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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 19, 1992
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Students ask for more respect from city
KU representatives meet with Lawrence city manager, mayor
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Seven KU students met with Lawrence's city manager, assistant city manager, mayor and chief of police Friday to discuss the lack of respect the students feel the Lawrence city government shows toward KU students.
Brad Garlinghouse, student body president, requested a forum with Mike Wildgen, city manager, in September to discuss student concerns about driver's license check
lanes and the alcohol policy on Campanile Hill.
"I represent 27,000 students at KU; that's almost a third of this city," Garlinghouse said. "Then the city treats me and my position with very little respect. I resent that."
Garlinghouse said the city manger's office delayed the meeting each time he called, then gave him two days notice when Wilden agreed to meet.
"Too often, students are looked at as a nuisance, he said. 'They'll take our money and our taxes, but they don't think they have to deal with us. They
need to realize that we are an integral part of this society."
Mayor Bob Schulte said the students did not need special treatment. If they were interested in city government, they could get involved the same way Lawrence residents do — by attending commission meetings.
Students have to put forth an effort like other citizens if they want their issues discussed in city government, Students can be informed of the city's decisions because city commission meetings are televised on Sunflower Cablevision's Channel 6.
The students argued that city officials should come to the students. Garlinghouse suggested that Wildgen, Schulte and Ron Olin, chief of police, address Student Senate.
Jason McIntosh, liberal arts and sciences senator, proposed a compromise suggesting that Senate create a standing committee of students who would meet with city officials on a regular basis.
City officials were receptive to the idea. No concrete actions were taken.
"When what's happening in the city begins to intrude on our own lives, we want to be involved," said Garling-house, who supported McIntosh's proposal.
Rod Bremby, assistant city manager, said that "intrusions" were a twoway street. He said that policies such as the noise ordinance and the alcohol policy were there to protect citizens.
Schulte said the issues of drinking on Campanile Hill had been brought
to his attention by David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs. Ambler addressed the city commission as a university representative. He requested that the city change the ordinance so KU police could enforce the nodring policy.
Garlinghouse said he planned to write a letter to the city commission requesting that the drinking ordinance be repealed.
Olin said that driver's license check lanes were not set up to intrude on students' lives either.
"We don't feel that students are a burden, or a target, or something we search out in the night," he said. "More often, students represent the victims for our department."
Wildgen said that, overall, he was pleased with how the meeting had
progressed. He said it was one of the few times students had taken the initiative to meet with city officials and openly discuss their concerns.
"Instead of everybody staying mad about it, these folks took the time to come down and learn and ask questions," he said.
Garlinghouse, who said he had not expected much cooperation from the city officials, said that he felt the group had reopened a channel of communication but that he still perceived a condescending attitude among the city officials.
"We are citizens of this city," Garlinhouse said. "If they don't respond to these things, then I think the students should run for city commission. It's a very realistic alternative, and I know students who will do it."
Kip Chin / KANSAN
Dancing the day away
During KU's "Day of Dance," Jerel Hilding, assistant professor of dance, teaches beginning ballet to area high school and KU dance students. Mark Yonally, Overland Park freshman, and Tamika Pledger, Wyandotte High School junior, concentrated on dance techniques during a free dance. Jass at Robinson Gymnasium.
Finney recruits at KU
Governor searches for students to fill state boards, commissions
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Three days after Gov. Joan Finney was booed by 6,500 people on Campanile Hill during a Democratic rally at which Hillary Clinton spoke. Finney returned to campus recruiting KU students and members of the Governor's Student Advisory Council to fill state boards and commissions.
"I want to give you an opportunity to become actively involved in government," Finney told student body presidents and representatives of the five Regents schools and Washburn. "You would bring in a different perspective from your generation that is very much needed."
The governor invited the students to pick a state board or commission on which they would like to serve. She said that she would personally recommend the students to the head of each board.
Finney surprised Margaret Hu, Manhattan senior and student advisory council representative, during the council's luncheon meeting Friday at the Kansas Union by telling Hu she had recommended her to be a member of the state's Corporation for Change Task Force.
"They're like my college kitchen cabinet," Finney said. "We can utilize their point of view,
their knowledge that they've acquired in school and in their life experiences here and we could utilize it in the commissions as well.
"That's what this group is about, it's for me to listen and get some input from the students, because as I always say, If you're out of touch with the campuses, you're out of step with the times."
Brad Carlinghouse, KU student body president, said he thought the meetings were worthwhile and he felt that Finney was listening to the students, but he didn't think the discussion topic at the luncheon was the best issue for the group to spend its time on.
