University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 29, 1987
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Student offers not guilty plea to fraud charge
KU student Quintin Smith pleaded not guilty to a charge of telephone fraud last week, county Court clerk Douglas County District Court clerk.
Smith's lawyer called the court Thursday and rendered a plea of not guilty. Bond of $750 had been posted for Smith.
Smith, who is a starting wide receiver for the KU football team, was schedled to have his first court appearance in district court yesterday, but it was postponed until 11 a.m. Oct. 27.
Smith, Houston sophomore, was arrested Sept. 21. He had been charged May 15 after MCI and US Spirt investigators gave evidence for prosecution to the district attorney's office. District Attorney Jim Flory said he had decided to wait for Smith to return to Lawrence this fall before arresting him.
Body in Colorado identified Friday
The body of a man who authori-
ties initially thought was a KU
student was identified Friday as
Eric Osteen of Osage Beach, Mo.
Although Osteen was never a student at the University of Kansas, he had been traced back to this area. He apparently told people who last saw him alive Aug. 16 at a Grateful死 dead concert in Colorado that he was an art student at KU. His body was found Sept. 3 at the bottom of a waterfall in Telluride, Colo.
Investigators from the San Miguel County Sheriff's Department traced Osteen back to the Kansas City Art Institute, where the dean of students matched a picture of the unidentified man with Osteen's student identification card. Osteen's parents were notified, and they sent sheriff's officials their son's dental records.
Those records resulted in a positive identification, said Sky Walters, San Miguel County undersheriff.
Six JRP residents report tire damage
Joseph R. Pearson Hall residents reported a rash of tire slashes Thursday night.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokeswoman, said six residents had filed reports of slashed tires. Longauer said she knew more students had damaged tires but had not filed reports.
The incidents occurred between 5 p.m. Thursday and 2:30 a.m. Friday. Longaker said a security officer noticed several flat tires in the lot and ran a check on license plates. The owners were then notified.
Total damage to the cars was estimated at $75. Police are continuing to investigate but have no leads.
Bomb scare upsets church services
Morning worshippers at the First Presbyterian Church were evacuated Sunday after they received a bomb threat, church-school superintendent Cheryl Harmon said.
Church officials evacuated about 200 adults and children before Lawrence police arrived. Some parishioners were scared, the evacuation was calm for the most part, she said. No bomb was found.
City to hear mall rezoning requests Planning staff recommends no clearance for proposals
Planning staff recommends no clearance for proposals
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
Staff writer
From staff and wire reports.
Lawrence's city planning staff, in a report released last week, said it would not recommend allowing three new apartment buildings and pave the way for suburban malls.
The 178-page report, which planers have labored over since July, details why each area would not be an appropriate mall site.
Price Banks, planning director,
said yesterday that the planning staff
had given much attention to the three
rezoning requests because of the size
of the sites involved and the possible
their rezoning could have on the
city.
"There's a difference between a zoning request for a McDonald's and one for a large mail," he said. "It's a little bit more complicated of this magnitude — lea. alone three."
The rezoning requests are for:
■ 55 acres of land northwest of Wakarusa Drive and Highway 40. A request to rezone that land has been submitted by Attorney Ed Collister of Lawrence.
101 acres of land south of Clinton Parkway on both sides of Wakasura Drive A request to requeat that land and a request to co-La. a Fort Smith, Ark., JRM.
a 61.5-acre site south of 35th Street on the east side of Iowa Street. A request to rezone that land has been made by Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs of Cleveland. That site is the only one of the three within city limits.
The requests will be considered by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission in a marathon hearing at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at Central Junior High School, 1400 Massachusetts St. The commission will
hear the planning staff's report, presentations from the three developers and comments from Lawrence residents.
T
here's a difference between a zoning request for a McDonald's and one for a large mall. It's not very often we encounter one issue of this magnitude — let alone three.'
Price Banks Planning director
surrounding property and the community, whether the zoning was compatible with the zoning of surrounding areas, traffic analyses, proximity to floodplains and problems of accessibility and utility services.
The staff also considered the rezonings' impact on the downtown area as a social and cultural part of the entire city.
The city planning staff considered each site on the basis of its impact on
Banks said that Lawrence city commissioners and Douglas County commissioners would be careful not to sing on the recommendation just yet.
Some officials said that city and county commissioners might not see the rezoning requests to make the final decision until December. It may take that long for them to clear the planning commission's scrutiny that begins Oct. 7.
Asbestos removal is started
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
Balcony basketball
Jeff Mentel, St. Louis junior, center, puts a move on Craig Mulcahy, St. Louis junior, left, as Kurt Slonka, Overland Park junior, waits his turn.
Staff writer
Workers from the department of facilities operations have started to dismantle an asbestos-insulated trash burner south of the power plant, said Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance.
