Watch the wheel
The newly formed Lawrence Bicycle Club offers tours to about 60 members twice a week. The club has no membership restrictions.
Trailways Inc. plans to discontinue all of its bus routes in 57 Kansas cities, leaving most of the state without bus service.
Bus stop
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Wizard of blahs
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The weather today should be a carbon copy of yesterday - muggy temperatures, cloudy skies and a chance of showers this afternoon and evening.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 9 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday September 4,1986
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Carol Graham, an adult education teacher at ECKAN Community Center, helps Lowell Henderson, Eudora, with some math problems. Graham has been teaching high school dropouts for 15 years.
Classes teach three Rs to adults
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
The classroom is quiet, except for the sound of an air conditioner.
The students in the room concentrate intently, their heads bowed over textbooks.
The silence is interrupted when teacher Linda McGuire walks into the room and asks one of the students, "Good morning. Your kids started school today, didn't they?"
the students in the classroom are illiterate adults and high school dropouts.
McGuire and fellow teacher Carol Graham are in the business of giving adults a second chance in life.
They teach at the Adult Learning Connection in the ECKAN Community Center, 331 Maine St. It is open to any adult, ages 16 and up, who hasn't graduated from high school.
Lawrence Mayor Sandra Praeger declared this week Adult Education Week in Douglas County. As a part of the week, McGuire and Graham are informing the public about adult illiteracy and the program.
Also, this month has been declared national Adult Literacy Awareness Month.
In just the last 14 months.
The Learning Connection was opened to the public Tuesday, and both teachers said they hoped to see adults sign up for classes.
"The reason we did this is because there are 23 million illiterate adults in America," Graham said. "It's called America's hidden problem. This is the first time it's been nationally recognized and I'm really excited about that."
Graham and McGuire have taught about 300 students. Graham has been teaching adults for 15 years, and McGuire has been teaching adults for nine years.
Many of the adults come to get the education they need to find a better job, get job advancement or just learn to read the Bible or a grocery list.
Graham said adults didn't finish high school for a variety of reasons.
"Some of them had learning disabilities that (teachers) didn't approach in school and some of them had to quit school to help their families." she said.
McGuire also has taught at the primary school level. One difference between the two levels was that adults had goals because their time was limited.
"They're scared at first, because they don't know what to expect," McGuire said. "It's difficult for them to admit 'I don't have the skills' or 'I don't know how to read', but after a while, "they get better."
David Wilkins, 1417 E. 15th, said he had a specific goal when he came back to school - job advancement.
"I kind of feel like it's important for my job, if I want to advance in my job," he said. Wilkins, 25, is a
See EDUCATION, p. 5, col. 3
U.S. proposes trade for reporter's release
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States approached the Soviet Union with a proposal to free a U.S. journalist accused of spying in exchange for granting pretrial release to a Soviet physicist arrested for espionage, officials disclosed yesterday.
The deal to liberate U.S. News & World Report correspondent Nicholas Damlioff would involve temporarily releasing Gennady F. Zakharov, a Soviet physicist assigned to the United Nations Secretariat, to the Soviet ambassador to the United States...
A U.S. official who demanded anonymity said the State Department would have favored the release of Zakharov before Daniloff's apprehension but was not consulted.
"That's standard procedure," the official said.
That's standard practice. In New York, acting on the advice of the Justice Department, rejected a
F. Jay Crawford, a U.S. businessman accused of smuggling, was convicted in Moscow, but then immediately expelled In return, two Soviet employees of the United Nations, charged with espionage, were released to Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobryinny.
Zakharov was arrested by the FBI on Aug. 23 in New York and charged with spying. Daniloff was seized Saturday by KGB agents, the Soviet secret police and intelligence agency, in Moscow after being handed a package with two maps marked "top secret" by a Russian acquaintance.
one of the officials said "a significant precedent" for Daniloff's situation was set in 1978 when a similar arrangement was worked out
Soviet request that Zakharov be handed over to Ambassador Yuri Dubimin until a trial date was set.
