CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 11, 1992
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Tonkovich asks panel for mistrial
By Lynne McAdoo Kansan staff writer
Law professor Emil Tonkovic twice yesterday called for a musial trial of the testimony of a former law student who corroborated the allegations made by last week's witness, Tammee McVey.
Tonkovich first called for a mistrial after the witness, Paulette Manville, said that Rose Marino, University associate general counsel, read part of the transcript of Tamnee McVey's testimony to Manville to prepare her for testifying.
Tonkovich said Marino had violated the sequestering rule, which states that a witness can have no contact with a suspect.
The committee decided that a minor violation had occurred but denied the motion for a mistrial.
Lisa Ford, attorney for Tonkovich, again called for a muslital based on a procedural violation. The committee again
During Manville's testimony, Tonkovich often objected on the grounds of hearsay, saying that most of her statements were based on secondhand knowledge.
Tonkovich conducted his own cross-examination of Manville.
Manville testified that McVey told her about the two alleged harassing phone calls that Tonkovich made to her
Tonkovich asked Manville why she did not question McVey more about the phone calls.
"You never asked 'Why did he call you?' Did you do anything to prompt these calls?' he said.
"Because of your reputation at the law school," Manville said, "I didn't think it was odd."
Tonkovich also asked if Manville thought his comments about the anonymous grading system in class were iokes.
Marville said that Tonkovich djoke about the anonymous grading system in class but that the jokes could be real.
"You filed an allegation against a tenured professor, who's about to get fired, and you don't know if it's a joke?" he said.
Tonkovich said that even if his remarks in class were taken seriously, the grade for the class was based entirely on a multiple-choice final that could not be dismuted.
The second witness in yesterday's hearing was Kathy Hunt-Halaby, who graduated from the law school in Dallas.
During direct examination, Hunt-Halabay testified that she压痛 pressured to meet Tonkovich at a bar during the session.
"I didn't want to make him mad," she said. "At that time I was interested in a career in criminal law. I didn't want to
Hunt-Halaby will continue her testimony on Thursday.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Practice makes perfect
Erika Busiel, Evanston, III., junior, practiced her passing skills during lacrosse practice yesterday.
Lack of exercise officially risky to human heart
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
To all couch potatoes: The American Heart Association has officially announced that physical inactivity is bad for your heart.
"For a long time, we've been pushing exercise as a way to prevent heart disease, but physical inactivity was never labeled as a risk factor," said Brian Gilpin, communications director at the AHA Kansas affiliate.
The AHA recently added lack of exercise to its list of modifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. The other factors are cigarette smoke and high blood pressure
"It's made official now that we consider it a risk factor," he said.
"Smoking is considered far and away to be the highest risk for heart disease," he said.
Although lack of exercise has joined the list of risk factors that can be partially controlled, Gilpin said that it was
According to the AHA's position statement, released July 1, exercise can increase the efficiency of the heart's oxygen use, help control high blood-cholesterol levels, diagnose obesity, and can lower blood pressure in certain groups.
Mike Chapman, physical therapist at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that cardiovascular health and the fitness of the heart and circulatory system were best improved through aerobic exercise.
To attain the aerobic phase, Chapman said, it is necessary to maintain 75 percent of one's maximum heart rate
An easy formula to calculate the proper heart rate is to subtract one's age from 220 and multiply by .75, Chapman said.
"You need to do the exercise long enough to make sure your heart rate stays on for the duration," he said.
And exercise can help more than just cardiovascular fitness, Chapman said.
The AHA says that aerobic exercise is not the only beneficial activity.
"They're finding out regular exercise can help in preventing cancer, all sorts of other things," he said.
"The evidence also supports the notion that even low-intensity activities performed daily can have some long-term health benefits and lower the risk of cardiovascular disease," the statement said. "Such activities include walking for pleasure, gardening, work, house work, dancing and prescribed home exercise."
While college-age students are not at high risk for heart disease, Gilpin said their habits could affect their susceptibility.
Voltage increase sparks complaint
"No matter what you're doing, a 21-year-old has a very low risk factor for having a heart attack," Gilpin said. "But it is at that age or younger that habits are established. Once those bad habits are continued over the years, it's that buildup that contributes to the heart attack at 45, 50 or 60."
Kansan staff writer
Bv Kristv Dorsev
Health concerns are the focal point of a complaint filed by a Lawrence citizens group against Kansas Power and Light, which is proposing to increase voltage in a section of transmission lines that stretch through the Pinckney neighborhood.
The Citizens Utility Ratepayers Board filed the complaint with the Kansas Corporation Commission on behalf of the Pinckney
Neighborhood Association on Tuesday after the commission granted KPL permission to increase voltage in those lines from 69,000 volts to 115,000 volts.
The commission's staff will investigate CURB's complaints and send a recommendation back to the commission.
Residents from the neighborhood north of Sixth Street and west of downtown are concerned that increasing the voltage will increase exposure to electromagnetic fields, or EMFs, which
some studies have linked to various forms of cancer and depression.
Michel Quakenbush, a KPL representative, said no definitive proof linked EMFs to increased cancer rates.
Steve Smith, Pinckney Neighborhood Association member, said KPL was not telling the complete truth about the voltage increase.
Quakenbush said the one-and-a-half-mile section of lines in Pinckney were the only lines in the Lawrence system that did not carry 115,000 volts.
If the commission decides to allow KPL to upgrade the power lines, the association is prepared to take the matter to district court, Smith said.
Smith said although the top three wires of the lines would see a decrease in EMF levels, the proposed elimination of a substation at Fifth and California streets would increase the current flow in the bottom three lines that fed electricity to residences.
ASK to hawk voter registration
By Stacy Morford
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Associated Students of Kansas plans to "Hawk the Vote" during the Samples concert tonight at Benchwarmers Sports Bar and Grill, 1601 W. 23rd St.
Anyone 18 years and older can register to vote at ASK's voter registration Kickoff. A Hawk the Vote booth staffed with ASK members will be on the bar's side deck from 8 p.m. until after the Samples first break, about 12:30 a.m.
"It'll kind of focus on the
liquor-by-the-drink issue," said Kathryn ASK, asco coach, during ASK's first meeting of the semester last night. "That'll draw student interest."
Price said that ASK chairs chose the Samples concert for their kickoff because Benchwarmers could hold up to 40 people, and was accessible from both inside and outside the bar.
ASK members faced some opposition from the county clerk about registering voters at a bar. The clerk allowed them to set up a registration table but only would let them stay until midnight. They had planned to stay until the bar closed at 2 a.m.
"The clerk didn't think alcohol and registering people to vote really went together well," Price said.
During orientation this summer, ASK members registered 500 new Kansas voters at booths set up at each orientation session.
"Five hundred was great for the summer," Price said. "I'd love to get five times that number during the year."
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