Porter said the incinerator had been inactive since it lost its exhaust outlet when the plant's smokestack was torn down this summer. A more efficient non-asbestos burner in Malawi has taken over its duties, he says.
The power plant is behind Staufer-Flint Hall.
The incinerator was used to burn dead animals and animal parts from experimental labs, in addition to trash and paper.
An asbestos crew, wearing coveralls and breathing apparatus masks, will seal off the building and moisten the asbestos sheets with water to prevent dusting before they remove it.
The crew will be supervised by representatives from the Kansas Department of Environmental Health.
When the work is done in a couple of days, the asbestos will be transported to the Rolling Meadows Sanitary Landfill in Topeka. The landfill is led by the Kansas Department Environmental Health, Porter said.
Asbestos produces a dust containing needle-sharp particles that destroys lung tissue when inhaled. Asbestos is also a major component of environmental health engineering.
Porter said the decision to tear down the incinerator was not initiated by environmental protection officials. He said the job was done immediately, it was good training for future demolition defects that involved asbestos removal.
McKinney said facilities operations workers were well trained to handle asbestos
Porter said a similar burner at
the hospital into disuse also
would be dismantled.
Staff writer
Big field of candidates vies for freshman votes
By BRAD ADDINGTON
KU freshmen voting for freshman class officers today and tomorrow will choose from among two independent candidates and members of five coaltions.
**Sean Tevis of Overland Park is running independently for president. Tevis said he would like to offer freshmen more opportunities to get to know one another.**
"It's really sad to see students sit around the dorm and ing in front of the TV," he said.
■ Heather Hamilt of Leawood is running independently for secretary.
The Concept coalition is headed by Michael Beehe of Shawnee. Beehe said his coalition would emphasize student participation and encourage parity “There’s a pt to be looked into.” His said.
Other Concept candidates are Todd Miller of Overland Park for vice president, Stephanie Axe of Lenexa for secretary and Shannon Rogers of Mission Hills for treasurer.
- The Cutting Edge coalition is headed by John Hutton of Topeka.
"What we'd like to do is make all the freshman class officers more powerful than they are now," Hutton said. He said he'd like to have the class officers lobbied in the Student Senate.
Other Cutting Village candidates are Steve Jenkins of Prairie Village for vice president,
James Van Osol of Skokie, Ill., for secretary,
and Kim Hutton of Derby for treasurer.
■ The *Happenin'* coalition is headed by Joel Joyce of Prairie Village. Joyce said his coalition would focus on involvement. "I want to set up a freshman class committee with representatives from all the halls, fraternities and sororites," he said.
Other Happin' candidates are Tim Keel of Leawood for vice president, Julie Axland of Overland Park for secretary and Meg Moulthrop of Houston, Texas, for treasurer.
■ The Headway coalition is headed by Derek Bridges of Dodge City. Bridges said, "The freshman class this year has a lot of changes in it, such as the foreign language requirements, and we're going to try to help students with the problems that they have."
The New Horizons coalition is headed by Mike Enseley of Overland Park. He said one of the goals of his coalition would be to get more students in higher Education Rescue Operation campaign.
Other New Horizon candidates are Mike Rozell of Overland Park for vice president, Ann Nide of Omaha, Neb., for secretary and Brian Blankenship of Overland Park for treasurer.
Other Headway candidates are Audrey Curts of Hays for vice president, Christy Burns of Overland Park for secretary and Mason Gilland of Hutchinson for treasurer.
Elections are in the rotunda at Strong Hall.
KU Democrats plan poll
The KU Democrats will conduct a straw poll today and tomorrow to test on campus support of candidates for the Democratic nomination for president. Anyone on campus can vote in
Candidates on the poll are Bruce Babbitt, Michael Dukakis, Albert Gore, Jesse Jackson, Richard Gephardt and Paul Simon.
Eric Levitt, publicity chairman of the KU Democerat, said that although straw polls were not available, voters should be encouraged.
create interest in the KU Democrats and make students aware of the candidates and their interests.
"If students don't know about the candidates, the information at the meeting should help them."
Results of the poll will be announced at the group's meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Informations for the candidates will be provided at that time.
Public administration department ranks seventh in national survey
By a Kansan reporter
The KU department of public administration has been ranked seventh in a national productivity survey conducted by two researchers from the University of Georgia.
The researchers, Jerome S. Legge Jr. and James Devore, assessed public administration programs at different universities by counting the number of articles published by faculty in the respective journals in scholarly journals such as Public Administration Review and Administration and Society.
Several hundred universities with public administration and public affairs programs were reviewed in the survey.
In the 1981 survey by the two researchers, the KU department ranked 18th.
"They're more experienced and more skilled as a department than in 1818," he said.
John Nalbandian, chairman of the department of public administration, said the improvement could be attributed to more experienced faculty in research and to the improved quality of articles submitted to public administration journals.
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