UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 25, 1994
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SWALL: Professor seeks re-election
like selling drugs.
"The higher dropout rate provides for earlier sexual activity, which increases the need for health care."
Because issues are interrelated, Swall said that isolating a single issue such as crime was not enough.
"Addressing crime in terms of increased sentencing without looking at some of the environmental effects such as poverty and unemployment levels is enormously shortsided." he said.
Swall said he opposed the "three strikes and you're out" policy, which would give life imprisonment to criminals after their third conviction for violent crimes.
"It's a policy born of passion and revenge," he said. "There's no substantiation of its value."
"I feel very strongly that dangerous, violent offenders must be removed from the streets," he said.
Swall said he didn't feel his stance makes him soft on crime, however.
Swall said the most important issues facing the 45th district, which includes parts of north Lawrence, south Lawrence and rural areas west of Lawrence, were health care and crime.
"We have lots of people working in jobs that don't pay enough," he said.
That creates a burden on an already overburdened health-care system, Swall said. Though many
studies have concluded that 10 percent of the U.S. population has no health insurance, Swall said he believed the figure was between 25 percent and 30 percent.
"An additional problem is that, with high premiums and high deductibles, many more people are underinsured," he said.
Swall said comprehensive healthcare reform would include insuring all children and having insurance companies provide insurance at reasonable rates.
Swail said he decided to run for office in 1992 for a couple of reasons.
"One, the incumbent, John Solbach, decided not to run again," he said. "Two, I always have had a longstanding interest in the legislative process. Three, I have a belief in making a contribution."
The last two reasons, he said, also were his reasons for seeking re-election.
Swall grew up on a small dairy farm in Greenwood, Mo. He has a degree in agriculture from the University of Missouri. In 1959, he became a juvenile probation officer in Columbia, Mo.
"I switched from agriculture to social welfare because, as a juvenile probation officer, I saw that there weren't many people helping kids," he said.
In 1969 he came to Lawrence to
FORRESTSWALL
AGE:
62
RUNNING FOR:
Kansas
House of
Representatives,
45th District
CURRENT POSITION:
Member of the House of Representatives, 45th District
PARTY:
Democrat
CAREER:
Assistant professor of social welfare, University of Kansas
EDUCATION:
EDUCATION:
B.S., M.S., University of Missouri
FAMILY:
PAMIET:
Wife, Donna; son, Ron, 33;
daughter, Tara, 33; daughter,
Maria, 30.
KANSAN
become a professor of social welfare at the university of Kansas.
Museum to educate in rain forest
By Shannon Newton
Kansan staff writer
The Natural History Museum plans to go beyond classroom education about rain forests. In April, it is going to take people there.
Scientists from the museum are going to lead a group of interested people to the Peruvian rain forest in Iquitos, Peru, and to the Machu Picchu ruins in southern Peru.
trip was last April.
William Duellman, herpetology curator of the Natural History Museum, developed the idea for the trip and will be one of the guides on the trip. The first time a group took the
Duellman, who taught at the International American Rain Forest Workshop in Peru from 1991 to 1993, said he thought local people should be able to experience the ecosystems of the rain forests.
"When we did the trip last year, it was a large success," Duellman said. Last year the 22 spots on the tour sold out two months before the trip.
Duelman said the trip involved walking along trails and rivers and looking at life along the paths.
Duellman said the group will study more than the animal and plant life of the rain forest. They will be studying
the lives of the people who inhabit the forests.
"We will visit Indian villages and see how they live," he said. "We will look at their lifestyles and their handicrafts."
Another tour guide, Linda True,
herpetology curator at the museum,
said the trip was a good educational
tool for people wanting to learn about
the rain forests and their ecosystems.
The trip to Peru costs $2,248, and there is an optional, five-day extension to the ruins of Machu Picchu in southern Peru for $988.
For more information, contact Kathryn Wiese Morton at 864-4540.
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