University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 18, 1987
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State employee insurance plan to be discussed
Representatives from Blue Cross and Blue Shield will be available for questions concerning the new state employee health insurance contract during one-hour information sessions today and tomorrow.
Millie Smith, director of staff benefits, said sessions were scheduled for 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. today in the Pioneer Room at the Burge Union. The information sessions will be at the same times tomorrow in the Jayawk Room at the Kansas Union.
Senate to consider financing for clubs
Student Senate will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union.
Senate is scheduled to discuss the financing of various KU organizations, including the Study Abroad Club, the KU Fencing Club, the KU Men's Soccer Club and the KU Lacrosse Club.
Mandela movie to be shown tonight
A movie about black South African activist Nelson Mandela will be shown at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Dyche Auditorium. The movie, called "Mandela," is free and will be followed by a discussion.
Mandela is an anti-apartheid leader who has been in prison for more than 20 years. The HBO movie will be shown by Arthur Drayton, professor of African and African-American studies.
Commission to hear mall presentations
A fifth public hearing on three proposed sites for a suburban mall is scheduled for tonight at the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission's regular meeting.
The meeting begins at 6:30 tonight at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The commission will hear presentations from each of the three firms proposing the rezoning and the construction of staff and will hear public comment
Tonight's hearing will continue public comment on a proposal by Warmack and Co, for the rezoning of 75 acres south of Clinton Parkway on both sides of Wakarusa Drive.
The Warmack proposal is the third the commission has heard. The other sites are:
A 61.5-acre site south of 39th Street on the east side of Iowa Street, proposed by Jacobs, Viscousi and Jacobs.
A 55-acre site northwest of Wakarusa Drive and Highway 40, proposed by Lawrence attorney Ed Colliser.
The city planning staff has recommended denial of all three proposals.
At the conclusion of the hearings, the commission will recommend to the City and County Commissions whether any of the sites should be rezoned to allow construction of a suburban shopping mall.
Commission OKs apartments for site
The Lawrence City Commission last night gave the go-ahead for an apartment development plan to house sorority women on the site of the old Theta Chi Fraternity. But it didn't pass without a fight.
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writers
From staff and wire reports.
Staff, writer
The vote was 3-2, with commissioners Dennis Constance and Mike Rundle, citing parking and traffic problems, voting against the plan.
Shaver Partnership, a Salina architecture firm, proposed 18 new, four-unit buildings on the northern half of the property at 1003 Emery Road. Shaver also proposed redeveloping a duplex and a Tudor home on the site.
John Shaver, partner in the firm, said the prime market for the project was six sororities nearby, with whom he'd already made verbal agreements to rent rooms.
Shaver's attorney, John Brand of Lawrence, said that sororities dominated the neighborhood and that the needling housing was climbing yearly.
Brand said Shaver had talked with the six sororites in the area and estimated that next year 274 women using outside their charter houses.
"we feel we've got a problem-solving project here, but not a problem-with-the-tech project."
He said the plan was a good one
because it went beyond just meeting city code, providing 44 parking spaces more than the minimum that city code would require.
Shaver agreed to appeal to the board of zoning appeals for permission to have a greater percentage of their parking spaces compact-size to allow more than the 180 spaces shown on the site plan.
The development would have no entrances from Ninth Street because of the poor state of its intersection and plans to improve that intersection.
But concerns remained over the increased traffic and the strain on the nearby streets, Emery Road and Ninth Street.
William J. Griffith, 118 Broadview Dr., said the only way to control the traffic in the area was to scale down the area. But Griffith has a maximum occupancy of 344.
Bill Mitchell, 1201 Emery Road,
said the city should have learned from the parking problems at Colony Woods apartments, 1301 W. 24th St., that students typically have more cars than the city code minimums.
Dean Burkhead, attorney for Alpha Chi Omega Corporation Board, of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, 1500 Sigma Nu Place, also spoke against the development. He said he was concerned about problems related to increased traffic on Emery Road and lack of parking.
Students fret about certificate changes
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
Changes in state teacher certification requirements for new Kansas teachers have had some School of Education students concerned, but administrators say the students have nothing to worry about.
Some students became concerned after a recent meeting with faculty members where many students first became aware of forthcoming changes in state teacher certification, said Chris Dalton, president of the School of Education Student Organization.
The new requirements are part of the state's new internship program for teachers, said Suzanne Collins. Collins is in charge of certification.
Jerry Bailey, associate dean, said that the program was supposed to be in effect by fall 1989, if the state budget decides to continue financing it.
Currently, students who complete an education program at an accredited state school and who pass the certification exam are given three-year teaching certificates, Collins said. Under the new internship program, students will be granted a one-year provisional teaching certificate, which then can be renewed for five years.
The program requires an experienced teacher and an administrator to supervise a teacher's first year. Collins said. At the end of that year, the supervisors recommend whether the teacher should get full certification.
Dalton said some students were concerned that the program would harm their chances of getting hired outside Kansas.
Some students feared that other states would make Kansas graduates meet extra requirements because they were only provisional. he said.
But Collins said those students had nothing to worry about.
Collins said Kansas was not the first state to try a teacher internship program. New York and Michigan both have similar provisional teaching certificates for new teachers.
