University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, August 30,1982 Vol. 93, No.7 USPS 650-640
City picks planning director
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Price Banks of Howell, Mich., has been appointed director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department, City Manager Bufford Walton announced Friday morning.
Banks said Saturday he was impressed by the community.
Banks, 39, is now employed in the legislative affairs office of the Michigan Municipal League. He will begin his duties in Lawrence Oct. 4. He was selected from 111 applicants.
"I think you have a pretty town," he said. "I was impressed with the vitality of the downtown area."
Banks said he was looking forward to working on the proposed redevelopment of downtown
"I think you have a real opportunity that not too many communities have," he said. "You have a lot of vitality right now. I think the timing is right."
Banks said the University of Kansas campus was beautiful and provided a focal point for the community. From a planning perspective, he said that the University posed no significant problems, but that special factors such as unique traffic patterns should be considered.
hate pockets. Another of Banks's concerns was the economic situation, which he said had been responsible for a move to multiple-family housing.
"One of the things that has been happening for years – and we’re seeing more and more of it – is a strong move to multi-family developments," he said. "I “think we’re going to use a lot more of that."
Banks said planners had to consider this trend in laving out streets and subdivisions.
"Of necessity, you have to provide additional open space," he said.
Multiple-family developments often are resisted at first, Banks said. It is important that multiple-family housing be developed properly to gain the confidence of the community, he said.
Lawrence and Douglas County have one planning department and Banks said this was the only county with a master plan.
"There's no substitute for cooperative planning," he said. "I think that a real benefit."
Rural development and tarmarch preservation were two things Banks thought could be
"I think that's an area we ought to get involved in and take a look at," he said.
Banks said much of his work with the municipal league dealt with the decreasing availability of federal and state funds to local communities.
Banks recently received a law degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. He said he would take the Kansas bar exam in February. He said his law degree would give him
a broader perspective in dealing with planning problems.
"It gives me a better grasp on the big picture," he said.
Watson said Banks' law degree was incidental in his selection, but would be a benefit to the city.
Banks previously worked for seven years as director of internal services for Livingston County, Mich. Banks said he supervised financing and personnel matters for the county, which Watson said was the fastest growing county in Michigan.
Watson said that two people now in the planning department, acting director Linda Finger and planner Dean Palos, also were among the final three considered for the job.
Finger withdrew her application Aug. 23. She said yesterday that she would be finishing her master's degree in public administration from KU and that she had been concerned about time constraints. She will continue as a planner with the department and as acting director until Oct. 10.
Palos could not be reached yesterday for comment on Banks' appointment.
Banks replaces Garner Stoll, who resigned in
Mays to take a similar position in Lincoln, Neb.
Med Center aids disturbed children
Bv VICKY WILT
Staff Reporter
The outward appearance of the eight children playing in the bright room gave no indication of the deep emotional problems they were experiencing.
These children are patients in the new pediatric psychiatry unit at the University of Chicago, who will be beyond复发 upon install last February, 3. 1/2 years after the idea for the unit was suggested.
Elizabeth Weller, assistant professor of psychiatry, said the children suffered from a range of emotional disorders, including school phobia. Hyperactivity and suicidal tendencies.
The youngest kid that I have at this time is 6 years old. She came in with four suicidal attempts before coming to the hospital," Weller said.
"Once she was on the roof of her baby sitters' house trying to jump off, and she really wanted to be dead. Another time she put an electrical outlet in the kitchen sink and water over her head and electrocute herself."
Suicide, a very real problem for some children, is something that many adults find hard to understand, Weller said. She said many people failed to recognize the seriousness of the issue.
Overcoming emotional problems can be made easier if treatment is started at an early age and if intervention by a psychiatrist is immediate, Weller said.
"There is a myth that you are 5 or 6 years old and are having terrible problems that you will die of."
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Docking says he's ready to work with Carlin
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of interviews with candidates for local, state and national offices.
der the stone pillars and stairways of Wescoe Hall, students study and relax.
Today's interview is with Tom Docking, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. Governor John Carlin and Docking will oppose Republicans Sam Hardage and Dan Thiessen in the general election Nov. 2. Paul Dugan, current lieutenant governor, is not seeking re-election.
