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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 13, 1987
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Local Briefs
Skunk from KU was not rabid test result says
Students who may have come in contact with a skunk that officials found early last week at Jayhawk Towers apartments, 1603 W. 15th, are not in danger of contracting rabies, KU police said yesterday.
Sgt. John Brothers of KU police said that the skunk, which was found on the sixth floor of Tower D, tested negative in a lab report from the Veterinarian Diagnostic laboratory at Kansas State University.
The animal control officer who went to Jayhawker Towers thought the skunk was rabid. The animal was killed. Its body was disposed of, and its head was sent to the lab.
Brothers said it was normal procedure to send the head of an animal to the diagnostic lab if authorities thought the animal was rabid.
Fire at barracks being investigated
The Lawrence Fire Department has not determined the cause of a fire that burned an old prisoner-of-war barracks late Sunday night, Chief Jim McSwain said yesterday.
Firefighters returned to the scene at 7 a.m. yesterday to search for a possible cause for the fire. They found that no matter whether any human remains are under the debris, but none have been found so far.
Firefighters interviewed two children who were at the scene. They told firefighters Sunday night that they heard an explosion and later screams coming from the area.
McSwain said the cause of the fire was still under investigation.
SenEx to be briefed on KU fund raising
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will report on Campaign Kansas at today's University Senate Executive Committee meeting.
SenEx men at 4:30 p.m. at the Regents Room in Strong Hall. Campaign Kansas is the KU Endowment Association's $100 million fund-raising drive that will begin in May.
City to consider raising water rates
The Lawrence City Commission is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. today at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The commission will consider increasing the rates for water, waste water and trash pickup and lowering the speed limit to 20 mph west along University Drive to Crestline Drive.
Commissioners also will consider pledging revenue from a proposed sales tax to specific purposes including human services; arts, humanities and historical societies; street and transportation improvements; drainage improvements; and public safety.
The Downtown Improvement Committee will present a report on consultants for downtown development.
Signs on KU buses steer bikers from danger
Because of a reporter's error, Michael Habiger's name and age were reported incorrectly in yesterday's Kansas. Habiger is a 21-year-old Hutchinson senior.
Correction
By JAVAN OWENS
The Lawrence Bus Co. is displaying signs on the rear of KU buses cautioning bikers not to pass on the buses'.right side.
Staff writer
The signs were affixed to the buses about three weeks ago, after a bicyclist ran into a bus on Jayhawk Boulevard, said Chris Ogle, general manager of the Lawrence Bus Co.
The bicyclist was riding on the right side of the bus when she swerved to miss a pedestrian and hit the bus. The bicyclist suffered a sprained ankle. Both the bus driver and the pedestrian were cited by KU police in the accident.
"We are just trying to let the bikers
know that they are in a dangerous situation," Ogle said. "If one or two have read the signs, then the signs have helped."
The Lawrence Bus Co. runs the buses for KU on Wheels, the program that supplies bus service on and off campus.
Ogle said the problem had been escalating from year to year as enrollment at the University of Kansas had increased. Along with more students enrolled at the university, Ogle said more students and riders. Ogle said increases in traffic made it harder for buses to pass through campus.
"We have been trying to think of what we could do to prevent bikers or
Bicyclet Elisa Miller, Lido Beach, N.Y., senior, said yesterday that she noticed the signs, but understood that the bus company displayed them.
pedestrians being hit. We are not trying to be abusive to anyone or step on anyone's toes." Ogle said.
"There are a lot of inexperienced riders who do not know the rules of the road," Miller said. "They want to rule the road and get where they are going, unconcerned about others who have to share the street."
Bicyclist Joe Sweet, Wichita junior, agreed. He said he had seen many accidents happen because bikers were not paying attention.
"You have to remember you are
just like another vehicle. You have to stop at stop signs," Ogle said. "Don't expect anyone to yield — you yield first."
But bicyclist Ned Nixon, Wichita junior, said pedestrians shared some responsibility for accidents.
"Bikers and drivers should be looking out for the pedestrian," Nixon said. "But when pedestrians don't see them, they are going, it makes it harder for us, or we."
Ogle said that pedestrians, especially bus riders, could take some steps to help themselves. They should exit from rear doors and not from the front, he said. And pedestrians should wait until the bus moves on before they begin to cross the
street. he said.
Ogle said that would prevent passengers from being hit by a vehicle that might be passing the bus while it was stopped.
Although the buses have posted the signs and have told riders of the proper pedestrian etiquette, Ogle said that those steps did not lessen the bus company's liability in accidents.
"This does not relieve us of any legal responsibility — but that was not our intent." Ogle said. "We are putting to practice the principle claims. We just want students to know the dangerous position they are in."
City gets drainage proposal
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
The University of Kansas would be asked to sell two pieces of land to the city to make way for a new drainage system under a plan that consultants presented to Lawrence city officials and residents yesterday afternoon at City Hall.
