University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 24, 1991
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KU's vice chancellor will go to New York
By Kelley Frieze
Kansan staff writer
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, will leave KU next month for a position at the City University of New York.
Horowitz, who came to KU in 1961, was named president of the Graduate School and University Center at City University in May.
As a vice chancellor at KU, Horowitz was in charge of research and public service and was the dean of the graduate school.
She also was an internationally known professor of humanities, said Carolyn Cross, assistant vice president of research and graduate studies.
At City University, Horowitz will
be responsible for all doctor pro-
fessors, medical centers and
institutes. Horowitz said.
A search committee is being formed to find her replacement, who should be decided on in the fall, she said.
Her husband, Floyd Horwitz, a KU professor of English, will take a professorship at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
She will use vacation time to move to New York, and she probably will take a few weeks off.
Spooner Hall to receive grants to keep ancient artifacts cool
"She has the values of the University at heart," he said.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he would remember Horowitz most for her work in ensuring the integrity she brought to the job.
By Cathy Garrard
By Cathy Garm
Kansan staff writer
While many KU students suffer in housing without air conditioning this summer, the bones and other ancient structures at Hall will get preferential treatment.
A $220,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a matching grant from the University of Kansas will pay for the museum to provide material for the humidified, which will prevent deterioration of the valuable artifacts.
The collection, with nearly 500,000 objects, belongs to the KU Museum of Anthropology. Spooner, which houses the artifacts, was built in 1897 without air conditioning. The warm weather has been damaging some of the artworks, which are up to 250,000 years old.
Alfred Johnson, museum director,
said museum staff knew the lack of
air conditioning would be a problem
the first moved into the building
in 1979.
Since the museum opened to the public in 1984, window air conditioners have been used to preserve the collections of Stone Age-to-modern-day tools and carvings, skulls, bones, feathers, baskets and talens.
"The objects have been harmed, but it is hard to point to something specific," he said. "There is lots of damage that has occurred over the years, and some of it is due to other causes, too."
The University is looking for an independent contractor for the project, which should be completed within a year, Johnson said.
Helping hand
John Troup, Lawrence graduate student, wraps a young yellow-shafted flicker, a type of woodpecker, which has fallen out of its nest across from Marvin Hall.
Group took the nestling to the Animal Care Unit in Malott Hall. Amy Albright, animal caretaker, treated the bird as part of the care unit's Wildcare program.
Albright said the nestling likely would be raised at the care unit until it was old enough to be released.
Albright said it was not uncommon for the care unit to receive young birds that had fallen from their nest this time of year, especially after a storm.
Trash importing has friends, foes
By Jeff Meesey
Kansan staff writer
Concern for the environment has created dichotomous thinking about importing trash from out-of-state.
Kansas lawmakers and environmentally concerned businesspeople would like to see waste kept within the borders of the states that created
But Les Blevins, a Lawrence business owner, wants legislative time spent promoting conversion of waste into compost,anning its travel across state lines.
Kansas lawmakers are opposed to shipping waste in from out-of-state, citing overcrowded landfill space and the importation of hazardous wastes.
Cities that have been accepting out-of-state waste into their landfills do so because of lucrative contracts worth millions of dollars, said Sen. Nancy Kassebaum before the Senate Committee on Public Works Committee last month.
Sen. Bob Dole is co-sponsoring a bill introduced last year that would give states more authority to ban the importation of trash over their borders. Kassebaum also supports the bill.
"It had a lot of opposition from many of the East Coast senators such as (those from) New York and New Jersey," said Walt Riker, Dole's press secretary. "More and more states such as Kansas are being hit by trash from out-of-state. The East Coast has no place to put their trash."
Riker said that lack of landfill space was only one factor involved in the problem.
"There is concern about what they are sending us," he said.
He said toxic substances such as
chemical and nuclear wastes might be in with the trash the East Coast
Because only Congress is allowed to regulate interstate commerce, federal laws are needed to prevent interstate trash shipments.
"Courts have ruled in repeated cases that garbage is like any other commodity, so states cannot regulate it. A federal law facilitates assistant at Kassebaum's office."
He said the bill, which would give states more power to regulate interstate waste hauling and dumping, still was pending before the Senate committee on energy and environment. A similar version of the bill passed in the Senate last year but was defeated in the House.
Leslie Manufacturing, the company Les Blevins runs, is in a partnership with Environmental and Energy Conservation, a company in Tonganoxie, to convert into energy the combustible portion of municipal waste such as cardboard, paper, packaging material and some plastics.
Blevins sees the waste not as a problem but as an opportunity to make money by diverting it from landfills.
But convincing Congress will not be easy, he said.
He has solicited help from Kassebaum, Dole, Rep. Jim Slattery, DKan., and former Gov. Mike Hayden. "I favor Dole involving himself with me and the Department of Energy for a grant." Blevins said.
He said he had spent about $100,000 during the past 10 years developing his waste-to-energy conversion process.
"Banning waste will not make it go away," he said. "You think waste is going to stay that way."
Bogina is used to taking the heat on state issues
Tough money decisions for state Senate leader spur controversies including his recent Hoch position
Kansan staff writer
By Kelley Frieze
To Bogina, R-Shawnee, this comes with the territory.
KU officials may admit privately that Bogina is not seen as a friend of KU, but none would talk about him on the record.
When State Sen. Gus Bogin voted to deny the University $297,000 for the cleanup of Hoch Auditorium June 28. The university is a popular people on KU's campus.