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
Despite the present lieutenant governor's off-spoken criticism that his advice, receives little attention, John Carlson's new running mate Robert L. Brown would he play a major role in state politics.
"The governor and I. Tom docking. Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, said in an interview last week." The way "I view it, I would be an adviser to the governor," and in fact, relaying back to the governor what needs to be done."
Docking, a 1976 KU economics graduates and Wichita attorney, and his special interest in credit risk finance, financed the firm's finance.
"My firm does a lot of state tax law and business planning," he said. "I'd like to do a few more."
Although Carlin and Docking both support a severance tax to pull the state economy out of a $47 million deficit. Docking said the governor has taken steps to reduce alternatives to the critical issue of state finance.
Tom Docking
Sam Hardage of Wichita, Republican candidate for governor, strongly opposes a severance tax. The tax, proposed by House House leader John McCain, would revenue from oil and natural gas extracted from the ground.
"He (Carlin) hasn't completely dug in his beets on this severance warrant." Docking said.
but other sources of revenue would greatly increase property or gasoline taxes, he said, and are proposals the governor opposes because the governor will fall more heavily on the average tax payer.
Docking said the unexpected four percent budget cut for the University this summer resulted from a recession and federal outbacks that upset balanced predictions at a time when the governor position had always been that the state should not spend money it did not have.
If state finances are brought under control soon, he said any further federal cutbacks would not necessarily mean more budget cuts for the University. He said that the earlier cut would be restored when it was practical for the state's economy.
Docking also said there was public misconception about Carlin's position on the death penalty, a bill Carlin refused to sign into law after it passed both House last spring.
"Many people believe he supported the death penalty." Docking said, "What he said was that he would consider the bill when it crossed his desk. He vetoed the bill on moral grounds."
The death penalty is often viewed as a major step in criminal law, he said, when actually the punishment only applies to one tenth of one percent of the crimes in Kansas.
Docking said Carlin's Republican challenger would also be critical of increased utility rates, an issue which Carlin said he was especially concerned about when he ran for office four
Removal of the sales tax on state residential utility bills and the Kansas Natural Gas Price Protection Act, he said, are two efforts by Carlin that will eventually save the state millions of dollars in spite of federal deregulation of utility rates.
"Governor Carlin has held the rate far below what it would have been," he said.
Hardage supports the death penalty.
He cited President Reagan's refusal to allow grain shipments to the Soviet Union as one situation he hoped would be turned around soon by those working at the federal level.
Docking said that Carlin was also concerned about finding export grain markets for Kansas farmers, another issue which he said was made with state governments because of federal intervention.
He added that Kansas already had one of the lowest utility rates in the country.
"Grain marketing is still used as a tool of American policy, rather than a tool for the American farmer." Docking said. "American farmers are not getting Kansas farmers, are not getting a fair shake."
Docking, whose father and grandfather were Kansas governors, said he would be able to contribute more to the lieutenant governor's office because he grew up with state politics.
"I'm running for lieutenant governor, I'm not speculating about anything farther down the road," he said.
Weather
CLOUDY
It will be partly cloudy today with a 20 percent chance of showers and winds variable at 5 to 10 mph, according to the Weather Channel. Today's night will be in the upper 80s.
Grad school travels country looking for minority students
8v GUELMA ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
The KU graduate school and the office of minority affairs have combined efforts this year to offset what they think is a low minority enrollment in the graduate school.
"The enrollment of minorities in the graduate school has been traditionally low," George Woodyard, associate dean of the graduate school, said Friday.
manyty graduate students consisted of 4 percent of KU graduate enrollment in spring 1982. A total of 114 blacks, 59 hispanics, 46 asians and 26 native americans were enrolled along with 5,533 other students, according to Marshall Jackson, an assistant director of admissions.
At Wichita State University, minority students consisted of 6 percent of their graduate program.
"We considered it a priority to develop the minority enrollment." Woodyard said.
Gerry Williams, assistant director of the office of minor affairs, said that Woodward had
adopted the new Faculty Affiliate Program from a similar one at the University of Texas that had
"Every KU department has designated a faculty representative to travel to universities across the country and promote their departments to the students and faculty," he said.
The KU faculty representatives will also discuss recruiting practices with representatives.
He said that students usually asked professors whom they respected to recommend a graduate school, which is why the program unites faculty members from universities.
