University Daily Kansan, October 5, 1982
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Nuclear issue primary to Burr
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
As he sat in his Lawrence office surrounded by clippings and documents concerning nuclear power, attorney Lance Burr emphatically denied Republican accusations that he is a single-issue candidate for attorney general of Kansas. Burr also has plans for the prison system, minority and senior citizen rights, consumer protection and grain prices.
"I'm running for the office because I think Bob Stephan is basically a do-nothing attorney general," Burr said yesterday. "He just does enough to get by, you never see him involved in anything controversial."
"HIE'S ALWAYS boasting of his consumer protection record, but he refuses to get involved in the Wolf biggest consumer rip-off in the state."
BURR, the Democrat facing Republican incumbent Robert Stephan in the November elections, has made the Wolf Creek power plant under construction in Burlington a primary issue in the race because of his strong opposition to nuclear waste hazards and the plant's projected costs for rate-payers.
Because of miscalculated costs and the expense of nuclear plant maintenance, state officials and accountants have been criticized in electric bills for ratenavers in
southeastern Kansas if the plant begins operating in 1988.
"The worst part is that we don't even know for sure how much it will cost, it could be more," he said. "Even the construction of shoddy construction techniques."
REPUBLICAN Party chairman Robert Bennett and Stephan say "ability" is the key issue in the campaign, dismissing the controversial Wolf Creek power plant as matter for Governor's office and the Legislature.
Bernet said Burr had limited ability to act as an attorney general because of his single-mindedness about nuclear power and waste hazards.
IF ELECTED, Burr would sue KP&L and KG&E, the two corporations constructing the plant, and would assign an assistant attorney general to represent rate-payers at utility rate increase Kansas Corporation Commission.
Burr is currently investigating a firm that converts nuclear plants into concrete.
Burr, who temporarily stopped practicing law six months ago to campaign, said he was operating on a low budget because several of his big contributors owned stock in KP&L. After learning about his plans for the nuclear power plant, they pulled money out of his campaign.
"THE GUBERNATORIAL candidates say the severance tax is the key issue in their campaigns," Burr
said, "but I say; Gentlemen, your severance tax is peanuts compared to the costs of this plant."
Burr admitted that the Democratic party was having difficulty finding an attorney general candidate to face the Republican incumbent, but said he did not consider himself a "sacrificial lamb."
He said Stephan's "dark ages" view of the penal system and his consistent policy of ignoring environmental matters were reason enough to oust an attorney general not truly representative of Kansas.
UNIKE Stephan, Burr supports a penal system emphasizing a strong community corrections program for non-violent offenders. Criminals would meet each day with corrections officers, he said, who would oversee a job program that would compensate victims for their losses.
Stephan is in favor of the state building a minimum security monopoly on polio vaccines.
Other points Burr stressed included stronger protection of the rights of older Kansans and minorities, and drafting of a plain language statute to clarify technical contract writing for laymen.
If elected, Burr also said he would organize all state attorney generals into a nationwide investigation of the buying and selling practices of the five largest corporations in the country to determine if anti-trace laws were being violated.
Author says peace movement depends on will of the people
By MATT BARTEL
Cousins said that the government
The result of such a turn-around was that the president was able to get a test pass.
Staff Reporter
DURING 1982, he said, public opinion underwent a profound change because the people who favored a halt to further nuclear testing got the word out. Although mail to Congress started out running 13 to one in favor of further testing, by the end of that year it had levelled to nearly 50,000. Cossins said.
TOPERA—Where there is the will for peace, there will be peace, Norman Cousins, UCLA professor and noted author, said last night.
"The people are the key. We have to act responsibly, we have to know what the facts are," said Cousins, a renowned anti-nuclear weapons activist.
He said that if the people expressed a desire for peace, the president's actions should be more decisive.
Cousins made the remarks to a crowd of more than 1,000 people, who had gathered for the first in the Kari Lecture Series at Washburn University.
made foreign policy decisions in response to threats, rather than thinking rationally, and that the ultimate sanity rested only with the people.
Now, he said, the people must again make their will known.
"We have reached the point where this nation cannot fulfill its first and foremost function, that is, the protection of its people," Cousins said.
COUSINS SAID he had helped prepare a study which found that after casualties from a nuclear exchange involving Los Angeles reached a mere 6,000, no more medical care would be available in that city.
He said the Pentagon had estimated that at least 250,000 such casualties would result if that city were hit by a nuclear warhead.
