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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 12, 1991
Land-use plan will become reality
Commissions try to clarify goals
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
Horizon 2020 has been set into motion.
During separate meetings, the Lawrence City Commission and the Douglas County Commission began to determine the final goals of Horizon 2020, the new comprehensive land-use plan for the city and county.
A land-use plan should how the land in the city and county should be zoned for commercial, industrial and residential use.
sioner John Nalbandian told the city commission he thought the project needed to be clarified.
On Tuesday night, City Commis-
He said he had heard conflicting views of whether the plan would deal with overall community goals or simply a comprehensive land-use plan.
Nalbandian said that some Lawrence residents wanted other issues, such as the area's economic goals, added to the plan.
County Commissioner Mark Buhler agreed with Nalbandian during the county commission meeting last night.
He said that some people expected Horizon 2020 to do more than simply be a future land-use plan.
The commissions must define the purpose and goals of Horizon 2020 before any consultants or staff could be hired for the job, Buhler said.
Jean Milstead, vice-chairperson for the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, said it would be difficult to finish the land-use plan before its 1994 completion date.
She said it would be impossible for an overall report of community goals to be finished in three years.
Milstead said the completion of Horizon 2020 would be a complex process because many discussions would
have to be held with businesses and neighborhoods to get the entire community's input.
Horizon 2020 also would give the community the opportunity to learn more about the city and county planning process, Milstead said.
11 is the first time that the city and county have joined together to make a concrete
In the past, the city and county have developed separate comprehensive plans, said Chris McKenzie, county administrator.
Although this plan would be primarily a land-use plan, things such as transportation and economic development also would have to be studied, he said.
Students held hostage at South Dakota high school
The Associated Press
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A boy armed with a sawed-off shotgun took 22 fellow high school students hostage for about four hours yesterday and demanded pizza, soda and cigarettes before a student disarmed him, police said. No one was injured.
The gunman, a 17-year-old freshman at Rapid City Stevens High School, gave up after a hostage took the shotgun away when the gunman lied it on a table while lighting a cigarette. Police Chief Tom Hennis said.
The youth was arrested without incident, Hennies said. His name wasn't released because of his age.
The student walked into a math class wearing a trench coat, pulled out the shotgun and ordered the teacher to leave. Hennies said.
Police said the youth fired about 10 shots during the standoff, but no one was hit.
Chris Ericks, a 17-year old senior,
said he saw an opportunity to disarm
the gunman when the cigarettes
arrived.
He released four of the students as he negotiated with authorities over the school's intercom system, police said. At one point, he demanded pizza, which was delivered. Later, police delivered soda and cigarettes to the boys.
The gunman had the only lighter, and students approached him to have their cigarettes lit, Ericks said. When
After holding 22 hostages,the 17-year-old gunman was disarmed by a fellow student while lighting cigarettes.
the gunman rested the shotgun on a table while lighting cigarettes, Ericks said he snuck up from behind, lobbed the weapon and pointed it at him.
The students were on a first-name basis with the gunman and talked with him about school-related topics during the standoff, Ericks said.
Ericks said that the gunman appeared calm, but shot holes in the chalkboard, pencil sharpener and overhead projector.
AA not always best treatment, study says
Stevens student Jason Craig told radio station KKL5 that the boy, a friend of his, hinted he might take such action.
Craig said his friend asked him,
"What do you think would happen if
walked into math class tomorrow with a
shotgun?"
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Hospital treatment for alcoholism is money well spent, according to a study that found such programs more effective than Alcoholics Anonymous.
The study, in this month's New England Journal of Medicine, contrasts two cost extremes. Putting alcoholics in hospital rehabilitation programs is the most expensive option while ensuring them toogA is the cheapest.
Many companies urge employees to enroll in outpatient programs that are less expensive than residential alcoholism centers but are far more intensive than AA alone. The study did not directly examine these two options.
"Wethink we have produced the first scientific evidence that money spent by corporate America to treat employees in inpatient programs for alcoholism is money well spent," said Dr. Diana Chapman Walsh, who directed the study at Harvard School of Public Health.
Insurance companies once routinely paid for 28-day stays in alcoholism hospitals and other residential programs that sometimes cost as much as $10,000.
But in recent years, insurance companies and employers have reduced or eliminated such coverage.
While the change may be intended to save money, it is supported by a variety of studies showing that alcoholic beverages are an intensive, non-residential programs.
The new study goes against this research trend. It suggests that "cutting the heart out of inpatient-treatment programs may be false economy," wrote Walsh, whose study was conducted with researchers from Boston University.
in an accompanying editorial, Dr. Donald W. Goodwin of the University of Kansas wrote, "We still do not know which programs are best for which course and which program that we should not be too quick to decide what works and what does not."
The team studied 227 General Electric workers with drinking problems. They were randomly assigned tooef of three treatment options: hospitalization in AA, participation in an AA meetings without hospitalization or a choice of treatments.
Of those who picked what they wanted, about half chose AA and one third selected hospitalization. The rest outpatient counseling or no help at all.
During two years of follow-up, 37 percent of those who received hospital care stayed completely sober, compared with 65 percent in the group and 16 percent in the AA group.
About two-thirds in the AA group later required hospitalization for drinking, compared with one-quarter whose originally treated as impa- tants.
When these later costs were added in, the inpatient costs for those in grouping into separate groups came out to be about 10 percent less than the hospital group.
Grillin' it up
During the Taste of Lawrence Buffet, Bob Sides, of Silver Ridge Catering, grills shrimp and sausage shish kebabs for Lawrence educators to sample. More than 20 restaurants and organizations participated in the buffet last night next to Meadowbrook apartments on West 15th street. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce sponsored the event. A variety of foods, including Chinese and barbeque, were available.