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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 16, 1991
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Tricycles and beer don't mix
Organizers want races to be lesson in drinking and driving
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
before they hopped on their tricycles and raced around orange cones, they slurped down Buds and Bud Lights.
As the 10 tricycle riders became more and more clumsy, the crowd watching them laughed.
e crowd watching them laughed.
But this was no joke.
The tricycle race, conducted yesterday afternoon near Memorial Stadium, was sponsored by Greeks Advocating Mature Management of Alcohol. The event highlighted National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week.
GAMMA sponsored the race to illustrate how easily alcohol can reduce a person's ability to control something as
"We hope the people here watching can see how, after drinking each beer, you really are impaired," said Wynne Madden, Kansas City, Mo., senior and GAMMA committee member.
She said GAMMA advocated the use of designated drivers and Secure Cab, a free cab service for KU students.
GAMMA had to get permission from the University to have the race on campus because alcohol was involved, Madden said. The alcohol, donated by McDonald Beverage Inc., 801 E. Ninth St., had a 3.2 percent alcohol level.
Five women and five men were chosen by the GAMMA committee to race. Each driller drank a beer, waited 15 minutes and was subjected to sobriety and breath tests. After the tests, the participants rode the tricycles.
The women drank from four to five beers, and the men drank from six to eight beers.
Jennifer Zucco, Long Grove, Ill., junior, pushes Lisa Garney, Kansas City, Kan., senior.
After consuming four beers in one hour, Kirk Cerny, Lincoln. Neb. senior, passed the alcohol breath test.
But Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek, one of several KU police officers who administered the tests and answered questions, said that the alcohol had not been absorbed into Cerny's bloodstream but that more would be within the next hour.
The blood-alcohol level of Susan Stoven, Tulsa, Okla,
senior, was at the warning level, between 05 and 09, after
drinking four beers. A blood-alcohol level of .10 is considered
legally drunk.
Rozanne Campbasso, a Kansas City, Mo., senior who won the women's race, also had a blood level bordered
Taking loudly with slightly slurred speech, Campbasso said she felt wasted.
After the participants finished the race, they were taken
home by designated drivers.
Statistics from the National Council on Alcohol show that alcohol-related accidents are the leading cause of death for U.S citizens between the ages of 16 and 24.
involved in an alcohol-related crash at sometime during their lives, according to the study.
Madden said GAMMA hoped the event would make students think three about getting it.
In Kansas, one of every two drivers will be
Kansan staff writer
By Blaine Kimrey
Plans to finance recycling boxes with private money curtailed by ombudsman
To plan to elicit private business financing for 300 more aluminum can recycling boxes for KU have been curtailed.
The KU associate environmental ambushman this week told facilities operations that private business should stop recycling program was inappropriate.
The businesses would receive free advertising on the cardboard boxes in their buildings.
Sue Ask, the associate environmental ambudman, said she had a problem with private businesses financing the recycling program because she wanted the program to be self-sufficient.
An advertising purchase agreement would create an undesirable University obligation to private businesses, she said.
Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping operations, operational department, will attend.
"We thought it would be a neat idea," he said.
Facilities operations usually follow the environmental ambassadors's instructions.
The office of the environmental ambudsman is in charge of trying to decrease negative University impacts on the environment.
He said subcommittee members had to cancel several appointments because of the decision not to accept the advertising.
Paul Bajaj, co-chairperson of the Environmental Awareness Subcommittee of Student Senate, said the subcommittee members already had secured financing of the new boxes by the KU Federal Credit Union and had scheduled meetings with several other businesses.
"It made us look bad," Bajajsaid.
Ask said the subcommittee never contacted her about scheduling meetings.
Diane Lewis, co-chairperson of the Environmental Awareness Subcommittee, said the subcommittee originally had intended to allow private businesses to pay the $3 a box cost in return for the right to advertise on it.
"There's noreason whywe shouldn't be able to do it." Lewis said.
She said the program would last only through this year. Once the original boxes had been purchased, revenue collected from recycling extra cans could be used to finance the replacement of worn boxes.
