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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.17
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
September 17,1975
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Box bonanza
Boxes that hold 9,000 plants plied up on the front lawn of the United Ministries Center, 1204 Ovead, yesterday. The plants will
be sold the rest of the week by Delta Delta Delta and Gamma Phi Beta sororite to raise money for philanthropy and some other charitable causes.
Garbage possible energy source
Bv ALISON GWINN
Staff Writer
University of Kansas officials are con-
dering a drive to keep students warm in the
winter.
According to Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor and chairman of the KU's Energy Study Task Force, a burnable trash solution is being developed to solve the University's eep problem.
The task force has been discussing optional energy sources for KU for six or seven months, he said, and listened to a final report in its meeting yesterday.
William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said recently that two tons of Lawrence garbage would provide as much energy as a ton of Wovong coal.
Smith has been studying various energy sources and presenting reports to the task
Lucas said that instead of burning oil and gas, this system would simuln burn trash.
LUCAS SAID that Smith had done a great deal of investigation, but that the task force would try to obtain a professional connection to a do a study of the system's feasibility.
"The city has a landfill that will only last four more years," he said. "We could take the city's trash off their hands, and get some steam from it."
He said the task force had wondered why the city didn't use its trash to help in its own way.
"It ends up that there isn't enough trash to help the city, but just about exactly what needs to be done."
Buford Watson, city manager of
Lawrence, said the idea of the trash
workence, with Smith already on the idea.
working with Smith already on the idea.
"the facility is located in the city, the city would deliver the trash," the police said. "The University
SMITH SAID that a problem with the system was that garbage isn't very dense, but he said that the garbage existed in large piles of it. He also said the problem of finding a landfill site.
The advantage of this system over using coal, he said, is that coal would have to be transported to the University and a building would have to be built to house the coal.
Lawrence garbage is already being transportation problems with this system.
About sixty trash burning energy systems exist around the world, Lacasa said. The first system is a power plant in New Zealand.
ROSS McKINNEY, professor of civil engineering, said that people in England used waste burning for fuel at the turn of the 19th century that the British had about 180 plants by 1910.
"So I always tell my friends, 'We're finally getting caught up to 1910 technology,'" he said. "It's just a good idea that was well ahead of its time."
McKinney, who works with students on local environmental problems, said that the trash burning system was definitely a good idea.
He said a problem existed with a continuous production of solid wastes, because that waste required a reasonable amount of land.
Commission OKs bonds for oilwell cable industryv
A new industry is coming to Lawrence
TRW, which is one of the nation's largest industrial firms with more than 90,000 employees in 300 plants in 25 countries, has built an dwellable cable plant in Lawrence.
A new industry is coming to Lawrence. The Lawrence City Commission last night unanimously approved the issuance of $10 million in industrial bonds to TRW Inc.
TRW is renovating the former B. F. Goodrich warehouse in the Santa Fe Industrial Park. Its last oilwell cable plant was in Trenton, but it was severely damaged by floods. TRW plans to build its new plant in the park.
William C. Calabrese, vice president of operations and tasked TRW hoped to employ 70 to 80 firefighters.
ARVID PETERSON, assistant group controller for TRW, said TRW was the world's largest builder of oliview cables. He construction would begin the first of January.
Mayor Barkley Clark said on behalf of the commission that it was pleased that TRW
"In the next eight or nine years we should
empower 800 to 1,000 people," he said.
Peterson said the damage to the Trenton plant was one reason that TRW decided to cut back on its production.
Calabrese who helped the new plant would be a benefit to the University of Kettering.
"We hope to offer opportunities to young
In other business, the commission also decided unanimously to amend the housing assistance plan for the Lawrence Community Development Act. The amended plan will allow for 100 units for non-elderly housing as well as 100 units for elderly housing under Section 8 of the Community Development Act. The 100 units elderly housing were approved last month.
KU graduates as well as bring commerce into the city." he said.
Construction should start in the spring, he said, after the Federal Housing Administration decides upon the best locating proposals.
Kaiser said that the need for elderly housing in Lawrence was pressing, and that there was a waiting line to get into Babcock Place, a subsidized apartment complex for the elderly. She said 80 to 100 apartment units could be filled easily.
