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Thursday, September 4, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
Tiring Tug
Pulling for the Navy ROTC's Bravo-2 team in a tug of war, Brett Stafford, Lake Winnebago, Mo., freshman, holds the front of the line. Beside him, Bernard Mack, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, cheers the team on. The
Bravo-2 team won first place in the event yesterday, which was part of a field meet held each semester to incorporate the freshmen with the experienced men.
Docking states plan to rid streets of crime
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - LL. Gov. Tom Docking yesterday unveiled his plan for ridding Kansas streets of crime
He advocated tougher sentencing and more limited parole for violent criminals and urged counties to combine their resources to hire wellpaid professionals to ensure effective prosecution of criminals.
Docking, the Democratic nominee for governor, also said that an expanded Kansas Highway Patrol and creation of neighborhood police centers were important components of his package of protecting victims, enforcing the law and keeping violent offenders off the streets.
"My opponent proposes the death penalty as the single solution to the overall crime problem." Docking told a Statehouse news conference. "I disagree. His proposal is one-tenth of 1 percent of the solution. That is the percentage of serious crimes in Kansas for which the death penalty might apply."
Docking said the Republican nominee for governor. House Speaker Mike Hayden, had tried to oversimply the crime problem in the minds of voters and was misleading them by portraying capital punishment as a cure-all for Kansas crime. Docking said the death penalty was more of a placebo which would have little effect on the problem.
He also ripped Hayden for suggesting that it might be appropriate to test all 35,000 state employees and faculty at state universities for drugs. Docking said drug tests should only be a part of the solution to drug use in society.
Docking was testing college athletes at the state's six universities was a good idea because the need was apparent. However, he said law enforcement officers, surgeons or others in positions related to public health and welfare should not be tested unless a problem developed.
A complete overhaul of the state's justice system is needed. Docking said, starting with changes in legislative policy which has left the criminal code "in a muddled mess."
"We tolerate understaffed offices and underpaid officers and then denounce lax enforcement." Docking said. "We lament drug peddling and abuse while refusing to fund and implement education programs. The system is upside-down and inside-out. And in our frustration with the system, it's often the criminals that get the attention while the victims are forgotten."
Improvements in prosecution and tougher sentencing is going to mean more criminals dumped into an already overflowing prison system. And stricter parole guidelines will make it harder to release prisoners. Docking said he recognized the dilemma and called on local communities to share the burden of heroin.
Putting first-time, nonviolent offenders into community corrections would make room in state prisons for violent criminals, he said. However, the number of counties participating in the community corrections system will have to be expanded to accomplish that goal.
"I'm not advocating we build entirely new prisons." he said.
Trailways service to 57 Kansas cities may be eliminated
United Press International
TOPEKA - In the third such filing in two years, Trailways Inc. has filed notice that it intends to discontinue all its bus service in Kansas — affecting 57 cities — except along a Kansas City-Lawrence-Topeka-Wichita route.
The filing, examined briefly by the Kansas Corporation Commission for the first time yesterday morning, ordered that all major bus service to most of Kansas.
In addition, KCC staff complained that the bus company provided insufficient data to support the filing.
The commission deferred action on the staff recommendation until Sept. 10. Eventually the commission would set a formal hearing on the proposal to decide whether to allow the route alandments.
Trailways plans to drop Kansas service on Interstate 70 west from Topcape, along the route going to Denver.
However, Greyhound Bus Lines has a route from Kansas City to Denver on 170.
"Rural Kansas is being left without bus service." KCC spokesman Steve Menaugh said of the filing, made Friday.
Also being abandoned is a parallel route to Denver from Topeka to Manhattan on U.S. Highway 24, to Salina on Kansas 18 and 17, north on U.S. 81 to U.S. 24, then west to Stockton, north on U.S. 183 to Phillipsburg and west on U.S. 36 to St. Francis
Menaigh said the commission staff was recommending the filing be returned to Trailways for resumption in the proper form. The filing came in the form of a letter rather than a formal petition
Trailways' other westbound route, running from Wichita to Pueblo, Colo., also is being abandoned.
On the eastern border, the company is abandoning a Kansas City, Mo to Tulsa, Okla., route that follows Interstate 35 from Kansas City to Olathe, then takes U.S. 69 south to Pittsburgh, goes east to Joplin, Mo., and from there to Tulsa.
Southeast Kansas would lose a second route from Arkansas City to Joplin. That route follows U.S. 166 from Arkansas City through Cof-
reville, Baxter, Springs and to Galena.
Also remaining in service will be a Wichita-to-Joplin route by Viking Trailways, a Joplin-based Trailways franchise holder.
That route runs from Wichita, on Kansas 96 through Augusta to Fredonia and Neodesha, south on U.S. 75 to Independence, then northeast on U.S. 160 to Cherryvale and Parsons. The route splits at Parsons, with one leg running east on U.S. 160 and Kansas 126 to Pittsburgh. The other leg takes U.S. 59 south to K-96 and east to Oswego, Columbus and Crestline.
Already pending before the commission is a request by Trailways to abandon two routes that run into Nebraska to Lincoln. One runs north from Manhattan on U.S. 24 to U.S. 77 and north through Waterville, Blue Rapids and Marysville. The other runs from Wichita north on U.S. 81 through Hesston, Moundridge, McPherson, Lindsborg, Salina, Minneapolis, Concordia and Belleville.