"Some minorities tend to think Kansas is in the boondocks," Williams said, "but we want to show them that other minorities do live in the state and that KU has something to offer."
The program sponsored one trip this summer to Ottawa University. Williams said that he will be visiting the university for two weeks.
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Gimmick rally tests mental skills of drivers
We might as well have been heading into the ozone and not out of it, for what followed was
Tom and I had a vague understanding of what we were getting into, so we boldly entered the event sponsored by the Jawhawk Sports Car Association and students who enjoy life in the fast lane, so to speak.
Staff Reporter
By BONAR MENNINGER
At the starting line, I had visions of the Steve McQueen movie, "Le Mans," and saw us dueling at high speed with our competition on the back streets of Lawrence.
According to JSCC president* john Young, the rally was designed to test the navigational skills and driving abilities of contestants. He might of course have been assigned to shatter the nerves of rookies like us.
What followed were three hours of mind-bending clues and nebulous riddles which led us along a frantic, harried tour of Lawrence, doing everything from counting butterflies in the natural history museum to searching the ancient Cannon Hall for one with a checkered flat in it.
We pulled out the O zone parking lot at 1:48 p.m. Saturday, my '73 Audi tuned to semi-perfection. Navigator Tom Phillips and I were about to begin the Miller Run Gimmick Rally.
A small tape recorder and a calculator, plus a stopwatch and a pair of binoculars, were to be used.
When it was over. Tom and I were drained, physically and mentally. But hey, we still took it.
In the beginning we were confident. My Audi was equipped with the latest in sophisticated technology.
Sitting in a maroon Flat Spider idling in front of us, sat our nermisia-natty dressed Mark
Showalter, Gardner junior. Wearing a tweed cap and gloves on the humid afternoon, Showalter looked every bit Joe Racee Driver.
Eyeing Showalter and the other drivers, Tom knoy the tall rally trophy would be ours.
"Hell, we can beat 'em," he said, furiously studying the map of Lawrence.
After receiving a chronological list of questions and riddles that had to be answered to score points, the six cars and 14 contestants left the roping kit at one minute intervals.
The first question instructed us to drive straight until we couldn't, which was easy
Monday Morning
enough since the road stopped at 19th Street, and count the goals we could see.
Immediately, we didn't know what was going on. Maybe, we thought, the really wouldn't be a challenge.
Pulling over, we tried to figure out what goals they were talking about. Anyone familiar with the corner of 19th and Missouri streets knew there are three there-basketball, football, and baseball.
We finally decided the answer must be the football goals back behind us (we could see them).
Up and down 21st St. we drove, in search of "a mystery about to unravel." We didn't see anything mysterious, just fast food restaurants stretching from West. And the only things we were us.
Now and then, a competitor's car would speed
From then on, things got kind of blury. Repeatedly, Tom and I jammed clue and riddle data into our minds, in hopes that the brain was not always logical. At least to those who supplied the input.
We knew what we were doing.
by in the opposite direction, or pull up on a side street. We ignored them.
Often Tom, looking resembled in his Strategic Air Command, would put binoculars to his eyes and do a "hard visual scan" we developed our own terminology of some distant target. We could not be sure what we were looking at, so we could not be sure what we were looking at indeed what we'd been searching for.
Beer was involved in the promotion of the event, so many questions involved liquor stores and bars. As this trend emerged, we were able to proceed with increased efficiency.
Eventually, we cled led us to Wells Overlook, where we were instructed to do some crude surveying. Soon the relentless Audi was flying back toward town on U.S. Highway 59, heading for the area we thought we had located from the tower.
Moments later McCullum Hall loomed into sight. Per order of the clues, we began searching the many windows for the checkered flag.
Victory seemed near
Showalter arrived at McCullum with his navigator seconds before we did. In a flash, both teams were out of their cars, looking upward in search of the flag.
Not seeing it in front, we ran around to the back of the massive building. The navigator of the Fiat was the flag on the sixth or seventh floor about the time I did.
We both sparred toward the door, and going up flight after flight of stairs; I could hear her
It is very hard to locate a particular window from the inside of a building. After mistakenly barging in on a rooftop or horrified residents, I was able to find an alcove in the wall where neck-in-neck with the navigator for the flag.
It was quite a let down to find out that the rally was not over, but only half completed.
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