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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 6.1987
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Local Briefs
Student's trial for May wreck is set for today
A KU student is scheduled to go to trial today in Lawrence Municipal Court on charges stemming from a May car accident that injured three other KU students, one severely.
Eldon Aldritt, Wichita junior, was charged with one count each of operating under the influence and reckless driving. According to Lawrence police, Aldritt was the driver of a car that struck three cars parked in the 2000 block of Stewart Avenue early on the morning of May 5.
John Buzbee, Hutchinson junior,
lost his left leg below the knee
after he was pinned between two of
the parked cars.
KU concert group to give fall program
The University of Kansas Collegium Musicum will present its fall concert 2 p.m. Sunday at the Spencer Museum of Art.
The program, "Welcome Sweet Pleasure: Music from England's Golden Age," will be directed by Mark Leach, assistant professor of music. The 24-member group includes the Madrigal Ensemble, Cornelius Corner, the Ensemble, the Recorder Consort, a harpsichordist and a lute player.
The Madrigal Ensemble, a 10-member vocal consortium, will perform 16th and 17th-century works by Thomas Weekles, John Dowland and John Wilbye. The Corneto and Sackbut Ensemble will play works by William Brade and Alfonso Ferrabosco II. Also included will be works by Philip Rosseter, Thomas Campion, Anthony Holborne, Christopher Tye, Farnaby Martin Peerson and John Bull.
The concert is free to the public.
Parade to kick off American Royal
The 80th American Royal Livestock, Horse Show and Roode starts today in Kansas City, Mo.
Events associated with the show this year will include the American Royal Parade, which starts at 10 a.m. tomorrow in downtown Kansas City, Mo., and performances by country music entertainers such as the Judds, Lee Gee, Charlie Pride and others.
The show, which runs through Nov. 22, also will include traditional livestock shows and sales
Admission to the show grounds at the American Royal Complex is $1. Tickets for the musical performances range in price from $5 to $15and are available at the Douglas County Bank in Lawrence or by calling the American Royal Ticket Office.
Clarification
Information in a story in yesterday's Kansan about a local disc jockey may have been confusing. Ray Velasquez, the DJ, still is an agent for Sound Vibrations Mobile DJ Entertainment and is satisfied with the position.
KU, city discuss common concerns
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission and KU administrators met yesterday to discuss issues of importance to both the city and the University.
The luncheon meeting, hosted by Chancellor Gene A. Budig, was at the Adams Alumni Center.
Among the subjects discussed were a proposed on-campus parking structure, possible sites for a new performing arts center and the need for a water system project to alleviate water drainage problems from the University into the area along Naismith Drive.
In addition, KU administrators discussed current construction and renovations on campus, including work on the new science library, the
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said there were two possible locations for the parking structure, which would provide an additional 600 spaces, or an eight-percent increase in parking space.
Kansas Union and Snow Hall
The proposed sites are directly north of Allen Field House and directly north of Watkins Hospital. Wiechert said a parking structure could be completed by next spring, but has not yet been approved.
Wiechert also named three possible sites for a performing arts center, which would be partially financed by Campaign Kansas. Campaign Kansas is a fund drive by the Kansas University Endowment Association that seeks to raise $100 million.
Those sites are at 15th and Kasold streets, Iowa and 15th streets, and in the area directly west of Murphy Hall.
Wiechert said the performing arts center would be better than Hoch Auditorium as an auditorium for the performing arts because it would provide better acoustics and more parking.
Wiechert also said a recent report found that the University's drainage system was outdated and needed help. The report also said the capacity for fire protection was not good because water pressure was too low. There is a great demand for water on campus, he said.
The drainage problem, Wiechert said, could be solved either by improving the University's drainage system or by finding ways to trap tne drain water on campus.
Wiechert said the University had requested the Kansas Legislature to allocate $1.7 million during the next fiscal year, some of the water problems on campus.
City Manager Buford Watson said that a new state highway program would be of joint interest to the University and the City Commission. If a highway program were passed in the Legislature, it would be Lawrence bypass would probably be included. The bypass would benefit the University, Watson said.
At the meeting, Budig emphasized the University's commitment to the Board of Regents Margin of Excellence proposal.
James Larson/KANSAN
Ouch!
aton Akerberg, 5, grimaces while Jeannine Stephens, Lenexa senior, removes a splinter from his finger.
Drug tests multiply
Staff writer
Experts say laws help employers
By BEN JOHNSTON
Laws governing drug testing now favor employers, with the result that many employers are administering more drug tests than they used to, a group of experts said at a conference yesterday at the University of Kansas.
