University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 4, 1986
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Jury trial dates set for ex-KU students
Jury trials for two former KU students arrested on cocaine-related charges were set yesterday after both waived their preliminary hearing.
A third former KU student will not face a jury trial because the charges against him were dropped Aug.28.
A jury trial for Robert F. Bell, who was charged in mid-July with one count of selling cocaine, was set for 9 a.m. Oct. 9 in Douglas County District Court. Bell, 31, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Kevin Sommer's jury trial also was scheduled for Oct. 9, Sommer. 20, was charged with one count of possession of cocaine and one count of selling cocaine. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
A preliminary hearing had been scheduled for Gregory Trimarche, a kU student last semester, but the charges against him have been dropped. Court documents stated that the case has been dismissed because further evaluation was required.
Trimarche, 23, had been charged with one count of aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine.
The three men were among 21 people arrested in July on drugtrafficking charges after a yearlong investigation by federal, state and local officials.
Prof receives award
A KU pharmacy professor won the Award of Merit in Continuing Pharmaceutical Education in July.
Jeremy A. Matchett, associate professor of pharmacy practice and director of Pharmacy Continuing Education, received the award at the annual meeting of the Continuing Education Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in Toronto.
The award is for accomplishment and quality performance of continuing education in pharmacy, scholarly activities in research, programming planning, implementation and teaching.
Squad chooses two
The award, a $500 check and a gold clock, is sponsored by the AACP and Ei Lilly & Company
The KU Crimson Girls pompon squad chose two new members Aug. 27 after tryouts at Anschutz Sports Pavilion
Laura Bledsoe, Leawood sophomore, and Staci Stathopoulos, Kansas City, Mo. were chosen from 26 protesters.
The Crimson Girls perform at home football games and men's basketball games.
Last month, the Crimson Girls won two trophies at the National Cheerleading Association pomp camp in Dallas and qualified for the national competition Jan. 2-4 at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain and a high temperature in the mid-80s. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance for showers and a low temperature in the mid-60s.
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From staff and wire reports.
Group seeks records on Wolf Creek
The Lawrence Nuclear Awareness Network wants to bring the safety problems of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant to the attention of state and national legislators, the director said Tuesday.
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
But to do that, director Stevi Stephens needs the documents from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which she said confirmed that a workers' grievance program at the plant was ineffective.
The Wolf Creek plant is near Burlington, about 30 miles southeast of Emporia.
Stephens filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Topeka on Sept. 19, 1985, against the NRC, contending that the Network should have access to those documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The pretrial should be in late October.
Robert Eye, the attorney representing the
The act states that any person has access to all the records kept by all federal agencies, but nine categories of records are exempt.
Nuclear Awareness Network, said that the main point of the lawsuit was to determine whether the NRC could legally claim exemption from the Freedom of Information Act.
Aileen Castallani, attorney with the U.S. Attorney General's office in Topeka, is defending the NRC. She said the documents were not released because they fell under an exemption in the act that excludes records involved in investigations.
But because the investigation had been closed, Stephens said, she is legally entitled to the documents.
The government says the NRC honored the act. Castallani said.
The documents the Network wants concern Wolf Creek's Quality First Program, an internal program that takes workers' grievances.
Stephens said she thought the program was not operating as it should.
"Quality control and assurance personnel would bring problems to the attention of management," she said, "and they would either be fired, harassed or transferred.
"My concern is that not only is management mistreating employees, but defects are not being corrected."
Stephens said the NRC knew that the quality program was defective before the Wolf Creek plant went to full power on June 3, 1985.
Now the NRC is withholding the documents of the investigation of the program to protect itself, she said.
"If they had gone in and investigated it further, it would have delayed licensing," she said. "It's very important to them to get them on line on time."
But Joseph Fouchard, NRC director of public affairs, said the NRC would not grant the licen-
sung of a nuclear power plant if it knew the plant could not be safely operated.
Lyle Koerper, public relations director for Kansas Gas and Electric at Wolf Creek, said the Quality First Program was established in spring 1984. Koerper said the program was started to assure the quality of construction.
"The value of this program has been twofold," he said. "It has brought to the attention of the owners the concerns of the workers, and it has heightened the awareness of the workers of the importance of the quality of workmanship and construction."
If the Network can get the documents from NRC, Stephens said, she will turn them over to Congress and to the Kansas State Legislature for investigation. Stephens said the identities of all the workers in the documents would be taken out before investigation.
Lawrence Bicycle Club members, Jeanette Geboe, 745 Tennessee St., and Bruce Houghton, St. Louis senior, zip along the countryside. The two participated in the club's ride to Lakeview yesterday. The club meets every Wednesday evening and Sunday morning for short rides around Lawrence.
Bicycle club offers fun, fitness
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
For Leroy Hatch, an avid cyclist for 56 years, it is an iron lung
To some, a bicycle is just another form of transportation.
Hatch, 310 W. 11th St., rides because the deep breaths he is forced to take help to ease his chronic emphysema. Hatch and his family are members of the Lawrence Bicycle Club. Hatch's philosophy is that riding in a bicycle club is individual body-building in group form.
The club was formed in April when the Oread Bicycle Club began enforcing rules that limited membership to KU students and their spouses.
Arlene Slocum, a founding
member of the Lawrence Bicycle Club, said they didn't restrict membership.
According to Jim Turner, vice president of the club, the 60 members' experience ranges from beginning riders to triathlon competitors.
Slocum said that because they had more activities in the Lawrence Bicycle Club they were different from the Oread Bicycle Club.
