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University Daily Kansan, August 30, 1982
Ellsworth residents' floor floods
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Residents on the first floor of Ellsworth Hall evacuated their rooms at 10 p.m. Thursday to keep dry when their floor was flooded.
Water bubbling out of a floor drain in one of the laundry rooms alerted a student to the problem. Stoppage in Ellsworth's main sewer line kept drains from emptying into the city water system, San Milroy, director of maintenance.
The seepage was slow enough to allow residents to get carpeting and other valuables on their floors before they left, said Tom Coombs, resident
Debbie Baker, St. Louis, Mo., freshman lived across the hall from the hall from St. Mary's.
"There was toilet paper all over our floor, amongst other things, like raw sewage." Baker said. "Now, we've got flies. We've burned incense and sprayed deodorizer, in the hall it still stinks."
Cindy Blackwood, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, lived farther from the bathroom than Baker, and her room did not receive as much damage.
"It was dirty water but it wasn't really bad." Blackwood said. "If it was sewage, I wouldn't have known because it wasn't really filthy."
The women spent the night in Ellsworth's special facility rooms, in an entertainment area called Centennial Hallway. They moved bedding there to make themselves as comfortable as possible. Blackwood said.
"We got doughnuts and everything," said Blackwood. "It was kind of like a slumber party."
Maintenance men responded to the emergency call about the flood within 10 minutes, told Coombs. They solved an onsite problem after two hours of work.
The maintenance crew rodded out several floor drains and some toiletes more than 200 feet to get to the source of the stoppage, Milroy said. He said that although the main severe line was large, approximately eight电梯 were blocked, because partially blocked when several people used the showers simultaneously.
Maintenance workers never actually saw the problem, but they cleared it out and moved on.
Housing workers started cleaning up the floor at 8 a.m. Friday and students were able to return to their rooms by 10 a.m. Coombs said.
"It got the carpet in some rooms pretty wet. The carpet has already been shampooned several times," said Therese Kavnaughton. "She was very clean." Ed丝尔斯worth. "It was cleaned up very quickly and very well. Housing really got on the ball."
1978 lawsuit settlement provides for new steam pipes in schol halls
A lawsuit that brought the University of Kansas a $28,000 settlement in 1973 has prompted recent replacement of the faulty steam pipes named in the suit. University officials said last week.
The steam pipe, installed in 1973, heats four scholarship halls and connects to the heating system in Jolliffe Hall.
About 750 feet of pipe will be replaced, costing the University $148,000, said Alan Wiechert, director of the facilities planning office.
The faulty pipe was "not a problem of workmanship, but product failure," said Jim Modig, assistant director of the facilities planning office.
The University all recovered all but $11,000 in its suit against Norris Bros. Inc., the local firm that installed the pipe in 1978 and had it filled after construction was completed and was settled three to four years ago, Modig said.
Work began this summer on the project after an appropriation by the Kansas Legislature made up the $3 million equipment and the contract cost, Molda said.
Construction on the new steam pipe has torn up Alumni Place and the landscaping surrounding Battenfield, Pearson, Sellards, and Stephenson scholarship halls. The pipeline is to be connected with a steam tunnel underneath a stairway leading down to Alumni Place.
"We should be done by Oct. 15, providing the weather doesn't hold us up," said Bob Snok, foreman for T. B. Associates, the Topeka based firm that is replacing the pipe. Snook said they had hoped to be done with the road crossings before school started this fall.
"Students are always parking their cars in our way," Snook said. The construction has involved tearing up
Another 1,000 feet of steam pipe is being replaced on campus by a separate construction firm, according to Ron Cook, engineering department supervisor for the Jefferson Construction Co. of Tolpea is replacing the pipe with steam tunnels.
some parking spaces along Alumni Place.
The $663,439 project is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 1.
Steam tumels are more economical in the long run, Cook said, though they are about three times as expensive as pipelines. A direct walkway tunnel is also better than a pipeline can handle more pipes and cables inside, Cook added.
The tunnel system is being installed in two phases, Modig said. Phase one is a tunnel run from the old heating system to Allen Field House, and phase two is a tunnel connecting Haworth Hall to Murphy Hall. Construction on the first phase is nearly complete, Modig said.
On the record
AN OVERHEAD project worth $212.53 was stolen from Blake Hall last week, KU police said. A witness saw someone take the project and load it into a two-door Ford. Police are still investigating the theft.