Burns and McConnell, a Kansas City area engineering firm, outlined two plans that would replace or improve an outdated system that fails to drain the Naismith Basin, which runs from the north end of campus to 31st Street.
Residents in the area have complained of flooded basements and garages.
The three-month study examined the Naismith Basin's shortcomings and how to fix its problems and suggested costs and priorities the Lawrence City Commission should consider.
One option, called the maximum detention system, calls for the building of three detention basins, two on KU property, and the rerouting and replacing of some pipes at a cost of $5.1 million.
The maximum detention system would mean that the city would have to purchase three areas of land to convert to drainage basins. They
- a 7-acre site on 18th Street just east of Naismith Drive and south of Watkins — property owned by KU.
- a 6-acre site on 19th Street just west of Oliver Hall — also owned by KU.
a three-acre site west of Lawrence High School — owned by the high school.
The other option, an all-pipe plan, would enlarge or replace drainage pipes in the Naismith Basin at a cost of $8.1 million.
Ron Miller, representative from Burns and McDonnell, said it was a disadvantage of the maximum drainage plan that the three proposed sites for the basins belonged to someone else. But he said that the two propositions would end of the spectrum and that a combination of the two was possible.
Miller said that he had taken into account future construction plans at KU and the effect added pavement from those might have on the area.
They would be used only during larger storms when the drainage pipes couldn't handle the extra water. Miller said a maximum of six feet of water would drain in three to four weeks. The team also be used for activities such as band practice or touch football when not needed for extra water.
The drainage basins would not be an eyesore or safety concern for neighbors, Miller said.
Rudolph Mendelin, illustrator of Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, was honored by Gov. Mike Hayden at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka yesterday.
Hayden honors illustrator who gave a hoot about fires
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
TOPEKA — For three generations, Woodsy Owl and Smokey Bear have warned people to "give a boat, don't pollute" and work to prevent forest fires.
Yesterday, Gov. Mike Hayden honored one of the creators of those fictional characters for his work to Kansas, conservation and art.
Hayden presented a certificate of recognition to Rudolph Wendelin, an illustrator from Herndon, at the state Capitol.
received the recognition he deserved in Kansas."
"We give certificates of recognition to a few individuals as their efforts merit recognition." Hayden said. "He has received national recognition, but he hadn't"
Wendelin grew up in Ludell. He studied architecture at the University of Kansas for three years, 1929-32, but could not finish his degree because he couldn't afford a car. He could have finished school. Once, he said, he even dreamed that he was given an honorary degree.
However, he has been successful despite not having a degree. Wendell began his career as a draftsman with the U.S. Frest Service in Milwaukee and remained with the forest service for 40 years.
He said the highlight of his career was the creation in 1945 of the Smokey Bear Program for the prevention of forest fires. He
described his role as the caretaker of Smokey Bear's image.
When asked why Smokey Bear was so popular, Wendellin said, "I think his friendly look — friendly and serious — is one reason. He can do anything humans can do, and that makes him fascinating."
Wendelin also helped create the character Woodsy Owl.
Elementary students and high school art students joined Wendelin's family and friends to see some of his work and to get autographs. His work will be exhibited at the Capitol until Friday.
"Around this room you can see somewhat of a panorama of the lifetime that he has devoted to the world, and the man who has devoted to art," Hayden said.
Society supports museum
By JORN E. KAALSTAD Staff writer
Members of the Panorama Society of the Museum of Natural History had a dinner and a guided behind-the-scenes tour of the museum last night as the society held its annual meeting at Dyche Hall.
The Panorama Society was founded in 1986 by the museum's advisory board, which consists of Lawrence residents not affiliated with the University of Kansas, said Philip Humphrey, director of the museum.
The society is designed to encourage public participation in museum programs and attract local community and business financial support for the programs, he said.
The society is a wonderful thing because during university cutbacks in 1983 and 1984 we had to eliminate graduate student grants.'
- Philip Humphrey
director, Museum of Nat. History
Membership costs $300 a year and enables the museum to provide graduate students with grants, ranging from $100 to $500, for trips, lectures, and field work related to scientific research throughout North America, Humphrey said.
"The society is a wonderful thing because during university cutbacks in 1983 and 1984 we had to eliminate graduate student grants," he said.
Also, Humphrey said that membership money, which now amounts to about $9,000, helps pay for collections borrowed from other museums.
A Panorama-financed exhibit "South of Winter," will be open to the public from Oct. 15 to Nov. 11.
During the tour of the research and collection areas of the museum, members were informed by curators and students about the progress of the graduate research that they had helped finance.
In the paleontological laboratory, students and curators displayed animal bone fragments and explained that some of the animals that once carried them
Panorama members learned about the evolution of 270 million-year-old lungfish, ancient tree-climbing dogs and extinct New Mexican deer.
Larry Martin, curator of paleontology, told the group that he was studying ancient human skulls, excavated from a river in Bonner Springs, that could be from the Ice Age.
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Time to Remember: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
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