Correspondent Daniloff subsequently was arrested, setting up the potential exchange now under discussion in both capitals.
The Russians, Valdk Enger and Rudolph Chernayev, were tried and sentenced to 50 years in prison. In 1979, they were exchanged for five proponent Soviet dissidents.
The U.S. officials said that Zakharov would face trial on spy charges under the proposal but that there would be an understanding that he might be swapped in some future deal with the Soviets.
There was no immediate response from Moscow to the proposal, the officials said.
The administration is eager to seal the Daniloff-Zakharov deal before the U.S. News & World Report correspondent is charged with spying.
"If it escalates it will be harder to save face," an official said.
Bill Muggy, owner of the Jayhawk Bookstore, hopes to provide rides to and from his store with an authentic 1961 Bristol double-decker bus.
Paul Karnaze/KANSAN
Double-decker bus denied KU access
By BETH COPELAND
It's an authentic 1961 Bristol double-decker bus. It seats 55 people. Purchased this summer by the Jayhawk Bookstore, the bus is intended to shuttle students to and from the privately owned store.
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But it can't go through campus.
Bill Muggy, owner of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, said he thought the University of Kansas denied the bus a route through campus because his store competed with the Kansas Union bookstores.
"I've been singled out," Muggy said. "Factions that are standing in my way realize that I'm in direct competition with the University."
In July, Muggy requested a route through campus from the University Events Committee, which decides whether non-academic organizations can solicit money on campus.
Ann Eversole, chairman of the committee, said the board had denied the request for two reasons.
The board objected to the Jayhawk Bookstore's promotional intentions. Moreover, the University has a contract with the Memorial Union Corporation that grants Union bookstores concession rights, she said.
Eversole said that, according to the contract, the University must give preference to the Union bookstores when decisions could affect revenues of the Union bookstores.
The Memorial Union Corp is a nonprofit business overseen by a board of faculty, students, alumni and paid bookstore directors.
Muggy, however, said he thought the University, in its decision, was merely looking out for business.
See BUS, p. 5, col. 1
He argued that other businesses have had access to campus and that his store wasn't any different from these businesses. For example, Jayhawk West Apartments previously used a bus to transport students to campus.
She said that several years ago when fee payment was at Memorial Stadium, the Union bookstores had
"You can't suddenly deny access of vehicles when precedent allowed other businesses on campus," he said.
Eversole said that she couldn't respond to the Jayhawk West busing issue but that the committee had denied other businesses the right to solicit on campus.
KU to hire official to plan the disposal of hazardous waste
By JANE ZACHMAN
Staff writer
KU will have a new environmental safety officer within the next few weeks who will begin a program for the efficient disposal of hazardous waste on campus, an official said Tuesday.
"The University gets involved with a large number of potentially harmful materials and situations."
said Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
Until now, he said, no one has handled the day-to-day activities that are involved in the care and disposal of hazardous waste on campus.
Bearse said most of the hazardous waste on campus now was placed in a semi-trailer on West Campus.
"The University needed to have someone to look after the hazardous waste problem," said John Landgrebe, professor of chemistry.
Fifty-one people applied for the position of environmental safety officer, Bearse said. The field has been narrowed to five finalists who are being interviewed this week.
One year ago, Landgrebe took over as the unofficial coordinator of waste disposal until the University could appoint one.
Before he took the position, Landgrebe said, no one was in charge of disposing campus waste.
"It may have been disposed of in places like dumpsters, or it may have been going down drains, nobody knows." Landgrebe said.
"There's probably still some sitting around in backlog. Professors have left the University and left containers that nobody knows of."
Much of the waste from campus is generated through the paintshop, the printshop and academic research labs, he said.
The waste, however, does not enlanger anyone in the area, Bearse said.