"I would suppose that right at the present time I am not in very good favor with them," Bogina said when asked about the KU administration. "But that doesn't bother me at all. I see my job as doing what's best for the people of Kansas."
Much of his job as chairperson of the Senate Ways and Means Committee is to decide what he thinks is best to guide the Legislature fiscally, he said.
"That committee controls the purse strings of the state government." said State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence.
The chairperson has the ability to tighten or loosen the strings.
Some people would say the chairperson of the Ways and Means Committee is more important than the president of the Senate, said Winter, who is vice chairperson of the Ways and Means Committee.
Tough decisions
Bogina said he based his decisions on his own judgment and he no longer he point his corgiitivity, supported
"Every decision I make I do not do lightly," he said.
The importance of his decisions and the vast number of people they affect means that none of those decisions could please everyone, he said.
Others said it might be his political beliefs or legislative actions that made him feared or, in some places, unpopular.
People probably disagree with the way he operates, said Frank Smith, Democratic party chairperson in Johnson County.
"I think that in his own community his support has slipped a lot," Smith said.
Smith said Bogina's refusal to grant KU the money to clean up Hoch conflicted with the state's assertion that it was self-insured.
Bogina was the only member of the Finance Council who voted against appropriating the money to KU for the university. The vote, theote, the vote had to be unanimous.
Bogina said that in making his decision he relied on information he had gathered separately from what the nine-member council was given.
Smith and Winter agreed that the state policy of self-insurance meant
that the state would have to use money from the state emergency funds for disasters such as the Hoch fire.
Bogina disagreed, saying he considered money in the KU budget and money in the emergency fund both as matters where it had been allocated.
Since KU had more money in the repair and improvements fund than the state had in the emergence fund, it was a difficult task for the cleanup, Bogina contended.
“This is tax money. This is not KU money,” he said. “That doesn't belong to KU. That belongs to the people of Kansas.”
Political muscle
Once Bogina makes up his mind, it is not easy to change it.
"I take pressure very well," he said. "It doesn't bother me at all. If believe I'm right, so I'm the only one. You're going to have to prove to me very definitively that that's wrong before I'll change."
"There are times when I must make a decision that I won't necessitate." "must' as far as the good of the entire state of Kansas. If I satisfy everyone,
As Ways and Means Committee chairperson, he must take into account the good of the state and the good of his district, he said.
then I'm in the wrong business."
Although Bogina said he was an advocate for the entire state, Winter said Bogina sometimes seemed too loose in supporting his own district.
In May, after the Senate passed the state tax bill, Bojina flexed his political muscles on the way out of the Senate chamber, saying to the senator that he would increase. Now you can try and spend it — over my dead body.
Winter said he thought arguments between himself and Bogina were caused by the differences in what the districts they represented wanted.
"We both speak our minds and both take our jobs seriously," he said.
Although they argue in the Senate, Winter said the debate was public, up front and for the right reasons because of the way a democracy worked.
He described Bogina as strong-willed, emotional and highly charged. Sometimes he wears his feelings on his sleeve more than others, Winter said.
Smith, who ran as the incumbent against Bogina in 1890, said he predicted a tough election for Bogina if he chose to run next year. The Democratic Party will have a strong candidate to oppose him, and Smith also expected several challenges from within the Republican Party.
Bogina said he planned to run in the next election.
He has spent 17 years in the Legislature. His first six years were in the
No hidden agenda
He describes himself as dedicated, honest and one of the harder workers in the Senate.
House of Representatives and the past 11 in the Senate. He has been Senate Ways and Means Committee chairperson for seven years.
"You look at the sign-out sheet and
people who are sitting people out of the
Campain," he said.
"People know where I stand. They know my opinion. It very plain. There's no hidden agenda in what I say."
Roy Shenkel, who worked on Bogina's last campaign, and previously was a lobbyist, said Bogina always told people who wanted to talk to him.
"His door was open," Shenkel said. Maybe he didn't agree, with me, but I did. "I know what to do."
Bogina said he supported bills that dealt with people and their well-being, such as mental-health reform and meals for the elderly.
Senate duties take almost all Bogina's time from January to May. Toward the end of the session, workdays may begin at 7 a.m. and end at 2 a.m.
When the Legislature is not in session, Bogina spends about half of each month helping people who call him with problems, doing research and going to committee meetings and hearings.
He said he liked working in the Legislature because it was challenging and because it gave him a sense of accomplishment.
The rest of his time he spends
working at his Shawnee engineering firm, Bogina, Fyock, Hawley and Urkvich Engineers and Surveyors, of which he is president.
He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering at Kansas State University.
He is a civil and municipal engineer in Shawnee.
Although he roots for K-State in basketball games, he said he was impartial about the different universities when he was in the Legislature.
Although Bogina displays K-State paperweights and memorabilia at his office, he shows off a basketball signed by the KU 1988 NCAA championship basketball team in his living room.
Of his four children and two stepchildren, three went to KU, two to KState and one to Pittsburg State University.
His wife, Nancy, is an administrative assistant to the Senate minority leader. Because she works for the Senate, they do not discuss their jobs, he said.
Bogina said he was aware of how some people felt about him.
"I think that because of my position and because of some of the decisions I've had to make, I think I'm perceived to be mean, cross, intimidating, belligerent, grouchy and so on and so forth," he said. "It all depends on the environment that you place me in.
"I'm tough when I think I'm right.
I think they respect me for saying what I think and thinking what I say."