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University Daily Kansan, September 27, 1982
Weather brings out bees
By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter
Bees.
They hover over trash cans outside of Wescos cafeteria. Plan a picnic in the park or buy a pop, and they will be waiting. Waiting for a bus? Expect them.
As if released from an Alfred
Fireman's movie, bees have invaded
the KL campus.
Recent weather conditions are the reason behind the bees' behavior; Maria Spivak, graduate student in entomology, said recently.
"There's been so much rain and the weather has been so cold that flowers aren't blooming and producing nectar," she said.
NECTAR IS NOT the only thing bees can use to make honey, she said. The bees forage for other sources of food such as student lunches and refuse in trash cans. Since many students eat meat, the bees are common there, she said.
Bees are commonly attracted to soda pop and can use the syrup in it to produce honey, Philip Humphrey, director of the Museum of Natural History.
It is difficult to determine where the bees are coming from because they may travel as far as four miles in any direction, he said. There are many places around Lawrence that bee hives may be. he said.
The bees are attracted to brightly colored clothing, perfumes, and even honey-scented shampoos, Spivak. mud. The bees should avoid swapping them or provok-
men them, because a bee may sting someone who tries to shoot it away, she can
Students can avoid being stung by staying away from sweet drinks and by looking at their food before they bite into it, said Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Memorial Hospital. Several people have been stung in their mouths by bees that were sitting on their food, he said.
When that happens, several things should be done, be said.
First, the person should remove the bee's stinger. This should be done carefully, especially if the bee's venom remains on the end of the stinger, by cutting off
IF THE SACK is squeezed while the stinger is embedded, more venom will go into the wound, he said. Tweezers or stingers should be used to pull the stinger out.
Next, the person should remain calm and apply ice to help reduce the swelling, he said. If the sting is on the heart, it will also reduce swelling.
If the person is wearing a ring and is stung on that finger, the ring should be removed as soon as possible. This helps prevent restricted circulation, he said.
The hospital usually gets 60 to 70 bee-sting cases every year, Wollmann said. Some of these involve mild allergic reactions to bee venom, he
The Greeks Are Coming October 1st
MEDICINE LODGE-A 42-year-old mother who was recently laid off from her job said she would refuse to pay income taxes until the level of taxation was reduced to 10 percent because that was the amount God asks for in tithes.
Woman won't pay more taxes than tithes
By United Press International
"I'm going to send in a report that I'm not going to pay my income tax this year," Karen Horn said Saturday in a telephone interview. "And I won't pay it again until they bring it down to 10 percent for everybody."
"I think 10 percent is enough," she said. "That's all God asks, I've got two children to support and I just feel they government) are asking too much."
HORN SAID she realized she would probably be arrested when she failed to pay taxes but she thought the issue was important enough to go to jail for.
"I believe if everybody pays 10
"I DO HAWE backing — other people who are going to do the same thing. It’s amazing."
"I want enough people to become interested for this to make an effect. For you and I to pay 33 percent of our money into taxes and the people making millions and millions of dollars to find all the loopholes and not pay anything is not fair. A straight 10 percent for everybody would be fair."
Horn said she was a Protestant but was not affiliated with a specific faith.
the Internal Revenue Service of their intention to stop paying taxes.
"I've been drawing unemployment since and I don't like it and I can't get a job. It's the first time I've ever drawn unemployment," she said.
HORN SAID she planned to send a letter to the IRS today demanding a return of all but 10 percent of what she grossed earlier in the year.
Horn, who said she has worked since she was 16, was laid off a month ago from her job with an area oil field service firm.
She said eight or 10 other people in Medicine Lodge, a town of 2,400 in south central Kansas, also planned to write
"I'm not a radical," she said. "I'm a reasonable person. But I just think that
"One-third of my income is a bit much. I start out with less than $1,000 a month. By the time they get through it, I'll probably be my Lord. My Lord, you can't feel kids on that."
percent — big business, little business,
everbodied — the country will be rich."