The club rides twice a week. On Wednesday evenings the tour starts at 6 p.m. at the bandstand at South Park. According to Slocum, these rides are less strenuous than the Sunday tours, which begin at 8:30 a.m. and can be as long as 62 miles.
The club also meets at 7:30 p.m. the last Wednesday of every month at the Lawrence Public Library.
Four-hundred riders are expected to participate in the Octoginta Weekend on Oct. 18 and 19. Scheduled activities include a moonlight tour, a tour to Baldwin for the Maple Leaf Festival, time trials at Lakeview and a slide show.
The Octoginta is an 80-mile tour that will take place Oct. 19. The tour is not a race, and participants are encouraged to ride at their own pace. The Octoginta began in 1969 and is an annual event.
Slocum said the time trials would appeal to those who enjoyed riding fast. Participants ride on flat surfaces against the clock.
3 face possession charges
Police seize marijuana crop
By JOHN BENNER
Stail writer
Charges were filed Tuesday against three area men arrested Saturday after police watched them harvest 34 garbage bags of marijuana from a field near Bennington.
The three men, Earnest Smith, 55,
Lecompton; Kenneth Brouhard, 59,
Lawrence, and his son, Michael
Brouhard, 27, Eudora, were arrested
after police allowed them to harvest
part of their crop.
not be released until today when he is charged.
The three were charged with possession of marijuana.
More than 1,300 marrijuana plants remained in the field at the time of the arrest, each with an estimated value of $1,000 to $2,500, said Ottawa County Attorney Richard Comfort.
He estimated the value of the plants harvested and those still in the field to be between $1.3 and $3 million.
A fourth man was arrested yesterday, but the Ottawa County Attorney's office said his identity would
Comfort said about 10 officers from the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Mitchell County Sheriff's Department went to the six-acre field at 4 a.m. to wait for the harvest to begin.
Aircraft monitored the activity for $ 5 \frac{1}{2} $ hours as the officers watched the men harvest and pack the marijuana in plastic bags. They arrested them them shortly after noon.
Smith was convicted in Douglas County in 1978 on charges of possession with intent to sell marijuana and was placed on probation for three years. He was charged with the same crime in 1983, but the case was dropped.
A spokesman at Comfort's office refused to identify the owner of the field near Bennington, 12 miles north of Salina.
Kenneth Brouhard worked at the University of Kansas from 1962 to 1980.
By ATLE BJORGE
Staff writer
The subject of the movie is toilet scrubbing.
This is not a new trend of realism in the film industry, but the seventh in a series of employee-training videos from KU housekeeping services.
Geannine Waters, star of "Restroom Sanitation," said that the 15-minute video had no dialogue and that it showed her demonstrating the fine points of how to clean a bathroom.
It took hours of filming to make the video, Waters said, who works as a custodian at KU.
"I got so tired of being in the bathroom all the time," she said.
The videos are being distributed nationally by TPC Training Systems.
The quality of the tapes is exceptional. And Kay Grosso, marketing director,
The tapes focus on the kinds of people who would purchase the programs, whether they are in hospitals, education, industry or business.
"Restroom Sanitation," however, is the key tape for many of their customers, she said.
The company also may produce tapes in Spanish, she said, because of the concentration of Spanish people working in the cleaning industry.
The man behind these tapes speaks with real enthusiasm for his work.
Phil Endacott, associate director of Facilities Operation and Misusekeeping Services, has been making instructional videos since 1983.
The tapes are produced with equipment from the instructional
technology lab of the School of Education, and with the help of graduate students and custodians. Endacott said. The tapes are used at about 150 different institutions.
"I'm really proud of this program," he said. "I've been with it from the start and I have ram-rodded it through the bureaucracies of the University.
"We've actually made some money on it," he said.
The University's production costs already have been paid for. KU also receives a $70 profit on the sale of each additional tape, Endacott said. Profits are split between housekeeping services and the instructional technology lab.
Since December, TPC Training Systems has ordered 305 tapes.
Four more videos are planned. he said.
Endacott thought of the idea when he couldn't find any training materials on the market for his employees. One day, he received a flyer from the instructional technology lab stating that they could make videos, he said.
"I knew there were guys like me who were looking for the same thing that I was," Endacott said.
So with the help of the lab, he went into production.
The first video was titled "Daily Carpet Maintenance."
It was produced for $4,800 and reviewed the procedures for vacuuming carpets and removing stains and spots. The Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges bought 30 copies, and the money went into the production of the next video, he said.
One or two new employees start training at KU every week, and the tapes generate many questions.
Union to cater to tailgaters
By PAMELA SPINGLER
With the start of the 1986 football season a little more than a week away, the KU football team isn't the only team preparing for opening day.
The Kansas Union Food Services also are making final plans on a new service they are offering to football fans this year - catering tailgate parties before every home game this season.
Jim Long, director of the Kansas and Burge unions, said the arose from discussions about services the Union could provide during the football season.
At past homecoming games, the Kansas Union Food Services helped sponsor a tent that sold food before the games. Long said.
"They were very successful, and this idea grew out of that," Long said.
The party fare costs $19.90 and feeds five people. Services for each additional person cost $3.75.
The tailgate party orders must be placed by the Wednesday before each home game.
Lilly Coultis, customer service coordinator for food services, said the three-day notice provided time to plan for the weekend
"We have such heavy catering demands on football weekends, we need the time for scheduling," she said.
Food may be picked up at the end of the tunnel in the parking lot by Memorial Stadium or in Alcove A of the cafeteria on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
Carol Dengel, media coordinator for the union, said she was excited about the idea
"It will provide a service for people who don't want the hassle of packing a lunch for the game," she said.
Fliers on the new service were sent out with season football tickets. Long
To order a tailgate party, persons may call 364-4590.
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