"Safety is a Universitywide concern," he said. "I am convinced that
at no time has the University presented a particular danger to the people on campus or anywhere else'
The waste is transported from KU by GSX Industries of Greenhair, Tenn., Landgrebe said. They take the waste back to Tennessee to be safely disposed or incinerated.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor said. "The field of hazardous waste management has changed so drastically in the past two or three years, it is highly likely no one in the whole country was in total compliance."
Landgrebe, also the chairman of the institutional biobaseard committee, said various groups had the job of disposing the waste in the past.
The institutional biohazard committee deals primarily with the academic departments' waste, Landegrebe said. They do not deal with waste produced by facilities operations.
Hazardous wastes haven't been disposed in a prescribed manner; Landgrebe said, which has been a problem.
"Through the new program," he said, "we will try to establish procedures that everyone will be aware of. The new officer will have to go to yearly training sessions also."
Since KU has been without a coordinator, Landgrebe said, no guidelines for training have been set.
One reason Landgrebe cited for the problem was that the people who have been working to dispose the waste in the past have not been trained properly.
In March, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment released a report that cited several problems with hazardous waste disposal management at KU.
"The problems were due to the fact that none of this was coordinated." Landgrebe said. "When they inspected, they didn't consider this."
See WASTE, p. 5, col. 1
Iran stops, searches 2 Soviet freighters
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iran stopped two Soviet ships in the first action against Iraq's main arms supplier since the Iranian navy began searching freighters for military cargo early last year, shipping sources said yesterday.
Iranian warships chased the Pyotr Yemtsov in the southern Persian Gulf on Tuesday, then forced it into the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas to be searched.
Shipping executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the second vessel was stopped briefly yesterday and identified only as the Tutov.
The Pyotr Ymentsov, which belongs to U.S.S.R.-Black Sea Shipping of Odessa, was seized during a voyage from the Black Sea port of Nikolayev to Kuwait and was being unloaded yesterday at Banda Abbas, according to the reports.
In Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov confirmed that the 11,750-ton Pyrot Yemtsov was detained off the coast of the United Arab Emirates but did not mention the Tutov. Bandar Abbas is about 120 miles east of the U.A.E.
Gerasimov said he thought the freighter was carrying a load of cement. He gave no information on the size of its crew.
Despite the Soviet role in supplying Iraq during the 6-year-old Iran-Iraq war, shipping sources said weapons or other military goods were unlikely to be shipped on Soviet freighters through the Persian Gulf.
"We believe the Pyotr Yemtsov was loaded with construction material, but the Iranians consider such commodities to be an asset for the Iraqi military effort," said an executive based in Kuwait.
Capt. Mohammed Hussein Malekzadegan, the Iranian navy commander, was quoted earlier this week as saying that his warships had intercepted 15 to 20 commercial vessels a day to make sure they do not carry cargo that would benefit Iraq's war effort.
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The U.S. freighter, President Taylor, was stopped and boarded outside the Strait of Hormuz in January on a voyage to the U.A.E. port of Fujairah. In May, U.S. warships in the Indian Ocean prevented the interception of another U.S. cargo ship, the President McKinley.
Most detained ships are allowed to resume their trips after searches. Others have been taken to Bandar Abbas, where their cargoes were unloaded and confiscated.
He noted that several Kuwaiti vessels had been intercepted and their cargoes of steel rods and other construction materials seized.
U. S., British and French naval vessels patrol the Persian Gulf, the narrow Strait of Hormuz that leads from the gulf to the Indian Ocean and the strait's environs in the Gulf of Oman.
Scores of ships of many nationalities are known to have been searched since Iran began intercepting commercial vessels early in 1985.
Soviet warships also cover the area outside the Hormuz.
Shipping executives said an average of two Soviet or East European freighters a day plied the gulf waters. They expressed surprise that Iran would harass Soviet ships while the Kremlin is trying to improve relations with Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini's fundamentalist Shiite Moslem government.
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