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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday October 16,1987 Vol.98,No.40
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Survey on drugs Results show alcohol is used most
Bv NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
About 47 percent of a KU student sample say they have never tried drugs other than alcohol, according to a survey released yesterday by KU officials.
Of the 53 percent who had tried drugs, marijuana seemed to be the drug of choice, survey results indicated. Few students said they had used more potent drugs, such as heroin.
"To say that drugs are really rampant on our campus is nonsense," said Edward Heck, student affairs research committee chairman and professor of counseling psychology.
The research committee conducted the drug survey — the first ever at KU. Heck said. It was done for the office of student affairs.
office of David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said, "The survey reaffirms a belief I have that you are either into the drug culture or not, and there's not much in between."
The research committee mailed questionnaires last spring to 1,000 students chosen at random. Of the 1,000 students, 554 responded, a 55 percent return rate.
Heck said that the margin of error in the survey results was about 4 percent.
The said survey results were a reflection of campus drug habits, assuming that the random sample of students presented the entire student population.
The students surveyed were asked their age, sex, class, type of housing and whether they had used a drug other than alcohol.
If they answered 'yes' to the last question, they were asked what drugs they had tried, how frequently they used them, when they first tried
drugs and where they would go for help if they had a drug problem
Of the 554 respondents, 293 said they had tried a drug other than alcohol.
The survey results said that 27.4 percent of the students surveyed were using drugs now. However, that percentage may be too high because Heck said the question did not accurately measure students who marked more than one drug, Heck said.
more than one drug. About 50 percent of the students surveyed said they had tried marijuana. About 23 percent said they had tried amphetamines, known as uppers or speed.
About 18 percent said they had tried cocaine or crack, and about 14 percent said they had tried a hallucinogen, such as LSD. Less than 9 percent had tried depressants, heroin, tranquilizers, PCP, ecstasy or other drugs such as codeine.
other drugs used. Most students had their first experience with drugs before college, the survey indicated.
"That tells you something about where you should spend money for drug education programs," Heck said.
The survey also indicated that KU students would go to friends or parents rather than to campus services for help with a drug problem, if they were restricted to one source f help.
Heck cautioned that the survey results might be conservative because students could have been reluctant to admit using illegal drugs.
KU students showed about the same degree of usage as students answering a similar survey at the University of Virginia in 1976, and less than the average of a national study conducted by the University of Michigan in 1985, Heck said.
Lack of enthusiasm concerns chairman
Special to the Kansan
By IOEI ZEEF
BALDWIN CITY — Blanch Wise has either been the secretary, the general chairman or a committee member of the Maple Leaf festival since 1957. Now, on the 30th anniversary of the festival, she's wondering who will take over when she's gone.
Wise, this year's general chairman of the festival, is concerned about the lack of enthusiasm the younger citizens of Baldwin City have shown towards the festival the last few years. The festival begins tomorrow and concludes on Sunday.
"The younger group takes part in the festival, but they're not interested in planning and working on the festival." Wise said.
City's senior citizens worked with different groups to help fill the labor gap created by a scarcity of younger workers.
Wise, 81, said many of Baldwin
workers.
"I always figure, if you can't give a little for the town, then you don't care about the town," Wise said.
According to Mary Mower, secretary of the festival, the lack of enthusiasm by younger citizens is the result of a combination of busy schedules and apathy.
"There is nobody busier than a college student. But I don't think the younger people try to realize the importance of the history until they get older and it means more," Mowrer said.
Julie Mock, Baker University
See MAPLE, p. 6, col. 4
Photos by Stephen Wade/Special to the KANSAN
TOPEKA — Above: Adjutant General Phil Finley of the Kansas National Guard presents a ceremonial flag to Theo Landon, widow of former Gov. AL Landon. Below: Members of the Kansas National Guard carry Landon's casket to the south side of the Capitol for a memorial service, which was yesterday.
Landon burial held
Private services honor former governor
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Former Gov. Alf Landon was buried yesterday after a brief Statehouse ceremony and a graveside service honoring the patriarch of the Republican Party.
Burial took place after a 10-minute, private ceremony at Mount Hope Cemetery, about a mile from Landon's northwest Topeka home. The services were attended only by family members and a handful of close friends. Retired Methodist Bishop Robert P. Fairway, a former minister at the church the Landons attended, presided.