Doris Kaiser, director of the Lawrence Housing Authority, asked the commission to consider issuance of the use of industrial bonds for the elderly housing project.
"But, let's face it—we're running out of land," he said.
Lawrence will be faced with a shortage of space for landfills within the next few years, because what comes out of the environment must go back in. McKinney said.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
said housing officials were planning a study
MUCH OF THE MATERIAL in landfills, which he called engineered burials, can be retrieved in later years, such as metals and fibers.
The amount needed for the construction is uncertain, she said, but it is estimated at $14.5 million.
The commission authorized Clark to write a letter of intent to authorize the issuance of the industrial revenue bonds. The exact amount will be decided at a later date.
He said he doubted whether Lawrence's old trash would be as burnable as fresh trash, and said it would also cost money to dig it up from landfill areas.
Smith said that trash can be burned down to from 20 and 20 per cent of its original mass.
"One third of Munich is heated by garbage," he said.
"As the price of fuel goes up, we'll see more use of garbage as an energy source."
Lucas said that the burning of trash would provide both heating in the winter and air conditioning.
KU primarily has absorption air-conditioning systems, he said, which could run from the steam generated by trash burning. If any extra steam was generated, he said, it could be used to run steam turbines for electricity.
KU's reaction favorable to liability case rehearing
By GREG HACK
Staff Writer
University of Kansas officials said yesterday that they were encouraged and surprised by Monday's Kansas Supreme Court ruling to reconsider an earlier decision that made state agencies and their employees open to damage suits.
The Supreme Court ruled last June that state immunity laws didn't protect Wichita State University from suits resulting from the school's chartered by the WSU athletic corporation.
Mike Davis, University general counsel, said he hoped the immunity laws covering the University would be examined at the rehearing to determine whether a university was responsible for actions taken by organizations connected with it.
"I think the part of the decision concerning the University's being liable for what its athletic corporation had done is important to KU as the other part of the decision dealing with the immunity laws," he said.
It will be helpful to know exactly what
the university is subject to. Davis said,
Le J. Dunn, legal counsel for the KU Medical Center, said it was very important to be open to malpractice suits, especially those previously covered by the immunity law.
DUNN SAID HE WAS "very glad" there would be a rehearing because the earlier decision didn't say whether the immunity laws would be void for future cases, or
Rolfs says proposals being misinterpreted
Staff Writer
By STEWART BRANN
The court asked several groups to file
the rehearing on questions and
pointers.
The preliminary Report on the Quality of Classroom Instruction is being interpreted negatively when it should be seen as a teacher's responsibility to give a student body president, said yesterday.
"If the law is declared void retractively, we won't be covered for any cases since the law was passed in 1970," be said, "leaving the door open to unlawful lawsuits."
whether past suits declared void under the law could be reopened.
The commission won't defend its recommendations until the report is approved.
The commission is seeking constructive criticism of the report, Rolfs said, because it wants to discover any possible faults in the report and the report is presented to the Senate Oct. 24.
"I do see holes and I do see problems," he said, "and that's what we're fishing for."
Rolfs was responding to criticism from the Graduate Student Council, which Monday night drafted a resolution sharply critical of the Student Senate's Commission on the Quality of Classroom Instruction interim report.
Rufs said the council seemed to have been defensive upon reading the report. Negative attitudes toward the report won't be commissioned to iron out problems, h
THE COUNCIL'S resolution said the committee's research was inadequate and inconclusive, the report implied that it was an oversight of the assistants (TAs) were poor teachers; and the commission's proposals would harm, influence or distract instruction at the University of Kansas.
THE GRADUATE STUDENT Council's
resolution demanded that the report be returned to the commission for further research, documentation and substantiation of its proposals.
Dunn said he hoped the attorney general's office would file a brief concerning the retroactivity question. He said new arguments in favor of governmental immunity and its applicability to the Med Center might also be raised.
Rufs called that demand unnecessary because the report hadn't left the commission's hands. The preliminary proposals were presented before they are presented to the Senate.
No representative of the commission attended the graduate council meeting Monday night. Ellen Reynolds, executive coordinator for the council, said the commission had promised to send a representative.