She said that students would face the same situation getting hired in other states under the new program as they do under the current one. Each state has its own certification requirements.
"Other states don't care what your certification is in Kansas," she said.
The program was designed to help new teachers by giving them contacts in the profession as soon as they started, she said.
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Up and away
KU Air Force ROTC cadets prepare for a helicopter ride from the Lawrence Municipal Airport to campus, Clinton Lake and back to the airport. Transportation was provided yesterday by the Air Force's Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron from Whitehill Air Force Base in Knob Noster. Mo. The exercise was meant to show cadets the wide range of activities they can expect as recruits. Capt. Joe Goldblatt, assistant professor of aerospace, said the cadets enjoyed the experience.
KU sophomore now $5,000 richer after buying winning lottery ticket
Staff writer
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
When Angie Chapman, Topeka sophomore, pulled into an E-Z Shop in north Topeka, she was just another short-on-cash college student.
But when she left, she was $5,000 richer. Chapman won the money in the recently begun Kansas Lottery.
"I was really calm at first because I didn't believe it," she said. "I said, 'Mom, I won $5,000,' but she didn't believe me."
Chapman said she and her parents stopped at the store after dinner at a local restaurant to buy lottery tickets. She gave her father $$ to buy five tickets. The second ticket was the winner, she said.
"I didn't bother scratching off the other tickets. I was shaking," she said.
ered the winning ticket.
"My dad slammed on the brakes, and we went back," she said.
She said that they were a block away from the store when she discov-
She was told at the store to come back on Monday, fill out a form and give the form to the Kansas Lottery office in Topeka. The lottery office said she would get her check in two weeks.
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She said she planned to use the money to pay for school, pay off her car and to go skiing.
"I have to have some fun," she said about the ski trip.
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She said that before she won the money, she had talked with her boyfriend about taking a ski trip but had decided that she didn't have enough money. But now she does, she said.
Chapman said her boyfriend and roommate also were excited.
"It's my boyfriend's dream to win the lottery," she said. "My roommate totally freaked out."
Chapman's roommate, Julie Fitzgibbons, Topeka junior, said Chapman called her from Topeka a half-hour after she won.
"She told me she wasn't coming back Sunday night. I thought something was wrong, then she told me I did. I didn't believe her." she said.
Fitzgibbons said she told Chapman to go on a shopping spree and buy a new wardrobe and then buy her one. The second time he bought lottery tickets, but now she does.
"I wish it was me," she said.
Smokers try to quit the habit for a day
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
Ken Sawander, Lawrence, has smoked for 45 years and has decided to kick the habit tomorrow during the Great American Smokeout.
During the 1966 Great American Smokeout, 23.8 million smokers tried to
Lequetta Diggs, nurse health educator at Watkins Hospital, said, "The idea is that if people stop smoking for a year they can die and they can give them up for good."
Each year, the American Cancer Society sponsors the Great American Smokeout. Smokers are challenged to try to quit smoking for 24 hours.
Sawander has tried to quit several times but thinks he will be successful this time. He is a member of a smoking cessation class at Lawrence Memorial Hospital that usually is offered twice a year.
'Nicotine is just as addictive physiologically as heroin, morphine, alcohol or cocaine.'
chief of staff at Watkins Hospital
More than 320,000 Americans will die prematurely this year of diseases linked to smoking. The risk of lung cancer is 10 times greater for smokers than for non-smokers.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said one out of five smokers would get emphysema, a respiratory illness.
"The one out of five who gets emphysema will have irreversible damage by the age of 30," he said. "And it's not dose-related. If you're the one out of five who's going to get emphysema, you could get it from smoking as few as three cigarettes a day."
Besides all of the health risks of smoking, there are other disadvantages such as the cost of cigarettes and increase in insurance rates. Even though most smokers know of the disadvantages, many don't quit because they don't want to put themselves through the misery of conquering their addiction to nicotine and breaking their hand-mouth habit, Yockey said.
"Nicotine is just as addictive physiologically as heroin, morphine, alcohol or cocaine," he said. "The withdrawal is exactly the same."
For 72 hours after people stop smoking, people might experience severe muscle ache, fever, nausea and nervousness from the nicotine
The body gets over the nicotine addiction after three days. However, the desire to smoke peaks during the next six weeks.
Smoking cessation classes can make quitting easier for some people. Diggs leads a four-class series called "Fresh Start" once a month at Watkins to teach people what to expect physically when they stop, how to modify their behavior, conquer the psychological dependence and get support from the other people trying to quit. A new class will begin in December and another one the end of January.
Non-smokers are encouraged to adopt smokers tomorrow to help them quit smoking for the Great American Smokeout.
People can pick up adoption papers today at Watkins and at a table set up by the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity in the Kansas Union.
Come out and PLAY!
With the K.U. Symphony Orchestra
Auditions for the K.U. Spring Symphony Orchestra are November 30-December 4 so register for credit courses now!
for more information and times call:
864-3436 or 864-3367 / 864-3374
Dept. of Music Band Office
50 new Suzuki 4 x 4's to choose from See and drive every model. Immediate delivery.
DICK SMITH SUZUKI
9500 E. 350 HWY · RAYTOWN · (816) 358-2121
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