Cousins called for the creation of a world organization stronger than the United Nations which would have the authority to talk to major powers.
Cousins is the former editor of the Saturday Review and has written 16 books on topics ranging from nuclear disarmament to health.
He was followed at the lecture by his fellowminger co-founder of the Meningean Institute.
"This is not the time for the world to come to an end over our misunderstanding of another group of people," Menninger said.
Med Center lauds researchers
Norman Cousins
Research is a vital part of continuing medical education and health care and deserves attention and support, doctors and administrators said yesterday, the first day of Research Week activities at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
RESEARCH WEEK recognizes the accomplishments of the faculty of the College of Health Sciences through speeches and displays. Tours of the research facilities are usually after each afternoon discussion.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, "Many view scientific research as a luxury. We have a serious re-
possibility to inform the public that scientific study is essential," adding that teachers who actively engaged in science are needed to conduct educational programs.
BUDIG SAID academic excellence in the College would continue because funds for faculty research were a result of government support.
However, researchers must continue to seek funds for their research from the state and from private industry. he said.
Budid said research funding was needed to help insure that academic excellence in the health sciences did not deteriorate.
Billy Hudson, dean of research, said that a research base where students could practice was needed, and that high-quality professionals could not be produced without research.
HUDSON SAID the health sciences faculty was holding its own in competition with universities such as Yale and Harvard for National Medal of Science research port, but said that it was becoming tougher with the limited funds.
Later this week, research awards will be given to nine faculty members in recognition of their accomplishments at the Med Center.
THEVES STOLE A KU FLAG worth $500 from the west entrance to the chancellor's residence Saturday night, KU police said.
On the record
BURGLAR STOLE $1,750 worth of furniture and stereo equipment about 3:30 p.m. Sunday from a house in the Lawrence Street, Lawrence police said yesterday.
A 19-YEAR-OLD LAWRENCE man was arrested by police Sunday on charges of auto theft, burglary and
operating under the influence after police apprehended the man, who they said stole a bus from R&W Harmon & Sons, 930 E. 30th St. the man, Nelson Garcia, is being held in Douglas County jail on $3,500 bond.
BURGLARS BROKE INTO two vending machines on the KU campus Sunday evening and yesterday morning, KU police said yesterday. They bought the vending machines to the Visual Arts building, causing $45 worth of damage. Damage to a soda
machine in Strong Hall totaled $80, but police did not yet know how much money was taken from the machine.
Federation files grievance against school Haskell employees protest furlough
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Several employees at Haskell Indian Junior College received an unexpected vacation this summer, but they are not happy about it, one employee said
The vacation was a mandatory one without pay.
The National Federation of Federal Employees filed a grievance against the administration of Haskell because 149 employees, including instructors and maintenance workers, were concerned to further state government positions, Ross Byington, the president of the union, said.
EMPLOYEES in furious positions must be off without pay for at least two weeks of every year, and administration that time to 12 weeks. Blyton said.
The union hoped to return furfleduged employees to their original status by giving them a new job.
said Jean Gibbs, education technician in the president's office. Gibbs said that Haskell was one of the last federally funded groups in the nation to convert its permanent employees to furough status.
"We're saying we didn't need to be converted to furlough, since most of us were only off three weeks," Byington said.
SUPERVISORS have the right to
furlough employees for up to 22
workdays in emergency situations
without changing their status, Byington
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Unlike instructors, maintenance workers were not laid off for any time this summer although they were converted to furthough status. Byington residents are expected to have status, they will have to be off for at least two weeks in the coming year.
THE EMPLOYEES continued to earn annual leave and sick leave, too, she said. However, employees could not afford holidays during the unpaid vacation time.
The change in status was meant to reduce federal expenditures at Haskell.
Byington said better measures could have been taken to cut costs at Haskell.
have their insurance benefits continued during the time that they were out of work. Next summer, benefits may not apply during that time, she said.
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"The union gave them some suggestions with regard to other cuts that we would be able to do with our alternatives," Byington said. "We were largely ignored."
The grievance will be heard Oct. 27 by Stanford Madden, an attorney who was appointed by the office of federal mediation and conciliation services.
Gibbs said employees were lucky to
"I will know nothing about it until that date. I don't even know the issue they're discussing," said Madden. "I haven't read anything about it because I wanted to get the story from the parties the day of the hearing."
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