SenEx lists problems of closing for break
By DEBORAH BAER
Staff Reporter
The plan to close some buildings on campus for eight working days between the fall and spring semesters to save on heating bills would leave classified employees and graduate assistants out in the cold, said members of the University Senate Executive Committee Friday.
The lost work days would have to be accounted for by classified workers.
Although the plan drafted by administrators for accounting for those days does not involve a loss of salary for classified employees, it could force managers to use discretion that they do not want to, and that is unfair, said Charles Kahn, SenEx secretary.
"It would be okay to close down, but I think to give any kind of requirement to the classified employees that they trade off something that is not of their vollition would be outrageous," Kahn said.
ERNEST ANGINO, non-voting member of SenEx, said some classified workers would end up subsidizing the state by working at home.
William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said classified employees could use a combination of vacation days, compensatory time, leave with pay and leave without pay, but they could not use more than three days of leave with pay or more than four days of leave without pay. The other days would have to be made up by taking vacation days or leave without pay.
"If they work at home, that assumes they're paying their own water and gas bills. They're subsidizing their employer," he said. "That one really bugs
ANGINO SAID the utility budget deficit was caused partially by a 30 percent gas rate hike that was publicized in advance.
Mikkelson said that he did not object to closing some buildings but that classified employees should not be forced to account for the work days
ANGINO SAID that even if classified employees could get leave with pay for working at home, they were still being taken advantage of.
Some members said that any classified employee who could work at home should be allowed to take leave with pay for all eight days, but Hogan said that was probably not possible because of state regulations.
Though some SenEx members recognized that the University needed to save money, they agreed with James Seaver, SenEx chairman, when he said he was angry that the University was forced to skimp on its utility bills.
Faculty members, who are unclassified, are expected to work during the break between semesters, but most will work at home, SenEx members said.
Mikkelsen said some people needed their vacation days at certain times, especially for medical reasons, and therefore should not be forced to take vacation time when they did not want to.
"We are letting the Legislature off the hook," he said. "The University shortfall was done, in a sense, with malice aforethought. Somebody ought to have been planning for the rate hikes."
KAHN SAID, "Why should they be forced to take any vacation time?" The classified people don't have the same flexibility the unclassified have."
"The TAs look forward to this break so they can get something done," Angino said.
He said that with many buildings it might be very hard for them to do the work, he says.
Hogan said the state would not accept losing eight days of work from KU's chef in the 1980s.
"It would be a difficult case to argue
that you would not be cost-effective."
Hogan said.
CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES would not be the only ones to be hurt by the crime.
He said teaching assistants often worked for an official 20 hours a week during the semester, which usually cost more than more than 20 hours of actual work.
During the semester, they have little time for research projects and papers, but
Hogan said closing some campus buildings could save about $150,000. The University's deficit is $1.2 million, he said.
Gerald Mikelson, SenEx member,
said, "I think the University is going to
get into a hornet's nest if it tries to
make a precedent, or even if it tries one
time to force people to use vacation
time."
If the state refused to pay the bill,
"we would have to literally take it out
of our pocket."
He said the University was working on several other money-saving plans, including an investment plan. Hogan said he did not know how much could be saved from the combined plans, but it would not add up to $1.2 million.
of anybody on the KU campus that the University was struggling with its utility bill.
"It would be the ultimate gamble," he said.
"But if we don't put energy-saving projects into use, we will not have done what we should have done. We would not have filled our responsibility." Hogan said.
Kahn said the University should not try so hard to save money for the state, because the state then would continue to pay tuition and the university a utility budget that was too small.
tell the people to go home, period?" he asked Josan.
BUT HOGAN said the University should not continue to use gas as freely as it had in the past. He said the bill and the legislation might not pay it.
"The more efficient and creative and innovative that Bill (Hogan) is, the less the Legislature is forced to act rationally." Kahn said.
"Why not just close the building and
Hogan agreed that it was not the fault
Whatever money is not made up will be requested from the Legislature, he said.
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