal, brown-bag lecture sponsored by the College Honors Program.
Apartheid and U.S. policy toward South Africa were the issues most frequently asked.
Bhana said an atmosphere of revolutionary fervor was obvious in South Africa. Even the black against-black violence is rooted in apartheid policies. Blacks have attacked other blacks suspected of collaborating with the whites.
The government has paid black vigilantes to attack other blacks, attempting to create an illusion that the blacks will fight among themselves if the whites leave, he said.
"No group ever actually surrenders power voluntarily," he said. "It looks like a revolutionary situation."
David Katzman, professor of history and director of the honors program, said a relatively new wave of moralistic fervor in the United States had brought apartheid, South Africa's policy of enforced racial segregation, to the front of U.S. thought and politics.
Bhana said South Africans were concerned about U.S. policies as well.
"Most black South Africans believe the United States has abandoned them," Bhana said. "Reagan chooses to remain ignorant. That is certainly the way black South Africans perceive his administration."
Bhana said he couldn't reveal his opinion on whether the United States should demand that U.S. companies divest from South Africa.
"If I speak on things I've been told not to speak on, I risk being picked up by the police when I get home," he said after the lecture.
He cannot say whether he thinks the African National Congress, banned since 1960, should be reinstated. He has a family in South Africa, and says he will return in December.
Bhana said South Africa would not have enough prisons to incarcerate everyone who spoke against the government.
"They have more important people to worry about than me," he said. "That's probably why I was able to come to the United States."
If U.S. companies left South Africa, Bhana said, only about two percent of the work force would be without a job.
Sanctions and divestment would represent a symbolic statement against apartheid more than they would mean an actual hardship to South Africa, he said.
Care Flight to transport patients to KU Med Center
Staff writer
By COLLEEN SIEBES
The University of Kansas Medical Center will begin operating an air ambulance next week that will transport seriously ill or injured patients to the Med Center from other Kansas hospitals.
The new service, called Care Flight, will be based in Great Bend at the Central Kansas Medical Center. Great Bend's center and the KU Med Center signed a formal affiliation agreement this summer.
The Beechecraft airplane, equipped with instruments like those found in an emergency room, will transport patients in stable condition.
ministrator at the Med Center, said he expected Care Flight to run about eight flights a month.
Rein said Care Flight was a response to a concern expressed by physicians across the state that the present patient air transportation system was inadequate.
Marlin Rein, associate hospital ad-
Two nurses will attend patients on the flights and occasionally a respiratory therapist will be present, Rein said. Attendants will be drawn from the staff at Great Bend.
The State Legislature allocated a $260,000 annual expenditure for the KU Care Flight.
Rein said legislators wanted to increase the visibility of the state-financed Med Center to other regions in central and western Kansas
prove the quality of health care in the state, he said.
The Med Center has been receiving patients from central and western Kansas through Life Watch, another air ambulance run by Wesley Medical Center, a privately-owned center in Wichita.
Life Watch will continue to bring some patients to the Med Center because the number of transfer patients is too great for Care Flight to handle
The Wesley center has one airplane in Dodge City, one in Hays and three airplanes and two beliconters in Wichita.
Life Watch, which has been operating since 1976, runs about 130 flights a month, said Jack Shearer. Life Watch operations director in
Shearer said Life Watch provided adequate air ambulance service in Kansas and was concerned that state money was being spent unnecessarily.
Shearer said that Life Watch officials supported anyone who could provide the service, but not when such service would be ineffective. Because Life Watch already provides a statewide service, another air ambulance would be superfluous.
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But the main purpose of Care Flight is to im-
He also said he didn't think Care Flight would provide the visibility for the KU Med Center that legislators wanted. The public, with the exception of a few people at the airport, wouldn't see the plane.
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