Earlier in the day, a crowd of about 300 people gathered for an outdoor ceremony on the south side of the Capitol. They watched as Landon's casket was lowered from a bier that stood on the spot where he made his speech accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1936.
The ceremony took place after about 2,100 people filed past his casket as it laid in state on the second floor of the Capitol on the north side of the rotunda Wednesday and into Thursday morning.
Landon was the first Kansas governor to
lie in state since Democrat George Docking_, who died in 1964.
Landon received the Honorate nation two years after he won his second two-year term as governor, serving in 1933-37. He died Monday, a little more than a month after his 100th birthday.
"Kansas has lost a great friend," Gov. Mike Hayden, one of eight honorary pall-bearers, said, making the only remarks at the outdoor ceremony.
Among those attending the ceremony were Landon's daughter, U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan.; White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater; state Attorney General Bob Stephan; Secretary of State Bill Graves; and State Treasurer Joan Finney.
"President and Mrs. Reagan asked me to come and convey their condolences to the Landon family," Fitzwater, an Abilene native, said before the outdoor ceremony began. "Because I'm from Kansas, it's a great honor."
Lannon received a 19-gun salute from four 75-millimeter pack howitzer artillery pieces stationed on the southwest side of the Capitol grounds.
MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE
FOURTH OF
It's a question of priorities. KU officials say passage of the Margin of Excellence is vital. But the decision rests
with the Kansas Legislature,which must balance the needs of KU against highways and prisons.
Money may go elsewhere, legislators say
The key to it's success is convincing the Legislature that it's an innovative plan, said state Senator Winter Jr., R-Lawrence.
Many state legislators think it's a good idea. But Kansas is in the economic dolrdums and is facing other problems, many legislators say, and the money for Margin of Excellence just might not be there.
Several factors, including the fate of an expected income tax windfall and Gov. Mike Hayden's decision whether to support the plan, will affect its success or failure.
"It has to be something that's more than just a garden-variety vell for money." Winter said.
Hayden's press secretary, Kathy Peterson, said that the governor had been reviewing the plan and that he would take into account the state's stringent economic conditions in making a decision.
The windfall represents taxes paid by Kansas to the federal government that were then returned by the federal government to the state as a result of federal tax revisions. This year, the windfall is expected to be about $143 million.
Legislators must decide whether the tax money should be returned to Kansans or allocated to needy state programs.
There are plenty of those, legislators say. Prisons need improving, as do many of the state's facilities for the mentally retarded. And improvements in those areas will be expensive.
State Sen. James Francisco, D-Mulvane, said the proposal's chances for passage weren't good.
"It appears the governor has placed priority on the highway program. Elementary and secondary education are probably second on the list. This is probably third on the list.
third on the list.
"This being an election year, I'd say with the magnitude of the cost of those programs, it will probably be difficult. There's not much chance this year."
much chance to win.
But state Rep. Jessie Branson,
D-Lawrence, said Margin of
Excellence and the needs of publ-
1c schools were more important.
"It is the most important initiative in terms of getting the state moving and off dead center," Bransgm said.
Many legislators agree that the Regents schools need financial help to maintain high academic standards.
student us.
State Rep. Denise Apt, R-Iola,
who is chairman of the House
Education Committee, said, "In
the past few years, because of
problems with the economy,
we've just maintained the situation.
But we're now at a point
where we have to infuse some
money into the Regents schools
or we're going to slip into mediocre."
State Sen. Richard Gannon, D-
"There's a recognition on the part of the Legislature that there's no choice but to fund the plan."
cray. Apt said that she thought the program had a good chance of passing in the Legislature.
Francisco said, however, that the Legislature might instead pass a one-year program with a commitment to do something more extensive next year.
Goodland, said that Margin of Excellence was extremely important, but he also pointed to the possibility of a modified version.
"We're going to do something," he said.
Gannon said that many House Democrats were trying to garner additional money for education in a trade-off for support of Hayden's highway plan.
And House Majority Leader Joe Knopp of Manhattan said, "I would think the Legislature in '88 is going to make some major commitment to increasing support for higher education."
House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis of Louisburg said that the decision of what to do with the tax windfall was crucial to what would happen to Margin of Excellence.
"Where you run into problems is that some say we shouldn't be raising taxes for any reason, that the windfall should be put back," he said. "And there won't be support in new tax revenue."
in new tax revenue
State Sen. Robert Frey, H-Lib
See MARGIN, p. 5, col.1
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