Lewis said there were now 130 recycling boxes on campus. However, Wescoe is the only building on campus with a sufficient number of boxes, she said
In addition to the boxes, larger aluminum can recycling barrels are in some campus buildings.
Lewis said the subcommittee wanted to continue buying boxes because the boxes are too expensive.
Endacott said that in order to provide an adequate number of recycling bins to all campus buildings, 300 more boxes were necessary.
"To expand the program, we would like to saturate all the buildings," he said. "We need the up-front money to do it."
Endacott said the financing for the boxes still might come from Student Senate.
He said he thought Senate financing would be unfortunate because KU students would end up paying for the program.
Student Senate's budget is made up of student fees. In the past, recycling boxes have been purchased by Senate and facilities operations.
On the other hand, private business financing would provide KU students with a free recycling program, Endacott.
"The students shouldn't have to pay for it," he said.
School of Engineering seeks to buy computers with money from new fee
By Mauricio Rios
Kansan staff writer
Purchasing 30 computers for the School of Engineering is going slowly but surely.
The computers will be moved to a room in Learned Hall that is currently being used for research.
The new computers will cost about $120,000, said Nancy Sliker, director of computer services for the School of Engineering.
The cost for installation of the computers has not been released, and the installation date has not been sched-
The money to purchase the computers came from a $15 a credit hour fee engineering students had to pay beginning this semester in addition to their tuition. The fee, which was approved in December 1990 by the Board of Regents, was proposed by the deans of the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University to maintain or replace the universities' outdated engineering equipment.
Computer services at the KU School of Engineering sent a list of requirements two weeks ago to the University purchasing office specifying the kind of computers the school wanted to purchase, said Greg Bryant, a Stilwell senior who works at the school's computer services office as a systems analyst.
Bryant said the office would receive bids from the manufacturers in about six weeks.
It will then take about two weeks to decide from which manufacturer to buy the new computers, he said.
Bryant said he hoped the computers would be available to students by the beginning of next semester.
The computers will be used for graphic design, word processing and spread sheet applications, Bryant said.
Derek Nolan / Special to the KANSAN
Easy does it
Unsure other Rollerblade skis, Michelle Betts, Wichita senior, gets a helping hand from Jim McArthur, owner of Sport Pak.
Police fear attacks gang-related
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
Three people, including two KU students, were injured early Saturday morning during two violent incidents that police say may be gang-related.
In both cases, the victims were walking along Lawrence streets when they suddenly were attacked and struck, without warning or provocation, according to police reports.
("The incidents") could be related," said Sgt. Mark Warren of Lawrence police. "We can't rule gang possibilities out. Gangs perpetuate street crime, and this was street crime."
He said there were not enough similarities between the cases to say they were related, but that possibility could not be ruled out.
She was struck in the face several times, and police administered first aid when they arrived at the scene.
According to police reports, the first attack occurred at 12:38 a.m., just west of Massachusetts and 10th streets, as a woman was returning home.
The woman reported that two males in their late teens demanded money and attacked her, police said.
The woman was transported by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she was treated and later released.
At 2:10 a.m. that morning, an Overland Park senior said, he and a friend, a Lenaex graduate student, were attacked as they walked in the 700 block of Lawrence Avenue.
A car passed them and stopped about 50 yards in front of them. Three men got out of the car and walked toward the students, the Overland Park man said.
Mark Warren
Lawrencepolice sergeant
"We can't rule gang possibilities out. Gangs perpetuate street crime, and this was street crime."
"As soon as they reached us, one of them hit me in the face," he said.
The assailant continued to hit him after he was on the ground, be said. His wallet was stolen.
"They had gotten on the ground and were kicking me," the Lenexa man said. "I got up, stumbled around and saw that the car they were in was either a white or yellow compact."
After the attack, the two walked to Dillons, 3000 St. S., st. where store employees called the police.
"We were pretty bloody," the Overland Park man said.
He said police asked questions, such as what colors the attackers were wearing, if they were wearing similar baseball caps or if a gang name was mentioned.
The Lenexa man said that because there was no apparent motive and the police asked about gang symbols, he speculated it might have been a gang initiation ritual.