"I think that there actually is a realistic chance that some of these things will go onto her personal agenda," Garlinghouse said. "But I thought it was strange that she was asking us for ideas about the environment. I think we should have discussed things that had a direct impact on the universities like qualified admissions."
He said that he hoped students would get involved with the state's boards and commissions, especially those that directly affect student's lives.
"Too often, especially in things that effect students, the students don't have enough representation," he said. "I'm definitely going to try to get on one of the boards, and I'm also going to pass the word around to groups on campus."
The governor asked that any students interested in working on the committees send a resume and a cover letter stating their areas of interest to Ann Cook, Room 226 South, Statehouse, Topeka, Kan. 6612.
Kansan staff and wire report
The victim was identified as Charles Ray Duty, a 33-year-old white male, an official in the Shawnee County Sheriff's Department said yesterday.
On Wednesday, CrimeStoppers of Toptea said that it would pay a reward of $1,000 to learn the man's identity. CrimeStoppers normally pays rewards only for information
Because of a tip called in to Topeka CrimeStoppers on Thursday, police have identified the man whose body was found floating in the Wakarausa River Sept. 13.
Duty was last seen alive in early September. Shawnee County Sheriff Ed Ritchie said on Friday that Duty lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving from one part of the country to another. His most recent address was in Topeka.
that leads to a felony arrest, the seizure of illegal drugs or recovery of stolen property.
Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Wells said an inquest called last week to look into Duty's death would continue. The District Attorney's Office will subpoena witnesses and evidence for the closed-door hearings.
Duty's body was found strapped to an 8-foot-long metal beam in the river near the Shawnee-Douglas County line. He had been shot, all of his teeth had been pulled and his tattoos had been cut off.
Authorities are unable to determine how long he had been dead.
Exhibit showcases the lifestyle of bees
Two representatives each from the Douglas and Shawnee County sheriff's departments and the Lawrence Police Department are investigating the case.
By Carrie Poland
Special to the Kansan
Special to the Kansar
They use the sun as a compass, worship a queen and dance as a form of communication.
They are bees — bothersome, yet one of the most intriguing creatures in the world.
And the University of Kansas has a large and popular collection of the black and yellow bugs.
Tom Swearingen, director of the exhibits at the Museum of Natural History, said the display in Dyche Hall was popular among museum-goers.
"Because people see the movement of the bees, they stop and learn," he said. "If we get them to learn a little bit, then we've succeeded."
"They have a sun-compass orientation," he said.
"They're constantly tracking the path of the sun.
A see-through passage from the trunk connects the nests to a small opening in a nearby window where the bees are able to go outside and collect pollen.
Orley Taylor, beekeeper and professor of entomology, said bees primarily followed the sun when they were away from their nests.
The display itself is a man-made tree trunk about seven feet tall and three to four feet wide. A square, glass-covered window in the middle of the trunk allows visitors to observe the bees.
The bees on display, which are a hybrid much like common yellow bees, are housed in 12 frames where they nest and build their honeycombs.
Because pollen is important to the bees, they must communicate with each other to find it. They do this through a sort of dance.
By shaking its hind-end back and forth in a rapid motion, a bee can tell other bees where to find a large store of pollen. The angle at which the bee dances, straight up directly towards the sun, tells the others what degree from the sun to go.
Taylor said bees were extremely organized in their pursuit of pollen as well as keeping their nests clean.
"They are a social organization which functions as a unit, he said. 'They've got to work toward a common goal or the whole thing will fall apart.'
to keep their nest clean from the buildup of nectar moisture, the bees will sometimes line up inside the passage, and by fanning their wings, push the moisture-laden air out.
"They vent the nest to remove the excess carbon dioxide, Taylor said.
Mike. Taylor
Although bees have a good sense of direction, their ability to see color is not so strong. To a bee, the color red appears black. Bees do not distinguish between dark colors, but they are more drawn to them.
dent.
"If you put black circles on a white background, bees will try to enter it as if it were a hole," Taylor said.
The bees in the museum are for the most part healthy, but there have been problems with the younger bees dying from a brood disease.
Andrew Arnone / Special to the KANSAN
Eight-year-old James Garrison of Shawnee watches the activities of a live beehive at KU's Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall.
Their container has been contaminated with bacterial growth from previous infections, Taylor said.
The bacteria kills the developing larvae, causing an interruption in the replication process of the bees. To counteract this, an antibiotic that inhibits the bacteria is put in the sugar water fed to the bees. Since the exhibit began in 1974 with six species of bees, with bees from Teenor's personal brood, which he raises himself
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