In addition to Greyhound and Viking Trailways routes, a few short routes by smaller bus companies remain in existence in the state. However, Menaugh said it remains to be determined how those will be affected by the Trailways actions.
If the KCC rejects the abandonment filings, the bus company may take the issue to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Trailways plan to keep the Kansas City-Lawrence-Topeka run on Interstate 70, and the Kansas Turnip route from Topeka to Wichita. From there, it proposes to go to Oklahoma City on its current Wichita-Winfield-Akansas City route on U.S. 81, U.S. 160 and U.S. 77, and abandon its run on the Kansas Turnip from Wichita to the Oklahoma line.
"The commission has been critical of the (federal) bus regulatory act of 1982." Menaugh said. "The result is rural Kansas is being left without bus service."
Pending before the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver is Trailways' abandonment of a route from Manhattan on U.S. 24 west through Riley, Leonardville, Clay Center and Miltonvale. Although the KCC rejected that abandonment, the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed it.
Fans pay to see DU tournament
Staff writer
Bv NICOLE SAUZEK
His steps were quickly interrupted, though, by a tap on his shoulder.
With fists jammed in pockets and shades in place, the spectator began walking toward the football fields at 23rd and Iowa streets early last night to watch the 6th Annual Greg Wikerson Memorial Football Tournament.
There's no joke intended.
"Two bucks," said Chad Treaster, a Delta Upsilon pledge, with a smile. The spectator laughed and wondered what the joke was. Students have never paid to watch the tournament before.
"No, I'm serious," said Treaser, a Beloit freshman. "We're charging admission this year. It's two bucks for a ticket. Come on, the money's going to charity."
This year, for the first time, the DUs are selling tickets to their annual fraternity and sorority tournament, which ends Sunday.
Tickets are good for admittance all week. The DU's received permission to sell the tickets from
KU's Organizations and Activities Center. They were allowed to charge admission because the money will go to charity, said Ann Ewelso, director of the Organizations and Activities Center.
All tournament profits, including ticket sales and team entrance fees of $75, will go to the Karl Menninger Villages, centers for deprived children, located in Lawrence and Topeka. Helping the center is the fraternity's philanthropy project.
"We're just trying to go that extra step to raise more money," said Kevin Wilkerson, Prairie Village junior and tournament chairman.
The tournament, the DU's largest fund raiser, is named for Wilkerson's brother, a KU sophomore, who died in a 1983 construction accident.
The DUs extra step has landed on a few toes.
Grumbles from a few upset customers could be heard when the money exchanged hands last night.
Some paid without a word — no questions, no grips, no big deal. Others just left.
Professor says repeat of Chernobyl doubtful
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
An accident similar to the April explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union probably never will occur in the United States, a KU professor said yesterday.
Russell B. Mesler, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering and former supervisor of the KU Nuclear Reactor Center, said the United States would not repeat the scenario because of differences in the designs of reactors in the two countries.
Mesler spoke to about 75 people at Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread St. Mesler's speech is the first in a University Forum series sponsored by the center.
He said the United States depended on a different type of reactor.
The Chernobyl reactor uses graphite as a modulator, which controls the speed of the nuclear reaction, he said.
No graphite reactors are used in the United States. Instead the United States employs two types of light water reactors — pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors, he said.
In the Western world, there are more than 3.000 reactor years—the total number of years all reactors have been operating—without a single fatality. Mesler said.
The Soviet Union has 285
graphite reactor years and it already has 31 fatalities, he said.
After the accident, Soviet authorities shut down all graphite reactors for design inspection and later concluded that a design flaw did not cause the accident. Today, all those reactors except Chernobyl are operating.
Twelve percent of all energy in the Soviet Union is created by nuclear reactors. Half of all Soviet energy is created by reactors similar to the Chernobyl reactor, he said.
"Any kind of system that generates this much power is going to cost." Mesler said. "It's up to society as to how it's going to pay this cost."
"Chernobyl is just one more thing that anti-nuclear activists can point their fingers at and say, 'We want the energy is dangerous,' he said.
Mesler said the accident never should have happened.
The Soviets have made a large number of concessions to the development and operation of nuclear energy. Mesler said.
If nations shared information about nuclear energy, they might prevent another accident like Chernobyl, he said.
In the United States, the accident has added fuel to the fire of nuclear energy protesters.
The protesters' effect, however, is offset by the growing dependency on this type of energy.
Senate hotline to begin soon
By a Kansan reporter
Students with questions, comments or suggestions for Student Senate soon will be able to leave messages on a hotline, the student body president said yesterday.
"There is a communications gap between what students want and what is going on in the Senate," he said. "The hotline will bridge this gap."
The Student Senate hotline, which will start Monday, will address a problem between the Senate and students, said David Epstein, the president.
The hotline will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 9 a.m. every day. An answering machine in the Senate office in the Burge Union will handle callers.
The hotline's primary purpose is to involve students in the Senate's decisions, Epstein said. Students who have problems with the University also are encouraged to call.
Epstein said the Senate would put ads in the Kansan about issues facing the Senate. The ads will request that students call the hotline to submit their opinions on the issues.
"The Student Senate has access to many more doors than the average student." Epstein said.
The $100 needed for the hotline project came from an internal Senate account that holds money for the Senate's office equipment, Epstein
Each morning, a secretary will review the previous night's messages and relay them to Epstein. The hotline was one of Epstein's campaign promises.
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OU $7
NU $15
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Purchased at the
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