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Thursday, October 15, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Electrical accident leaves 1 dead, 2 hurt at Wolf Creek
The Associated Press
BURLINGTON — An electrician at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant was electrocuted and two other workers were injured in a non-nuclear accident at the plant last night, officials said.
The victim's name was not released pending notification of relatives, said spokesman Lyle Koerper. He said the other workers were treated at a local hospital and released.
The accident did not involve the reactor and there was never a threat that nuclear material would be
released from the plant, said Kooper, manager of corporate communications for Kansas Gas and Electric Co.
The plant has been shut down since Sept. 27 for fuel reloading.
The accident occurred in an enclosed switch gear area, which contains electrical switching circuits. A Nuclear Regulatory Commission official said the victim had either been cleaning the switch gear or was preparing to do so when the accident occurred.
Chauency Gould, an operations officer at, NRC headquarters in
Bethhesda, Md., said the victim received 4.160 volts of electricity.
The electrician was in one of two transformers, Gould said. The transformer was being used as an alteration of power for another transformer.
Gould speculated that the alternate transformer probably should not have been energized.
"He probably didn't know that." Gould said. "There was probably some lack of communication down the line."
"It is sort of unusual for somebody to get electrocuted," he said.
Arizona governor disavows letter calling Jackson 'bigot'
The Associated Press
PHOENIX. Ariz. — Gov. Evan Mecham yesterday disavowed a letter that called Jesse Jackson a "sanctimonious bigot" and that was purportedly sent by retired Army Gen. John K. Singlaub in an effort to raise funds for the embattled governor.
Singlau, head of the United States Council for World Freedom and a supporter of the contras, did not approve the letter, nor was the signature his, said Joyce Downey, a Singlau spokeswoman.
The letter purported to be a fund raiser for the Committee Against the Recall of Ev, a group that opposes the Mecham recall movement. CARE leaders did not return phone calls yesterday.
Mecham's press secretary, Ken Smith, said that the letter was inflammatory and that the governor "found it absolutely appalling." Smith said that Mecham did not see the letter, but that parts of it were read to him.
The letter sought help from "every true conservative in America" and added, "Governor Mecham is being attacked in a recall move by the likes of Jesse Jackson, militant homosexuals, radical feminists and lesbians and the Arizona Communist Party."
It called Jackson, a Democratic presidential candidate, "one of our nation's monumental frauds" and a "sanitimonious bigot."
Smith said that he did not know if CARE was associated with the letter.
CARE asked her about a week ago if Singlaub would be willing to sign a letter.
"It is absolutely not General Singlaub's signature" on the letter, Downey said.
On Sept. 29, Mecham became embroiled in a political storm when it was disclosed that the Mecham Finance Committee had sent a fundraising letter that blamed the recall movement on "militant liberals and the homosexual lobby."
Downey said that a member of
From the KU Weather Servi
The governor's office gave several versions of how the letter was signed
— whether by Mecham's own hand or by a signature machine, and with or without the governor blew up at a reporter who questioned what story was true.
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Firm offers plan to pick waste site
The Associated Press
TOPEKA—A decision on where to put a regional low-level radioactive waste disposal site would hinge upon which state has the most suitable territory. The proposal came from the company that will develop the site for a regional waste compact
for discussion purposes.
U. S. Ecology, of Louisville, Ky., has submitted a proposal for a formula for making the decision to the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact, which comprises Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The company says its proposal is a draft
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, whose secretary, Stanley Grant, represents the state on the compact's commission, released the draft proposal yesterday.
The proposal calls for awarding each state in the compact up to 20 points, based upon a list of factors. In the formula, half, or up to 10 points, would be awarded based upon the percentage of a state's land area that is suitable for a regional waste site.
criteria, U.S. Ecology has offered for discussion purposes weight scales and relative ranking of criteria," Rich Paton, special assistant to the president of U.S. Ecology, wrote in a letter to the compact.
"To assist the commission in the task of assigning weights to the
The compact commission originally was scheduled to select a host state in November, but the meeting has been postponed indefinitely.
The company's proposed formula differs significantly from one Kansas officials had proposed. The compact commission in September accepted Kansas' list of factors to be considered but not its weighting system.
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On Campus
Hunter said that determining eligibility was not under his jurisdiction. He said the athletic department should have known by July 16, one day after Young's transcript was evaluated, that some of his hours wouldn't transfer.
