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Friday, August 29, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
New firemen to douse cigarettes
By KAREN SAMELSON $ ^{ \circ} $
In Lawrence fire stations, the Marlboro man is now an endangered species.
Starting this fall, all new firefighters will have to sign a contract affirming that they won't smoke on or off the job as long as they are employed. Jim McSain, Lawrence fire chief, said yesterday.
The department is instituting the policy for fitness reasons and because firefighters face many stressful situations, he said.
"For new hires, this will be a long-range goal that will enhance the condition and the fitness of our firefighters," he said.
About 20 percent of the firefighters smoke, he said, but the new rule doesn't apply to current employees, so they won't be forced to kick the habit.
However, the department has planned a fall training session that will include information about the hazards and effects of smoking.
Smokers could puff unnoticed
when the department recently advertised an open position, the ad
By a Kansan reporter
Students must put out their cigarettes before attending lectures, according to regulations printed in the fall Timetable.
The regulations, which were developed by the University Council in 1974, are part of the Handbook for Faculty and Unclassified Staff.
However, the regulations don't include provisions for enforcement.
They state that smoking is permitted only in:
Offices.
Corridors and rest rooms that
- Food service and consumption areas except those designated as nosmoking areas.
- don't have carpeting.
- Seminar rooms if no one objects and if enough ash trays are provided.
included the stipulation that the applicant not smoke.
In May 1985, Student Senate passed a clean air petition that asked for a re-evaluation of the University's policy on smoking in campus buildings.
He said the department had received more than 100 applications but hadn't hired anyone yet.
"No re-evaluation has ever been completed, to my knowledge." Stephanie Quincy, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday.
may smoke at the fire stations, he said
McSain said he hadn't gotten any negative responses.
But that may change, because a few weeks ago the Lawrence City Commission decided to consider a policy that would prohibit smoking in city buildings except in designated areas.
give firefighters already employed still
He said the commissioners wanted to cooperate in developing a flexible policy rather than a rigid one.
However, commissioners are
waiting for recommendations from the city's Employee Relations Commission before they write a policy
"I's best if the recommendation comes from the smokers," Commissioner David Longhurst said yesterday.
policy variation. The policy might mean that smoking restrictions would differ between the confines of City Hall and other buildings with better ventilation, he said.
One member of the commission, Sharon Davison, said most people she had talked with seemed willing to go along with whatever decision was made.
Davison said the biggest fear among smokers was that they would not be able to smoke in their own offices.
The proposed policy would only affect city buildings. However, Commissioner Ernest Angino said, "I'm hoping that we can extend it to public places in the near future."
Coverage taxes some
By NICOLE SAUZEK
**Matter of Law:** Kuilulty and staff members who make more than $50,000 a year will have to pay more taxes next year because of recent policy changes made by the federal Internal Revenue Service.
The employees will have to include part of their insurance coverage as income. Employees who have more than $50,000 in life insurance coverage — which is equal to their salaries — must count the coverage in excess of $50,000 as income on their W-2 tax forms.
All full-time University employees, except for students, are covered by the University's group life insurance plan. Under the plan, employees are awarded benefits equal to annual salary or 12 times their present monthly rate of pay.
Employees whose salaries are less than $50,000 are not affected by the provision.
"For example, figures from a recent study showed that three-fourths of our twelve-month unclassified employees earn less than $30,000 annually." Jones said. "There is only going to be a very small proportion included in the provision."
Only a small percentage of top officials and professors should be affected by the new provision, said L. Martin Jones, director of business and fiscal affairs, said yesterday.
About 4,000 campus employees are covered by the group policy, according to Millie Smith, staff benefits official.
The premiums are paid by the state, through the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System and Security Benefit Life Insurance Co., which is linked with KPERS. However, the KU group term life insurance program is not included under the KPERS program.
"KPERS has no bearing on the life insurance policy." Jones said. "Only the group term (policy) is affected by the new tax provision."
By JOHN BENNER
Car music draws thieves
Staff writer
Vehicles parked on campus can be music to a thief's ears.
The thefts of valuables from cars, in particular the theft of car stereos, amounted to reported losses to the tune of about $80,000 in the last two½ years.