The conference on "Drug Testing: Facts, Fears, and Public Policy" at Green Hall was sponsored by the School of Law, the University of Kansas Law Review and the division of continuing education.
Three KU professors were among the 11 speakers at the conference, which was attended by about 45 lawyers and businessmen from Kansas and Missouri.
And in most cases, employees have little legal recourse, she said. For instance, recent cases show that a person who sues an employer claiming drug testing violated his right to
Elinor Schroeder, professor of law,
said that because no state prohibited
drug tests for employees, employers
felt free to conduct such tests.
privacy is not likely to win.
"The law is all on the employers' side in this area" Schroeder said.
Schroeder said that she thought that advances in technology would soon make it possible to test workers without invading their privacy. A device similar to a breathalyzer should become available for testing for any kind of drug, she said.
L. Camille Hebert, an associate at Spencer, Fane, Britt and Browne, a Kansas City, Mo., law firm, said that only seven states had laws regulating drug tests. Kansas is not one of them, she said.
"There are very few real restric-
tions on what employers can do
except that they
Mark de Bernardo, special counsel for the United States Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., said that more than half of the Fortune 500 companies required their employees to take drug tests. He said that the number had risen dramatically in the last few years.
Organization formed for neighborhood forum
By BRIAN BARESCH
Staff writer
Lawrence's diverse neighborhood organizations now have a forum for meeting and discussing issues such as downtown development, tax questions and fence ordinances.
The Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods enacted bylaws and elected officers last night, and chairman Steve Lopes pledged that the group would not become a political organization.
Lopes said that the association was devoted to enabling neighborhood groups to communicate with one another on various issues. Should the association decide to start taking political stands, a political action committee would probably be formed.
"Up to this point, cooperation has been the thing that's brought us all together."
Oread neighborhood organizations attended last night's meeting at Fire Station No.1, 745 Vermont St.
Lopes, who also is president of the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association, said the joint association had been meeting informally since January, when several neighborhood groups got together to decide whether to get involved in last April's City Commission elections.
Representatives from Old West Lawrence, Barker, Western Hills, Schwegler, University Place, Pinckney, Indian Hills, Brook Creek and
The groups didn't endorse candidates, but did sponsor a candidates' forum. Since then, members have been meeting informally. Lopes said.
"Until tonight we've been working on getting to know each other," he said.
Two members of the Downtown Improvement Committee attended last night's meeting and took part in an hour-long discussion about problems the city faces in developing either a suburban mall or a downtown plan.
Course Source reviews mixed
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
The reactions of students and administrators to this semester's Jayhawk Course Source have ranged from pleasant surprise to disappointment to apathy.
The Course Source is a Student Senate publication containing course information that is not available in the timetable or KU catalog. It deals only with courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
This semester's Course Source features photographs of the KU campus, computer graphics and more advertisements than previous Course Sources. It also includes information about expected class sizes, grading procedures and assigned readings.
However, not all college courses are listed because not all instructors responded to Course Source question $ ^{f} $ naires.
For many students, the Course Source appeared too late. Slightly more than 3,000 students had enrolled by the end of Tuesday, which was the day the Course Source became available.
Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said yesterday that he had not yet seen the Course Source.
Jim Carothers, associate dean or the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said yesterday, "I haven't heard administrators' reactions to it one way or the other."
Stephanie Beaham, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said she thought the Course Source's projected class sizes were useful.
Franky Valentin, San Juan, Puerto Rico, senior, said he was disappointed that no information on Western Civilization classes was in the Course Source. But Valentin, a political science major, said he found the political science entries useful.
"A lot of times students take classes, and they end up being very big. The instructor can't control everybody in the class." Beham said.
"I think it's great. I get an idea of what kind of teacher I'm going to have," he said.
"I had seen what it was like the year before, and I thought it was an economic waste for what it offered to the students." Seferyn said.
About this year's Course Source, Seferyn said, "The printing's great, but it's no use to anyone unless it has every class."
The money to produce the Course Source comes from the $28 student activity fee that all students pay each semester.
Last semester's Course Source contained 37 course entries and cost about $2,000 to print. This semester's Course Source contains more than 150 course entries and cost more than $5,500 to print.
Senate allocated $3,351 last year
or the printing of both this and next
month's budget.
Clarissa Birch, Topeka graduate student, said her opinion of the Course Source had changed since last semester when she opposed it as Finance Committee chairman.
"It has come a long way since its initial starting," she said. "I think I wouldn't be opposed to extra funding for it if we needed."
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