A PARKING METER was stolen from a lot east of Naismith Hall sometime Thursday. 1K police said the device, which was removed with a metal cutting device.
A TOOL BOX WITH tools worth $610 was stolen sometime between May and August from Scott Hartness, 1621
THE KLEEPER OIL Company, 2447 W. 6th St., was robbed at 9:30 p.m. Saturday by a suspect who said he had a gun inside a paper bag. The suspect was 8700 and 8800 and found in a red Ford pickup truck. Police are still investigating.
Edgehill. Burglarss entered an unlocked bedroom and took the box, police said.
POLICE ARRESTED Kevin Fulcher, 514 Cadet, on charges of assaulting a police officer with firearms. Officers were called to the scene by Fulcher's roommate, who said Fulcher had slapped her. Fulcher was arrested and charged when he pushed an officer at the scene.
A WOMAN ON A bicycle was nearly assaulted by the driver of an automobile that came within inches of hitting her at 1:10 a.m. yesterday at 19th and Iowa streets. Mary Ann Lillig, McColum Hall resident, said a two-door yellow Ford made an alarming strickening hit on her as she stalked her. Police found the car in the parking lot of the Tau Kappa Epsilon house but were not able to find the owner.
satisfactory condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital yesterday after an accident involving a motorcycle and two cars at Iowa Street and University Drive Friday. Collins was northbound on his motorcycle when he hit the car and the car landed left of the center lane and struck an oncoming车. The driver of the second car, Glen Grunz, 204 Deerfield, was not injured.
MICHAEL S. LEAGUE, 1718 W. 3rd SL., a KU student, was injured Saturday night when his car went off Kansas Highway 10 and struck a farm implement belonging to Adriance International Inc., 1548 E. 23rd ST. League said a brown Blazer he had been racing with was hit by a car. The League was cited for reckless driving and operating while under the influence of alcohol.
JOHN COLLINS, 514 Frontier, was in
Bill would allow men to make charges of rape
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Men would have an equal chance to prosecute women for rape if a proposed bill is recommended and approved by the Kansas Legislature next spring.
"We heard testimony from prosecutors who come up with cases like this every now and then," said State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, a member of the interim Judiciary Committee which is studying rape law changes. The committee's women catch a male and force him to have sexual intercourse with one or more of them. Under the law as it stands, this is not raped.
Rape is defined under Kansas law as sexual intercourse a man forces upon a woman, other than his wife, without her consent.
The law does not allow a married woman to prosecute her husband for rape, or consider rape an offense a woman commits against a man.
The penalty for rape is five years in prison
The rough drafts of the bill suggest not only "neutering" the law, but changing it so a woman could charge her husband with rape if they were separated or if she had filed for divorce.
But Ruth McCambridge, a director of Women's Transitional Care Services in Lawrence, the proposed changes did not go far enough in protecting women who were sexually assaulted by their husbands.
"Of course it is a step in the right direction," she said, "but forible sexual assault should be rape whether or not the woman has left for divorce.
"We have an awful lot of marital rape case come through here. It's a 'great story'."
State Sen. Jare Eldridge, R-Lawrence, also a member of the committee, said she understood why prosecutors resisted a law that would make it possible for a woman to charge him with rape if she was still living with him.
"It seemed clear to me there could not be a wholesale elimination of the
She said she was concerned about
marital rape, but that there was a certain amount of implied consent that would be difficult to disprove unless the woman was a possessor or was not living with her husband.
The 13 committee members also are considering changing the wording of the law so that it would not require a lawyer to prove she physically resisted her attack.
Mary Webb, a counselor for the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service, said she especially favored this part of the law.
"A woman should not have to prove that she physically resisted," she said.
"A lot of times the way a woman is treated by the hospital or police is different if it doesn't look like she is bruised or tried to physically resist."
Male rape victims have used the counseling services, she said, but most were too embarrassed to report it to the hospital or police. She added that many were homosexual cases. This legally is not considered rape.
Solbach, an attorney, said he was unsure of how much a "neutered" rape law would be used, because many men would not prosecute.
Other changes the legislators are considering include establishing the crimes of "sexual battery" and "object rape" against sexual battery. The law would unify any unwelcome physical contact would be punishable by as long as a year in jail, or as much as a $2,500 fine, Solbach said. Kansas law states that when a woman is raped against a man, the prosecuted as rape, but only as simple battery or assault, Solbach said.
These changes will be debated by the interim committee before any recommendations are made, but Solbach said that he expected the Legislature would review most of these proposals in the spring.
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