University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 9. 1987
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THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
Through some unfortunate celestial error, Ernie is sent to Hog Heaven.
On the Record
A 19-inch television valued at $350 was taken Saturday from an apartment in the 1300 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police reported. The apartment door had not been locked, police said.
A 25-inch television and a video cassette recorder valued at $1,000 were taken Saturday from an apartment in the 1300 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police reported. The door of the apartment had been forced open, police said.
About $450 damage was done Saturday to a car parked in the 3300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported. Someone had thrown a large rock at the car, police said.
A 1987 Honda Prelude valued at $15,000 was taken Friday or Saturday while parked in the 1300 block of West
24th Street, Lawrence police reported
■ Clothes, cassette tapes and other items valued at $700 were taken into custody. A car parked in the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police reported
A glass door valued at $600 was damaged Saturday at a house in the 1500 block of Sigma Nu Place, Lawrence police reported. Two unidentified men were seen fleeing the house after one of them threw a large chunk of asphalt through the door, police said.
A 1978 Kawasaki motorcycle valued at $550 was taken Thursday or Friday while it was parked in the 1300 block of West 24th Street, Lawrence police reported.
Campus/Area
Dole candidacy draws KU students
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole may be announcing his entrance into the 1988 presidential race more than 200 miles from Lawrence, but that hasn't stopped some KU students and local Republicans from attending the event.
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able time and support our candidate and to be attending what may be a very historical event," he said.
Brett Frazier, Pratt junior and chairman of the KU Dole for President organization, traveled yesterday to Russell, Dole's hometown, with 12 other members of the group.
Frazer said the group didn't have an planned meetings with campaign officials.
"We're going out to have an enjoy-
Frazier said the group also would attend a pre-announcement party at the Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge in Russell. Dole is a veteran of World War II.
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The VFW helped him on his return to the United States after he was seriously injured in combat. Dole now has only partial use of his right arm.
Another group of KU students with a connection to Dole will also be attending the announcement. About 20 members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, which Dole pledged at the
University of Kansas in 1941, left for Russell last night at midnight.
They would be arrive before dawn today, grab some breakfast and help decorate Russell, said Kappa Sigma president Mark Klimiuk.
Klimiuk said fraternity members would be blowing up balloons and helping with floats. They also will take some banners they have made.
"Everybody around here is really enthusiastic about helping as much as we can," Kliimi said.
The fraternity was soliciting donations to buy a painting of Dole to donate to the University, he said.
Klimiuk said members of the Baker University and University of Mise
Ken Martinez, chairman of the Republican committee in Douglas County, is also in Russell for the announcement. Martinez said anyone who wanted to attend the announcement rode free on buses that left yesterday from the party's state headquarters in Topeka.
souri chapters of Kappa Sigma also would attend the announcement.
Republicans from Douglas County would be well-represented in Russell, said Andy Galyard, Douglas County chairman of Dole's campaign. He told us as many as 150 Douglas County Republicans would be attending.
AIDS patients said to be insurance risk
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
"Iinsuring an AIDS patient would be like insuring a person on death row," Walter Whalen said at the 1987 Harold C. Krogh Insurance Forum at the Kansas Union. The forum was sponsored by the School of Business and the Kansas Insurance Educational Foundation, which tries to increase consumer awareness through public insurance education programs.
Insurance companies cannot afford to provide either health or life insurance to people who have AIDS, the vice president of the Pyramid Life Insurance Company in the Kansas City area said Friday.
Whalen said people should become insured before they contract AIDS
Walhen told an audience of 82 that for the insurance industry, AIDS was
solely an economic issue. Because of the insurance industry's apathy and distaste for people in high-risk AIDS groups, Whalen said, it did not pick up on the threat of AIDS when it should have.
Walhen said that AIDS activists had created straw men — confidentiality and lifestyle underwriting which provided economic issues to civil rights issues.
Strict confidentiality always has been the policy of insurance companies, he said. He said he did not release records unless they were subpoenaed or the person insured had given written consent. And lifestyle underwriting, which is underwriting based on a person's way of life, has never worked, he said.
Kansas Lt. Gov. Jack Walker, who also spoke at the forum, said the Governor's Task Force on AIDS has
been looking at the effect AIDS has on state government, including insurance implications. The task force will present its report Dec. 14 to Gov. Mike Hayden. Hayden will review the report and make recommendations to the Legislature on Jan. 11.
Richard Brock, administrative assistant to the Kansas commissioner of insurance, said a temporary Kansas regulation on insurance policy prohibits companies from taking personal information about people into consideration when deciding whether to insure them.
Under the regulation, however,
insurance agencies can ask people to be
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"Kansas has adopted a regulation that does not require or prohibit testing." Brock said.
Seven states prohibit inquiries whether people test positive for AIDS
when they apply for life insurance.
Brock said insurance companies could decide whether to insure people, or how much to insure people, on the basis of the tests.
In Kansas, an AIDS test can be administered only with the written consent of the person being tested. If the initial test is positive, then a second test is administered.
The policy will become permanent May 1.
Jackie McClain, director of personnel services at the University of Kansas Medical center and William Reals, dean of the KU School of Medicine in Wichita, also spoke at the forum.
McClain said the cost of medical treatment for AIDS patients ranges
KU student pleads no contest to OUI charge
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By JAVAN OWENS Staff writer
A 21-year-old KU student pleaded no contest Friday to two charges stemming from a May accident that injured three other students, but his lawyer said he would try to get the case heard by a jury.
Eldon B. Aldritt, Wichita junior, pleaded no contest in Lawrence Municipal Court to one count each of operating a vehicle under the influence and reckless driving.
Lawrence police said Alldritt was
the driver of a car that struck two cars parked on Stewart Avenue early May 5. John Buzbee, Hutchinson junior, had both of his legs crushed when he was pinned between one of the struck cars and another parked car. Buzbee's left leg later was amputated below the knee.
Also injured in the accident were Brian杨, Hutchinson junior, and Kjersti Moen, Lier, Norway, senior.
Before Judge George Catt accepted the plea, he told Alldritt that the no-contest plea technically
After the hearing, Aldritl's attorney, Harry Warren, said that he intended to file an appeal to move the case to Douglas County District Court for a jury trial.
would make him guilty of both counts. He then ordered Aldritt to undergo an evaluation with the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism. Aldritt will appear in Dec. 17 for sentencing.
Warren said a jury trial would give him the opportunity to raise some necessary questions about the case.
One of those questions is the accuracy of the blood alcohol test that Alldritt took the night of the accident. Warren said. Warren said he had an expert witness who would testify about the inaccuracy of tests taken after long periods of time.
Alldrift's blood alcohol level was recorded as 0.12 about 90 minutes after the accident occurred, Warren said. In Kansas, a driver is deemed intoxicated with a blood alcohol level of 0.10.
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