Although Young completed the 60 hours required to graduate from Dodge City, KU accepted only 41 of his credits. NCAA rules require junior college transfers to complete 48 approved hours to be eligible for major college competition.
Young was not determined ineligible until the admissions office's transcript evaluators compiled NCAA eligibility reports for the athletic department. The reports were due at the NCAA office Oct. 1.
"We will look at the transcript ahead of time if asked," Bryant said.
- "Growing into Adulthood in a Hostile Environment," a brown bag seminar by Brenda Cawley, social welfare, is scheduled at 11:30 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The Holy Eucharist of the Epis-
cope at Damforth Chapel
a poor today at Damforth Chapel.
Bryant said her staff would have noticed the discrepancy earlier if it had been alerted to a potential eligibility problem.
■ "Puerto Rico y el Caribe," a Latin American Studies brown bag luncheon in Spanish by Diana Alvarez, is 30 m. a day at 109 Lippincott Hall.
Sally Bryant, assistant dean of educational services, said her office had no way of differentiating between students and student-athletes during enrollment.
- "Site Specific Recombination of Staphylococcal Phages," a microbiology lecture by Chia Lee, is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. today at 6031 Worah Hall West.
"Package Tour" and "Night and Fog," are scheduled at 3:30 p.m. today at Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
■ "Heartsounds" concert of guitar and flute folk-jazz music by Jonathan and Deborah Hutchison is scheduled at 4 p.m. today. Another concert will be at 6:30 p.m. today at Canterbury
House, 1116 Louisiana St. Call 843-8202 for information.
An informational meeting on undergraduate research awards for research to be done in the spring or summer at 4 p.m. today at Namemaker Center.
■ "Kinship Discrimination in Honey Bees," a social biology lecture b P. Kirk Visscher, Cornell University, is wired up p. m. today at 1005 Haworth Hall.
"Abstract: A New Method for Computing Polynomial Greatest
Common Divisors and Polynomial Remainder Sequences," a computer science colloquium by Alkiviadis G. Akritas, associate professor of computer science, is scheduled at 4 p.m. today at 300 Strong Hall.
**Latin American Solidarity meeting is scheduled at 6 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1904 Oral Ave**
- Jayhawks for UNICEF meeting is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. today at Parlor A in the Kansas Union.
- "Mourning, Davies," by perfor
"Les Comperes", sponsored by Le Circle Francais, is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. today.
- "Mourning Doves," by performance artist Betina, is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. today at at the Central Court in Spencer Museum of Art.
Consultant calls small schools way of future
KU Fencing Club is scheduled at 8:30 p.m. today at Robinson Gymnasium.
The Associated Press
and the local business community.
TOPEKA — A consultant for the Kansas Board of Education predicted that the state would see an "explosion of need for adult education" in the years ahead.
Shirley McCune, senior director of Midcontinent Regional Education Laboratory in Denver, said at a press conference yesterday that the community colleges today represented the closest model of what public education would be like in the future
Courses, she said, would apply more directly to the job market.
schools with closer ties to industry
Because some community colleges have developed close links with the communities they serve, the schools are sensitive to local needs, she said. That puts them in a position to provide the type of training that is in demand.
On the Record
"The community will be part of the school," she said. Community colleges tend to place a greater emphasis on performance rather than on
academic credits.
"We've been able to ignore technology," she said, and only a few people have had to deal with it. But society needs "technology literate" adults, and those are the ones who will be enrolling in adult education programs.
McCune also said that education in the future, especially adult education, would place a greater emphasis on technology.
"The world has changed dramatically in the last few years and we
have a tremendous catch up job," she said. "We're still teaching facts but we're not teaching kids how to use facts."
McCune is working with a number of states and schools in their long term planning efforts.
She said that Kansas would see a decline in its student population over the next 10 years because of the outmigration of working people from the state.
A 1979 Yamaha 650 motorcycle and helmet valued together at $722 were taken between 3 and 5:05 p.m. Tuesday from a residence in the 1300 block of Strong Avenue, Lawrence police reported.
A camera, two lenses, a tute bag, a stereo cassette, Walkman radio, book bag and eel-skinned case value at $374.01 were taken between 8:15 a.m. and 5:10 p.m. Tuesday from a residence in the 900 block of Missouri Street, Lawrence police reported.
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