Rufa said an error in communication accounted for the absence of a commission
ROLFS SAID he would be getting responses from students and faculty members when the University Council met to approve that he is made up of faculty and student senators.
The council's resolution was the first official response that was open critical of the report. Two weeks ago, SenEK discussed the preliminary report in a closed meeting. The committee said that some changes be made in the report, its response was generally favorable.
The Commission on the Quality of Classroom Instruction will meet tonight immediately following the Senate meeting. The commission will begin finishing its work before the Senate. The meeting, originally scheduled for last night, was postponed.
"I think an argument can be made for immunity for agencies that are performing a proper function of government," he said. "You might ask how a hospital is performing a government function, but the hospital wouldn't be here except for the medical school being here first. Because the government and the hospital is linked to the medical school, there might be an argument for our immunity on these grounds."
DAVIS AND DUNN were surprised by the court's decision to have a reharing and said it was impossible to predict the rehearsal's results.
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Francis Heller, professor of law, said he wasn't surprised by the decision to rehear the case. He said he couldn't comment further until he had read the entire decision.
"Given the fact that the original decision was a 43 vote, it is not altogether surprising that the court agreed to a rehearing," he said.
HOWEVER, HE SAID the University was more concerned about its lack of liability than about its ability to protect students.
Dial Shenkel, executive vice chancellor,
said, "I'm somewhat pleased at the court's decision to rehear the case because there are no objections." The state's state officials might not be subject to suit."
The Kansas Legislature has had hearings on purchasing insurance for state agencies and their employees, but action seems unlikely until the rehearing is completed.
Davis said the legislature would almost have to wait for the rehearing before they could consider the insurance question in the case of an emergency plans pending the court's decision.
A tort claims act could replace current immunity laws if the laws are declared unenforceable. Such agencies from damage suits, but it could limit on the amount of damages a state agency would be liable for and define the damages that could be brought against the agencies.
Tuner must touch more than see
By MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Although Loren Buntemeier says he's not a musician, he's capable of doing something many musicians can't. He can rebuild a sound without being able to see what he's doing.
Buntemeyer is a piano tuner at the University of Kansas. He is also blind.
Since 1965 Buntemeyer has been tuning
and repairing pianos professionally. Now self-employed, he has a contract with the School of Fine Arts, the department of music education and the residence halls.
He also has a private clientele in Lawrence and Johnson County and does
Buntnereyer said he had always had poor
luck, but don't lose his sight entirely
until seven years.
After attending public school in Cunningham, he went to the Kansas School for the Blind in Kansas City, Kan., where he began to learn piano tuning in the seventh grade.
Then, he took a two-year course in piano technology at the Piano Hospital and Training Center, a private school for the visually handicapped, in Vancouver. Wash.
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
In tune
at KU, he also teaches a class in plant repair and maintenance. Buntemeyer has worked for the University for nine years.
Being blind has created no problems for Loren Buntemeyer in his chosen occupation. In addition to his piano tuning duties here
After graduating in 1965, he worked at several music stores before coming to KU, he said. He has been here since 1966, except for a period when he taught piano technology in Pennsylvania to other visually handicapped persons.
Buntemeier his blindness created no special problems in piano tuning because so much of the work couldn't be done better by a sighted person.
"A lot of the skills is being able to feel," he said. "You just have to stick a tool in some place."
Some of the tools he uses in repair work are different from those being used by sighted persons, but in tuning a piano the work is exactly the same. Buntemeer said.
He corrected a misconception that says blind people can hear better than people with normal vision and therefore, can tune pianos better.
"A lot of people have that idea blind people can tune pianos better, which is wrong," he said. "I can't hear better, I just use my ears more."
"Tuning is strictly a mechanical thing. You don't have to be a musician to tune. It's a matter of training your ear to hear beats and vibrations."
Aside from his jobs tuning and repairing pianos, Buntemeyer is teaching a course in the School of Fine Arts called piano workshop. The course is for piano majors, who also do woodworks, what makes it go out of tune and how to make minor repairs.
Buntemeyer said he came in contact with quite a few students around the University although he didn't get to know many of them. He said the bus to get around campus, he said.
Richard Angeliett, chairman of the department of piano, said that piano tuners
"Buntemever's done a fine job." he said.