According to statistics compiled by KU police, about $57,000 of the losses were classified as stolen property, while the remaining $23,000 was damage done by thieves attempting to enter vehicles.
The reports indicated that several parking lots on campus seem more popular with thieves. The Daisy Field Extension, west of Iowa Street, has recorded the most thefts during the last two $ _{1/2} $ years, 39.
Sgt. John Brothers of KU police said it was difficult to determine why certain lots were more popular with thieves.
"Many environmental factors can make one spot more popular with thieves," Brothers said. "Ad
ditional lighting couldn't hurt,but by itself would not eliminate burglaries.
"The amount of traffic through an area often serves to decrease crime."
"For a thief, a pair of nice speakers in the back dash is a perfect giveaway," Dalquest said. "They know that a guy has put a lot of money into his system."
Sgt. Donald Dalquest of the Lawrence Police Department said that because thieves sometimes saw students as affluent, vehicles parked on campus were prime targets.
Brothers said that, in most cases, a criminal would seek an article that would be easiest to sell, such as a stereo or a radar detector.
Figures for the last 21/2 years indicate that the incidence of theft from vehicles peaks when school is in regular session and drops off during summer months.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported that vehicle thefts also increased in the city of
Lawrence during the school session Dalquest said this suggested that many off-campus car stereo theft victims also were students
Brothers recommended several tips for safeguarding a vehicle from theft:
Lock her car. It deters the opportunist. Reports indicate that of 244 burglaries to vehicles in campus lots, 109 suffered no damage, suggesting the cars were unlocked.
`Put all lose items in the trunk. It's much tougher for a thief to open that than it is to break a window.`
- Park in the most well-lighted and well-traveled areas.
According to KU police records, these are the five campus lots with the highest incidences of reported thefts in the last 2^4 years:
Lot 106 (Daisy Hill Extension) 39
Lot 111 (GSP-Corbin Hall) 27
Lot 114 (Stouffer Place) 24
Lot 90 (Robinson Center) 23
Lot 110 (Jayhawyer Towers) 22
Mark Porter/KANSAT
Leafing through
Carol Maney, Chicago graduate student, sorts her notes. She took advantage of the cool weather yesterday to work outside, beside Danforth Chapel.
Prison inmates guilty of sending letter bomb
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Two state prison inmates accused of threatening Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole with a makeshift, unworkable letter bomb were convicted on two counts in U.S. District Court yesterday.
The letter mailed to Dole's Washington office from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing in March contained wiring and some ground-up match heads. Officials agreed the letter was not capable of exploding.
Jurors who received the case Wednesday afternoon deliberated
ive hours and returned verdicts yesterday against David J. Leaverton, 29, and David E. Nicholson, 39
The two men were found guilty of using the mail to threaten, to kill, injure, or intimidate someone with an explosive, a felony, and of a misdemeanor offense of illegally sending inflammable material through the mail, without intent to injure.
In their closing arguments, defense attorneys said Nicholson wanted to make Dole aware of poor conditions in the solitary confinement section at the prison and that Leaverburn was hoping for better medical care.
United Press International
U.S. school enrollment up
Education spending also will soar to $278.8 billion — $15.4 billion over 1985-86 — during the coming year, and a record $4,263 a pupil will be spent in public elementary and secondary schools, he said.
WASHINGTON — Enrollment at the nation's schools and colleges will top 57.4 million this fall, with almost one-fourth of all Americans attending classes, Education Secretary William Bennett said yesterday.
The biggest increase in enrollment will come at preschool and elementary schools, reflecting a surge in the birth rate since 1977 that is expected to push elementary and high school rolls even higher in the coming years.
Overall, Education Department statistics indicate that the U.S. student population is almost 100,000
more than a year ago when 57.3 million people enrolled.
"Almost one out of every four Americans is in school," Bennett said. "These Americans are the reason for this nation's drive for education reform. They are the future and the goal for them is excellence."
Thomas Snyder, a specialist in education statistics at the department, said enrollment would continue to rise over the coming years.
But Snyder said there was little chance school rolls would reach the all-time high of 62.8 million in 1975, when college enrollment skyrocketed
The department's new statistics indicated that public and private elementary and secondary school enrollment would total 45.3 million this fall compared with 45.1 million last year.
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